The Capitol Years
General information
Artist
Release date(s)
November 10, 1998
Recorded
1953 - 1961
Record Label
Track information
Discs
21
- For the 1990 album, see The Capitol Years (1990).
The Capitol Years is a collection of all of Frank Sinatra's works with Capitol Records. The album was only released in the UK, and misses two of Sinatra's albums, however: A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra and Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color.
Track listing[]
Disc one - Songs for Young Lovers (1954)[]
- "The Girl Next Door" (Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane) – 2:39
- "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 1:59
- "Violets for Your Furs" (Tom Adair, Matt Dennis) – 3:07
- "Someone to Watch Over Me" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 2:59
- "My One and Only Love" (Guy Wood, Robert Mellin) – 3:14
- "Little Girl Blue" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 2:54
- "Like Someone in Love" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) – 3:13
- "A Foggy Day (In London Town)" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 2:41
- "It Worries Me" (Fritz Schultz-Reichelt, Carl Sigman) – 2:55
- "I Can Read Between the Lines" (Ramon Getzov, Sid Frank) – 2:50
- "I Get a Kick Out of You" (Cole Porter) – 2:56
- "My Funny Valentine" (Rodgers, Hart) – 2:31
Disc two - Swing Easy! (1954)[]
- "Jeepers Creepers" (Harry Warren, Johnny Mercer) – 2:24
- "Taking a Chance on Love" (Vernon Duke, Ted Fetter, John Latouche) – 2:14
- "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams" (Harry Barris, Ted Koehler, Billy Moll) – 2:17
- "Lean Baby" (Roy Alfred, Billy May) – 2:34
- "I Love You" (Harry Archer, Harlan Thompson) – 2:28
- "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter" (Fred E. Ahlert, Joe Young) – 2:29
- "Get Happy" (Koehler, Harold Arlen)– 2:27
- "All of Me" (Seymour Simons, Gerald Marks) – 2:08
- "How Could You Do a Thing Like That to Me" (Tyree Glenn, Allan Roberts) – 2:44
- "Why Should I Cry over You?" (Chester Conn, Ned Miller) – 2:41
- "Sunday" (Chester Conn, Benny Krueger, Ned Miller, Jule Styne) – 2:31
- "Just One of Those Things" (Porter) – 3:14
Disc three - In the Wee Small Hours (1955)[]
- "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" (Bob Hilliard, David Mann) – 3:02
- "Mood Indigo" (Barney Bigard, Duke Ellington, Irving Mills) – 3:32
- "Glad to Be Unhappy" (Rodgers, Hart) – 2:39
- "I Get Along Without You Very Well" (Except Sometimes)" (Hoagy Carmichael, Jane Brown Thompson) – 3:45
- "Deep in a Dream" (Eddie DeLange, Van Heusen) – 2:51
- "I See Your Face Before Me" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) – 3:27
- "Can't We Be Friends?" (Paul James, Kay Swift) – 2:50
- "When Your Lover Has Gone" (Einar Aaron Swan) – 3:12
- "What Is This Thing Called Love?" (Porter) – 2:36
- "Last Night When We Were Young" (Arlen, Yip Harburg) – 3:18
- "I'll Be Around" (Alec Wilder) – 3:01
- "Ill Wind" (Arlen, Koehler) – 3:48
- "It Never Entered My Mind" (Rodgers, Hart) – 2:43
- "Dancing on the Ceiling" (Rodgers, Hart) – 3:00
- "I'll Never Be the Same" (Gus Kahn, Matty Malneck, Frank Signorelli) – 3:07
- "This Love of Mine" (Sol Parker, Henry W. Sanicola, Jr., Frank Sinatra) – 3:35
Disc four - This Is Sinatra! (1956)[]
- "I've Got the World on a String" (Arlen, Koehler) – 2:14
- "Three Coins in the Fountain" (Styne, Sammy Cahn) – 3:07
- "Love and Marriage" (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 2:41
- "From Here to Eternity" (Freddie Karger, Robert Wells) – 3:01
- "South of the Border" (Jimmy Kennedy, Michael Carr) – 2:52
- "Rain (Falling from the Skies)" (Mellin, Gunther Finlay) – 3:27
