In some ways, A Swingin' Affair! is "Songs for Swingin' Lovers!, Pt. 2," following the same formula of Sinatra's hit album of the previous year. Beneath the surface, there...
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This high-charting collection of singles and B-sides comes from the end of Frank Sinatra's tenure at Capitol Records. It's not really a cohesive set, but it does feature the...
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Originally, All Alone was going to called Come Waltz With Me. Although the title and the accompanying specially written title song were dropped before the album's release,...
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Working with Billy May again, Frank Sinatra recorded his hardest swing album ever with Come Dance With Me! Driven by an intensely swinging horn section, the album has a fair...
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Close to You is one of Frank Sinatra's most gentle and intimate albums, and that is due in no small part to the Hollywood String Quartet, which forms the core of the album's...
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A travelogue of sorts--i.e., "April In Paris," "Moonlight In Vermont," "Around The World"--though since more babies were reportedly conceived to the sounds of Sinatra than...
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Constructed around a light-hearted travel theme, Come Fly With Me, Frank Sinatra's first project with arranger Billy May, was a breezy change of pace from the somber Where...
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Following the multi-platinum success of Duets, Capitol Records assembled Duets II, a sequel that followed the blueprint of its predecessor to the letter. Assembled from...
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Capitol released it after he'd left, and it's fine--just not as good as the first two in the trilogy of conductor Billy May collaborations: Come Fly and Come...
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Arranged by Billy May, Come Swing With Me was Frank Sinatra's final swing session for Capitol Records. The album falls somewhere between the carefree Come Fly With Me and...
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More of an investment than a conventional box set, Concepts is a sixteen-disc collection of Frank Sinatra's Capitol concept albums. Housed in a wooden box, the set contains...
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Cycles was Frank Sinatra's first full-fledged pop/rock-oriented album, concentrating on a more orchestrated variation on the popular folk-rock of the late '60s. The...
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An embarrassing attempt to present an aged titan with more contemporary artists (though none of them were actually even in the studio with the man!). The Voice is simply no...
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Frank Sinatra's second set of torch songs recorded with Gordon Jenkins, No One Cares was nearly as good as its predecessor, Where Are You? Expanding the melancholy tone of...
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With his comeback secure, Frank Sinatra again took up the baton in advocacy of music between the cracks, this time with a near 60-person orchestra of Hollywood musicians and...
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There are two ways to view EMI-Capitol Special Markets' Gold. Either it's sacrilege, a bastardization of Sinatra's classic Capitol albums and an imperfect, shoddily...
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The Reprise years had its duds as far as full albums were concerned; his first LP for the label--the ridiculously-titled Ring-A-Ding Ding! gave some indication of things to...
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Frank Sinatra's Greatest Hits concentrates on the Chairman of the Board's pop hits from the mid- and late '60s, several of which were single-only releases or only available...
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Much like its predecessor, Frank Sinatra's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 is more effective as a portrait of Sinatra at a particular stage in his career than as a comprehensive...
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The Reprise years had its duds as far as full albums were concerned; his first LP for the label--the ridiculously-titled Ring-A-Ding Ding! gave some indication of things to...
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As the title suggests, I Remember Tommy is an affectionate tribute to Tommy Dorsey, the legendary bandleader who helped elevate Frank Sinatra to stardom. Arranged by Sy...
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Expanding on the concept of Songs for Young Lovers!, In the Wee Small Hours was a collection of ballads arranged by Nelson Riddle. The first 12" album recorded by Sinatra,...
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Frank Sinatra's final studio album of the '80s -- arguably the last true original album Sinatra recorded -- was an uneven but surprisingly enjoyable set that tried to adapt...
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Driven by a set of lush, sparkling Nelson Riddle arrangements, Moonlight Sinatra is a low-key, charming collection. Although the basic concept is somewhat nebulous -- all of...
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Pieced together from a variety of sessions and soundtracks, My Kind of Broadway is an uneven record, featuring a handful of gems among a bunch of competent, but...
