Sinatra 6 LP Box set 1986 The Voice columbia years: How Rare?

Sinatra 6 LP Box set 1986: The Voice The Columbia Years 1943-1952

How Rare is it? I have a copy. I have the vinyl set not the CD version.

 

I don't know how rare it is, but it does contain alternate takes not on The Columbia Years 12 CD set. I have the CD version.

 

Not extremely

 

I bought mine at a Goodwill for $10.00. It's noticeably de-noised, but there's a lot of great music on it. I would just play it, and enjoy it.

 

I've seen copies of it around on vinyl. Not a very rare or high priced item methinks. I don't have the vinyl, just the CD's.
The sound is horribly filtered and EQ'd on a lot of the tracks. It's an arduous listen in comparison to the newer versions on the 12 CD/4 CD Columbia collections.

 

I'm not sure. I remember my father having an MFSL Sinatra Box Set. I haven't seen one of those in years.

 

Dunno about the vinyl, but the CD set is not terribly rare. I believe this was the very first Sinatra material to appear on comapct disc (about 1986), and there were a lot of them sold back when CDs were a novelty on store shelves.

It predates the new transfers and improved digital mastering performed by Legacy Recordings in 1993 for the complete 12-disc "big blue box." So the sound is horrible in comparison, although there are some alternate takes which have not been heard since, as mentioned.

Great liner notes, though. Won a Grammy, I believe.

 

And those would be...

 

The following songs in The Voice: The Columbia Years (1943-1952) (Columbia/CBS, 1986) are alternate takes of versions contained in The Columbia Years 1943-1952: The Complete Recordings (Columbia/Legacy, 1993) aka the "Big Blue Box" (BBB):

1. Nancy (With The Laughing Face) (8/22/45)
2. Try A Little Tenderness (12/07/45)
3. Poinciana (10/29/47)
4. Mean To Me (10/31/47)
5. I've Got A Crush On You (11/05/47)
6. It Never Entered My Mind (11/05/47)
7. Body And Soul (11/09/47}
8. Why Was I Born? (12/28/47}

This implies that the masters used in the BBB were in much better shape. Exact song differences for any of these tracks can be listed if you're interested, but these are usually quite minor.

 

Danke schoen, my brother.

 

Would love to have the MFSL set.

 

Thanks for all the replies. I was wondering it's worth or of its rare. I'm not into Sinatra very much. But maybe that will change.

 

Yes

 

This vinyl box set brings back so nice memories. I was ten years old when it was released. And my father bought it for me. He couldn't afford to buy the complete set so he made a deal with the record shop and bought the six albums one after another over several weeks/months. They opened the box set for him and stored it away! But for some reason when he bought the last of the six Lps they forgot to give him the box set case! So I only have the Lp's without the box. But I never mind that. I still treasure them with all my heart because it will always remember me of how my father really tried to make my every wish come true. Love him forever.