- "The Gal That Got Away" (Arlen, I. Gershwin) – 3:12
- "Young at Heart" (Johnny Richards, Carolyn Leigh) – 2:53
- "Learnin' the Blues" (Dolores Silvers) – 3:04
- "My One and Only Love" – 3:15
- "(Love Is) The Tender Trap" (Van Heusen, Cahn) – 3:00
- "Don't Worry 'bout Me" (Rube Bloom, Koehler) - 3:07
Disc five - Songs for Swingin' Lovers! (1956)[]
- "You Make Me Feel So Young" (Josef Myrow, Mack Gordon) – 2:57
- "It Happened in Monterey" (Mabel Wayne, Billy Rose) – 2:37
- "You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me" (Warren, Al Dubin) – 2:19
- "You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me" (Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal, Pierre Norman) – 2:49
- "Too Marvelous for Words" (Richard A. Whiting, Mercer) – 2:32
- "Old Devil Moon" (Burton Lane, Harburg) – 3:57
- "Pennies from Heaven" (Arthur Johnston, Burke)– 2:45
- "Our Love Is Here to Stay" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 2:42
- "I've Got You Under My Skin" (Porter) – 3:45
- "I Thought About You" (Van Heusen, Mercer) – 2:31
- "We'll Be Together Again" (Carl T. Fischer, Frankie Laine) – 4:27
- "Makin' Whoopee" (Walter Donaldson, Kahn) – 3:08
- "Swingin' Down the Lane" (Isham Jones, Kahn) – 2:54
- "Anything Goes" (Porter) – 2:44
- "How About You?" (Burton Lane, Ralph Freed) – 2:45
Disc six - Close to You (1957)[]
- "Close to You" (Al Hoffman, Carl G. Lampl, Jerry Livingston) – 3:40
- "P.S. I Love You" (Gordon Jenkins, Mercer) – 4:24
- "Love Locked Out" (Max Kester, Ray Noble) – 2:45
- "Everything Happens to Me" (Adair, Dennis) – 3:22
- "It's Easy to Remember (And So Hard to Forget)" (Rodgers, Hart) – 3:37
- "Don't Like Goodbyes" (Arlen, Truman Capote) – 4:52
- "With Every Breath I Take" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) – 3:41
- "Blame It on My Youth" (Edward Heyman, Oscar Levant) – 3:00
- "It Could Happen to You" (Burke, Van Heusen) – 3:16
- "I've Had My Moments" (Donaldson, Kahn) – 3:50
- "I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night" (Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh) – 3:28
- "The End of a Love Affair" (Edward Redding) – 4:09
Disc seven - A Swingin' Affair! (1957)[]
- "Night and Day" (Porter) – 4:02
- "I Wish I Were in Love Again" (Rodgers, Hart) – 2:31
- "I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'" (DuBose Heyward, G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 3:13
- "I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan" (Schwartz, Dietz) – 2:26
- "Nice Work if You Can Get It" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 2:24
- "Stars Fell on Alabama" (Frank Perkins, Mitchell Parish) – 2:41
- "No One Ever Tells You" (Hub Atwood, Carroll Coates) – 3:28
- "I Won't Dance" (Jerome Kern, McHugh, Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach, Dorothy Fields) – 3:27
- "The Lonesome Road" (Nathaniel Shilket, Gene Austin) – 3:57
- "At Long Last Love" (Porter) – 2:27
- "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" (Porter) – 2:07
- "I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)" (Ellington, Paul Francis Webster) – 3:25
- "From This Moment On" (Porter) – 3:56
- "If I Had You" (Jimmy Campbell, Reginald Connelly, Ted Shapiro) – 2:39
- "Oh! Look at Me Now" (Joe Bushkin, John DeVries) – 2:50
Disc eight - Where Are You? (1957)[]
- "Where Are You?" (Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh) – 3:30
- "The Night We Called It a Day" (Dennis, Adair) – 3:27
- "I Cover the Waterfront" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman) – 2:59
- "Maybe You'll Be There" (Bloom, Sammy Gallop) – 3:06
- "Laura" (Mercer, David Raksin) – 3:27
