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) "My Funny Valentine" (from Babes In Arms) (Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart; arr. by George Sivaro) (from Songs For Young Lovers) – 2:31 "The Girl Next Door" (Ralph Blane/Hugh Martin; arr. by Sivaro) (from Songs For Young Lovers) – 2:39 "A Foggy Day" (from A Damsel in Distress) (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin; arr. by Sivaro) (from Songs For Young Lovers) – 2:41 "Like Someone in Love" (Jimmy Van Heusen/Johnny Burke; arr. by Nelson Riddle) (from Songs For Young Lovers) – 3:13 "I Get a Kick Out of You" (from Anything Goes) (Cole Porter; arr. by Sivaro) (from Songs For Young Lovers) – 2:56 "Little Girl Blue" (from Jumbo) (Rodgers/Hart; arr. by Sivaro) (from Songs For Young Lovers) – 2:54 "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (from Shall We Dance) (G. Gershwin/I. Gershwin; arr. by Sivaro) (from Songs For Young Lovers) – 1:59 "Violets for Your Furs" (Tom Adair/Matt Dennis; arr. by Sivaro) (from Songs For Young Lovers) – 3:07 "Just One of Those Things" (from Jubilee) (Porter; arr. by Nelson Riddle) (from Swing Easy!) – 3:14 "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter" (Fred E. Ahlert/Joe Young; arr. by Riddle) (from Swing Easy!) – 2:29 "Sunday" (Chester Conn/Benny Krueger/Ned Miller/Jule Styne; arr. by Riddle) (from Swing Easy!) – 2:31 "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams" (Harry Barris, Ted Koehler/Billy Moll; arr. by Riddle) (from Swing Easy!) – 2:17 "Taking a Chance on Love" (Vernon Duke/Ted Fetter/John La Touche; arr. by Riddle) (from Swing Easy!) – 2:14 "Jeepers Creepers" (Harry Warren/Johnny Mercer; arr. by Riddle) (from Swing Easy!) – 2:24 "Get Happy" (from Summer Stock) (Harold Arlen/Koehler; arr. by Riddle) (from Swing Easy!) – 2:27 "All of Me" (from Meet Danny Wilson) (Gerald Marks/Seymour Simons; arr. by Riddle) (from Swing Easy!) – 2:08

Disc two: In the Wee Small Hours (April 25, 1955) "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" (Bob Hilliard/David Mann; arr. by Nelson Riddle) – 3:02 "Mood Indigo" (Barney Bigard/Duke Ellington/Irving Mills; arr. by Riddle) – 3:32 "Glad to Be Unhappy" (from On Your Toes) (Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart; arr. by Riddle) – 2:39 "I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes)" (Hoagy Carmichael/Jane Brown Thompson; arr. by Riddle) – 3:45 "Deep in a Dream" (Eddie DeLange/Jimmy Van Heusen; arr. by Riddle) – 2:51 "I See Your Face Before Me" (Howard Dietz/Arthur Schwartz; arr. by Riddle) – 3:27 "Can't We Be Friends?" (Paul James/Kay Swift; arr. by Riddle) – 2:50 "When Your Lover Has Gone" (Einar Aaron Swan; arr. by Riddle) – 3:12 "What Is This Thing Called Love?" (from Wake Up and Dream) (Cole Porter; arr. by Riddle) – 2:36 "Last Night When We Were Young" (Harold Arlen/Yip Harburg; arr. by Riddle) – 3:18 "I'll Be Around" (Alec Wilder; arr. by Riddle) – 3:01 "Ill Wind" (Arlen/Ted Koehler; arr. by Riddle) – 3:48 "It Never Entered My Mind" (from Higher and Higher) (Rodgers/Hart; arr. by Riddle) – 2:43 "Dancing on the Ceiling" (from Ever Green) (Rodgers/Hart; arr. by Riddle) – 3:00 "I'll Never Be The Same" (Gus Kahn/Matty Malneck/Frank Signorelli; arr. by Riddle) – 3:07 "This Love of Mine" (Sol Parker/Henry W. Sanicola Jr./Frank Sinatra; arr. by Riddle) – 3:35

Disc three: Songs for Swingin' Lovers! (March 5, 1956) "You Make Me Feel So Young" (Josef Myrow/Mack Gordon; arr. by Nelson Riddle) – 2:57 "It Happened in Monterey" (Mabel Wayne/Billy Rose; arr. by Riddle) – 2:37 "You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me" (Harry Warren/Al Dubin; arr. by Riddle) – 2:19 "You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me" (Sammy Fain/Irving Kahal/Pierre Norman; arr. by Riddle) – 2:49 "Too Marvelous for Words" (Richard A. Whiting/Johnny Mercer; arr. by Riddle) – 2:32 "Old Devil Moon" (Burton Lane/E.Y. Harburg; arr. by Riddle) – 3:57 "Pennies from Heaven" (Arthur Johnston/Johnny Burke; arr. by Riddle) – 2:45 "Our Love Is Here to Stay" (from The Goldwyn Follies) (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin; arr. by Riddle) – 2:42 "I've Got You Under My Skin" (from Born To Dance) (Cole Porter; arr. by Riddle) – 3:45 "I Thought About You" (Jimmy Van Heusen/Mercer; arr. by Riddle) – 2:31 "We'll Be Together Again" (Carl T. Fischer/Frankie Laine; arr. by Riddle) – 4:27 "Makin' Whoopee" (Walter Donaldson/Gus Kahn; arr. by Riddle) – 3:08 "Swingin' Down the Lane" (Isham Jones/Kahn; arr. by Riddle) – 2:54 "Anything Goes" (from Anything Goes) (Porter; arr. by Riddle) – 2:44 "How About You?" (Burton Lane/Ralph Freed; arr. by Riddle) – 2:45

