Track listing
DISC 1: VOLUME 1:
1. Close to You
2. You'll Never Know
3. Sunday, Monday or Always
4. If You Please
5. People Will Say We're in Love
6. Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'
7. I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night
8. Lovely Way to Spend an Evening, A
9. Music Stopped, The
10. If You Are But a Dream
11. Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night in the Week)
12. There's No You
13. White Christmas
14. I Dream of You (More Than You Dream of Me)
15. I Begged Her
16. What Makes the Sunset?
17. I Fall in Love Too Easily
18. Nancy (With the Laughing Face) - (previously unreleased)
19. Cradle Song
20. Ol' Man River
21. Stormy Weather - (with The Ken Lane Singers)
22. Charm of You, The

DISC 2: VOLUME 2:
1. Embraceable You
2. When Your Lover Has Gone
3. Kiss Me Again
4. She's Funny That Way, (I Got a Woman Crazy For Me)
5. My Melancholy Baby
6. Where or When
7. All the Things You Are - (with The Ken Lane Singers)
8. Mighty Lak' a Rose
9. I Should Care
10. Homesick - (with That's All)
11. Dream (When You're Feeling Blue)
12. Friend of Yours, A - (with The Ken Lane Singers)
13. Put Your Dreams Away (For Another Day)
14. Over the Rainbow - (previously unreleased, alternate take)
15. You'll Never Walk Alone - (with Ken Lane Singers)
16. If I Loved You
17. Lily Belle
18. Don't Forget Toni ght Tomorrow
19. I've Got a Home in That Rock
20. Jesus Is a Rock in the Weary Land - (with The Charioteers)
21. Stars in Your Eyes
22. My Shawl

DISC 3: VOLUME 3:
1. Someone to Watch Over Me
2. You Go to My Head
3. These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)
4. I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)
5. House I Live in, The (That's America to Me)
6. Day by Day
7. Nancy (With the Laughing Face)
8. You Are Too Beautiful
9. America the Beautiful
10. Silent Night, Holy Night
11. Moon Was Yellow, The (And the Night Was Young)
12. I Only Have Eyes For You - (with The Ken Lane Singers)
13. Old School Teacher, The - (previously unreleased)
14. Just an Old Stone House
15. Full Moon and Empty Arms
16. Oh, What It Seemed to Be
17. I Have But One Heart (O Marenariello)
18. Ghost of a Chance, (I Don't Stand) A
19. Why Shouldn't I?
20. Try a Little Tenderness
21. Paradise
22. All Through the Day
23. One Love
24. Two Hearts Are Better Than One
25. How Cute Can You Be?

DISC 4:
1. From This Day Forward - (from "From This Day Forward")
2. Where Is My Bess? - (from "Porgy And Bess")
3. Begin the Beguine - (from "Jubilee")
4. Something Old, Something New
5. They Say It's Wonderful - (from "Annie Get Your Gun")
6. That Old Black Magic - (from "Star Spangled Rhythm")
7. Girl That I Marry, The - (from "Annie Get Your Gun")
8. I Fall in Love With You Ev'ry Day
9. How Deep Is the Ocean (How Blue Is the Sky)
10. Home on the Range - (previously unreleased)
11. Song Is You, The - (previously unreleased, from "Music In The Air")
12. Soliloquy (Parts 1 & 2) - (from "Carousel")
13. Somewhere in the Night - (from "Three Little Girls In Blue")
14. Could'ja? - (with The Pied Pipers)
15. Five Minutes More - (from "Piccadilly Hayride")
16. Things We Did Last Summer, The
17. You'll Know When It Happens - (previously unreleased)
18. This Is the Night
19. Coffee Song, The (They've Got an Awful Lot of Coffee in Brazil)
20. Among My Souvenirs - (previously unreleased, alternate take, from "The Best Years Of Our Lives")
21. I Love You - (from "Song Of Norway")
22. September Song - (from "Knickerbocker Holiday")
23. Blue Skies - (from "Blue Skies")
24. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry

