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- Artist: Frank Sinatra/Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra
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- Release Date: October 04, 2005
- Type: Compilation (best of)
- Genre: Vocal Music
Review
At the beginning of his career, Frank Sinatra already possessed a large number of the qualities that would make him one of the music powerhouses of the century. His elegance, his warmth, his relaxed yet controlled performing persona, his gift of conveying innumerable subtleties even while singing a song straight -- all of these were apparent in the early '40s, before he began appearing under a solo billing. The Essential Frank Sinatra with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra doesn't include his first recording, which came in July 1939 with Harry James, but it does feature two full discs of his early material, previously available on CD via a parade of spotty single-disc collections or the mammoth RCA title The Song Is You, a five-disc box set for completists only. Some critics think that Tommy Dorsey is responsible for Sinatra's early vocal style -- Dorsey's lyrical, flowing trombone indeed had much in common with Sinatra's singing -- but a far more plausible explanation is that the bandleader appreciated a similar approach to music-making. (After all, Sinatra's early style was nearly intact even before joining Dorsey.) The rewards of their collaboration are evident on this compilation, which include a monster hit from 1940 in "I'll Never Smile Again" as well as many more Hit Parade entries from 1940-1942: "Our Love," "We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me," "Stardust," "Oh! Look at Me Now," and "Dolores." Sinatra fans who already have extensive representation of his Capitol, Reprise, and Columbia periods will want to add this to their collection. ~ John Bush, All Music GuideTracks
CD 1
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| I'll Be Seeing You (Lyrics) | Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal | Frank Sinatra, |
(3:04) |
| Say It (Lyrics) | Jimmy McHugh, Frank Loesser | Frank Sinatra, |
(3:25) |
| Polka Dots and Moonbeams (Lyrics) | James Van Heusen | Frank Sinatra, |
(3:21) |
| Fools Rush In (Lyrics) | Rube Bloom, Johnny Mercer | Frank Sinatra, |
(3:13) |
| Imagination (Lyrics) | James Van Heusen | Frank Sinatra, |
(3:14) |
| You're Lonely and I'm Lonely (Lyrics) | Irving Berlin | Frank Sinatra, |
(3:12) |
| East of the Sun (And West of the Moon) | Frank Sinatra, |
(3:20) | |
| It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow (Lyrics) | Irving Berlin | Frank Sinatra, |
(2:29) |
| I'll Never Smile Again (Lyrics) | Frank Sinatra, |
(3:11) | |
| All This and Heaven Too (Lyrics) | Eddie DeLange, James Van Heusen | Frank Sinatra, |
(3:38) |
| Trade Winds (Lyrics) | Frank Sinatra, |
(2:59) | |
| The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else | Isham Jones, Gus Kahn | Frank Sinatra, |
(3:32) |
| The Call of the Canyon (Lyrics) | Frank Sinatra, |
(3:08) | |
| Love Lies (Lyrics) | Carl Sigman, |
Frank Sinatra, |
(3:23) |
| I Could Make You Care (Lyrics) | Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin | Frank Sinatra, |
(3:10) |
| Our Love Affair (Lyrics) | Arthur Freed, |
Frank Sinatra, |
(3:02) |
| We Three (My Echo, My Shadow, And Me) | Dick Robertson, |
Frank Sinatra, |
(3:03) |
| Stardust (Lyrics) | Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish | The Pied Pipers, Frank Sinatra, |
(3:13) |
| Oh! Look at Me Now | Joe Bushkin, |
The Pied Pipers, Frank Sinatra, Connie Haines, |
(3:16) |
| You Might Have Belonged to Another | The Pied Pipers, Frank Sinatra, Connie Haines, |
(2:47) | |
| It's Always You (Lyrics) | Johnny Burke, James Van Heusen | Frank Sinatra, |
(3:15) |
| I Tried | Cathy Dennis, |
Frank Sinatra, |
(3:16) |
| Dolores (Lyrics) | Frank Loesser, |
The Pied Pipers, Frank Sinatra, |
(2:55) |
CD 2
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Do I Worry? | The Pied Pipers, Frank Sinatra, |
(3:14) | |
| Everything Happens to Me | Matt Dennis, Tom Adair | Frank Sinatra, |
(3:12) |
| This Love of Mine (Lyrics) | Frank Sinatra, |
(3:43) | |
| I Guess I'll Have to Dream the Rest | The Pied Pipers, Frank Sinatra, |
(3:31) | |
| You and I | Frank Sinatra, |
(2:43) | |
| Blue Skies (Lyrics) | Irving Berlin | Frank Sinatra, |
(3:16) |
| I Think of You | Frank Sinatra, |
(2:55) | |
| Violets for Your Furs | Matt Dennis, Tom Adair | Frank Sinatra, |
(3:05) |
| How About You? (Lyrics) | Burton Lane, |
Frank Sinatra, |
(2:54) |
| The Night We Called It a Day | Matt Dennis, Tom Adair | Frank Sinatra, |
(3:21) |
| The Song Is You (Lyrics) | Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II | Frank Sinatra, |
(3:22) |
| I'll Take Tallulah | E.Y. "Yip" Harburg, Burton Lane | The Pied Pipers, Frank Sinatra, Jo Stafford, |
(3:15) |
| The Last Call for Love | E.Y. "Yip" Harburg, Burton Lane, |
The Pied Pipers, Frank Sinatra, |
(2:31) |
| Just as Though You Were Here | Eddie DeLange | The Pied Pipers, Frank Sinatra, |
(3:14) |
| Street of Dreams | Victor Young, Sam M. Lewis | The Pied Pipers, Frank Sinatra, |
(2:41) |
| Take Me (Lyrics) | Rube Bloom, |
Frank Sinatra, |
(3:01) |
| Be Careful It's My Heart | Irving Berlin | Frank Sinatra, |
(2:49) |
| In the Blue of Evening (Lyrics) | Tom Adair, |
Frank Sinatra, |
(2:56) |
| There Are Such Things | The Pied Pipers, Frank Sinatra, |
(2:43) | |
| Daybreak (Lyrics) | Ferde Grofé, Harold Adamson | Frank Sinatra, |
(3:13) |
| Light a Candle in the Chapel (Lyrics) | Frank Sinatra, |
(3:04) |
