Portrait of Sinatra - Forty Songs from the Life of a Man | ||||
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Released | 1977 | |||
Recorded | 1961-1977 | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Label | Reprise K 64039 | |||
Frank Sinatra chronology | ||||
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Portrait of Sinatra – Forty Songs from the Life of a Man is a 1977 compilation (Gatefold) album by American singer Frank Sinatra that consists of 40 songs that were recorded for Reprise Records. It spent a total of eighteen non-consecutive weeks in the UK Albums Chart, reaching number-one for two weeks on 2 April 1977. It became Sinatra's fourth album to top the British charts, his first since 1957's A Swingin' Affair! to claim pole position, and also his most recent chart-topping album in the UK.
The sleeve design was illustrated by English portrait painter Michael Noakes, who won a platinum disc for his work. The artwork on the back cover of the gatefold album shows an outline charcoal drawing of Sinatra's face; one of the inside sleeves shows a partially painted version of that same outline charcoal drawing; the other inside sleeve lists the album's tracks and several tributes to Sinatra from artists such as Frankie Valli, Hoagy Carmichael; Bing Crosby, Nelson Riddle, Count Basie and Antonio Carlos Jobim; and the front cover itself shows the fully completed portrait of Sinatra's face. The album was not issued in the U.S & has never had an official release on CD in the UK.
Track listing
Disc one
- "Let's Face the Music and Dance"
- "Nancy (With the Laughing Face)" - 2:31
- "I've Got You Under My Skin" - 3:26
- "Let Me Try Again (Laisse Moi Le Temps)" - 3:31
- "Fly Me to the Moon" - 2:29
- "All or Nothing at All" - 3:57
- "For Once in My Life" - 2:50
- "Bonita" - 3:39
- "My Kind of Town" - 3:10
- "Call Me Irresponsible" - 2:56
Disc two
- "All the Way" - 3:26
- "Strangers in the Night" - 2:36
- "Didn't We?"
- "Come Fly with Me" - 3:11
- "The Second Time Around" - 3:03
- "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" - 2:53
- "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"
- "Softly, as I Leave You"
- "Cycles"
- "Send in the Clowns" - 3:39
Disc three
- "That's Life" - 3:07
- "Little Green Apples" - 5:00
- "The Song of the Sabiá"
- "Goody Goody" - 1:47
- "Empty Tables"
- "I Believe I'm Gonna Love You"
- "Stargazer"
- "I Sing the Songs (I Write the Songs)"
- "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" - 2:37
- "It Was a Very Good Year" - 4:25
Disc four
- "Somethin' Stupid" (with Nancy Sinatra) - 2:45
- "Young at Heart" - 2:52
- "You Make Me Feel So Young" - 3:21
- "Yesterday" - 3:56
- "Pennies from Heaven"
- "If"
- "Something" - 3:34
- "Star!"
- "Love's Been Good to Me"
- "My Way" - 4:35
Charts
Certifications and sales
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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United Kingdom (BPI)[4] | Platinum | 300,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
References
- ↑ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 275,276. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
- ↑ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
- ↑ "Top Albums 1977" (PDF). Music Week. 24 December 1977. p. 14. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 March 2021. Retrieved 30 November 2021 – via worldradiohistory.com.
- ↑ "British album certifications – Frank Sinatra – Portrait Of Sinatra". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 30 November 2021.