Concepts (album)


Concepts is a 1992 sixteen-disc box set compilation of the U.S. singer Frank Sinatra.
This sixteen CD set was the first major compilation from an entire era of Sinatra's career. This particular set contains every studio album from years with Capitol Records. It also includes the instrumental album Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color, which was new to compact disc with this set. However, it does not include any singles compilations or soundtracks Sinatra released on the label.

Track listing

Disc one: ''[Songs For Young Lovers]'' (1954) & ''[Swing Easy!]'' (August 2, 1954)

  1. "My Funny Valentine" – 2:31
  2. "The Girl Next Door" – 2:39
  3. "A Foggy Day" – 2:41
  4. "Like Someone in Love" – 3:13
  5. "I Get a Kick Out of You" – 2:56
  6. "Little Girl Blue" – 2:54
  7. "They Can't Take That Away from Me" – 1:59
  8. "Violets for Your Furs" – 3:07
  9. "Just One of Those Things" – 3:14
  10. "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter" – 2:29
  11. "Sunday" – 2:31
  12. "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams" – 2:17
  13. "Taking a Chance on Love" – 2:14
  14. "Jeepers Creepers" – 2:24
  15. "Get Happy" – 2:27
  16. "All of Me" – 2:08

    Disc two: ''[In The Wee Small Hours]'' (April 25, 1955)

  17. "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" – 3:02
  18. "Mood Indigo" – 3:32
  19. "Glad to Be Unhappy" – 2:39
  20. "I Get Along Without You Very Well " – 3:45
  21. "Deep in a Dream" – 2:51
  22. "I See Your Face Before Me" – 3:27
  23. "Can't We Be Friends?" – 2:50
  24. "When Your Lover Has Gone" – 3:12
  25. "What Is This Thing Called Love?" – 2:36
  26. "Last Night When We Were Young" – 3:18
  27. "I'll Be Around" – 3:01
  28. "Ill Wind" – 3:48
  29. "It Never Entered My Mind" – 2:43
  30. "Dancing on the Ceiling" – 3:00
  31. "I'll Never Be The Same" – 3:07
  32. "This Love of Mine" – 3:35

    Disc three: ''Songs For Swingin' Lovers!">Songs For Swingin' Lovers! (Frank Sinatra album)">Songs For Swingin' Lovers!'' (March 5, 1956)

  33. "You Make Me Feel So Young" – 2:57
  34. "It Happened in Monterey" – 2:37
  35. "You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me" – 2:19
  36. "You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me" – 2:49
  37. "Too Marvelous for Words" – 2:32
  38. "Old Devil Moon" – 3:57
  39. "Pennies from Heaven" – 2:45
  40. "Our Love Is Here to Stay" – 2:42
  41. "I've Got You Under My Skin" – 3:45
  42. "I Thought About You" – 2:31
  43. "We'll Be Together Again" – 4:27
  44. "Makin' Whoopee" – 3:08
  45. "Swingin' Down the Lane" – 2:54
  46. "Anything Goes" – 2:44
  47. "How About You?" – 2:45

    Disc four: ''[Frank Sinatra Conducts The Tone Poems of Color]'' (1956)

  48. "White" – 4:14
  49. "Green" – 4:05
  50. "Purple" – 4:21
  51. "Yellow" – 2:38
  52. "Gray" – 4:29
  53. "Gold" – 3:36
  54. "Orange" – 4:57
  55. "Black" – 3:58
  56. "Silver" – 4:38
  57. "Blue" – 4:38
  58. "Brown" – 4:01
  59. "Red" – 3:57

    Disc five: ''Close To You">Close To You (Frank Sinatra album)">Close To You'' (1957)

  60. "Close to You" – 3:40
  61. "P.S. I Love You" – 4:24
  62. "Love Locked Out" – 2:45
  63. "Everything Happens to me" – 3:22
  64. "It's Easy to Remember " – 3:37
  65. "Don't Like Goodbyes" – 4:52
  66. "With Every Breath I Take" – 3:41
  67. "Blame It on My Youth" – 3:00
  68. "It Could Happen to You" – 3:16
  69. "I've Had My Moments" – 3:50
  70. "I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night" – 3:28
  71. "The End of a Love Affair" – 4:09
  72. "If It's the Last Thing I Do" – 4:00
  73. "There's a Flaw in My Flue" – 2:41
  74. "Wait Till You See Her" – 3:10

    Disc six: ''[A Swingin' Affair!]'' (May 6, 1957)

