The Best of the Columbia Years: 1943-1952
Frank Sinatra - CD
- Artist: Frank Sinatra
- Format: CD
- Year: 1995, 1998, 2003
- UPC: 074646468128
- Item Number: SNY646812
- Release date: 10/31/1995
- 1. Close to You
- 2. People Will Say We're in Love [From Oklahoma!]
- 3. If You Are But a Dream
- 4. Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night in the Week)
- 5. White Christmas [From Holiday Inn White Christmas]
- 6. I Fall in Love Too Easily [From Anchors Aweigh]
- 7. Ol' Man River [From Show Boat]
- 8. Stormy Weather [From Cotton Club Parade of 1933]
- 9. Embraceable You [From Girl Crazy]
- 10. She's Funny That Way
- 11. My Melancholy Baby [From Birth of the Blues]
- 12. Where or When [From Babes in Arms]
- 13. All the Things You Are [From Very Warm for May]
- 14. I Should Care [From Thrill of a Romance]
- 15. Dream [From Her Highness and the Bellboy]
- 16. Put Your Dreams Away (For Another Day)
- 17. Over the Rainbow [From The Wizard of Oz]
- 18. If I Loved You [From Carousel]
- 19. Someone to Watch Over Me [From Oh, Kay!]
- 20. You Go to My Head
- 21. These Foolish Things [From Spread It Abroad]
- 22. The House I Live In
- 23. Day by Day
- 1. Nancy (With the Laughing Face)
- 2. Full Moon and Empty Arms
- 3. Oh! What It Seemed to Be
- 4. I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You
- 5. Why Shouldn't I? [From Jubilee]
- 6. Try a Little Tenderness
- 7. Begin the Beguine [From Jubilee]
- 8. They Say It's Wonderful
- 9. That Old Black Magic [From Star Spangled Rhythm]
- 10. How Deep Is the Ocean?
- 11. Home on the Range
- 12. Five Minutes More [From Sweetheart of Sigma Chi]
- 13. The Things We Did Last Summer
- 14. Among My Souvenirs [From the Best Years of Our Lives][Alternate Take]
- 15. September Song [From Knickerbocker Holiday]
- 16. Blue Skies [From Blue Skies]
- 17. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry
- 18. Lost in the Stars [From Lost in the Stars]
- 19. There's No Business Like Show Business [From Annie Get Your Gun]
- 20. Time After Time
- 21. The Brooklyn Bridge [From It Happened in Brooklyn]
- 22. Sweet Lorraine
- 23. Always [Alternate Take]
- 24. Mam'selle [From the Razor's Edge]
- 1. Stella by Starlight [From the Uninvited]
- 2. My Romance [From Jumbo]
- 3. If I Had You
- 4. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) [From The Sky's the Limit]
- 5. But Beautiful [From Road to Rio]
- 6. You're My Girl [From High Button Shoes]
- 7. All of Me [From Meet Danny Wilson]
- 8. Night and Day [From the Gay Divorcee]
- 9. S'posin'
- 10. The Night We Called It a Day
- 11. The Song Is You [From Music in the Air]
- 12. What'll I Do?
- 13. The Music Stopped [From Higher and Higher]
- 14. Fools Rush In [Alternate Take]
- 15. I've Got a Crush on You [From Strike Up the Band]
- 16. Body and Soul [From Three's A Crowd]
- 17. I'm Glad There Is You
- 18. Autumn in New York
- 19. Nature Boy
- 20. Once in Love with Amy [From Where's Charley?]
- 21. Some Enchanted Evening [From South Pacific]
- 22. The Hucklebuck
- 23. Let's Take an Old Fashioned Walk
- 24. It All Depends on You [From Big Boy]
- 1. Bye Bye Baby [From Gentlemen Prefer Blondes]
- 2. Don't Cry Joe (Let Her Go, Let Her Go, Let Her Go)
- 3. That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day)
- 4. Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy
- 5. American Beauty Rose
- 6. Should I? [From Lord Byron of Broadway]
- 7. You Do Something to Me [From Fifty Million Frenchmen]
- 8. Lover [From Love Me Tonight]
- 9. When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles with You) [From Meet Danny
- 10. London by Night
- 11. Meet Me at the Copa
- 12. April in Paris [From Walk a Little Faster]
- 13. I Guess I'll Have to Dream the Rest
- 14. Nevertheless (I'm in Love with You)
- 15. I Am Loved [From Out of This World]
- 16. Hello, Young Lovers [From The King and I]
- 17. We Kiss in a Shadow [From The King and I]
- 18. I'm a Fool to Want You
- 19. Love Me
- 20. Deep Night
- 21. I Could Write a Book [From Pal Joey]
- 22. I Hear a Rhapsody
- 23. My Girl
- 24. Birth of the Blues [From George White's Scandals of 1924]
- 25. Azure-Te (Paris Blues)
- 26. Why Try to Change Me Now?
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The Best of the Columbia Years: 1943-1952 by Frank Sinatra on CD
This four-CD set stands midway between the 12-CD Complete Collection 1943-1952 box (which is worth every cent, for those who can afford it) and the single-CD 15-song Essential Frank Sinatra: The Columbia Years -- in its favor, along with an affordable price, is its thorough and wide-ranging overview of the least well-known part of Frank Sinatra's career. Scholars and listeners with long memories over 70 aside, the chances are that no more than a dozen of its 97 tracks will be known to most of Sinatra's fans. And it does offer a detailed look at the singer's evolution, from a big-band era balladeer into a new breed of vocalist, just inches away from the defining Vegas swinger of his Capitol years -- the 97 songs here cover a significant chunk of that Columbia library (although like the 12-disc box, it doesn't include any of the singer's V-Disc sides that constituted just about his only recorded output for the first year of his solo career, or the radio performances that have been licensed in more recent years to augment his Cole Porter and Rodgers & Hammerstein catalogs); additionally, this set is better for the more casually minded serious fan, in that it avoids the missteps imposed upon Sinatra by Mitch Miller, which require explanation for the uninitiated. The sound is state-of-the-art and the source materials have been treated with exceptional care, thus giving the music its best hearing in history, and certainly since the original 78 rpm releases; indeed, much of what's here never showed up on vinyl, and those that did often didn't get represented long or well. The annotation is superb, and the booklet is well illustrated. The set also exists in two different editions: the original long-box shaped release, a foot tall with the type in large font, and also as a less expensive CD-jewel case-sized set in a slipcase, with smaller print and photos. ~ Bruce Eder, All Music Guide
- Artist: Frank Sinatra
- Format: CD
- Year: 1995, 1998, 2003
- UPC: 074646468128
- Item Number: SNY646812
- Release date: 10/31/1995
- Label: Columbia, Sony Music Distribution
- Genre: VocalMusic
- Style: Big Band, Cast Recordings, Show Tunes, Swing, Traditional Pop, Vocal Jazz, Vocal Pop
- Album Time: 297:29
- Album Type: "Best of..." / "Greatest Hits", Box set
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