FRANK SINATRA Count Basie Quincy Jones Sinatra at the Sands  2LP RE 1970 Archival Sleeves Records are auto-coupled: First record contains sides 1 & 4, second record contains sides 2 & 3.

Sinatra at the Sands is a  by  accompanied by , and conducted and arranged by , recorded live in the  of the former  in  in 1966.

It was Sinatra's first  to be commercially released, and contains many definitive readings of the songs that are most readily associated with Sinatra.

Sinatra and Basie had previously collaborated on 1962's  and 1964's , with both albums released on Sinatra's  label. The album was remixed and remastered and released in  in high-resolution stereo and multi-channel surround in 2003. An alternate version of the same show with a slightly different track list was released in November 2006 as part of the box set . The album is certified gold by the .

In 2000 it was voted number 461 in 's .

"The Tea Break" section of the album contains comic relief by Sinatra, during which he makes jokes about the drunkenness of  and evening parties at in , 's autobiography Yes I Can and the hotel hiring him for "four solid weeks" as a cleaner, and jokes about himself being "so skinny my eyes were single file. Between those two and my belly button my old man thought I was a clarinet". He denounces the news that he'd recently turned fifty years of age as a "dirty Communist lie" "direct from " and that he was really 28 and would have been 22 if  hadn't "wrecked" him from drinking. He concludes the segment with a summation of his early life and work lifting crates and serving as a rivet catcher from a cock-eyed guy who "couldn't hit a bull in a fanny with a bag of rice", and describing  as a "pompous bum with a bulbous nose" who "used to drink ".

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