Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Come Fly With Me (2000 Digital Remaster)
2. Love And Marriage (Digitally Remastered 03)
3. I've Got You Under My Skin (Digitally Remastered 00)
4. Just One Of Those Things (1998 Digital Remaster)
5. Witchcraft (2000 Digital Remaster)
6. (Love Is) The Tender Trap
7. That Old Black Magic (Digitally Remastered 95)
8. They Can't Take That Away From Me (Digitally Remastered 00)
9. All The Way (2000 Digital Remaster)
10. I've Got The World On A String (2000 Digital Remaster)
11. Fools Rush In (Digitally Remastered 95)
12. Three Coins In The Fountain (Digitally Remastered 96)
13. It's Nice To Go Trav'ling (1998 Digital Remaster)
14. I Love Paris (1998 Digital Remaster)
15. Chicago (2003 Digital Remaster)
16. High Hopes (Digitally Remastered 96)

Disc 2:

1. Young At Heart (2000 Digital Remaster)
2. I Get A Kick Out Of You (Digitally Remastered 00)
3. Learnin' The Blues (Digitally Remastered 90)
4. My Funny Valentine (Digitally Remastered 00)
5. The Lady Is A Tramp (Digitally Remastered 00)
6. Let's Get Away From It All (Digitally Remastered 90)
7. South Of The Border (Digitally Remastered 90)
8. It Happened In Monterey (Digitally Remastered 00)
9. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To (1998 Digital Remaster)
10. Come Dance With Me (1998 Digital Remaster)
11. September In The Rain (1998 Digital Remaster)
12. Cheek To Cheek (1998 Digital Remaster)
13. Moonlight In Vermont (1998 Digital Remaster)
14. Night And Day
15. On The Sunny Side Of The Street (Digitally Remastered 90)
16. I Could Have Danced All Night (1998 Digital Remaster)

Disc 3:

1. You Make Me Feel So Young (Digitally Remastered 00)
2. Nice 'N' Easy (2004 Digital Remaster)
3. Here's That Rainy Day (Digitally Remastered 90)
4. Pennies From Heaven (1998 Digital Remaster)
5. April In Paris (1998 Digital Remaster)
6. From Here To Eternity (Digitally Remastered 90)
7. Someone To Watch Over Me (2000 Digital Remaster)
8. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning (1998 Digital Remaster)
9. I Thought About You (1998 Digital Remaster)
10. Too Marvelous For Words (1998 Digital Remaster)
11. Autumn Leaves (1999 Digital Remaster)
12. Dancing In The Dark (1988 Digital Remaster)
13. All Of Me (Digitally Remastered 90)
14. As Time Goes By (1999 Digital Remaster)
15. September Song (1999 Digital Remaster)
16. One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) (2003 Digital Remaster)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10824 in Music
• Released on: 2004-08-16
• Number of discs: 3
• Formats: Box set, Original recording remastered
• Original language: English

Review
Growing up in the 70s, unless you were a musical aristocrat, Frank Sinatra was simply old. He was a white-haired man, who seemed to spend his days endlessly retiring and singing ''My Way''. There was a vague notion that he had once been young and cool, but that was several lifetimes away. Then, suddenly, in the mid 80s, Sinatra's Capitol recordings were reissued and it slowly dawned on NME readers that he was indeed the man who all the Costellos, McCullochs and Bonos had spent their formative years listening to. And then, in the 90s, when Rat Pack Confidential was published, Sinatra became an icon all over again for the Loaded generation; tales of his cool, his shadiness and his style became as eagerly regurgitated by writers as they were readily accepted by readers. Since then, his work has been emulated by scores of singers, and on the verge of the release of Ocean's Twelve actors.

The songs Frank Sinatra recorded for Capitol between 1953 and 1961 stand as one of the most significant catalogues in music; although bearing no acknowledgement whatsoever to the nascent rock and roll phenomenon, it represented a musical causeway between the austerity of the 50s and the Technicolor of the 60s; an age that incorporated Sputnik, Civil Rights and Elvis Presley.

Compiled with the approval and cooperation of the Frank Sinatra estate, this compilation seeks to do a Beatles 1 and ELV1S by putting the very cream of his recordings from the era together. And given the sheer volume of classics he recorded at this time, the collection runs to a satisfying three-disc overview.

It's like a time capsule; beautiful, discrete songs and moods that are quite unlike anything else. Especially coming after his bobbysoxer period at Columbia, this success confounded many who had written him off as the previous decade's flash in the pan. In this sense, his Capitol years presented the model for all future teen stars who have subsequently striven to be taken seriously, shedding their initial public image. But there is no George Michael or Robbie Williams-style 'look at me, I'm grown up now' posturing here.

From the exuberance of ''I've Got The World On A String'' to the wistfulness of ''September Song'', this 48-track collection is all the big hitters, refined, distilled, presented directly for your delectation. Of course, this period also saw Sinatra establish the long-playing album as a viable format with his concept pieces, such as In The Wee Small Hours, Songs For Swinging Lovers and No-One Cares, but this is just the hits, through and through.

And those hits are, simply, a textbook of popular music. Whether working with conductors and arrangers such as Axel Stordahl, Billy May or his legendary foil, Nelson Riddle, Sinatra took the standards by, oh, you name 'em; Cole Porter, Sammy Cahn, Rodgers and Hammerstein and shot them through with his personality. The weary nightclub singer, the electrifying interpreter, the sensitive or spurned lover; all of Sinatra's personas are well represented here. The way he engages with material like ''In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning'', ''My Funny Valentine'' and the closing ''One For My Baby'', is never anything less than remarkable.

The Platinum Collection ably demonstrates that five years after his passing, it still really is Frank's world. And I, for one, hope I always inhabit it. --Daryl Easlea

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Album Description
The Platinum Collection box set is a stunning brand-new 3-CD package that features the best of Frank's recordings from the Capitol Years. Compiled with the approval and co-operation of the Frank Sinatra Estate, it carries the "official" Frank Sinatra signature seal of approval. The set is presented in a slipcase, with artwork that features photographs from the Capitol era, and has a cool, retro yet classic feel. Also included is a 20-page booklet, containing a history of the Sinatra/Capitol era written by Ken Barnes, record producer and Sinatra academic. Plus, there's a chronology and an overview of the Concept Albums of the Sinatra collection.