Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 21 October

1965

Reprise

"Moment to Moment"

"Love and Marriage"

Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 19 October

1947

Columbia

"Can You Just See Yourself"

"You're My Girl"

"All of Me"

Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 18 October

1944

V-Disc

"Just Close Your Eyes"

"Let Me Love You Tonight"

1966

Reprise

"That's Life"

Source: Tom Rednour, Songs By Sinatra, 1998

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

17 October

1943

V-Discs

"Hot Time in the Town of Berlin"

"Kiss Me Again"

"I Only Have Eyes for You" (w/ The Bobby Tucker Singers)

1955

Capitol

"You Forgot All the Words"

"Love is Here to Stay"

"Weep They Will"

Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998

 

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 16 October

RCA

"Do You Know Why?"

(w/ Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra)

Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 15 October

1946

Columbia

"Strange Music"

"Poinciana (Song of the Tree)"

"The Music Stopped"

"Why Shouldn't It Happen to Us?"

1958

Capitol

"To Love and Be Loved" (both short and long arrangements)

"I Couldn't Care Less"

Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 13 October

1939

Brunswick

"On a Little Street in Singapore"

"Who Told You I Cared"

(w/ Harry James Orchestra)

1959

Capitol

"I Love Paris" (w/ Maurice Chevalier)

1963

Reprise

"Have Yourself a Very Merry Christmas"

Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 4-13 October

1974

Reprise

Sinatra: The Main Event 

(Live Album at Madison Square Gardens)

Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 11 October

1944

Columbia

"There's No You"

1965

Reprise

"Come Fly with Me"

"I'll Never Smile Again"

Source: Tom Rednour,
Songs by Sinatra, 1998

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

9 October

1950

Columbia

"Come Back to Sorrento"

"April in Paris"

"I Guess I'll have to Dream the Rest" (w/ The Whippoorwills)

"Nevertheless (I'm in Love with You)"

Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998 

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

8 October

1957

Capitol

"Blue Hawaii"

"Come Fly with Me"

"Around the World"

"It's Nice to Go Trav'ling"

"Brazil"

Spurce: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998

on 10/7/1950

“Ol’ Blue Eyes,” Frank Sinatra, made his initial plunge into regularly scheduled series television as host of CBS’ variety-driven “The Frank Sinatra Show” beginning in 1950. The hour lasted two seasons…

Sinatra was there (with Gleason)!

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Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 3 October

1945

Columbia

"Aren't You Glad You're You"

"You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me"

1957

Capitol

"Autumn in New York"

"London by Night"

"April in Paris"

1962

Reprise

"I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter"

"I Only Have Eyes for You"

"My Kind of Girl"

"Pennies from Heaven"

"(Love is) The Tender Trap"

"Looking at the World Thru Rose-Colored Glasses"

(w/ Count Basie and his Orchestra)

1964

Reprise

"Pass Me By"

"Emily"

"Dear Heart"

Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 2 October

1962

Reprise

"Nice Work if You Can Get It" (George Gersshwin; Ira Gershwin)

"Please Be Kind" (Saul Chaplin; Sammy Cahn)

"I Won't Dance" (Jerome Kern; Oscar Hammerstein II; Dorothy Fields)

 "Learnin' the Blues" (Dolores Vickie Silvers)

(w/ Count Basie and his Orchestra)

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 1 October

1957

Capitol

"On the Road to Mandalay" (Oley Speakes; Rudyard Kipling)

"Let's Get Away from it All" (Matt Dennis; Tom Adair)

"Isle of Capri" (Wilhelm Grosz; James Kennedy)

Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 30 September

1958

Capitol

"It All Depends on You" (Ray Henderson; Buddy DeSylva; Lew Brown)

Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 27 September

1944

Columbia

"Someone to Watch Over Me" (George Gershwin; Ira Gershwin)

1976

Reprise

"Dry Your Eyes" (Neil Diamond; Robbie Robertson)

"Like a Sad Song" (John Denver)

Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 26 September

1941

RCA

"Violets for Your Furs" (Matt Dennis; Tom Adair)

"The Sunshine of Your Smile" (Lillian Ray; Leonard Cooke)