Disc four: Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color (1956) "White" (Norman Sickel; arr. by Victor Young) – 4:14 "Green" (Sickel; arr. by Gordon Jenkins) – 4:05 "Purple" (Sickel; arr. by Billy May) – 4:21 "Yellow" (Sickel; arr. by Jeff Alexander) – 2:38 "Gray" (Sickel; arr. by Alec Wilder) – 4:29 "Gold" (Sickel; arr. by Nelson Riddle) – 3:36 "Orange" (Sickel; arr. by Riddle) – 4:57 "Black" (Sickel; arr. by Young) – 3:58 "Silver" (Sickel; arr. by Elmer Bernstein) – 4:38 "Blue" (Sickel; arr. by Wilder) – 4:38 "Brown" (Sickel; arr. by Alexander) – 4:01 "Red" (Sickel; arr. by André Previn) – 3:57

Disc five: Close to You (1957) "Close to You" (Al Hoffman/Carl G. Lampl/Jerry Livingston; arr. by Nelson Riddle) – 3:40 "P.S. I Love You" (Gordon Jenkins/Johnny Mercer; arr. by Riddle) – 4:24 "Love Locked Out" (Max Kester, Ray Noble; arr. by Riddle) – 2:45 "Everything Happens to me" (Adair, Dennis; arr. by Riddle) – 3:22 "It's Easy to Remember (And So Hard to Forget)" (from Mississippi) (Rodgers, Hart; arr. by Riddle) – 3:37 "Don't Like Goodbyes" (Arlen, Truman Capote; arr. by Riddle) – 4:52 "With Every Breath I Take" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin; arr. by Riddle) – 3:41 "Blame It on My Youth" (Edward Heyman, Oscar Levant; arr. by Riddle) – 3:00 "It Could Happen to You" (Burke, Van Heusen; arr. by Riddle) – 3:16 "I've Had My Moments" (Donaldson, Kahn; arr. by Riddle) – 3:50 "I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night" (Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh; arr. by Riddle) – 3:28 "The End of a Love Affair" (Edward Redding; arr. by Riddle) – 4:09 "If It's the Last Thing I Do" (Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin; arr. by Riddle) – 4:00 "There's a Flaw in My Flue" (Burke, Van Heusen; arr. by Riddle) – 2:41 "Wait Till You See Her" (from By Jupiter) (Rodgers, Hart; arr. by Riddle) – 3:10

Disc six: A Swingin' Affair! (May 6, 1957) "Night and Day" (from Gay Divorce) (Porter; arr. by Nelson Riddle) – 4:02 "I Wish I Were in Love Again" (from Babes In Arms) (Rodgers, Hart; arr. by Riddle) – 2:31 "I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'" (from Porgy and Bess) (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin, DuBose Heyward; arr. by Riddle) – 3:13 "I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan" (Schwartz, Dietz; arr. by Riddle) – 2:26 "Nice Work if You Can Get It" (from A Damsel in Distress) (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin; arr. by Riddle) – 2:24 "Stars Fell on Alabama" (Frank Perkins, Mitchell Parish; arr. by Riddle) – 2:41 "No One Ever Tells You" (Hub Atwood, Carroll Coates; arr. by Riddle) – 3:28 "I Won't Dance" (Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields; arr. by Riddle) – 3:27 "The Lonesome Road" (Nathaniel Shilkret, Gene Austin; arr. by Riddle) – 3:57 "At Long Last Love" (from You Never Know) (Porter; arr. by Riddle) – 2:27 "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" (from Something to Shout About) (Porter; arr. by Riddle) – 2:07 "I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)" (Ellington, Paul Francis Webster; arr. by Riddle) – 3:25 "From This Moment On" (from Out of This World & Kiss Me Kate) (Porter; arr. by Riddle) – 3:56 "If I Had You" (Jimmy Campbell, Reginald Connelly, Ted Shapiro; arr. by Riddle) – 2:39 "Oh! Look at Me Now" (Joe Bushkin, John DeVries; arr. by Riddle) – 2:50 "The Lady Is a Tramp" (from Babes In Arms) (Rodgers, Hart; arr. by Riddle) - 3:16

