 | |
List Price: $18.98 | | Label: Reprise / Wea
Salesrank: 236
Released: May 13, 2008 |
| Our Price: $12.47 |
| Used Price: $8.99 |
|
| Media: Audio CD |
|
Nothing But The Best Track Listing:
1. Come Fly With Me
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Way You Look Tonight
4. Luck Be A Lady
5. Bewitched
6. The Good Life
7. The Girl From Ipanema
8. Fly Me To The Moon In Other Word
9. Summer Wind
10. Strangers In The Night
11. Call Me Irresponsible
12. Somethin Stupid
13. My Kind Of Town
14. It Was A Very Good Year
15. That's Life
16. Moonlight Serenade
17. Nothing But The Best
18. Drinking Again
19. All My Tomorrows
20. My Way
21. Theme From New York, New York
22. Body And Soul
Editorial Review:
Released to coincide with the tenth anniversary of Frank Sinatra’s passing (May 14, 1998), Nothing But The Best salutes "The Voice" with an essential single-disc compilation of hits. It features 21 legendary songs from "The Chairman Of The Board," plus a previously unissued version of "Body And Soul." The collection is part of an international initiative between the newly created Frank Sinatra Enterprises (FSE), Warner Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, Turner Classic Movies, and the United States Postal Service to honor Frank Sinatra, whose music and movies had an everlasting impact on popular culture. For a limited time, Nothing But The Best will contain a collectible, commemorative Sinatra stamp with official USPS first-day issue cancellation.
Frank Sinatra Photos
More from Frank Sinatra
Swing Along with Me | 
Lucky Numbers | 
The Concert Sinatra Live | 
Sinatra-Basie | 
Everything Happens to Me |
Francis A. Sinatra & Edward K. Ellington | 
Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim | 
Christmas Collection | 
The Rat Pack Live at the Sands | 
Greatest Love Songs |
I Remember Tommy | 
It Might as Well Be Swing | 
L.A. Is My Lady | 
Ring-a-Ding Ding! | 
September of My Years |
Sinatra & Sextet: Live in Paris | 
Sinatra and Strings | 
Sinatra and Swingin' Brass | 
Sinatra at the Sands Live | 
Sinatra in Hollywood 1940-1964 Box Set |
Romance: Songs From the Heart | 
Sinatra: Vegas Live Box Set | 
Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely | 
A Voice in Time: 1939-1952 Box Set | 
The Capitol Years Box Set |
In the Wee Small Hours | 
My Way: The Best of Frank Sinatra | 
A Man and His Music | 
My Way | 
Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back |
Sinatra's Sinatra | 
Strangers in the Night | 
The Main Event Live | 
The Reprise Collection Box Set | 
Duets/Duets II: 90th Birthday Limited Collector's Edition |
Nothing But The Best Reviews:
It's a Great Album 
2009-11-12 - This is a great album because it contains all of the best Sinatra songs in a nice package. The music has all been digitally remastered and therefore the sound quality is very good. The CD makes good background music for entertaining or really, just for listening. There are no songs you want to skip or bypass, and the sequence of the songs is logical and balanced. I recommend this album.
Nothing But the Best 
2009-11-11 - This is the most complete collection I have found so far. Other CDs teased with the selections. This one is solid and the quality of the music is good. Have listened through a pair of Bose headphones. I would buy it - hey wait - I did
Good but the sound is not as great as touted 
2009-10-11 - I won't comment on the mixes per se since many before me have weighed in with their pros and cons. What I can say is that while the new CD remixes are very clean, they all seem to have a tilted up treble that imparts a somewhat nasal quality to ol blue eyes. Granted I have a very high resolution system,but this tilt seems prevalent on almost all the tracks on this CD. As to the performances, I much prefer Sinatra's live albums because he seems to sing the songs with much more emotion, rather than just performing flawlessly like he does here. In "The Girl from Ipanema" he is singing the song, not singing to the girl, like it was intended. Still a good compilation album but not 5 stars.
Great CD
2009-08-28 - I love this CD. Frank is the 2nd best performer, Dean Martin being number 1 and this is a great CD to own. I highly recommend it.
Alternate takes and good remastering with unissued Body and Soul!
2009-05-17 - I bought this to hear the new arrangement of Body and Soul. I have the original Quincy Jones orchestration on a privately circulated limited edition cd. After hearing it, albeit in awful sound quality, one can totally understand why Frank didn't release it. Quincy cooked up an AWFUL chart that goes against Frank's tender reading of the song. The loud big band without strings just didn't allow for the tenderness of the song to come through. So they removed the band and isolated Frank's vocal and had Torrie Zito make a new arrangement. What has happened is nothing short of miraculous. Which goes to show how important it is to have a great arranger in order to make the song work. To my surprise, Come Fly With Me ends with a different tag from the previous issues. The Best is Yet to Come is also differnt, in the bridge, Frank phrases "Come the day your mine" differently. It's not as good as the previously issued version although the difference is slight, it's noticeable. And for hard core Sinatra collectors like me, it's essential. Strangers In The Night fades later than on previous issues. Two alternate takes, one track with a longer ending and an unissued Body and Soul make this a must buy for Sinatra collectors. Now the remastered sound. Overall it's excellent except for a few tunes. Drinking Again is MUCH better than the original issue. You can hear marimbas on this remaster. The older remastering you didn't even know marimbas were used! And you'll notice that the channels are reversed in the previous issues. One must assume that this is the correct set up. That scratchy part of the tape on Strangers In The Night at about 1:04, is FINALLY removed. For some reason, all previous issues had this flaw. My Way sounds much better than any of the previous incarnations. The only track that is "over remastered" is The Girl From Ipanema. For some reason, this remaster is overly dry, and colder sounding. The 1998 20 bit reissue is much better. But on the whole, it's a nice compilation and is a good one to recommend to people who are just getting into Frank.
