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A Voice in Time: 1939-1952 | 
 enlarge | Artist: Frank Sinatra
Label: Sony
Category: Music
List Price: $49.98
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 2127
Format: Box Set, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 7 x 6.9 x 1.9
MPN: 709669
UPC: 886970966924
EAN: 0886970966924
ASIN: B000UYT9SK
Release Date: September 25, 2007
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | All Or Nothing At All | | • | From the Bottom Of My Heart | | • | If I Didn't Care | | • | Moon Love | | • | East Of the Sun (And West Of the Moon) | | • | I'll Be Seeing You | | • | Say It | | • | Blue Skies | | • | I'll Never Smile Again | | • | Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear To Tread) | | • | This Love Of Mine | | • | Oh, Look At Me Now! | | • | Just As Though You Were Here | | • | How About You? | | • | Imagination | | • | Frenesi | | • | Blue Moon | | • | Be Careful It's My Heart | | • | Night And Day | | • | The Song Is You |
Disc 2
| • | No Love, No Nothin' | | • | Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night In the Week) | | • | Oh! What It Seemed To Be | | • | You'll Never Know | | • | I've Got a Crush On You | | • | The Brooklyn Bridge | | • | Five Minutes More | | • | (It Seems To Me) I've Heard That Song Before | | • | The Trolley Song | | • | Time After Time | | • | Dream (When You're Feeling Blue) | | • | I Fall In Love Too Easily | | • | (I Got a Woman Crazy For Me) She's Funny That Way | | • | It's Been a Long, Long Time | | • | Dancing In the Dark | | • | Medley: I've Got You Under My Skin/Easy To Love | | • | Nancy (With the Laughing Face) | | • | Lover Come Back To Me | | • | Put Your Dreams Away (For Another Day) | | • | Again |
Disc 3
| • | All Of Me | | • | Sweet Lorraine | | • | Body And Soul | | • | All the Things You Are | | • | Embraceable You | | • | These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You) | | • | Stormy Weather | | • | Begin the Beguine | | • | There Will Never Be Another You | | • | As Time Goes By | | • | The Nearness Of You | | • | Stella By Starlight | | • | I Get a Kick Out Of You | | • | That Old Black Magic | | • | One For My Baby (And One More For the Road) | | • | It Had To Be You | | • | What'll I Do? | | • | Laura | | • | September Song | | • | Ol' Man River |
Disc 4
| • | The Birth Of the Blues | | • | April In Paris | | • | American Beauty Rose | | • | Lover | | • | The Continental | | • | Should I (Reveal) | | • | When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You) | | • | It All Depends On You | | • | Bye Bye Baby | | • | I Could Write a Book | | • | Autumn In New York | | • | If Only She'd Looked My Way | | • | Hello, Young Lovers | | • | We Kiss In a Shadow | | • | My Girl | | • | Love Me | | • | Farewell, Farewell To Love | | • | Walking In the Sunshine | | • | Why Try To Change Me Now | | • | I'm a Fool To Want You |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 10 more reviews...
A Sinatra Treasure August 3, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Some years ago I purchased "Frank Sinatra: The Capital Years." "Frank Sinatra: A Voice in Time (1939-1952)" is the perfect companion to The Capital Years. Covering his recordings on the Bluebird and Colombia labels, the listener hears a Sinatra quite different from the swinging Sinatra of the 50's. This is the balladeer par excellence. Many recordings include the arrangements of Alex Stordahl which fit in so well with Sinatra's smooth delivery.
The Box Set is comprised of 4 discs entitled "The Big Band Years (1939-1942)," "Teen Idol (1943-1952)," "The Great American Songbook (1943-1947)" and "The Sound of Things to Come (1949-1952). Several of his recordings from from the 1940s feature his backup group, the Pied Pipers with Jo Stafford - a nice extra. The set also includes a book loaded with pictures and interesting tidbits on Sinatra's career and individual recordings included in the collection. For Sinatra fans, this is a must purchase.
What the Fuss Was All About July 30, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am a huge Sinatra fan. I have dozens of his CDs and LPs. I have read a number of books about him. To me, he is the greatest American male singer. (Ella Fitzgerald is the greatest American female singer.) I purposely overlooked his early career. To me, his career was his recordings on Capitol and Reprise. I had no interest in his early stuff. Big mistake, and this set of recordings on Columbia proves it. From the first disc, when he is the "boy singer" with the band, it is apparent that he was a force. That man could sing his rear end off! He shifted the attention from the band to himself. The rest of the CDs trace his career from band singer to "rock star" to his ascension to "Chairman of the Board".
The recording quality is excellent. I found out about this set via a review in an audiophile magazine where sound quality is as important as content.
If you want to hear a "portrait of an artist as young man", buy this.
From an Old Blue Eyes fan... April 20, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The book and pictures brought back a lot of memories as I was one of those"bobby soxers" that cut school to go see him in San Francisco. I have listen to to CD's non stop since receiving them..
COLUMBIA'S STUPIDITY MORE OBVIOUS THAN EVER! April 6, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Just having listened to the samples proves to me more than ever that towards the end of his Columbia years, Frank was already the more mature singer he would be at Capital. It's easy to ask 'How could Mitch Miller have been so dumb?' More to the point, how could the bosses at Columbia have been so dumb when they fired Manny Sachs his predecessor and hired Miller away from Mercury? It was because he had such success with Frankie Laine. It was a change in popular taste which had something to do with WWII and a loss of innocence, a sense of dislocation, whatever. Miller's trend-catching gimmicks worked for a while. But if Frank had been allowed to stay at Columbia and record whatever he wanted no matter how it sold, he likely would have come upon the idea of concept concert albums since Columbia pioneered the LP and Sinatra was getting strong reviews for his nightclub act. The question then arises, would he have had the opportunity to work with Nelson Riddle, Billy May and Gordon Jenkins who all worked at Capital?
Remastering March 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This set is the best Sinatra remastering jobs that I have heard. It is fantastic.
The tune selection was obviously done with love by his family. The Dorsey disc was not only outstanding but had solos by Bunny Berigan,Ziggy Elman and Babe Russin to name a few.
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