Frank Sinatra: The Reprise Years

The Reprise Years
Box set by Frank Sinatra
Released	November 29, 2010
Recorded	1960-1984
Genre	Vocal jazz ; traditional pop ;
Length	1315:24
Label	Universal Music Group
Frank Sinatra chronology

Last updated April 02, 2019

Frank Sinatra: The Reprise Years is a 36 disc boxed set by American singer Frank Sinatra.

Francis Albert Sinatra was an American singer, actor, and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 150 million records worldwide.

This set contains 35 CDs featuring every studio album that Sinatra released between 1960 and 1984. Each CD contains an individual Sinatra Reprise LP (including singles compilations and a bonus DVD). Missing from the set are 1966's Greatest Hits! and 1972's Greatest Hits, Vol.2 , which contain songs not available on any other album. Also not included are any single-only releases from the 1970s and 1980s which are not available on any studio album. The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings contains all of the missing songs from this collection.

<i>Frank Sinatras Greatest Hits</i> 1968 greatest hits album by Frank Sinatra

Frank Sinatra's Greatest Hits! is Frank Sinatra's first compilation released on his own Reprise Records. It concentrates on mostly single releases from the mid to late 60's, which fluctuates between adult contemporary pop and jazzy swing. The album opens up with Sinatra's recent number one hit "Strangers in the Night" and continues through the varied styles of music Sinatra recorded in the 60's, from easy listening ballads like "It Was a Very Good Year" and "Softly, as I Leave You" to contemporary pop like "When Somebody Loves You" and "That's Life". Greatest Hits was a modest hit, peaking at #55 on the album charts in late 1968. A second volume was issued in 1972, Frank Sinatra's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2. Both albums have since been supplanted with newer and more cohesive compilations.

<i>Frank Sinatras Greatest Hits, Vol. 2</i> 1972 greatest hits album by Frank Sinatra

Frank Sinatra's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 was Sinatra's second compilation of material released by Reprise Records, which like its predecessor, consisted of singles and songs from movie soundtracks. Vol. 2 picks up where Frank Sinatra's Greatest Hits leaves off, so all of the tracks date from 1968 to 1971, except for "The September of My Years", which dates back to 1965. Though the song "My Way" became Sinatra's signature song, it was not a big hit in the US. In the UK it went to #5 and spent 75 weeks in the Top 40. The highest charting U.S. single in this collection is "Cycles" which peaked at #23. The remaining tracks represent the sound of Sinatra's music in the late 1960s, which was more laid back than his early 1960s swinging tunes, with the B-side "Star!" being a notable exception. Vol. 2 peaked at #88 on the album charts in the summer of 1972 during Sinatra's brief retirement from show business.

<i>The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings</i> 1995 box set by Frank Sinatra

The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings is a 1995 box set album by the American singer Frank Sinatra. The release coincided with Sinatra's 80th birthday celebration.

Track listing

Disc one - Ring-a-Ding-Ding! (1961)
Disc two - Swing Along with Me (1961)
Disc three - I Remember Tommy (1961)
Disc four - Sinatra and Strings (1961)
Disc five - Sinatra and Swingin' Brass (1962)
Disc six - Sinatra Sings Great Songs from Great Britain (1962)
Disc seven - All Alone (1962)
Disc eight - Sinatra-Basie: An Historic Musical First (1962)
Disc nine - The Concert Sinatra (1963)
Disc ten - Sinatra's Sinatra (1963)
Disc eleven - Sinatra Sings Days of Wine and Roses, Moon River, and Other Academy Award Winners (1964)
Disc twelve - America, I Hear You Singing (1964)
Disc thirteen - It Might as Well Be Swing (1964)
Disc fourteen - Softly, as I Leave You (1964)
Disc fifteen - Sinatra '65: The Singer Today (1965)
Disc sixteen - September of My Years (1965)
Disc seventeen - My Kind of Broadway (1965)
Disc eighteen - A Man and His Music (1965)
Disc nineteen - Strangers in the Night (1966)
Disc twenty - Moonlight Sinatra (1966)
Disc twenty-one - That's Life (1966)
Disc twenty-two - Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim (1967)
Disc twenty-three - The World We Knew (1967)
Disc twenty-four - Francis A. & Edward K. (1968)
Disc twenty-five - The Sinatra Family Wish You a Merry Christmas (1968)
Disc twenty-six - Cycles (1968)
Disc twenty-seven - My Way (1969)
Disc twenty-eight - A Man Alone (1969)
Disc twenty-nine - Watertown (1970)
Disc thirty - Sinatra & Company (1971)
Disc thirty-one - Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back (1973)
Disc thirty-two - Some Nice Things I've Missed (1974)
Disc thirty-three - Trilogy: Past Present Future (1980)
Disc thirty-four - She Shot Me Down (1981)
Disc thirty-five - L.A. Is My Lady (1984)
Disc thirty-six - A Man and His Music - Trilogy (DVD)
- A Man and His Music (1965)
- A Man and His Music Part II (1966)
- A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim (1967)
Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music was a one-hour television special in color, first broadcast by NBC on November 24, 1965, to mark the occasion of Frank Sinatra's 50th birthday. It was directed by the multi-Emmy-winning Dwight Hemion. Frank Peppiatt and John Aylesworth were the head writers. Telecast at a time when television had just switched to full-time color programming, the show was an enormous success, so much so that it spawned two follow-ups: A Man and His Music – Part II (1966), featuring Nancy Sinatra, and A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim (1967), starring Ella Fitzgerald and Antonio Carlos Jobim. An album by Sinatra, also titled A Man and His Music, was released at around the same time as the special.
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<i>Ring-a-Ding-Ding!</i> album by Frank Sinatra

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<i>I Remember Tommy</i> 1961 studio album by Frank Sinatra

I Remember Tommy... is an album by Frank Sinatra, released in 1961. It was recorded as a tribute to bandleader Tommy Dorsey, and consists of re-recorded versions of songs that Sinatra had first performed or recorded with Dorsey earlier in his career. Fellow Dorsey alumnus Sy Oliver arranged and conducted the sessions.

<i>Sinatra and Strings</i> 1962 studio album by Frank Sinatra

Sinatra and Strings is a 1962 album by Frank Sinatra consisting of standard ballads.

Personnel

Frank Sinatra - vocals
Nancy Sinatra
Frank Sinatra, Jr.
Tina Sinatra
Dean Martin
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Bing Crosby
Antonio Carlos Jobim - vocals, guitar
Count Basie and his Orchestra

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Frank Sinatra: The Reprise Years

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