Adam and Jesse recorded "The Way You Look Tonight" for an album of Frank Sinatra covers by different artists called His Way, Our Way. The album is available to download from iTunes now.
Adam recently spoke about Sinatra in an interview with billboard.com:
"I think Sinatra had such amazing taste. He never overdid it. He was always pretty understated in his singing which is interesting because he wasn’t understated in his lifestyle. That juxtaposition is really kind of an interesting thing because he was very tasteful when it came to choosing certain melodies and almost didn’t embellish at all actually. Kind of stuck to the plan, which I thought was very cool."
More from Rolling Stone:
“I nailed it,” boasts Levine, before demurring that he was actually quite “terrified when I went in there, because, it’s intimidating, especially because you know there’s like dozens of secrets and tricks you can do to enhance things. But I wanted to go for it, and try and make it legitimate, and do it in a take, with a band performing live, and have it all be one live take.”
Maroon 5 laid down five separate takes at Capitol Records’ studios, where Sinatra himself had recorded, and “I think the third or fourth one was really magical and kind of amazing,” Levine says. “I didn’t fix anything… except the very, very, last, last, last line, which I probably shouldn’t admit, but it was all one take other than that.”
Levine jumped at the chance to be part of the tribute, and describes himself as a massive Sinatra fan. “He’s really one of the best, and what makes him the best, to me, is the attitude,” Levine says. “It was kind of one of those intangible things. This quality he possessed that no one else had. He’s just truly unique. He’s not necessarily technically the best singer in the world. He was just one of these rough, no bullshit, excellent guys, and was spot-on every time he got onstage and started singing. He commanded everyone’s attention and that’s the kind of stuff I love.”
