The Song Is You (Frank Sinatra album)
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Released | August 30, 1994 | |||
Recorded | February 1, 1940– July 2, 1942 | |||
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Length | 382:55 | |||
Label | RCA | |||
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The Song Is You is a 1994 box set by American singer Frank Sinatra.
This five disc box set contains every studio recording Frank Sinatra performed with Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra, a few tracks of alternate recording takes, and a full disc of mostly-unreleased radio broadcasts. It is considered a definitive look at the first years of what would become a half-a-century long career.
Track listing
[edit]Disc one
[edit]- "The Sky Fell Down" (Edward Heyman, Louis Alter) - 3:14
- "Too Romantic" (Johnny Burke, James Monaco) - 3:11
- Recorded on February 1, 1940
- "Shake Down the Stars" (Ed DeLange, Jimmy Van Heusen)
- "Moments in the Moonlight" (Richard Himber, Irving Gordon, Alvin Kaufman)
- "I'll Be Seeing You" (Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal)
- Recorded on February 26, 1940
- "Say It" (Frank Loesser, Jimmy McHugh)
- "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" (Burke, Van Heusen)
- Recorded on March 4, 1940
- "The Fable of the Rose" (Bickley Reichner, Josef Myrow)
- "This Is the Beginning of the End" (Mack Gordon)
- Recorded on March 12, 1940
- "Hear My Song Violetta" (Buddy Bernier, Robert Emmerich, Othmar Klase, Rudolph Inkesch)
- "Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread)" (Rube Bloom, Johnny Mercer)
- "Devil May Care" (Burke, Harry Warren)
- Recorded on March 29, 1940
- "April Played the Fiddle" (Burke, Monaco)
- "I Haven't the Time to Be a Millionaire" (Burke, Monaco)
- "Imagination" (Burke, Van Heusen)
- Recorded on April 10, 1940
- "Yours Is My Heart Alone" (Franz Lehár, Ludwig Herzer , Fritz Löhner-Beda)
- Recorded on March 25, 1940
- "You're Lonely and I'm Lonely" (Irving Berlin)
- "East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)" (Brooks Bowman)
- "Head On My Pillow" (Bissel Palmer, Pierre Connor)
- "It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow" (Berlin)
- Recorded on April 23, 1940
- "I'll Never Smile Again" (Ruth Lowe)
- "All This and Heaven Too" (DeLange, Van Heusen)
- "Where Do You Keep Your Heart?" (Al Stillman, Fred Ahlert)
- Recorded on May 23, 1940
Disc two
[edit]- "Whispering" (Vincent Rose, Richard Coburn, John Schonberger)
- Recorded on June 13, 1940
- "Trade Winds" (Cliff Friend, Charles Tobias)
- "The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn)
- Recorded on June 27, 1940
- "The Call of the Canyon" (Billy Hill)
- "Love Lies" (Carl Sigman, Ralph Freed, Joseph Meyer)
- "I Could Make You Care" (Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin)
- "The World Is in My Arms" (Yip Harburg, Burton Lane)
- Recorded on July 17, 1940
- "Our Love Affair" (Freed, Roger Edens)
- "Looking for Yesterday" (DeLange, Van Heusen)
- "Tell Me at Midnight" (Clay A. Boland, Bickley Reichner)
- "We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me)" (Dick Robertson, Nelson Cogane, Sammy Mysels)
- Recorded on August 29, 1940
- "When You Awake" (Henry Nemo)
- "Anything" (DeLange, Frank Signorelli, P. Napoleon)
- Recorded on September 9, 1940
- "Shadows on the Sand" (Stanley Adams, Will Grosz)
- "You're Breaking My Heart All Over Again" (James Cavanaugh, John Redmond, Arthur Altman)
- "I'd Know You Anywhere" (Mercer, Jimmy McHugh)
- Recorded on September 17, 1940
- "Do You Know Why?" (Burke, Van Heusen)
- Recorded on October 16, 1940
- "Not So Long Ago" (Reichner, Boland)
- "Stardust" (Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish)
- Recorded on November 11, 1940
- "Oh! Look at Me Now" (Joe Bushkin, John DeVries)
- "You Might Have Belonged to Another" (P. West, L. Harmon)
- Recorded on January 6, 1941
- "You Lucky People, You" (Burke, Van Heusen)
- "It's Always You" (Burke, Van Heusen)
- Recorded on January 15, 1941
- "I Tried" (Carl Nutter, Paul Hand, Clark Dennis)
