1958, Capitol 1A 038 260139
(Direct Metal Mastering re-release; digitally remastered from analogue recording)

Sleeve and record in Near Mint condition

Side 1:
1  Only the Lonely  
2  Angel Eyes  
3  What's New?  
4  It's a Lonesome Old Town  
5  Willow Weep for Me  
6  Good-Bye

Side 2:
7  Blues in the Night  
8  Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry  
9  Ebb Tide  
10  Spring Is Here  
11  Gone With the Wind   
12  One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) 

Frank Sinatra
with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra

Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine (5/5 stars)
Originally, Frank Sinatra had planned to record Only the Lonely with Gordon Jenkins, who had arranged his previous all-ballads album, Where Are You. Jenkins was unavailable at the time of the sessions, which led Sinatra back to his original arranger at Capitol, Nelson Riddle. The result is arguably his greatest ballads album. Only the Lonely follows the same formula as his previous down albums, but the tone is considerably bleaker and more desperate. Riddle used a larger orchestra for the album than he had in the past, which lent the album a stately, nearly classical atmosphere. At its core, however, the album is a set of brooding saloon songs, highlighted by two of Sinatra's tour de forces — "Angel Eyes" and "One for My Baby." Sinatra never forces emotion out of the lyric, he lets everything flow naturally, with grace. It's a heartbreaking record, the ideal late-night album.