The Very Best of Frank Sinatra

The Very Best of Frank Sinatra is a double disc compilation album by Frank Sinatra that consists 40 hits he made from Reprise Records.

The Very Best of Frank Sinatra
Compilation album by
ReleasedJune 10, 1997
RecordedDecember 19, 1960 - September 19, 1979
GenreJazz, vocal jazz, traditional pop
Length125:17
LabelReprise
ProducerGregg Geller
Frank Sinatra chronology
With the Red Norvo Quintet: Live in Australia, 1959
(1997)
The Very Best of Frank Sinatra
(1997)
Portrait of Sinatra: Columbia Classics
(1997)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic[1]

Track listing edit

Disc one edit

  1. "Stardust" (Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish) - 2:48
  2. "A Foggy Day" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 2:17
  3. "Let's Fall in Love" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 2:11
  4. "The Girl Next Door" (Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane) - 3:18
  5. "Old Devil Moon" (Burton Lane, E.Y. Harburg) - 2:59
  6. "The Way You Look Tonight" (Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern) - 3:22
  7. "Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)" (Bart Howard) - 2:30
  8. "Nice Work If You Can Get It" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) - 2:37
  9. "I Get a Kick Out of You" (Cole Porter) - 3:14
  10. "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Arlen, Johnny Mercer) - 4:05
  11. "Please Be Kind" (Saul Chaplin, Sammy Cahn) - 2:43
  12. "Don'cha Go 'Way Mad" (Jimmy Mundy, Al Stillman, Illinois Jacquet) - 3:12
  13. "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) - 2:41
  14. "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" (David Mann, Bob Hilliard) - 2:43
  15. "I've Got You Under My Skin" (Porter) - 3:26
  16. "Let's Face the Music and Dance" (Irving Berlin) - 2:58
  17. "Come Fly with Me" (Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 3:11
  18. "My Kind of Town" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 3:09
  19. "Luck Be a Lady" (Frank Loesser) - 5:17
  20. "The Best Is Yet to Come" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) - 3:10

Disc two edit

  1. "It Was a Very Good Year" (Ervin Drake) - 4:25
  2. "All or Nothing at All" (Jack Lawrence, Arthur Altman) - 3:43
  3. "Night and Day" (Porter) - 3:37
  4. "Nancy (With the Laughing Face)" (Phil Silvers, Van Heusen) - 3:37
  5. "Young at Heart" (Leigh, Johnny Richards) - 2:54
  6. "Love and Marriage" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 2:12
  7. "All the Way" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 3:27
  8. "Witchcraft" (Coleman, Leigh) - 2:37
  9. "(Love Is) The Tender Trap" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 2:37
  10. "The Second Time Around" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 3:03
  11. "Pocketful of Miracles" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 2:39
  12. "Softly, as I Leave You" (Hal Shaper, Antonio DeVito, Giorgio Calabrese) - 2:50
  13. "Strangers in the Night" (Bert Kaempfert, Charles Singleton (songwriter), Eddie Snyder) - 2:25
  14. "Summer Wind" (Heinz Meier, Hans Bradtke, Mercer) - 2:53
  15. "That's Life" (Kelly Gordon, Dean Kay) - 3:10
  16. "Somethin' Stupid" [with Nancy Sinatra] (Carson Parks) - 2:45
  17. "Wave" (Antonio Carlos Jobim) - 3:25
  18. "My Way" (Paul Anka, Claude Francois, Jacques Revaux, Gilles Thibaut) - 4:36
  19. "Theme from New York, New York" (Fred Ebb, John Kander) - 3:26
  20. "Put Your Dreams Away (For Another Day)" (Paul Mann, George David Weiss, Ruth Lowe) - 3:12

Personnel edit

  • Frank Sinatra - vocals
  • Nancy Sinatra - vocals
  • Antonio Carlos Jobim - guitar
  • Nelson Riddle - arranger, conductor
  • Don Costa
  • Gordon Jenkins
  • Billy May
  • Johnny Mandell
  • Ernie Freeman
  • Billy Strange
  • Eumir Deodato
  • Neal Hefti
  • Count Basie and his orchestra

References edit