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Capitol Records Concept Albums | 
 enlarge | Creator: Frank Sinatra
Label: Capitol Records
Category: Music
Buy New: $64.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 30473
Format: Box Set
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 14
UPC: 724359889627
EAN: 0724359889627
ASIN: B000BWI70W
Publication Date: 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: Factory Sealed Ships The Same Day
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Just One of Those Things | | • | I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter | | • | Sunday | | • | Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams | | • | Taking a Chance on Love | | • | Jeepers Creepers | | • | Get Happy | | • | All of Me | | • | My Funny Valentine | | • | The Girl Next Door | | • | A Foggy Day | | • | Like Someone in Love | | • | I Get a Kick out of You | | • | Little Girl Blue | | • | They Can't Take That Away from Me | | • | Violets for Your Furs |
Disc 2
| • | In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning - Frank Sinatra, Mann, Dave | | • | Mood Indigo - Frank Sinatra, Ellington, Duke | | • | Glad to Be Unhappy - Frank Sinatra, Rodgers, Richard | | • | I Get Along Without You Very Well - Frank Sinatra, Carmichael, Hoagy | | • | Deep in a Dream - Frank Sinatra, VanHeusen, Jimmy | | • | I See Your Face Before Me - Frank Sinatra, Schwartz, Arthur | | • | Can't We Be Friends - Frank Sinatra, Swift, Kay | | • | When Your Lover Has Gone - Frank Sinatra, Swan, E.A. | | • | What Is This Thing Called Love - Frank Sinatra, Porter, Cole | | • | Last Night When We Were Young - Frank Sinatra, Arlen, Harold | | • | I'll Be Around - Frank Sinatra, Wilder, Alec | | • | Ill Wind - Frank Sinatra, Arlen, Harold | | • | It Never Entered My Mind - Frank Sinatra, Rodgers, Richard | | • | Dancing on the Ceiling - Frank Sinatra, Rodgers, Richard | | • | I'll Never Be the Same - Frank Sinatra, Malneck, Matty | | • | This Love of Mine - Frank Sinatra, Parker, Sol |
Disc 3
| • | You Make Me Feel So Young | | • | It Happened in Monterey | | • | You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me | | • | You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me | | • | Too Marvelous for Words | | • | Old Devil Moon | | • | Pennies from Heaven | | • | Love Is Here to Stay | | • | I've Got You Under My Skin | | • | I Thought About You | | • | We'll Be Together Again | | • | Makin' Whoopee | | • | Swingin' Down the Lane | | • | Anything Goes | | • | How About You? |
Disc 4
| • | Close to You | | • | P.S. I Love You | | • | Love Locked Out | | • | Everything Happens to Me | | • | It's Easy to Remember | | • | Don't Like Goodbyes | | • | With Every Breath I Take | | • | Blame It on My Youth | | • | It Could Happen to You | | • | I've Had My Moments | | • | I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night | | • | The End of a Love Affair |
Disc 5
| • | Night and Day | | • | I Wish I Were in Love Again | | • | I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' | | • | I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan | | • | Nice Work If You Can Get It | | • | Stars Fell on Alabama | | • | No One Ever Tells You | | • | I Won't Dance | | • | The Lonesome Road | | • | At Long Last Love | | • | You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To | | • | I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good | | • | From This Moment On | | • | If I Had You | | • | Oh! Look at Me Now |
Disc 6
| • | Where Are You? | | • | The Night We Called It a Day | | • | I Cover the Waterfront | | • | Maybe You'll Be There | | • | Laura | | • | Lonely Town | | • | Autumn Leaves | | • | I'm a Fool to Want You | | • | I Think of You | | • | Where Is the One | | • | There's No You | | • | Baby Won't You Please Come Home |
Disc 7
| • | Come Fly with Me | | • | Around the World | | • | Isle of Capri | | • | Moonlight in Vermont | | • | Autumn in New York | | • | On the Road to Mandalay | | • | Let's Get Away from It All | | • | April in Paris | | • | London by Night | | • | Brazil | | • | Blue Hawaii | | • | It's Nice to Be Trav'ling |