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Although it follows the same patterns and approach as Cycles, My Way is a stronger album, with a better, more varied selection of material and a more focused, gutsy...
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Breaking slightly from his pattern of a swing album following the release of ballads set, Frank Sinatra followed No One Cares with Nice 'N' Easy, a breezy collection of...
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Frank Sinatra returned from his brief retirement in 1973 with the appropriately titled Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back. Released amid a whirlwind of publicity, the album was a...
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Sinatra's formative years are more comprehensively chronicled on other compilations, but The Radio Years has enough fine performances and terrific songs to make it worth its...
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If this were a legitimate release, this set of two CDs, featuring Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis, Jr., would have been one of Sinatra's top sellers. This bootleg is...
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Ring-a-Ding Ding!, Frank Sinatra's first album for his own record label, broke somewhat from the strict concepts of his Capitol Records; in the process, it set a kind of...
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September of My Years is one of Frank Sinatra's triumphs of the '60s, an album that consolidated his strengths while moving him into new territory, primarily in terms of...
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She Shot Me Down is Frank Sinatra's last great album, a dark, brooding record of saloon songs delivered with an understated authority by Sinatra. Arranged and conducted by...
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Don't let the title fool you; this batch of overlooked material (which includes a breathtaking version of "Why Shouldn't I?") is all grade-A Sinatra. ~ John Floyd, All Music...
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His final "official" Capitol LP, released after he left, including great tunes like "Blue Moon," "My Blue Heaven"...Lots of "blue" here, but no real blue sounds. Makes even...
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Sinatra's Swingin' Session is a fast, driving album, the speediest and hardest swing collection Frank Sinatra ever recorded. The majority of the album is a re-recording of...
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In 1969, Frank Sinatra recorded a second album with Antonio Carlos Jobim. For unknown reasons, Reprise decided not to release Sinatra-Jobim, but seven of the ten songs...
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In the early '60s, Columbia and Capitol were issuing collections of Frank Sinatra's biggest hits, which tended to sell quite well. Sinatra's Sinatra was the singer's attempt...
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Sinatra and Strings, Frank Sinatra's first album with arranger Don Costa, is an exquisite, romantic collection of ballads and is one of his most sensual records. Costa has...
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Sinatra and Swingin' Brass, a collection of brash, bold uptempo numbers, followed the all-ballads effort Sinatra & Strings. Working with Neal Hefti, Sinatra turned in a...
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If you're looking for a distillation of Frank Sinatra's entire recording career, then the two-disc set Music From the CBS Mini-Series is for you. It features selections from...
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Sinatra Sings Great Songs from Great Britain is one of the oddest albums in Sinatra's catalog. Recorded in the summer of 1962 and available only in the U.K. for a number of...
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Originally, Frank Sinatra had planned to record Only the Lonely with Gordon Jenkins, who had arranged his previous all-ballads album, Where Are You. Jenkins was unavailable...
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As the repository of the earliest phase of Frank Sinatra's solo career, 1943-1952, Columbia Records is usually thought to be at a disadvantage against the more accomplished...
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Softly, As I Leave You was Frank Sinatra's first tentative attempt to come to terms with the rock & roll revolution, even if it was hardly a rock & roll album. In fact, it...
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His first for Capitol; all of his early Capitol releases are basically essential to any complete Sinatra library. The label eventually released this as a double CD with his...
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Combining Frank Sinatra's first two ten-inch albums for Capitol, the compact disc Songs for Young Lovers/Swing Easy! not only contains some of the best music Sinatra...
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Strangers in the Night marked Frank Sinatra's return to the top of the pop charts in the mid-'60s, and it consolidated the comeback he started in 1965. Although he later...
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Recorded with Billy May, Sinatra Swings was Frank Sinatra's first straight swing album for Reprise Records. In terms of content and approach, the record is remarkably...
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Following the across-the-boards success of Strangers in the Night, That's Life continued Frank Sinatra's streak of commercially successful albums that straddled the line...
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Released the same year as the Capitol box set; together, they make a strong case for the artist's enduring musical legend. The Reprise Collection isn't as complete, however,...
