The Very Best of Frank Sinatra
1997 compilation album by Frank Sinatra
The Very Best of Frank Sinatra | ||||
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Compilation album by Frank Sinatra | ||||
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 | |||
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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
References
- ^ The Very Best of Frank Sinatra at AllMusic
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albums
albums
- Sinatra at the Sands
- The Main Event – Live
- Sinatra Saga
- Sinatra Saga, Vol. 2
- Sinatra & Sextet: Live in Paris
- Sinatra 80th: Live in Concert
- With Red Norvo Quintet: Live in Australia, 1959
- Sinatra '57 in Concert
- Live from Las Vegas
- Sinatra: Vegas
- Frank Sinatra: The Greatest Concerts
- Live at the Meadowlands
- Sinatra: New York
- Best of Vegas
- Sinatra: London
- Sinatra: World On a String
- Sinatra: Standing Room Only
- This Is Sinatra!
- This Is Sinatra Vol. 2
- Look to Your Heart
- All the Way
- Sinatra Sings of Love and Things
- Sinatra '65: The Singer Today
- Frank Sinatra's Greatest Hits
- Frank Sinatra's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
- Portrait of Sinatra – Forty Songs from the Life of a Man
- Sinatra–Jobim Sessions
- Screen Sinatra
- All-Time Greatest Dorsey/Sinatra Hits, Vol. 1-4
- Capitol Collector's Series
- Sinatra Reprise: The Very Good Years
- Sinatra Sings the Songs of Van Heusen & Cahn
- Sinatra: Soundtrack to the CBS Mini-Series
- The Best of the Capitol Years
- Christmas Songs by Sinatra
- Frank Sinatra Sings the Select Johnny Mercer
- Frank Sinatra Sings the Select Rodgers & Hart
- The Complete Recordings Nineteen Thirty-Nine
- Sinatra 80th: All the Best
- Everything Happens to Me
- Frank Sinatra Sings the Select Cole Porter
- Frank Sinatra Sings the Select Sammy Cahn
- Greatest Hits: Early Years
- The Very Best of Frank Sinatra
- Portrait of Sinatra: Columbia Classics
- Lucky Numbers
- Classic Sinatra: His Greatest Performances 1953–1960
- Super Hits
- My Way: The Best of Frank Sinatra
- Love Songs
- Greatest Love Songs
- Christmas with the Rat Pack
- Frank Sinatra Christmas Collection
- Romance
- Duets/Duets II: 90th Birthday Limited Collector's Edition
- Romance: Songs from the Heart
- Sinatra at the Movies
- Nothing but the Best
- Seduction: Sinatra Sings of Love
- Classic Sinatra II
- Christmas with Sinatra & Friends
- 36 Greatest Hits!
- Come Fly Away
- Sinatra/Jobim: The Complete Reprise Recordings
- Sinatra/Basie: The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings
- Sinatra: Best of the Best
- Best of Duets
- Sinatra, with Love
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- High Society
- Young at Heart
- Robin and the 7 Hoods
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sets
- Sinatra–Jobim Sessions
- The Reprise Collection
- The Capitol Years
- Concepts
- The Complete Recordings
- The Song Is You
- The V-Discs
- The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings
- The Complete Capitol Singles Collection
- The Best of the Columbia Years
- Frank Sinatra & the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
- The Capitol Years
- Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre
- Frank Sinatra in Hollywood
- The Real Complete Columbia Years V-Discs
- The Voice: Frank Sinatra, the Columbia Years (1943–1952)
- The Reprise Years
- Duets: 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
- Ultimate Sinatra
albums
- A Jazz Portrait of Frank Sinatra
- Perfectly Frank
- Manilow Sings Sinatra
- ...Allow Us to Be Frank
- Bolton Swings Sinatra: The Second Time Around
- A Tribute to Frank Sinatra
films
- The Rat Pack
- The Night We Called It a Day
- A Man and His Music
- A Man and His Music – Part II
- A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim
- Francis Albert Sinatra Does His Thing
- Sinatra
- Sinatra in Concert at Royal Festival Hall
- Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back
- Sinatra – The Main Event
- Sinatra and Friends
- The First 40 Years
- The Man and His Music
- Reprise Rarities (Volume 1)
- Reprise Rarities (Volume 2)
- Reprise Rarities (Volume 3)
- Reprise Rarities (Volume 4)
- Reprise Rarities (Volume 5)
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