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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Close to You
2. People Will Say We're in Love
3. If You Are But a Dream
4. Saturday Night (Is the Lonliest Night in the Week)
5. White Christmas
6. I Fall in Love Too Easily
7. Ol' Man River
8. Stormy Weather
9. Embraceable You
10. She's Funny That Way, (I Got a Woman Crazy For Me)
11. My Melancholy Baby
12. Where or When
13. All the Things You Are
14. I Should Care
15. Dream
16. Put Your Dreams Away (For Another Day)
17. Over the Rainbow
18. If I Loved You
19. Someone to Watch Over Me
20. You Go to My Head
21. These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)
22. House I Live In, The
23. Day by Day
DISC 2:
1. Nancy (With the Laughing Face)
2. Full Moon and Empty Arms
3. Oh, What It Seemed to Be
4. Ghost of a Chance, (I Don't Stand) A
5. Why Shouldn't I?
6. Try a Little Tenderness
7. Begin the Beguine
8. They Say It's Wonderful
9. That Old Black Magic
10. How Deep Is the Ocean (How Blue Is the Sky)
11. Home on the Range
12. Five Minutes More
13. Things We Did Last Summer, The
14. Among My Souvenirs - (alternate take)
15. September Song
16. Blue Skies
17. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry
18. Lost in the Stars
19. There's No Business Like Show Business
20. Time After Time
21. Brooklyn Bridge, The
22. Sweet Lorraine
23. Always - (alternate take)
24. Mam'selle
DISC 3:
1. Stella by Starlight
2. My Romance
3. If I Had You
4. One For My Baby (And One More For the Road)
5. But Beautiful
6. You're My Girl
7. All of Me
8. Night and Day
9. S'Posin
10. Night We Called It a Day, The
11. Song Is You, The
12. What'll I Do?
13. Music Stopped, The
14. Fools Rush in (Where Angels Fear to Tread) - (alternate take)
15. I've Got a Crush on You
16. Body and Soul
17. I'm Glad There Is You
18. Autumn in New York
19. Nature Boy
20. Once in Love With Amy
21. Some Enchanted Evening
22. Hucklebuck, The
23. Let's Take an Old-Fashioned Walk
24. It All Depends on You
DISC 4:
1. Bye Bye Baby
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 (Reveal)
7. You Do Something to Me
8. Lover
9. When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You)
10. London by Night
11. Meet Me at the Copa
12. April in Paris
13. I Guess I'll Have to Dream the Rest
14. Nevertheless (I'm in Love With You)
15. I Am Loved
16. Hello, Young Lovers
17. We Kiss in a Shadow
18. I'm a Fool to Want You
19. Love Me
20. Deep Night
21. I Could Write a Book
22. I Hear a Rhapsody
23. My Girl
24. Birth of the Blues, The
25. Azure-Te (Paris Blues)
26. Why Try to Change Me Now
Album Notes
THE BEST OF THE COLUMBIA YEARS: 1943-1952 includes several recordings that are previously only available on FRANK SINATRA: THE COLUMBIA YEARS--THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS BOX SET.
Personnel includes: Frank Sinatra (vocals); Harry James (conductor, trumpet); Axel Stordahl, Mitchell Ayres, Mitch Miller, Percy Faith, Hugo Winterhalter, George Siravo, Jeff Alexander (conductor); Bob Ahern (guitar); Felix Slatkin (violin); Arthur Baker (clarinet); Johnny Hodges (alto saxophone); Coleman Hawkins (tenor saxophone); Harry Carney (baritone saxophone); Herbert Haymer (saxophone); Yank Lawson, Charlie Shavers, Bobby Hackett, Billy Butterfield (trumpet); Will Bradley, Lawrence Brown (trombone); Dave Mann, Nat Cole (piano); Eddie Safransky (bass); Buddy Rich (drums); Bobby Tucker Singers, Ken Lane Singers, Dinah Shore, Jeff Alexander Choir, Doris Day, The Pastels, The Whippoorwills, Ray Charles Singers.
Tony Mottola Trio: Tony Mottola (guitar); John Guarnieri (piano); Herman Albert (bass).
Includes liner notes by Nancy Sinatra, Daniel Okrent, Roy Hemming, Will Friedwald, Charles Granata.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
Essentially a distillation of the mammoth complete Columbia box, this four-disc set still allows ample room for Sinatra's Columbia legacy to be showcased. Like the complete set, this box contains previously unissued songs and alternate takes that are pure gold to Sinatra diehards. The collection is further distinguished by a breathtakingly comprehensive history and technical breakdown of these recordings. Though there are several light-hearted numbers on the order of the previously unreleased "Meet Me At The Copa," or the evergreen "That Old Black Magic," the focus here is on ballads.
When it came to love songs, Sinatra was able to play both sides of the fence. He could be the enchanter, spinning a sonic web around his objet d'amour, as on "Body And Soul," or the romantic ne'er-do-well hanging his tears out to dry on the transcendent "A Ghost Of A Chance." Occasionally, he ran a more complex gambit, playing both roles at the same time for maximum efficiency. The luxurious sound of Sinatra's voice meshes with the graceful elegance of the arrangements on these tunes to create pure pop nirvana.
Industry Reviews
...Mostly love ballads set to marzipan strings and ooh-ahh vocal choruses, this is the kind of stuff that tickles the old folks--and shows their grandkids that there's still something sexy in the soft voice of a man murmuring prayers of love. - Rating: A
Entertainment Weekly (12/01/1995)
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