Ultimate Sinatra
Ultimate Sinatra (100 Songs Celebrating 100 Years) | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Box set and compilation album by | ||||
Released | April 21, 2015 | |||
Recorded | 1939–1979 | |||
Genre | Traditional pop | |||
Length | 317:43 | |||
Label | Capitol | |||
Frank Sinatra chronology | ||||
|
Review scores | |
---|---|
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
All About Jazz | [2] |
Ultimate Sinatra is a 2015 compilation album by American singer Frank Sinatra released specifically to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of his birth. The collection consists of songs recorded from 1939 to 1979 during his sessions for Columbia Records, Capitol Records, and Reprise Records. The 4-CD set consists of 100 songs, plus a never before released bonus track of a rehearsal recording of "The Surrey with the Fringe on Top" from the musical Oklahoma! This edition also features an 80-page booklet with a new essay by Sinatra historian and author Charles Pignone, as well as rare photos and quotes from Sinatra, his family members and key collaborators.
A single-disc version also was released, consisting of 24 tracks from the box set plus an exclusive alternate studio take of "Just In Time." The Australian 2-CD edition adds a complete, previously unreleased recording of Sinatra's December 1961 concert at Sydney Stadium. The American release truncates the Sydney show.
Track listing
[edit]Box set edition (Note: all composers' and arrangers' names listed below are in the order they appear in the box set booklet. "Arranged by" is abbreviated as "arr. by" below.)
Disc one
[edit]- "All or Nothing at All" (Jack Lawrence/Arthur Altman)―arr. by Andy Gibson – 2:58
- "I'll Never Smile Again" (Ruth Lowe)―arr. by Fred Stulce – 3:10
- "Street of Dreams" (Victor Young/Sam M. Lewis)―arr. by Axel Stordahl – 2:41
- "You'll Never Know" (Mack Gordon/Harry Warren)—arr. by Alec Wilder – 3:01
- "If You Are But a Dream" (Moe Jaffe/Jack Fulton/Nat Bonx)—arr. by Stordahl – 3:01
- "Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week)" (Jule Styne/Sammy Cahn)—arr. by George Siravo – 3:04
- "Nancy (With the Laughing Face)" (Phil Silvers/Jimmy Van Heusen)—arr. by Stordahl – 3:13
- "Oh, What It Seemed to Be" (Bennie Benjamin/George Weiss/Frankie Carle)—arr. by Stordahl – 2:59
- "Five Minutes More" (Styne/Cahn)—arr. by Stordahl – 2:35
- "Time After Time" (Styne/Cahn)—arr. by Stordahl – 3:08
- "Night and Day" (Cole Porter)—arr. by Stordahl – 3:39
- "The Song Is You" (Oscar Hammerstein II/Jerome Kern)—arr. by Stordahl – 3:21
- "I'm a Fool to Want You" (Jack Wolf/Joel Herron/Frank Sinatra)—arr. by Stordahl – 2:55
- "The Birth of the Blues" (Buddy G. DeSylva/Lew Brown/Ray Henderson)—arr. by Henie Beau – 3:28
- "Why Try to Change Me Now?" (Cy Coleman/Joseph A. McCarthy)—arr. by Percy Faith – 2:50
- "I've Got the World on a String" (Harold Arlen/Ted Koehler)—arr. by Nelson Riddle – 2:11
- "Don't Worry 'Bout Me" (Rube Bloom/Koehler)—arr. by Riddle – 3:08
- "My Funny Valentine" (Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart)—arr. by Riddle – 2:31
- "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin)—arr. by Riddle – 1:58
- "I Get a Kick Out of You" (Porter)―arr. by Riddle – 2:55
- "Young at Heart" (Carolyn Leigh/Johnny Richards)―arr. by Riddle – 2:52
- "Last Night When We Were Young" (Arlen/Yip Harburg)―arr. by Riddle – 3:17
- "Three Coins in the Fountain" (Styne/Cahn)―arr. by Riddle – 3:07
- "Just One of Those Things" (Porter)―arr. by Riddle – 3:14
- "All of Me" (Seymour Simons/Gerald Marks)―arr. by Riddle – 2:08
- "Someone to Watch Over Me" (G. Gershwin/I. Gershwin)―arr. by Riddle – 2:57
- "I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes)" (Hoagy Carmichael/Jane Brown Thompson)―arr. by Riddle – 3:42
