Concepts (Frank Sinatra album)
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Concepts is a 1992 sixteen-disc box set compilation
Compilation album
A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

 of the U.S.
United States
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 singer Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...

.

This sixteen CD
Compact Disc
The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...

 set is the first major compilation from an entire era of Sinatra's career. This particular set contains every studio album from years with Capitol Records
Capitol Records
Capitol Records is a major United States based record label, formerly located in Los Angeles, but operating in New York City as part of Capitol Music Group. Its former headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine...

. It also includes the instrumental album Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color
Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color
Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color is a 1956 album of tone poems composed by eight notable mid-20th century Hollywood arrangers, with each composition inspired by the poetry of Norman Sickel....

, which was new to compact disc with this set. However, it does not include any singles compilations or soundtracks Sinatra released on the label.

Disc one

  1. "My Funny Valentine
    My Funny Valentine
    "My Funny Valentine" is a show tune from the 1937 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart musical Babes in Arms in which it was introduced by former child star Mitzi Green...

    " (Richard Rodgers
    Richard Rodgers
    Richard Charles Rodgers was an American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals. He also composed music for films and television. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II...

    , Lorenz Hart
    Lorenz Hart
    Lorenz "Larry" Milton Hart was the lyricist half of the famed Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart...

    ) – 2:31
  2. "The Girl Next Door
    The Boy Next Door (song)
    "The Boy Next Door" is a 1944 popular song by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane.It was first introduced in the musical film Meet Me in St. Louis, where it was performed by Judy Garland....

    " (Ralph Blane
    Ralph Blane
    Ralph Blane was an American composer, lyricist, and performer.-Life and career:Born Ralph Uriah Hunsecker in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, Blane was the son of grocery store owners. He attended Tulsa Central High School...

    , Hugh Martin
    Hugh Martin
    Hugh Martin was an American musical theater and film composer, arranger, vocal coach, and playwright. He is best known for his score for the 1944 MGM musical Meet Me In St...

    ) – 2:39
  3. "A Foggy Day
    A Foggy Day
    "A Foggy Day" is a song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, introduced by Fred Astaire in the 1937 film A Damsel in Distress...

    " (George Gershwin
    George Gershwin
    George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known...

    , Ira Gershwin
    Ira Gershwin
    Ira Gershwin was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century....

    ) – 2:41
  4. "Like Someone in Love
    Like Someone in Love
    Like Someone in Love is an album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, with a studio orchestra arranged and conducted by Frank DeVol...

    " (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke
    Johnny Burke (lyricist)
    Johnny Burke was a lyricist, widely regarded as one of the finest writers of popular songs in America between the 1920s and 1950s.-Biography:...

    ) – 3:13
  5. "I Get a Kick Out of You
    I Get a Kick Out of You
    "I Get a Kick Out of You" is a song by Cole Porter, originally featured in the Broadway musical Anything Goes and the movie of the same name....

    " (Cole Porter
    Cole Porter
    Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter. Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, he defied the wishes of his domineering grandfather and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn towards musical theatre...

    ) – 2:56
  6. "Little Girl Blue
    Little Girl Blue (song)
    "Little Girl Blue" is a popular song with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart, published in 1935. The song was introduced by Gloria Grafton in the Broadway musical Jumbo....

    " (Rodgers, Hart) – 2:54
  7. "They Can't Take That Away from Me
    They Can't Take That Away from Me
    "They Can't Take That Away from Me" is a 1937 song written by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin and introduced by Fred Astaire in the 1937 film Shall We Dance....

    " (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 1:59
  8. "Violets for Your Furs" (Tom Adair
    Tom Adair
    Thomas "Tom" Montgomery Adair was an American songwriter, composer, and screenwriter.-Biography:Born in Newton, Kansas, worked at a power company and the Saturday Evening Post, writing numerous poems, while penning the songs in his spare time. In 1941, Adair met Matt Dennis in a club and the duo...

    , Matt Dennis
    Matt Dennis
    Matt Dennis was a singer, pianist, bandleader, arranger, and writer of music for popular music songs.He was born in Seattle, Washington. His mother was a violinist and his father a singer, and the family was in vaudeville, so he was early exposed to music. In 1933 he joined Horace Heidt's...

