The Very Best of Frank Sinatra explained
The Very Best of Frank Sinatra |
Type: | compilation |
Artist: | Frank Sinatra |
Cover: | Theverybestoffranksinatra.jpg |
Released: | June 10, 1997 |
Recorded: | December 19, 1960 – September 19, 1979 |
Genre: | Jazz, vocal jazz, traditional pop |
Length: | 125:17 |
Label: | Reprise |
Producer: | Gregg Geller |
Prev Year: | 1997 |
Next Year: | 1997 |
The Very Best of Frank Sinatra is a double disc compilation album by Frank Sinatra that consists 40 hits he made from Reprise Records.
Track listing
Disc one
- "Stardust" (Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish) - 2:48
- "A Foggy Day" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 2:17
- "Let's Fall in Love" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 2:11
- "The Girl Next Door" (Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane) - 3:18
- "Old Devil Moon" (Burton Lane, E.Y. Harburg) - 2:59
- "The Way You Look Tonight" (Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern) - 3:22
- "Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)" (Bart Howard) - 2:30
- "Nice Work If You Can Get It" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) - 2:37
- "I Get a Kick Out of You" (Cole Porter) - 3:14
- "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Arlen, Johnny Mercer) - 4:05
- "Please Be Kind" (Saul Chaplin, Sammy Cahn) - 2:43
- "Don'cha Go 'Way Mad" (Jimmy Mundy, Al Stillman, Illinois Jacquet) - 3:12
- "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) - 2:41
- "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" (David Mann, Bob Hilliard) - 2:43
- "I've Got You Under My Skin" (Porter) - 3:26
- "Let's Face the Music and Dance" (Irving Berlin) - 2:58
- "Come Fly with Me" (Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 3:11
- "My Kind of Town" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 3:09
- "Luck Be a Lady" (Frank Loesser) - 5:17
- "The Best Is Yet to Come" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) - 3:10
Disc two
- "It Was a Very Good Year" (Ervin Drake) - 4:25
- "All or Nothing at All" (Jack Lawrence, Arthur Altman) - 3:43
- "Night and Day" (Porter) - 3:37
- "Nancy (With the Laughing Face)" (Phil Silvers, Van Heusen) - 3:37
- "Young at Heart" (Leigh, Johnny Richards) - 2:54
- "Love and Marriage" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 2:12
- "All the Way" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 3:27
- "Witchcraft" (Coleman, Leigh) - 2:37
- "(Love Is) The Tender Trap" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 2:37
- "The Second Time Around" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 3:03
- "Pocketful of Miracles" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 2:39
- "Softly, as I Leave You" (Hal Shaper, Antonio DeVito, Giorgio Calabrese) - 2:50
- "Strangers in the Night" (Bert Kaempfert, Charles Singleton (songwriter), Eddie Snyder) - 2:25
- "Summer Wind" (Heinz Meier, Hans Bradtke, Mercer) - 2:53
- "That's Life" (Kelly Gordon, Dean Kay) - 3:10
- "Somethin' Stupid" [with [[Nancy Sinatra]]] (Carson Parks) - 2:45
- "Wave" (Antonio Carlos Jobim) - 3:25
- "My Way" (Paul Anka, Claude Francois, Jacques Revaux, Gilles Thibaut) - 4:36
- "Theme from New York, New York" (Fred Ebb, John Kander) - 3:26
- "Put Your Dreams Away (For Another Day)" (Paul Mann, George David Weiss, Ruth Lowe) - 3:12
Personnel
- Frank Sinatra - vocals
- Nancy Sinatra - vocals
- Antonio Carlos Jobim - guitar
- Nelson Riddle - arranger, conductor
- Don Costa
- Gordon Jenkins
- Billy May
- Johnny Mandell
- Ernie Freeman
- Billy Strange
- Eumir Deodato
- Neal Hefti
- Count Basie and his orchestra