Frank Sinatra Recordings

A-Z Discography and Videography.

• ALL ALONE [1962] Reprise
• ALL THE WAY [1957-60] Capitol
• CAN-CAN [Original Soundtrack] [1959] Capitol
• THE CAPITOL YEARS [1953/62]
• CHRISTMAS SONGS BY SINATRA [1945-47] Columbia.
• 10 commercial & yuletide songs and carols, plus 3 ex-radio versions of Ava Maria, Winter Wonderland", "The Lord's Prayer".

• CLOSE TO YOU & MORE [1957] Capitol
• COME FLY WITH ME! [1958] Capitol
• COME DANCE WITH ME! [1959] Capitol
• COME SWING WITH ME! [19611 Capitol
• THE CONCERT SINATRA [1963] Reprise
• THE CONNOISSEURS' SINATRA [1953-60] Capitol
• CYCLES [1968] Reprise
• DUETS [1993] Capitol
• DUETS II [1993] Capitol
• FRANCIS A & EDWARD K [1967] Reprise (Frank Sinatra/Duke Ellington)
• FRANCIS ALBERT SINATRA & ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM [1967] Reprise FRANK [1961] Reprise
• FRANK SINATRA (Previously issued as THE ESSENTIAL FRANK SINATRA in 1939-1952) CBS. Boxed set containing insert booklet with in depth notes by George T Simon. 48 titles, including four numbers featuring Sinatra with Harry James [From The Bottom Of My Heart"; "Melancholy Mood"; My Buddy, Here Comes The Night"]
• FRANK SINATRA CONDUCTS THE MUSIC OF ALEC WILDER (Sony) Half a dozen sides recorded in 1945, arranged by the composer and conducted by Sinatra. plus excerpts of other Wilder music.
• FRANK SINATRA IN HOLLYWOOD [1943-49] CBS. 16 commercial recordings of numbers Sinatra sang in Forties movies, including alternative takes of -- A Lovely Way To Spend An Evening", What Makes The Sunset, Ever Homeward. plus an unissued version of "The Music Stopped" 13/11/1943.
• FRANK SINATRA'S GREATEST HITS [1964-67] Reprise
• FRANK SINATRA SINGS "DAYS OF WINE & ROSES", "MOON RIVER" & OTHER ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS [1964] Reprise
• (FRANK SINATRA SINGS) ONLY THE LONELY [1958] Capitol
• FRANK SINATRA SINGS THE SELECT COLE PORTER [1955-60] Capitol
• FRANK SINATRA: THE CAPITOL COLLECTOR'S SERIES [1953-60] Capitol
• FRANK SINATRA: THE COLUMBIA YEARS: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS 1943-1952 Columbia. 12 CDs. Boxed set, containing 144-page book which includes complete discography and track-by-track analysis of all known 285 individual numbers. Approx. 150 of these had not been available since original issue; numerous sides (including alternative takes) never previously issued and three tracks ("Nancy"; "Night & Day"; The Night We Called It A Day") previously unknown until extensive research was undertaken in 1993.
  
• FRANK SINATRA: THE COMPLETE REPRISE STUDIO SESSIONS [1960-88] Reprise A truly awesome 24-CD boxed set, covering all known Sinatra studio-made recordings. Included among the 450 tiles are numerous previously unreleased items, plus contributions to both the Reprise Repertory Theatre albums and the soundtrack for Robin & The 7 Hoods. Released to coincide with the 80th birthday celebrations, this is definitely a second-mortgage job.
  
• FRANK SINATRA: THE FORMATIVE YEARS [1942] Avid Records Comprises 17 titles with Dorsey and four with James, plus three of the four Sinatra/Stordahl numbers recorded in 1942.
• FRANK SINATRA: THE V-DISCS: THE COLUMBIA YEARS [1943-1952] (2 CDs) Columbia Boxed set, containing complete discographical details or all 53 V-Disc recordings, including six hitherto unissued tiles.
• GREAT SONGS FROM GREAT BRITAIN [1962] Reprise
  
• HIGH SOCIETY (Original Movie Soundtrack) [1956] Capitol
  
• IN THE WEE SMALL HOURS [1955] Capitol
  
• I REMEMBER TOMMY [1961] Warner Brothers
  
• I SING THE SONGS [1969-75] Reprise (Italy)
  