    ) – 3:07
  9. "Just One of Those Things
    Just One of Those Things (song)
    "Just One of Those Things" is a popular song written by Cole Porter for the 1935 musical Jubilee.The song was later featured in two Doris Day musical films, Lullaby of Broadway and Young at Heart .-Influence in popular culture:...

    " (Porter) – 3:14
  10. "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter
    I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter
    "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter" is a 1935 popular song with music by Fred E. Ahlert and lyrics by Joe Young. It has been recorded many times, and has become a standard of the Great American Songbook....

    " (Fred E. Ahlert
    Fred E. Ahlert
    Frederick Emil Ahlert was an American composer and songwriter. He received a degree from Fordham Law School, but instead of pursuing a legal career he began work as an arranger, initially for Irving Aaronson and his Commanders and then for composer and band-leader Fred Waring...

    , Joe Young) – 2:29
  11. "Sunday" (Chester Conn
    Chester Conn
    Chester Conn , sometimes spelled Chester Cohn, was an American composer of popular music.Conn's best-known song is the jazz standard "Sunday", which he wrote with Jule Styne, Ned Miller, and Benny Krueger...

    , Benny Krueger
    Benny Krueger
    Benny Krueger was an American jazz saxophonist.Krueger had the distinction of being one of the first jazz saxophonists on record. In 1920, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, following a successful tour of England, cut a number of sides for the Victor Talking Machine Company...

    , Ned Miller
    Ned Miller
    Henry Ned Miller is an American country music artist. Active as a recording artist from 1956 to 1970, he is known primarily for his hit single, "From a Jack to a King", a crossover hit in 1962 which reached Top 10 on the country music, adult contemporary, and Billboard Hot 100 charts...

    , Jule Styne
    Jule Styne
    Jule Styne was a British-born American songwriter especially famous for a series of Broadway musicals, which included several very well known and frequently revived shows.-Early life:...

    ) – 2:31
  12. "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
    Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (song)
    "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams" is a popular song written by Harry Barris with lyrics by Ted Koehler and Billy Moll, published in 1931.The original 1931 popular hit recording was made by Bing Crosby with the Gus Arnheim Orchestra, but the song has become a standard, recorded by many other artists...

    " (Harry Barris
    Harry Barris
    Harry Barris was an American popular singer and songwriter.Born in New York City, he was a member of the Rhythm Boys, a late 1920s singing trio which included Al Rinker and Bing Crosby, and was Crosby's entry into show business...

    , Ted Koehler
    Ted Koehler
    Ted L. Koehler was an American lyricist.-Life and career:Koehler was born in Washington, D.C. He started out as a photo-engraver but was attracted to the music business, where he started out as a theater pianist for silent films. He moved on to write for vaudeville shows and Broadway, and he also...

    , Billy Moll) – 2:17
  13. "Taking a Chance on Love
    Taking a Chance on Love
    "Taking a Chance on Love" is a popular song by Vernon Duke with lyrics by John Latouche and Ted Fetter, published in 1940 , which has become a standard recorded by many artists. It was introduced in the 1940 show Cabin in the Sky, a ground-breaking Broadway musical with an all black cast, where it...

    " (Vernon Duke
    Vernon Duke
    Vernon Duke was a Russian-American composer/songwriter, who also wrote under his original name Vladimir Dukelsky. He is best known for "Taking a Chance on Love" with lyrics by Ted Fetter and John Latouche, "I Can't Get Started" with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, "April in Paris" with lyrics by E. Y...

    , Ted Fetter
    Ted Fetter
    Theodore "Ted" Fetter was a Broadway lyricist who contributed material to such revues as "The Show Is On" and "Billy Rose's Aquacade" , but is best remembered for co-writing the song "Taking a Chance on Love," introduced in the 1940 musical comedy Cabin in the Sky.Fetter started as an actor,...