- "Lonely Town" (Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden, Adolph Green) – 4:11
- "Autumn Leaves" (Jacques Prévert, Mercer, Joseph Kosma) – 2:51
- "I'm a Fool to Want You" (Sinatra, Jack Wolf, Joel Herron) – 4:50
- "I Think of You" (Jack Elliott, Don Marcotte) – 3:03
- "Where Is the One?" (Wilder, Edwin Finckel)- 3:12
- "There's No You" (Adair, Hal Hopper) - 3:45
- "Baby Won't You Please Come Home" (Charles Warfield, Clarence Williams) - 2:57
Disc nine - Come Fly with Me (1958)[]
- "Come Fly with Me" (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 3:18
- "Around the World" (Victor Young, Adamson) – 3:20
- "Isle of Capri" (Will Grosz, Jimmy Kennedy) – 2:29
- "Moonlight in Vermont" (Karl Suessdorf, John Blackburn) – 3:31
- "Autumn in New York" (Duke) – 4:36
- "On the Road to Mandalay" (Oley Speaks, Rudyard Kipling) – 3:29
- "Let's Get Away from It All" (Dennis, Adair) – 2:10
- "April in Paris" (Duke, Harburg) – 2:50
- "London by Night" (Carroll Coates) – 3:30
- "Brazil" (Ary Barroso, Bob Russell) – 2:55
- "Blue Hawaii" (Rainger, Robin) – 2:43
- "It's Nice to go Trav'ling" (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 3:49
Disc ten - This Is Sinatra Volume 2 (1958)[]
- "Hey! Jealous Lover" (Cahn, Kay Twomey, Bee Walker) – 2:24
- "Everybody Loves Somebody" (Irving Taylor, Ken Lane) – 3:46
- "Something Wonderful Happens in Summer" (Bushkin, Devries) – 3:16
- "Half as Lovely (Twice as True)" (Lew Spence, Gallop) – 3:09
- "You're Cheatin' Yourself (If You're Cheatin' on Me)" (Hoffman, Dick Manning) – 2:38
- "You'll Always Be the One I Love" (Ticker Freeman, Sunny Skylar) – 2:59
- "You Forgot All the Words (While I Still Remember the Tune)" (Bernie Wayne, E.H. Jay) – 3:24
- "(How Little It Matters) How Little We Know" (Phillip Springer, Leigh) – 2:44
- "Time After Time" (Styne, Cahn) - 3:31
- "Crazy Love" (Cahn, Phil Tuminello) - 2:54
- "Wait for Me" (Nelson Riddle, Stanford) - 2:54
- "If You Are But a Dream" (Moe Jaffe, Jack Fulton, Nat Bonx) – 3:58
- "So Long, My Love" (Cahn, Spence) – 2:50
- "It's the Same Old Dream" (Styne, Cahn) – 3:06
- "I Believe" (Styne, Cahn) – 2:33
- "Put Your Dreams Away (For Another Day)" (Paul Mann, George David Weiss, Ruth Lowe) – 3:12
Disc eleven - Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely (1958)[]
- "Only the Lonely" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 4:10
- "Angel Eyes" (Dennis, Earl Brent) - 3:46
- "What's New?" (Bob Haggart, Burke) - 5:13
- "It's a Lonesome Old Town" (Harry Tobias, Charles Kisco) - 4:18
- "Willow Weep for Me" (Ann Ronell) - 4:19
- "Goodbye" (Gordon Jenkins) - 5:45
- "Blues in the Night" (Arlen, Mercer) - 4:44
- "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry" (Cahn, Styne) - 4:00
- "Ebb Tide" (Robert Maxwell, Carl Sigman) - 3:18
- "Spring is Here" (Rodgers, Hart) - 4:47
- "Gone with the Wind" (Allie Wrubel, Herb Magidson) - 5:15
- "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" (Arlen, Mercer) - 4:23
Disc twelve - Come Dance with Me! (1959)[]
- "Come Dance with Me" (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 2:31
- "Something's Gotta Give" (Mercer) – 2:38
- "Just in Time" (Styne, Comden, Green) – 2:24
- "Dancing in the Dark" (Schwartz, Dietz) – 2:26
- "Too Close for Comfort" (Jerry Bock, Larry Holofcener, Weiss) – 2:34
- "I Could Have Danced All Night" (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) – 2:40
- "Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week)" (Cahn, Styne) – 1:54
- "Day In, Day Out" (Bloom, Mercer) – 3:25
- "Cheek to Cheek" (Irving Berlin) – 3:06
- "Baubles, Bangles, & Beads" (Robert Wright, George Forrest) – 2:46
- "The Song Is You" (Kern, Hammerstein) – 2:43
- "The Last Dance" (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 2:11
