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| Frank Sinatra > Albums & Lyrics |

16 Most Requested Songs Album- All or Nothing at All
- Birth of the Blues, The
- Coffee Song, The
- Day by Day
- Dream
- Five Minutes More
- Fools Rush In
- Mamselle
- Nancy
- Oh! What It Seemed To Be
- Put Your Dreams Away
- Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week)
- Soliloquy
- The Things We Did Last Summer
- Time After Time
| 57 - In Concert Album- At Long Last Love
- A Foggy Day
- Glad to Be Unhappy
- Hey Jealous Lover
- It Happened in Monterey
- I Get a Kick Out of You
- Just One of Those Things
- Lady is a Tramp, The
- My Funny Valentine
- Oh! Look At Me Now
- One for My Baby
- Tender Trap, The
- Violets for Your Furs
- When Your Lover Has Gone
- You Make Me Feel So Young
| Academy Award Winners Album- All the Way
- Days Of Wine and Roses
- In The Cool, Cool, Cool Of The Evening
- It Might As Well Be Spring
- Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing
- Moon River
- Secret Love
- Swingin on a Star
- The Continental
- Three Coins in the Fountain
- Way You Look Tonight, The
| All-Time Hits No. 1 Album- Blue Skies
- Fools Rush In
- Imagination
- Light A Candle In The Chapel
- Oh! Look At Me Now
- Our Love Affair
- Sky Fell Down, The
- Street of Dreams
- Take Me
- Without a Song
| All-Time Hits No. 2 Album- April Played a Fiddle
- A Sinner Kissed an Angel
- Dolores
- East of the Sun and West of the Moon
- Everything Happens to Me
- How About You
- In the Blue of the Evening
- I Could Make You Care
- Just As Though You Were Here
- One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else, The
- Polkadots and Moonbeams
- Stardust
- This Love of Mine
- Too Romantic
- Violets for Your Furs
- We Three, My Echo, My Shadow, and Me
- Whispering
- Yours Is My Heart Alone
| All-Time Hits No. 3 Album- Devil May Care
- Do I Worry
- Do You Know Why
- Fable of the Rose
- Head On My Pillow
- How Do You Do Without Me?
- I Tried
- Looking For Yesterday
- Moments in the Moonlight
- Say It
- Shadows On the Sand
- Shake Down the Stars
- Snootie Little Cutie
- Somewhere A Voice Is Calling
- This Is the Beginning of the End
- Trade Winds
- Two In Love
- You and I
| At The Sands Album- All of Me
- Angel Eyes
- Come Fly with Me
- Fly Me to the Moon
- Get Me to the Church On Time
- It Was a Very Good Year
- Luck Be a Lady
- My Kind of Town
- One for My Baby
- September of My Years
- Shadow of Your Smile
- Street of Dreams
- Where or When
- You Make Me Feel So Young
| Beginnings Album- All or Nothing at All
- A Lovely Way To Spend An Evening
- Close to You
- Day by Day
- Embraceable You
- I Only Have Eyes for You
- Stormy Weather
| Best Of Capitol Years Album- All the Way
- Come Fly with Me
- High Hopes
- How Little We Know
- In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
- I Get a Kick Out of You
- Lady is a Tramp, The
- Love and Marriage
- Night and Day
- South of the Border
- Tender Trap, The
- Three Coins in the Fountain
- What Is This Thing Called Love
- Witchcraft
- Young at Heart
- You Make Me Feel So Young
| Best Of Columbia Years 1943-52 Album- No songs listed
| Capitol Collectors Series Album- All the Way
- Chicago
- From Here to Eternity
- Hey Jealous Lover
- High Hopes
- How Little We Know
- Love and Marriage
- Melody of Love
- Same Old Saturday Night
- South of the Border
- Tender Trap, The
- Three Coins in the Fountain
- Witchcraft
- Young at Heart
| Classic Sinatra Album- All the Way
- Come Dance with Me
- Come Fly with Me
- In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
- It Happened in Monterey
- I Get a Kick Out of You
- Lady is a Tramp, The
- My Funny Valentine
- Night and Day
- Oh! Look At Me Now
- One for My Baby
- Put Your Dreams Away
- Someone to Watch Over Me
- Witchcraft
- Young at Heart
- You Make Me Feel So Young
