The Capitol Years (1990 Frank Sinatra album) explained

The Capitol Years
Type:Compilation
Artist:Frank Sinatra
Cover:Thecapitolyears.jpg
Released:December 13, 1990
Recorded:April 2, 1953–March 6, 1962
Genre:Traditional pop
Length:224:06
Label:Capitol
Prev Title:The Reprise Collection
Prev Year:1990
Next Year:1991

The Capitol Years is a 1990 compilation album of the U.S. singer Frank Sinatra.

Released to coincide with Sinatra's 75th birthday, this three-disc set has an abundance of classic Sinatra performances from his career with Capitol Records, which spanned the years 1953 to 1961.

A single disc version called The Best of the Capitol Years was released in 1992.

Track listing

Disc one

  1. "I've Got the World on a String" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 2:10

Recorded on April 30, 1953

  1. "Lean Baby" (Roy Alfred, Billy May) - 2:33

Recorded on April 2, 1953

  1. "I Love You" (Harry Archer, Harlan Thompson) - 2:27
  2. "South of the Border" (Jimmy Kennedy, Michael Carr) – 2:50

Recorded on April 30, 1953

  1. "From Here to Eternity" (Freddie Karger, Robert Wells) - 2:59

Recorded on May 2, 1953

  1. "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 1:57

Recorded on November 5, 1953

  1. "I Get a Kick Out of You" (Cole Porter) - 2:53

Recorded on November 6, 1953

  1. "Young at Heart" (Carolyn Leigh, Johnny Richards) - 2:59

Recorded on December 9, 1953

  1. "Three Coins in the Fountain" (Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn) - 3:04

Recorded on March 1, 1954

  1. "All of Me" (Gerald Marks, Seymour Simons) - 2:07
  2. "Taking a Chance on Love" (Vernon Duke, Ted Fetter, John Latouche) - 2:19

Recorded on April 19, 1954

  1. "Someone to Watch Over Me" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) - 2:56

Recorded on September 23, 1954

  1. "What Is This Thing Called Love?" (Porter) - 2:35

Recorded on February 16, 1955

  1. "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" (Bob Hilliard, David Mann) - 2:59

Recorded on February 17, 1954

  1. "Learnin' the Blues" (Delores Vicki Silvers) - 3:00

Recorded on March 23, 1955

  1. "Our Town" (Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 3:15
  2. "Love and Marriage" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 2:38

Recorded on August 15, 1955

  1. "(Love Is) The Tender Trap" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 2:57

Recorded on September 13, 1955

  1. "Weep They Will" (Bill Carey, Carey Fischer) - 3:16

Recorded on October 17, 1955

  1. "I Thought About You" (Van Heusen, Johnny Mercer) – 2:30
  2. "You Make Me Feel So Young" (Josef Myrow, Mack Gordon) – 2:57
  3. "Memories of You" (Andy Razaf, Eubie Blake) - 2:53

Recorded on January 9, 1956

  1. "I've Got You Under My Skin" (Porter) - 3:43

Recorded on January 12, 1956

  1. "Too Marvelous for Words" (Mercer, Richard A. Whiting) - 2:27

Recorded on January 16, 1956

  1. "Don't Like Goodbyes" (Harold Arlen, Truman Capote) - 4:50

Recorded on March 8, 1956

  1. "(How Little It Matters) How Little We Know" (Leigh, Philip Springer) - 2:39

Recorded on April 5, 1956

Disc two

  1. "Hey! Jealous Lover" (Sammy Cahn, Kay Twomey, Bee Walker) - 2:21

Recorded on April 9, 1956

  1. "You're Sensational" (Porter) - 2:16

Recorded on April 5, 1956

  1. "Close to You" (Al Hoffman, Carl G. Lampl, Jerry Livingston) - 3:56

Recorded on November 1, 1956

  1. "Stars Fell on Alabama" (Mitchell Parish, Frank Perkins) - 2:35
  2. "I Got Plenty Of Nothing" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin, Dubose Heyward) - 3:14

Recorded on November 15, 1956

  1. "I Wish I Were in Love Again" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 2:28

