{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Moonlight Sinatra | type = Album | artist = Frank Sinatra | cover = Moonlightsinatra.jpg | alt = | released = {{start date|1966|3}} | recorded = November 29–30, 1965 | venue = | studio = United Recording "A", Hollywood, Los Angeles | genre = {{hlist|Vocal jazz|traditional pop}} | length = {{duration|m=32|s=18}} | label = Reprise <br />{{small|FS 1018}} | producer = Sonny Burke | prev_title = A Man and His Music | prev_year = 1965 | next_title = Strangers in the Night | next_year = 1966 }}
'''''Moonlight Sinatra''''' is a studio album by the American singer Frank Sinatra, released in March 1966. All of the tracks on the album are centered on the Moon, and were arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle and his orchestra. ''Moonlight Sinatra'' marked Sinatra's final collaboration with Riddle.
The title of the album is a reference to Ludwig van Beethoven's ''Moonlight Sonata''.
{{Music ratings |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r26314}}.</ref> | rev2 = ''Encyclopedia of Popular Music'' | rev2Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|edition=4th|isbn=978-0195313734|title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}</ref> | rev3 = ''Record Mirror'' | rev3Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{Cite magazine |last1=Jones |first1=Peter |author-link1=Peter Jones (journalist) |last2= Jopling |first2= Norman |date=11 June 1966 |title=Frank Sinatra: ''Moonlight Sinatra'' |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/60s/66/Record-Mirror-1966-06-11.pdf |magazine=Record Mirror |issue=274 |page=8 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220401225752/https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/60s/66/Record-Mirror-1966-06-11.pdf |archive-date=1 April 2022|access-date=18 November 2022}}</ref> }}
==Track listing== #"Moonlight Becomes You" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 2:46 #"Moon Song" (Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston) – 3:03 #"Moonlight Serenade" (Glenn Miller, Mitchell Parish) – 3:26 #"Reaching for the Moon" (Irving Berlin) – 3:05 #"I Wished on the Moon" (Dorothy Parker, Ralph Rainger) – 2:53 #"Oh, You Crazy Moon" (Burke, Van Heusen) – 3:12 #"The Moon Got in My Eyes" (Burke, Johnston) – 2:52 #"Moonlight Mood" (Harold Adamson, Peter DeRose) – 3:08 #"Moon Love" (Mack David, André Kostelanetz) (adapted from Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, Second Movement) – 4:14 #"The Moon Was Yellow (And the Night Was Young)" (Fred E. Ahlert, Edgar Leslie) – 3:04
==Personnel== *Frank Sinatra – vocals *Nelson Riddle – arranger, conductor *Bill Miller – piano *Al Viola – guitar *Ralph Pena, Eddie Gilbert – bass *Irving Cottler – drums
==Charts== {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" ! scope="col"| Chart (1966) ! scope="col"| Peak<br/>position |- {{Album chart|Billboard200|34|artist=Frank Sinatra|rowheader=true|access-date=January 22, 2025}} |}
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{{Frank Sinatra}} {{Nelson Riddle}}
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Category:Frank Sinatra albums Category:Reprise Records albums Category:1966 albums Category:Albums produced by Sonny Burke Category:Albums arranged by Nelson Riddle Category:Albums conducted by Nelson Riddle Category:Music about the Moon