| Come Dance With Me Album- Baubles, Bangles And Beads
- Cheek to Cheek
- Come Dance with Me
- Dancing in the Dark
- Day In, Day Out
- It All Depends On You
- I Could Have Danced All Night
- Just in Time
- Last Dance, The
- Nothing in Common
- Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week)
- Song Is You, The
- The Same Old Song And Dance
- Too Close For Comfort
| Come Fly With Me Album- April in Paris
- Around The World
- Autumn in New York
- Blue Hawaii
- Brazil
- Chicago
- Come Fly with Me
- Isle of Capri
- I Love Paris
- London By Night
- Moonlight in Vermont
- On the Road to Mandalay
- South of the Border
| Duets Album- All the Way
- Come Rain or Come Shine
- In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
- Lady is a Tramp, The
- New York, New York
- One for My Baby
- Summer Wind
- What Now My Love
- Witchcraft
- You Make Me Feel So Young
| Duets II Album- Best Is Yet to Come, The
- Bewitched
- Come Fly with Me
- Embraceable You
- Fly Me to the Moon
- Foggy Day, A
- For Once in My Life
- House I Live In, The
- How Do You Keep the Music Playing
- Luck Be a Lady
- Mack the Knife
- Moonlight in Vermont
- My Funny Valentine
- My Kind of Town
- Where or When
| Essence Of Frank Sinatra Album- Autumn in New York
- Coffee Song, The
- Dream
- Lost In The Stars
- Lover
- Nancy
- Nature Boy
- The Old Master Painter
| Everything Happens To Me Album- All My Tomorrows
- Come Rain or Come Shine
- Drinking Again
- Everything Happens to Me
- Gal That Got Away, The
- How Insensitive (Insensatez)
- If I Had You
- If You Go Away
- It Never Entered My Mind
- More Than You Know
- Once I Loved (O Amor En Paz)
- Once Upon A Time
- Put Your Dreams Away
- Second Time Around, The
- Summer Wind
- What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life
- Yesterday
| Fabulous Frank Sinatra & Tommy Album- Fools Rush In
- Night and Day
- Once in a While
- One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else, The
- Polkadots and Moonbeams
- Song Is You, The
- Stardust
- Street of Dreams
- There Are Such Things
- The Last Call For Love
- You and I
| Francis A. & Edward K. Album- All I Need Is The Girl
- Come Back To Me
- Follow Me
- Indian Summer
- I Like The Sunrise
- Poor Butterfly
- Sunny
- Yellow Days
| Gold Album- All the Way
- Chicago
- I Get a Kick Out of You
- Lady is a Tramp, The
- My Funny Valentine
- Same Old Saturday Night
- Three Coins in the Fountain
- Witchcraft
- Young at Heart
| Greatest Hits Album- Blue Skies
- Fools Rush In
- How Am I To Know
- Imagination
- In the Blue of the Evening
- I Think of You
- Night and Day
- Once in a While
- One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else, The
- Polkadots and Moonbeams
- Sky Fell Down, The
- Stardust
- This Love of Mine
- Without a Song
| I Remember Tommy Album- Daybreak
- East of the Sun and West of the Moon
- Imagination
- It Started All Over Again
- One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else, The
- Polkadots and Moonbeams
- Take Me
- There Are Such Things
- Without a Song
| In The Wee Small Hours Album- Dancing on the Ceiling
- Deep In A Dream
- Glad to Be Unhappy
- In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
- It Never Entered My Mind
- I Get Along Without You Very Well
- I See Your Face Before Me
- Last Night When We Were Young
- Mood Indigo
- This Love of Mine
- What Is This Thing Called Love
- When Your Lover Has Gone
| It Might As Well Be Swing Album- Best Is Yet to Come, The
- Fly Me to the Moon
- Hello Dolly
- I Believe In You
- I Wanna Be Around
- I Wish You Love
- More
- The Good Life
- Wives And Lovers
| Jolly Christmas From Frank Sin Album- Adeste Fideles
- Christmas Song
- Christmas Waltz, The
- Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
- Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
- It Came Upon The Midnight Clear
- Jingle Bells
- Mistletoe and Holly
