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.

Track listing

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

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

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

Charts + Chart performance for The Capitol Years Chart (1991) Peakposition Australian Albums (ARIA) 79

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