SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY
What can I say except that this was a rough ride. It’s all standards done by the man himself. I was a few songs in and thought, “no this can’t be what the whole album is, is it?” Yes, indeed it is. I’m going to go into listening to every record with no context, so I won’t read about them until after I listen. So in reading about this album, I feel the way I suppose I thought I’d feel about most of Ringo’s catalog in that I will dislike the records themselves, then I’ll research the story, probably find it quite charming and yet still never listen to them again. But I won’t hate it.
I wondered, what shall I do with my life now that it's over? I was brought up with all those songs, you know, my family used to sing those songs, my mother and my dad, my aunties and uncles. They were my first musical influences on me. So I went to see George Martin and said: 'Let's do an album of standards, and to make it interesting we'll have all the arrangements done by different people".[5]
— Ringo Starr