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This fall, the Chairman of the Board will be globetrotting once again.  World on a String is the appropriate name of a new 4-CD/1-DVD box set celebrating Frank Sinatra’s live performances on the world’s stages.  This box, due on October 21 from UMe and Frank Sinatra Enterprises, follows previous live collections dedicated to Sinatra’s performances in London, New York and Vegas.  Upping the ante, the new set has concerts from eight countries: Monaco, Australia, Egypt, Dominican Republic, Japan, Israel, Greece, and Italy.  Venues range from small clubs to giant stadiums, showcasing Sinatra’s singular ability to communicate on an intimate level regardless of the size of his audience.

Featuring performances spanning 1953 to 1982, the collection boasts more than four hours’ worth of rare audio and video – over 90 tracks on CD alone including such Sinatra favorites as “I Get a Kick Out of You,” “I’ve Got You Under My Skin,” “The Lady is a Tramp,” “Witchcraft” and “Bewitched” right up through “Strangers in the Night,” “”My Way” and “(Theme From) New York, New York.”  Nelson Riddle, Billy May, Don Costa, Gordon Jenkins and Quincy Jones are among the illustrious arrangers represented on these discs.

The first CD kicks off with Sinatra’s June 14, 1958 show at Monte Carlo’s Sporting Club at which he was introduced by none other than Noel Coward, and concludes with his recordings at Italy’s RAI Radio Club from May 20, 1953.  The second disc flashes forward to 1961 and a lengthy concert at Australia’s Sydney Stadium from December 2 of that year.  The third disc features Ol’ Blue Eyes’ landmark September 297, 1979 show at Egypt’s Pyramids while the fourth takes listeners to the Dominican Republic’s Altos de Chevon in the city of La Romana.

The DVD comprises entirely unreleased material, documenting Sinatra on a 1962 goodwill tour raising money for underprivileged children.  There’s an entire show from Hibya Park, Japan from April 21, plus the documentaries Frank Sinatra with All God’s Children and Sinatra in Israel and twelve commercials Sinatra made for the Perugina candy company.  These commercials featured newly-recorded (albeit abbreviated) versions of his classics, performed with The Bill Miller Sextet and arranged by Neal Hefti.

This eagerly-anticipated box also contains a booklet with liner notes by Sinatra’s longtime production manager Hank Cattaneo as well as reminiscences from the late Frank Sinatra, Jr., Bill Miller and Al Viola. It arrives from UMe and FSE on October 21.  You can pre-order World on a String at the links below!

Frank Sinatra, World on a String (UMe/Frank Sinatra Enterprises, 2016) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada TBD)

CD 1

SPORTING CLUB, MONTE CARLO – JUNE 14, 1958

1. Introduction by Noel Coward
2. Clarke Street (Play On)
3. Come Fly With Me
4. I Get A Kick Out Of You
5. I’ve Got You Under My Skin
6. Where Or When
7. Moonlight In Vermont
8. On The Road To Mandalay
9. When Your Lover Has Gone
10. April In Paris
11. All The Way
12. Monique
13. Bewitched
14. The Lady Is A Tramp
15. (Love Is) The Tender Trap (Play Off)
16. You Make Me Feel So Young
17. (Love Is) The Tender Trap (Bows)

Bonus Tracks (RAI Radio Club, May 20, 1953)

18. Radio Club Introduction
19. Welcome and Greetings
20. September Song – Frank Sinatra
21. Presentation and Announcements
22. Laura – Frank Sinatra
23. Baseball segment
24. Ninna Nanna – Domenico Modugno
25. Night And Day – Frank Sinatra
26. Closing Remarks

CD 2

SYDNEY STADIUM, AUSTRALIA – DECEMBER 2, 1961

1. Introduction By Tommy Hanlon Jr.
2. I’ve Got The World On A String
3. I Concentrate On You
4. Night And Day
5. Moonlight In Vermont
6. In The Still Of The Night
7. I’ll Be Seeing You
8. Day In, Day Out
9. The Moon Was Yellow (And The Night Was Young)
10. You’re Nobody ‘Til Somebody Loves You
11. Monologue
12. Come Fly With Me
13. April In Paris
14. A Foggy Day
15. Without A Song
16. Imagination
17. The Second Time Around
18. Young At Heart
19. Witchcraft
20. Embraceable You
21. The One I Love (Belongs To Somebody Else)
22. My Funny Valentine
23. My Blue Heaven
24. Angel Eyes
25. One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)
26. The Lady Is A Tramp

CD 3

THE PYRAMIDS, EGYPT – SEPTEMBER 27, 1979

1. Sadat’s Comments
2. The Song Is You
3. Where Or When
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. Something
7. My Kind Of Town
8. All The Way
9. Bewitched
10. I’ve Got You Under My Skin
11. The Gal That Got Away /It Never Entered My Mind (Medley)
12. Monologue
13. Try A Little Tenderness
14. Strangers In The Night
15. Street of Dreams
16. April In Paris
17. Theme From New York, New York
18. My Way
19. Bows (My Way)
20. Closing Comments by Frank Sinatra

CD 4

ALTOS DE CHEVON, LA ROMANA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC – AUGUST 20, 1982

1. I’ve Got The World On A String
2. I Get A Kick Out Of You
3. Come Rain Or Come Shine
4. When Your Lover Has Gone
5. The Lady Is A Tramp (with Reprise)
6. The House I Live In
7. Searching
8. My Kind Of Town
9. Something
10. The Best Is Yet To Come
11. Strangers In The Night
12. All Or Nothing At All
13. Introduction of Musicians
14. The Gal That Got Away/It Never Entered My Mind (Medley)
15. I’ve Got You Under My Skin
16. Send In The Clowns
17. Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars (Corcovado)
18. I Won’t Dance
19. Buddy Rich Band Introduction
20. Theme From New York, New York
21. Bows (Theme From New York, New York)

DVD

HIBYA PARK, JAPAN – APRIL 21, 1962

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 (And The Night Was Young)
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
21. I Could Have Danced All Night
22. Bows (Closing)

FRANK SINATRA WITH ALL GOD’S CHILDREN, 1962

SINATRA IN ISRAEL, 1962

PERUGINA COMMERCIALS, 1962

1. Night And Day
2. My Funny Valentine
3. I’ve Got You Under My Skin
4. Moonlight In Vermont
5. I Love Paris
6. Come Fly With Me
7. My Blue Heaven
8. Chicago
9. Imagination
10. Witchcraft
11. A Foggy Day
12. The Lady Is A Tramp