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Like The Capitol Years, the four-disc box set The Reprise Collection was released to celebrate Frank Sinatra's 75th anniversary. However, it works as a better sampler than...
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The Concert Sinatra is one of Frank Sinatra's best records of the early '60s, an album that successfuly rearranges a selection of show tunes, primarily those composed by...
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Sinatra Reprise: The Very Good Years is an excellent single-disc retrospective of Sinatra's career at Reprise, including most of his signature songs from the '60s, '70s, and...
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While Capitol Records issued upgraded, 20-bit remastered editions of eight of Sinatra's key albums in the U.S. in 1998, EMI-U.K. put together this 21-CD box, containing...
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A perfect anthology, covering the cream of the crop, including album tracks as well as classic singles. More essential than 1989's one-disc Capitol Collectors Series,...
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The Best of the Capitol Years is an effective distillation of the three-disc set The Capitol Years. Featuring singles and album tracks, the disc contains a fair number of...
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For serious students of popular singing, this 12-disc box set is indispensable. During his early years at Columbia, Sinatra defined what popular singing was, and these 285...
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This first in a series of Frank Sinatra radio broadcasts from the Vintage Jazz Classics label, this disc features highlights from the Your Hit Parade show during the years...
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This is the third volume of 1940s Sinatra radio transcriptions from the Vintage Jazz Classics label. These sorts of collections are pretty much for Sinatra completists only,...
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Following the hard-driving A Swingin' Affair, Frank Sinatra released another all-ballads record, Where Are You? The album was the first he recorded at Capitol without Nelson...
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Included are essential Sinatra Christmas sounds of his Capitol era, with "Christmas Waltz" and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas." ~ David A. Milberg, All Music...
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Frank Sinatra starred in a number of radio shows during the 1940s, often doing two or three completely different shows a week. The Hit Parade Show was the swing era's...
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The Essence of Frank Sinatra is a 12-track, budget-priced collection that culls highlights -- not necessarily hits -- from Sinatra's early years at Columbia. There are...
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Originally released as a set of multiple 78s, Christmas Songs By Sinatra contains a number of holiday standards Sinatra recorded for Columbia Records during the '40s....
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Watertown is Frank Sinatra's most ambitious concept album, as well as his most difficult record. Not only does it tell a full-fledged story, it is his most explicit attempt...
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Again, Columbia didn't produce his greatest music. Nevertheless, as his legend grows, Columbia-Legacy continues to reissue numerous repackages. You can simply be content,...
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Sinatra's earliest wartime recordings are finally collected on this lovingly assembled two-disc set, which is essential for his serious fans. Sinatra's style isn't as smooth...
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By the time the triple-record set Trilogy was released, Frank Sinatra had become somewhat of a recluse from the recording studio. An audacious, ambitious way to stage a...
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Legacy/Columbia's I've Got a Crush on You contains 14 classic love ballads Frank Sinatra recorded during his seminal years at Columbia. Although this disc holds no interest...
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Most jazz and pop singers built at least one album around a particular Broadway composer or songwriting team during the 1950s and '60s, but not Frank Sinatra. The most...
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This isn't a definitive collection mainly because Frank Sinatra went on to record so many more great Johnny Mercer tunes for his Reprise label. But what does make it onto...
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There are countless Frank Sinatra radio shows reissued on CD out there, but 1949: Lite up Time Shows stands up as one of the best. This is ironic because Sinatra's voice was...
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Frank Sinatra recorded two official duet albums during the early '90s, but this fine collection, culled from various radio and television programs over a 13-year period,...
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Culled from a number of different live performances recorded during the '80s (as well as an awkward outtake from the Duets sessions: a version of "My Way" recorded with...
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Released to coincide with Frank Sinatra's 80th Birthday, Sinatra 80th -- All the Best is a double disc set that draws from his classic Capitol concept albums, as well as...
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This is one of the most interesting and successful Frank Sinatra collections out there. Everything Happens to Me avoids the obvious hits and collects a number of the finest...
