The Capitol Years

Released in 1990 to mark Frankie's 75th birthday, this Grammy-winning 75-track boxed set offers a fitting tribute to Ol' Blue Eyes in the years he was at the peak of his powers. Includes all the key Capitol tracks, plus some outtakes found only on this collection, like a never released Cahn/Van Heusen composition I Couldn't Care Less and the priceless first take of One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) .

Including Sinatra's finest recordings from the most consistently accomplished era of his career, The Capitol Years includes three discs and 75 songs worth of swinging standards and bittersweet saloon pop, the music Sinatra made after his career and personal life had crashed and singing was all he had left. His masterful baritone and remarkable phrasing here work in perfect combination with arrangements that swing and swell to the heartbeat of loves lost and found. It is these performances for which Sinatra will be forever remembered, for surely, no one has ever created music more beautiful than this. --David Cantwell