  75. "Night and Day" – 4:02
  76. "I Wish I Were in Love Again" – 2:31
  77. "I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'" – 3:13
  78. "I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan" – 2:26
  79. "Nice Work if You Can Get It" – 2:24
  80. "Stars Fell on Alabama" – 2:41
  81. "No One Ever Tells You" – 3:28
  82. "I Won't Dance" – 3:27
  83. "The Lonesome Road" – 3:57
  84. "At Long Last Love" – 2:27
  85. "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" – 2:07
  86. "I Got It Bad " – 3:25
  87. "From This Moment On" – 3:56
  88. "If I Had You" – 2:39
  89. "Oh! Look at Me Now" – 2:50
  90. "The Lady Is a Tramp" - 3:16

    Disc seven: ''[A Jolly Christmas From Frank Sinatra]'' (September 21, 1957)

  91. "Jingle Bells" – 2:00
  92. "The Christmas Song" – 3:28
  93. "Mistletoe and Holly" – 2:18
  94. "I'll Be Home for Christmas" – 3:11
  95. "The Christmas Waltz" – 3:03
  96. "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" – 3:29
  97. "The First Nowell" – 2:44
  98. "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" – 2:24
  99. "O Little Town of Bethlehem" – 2:06
  100. "Adeste Fideles" – 2:34
  101. "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" – 2:51
  102. "Silent Night" – 2:31
  103. "White Christmas" – 2:37
  104. "The Christmas Waltz" – 3:01

    Disc eight: ''Where Are You?">Where Are You? (Frank Sinatra album)">Where Are You?'' (September 2, 1957)

  105. "Where Are You?" – 3:30
  106. "The Night We Called It a Day – 3:27
  107. "I Cover the Waterfront" – 2:59
  108. "Maybe You'll Be There" – 3:06
  109. "Laura" – 3:27
  110. "Lonely Town" – 4:11
  111. "Autumn Leaves" – 2:51
  112. "I'm a Fool to Want You" – 4:50
  113. "I Think of You" – 3:03
  114. "Where Is the One?" - 3:12
  115. "There's No You" - 3:45
  116. "Baby, Won't You Please Come Home" - 2:57
  117. "I Can Read Between the Lines" – 2:43
  118. "It Worries Me" – 2:53
  119. "Rain " – 3:25
  120. "Don't Worry 'Bout Me" – 3:08

    Disc nine: ''[Come [Fly With Me (Frank Sinatra album)|Come Fly With Me]]'' (January 6, 1958)

  121. "Come Fly with Me" – 3:18
  122. "Around the World" – 3:20
  123. "Isle of Capri" – 2:29
  124. "Moonlight in Vermont" – 3:31
  125. "Autumn in New York" – 4:36
  126. On the Road to Mandalay" – 3:29
  127. "Let's Get Away from It All" – 2:10
  128. "April in Paris" – 2:50
  129. "London By Night" – 3:30
  130. "Brazil" – 2:55
  131. "Blue Hawaii" – 2:43
  132. "It's Nice to Go Trav'ling" – 3:49
  133. "Chicago" – 2:14
  134. "South of the Border" – 2:50
  135. "I Love Paris" – 1:49

    Disc ten: ''[Frank Sinatra Sings For Only The Lonely]'' (September 8, 1958)

  136. "Only the Lonely" - 4:10
  137. "Angel Eyes" - 3:46
  138. "What's New?" - 5:13
  139. "It's a Lonesome Old Town" - 4:18
  140. "Willow Weep for Me" - 4:19
  141. "Goodbye" - 5:45
  142. "Blues in the Night" - 4:44
  143. "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry" - 4:00
  144. "Ebb Tide" - 3:18
  145. "Spring is Here" - 4:47
  146. "Gone with the Wind" - 5:15
  147. "One for My Baby " - 4:23
  148. "Sleep Warm" - 2:45
  149. "Where or When" - 2:25

    Disc eleven: ''Come Dance With Me!">Come Dance With Me! (album)">Come Dance With Me!'' (January 5, 1959)

  150. "Come Dance with Me" – 2:31
  151. "Something's Gotta Give" – 2:38
  152. "Just in Time" – 2:24
  153. "Dancing in the Dark" – 2:26
  154. "Too Close for Comfort" – 2:34
  155. "I Could Have Danced All Night" – 2:40
  156. "Saturday Night " – 1:54
  157. "Day In, Day Out" – 3:25
  158. "Cheek to Cheek" – 3:06
  159. "Baubles, Bangles and Beads" – 2:46
  160. "The Song Is You" – 2:43
  161. "The Last Dance" – 2:11
  162. "It All Depends on You" – 2:06
  163. "Nothing in Common" – 2:32
  164. "Same Old Song and Dance" – 2:52
  165. "How Are Ya' Fixed for Love?" – 2:25

