Ultimate Sinatra
Ultimate Sinatra (100 Songs Celebrating 100 Years) | ||||
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Released | April 21, 2015 | |||
Recorded | 1939–1979 | |||
Genre | Traditional pop | |||
Length | 317:43 | |||
Label | Capitol | |||
Frank Sinatra chronology | ||||
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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
Disc one
[edit]- "All or Nothing at All" (Jack Lawrence, Arthur Altman) – 2:58
- "I'll Never Smile Again" (Ruth Lowe) – 3:10
- "Street of Dreams" (Victor Young, Sam M. Lewis) – 2:41
- "You'll Never Know" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) – 3:01
- "If You Are But a Dream" (Moe Jaffe, Jack Fulton, Nat Bonx) – 3:01
- "Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week)" (Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn) – 3:04
- "Nancy (With the Laughing Face)" (Phil Silvers, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 3:13
- "Oh, What It Seemed to Be" (Bennie Benjamin, George Weiss, Frankie Carle) – 2:59
- "Five Minutes More" (Styne, Cahn)—arr. by Stordahl – 2:35
- "Time After Time" (Styne, Cahn) – 3:08
- "Night and Day" (Cole Porter) – 3:39
- "The Song Is You" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) – 3:21
- "I'm a Fool to Want You" (Jack Wolf, Joel Herron, Frank Sinatra) – 2:55
- "The Birth of the Blues" (Buddy G. DeSylva, Lew Brown, Ray Henderson) – 3:28
- "Why Try to Change Me Now?" (Cy Coleman, Joseph A. McCarthy) – 2:50
- "I've Got the World on a String" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 2:11
- "Don't Worry 'Bout Me" (Rube Bloom, Koehler) – 3:08
- "My Funny Valentine" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 2:31
- "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 1:58
- "I Get a Kick Out of You" (Porter) – 2:55
- "Young at Heart" (Carolyn Leigh, Johnny Richards) – 2:52
- "Last Night When We Were Young" (Arlen, Yip Harburg) – 3:17
- "Three Coins in the Fountain" (Styne, Cahn) – 3:07
- "Just One of Those Things" (Porter) – 3:14
- "All of Me" (Seymour Simons, Gerald Marks) – 2:08
- "Someone to Watch Over Me" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 2:57
- "I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes)" (Hoagy Carmichael, Jane Brown Thompson) – 3:42
Disc two
[edit]- "This Love of Mine" (Barry Parker, Hank Sanicola, Sinatra) – 3:33
- "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" (David Mann, Bob Hilliard) – 3:00
- "Learnin' the Blues" (Dolores Vicki Silvers) – 3:04
- "Love and Marriage" (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 2:37
- "(Love Is) The Tender Trap" (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 2:58
- "Love Is Here to Stay" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 2:42
- "You Make Me Feel So Young" (Mack Gordon, Josef Myrow) – 2:57
- "Memories of You" (Eubie Blake, Andy Razaf) – 2:53
- "I've Got You Under My Skin" (Porter) – 3:43
- "Too Marvelous for Words" (Johnny Mercer, Richard A. Whiting) – 2:29
- "(How Little It Matters) How Little We Know" (Leigh, Philip Springer) – 2:40
- "I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night" (Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh) – 3:25
- "I Wish I Were in Love Again" (Rodgers, Hart) – 2:27
- "The Lady Is a Tramp" (Rodgers, Hart) – 3:14
- "From This Moment On" (Porter) – 3:50
- "Laura" (Mercer, David Raksin) – 3:28
- "Where Are You?" (Adamson, McHugh) – 3:30
- "Witchcraft" (Coleman, Leigh) – 2:53
- "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" (Rodgers, Hart) – 3:39
- "All the Way" (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 2:52
- "Moonlight in Vermont" (John Blackburn, Karl Suessdorf) – 3:32
- "Come Fly with Me" (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 3:16
- "Put Your Dreams Away (For Another Day)" (Lowe, Paul Mann, Stephan Weiss) – 3:13
