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- Artist: Frank Sinatra
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- Release Date: April 24, 2007
- Type: Compilation (best of)
- Genre: Vocal Music
Review
France's ever-resourceful Cabu label presents a 40-track anthology of great recordings made by Frank Sinatra between 1950 and 1955. During this time period, Sinatra was rebounding from self-inflicted bad publicity and making efforts to reinvent himself by perfecting both his signature sound and public image. Some of this material fits the patented Sinatra mold of punchy mannerism; he is perhaps at his most effective and approachable when performing gorgeous melodies like Cole Porter's "What Is This Thing Called Love?" Regarding the cover art: although Cabu's cartoonists sometimes conjure caricatures that are inaccurate or disrespectful, this over-the-top doodle portrait accurately conveys the contrived cockiness and sleazy substratum that has caused discomfiture or even alienation among those who cannot disconnect this singer's most unpleasant real life attributes (misogyny, mob connections, hormonal aggression and hubris) from the Technicolor alternate universe depicted in his recordings. In other words: this drawing is very funny and entirely outrageous, but in many ways Sinatra deserved it. ~ arwulf arwulf, All Music GuideTracks
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| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| All of Me (Lyrics) | Frank Sinatra, Nelson Riddle | (2:10) | |
| Like Someone in Love | Frank Sinatra, |
(3:11) | |
| Sunday (Lyrics) | Frank Sinatra, |
(2:31) | |
| Can't We Be Friends? (Lyrics) | (2:48) | ||
| I'll Be Around | Alec Wilder | Frank Sinatra, |
(2:59) |
| Takin' a Chance on Love | John Latouche, |
Frank Sinatra, |
(2:15) |
| I See Your Face Before Me (Lyrics) | Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz | Frank Sinatra, |
(3:24) |
| I'll Never Be the Same (Lyrics) | Gus Kahn, Matty Malneck, Frank Signorelli | Frank Sinatra, |
(3:05) |
| Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (Lyrics) | Ted Koehler, |
Frank Sinatra, |
(2:16) |
| It Never Entered My Mind (Lyrics) | Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers | Frank Sinatra, |
(2:41) |
| Dancing on the Ceiling (Lyrics) | Lorenz Hart | (2:57) | |
| You Do Something to Me (Lyrics) | Cole Porter | Frank Sinatra, |
(2:37) |
| Last Night When We Were Young | Harold Arlen, E.Y. "Yip" Harburg | (3:17) | |
| This Love of Mine (Lyrics) | Frank Sinatra, |
(3:36) | |
| Violets for Your Fur | Tom Adair | (3:05) | |
| American Beauty Rose (Lyrics) | Frank Sinatra | (2:40) | |
| The Girl Next Door | Ralph Blane | (2:38) | |
| I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter | Fred E. Ahlert | (2:29) | |
| When You're Smiling (Lyrics) | Frank Sinatra, |
(2:31) | |
| Farewell, Farewell to Love | George Siravo | Harry James, Frank Sinatra | (2:55) |