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Despite the recent release of this disc, it's a classic for the ages. Recorded with the Red Norvo Orchestra, these tapes were only recently discovered and released by the...
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Long the favorite of collectors, who have cherished their bootlegged copies of the concert for years, Frank Sinatra with the Red Norvo Quintet -- Live in Australia 1959 was...
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The romantic work of Frank Sinatra and Tommy Dorsey is collected on the Love Songs anthology, which features "I'll Never Smile Again," "Stardust," "Dolores," "Everything...
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Sings His Greatest Hits is a terrific single-disc collection containing 18 of Frank Sinatra's best-known songs from his time at Columbia, including "April In Paris," "Night...
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Portrait of Sinatra: Columbia Classics is a double-disc, 36-track collection that features Sinatra's biggest hits from his Columbia years, including "Someone to Watch Over...
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The Popular Frank Sinatra, Vol. 1 is a wonderful, 20-track collection of highlights from Sinatra's stint with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. Every song on the collection was...
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This two-CD set presents four half-hour programs from the 1945 Songs by Sinatra radio show, the programs of September 12, September 19, December 12 (Frank Sinatra's 30th...
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The tape of one of the shows from Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis, Jr.'s week-long joint appearance at the mob-owned Villa Venice nightclub in the Chicago suburb...
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Capitol Collectors Series collects a selection of Frank Sinatra's biggest hit singles from the '50s, making for a scattershot but entertaining sampler, even if it is in no...
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Officially his Capitol swan song, it was an attempt to recapture some of the classic brokenhearted "one who got away" mystique of his earlier classics. For some reason, it...
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At the time he recorded his final Capitol album, Point of No Return, Frank Sinatra was no longer interested in giving his record label first-rate material, preferring to...
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Divided into six separate thematically oriented records -- covering saloon songs, standards, swing, Broadway, Hollywood, and love songs -- this six-LP/four-CD set provides...
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It can be argued that Sinatra never sounded fully comfortable singing Christmas carols, and this record is no exception. While his other albums of the period are bursting...
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16 Most Requested Songs is a midline-priced collection that spotlights many of Sinatra's best-known and most popular performances for Columbia Records, including "All or...
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Following the release of Some Nice Things I've Missed, Frank Sinatra embarked on a six-concert tour in 1974, working with Woody Herman & the Young Thundering Herd, which was...
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This is the second in a series of Frank Sinatra radio show compilations from Vintage Jazz Classics. This disc offers a fine portrait of the artist from 1943 to 1946, though...
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Originally encased in a small, leather-bound trunk and comprising a grand total of 20 discs, Frank Sinatra's The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings is easily the most lavish...
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Famous Songs From the Musicals is a collection of tracks taken from American musical theater as performed by Frank Sinatra. Much of the music Sinatra performed throughout...
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The title of this collection is slightly misleading as it is not an original concept album built around the movies nor is the CD even a selection of songs that Frank Sinatra...
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There are dozens upon dozens of CDs spotlighting songs from Frank Sinatra's 1940s radio shows on the market, but most of them cherry pick songs rather than include the...
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This budget CD has 13 selections taken from radio shows that feature Frank Sinatra near the beginning of his solo career. The emphasis is on ballads with only a couple of...
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As hard as it is to believe now, Frank Sinatra's career was at its lowest ebb during the early '50s. His career and personal life were in shambles and the stress combined...
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Originally, Lucky Numbers was only intended for sale in Las Vegas, since the ten songs on the disc are all, in some way, about luck and gambling. Reprise soon realized the...
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This 20-song collection is a major addition to the Sinatra and Tommy Dorsey discographies. If most of the songs here aren't too familiar (apart from Irving Berlin's "Take...
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After his death, Frank Sinatra's children decided they wanted to stem the tide of bootlegged live material that was flooding the market by putting out legitimate versions of...
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This slim yet potent sampler of Guy's excellent early-'60s work for Chess will no doubt please newcomers looking for a bargain introduction to the blues guitarist/vocalist's...
