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My Way: The Best Of Frank Sinatra (2CD) |  | Artist: Frank Sinatra
Label: Reprise
Category: Music
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Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 2805
Format: Special Edition, Limited Edition, Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.5
UPC: 093624671220
EAN: 0093624671220
ASIN: B000024SLM
Release Date: November 18, 2002
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Disc 1
| • | My Way | | • | Strangers In The Night | | • | New York New York | | • | I Get A Kick Out Of You | | • | Somethin' Stupid | | • | Moon River | | • | What Now My Love | | • | Summer Wind | | • | For Once In My Life | | • | Love And Marriage | | • | They Can't Take That Away From Me | | • | My Kind Of Town | | • | Fly Me To The Moon | | • | I've Got You Under My Skin | | • | Best Is Yet To Come | | • | It Was A Very Good Year | | • | Come Fly With Me | | • | That's Life | | • | Girl From Ipanema | | • | Lady Is A Tramp | | • | Bad Bad Leroy Brown | | • | Mack The Knife | | • | Love's Been Good To Me | | • | LA Is My Lady |
Disc 2
| • | Let's Face The Music And Dance | | • | Come Rain Or Come Shine | | • | Night And Day | | • | Very Thought Of You | | • | Pennies From Heaven | | • | Bewitched | | • | America The Beautiful | | • | All The Way | | • | In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning | | • | Way You Look Tonight | | • | Three Coins In The Fountain | | • | Softly As I Leave You | | • | All Over Nothing At All | | • | Yesterday | | • | Moonlight Serenade | | • | Somewhere My Love | | • | Mrs Robinson | | • | Something | | • | You Are The Sunshine Of My Life | | • | Send In The Clowns | | • | It Had To Be You | | • | Best Of Everything |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
IMy Way: the Best of Frank Sinatra/I collects 46 tracks culled from the estimable American singer's vast back-catalogue for a remarkable two-CD set. Sinatra was one of the greatest voices of his--or any--generation, and for the most part, these songs are some of Old Blue Eyes' finest works: among the best are "Come Fly with Me", "Lady Is a Tramp" and "I Get a Kick out of You". p But with such an immense and classic back-catalogue of songs to choose from, it's a shame that the compilers felt it necessary to add so much cheese: "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" and "Mrs Robinson", for example, don't do Sinatra, the songs, or the listener any justice. Still, that's why CD players have "skip" buttons. I--Robert Burrow/I
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 Hard to beat Best-Of Collection January 30, 2003
Mark Blackburn (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
This two-CD Reprise collection includes among its 46 selections many of the very best recordings Frank Sinatra ever made. Count this reviewer among those who believe FS reserved his very best performances for his own record label (please see my review for "The Very Best of Frank Sinatra"). The simple fact is, Sinatra didn't reach the peak of his vocal powers until 1963---three years after the first Reprise recordings included here.pIt's now fully 40 years since two of the selections here---"Bewitched" and "America the Beautiful"---were recorded for what the singer himself considered his crowning achievement (in his best 'bel canto' style) --- "The Concert Sinatra" album. Almost 30 years elapsed before "America the Beautiful" finally was released on the 4-CD Reprise box set. For "The Concert Sinatra" arranger/conductor Nelson Riddle assembled, on the singer's orders, his largest-ever symphony orchestra, recorded on a huge sound stage at the MGM film studios. Riddle claimed near the end of his life that he never saw the singer better prepared or more focussed for a recording session.pAmong other highlights of this splendid 2-CD collection are:p- The opening track from the June 1962 "Great Songs from Great Britain" album---the Ray Noble classic "The Very Thought of You" arrranged/conducted by Robert Farnon.br- Three from the 1961 Don Costa arranged "Sinatra and Strings" album, which many consider the singer's best 'ballads' from the Reprise years: "Come Rain or Come Shine," "Night and Day" and "All or Nothing at All."br- Sinatra's best version (with Nelson Riddle) of the Glen Miller/Mitch Parish classic "Moonlight Serenade" from the "Moonlight Sinatra" album; also, what many fans consider the singer's very best 'swinger'---arranged by Riddle in the early 60s---the Kern Fields Oscar winner "Just the Way You Look Tonight."br- Great tunes from his earliest Reprise (1960) recordings for the classic "Ring-a-Ding Ding!" album---the only one arranged