Tune in tomorrow,
1 June 2021,
to celebrate the 100th birthday of
NELSON SMOCK RIDDLE.
Hear his wonderful arrangements, compositions, conducting, and playing!
Tuesday, 8 AM
and
107.7 FM New Britain/Hartford The EDGE
Monday, May 31, 2021
Saturday, May 29, 2021
Today Frank Sinatra Recorded
29 May
1958
Capitol
"Monique" (Elmer Bernstein; Sammy Cahn)
"Ebb Tide" (Robert Maxwell; Carl Sigman)
"Angel Eyes" (Matt Dennis; Earl Brent)
"Spring is Here" (Richard Rodgers; Lorenz Hart)
"Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry" (Jule Styne; Sammy Cahn)
"Only the Lonely" (Jimmy Van Heusen; Sammy Cahn)
"Willow Weep for Me" (Ann Ronnell)
Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra, 1998.
Friday, May 28, 2021
Today Frank Sinatra Recorded
28 May
1941
RCA
"I'll Never Let a Day Pass By" (Victor Schertzinger; Frank Loesser)
"Love Me as I Am" (Louis Alter; Frank Loesser)
"This Love of Mine" (Sol Parker; Hank Sanicola; Frank Sinatra)
(with The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra)
1946
Columbia
"Soliloquy" (Richard Rodgers; Oscar Hammerstein II)
"Somewhere in the Night" (Josef Myrow; Mack Gordon)
"Could'ja?" (Carl Fischer; Bill Carey)
(with the Pied Pipers)
"Five Minutes More" (Jule Styne; Sammy Cahn)
Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra (1998)
Thursday, May 27, 2021
Today Frank Sinatra Recorded
27 May
1965
Reprise
"September of My Years" (Jimmy Van Heusen; Sammy Cahn)
Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra (1998)
Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Tuesday, May 25, 2021
1 June 2021...
...would have been Nelson Smock Riddle’s 100th birthday. To celebrate, “Frank, Gil, and Friends” will play nothing but Nelson’s arrangements, playing, and/or conducting on next Tuesday’s program.
So, Nelson with Frank, Nat, Ella, Sammy, Antonio, Peggy, Oscar, Judy, AND MORE!
Be sure to tune in at 8 AM on 6/1/21!
Monday, May 24, 2021
On Bob Dylan’s 80th birthday...
...how about Bob performing his “Restless Farewell” in honor of Frank Sinatra’s 80th birthday:
Today Frank Sinatra Recorded
24 May
1944
Columbia
"And Then You Kissed Me" (Jule Styne; Sammy Cahn)
"Put Your Dreams Away (for Another Day)" (Stephan Weiss; Paul Mann; Ruth Lowe)
1945
Columbia
"Stars in Your Eyes" (Gabriel Ruiz; Ricardo Lopez-Mendez; Mort Greene)
"My Shawl" (Xavier Cugat; Pedro Berrios; Stanley Adams)
w/ the Xavier Cugat Orchestra
1974
Reprise
"You are the Sunshine of My Life" (Stevie Wonder)
Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra (1998)
Sunday, May 23, 2021
Today Frank Sinatra Recorded
23 May
1940
RCA
"I'll Never Smile Again" (Ruth Lowe)
"All This and Heaven Too" (Jimmy Van Heusen; Eddie DeLange)
"Where Do You Keep Your Heart" (Fred Ahlert; Al Stillman)
w/ The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
1961
Reprise
"Don't Cry Joe" (Joe Marsala)
"You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You" (Russ Morgan; Larry Stock; James Cavanaugh)
"Moonlight on the Ganges" (Sherman Myers; Chester Wallace)
"Granada" (Dorothy Dodd; Agustin Lara)
Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra (1998)
Saturday, May 22, 2021
Friday, May 21, 2021
Today Frank Sinatra Recorded
21 May
1974
Reprise
"What are You Doing the Rest of Your Life" (Michel Legrand; Alan Bergman; Marilyn Bergman)
"Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Ole Oak Tree" (Irwin Levine; Russell Brown)
"Satisfy Me One More Time" (Floyd Huddleston)
Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra (1998)
