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A Man and His Music

A Man and His Music is a 1965 double album by Frank Sinatra. It provides a brief retrospective of Sinatra's musical career. The album won the 1967 Grammy Award for Album of the Year.

A Man and His Music
Studio album by
Frank Sinatra
Released1965
RecordedDecember 19, 1960 – October 21, 1965, Los Angeles and Hollywood
Genre
Length104:35
LabelReprise
2FS 1016
ProducerSonny Burke
Frank Sinatra chronology
My Kind of Broadway
(1965) 		A Man and His Music
(1965) 		Moonlight Sinatra
(1966)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic link
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[1]
Record Mirror[2]

Instead of using the original recordings, which were made for RCA, Columbia and Capitol Records, and therefore not licensed for use by his then-current label, Reprise, Sinatra used re-recorded versions for the majority of the album's songs, culling tracks from his prior Reprise albums. Three songs were specifically recorded for the project: "I'll Never Smile Again", "Come Fly with Me" and "Love and Marriage". There is also a narration from Sinatra that runs throughout the album.

Approximately 2,000 copies of this album were originally released in a special wooden slipcase containing 3D artwork on the cover in the form of a metal plaque. Each copy was numbered and contained a signed card by Sinatra himself. The packaging also included a booklet highlighting Sinatra's career. A majority of these special "Man and His Music" LP's were given away as door prizes by Sinatra at a party in Palm Springs. The party celebrated the singer's 50th birthday, as well as the airing of Sinatra's 1965 NBC television special of the same name (Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music).

Track listing

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Disc one

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  1. "Put Your Dreams Away (For Another Day)" (Ruth Lowe, Paul Mann, Stephan Weiss) – 3:10
  2. "All or Nothing at All" (Arthur Altman, Jack Lawrence) – 4:26
  3. "I'll Never Smile Again" (feat. Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians) (Lowe) – 2:49
  4. "There Are Such Things" (George W. Meyer, Stanley Adams, Abel Baer) – 2:57
  5. "I'll Be Seeing You" (Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal) – 3:06
  6. "The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)" (Gus Kahn, Isham Jones) – 3:03
  7. "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 4:46
  8. "Night and Day" (Cole Porter) – 4:29
  9. "Oh! What It Seemed to Be" (Bennie Benjamin, George David Weiss, Frankie Carle) – 3:26
  10. "Soliloquy" (from Carousel) (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 8:19
  11. "Nancy (With the Laughing Face)" (Phil Silvers, Van Heusen) – 4:21
  12. "The House I Live In" (Lewis Allan, Earl Robinson) – 4:40
  13. "From Here to Eternity" (Fred Karger, Robert Wells) – 2:44

Disc two

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  1. "Come Fly with Me" (Sammy Cahn, Van Heusen) – 2:13
  2. "(How Little It Matters) How Little We Know" (Carolyn Leigh, Phil Springers) – 2:29
  3. "Learnin' the Blues" (Dolores Vicki Silvers) – 2:31
  4. "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" (David Mann, Bob Hilliard) – 2:43
  5. "Young at Heart" (Leigh, Johnny Richards) – 3:51
  6. "Witchcraft" (1965 re-recorded version) (Cy Coleman, Leigh) – 2:52
  7. "All the Way" (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 3:27
  8. "Love and Marriage" (1965 re-recorded version) (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 1:29
  9. "I've Got You Under My Skin" (Porter) – 3:26
  10. "Ring-a-Ding Ding" (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 1:07
  11. "The Second Time Around" (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 2:13
  12. "The Summit" (Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr.) – 5:20
  13. "The Oldest Established (Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York)" (with Martin and Bing Crosby) (Frank Loesser) – 2:31
  14. "Luck Be a Lady" (Loesser) – 2:25
  15. "Call Me Irresponsible" (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 2:45
  16. "Fly Me to the Moon" (Bart Howard) – 2:30
  17. "Softly, as I Leave You" (Hal Shaper, Tony De Vita, Giorgio Calabrese) – 2:57
  18. "My Kind of Town" (1965 re-recorded version) (from Robin and the 7 Hoods) (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 2:30
  19. "The September of My Years" (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 3:22

Personnel

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Charts

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Chart (1965) Peak
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US Billboard 200[3] 9

Certifications

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Region Certification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA)[4] Platinum 1,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

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  1. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  2. ^ Jones, Peter (15 January 1966). "3 from Frank" (PDF). Record Mirror. No. 253. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
  3. ^ "Frank Sinatra Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved January 22, 2025.
  4. ^ "American album certifications – Frank Sinatra – A Man & His Music". Recording Industry Association of America.
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