    , John La Touche) – 2:14
  14. "Jeepers Creepers
    Jeepers Creepers (song)
    Jeepers Creepers is a popular 1938 song and jazz standard. The music was written by Harry Warren and the lyrics by Johnny Mercer, for the movie Going Places. It was premiered by Louis Armstrong and has since been covered by many other artists.-Overview:...

    " (Harry Warren
    Harry Warren
    Harry Warren was an American composer and lyricist. Warren was the first major American songwriter to write primarily for film. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song eleven times and won three Oscars for composing "Lullaby of Broadway", "You'll Never Know" and "On the Atchison,...

    , Johnny Mercer
    Johnny Mercer
    John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer was an American lyricist, songwriter and singer. He is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music. He was also a popular singer who recorded his own songs as well as those written by others...

    ) – 2:24
  15. "Get Happy
    Get Happy (song)
    "Get Happy" is a song composed by Harold Arlen, with lyrics written by Ted Koehler.It was the first song they wrote together, and was introduced by Ruth Etting in The Nine-Fifteen Revue in 1930....

    " (Koehler, Harold Arlen
    Harold Arlen
    Harold Arlen was an American composer of popular music, having written over 500 songs, a number of which have become known the world over. In addition to composing the songs for The Wizard of Oz, including the classic 1938 song, "Over the Rainbow,” Arlen is a highly regarded contributor to the...

    )– 2:27
  16. "All of Me
    All of Me (song)
    "All of Me" is a popular song and jazz standard written by Gerald Marks and Seymour Simons in 1931.First performed by Belle Baker over the radio and recorded in December 1931 by Ruth Etting, it has become one of the most recorded songs of its era, with notable versions by Russ Columbo, Bing Crosby,...

    " (Seymour Simons
    Seymour Simons
    Seymour Simons, was an American Pianist, Composer, Orchestra Leader, and Radio Producer.Simons returned to Detroit after service in World War I and built a reputation as a pianist and songwriter, providing material for stage stars Nora Bayes and Elsie Janis...

    , Gerald Marks
    Gerald Marks
    Gerald Marks , was an American composer best known for the song "All of Me" which he co-wrote with Seymour Simons and has been recorded about 2,000 times...

    ) – 2:08

Disc two

  1. "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
    In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
    "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" is a 1955 popular song composed by David Mann, with lyrics by Bob Hilliard. It was introduced as the title track of Frank Sinatra's 1955 album In the Wee Small Hours....

    " (Bob Hilliard
    Bob Hilliard
    Bob Hilliard was an American lyricist. He wrote the words for the songs; "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning", "Any Day Now", "Dear Hearts and Gentle People", "Our Day Will Come", "My Little Corner of the World", and "Seven Little Girls ".-Career:Born in New York City, New York, and after...

    , David Mann
    David Mann (songwriter)
    David Mann was an American songwriter of popular songs...

    ) – 3:02
  2. "Mood Indigo
    Mood Indigo
    "Mood Indigo" is a jazz composition and song, with music by Duke Ellington and Barney Bigard with lyrics by Irving Mills.-Disputed authorship:In a 1987 interview, Mitchell Parish claimed to have written the lyrics:...

    " (Barney Bigard
    Barney Bigard
    Albany Leon Bigard, aka Barney Bigard, was an American jazz clarinetist and tenor saxophonist, though primarily known for the clarinet....

    , Duke Ellington
    Duke Ellington
    Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and big band leader. Ellington wrote over 1,000 compositions...

    , Irving Mills
    Irving Mills
    Irving Mills was a jazz music publisher, also known by the name of "Joe Primrose."Mills was born to Jewish parents in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. He founded Mills Music with his brother Jack in 1919...

    ) – 3:32
  3. "Glad to Be Unhappy
    Glad to Be Unhappy
    "Glad to Be Unhappy" is a popular song composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Lorenz Hart. It was introduced in their 1936 musical On Your Toes by Doris Carson and David Morris, although it was not popular at the time, as there was only one 1936 recording of the tune. In the 1937 London...

    " (Rodgers, Hart) – 2:39
  4. "I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes)
    I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes)
    "I Get Along Without You Very Well" is a popular song composed by Hoagy Carmichael in 1939, with lyrics based on a poem written by Jane Brown Thompson...

