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Tuesday, August 31, 2021

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)




Sunday, August 29, 2021

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)




Friday, August 27, 2021

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)




Thursday, August 26, 2021

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 26 August

Reprise

"Watertown"

"What's Now is Now"

(Bob Gaudio; Jake Holmes)


Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998)








Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Monday, August 23, 2021

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)




Sunday, August 22, 2021

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)






Saturday, August 21, 2021

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


Friday, August 20, 2021

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


Thursday, August 19, 2021

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




Wednesday, August 18, 2021

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)

Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 17 August

1939

Brunswick

"My Buddy" (Walter Donaldson; Gus Kahn)

"It's Funny to Everyone but Me" (Jack Lawrence)

(w/ the Harry James Orchestra)


1947

Columbia

"But Beautiful" (Jimmy Van Heusen; Johnny Burke)

"A Fellow Needs a Girl" (Richard Rodgers; Oscar Hammerstein II)

"So Far" (Richard Rodgers; Oscar Hammerstein II)


1982

Reprise

"Love Makes Us Whatever We Want to Be" (Jule Styne; Sammy Cahn)

"Searching" (Jule Styne; Sammy Cahn)





Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998

Sunday, August 15, 2021

Fall Plans meme

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

15 August 

1955

Capitol

"Look to Your Heart" (Jimmy Van Heusen; Sammy Cahn)

"Love and Marriage" (Jimmy Van Heusen; Sammy Cahn)

The Impatient Years" (Jimmy Van Heusen; Sammy Cahn)

"Our Town" (Jimmy Van Heusen; Sammy Cahn)


Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998


Friday, August 13, 2021

Ava Gardner Songs (From This Century)


Artist                         Song Title                             Album Title                             Year 

Rob Berretta               Frank and Ava’s Child           Songs from the Big Martin     2005

Blooming Day            Ava Gardner                          Noir                                        2012   

Cobalt Chapel             Ava Gardner                          Cobalt Chapel                        2017

Martin Eagle               Ava Gardner                          A Welcoming Beauty              2004

Rachel Kiel                 Ava Gardner                          Dream Logic                          2020

German Kucich, et al Ava Gardner                           This is New                            2005

Niobe                          Ava Gardner at the Swimming Pool  

                                                                                  Black Bird’s Echo                  2009

Parisian Pass              Ava Gardner                           The Boy and the Birds            2016

Pavlov’s Dog             Ava Gardner’s Bust                Echo and Boo                         2010

Songdog                    Cold Coffee and Ava Gardner Janie Jones                            2005

Alain Souchon           La Beaute d’Ava Gardner       Ultra Moderne Solitude         2004

Rick Strittmater         Letter to Ava Gardner             Zofia Pacifica 2026               2006

Michael James Tapscott  Ava Gardner                     The Depths OST                     2018

The Townghost          Ava Gardner                           Valona                                    2017

Suzanne Vega            Frank and Ava                        Beauty and Crime                  2007

Ben Vaughn               Ava Gardner’s Blues              Vaughn Sings Vaughn, Vol 2 2007

No more concerts for Mr. Benedetto! :(

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

13 August 

1957

Capitol

"I Could Write a Book" (Richard Rodgers; Lorenz Hart)

"Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered" (Richard Rodgers; Lorenz Hart)

"All the Way" (Jimmy Van Heusen; Sammy Cahn)

"There's a Small Hotel" (Richard Rodgers; Lorenz Hart)

"Chicago (That Toddlin' Town)" (Fred Fisher)



Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998


Thursday, August 12, 2021

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 12 August

1968

Reprise

"The Twelve Days of Christmas" (Traditional; Sammy Cahn)

"The Bells of Christams (Greensleeves)" (Traditional; Sammy Cahn)

"I Wouldn't Trade Christmas" (w/ Nancy, Tina, Frank Jr. and the Jimmy Joyce Singers)                       (Jimmy Van Heusen; Sammy Cahn)

"The Christmas Waltz" (Juke Styne; Sammy Cahn) (w/ the Jimmy Joyce Singers)





Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998

Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 11 August

1947

Columbia

"That Old Feeling" (Sammy Fain; Lew Brown)

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

"The Nearness of You" (Hoagy Carmichael; Ned Washington)

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


Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998

Sunday, August 8, 2021

Happy Birthday, Axel!

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 8 August

1946

Columbia


"Adeste Fideles" (John Francis Wade)

"Lost in the Stars" (Kurt Weill; Maxwell Anderson)

"Jingle Bells" (James S. Pierpoint) (w/ The Ken Lane Singers)

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


Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998







Thursday, August 5, 2021

On this day in 1953…

…From “Here to Eternity” premiered. Here’s FAS in Mad Magazine’s “From Eternity to Here!”

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 5 August

1943

Columbia

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

"Oh, What a Beautiful Morning"  (Richard Rodgers; Oscar Hammerstein II)

(w/ The Bobby Tucker Singers, a cappella)


Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998









Monday, August 2, 2021

Today Frank Sinatra Recorded

 2 August

1950

Columbia

"Life is so Peculiar" (Jimmy Van Heusen; Johnny Burke)

(w/ Helen Carroll and the Swantones)


Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998