- Recorded on January 20, 1941
Disc three
[edit]- "Dolores" (Loesser, Alter)
- "Without a Song" (Vincent Youmans, Edward Eliscu, Billy Rose)
- Recorded on January 20, 1941
- "Do I Worry?" (Bobby Worth, Stanley Cowan)
- "Everything Happens to Me" (Matt Dennis, Tom Adair)
- Recorded on February 7, 1941
- "Let's Get Away from It All" (Dennis, Adair)
- Recorded on February 17, 1941
- "I'll Never Let a Day Pass By" (Loesser, Victor Schertzinger)
- "Love Me As I Am" (Loesser, Alter)
- "This Love of Mine" (Sol Parker, Hank Sanicola, Frank Sinatra)
- Recorded on May 28, 1941
- "I Guess I'll Have to Dream the Rest" (Mickey Stoner, Bud Green, Martin Block)
- "You & I" (Meredith Willson)
- "Neiani" (Axel Stordahl, Sy Oliver)
- "Free for All" (Tom Adair, Matt Dennis)
- Recorded on June 27, 1941
- "Blue Skies" (Berlin)
- Recorded on July 15, 1941
- "Two In Love" (Meredith Willson)
- "Pale Moon (An Indian Love Song)" (Jesse Glick, Frederick Logan)
- Recorded on August 19, 1941
- "I Think of You" (J. Elliot, Don Marcotte)
- "How Do You Do Without Me?" (Bushkin, DeVries)
- "A Sinner Kissed An Angel" (Mack David, Larry Shayne)
- Recorded on September 18, 1941
- "Violets for Your Furs" (Dennis, Adair)
- "The Sunshine of Your Smile" (Leonard Cooke, Lillian Ray)
- Recorded on September 26, 1941
- "How About You?" (Lane, Ralph Freed)
- Recorded on December 22, 1941
- "Snootie Little Cutie" (Bobby Troup)
- Recorded on February 19, 1942
Disc four
[edit]- "Poor You" (Harburg, Lane)
- "I'll Take Tallulah" (Harburg, Lane)
- "The Last Call for Love" (Harburg, Lane, M. Cummings)
- Recorded on February 19, 1942
- "Somewhere a Voice Is Calling" (Eileen Newton, Arthur Tate)
- Recorded on March 9, 1942
- "Just As Though You Were Here" (DeLange, John Benson Brooks)
- "Street of Dreams" (Victor Young, Sam M. Lewis)
- Recorded on May 18, 1942
- "Take Me" (Bloom, David)
- "Be Careful, It's My Heart" (Berlin)
- Recorded on June 9, 1942
- "In the Blue of Evening" (Adair, Alfred D'Artega)
- "Dig Down Deep" (Walter Hirsch, Gerald Marks, S. Marco)
- Recorded on June 17, 1942
- "There Are Such Things" (Stanley Adams, George W. Meyer, Abel Baer)
- "Daybreak" (Harold Adamson, Ferde Grofe)
- "It Started All Over Again" (Bill Carey, Carl T. Fischer)
- Recorded on July 1, 1942
- "Light a Candle In the Chapel" (Harry Pease, Ed G. Nelson, Duke Leonard)
- Recorded on July 2, 1942
- "Too Romantic" [Take 2]
- Recorded on February 1, 1940
- "Shake Down the Stars" [Take 2]
- Recorded on February 26, 1940
- "Hear My Song Violetta" (Take 2)
- Recorded on March 29, 1940
- "You're Lonely and I'm Lonely" [Take 3]
- Recorded on April 23, 1940
- "Our Love Affair" [Take 2]
- Recorded on August 29, 1940
- "Violets for Your Furs" [Take 2]
- Recorded on August 19, 1941
- "The Night We Called It a Day" (Dennis, Adair)
- "The Lamplighter's Serenade" (Carmichael, Paul Francis Webster)
- "The Song Is You" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II)
- "Night and Day" (Cole Porter)
- Recorded on January 19, 1942
Disc Five (Radio Broadcasts)
[edit]- Theme: "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" (George Bassman, Ned Washington)
- "Who?" (Kern, Otto Harbach, Hammerstein II)
- "I Hear a Rhapsody" (George Fragos, Jack Baker, Dick Gasparre)
- "I'll Never Smile Again"
- "Half-Way Down the Street" (Fred Waring)
- "Some of Your Sweetness (Got Into My Heart)" (J. Clayborn, G. Clayborn)
- "Once in a While"
- "A Little In Love"
- "It Came to Me"
- "Only Forever"
- "Marie"
- "Yearning"
- "How Am I to Know"
- "You're Part of My Heart"
- Announcements
- "You're Stepping On My Toes"
- "You Got the Best of Me"
- "That's How It Goes"
- "When Daylight Dawns"
- "When Sleepy Stars Begin to Fall"
- "Goodbye Lover, Goodbye"
- "One Red Rose"
- "The Things I Love"
- "In the Blue of Evening"
- "Just As Though You Were Here"
- Frank Sinatra's Farewell to the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
- "The Song Is You"
Personnel
[edit]- Frank Sinatra - Vocals
- Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra