4053796004857

Sings The Songbooks

Frank Sinatra

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Format: 10CD

Cat No: 600485

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Release Date:  30 November 2018

Label:  Documents

Packaging Type:  Box Set

No of Units:  10

Barcode:  4053796004857

Genres:  Easy Listening  Pop  

  • Description

    The American singer and actor Francis Albert Sinatra (1915-1998) was one of the most successful pop artists of the 20th century. Even as a teenager he was an ambitious singer and after hearing Bing Crosby, he knew what his dream job would be. As early as 1939, the popular swing trumpeter Harry James brought him to his newly founded big band. The first records found only few buyers, but his move to the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra began the meteoric rise of 25-year-old Sinatra in the Forties. "Polka Dots and Moon Beams" was his first hit in April 1940. Once he was able to get out of an extremely unfavorable contract with Dorsey, he finally established himself as a solo artist in 1943.



    Sinatra's repertoire consisted of songs that are now considered classics in the 40s and 50s, immortalized as part of the "Great American Song Book". Sinatra never took up the idea of "songbook albums" out of respect for Ella Fitzgerald, who celebrated her greatest successes with albums dedicated to individual songwriters in the 1950s, from Cole Porter to the Gershwins. Still, Sinatra was a perfect interpreter of these songs, as this 10 CD-set of newly compiled albums with the work of composers and lyricists gathered here shows. It presents Sinatra's versions of the greatest songs by Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, George and Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Johnny Mercer, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, Sammy Cahn, James Van Heusen and Jerome Kern. "Ol' Blue Eyes" always had the best orchestras and arrangers at his side and you will enjoy the work of Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, Axel Stordahl, Alec Wilder, Percy Faith, Nelson Riddle, Billy May, Gordon Jenkins and André Previn on this documentation.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Love Walked In
      • 2. Love Is Here To Stay
      • 3. Nice Work If You Can Get It
      • 4. They Can´t Take That Away From Me
      • 5. A Foggy Day
      • 6. I Got Plenty O´nuttin
      • 7. Someone To Watch Over Me
      • 8. I´ve Got A Crush On You
      • 9. Embraceable You
      • 10. Bess Oh, Where Is My Bess
      • 11. Mood Indigo
      • 12. I Got It Bad And That Ain´t Good

      Disc 2

      • 1. Blue Skies
      • 2. A Fella With An Umbrella
      • 3. Cheek To Cheek
      • 4. There´s No Business Like Show Business
      • 5. They Say It´s Wonderful
      • 6. What´ll I Do?
      • 7. How Deep Is The Ocean?
      • 8. It Only Happens When I Dance With You
      • 9. (Just One Way To Say) I Love You
      • 10. Let´s Take An Old-Faishoned Walk
      • 11. Be Careful, It´s My Heart
      • 12. It´s A Lovely Day Tomorrow
      • 13. Always
      • 14. All Alone
      • 15. When I Lost You
      • 16. Remember
      • 17. The Song Is Ended

      Disc 3

      • 1. Jeepers Creepers
      • 2. Too Marvellous For Words
      • 3. Something´s Gotta Give
      • 4. Blues In The Night
      • 5. Fools Rush In
      • 6. Day In - Day Out
      • 7. I´d Know You Anywhere
      • 8. David Reskin - Laura
      • 9. Dream
      • 10. Autumn Leaves
      • 11. When The World Was Young
      • 12. I Thought About You
      • 13. P.S. I Love You

      Disc 4

      • 1. My Funny Valentine
      • 2. Glad To Be Unhappy
      • 3. It´s Easy To Remember
      • 4. Dancing On The Ceiling
      • 5. It Never Enterd My Mind
      • 6. You Are Too Beautiful
      • 7. Where Or When
      • 8. Falling In Love With Love
      • 9. Lover
      • 10. Have You Met Miss Jones?
      • 11. Little Girl Blue
      • 12. I Wish I Were In Love Again
      • 13. Spring Is Here
      • 14. My Romance
      • 15. You´ll Never Walk Alone

