弗兰克·辛纳屈一生从没有停止过唱情歌；而情歌也是他所有作品中最好的一部分。他的职业生涯之初就定位于演唱浪漫歌曲，世人公认他的嗓音无可抗拒。他合作过的两个主要唱片公司，索尼和华纳，之前都推出了辛纳屈在他们旗下录制的精选集。所以CAPITAL直到07年才推出这张精选唱片，着实令人诧异，因为辛纳屈的很多代表作都是在与CAPITAL合作的时候产生的。其中大部分收录在1955年发行的那张《摇摆恋人之歌》里。这张精选集只从里面选了三首；其他的选自辛纳屈50年代和60年代初在CAPITAL公司创作的名曲，包括"Day by Day," "As Time Goes By," "My Funny Valentine," "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning," "All the Way" and "Where or When," 等，每一首都是经典。辛纳屈唱起伤心情歌的声音哀婉，这张唱片的基调也比较忧伤，所以也许对情人节来说它不是最佳的选择，但它确实相对完整地记录了这位传奇人物与CAPITAL合作的曲目。 Frank Sinatra never stopped singing love songs; arguably, it was what he did best. From the start of his career, Sinatra positioned himself as a singer of romantic songs, and he was believable in the role — who could fail to fall to that voice? The holders of Sinatra's other major-label output — Sony and Warner Bros. — have previously released collections of the key love songs Sinatra recorded for them, so it's surprising that it took Capitol this long because many of his greatest romantic ballads and up-tempo swingers were the product of his tenure with that label (a good many of them were found on 1955's momentous Songs for Swingin' Lovers! album). Romance could easily have been built around that album alone, but only three of its songs are here; wisely, the compilers chose judiciously from Sinatra's other '50s and early-'60s sides for the label as well, including such essentials as "Day by Day," "As Time Goes By," "My Funny Valentine," "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning," "All the Way" and "Where or When," each of which became a cornerstone of his repertoire. Sinatra was not a wide-eyed optimist when it came to singing of affairs of the heart, and the compilation benefits from the inclusion of tracks that are melancholy in tone (his In the Wee Small Hours album could be downright depressing, but therein lied its honest appeal). That may not make this the perfect Valentine's Day collection (it was released in January, 2007, in time for that year's annual onslaught of love comps) but it does make it a more well-rounded survey of the legend's love song work for Capitol.