Sinatra: World On a String


Sinatra: World On a String is a 2016 box set album of live performances by the American singer Frank Sinatra, recorded in Italy in 1953, Monaco in 1958, Sydney in 1961, Cairo in 1979, and the Dominican Republic in 1982. The performances are chronicled on four compact discs with a further DVD of a 1962 concert in Tokyo with short films and Italian chocolate adverts featuring Sinatra during his world tour of 1962.
The album continues a series of live box sets of unreleased Sinatra concerts following Sinatra: Vegas, Sinatra: New York, and Sinatra: London.

Reception

Wade Tatangelo, reviewing the set for the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, described the set as "every bit as rewarding" as Sinatra: Vegas and Sinatra: New York and wrote of the Monaco concert that "...Sinatra never sounded better in the studio or on stage than he did in the late 1950s and this concert is a perfectly-paced treasure". Tatangelo noted the decline in Sinatra's voice by the time of the 1979 concert in Egypt, but felt that by the 1982 concert in the Dominican Republic, Sinatra sounded "...just as good, maybe even better, than he did during the 1979 set" and highlighted his performance of "Send in the Clowns" with "sparse, sublime accompaniment" from the guitarist Tony Mottola.
In their review of the set, Broadway World commented that "Listening to the nearly 30-year span of performances, it's remarkable to realize how the passage of time never diminished Sinatra's way with a song; if anything, it deepened his understanding of his material. Comparing renditions of "Bewitched" from 1958 and 1979 reveals a more pronounced resonance in Sinatra's delivery".

Track listing

Disc one

  1. Introduction by Noël Coward – 2:52
  2. "Play On: Clarke Street" – 0:28
  3. "Come Fly with Me" – 2:45
  4. "I Get a Kick Out of You" – 3:01
  5. "I've Got You Under My Skin" – 1:53
  6. "Where or When" – 2:19
  7. "Moonlight in Vermont" – 2:17
  8. "On the [Road to Mandalay (song)|On the Road to Mandalay]" – 2:36
  9. "When Your Lover Has Gone" – 3:06
  10. "April in Paris" – 2:26
  11. "All the Way" – 2:52
  12. "Monique" – 3:22
  13. "Bewitched" – 3:28
  14. "The Lady Is a Tramp" – 3:04
  15. Play-off: "(Love Is) The Tender Trap" – 0:54
  16. "You [Make Me Feel So Young]" – 3:11
  17. Bows: " The Tender Trap" – 0:43
  18. Radio Club Introduction – 0:54
  19. Welcome and Greetings – 4:49
  20. "September Song" – 2:44
  21. Presentation and Announcements – 6:18
  22. "Laura" – 2:13
  23. Baseball Segment – 2:21
  24. "Ninna Nanna" – 2:51
  25. "Night and Day" – 3:12
  26. Closing Remarks – 3:23

Disc two

  1. Introduction by Tommy Hanlon Jr. – 0:53
  2. "I've Got the World on a String" – 2:13
  3. "I Concentrate on You" – 2:16
  4. "Night and Day" – 2:31
  5. "Moonlight in Vermont" – 3:25
  6. "In the [Still of the Night (Cole Porter song)|In the Still of the Night]" – 3:39
  7. "I'll [Be Seeing You (song)|I'll Be Seeing You]" – 2:20
  8. "Day In, Day Out" – 2:36
  9. "The Moon Was Yellow " – 2:56
  10. "You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You" – 3:46
  11. Monologue – 5:33
  12. "Come Fly with Me" – 2:38
  13. "April in Paris" – 2:36
  14. "A Foggy Day" – 2:20
  15. "Without a Song" – 3:51
  16. "Imagination" – 2:58
  17. "The Second Time Around" – 4:37
  18. "Young at Heart" – 2:15
  19. "Witchcraft" – 1:50
  20. "Embraceable You" – 3:03
  21. "The [One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)]" – 3:04
  22. "My Funny Valentine" – 3:09
  23. "My Blue Heaven" – 2:21
  24. "Angel Eyes" – 3:43
  25. "One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)" – 4:46
  26. "The Lady Is a Tramp" – 4:27

Disc three

  1. Introduction by Jehan Sadat – 2:08
  2. "The Song Is You" – 3:02
  3. "Where or When" – 2:12
  4. "The Lady Is a Tramp" – 2:39
  5. "Someone to [Watch Over Me (song)|Someone to Watch over Me]" – 2:55
  6. "Something" – 4:19
  7. "My Kind of Town" – 2:58
  8. "All the Way" – 2:23
  9. "Bewitched" – 3:28
  10. "I've Got You Under My Skin" – 2:55
  11. Medley: "The Gal That Got Away"/"It Never Entered My Mind" / – 5:44
  12. Monologue – 5:48
  13. "Try a Little Tenderness" – 3:34
  14. "Strangers in the Night" – 1:38
  15. "Street of Dreams" – 2:08
  16. "April in Paris" – 2:51
  17. "Theme from New York, New York" – 3:44
  18. "My Way" – 3:42
  19. Bows: "My Way" – 2:29
  20. Closing Comments – 0:21

Disc four

  1. "I've Got the World on a String" – 2:58
  2. "I Get a Kick Out of You" – 4:30
  3. "Come Rain or Come Shine" – 3:57
  4. "When Your Lover Has Gone" – 3:02
  5. "The Lady Is a Tramp " – 3:51
  6. "The House I Live In" – 5:46
  7. "Searching" – 3:55
  8. "My Kind of Town" – 3:49
  9. "Something" – 5:05
  10. "The Best Is Yet to Come" – 3:29
  11. "Strangers in the Night" – 2:28
  12. "All or Nothing at All" – 4:04
  13. Introduction of Musicians – 1:54
  14. Medley: "The Gal That Got Away"/"It Never Entered My Mind" – 6:52
  15. "I've Got You Under My Skin" – 4:19
  16. "Send in the Clowns" – 4:11
  17. "Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars (Corcovado)" – 3:47
  18. "I Won't Dance" – 3:59
  19. Buddy Rich Band Introduction – 0:31
  20. "Theme from New York, New York" – 4:23
  21. Bows: "Theme from New York, New York" – 2:24

Disc five (DVD)

  1. Introduction
  2. "Too Marvelous for Words"
  3. "Imagination"
  4. "Moonlight in Vermont"
  5. "Day in, Day Out"
  6. "Without a Song"
  7. "The Moon Was Yellow "
  8. "I've Got You Under My Skin"
  9. "I Get a Kick Out of You"
  10. "At Long Last Love"
  11. "My Funny Valentine"
  12. "In the Still of the Night"
  13. "Embraceable You"
  14. "Night and Day"
  15. "April in Paris"
  16. "The Lady Is a Tramp"
  17. Bows
  18. Monologue and Band Introductions
  19. "All the Way"
  20. "Chicago (That Toddlin' Town)"
  21. "I Could Have Danced All Night"
  22. Closing Bows
  23. Frank Sinatra with All God's Children, 1962
  24. Sinatra in Israel, 1962
  25. "Night and Day"
  26. "My Funny Valentine"
  27. "I've Got You Under My Skin"
  28. "Moonlight in Vermont"
  29. "I Love Paris"
  30. "Come Fly with Me"
  31. "My Blue Heaven"
  32. "Chicago "
  33. "Imagination"
  34. "Witchcraft"
  35. "A Foggy Day"
  36. "The Lady Is a Tramp"

Personnel

Production