(w/ Tommy Dorsey Orchestra)

1945

Columbia

"Homesick - That's All" (Gordon Jenkins)

                                   "The Night is Young, and You are So Beautiful" (w/ Dinah Shore)                                 (Dana Suesse; Irving Kahal; Billy Rose)

Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 25 September

1957

Capitol

"I Didn't Know What Time it Was" (Richard Rodgers; Lorenz Hart)

"What Do I Care for a Dame?" (Richard Rodgers; Lorenz Hart)

Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

24 September 

1974

Reprise

"Everything Happens to Me" (Matt Dennis; Tom Adair)

"Just as Though You were Here" (John Benson Brooks; Eddie DeLange)

Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 23 September

1947

Columbia

"It All Came True" (Sunny Skylar)

(w/ Alvy West ad the Little Band)

1954

Capitol

""Don't Change Your Mind About Me" (Imogene Carpenter; Lenny Adelson)

(w/June Hutton and the Pied Pipers)

"Someone to Watch Over Me" (George Gershwin; Ira Gershwin)

"You, My Love" (Jimmy Van Heusen; Mack Gordon)

Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

22 September

1959

Capitol

"Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)" (Cole Porter)

(w/ Shirley MacLaine)

Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998 

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

21 September

1950

Columbia

"Remember Me in Your Dreams"* (Morty Nevins; Hal David)

"If Only She'd Looked My Way" (Ivor Novello; Alan Melville)

"London by Night" (Carroll Coates)

"Meet Me at the Copa"* (Axel Stordahl; Sammy Cahn)

(* w/ The Whippoorwills)

Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998

AARP Lecture on Sinatra, 9/22/21, at 7 PM

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Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

20 September

1967

Reprise

"Younger Than Springtime" (Richard Rodgers; Oscar Hammerstein II) 

Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

19 September

1945

Columbia

"Surrey with the Fringe on Top" (Richard Rodgers; Oscar Hammerstein II)

1979

Reprise

"Let's Face the Music and Dance" (Irving Berlin)

"(Theme from) New York, New York" (John Kander; Fred Ebb)

Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998

Today Frank SInatra Recorded

18 September

1941

RCA

"I Think of You" (Jack Elliott; Don Marcotte)

"How Do You Do Without Me?" (Joe Bushkin; Johnny DeVries)

"A Sinner Kissed an Angel" (Larry Shayne; Mack David)

(w/ Tommy Dorsey Orchestra)

1950

Columbia

"Accidents will Happen" (Jimmy Van Heusen; Johnny Burke)

"One-Finger Melody" (Kermit Goell; Fred Spielman; Al Hoffman)

1979

Reprise

"The Song is You" (Jerome Kern; Oscar Hammerstein II)

"But Not for Me" (George Gershwin; Ira Gershwin)

"The Street of Dreams" (Victor Young; Sam Lewis)

"They All Laughed" (George Gershwin; Ira Gershwin)

Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998 

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

17 September

1940

RCA 

"Shadows on the Sand" (Wilhelm Grosz; Stanley Adams)

"You're Breaking My Heart All Over Again" (James Cavanaugh; John Redmond; Arthur Altman)

"I'd Know You Anywhere" (Jimmy McHugh; Johnny Mercer)

(w/ the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra)

1952

Columbia

"Why Try to Change Me Now" (Cy Coleman; Joseph McCarthy)

1979

Reprise

"All of You" (Cole Porter)

"My Shining Hour" (Harold Arlen; Johnny Mercer)

"More Than You Know" (Vincent Youmans; Edward Eliscu; Billy Rose)

Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

15 September

1949

Columbia

"That Lucky Old Sun" (Beasley Smith; Haven Gillespie)

"Mad about You" (Victor Young; Ned Washington)

"(On the Island of) Stromboli" (Kermit Lane; Irving Taylor)

Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998 

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

13 September

1955

Capitol

"(Love is) The Tender Trap" (Jimmy Van Heusen; Sammy Cahn)

"You'll Get Yours" (Jimmy Van Heusen; Dok Stanford)

 Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 12 September

1961

Capitol

"Somewhere Along the Way" (Jimmy Van Heusen, as "Kurt Adams;" Sammy Gallop) 

