Frank Sinatra – Live In Australia, 1959 (1997/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Frank Sinatra – Live In Australia, 1959 (1997/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:52 minutes | 1,00 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

With the Red Norvo Quintet: Live in Australia, 1959 is a live album by American singer Frank Sinatra, recorded in 1959 but released in 1997.

These tapes were recorded by Max Hull, Venue Audio Engineer, at Festival Hall Melbourne during the two stops on Sinatra’s brief Australian tour of 1959, during which he was backed by the quintet of jazz vibraphonist Red Norvo. It is considered one of the wildest performances he has ever recorded, as he exhibits great freedom in his lyric choice, often switching and twisting entire phrases. For example, just as Sinatra begins “I’ve Got You Under My Skin”, a woman in the audience screams. He responds between lyrics with “Get your hand off that broad!”

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Frank Sinatra – In The Wee Small Hours (1955/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Frank Sinatra – In The Wee Small Hours (1955/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 49:21 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Vocal Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Chesky Records

Recorded in 1955, this superbly arranged and sung set of slow ballads can lay claim to being the world’s first ‘concept album.’ Of course, in classical music, song cycles had been around since Schubert, but a whole set of pop tunes arranged around a central theme or mood was something new in popular music. With the advent of the LP in 1953, commercial pop music was beginning to take itself seriously.

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Frank Sinatra – How’s Your Bird? A Rat Pack Christmas! (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Frank Sinatra – How’s Your Bird? A Rat Pack Christmas! (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 55:26 minutes | 557 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

Francis Albert Sinatra was an American singer, actor and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 150 million records worldwide.

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Frank Sinatra – Come Swing With Me! (1961/2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Frank Sinatra – Come Swing With Me! (1961/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 30:35 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Pop, Easy Listening, Vocal Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Capitol Records

The final album in the trilogy of Frank Sinatra collaborations with conductor and arranger Billy May, this 1961 release follows Come Fly With Me and Come Dance With Me! and served as a showcase for Capitol’s new Full Dimensional Stereo.

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Frank Sinatra – Come Fly With Me (1958/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Frank Sinatra – Come Fly With Me (1958/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 38:29 minutes | 785 MB | Genre: Pop, Easy Listening, Vocal Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Capitol Records

Designed as a musical trip around the world, Come Fly With Me was Frank Sinatra’s first collaboration with arranger/conductor, Billy May. Recorded at Capitol Studios and released in 1958, Come Fly With Me spent five weeks at number one on the charts. It was also Grammy-nominated for Album of the Year. Come Fly With Me was recorded in true stereo but was mixed to mono for its release, a standard practice by Capitol records at the time.

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Frank Sinatra – Come Dance With Me! (1959/2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Frank Sinatra – Come Dance With Me! (1959/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 31:09 minutes | 1,33 GB | Genre: Pop, Easy Listening, Vocal Jazz
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Come Dance with Me! is an album by American vocalist Frank Sinatra, released in 1959. Come Dance with Me! was Sinatra’s most successful album, spending two and a half years on the Billboard charts. Stereo Review wrote in 1959 that “Sinatra swaggers his way with effortless verve through an appealing collection of bouncy standards, aptly described in the album notes as “vocals that dance”.” At the Grammy Awards of 1960, Come Dance with Me! won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, as well as Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Male. Billy May won the Grammy Award for Best Arrangement. Come Dance With Me stayed on Billboard’s Pop album chart for 140 weeks, peaking at #2.

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Frank Sinatra – Close To You (Remastered) (1957/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Frank Sinatra – Close To You (Remastered) (1957/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:30 minutes | 358 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Capitol Records

Close to You is the eleventh studio album by American musician Frank Sinatra, accompanied by the Hollywood String Quartet.

The album was recorded over a period of eight months and five different sessions, and was arranged by Nelson Riddle.

Nelson Riddle commented that the structure of popular songs does not lend itself to arranging in the true string quartet style of the classics and felt that he hadn’t really achieved as much as he had hoped. However, when the album was released it received critical praise and as Riddle remarked, “Sinatra liked it!”

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Frank Sinatra – Christmas Dreaming (1957/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Frank Sinatra – Christmas Dreaming (1957/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 29:27 minutes | 269 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

Christmas Songs by Sinatra is the name of the third studio album by the American singer Frank Sinatra. It was released in 1948 as a 78 rpm album set and a 10″ LP record (CL 6019) featuring a collection of 8 holiday songs. A compilation album was released in 1994 including the songs released on the 1948 album (three original takes; five previously unreleased alternate takes) along with Christmas songs from his years recording at Columbia.