      Disc 5

      • 1. Cole Porter - Begin The Beguine
      • 2. Cherry Pies Ought To Be You
      • 3. You Do Something To Me
      • 4. I Concentrate On You
      • 5. Why Shoudn´t I ?
      • 6. I Get A Kick Out Of You
      • 7. I´ve Got You Under My Skin
      • 8. Anything Goes
      • 9. What Is This Thing Called Love
      • 10. Night And Day
      • 11. Just One Of Those Things
      • 12. You´d Be So Nice To Come Home To
      • 13. At Long Last Love
      • 14. Why Can´t You Behave ?
      • 15. I Love You
      • 16. I Am Loved
      • 17. You Don´t Remind Me
      • 18. From This Moment On
      • 19. You´re Sensational
      • 20. Mind If I Make Love To You?
      • 21. Well Did You Eva?
      • 22. Who Wants To Be A Millionaire

      Disc 6

      • 1. I´ve Got The World On A String
      • 2. It´s Only A Paper Moon
      • 3. For Every Man There´s A Woman
      • 4. That Old Black Magic
      • 5. My Shining Hour
      • 6. Stormy Weather
      • 7. Blues In The Night
      • 8. The Gal That Got Away
      • 9. Ill Wind
      • 10. Don´t Like Goodbyes
      • 11. Over The Rainbow
      • 12. You´ll Never Know
      • 13. Come Rain Or Shine
      • 14. I Only Have Eyes For You
      • 15. Get Happy
      • 16. One For My Baby

      Disc 7

      • 1. You Lucky People, You
      • 2. Polka Dots And Moon Beams
      • 3. Imagination
      • 4. Do You Know Why
      • 5. Warrington - Aren´t You Glad That You Are You
      • 6. It´s Always You
      • 7. Sunday, Monday Or Always
      • 8. If You Stub Your Toe On The Moon
      • 9. But Beautiful
      • 10. If You Please
      • 11. Life Is So Peculiar
      • 12. (We´ve Got) A Sure Thing
      • 13. A Friend Of Yours
      • 14. The Same Old Song And Dance
      • 15. When Is Sometime?
      • 16. Here´s That Rainy Day
      • 17. Sunshine Cake
      • 18. Accidents Will Happen

      Disc 8

      • 1. Come Fly With Me
      • 2. It´s Nice To Go Trav´ling
      • 3. (Love Is) The Tender Trap
      • 4. Look To Your Heart
      • 5. Indiscreet
      • 6. All The Way
      • 7. Come Dance With Me
      • 8. All My Tomorrows
      • 9. How Are ´ya Fixed For Love?
      • 10. Nothing In Common
      • 11. When No One Cares
      • 12. Only The Lonely
      • 13. To Love And Be Loved
      • 14. The Last Dance
      • 15. Love & Marriage
      • 16. The Impatient Years
      • 17. High Hopes
      • 18. They Came To Cordura

      Disc 9

      • 1. Hello, Young Lovers
      • 2. Soliloquy
      • 3. Bali Ha´i
      • 4. Oh, What A Beautiful Morning
      • 5. People Will Say We Are In Love
      • 6. Boys And Girls Like You And Me
      • 7. I Whistle A Happy Tune
      • 8. The Song Is You
      • 9. All The Things You Are
      • 10. All Through The Day
      • 11. Two Hearts Are Better Than One
      • 12. Ol´ Man River
      • 13. Why Was I Born?
      • 14. If I Loved You

      Disc 10

      • 1. Come Out, Wherever You Are
      • 2. And Then You Kissed Me
      • 3. What Makes The Sunset?
      • 4. The Charm Of You
      • 5. Five Minutes More
      • 6. Things We Did Last Summer
      • 7. The Brooklyn Bridge
      • 8. Kisses And Tears
      • 9. Three Coins In The Fountain
      • 10. I Begged Her
      • 11. Time After Time
      • 12. Guess I´ll Hang Out My Tears To Dry
      • 13. Saturday Night
      • 14. It´s The Same Old Dream
      • 15. I Fall In Love Too Easily
      • 16. As Long As There Is Music
      • 17. Whose Baby Are You?