"A Million Dreams Ago" (Lew Quadling; Eddy Howard; Dick Jurgens)

"These Foolish Things" (Jack Strachey; Harry Link; Eric Maschwitz, as "Holt Marvell")

"It's a Blue World" (Robert Wright; George Forrest)

"I'll Remember April" (Gene DePaul; Don Raye; Patricia Johnson)

Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 11 September

1958

Capitol

"Mr. Success" (Edwin Greines; Hank Sanicola; Frank Sinatra)

"Sleep Warm" (Lew Spence; Marilyn Keith; Alan Bergman)

"Where of When" (Richard Rodgers; Lorenz Hart)

1961

Capitol

"I'll be Seeing You" (Sammy Fain; Irving Kahal)

"I'll See You Again" (Noel Coward)

"September Song" (Kurt Weill; Maxwell Anderson)

"Memories of You" (Eubie Blake; Andy Razaf)

"There will Never be Another You" (Harry Warren; Mack Gordon)

"When the Workd was Young" (Phillippe Gerrad Bloch; Angela Vannier; Johnny Mercer)

Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 10 September

1981

Reprise

"Monday Morning Quarterback" (Don Costa; Pamela Phillips)

"Hey Look, No Crying" (Jule Styne;  Susan Birkenhead)

Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998

Today Frank SInatra Recorded

 9 September

1940

RCA

"When You Awake" (Henry Nemo)

"Anything" (Frank Signorelli; Eddie DeLange; Phil Napolean)

Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998.

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 5 September

1944

Columbia

"I Fall in Love Too Easily" (Jule Styne; Sammy Cahn)

Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 1 September

1959

Capitol

"Montmart'" (Cole Porter)

(w/ Maurice Chevalier and Chorus)

1960

Capitol

"Sentimental Baby" (Lew Spence; Marilyn Keith; Alan Bergman)

"Ol' MacDonald" (Lew Spence; Marilyn Keith; Alan Bergman)

"Blue Moon" (Richard Rodgers; Lorenz Hart)

(Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998)

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

31 August 

1939

Brunswick

"Here Comes the Night" (Frank Loesser; Carl Hohengarten)

"All or Nothing at All" (Arthur Altman; Jack Lawrence)

(w/ Harry James Orchestra)

1960

Capitol

"It's Only a Paper Moon" (Harold Arlen; Billy Rose; E. Y. "Yip" Harburg)

"September in the Rain" (Harry Warren; Al Dubin)

"Hidden Persuasion" (Wainwright Churchill)

(Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998)

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 29 August 

1940

RCA

"Our Love Affair" (Roger Edens; Arthur Freed)

"Looking for Yesterday" (Jimmy Van Heusen; Eddie DeLange)

"Tell Me at Midnight" (Clay Boland; Bickley Reichner)

"We Three (My Echo, My Shadow, and Me)" (Dick Robertson; Nelson Cogane; Sammy Mysels)

(w/ Tommy Dorsey Orchestra)

(Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998)

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 27 August

Columbia

"America the Beautiful" (Samuel Ward; Katherine Bates)

"Silent Night" (Franz Gruber; Joseph Mohr)

"The Moon was Yellow" (Fred Ahlert; Edgar Leslie)

"I Only Have Eyes for You" (Harry Warren; Al Dubin)

(w/ the Ken Lane Singers)

1959

Capitol

"It's Alright with Me" (Cole Porter)

"C'est Magnifique" (Cole Porter)

1962

Reprise

"The Look of Love" (Jimmy Van Heusen; Sammy Cahn)

"I Left My Heart in San Francisco" (George Cory; Douglass Cross)

1969

Reprise

"Goodbye (She Quietly Says)" (Bob Gaudio; Jake Holmes)

"What a Funny Girl (You Used to be)" (Bob Gaudio; Jake Holmes)

1991

Reprise

"Silent Night" (Franz Gruber; Joseph Mohr) 

(w/ Frank, Jr. on piano)

(Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998)

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 26 August

Reprise

"Watertown"

"What's Now is Now"

(Bob Gaudio; Jake Holmes)

Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998)

Happy Birthday, Van Johnson! ( b. 1916)

Today Frank Recorded

 25 August

1969

Reprise

"I Would be in Love (Anyway)"

"The Train"

"She Says"

"Lady Day"

(Bob Gaudio; Jake Holmes)

(Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998)

Come Vax With Me!

