In July 1961, “Reprise” label released “Swing Along with Me”, the twenty-second Frank Sinatra studio album. It was recorded in May 1961, at “United Studios” in Hollywood, and was produced by Sonny Burke.
Personnel:
Frank Sinatra – vocals
Billy May and his Orchestra
Billy May – arranger, conductor
Track listing:
Falling in Love with Love – Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart
The Curse of an Aching Heart – Henry Fink, Al Piantadosi
Don’t Cry Joe (Let Her Go, Let Her Go, Let Her Go) – Joe Marsala
Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone – Sidney Clare, Sam H. Stept
Love Walked In – George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin
Granada – Dorothy Dodd, Agustin Lara
I Never Knew – Ted Fio Rito, Gus Kahn
Don’t Be That Way – Benny Goodman, Mitchell Parish, Edgar Sampson
Moonlight on the Ganges – Sherman Myers, Chester Wallace
It’s a Wonderful World – Harold Adamson, Jan Savitt, Johnny Watson
Have You Met Miss Jones – Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart
You\re Nobody till Somebody Loves You – James Cavanaugh, Russ Morgan, Larry Stock
On July 20, 1959, “Capitol” label released “No One Cares”, the seventeenth Frank Sinatra album. It was recorded March – May 1959, at “Capitol Studio A” in Hollywood, and was produced by Dave Cavanaugh.
Personnel:
Frank Sinatra – vocals
Gordon Jenkins – arrangements, conductor
Track listing:
When No One Cares – Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen
A Cottage for Sale – Larry Conley, Willard Robinson
Stormy Weather – Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler
Where Did You Go – Arnold Sundgaard, Alec Wilder
I Don’t Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You – Bing Crosby, Ned Washington, Victor Young
Here’s That Rainy Day – Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen
I Can’t Get Started – Vernon Duke, Ira Gershwin
Why Try to Change Me Now? – Cy Coleman, Joseph Allan McCarthy
Just Friends – John Klenner, Sam M. Lewis
I’ll Never Smile Again – Ruth Lowe
None But the Lonely Heart – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Arthur Westbrook
On September 8, 1958, “Capitol” label released “Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely”, the fifteenth Frank Sinatra studio album. It was recorded May – June 1958, at “Capitol Studio A” in Hollywood, and was produced by Dave Cavanaugh. “Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely” won the “Grammy Award for Best Album Cover”.
Personnel:
Frank Sinatra – vocal
Nelson Riddle – conductor, arrangements
Felix Slatkin – conductor
Nick Volpe – cover art
Sammy Cahn And James Van Heusen – liner notes
Track listing:
Only the Lonely – Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen
Angel Eyes – Matt Dennis, Earl Brent
What’s New – Bob Haggart, Johnny Burke
It’s a Lonesome Old Town – Harry Tobias, Charles Kisco
Willow Weep for Me – Ann Ronell
Goodbye – Gordon Jenkins
Blues in the Night – Harold Arien, Johnny Mercer
Guess I’ll Hang My Tears Out to Dry – Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne
Ebb Tide – Robert Maxwell, Carl Sigman
Spring is Here – Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart
Gone with the Wind – Allie Wrubel, Herb Magidson
One for My Baby (and One More for the Road} – Harold Arien, Johnny Mercer
On July 25, 1960, “Capitol” label released “Nice ‘n’ Easy”, the eighteenth Frank Sinatra studio album. It was recorded March – April 1960, at “Capitol Studio A” in Hollywood, and was produced by Dave Cavanaugh.
Personnel:
Frank Sinatra – vocal
Orchestra Nelson Riddle
Nelson Riddle – orchestra conductor
Track listing:
Nice ‘n’ Easy – Alan Bergman, Marilyn Keith, Lew Spence
That Old Feeling – Lew Brown, Sammy Fain
How Deep Is the Ocean? (How High Is the Sky?) – Irving Berlin
I’ve Got a Crush on You – George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin
You Go to My Head – J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie
Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread) – Rube Bloom, Johnny Mercer
Nevertheless (I’m in Love with You) – Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby
(I Got A Woman Crazy For Me) She’s Funny That Way – Neil Moret, Richard A. Whiting
Try a Little Tenderness – Jimmy Campbell, Reginald Connelly, Harry M. Woods
In June 1960, “Time” label released “Jazz Contemporary”, the twelve Kenny Dorham, album. It was recorded in February 1960, in New York City, and was produced by Bob Shad.
