The Capitol Years
Compilation album by
Frank Sinatra
ReleasedDecember 13, 1990
RecordedApril 2, 1953-March 6, 1962
GenreTraditional pop
Length224:06
LabelCapitol
Frank Sinatra chronology
The Reprise Collection
(1990)		 The Capitol Years
(1990)		 Sinatra Reprise: The Very Good Years
(1991)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic [1]

The Capitol Years is a 1990 compilation album of the U.S. singer Frank Sinatra.

Released to coincide with Sinatra's 75th birthday, this three-disc set has an abundance of classic Sinatra performances from his career with Capitol Records, which spanned the years 1953 to 1961.

Track listing

Disc one

  1. "I've Got the World on a String" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 2:10
    Recorded on April 30, 1953
  2. "Lean Baby" (Roy Alfred, Billy May) - 2:33
    Recorded on April 2, 1953
  3. "I Love You" (Harry Archer, Harlan Thompson) - 2:27
  4. "South of the Border" (Jimmy Kennedy, Michael Carr) – 2:50
    Recorded on April 30, 1953
  5. "From Here to Eternity" (Freddie Karger, Robert Wells) - 2:59
    Recorded on May 2, 1953
  6. "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 1:57
    Recorded on November 5, 1953
  7. "I Get a Kick Out of You" (Cole Porter) - 2:53
    Recorded on November 6, 1953
  8. "Young at Heart" (Carolyn Leigh, Johnny Richards) - 2:59
    Recorded on December 9, 1953
  9. "Three Coins in the Fountain" (Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn) - 3:04
    Recorded on March 1, 1954
  10. "All of Me" (Gerald Marks, Seymour Simons) - 2:07
  11. "Taking a Chance on Love" (Vernon Duke, Ted Fetter, John Latouche) - 2:19
    Recorded on April 19, 1954
  12. "Someone to Watch Over Me" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) - 2:56
    Recorded on September 23, 1954
  13. "What Is This Thing Called Love?" (Porter) - 2:35
    Recorded on February 16, 1955
  14. "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" (Bob Hilliard, David Mann) - 2:59
    Recorded on February 17, 1954
  15. "Learnin' the Blues" (Delores Vicki Silvers) - 3:00
    Recorded on March 23, 1955
  16. "Our Town" (Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 3:15
  17. "Love and Marriage" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 2:38
    Recorded on August 15, 1955
  18. "(Love Is) The Tender Trap" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 2:57
    Recorded on September 13, 1955
  19. "Weep They Will" (Bill Carey, Carey Fischer) - 3:16
    Recorded on October 17, 1955
  20. "I Thought About You" (Van Heusen, Johnny Mercer) – 2:30
  21. "You Make Me Feel So Young" (Josef Myrow, Mack Gordon) – 2:57
  22. "Memories of You" (Andy Razaf, Eubie Blake) - 2:53
    Recorded on January 9, 1956
  23. "I've Got You Under My Skin" (Porter) - 3:43
    Recorded on January 12, 1956
  24. "Too Marvelous for Words" (Mercer, Richard A. Whiting) - 2:27
    Recorded on January 16, 1956
  25. "Don't Like Goodbyes" (Harold Arlen, Truman Capote) - 4:50
    Recorded on March 8, 1956
  26. "(How Little It Matters) How Little We Know" (Leigh, Philip Springer) - 2:39
    Recorded on April 5, 1956

