The Capitol Years (1990 Frank Sinatra album)

The Capitol Years is a 1990 compilation album of the U.S. singer Frank Sinatra.

Released to coincide with Sinatra's 75th birthday, this three-disc set has an abundance of classic Sinatra performances from his career with Capitol Records, which spanned the years 1953 to 1961.

A single disc version called The Best of the Capitol Years was released in 1992.

Disc one

 * 1) "I've Got the World on a String" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 2:10
 * Recorded on April 30, 1953
 * 1) "Lean Baby" (Roy Alfred, Billy May) - 2:33
 * Recorded on April 2, 1953
 * 1) "I Love You" (Harry Archer, Harlan Thompson) - 2:27
 * 2) "South of the Border" (Jimmy Kennedy, Michael Carr) – 2:50
 * Recorded on April 30, 1953
 * 1) "From Here to Eternity" (Freddie Karger, Robert Wells) - 2:59
 * Recorded on May 2, 1953
 * 1) "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 1:57
 * Recorded on November 5, 1953
 * 1) "I Get a Kick Out of You" (Cole Porter) - 2:53
 * Recorded on November 6, 1953
 * 1) "Young at Heart" (Carolyn Leigh, Johnny Richards) - 2:59
 * Recorded on December 9, 1953
 * 1) "Three Coins in the Fountain" (Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn) - 3:04
 * Recorded on March 1, 1954
 * 1) "All of Me" (Gerald Marks, Seymour Simons) - 2:07
 * 2) "Taking a Chance on Love" (Vernon Duke, Ted Fetter, John Latouche) - 2:19
 * Recorded on April 19, 1954
 * 1) "Someone to Watch Over Me" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) - 2:56
 * Recorded on September 23, 1954
 * 1) "What Is This Thing Called Love?" (Porter) - 2:35
 * Recorded on February 16, 1955
 * 1) "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" (Bob Hilliard, David Mann) - 2:59
 * Recorded on February 17, 1954
 * 1) "Learnin' the Blues" (Delores Vicki Silvers) - 3:00
 * Recorded on March 23, 1955
 * 1) "Our Town" (Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 3:15
 * 2) "Love and Marriage" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 2:38
 * Recorded on August 15, 1955
 * 1) "(Love Is) The Tender Trap" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 2:57
 * Recorded on September 13, 1955
 * 1) "Weep They Will" (Bill Carey, Carey Fischer) - 3:16
 * Recorded on October 17, 1955
 * 1) "I Thought About You" (Van Heusen, Johnny Mercer) – 2:30
 * 2) "You Make Me Feel So Young" (Josef Myrow, Mack Gordon) – 2:57
 * 3) "Memories of You" (Andy Razaf, Eubie Blake) - 2:53
 * Recorded on January 9, 1956
 * 1) "I've Got You Under My Skin" (Porter) - 3:43
 * Recorded on January 12, 1956
 * 1) "Too Marvelous for Words" (Mercer, Richard A. Whiting) - 2:27
 * Recorded on January 16, 1956
 * 1) "Don't Like Goodbyes" (Harold Arlen, Truman Capote) - 4:50
 * Recorded on March 8, 1956
 * 1) "(How Little It Matters) How Little We Know" (Leigh, Philip Springer) - 2:39
 * Recorded on April 5, 1956

