Nothing but the Best
Greatest hits album by
Frank Sinatra
ReleasedMay 13, 2008
Recorded1962–1984
Genre
Length74:36
LabelReprise
Frank Sinatra chronology
Sinatra at the Movies
(2008) 		Nothing but the Best
(2008) 		Frank Sinatra: The Greatest Concerts
(2008)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

Nothing but the Best is a 2008 compilation album by American singer Frank Sinatra. All the tracks on this album are recordings made when Sinatra was on his own Reprise label, thus the first track, "Come Fly with Me" is not the 1957 Capitol version. Other notable differences are "Strangers in the Night" has an extended fade out and the first cymbal hit is cut from the beginning of the "Theme from New York, New York".

The album was certified Gold by the RIAA on December 9, 2008.[2] It has been present on the Billboard Top 200 for 135 weeks as of August 16, 2012.[3] The album was produced by Charles Pignone, with Robert Finkelstein and Jimmy Edwards serving as executive producers.

This album is presented in 3 versions: standard edition (22 tracks), Christmas edition (22 tracks + 12 Christmas songs) and a DVD edition (22 tracks + 1 DVD concert of the artist, in addition this album is packaged in digipack format).

Track listings

  1. "Come Fly with Me" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 3:14
  2. "The Best Is Yet to Come" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) – 2:56
  3. "The Way You Look Tonight" (Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields) – 3:22
  4. "Luck Be a Lady" (Frank Loesser) – 5:15
  5. "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 3:00
  6. "The Good Life" (Sacha Distel, Jack Reardon) – 2:27
  7. "The Girl from Ipanema" (Antonio Carlos Jobim, Norman Gimbel, Vinícius de Moraes) – 3:14
  8. "Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)" (Bart Howard) – 2:28
  9. "Summer Wind" (Heinz Meier, Hans Bradtke, Johnny Mercer) – 2:55
  10. "Strangers in the Night" (Bert Kaempfert, Charles Singleton, Eddie Snyder) – 2:45
  11. "Call Me Irresponsible" (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 2:56
  12. "Somethin' Stupid" [With Nancy Sinatra] (Carson Parks) – 2:40
  13. "My Kind of Town" (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 3:11
  14. "It Was a Very Good Year" (Ervin Drake) – 4:27
  15. "That's Life" (Kelly Gordon, Dean Kay) – 3:07
  16. "Moonlight Serenade" (Glenn Miller, Mitchell Parish) – 3:28
  17. "Nothing But the Best" (Johnny Rotella) – 3:00
  18. "Drinking Again" (Johnny Mercer, Doris Tauber) – 3:15
  19. "All My Tomorrows" (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 4:35
  20. "My Way" (Paul Anka, Claude François, Jacques Revaux, Gilles Thibault) – 4:36
  21. "Theme from New York, New York" (Fred Ebb, John Kander) – 3:25
  22. "Body and Soul" [Previously unissued] (Frank Eyton, Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour) – 4:20
  23. "The Coffee Song" (Bob Hilliard, Dick Miles) – 2:51 (hidden track)
Christmas edition

This is a limited re-edition of the original 1964 album 12 Songs of Christmas, by Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Fred Waring and The Pennsylvanians.

Disc two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."White Christmas"Irving Berlin 
2."It's Christmas Time Again"Sonny Burke, Jim Harwood, Jack D. Elliot, John M. Elliott, James K. Harwood, Francis Burke 
3."Go Tell it on the Mountain"Traditional, John Wesley Work III 
4."An Old-Fashioned Christmas"Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen 
5."When Angels Sang of Peace"Traditional 
6."The Little Drummer Boy"Katherine K. Bates 
7."I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day"Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Johnny Marks 
8."Do You Hear What I Hear?"Noël Regney, Gloria Shayne Baker 
9."The Secret of Christmas"Cahn, Van Heusen 
10."The Twelve Days of Christmas"Traditional 
11."Christmas Candles"Dean Kay, Vincent O'Dea, Jay Clinton 
12."We Wish You the Merriest"Les Brown 

DVD edition

  1. "Introduction by Princess Grace of Monaco"
  2. "You Make Me Feel So Young"
  3. "Pennies from Heaven"
  4. "I've Got You Under My Skin"
  5. "Something"
  6. "The Lady Is a Tramp"
  7. "I Get Along Without You Very Well"
  8. "Didn't We"
  9. "One for My Baby"
  10. "I Will Drink the Wine"
  11. "I Have Dreamed"
  12. "My Kind of Town"
  13. "My Way"

Charts

Certifications

Certifications for Nothing But the Best
Region Certification Certified units/sales
New Zealand (RMNZ)[25] Gold 7,500^
United Kingdom (BPI)[26] Gold 100,000*
United States (RIAA)[27] Gold 500,000^

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ RIAA Website
  3. ^ Music Albums, Top 200 Albums & Music Album Charts | Billboard.com
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