Disc two
[edit]- "This Love of Mine" (from "The Capitol Years") (Barry Parker/Hank Sanicola/Frank Sinatra)―arr. by Nelson Riddle – 3:33
- "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" (from "The Capitol Years") (David Mann/Bob Hilliard)―arr. by Riddle – 3:00
- "Learnin' the Blues" (from "The Capitol Years") (Dolores Vicki Silvers)―arr. by Riddle – 3:04
- "Love and Marriage" (from "The Capitol Years") (Sammy Cahn/Jimmy Van Heusen)―arr. by Riddle – 2:37
- "(Love Is) The Tender Trap" (from "The Capitol Years") (Cahn/Van Heusen)―arr. by Riddle – 2:58
- "Love Is Here to Stay" (from "The Capitol Years") (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin)―arr. by Riddle – 2:42
- "You Make Me Feel So Young" (from "The Capitol Years") (Mack Gordon/Josef Myrow)―arr. by Riddle – 2:57
- "Memories of You" (from "The Capitol Years") (Eubie Blake/Andy Razaf)―arr. by Riddle – 2:53
- "I've Got You Under My Skin" (from "The Capitol Years") (Cole Porter)―arr. by Riddle – 3:43
- "Too Marvelous for Words" (from "The Capitol Years") (Johnny Mercer/Richard A. Whiting)―arr. by Riddle – 2:29
- "(How Little It Matters) How Little We Know" (from "The Capitol Years") (Carolyn Leigh/Philip Springer)―arr. by Riddle – 2:40
- "I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night" (from "The Capitol Years") (Harold Adamson/Jimmy McHugh)―arr. by Riddle – 3:25
- "I Wish I Were in Love Again" (from "The Capitol Years") (Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart)―arr. by Riddle – 2:27
- "The Lady Is a Tramp" (from "The Capitol Years") (Rodgers/Hart)―arr. by Riddle – 3:14
- "From This Moment On" (from "The Capitol Years") (Porter)―arr. by Riddle – 3:50
- "Laura" (from "The Capitol Years") (Mercer/David Raksin)―arr. by Gordon Jenkins – 3:28
- "Where Are You?" (from "The Capitol Years") (Adamson/McHugh)―arr. by Jenkins – 3:30
- "Witchcraft" (from "The Capitol Years") (Cy Coleman/Leigh)―arr. by Riddle – 2:53
- "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" (from "The Capitol Years") (Rodgers/Hart)―arr. by Riddle – 3:39
- "All the Way" (from "The Capitol Years") (Cahn/Van Heusen)―arr. by Riddle – 2:52
- "Moonlight in Vermont" (from "The Capitol Years") (John Blackburn/Karl Suessdorf)―arr. by Billy May – 3:32
- "Come Fly with Me" (from "The Capitol Years") (Cahn/Van Heusen)―arr. by May – 3:16
- "Put Your Dreams Away (For Another Day)" (from "The Capitol Years") (Ruth Lowe/Paul Mann/Stephan Weiss)―arr. by Riddle – 3:13
- "Angel Eyes" (from "The Capitol Years") (Earl Brent/Matt Dennis)―arr. by Riddle – 3:43
- "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry" (from "The Capitol Years") (Cahn/Jule Styne)―arr. by Riddle – 4:00
Disc three
[edit]- "Only the Lonely" (from "The Capitol Years") (Sammy Cahn/Jimmy Van Heusen)―arr. by Nelson Riddle – 4:10
- "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" (from "The Capitol Years") (Harold Arlen/Johnny Mercer)―arr. by Riddle – 4:23
- "Something's Gotta Give" (from "The Capitol Years") (Mercer)―arr. by Billy May – 2:38
- "Come Dance with Me" (from "The Capitol Years") (Cahn/Van Heusen)―arr. by May – 2:31
- "Here's That Rainy Day" (from "The Capitol Years") (Johnny Burke/Van Heusen)―arr. by Gordon Jenkins – 3:34
- "A Cottage for Sale" (from "The Capitol Years") (Larry Conley/Willard Robison)―arr. by Jenkins – 3:16
- "High Hopes" (from "The Capitol Years") (Cahn/Van Heusen)―arr. by Riddle – 2:42
- "The Nearness of You" (from "The Capitol Years") (Hoagy Carmichael/Ned Washington)―arr. by Riddle – 2:43
- "I've Got a Crush on You" (from "The Capitol Years") (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin)―arr. by Riddle – 2:14
- "Nice 'n' Easy" (from "The Capitol Years") (Alan and Marilyn Bergman/Lew Spence)―arr. by Riddle – 2:45
