Monday, January 24, 2022

Frank Sinatra – The Capitol Years (21 CD Collection) @320

 


Frank Sinatra – The Capitol Years (21 CD Collection)

AllMusic Review by Bruce Eder.

While Capitol Records issued upgraded, 20-bit remastered editions of eight of Sinatra's key albums in the U.S. in 1998, EMI-U.K. put together this 21-CD box, containing every song that Sinatra authorized for release between 1953 and 1961, remastered in state-of-the-art 20-bit digital audio. Each CD contains an individual Sinatra Capitol LP (including singles compilations), but the bonus tracks from the American versions appear on a separate CD here (The Rare Sinatra), which means that some of these discs run only 30 minutes or so. What will really confuse dedicated fans is that the sound on this box is superior to the American remasters. On Songs for Young Lovers, for example, Sinatra simply sounds much closer than he does on the Capitol CD, and Swing Easy is even better. In the Wee Small Hours is very slightly more uneven, at least the title track, but everything else is superior. Songs for Swingin' Lovers is where the box really departs from the 1998 American remasters -- Sinatra sounds about twice as close, and the sound is significantly richer. A Swingin' Affair blows its American equivalent out of the water. Only the Lonely sets new heights for intimate and vivid sound, which Come Dance With Me matches -- and the U.K. box has the right version of "Day In -- Day Out," in contrast to the American disc. The enveloping, sumptuous texture of Nice 'n' Easy sets the bar still higher, and Come Swing With Me matches that standard. Sinatra's Capitol library will likely never sound better, and the only complaint lies with the packaging -- the booklet, which came with an earlier LP version of this material, is meaningless; still, it's hard to argue with anything that sounds this good.

Tracklist:

DISC 1 - SONGS FOR YOUNG LOVERS

 

1. The Girl Next Door

2. They Can't Take That Away from Me

3. Violets for Your Furs

4. Someone to Watch over Me

5. My One and Only Love

6. Little Girl Blue

7. Like Someone in Love

8. A Foggy Day

9. It Worries Me

10. I Can Read Between the Lines

11. I Get a Kick Out of You

12. My Funny Valentine

 

DISC 2 - SWING EASY

 

1. Jeepers Creepers

2. Taking a Chance on Love

3. Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away)

4. Lean Baby

5. I Love You

6. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down (And Write Myself a Letter)

7. Get Happy

8. All of Me

9. How Could You Do a Thing Like That to Me

10. Why Should I Cry over You?

11. Sunday

12. Just One of Those Things

 

DISC 3 - IN THE WEE SMALL HOURS

 

1. In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning

2. Mood Indigo

3. Glad to Be Unhappy

4. I Get Along Without You Very Well

5. Deep in a Dream

6. I See Your Face Before Me

7. Can't We Be Friends?

8. When Your Lover Has Gone

9. What Is This Thing Called Love?

10. Last Night When We Were Young

11. I'll Be Around

12. Ill Wind

13. It Never Entered My Mind

14. Dancing on the Ceiling

15. I'll Never Be the Same

16. This Love of Mine

 

DISC 4 - THIS IS SINATRA!

 

1. I've Got the World on a String

2. Three Coins in the Fountain

3. Love and Marriage

4. From Here to Eternity

5. South of the Border

6. Rain (Falling from the Skies)

7. The Gal That Got Away

8. Young at Heart

9. Learnin' the Blues

10. My One and Only Love

11. Love Is the Tender Trap

12. Don't Worry 'Bout Me

 

DISC 5 - SONGS FOR SWINGIN' LOVERS

 

1. You Make Me Feel So Young

2. It Happened in Monterey

3. You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me

4. You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me

5. Too Marvelous for Words

6. Old Devil Moon

7. Pennies from Heaven

8. Love Is Here to Stay

9. I've Got You Under My Skin

10. I Thought About You

11. We'll Be Together Again

12. Makin' Whoopee

13. Swingin' Down the Lane

14. Anything Goes

15. How About You?

 

DISC 6 - CLOSE TO YOU

 

1. Close to You

2. P.S. I Love You

3. Love Locked Out

4. Everything Happens to Me

5. It's Easy to Remember

6. Don't Like Goodbyes

7. With Every Breath I Take

8. Blame It on My Youth

9. It Could Happen to You

10. I've Had My Moments

11. I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night

12. The End of a Love Affair

 

DISC 7 - A SWINGIN' AFFAIR

 

1. Night and Day

2. I Wish I Were in Love Again

3. I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'

4. I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plans

5. Nice Work If You Can Get It

6. Stars Fell on Alabama

7. No One Ever Tells You

8. I Won't Dance

9. Lonesome Road

10. At Long Last Love

11. You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To

12. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)

13. From This Moment On

14. If I Had You

15. Oh! Look at Me Now

 

DISC 8 - WHERE ARE YOU?

 

1. Where Are You?

2. Night We Called It a Day

3. I Cover the Waterfront

4. Maybe You'll Be There

5. Laura

6. Lonely Town

7. Autumn Leaves

8. I'm a Fool to Want You

9. I Think of You

10. Where Is the One?

11. There's No You

12. Baby Won't You Please Come Home

 

DISC 9 - COME FLY WITH ME

 

1. Come Fly With Me

2. Around the World

3. Isle of Capri

4. Moonlight in Vermont

5. Autumn in New York

6. On the Road to Mandalay

7. Let's Get Away from It All

8. April in Paris

9. London by Night

10. Brazil

11. Blue Hawaii

12. It's Nice to Go Trav'ling

 

DISC 10 - THIS IS SINATRA VOLUME 2

 

1. Hey! Jealous Lover

2. Everybody Loves Somebody

3. Something Wonderful Happens in Summer

4. Half as Lovely (Twice as True)

5. You're Cheatin' Yourself (If You're Cheatin' on Me) 6. You'll Always Be the One I Love

7. You Forgot All the Words (While I Still Remember the Tune)

8. How Little We Know

9. Time After Time

10. Crazy Love

11. Wait for Me

12. If You Are But a Dream

13. So Long, My Love

14. It's the Same Old Dream

15. I Believe

16. Put Your Dreams Away (For Another Day)

 

DISC 11 - FRANK SINATRA SINGS FOR ONLY THE LONELY

 

1. Only the Lonely

2. Angel Eyes

3. What's New?

4. It's a Lonesome Old Town

5. Willow Weep for Me

6. Goodbye

7. Blues in the Night

8. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry

9. Ebb Tide

10. Spring Is Here

11. Gone With the Wind

12. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)

 

DISC 12 - COME DANCE WITH ME

 

1. Come Dance With Me

2. Something's Gotta Give [Edit: without drum roll intro]

3. Just in Time

4. Dancing in the Dark

5. Too Close for Comfort

6. I Could Have Danced All Night

7. Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week)

8. Day in-Day Out

9. Cheek to Cheek

10. Baubles, Bangles and Beads

11. The Song Is You

12. The Last Dance

 

DISC 13 - NO ONE CARES

 

1. When No One Cares

2. Cottage for Sale

3. Stormy Weather

4. Where Do You Go?

5. I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You

6. Here's That Rainy Day

7. I Can't Get Started

8. Why Try to Change Me Now?

9. Just Friends

10. I'll Never Smile Again

11. None But the Lonely Heart

12. One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)

 

DISC 14 - LOOK TO YOUR HEART

 

1. Look to Your Heart

2. Anytime, Anywhere

3. Not as a Stranger

4. Our Town

5. You, My Love

6. Same Old Saturday Night

7. Fairy Tale

8. Impatient Years

9. I Could Have Told You

10. When I Stop Loving You

11. If I Had Three Wishes

12. I'm Gonna Live Till I Die

 

DISC 15 - NICE 'N' EASY

 

1. Nice and Easy

2. That Old Feeling

3. How Deep Is the Ocean?

4. I've Got a Crush on You

5. You Go to My Head

6. Fools Rush In

7. Nevertheless (I'm in Love with You)

8. She's Funny That Way

9. Try a Little Tenderness

10. Embraceable You

11. Mam'selle

12. Dream

 

DISC 16 - COME SWING WITH ME

 

1. Day by Day

2. Sentimental Journey

3. Almost Like Being in Love

4. Five Minutes More

5. American Beauty Rose

6. Yes Indeed!

7. On the Sunny Side of the Street

8. Don't Take Your Love from Me

9. That Old Black Magic

10. Lover

11. Paper Doll

12. I've Heard That Song Before

 

DISC 17 - ALL THE WAY

 

1. All the Way

2. High Hopes

3. Talk to Me

4. French Foreign Legion

5. To Love and Be Loved

6. River, Stay 'Way from My Door

7. Witchcraft

8. It's over, It's over, It's Over

9. Ol' Mac Donald

10. This Was My Love

11. All My Tomorrows

12. Sleep Warm

 

DISC 18 - SINATRA'S SWINGIN' SESSION

 

1. When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You)

2. Blue Moon

3. S'posin'

4. It All Depends on You

5. It's Only a Paper Moon

6. My Blue Heaven

7. Should I

8. September in the Rain

9. Always

10. I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me

11. I Concentrate on You

12. You Do Something to Me

 

DISC 19 - POINT OF NO RETURN

 

1. When the World Was Young

2. I'll Remember April

3. September Song

4. Million Dreams Ago

5. I'll See You Again

6. There Will Never Be Another You

7. Somewhere Along the Way

8. It's a Blue World

9. These Foolish Things

10. As Time Goes By

11. I'll Be Seeing You

12. Memories of You

 

DISC 20 - FRANK SINATRA SINGS...OF LOVE AND THINGS

 

1. Nearness of You

2. Hidden Persuasion

3. Moon Was Yellow

4. I Love Paris

5. Monique [Song from Kings Go Forth]

6. Chicago

7. Love Looks So Well on You

8. Sentimental Baby

9. Mr. Success

10. They Came to Cordura

11. I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues

12. Something Wonderful Happens in Summer

 

DISC 21 - THE RARE SINATRA

 

1. Day In - Day Out

2. I'm Walking Behind You

3. Don't Make a Beggar of Me

4. Ya Better Stop

5. Take a Chance

6. Day In - Day Out

7. Memories of You

8. If It's the Last Thing I Do

9. There's a Flaw in My Flue

10. Wait Till You See Her

11. Nothing in Common

12. Same Old Song and Dance

13. How Are Ya' Fixed for Love?

14. Where or When

15. It All Depends on You

16. I Couldn't Care Less

17. The Song Is You

18. The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)

10 comments:

  1. Buenos días. Muchas gracias, Cor.
    Saludos.

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  2. Is there any chance of getting this broken up into 2 files? It's very hard to find a place that will convert a RAR file over 2 GB to a Zip file. Thanks!

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  3. Fantastic! Very much appreciated.

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  4. Thanks for this, a nice surprise to have all the Capitol albums in one file. And another vote for 7-zip, it's free and quick.

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  5. Esto me pone muy feliz hoy. Colecciono todo de Frank Sinatra. Muchas gracias. Hay una herramienta que ayuda a concentrar todos las descargas y la puedes interrumpir cuando se quiera para después seguir descargando. JDownloader 2 - https://cutt.ly/uI8yyK7

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  6. Greetings Cor &...
    Many many thanks for this great collection from Frank Sinatra
    Have a great weekend .....

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  7. Excellent collection. looking forward to listening. Thank you

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