Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Let's Fall in Love
2. You'd Be So Easy to Love
3. Coffee Song (They've Got an Awful Lot of Coffee in Brazil)
4. Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart [#]
5. Last Dance [#]
6. Second Time Around
7. Tina
8. Without a Song
9. It Started All over Again
10. Love Walked In
11. You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You
12. Don't Take Your Love from Me
13. Come Rain or Come Shine
14. Night and Day
15. All Alone
16. What'll I Do?
17. I Get a Kick Out of You
18. Don'cha Go 'Way Mad
19. Garden in the Rain
20. Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
21. Please Be Kind

Disc 2:

1. Pennies from Heaven
2. Me and My Shadow - Sammy Davis, Jr., Frank Sinatra
3. I Have Dreamed
4. America the Beautiful [#]
5. California [#]
6. Soliloquy
7. Luck Be a Lady
8. Here's to the Losers
9. Way You Look Tonight
10. My Kind of Town
11. Best Is Yet to Come
12. Fly Me to the Moon
13. September Song
14. It Was a Very Good Year
15. This Is All I Ask
16. I'll Only Miss Her When I Think of Her
17. Love and Marriage
18. Moonlight Serenade
19. I Wished on the Moon
20. Oh, You Crazy Moon

Disc 3:

1. I've Got You Under My Skin
2. Shadow of Your Smile
3. Street of Dreams
4. You Make Me Feel So Young
5. Strangers in the Night
6. Summer Wind
7. All or Nothing at All
8. That's Life
9. I Concentrate on You
10. Dindi
11. Once I Loved (O Amor en Paz)
12. How Insensitive [Insensatez]
13. Drinking Again
14. Somethin' Stupid - Frank Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra
15. All I Need Is the Girl
16. Indian Summer
17. My Way
18. Wave
19. Man Alone
20. Forget to Remember

Disc 4:

1. There Used to Be a Ballpark
2. What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?
3. Just as Though You Were Here [#]
4. Lady Is a Tramp
5. Empty Tables
6. Send in the Clowns
7. I Love My Wife
8. Nancy (With the Laughing Face) [#]
9. Emily [#]
10. Sweet Lorraine [#]
11. My Shining Hour
12. More Than You Know
13. Song Is You
14. Theme from New York, New York
15. Something
16. Gal That Got Away/It Never Entered My Mind
17. Long Night
18. Here's to the Band
19. It's Sunday
20. Mack the Knife [#]

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27412 in Music
• Released on: 1990-12-08
• Number of discs: 4
• Format: Box set

Amazon.com
The pundits claim that Ol' Blue Eyes did his best work with Columbia in the '50s, but there's more great '60s and '70s stuff here than you can shake a stick at. After all, Sinatra wouldn't start his own label only to sing schlock. This four-CD set was released to celebrate The Chairman's 75th birthday and it traces the mellowing of that tremendous voice like the aging of a fine wine. It also adds eight unreleased tracks to a staggering song list highlighted by biggies like "New York, New York," "My Way," "The Way You Look Tonight," "It Was a Very Good Year," and "The Song Is You." --Michael Ruby

Customer Reviews

Great Reprise Collection-Some Great Songs Omitted Though
It's tough to add to some fine and wise reviews I've read here.It is very obvious listening to this collection how Frank's voice slowly gets raspy and sometimes harsh,but that is part of his monumental career.Remember on these recordings he is between about 46 and 69 years of age (from 1962 to 1984).To think that the man could continue at such a rate with thousands of concerts,sessions,movies etc. almost seems unbelievable.The famous great songs are all here,except "Call Me Irresponsible",and maybe a few others.The rare ballad "Theme from the Cardinal" was also omitted.Other rarities that are omitted are "I Like the Sunrise" and "Poor Butterfly" from the Francis and Duke album.Two gems from "Watertown","The Train", and "Lady Day" (not to mention "Goodbye") are also not here.This just shows that picking the best Frank from any period is virtually impossible,but always makes a good discussion.Still,there's more than enough here to suit anyone's taste,especially some really great balads like"What are you Doing...","A Man Alone","Empty Tables",and the astounding "A Long Night",with eerie strings backing Frank's crusty,edgy vocals about a man who has "seen what the street corners do to things like love and dreams.Seen what the bottle can do to a man with his hopes and his shemes." This album may be the only one with 1962's "Me and My Shadow",another neglected gem,and the only studio recording of Frank and Sammy Davis,Jr.This also has the full length version of "Luck Be a Lady",among the all time show stoppers..Possibly this 4CD Collection is a dash below the Capitol Collections,but is a great intro into the recording legacy of the greatest popular singer ever, during his middle and older years...One more thing: "I Have Dreamed",an astonishing performance by Frank and Nelson's orchestra, is thankfully included,and there are many other treasures here,"Forget to Remember" perhaps the greatest lesser known number that I have forgotten to mention!!

A Great Set - But the Capitol Years Box Set Is Superior
This was the first Sinatra Box set I ever purchased. It's a great one to own. I'd say that it's the second box set you should purchase. Sinatra is only in good voice, however on the first 2 1/2 discs. Much of the material on disc 3 & 4 is from the 70's. Frank decided to enter retirement in 1971 because he felt his voice and recordings were not up to his standards from the late 50's (with Capitol) and first 10 years on his own label (Reprise) during the 60's. Cigarettes have gotten to his voice by disc 3 and changed it to a croak by disc 4. Sinatra is in his best voice on the Capitol Years, and the tunes reflect a "prime-of-life" feel. The Reprise Collection reveals and older, more reflective and egomaniacal Frank, more akin to Joe Piscopo and Phil Hartman's parodies. The smart money is on the Capitol Years. Trust me on this one...I own nearly everything Sinatra's recorded.

A great sampler of Frank's work.
I agree with a lot of the reviewers of 'The Reprise Collection': Frank's best work is to be found on his Capitol releases. But Frank did record a lot of great stuff for his own label, Reprise, and this beautifully packaged four-disc set is full of classic singing. In particular, I think the later work needs defending. True, Frank's voice in the seventies and eighties was starting to sound a little bruised, and big tub-thumpers like 'My Way' are a far cry from the intense ballads of the fifties and early sixties, but there's a great deal of very affecting music on Disc Four, and the cracks that can be heard around Frank's pipes only add to the drama. 'Empty Tables' and 'Send in the Clowns', both sung with only veteran pianist Bill Miller for accompaniment, are masterpieces, and wouldn't have been nearly as effective during Frank's tenure with Capitol. And the version of 'Mack the Knife' that closes the set (with an vocal track recorded two years after that originally released on 'L. A. is My Lady') shows that even though he might have been eligible for an aged pension, Sinatra could still out-swing anybody. Anyone who wants an entree into the Sinatra universe would be well-advised to start here.