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)
Buenos días. Muchas gracias, Cor.
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