- O Little Town of Bethlehem
- Silent Night
- The First Noel
- White Christmas
| L.A. Is My Lady Album- Best of Everything, The
- How Do You Keep the Music Playing
- Hundred Years from Today, A
- If I Should Lose You
- L.A. is My Lady
- Mack the Knife
- Stormy Weather
- Teach Me Tonight
- Until the Real Thing Comes Along
| Learn To Croon Album- April in Paris
- A Little In Love
- Blue Moon
- Deep Night
- East of the Sun and West of the Moon
- How Come You Do Me Like You Do
- How Deep Is The Ocean
- Ida Sweet As Apple Cider
- I Tried
- Learn To Croon
- Love Is Blue
- Marie
- More Than You Know
- My Silent Love
- Out Of Nowhere
- Shake Down the Stars
- Stormy Weather
- These Foolish Things
- The Very Thought Of You
| Legendary Sides Album- Dolores
- East of the Sun and West of the Moon
- Fools Rush In
- How About You
- Imagination
- Polkadots and Moonbeams
- Street of Dreams
- There Are Such Things
- Without a Song
- Yours Is My Heart Alone
| Live In Australia 1959 Album- All of Me
- All the Way
- Angel Eyes
- At Long Last Love
- Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
- Come Fly with Me
- Dancing in the Dark
- I Could Have Danced All Night
- I Get a Kick Out of You
- Just One of Those Things
- Lady is a Tramp, The
- Moonlight in Vermont
- Night and Day
- One for My Baby
- On the Road to Mandalay
- Perdido
- Willow Weep For Me
| Love Songs Album- Daybreak
- Dolores
- Everything Happens to Me
- It Started All Over Again
- Just As Though You Were Here
- Night and Day
- Night We Called It a Day, The
- Only Forever
- Song Is You, The
- Stardust
- There Are Such Things
- This Love of Mine
- Violets for Your Furs
| Lucky Numbers Album- Come Blow Your Horn
- Luck Be a Lady
- Pennies from Heaven
- Pick Yourself Up
- Pocketful Of Miracles
- Winners
| Main Event Album- All the Way
- Angel Eyes
- Autumn in New York
- Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
- House I Live In, The
- It Was a Very Good Year
- I Get a Kick Out of You
- Lady is a Tramp, The
- Let Me Try Again
- My Kind of Town
- My Way
- You Are the Sunshine of My Life
| My Way Album- All My Tomorrows
- A Day In The Life Of A Fool
- For Once in My Life
- Hallelujah, I Love Her So
- If You Go Away
- Mrs. Robinson
- My Way
- Watch What Happens
- Yesterday
| Night and Day Album- A Lovely Way To Spend An Evening
- Close to You
- Embraceable You
- If You Are But A Dream
- If You Please
- I Dream Of You
- I Fall in Love Too Easily
- Kiss Me Again
- Night and Day
- Oh! What a Beautiful Morning
- Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week)
- Stormy Weather
- Sunday, Monday Or Always
- What Makes the Sunset
- White Christmas
| Now Is The Hour Album- Hair Of Gold, Eyes Of Blue
- Haunted Heart
- It Only Happens When I Dance With You
- Little White Lies
- My Shining Hour
- Now Is The Hour
- The Lady From 29 Palms
- The Very Thought Of You
| Oh! Look At Me Now & Other Hits Album- Devil May Care
- How About You
- Oh! Look At Me Now
- Our Love Affair
- Polkadots and Moonbeams
- There Are Such Things
- This Love of Mine
| Ol Man River: 1944-1945 Album- All the Things You Are
- Dream
- Embraceable You
- House I Live In, The
- I Fall in Love Too Easily
- I Should Care
- My Melancholy Baby
- Put Your Dreams Away
- Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week)
- Someone to Watch Over Me
- Stormy Weather
- These Foolish Things
- Try A Little Tenderness
- When Your Lover Has Gone
- Where or When
- You Go to My Head
| Only The Lonely Album- Angel Eyes
- Blues In the Night
- Ebb Tide
- Gone With The Wind
- Good-Bye
- One for My Baby
- Only the Lonely
- Sleep Warm
- Spring Is Here
- Where or When
- Willow Weep For Me
| Popular Frank Sinatra 1 Album- All This and Heaven Too
- Call of the Canyon
- Dolores
- Do I Worry
- Everything Happens to Me
- Fools Rush In
- Imagination
- I Could Make You Care
- I Tried
- Love Lies
