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Saturday, July 31, 2021

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 31 July

1963

Reprise

"Here's to the Losers" (Jack Segal; Robert Wells)

"Love isn't Just for the Young" (Bernard Knee; Herbert Miller)


Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998



Friday, July 30, 2021

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 30 July

1945

Columbia

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

"You Go to My Head" (J. Fred Coots; Haven Gillespie)

"These Foolish Things" (Jack Strachey; Harry Link; Eric Maschwitz; James Holt)

"I Don't Know Why" (Fred Ahlert; Roy Turk)


1946

Columbia

"Among My Souvenirs"

"I Love You" (Robert Wright; George Forrest)

"September Song" (Kurt Weill; Maxwell Anderson)

"Blue Skies" (Irving Berlin)

"Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry" (Jule Styne; Sammy Cahn)













Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998

Thursday, July 29, 2021

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

29 July

1955

Capitol

"Same Old Saturday Night" (Frank Reardon; Sammy Cahn)

"Fairy Tale" (Jerry Livingston; Dok Stanford)


1963

Reprise

"Fugue for Tinhorns" (Frank Loesser)

"The Oldest Established" (Frank Loesser)

w/ Dean Martin and Bing Crosby 


Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998




Sunday, July 25, 2021

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 25 July

1963

Reprise

"Some Enchanted Evening" (Richard Rodgers; Oscar Hammerstein II)

"Some Enchanted Evening (Reprise)" (Richard Rodgers; Oscar Hammerstein II) (w/ Rosemary Clooney)

"Luck be a Lady" (Frank Loesser)


Source: Tom Renour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998




Saturday, July 24, 2021

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 24 July

1946

Columbia

"The Things We Did Last Summer" (Jule Styne; Sammy Cahn)

"This is the Night" (Redd Evans: Lewis Bellin)

"The Coffee Song" (Bob Hilliard; Dick Miles)


1963

Reprise

"So in Love (Reprise)" (Cole Porter)

"Twin Soliloquies" (Richard Rodgers; Oscar Hammerstein II)

w/ Keely Smith


1967

Reprise


"Born Free" (John Barry; Donald Black)

"This is My Love" (James Harbert)

"This is My Song" (Charles Chaplin)

"Don't Sleep in the Subway" (Tony Hatch; Jackie Trent)

"Some Enchanted Evening" (Richard Rodgers; Oscar Hammerstein II)

"This Town" (Lee Hazelwood)


1968

Reprise

"My Way of Life" (Bert Kaempfert; Herbert Rehbein; Carl Sigman) 

"Cycles" (Gayle Caldwell)

"Whatever Happened to Christmas" (Jimmy Webb)


Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998



Thursday, July 22, 2021

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 22 July

MGM

"Take Me Out to the Ball Game" (Albert Von Tilzer; Jack Norworth)

(w/ Gene Kelly)

Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998



Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 21 July

1949

Columbia

"We're Just a Kiss Apart"

"Every Man Should Marry"

"The Wedding of Lili Marlene"


1981

Reprise


"Say Hello"

"South to a Warmer Place"




Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998

Tuesday, July 20, 2021

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

20 July

1940

RCA

"Some of Your Sweetness" (J. Clayborn; G Clayborn)

(W/ Tommy Dorsey Orchestra)


1981

Reprise

"Thanks for the Memory" (Ralph Rainger; Leo Robin)

"I Loved Her" (Gordon Jenkins)

"A Long Night" (Alec Wilder; Loomis McGlohon)

 







Source: Tom Rednour. Songs by Sinatra, 1998

Monday, July 19, 2021

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

19 July

1951

Columbia

"Castle Rock" (Al Sears; Ervin Drake; Jimmy Shirl)

"Farewell, Farewell to Love" (George Siravo; Jack Wolf)

"Deep Night" (Charles Henderson; Rudy Vallee)

(w/ Harry James Orchestra)






Source: Tom Rednour. Songs by Sinatra, 1998 

Sunday, July 18, 2021

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 18 July

1963

Reprise

"Guys and Dolls" (w/ Dean Martin) (Frank Loesser)

"Old Devil Moon" (Burton Lane; E.Y. "Yip" Harburg)

"When I'm Not Near the Girl I Love" (Burton Lane; E.Y. "Yip" Harburg)

"I've Never Been in Love Before" (Frank Loesser)



1979

Reprise

"It Had to be You" (Isham Jones; Gus Kahn)

Source: Tom Rednour. Songs by Sinatra, 1998

Saturday, July 17, 2021

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 17 July

1940

RCA

"The Call of the Canyon" (Billy Hill)

"Love Lies" (Joseph Meyer; Ralph Freed; Carl Sigman)

"The World is in My Arms" (Burton Lane; E. Y. "Yip" Harbug)

(w/ the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra)


1957

Capitol

"Mistletoe and Holly" (Dok Sanford; Hank Sanicola; Frank Sinatra)