Disc two

  1. "Hey! Jealous Lover" (Sammy Cahn, Kay Twomey, Bee Walker) - 2:21
    Recorded on April 9, 1956
  2. "You're Sensational" (Porter) - 2:16
    Recorded on April 5, 1956
  3. "Close to You" (Al Hoffman, Carl G. Lampl, Jerry Livingston) - 3:56
    Recorded on November 1, 1956
  4. "Stars Fell on Alabama" (Mitchell Parish, Frank Perkins) - 2:35
  5. "I Got Plenty Of Nothing" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin, Dubose Heyward) - 3:14
    Recorded on November 15, 1956
  6. "I Wish I Were in Love Again" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 2:28
    Recorded on November 20, 1956
  7. "The Lady Is a Tramp" (Rodgers, Hart) - 3:14
  8. "Night and Day" (Porter) - 3:59
  9. "The Lonesome Road" (Gene Austin, Nat Shilkret) - 3:53
  10. "If I Had You" (Jimmy Campbell, Reginald Connelly, Ted Shapiro) - 2:35
    Recorded on November 26, 1956
  11. "Where Are You?" (Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh) – 3:30
  12. "I'm a Fool to Want You" (Frank Sinatra, Jack Wolf, Joel Herron) – 4:51
    Recorded on May 1, 1957
  13. "Witchcraft" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) - 2:52
  14. "Something Wonderful Happens in Summer" (Joe Bushkin, John DeVries) - 3:12
    Recorded on May 20, 1957
  15. "All the Way" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 2:52
  16. "Chicago (That Toddlin' Town)" (Fred Fisher) - 2:12
    Recorded on August 13, 1957
  17. "Let's Get Away from It All" (Matt Dennis, Tom Adair) – 2:11
    Recorded on October 1, 1957
  18. "Autumn in New York" (Vernon Duke) – 4:37
    Recorded on October 3, 1957
  19. "Come Fly with Me" (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 3:19
    Recorded on October 8, 1957
  20. "Everybody Loves Somebody" (Sam Coslow, Ken Lane, Irving Taylor) - 3:42
  21. "It's the Same Old Dream" (Cahn, Styne) - 3:02
    Recorded on November 25, 1957
  22. "Put Your Dreams Away (For Another Day)" (Ruth Lowe, Paul Mann, George David Weiss) - 3:12
    Recorded on December 11, 1957
  23. "Here Goes" (Otto Cesana, Cahn) - 2:42
    Recorded on March 3, 1958
  24. "Angel Eyes" (Earl Brent, Matt Dennis) - 3:44
    Recorded on May 29, 1957

Disc three

  1. "Ebb Tide" (Robert Maxwell, Carl Sigman) - 3:18
  2. "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry" (Cahn, Styne) - 3:59
  3. "Only the Lonely" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 4:31
    Recorded on May 29, 1958
  4. "One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)" (Arlen, Mercer) - 4:04
    Recorded on June 26, 1958
  5. "To Love and Be Loved" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 2:56
  6. "I Couldn't Care Less" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 2:58
    Recorded on October 15, 1958
  7. "The Song Is You" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) - 2:42
  8. "Just In Time" (Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Styne) - 2:23
    Recorded on December 9, 1958
  9. "Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week)" (Cahn, Styne) - 1:54
    Recorded on December 22, 1958
  10. "Come Dance With Me" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 2:59
    Recorded on December 23, 1958
  11. "French Foreign Legion" (Aaron Schroeder, Guy Wood) - 2:01
    Recorded on December 29, 1958
  12. "The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) - 3:03
  13. "Here's That Rainy Day" (Johnny Burke, Van Heusen) - 4:19
    Recorded on March 25, 1959
  14. "High Hopes" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 2:42
    Recorded on May 8, 1959
  15. "When No One Cares" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 2:42
  16. "I'll Never Smile Again" (Ruth Lowe) - 3:43
    Recorded on May 14, 1959
  17. "I've Got a Crush on You" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) - 2:16
  18. "Embraceable You" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) - 3:23
    Recorded on March 3, 1960
  19. "Nice 'N' Easy" (Alan Bergman, Marilyn Keith, Lew Spence) - 2:45
    Recorded on April 13, 1960
  20. "I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me" (Clarence Gaskill, McHugh) - 2:25
    Recorded on August 23, 1960
  21. "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (Dorothy Fields, McHugh) - 2:41
    Recorded on March 20, 1961
  22. "I've Heard That Song Before" (Cahn, Styne) - 2:30
    Recorded on March 21, 1961
  23. "Almost Like Being In Love" (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) - 2:02
    Recorded on March 22, 1960
  24. "I'll Be Seeing You" (Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal) - 2:46
    Recorded on September 11, 1961
  25. "I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues" (Arlen, Koehler) - 2:58
    Recorded on March 6, 1962

Personnel

Charts

Chart performance for The Capitol Years
Chart (1991) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[2] 79
US Billboard 200[3] 126

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic
  2. ↑ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 254.
  3. ↑ "Frank Sinatra Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved October 14, 2022.
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