The Complete Capitol Singles Collection[Box] by Frank Sinatra

Personnel includes: Frank Sinatra, Keely Smith, Bing Crosby, Celeste Holm (vocals); Axel Stordahl, Nelson Riddle, Gordon Jenkins, Johnny Green, Billy May, Felix Slatkin, Ray Anthony (conductor); June Hutton & The Pied Pipers, The Nuggets, Ralph Brewster Singers. Compilation producer: Brad Benedict. Includes liner notes by Will Friedwald and Mitchell Zlokower. Digitally remastered by Bob Norberg. THE COMPLETE CAPITOL SINGLES COLLECTION was nominated for a 1997 Grammy Award for Best Album Notes. The perfect compliment to the Capitol CONCEPTS box, this four-disc set, by its nature, supplements that box rather than overlapping with it. The bulk of the singles Sinatra recorded during his Capitol period were not included on his contemporaneous albums. Thus, many of these songs had no digital home until the release of this set. Listeners are taken further afield here, as the singles format freed Sinatra from the stricture of his theme albums, allowing him to tackle all manner of songs. There are light-hearted t...

Capitol/EMI Records ( August 20, 1996 ), Genre: Pop Vocal

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