The Reprise Collection

(Reprise Records, 1990)
Collection produced by Mo Ostin, Joe McEwan, and James Isaacs
Songs selected by James Isaacs,
Joe McEwan, and Jonathan Schwartz
Recorded between December 19, 1960 and October 30, 1986
81 tracks on 4 discs
total running time: 4 hours, 35 minutes, 3 seconds / Stereo

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Disc 1 (running time: 66.04)

1. Let's Fall in Love
2. You'd Be So Easy to Love
3. The Coffee Song
4. Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart*
5. The Last Dance*
6. The Second Time Around
7. Tina
8. Without A Song
9. It Started All Over Again
10. Love Walked In
11. You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You
12. Don't Take Your Love From Me*
13. Come Rain or Come Shine
14. Night and Day
15. All Alone
16. What'll I Do
17. I Get a Kick Out of You
18. Don'cha Go 'Way Mad
19. A Garden in the Rain*
20. A Nightingale Sang
in Berekeley Square*
21. Please Be Kind

Disc 2 (running time: 69.55)

1. Pennies From Heaven
2. Me and My Shadow
(with Sammy Davis, Jr.)
3. I Have Dreamed
4. America the Beautiful*
5. California*
6. Soliloquy
7. Luck Be a Lady
8. Here's to the Losers
9. The Way You Look Tonight
10. My Kind of Town
11. The Best is Yet to Come
12. Fly Me to the Moon
13. September Song
14. It Was a Very Good Year
15. This is All I Ask
16. I'll Only Miss Her When I Think of Her
17. Love and Marriage
18. Moonlight Serenade
19. I Wished on the Moon
20. Oh, You Crazy Moon

Disc 3 (running time: 66.16)

1. I've Got You Under My Skin
2. The Shadow of Your Smile
3. Street of Dreams
4. You Make Me Feel So Young
5. Strangers in the Night
6. Summer Wind
7. All or Nothing at All
8. That's Life
9. I Concentrate on You
10. Dindi
11. Once I Loved
12. How Insensitive
13. Drinking Again*
14. Somethin' Stupid
15. All I Need is the Girl
16. Indian Summer
17. My Way
18. Wave
19. A Man Alone
20. Forget to Remember
(previously issued on 45 only)

Disc 4 (running time: 72.48)

1. There Used to Be a Ballpark
2. What Are You Doing
the Rest of Your Life?
3. The Lady is a Tramp
4. Just As Though You Were Here*
5. Empty Tables*
6. Send in the Clowns*
7. I Love My Wife
8. Nancy*
9. Emily*
10. Sweet Lorraine*
11. My Shining Hour
12. More Than You Know
13. The Song Is You
14. Theme From New York, New York
15. Something
16. The Gal That Got Away/ It Never
Entered My Mind
17. A Long Night
18. Here's to the Band
(previously issued on 45 only)
19. It's Sunday
(previously issued on 45 only)
20. Mack the Knife

* songs marked with asterisks were not previously released in the U.S. on Reprise albums, collections, or singles (see notes below).

Disc 1, track 4 ("Zing!..."): From the original Ring-A-Ding-Ding sessions.  This was its first appearance, although it later appeared on the 1991 CD re-issue.  The latest CD version of the album mysteriously deletes it again.

Disc 1, track 5 ("The Last Dance"): arrangement by Nelson Riddle of the tune from the Billy May Capitol album Come Dance With Me.  Conductor Felix Slatkin was credited as arranger because Riddle was still under contract to Capitol and couldn't appear on Reprise at the time.

Disc 1, track 12 ("Don't Take Your Love..."): From the Don Costa Sinatra and Strings sessions.

Disc 1, tracks 19 & 20 ("Garden in the Rain" & "Nightingale"): Both from the previously unreleased in the U.S. album, Great Songs From Great Britain (recorded June 12 & 13, 1962).

Disc 2, tracks 4 & 5 ("America" & "California"): Unissued tracks recorded at the second session for The Concert Sinatra, February 20, 1963.

Disc 3, track 13 ("Drinking Again"): Taped after the first Jobim sessions, February 1, 1967, but without Jobim on guitar.

Disc 4, track 3 ("Just as Though..."): From an unreleased session with Gordon Jenkins, September 24, 1974.

Disc 4, tracks 5 and 6 ("Empty Tables" & "Send in the Clowns"): Accompanied by Bill Miller and solo piano, only.   "Clowns" also features a spoken introduction by Sinatra, along the lines of the way he often introduced his "saloon songs" -- "Angel Eyes" and "One For My Baby" -- in concert.  Studio session, February 5, 1976.

Disc 4, tracks 8, 9, 10 ("Nancy," "Emily," "Sweet Lorraine"): Recorded March 9 and 14, 1977, for a never-completed album to have been called Here's to the Ladies, featuring songs with women's names in the title.  Tony Bennett eventually released an album by the same name (with the Ralph Sharon Trio) in 1995, but it was comprised of songs associated with his favorite female vocalists.

More to come...