Frank Sinatra - The Best of the Columbia Years 1943-1952 (1998) CDRip

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Artist: Frank Sinatra
Title: The Best of the Columbia Years 1943-1952
Year Of Release: 1998
Label: ColumbiaLegacy
Genre: Vocal Jazz, Swing
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue, log, Artwork)
Total Time: 04:57:29
Total Size: 911 MB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

CD1:

1. Close To You
2. People Will Say We're In Love
3. If You Are But A Dream
4. Saturday Night (Is The Loneliest Night In The Week)
5. White Christmas
6. I Fall In Love Too Easily
7. Ol' Man River
8. Stormy Weather
9. Embraceable You
10. (I Got A Woman Crazy For Me) She's Funny That Way
11. My Melancholy Baby
12. Where Or When
13. All The Things You Are
14. I Should Care
15. Dream
16. Put Your Dreams Away (For Another Day)
17. Over The Rainbow
18. If I Loved You
19. Someone To Watch Over Me
20. You Go To My Head
21. These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)
22. The House I Live In
23. Day By Day

CD2:

1. Nancy (With The Laughing Face)
2. Full Moon And Empty Arms
3. Oh, What It Seemed To Be
4. (I Don't Stand) A Ghost Of A Chance
5. Why Shouldn't I?
6. Try A Little Tenderness
7. Begin The Beguine
8. They Say It's Wonderful
9. That Old Black Magic
10. How Deep Is The Ocean (How Blue Is The Sky)
11. Home On The Range
12. Five Minutes More
13. The Things We Did Last Summer
14. Among My Souvenirs
15. September Song
16. Blue Skies
17. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
18. Lost In The Stars
19. There's No Business Like Show Business
20. Time After Time
21. The Brooklyn Bridge
22. Sweet Lorraine
23. Always
24. Mam'selle

CD3:

1. Stella By Starlight
2. My Romance
3. If I Had You
4. One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)
5. But Beautiful
6. You're My Girl
7. All Of Me
8. Night And Day
9. S'posin'
10. The Night We Called It A Day
11. The Song Is You
12. What'll I Do?
13. The Music Stopped
14. Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear To Tread)
15. I've Got A Crush On You
16. Body And Soul
17. I'm Glad There Is You
18. Autumn In New York
19. Nature Boy
20. Once In Love With Amy
21. Some Enchanted Evening
22. The Hucklebuck
23. Let's Take An Old-Fashioned Walk
24. It All Depends On You

CD4:

1. Bye Bye Baby
2. Don't Cry Joe (Let Her Go, Let Her Go, Let Her Go)
3. That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day)
4. Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy
5. American Beauty Rose
6. Should I (Reveal)
7. You Do Something To Me
8. Lover
9. When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You)
10. London By Night
11. Meet Me At The Copa
12. April In Paris
13. I Guess I'll Have To Dream The Rest
14. Nevertheless (I'm In Love With You)
15. I Am Loved
16. Hello, Young Lovers
17. We Kiss In A Shadow
18. I'm A Fool To Want You
19. Love Me
20. Deep Night
21. I Could Write A Book
22. I Hear A Rhapsody
23. My Girl
24. The Birth Of The Blues
25. Azure-Te (Paris Blues)
26. Why Try To Change Me Now

This four-CD set stands midway between the 12-CD Complete Collection 1943-1952 box (which is worth every cent, for those who can afford it) and the single-CD 15-song Essential Frank Sinatra: The Columbia Years -- in its favor, along with an affordable price, is its thorough and wide-ranging overview of the least well-known part of Frank Sinatra's career. Scholars and listeners with long memories over 70 aside, the chances are that no more than a dozen of its 97 tracks will be known to most of Sinatra's fans. And it does offer a detailed look at the singer's evolution, from a big-band era balladeer into a new breed of vocalist, just inches away from the defining Vegas swinger of his Capitol years -- the 97 songs here cover a significant chunk of that Columbia library (although like the 12-disc box, it doesn't include any of the singer's V-Disc sides that constituted just about his only recorded output for the first year of his solo career, or the radio performances that have been licensed in more recent years to augment his Cole Porter and Rodgers & Hammerstein catalogs); additionally, this set is better for the more casually minded serious fan, in that it avoids the missteps imposed upon Sinatra by Mitch Miller, which require explanation for the uninitiated. The sound is state-of-the-art and the source materials have been treated with exceptional care, thus giving the music its best hearing in history, and certainly since the original 78 rpm releases; indeed, much of what's here never showed up on vinyl, and those that did often didn't get represented long or well. The annotation is superb, and the booklet is well illustrated. The set also exists in two different editions: the original long-box shaped release, a foot tall with the type in large font, and also as a less expensive CD-jewel case-sized set in a slipcase, with smaller print and photos.

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