• IT MIGHT AS WELL BE SWING [1964] Reprise
  
• LA IS MY LADY [1984] Qwest
  
• A MAN ALONE [1969] Reprise
  
• THE MAIN EVENT [1974] Reprise
  
• MOONLIGHT SINATRA [1965] Reprise
  
• MY KIND OF BROADWAY [1961-65] Reprise
  
• MY WAY [1969] Reprise
  
• NICE 'N' EASY [1960] Capitol
  
• NIGHT & DAY - The Young Sinatra 1940-41 Conifer
  
• NO ONE CARES [1959] Capitol
  
• OL' BLUE EYES IS BACK [1973] Reprise
  
• PAL JOEY (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [1957] Capitol
  
• POINT OF OF NO RETURN [1961] Capitol
  
• THE RARE SINATRA [1953-59] Capitol
  
• THE REPRISE COLLECTION (4 CDs) [1960-86] Reprise
  
• REPRISE MUSICAL REPERTORY THEATRE PRESENTS: FINIAN'S RAINBOW
  
• GUYS & DOLLS / SOUTH PACIFIC [All 1963] Reprise
  
• RING-A-DING DING! [1960] Reprise
  
• ROBIN & THE 7 HOODS (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 1964 Warner Brothers
  
• THE SCREEN SINATRA [1953-60] Music For Pleasure
  
• SEPTEMBER OF MY YEARS, [1965] Reprise
  
• SHE SHOT ME DOWN [1981] Reprise
  
• SINATRA: A MAN & HIS MUSIC (2 CDs) [1961-65] Reprise
  
• SINATRA & COMPANY [1969-70] Warner Brothers
  
• SINATRA & STRINGS [1962] Reprise
  
• SINATRA & SWINGIN' BRASS [1962] Reprise
  
• SINATRA AT THE SANDS (2 CDs) [l966) Reprise
  
• SINATRA-BASIE [1962] Reprise
  
• THE SINATRA CHRISTMAS ALBUM [1957] Capitol
  
• THE SINATRA CHRISTMAS SHOW [1965-68) Reprise
  
• SINATRA SESSIONS (Decade Records). Fascinating insight into Sinatra at work in completing the Ring-a-Ding Album (19-20 December 1960) with Johnny Mandel. The CD contains alternative takes of all titles -including the non-mastered, never-finished "Have You Met Miss Jones?"

  

