Reception
John Riley wrote in The Boston Globe that Sinatra "sings in a lackluster fashion which fails to enliven the listener's interest even in a good song ... some of the songs, notably 'Body and Soul', Frankie literally wades through as though it were a demanding chore ... and in other songs, he sings in a quiet, simple way which increases, rather than diminishes the effectiveness of the song ... some are well done ... some are hardly worthy of notice".[3] Harold Ober from the Asbury Park Press noted that "some of the tunes are well known show numbers, all are sentimental as the title implies, and all are sung in Sinatra's best style".[4]
The Springfield Sunday Republican said "each of these numbers, familiar to all, might have been written expressly for the thin vocalist, they are so perfectly adapted to his style ... actually, that is the one minor fault ... one wishes, that there might be just one in definitely different tempo ,,, however, the album is an excellent one".[5] George Mangus of The Miami Herald opined that "every so often the Columbia waxery comes out with an album that becomes scarce and valuable in a very short time ... we predict this album to be one of these collections".[6]