Disc seven: A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra (September 21, 1957) "Jingle Bells" (James Pierpont; arr. by Gordon Jenkins/Nelson Riddle) – 2:00 "The Christmas Song" (Mel Tormé, Robert Wells; arr. by Jenkins/Riddle) – 3:28 "Mistletoe and Holly" (Hank Sanicola, Sinatra, Doc Stanford; arr. by Jenkins/Riddle) – 2:18 "I'll Be Home for Christmas" (Kim Gannon, Walter Kent, Buck Ram; arr. by Jenkins/Riddle) – 3:11 "The Christmas Waltz" (Cahn, Styne; arr. by Jenkins/Riddle) – 3:03 "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (Blane, Martin; arr. by Jenkins/Riddle) – 3:29 "The First Nowell" (William B. Sandys; arr. by Jenkins/Riddle) – 2:44 "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" (Felix Mendelssohn, Charles Wesley; arr. by Jenkins/Riddle) – 2:24 "O Little Town of Bethlehem" (Lewis H. Redner, Phillips Brooks; arr. by Jenkins/Riddle) – 2:06 "Adeste Fideles" ("O, Come All Ye Faithful") (John Francis Wade; arr. by Jenkins/Riddle) – 2:34 "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" (Edmund Sears, Richard Storrs Willis; arr. by Jenkins/Riddle) – 2:51 "Silent Night" (Franz Gruber, Josef Mohr; arr. by Jenkins/Riddle) – 2:31 "White Christmas" (Irving Berlin; arr. by Jenkins/Riddle) – 2:37 "The Christmas Waltz" (alternate) (Cahn, Styne; arr. by Jenkins/Riddle) – 3:01

Disc eight: Where Are You? (September 2, 1957) "Where Are You?" (Adamson, McHugh; arr. by Gordon Jenkins) – 3:30 "The Night We Called It a Day (Dennis, Adair; arr. by Jenkins) – 3:27 "I Cover the Waterfront" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman; arr. by Jenkins) – 2:59 "Maybe You'll Be There" (Rube Bloom, Sammy Gallop; arr. by Jenkins) – 3:06 "Laura" (Mercer, David Raksin; arr. by Jenkins) – 3:27 "Lonely Town" (Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden, Adolph Green; arr. by Jenkins) – 4:11 "Autumn Leaves" (Jacques Prévert, Mercer, Joseph Kosma; arr. by Jenkins) – 2:51 "I'm a Fool to Want You" (Sinatra, Jack Wolf, Joel Herron; arr. by Jenkins) – 4:50 "I Think of You" (Jack Elliott, Don Marcotte; arr. by Jenkins) – 3:03 "Where Is the One?" (Wilder, Edwin Finckel; arr. by Jenkins) - 3:12 "There's No You" (Adair, Hal Hopper; arr. by Jenkins) - 3:45 "Baby, Won't You Please Come Home" (Charles Warfield, Clarence Williams; arr. by Jenkins) - 2:57 "I Can Read Between the Lines" (Sid Frank, Ray Getzov; arr. by Nelson Riddle) – 2:43 "It Worries Me" (Fritz Schultz-Reichel, Carl Sigman; arr. by Riddle) – 2:53 "Rain (Falling from the Skies)" (Robert Mellin, Gunther Finlay; arr. by Riddle) – 3:25 "Don't Worry 'Bout Me" (Bloom, Koehler; arr. by Riddle) – 3:08

Disc nine: Come Fly with Me (January 6, 1958) "Come Fly with Me" (Cahn, Van Heusen; arr. by Billy May) – 3:18 "Around the World" (Victor Young, Adamson; arr. by May) – 3:20 "Isle of Capri" (Will Grosz, Jimmy Kennedy; arr. by May) – 2:29 "Moonlight in Vermont" (Karl Suessdorf, John Blackburn; arr. by May) – 3:31 "Autumn in New York" (Duke; arr. by May) – 4:36 On the Road to Mandalay" (Oley Speaks, Rudyard Kipling; arr. by May) – 3:29 "Let's Get Away from It All" (Dennis, Adair; arr. by May) – 2:10 "April in Paris" (Duke, Harburg; arr. by May) – 2:50 "London By Night" (Carroll Coates; arr. by May) – 3:30 "Brazil" (Ary Barroso, Bob Russell; arr. by May) – 2:55 "Blue Hawaii" (Rainger, Robin; arr. by May) – 2:43 "It's Nice to Go Trav'ling" (Cahn, Van Heusen; arr. by May) – 3:49 "Chicago" (Fred Fisher; arr. by Nelson Riddle) – 2:14 "South of the Border" (Kennedy, Michael Carr; arr. by Riddle) – 2:50 "I Love Paris" (Porter; arr. by Riddle) – 1:49

Disc ten: Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely (September 8, 1958) "Only the Lonely" (Cahn, Van Heusen; arr. by Nelson Riddle) - 4:10 "Angel Eyes" (Dennis, Earl Brent; arr. by Riddle) - 3:46 "What's New?" (Bob Haggart, Burke; arr. by Riddle) - 5:13 "It's a Lonesome Old Town" (Harry Tobias, Charles Kisco; arr. by Riddle) - 4:18 "Willow Weep for Me" (Ann Ronell; arr. by Riddle) - 4:19