    " (Hoagy Carmichael
    Hoagy Carmichael
    Howard Hoagland "Hoagy" Carmichael was an American composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader. He is best known for writing "Stardust", "Georgia On My Mind", "The Nearness of You", and "Heart and Soul", four of the most-recorded American songs of all time.Alec Wilder, in his study of the...

    , Jane Brown Thompson) – 3:45
  5. "Deep in a Dream" (Eddie DeLange
    Eddie DeLange
    Eddie DeLange was an American bandleader and lyricist. Famous artists who recorded some of DeLange's songs include Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, Duke Ellington, and Benny Goodman.-Biography:...

    , Van Heusen) – 2:51
  6. "I See Your Face Before Me" (Howard Dietz
    Howard Dietz
    Howard Dietz was an American publicist, lyricist, and librettist.-Biography:Dietz was born in New York City and studied journalism at Columbia University...

    , Arthur Schwartz
    Arthur Schwartz
    Arthur Schwartz was an American composer and film producer.Schwartz supported his legal studies at New York University and postgraduate studies at Columbia University by playing piano before concentrating his talents on vaudeville, Broadway theatre and Hollywood.Among his Broadway musicals are The...

    ) – 3:27
  7. "Can't We Be Friends?" (Paul James
    James Warburg
    James Paul Warburg was an American banker and financial adviser to Franklin D. Roosevelt. His father was Paul Warburg.- Biography :...

    , Kay Swift
    Kay Swift
    Kay Swift was an American composer of popular and classical music, the first woman to score a complete musical. Written in 1930, Fine and Dandy includes some of her best known songs; the title song has become a jazz standard. "Can't We Be Friends?" was another important hit...

    ) – 2:50
  8. "When Your Lover Has Gone
    When Your Lover Has Gone
    "When Your Lover Has Gone" is a 1931 composition by Einar Aaron Swan which, after being featured in the James Cagney film Blonde Crazy that same year, has become a jazz standard. The song was used in the 1991 film, The Rocketeer during the part where Neville Sinclair takes Jenny to The South Seas...

    " (Einar Aaron Swan
    Einar Aaron Swan
    Einar Aaron Swan was an American musician, arranger and composer. Born of Finnish parents who had emigrated to the United States at the turn of the century, he was the second of nine children....

    ) – 3:12
  9. "What Is This Thing Called Love?
    What Is This Thing Called Love?
    "What Is This Thing Called Love?"is a 1929 popular song written by Cole Porter, for the musical Wake Up and Dream. It was first performed by Elsie Carlisle in March 1929. The song has become a popular jazz standard and one of Porter's most often played compositions.Wake Up and Dream ran for 263...

    " (Porter) – 2:36
  10. "Last Night When We Were Young
    Last Night When We Were Young
    "Last Night When We Were Young" is a 1935 popular song composed by Harold Arlen, with lyrics by Yip Harburg. Arlen regarded it as the favourite of the songs that he had written.Lawrence Tibbett recorded the song on October 9, 1935...

    " (Arlen, Yip Harburg
    Yip Harburg
    Edgar Yipsel Harburg , known as E.Y. Harburg or Yip Harburg, was an American popular song lyricist who worked with many well-known composers...

    ) – 3:18
  11. "I'll Be Around" (Alec Wilder
    Alec Wilder
    Alec Wilder was an American composer.-Biography:...

    ) – 3:01
  12. "Ill Wind
    Ill Wind
    "Ill Wind " is a song composed by Harold Arlen, with lyrics by Ted Koehler, it was written for their last show at the Cotton Club Parade, in 1934....

    " (Arlen, Koehler) – 3:48
  13. "It Never Entered My Mind
    It Never Entered My Mind
    "It Never Entered My Mind" is a show tune from the 1940 Rodgers and Hart musical Higher and Higher , where it was introduced by Shirley Ross.-Notable recordings:...

