The Timex Shows vol. 2

"During the height of the Rat Pack years, singer Frank Sinatra hosted four television specials on ABC sponsored by the Timex watch corporation. These were suitably lavish events marked by Sinatra's virtuoso solo performances, amiable duets with other big-name performers, backing dancers, and as with all his four Timex shows, the Nelson Riddle Orchestra. Released as part of Eagle Rock Entertainment's Frank Sinatra Collection, Timex Shows, Vol. 2 brings together the third and fourth specials both originally aired in 1960 ... As these shows were transferred from existing tape sources, they do retain a certain amount of audio and visual grit. Nonetheless, they are quite watchable and entertaining time capsules of the era".

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"A few stars were too big or expensive to bother with weekly TV. For them there was the periodic "special," which brings us to Frank Sinatra, whose four ABC variety hours from the 1959-'60 season come together again (...) in The Frank Sinatra Collection: The Timex Shows, Vol. 1 and 2 (...). Sinatra was at the summit of his career for his first special in October 1959. Only The Lonely and No One Cares had recently come out, Nice 'N' Easy was just ahead and "High Hopes" was topping the charts".