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Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 30 June

1944

Columbia

"What Makes the Sunset?" (Jule Styne; Sammy Cahn)


Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998




Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 29 June

1967

Reprise

"You are There" (Harry Sukman; Paul Francis Webster)

"The World We Knew (Over and Over)" (Bert Kaempfert; Herbert Rehbein; Carl Sigman)


Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998





Monday, June 28, 2021

the Beatles and Sinatra

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Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 28 June

1950

Columbia

"Goodnight, Irene" (Huddie Ledbetter; John Lomax)

"Dear Little Boy of Mine" (Ernest Ball; J. Kiern Brennan)

(with The Mitch Miller Singers)


Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998




Sunday, June 27, 2021

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

27 June

1940

RCA

"Trade Winds" (Cliff Friend; Charlie Tobias)

"The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else" (Isham Jones; Gus Kahn)

(with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra)


1941

RCA

"I Guess I'll Have to Dream the Rest" (Harold Green; Mickey Stoner; Martin Block)

"Free for All" (Matt Dennis; Tom Adair)

"You and I" (Meredith Willson)

"Neiani" (Axel Stordahl; Sy Oliver)

(with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra)


Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998






Saturday, June 26, 2021

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 26 June

1947

Columbia

"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (Hugh Martin; Ralph Blane)

"Christmas Dreaming (A Little Early This Year)" (Lester Lee; Irving Gordon)



1958

Capitol

"Goodbye" (Gordon Jenkins)

"It's a Lonesome Old Town" (Charles Kisco; Harry Tobias)

"One for My Baby"



Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998

Thursday, June 24, 2021

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 24 June

Capitol

1958

"Blues in the Night" (Harold Arlen; Johnny Mercer)

"What's New" (Bobby Haggart; Johnny Burke)

"Gone with the Wind" (Allie Wrubel; Herb Magidson)


"One for My Baby" (Harold Arlen; Johnny Mercer)

with Bill Miller, solo piano






Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998

Tuesday, June 22, 2021

On this day in 1969

Today's Show's Playlist

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Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 22 June

Columbia

1943

"Sunday Monday, or Always" (Jimmy Van Heusen; Johnny Burke)

"If You Please" (Jimmy Van Heusen; Johnny Burke)

"People Will Say We're in Love" (Richard Rodgers; Oscar Hammerstein II)

with the Bobby Tucker Singers acappella


Reprise

1973

"Empty Tables" (Jimmy Van Heusen; Johnny Mercer)

"Walk Away" (Elmer Bernstein; Carolyn Leigh)

"Send in the Clowns" (Stephen Sondheim)

"There Used to be a Ballpark" (Joe Raposo)



Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998

Monday, June 21, 2021

The 33 1/3 RPM record introduced!



 

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 21 June

1951

Columbia

"A Good Man is Hard to Find" (Eddie Green)

with Shelley Winters


Reprise

1973

"Let Me Try Again" (Charles Vasori; Michel Jourdan; Sammy Cahn; Paul Anka)

"Winners" (Joe Raposo)


1976

"The Best I Ever Had" (Danny Hice; Ruby Hice)

"Stargazer" (Neil Diamond)



Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998

Saturday, June 19, 2021

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 19 June

1964

Reprise

"Go Tell It on the Mountain" (Traditional)

"We Wish You the Merriest" (Les Brown)

(with Bing Crosby and Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians)



Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra (1998)

Thursday, June 17, 2021

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 17 June

1942

RCA

"In the Blue of Evening" (Alphonso D'Artega; Tom Adair)

"Dig Down Deep" (Walter Hirsch; Gerald Marks; Sano Marco)

with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra


Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998

Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

16 June 

1964

Reprise

"An Old Fashioned Christmas" (Jimmy Van Heusen; Sammy Cahn)

"I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" (Johnny Marks; Henry Longfellow)

