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Frank Sinatra Sings For Only The Lonely vinyl value

Frank Sinatra Sings For Only The Lonely — Frank Sinatra album cover
Prices for this album are still being collected: our eBay tracker quotes a pressing only after at least three live listings match it. The pressings and identification below are complete.

Frank Sinatra — Frank Sinatra Sings For Only The Lonely: pressings we track

PressingCatalogCountryNotes
1980 CapitolSN-16202USReissue
1984 Capitol1A 038 26 01391NetherlandsMono
1984 CapitolED 26 0139 1UKReissue, Remastered
1984 CapitolED 26 0139 1UKReissue, Remastered, Test Pressing
2009 Mobile Fidelity Sound LabMFSL 1-326USLimited Edition, Reissue, Remastered
2012 WaxTime771743EuropeReissue, 180g
2013 DolDOS587EuropeReissue
2015 DolDOS587HEuropeReissue, 180 gsm
2018 WaxTime In Color950652EuropeLimited Edition, Reissue, Blue
2018 Vinyl Lovers6785502EuropeReissue, Remastered, 200 gram
2018 Capitol6756971USA & EuropeDeluxe Edition, Reissue, Remastered
2022 PU:REPU:RE:001EuropeLimited Edition, Remastered, 180 gram
2025 ContextCON-2512Poland—

13 pressings tracked · catalog of 974,753 releases, August 2026

What separates the pressings

Oldest we track, 1980First released 1958; our table starts at 1980 (Capitol, US). A copy older than 1980 predates everything here. Treat it as the find.
Collector variants1984 Netherlands: Mono; 1984 UK: Reissue, Remastered, Test Pressing; 2009 US: Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered. Scarce on purpose; collectors pay for that.
Reissues, 2012+5 pressings. Easy to find, priced as listening copies.

How to identify your copy

Three checks, in the order worth doing them.

  1. 1

    Match the catalog number. It is printed on the spine and the record label. Check it together with the country against the pressings table above: the same number can appear in more than one country.

  2. 2

    Read the runout. The code etched in the dead wax near the label names the exact pressing. Trust the etching over the jacket: covers get traded around, dead wax stays put.

  3. 3

    Grade the condition. A clean copy and a worn one of the same pressing sit several grades, and several multiples, apart. Grade record and sleeve separately; see our grading guide.

Do not price the cover. A later disc in a 1958 jacket is a reissue, whatever the sleeve says: the pressing lives in the runout etching and on the label.

Questions

Which pressing of Frank Sinatra Sings For Only The Lonely is worth the most?

Original 1958 pressings lead; they predate everything in our table, and that scarcity is the point. Among tracked copies, the 1980 pressings come first. Scarcer variants (the 1984 “Mono” and the 1984 “Reissue, Remastered, Test Pressing”) can beat an ordinary early copy. After that it is all condition: the gap between near mint and VG is usually larger than the gap between pressings.

How do I tell which pressing I have?

Match the catalog number on the spine and label against the table above, check the country, then read the etched code in the runout groove. A period jacket with a later disc inside is still a reissue.

How much is Frank Sinatra Sings For Only The Lonely worth today?

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