Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. All or Nothing at All - Harry James & His Orchestra, , Frank Sinatra
2. From the Bottom of My Heart [Alternate Take][#] - Harry James & His Orchestra, , Frank Sinatra
3. If I Didn't Care - Harry James & His Orchestra, , Frank Sinatra
4. Moon Love - Harry James & His Orchestra, , Frank Sinatra
5. East of the Sun (And West of the Moon) - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Frank Sinatra
6. I'll Be Seeing You [From the Royal Palm Revue] - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Frank Sinatra
7. Say It [From Buck Benny Rides Again] - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Frank Sinatra
8. Blue Skies [From Holiday Inn] - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Frank Sinatra
9. I'll Never Smile Again - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, , The Pied Pipers, Frank Sinatra
10. Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread) - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Frank Sinatra
11. This Love of Mine - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Frank Sinatra
12. Oh! Look at Me Now - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Connie Haines, , The Pied Pipers, Frank Sinatra
13. Just as Though You Were Here - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, , The Pied Pipers, Frank Sinatra
14. How About You? [From Babes on Broadway] - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Frank Sinatra
15. Imagination - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Frank Sinatra
16. Frenesi - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, , The Pied Pipers, Frank Sinatra
17. Blue Moon - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Frank Sinatra
18. Be Careful, It's My Heart [From Holiday Inn] - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Frank Sinatra
19. Song Is You [From Music in the Air] - Frank Sinatra, Axel Stordahl & His Orchestra,
20. Night and Day [From Gay Divorce] - Frank Sinatra, Axel Stordahl

Disc 2:

1. No Love, No Nothin' [From The Gang's All Here]
2. Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night in the Week)
3. Oh! What It Seemed to Be
4. You'll Never Know [Aircheck][#] - David Broekman & The Treasury Song Parade Orchesta, Frank Sinatra
5. I've Got a Crush on You [From Strike Up the Band]
6. Brooklyn Bridge [From It Happened in Brooklyn]
7. Five Minutes More [From Sweetheart of Sigma Chi][Alternate Take]
8. (It Seems to Me) I've Heard That Song Before [Aircheck][#]
9. Trolley Song [Aircheck][#]
10. Time After Time [From It Happened in Brooklyn] - Four Hits & A Miss, , Frank Sinatra
11. Dream (When You're Feeling Blue) [From Her Highness and the Bellboy] - Ken Lane Singers, Frank Sinatra
12. I Fall in Love Too Easily [From Anchors Aweigh]
13. She's Funny That Way
14. It's Been a Long, Long Time [Aircheck] - The Pied Pipers, Frank Sinatra
15. Dancing in the Dark [Aircheck][#] - Frank Sinatra, Bobby Tucker Singers
16. I've Got You Under My Skin/Easy to Love [Aircheck]
17. Nancy (With the Laughing Face)
18. Lover Come Back to Me [Aircheck][#]
19. Put Your Dreams Away (For Another Day)
20. Again [Aircheck][#] - Johnny Green & His Orchestra, Frank Sinatra

Disc 3:

1. All of Me [From Meet Danny Wilson]
2. Sweet Lorraine - The Metronome All-Stars, Frank Sinatra
3. Body and Soul [From Three's A Crowd]
4. All the Things You Are [From Very Warm for May][Alternate Take][#] - Ken Lane Singers, Frank Sinatra
5. Embraceable You [From Girl Crazy]
6. These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You) [From Spread It Abroad]
7. Stormy Weather [From Cotton Club Parade of 1933] - Ken Lane Singers, Frank Sinatra
8. Begin the Beguine [From Jubilee]
9. There Will Never Be Another You [Aircheck] - David Broekman & The Treasury Song Parade Orchesta, Frank Sinatra
10. As Time Goes By [Aircheck][#] - David Broekman & The Treasury Song Parade Orchesta, Frank Sinatra
11. Nearness of You
12. Stella by Starlight [From Uninvited]
13. I Get a Kick Out of You [From Anything Goes] - Frank Sinatra, , Vimms Vocalists
14. That Old Black Magic [From Star Spangled Rhythm]
15. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) [From The Sky's the Limit]
16. It Had to Be You [Aircheck][#]
17. What'll I Do?
18. Laura [From Laura]
19. September Song [From Knickerbocker Holiday]
20. Ol' Man River [From Show Boat]

Disc 4:

1. Birth of the Blues [From George White's Scandals]
2. April in Paris [From Walk a Little Faster] - Frank Sinatra, , The Whippoorwills
3. American Beauty Rose
4. Lover [From Love Me Tonight]
5. Continental [From the Gay Divorce]
6. Should I (Reveal) [From Lord Byron of Broadway]
7. When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles with You) [From Meet Danny]
8. It All Depends on You [From Big Boy]
9. Bye Bye Bye [From Gentlemen Prefer Blondes]
10. I Could Write a Book [From Pal Joey] - Jeff Alexander Choir, Frank Sinatra
11. Autumn in New York
12. If Only She'd Looked My Way
13. Hello, Young Lovers [From The King and I]
14. We Kiss in a Shadow [From The King and I]
15. My Girl
16. Love Me
17. Farewell, Farewell to Love - Harry James & His Orchestra, , Frank Sinatra
18. Walking in the Sunshine
19. Why Try to Change Me Now [Aircheck][#]
20. I'm a Fool to Want You

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1282 in Music
• Brand: Sony
• Released on: 2007-09-25
• Number of discs: 4
• Formats: Box set, Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: 1.81 pounds

Customer Reviews

If this doesn't win some awards...
...then I don't know what will. So let me be the first to declare - "A Voice in Time" should win on several accounts.