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Frank Sinatra Sings Rodgers & Hammerstein is a 17-track compilation of Rodgers & Hammerstein songs Sinatra recorded for Columbia Records during the '40s. Featuring...
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When Columbia decided to reissue Frank Sinatra's early '50s albums on CD, they did it right, choosing to expand each of the original albums with bonus tracks and release...
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Having heard some Alec Wilder instrumental compositions backstage at New York's Paramount Theatre on a portable record player, Frank Sinatra decided that he wanted to...
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All of the songs on Frank Sinatra Sings the Select Sammy Cahn were originally released in the late '50s on Sinatra's singles and concept albums for Capitol Records. It is to...
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The Complete Capitol Singles Collection is exactly what it says it is -- all of Frank Sinatra's singles for Captiol Records, both the A-sides and B-sides, as well as duets...
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A good single-disc compilation of his Capitol years, covering 1953 to the beginning of the 1960s. His Capitol output was so extensive that it's impossible for a 20-song...
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By 1967, bossa nova had become quite popular within jazz and traditional pop audiences, yet Frank Sinatra hadn't attempted any Brazil-influenced material. Sinatra decided to...
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The long-awaited first collaboration between two icons, Count Basie and Frank Sinatra, did something unique for the reputations of both. For Basie, the Sinatra connection...
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In many ways, Sinatra at the Sands is the definitive portrait of Frank Sinatra in the '60s. Recorded in April of 1966, At the Sands is the first commercially released live...
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Frank Sinatra and Count Basie's second collaboration, It Might As Well Be Swing, was a more structured, swing-oriented set than Sinatra-Basie, and in many ways the superior...
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After kicking around for years on bootlegs and unofficial releases (notably Jazz Hour's two-CD version, At The Villa Venice, Chicago Live 1962), this tape of a live...
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Falling in Love With Frank Sinatra & Tommy Dorsey is part of RCA's mid-line Falling in Love With series, which focuses on romantic highlights from classic big-band, swing,...
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In early 2000, just in time for Valentine's Day shopping, Columbia/Legacy put out a string of compilations by such catalog staples as Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, and Louis...
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Released in January 2002 as part of the great rush of Valentine-themed releases, Greatest Love Songs outclasses most of the romantic-themed compilations in its genre --...
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Another collection of Sinatra singles and B-sides with backings courtesy of Nelson Riddle, this isn't an essential collection, but it is an interesting one, showcasing the...
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This very attractive five-CD box set has every studio recording that Frank Sinatra recorded with Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, plus a full disc of mostly unreleased radio...
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Containing many seminal Sinatra performances, I'll Be Seeing You distills the highlights from the extensive five-disc The Song Is You box set, giving listeners an effective...
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The third quarter of each year brings a bounty of Christmas collections on pop artists ranging from Sinatra to Elvis Presley to Bing Crosby to the Beach Boys. Unfortunately,...
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A four-disc distillation of the mammoth 12-disc box The Columbia Years (1943-1952): The Complete Recordings, The Best of the Columbia Years 1944-1952 provides everything...
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Frank Sinatra's Duets and Duets II albums were artistic disasters, a tattered way to end a long, distinguished recording career -- and the third CD of duets, Classic Duets,...
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This is a fine budget-priced box set that puts three single-disc collections from Frank Sinatra's Columbia Records period under one slipcover. Sinatra Sings His Greatest...
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In 1945, Frank Sinatra recorded his first album, after a career previously devoted solely to single records. Over two sessions, he performed the eight songs included in The...
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In Philadelphia, one of the leading Frank Sinatra experts is a veteran DJ named Sid Mark, who hosts a local weekend radio show that plays Sinatra's recordings exclusively....
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Bluebird certainly didn't need the "As Seen on TV" logo to sell this collection of unreleased Frank Sinatra performances. For fans of Sinatra in general and his early...
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The Voice of Frank Sinatra was the first Frank Sinatra album recorded as such. Initially issued by Columbia Records on March 4, 1946, as a set of four 78-rpm records (and...
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