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List Price: $18.98 | | Label: Capitol
Salesrank: 1954
Released: June 2, 2009 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Classic Sinatra II Track Listing:
1. Something's Gotta Give
2. Too Marvelous For Words
3. Love And Marriage
4. From This Moment On
5. (Love Is) The Tender Trap
6. I Get Along Without You Very Well
7. All Of Me
8. I Thought About You
9. Moonlight In Vermont
10. High Hopes
11. Learnin' The Blues
12. Here's That Rainy Day
13. Pennies From Heaven
14. I've Got A Crush On You
15. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
16. Memories Of You
17. Love Is Here To Stay
18. When The World Was Young
19. Just One Of Those Things
20. Angel Eyes
21. This Can't Be Love (BONUS TRACK, Previously unreleased recording)
Editorial Review:
The follow-up & companion collection to the RIAA Double Platinum Classic Sinatra, Classic Sinatra II features 21 additional signature tracks, including 15 from the legendary concept albums Sinatra recorded for Capitol between 1954 and 1961, various singles, and a previously unreleased recording.
Classic Sinatra II showcases a selection of Ol' Blue Eyes' most loved recordings from his Capitol concept albums, including "Moonlight In Vermont," "Pennies From Heaven," "Something's Gotta Give," and "All Of Me." In addition, the set features four 1950s singles: "Love And Marriage," "(Love Is) The Tender Trap," "Learnin' The Blues," and "High Hopes." Plus a 1956 recording of "Memories Of You" and a previously unreleased recording, "This Can't Be Love."
Classic Sinatra II Reviews:
More of the Best, I Guess . . . 
2009-12-16 - "More of the same" is fine when you're a Sinatra fan, but this isn't a great follow up to Classic Sinatra. The songs are all great and, c'mon, it's Sinatra! But this is second-tier stuff, the hits that didn't fit on Classic Sinatra plus some filler. You know how sequels are usually a letdown? Welcome to Classic Sinatra II. Sinatra spent so much time avoiding exactly this sort of collection. It's not a concept album with a unifying mood. It's not a complete finger snappin' collection or a downbeat introspective weeper. It's just sort of, well, there. I'm also sort of stunned at how both collections are 90 percent Nelson Riddle, five percent Billy May and almost no Gordon Jenkins. Sinatra and Co. practically invented the concept album, the end-to-end albums that set a mood and kept you in it. It's sad that no-one at Capitol can figure out to do that with hundreds of pre-sung material just waiting to be collected into unified releases. "Romance: Songs From the Heart," a supposedly thought-out compilation, is all over the map, emotionally speaking. These 21 song compilation CDs that Capitol is putting out are so small-minded and unimaginative. Why not a boxed set of say, "Frank's Ultimate Swingin' Collection" or "Sinatra Sings for the Cruelly Unhappy"? Put out a Gordon Jenkins box set - that would be a great way to start. Look, if you're out to make money money with some of the greatest music ever recorded, why not do it first-class and coherently? These Classic Sinatra albums are musical roller coasters that can't settle onto a mood. It's like putting a stack of great albums on and hitting the "random shuffle" button. I like this album - a lot - but it really just makes me want to put on one of the concept albums.
Classic Sinatra 
2009-12-06 - Great CD for someone who loves his work or for someone too young to have heard him in his prime.
Apples & Oranges...collection has little in common with the first "Classic Sinatra" set 
2009-11-10 - Obviously, the "powers that be" are marketing this collection directly to the people who purchased the first "Classic Sinatra" CD. Which...for a number of reasons...is a mistake.
In the strictest, "dictionary definition" sense, this CD most certainly contains "Classic Sinatra" performances.
But what made the first CD so powerful was its confidence-bordering-on arrogance, its swagger, its charm, its pure, unadulterated "Chairman of the Board"-ness.
That is not the overall vibe of this CD at all, so while the songs are all acknowledged heavy-hitters from the Sinatra catalog, there is no way that this CD should be so closely associated with the first "Classic Sinatra" CD. THAT CD's perfect companion piece, was, and still is, the sadly out-of-print (but still available) Greatest Love Songs.
Case in point: "Love and Marriage" and "High Hopes." YES, even the most casual Sinatra fan acknowledges the number of records sold. But they are almost "novelty songs" or "Sinatra Sings For Kids"...stack them up against the cool, cool swagger of "Oh! Look At Me Now" from the first "Classic Sinatra" CD and draw your own conclusions. When I'm in the mood to hear a song about a tough guy knocked down by love, I don't want to hear that same guy singing about ants and rubber tree plants.
There's also some of the moody "concept album" stuff..."Angel Eyes" and "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry" from Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely...an album that is an unquestionable masterpiece, no matter how bleak, and completely out of step with the tone of the first "Classic" CD.
But that's just me.
There's no such thing as "A" Sinatra Sound. Some fans think the era of greatness...in the studio, if not on the concert stage...drew to a close when he left Capitol for Reprise. Others snap their fingers and tap their toes to "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" and other later-period cover songs that the "swing" fans consider to be groaners and mis-steps.
So the purpose of my review is not to "reach agreement" on the man's career...that will never happen...but to say, in all honesty, that if you purchase "Classic Sinatra II" as someone who loved the first CD, expecting more of the same...
...it's not more of the same. That doesn't mean you shouldn't buy it. It simply means that the record label should have chosen a better name for the collection, without attempting to piggy-back on the success of the first CD.
Terrific, but..
2009-10-30 - Terrific, but it would of been alot better had they dumped "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry", "When The World Was Young" and "Angel Eyes",
and replaced it with "Chicago" (1957), "River, Stay 'Way From My Door" (1960), and "I've Heard That Song Before" (1961). Then it would of been a 5 star album.
The Voice
2009-10-03 - I purchased, "Sinatra Classic" and, "Sinatra Classic II" and, "Nothing but the Best", and if your a Sinatra fan you will really love these three CD's. They are Sinatra at his best. He is animated, enthusiastic, warm and powerful and, in the pocket all the way. Sinatra delivers at another level. The band is fantastic and the quality of these CD's is the best I've heard in a long time. It's been a long time since I have had so much fun listening to Sinatra. I guess it's because the songs that are compiled are a collection of his best rendition of standards. Speaking of standards. Sinatra is to the standards as Mohammed Ali is to boxing. Sinatra gave a new face lift to the standards. He is also the best that has ever sung Pop Jazz music. He was and still is the belle epoque of pop singing. No one else compares.........Howard Gray