    " (Rodgers, Hart) – 2:43
  14. "Dancing on the Ceiling
    Dancing on the Ceiling
    Dancing on the Ceiling is Lionel Richie's third album, which was released on July 15, 1986. The title cut was the second biggest single from the album, reaching #1 in the U.S. and #7 in the UK...

    " (Rodgers, Hart) – 3:00
  15. "I'll Never Be the Same" (Gus Kahn
    Gus Kahn
    Gustav Gerson Kahn was a musician, songwriter and lyricist.-Biography:Kahn was born in Koblenz, Germany in 1886. The family emigrated from there to the United States and moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1890...

    , Matty Malneck
    Matty Malneck
    Matty Malneck was an American jazz violinist, violist and songwriter.Malneck's first professional gigs as a violinist began when he was age 16. He worked with Paul Whiteman from 1926 to 1937, and also recorded in the same period with Frank Signorelli, Frankie Trumbauer, Bix Beiderbecke, and...

    , Frank Signorelli
    Frank Signorelli
    Frank Signorelli was an US jazz pianist of the 1920s. He was a founder member of the Original Memphis Five in 1917, then joined the Original Dixieland Jazz Band briefly in 1921. In 1927 he played in Adrian Rollini's New York ensemble, and subsequently worked with Eddie Lang, Bix Beiderbecke, Matty...

    ) – 3:07
  16. "This Love of Mine" (Sol Parker, Henry W. Sanicola, Jr., Frank Sinatra
    Frank Sinatra
    Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...

    ) – 3:35

Disc three

  1. "You Make Me Feel So Young
    You Make Me Feel So Young
    "You Make Me Feel So Young" is a 1946 popular song composed by Josef Myrow, with lyrics written by Mack Gordon.-Notable recordings:*Frank Sinatra - Songs for Swingin' Lovers *Ella Fitzgerald - Get Happy!...

    " (Josef Myrow
    Josef Myrow
    Josef Myrow was a Russian-born composer known for his work in film scores in the 1940s and 50s. He was nominated for an Academy Award twice: in 1947 for the song "You Do" from the film Mother Wore Tights and in 1950 for "Wilhelmina" from the film Wabash Avenue...

    , Mack Gordon
    Mack Gordon
    Mack Gordon was an American composer and lyricist of songs for the stage and film. He was nominated for the best original song Oscar nine times, including six consecutive years between 1940 and 1945, and won the award once, for "You'll Never Know"...

    ) – 2:57
  2. "It Happened in Monterey" (Mabel Wayne
    Mabel Wayne
    Mabel Wayne was an American songwriter. She is an inductee of the Songwriters Hall of Fame, where she is credited as being the first woman composer to publish a hit song....

    , Billy Rose
    Billy Rose
    William "Billy" Rose was an American impresario, theatrical showman and lyricist. He is credited with many famous songs, notably "Me and My Shadow" , "It Happened in Monterey" and "It's Only a Paper Moon"...

    ) – 2:37
  3. "You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me
    You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me
    "You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me" is a popular song.The music was written by Harry Warren, the lyrics by Al Dubin. The song was published in 1932. It appears in the backstager Warner Brothers musical film 42nd Street...

    " (Warren, Al Dubin
    Al Dubin
    Alexander "Al" Dubin was an American lyricist. He became known through his collaborations with the composer Harry Warren.-Life and works:...

    ) – 2:19
  4. "You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me
    You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me
    "You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me" is a 1930 popular song. The credits list music and lyrics as written by Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal, and Pierre Norman...

    " (Sammy Fain
    Sammy Fain
    Sammy Fain was an American composer of popular music.-Biography:Sammy Fain was born in New York City. In 1923, Fain appeared with Artie Dunn in a short film directed by Lee De Forest filmed in DeForest's Phonofilm sound-on-film process. In 1925, Fain left the Fain-Dunn act to devote himself to...

    , Irving Kahal
    Irving Kahal
    Irving Kahal was a popular lyricist active in the 1920's and '30's. He is best remembered for his collaborations with composer Sammy Fain which started in 1926 when Kahal was working in vaudeville sketches written by Gus Edwards...

