Article: Sinatra a 'pussycat' with art director

When Frank Sinatra ended his two-year retirement at 57 in 1973, Warner Bros Records art director Ed Thrasher came up with the perfect title for the legendary singer's comeback album.

The album - for Warner's Reprise Records label - with cover photograph by Ed Thrasher showing a relaxed and grinning Sinatra during a recording session, was called Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back.

"Ed showed the artwork to Frank, and he just flipped, as we all did," recalled Joe Smith, former president of Warner Bros Records. "Frank thought it was a great phrase, and it later turned out to be an ad hook when Frank was out on the road again."

As an art director, Ed Thrasher "had the talent for getting along with the ...

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