Personnel:
Kenny Dorham – trumpet
Charles Davis – baritone saxophone
Steve Kuhn – piano
Jimmy Garrison, Butch Warren – bass
Buddy Enlow – drums
Track listing:
All tracks by Kenny Dorham, except where noted.
A Waltz
Monk’s Mood – Thelonious Monk
In Your Own Sweet Way – Dave Brubeck
Horn Salute
Tonica
This Love of Mine – Sol Parker, Henry W. Sanicola Jr., Frank Sinatra
On April 25, 1955, “Capitol” label released “In the Wee Small Hours”, the ninth Frank Sinatra studio album. It was recorded March 1954 – February 1955, at “KHJ” in Hollywood, and was produced by Voyle Gilmore.
Personnel:
Frank Sinatra – vocals
Nelson Riddle – arrangements, conductor
John Palladino – engineer
Track listing:
In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning – Bob Hilliard, David Mann
Most Indigo – Barney Bigard, Duke Ellington, Irving Mills
Glad to Be Unhappy – Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart
I Get Along Without You Very Well – Hoagy Carmichael
Deep in a Dream – Eddie DeLange, Jimmy Van Hausen
I See You Face Before Me – Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz
Can’t We Be Friends – Paul James, Kay Swift
When Your Lover Has Gone – Einar Aaron Swan
What Is This Thing Called Love? – Cole Porter
Last Night When We Were Young – Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg
I’ll Be Around – Alec Wilder
Ill Wind – Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler
It Never Entered My Mind – Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart
Dancing on the Celling – Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart
I’ll Never Be the Same – Gus Kahn, Matty Malneck, Frank Signorelli
This Love of Mine – Sol Parker, Henry W. Sanicola, Frank Sinatra
In April 1964, “Reprise” label released “America, I Hear You Singing”, album Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Fred Waring’s Pennsylvanians. It was recorded January – February 1964, in Los Angeles, and was produced by Sonny Burke.
Personnel:
Frank Sinatra – vocals
Bing Crosby – vocals
Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians – vocals
Tom Scott – arrangements
Dick Reynolds – arrangements
Jack Halloran – arrangements
Nelson Riddle – arrangements
Roy Ringwald – arrangements
Hawley Ades – arrangements
Harry Simeone – arrangements
Track listing:
America, I Hear You Singing – Tom Scott
This Is a Great Country – Irving Berlin
The House I Live In – Lewis Allan, Earl Robinson
The Hills of Home – Floride Calhoun, Oscar Fox
This Land Is Your Land – Woody Guthrie
Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor – Emma Lazarus, Irving Berlin
You’re a Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith – Francis Burke, Hughie Prince, Don Raye
A Home in the Meadow – Robert Emmett Dolan, Sammy Cahn
Early American – Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen
You Never Had It So Good – Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen
On March 4, 1946, “Columbia” label released “The Voice of Frank Sinatra”, the debut Frank Sinatra studio album. It was recorded July 1945 in Hollywood, in December 1945, in New York City, and was produced by Bill Richards.
Personnel:
Frank Sinatra – vocal
Axel Stordahl – arrangements, conductor
Hollywood session:
George Van Eps – guitar
Mark McIntyre – piano
John Ryan – bass
Ray Hagan – drums
Jack Mayhew – flute
Mischa Russell, David Frisina – violin
Sam Freed – viola
Fred Goerner – cello
New York City session:
Matty Golizio – guitar
Bill Clifton – piano
Frank Siravo – bass
Nat Polen – drums
Mitch Miller – oboe
Leonard Posner. Raoul Polikian – violin
Sidney Brecher – viola
Anthony Sophos – cello
Track listing:
10-inch LP release
You Go to My Head – Haven Gillespie, J. Fred Coots
Someone to Watch Over Me – George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin
Those Foolish Things – Hot Marvell, Jack Strachey, Harry Link
Why Shouldn’t I? – Cole Porter
I Don’t Know Why – Roy Turk, Fred E. Ahlert
Try a Little Tenderness – Harry M. Woods, James Campbell, Reginald Conelly
I Don’t Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You – Bing Crosby, Ned Washington, Victor Young
In August 1969, “Reprise” label released “A Man Alone” (fully titled A Man Alone: The Words and Music of McKuen), the 55th Frank Sinatra album. It was recorded in March 1969, in Hollywood, and was produced by Sonny Burke.
