TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
3.3311
Frank Sinatra Album Rankings
1
Constructed around a light-hearted travel theme,Come Fly With Me, Frank Sinatra's first project with arrangerBilly May, was a breezy change of pace from the somberWhere Are You.
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After the ballad-heavyIn the Wee Small Hours, Frank Sinatra andNelson Riddlereturned to up-tempo, swing material withSongs for Swingin' Lovers!, arguably the vocalist's greatest swing set.
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Expanding on the concept ofSongs for Young Lovers!,In the Wee Small Hourswas a collection of ballads arranged byNelson Riddle.
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Working withBilly Mayagain, Frank Sinatra recorded his hardest swing album ever withCome Dance with Me!Driven by an intensely swinging horn section, the album has a fair share of slower numbers, but t
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While Capitol Records issued upgraded, 20-bit remastered editions of eight of Sinatra's key albums in the U.S. in 1998, EMI-U.K.
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Sinatra Reprise: The Very Good Yearsis an excellent single-disc retrospective of Sinatra's career at Reprise, including most of his signature songs from the '60s, '70s, and '80s.
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September of My Yearsis one of Frank Sinatra's triumphs of the '60s, an album that consolidated his strengths while moving him into new territory, primarily in terms of tone.
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The Very Best of Frank Sinatrais a simple double-disc collection of 40 Sinatra classics from his Reprise Recordings.
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9
"A&R Recording Studio is on the seventh floor of a New York office building. You can take an elevator up, smelling pizza in the elevator car. Definitely a New York session here.
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10
So you think you know Frank Sinatra's music? Do you picture some old man from some bygone era wearing a tuxedo, holding a microphone in one hand and a martini in the other, performing swinging, big ba
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11
Combining Frank Sinatra's first two ten-inch albums for Capitol, the compact discSongs for Young Lovers/Swing Easy!not only contains some of the best music Sinatra recorded, it captures a turning poin
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12
A four-disc distillation of the mammoth 12-disc boxThe Columbia Years (1943-1952): The Complete Recordings,The Best of the Columbia Years 1944-1952provides everything most listeners need to know about
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Following the hard-drivingA Swingin' Affair, Frank Sinatra released another all-ballads record,Where Are You?The album was the first he recorded at Capitol withoutNelson Riddle, as well as the first h
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14
In some ways,A Swingin' Affair!is "Songs for Swingin' Lovers!, Pt. 2," following the same formula of Sinatra's hit album of the previous year.
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Portrait of Sinatra: Columbia Classicsis a double-disc, 36-track collection that features Sinatra's biggest hits from his Columbia years, including "Someone to Watch Over Me," "The House I Live In," "
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LikeThe Capitol Years, the four-disc box setThe Reprise Collectionwas released to celebrate Frank Sinatra's 75th anniversary.
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Divided into six separate thematically oriented records -- covering saloon songs, standards, swing, Broadway, Hollywood, and love songs -- this six-LP/four-CD set provides an excellent retrospective o
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18
Popular recording artiste and sometime film maker Frank Sinatra had achieved considerable success but the times they were a-changin'.
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19
For serious students of popular singing, this 12-disc box set is indispensable.
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20
Originally encased in a small, leather-bound trunk and comprising a grand total of 20 discs, Frank Sinatra'sThe Complete Reprise Studio Recordingsis easily the most lavish box set ever assembled.
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21
Watertownis Frank Sinatra's most ambitious concept album, as well as his most difficult record. Not only does it tell a full-fledged story, it is his most explicit attempt at rock-oriented pop.
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By 1967, bossa nova had become quite popular within jazz and traditional pop audiences, yet Frank Sinatra hadn't attempted any Brazil-influenced material.
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23
Included are essential Sinatra Christmas sounds of his Capitol era, with "Christmas Waltz" and "Have Yourself a Merry Little
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24
Eight examples of the state of the crooning art on four 78 records in a hefty cardboard casing, now that's an album. Indeed, one of the first to be so conceived.
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Breaking slightly from his pattern of a swing album following the release of ballads set, Frank Sinatra followedNo One CareswithNice 'N' Easy, a breezy collection of mid-tempo numbers arranged byNelso
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This is one of the most interesting and successful Frank Sinatra collections out there.
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Born more of commercial considerations than artistic ones, Frank Sinatra's Duets II (Capitol) doesn't tinker one gin-soaked iota with its predecessor's formula, from the LeRoy Neiman cover portrait to
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28
An embarrassing attempt to present an aged titan with more contemporary artists (though none of them were actually even in the studio with the man!).
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In many ways, Sinatra at the Sands is the definitive portrait of Frank Sinatra in the '60s.
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32
Released in January 2002 as part of the great rush of Valentine-themed releases, Greatest Love Songs outclasses most of the romantic-themed compilations in its genre -- which is only appropriate for
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33
Frank Sinatra's second set of torch songs recorded with Gordon Jenkins, No One Cares was nearly as good as its predecessor, Where Are You? Expanding the melancholy tone of the duo's previous collabor
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34
Ring-a-Ding Ding!, Frank Sinatra's first album for his own record label, broke somewhat from the strict concepts of his Capitol Records; in the process, it set a kind of template for the rest of his
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With his comeback secure, Frank Sinatra again took up the baton in advocacy of music between the cracks, this time with a near 60-person orchestra of Hollywood musicians and a set of 12 commissions f
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42
Originally released as a set of multiple 78s, Christmas Songs By Sinatra contains a number of holiday standards Sinatra recorded for Columbia Records during the '40s.
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With classic early Sinatra sounds, it includes his own hit version of "White Christmas." ~ David A.
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55
Legacy/Columbia's I've Got a Crush on You contains 14 classic love ballads Frank Sinatra recorded during his seminal years at Columbia.
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58
A 26-song grab bag, it rounds up some choice leftovers from the Columbia years.
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