This new box set celebrates one of the great singers of the 20th Century. Everything has been remastered and sounds great! This chronological collection starts with Sinatra’s first recording session in 1939 and ends in 1979. This box set includes Sinatra’s iconic recordings If you need one Sinatra collection, this should be it. This marvelous deluxe edition also features an 80-page booklet about Sinatra’s career with a new essay by Sinatra historian Charles Pignone. This is about as good as it gets. Do you have a favorite Sinatra song?
Track List:
Disc 1
1 All or Nothing At All (2:59)
2 I’ll Never Smile Again (3:11)
3 Street of Dreams (2:41)
4 You’ll Never Know (3:01)
5 If You Are But a Dream (3:05)
6 Saturday Night (Is The Lonliest Night Of The Week) (2:44)
7 Nancy (With The Laughing Face) (3:13)
8 Oh, What It Seemed To Be (2:59)
9 Five Minutes More (2:36)
10 Time After Time (3:11)
11 Night and Day (3:40)
12 The Song is You (3:16)
13 I’m a Fool To Want You (2:57)
14 The Birth of the Blues (3:28)
15 Why Try To Change Me Now (2:49)
16 I’ve Got the World On a String (2:10)
17 Don’t Worry ‘Bout Me (3:07)
18 My Funny Valentine (2:31)
19 They Can’t Take That Away From Me (1:58)
20 I Get a Kick Out of You (2:53)
21 Young At Heart (2:50)
22 Last Night When We Were Young (3:17)
23 Three Coins In the Fountain (3:04)
24 Just One of Those Things (3:13)
25 All of Me (2:08)
26 Someone To Watch Over Me (2:55)
27 I Get Along Without You Very Well (3:41)
Disc 2
1 This Love of Mine (3:35)
2 In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning (2:59)
3 Learnin’ the Blues (3:01)
4 Love and Marriage (2:38)
5 (Love is) the Tender Trap (2:57)
6 Love is Here To Stay (2:39)
7 You Make Me Feel So Young (2:55)
8 Memories of You (2:52)
9 I’ve Got You Under My Skin (3:43)
10 Too Marvelous For Words (2:28)
11 (How Little It Matters) How Little We Know (2:39)
12 I Couldn’t Sleep a Wink Last Night (3:24)
13 I Wish I Were In Love Again (2:28)
14 The Lady is a Tramp (3:14)
15 From This Moment On (3:49)
16 Laura (3:27)
17 Where Are You? (3:30)
18 Witchcraft (2:53)
19 Bewitched (3:38)
20 All the Way (2:52)
21 Moonlight In Vermont (3:32)
22 Come Fly With Me (3:19)
23 Put Your Dreams Away (3:12)
24 Angel Eyes (3:43)
25 Guess I’ll Hang My Tears Out To Dry (3:59)
Disc 3
1 Only the Lonely (4:08)
2 One For My Baby (and One More For the Road) (4:24)
3 Something’s Gotta Give (2:38)
4 Come Dance With Me (2:30)
5 Here’s That Rainy Day (3:34)
6 A Cottage For Sale (3:15)
7 High Hopes (2:41)
8 The Nearness of You (2:42)
9 I’ve Got a Crush On You (2:16)
10 Nice ‘N’ Easy (2:45)
11 When the World Was Young (3:47)
12 In the Still of the Night (3:26)
13 The Second Time Around (3:01)
14 Without a Song (3:39)
15 Love Walked In (2:21)
16 Stardust (2:49)
17 Come Rain or Come Shine (4:06)
18 The Girl Next Door (3:18)
19 At Long Last Love (2:14)
20 The Very Thought of You (3:32)
21 Pennies From Heaven (3:27)
22 Ol’ Man River (4:25)
23 I Have Dreamed (2:58)
24 Luck Be a Lady (5:14)
Disc 4
1 The Way You Look Tonight (3:22)
2 My Kind of Town (3:10)
3 The Best is Yet To Come (2:55)
4 Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words) (2:28)
5 Softly, As I Leave You (2:52)
6 It Was A Very Good Year (4:27)
7 The September Of My Years (3:14)
8 Moonlight Serenade (3:27)
9 Strangers In The Night (2:37)
10 Summer Wind (2:55)
11 That’s Life (3:07)
12 I Concentrate On You (2:38)
13 The Girl From Ipanema (3:16)
14 Drinking Again (3:15)
15 Somethin’ Stupid (2:40)
16 The World We Knew (Over And Over) (2:48)
17 Cycles (3:12)
18 My Way (4:35)
19 Wave (3:21)
20 All My Tomorrows (4:35)
21 Forget To Remember (2:58)
22 It Had To Be You (3:53)
23 All Of You (1:42)
24 Theme From New York, New York (3:27)
25 The Surrey With The Fringe On Top (2:36)
Always loved One For My Baby and Night and Day. Too much Sinatra here for my tastes. Could do without Something Stupid and The Surrey with the Fringe on Top. And I have always hated My Way.
Steve, I plan to burn a “customized” CD-ROM or two of these songs. As you say, there’s a lot here to listen to.
MY husband doesn’t like him much either but I could listen to him sing practically forever.
Patti, sometimes I’m in the mood for Sinatra.
I had all of Sinatra’s great Capital Records music on vinyl (purchased for pennies at a yard sale in the 1970s). They’re long gone, but when I switched to CDs, the Sinatra album I had to have was “In the Wee Small Hours” which is full of deep-blue ballads such as “Mood Indigo”, “When Your Lover Has Gone”, and “Last Night When We Were Young”. Great stuff!
Deb, IN THE WEE SMALL HOURS is my favorite Sinatra album, too. It would make a great soundtrack to a noir film.
What Deb said. “In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning” is probably my current favorite. Frank should never have done stuff like “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown” and the like. I’ve got a couple of other CDs (Jackie likes “Duets” CDs but it’s well known that Sinatra’s was not done as real duets but separately) but this looks like a good collection. I used to have a big vinyl collection that had his commentary on some of the songs.
Jeff, I bought this collection because it had most of what I wanted from Sinatra’s long career. And, it’s a bargain at $25!
I’m with Patti on Sinatra, I have just about every album on CD. I listen mostly to classical music, but when I want vocals, I pull out the Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, June Christie, and a few others.
Rick, I share your fondness for Sinatra, Fitzgerald, Christie, Doris Day, etc.
Ring-a-ding-ding.
Bob, Sinatra was also an underrated actor.
Not by me. Ring-a-ding-ding.