Thursday, May 20, 2021
Today Frank Sinatra Recorded
20 May
1957
Capitol
"Witchcraft" (Cy Coleman; Carolyn Leigh)
"Something Wonbderful Happens in Summer" (Joe Bushkin; Johnny DeVries)
"Tell Her You Love Her" (Homer Denison; Hugh Halliday; Sol Parker)
"You're Cheatin' Youself" (Dick Manning; Al Hoffman)
Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra (1998)
Wednesday, May 19, 2021
Today Frank Sinatra Recorded
19 May
1961
Reprise
"Don't Be That Way" (Edgar Sampson; Benny Goodman; Mitchell Parish)
"I Never Knew (that Roses Grew)" (Ted Fiorito; Gus Kahn)
"Falling in Love with Love" (Richard Rodgerrs; Lorenz Hart)
"It's a Wonderful World" (Jan Savitt; Johnny Watson; Harold Adamson)
Source: Tom Rednour, Songs by Sinatra (1998)
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
Today Frank Sinatra Recorded
18 May
1944
RCA
"Just as Though You were Here" (John Benson Brooks; Eddie DeLange)
"The Street of Dreams" (Victor Young; Sam Lewis)
with Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra
1961
Reprise
"The Curse of an Aching Heart"(Al Pientadosi; Henry Fink)
"Love Walked In" (George Gershwin; Ira Gershwin)
"Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone" (Sammy Stept; Sidney Clare)
"Have You Met Miss Jones" (Richard Rodgers; Lorenz Hart)
Monday, May 17, 2021
Today Frank Sinatra Recorded
17 May
1944
Columbia (V Discs)
"Come Out, Come Out Wherever You Are" (Jule Styne; Sammy Cahn)
"Some Other Time" (Jule Styne; Sammy Cahn)
1984
Qwest
"LA. is My Lady" (Quincy Jones; Julie Lipton Jones; Alan Bergman; Marilyn Bergman)
"Stormy Weather" (Harold Arlen; Ted Koehler)
Source: Tom Rednour, Songs By Sinatra (1998)
Sunday, May 16, 2021
Today Frank Sinatra Recorded
16 May
1945
Columbia
"Lilly Belle" (Dave Franklin; Irving Taylor)
"Don't Forget about Tonight Tomorrow" (Jay Milton; Ukie Sherin)
"I've Got a Home in the Rock" (Traditional)
"Jesus is a Rock (in a Weary Land)" (Traditional)
(with The Charioteers)
1966
Reprise
"Summer Wind" (Heinz Maier; Hans Bradtke; Johnny Mercer)
"All or Nothing at All" (Arthur Altman; Jack Lawrence)
"Call Me" (Tony Hatch)
"On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever)" (Burton Lane; Alan Jay Lerner)
"Downtown" (Tony Hatch)
Source: Tom Rednour, Songs By Sinatra (1998)
Saturday, May 15, 2021
And now for something completely different...
A new podcast that drops on 5/16/21,
the 55th anniversary of the release of the Beach Boys' seminal
PET SOUNDS!
Each episode discusses a different track of the album.
Listen to The Trailer.
Friday, May 14, 2021
Today Frank Sinatra Recorded
14 May
1959
Capitol
"This was My Love" (James Harbert)
"Talk to Me" (Stanley Kahan; Eddie Snyder; Rudy Vallee)
"When No One Cares" (jimmy Van Heusen; Sammy Cahn)
"I'll Never Smile Again" (Ruth Lowe)
Source: Thomas Rednour, Songs By Sinatra (1998)
Thursday, May 13, 2021
Today Frank Sinatra Recorded
13 May
1954
Capitol
"The Gal that Got Away" (Harold Arlen; Ira Gershwin)
"Half as Lovely (Twice as True)" (Lew Spence; Sammy Gallop)
"It Worries Me" (J. Schultz; I. Reichel; Carl Sigman)
Source: Thomas Rednour, Songs by Sinatra (1998)
Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Today Frank Sinatra Recorded
11 May
1966
"My Baby Just Cares for Me" (Walter Donaldson; Gus Kahn)
"Yes, Sir, That's My Baby" (Walter Donaldson; Gus Kahn)
"You're Driving Me Crazy" (Walter Donaldson)
"The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" (Richard Rodgers; Lorenz Hart)
Source: Thomas Rednour, Songs By Sinatra, 1998
Who will be today’s...
