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Sinatra at the Sands is a live album by Frank Sinatra accompanied by Count Basie and his orchestra, and conducted and arranged by Quincy Jones, recorded live in the Copa Room of the former Sands Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas in 1966.

” Basie and the orchestra are swinging and dynamic, inspiring a textured, dramatic, and thoroughly enjoyable performance from Sinatra.” – Stephen Thomas Erlewine/AllMusic.

Track listing:
From the 1998 Warner Bros. Records reissue, 46947

“Come Fly with Me” (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 3:45
“I’ve Got a Crush on You” (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:42
“I’ve Got You Under My Skin” (Cole Porter) – 3:43
“The Shadow of Your Smile” (Johnny Mandel, Paul Francis Webster) – 2:31
“Street of Dreams” (Victor Young, Sam M. Lewis) – 2:16
“One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)” (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 4:40
“Fly Me to the Moon” (Bart Howard) – 2:50
“One O’Clock Jump” [Instrumental] (Count Basie) – 0:53
“The Tea Break” (Sinatra Monologue) – 11:48
“You Make Me Feel So Young” (Mack Gordon, Josef Myrow) – 3:21
“All of Me” [Instrumental] (Gerald Marks, Seymour Simons) – 2:56
“The September of My Years” (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 2:57
“Luck Be a Lady” (Frank Loesser) – 4:40 (This bonus track was only available on the remastered 1998 CD and 2003 DVD-Audio releases. It was not part of any other edition, including the original LP as well as the current [2010] in-print CD)
“Get Me to the Church on Time” (Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner) – 2:22
“It Was a Very Good Year” (Ervin Drake) – 4:01
“Don’t Worry ‘Bout Me” (Rube Bloom, Ted Koehler) – 3:18
“Makin’ Whoopee” [Instrumental] (Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn) – 4:24
“Where or When” (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 2:46
“Angel Eyes” (Earl Brent, Matt Dennis) – 3:26
“My Kind of Town” (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 3:04
“A Few Last Words” (Sinatra Monologue) – 2:30
“My Kind of Town” [Reprise] – 1:00

Personnel:
Frank Sinatra – vocal
Count Basie – piano
Bill Miller – piano
The Count Basie Orchestra:
Quincy Jones – arranging, conducting
Harry “Sweets” Edison – trumpet solo
Al Aarons – trumpet
Sonny Cohn – trumpet
Wallace Davenport – trumpet
Phil Guilbeau – trumpet
Al Grey – trombone
Henderson Chambers – trombone
Grover Mitchell – trombone
Bill Hughes – trombone
Marshal Royal – alto saxophone / clarinet
Bobby Plater – alto saxophone / flute
Eric Dixon – tenor saxophone / flute
Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis – tenor saxophone
Charlie Fowlkes – baritone saxophone / bass clarinet
Freddie Green – guitar
Norman Keenan – Double bass
Irv Cottler – drums
Sonny Payne – drums

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Released: July 1966
Recorded: January and February 1966
Length: 76:03
Label: Reprise
FS 1019
Producer: Sonny Burke