Disc thirteen - No One Cares (1959)[]
- "When No One Cares" (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 2:42
- "A Cottage for Sale" (Larry Conley, Willard Robison) – 3:16
- "Stormy Weather" (Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 3:20
- "Where Do You Go?" (Arnold Sundgaard, Wilder) – 2:34
- "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You" (Bing Crosby, Ned Washington, Young) – 3:16
- "Here's That Rainy Day" (Burke, Van Heusen) – 3:34
- "I Can't Get Started" (Duke, I. Gershwin) – 4:01
- "Why Try to Change Me Now?" (Cy Coleman, Joseph Allan McCarthy) – 3:41
- "Just Friends" (John Klenner, Sam M. Lewis) – 3:40
- "I'll Never Smile Again" (Lowe) – 3:46
- "None But the Lonely Heart" (Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Bill Westbrook) – 3:41
- "The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)" (Jones, Kahn) – 3:05
Disc fourteen - Look to Your Heart (recorded 1953-5, released 1959)[]
- "Look to Your Heart" (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 3:10
- "Anytime, Anywhere" (Imogen Carpenter, Lenny Adelson) – 2:45
- "Not as a Stranger" (Van Heusen, Buddy Kaye) – 2:47
- "Our Town" (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 3:16
- "You, My Love" (Van Heusen, Gordon) – 2:56
- "Same Old Saturday Night" (Frank Reardon, Cahn) – 2:31
- "Fairy Tale" (Jay Livingston, Stanford) – 2:59
- "The Impatient Years" (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 3:14
- "I Could Have Told You" (Carl Sigman, Van Heusen) – 3:18
- "When I Stop Loving You" (George Cates, Alan Copeland, Mort Greene) – 2:56
- "If I Had Three Wishes" (Claude Baum, Spence) – 2:56
- "I'm Gonna Live Till I Die" (Hoffman, Walter Kent, Mann Curtis) – 1:54
Disc fifteen - Nice 'n' Easy (1960)[]
- "Nice 'n' Easy" (Alan Bergman, Marilyn Keith, Spence) – 2:45
- "That Old Feeling" (Lew Brown, Fain) – 3:33
- "How Deep Is the Ocean?" (Berlin) – 3:15
- "I've Got a Crush on You" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 2:16
- "You Go to My Head" (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) – 4:28
- "Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread)" (Bloom, Mercer) – 3:22
- "Nevertheless (I'm in Love with You)" (Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby) – 3:18
- "(I Got A Woman Crazy For Me) She's Funny That Way" (Neil Moret, Richard A. Whiting) – 3:55
- "Try a Little Tenderness" (Jimmy Campbell, Reginald Connelly, Harry M. Woods) – 3:22
- "Embraceable You" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 3:24
- "Mam'selle" (Gordon, Edmund Goulding) – 2:48
- "Dream" (Mercer) – 2:57
Disc sixteen - Come Swing with Me (1961)[]
- "Day by Day" (Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston, Cahn) – 2:39
- "Sentimental Journey" (Brown, Ben Homer, Bud Green) – 3:26
- "Almost Like Being in Love" (Loewe, Lerner) – 2:02
- "Five Minutes More" (Cahn, Styne) – 2:36
- "American Beauty Rose" (Mack David, Redd Evans, Arthur Altman) – 2:22
- "Yes Indeed!" (Sy Oliver) – 2:35
- "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (McHugh, Fields) – 2:42
- "Don't Take Your Love from Me" (Henry Nemo) – 1:59
- "That Old Black Magic" (Arlen, Mercer) – 4:05
- "Lover" (Rodgers, Hart) – 1:53
- "Paper Doll" (Johnny S. Black) – 2:08
- "I've Heard That Song Before" (Cahn, Styne) – 2:33
Disc seventeen - All the Way (1961)[]
- "All the Way" (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 2:55
- "High Hopes" (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 2:43
- "Talk to Me" (Eddie Snyder, Stanley Kahan, Rudy Vallee) – 3:04
- "French Foreign Legion" (Aaron Schroeder, Guy Wood) – 2:03