- Oh! Look At Me Now
- One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else, The
- Our Love Affair
- Polkadots and Moonbeams
- Say It
- Stardust
- Trade Winds
- We Three, My Echo, My Shadow, and Me
- You Might Have Belonged to Another
| Popular Frank Sinatra 3 Album- April Played a Fiddle
- Blue Skies
- Devil May Care
- East of the Sun and West of the Moon
- Looking For Yesterday
- Night and Day
- Night We Called It a Day, The
- Poor You
- Shadows On the Sand
- Sky Fell Down, The
- Song Is You, The
- Tell Me At Midnight
- This Is the Beginning of the End
- Too Romantic
- Violets for Your Furs
- Whispering
- Without a Song
- You Lucky People You
| Portrait Of Sinatra-Columbia C Album- All of Me
- All or Nothing at All
- Almost Like Being in Love
- Blue Skies
- Body and Soul
- Everybody Loves Somebody
- Falling In Love with Love
- House I Live In, The
- If You Are But A Dream
- It All Depends On You
- It Never Entered My Mind
- I Believe (I Believe, I Believe In Wishing Wells)
- I Only Have Eyes for You
- Nancy
- Nearness of You, The
- Night and Day
- Put Your Dreams Away
- Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week)
- September Song
- Someone to Watch Over Me
- Song Is You, The
- Stormy Weather
- Sweet Lorraine
- That Old Feeling
- These Foolish Things
- The Continental
- When Your Lover Has Gone
- Where or When
- Why Was I Born?
- You Go to My Head
| Remembers The Movies Album- As Time Goes By
- Empty Saddles
- If I Had My Way
- I Only Have Eyes for You
- Make Believe
- My Ideal
- On The Atchison Topeka And Santa Fe
- Somebody Loves Me
- That Old Black Magic
- There Goes That Song Again
- Three Little Words
- Till the End Of Time
- Where or When
- White Christmas
- With A Song In My Heart
| Ring-A-Ding Ding Album- A Fine Romance
- A Foggy Day
- Coffee Song, The
- In the Still of the Night
- Ring-a-Ding-Ding
- When I Take My Sugar To Tea
- You And The Night And The Music
| Selection Of Frank Sinatra 2 Album- April Played a Fiddle
- A Sinner Kissed an Angel
- Dig Down Deep
- Embraceable You
- House I Live In, The
- In the Blue of the Evening
- I Could Make You Care
- I Should Care
- I Tried
- Moments in the Moonlight
- Oh! Look At Me Now
- Put Your Dreams Away
- Say It
- Shadows On the Sand
- Shake Down the Stars
- Sky Fell Down, The
- Sunshine of Your Smile, The
- Tell Me At Midnight
- There Are Such Things
- These Foolish Things
- This Is the Beginning of the End
- Try A Little Tenderness
- Two In Love
- When Your Lover Has Gone
- Yours Is My Heart Alone
| September Of My Years Album- Hello Young Lovers
- How Old Am I
- It Gets Lonely Early
- It Was a Very Good Year
- I See It Now
- Last Night When We Were Young
- Man In the Looking Glass, The
- Once Upon A Time
- September of My Years
- September Song
- This Is All I Ask
- When the Wind Was Green
| Show Stoppers Album- If I Loved You
- I Only Have Eyes for You
- Oh! What a Beautiful Morning
- Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week)
- Someone to Watch Over Me
| Sinatra & Jobim Album- Baubles, Bangles And Beads
- Change Partners
- Dindi
- Girl from Ipanema, The
- How Insensitive (Insensatez)
- If You Never Come to Me
- I Concentrate On You
- Meditation
- Once I Loved (O Amor En Paz)
- Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars (Corcovado)
| Sinatra & Strings Album- All or Nothing at All
- Come Rain or Come Shine
- It Might As Well Be Spring
- Misty
- Night and Day
- Prisoner Of Love
- Stardust
- Yesterdays
| Sinatra 80th-All The Best Album- All My Tomorrows
- All the Way
- Blues In the Night
- Chicago
- Christmas Song
- Come Fly with Me
- From Here to Eternity
- Hey Jealous Lover
- High Hopes
- Impatient Years, The
- In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
- I Get a Kick Out of You
- I Love Paris
- Lady is a Tramp, The
- Lean Baby
- Love and Marriage
- Melody of Love
