[Marty]

EMI International/Music For Pleasure : catalogue No: 519752

For original release date, catalogue number and cover art see Bob's post below.

Interesting budget priced single disc sampler compilation from Capitol parent EMI featuring many Capitol tracks related to movies. Helpful in introducing newcomers to many non album tracks without the outlay for a larger collection.

Track listing:

From Here to Eternity
Three Coins in the Fountain
Young at Heart
Just One of Those Things
Someone to Watch over Me
Not as a Stranger
(Love Is) The Tender Trap
Wait for Me (Johnny Concho Theme)
All the Way (From The Joker Is Wild)
Chicago (From the Joker Is Wild)
Monique (From King's Go Forth)
They Came to Cordura
To Love and Be Loved (From Some Came Running)
High Hopes (From a Hole in the Head)
All My Tomorrows (From a Hole in the Head)
It's All Right With Me (From Can Can)
C'est Magnifique (From Can Can)
Dream (From Carnal Knowledge)

[Marty]

created by Bob, for an out of print Capitol US collection with slightly different tracks on the same theme here

Sinatra At The Movies

This compilation CD has an interesting history. It was actually first released, with this different cover, back in 1989. The original catalog number on the UK EMI/Music For Pleasure label was CD-MFP 6052.

[ Before that, the album first appeared as an LP (Capitol/EMI CAPS 1038), with a particularly unattractive cover image. (See here and Martin's note below.) ]

At the time of issue—before Capitol released the Collector's Series (1989), The Capitol Years 3-CD set (1990), and The Complete Capitol Singles Collection 4-CD set (1996)—most of these tracks were unavailable in the USA on Compact Disc. I recall being overjoyed to find this gem in a bargain rack at Tower Records.

Note that the first 10 tracks (through "Chicago") are mono, while the last 8 tracks (from "Monique") are stereo.

See also a similar US release which was not issued until 1993: Frank Sinatra At The Movies.

[Marty]

can also be found as part of an EMI/Music For Pleasure 3 disc release with box/slip case, that also includes another compilation "20 Classic Tracks" (a UK CD also from '98, previously released on an MFP LP back in the 70s under another title I think, which contains selections culled from "Come Fly With Me" & "Come Dance With Me") as well as "Songs For Young Lovers/Swing Easy"

an absolute bargain sampler for new Sinatra fans, it's around a tenner in British highstreet record stores, an excellent introduction to Capitol material.

20 Classic Tracks listing below

Songs For Young Lovers/Swing Easy Discussion Thread CLICK HERE

[Marty]

EMI Gold/Music For Pleasure

Original CD artwork from original 1991 issue

track listing

1. Come Fly With Me
2. Around the World
3. French Foreign Legion
4. Moonlight in Vermont
5. Autumn in New York
6. Let's Get Away from It All
7. April in Paris
8. Brazil
9. London by Night
10. It's Nice to Go Trav'ling
11. Come Dance With Me
12. Something's Gotta Give
13. Just in Time
14. Dancing in the Dark
15. Too Close for Comfort
16. I Could Have Danced All Night
17. Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week)
18. Cheek to Cheek
19. Baubles, Bangles and Beads
20. Day In - Day Out

alternate re-issue sleeve for 1998 CD

collected as part of the above as well as available seperately.

[MMM]

Originally posted by Marty
EMI International/Music For Pleasure : catalogue No: 519752

For original release date, catalogue number and cover art see Bob's post below.

Interesting budget priced single disc sampler compilation from Capitol parent EMI featuring many Capitol tracks related to movies. Helpful in introducing newcomers to many non album tracks without the outlay for a larger collection.

Track listing:

From Here to Eternity
Three Coins in the Fountain
Young at Heart
Just One of Those Things
Someone to Watch over Me
Not as a Stranger
(Love Is) The Tender Trap
Wait for Me (Johnny Concho Theme)
All the Way (From The Joker Is Wild)
Chicago (From the Joker Is Wild)
Monique (From King's Go Forth)
They Came to Cordura
To Love and Be Loved (From Some Came Running)
High Hopes (From a Hole in the Head)
All My Tomorrows (From a Hole in the Head)
It's All Right With Me (From Can Can)
C'est Magnifique (From Can Can)
Dream (From Carnal Knowledge)

This was also released as a single LP in 1980 in the UK, but as a release on Capitol/EMI - CAPS 1038. A few too many songs for a single LP, even in mono. The LP had a different cover - a cartoonish "painting" of Frank, mocking up the pose from the Academy Award Winners album, but with an Oscar statue added above Frank's hands, and a blue draped background. Not the most attractive cover, at least the way it was executed on the CAPS 1038 issue LP. I don't have a scanner so I can post a scan of the cover - sorry!

[mlutthans]

I bought the "20 Classic Tracks" on an LP - I think it ran over an hour, and sounded pretty poor! I've attached a photo. This would have been 1986-1988, based on where I lived when I remember buying it.

Matt

track listing

(Side 1) 1. Come Fly With Me
2. Around the World
3. French Foreign Legion
4. Moonlight in Vermont
5. Autumn in New York
6. Let's Get Away from It All
7. April in Paris
8. Brazil
9. London by Night
10. It's Nice to Go Trav'ling
(Side 2) 11. Come Dance With Me
12. Something's Gotta Give
13. Just in Time
14. Dancing in the Dark
15. Too Close for Comfort
16. I Could Have Danced All Night
17. Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week)
18. Cheek to Cheek
19. Baubles, Bangles and Beads
20. Day In - Day Out

[Nick in Toronto]

Marty, I still have bad dreams about that cover! I'm glad you didn't post it, and I hope mine remains hidden too.

Capitol, it would seem, could screw anything up after FS left.