Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. My Way
2. Strangers In The Night
3. New York New York
4. I Get A Kick Out Of You
5. Somethin' Stupid
6. Moon River
7. What Now My Love
8. Summer Wind
9. For Once In My Life
10. Love And Marriage
11. They Can't Take That Away From Me
12. My Kind Of Town
13. Fly Me To The Moon
14. I've Got You Under My Skin
15. Best Is Yet To Come
16. It Was A Very Good Year
17. Come Fly With Me
18. That's Life
19. Girl From Ipanema
20. Lady Is A Tramp
21. Bad Bad Leroy Brown
22. Mack The Knife
23. Love's Been Good To Me
24. LA Is My Lady

Disc 2:

1. Let's Face The Music And Dance
2. Come Rain Or Come Shine
3. Night And Day
4. Very Thought Of You
5. Pennies From Heaven
6. Bewitched
7. America The Beautiful
8. All The Way
9. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
10. Way You Look Tonight
11. Three Coins In The Fountain
12. Softly As I Leave You
13. All Over Nothing At All
14. Yesterday
15. Moonlight Serenade
16. Somewhere My Love
17. Mrs Robinson
18. Something
19. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life
20. Send In The Clowns
21. It Had To Be You
22. Best Of Everything

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6014 in Music
• Released on: 2002-11-18
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Special Edition, Limited Edition, Original recording remastered

Amazon.co.uk Review
My Way: the Best of Frank Sinatra 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".

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. --Robert Burrow

CD Description
Arranger Don Costa's style, simultaneously modern and classic, was the sparkplug of Sinatra's late-'60s/early '70s releases, and MY WAY is the album that raised the bar for the recordings that followed. Throughout, Sinatra shows off so many different sides of his talent that it's hard to get past the admiration of his diversity, beyond which there's a wholeseparate level of enjoyment to be had in the individual performances. On Ray Charles's "Hallelujah, I Love Her So" he'seminently soulful and swinging. He plumbs the depths of hissoul for the bittersweet touch of "Yesterday" and Jacques Brel's "If You Go Away". Sinatra delivers his manifesto on the epic title track, in which he looks back on a life of determined individualism with both pride and a harsh sense of reality.

Customer Reviews

A review- My Way, The Greatest Hits Of Frank Sinatra (2002)
We've all seen them.
They're often the sign of their respective artists lack of ideas. The feared "greatest Hits." albums that clog the bargain Bins and 'reduced' shelfs of the superstores.

but Not this album.

Frank Sinatra, in his long musical career has had dozens of Greatest Hits albums, but "My Way- The Best Of Frank Sinatra." is simply a brilliant compilation. It features his most well known hits- Fly me to the moon, Something stupid. My Way, New york New York, That's Life, The list is endless. It is definitley a great buy for the occasional Frank Sinatra Listener, or as a CD for the open musical listener. It may disappoint for Seasoned Frank Sinatra collectors in that it omits some of the less "Glamarous" songs in favour of his hits, But as is its title, it is a greatest hits, If you do not own this, or perhaps are looking for a good compilation of swing/jazz music that almost everyone had heard the author of, then 'My Way- The Best Of Frank Sinatra' is a must buy.

Hard to beat Best-Of Collection
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.

It'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.

Among other highlights of this splendid 2-CD collection are:

- 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.
- 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."
- 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."
- 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."
- 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.

This 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?

Mark Blackburn
markbla@hotmail.com

Packed with classics!
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.