- Moon Was Yellow
- Night and Day
- No One Ever Tells You
- Same Old Saturday Night
- Someone to Watch Over Me
- South of the Border
- Tender Trap, The
- Three Coins in the Fountain
- Time After Time
- Wait For Me
- Well, Did You Evah
- What Is This Thing Called Love
- Witchcraft
- Young at Heart
- You Make Me Feel So Young
| Sinatra 80th-Live Album- Angel Eyes
- For Once in My Life
- If
- In the Still of the Night
- Maybe This Time
- My Heart Stood Still
- My Way
- New York, New York
- Soliloquy
- Strangers in the Night
- What Now My Love
- Where or When
- You Are the Sunshine of My Life
- You Will Be My Music
| Sinatra Christmas Album Album- An Old Fashioned Christmas
- A Baby Just Like You
- Christmas Memories
- Christmas Waltz, The
- Go, Tell It On the Mountain
- Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
- I Heard The Bells on Christmas Day
- Little Drummer Boy
- The Bells Of Christmas
- The Twelve Days of Christmas
- We Wish You The Merriest
- Whatever Happened To Christmas
| Sinatra Sings His Greatest Hit Album- All of Me
- April in Paris
- Birth of the Blues, The
- Body and Soul
- Brooklyn Bridge
- House I Live In, The
- I Could Write a Book
- Laura
- Nancy
- Night and Day
- Put Your Dreams Away
- Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week)
- Song Is You, The
- Sweet Lorraine
- Time After Time
| Sinatra Swings Album- Falling In Love with Love
- Granada
- Have You Met Miss Jones
- I Never Knew
- Love Walked In
- Moonlight On The Ganges
- The Curse Of An Aching Heart
| Sinatra-A Man & His Music Album- (Oldest Established) Permanent Floating Crap Game In New York
- All or Nothing at All
- All the Way
- Call Me Irresponsible
- Come Fly with Me
- Fly Me to the Moon
- From Here to Eternity
- House I Live In, The
- How Little We Know
- In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
- Love and Marriage
- Luck Be a Lady
- My Kind of Town
- Nancy
- Night and Day
- Oh! What It Seemed To Be
- One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else, The
- Polkadots and Moonbeams
- Put Your Dreams Away
- Ring-a-Ding-Ding
- Second Time Around, The
- September of My Years
- Softly, As I Leave You
- Soliloquy
- There Are Such Things
- Witchcraft
- Young at Heart
| Sinatra-Basie Album- I Only Have Eyes for You
- Looking At The World Thru Rose Colored Glasses
- My Kind Of Girl
- Nice Work If You Can Get It
- Pennies from Heaven
- Please Be Kind
- Tender Trap, The
| Songs For Young Lovers Swing E Album- All of Me
- A Foggy Day
- Get Happy
- I Get a Kick Out of You
- Jeepers Creepers
- Just One of Those Things
- Like Someone in Love
- Little Girl Blue
- My Funny Valentine
- Sunday
- Taking a Chance on Love
- The Girl Next Door
- Violets for Your Furs
- Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams
| Stardust Album- Dolores
- East of the Sun and West of the Moon
- Everything Happens to Me
- Fools Rush In
- Imagination
- Polkadots and Moonbeams
- Stardust
- There Are Such Things
- This Love of Mine
| Strangers In The Night Album- All or Nothing at All
- Call Me
- Downtown
- My Baby Just Cares For Me
- On A Clear Day (You Can See Forever)
- Strangers in the Night
- Summer Wind
- The Most Beautiful Girl In the World
| Summit: In Concert Album- All the Way
- An Evening In Roma
- A Foggy Day
- Birth of the Blues, The
- Chicago
- Goody, Goody
- I Left My Heart In San Francisco
- Lady is a Tramp, The
- Me And My Shadow
- Out Of This World
- Pennies from Heaven
- Too Marvelous for Words
- Volare (Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu)
- What Kind Of Fool Am I
- When Your Lover Has Gone
| Swing & Dance With Frank Sinat Album- All of Me
- Bye Bye Baby
- Farewell, Farewell To Love
- It All Depends On You
- Lover
- Meet Me At The Copa
- My Blue Heaven
- Nevertheless
- Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week)
- Should I?