    , Pierre Norman) – 2:49
  5. "Too Marvelous for Words
    Too Marvelous for Words
    "Too Marvelous for Words" is a popular song written in 1937. Johnny Mercer wrote the lyrics for music composed by Richard Whiting. It was featured in the 1937 Warner Brothers film Ready, Willing and Able, as well as a production number in a musical revue on Broadway...

    " (Richard A. Whiting
    Richard A. Whiting
    Richard Armstrong Whiting was a composer of popular songs including the standards, "Hooray for Hollywood", "Ain't We Got Fun?" & "On the Good Ship Lollipop"....

    , Mercer) – 2:32
  6. "Old Devil Moon
    Old Devil Moon
    "Old Devil Moon" is a popular song composed by Burton Lane, with lyrics by E.Y. Harburg for the 1947 musical Finian's Rainbow.-Notable recordings:*Rosemary Clooney - Out Of This World , At Long Last...

    " (Burton Lane
    Burton Lane
    Burton Lane was an American composer and lyricist. His most popular and successful work is the musical Finian's Rainbow, "the score for which Lane will always be most remembered."-Biography:...

    , Harburg) – 3:57
  7. "Pennies from Heaven
    Pennies from Heaven (song)
    "Pennies from Heaven" is a 1936 American popular song with music by Arthur Johnston and words by Johnny Burke. It was introduced by Bing Crosby in the 1936 film of the same name...

    " (Arthur Johnston
    Arthur Johnston (composer)
    Arthur Johnston was a composer known for such works as “Mandy, Make Up Your Mind,” "Pennies From Heaven," and many others...

    , Burke)– 2:45
  8. "Our Love Is Here to Stay
    Our Love Is Here to Stay
    "Our Love Is Here to Stay" is a popular song and a jazz standard. The music was written by George Gershwin, the lyrics by Ira Gershwin, for the movie The Goldwyn Follies which was released shortly after George Gershwin's death. It is performed in the film by Kenny Baker...

    " (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 2:42
  9. "I've Got You Under My Skin
    I've Got You Under My Skin (song)
    "I've Got You Under My Skin" is a song written by Cole Porter. It became a signature song for Frank Sinatra and, in 1966, became a top 10 hit for The Four Seasons...

    " (Porter) – 3:45
  10. "I Thought About You
    I Thought About You
    "I Thought About You" is a 1939 popular song composed by Jimmy Van Heusen with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It was one of three collaborations Van Heusen and Mercer wrote for the then recently established Mercer-Morris publishing company, started by Mercer and former Warner Bros. publisher Buddy...

    " (Van Heusen, Mercer) – 2:31
  11. "We'll Be Together Again
    We'll Be Together Again
    "We'll Be Together Again" is a 1945 popular song composed by Carl Fischer, with lyrics by Frankie Laine. Fischer was Laine's pianist and musical director when he composed the tune, and Laine was asked to write lyrics for it...

    " (Carl T. Fischer
    Carl T. Fischer
    Carl T. Fischer was a Native American jazz pianist and composer. He worked with Frankie Lane, and composed Laine's 1945 hit song, "We'll Be Together Again"....

    , Frankie Laine
    Frankie Laine
    Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio , was a successful American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire" in 2005...

    ) – 4:27
  12. "Makin' Whoopee" (Walter Donaldson
    Walter Donaldson
    Walter Donaldson was a prolific United States popular songwriter, composing many hit songs of the 1910s and 1920s.-History:...

    , Kahn) – 3:08
  13. "Swingin' Down the Lane" (Isham Jones
    Isham Jones
    Isham Jones was a United States bandleader, saxophonist, bassist and songwriter.-Career:Jones was born in Coalton, Ohio, to a musical and mining family, and grew up in Saginaw, Michigan, where he started his first band...

    , Kahn) – 2:54
  14. "Anything Goes
    Anything Goes (song)
    "Anything Goes" is a popular song written by Cole Porter for his musical Anything Goes . Many of the lyrics feature humorous references to various figures of scandal and gossip in Depression Era high society...