Disc 8
| • | Only the Lonely | | • | Angel Eyes | | • | What's New? | | • | It's a Lonesome Old Town | | • | Willow Weep for Me | | • | Good-Bye | | • | Blues in the Night | | • | Guess I'll Hang My Tears out to Dry | | • | Ebb Tide | | • | Spring Is Here | | • | Gone with the Wind | | • | One for My Baby |
Disc 9
| • | Come Dance with Me | | • | Something's Gotta Give | | • | Just in Time | | • | Dancing in the Dark | | • | Too Close for Comfort | | • | I Could Have Danced All Night | | • | Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week) | | • | Day in, Day Out | | • | Cheek to Cheek | | • | Baubles, Bangles and Beads | | • | The Song Is You | | • | The Last Dance |
Disc 10
| • | When No One Cares | | • | A Cottage for Sale | | • | Stormy Weather | | • | Where Do You Go? | | • | I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You | | • | Here's That Rainy Day | | • | I Can't Get Started | | • | Why Try to Change Me Now? | | • | Just Friends | | • | I'll Never Smile Again | | • | None But the Lonely Heart |
Disc 11
| • | Nice 'N' Easy | | • | That Old Feeling | | • | How Deep Is the Ocean | | • | I've Got a Crush on You | | • | You Go to My Head | | • | Fools Rush In | | • | Nevertheless | | • | She's Funny That Way | | • | Try a Little Tenderness | | • | Embraceable You | | • | Mam'selle | | • | Dream |
Disc 12
| • | When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles with You) | | • | Blue Moon | | • | S'posin' | | • | It All Depends on You | | • | It's Only a Paper Moon | | • | My Blue Heaven | | • | Should I | | • | September in the Rain | | • | Always | | • | I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me | | • | I Concentrate on You | | • | You Do Something to Me | | • | I've Got the World on a String | | • | Learnin' the Blues | | • | Young at Heart | | • | Love and Marriage | | • | Witchcraft | | • | All the Way | | • | (Love Is) The Tender Trap | | • | Put Your Dreams Away |
Disc 13
| • | Day by Day | | • | Sentimental Journey | | • | Almost Like Being in Love | | • | Five Minutes More | | • | American Beauty Rose | | • | Yes Indeed! | | • | On the Sunny Side of the Street | | • | Don't Take Your Love from Me | | • | That Old Black Magic | | • | Lover | | • | Paper Doll | | • | I've Heard That Song Before |
Disc 14
| • | When the World Was Young | | • | I'll Remember April | | • | September Song | | • | A Million Dreams Ago | | • | I'll See You Again | | • | There Will Never Be Another You | | • | Somewhere Along the Way | | • | It's a Blue World | | • | These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You) | | • | As Time Goes By | | • | I'll Be Seeing You | | • | Memories of You |
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Product Description
For the first time ever, you can own the ultimate music collection from the greatest vocalist in history - Frank Sinatra: The Concept Albums. 14 CDs with 189 songs from the Capitol years, all of them specifically chosen by Sinatra himself and put together to tell the story that he intended. These concept albums represent the most innovative and transforming period in music history, the pinnacle of Frank Sinatra's career. A time that will never be repeated, but can be relived again and again because now, Frank Sinatra: The Concept Albums is available.
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 Capitol is tough to collect January 3, 2008
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
First there was the original "Concepts" box set. Then a few years later they released another remastered (?) version of the same box set. And finally in 2004 they released this. Kind of. It was only available online or something? Also it's odd. Box sets of the "complete" type are typically for collectors. Yet this one appears to be more budget oriented and priced. Stranger still, this version is different from the prior two version because it doesn't include two albums: Tone Poems, and Jolly Christmas. Weird.
But hey, it's more for the mass-market right? Budget priced, smaller package. Well...actually this one is really more collectable...why?
