{"id":152876,"date":"2025-04-23T18:07:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T22:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/04\/23\/seth-macfarlane-salutes-frank-sinatra-on-his-new-album-lush-life-the-lost-sinatra-arrangements\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T18:07:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T22:07:35","slug":"seth-macfarlane-salutes-frank-sinatra-on-his-new-album-lush-life-the-lost-sinatra-arrangements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/04\/23\/seth-macfarlane-salutes-frank-sinatra-on-his-new-album-lush-life-the-lost-sinatra-arrangements\/","title":{"rendered":"Seth MacFarlane Salutes Frank Sinatra on His New Album \u2018Lush Life: The Lost Sinatra\u00a0Arrangements\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tSeth MacFarlane<\/a>\u2019s ninth studio album, Lush Life: The Lost Sinatra Arrangements<\/em>, will feature 12 never-before-heard arrangements created for Frank Sinatra<\/a> by his legendary collaborators Nelson Riddle<\/a>, Billy May and Don Costa. The album is set for release June 6 via Verve Records \/ Republic Records.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\n\tMacFarlane has long been a Sinatra fan. Two of the Family Guy<\/em> creator\u2019s earlier albums, Holiday for Swing<\/em>\u00a0and No One Ever Tells You<\/em>, featured\u00a0Sinatra\u2019s bassist\u00a0Chuck Berghofer\u00a0as well as a 65-piece orchestra. In 2015, MacFarlane performed on the primetime tribute\u00a0Sinatra 100 \u2014\u00a0An All-Star GRAMMY Concert<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\n\tMacFarlane, 51, was born in October 1973, the very month Sinatra released Ol\u2019 Blue Eyes Is Back<\/em>, his \u201ccomeback album\u201d following a brief retirement (which he wisely reconsidered). Sinatra continued recording through 1994. He died in 1998 at age 82.<\/p>\n

\n\tThese arrangements remained in the private collection of the Sinatra family for many years. In collaboration with the Sinatra family and estate, MacFarlane acquired the entire Sinatra music archive in 2018, and has brought these 12 arrangements to life with a 70-piece orchestra, conducted by British conductor John Wilson, and produced by MacFarlane\u2019s longtime musical collaborator Joel McNeely. Every song on the album was recorded live with this ensemble at George Lucas\u2019 famed Skywalker Sound Studios in Marin County, Calif.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe album\u2019s first single, Billy Strayhorn<\/a>\u2019s \u201cLush Life,\u201d features Riddle\u2019s original conceptual arrangement from 1958.<\/p>\n

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