In 2006, Frank Sinatra Enterprises took listeners to New York with a 4-CD/1-DVD box set chronicling many of the legendary entertainer’s greatest performances in the city that never sleeps. In 2009, Vegas was the destination for a similar set recorded at iconic venues like Caesars Palace, the Golden Nugget and The Sands. On November 25, you can set your GPS to London for the latest stop on Ol’ Blue Eyes’ trip around the world. This deluxe box set, coming from FSE and Universal Music Enterprises, is a 3-CD/1-DVD swingin’ affair spanning 1953-1984 with over 50 previously unreleased tracks on CD and DVD. (This set will also be available in digital format.)  At its heart is a newly remastered edition of Sinatra Sings Great Songs from Great Britain, the Chairman’s only studio album recorded outside of the United States.

This deluxe new collection’s more than 50 previously unreleased audio recordings include session alternates from the Reprise album, a 1962 BBC “Light Programme” radio special with introductions to each song by Sinatra, a 1953 live session for BBC Radio’s “The Show Band Show,” and a Royal Albert Hall concert from 1984. The collection’s DVD features a previously unreleased filmed 1962 concert from another venerable venue, Royal Festival Hall, plus a 1970 concert from the same venue with a never-before released performance George and Ira Gershwin’s standard “A Foggy Day.”

Unlike that foggy day, however, this set shouldn’t have you low or have you down. The first disc features Great Songs from Great Britain, arranged and conducted by Robert Farnon, four-time Ivor Novello Award winner and renowned composer of so-called “light music.” Recording at CTS Studios in Bayswater in June 1962, Farnon provided a lush setting for Sinatra on such classic British songs as “The Very Thought of You,” “A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square,” “We’ll Meet Again” (so closely associated with Dame Vera Lynn) and Noel Coward’s “I’ll Follow My Secret Heart.” Two songs on the album, “London by Night” and “If I Had You,” marked the third time Sinatra had recorded them, in each case previously at both Columbia and Capitol Records, but Farnon’s orchestrations may well stand the test of time as the definitive ones. The London box adds the previously-released outtake “Roses of Picardy” as well as spoken radio introductions to each of the original ten songs by Sinatra.

The second CD features never-before-released outtake versions of six of the Great Britain songs plus Sinatra’s earlier, 1953 BBC recordings of “I've Got the World on a String,” “Day In-Day Out” and “London by Night,” which he revisited a decade later on Great Songs from Great Britain. The third CD features Sinatra’s September 21, 1984 concert at Royal Albert Hall in which he brought “New York, New York” and “L.A. Is My Lady,” among many others, to London. The DVD has two earlier concerts from Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank of the Thames. The 1962 show, conducted by Sinatra’s longtime pianist Bill Miller, has a staggering 33 tracks including a couple of introductions and two tracks of bows; the second, a television broadcast from 1970 which has previously been available on DVD, has thirteen songs including one more Great Song from Great Britain – George Harrison’s “Something.”  (As noted above, "A Foggy Day" from this concert special is new to DVD.)

What else will you find on this set?  Hit the jump for more, including the complete track listing!

The box set includes a 60-page booklet with liner notes from author Ken Barnes, who attended the Great Songs From Great Britain sessions, plus the album’s original liner notes, newly-written track annotations, details about Sinatra’s many visits to the U.K., and several photos of Sinatra in London: onstage, in the studio, and around the city. The collection also boasts two exclusive art print reproductions of original London concert posters, and a studio panorama from the 1962 recording sessions for Great Songs From Great Britain.

This treasure trove for fans of the great man arrives on November 25 from Frank Sinatra Enterprises and Universal Music Enterprises, and promises to kick off Sinatra’s centennial year of 2015. You can peruse the track listing below; we will update with pre-order links as soon as they become available!

Frank Sinatra, Sinatra: London (FSE/UMe, 2014) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)

CD 1: Great Songs from Great Britain / BBC Light Programme track introductions

1. The Very Thought Of You
2. We'll Gather Lilacs
3. If I Had You
4. Now is the Hour
5. The Gypsy
6. A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
7. A Garden in the Rain
8. London by Night
9. We'll Meet Again
10. I'll Follow My Secret Heart
11. Roses of Picardy
12. BBC Light Programme Introduction
13. Sinatra on “A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square”
14. Sinatra on “The Gypsy”
15. Sinatra on “We'll Meet Again”
16. Sinatra on “A Garden in the Rain”
17. Sinatra on “I'll Follow My Secret Heart”
18. Sinatra on “The Very Thought Of You”
19. Sinatra on “If I Had You”
20. Sinatra on “We'll Gather Lilacs”
21. Sinatra on “Now is the Hour”
22. Sinatra on “London by Night”
23. End Credit

Tracks 1-10 from Great Songs from Great Britain, Reprise FS 1006, 1962
Track 11 included on Great Songs from Great Britain, Reprise CD 45219-2
Tracks 12-23 previously unreleased

CD 2:

1. The Very Thought of You
2. A Garden in the Rain
3. London by Night
4. The Gypsy
5. A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
6. We'll Meet Again
7. I’ve Got the World on a String
8. Day In, Day Out
9. London by Night

Tracks 1-6 are previously unreleased outtakes/alternates from Great Songs from Great Britain, rec. 1962
Tracks 7-9 are previously unreleased from BBC Show Band Show, transmitted July 16, 1953

CD 3: Live at Royal Albert Hall, September 21, 1984 (conducted by Joe Parnello)

1. Fly Me To The Moon
2. The Lady Is A Tramp
3. Come Rain Or Come Shine
4. This Is All I Ask
5. L.A. Is My Lady
6. Pennies From Heaven
7. Monologue
8. Luck Be A Lady
9. My Way
10. Here’s To The Band
11. These Foolish Things
12. Guess I’ll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
13. Don't Worry ‘Bout Me
14. New York, New York
15. Strangers In The Night
16. Mack The Knife
17. Bows: You Are There

DVD: Live at Royal Festival Hall, June 1, 1962 (conducted by Bill Miller)

1. Introduction
2. Goody, Goody
3. Imagination
4. At Long Last Love
5. Moonlight In Vermont
6. Without A Song
7. Day In, Day Out
8. The Moon Was Yellow
9. I’ve Got You Under My Skin
10. I Get A Kick Out of You
11. The Second Time Around
12. Too Marvelous For Words
13. My Funny Valentine
14. In The Still of the Night
15. My Blue Heaven
16. April In Paris
17. You’re Nobody ‘Til Somebody Loves You
18. Monologue and Band Introductions
19. They Can’t Take That Away From Me
20. All The Way
21. Chicago
22. Night and Day
23. Autumn Leaves
24. I Could Have Danced All Night
25. One For My Baby
26. A Foggy Day
27. The Lady is a Tramp
28. Bows
29. Ol’ Man River
30. You Make Me Feel So Young
31. Nancy
32. Come Fly With Me
33. Bows

Live at Royal Festival Hall, London, England (November 16, 1970, recorded for ‘Night Of Nights’ on BBC TV and first broadcast on November 22, 1970, conducted by Bill Miller)

1. You Make Me Feel So Young
2. Pennies From Heaven
3. I’ve Got You Under My Skin
4. Something
5. The Lady is a Tramp
6. I Get Along Without You Very Well
7. Didn’t We?
8. One For My Baby
9. A Foggy Day (previously unreleased bonus performance)
10. I Will Drink the Wine
11. I Have Dreamed
12. My Kind of Town
13. My Way