Personnel:
Frank Sinatra – vocal
Don Costa – arrangements, conductor
Jerry Whitman – vocal
Nancy Adams, Tom Bahler, Betty Baker, James Bryant, Jan Gassman, Bill Lee, Diana Lee, Susan Tallman, Marie Vernon – vocals
Al Viola – guitar
Bill Miller – piano
Chuck Berghofer, Eddie Gilbert – bass
Alvin Stoller – drums
Irving Cottler – drums
Larry Bunker – percussion
Gene Cipriano, Norman Herzberg, Bill Hood, Ronny Lang, Don Lodice, Ted Nash, Bud Shank, Nino Tempo – saxophone
John Cave, Vincent DeRosa, James Decker, James McGee, Arthur Maebe, William Hinshaw, Richard Perissi – French horn
Thelma Beach, Arnold Belnick, James Getzoff, William Kurasch, Emo Neufeld, Lou Raderman, Sally Raderman, Mischa Russell, Ralph Schaeffer, Marshall Sosson, Gerald Vinci, Tibor Zelig, Israel Baker, Bonnie Douglas, Jacques Gasselin, Nathan Ross, Paul Shure – violin
Alvin Dinkin, Alex Neiman, Allan Harshman, Paul Robyn – viola
Justin DiTullio, Armand Kaproff, Edgar Lustgarten, Kurt Reher. Nino Rosso – cello
Kathryn Julye – harp
Justin DiTullio, Armand Kaproff, Ray Kramer, Jacqueline Lustgarten – vielle
On May 30, 1966, “Reprise” label released “Strangers in the Night”, the 43rd Frank Sinatra album. It was recorded April – May 1966, in Hollywood, and was produced by Jimmy Bowen. At the 1967 “Grammy Awards”, Frank Sinatra won “Record of the Year” and “Best Male Vocal Performance”. Ernie Freeman’s arrangement of the title track won him the “Grammy Award for Best Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist or Instrumentalist”, and Eddie Brackett and Lee Herschberg’s engineering earned them the “Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical”. The album was certified Platinum in Us by the “RIIA”.
Personnel:
Frank Sinatra – vocals
The Nelson Riddle Orchestra
Nelson Riddle – arranger, conductor
Glen Campbell, Al Viola – guitar
Artie Kane – Hammond B3 organ
Pete Candoli, Don Fagerquist, Cappy Lewis, Ray Triscari – trumpet
Dick Noel, Tommy Pederson, Tom Shepard – trombone
George Roberts – bass trombone
Chuck Gentry, Bill Green, Justin Gordon, Harry Klee, Ronny Lang – saxophone
Vincent DeRosa, Henry Sigismonti, Gale Robinson, Richard Perissi – French horn
Bill Green, Andreas Kostelas – flute
Sidney Sharp, Lennie Malarsky, William Kurasch, Ralph Schaeffer, Israel Baker, Arnold Belnick, Jerome Reisler, Robert Sushe, John De Voogdt, Bernard Kundell, Tibor Zelig, Victor Amo, Alex Beller, Herman Clebanoff, James Getzoff, Anatol Kaminsky, Paul Shure, Gerald Vinci Gerald Vinci, William Weiss, Harry Bluestone – violin
Harry Hyams, Joseph Di Fiore, Darrel Terwilliger, Alex Neiman, Joseph Saxon, Jesse Ehrlich, Emmet Sargeant, Stanley Harris, Paul Robyn, Armand Kaproff – viola
Justin DiTullio, Elizabeth Greenschpoon, Armand Kaproff – vielle
Bill Miller, Michel Rubini – piano
Alvin Casey, William Pitman, Glen Campbell, Tommy Tedesco – guitar
Chuck Berghofer, Ralph Pefla – bass
Hal Blaine, Irving Cottler – drums
Eddie Brackett Jr., Emil Richards – percussion
Ernie Freeman – arrangements
Donnie Lanier, Nelson Riddle – conductor
Track listing:
Strangers in the Night (from the “Universal” picture “A Man Could Get Killed” – Bert Kaempfert, Charles Singleton, Eddie Snyder
Summer Wind – Heinz Meier, Hans Bradtke, Johnny Mercer
All or Nothing at All – Arthur Altman, Jack Lawrence
Call Me – Tony Hatch
You’re Driving Me Crazy – Walter Donaldson
On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever) – Alan Jay Lerner, Burton Lane
My baby Just Cares for Me – Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn
Downtown – Tony Hatch
Yes Sir, That’s My Baby – Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn
The Most Beautiful Girl in the World – Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart
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