Live from Las Vegas (Frank Sinatra album)

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Live from Las Vegas
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ReleasedApril 26, 2005
RecordedDecember 1986
Genre Traditional pop, vocal jazz
Length72:57
Label Capitol
Frank Sinatra chronology
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Live from Las Vegas is a 2005 live album by the American singer Frank Sinatra.

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This album forms part of Capitol Records 'Las Vegas Centennial Collection', and showcases a December 1986 concert by Sinatra. This was Sinatra's first live Las Vegas album released since 1966s Sinatra at the Sands . It was recorded at the Golden Nugget Las Vegas. The album appeared on the Billboard top albums chart for one week in May, 2005, at position 199. [2]

Track listing

  1. Intro ("A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening") [instrumental] (Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh) – 0:38
  2. "I've Got the World On a String" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 2:25
  3. "What Now My Love" (Gilbert Bécaud, Pierre Delanoë, Carl Sigman) – 2:43
  4. "I Get a Kick Out of You" (Cole Porter) – 4:58
  5. "My Heart Stood Still" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 3:27
  6. "Luck Be a Lady" (Frank Loesser) – 5:04
  7. "I've Got a Crush on You" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:32
  8. "Mack the Knife" (Marc Blitzstein, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill) – 4:30
  9. Monologue – 1:59
  10. "The Girls I Never Kissed" (Leiber and Stoller) – 4:03
  11. "For Once in My Life" (Ron Miller, Orlando Murden) – 2:53
  12. "Someone to Watch Over Me" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 3:46
  13. "Maybe This Time" (Fred Ebb, John Kander) – 2:51
  14. "I've Got You Under My Skin" (Porter) – 4:22
  15. "Only One to a Customer" (Carolyn Leigh, Jule Styne) – 3:45
  16. "I Have Dreamed" (Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 3:22
  17. "My Way" (Paul Anka, Claude François, Jacques Revaux, Gilles Thibault) – 4:01
  18. "New York, New York" (Kander, Ebb) – 3:55
  19. Bows ("You Are There") (instrumental) (Harry Sukman, Paul Francis Webster) – 0:44

Personnel

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