June 1945 USO Tour, North Africa & Italy

USO TOUR SPRING 1945

For this tour, the aim of which was to entertain US Troups abroad involved in WW2 fighting, Frank Sinatra was accompanied by Betty Yeaton (acrobatic dancer), Fay MacKenzie (female singer), Saul Chaplin (pianist) and Phil Silvers (comedian).

Happy Birthday, Gene Kelly (b. 1912)

 

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 23 August

1954

Capitol

"When I Stop Loving You" (George Cates; Alan Copeland; Mort Greene)

"White Christmas" (Irving Berlin)

"The Christmas Waltz" (Jule Styne; Sammy Cahn)

1960

Capitol

"My Blue Heaven" (Walter Donaldson; George Whiting)

"I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me" (Jimmy McHugh; Clarence Gaskill)

"Always" (Irving Berlin)

"It All Depends on You" (Ray Henderson; Buddy DeSylva; Lew Brown)

1965

Reprise

"Everybody Has a Right to be Wrong" (Jimmy Van Heusen; Sammy Cahn)

"Ill Only Miss Her When I Think of Her" (Jimmy Van Heusen; Sammy Cahn)

"Golden Moment" (Kenny Jacobson; Rhoda Roberts)

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

22 August

1945

Columbia

"The House I Live in" (Earl Robison; Lewis Allen)

"Day by Day" (Axel Stordahl; Paul Westin; Sammy Cahn)

"Nancy (with the Laughing Face)" (Jimmy Van Heusen; Phil Silvers)

"You are Too Beautiful" (Richar Rodgers; Lorenz Hart)

1946

Columbia

"Hush-a-bye Island" (Jimmy McHugh; Harold Adamson)

"So They Tell Me" (Arthur Kent; Harold Mott; Jack Gale)

"There's No Business Like Show Business" (Irving Berlin)

"(Once Upon a Time) a Moonlight Night" (Irving Bibo; Sidney Clare)

1960

Capitol

"When You're Smiling" (Mark Fisher; Larry Shay; Joe Goodwin)

"I Concentrate on You" (Cole Porter)

"You Do Something to Me" (Cole Porter)

"S'posin'" (Paul Denniker; Andy Razaf)

"Should I?" (Nacio Herb Brown; Arthur Freed)

1979

Reprise

"Isn't She Lovely" (Stevie Wonder)

"Just the Way You Are" (Billy Joel)

"Song Sung Blue" (Neil Diamond)

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 21 August

1979

Reprise

"For the Good Times" (w/ Eileen Farrell) (Kris Kristofferson)

"That's What God Looks Like to Me" (Lois Irwin; Lan O'Kun)

"Love Me Tender" (George Poulton; Elvis Presley; Vera Matson)

Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 20 August

Reprise

"You're So Right" (Teddy Randazzo; Victoria Pike; Roger Joyce)

"Dream Away" (John Williams; Paul Williams)

1979

Reprise

"You and Me (We Wanted It All)" (Peter Allen; Carol Bayer Sager)

"Summer Me, Winter Me" (Michel Legrand; Alan Bergman; Marilyn Bergman)

"MacArthur Park" (Jimmy Webb)

Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 19 August

1941

RCA

"Two in Love" (Meredith Willson)

"Violets for Your Furs" (Matt Dennis; Tom Adair)

"Pale Moon (An Indian Love Song)" (Frederick Logan; Jesse Glick)

(w/ The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra)

1981

Reprise

"Good Thing Going (Going Gone)" (Stephen Sondheim)

Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 18 August

1969

Reprise

"Forget to Remember" (Teddy Randazzo; Victoria Pike)

"Goin' Out of My Head" (Teddy Randazzo; Bobby Weinstein)

1975

Reprise

"The Saddest Thing of All" (Michel Legrand; Pierre Leroyer; Eduard Rualt; Carl Sigman)

Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998

Happy Birthday, Shelly Winters (b. 1920)