DISC 5: VOLUME 5:
1. Adeste Fideles (O, Come All Ye Faithful)
2. Lost in the Stars - (from "Lost In The Stars")
3. Jingle Bells - (with Ken Lane Singers)
4. Falling in Love With Love - (from "The Boys From Syracuse")
5. Hush-a-Bye Island - (from "Smash-Up")
6. So They Tell Me
7. There's No Business Like Show Business -... - (previously unreleased, from "Annie Get Your Gun")
8. Moonlight Night, (Once Upon) A
9. Strange Music - (previously unreleased, from "Song Of Norway")
10. Poinciana (Song of the Tree) - (previously unreleased)
11. Music Stopped, The - (previously unreleased, from "Higher And Higher")
12. Why Shouldn't It Happen to Us
13. Time After Time - (from "It Happened In Brooklyn")
14. It' s the Same Old Dream - (from "It Happened In Brooklyn")
15. I'm Sorry I Made You Cry - (from "Rose Of Washington Square")
16. None But the Lonely Heart - (previously unreleased)
17. Brooklyn Bridge, The - (from "It Happened In Brooklyn")
18. I Believe - (from "It Happened In Brooklyn")
19. I Got a Gal I Love (In North and South Dakota) - (from "Ladies Man")
20. Dum-Dot Song, The (I Put a Penny in the Gum Slot) - (with The Pied Pipers)
21. All of Me - (previously unreleased, from "Careless Lady")
22. It's All up to You - (previously unreleased, with Dinah Shore)
23. My Romance - (previously unreleased, from "Jumbo", with Dinah Shore)

DISC 6: VOLUME 6:
1. Always - (previously unreleased)
2. I Want to Thank Your Folks
3. That's How Much I Love You
4. You Can Take My Word For It Baby - (with The Page Cavanaugh Trio)
5. Sweet Lorraine - (with The Metronome All-Stars)
6. Always-(Previously Unreleased Alternate Take)
7. I Concentrate on You - (from "Broadway Melody Of 1940")
8. My Love For You - (previously unreleased)
9. Mam'selle - (from "The Razor's Edge")
10. Ain'tcha Ever Comin' Back - (with The Pied Pipers)
11. Stella by Starlight - (from "The Uninvited")
12. There But For You Go I - (from "Brigadoon")
13. Almost Like Being in Love - (from "Brigadoon")
14. Tea For Two - (from "No, No Nanette", with Dinah Shore)
15. My Romance - (from "Jumbo", with Dinah Shore)
16. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - (from "Meet Me In St. Louis")
17. Christmas Dreaming (A Little Early This Year)
18. Stars Will Remember, (So Will I) The - (from "Smart Girls Don't Talk")
19. It All Came True - (previously unreleased)
20. That Old Feeling
21. If I Had You
22. Nearness of You, The
23. One For My Baby (And One More For the Road) - (from "The Sky's The Limit")

DISC 7: VOLUME 7:
1. But Beautiful - (from "Road To Rio")
2. Fellow Needs a Girl, A - (previously unreleased, alternate take, from "Allegro")
3. So Far - (previously unreleased, alternate take, from "Allegro")
4. It All Came True - (with Alvy West & The Little Band)
5. Can't You Just See Yourself? - (from "High Button Shoes")
6. You're My Girl - (from "High Button Shoes")
7. All of Me - (from "Meet Danny Wilson")
8. I'll Make up For Ev'rything
9. Strange Music - (previously unreleased, alternate take, from "Song Of Norway")
10. Laura - (previously unreleased, from "Laura")
11. Night and Day - (previously unreleased, from "Gay Divorcee")
12. My Cousin Louella
13. We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye
14. S'Posin
15. Just For Now - (from "Whiplash")
16. None But the Lonely Heart
17. Night We Called It a Day, The - (previously unreleased)
18. Song Is You, The - (from "Music In The Air")
19. What'll I Do?
20. Poinciana (Song of the Tree)
21. Senorita, (I Offer You the Moon) - (from "The Kissing Bandit")
22. Music Stopped, The - (from "Higher And Higher")

