Nothing but the Best (album)

Nothing but the Best
Greatest hits album by Frank Sinatra
Released May 13, 2008
Recorded 1958–1984
Genre Traditional pop music, Vocal jazz, Swing music, Easy Listening
Length 74:36
Label Reprise
Frank Sinatra chronology

Sinatra at the Movies
(2008)
Nothing But the Best
(2008)
Frank Sinatra: The Greatest Concerts
(2008)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic [1]

Nothing but the Best is a 2008 compilation album by American singer Frank Sinatra. All the tracks on this album are recordings made when Sinatra was on his own Reprise label, thus the first track, "Come Fly with Me" is not the 1957 Capitol version. Other notable differences are "Strangers in the Night" has an extended fade out and the first two cymbal notes are cut from the beginning of the "Theme from New York, New York".

The album was certified Gold by the RIAA on December 9, 2008. [2] As of June 4, 2009, the album has sold 525,478 copies in the US. It has been present on the Billboard Top 200 for 135 weeks as of August 16, 2012 [3] The producer of this album is Charles Pignone and the executive producer is Robert Finkelstein & Jimmy Edwards.

This album is presented in 3 versions: standard edition (22 tracks), Christmas edition (22 tracks + 12 Christmas songs) and a DVD edition (22 tracks + 1 DVD concert of the artist, in addition this album is packaged in Digipack format).

Track listings

  1. "Come Fly with Me" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 3:14
  2. "The Best is Yet to Come" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) - 2:56
  3. "The Way You Look Tonight" (Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields) - 3:22
  4. "Luck Be a Lady" (Frank Loesser) - 5:15
  5. "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 3:00
  6. "The Good Life" (Sacha Distel, Jack Reardon) - 2:27
  7. "The Girl from Ipanema" (Antonio Carlos Jobim, Norman Gimbel, Vinícius de Moraes) - 3:14
  8. "Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)" (Bart Howard) - 2:28
  9. "Summer Wind" (Heinz Meier, Hans Bradtke, Johnny Mercer) - 2:55
  10. "Strangers in the Night" (Bert Kaempfert, Charles Singleton, Eddie Snyder) - 2:45
  11. "Call Me Irresponsible" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 2:56
  12. "Somethin' Stupid" [With Nancy Sinatra] (Carson Parks) - 2:40
  13. "My Kind of Town" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 3:11
  14. "It Was a Very Good Year" (Ervin Drake) - 4:27
  15. "That's Life" (Kelly Gordon, Dean Kay) - 3:07
  16. "Moonlight Serenade" (Glenn Miller, Mitchell Parish) - 3:28
  17. "Nothing But the Best" (Johnny Rotella) - 3:00
  18. "Drinking Again" (Johnny Mercer, Doris Tauber) - 3:15
  19. "All My Tomorrows" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 4:35
  20. "My Way" (Paul Anka, Claude François, Jacques Revaux, Gilles Thibault) - 4:36
  21. "Theme from New York, New York" (Fred Ebb, John Kander) - 3:25
  22. "Body and Soul" [Previously unissued] (Frank Eyton, Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour) - 4:20
  23. "The Coffee Song" - 2:51 [Hidden Track] (Bob Hilliard, Dick Miles)


Christmas Edition

This is a limited re-edition of the original 1964 album 12 Songs of Christmas, by Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Fred Waring and The Pennsylvanians.

DVD edition

  1. "Introduction by Princess Grace of Monaco"
  2. "You Make Me Feel So Young"
  3. "Pennies from Heaven"
  4. "I've Got You Under My Skin"
  5. "Something"
  6. "The Lady Is a Tramp"
  7. "I Get Along Without You Very Well"
  8. "Didn't We"
  9. "One for My Baby"
  10. "I Will Drink the Wine"
  11. "I Have Dreamed"
  12. "My Kind of Town"
  13. "My Way"

Charts

Chart (2008) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[4] 6
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[5] 24
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[6] 59
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[7] 77
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[8] 24
Croatian Foreign Albums (IFPI)[9] 24
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[10] 98
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[11] 14
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[12] 25
Irish Albums (IRMA)[13] 8
Mexican Albums (Top 100 Mexico)[14] 24
New Zealand Albums (Recorded Music NZ)[15] 7
Portuguese Albums (AFP)[16] 5
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[17] 9
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[18] 54
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[19] 21
UK Albums (OCC)[20] 10
US Billboard 200[21] 3

References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. RIAA Website
  3. Music Albums, Top 200 Albums & Music Album Charts | Billboard.com
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  9. "Top Stranih [Top Foreign]" (in Croatian). Top Foreign Albums. Hrvatska Diskografska Udruga. Retrieved March 31, 2013.
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  12. "Longplay-Chartverfolgung at Musicline" (in German). Musicline.de. Phononet GmbH. Retrieved March 31, 2013.
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  18. "Frank Sinatra – Nothing but the Best". Swedishcharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved March 31, 2013.
  19. "Frank Sinatra – Nothing but the Best". Swisscharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved March 31, 2013.
  20. "2008-05-24 Top 40 UK Albums Archive". Official Charts Company. Retrieved March 31, 2013.
  21. "Frank Sinatra Album & Song Chart History" Billboard 200 for Frank Sinatra. Retrieved March 31, 2013.