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Frank Sinatra – Christmas (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Frank Sinatra – Christmas (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 29:40 minutes | 322 MB | Genre: Christmas, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Frank Sinatra

Christmas Songs by Sinatra is the name of the third studio album by the American singer Frank Sinatra. It was released in 1948 as a 78 rpm album set and a 10″ LP record (CL 6019) featuring a collection of 8 holiday songs. A compilation album was released in 1994 including the songs released on the 1948 album (three original takes; five previously unreleased alternate takes) along with Christmas songs from his years recording at Columbia.

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Frank Sinatra – A Jolly Christmas From Frank Sinatra (1957/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Frank Sinatra – A Jolly Christmas From Frank Sinatra (1957/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 32:07 minutes | 345 MB | Genre: Christmas, Pop, Easy Listening, Vocal Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Capitol Records

Released in 1957 on Capitol, A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra is Frank’s first-ever, full-length Christmas album. It features the Ralph Brewster Singers along with an orchestra conducted by Gordon Jenkins and includes the holiday favorite “Mistletoe and Holly,” co-written by Sinatra himself.

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Frank Sinatra – This Is Sinatra Volume Two (1958/2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Frank Sinatra – This Is Sinatra Volume Two (1958/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 48:31 minutes | 417 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

Another collection of Sinatra singles and B-sides with backings courtesy of Nelson Riddle, this isn’t an essential collection, but it is an interesting one, showcasing the different standards Sinatra had for singles and albums. The leadoff track, “Hey! Jealous Lover,” was one of Sinatra’s biggest hits of the 1950s. The singer hated it himself and he was right; it may have initially sold a bundle, but it was quickly forgotten while such mid-charting singles as “Witchcraft” and “I’ve Got the World on a String” are still widely heard and enjoyed today. This collection is long out of print, but all of the tracks appear on the Complete Capitol Singles Collection, a superb box set. ~ Nick Dedina
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Frank Sinatra – This Is Sinatra! (1956/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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Frank Sinatra – This Is Sinatra! (1956/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 35:02 minutes | 762 MB | Genre: Vocal Jazz , Pop
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This Is Sinatra! is a compilation album by Frank Sinatra, released in 1956.

This is the first collection of Sinatra’s singles and B-sides with Nelson Riddle. This album is now available on CD (Bluemoon CD 803) All of the tracks also appear on the box set The Complete Capitol Singles Collection and various Capitol reissues. A second collection, entitled This Is Sinatra Volume 2, was released in 1958.

Both albums were part of Capitol’s This Is series. The albums highlighted past hits by artists like Sinatra, June Christy, Dean Martin and Nat “King” Cole as well as newly released (and hopefully hit-making) singles.
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Frank Sinatra – Sinatra Sings Great Songs From Great Britain (1962/2014/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Frank Sinatra – Sinatra Sings Great Songs From Great Britain (1962/2014/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:16 minutes | 742 MB | Genre: Vocal Jazz, Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © FRANK SINATRA DIGITAL REPRISE

Sinatra Sings Great Songs from Great Britain is one of the oddest albums in Sinatra’s catalog. Recorded in the summer of 1962 and available only in the U.K. for a number of years, the album consists of songs by British composers, performed with British musicians, and recorded in Britain, while Sinatra was on tour. As it happened, Sinatra was tired and worn out during the sessions, and arranger/conductor Robert Farnon had written a set of charts that were ambitious, lush, ornate, and sweeping. Although the arrangements are provocative — occasionally they are more interesting than the actual songs — Sinatra was simply not in good shape for the sessions, which is clear from his thin, straining singing. As such, Great Songs from Great Britain isn’t much more than a curiosity. – Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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Frank Sinatra – Sinatra And Swingin’ Brass (1962/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Frank Sinatra – Sinatra And Swingin’ Brass (1962/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 30:01 minutes | 655 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © FRANK SINATRA DIGITAL REPRISE

Frank Sinatra’s debut recording with arranger and composer Neal Hefti, this album is mainly comprised of re-recordings of songs Sinatra had released earlier in his career with a different record label. All the great songwriters are represented here: Porter, Gershwin, Ellington and Mercer, while Sinatra himself is in fine vocal form. Among the musicians backing Sinatra are Ben Webster on tenor saxophone and Conte Candoli on trumpet.
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Frank Sinatra – Close To You (Remastered) (1957/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 43:33 minutes | 1,03 GB | Genre: Jazz, Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © CAPITOL CATALOG MKT (C92)

An ambitious album from Frank Sinatra that took eight months to record over five different recording sessions in 1956 and was finally released in 1957. Sinatra is backed up by the Hollywood String Quartet, arranged and conducted by longtime Sinatra associate Nelson Riddle. With more intimate arrangements than his swinging sessions, the material puts the spotlight more than ever on Sinatra’s voice. This album is included in the Capitol Records Entertainer Of The Century series.
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