Moonlight Sinatra Explained

Moonlight Sinatra
Type:	Album
Artist:	Frank Sinatra
Cover:	Moonlightsinatra.jpg
Recorded:	November 29–30, 1965, Hollywood
Label:	Reprise
Producer:	Sonny Burke
Prev Title:	A Man and His Music
Prev Year:	1965
Next Title:	Strangers in the Night
Next Year:	1966

Moonlight Sinatra is a studio album by Frank Sinatra, released in March 1966. All of the tracks on the album are centered on the Moon, and were arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle and his orchestra. Moonlight Sinatra marked Sinatra's final collaboration with Riddle.

The title of the album is a reference to Ludwig van Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.

Track listing

1. "Moonlight Becomes You" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 2:46
2. "Moon Song" (Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston) – 3:03
3. "Moonlight Serenade" (Glenn Miller, Mitchell Parish) – 3:26
4. "Reaching for the Moon" (Irving Berlin) – 3:05
5. "I Wished on the Moon" (Dorothy Parker, Ralph Rainger) – 2:53
6. "Oh, You Crazy Moon" (Burke, Van Heusen) – 3:12
7. "The Moon Got in My Eyes" (Burke, Johnston) – 2:52
8. "Moonlight Mood" (Harold Adamson, Peter DeRose) – 3:08
9. "Moon Love" (Mack David, André Kostelanetz) (adapted from Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony) – 4:14
10. "The Moon Was Yellow (And the Night Was Young)" (Fred E. Ahlert, Edgar Leslie) – 3:04

Personnel

• Frank Sinatra – vocals
• Nelson Riddle – arranger, conductor
• The Nelson Riddle Orchestra