Over 400 pages of slow and sentimental ballads: Bali Ha'i -- Bewitched -- Chances Are -- Climb Every Mountain -- Endless Love -- Feelings -- Hawaiian Wedding Song -- Love Is Blue -- Memory -- More -- People -- Sunrise, Sunset -- Young at Heart -- more.

Deciding to record a full-fledged bossa nova, Frank Sinatra choose to do so with the genre's leading composer, Antonio Carlos Jobim. The finished album was a subdued album that used the Latin rhythms, not as a focal point, but as a foundation.

"The greatest popular songs, whether it's Aretha Franklin singing "Respect" or Bob Dylan performing "Blind Willie McTell," have a way of embedding themselves in our memories. You remember a time and a place and a feeling when you hear that song again. In Holding the Note, David Remnick writes about the lives and work of some of the greatest musicians, songwriters, and performers of the past fifty years"-- Provided by publisher.