- "Angel Eyes" (Earl Brent, Matt Dennis) – 3:43
- "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry" (Cahn, Styne) – 4:00
Disc three
[edit]- "Only the Lonely" (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 4:10
- "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" (Arlen, Mercer) – 4:23
- "Something's Gotta Give" (Mercer) – 2:38
- "Come Dance with Me" (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 2:31
- "Here's That Rainy Day" (Johnny Burke, Van Heusen) – 3:34
- "A Cottage for Sale" (Larry Conley, Willard Robison) – 3:16
- "High Hopes" (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 2:42
- "The Nearness of You" (Carmichael, Ned Washington) – 2:43
- "I've Got a Crush on You" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 2:14
- "Nice 'n' Easy" (Alan and Marilyn Bergman/Lew Spence) – 2:45
- "(Ah, the Apple Trees) When the World Was Young" (Mercer, M. Philippe-Gerard, Angele Marie T. Vannier) – 3:48
- "In the Still of the Night" (Porter) – 3:25
- "The Second Time Around" (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 3:03
- "Without a Song" (Billy Rose, Vincent Youmans, Edward Eliscu) – 3:39
- "Love Walked In" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 2:19
- "Stardust" (Carmichael, Mitchell Parish) – 2:48
- "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Arlen, Mercer) – 4:05
- "The Girl Next Door" (Hugh Martin/Ralph Blane) – 3:18
- "At Long Last Love" (Porter) – 2:14
- "The Very Thought of You" (Ray Noble) – 3:34
- "Pennies from Heaven" (Burke, Arthur Johnston) – 2:43
- "Ol' Man River" (Kern, Hammerstein II) – 4:11
- "I Have Dreamed" (Rodgers, Hammerstein II) – 3:01
- "Luck Be a Lady" (Frank Loesser) – 5:14
Disc four
[edit]- "The Way You Look Tonight" (Kern, Dorothy Fields) – 3:24
- "My Kind of Town" (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 3:10
- "The Best is Yet to Come" (Coleman, Leigh) – 2:56
- "Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)" (Bart Howard) – 2:29
- "Softly, as I Leave You" (Hal Shaper, Antonio DeVita, Giorgio Calabrese) – 2:52
- "It Was a Very Good Year" (Ervin Drake) – 4:25
- "The September of My Years" (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 3:12
- "Moonlight Serenade" (Glenn Miller, Parish) – 3:26
- "Strangers in the Night" (Bert Kaempfert, Charles Singleton, Eddie Snyder) – 2:36
- "Summer Wind" (Heinz Meier, Hans Bradtke, Mercer) – 2:53
- "That's Life" (Kelly Gordon, Dean Thompson) – 3:07
- "I Concentrate on You" (duet with Antônio Carlos Jobim) (Porter) – 2:32
- "The Girl from Ipanema" (duet with Jobim) (Jobim, Norman Gimbel, Vinícius de Moraes) – 3:14
- "Drinking Again" (Mercer, Doris Tauber) – 3:13
- "Somethin' Stupid (duet with Nancy Sinatra)" (Carson Parks) – 2:45
- "The World We Knew (Over and Over)" (Kaempfert, Carl Sigman, Herb Rehbein) – 2:25
- "Cycles" (Judith Caldwell) – 3:13
- "My Way" (Paul Anka, Jacques Revaux, Giles Thibault, Claude François) – 4:35
- "Wave" (Jobim) – 3:25
- "All My Tomorrows" (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 4:35
- "Forget to Remember" (Victoria Pike, Teddy Randazzo) – 2:58
- "It Had to Be You" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) – 3:53
- "All of You" (Porter) – 1:42
- "Theme from New York, New York" (John Kander, Fred Ebb) – 3:26
- "The Surrey with the Fringe on Top" (from Oklahoma!) (Rodgers, Hammerstein II) (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 |
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US Billboard 200[4] | 144 |
Certifications
[edit]Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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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 February 21, 2024.
- ^ "British album certifications – Frank Sinatra – Ultimate Sinatra". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved October 27, 2023.