- "To Love and Be Loved" (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 3:53
- "River, Stay 'Way From My Door" (Matt Dixon, Harry M. Woods) – 2:39
- "Witchcraft" (Coleman, Leigh) – 2:54
- "It's Over, It's Over, It's Over" (Dennis, Stanford) – 2:42
- "Old McDonald Had a Farm" (Traditional, Bergman, Keith, Spence) – 2:42
- "This Was My Love" (Jim Harbert) – 3:28
- "All My Tomorrows" (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 3:15
- "Sleep Warm" (Bergman, Keith, Spence) – 2:43
Disc eighteen - Sinatra's Swingin' Session!!! (1961)[]
- "When You're Smiling" (Mark Fisher, Joe Goodwin, Larry Shay) – 2:00
- "Blue Moon" (Rodgers, Hart) – 2:51
- "S'Posin" (Paul Denniker, Andy Razaf) – 1:48
- "It All Depends on You" (B.G. DeSylva, Brown, Ray Henderson) – 2:02
- "It's Only a Paper Moon" (Arlen, Harburg, Rose) – 2:19
- "My Blue Heaven" (Donaldson, George A. Whiting) – 2:03
- "Should I?" (Arthur Freed, Nacio Herb Brown) – 1:30
- "September in the Rain" (Warren, Dubin) – 2:58
- "Always" (Berlin) – 2:17
- "I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me" (Clarence Gaskill, McHugh) – 2:25
- "I Concentrate on You" (Porter) – 2:23
- "You Do Something to Me" (Porter) – 1:33
Disc nineteen - Point of No Return (1962)[]
- "(Ah, the Apple Trees) When the World Was Young" (Mercer, M. Philippe-Gerard, Angele Marie T. Vannier) - 3:48
- "I'll Remember April" (Don Raye, Gene de Paul, Patricia Johnston) - 2:50
- "September Song" (Kurt Weill, Maxwell Anderson) - 4:21
- "A Million Dreams Ago" (Lou Quadling, Eddie Howard, Dick Jurgens) - 2:41
- "I'll See You Again" (Noël Coward) - 2:44
- "There Will Never Be Another You" (Gordon, Warren) - 3:09
- "Somewhere Along the Way" (Kurt Adams, Gallop) - 3:01
- "It's a Blue World" (Bob Wright, Chet Forrest) - 2:49
- "These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)" (Jack Strachey, Harry Link, Holt Marvell) - 3:59
- "As Time Goes By" (Herman Hupfeld) - 3:17
- "I'll Be Seeing You" (Fain, Irving Kahal) - 2:47
- "Memories of You" (Eubie Blake, Razaf) - 3:53
Disc twenty - Sinatra Sings of Love and Things (1962)[]
- "The Nearness of You" (Hoagy Carmichael, Washington) - 2:44
- "Hidden Persuasion" (Wainwright Churchill III) - 2:26
- "The Moon Was Yellow (And the Night Was Young)" (Fred E. Ahlert, Edgar Leslie) - 3:02
- "I Love Paris" (Porter) - 1:52
- "Monique" (Cahn, Elmer Bernstein) - 3:18
- "Chicago (That Toddlin' Town)" (Fred Fisher) - 2:12
- "Love Looks So Well On You" (Spence, Keith, Bergman) - 2:41
- "Sentimental Baby" (Spence, Keith, Bergman) - 2:38
- "Mr. Success" (Edwin Grienes, Sinatra, Sanicola) - 2:42
- "They Came to Cordura" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 3:02
- "I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues" (Arlen, Koehler) - 3:00
- "Something Wonderful Happens In Summer" - 3:12
Disc twenty-one - The Rare Sinatra[]
- "Day In, Day Out" – 3:20
- "I'm Walking Behind You" (Billy Reid) – 2:58
- "Don't Make a Beggar of Me" (Al Sherman) – 3:04
- "Ya Better Stop" (Cliff Ferre, Mark McIntyre) – 2:36
- "Take a Chance" (David Raksin, Don Stanford) – 2:40
- "Day In, Day Out" – 3:08
- "Memories of You" (E. Blake, A. Razaf) – 2:54
- "If It's the Last Thing I Do" (Cahn, Saul Chaplin) – 4:00
- "There's a Flaw in My Flue" (Burke, Van Heusen) – 2:41
- "Wait Till You See Her" (Rodgers, Hart) – 3:10
- "Nothing in Common" (Van Heusen, Cahn) – 2:33
- "Same Old Song and Dance" (Van Heusen, Cahn, Bobby Worth) – 2:54
- "How Are Ya' Fixed for Love?" (Van Heusen, Cahn) – 2:28
- "Where or When" (Rodgers, Hart) – 2:29
- "It All Depends on You" – 2:04
- "I Couldn't Care Less" (Van Heusen, Cahn) – 3:02
- "The Song Is You" – 2:57
- "The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)" – 3:06