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Portrait of Sinatra - Forty Songs from the Life of a Man
Cover artwork from the 1977 UK album release
Compilation album by
Frank Sinatra
Released1977
Recorded1961-1977
Genre Jazz
Label Reprise
K 64039
Frank Sinatra chronology
The Main Event – Live
(1974) 		Portrait of Sinatra - Forty Songs from the Life of a Man
(1977) 		Sinatra–Jobim Sessions
(1979)

Portrait of Sinatra – Forty Songs from the Life of a Man is a 1977 compilation ( Gatefold) album by American singer Frank Sinatra that consists of 40 songs that were recorded for Reprise Records. It spent a total of eighteen non-consecutive weeks in the UK Albums Chart, reaching number-one for two weeks on 2 April 1977. It became Sinatra's fourth album to top the British charts, his first since 1957's A Swingin' Affair! to claim pole position, and also his most recent chart-topping album in the UK.

The sleeve design was illustrated by English portrait painter Michael Noakes, who won a platinum disc for his work. The artwork on the back cover of the gatefold album shows an outline charcoal drawing of Sinatra's face; one of the inside sleeves shows a partially painted version of that same outline charcoal drawing; the other inside sleeve lists the album's tracks and several tributes to Sinatra from artists such as Frankie Valli, Hoagy Carmichael; Bing Crosby, Nelson Riddle, Count Basie and Antonio Carlos Jobim; and the front cover itself shows the fully completed portrait of Sinatra's face. The album was not issued in the U.S & has never had an official release on CD in the UK.

Track listing

Disc one

  1. " Let's Face the Music and Dance"
  2. " Nancy (With the Laughing Face)" - 2:31
  3. " I've Got You Under My Skin" - 3:26
  4. " Let Me Try Again (Laisse Moi Le Temps)" - 3:31
  5. " Fly Me to the Moon" - 2:29
  6. " All or Nothing at All" - 3:57
  7. " For Once in My Life" - 2:50
  8. " Bonita" - 3:39
  9. " My Kind of Town" - 3:10
  10. " Call Me Irresponsible" - 2:56

Disc two

  1. " All the Way" - 3:26
  2. " Strangers in the Night" - 2:36
  3. " Didn't We?"
  4. " Come Fly with Me" - 3:11
  5. " The Second Time Around" - 3:03
  6. " In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" - 2:53
  7. " Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"
  8. " Softly, as I Leave You"
  9. "Cycles"
  10. " Send in the Clowns" - 3:39

Disc three

  1. " That's Life" - 3:07
  2. " Little Green Apples" - 5:00
  3. " The Song of the Sabiá"
  4. " Goody Goody" - 1:47
  5. "Empty Tables"
  6. "I Believe I'm Gonna Love You"
  7. "Stargazer"
  8. " I Sing the Songs (I Write the Songs)"
  9. " You Are the Sunshine of My Life" - 2:37
  10. " It Was a Very Good Year" - 4:25

Disc four

  1. " Somethin' Stupid" (with Nancy Sinatra) - 2:45
  2. " Young at Heart" - 2:52
  3. " You Make Me Feel So Young" - 3:21
  4. " Yesterday" - 3:56
  5. " Pennies from Heaven"
  6. " If"
  7. " Something" - 3:34
  8. "Star!"
  9. "Love's Been Good to Me"
  10. " My Way" - 4:35

Charts

Certifications and sales

Region Certification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom ( BPI) [4] Platinum 300,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

  1. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 275,276. ISBN  0-646-11917-6.
  2. ^ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
  3. ^ "Top Albums 1977" (PDF). Music Week. 24 December 1977. p. 14. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 March 2021. Retrieved 30 November 2021 – via worldradiohistory.com.
  4. ^ "British album certifications – Frank Sinatra – Portrait Of Sinatra". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
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