Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back Songwriting Credits by Frank Sinatra

Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back is the fortieth studio album by Frank Sinatra, released in September 1973 on Reprise Records and produced by Gordon Jenkins and Don Costa. It was Sinatra's return after a two-year retirement that had been announced in 1971 at what was presented as his final concert at the Los Angeles Music Center, and the album that re-established his commercial presence in the early 1970s mainstream. Sinatra did not write any of the eight tracks; the album includes his covers of Neil Diamond's 'Sweet Caroline,' Gordon Lightfoot's 'If You Could Read My Mind,' and Stephen Sondheim and Jule Styne's 'You Will Be My Music,' alongside Jenkins's characteristically lush orchestral settings. The album reached number 13 on the Billboard 200, his highest chart position since the 1960s, and demonstrated that a significant Sinatra audience remained commercially active despite the cultural displacement of rock in the intervening decade. The television special of the same name, broadcast in November 1973 with Sinatra performing with the Count Basie Orchestra, received the highest ratings of any entertainment special of the season and is widely cited as one of the most successful comeback television performances in popular music history. Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back is primarily significant as a cultural event (the return of a 20th-century figure whose absence had been more broadly noted than expected) rather than as a peak artistic statement.