Recorded on November 20, 1956

  1. "The Lady Is a Tramp" (Rodgers, Hart) - 3:14
  2. "Night and Day" (Porter) - 3:59
  3. "The Lonesome Road" (Gene Austin, Nat Shilkret) - 3:53
  4. "If I Had You" (Jimmy Campbell, Reginald Connelly, Ted Shapiro) - 2:35

Recorded on November 26, 1956

  1. "Where Are You?" (Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh) – 3:30
  2. "I'm a Fool to Want You" (Frank Sinatra, Jack Wolf, Joel Herron) – 4:51

Recorded on May 1, 1957

  1. "Witchcraft" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) - 2:52
  2. "Something Wonderful Happens in Summer" (Joe Bushkin, John DeVries) - 3:12

Recorded on May 20, 1957

  1. "All the Way" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 2:52
  2. "Chicago (That Toddlin' Town)" (Fred Fisher) - 2:12

Recorded on August 13, 1957

  1. "Let's Get Away from It All" (Matt Dennis, Tom Adair) – 2:11

Recorded on October 1, 1957

  1. "Autumn in New York" (Vernon Duke) – 4:37

Recorded on October 3, 1957

  1. "Come Fly with Me" (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 3:19

Recorded on October 8, 1957

  1. "Everybody Loves Somebody" (Sam Coslow, Ken Lane, Irving Taylor) - 3:42
  2. "It's the Same Old Dream" (Cahn, Styne) - 3:02

Recorded on November 25, 1957

  1. "Put Your Dreams Away (For Another Day)" (Ruth Lowe, Paul Mann, George David Weiss) - 3:12

Recorded on December 11, 1957

  1. "Here Goes" (Otto Cesana, Cahn) - 2:42

Recorded on March 3, 1958

  1. "Angel Eyes" (Earl Brent, Matt Dennis) - 3:44

Recorded on May 29, 1957

Disc three

  1. "Ebb Tide" (Robert Maxwell, Carl Sigman) - 3:18
  2. "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry" (Cahn, Styne) - 3:59
  3. "Only the Lonely" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 4:31

Recorded on May 29, 1958

  1. "One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)" (Arlen, Mercer) - 4:04

Recorded on June 26, 1958

  1. "To Love and Be Loved" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 2:56
  2. "I Couldn't Care Less" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 2:58

Recorded on October 15, 1958

  1. "The Song Is You" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) - 2:42
  2. "Just In Time" (Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Styne) - 2:23

Recorded on December 9, 1958

  1. "Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week)" (Cahn, Styne) - 1:54

Recorded on December 22, 1958

  1. "Come Dance With Me" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 2:59

Recorded on December 23, 1958

  1. "French Foreign Legion" (Aaron Schroeder, Guy Wood) - 2:01

Recorded on December 29, 1958

  1. "The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) - 3:03
  2. "Here's That Rainy Day" (Johnny Burke, Van Heusen) - 4:19

Recorded on March 25, 1959

  1. "High Hopes" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 2:42

Recorded on May 8, 1959

  1. "When No One Cares" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 2:42
  2. "I'll Never Smile Again" (Ruth Lowe) - 3:43

Recorded on May 14, 1959

  1. "I've Got a Crush on You" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) - 2:16
  2. "Embraceable You" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) - 3:23

Recorded on March 3, 1960

  1. "Nice 'N' Easy" (Alan Bergman, Marilyn Keith, Lew Spence) - 2:45

Recorded on April 13, 1960

  1. "I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me" (Clarence Gaskill, McHugh) - 2:25

Recorded on August 23, 1960

  1. "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (Dorothy Fields, McHugh) - 2:41

Recorded on March 20, 1961

  1. "I've Heard That Song Before" (Cahn, Styne) - 2:30

Recorded on March 21, 1961

  1. "Almost Like Being In Love" (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) - 2:02

Recorded on March 22, 1960

  1. "I'll Be Seeing You" (Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal) - 2:46

Recorded on September 11, 1961

  1. "I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues" (Arlen, Koehler) - 2:58

Recorded on March 6, 1962

Personnel

Charts

Chart (1991)! scope="col"
Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[1] 79

Notes and References

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