Portrait of Sinatra – Forty Songs from the Life of a Man

Portrait of Sinatra – Forty Songs from the Life of a Man is a 1977 compilation album by Frank Sinatra that consists of 40 songs that were recorded for Reprise Records. It spent a total of eighteen non-consecutive weeks in the UK Albums Chart, reaching number-one for two weeks on 2 April 1977. It became Sinatra's fourth album to top the British charts, his first since 1957's A Swingin' Affair! to claim pole position, and also his most recent chart-topping album in the UK. The sleeve design was illustrated by English portrait painter Michael Noakes, who won a platinum disc for his work. The album was not issued in the U.S.

Track listing[]

Disc one[]

1. "Let's Face the Music and Dance"
2. "Nancy (With the Laughing Face)" - 2:31
3. "I've Got You Under My Skin" - 3:26
4. "Let Me Try Again (Laisse Moi Le Temps)" - 3:31
5. "Fly Me to the Moon" - 2:29
6. "All or Nothing at All" - 3:57
7. "For Once in My Life" - 2:50
8. "Bonita" - 3:39
9. "My Kind of Town" - 3:10
10. "Call Me Irresponsible" - 2:56

Disc two[]

1. "All the Way" - 3:26
2. "Strangers in the Night" - 2:36
3. "Didn't We?"
4. "Come Fly with Me" - 3:11
5. "The Second Time Around" - 3:03
6. "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" - 2:53
7. "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"
8. "Softly, as I Leave You"
9. "Cycles"
10. "Send in the Clowns" - 3:39

Disc three[]

1. "That's Life" - 3:07
2. "Little Green Apples" - 5:00
3. "The Song of the Sabiá"
4. "Goody Goody" - 1:47
5. "Empty Tables"
6. "I Believe I'm Gonna Love You"
7. "Stargazer"
8. "I Sing the Songs (I Write the Songs)"
9. "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" - 2:37
10. "It Was a Very Good Year" - 4:25

Disc four[]

1. "Somethin' Stupid" (with Nancy Sinatra) - 2:45
2. "Young at Heart" - 2:52
3. "You Make Me Feel So Young" - 3:21
4. "Yesterday" - 3:56
5. "Pennies from Heaven"
6. "If"
7. "Something" - 3:34
8. "Star!"
9. "Love's Been Good to Me"
10. "My Way" - 4:35

Charts[]

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