Duets II is the sixty-seventh and final studio album recorded by Frank Sinatra. It was under Capitol Records. The album was released as a sequel to the 1993 hit album Duets. The album was released shortly an entire year after Duets, released in November.
Duets II, in 2005, was packaged together with it's predecessor, Duets for a "90th Birthday Limited Collector's Edition" that included a previously unreleased duet recording of "My Way", costarring Willie Nelson.
Track Listing[]
- Tracks 1 through 13 are not included in the original version of the album, rather the Duets/Duets II: 90th Birthday Limited Collector's Edition.
- "The Lady Is a Tramp" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) (with Luther Vandross) – 3:24
- "What Now My Love" (Gilbert Becaud, Carl Sigman, Pierre Leroyer) (with Aretha Franklin) – 3:15
- "I've Got a Crush on You" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) (with Barbra Streisand) – 3:23
- "Summer Wind" (Heinz Meier, Hans Bradtke, Johnny Mercer) (with Julio Iglesias) – 2:32
- "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Harold Arlen, Mercer) (with Gloria Estefan) – 4:04
- "Theme from New York, New York" (Fred Ebb, John Kander) (with Tony Bennett) – 3:30
- "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) (with Natalie Cole) – 3:11
- "You Make Me Feel So Young" (Mack Gordon, Josef Myrow) (with Charles Aznavour) – 3:05
- "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry"/"In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne)/(Bob Hilliard, David Mann) (with Carly Simon) – 3:57
- "I've Got the World on a String" (Arlen, Ted Koehler) (with Liza Minnelli) – 2:18
- "Witchcraft" (Carolyn Leigh, Cy Coleman) (with Anita Baker) – 3:22
- "I've Got You Under My Skin" (Cole Porter) (with Bono) – 3:32
- "All the Way"/"One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" (Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen)/(Arlen, Mercer) (with Kenny G) – 6:03
- "For Once in My Life" (Ron Miller, Orlando Murden) (with Gladys Knight and Stevie Wonder) – 3:18
- "Come Fly with Me" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) (with Luis Miguel) – 4:17
- "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) (with Patti Labelle) – 3:31
- "The Best is Yet to Come" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) (with Jon Secada) – 3:12
- "Moonlight in Vermont" (John Blackburn, Karl Suessdorf) (with Linda Ronstadt) – 4:07
- "Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)" (Bart Howard) (with Antonio Carlos Jobim) – 3:06
- "Luck Be a Lady" (Frank Loesser) (with Chrissie Hynde) – 5:17
- "A Foggy Day" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) (with Willie Nelson) – 2:24
- "Where or When" (Rodgers, Hart) (with Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme) – 3:53
- "Embraceable You" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) (with Lena Horne) – 3:45
- "Mack the Knife" (Marc Blitzstein, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill) (with Jimmy Buffett) – 4:26
- "How Do You Keep the Music Playing?"/"My Funny Valentine" (Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Michel Legrand)/(Rodgers, Hart) (with Lorrie Morgan) – 3:58
- "My Kind of Town (Chicago Is)" (Cahn, Van Heusen) (with Frank Sinatra, Jr.) – 2:33
- "The House I Live In (That's America to Me)" (Lewis Allan, Earl Robinson) (with Neil Diamond) – 4:14
20th anniversary[]
To commemorate Duets' 20th anniversary, the album and its sequel will be re-released in a special collector's edition.[1] This special edition features both Duets and Duets II on both 12" vinyl and compact disc. Both albums feature new bonus tracks as well, featuring the below tracks:
- tracks added to Duets
- "My Way" with Luciano Pavarotti (Previously released on Sinatra 80th: Live in Concert)
- "One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)" with Tom Scott (Previously Unreleased)
- tracks added to Duets II
- "My Way" with Willie Nelson (Previously released on Duets/Duets II: 90th Birthday Limited Collector's Edition)
- "Embraceable You" with Tanya Tucker (Previously Unreleased)
- "Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words)" with George Strait (Previously Unreleased)