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36 Greatest Hits!

compilation album by Frank Sinatra

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ4635718 ↗
Source-derived summary

36 Greatest Hits! is a 2010 box set by American singer Frank Sinatra. This box set contains 36 songs he recorded for his own label, Reprise.

Editorial summary

“36 Greatest Hits!” enters the record as compilation album by Frank Sinatra. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Greatest, Hits and compilation can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2010. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Greatest, Hits and compilation.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“36 Greatest Hits!” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Greatest, Hits and compilation provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4635718. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “36 Greatest Hits!”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow 36 Greatest Hits! primary sources, 36 Greatest Hits! archive and Greatest research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “36 Greatest Hits!”?
  2. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
  3. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “36 Greatest Hits!” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.