"The Christmas Song" (Mel Torme; Robert Wells)

"Silent Night" (Franz Gruber; Joseph Mohr)

"I'll Be Home for Christmas" (Walter Kent; Kim Gannon; Buck Ram)

(w/ The Ralph Brewster Singers)


1964

Reprise

"Softly, As I Leave You" (Antonio DeVita; Girogio Calabrese; Hal Shaper)

"Then Suddenly Love" (Roy Alfred; Paul Vance)

"Since Marie Has Left Paree" (Hy Glaser; Jerry Solomon)

"Available" (Ned Wynn; L. B. Marks; Sammy Cahn)


1979

Reprise

"I Had the Craziest Dream" (Harry Warren; Mack Gordon)


Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998





Friday, July 16, 2021

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 16 July

1957

Capitol

"Jingle Bells" (James S. Pierpoint)

"The First Noel" (Traditional)

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

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

(w/ The Ralph Brewster Singers)


1963

(Soundtrack: The Victors)

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

(w/ Wally Stott Orchestra and Chorus)


Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998




Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 14 July

1949

Columbia

"Every Man Should Marry" (Abner Silver; Benny Davis)

"If Ever I Love Again" (Russ Carlyle; Dick Reynold) (w/ The Double Daters)


1954

Capitol

"Just One of Those Things" (Cole Porter)


Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998












Tuesday, July 13, 2021

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 13 July

1939

Brunswick

"From the Bottom of My Heart" (Billy Hayes; Morty Berk; Andy Gibson; Harry James)

"Melancholy Mood" (Vick Knight)

(w/ The Harry James Orchestra)


Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998




Saturday, July 10, 2021

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 10 July

1939

Brunswick

"If I Didn't Care" (Jack Lawrence)

"The Lamp is Low" (Peter DeRose; Bert Shefter; Mitchell Parish)

(w/ The Harry James Orchestra)


1949

Columbia

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

"Bye Bye Baby" (Jule Styne; Leo Robin)

(w/ The Pastels)

"Don't Cry Joe" (Joe Marsala)

(w/ The Pastels)


1957

Capitol

"It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" (Richard Willis; Edmund Sears)

"O Little Town of Bethlehem" (Philips Brooks; Lewis Redner)

"Hark the Heralds Angels Sing" (Felix Mendelssohn; Charles Wesley)

"Adeste Fideles" (John Francis Wade)

(w/ The Ralph Brewster Singers)


1963

Reprise

"We Open in Venice" (Cole Porter)

(w/ Dean Martin and Sammy Davis, Jr.)


Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998






Thursday, July 8, 2021

Happy Birthday, Steve!

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

8 July 

1944

V-Discs

"All of Me" (Gerald Marks; Seymour Simons)

"All the Things You Are" (Jerome Kern; Oscar Hammerstein II)

"Brahms' Lullaby" (Johannes Brahms; Natalia MacFarren)

"Falling in Love with Love" (Richard Rodgers; Lorenz Hart)

"I'll Follow My Secret Heart" (Noel Coward)

"Mighty Lak' a Rose" (Ethelbert Nevin; Frank Stanton)

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


Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998







Tuesday, July 6, 2021

Happy Day, Laverne!

FGF Playlist 7/6/21

 Today's "Road" Show Playlist

https://spinitron.com/WFCS/pl/13610366/Frank-Gil-and-Friends

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 6 July

Capitol

"I've Got a Crush on You" (w/ Barbra Streisand)

"My Way" (w/ Luciano Pavarotti)

"(Theme from) New York, New York" (w/ Tony Bennett)

"Summer Wind" (w/ Julio Iglesias)

"What Now My Love" (w/ Aretha Franklin)

"You Make Me Feel So Young" (w/ Charles Aznavour)


Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998










Saturday, July 3, 2021

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 3 July

1947

Columbia

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

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

"The Stars Will Remember (and So Will I)" (Don Pelosi; Leo Towers)

"It All Came True" (Sunny Skylar)


Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998




Friday, July 2, 2021

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 2 July

1942

RCA

"Light a Candle in the Chapel" (Harry Pease; Ed Nelson; Duke Leonard)

(w/ Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra)




Thursday, July 1, 2021

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 1 July

1942

RCA

"There are Such Things" (Stanley Adams; Abel Baer; George Meyer)

"Daybreak" (Ferde Grofe; Harold Adamson)

"It Started All Over Again" (Carl Fischer; Bill Carey)

(w/ Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra)


1993

Capitol

"All the Way/One for My Baby" (w/ Kenny G)

"Come Fly with Me" (w/ Luis Miguel)

"Come Rain or Come Shine" (w/ Gloria Estefan)

"I've Got the World on a String" (w/ Liza Minnelli)

"I've Got You Under My Skin" (w/ Bono)

"The Lady is a Tramp" (w/Luther Vandross)

"They Can't Take that Away from Me" (w/ Natalie Cole)


Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998



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