    " (Porter) – 2:44
  15. "How About You?
    How About You?
    "How About You?" is a popular song composed by Burton Lane, with lyrics by Ralph Freed. It was introduced in the 1941 film Babes on Broadway by Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney and has also featured in The Fisher King with Robin Williams. The music of the song appears in the film All About Eve...

    " (Burton Lane
    Burton Lane
    Burton Lane was an American composer and lyricist. His most popular and successful work is the musical Finian's Rainbow, "the score for which Lane will always be most remembered."-Biography:...

    , Ralph Freed) – 2:45

Disc four

  1. "White" (Victor Young
    Victor Young
    Victor Young was an American composer, arranger, violinist and conductor. He was born in Chicago.-Biography:...

    ) – 4:14
  2. "Green" (Gordon Jenkins
    Gordon Jenkins
    Gordon Hill Jenkins was an American arranger, composer and pianist who was an influential figure in popular music in the 1940s and 1950s, renowned for his lush string arrangements...

    ) – 4:05
  3. "Purple" (Billy May
    Billy May
    William E. "Billy" May was an American composer, arranger and trumpeter. He composed film and television music, for The Green Hornet , Batman , and Naked City and collaborated on films, such as Pennies from Heaven , and orchestrated Cocoon, and Cocoon: The Return among...

    ) – 4:21
  4. "Yellow" (Jeff Alexander
    Jeff Alexander
    Jeff Alexander was an American conductor, arranger, and composer of film, radio and television scores.-Career:...

    ) – 2:38
  5. "Gray" (Alec Wilder
    Alec Wilder
    Alec Wilder was an American composer.-Biography:...

    ) – 4:29
  6. "Gold" (Nelson Riddle
    Nelson Riddle
    Nelson Smock Riddle, Jr. was an American arranger, composer, bandleader and orchestrator whose career stretched from the late 1940s to the mid 1980s...

    ) – 3:36
  7. "Orange" (Riddle) – 4:57
  8. "Black" (Young) – 3:58
  9. "Silver" (Elmer Bernstein
    Elmer Bernstein
    Elmer Bernstein was an American composer and conductor best known for his many film scores. In a career which spanned fifty years, he composed music for hundreds of film and television productions...

    ) – 4:38
  10. "Blue" (Wilder) – 4:38
  11. "Brown" (Alexander) – 4:01
  12. "Red" (André Previn
    André Previn
    André George Previn, KBE is an American pianist, conductor, and composer. He is considered one of the most versatile musicians in the world, and is the winner of four Academy Awards for his film work and ten Grammy Awards for his recordings. -Early Life:Previn was born in...

    ) – 3:57

Disc five

  1. "Close to You" (Al Hoffman
    Al Hoffman
    Al Hoffman , a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame since 1984, was a hit songwriter active in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, usually co-writing with others and responsible for number one hits through each decade, many of which are still sung and recorded today...

    , Carl G. Lampl, Jerry Livingston
    Jerry Livingston
    Jerry Livingston was an American songwriter, and dance orchestra pianist.-Biography:...

    ) – 3:40
  2. "P.S. I Love You
    P.S. I Love You (1934 song)
    "P.S. I Love You" is a popular song. The music was written by Gordon Jenkins, the lyrics by Johnny Mercer. The song was published in 1934.The original hit version in the 1930s was recorded by Rudy Vallée. It was revived in the 1950s by The Hilltoppers and in the 1960s by The Vogues, and again in...

    " (Gordon Jenkins
    Gordon Jenkins
    Gordon Hill Jenkins was an American arranger, composer and pianist who was an influential figure in popular music in the 1940s and 1950s, renowned for his lush string arrangements...

    , Mercer) – 4:24
  3. "Love Locked Out" (Max Kester, Ray Noble
    Ray Noble (musician)
    Ray Noble was an English bandleader, composer, arranger and actor. Noble studied music at the Royal Academy of Music and became leader of the HMV Records studio band in 1929. The band, known as the New Mayfair Dance Orchestra, featured members of many of the top hotel orchestras of the day...

