L.A. Is My Lady (album)


 * For the song, see L.A. Is My Lady (song).

L.A. Is My Lady is an album of Frank Sinatra, released in 1984 for Qwest Records. This was Sinatra's sixty-fifth and final solo studio album.

Being for Qwest, L.A Is My Lady ' s tracks, as well as three further unreleased tracks, were featured in Sinatra's compilation set containing all of the tracks he performed during the Reprise years, The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings.

Track listing

 * 1) "L.A. Is My Lady" (Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Quincy Jones, Peggy Lipton Jones) – 3:12
 * 2) "The Best of Everything" (Fred Ebb, John Kander) – 2:45
 * 3) "How Do You Keep the Music Playing?" (A. Bergman, M. Bergman, Michel Legrand) – 3:49
 * 4) "Teach Me Tonight" (Sammy Cahn, Gene de Paul) – 3:44
 * 5) "It's All Right With Me" (Cole Porter) – 2:39
 * 6) "Mack the Knife" (Marc Blitzstein, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill) – 4:50
 * 7) "Until the Real Thing Comes Along" (Mann Holiner, Alberta Nichols, Cahn, Saul Chaplin, L.E. Freeman) – 3:03
 * 8) "Stormy Weather" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 3:38
 * 9) "If I Should Lose You" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) – 2:36
 * 10) "A Hundred Years from Today" (Joe Young, Ned Washington, Victor Young) – 3:04
 * 11) "After You've Gone" (Henry Creamer, Turner Layton) – 3:15

Singles
Several songs from L.A. Is My Lady were released through singles. "Teach Me Tonight" and "The Best of Everything" were released as a single together. Later, "Mack the Knife" and "It's All Right with Me" were released as an A/B single. The final single featured the two songs, "L. A. Is My Lady" and "Until the Real Thing Comes Along."

Reception
Allmusic rated the album a two out of five stars. The album's failures were pinned on "Jones' overly ambitious and commercial production." However, to those who worked on the album, Stephen Thomas Erlewine stated "everyone involved, from Sinatra and Jones to the band themselves, sounds like they're having fun, and that sense of joy effortlessly translates to the listener."

L.A. Is My Lady peaked at #58 on the Billboard 200 charts as well as #8 on the Jazz Albums charts of 1984.