• SINATRA'S SINATRA [1963] Reprise

• SINATRA SINGS... OF LOVE AND THINGS [1957-60] Capitol
• SINATRA '65 (1963-65) Reprise
• SINATRA'S SWINGIN' SESSION & MORE [1961] Capitol
• SINATRA SWINGS [1961] Reprise
• SINATRA: THE REPRISE YEARS (4 LPs) [1969-74] Reprise
• THE SINGLES [1969-77] Reprise (Italy)
• SOFTLY AS I LEAVE YOU [1962-64] Reprise
• SOME NICE THINGS I'VE MISSED [1973-74]
• SONGS FOR SWINGIN' LOVERS [1956] Capitol
• SONGS FOR YOUNG LOVERS/SW1NG EASY [1953-1954] Capitol
• STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT [1966] Reprise
• A SWINGIN'AFFAIR [1957] Capitol
• "THAT SENTIMENTAL GENTLEMAN" [2 LPs ] [1940-42] RCA Victor Fascinating collection of Tommy Dorsey airshots (1940-44) Sinatra appears on only five of the titles (My Melancholy Baby, Yearning, I'll Take Tallulah, Marie and The Song Is You).
• THAT'S LIFE [1966] Reprise
• THIS IS FRANK SINATRA [1953-1957] 2 CDs Music For Pleasure
• TOMMY DORSEY-FRANK SINATRA "THE SONG IS YOU [5CDs] RCA. Boxed set comprising 119 sides which Sinatra recorded with Tommy Dorsey including six alternative takes together with the quartet of sides he cut with Axel Stordahl while still with Dorsey. In addition, there are 27 tracks of live material the majority of which were unreleased. The latter also includes one of several "Farewell to the Band" spoken interpolations, involving not only the leader and his soon-departing vocalist, but also Frank's successor Dick Haymes
• TRILOGY [2 CDs] (1979) Reprise
• WATERTOWN [1970] Reprise
• WHERE ARE YOU [1958] Capitol
• THE WORLD WE KNEW [1967] Reprise
• FRANK SINATRA YOUR HIT PARADE [1944] IT WAS A VERY GOOD YEAR (JRRecords). Skilfully-remastered, 19 number collection of material from some of Sinatra's most important radio series of the Forties, including the complete show of 23/12/44.
• FRANK SINATRA: YOUR HIT PARADE [1947] (JRRecords) Average-to-good Sinatra fare.
• GOT THE WORLD ON A STRING (Starburst) Twenty superb examples of Sinatra's finest radio series To Be Perfectly Frank), including "Thou Swell", "Just You Just Me", Where Or When,,, "Platinum Blues".
• HARRY JAMES & HIS ORCHESTRA: AMERICAN DANCES BROADCASTS(Jasmine). Two complete broadcasts the first featuring two Sinatra numbers ("To You From The Bottom Of My Heart"), linked with the the BBC in London.
• HARRY JAMES & HIS ORCHESTRA BANDSTAND MEMORIES [1938-1948] Hindsight Boxed set containing 20 page booklet with performances by several vocalists including Frank Sinatra (7 sides),of which three "Wishing"," If I Didn't Care", "The Lamp Is Low", he would never record commercially.
• LIVE DUETS [1943-1957] Voice Duettists include pianist Skitch Henderson (medley of nine tunes), Dinah Shore, Dorothy Kirsten, Nat Cole, Margaret Whiting - all from radio and Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong - from TV shows
• 1935-1939 THE BEGINNING & HARRY JAMES (FS) Containing all known Sinatra/James recordings including alternative takes for "From The Bottom Of My Heart"; "Here Comes The Night"; "All Or Nothing At All"), plus complete broadcast from the Roseland Ballroom 19/7/1939) also two broadcasts featuring the Hoboken Four "Shine" "Curse Of An Aching Heart") and the demo disc, made privately by Sinatra, presumably to celebrate his wedding the following day "Our Love".
• FRANK SINATRA LIVE 1943-46 (Jazz Hour) Further superia air-shots. Most intriguing of all are three numbers (Couldn't Sleep A Wink Last Night, Close To You, You'll never know) with typically gorgeous Stordahl orchestral arrangements which Sinatra would have used at his first recording dates for Columbia.
• FRANK SINATRA LITE UP TIME SHOWS (Jazz Band) 23 performances from SINATRA'S last radio series of the Forties-into-the-Fifties with as varied a mixture as before (e.g. "You're The Cream In Ny Coffee, Body & Soul, All Of Me.
• FRANK SINATRA OLD SHOWS [1946] Jazz Hour. Two complete Old Gold (2 January and 30 October 1946), with Peggy Lee guest-appearing on the first. Plus a half dozen fine performances from other shows, including among the six undocumented numbers "What Am I Gonna Do About You, a Cahn/Styne tune never recorded commercially by Sinatra or anyone else.
• SINATRA: THERE'LL BE SOME CHANGES MADE: THE RARITIES [1950-51] Voice. A 32-number selection of Sinatra's earliest own TV show performances - including duets with June Hutton and Skitch Henderson - which offers conclusive proof that, whatever his personal/ professional problems at that time, he still sang with great skill and emotion.
• FRANK SINATRA: "THE VOICE" [1943-1947] Decade Records. Yet another fascinating collection of broadcast performances, including two complete shows from December 1943, plus some rare radio-rehearsal material from 1946.
• PERFECTLY FRANK: LIVE BROADCAST PERFORMANCES [1953-1955] A magnificent 31-track selection of the finest singing Sinatra produced on any radio series. Many of the songs (e.g. "You Took Advantage of Me" "I'm In The Mood For Love"; "Tenderly") were never recorded commercially by Sinatra.
• THE RAREST SINATRA [1937-46] Decade Records Fascinating collection of broadcast material - including two TV items from 1951 and an absorbing New York-BBC link-up from 1944, with Sinatra singing "These Foolish Things" and "Come Out, Wherever You Are". Earliest item finds a non-singing Sinatra conducting (!) an awful Dixie combo the Four Sharps on Fred Allen's Town Hall Tonight show... rare, but understandably so...?
• SINATRA: PORTRAITS FROM THE PAST [1943-46] Bravura Satisfying collection of radio material, a mixture of songs he never did elsewhere, including I'll Walk Alone,, "Three Little Words", "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive".
• SINATRA: THE RADIO YEARS [1939-1955] Meteor The single most comprehensive survey of Sinatra's involvement with radio, including two broadcasts with Harry James, 18 with Tommy Dorsey and the rest taken from airshots featuring the solo Sinatra, including 20 from the To Be Perfectly Frank series. 125 items in all, compiled by the author who also wrote the in-depth booklet and analysis of the contents of this six-CD boxed set.