DISC 8: VOLUME 8:
1. Mean to Me - (previously unreleased, alternate take, from "Ain't Misbehavin'")
2. Spring Is Here - (previously unreleased, alternate take, from "I Married An Angel")
3. Fools Rush in (Where Angels Fear to Tread) - (previously unreleased, alternate take)
4. When You Awake - (previously unreleased, alternate take)
5. It Never Entered My Mind - (previously unreleased, alternate take, from "Higher And Higher")
6. I've Got a Crush on You - (from "Strike Up The Band")
7. Body and Soul - (from "Three's A Crowd")
8. I'm Glad There Is You
9. I Went Down to Virginia
10. If I Only Had a Match
11. If I Steal a Kiss - (from "The Kissing Bandit")
12. Autumn in New York
13. Everybody Loves Somebody
14. Little Learnin' Is a Dangerous Thing, Part 1, A
15. Little Learnin' Is a Dangerous Thing, Part 2, A - (with Pearl Bailey)
16. Ever Homeward - (from "The Miracle Of The Bells")
17. But None Like You
18. Catana - (previously unreleased, from "Captain From Castile")
19. Why Was I Born? - (from "Sweet Adeline")
20. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
21. O Little Town of Bethlehem
22. White Christmas - (from "Holiday Inn")
23. For Every Man There's a Woman - (from "Casbah", with The Ken Lane Singers)

DISC 9: VOLUME 9:
1. Help Youself to My Heart - (previously unreleased)
2. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
3. If I Forget You
4. Where Is the One?
5. When Is Sometime? - (from "A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court")
6. It Only Happens When I Dance With You - (from "Easter Parade")
7. Fella With an Umbrella, A - (from "Easter Parade")
8. Nature Boy - (with The Jeff Alexander Choir)
9. Sunflower
10. Once in Love With Amy - (previously unreleased, from "Where's Charley?")
11. Once in Love Wi th Amy - (from "Where's Charley?")
12. Why Can't You Behave? - (from "Kiss Me, Kate")
13. Bop! Goes My Heart - (with The Phil Moore Four)
14. Comme Ci Comme Ca
15. No Orchids For My Lady - (from "Bolton's Revue")
16. While the Angelus Was Ringing (Les Trois Cloches)
17. If You Stub Your Toe on the Moon - (from "A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court")
18. Kisses and Tears - (previously unreleased, from "Double Dynamite")
19. Some Enchanted Evening - (from "South Pacific")
20. Bali Ha'i - (from "South Pacific")
21. Right Girl For Me, The - (from "Take Me Out To The Ballgame")
22. Night After Night
23. Huckle-Buck, The - (with The Ken Lane Quintet)
24. It Happens Every Spring - (from "It Happens Every Spring")

DISC 10: VOLUME 10:
1. Let's Take an Old-Fashioned Walk - (from "Miss Liberty", with Doris Day/The Ken Lane Singers)
2. I Love You, (Just One Way to Say) - (from "Miss Liberty")
3. It All Depends on You - (from "Big Boy")
4. Bye Bye Baby - (from "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes")
5. Don't Cry Joe (Let Her Go, Let Her Go, Let Her Go) - (with The Pastels)
6. Every Man Should Marry - (previously unreleased)
7. If I Ever Love Again - (with The Double Daters)
8. We're Just a Kiss Apart - (from "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes")
9. Every Man Should Marry
10. Wedding of Lili Marlene, The
11. That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day)
12. Mad About You - (from "Deadly Is The Female")
13. Stromboli, (On the Island of)
14. Old Master Painter, The
15. Why Remind Me
16. Sorry
17. Sunshine Cake - (from "Riding High", with Paula Kelly)
18. Sure Thing, (We've Got A) - (from "Riding High", with The Modernaires)
19. God's Country - (featuring Ziggy Elman)
20. Sheila
21. Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy - (with the Jeff Alexander Choir)
22. Kisses and Tears - (from "Double Dynamite", with Jane Russell/The Modernaires)
23. When the Sun Goes Down - (with The Modernaires)
24. American Beauty Rose - (featuring Will Bradley)

Details
Contributing artists: Will Bradley, Ziggy Elman
Distributor: Sony Music Distribution (
Recording type: Studio
Recording mode: Mono
SPAR Code: n/a

