1. I've Got You Under My Skin
C. Porter (Chappell & Co. ASCAP)
January 26 - February 1, 1966 Las Vegas
Arranger: Nelson Riddle
Count Basie And His Orchestra

2. The Shadow Of Your Smile
J. Mandel, P.F. Webster (Miller Music Corp. ASCAP)
January 26 - February 1, 1966 Las Vegas
Arranger: Quincy Jones
Count Basie and His Orchestra

3. Street Of Dreams
V. Young, S. Lewis (Miller Music Corp. ASCAP)
January 26 - February 1, 1966 Las Vegas
Arranger: Quincy Jones
Count Basie And His Orchestra

4. You Make Me Feel So Young
M. Gordon, J. Myrow (WB Music Corp. ASCAP)
January 26 - February 1, 1966 Las Vegas
Arranger: Quincy Jones
Count Basie And His Orchestra

Finally a live album! Obviously, you're going to get Sinatra standards like "I've Got You Under My Skin" and "You Make Me Feel So Young." But how nice,"The Shadow Of Your Smile," never before recorded, and slowly, patiently performed, without strings. There is no studio record of Sinatra singing "The Shadow Of Your Smile." This is it.

5. Strangers In The Night
B. Kaempfert, C. Singleton, E. Snyder (Champion Music Corp./Roosevelt Music Co., Inc. BMI)
April 11, 1966 Los Angeles
Arranger: Ernie Freeman

6. Summer Wind
H. Mayer, J. Mercer (Warner Bros. Inc. ASCAP)
May 16,1966 Los Angeles
Arranger: Nelson Riddle

7. All Or Nothing At All
A. Altman, J. Lawrence (Leeds Music Co. ASCAP)
May 16, 1966 Los Angeles
Arranger: Nelson Riddle

You never know what will catch on overnight. "Strangers In The Night" did the job, reaching Number1 on the Billboard Pop charts and forcing an album to be built around it. Nelson Riddle was hired for the occasion, though he hadn't written the arrangement for the title tune. The whole affair was hastily drawn and recorded, though Nelson came through under pressure, finishing one chart at an actual session. All the more remarkable considering he was, for the first time, using an organ, a jazz organ. This inclusion modernized Sinatra as he hadn't been for ten years – then, as now, by Nelson Riddle.

8. That's Life
D. Kay, K. Gordon (Four Star TV Music Co. Inc. BMI)
October 18, 1966 Los Angeles
Arranger: Ernie Freeman

"That's Life" was a bold departure: rock in' soul for the highball generation. With its bluesy organ intra, wonderfully brawny drumming, percussive horns, stop-time spotlight for the singer and that saucy female providing urgent "DOO-duh"s, "That's Life" was Frank's funkiest single. Over a tough Ernie Freeman arrangement, Sinatra belts, growls and stomps his way through this paean to perseverance, and is clearly having himself a helluva good time. "That's Life" made it to Number 4 on the pop chart, and was subsequently covered by two icons of soul music, James Brown and Aretha Franklin.

9. I Concentrate On You
C. Porter (Chappell & Co. ASCAP)
January 30, 1967 Los Angeles
Arranger: Claus Ogerman

10. Dindi
R. Gilbert, A. C. Jobim, A. De Oliveira (Ipanema Music Corp. ASCAP)
January 30, 1967 Los Angeles
Arranger: Claus Ogerman

11. Once I Loved
A. C. Jobim, R. Gilbert, V. DeMoraes (Ipanema Music Corp. ASCAP)
February 1, 1967 Los Angeles
Arranger: Claus Ogerman

12. How Insensitive
A. C. Jobim, N. Gimbel, V. De Moraes (Duchess Music Corp. BMI)
February 1, 1967 Los Angeles
Arranger: Claus Ogerman

The gifted Brazilian composer, Antonio Carlos Jobim, surfaces for what many people feel is the most beautiful album in the whole wide world. After the successes of the Jobim-Stan Getz-Joao and Astrud Gilberta collaborations, Sinatra addressed bossa nova: soft, reflective, brand new, balancing the muscle of 'That's Life" (that was still in the air) with sensitivity and grace. Included here: "Dindi," Once I Loved" and "How Insensitive," as well as Cole Porter's great '"I Concentrate On You" (Sinatra's third recording of the song).

