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The Very Best of Frank Sinatra
Compilation album by
ReleasedJune 10, 1997
RecordedDecember 19, 1960 - September 19, 1979
Genre Jazz, vocal jazz, traditional pop
Length125:17
Label Reprise
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]

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

Track listing

Disc one

  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

  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

  • 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