    Disc twelve: ''[No One Cares]'' (July 20, 1959)

  166. "When No One Cares" – 2:42
  167. "A Cottage for Sale" – 3:16
  168. "Stormy Weather" – 3:20
  169. "Where Do You Go?" – 2:34
  170. "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You" – 3:16
  171. "Here's That Rainy Day" – 3:34
  172. "I Can't Get Started" – 4:01
  173. "Why Try to Change Me Now?" – 3:41
  174. "Just Friends" – 3:40
  175. "I'll Never Smile Again" – 3:46
  176. "None But the Lonely Heart" – 3:41
  177. "The One I Love " – 3:05
  178. "This Was My Love" – 3:28
  179. "I Could Have Told You" – 3:18
  180. "You Forgot All the Words " – 3:24

    Disc thirteen: ''[Nice 'n' Easy]'' (July 25, 1960)

  181. "Nice 'n' Easy" – 2:45
  182. "That Old Feeling" – 3:33
  183. "How Deep Is The Ocean?" – 3:15
  184. "I've Got a Crush on You" – 2:16
  185. "You Go To My Head" – 4:28
  186. "Fools Rush In " – 3:22
  187. "Nevertheless " – 3:18
  188. "She's Funny That Way" – 3:55
  189. "Try a Little Tenderness" – 3:22
  190. "Embraceable You" – 3:24
  191. "Mam'selle" – 2:48
  192. "Dream" – 2:57
  193. "The Nearness of You" - 2:44
  194. "Someone to Watch over Me" - 2:57
  195. "Day In, Day Out" - 3:07
  196. "My One and Only Love" - 3:12

    Disc fourteen: ''[Sinatra's Swingin' Session!!!]'' (1961)

  197. "When You're Smiling" – 2:00
  198. "Blue Moon" – 2:51
  199. "S'Posin" – 1:48
  200. "It All Depends on You" – 2:02
  201. "It's Only a Paper Moon" – 2:19
  202. "My Blue Heaven" – 2:03
  203. "Should I?" – 1:30
  204. "September in the Rain" – 2:58
  205. "Always" – 2:17
  206. "I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me" – 2:25
  207. "I Concentrate on You" – 2:23
  208. "You Do Something to Me" – 1:33
  209. "Sentimental Baby" – 2:36
  210. "Hidden Persuasion" – 2:25
  211. "Ol' McDonald" – 2:41

    Disc fifteen: ''[Come Swing With Me!]'' (1961)

  212. "Day by Day" – 2:39
  213. "Sentimental Journey" – 3:26
  214. "Almost Like Being in Love" – 2:02
  215. "Five Minutes More" – 2:36
  216. "American Beauty Rose" – 2:22
  217. "Yes Indeed!" – 2:35
  218. "On the Sunny Side of the Street" – 2:42
  219. "Don't Take Your Love From Me" – 1:59
  220. "That Old Black Magic" – 4:05
  221. "Lover" – 1:53
  222. "Paper Doll" – 2:08
  223. "I've Heard That Song Before" – 2:33
  224. "I Love You" – 2:28
  225. "Why Should I Cry over You?" – 2:41
  226. "How Could You Do a Thing Like That to Me" – 2:44
  227. "River, Stay 'Way from My Door" – 2:39
  228. "I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues" - 3:00

    Disc sixteen: ''Point Of No Return">Point Of No Return (Frank Sinatra album)">Point Of No Return'' (March, 1962)

  229. " When the World Was Young" - 3:48
  230. "I'll Remember April" - 2:50
  231. "September Song" - 4:21
  232. "A Million Dreams Ago" - 2:41
  233. "I'll See You Again" - 2:44
  234. "There Will Never Be Another You" - 3:09
  235. "Somewhere Along the Way" - 3:01
  236. "It's a Blue World" - 2:49
  237. "These Foolish Things " - 3:59
  238. "As Time Goes By" - 3:17
  239. "I'll Be Seeing You" - 2:47
  240. "Memories of You" - 3:53
  241. "Day In, Day Out" – 3:19
  242. "Don't Make a Beggar of Me" – 3:04
  243. "Lean Baby" – 2:34
  244. "I'm Walking Behind You" – 2:58

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