"The Little Drummer Boy" (Katherine Davis; Henry Onorati; Harry Simeone)

with Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians


Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998

Monday, June 14, 2021

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 14 June

1962

Reprise

"We'll Meet Again"  (Ross Parker; Hugh Charles)

"Now is the Hour (Maori Farewell Song)" (Maewa Kaihan; Dorothy Stewart; Clement Scott)

"We'll Gather Lilacs" (Ivor Novello)


Frank and Robet Farnon, London, 1962

Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998

Sunday, June 13, 2021

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 13 June

1940

RCA

"Whispering" (John Schonberger; Richard Coburn; Vincent Rose)

with Tommy Dorsey Orchestra

1944

Columbia

"I Begged Her" (Jule Styne; Sammy Cahn)

with Gene Kelly

1962

Reprise

"London by Night" (Carroll Coates)

"The Gypsy"(Billy Reid)

"Roses of Picardy" (Haydn Wood; Fred Weatherly)

""A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" (Manning Sherwin; Eric Machwitz)



Source: Tom Rednou, Songs by Sinatra, 1998


Saturday, June 12, 2021

Happy Birthday, Vic Damone!

12 June 1928

Frank’s Favorite Foods

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

12 June

Reprise

1962

"If I Had You" (Ted Shapiro; Jimmy Campbell; Reg Connelly)

"The Very Thought of You" (Ray Noble)

"A Garden in the Rain" (Carroll Gibbons; James Dyrenforth)


1964

"I Can't Stop Loving You" (Don Gibson)

"More" (Riziero Ortolani; Nino Oliviero; Marcello Ciorciolini; Norman Newell)

"Wives and Lovers" (Burt Bacharach; Hal David)

(with the Count Basie Orchestra)


Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998

Thursday, June 10, 2021

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

10 June

Reprise

"Hello, Dolly" (Jerry Herman)

"The Good Life" (Sascha Distel; Jack Readon)

"I Wish You Love" (Charles Trenet; Lee Wilson)

with the Count Basic Orchestra


Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998




 

Wednesday, June 9, 2021

Sinatra and Some Guy from “The Office”

If nothing else, at least name the film, please, reporter.


Happy 130th, Cole Porter!

Born 9 June 1891

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 9 June

1942

RCA

"Take Me" (Rube Bloom; Mack David)

"Be Careful, It's My Heart" (Irving Berlin)

with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra


1964

Reprise

"The Best is Yet to Come" (Cy Coleman; Carolyn Leigh)

"I Wanna Be Around" (Johnny Mercer; Sadie Vimmerstedt)

"I Believe in You" (Frabk Loesser)

"Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)" (Bart Howard)

with the Count Basie Orchestra


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











Monday, June 7, 2021

Happy Birthday, Dino Paul Crocetti!

Born this date 1917 in Steubenville, OH!


Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

7 June

Columbia

"Close to You" (Al Hoffman; Jetty Livingston; Carl Lampl)


1962

Reprise

Live in Paris (album)



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



Sunday, June 6, 2021

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

6 June

1988

Reprise

"My Foolish Heart" (Victor Young; Ned Washington)


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




Saturday, June 5, 2021

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 5 June

1946

Columbia

"Come Rain or Come Shine" (Harold Arlen; Johnny Mercer)


1973

Reprise

"Nobody Wins" (Kris Kristofferson)

"The Hurt Doesn't Go Away" (Joe Raposo)


Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998



Friday, June 4, 2021

Thursday, June 3, 2021

New book excerpt on Frank and Marilyn

people.com

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 3 June

1952

Columbia

"Luna Rossa" (Antonio Viscione; Vincenzo DeCrescenzo; Kermit Goell) 

(w/ the Norman Luboff Choir)

"The Birth of the Blues" (Ray Henderson; Buddy DeSylva; Lew Brown)

"Azure-Te" (Wild Bill Davis; Jack Wolf)

"Tennessee Newsboy" (Dick Manning; Percy Faith)

"Bim Bam Baby" (Sammy Mysels)


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