The Voice: Frank Sinatra, the Columbia Years (1943–1952)

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The Voice: Frank Sinatra, the Columbia Years (1943–1952)
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Released1986
Recorded1943–1952
Genre Traditional pop
Label Columbia

The Voice: Frank Sinatra, the Columbia Years is a 1986 four-disc compilation album of the U.S. singer Frank Sinatra.

Track listing

disc 1:

  1. The Nearness of You
  2. If I Had You
  3. Nevertheless
  4. You Go to My Head
  5. My Melancholy Baby
  6. How Deep Is the Ocean?
  7. Embraceable You
  8. She's Funny That Way (I Got a Woman Crazy for Me)
  9. For Every Man There's a Woman
  10. I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)
  11. Someone to Watch Over Me
  12. Love Me
  13. There's No Business Like Show-Business
  14. The Song Is You
  15. September Song
  16. Oh, What a Beautiful Morning
  17. They Say It's Wonderful
  18. Bess, Oh Where Is My Bess?

disc 2:

  1. Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night in the Week)
  2. Poinciana
  3. Try a Little Tenderness
  4. Autumn in New York
  5. April in Paris
  6. Dream
  7. Nancy (With the Laughing Face)
  8. Put Your Dreams Away
  9. I'm Glad There Is You
  10. Day by Day
  11. Close to You
  12. I'm a Fool to Want You
  13. Where or When
  14. I Could Write a Book
  15. Why Was I Born?
  16. Lost in the Stars
  17. All the Things You Are
  18. Ol' Man River

disc 3:

  1. Should I?
  2. Birth of the Blues
  3. Mean to Me
  4. It All Depends on You
  5. Deep Night
  6. Sweet Lorraine
  7. Castle Rock
  8. Why Can't You Behave?
  9. My Blue Heaven
  10. S'posin'
  11. You Can Take My Word for It, Baby
  12. Blue Skies
  13. The Continental
  14. It's the Same Old Dream
  15. Laura
  16. Stormy Weather
  17. I've Got a Crush on You
  18. The House I Live In

disc 4:

  1. One for My Baby
  2. I Should Care
  3. These Foolish Things
  4. I Guess I'll Have to Dream the Rest
  5. It Never Entered My Mind
  6. When Your Lover Has Gone
  7. Body and Soul
  8. That Old Feeling
  9. I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You
  10. There's No You
  11. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry
  12. Why Try to Change Me Now?
  13. All Through the Day
  14. I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night
  15. Time After Time
  16. But Beautiful
  17. I Fall in Love Too Easily
  18. The Brooklyn Bridge

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