First, the packaging...it's exquisite. Among the very, very best I've ever seen - and never have I seen it in this price range. A+++. The dark and silver pin striping is very classy and beautiful...wonderfully understated and it sets a tone of elegance and class. Inside the two books are beautiful - one housing the four disks the other the reading material...perfect. Functional. Again...very, very classy, and very, very well made. No dated, plastic jewel cases or digipaks that fall apart - no, none of that, it's just delicious. Both are extremely hefty, and well-made, and knock-out, flat-out gorgeous. The silver and black motif is luxuriously carried through to these two pieces...very befitting of the old B&W feel of the music - very stylish and hints of the old deco design styles of the 1920s/30s/40s, but not "ultra-retro-y"...not at all. Just class. The printing and production of these books is well beyond the price range, filled with beautifully done photographs, high quality paper and prints...and wonderful materials to look at and read and enjoy. Amazing...and absolutely Grammy worthy.

Second, the music....or I should say "program." I have to tell you, I have some early Sinatra and I love it, but I really wasn't interested in a four CD retrospective. Maybe a "Complete...yada, whatever" (after all aren't we all collectors now?) So I didn't think a set like this would be of any great interest to me or to "collectors." Sure...there's something to be said for owning EVERYTHING - alternates and all - but forget about everything. There's still something to be said for a story...a set designed to be a wonderful consistent listen. It's still about enjoying music, right?

A stunning and brilliant and magical program of listening is what this is. Wonderfully laid out and presented. Perfectly chosen material that frames the music, the time, and the voice. It is refreshingly not limited to the "Complete, something-something sessions" or the recordings made with the "something orchestra." That fact allowed them to create nothing less than a perfect album, a perfect program of music - just the way Sinatra liked to do it. That's what blew me away (after the packaging of course) - this is such a remarkably well thought out set. It covers the best music that introduced the world to the Voice - and it's free to explore how and why it all happened. And that's the impact you feel. It ultimately creates a giant, amazing concept album, where the concept is how early Frank Sinatra landed on Earth and reinvented singing and threw pop music into high art. It presents the most authentic and POWERFUL portrayal of early Sinatra I've ever heard.

Yes...the material is all aces, too. There's nothing to mull through. It's a knock-out, free-flowing mega-album. Somehow it manages to create a very living and deeply moving personal message, like all of Sinatra's best concept albums. As if he knew one day these recordings would be assembled here, at this time, and in this fashion...it does make you wonder. It deserves whatever awards they got.

Third, the sound...it is nothing short of miraculous. The restoration is absolutely stunning. You will be speechless listening to it, I promise. It's not just icing on the cake either -- it goes much deeper than that. It manages to cohesively revive everything, by putting a brilliant, magical light on it all. You feel it, you damn-near see it. Every detail shimmers. You are movingly reminded that he was the greatest singer of all time who happened to be in possession of the greatest vocal instrument of all time. A living Stradivarius. The sound quality really lets you hear and appreciate that. How he holds and fades a perfect, velvety note into the sky is right there to fully appreciate - there's no mistaking his brilliance. Honestly, these pieces just don't "sound good" they sound utterly amazing.

Well, lastly there's the subject matter. You get the sense that it really gets its due here. What better subject matter could you have? The greatest singer of all time, captured as he was changing the world, just as it all happened. Given the brilliant programming of the material and its sonic restoration - it's happening all over again.

Not just another box set covering the familiar. Nor is it a "complete-anything" to feed our "I want it all" appetite. This set is a revelation to be cherished - on all accounts; sound quality, subject matter, programming, and packaging. And I believe it is very capable of winning awards on all those accounts mentioned. It's that good. And together, the sum of all those accounts, adds up to be one of the best sets I've ever owned. Fittingly it was released to commemorate the tenth anniversary of his passing. Fitting indeed...it's a very special program.

Young Sinatra at his Vocal Best
A Voice in Time, represents Sinatra at his vocal best. The song selections are great. Also there are many rare radio airchecks, which make the collection worth while. Sinatra's early work is often overshadowed by his Capitol and Reprise recordings.The Sound quality on "A Voice in Time", is far Superior to the mega Complete Columbia Recordings from 1993. It's amazing how much the technology, has advanced in just 14 years. In my opinion this set is worth every penny. Enjoy Sinatra at the very begining of his career.

EARLY PRISTINE SINATRA
This is the early Sinatra without the seasoned voice. Enjoy the tenderness and innocence of this incredible baritone voice at the beginning of his career. Included in this collection are many previously unreleased radio airchecks and some previously unreleased alternate takes. Beautifully packaged, with a 116-page book that includes a forward written by Nancy Sinatra, Jr., and some very interesting rare photos of Frank. If you're a serious Sinatra fan, by all means, buy this beautiful set. It will give you a greater appreciation for Sinatra's early career before the marvelous Capitol and Reprise years. Sinatra was, is, and always will be "The Chairman Of The Board!!"