Product 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.

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: #468 in Music
• Released on: 2002-11-18
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Special 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

Customer Reviews

Undoubtedly the best Frank Sinatra compilation available!
This is an excellent update of the previously released "My Way: The Best pf Frank Sinatra": the record company have added a whole new CD! The single album was already terrific value for money, containing as it did Frank's best loved and most well known songs but the addition of the extra CD has made this an indispensable album for anyone wanting to add some Frank Sinatra to their CD collection - it just beats all the other competition clean out of sight!

If Sinatra fun, gotta have this one!
Definitely this double album is one of the best compilations of an artist. This double CD contains some of the best song recordings of Frank, and includes all of his best songs, in just the right price. "Something Stupid" sang with his daughter Nancy, was to me a very pleasant surprised, as i never heard this recording before. Seriously, people who are not fun of Sinatra or 60s music of this kind, did not complain listening to both CDs playing one after the other ;)

The best 'best of'..........
I've had this cd for a while now, it's one I listen to when I want to relax (along with Andrea Bocelli).

I got this purely based on the songs I saw featured & the fact that I reliased my musical taste was changing fast. I played this a lot over Christmas & it really helped me chill out - c'mon girls, you all know what Christmas is like for the lady of the house!!!! *:-D

I'd recommend this album to anyone - especially if it's the only Frank Sinatra cd you plan on buying - it's definately got the 'best of' on this 'best of....' which is unusual (most fo the time it's random & you like a few of the 'best of' tracks!)

Highly recommended CD!