Well, first of all it reproduces all the original LP jackets. Yes! Mini-LPs!! With all the original artwork, front and back -- Beautiful!! There's more -- there's no Concept busting bonus tracks!!! Hey, less is more. Remember these were Frank's concept albums. That means, the whole album was programmed from start to finish by Frank for damn good reasons. Bonus tracks, while nice, kill the concept. The other two versions of "Concepts - the box set" offered the exact same versions of these albums that Joe-Blow-not-the-collector could buy individually at any record store. The exact same ones. And those versions have bonus tracks and plastic jewel cases - Bleck - and big collector prices. They do NOT have the cardboard, mini-LP reproductions...with original artwork! They do not.
So, that's why Capitol records is tough to collect. They're a mess. Other labels appear to have a good grip on their artists' catalog and a solid knowledge of what their clientele want. Capitol appears to be running around like the building is on fire. I guess the MP3-boom gave them a beating...who knows, I really don't know. But much of their catalog gets shoddy treatment.
Anyway, this box set is great. It's affordable and has a collectors' charm. Its super slim packaging makes these 14 quintessential, must own, masterpieces quite handy. Put a copy in your glove compartment. Perhaps one in your purse. Sure, while I would have preferred a more luxurious and crafted package to house these works...hey...it's Capitol. More importantly, everything inside is done right. Well...
As for the mastering job on these albums...who knows. There's no documentation. I'm positive it's the same as the 1998-2002 Entertainer of the Century "Bob Norberg remasters," that appear in the second version of "Concepts" and individually in stores everywhere. But remember, in THIS version of the box set, you get mini-LP sleeves, original artwork, and no intruding bonus tracks!!! - Not available anywhere else but here.
So, they range from 20-bit to 24-bit and from "slightly-improved" to "slightly butchered." But hey, it's Capitol. You can read the reviews of the individual Capitol albums contained herein to learn more about the Norberg releases.
In a nutshell, I don't find the Norberg releases to be very pristine. There's no room, no ambiance, and in many cases the noise reduction so shades the high-end, that strings sound horribly muffled and indistinguishable. In some spots I could mistake a string ensemble for some voices humming. On some albums the hi-hats and brushwork almost disappear. I guess there's some added texture and definition, probably the result of higher bit-rates and compression, but these are not hi-end, or hi-fi remasters at all. Hopefully this set will land in the hands of a Chuck Granata and crew, and get professionally restored and packaged. But hey, it's Capitol, and for now it's all we got and probably the best version of these albums on CD to date.
(NOTE: The very first version of "Concepts," contained the versions prior to 1992, has better mastering then the Norbergs do, but uses older technology to do so...so it sounds a tad thin...but way cleaner. Yeah, fun isn't it? But they too use the same jewel cases, same bonus tracks as the Norbergs - and do NOT have the mini-LP sleeves.)
But these performances are beyond essential, and if you don't already have them all...you're missing things. And for the collectors who do have these albums -- do you have the original LP artwork restored and the no-bonus track - just the facts - versions of these albums yet?
You better get on it.
 Great albums, but pay attention to the tracks... January 12, 2007
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
Unfortunately, the track information for each CD is not included in the Amazon summary, so it makes it hard to research this set. These albums are remastered re-releases of the original albums, which means that they are missing most of the bonus tracks that are on the 2000 box set and the individual releases. It might be that one or two albums had the full set, but most of the albums only had the originals from what I could tell.
This set is also missing the Christmas and orchestral albums that have been included in previous boxes, which may or may not matter to you.
That aside, both the packaging and the sound quality on this set are outstanding. The set is very compact, just a small black box with the fourteen CDs in reproduction sleeves of the original LP sleeves. I don't consider myself an audiophile or anything, but the sound was very clear and had the depth to it that is often missing in modern recordings.
If you're looking for good remasters of the original releases, without any frills or bonus material, then this is a great set for you. If you'd rather have all 16 albums with bonus material, then you might want to think about spending the extra cash for the older release, which is still floating around.
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