...RIDDLE ME THIS* feature artist?
Tune in to the show at 9 AM to find out
*Our weekly salute to Nelson Smock Riddle in honor of his centenary (1921-2021)
Monday, May 10, 2021
Today Frank Sinatra Recorded
10 May
1951
Columbia
"Mama Will Bark" (Dick Manning)
(with Dagmar -- and Donald Bain's barking)
"It's a Long Way from Your House to My House" (Sid Tepper and Nicholas Brodsky)
Source: Thomas Rednour, Songs By Sinatra (1998)
Sunday, May 9, 2021
Saturday, May 8, 2021
Today Frank Sinatra Recorded
8 May
1959
Capitol
"High Hopes" (Jimmy Van Heusen; Sammy Cahn)
(with "Bunch of Kids," yep, that's the credit!)
"Love Looks So Well On You" (Lew Spence; Marilyn Bergman; Alana Bergman)
1974
Reprise
"Sweet Caroline" (Neil Diamond)
"You Turned My World Around" (Bert Kaempfert; Herbert Rehbein; Kim Carnes; David Ellingson)
Source: Thomas Rednour, Songs By Sinatra, 1998
Friday, May 7, 2021
Today Frank Sinatra Recorded
7 May
1974
Reprise
"If" (David Gates)
"The Summer Knows" (Michel Legrand; Alan Bergman; Marilyn Bergman)
Source: Thomas Rednour, Songs By Sinatra (1998)
"Riddle Me This" (So Far in 2021)
Here are all the artists we have played
at the top of the 9:00 AM hour
during our "Riddle Me This" segment
to celebrate Nelson Smock Riddle's Centenary:
101 Strings
Rosemary Clooney
Nat Cole
Buddy DeFranco
Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops
Ella Fitzgerald
Judy Garland
Antonio Carlos Jobim
Kiri Te Kanawa
Oscar Peterson
Sue Raney
Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra
Linda Ronstadt
Frank Sinatra
Keely Smith
Patrick Williams
(with more still to come!)
Tune in on Tuesdays.
Thursday, May 6, 2021
Today Frank Sinatra Recorded
6 May
1949
Columbia
"Let"s Take an Old-Fashioned Walk" (Irving Berlin)
(with Doris Day and the Ken Lane Singers)
"Just One Way to Say I Love You" (Irving Berlin)
1965
Reprise
"Forget Domani" (Riziero Ortolani; Norman Newell)
Source: Thomas Rednour, Songs By Sinatra (1998)
Wednesday, May 5, 2021
Tuesday, May 4, 2021
Frank and Frankie (Poor Sales Ahead!)
Hey, Frankie, it’s 1968, how about you and the boys and I each,
over the next couple years,
record albums written by the same pair of songwriters,
Bob Gaudio and Jake Holmes?
What could go wrong?
Well, those two albums,
The Genuine Imitation Life Gazette and Watertown,
respectively,
would turn out to be the worst-selling albums ever for each artist!
P.S.: I LOVE both of these albums.
Monday, May 3, 2021
Riddle Me This!
Throughout 2021, so far, we've been playing something Nelson-Riddle-related at the top of the 9 AM hour to celebrate what would have been the centennial year of the late, great Nelson Smock Riddle!
On his 100th Birthday, Tuesday, 1 June, we'll dedicate the entire show to his remarkable musical career!
Save the date!
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