- "(Ah, the Apple Trees) When the World Was Young" (from "Frank Sinatra: The Reprise Years") (Mercer/M. Philippe-Gerard/Angele Marie T. Vannier)―arr. by Axel Stordahl – 3:48
- "In the Still of the Night" (from "Frank Sinatra: The Reprise Years") (Cole Porter)―arr. by Johnny Mandel – 3:25
- "The Second Time Around" (from "Frank Sinatra: The Reprise Years") (Cahn/Van Heusen)―arr. by Riddle – 3:03
- "Without a Song" (from "Frank Sinatra: The Reprise Years") (Billy Rose/Vincent Youmans/Edward Eliscu)―arr. by Sy Oliver – 3:39
- "Love Walked In" (from "Frank Sinatra: The Reprise Years") (G. Gershwin/I. Gershwin)―arr. by May – 2:19
- "Stardust" (from "Frank Sinatra: The Reprise Years") (Carmichael/Mitchell Parish)―arr. by Don Costa – 2:48
- "Come Rain or Come Shine" (from "Frank Sinatra: The Reprise Years") (Arlen/Mercer)―arr. by Costa – 4:05
- "The Girl Next Door" (from "Frank Sinatra: The Reprise Years") (Hugh Martin/Ralph Blane)―arr. by Jenkins – 3:18
- "At Long Last Love" (from "Frank Sinatra: The Reprise Years") (Porter)―arr. by Neal Hefti – 2:14
- "The Very Thought of You" (from "Frank Sinatra: The Reprise Years") (Ray Noble)―arr. by Robert Farnon – 3:34
- "Pennies from Heaven" (from "Frank Sinatra: The Reprise Years") (Johnny Burke/Arthur Johnston)―arr. by Hefti – 2:43
- "Ol' Man River" (from "Frank Sinatra: The Reprise Years") (Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II)―arr. by Riddle – 4:11
- "I Have Dreamed" (from "Frank Sinatra: The Reprise Years") (Richard Rodgers/Hammerstein II)―arr. by Riddle – 3:01
- "Luck Be a Lady" (from "Frank Sinatra: The Reprise Years") (Frank Loesser)―arr. by May – 5:14
Disc four
[edit]- "The Way You Look Tonight" (from "Frank Sinatra: The Reprise Years") (Jerome Kern/Dorothy Fields)―arr. by Nelson Riddle – 3:24
- "My Kind of Town" (from "Frank Sinatra: The Reprise Years") (Sammy Cahn/Jimmy Van Heusen)―arr. by Riddle – 3:10
- "The Best is Yet to Come" (from "Frank Sinatra: The Reprise Years") (Cy Coleman/Carolyn Leigh)―arr. by Quincy Jones – 2:56
- "Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)" (from "Frank Sinatra: The Reprise Years") (Bart Howard)―arr. by Jones – 2:29
- "Softly, as I Leave You" (from "Frank Sinatra: The Reprise Years") (Hal Shaper/Antonio DeVita/Giorgio Calabrese)―arr. by Ernie Freeman – 2:52
- "It Was a Very Good Year" (from "Frank Sinatra: The Reprise Years") (Ervin Drake)―arr. by Gordon Jenkins – 4:25
- "The September of My Years" (from "Frank Sinatra: The Reprise Years") (Cahn/Van Heusen)―arr. by Jenkins – 3:12
- "Moonlight Serenade" (from "Frank Sinatra: The Reprise Years") (Glenn Miller/Mitchell Parish)―arr. by Riddle – 3:26
- "Strangers in the Night" (from "Frank Sinatra: The Reprise Years") (Bert Kaempfert/Charles Singleton/Eddie Snyder)―arr. by Freeman – 2:36
- "Summer Wind" (from "Frank Sinatra: The Reprise Years") (Heinz Meier/Hans Bradtke/Johnny Mercer)―arr. by Riddle – 2:53
- "That's Life" (from "Frank Sinatra: The Reprise Years") (Kelly Gordon/Dean Thompson)―arr. by Freeman – 3:07
- "I Concentrate on You" (duet with Antônio Carlos Jobim) (from "Frank Sinatra: The Reprise Years") (Cole Porter)―arr. by Claus Ogerman – 2:32
- "The Girl from Ipanema (duet with Jobim)" (from "Frank Sinatra: The Reprise Years") (Jobim/Norman Gimbel/Vinícius de Moraes)―arr. by Ogerman – 3:14
- "Drinking Again" (from "Frank Sinatra: The Reprise Years") (Mercer/Doris Tauber)―arr. by Ogerman – 3:13
- "Somethin' Stupid (duet with Nancy Sinatra)" (from "Frank Sinatra: The Reprise Years") (Carson Parks)―arr. by Billy Strange – 2:45
- "The World We Knew (Over and Over)" (from "Frank Sinatra: The Reprise Years") (Sigman/Kaempfert/Herb Rehbein)―arr. by Freeman – 2:25
- "Cycles" (from "Frank Sinatra: The Reprise Years") (Judith Caldwell)―arr. by Costa – 3:13
