News 13 Nov 2014

Frank Sinatra / London box set

By Paul Sinclair

A new four-disc box set featuring classic live sets by Frank Sinatra performed in London will be released next month.

Universal Muisc Enterprises have worked with Frank Sinatra Enterprises to create the appropriately titled London which focuses on projects from between 1953 and 1984, bringing to light more than 50 previously unreleased tracks.

The first disc sees Ole Blue Eyes‘ 1962 album Sings Great Songs from Great Britain (uniquely recorded in the capital) remastered and combined with audio from a BBC “Light Programme” radio special from the same year with introductions to each song by Sinatra.

Session outtakes from the Great Britain album along with music recorded nearly a decade earlier for a 1953 live session for BBC Radio’s The Show Band Show, feature on disc two with the third and final CD devoted to a 1984 concert from that legendary London venue The Royal Albert Hall.

The DVD content includes a previously unreleased film of a 1962 concert at the Royal Festival Hall as well as a 1970 concert appearance from the same venue with a never-seen-before performance of A Foggy Day.

This set comes with a 60-page booklet by producer Ken Barnes, who attended the 1962 Great Songs From Great Britain recording sessions, original album liner notes, and newly-written track annotations details about Sinatra’s many visits to the U.K. You will also find two art print reproductions of original London concert posters in this set.

The Frank Sinatra London box is released on 9 December.

Track Listings:

Disc: 1

1. The Very Thought Of You
2. We’ll Gather Lilacs
3. If I Had You
4. Now Is The Hour
5. The Gypsy
6. A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
7. A Garden In The Rain
8. London By Night
9. We’ll Meet Again
10. I’ll Follow My Secret Heart
11. Roses Of Picardy

12. Introduction (BBC Light Programme)
13. Sinatra on ‘A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square’
14. Sinatra on ‘The Gypsy’
15. Sinatra on ‘We’ll Meet Again’
16. Sinatra on ‘A Garden In The Rain’
17. Sinatra on ‘I’ll Follow My Secret Heart’
18. Sinatra on ‘The Very Thought Of You’
19. Sinatra on ‘If I Had You’
20. Sinatra on ‘We’ll Gather Lilacs’
21. Sinatra on ‘Now Is The Hour’
22. Sinatra on ‘London By Night’
23. End Credit

Tracks 1-10 from Great Songs from Great Britain, Reprise FS 1006, 1962. Track 11 included on Great Songs from Great Britain, Reprise CD 45219-2. Tracks 12-23 previously unreleased.

CD 2

1. The Very Thought Of You
2. A Garden In The Rain
3. London By Night
4. The Gypsy
5. A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
6. We’ll Meet Again
7. BBC Show Band Show:I’ve Got The World On A String
8. BBC Show Band Show: Day In, Day Out
9. BBC Show Band Show: London By Night

Tracks 1-6 are previously unreleased outtakes/alternates from Great Songs from Great Britain. Tracks 7-9 are previously unreleased from BBC Show Band Show, transmitted July 16, 1953

CD 3: Live at Royal Albert Hall, September 21, 1984 (conducted by Joe Parnello)

1. Fly Me To The Moon
2. The Lady Is A Tramp
3. Come Rain Or Come Shine
4. This Is All I Ask
5. L.A. Is My Lady
6. Pennies From Heaven
7. Monologue
8. Luck Be A Lady
9. My Way
10. Here’s To The Band
11. These Foolish Things
12. Guess I’ll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
13. Don’t Worry ‘Bout Me
14. New York, New York
15. Strangers In The Night
16. Mack The Knife
17. Bows: You Are There

Disc: 4 (DVD)

Live at Royal Festival Hall, June 1, 1962 (conducted by Bill Miller)

1. Introduction
2. Goody, Goody
3. Imagination
4. At Long Last Love
5. Moonlight In Vermont
6. Without A Song
7. Day In, Day Out
8. The Moon Was Yellow
9. I’ve Got You Under My Skin
10. I Get A Kick Out Of You
11. The Second Time Around
12. Too Marvelous For Words
13. My Funny Valentine
14. In The Still Of The Night
15. My Blue Heaven
16. April In Paris
17. You’re Nobody ‘Til Somebody Loves You
18. Monologue and Band Introductions
19. They Can’t Take That Away From Me
20. All The Way
21. Chicago
22. Night And Day
23. Autumn Leaves
24. I Could Have Danced All Night
25. One For My Baby
26. A Foggy Day
27. The Lady Is A Tramp
28. Bows
29. Ol’ Man River
30. You Make Me Feel So Young
31. Nancy
32. Come Fly With Me
33. Bows

Live at Royal Festival Hall, London, England (November 16, 1970, recorded for ‘Night Of Nights’ on BBC TV and first broadcast on November 22, 1970, conducted by Bill Miller)

34. You Make Me Feel So Young
35. Pennies From Heaven
36. I’ve Got You Under My Skin
37. Something
38. The Lady Is A Tramp
39. I Get Along Without You Very Well
40. Didn’t We?
41. One For My Baby
42. A Foggy Day
43. I Will Drink The Wine
44. I Have Dreamed
45. My Kind Of Town
46. My Way

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