- The Continental
- The Hucklebuck
- You Do Something to Me
| Swing Along With Me Album- Falling In Love with Love
- Granada
- Have You Met Miss Jones
- I Never Knew
- Love Walked In
- Moonlight On The Ganges
- The Curse Of An Aching Heart
| The Concert Sinatra Album- Bewitched
- I Have Dreamed
- Lost In The Stars
- My Heart Stood Still
- Soliloquy
- This Nearly Was Mine
| Trilogy-Past Present & Future Album- All of You
- But Not for Me
- For the Good Times
- Future
- It Had to Be You
- I Had the Craziest Dream
- Just The Way You Are
- Love Me Tender
- MacArthur Park
- More Than You Know
- My Shining Hour
- New York, New York
- Something
- Song Is You, The
- Song Sung Blue
- Street of Dreams
- Summer Me, Winter Me
- They All Laughed
- What Time Does The Next Miracle Leave
- World War None
- You and Me (We Wanted It All)
| Very Best Of Frank Sinatra Album- All or Nothing at All
- All the Way
- A Foggy Day
- Best Is Yet to Come, The
- Come Fly with Me
- Come Rain or Come Shine
- Fly Me to the Moon
- In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
- It Was a Very Good Year
- I Get a Kick Out of You
- Love and Marriage
- Luck Be a Lady
- My Kind of Town
- My Way
- Nancy
- New York, New York
- Nice Work If You Can Get It
- Night and Day
- Old Devil Moon
- Please Be Kind
- Pocketful Of Miracles
- Put Your Dreams Away
- Second Time Around, The
- Softly, As I Leave You
- Something Stupid
- Stardust
- Strangers in the Night
- Summer Wind
- Tender Trap, The
- The Girl Next Door
- Wave
- Way You Look Tonight, The
- Witchcraft
- Young at Heart
| Very Good Years Album- All or Nothing at All
- Best Is Yet to Come, The
- Fly Me to the Moon
- It Was a Very Good Year
- I Get a Kick Out of You
- Lady is a Tramp, The
- Last Dance, The
- Love and Marriage
- Luck Be a Lady
- My Kind of Town
- My Way
- Nancy
- New York, New York
- Night and Day
- Send In the Clowns
- Strangers in the Night
- Summer Wind
- Way You Look Tonight, The
| Voice Album- Fools Rush In
- Laura
- Lover
- Over The Rainbow
- Paradise
- Spring Is Here
- That Old Black Magic
- These Foolish Things
- Try A Little Tenderness
| Vol. 1-Greatest Hits Album- Forget Domani
- It Was a Very Good Year
- Softly, As I Leave You
- Something Stupid
- Somewhere in Your Heart
- Strangers in the Night
- Summer Wind
- Tell Her You Love Her
- The World We Knew (Over and Over)
- This Town
- When Somebody Loves You
| Vol. 2-Greatest Hits Album- A Man Alone
- Cycles
- My Way
- September of My Years
- Something
- Star!
