Portrait of Sinatra – Forty Songs from the Life of a Man is a 1977 compilation (Gatefold) album by American singer Frank Sinatra that consists of 40 songs that were recorded for Reprise Records. It spent a total of eighteen non-consecutive weeks in the UK Albums Chart, reaching number-one for two weeks on 2 April 1977. It became Sinatra's fourth album to top the British charts, his first since 1957's A Swingin' Affair! to claim pole position, and also his most recent chart-topping album in the UK.

The sleeve design was illustrated by English portrait painter Michael Noakes, who won a platinum disc for his work. The artwork on the back cover of the gatefold album shows an outline charcoal drawing of Sinatra's face; one of the inside sleeves shows a partially painted version of that same outline charcoal drawing; the other inside sleeve lists the album's tracks and several tributes to Sinatra from artists such as Frankie Valli, Hoagy Carmichael; Bing Crosby, Nelson Riddle, Count Basie and Antonio Carlos Jobim; and the front cover itself shows the fully completed portrait of Sinatra's face. The album was not issued in the U.S & has never had an official release on CD in the UK.

Track listing

Side One "Let's Face the Music and Dance" "Nancy (With the Laughing Face)" - 2:31 "I've Got You Under My Skin" - 3:26 "Let Me Try Again (Laisse Moi Le Temps)" - 3:31 "Fly Me to the Moon" - 2:29 "All or Nothing at All" - 3:57 "For Once in My Life" - 2:50 "Bonita" - 3:39 "My Kind of Town" - 3:10 "Call Me Irresponsible" - 2:56

Side Ttwo "All the Way" - 3:26 "Strangers in the Night" - 2:36 "Didn't We?" "Come Fly with Me" - 3:11 "The Second Time Around" - 3:03 "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" - 2:53 "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" "Softly, as I Leave You" "Cycles" "Send in the Clowns" - 3:39

Side Three "That's Life" - 3:07 "Little Green Apples" - 5:00 "The Song of the Sabiá" "Goody Goody" - 1:47 "Empty Tables" "I Believe I'm Gonna Love You" "Stargazer" "I Sing the Songs (I Write the Songs)" "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" - 2:37 "It Was a Very Good Year" - 4:25

Side Four "Somethin' Stupid" (with Nancy Sinatra) - 2:45 "Young at Heart" - 2:52 "You Make Me Feel So Young" - 3:21 "Yesterday" - 3:56 "Pennies from Heaven" "If" "Something" - 3:34 "Star!" "Love's Been Good to Me" "My Way" - 4:35

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (1977–78) Peakposition Australian Albums (Kent Music Report) 83

Year-end charts Chart (1977) Position UK Albums (OCC) 13

Certifications and sales

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