by composer ("Shadow of Your Smile") Johnny Mandel. Among those: Berlin's "Let's Face the Music and Dance."br- Definitive re-recordings of Capitol-era classics such as "I Get a Kick Out of You" and "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" which find the singer in perfect voice, with revised and improved Riddle arrangements. Also worth noting: markedly improved sound quality achieved at Reprise (compared to the Capitol Years) by the best engineers in the best Hollywood recording studios.pThis collection provides, arguably, the best overall mixture of 'old and new' Sinatra, ever assembled on two CDs. The 46 tracks here include all-time best-sellers---disdained perhaps by some of us, as 'weak tea' compared to the strong meat of the Great American Songbook otherwise well-represented in this collection. Yet those same commercial hits, struck the chord with 'baby boomers' needed to re-establish Sinatra's career in the Beatles' era---and beyond to a fifth, then a sixth decade of public performances. To borrow a phrase from song titles here, it's from these songs that the "best" (really was) "yet to come" at Reprise Records---as well the (very) "bad, bad." But whatever your tastes, be certain at least 40 of these tunes you'll love and never tire of playing. Could we name other great singers whose "best of" compilations could meet those criteria?pMark Blackburnbrmarkbla@hotmail.com
Packed with classics! January 23, 2001
35 out of 37 found this review helpful
If, like me, you love the music of Sinatra, but don't know where to begin, then this is the CD for you. It is a compilation of some of the finest moments of his musical career. It's great to listen to when you have friends to visit or if you're holding a dinner party. There is a romanticism here, that recalls the heady post-war decades of the 50's, 60's and 70's. Frank's music is evocative of the era. Without doubt one of the greatest performers/artists of our time. If you only buy one Sinatra CD, make it this one.
I Love This Man!!!!! November 1, 2003
Kevin Peel
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I had never really listened to Sinatra before, save for the few that are on various ads etc. However, always looking to expand my music catalogue I picked this up 1 day from a supermarket and I've been in love with it ever since!pHe has one of the most amazing voices I have ever heard, and almost every song on this album is a true work of genius - Definitely something to sing along to on your way down to the Jazz Hall on a Saturday night!pIts an excellent collection starter or a stand alone compilation, buy it, buy it now!!!
I have him under my skin... June 14, 2002
Jus (London, UK)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
This is a wonderful collection and one that introduced me to Frank. As the sleeve says, his voice can cut through any crowded room/ bar/ coffee shop. Of course, his music has become commercially mainstream and used in advertisements across the world, but that should not detract from the beauty and power of his voice and tunes.pFrom 'Fly me to the Moon' to 'I've Got You Under My Skin' his silky vocals are enough to woo any young lady with. So, draw yourself a bubble bath, light some candles, lie back and listen to his voice float over you.
Strong compilation of Frank's sixties music December 8, 2002
Peter Durward Harris (Leicester England)
20 out of 24 found this review helpful
Frank's career began in a very different era, when swing bands were fashionable. He maintained this style long after it ceased to be fashionable, yet continued to sell records in huge quantities. Indeed, he recorded some of the best music of his career during the sixties and seventies.brMy way actually began as a French song - it was titled Comme d'habitude and recorded by Claude Francois in 1967. Paul Anka later translated it into English and the rest is history.pThis collection contains many other Sinatra classics - New York New York, Strangers in the night, Somethin' stupid, Come fly with me and so much more. Most of his songs were culled from the Great American Songbook, but he showed that he could do contemporary songs well - among those to be found here are Mrs Robinson (Simon and Garfunkel), Yesterday, Something (both Beatles) and You are the sunshine of my life (Stevie Wonder).pThis set works well as an introduction to Frank's music, but for those who only want one collection, this is the best of many compilations available. A single-CD version is also available for those who want it - it has a different color cover and merely contains the first of the two CD's here - but you can't buy the second CD separately,
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