The Reprise Collection (1961)

About this title: Like The Capitol Years, the four-disc box set The Reprise Collection was released to celebrate Frank Sinatra's 75th anniversary. However, it works as a better sampler than the Capitol set, partially because Sinatra released so many albums on Reprise that it is necessary to have an introduction to such a large body of work. Also, his Reprise records, while still being concept albums, were more inconsistent and therefore easier to anthologize. Many highlights, as well as most of his biggest hits from the era, are included on The Reprise Collection, along with a handful of rarities that are ... read more

Tracks:

1. Let's Fall in Love [Arlen/Koehler]
2. You'd Be So Easy to Love [Porter]
3. The Coffee Song (They've Got an Awful Lot of Coffee in Brazil) [Hilliard/Miles]
4. Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart [Hanley]
5. The Last Dance [Cahn/VanHeusen]
6. The Second Time Around [Cahn/VanHeusen]
7. Tina [Cahn/VanHeusen]
8. Without a Song [Eliscu/Rose/Youmans]
9. It Started All over Again [Carey/Fischer]
10. Love Walked In [Gershwin/Gershwin]
11. You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You [Cavanaugh/Morgan/St]
12. Don't Take Your Love from Me [Nemo]
13. Come Rain or Come Shine [Arlen/Mercer]
14. Night and Day [Porter]
15. All Alone [Berlin]
16. What'll I Do? [Berlin]
17. I Get a Kick Out of You [Porter]
18. Don'cha Go 'Way Mad [Jacquet/Mundy/Still]
19. A Garden in the Rain [Dyrenforth/Gibbons]
20. A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square [Maschwitz/Sherwin]
21. Please Be Kind [Cahn/Chaplin]
22. Pennies from Heaven [Burke/Johnston]
23. Me and My Shadow [Dreyer/Jolson/Rose]
24. I Have Dreamed [Hammerstein/Rodgers]
25. America the Beautiful [Bates/Ward]
26. California [Cahn/Van Heusen]
27. Soliloquy [Hammerstein/Rodgers]
28. Luck Be a Lady [Loesser]
29. Here's to the Losers [Segal/Wells]
30. The Way You Look Tonight [Fields/Kern]
31. My Kind of Town [Cahn/VanHeusen]
32. The Best Is Yet to Come [Coleman/Leigh]
33. Fly Me to the Moon [Howard]
34. September Song [Anderson/Weill]
35. It Was a Very Good Year [Drake]
36. This Is All I Ask [Jenkins]
37. I'll Only Miss Her When I Think of Her [Cahn/VanHeusen]
38. Love and Marriage [Cahn/VanHeusen]
39. Moonlight Serenade [Miller/Parish]
40. I Wished on the Moon [Parker/Rainger]
41. Oh, You Crazy Moon [Burke/VanHeusen]
42. I've Got You Under My Skin [Porter]
43. The Shadow of Your Smile [Mandel/Webster]
44. Street of Dreams [Lewis/Young]
45. You Make Me Feel So Young [Gordon/Myrow]
46. Strangers in the Night [Kaempfert/Singleton]
47. Summer Wind [Bradtke/Mayer/Merce]
48. All or Nothing at All [Altman/Lawrence]
49. That's Life [Gordon/Thompson]
50. I Concentrate on You [Porter]
51. Dindi [DeOliveira/Gilbert/]
52. Once I Loved (O Amor en Paz) [DeMoraes/Gilbert/Jo]
53. How Insensitive [Insensatez] [DeMoraes/Gimbel/Job]
54. Drinking Again [Mercer/Tauber]
55. Somethin' Stupid [Parks]
56. All I Need Is the Girl [Sondheim/Styne]
57. Indian Summer [Dubin/Herbert]
58. My Way [Anka/Francois/Revau]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.