• SONGS BY SINATRA, VOLUME ONE (PJ International Records) Two complete broadcasts from the series from February and November 1946, both co-starring the one-and-only Jimmy Durante and the Pied Pipers. Mostly music but Sinatra & Durante team up for comedy sketches.
• Recordings of Gigs
• FOR THE GOOD TIMES Boardwalk
• Extracts from Sinatra gigs at Resorts International, Atlantic City, 1979. 16 individual performances in all.
• FRANK SINATRA: A MAN & HIS MUSIC Golden Age Two separate programmes: Consistently fine singing at a concert from November 1965 forms the major part of this CD. The rest comprises short one-chorus versions of a dozen Sinatra favourites, recorded in Italy during the world tour for a commercial project involving local TV.
• FRANK SINATRA LIVE, VOLUME 4 Golden Age Rumoured at one time to have been taped by Capitol for release as Sinatra's first live album, this splendid 18-song performance was rcorded in Seattle Washington, in June 1957. Nelson Riddle conducts as Frank reprises classics such as "You Make Me Feel So Young", The Lady Is A Tramp, My Funny Valentine"' "One For My Baby"... and sings his latest single "Hey! jealous Lover", under protest...
• TOMMY DORSEY & HIS ORCHESTRA Jazz Hour Emanating from the Hollywood Palladium in 1940 and including "The One I Love", "Our Love Affair", "Shadows On The Sand" and That's How It Goes,,.
• TOMMY DORSEY & HIS ORCHESTRA - LIVE AT THE MEADOWBROOK Jasmine. Two complete shows - one from the Meadowbrook in 1941 (featuring Sinatra singing "Everything Happens To Me"; "Oh! Look At Me Now"; "Let's Get Away From It All"), and the second from the Capitol, Washington, DC ("Just As I Thought You Were Here"; "You Are Always In My Heart"; "Snootie Little Cutie").
• TOMMY DORSEY & HIS ORCHESTRA: 1942 WAR BOND BROADCAST Jazz Hour. Three Sinatra contributions to this particular war-drive broadcast, plus further Sinatra-Dorsey gems ("Blues In The Night"; "Somebody Loves Me"; "Dig Down Deep") from two other shows.
• THE UNHEARD FRANK SINATRA, VOLUME ONE: "AS TIME GOES BY" Vintage Jazz Classics VOLUME TWO: "THE HOUSE I LIVE IN": EARLY ENCORES [1943-1946] VJC VOLUME THREE: "LONG AGO & FAR AWAY": RADIO RARITIES [1943-1949] VJC VOLUME FOUR: "I'LL BE SEEING YOU" VJC. The most interesting and comprehensive series of Forties material, mostly culled from radio shows and rehearsals of shows. Vols. I & II are taken from recently-discovered 16" radio discs, in pristine condition. Vol.III is perhaps even more significant: along with radio excerpts, it contains a Hollywood Bowl concert material (1945, 1948) of superb quality.
• YOUNG FRANK SINATRA: IN THE BLUE OF EVENING Natasha Imports. 27 tracks featuring a consistently rewarding batch of 1943 War Transcriptions, plus a quartet of Government Transcriptions from 1948, 1952.
• FRANK SINATRA - LIVE IN ITALY Disc Magic A well-produced, triple-pack CD set celebrating three separate visits to Italy. The first finds him accompanied by the Bill Miller Sextet during his 1962 charity world tour; Disc Two has Miller directing The John Flanagan Orchestra, 24 years later; the third has Sinatra with Ultimate Event compadres, Minnelli and Davis, in 1989, and, like the other two, was recorded in Milan. Two bonus tracks, including the "High Hopes-promo disc for JFK ... plus a personal "We Thank You, Frank" vocal tribute by International Sinatra Society President, Gary Doktor
• FRANK SINATRA & SEXTET LIVE IN PARIS [1962] Reprise
• FRANK SINATRA: MONTE CARLO [1958] JRRecords Complete concert, introduced inimitably by Noel Coward, before the Monaco Royal Family, plus other distinguished guests. Customary Sinatra fare - including "I've Got You Under My Skin", "April In Paris" I Get A Kick Out Of You" and "You Make Me Feel So Young", (a request encore for Princess Grace), plus an uninhibited "Road To Mandalay".
• FRANK SINATRA WASHINGTON, DC, [1973] JRRecords Sinatra at the White House - and introduced by Tricky Dicky" himself- just prior to the re-emergence of Ol' Blue Eyes. Easing his way back into the vocal limelight, with 10 numbers. Not yet back to top form. maybe, but sounding good on the likes of "One For My Baby", "I Have Dreamed, 'Try A Little Tenderness and, of course, patriotic plus on 'The House I Live In"...
• SALOON SINGER Encore Records Two-thirds of the never-released Reprise cut Live-at-the-Sands session in November 1961 including "Moonlight In Vermont"; "Here's That Rainy Day","In The Still Of The Night"; "Please Be Kind" plus all his solo items (sans Martin, Davis) at the Villa Venice, Chicago, gig of December 1962.
• SINATRA IN THE SPOTLIGHT [2 Lps] Retrospect. With orchestra conducted by Don Costa, Sinatra sounds inspired by the enthusiastic response from a packed Montreal Auditorium in May 1975. Repertoire includes revived oldies "But Beautiful", "This Love Of Mine" and Put Your Dreams Away,, , the usual regulars, plus the Jenkins-arranged, Legrand.composed 'Saddest Thing Of All", recorded the previous fall, but never to be officially released
• THE SINATRA SAGA Bravura 39 live performances, encompassing the Fifties.through~ the-Eighties and including excerpts from a 1959 Australian concert with the Red Norvo Quintet and a trio of numbers with the Basie Band in the Sixties. All in all the Voice doesn't sound too bad.
• THE SINATRA SAGA. VOLUME 2 Bravura 20 more live tracks from 1976 to 1986. The voice tends to sound a bit more roughed-up on the later performances (e.g. "Here's To The Band", "Change Partners" Overall sound, like its predecessors, is good.
• SINATRA: THE PARIS CONCERT/RECORDED LIVE AT THE LIDO, JUNE 5,1962 Encore. The title says it all - one of the world charity tour concerts, with Sinatra in sparkling form throughout this 23-number concert. Bill Miller leads a spirited sextet from the piano. "Moonlight In Vermont", "Night & Day", and, yes, both 'April in Paris" and "I Love Paris" feature among the titles.