- "My Way" (from "Frank Sinatra: The Reprise Years") (Paul Anka/Jacques Revaux/Giles Thibault/Claude François)―arr. by Costa – 4:35
- "Wave" (from "Frank Sinatra: The Reprise Years") (Jobim)―arr. by Eumir Deodato – 3:25
- "All My Tomorrows" (from "Frank Sinatra: The Reprise Years") (Cahn/Van Heusen)―arr. by Costa – 4:35
- "Forget to Remember" (from "Frank Sinatra: The Reprise Years") (Victoria Pike/Teddy Randazzo)―arr. by Costa – 2:58
- "It Had to Be You" (from "Frank Sinatra: The Reprise Years") (Isham Jones/Gus Kahn)―arr. by May – 3:53
- "All of You" (from "Frank Sinatra: The Reprise Years") (Porter)―arr. by May – 1:42
- "Theme from New York, New York" (from "Frank Sinatra: The Reprise Years") (John Kander/Fred Ebb)―arr. by Costa – 3:26
- "The Surrey with the Fringe on Top" (from Oklahoma!) (Rodgers/Hammerstein II)―arr. by May (Rehearsal) (previously unreleased) – 2:37
Double vinyl edition
[edit]- Side A
- "All Or Nothing At All"
- "I’ll Never Smile Again"
- "Saturday Night (Is The Loneliest Night Of The Week)"
- "Nancy (With The Laughing Face)"
- "I’ve Got The World On A String"
- "Young At Heart"
- "In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning"
- Side B
- "Learnin’ The Blues"
- "Love And Marriage"
- "I’ve Got You Under My Skin"
- "Witchcraft"
- "All The Way"
- Side C
- "Come Fly With Me"
- "One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)"
- "The Way You Look Tonight"
- "My Kind Of Town"
- "Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words)"
- "It Was A Very Good Year"
- Side D
- "Strangers In The Night"
- "Summer Wind"
- "That’s Life"
- "My Way"
- "Theme From New York, New York"
- "Put Your Dreams Away (For Another Day)"
Single CD / digital edition
[edit]- "All or Nothing at All" – 2:58
- "I'll Never Smile Again" – 3:10
- "Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week)" – 2:44
- "Nancy (With the Laughing Face)" – 3:13
- "I've Got the World on a String" – 2:10
- "Young at Heart" – 2:49
- "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" – 2:59
- "Learnin' the Blues" – 3:01
- "Love and Marriage" – 2:38
- "I've Got You Under My Skin" – 3:42
- "Witchcraft" – 2:52
- "All the Way" – 2:52
- "Come Fly with Me" – 3:18
- "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" – 4:24
- "The Way You Look Tonight" – 3:21
- "My Kind of Town" – 3:09
- "Fly Me to the Moon" – 2:27
- "It Was a Very Good Year" – 4:26
- "Strangers in the Night" – 2:36
- "Summer Wind" – 2:55
- "That's Life" – 3:06
- "My Way" – 4:35
- "Theme from New York, New York" – 3:24
- "Put Your Dreams Away" – 3:11
- "Just in Time" (Alternate version, bonus track)
- "Chicago (That Toddlin' Town)" (Digital-only bonus track) (Fred Fisher)
Chart performance
[edit]The 4 CD disc box set entitled Ultimate Sinatra: The Centennial Collection peaked at no. 2 on the Billboard Jazz Album Chart and no. 145 on the Billboard 200. The single disc album peaked at no. 1 on the Billboard Jazz Album chart and at no. 32 on the Billboard 200.[3]
Charts
[edit]Year-end charts
[edit]Chart (2020) | Position |
---|---|
US Billboard 200[4] | 144 |
Certifications
[edit]Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
---|---|---|
Germany (BVMI)[5] | 5× Gold | 50,000‡ |
United Kingdom (BPI)[6] | Platinum | 300,000‡ |
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. |
References
[edit]- ^ Ultimate Sinatra, AllMusic
- ^ Ultimate Sinatra on All About Jazz, Allaboutjazz.com
- ^ Frank Sinatra: Billboard Albums. allmusic.com
- ^ "Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 2020". Billboard. Retrieved December 5, 2020.
- ^ "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Frank Sinatra; 'Ultimate Sinatra')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
- ^ "British album certifications – Frank Sinatra – Ultimate Sinatra". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 27 October 2023.