13. Drinking Again
J. Mercer, D. Tauber (Warner Bros. Inc. ASCAP)
February 1, 1967 Los Angeles
Arranger: Claus Ogerman

... and thinking of when you loved me/I'm havin' a few, and wishing that you were here."

The song had been out there, an unrecognized jewel of a cabaret-saloon song, and there were those who knew that it was just a matter of time. The time came on February 1st, 1967.

©1962 Warner Bros. Inc. ASCAP. Lyrics reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

14. Something Stupid (with Nancy Sinatra)
C. Carson Parks (Greenwood Music BMI)
February 1, 1967 Los Angeles
Arranger: Billy Strange

I would have bet against it. Yet, it was a Number 1 single. For four straight weeks.

15. All I Need Is The Girl
S. Sondheim, J. Styne (Stratford and Williamson ASCAP)
December 11, 1967 Los Angeles
Arranger: Billy May
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra

16. Indian Summer
V. Herbert, A. Dubin (Warner Bros. Inc. ASCAP)
December 11, 1967 Los Angeles
Arranger: Billy May
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra

Sinatra and Duke Ellington, an album. It didn't work out as well as the Basie collaboration, lacking the Basie spontaneity and spirit. And yet "Indian Summer" (Nelson Riddle's favorite song) is as good a vocal as Sinatra has ever rendered. "All I Need Is The Girl": "He sounds so happy," thinks Nancy Sinatra, of her father's ebullient performance of one of the terrific songs from Gypsy.

17. My Way
P. Anka, C. Francois, J. Revaux, G. Thibault (Spank Music Corp./Don C. Publications, Inc. ASCAP)
December 30, 1968 Los Angeles
Arranger: Don Costa

Few Sinatra fans realize that in 1967 "My Way" began its audacious life as a modest French song called "Camme d'Habitude" ("As Usual"). Two years later Paul Anka wrote the now famous English lyric, which Sinatra transformed into his give-no-quarter-and-take-none anthem. Though "My Way" only reached Number 27 on the American pop charts it remained in the British Top 50 for a then-record 122 weeks.

18. Wave
A.C. Jobim (Corcovado Music Corp. BMI)
February 11, 1969 Los Angeles
Arranger: Eumir Deodato

Please, another Jobim album, Frank! Letters rolled in, telegrams arrived, articles were published.

Please, Frank!

And so it was done, but withheld during Sinatra's retirement, and finally put out as one side of an album called Sinatra & Company. It didn't have quite the tenderness of the first Jobim-Sinatra; it was, after all, a sequel. But a welcome gift it was.

19. A Man Alone
R. McKuen (Edition Chanson Music ASCAP)
March 20, 1969 Los Angeles
Arranger: Don Costa

Rod McKuen, who set back serious poetry for a bit by shrewdly marketing himself as a world-weary man of letters, turned a pretty dime for his publisher, Bennett Cerf, a Sinatra buddy. It was Cerfs idea to get the two together. The result: the album, A Man Alone, a surprisingly effective collaboration held firm and steady by Don Costa's empathic but not overly sentimental arrangements.

20. Forget To Remember
T. Randazzo, V. Pike (Aldor Music BMI)
August 18, 1969 Los Angeles
Arranger: Don Costa

A lost work of art, a marvelous Sinatra record of a haunting, rangy torch song, never before released in the United States on anything but a 45 (keep in mind, as you listen to Sinatra's amazing control under melodic pressure, that on one occasion he sang "Forget To Remember" on his television special Sinatra '69 every bit as fluently as he does on disc).