# The Capitol Years (1990 Frank Sinatra album)

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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, 1957

### 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, 1960
* "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) | Peak position |
| Australian Albums (ARIA) | 79 |
| US Billboard 200 | 126 |