Frank Sinatra Seduction: Sinatra Sings Of Love (Deluxe 2 CD Edition)

• Prisoner Of Love
• I've Got You Under My Skin
• My Funny Valentine (previously unissued)
• Witchcraft
• All The Way
• It Had To Be You
• Young At Heart
• Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing
• Some Enchanted Evening
• (How Little It Matters) How Little We Know
• I Get A Kick Out Of You
• The Second Time Around
• At Long Last Love
• I Concentrate On You
• Then Suddenly Love
• They Can't Take That Away From Me
• A Fine Romance
• More (Theme From Mondo Cane)
• This Happy Madness (Estrada Branca)
• Teach Me Tonight
• All The Way Home
• That's All
• The Look Of Love
• Secret Love
• I Wish You Love
• I Like To Lead When I Dance
• Misty
• Stay With Me (Main Theme From The Cardinal)
• Talk To Me Baby
• For Once In My Life
• All Of You
• I Had The Craziest Dream

This anthology of late-period Reprise Records Sinatra (meaning 1961 onwards) is available in both a one-disc and deluxe two-disc package. Its main appeal to collectors should be the previously unreleased alternative version of “My Funny Valentine,” available on the standard one-disc edition. The release draws on the period where Sinatra was relying on the orchestrations of a variety of arrangers such as Nelson Riddle, Quincy Jones and Don Costa (that’s Nikka Costa’s dad to you). Some of the albums this set draws from include “Sinatra and Strings,” “Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim,” and “Sinatra & Company.” Not bad for casual listening, or seduction, if that’s your thing. But Sinatra was more convincing doing saloon songs in his later years (as on the brilliant, underrated “She Shot Me Down”) and was at his most seductive during his more innocent Columbia days in the 1940s, long before most of these tracks were cut.

Abstract by Tony Sclafani