| Vol. 2-Popular Frank Sinatra Album- A Sinner Kissed an Angel
- Daybreak
- How About You
- In the Blue of the Evening
- It Started All Over Again
- I Think of You
- Just As Though You Were Here
- Light A Candle In The Chapel
- Street of Dreams
- Take Me
- There Are Such Things
- The Last Call For Love
- This Love of Mine
- Two In Love
- You and I
| Where Are You Album- Autumn Leaves
- It Worries Me
- I Can Read Between the Lines
- I Cover the Waterfront
- I Think of You
- Laura
- Lonely Town
- Night We Called It a Day, The
- Rain (Falling from the Skies)
- Where Are You
- Where Is the One
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Frank Sinatra has been called the greatest popular singer of the century. Whether that is true, in a century that also offers us Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald and many others is, of course, a matter of personal emotional choice and, therefore, unknowable. What can be said is that under the intense and fickle scrutiny of the pop marketplace for nearly two-thirds of a century, Sinatra's music was in the air the world breathed and fell out of fashion only long enough for the deserters either to grow up or recognize that what was offered in its place was almost always trash by comparison.
Sinatra was born Dec. 12, 1915, in Hoboken, N.J., and as a schoolboy nursed ambitions to be a journalist. The earliest known example of Sinatra on record come from his 1935 performance on the Major Bowes Amateur Hour, in which he was matched with three other aspirants to sing "Shine." After the program they were sent out as a group, the Hoboken Four, on a Major Bowes road show.
Sinatra touched the big time in 1939 when Harry James, fresh out of the Benny Goodman band and not yet a major star in him own right, hired him to be vocalists in his new band. In August he recorded "All Or Nothing At All" with James, but the record would not become a major hit until Columbia reissued it during the recording ban in 1943. Sinatra was on a fast trajectory to the top himself. He left James to take an offer from Tommy Dorsey, with whom he recorded more than 90 songs before he left. The Dorsey years connected him to Axel Stordahl, who would arrange and conduct the first four Sinatra records under his own name in 1942 and become his chief musical architect for the next decade. He also made two movies with Dorsey, Las Vagas Night at Paramount and Ship Ahoy at MGM. But aside from two pictures with Gene Kelly, Sinatra's film career would be of passing interest until the 1950s.
The band singer period ended in September 1942. When Sinatra went out on as a soloist, it was to join the stock company of vocalists on the weekly "Lucky Strike Hit Parade." But there was buzz in the air about Sinatra, and it burst wide open when in 1943 when he was booked as a supporting act to Goodman at the Paramount Theater. Goodman introduced him, turned to kick off his band, and before he could lower his arm heard an ear-shattering scream of 3,000 mostly female fans explode behind him. "What they hell is that?" Goodman muttered.
During the bobby-sox years, Sinatra recorded for Columbia and turned out a steady flow of romantic ballads backed by Stordahl's tasteful orchestrations. But nothing as intense as the Sinatra phenomenon of the '40s could sustain indefinitely. The energy ran out of the Sinatra boom and by the 1952, it is said, he was washed up.
With the '40s behind him, however, the stage was set for his golden age. Capitol Records signed him up and concentrated on marketing him to young adults through carefully planned long playing albums organized around a mood, an idea, a feeling, a concept. In the Wee Small Hours, crafted by Nelson Riddle, became the matrix for his recording career from then on. Among the ballad albums, All Alone, arranged by Gordon Jenkins in 1962, stands in a class by itself for its stark sense of melancholy.
After Wee Small Hours, Sinatra turned to develop a side of his musical personality that had never been exploited -- the swinging Sinatra doing upbeat tempos against jazz-styled big band charts that caught some of the feeling that the new Count Basie band was generating on the instrumental side.
The albums and a string of successful films took Sinatra into the '60s at the top of his fame and form. He played the Newport Jazz Festival in the '60s, recorded with the Basie and Ellington, and played the Chairman to a colorful Clan that included Dean Martin, Sammy Davis and other chums. Talent was the admission ticket.
Yet, the force of youth movement and rock music in the late '60s and early '70s seemed to shake his own confidence in his own hipness, and he tried to embrace some of the new material. But after a period of retirement and a few false starts in the recording studio, he returned to form doing the kind of music that told stories worth telling. In the '90s his stubbornness paid off. The youth icons of the '60s and '70s finally came to him to sing his song on his terms. Duets may have received mixed critical reaction, but once again Sinatra was king of the hill, scoring the largest album sales of his career.
Sinatra received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1983. He died May 14, 1998, at the age of 82.
In 1998, Sinatra was elected by the Readers into the Down Beat Hall of Fame.
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