Legacy Recordings to Commemorate Frank Sinatra's 100th Birthday with New CD Collection Featuring Rare Tracks!

To celebrate Frank Sinatra's 100th Birthday, Legacy Recordings is releasing a commemorative 4-CD collection, including 100 rare tracks and 91 live performances previously unreleased.

Frank Sinatra: A Voice on Air (1935-1955) will feature over 100 songs in a deluxe box set and will be available to purchase Friday, November 20th. The rare recordings have been restored from their original masters for supreme quality and sound. Pre-order here!

The set also includes a 60-page book chronicling Sinatra's formative years, and a forward written by Michael Feinstein. Many unique photographs and recording artifacts can also be found in the set.

The rare recordings featured in the set have been pulled from the producers own Sinatra broadcast collections as well as The Library of Congress, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, the Paley Center for Media, the Michael Feinstein Great American Songbook Initiative archive and The University of Colorado's Glenn Miller Archive.

Many of the songs included in the box set were never officially recorded by Sinatra. This includes classics from The Great American Songbook, like Cole Porter's "Don't Fence Me In" and Frank Loesser's "I Wish I Didn't Love You So," as well as new arrangements of Sinatra's most famous songs.

Duets with Nat 'King' Cole, Peggy Lee, and many others are included in the set along with twelve surprise bonus tracks!

In addition to the Voice on Air box set, The Smithsonian Institution, in partenership with Legacy Recordings is creating a CD of 26 previously unreleased radio recordings of Sinatra that are not featured on the box set. This CD will be offered only at the Smithsonian Institution in DC or here.

Throughout his nine-decade career, Frank Sinatra performed on more than 1,400 recordings and was awarded 31 gold, nine platinum, three double platinum and one triple platinum album by the Recording Industry Association of America. He extends his record to 57 for the most top 40 albums on the Billboard 200 with this year's new Ultimate Sinatra release. Sinatra has had Top 40 hits on the charts for eight decades which is as long as the Billboard charts have existed. He received nine GRAMMY Awards over the course of his career, including three for the prestigious Album Of The Year, and an Oscar. Sinatra demonstrated a remarkable ability to appeal to every generation and continues to do so; his artistry still influences many of today's music superstars. He also appeared in more than 60 films and produced eight motion pictures.

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