Frank Sinatra / London box set
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.
- • UK Pre-order: Live In London Box
- • USA Pre-order: Sinatra: London (3CD/1DVD Box Set)
- • CANADA Pre-order: Sinatra: London Boxed Set (3 CD + DVD)
- • GERMANY Pre-order: Live in London (Ltd 3cd+Dvd Boxset)
- • FRANCE Pre-order: London (3CD+DVD – Tirage Limité) *Good price
- • ITALY Pre-order: Live In London Box
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
- • UK Pre-order: Live In London Box
- • USA Pre-order: Sinatra: London (3CD/1DVD Box Set)
- • CANADA Pre-order: Sinatra: London Boxed Set (3 CD + DVD)
- • GERMANY Pre-order: Live in London (Ltd 3cd+Dvd Boxset)
- • FRANCE Pre-order: London (3CD+DVD – Tirage Limité)
- • ITALY Pre-order: Live In London Box
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This set is a companion to the Vegas and New York boxed sets released a few years ago.