Disc two

 * 1) "Hey! Jealous Lover" (Sammy Cahn, Kay Twomey, Bee Walker) - 2:21
 * Recorded on April 9, 1956
 * 1) "You're Sensational" (Porter) - 2:16
 * Recorded on April 5, 1956
 * 1) "Close to You" (Al Hoffman, Carl G. Lampl, Jerry Livingston) - 3:56
 * Recorded on November 1, 1956
 * 1) "Stars Fell on Alabama" (Mitchell Parish, Frank Perkins) - 2:35
 * 2) "I Got Plenty Of Nothing" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin, Dubose Heyward) - 3:14
 * Recorded on November 15, 1956
 * 1) "I Wish I Were in Love Again" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 2:28
 * Recorded on November 20, 1956
 * 1) "The Lady Is a Tramp" (Rodgers, Hart) - 3:14
 * 2) "Night and Day" (Porter) - 3:59
 * 3) "The Lonesome Road" (Gene Austin, Nat Shilkret) - 3:53
 * 4) "If I Had You" (Jimmy Campbell, Reginald Connelly, Ted Shapiro) - 2:35
 * Recorded on November 26, 1956
 * 1) "Where Are You?" (Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh) – 3:30
 * 2) "I'm a Fool to Want You" (Frank Sinatra, Jack Wolf, Joel Herron) – 4:51
 * Recorded on May 1, 1957
 * 1) "Witchcraft" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) - 2:52
 * 2) "Something Wonderful Happens in Summer" (Joe Bushkin, John DeVries) - 3:12
 * Recorded on May 20, 1957
 * 1) "All the Way" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 2:52
 * 2) "Chicago (That Toddlin' Town)" (Fred Fisher) - 2:12
 * Recorded on August 13, 1957
 * 1) "Let's Get Away from It All" (Matt Dennis, Tom Adair) – 2:11
 * Recorded on October 1, 1957
 * 1) "Autumn in New York" (Vernon Duke) – 4:37
 * Recorded on October 3, 1957
 * 1) "Come Fly with Me" (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 3:19
 * Recorded on October 8, 1957
 * 1) "Everybody Loves Somebody" (Sam Coslow, Ken Lane, Irving Taylor) - 3:42
 * 2) "It's the Same Old Dream" (Cahn, Styne) - 3:02
 * Recorded on November 25, 1957
 * 1) "Put Your Dreams Away (For Another Day)" (Ruth Lowe, Paul Mann, George David Weiss) - 3:12
 * Recorded on December 11, 1957
 * 1) "Here Goes" (Otto Cesana, Cahn) - 2:42
 * Recorded on March 3, 1958
 * 1) "Angel Eyes" (Earl Brent, Matt Dennis) - 3:44
 * Recorded on May 29, 1957

Disc three

 * 1) "Ebb Tide" (Robert Maxwell, Carl Sigman) - 3:18
 * 2) "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry" (Cahn, Styne) - 3:59
 * 3) "Only the Lonely" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 4:31
 * Recorded on May 29, 1958
 * 1) "One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)" (Arlen, Mercer) - 4:04
 * Recorded on June 26, 1958
 * 1) "To Love and Be Loved" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 2:56
 * 2) "I Couldn't Care Less" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 2:58
 * Recorded on October 15, 1958
 * 1) "The Song Is You" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) - 2:42
 * 2) "Just In Time" (Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Styne) - 2:23
 * Recorded on December 9, 1958
 * 1) "Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week)" (Cahn, Styne) - 1:54
 * Recorded on December 22, 1958
 * 1) "Come Dance With Me" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 2:59
 * Recorded on December 23, 1958
 * 1) "French Foreign Legion" (Aaron Schroeder, Guy Wood) - 2:01
 * Recorded on December 29, 1958
 * 1) "The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) - 3:03
 * 2) "Here's That Rainy Day" (Johnny Burke, Van Heusen) - 4:19
 * Recorded on March 25, 1959
 * 1) "High Hopes" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 2:42
 * Recorded on May 8, 1959
 * 1) "When No One Cares" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 2:42
 * 2) "I'll Never Smile Again" (Ruth Lowe) - 3:43
 * Recorded on May 14, 1959
 * 1) "I've Got a Crush on You" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) - 2:16
 * 2) "Embraceable You" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) - 3:23
 * Recorded on March 3, 1960
 * 1) "Nice 'N' Easy" (Alan Bergman, Marilyn Keith, Lew Spence) - 2:45
 * Recorded on April 13, 1960
 * 1) "I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me" (Clarence Gaskill, McHugh) - 2:25
 * Recorded on August 23, 1960
 * 1) "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (Dorothy Fields, McHugh) - 2:41
 * Recorded on March 20, 1961
 * 1) "I've Heard That Song Before" (Cahn, Styne) - 2:30
 * Recorded on March 21, 1961
 * 1) "Almost Like Being In Love" (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) - 2:02
 * Recorded on March 22, 1960
 * 1) "I'll Be Seeing You" (Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal) - 2:46
 * Recorded on September 11, 1961
 * 1) "I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues" (Arlen, Koehler) - 2:58
 * Recorded on March 6, 1962

Personnel

 * Frank Sinatra – vocals
 * Gordon Jenkins – arranger, conductor
 * Skip Martin – arranger
 * Billy May – arranger, conductor
 * Nelson Riddle – arranger, conductor
 * Felix Slatkin – conductor
 * Axel Stordahl – conductor
 * Heinie Beau – arranger
 * Ron Furmanek – box set compiler and producer