Nothing but the Best (album)
Nothing but the Best is a 2008 compilation album by American singer Frank Sinatra. All the tracks on this album are recordings made when Sinatra was on his own Reprise label, thus the first track, "Come Fly with Me" is not the 1957 Capitol version. Other notable differences are "Strangers in the Night" has an extended fade out and the first two cymbal notes are cut from the beginning of the "Theme from New York, New York".
Nothing but the Best | ||||
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Released | May 13, 2008 | |||
Recorded | 1962–1984 | |||
Genre | Traditional pop, vocal jazz, swing, easy listening | |||
Length | 74:36 | |||
Label | Reprise | |||
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Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [1] |
The album was certified Gold by the RIAA on December 9, 2008.[2] It has been present on the Billboard Top 200 for 135 weeks as of August 16, 2012 [3] The producer of this album is Charles Pignone and the executive producer is Robert Finkelstein & Jimmy Edwards.
This album is presented in 3 versions: standard edition (22 tracks), Christmas edition (22 tracks + 12 Christmas songs) and a DVD edition (22 tracks + 1 DVD concert of the artist, in addition this album is packaged in Digipack format).
Track listings
- "Come Fly with Me" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 3:14
- "The Best is Yet to Come" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) - 2:56
- "The Way You Look Tonight" (Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields) - 3:22
- "Luck Be a Lady" (Frank Loesser) - 5:15
- "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 3:00
- "The Good Life" (Sacha Distel, Jack Reardon) - 2:27
- "The Girl from Ipanema" (Antonio Carlos Jobim, Norman Gimbel, Vinícius de Moraes) - 3:14
- "Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)" (Bart Howard) - 2:28
- "Summer Wind" (Heinz Meier, Hans Bradtke, Johnny Mercer) - 2:55
- "Strangers in the Night" (Bert Kaempfert, Charles Singleton, Eddie Snyder) - 2:45
- "Call Me Irresponsible" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 2:56
- "Somethin' Stupid" [With Nancy Sinatra] (Carson Parks) - 2:40
- "My Kind of Town" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 3:11
- "It Was a Very Good Year" (Ervin Drake) - 4:27
- "That's Life" (Kelly Gordon, Dean Kay) - 3:07
- "Moonlight Serenade" (Glenn Miller, Mitchell Parish) - 3:28
- "Nothing But the Best" (Johnny Rotella) - 3:00
- "Drinking Again" (Johnny Mercer, Doris Tauber) - 3:15
- "All My Tomorrows" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 4:35
- "My Way" (Paul Anka, Claude François, Jacques Revaux, Gilles Thibault) - 4:36
- "Theme from New York, New York" (Fred Ebb, John Kander) - 3:25
- "Body and Soul" [Previously unissued] (Frank Eyton, Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour) - 4:20
- "The Coffee Song" - 2:51 [Hidden Track] (Bob Hilliard, Dick Miles)
- Christmas Edition
This is a limited re-edition of the original 1964 album 12 Songs of Christmas, by Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Fred Waring and The Pennsylvanians.
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "White Christmas" | Irving Berlin | |
2. | "It's Christmas Time Again" | Sonny Burke, Jim Harwood, Jack D. Elliot, John M. Elliott, James K. Harwood, Francis Burke | |
3. | "Go Tell it on the Mountain" | Traditional, John Wesley Work III | |
4. | "An Old-Fashioned Christmas" | Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen | |
5. | "When Angels Sang of Peace" | Traditional | |
6. | "The Little Drummer Boy" | Katherine K. Bates | |
7. | "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Johnny Marks | |
8. | "Do You Hear What I Hear?" | Noël Regney, Gloria Shayne Baker | |
9. | "The Secret of Christmas" | Cahn, Van Heusen | |
10. | "The Twelve Days of Christmas" | Traditional | |
11. | "Christmas Candles" | Dean Kay, Vincent O'Dea, Jay Clinton | |
12. | "We Wish You the Merriest" | Les Brown |
DVD edition
- "Introduction by Princess Grace of Monaco"
- "You Make Me Feel So Young"
- "Pennies from Heaven"
- "I've Got You Under My Skin"
- "Something"
- "The Lady Is a Tramp"
- "I Get Along Without You Very Well"
- "Didn't We"
- "One for My Baby"
- "I Will Drink the Wine"
- "I Have Dreamed"
- "My Kind of Town"
- "My Way"
Charts
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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Certifications
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Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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New Zealand (RMNZ)[25] | Gold | 7,500^ |
United Kingdom (BPI)[26] | Gold | 100,000^ |
United States (RIAA)[27] | Gold | 500,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
References
- Allmusic review
- RIAA Website
- Music Albums, Top 200 Albums & Music Album Charts | Billboard.com
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