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• CONCERT FOR THE AMERICAS, SANTO DOMINGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC (with BUDDY RICH) Braveworld
• FRANCIS ALBERT SINATRA DOES HIS THING (with DIAHANN CARROLL, THE 5TH DIMENSION) Braveworld
• FRANK, LIZA & SAMMY: THE ULTIMATE EVENT Kodak/The Video Collection.
• FRANK SINATRA, A MAN & HIS MUSIC Braveworld
• FRANK SINATRA, A MAN & HIS MUSIC, PART II (With Nancy Sinatra) Braveworld.
• FRANK SINATRA, A MAN & HIS MUSIC + ELLA + JOBIM Braveworld
• THE FRANK SINATRA SHOW (with DEAN MARTIN,Bing Crosby,JIMMY DURANTE) Mountain Video.
• THE MAIN EVENT: FRANK SINATRA IN CONCERT, MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK CITY (with WOODY HERMAN & His Orchestra) Braveworld
• OL' BLUE EYES IS BACK (with GENE KELLY) Braveworld
• ONCE IN A LIFETIME JUDY, FRANK & DEAN Lumiere
• SINATRA Braveworld
• SINATRA & FRIENDS (including TONY BENNETT, NATALIE COLE, JOHN DENVER, DEAN MARTIN) Braveworld
• SINATRA IN CONCERT, ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL Braveworld. (Introduced by Princess Grace of Monaco)
• SINATRA IN JAPAN Braveworld
• SINATRA: THE FIRST 40 YEARS Braveworld (including HARRY JAMES & HIS ORCHESTRA, SAMMY DAVIS JR, GENE KELLY, TONY BENNETT, LUCILLE BALL)
• SINATRA, THE MAN & HIS MUSIC (with COUNT BASIE & His Orchestra) Braveworld .

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