Album notes
THE COLUMBIA YEARS: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS: 1943-1952 contains 285 songs including 25 previously unreleased tracks. The set comes in a handmade maple wood box with a 144-page cloth-bound book.
TRACK LISTING CONTINUED:
DISC 11 (Con't):
Peachtree (with Rosemary Clooney)
Should (I Reveal)
You Do Something To Me (from "Fifty Million Frenchmen")
Lover (from "Love Me Tonight")
When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You) (from "Meet Danny Wilson")
It's Only A Paper Moon (from "Take A Chance")
My Blue Heaven
Continental, The (from "The Gay Divorcee")
Goodnight Irene
Dear Little Boy Of Mine (with the Mitch Miller Singers)
Life Is So Peculiar (from "Mr. Music") (with Helen Carroll & The Swantones)
Accidents Will Happen (from "Mr. Music")
One Finger Melody (with The Whippoorwills)
Remember Me In Your Dreams (with The Whippoorwills)
If Only She'd Looked My Way
London By Night
Meet Me At The Copa - (previously unreleased) (with The Whippoorwills)
Come Back To Sorrento (Torna A Surriento) (from "Paramount On Parade")
April In Paris (from "Walk A Little Faster")
I Guess I'll Have To Dream The Rest (with The Whippoorwills)
Nevertheless (I'm In Love With You)
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! (with the B. Swanson Quartet)
Take My Love
I Am Loved (from "Out Of This World")
You Don't Remind Me (from "Out Of This World")
Love Means Love
Cherry Pies Ought To Be You (from "Out Of This World")
DISC 12:
Faithful (with The Skylarks)
You're The One (with The Skylarks)
There's Something Missing (with The Skylarks)
Hello, Young Lovers (from "The King And I" )
We Kiss In A Shadow (from "The King And I")
I Whistle A Happy Tune (from "The King And I")
I'm A Fool To Want You (with the Ray Charles Singers)
Love Me
Mama Will Bark (with Dagmar)
It's A Long Way (From Your House To My House)
Castle Rock
Farewell, Farewell To Love
Deep Night (with Harry James and his orchestra)
Good Man Is Hard To Find, A - (previously unreleased) (from "Meet Danny Wilson") (with Shelley Winters)
I Could Write A Book (from "Pal Joey") (with the Jeff Alexander Choir)
I Hear A Rhapsody (with the Jeff Alexander Choir)
Walking In The Sunshine
My Girl
Feet Of Clay
Don't Ever Be Afraid To Go Home
Luna Rossa (Blushing Moon) (with The Norman Luboff Choir)
Birth Of The Blues, The (from "George White's Scandals")
Azure-Te (Paris Blues)
Tennessee Newsboy (The Newsboy Blues)
Bim Bam Baby
Why Try To Change Me Now
When it comes to Sinatra, you don't get much more comprehensive or essential than this twelve-disc box, which contains the singer's entire recorded output for Columbia. Elaborately packaged, with a plate-glass etching of a young Sinatra and a booklet containing exhaustively researched annotations of the sessions, this set is a real treat for the serious Sinatraphile. Much of the material here falls on the romantic ballad side of the fence, and Sinatra's voice, still in its early crooning mode much of the time, is supported by billowing string orchestrations that underscore the longing in his voice.
One of the treats of this box set is the way it enables the listener to witness Sinatra's growth during his Columbia tenure. From one disc to the next, we can hear his voice growing deeper and richer, ever more emotive. Towards the end of his Columbia career, Sinatra clashed frequently with producer Mitch Miller, often over song selection, and the singer's ventures into blues and even country-tinged material (Speedy West appears on one cut!) represent the straw that broke Sinatra's back, but make for fascinating listening nonetheless. This is a priceless collection, chronicling the career of a man once referred to as a "realistic romantic."

Editorial reviews
4.5 Stars - Excellent Plus - ...THE COLUMBIA YEARS is where to turn for Sinatra's greatest singing. There was a grace to his phrasing and a lightness to his tone that made even the lamest melodies sparkle...
Rolling Stone (12/23/1993)