    ) – 2:45
  4. "Everything Happens to Me" (Adair, Dennis) – 3:22
  5. "It's Easy to Remember" (Rodgers, Hart) – 3:37
  6. "Don't Like Goodbyes" (Arlen, Truman Capote
    Truman Capote
    Truman Streckfus Persons , known as Truman Capote , was an American author, many of whose short stories, novels, plays, and nonfiction are recognized literary classics, including the novella Breakfast at Tiffany's and the true crime novel In Cold Blood , which he labeled a "nonfiction novel." At...

    ) – 4:52
  7. "With Every Breath I Take" (Ralph Rainger
    Ralph Rainger
    Ralph Rainger was an American composer of popular music principally for films.-Biography:Born Ralph Reichenthal in New York City, Rainger embarked on a legal career before escaping to Broadway where he became Clifton Webb's accompanist...

    , Leo Robin
    Leo Robin
    Leo Robin was an American composer, lyricist and songwriter. He is probably best known for collaborating with Ralph Rainger on the 1938 Oscar-winning song "Thanks for the Memory," sung by Bob Hope in the film The Big Broadcast of 1938.-Biography:Robin was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and...

    ) – 3:41
  8. "Blame It on My Youth" (Edward Heyman
    Edward Heyman
    Edward Heyman was an American musician and lyricist, best known for his compositions "Body and Soul", "When I Fall in Love", and "For Sentimental Reasons". He also contributed many songs for films.-Biography:...

    , Oscar Levant
    Oscar Levant
    Oscar Levant was an American pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor. He was more famous for his mordant character and witticisms, on the radio and in movies and television, than for his music.-Life and career:...

    ) – 3:00
  9. "It Could Happen to You
    It Could Happen to You (song)
    "It Could Happen to You" is a popular standard with music by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyrics by Johnny Burke. The song was written in 1944 and was introduced by Dorothy Lamour in the Paramount musical comedy film, And the Angels Sing....

    " (Burke, Van Heusen) – 3:16
  10. "I've Had My Moments" (Donaldson, Kahn) – 3:50
  11. "I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night" (Harold Adamson
    Harold Adamson
    For the Toronto Police Chief see Harold Adamson Harold Adamson was an American lyricist during the 1930s and 1940s.- Biography :...

    , Jimmy McHugh
    Jimmy McHugh
    James Francis McHugh was a U.S. composer. One of the most prolific songwriters from the 1920s to the 1950s, he composed over 270 songs...

    ) – 3:28
  12. "The End of a Love Affair" (Edward Redding) – 4:09
  13. "If It's the Last Thing I Do" (Sammy Cahn
    Sammy Cahn
    Sammy Cahn was an American lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to films and Broadway songs, as well as stand-alone songs premiered by recording companies in the Greater Los Angeles Area...

    , Saul Chaplin
    Saul Chaplin
    Saul Chaplin was an American composer and musical director.He was born Saul Kaplan in Brooklyn, New York.He had worked on stage, screen and television since the days of Tin Pan Alley...

    ) – 4:00
  14. "There's a Flaw in My Flue" (Burke, Van Heusen) – 2:41
  15. "Wait Till You See Her
    Wait Till You See Her
    "Wait till You See Her" is a popular song.The music was written by Richard Rodgers, the lyrics by Lorenz Hart...

    " (Rodgers, Hart) – 3:10

Disc six

  1. "Night and Day
    Night and Day (song)
    "Night and Day" is a popular song by Cole Porter. It was written for the 1932 musical play Gay Divorce. It is perhaps Porter's most popular contribution to the Great American Songbook and has been recorded by dozens of artists....

    " (Porter) – 4:02
  2. "I Wish I Were in Love Again
    I Wish I Were in Love Again
    "I Wish I Were in Love Again" is a show tune from the 1937 Rodgers and Hart musical Babes in Arms. Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney performed it in the 1948 film Words and Music...

    " (Rodgers, Hart) – 2:31
  3. "I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'" (DuBose Heyward
    DuBose Heyward
    Edwin DuBose Heyward was a white American author best known for his 1925 novel Porgy. This novel was the basis for the play by the same name and, in turn, the opera Porgy and Bess with music by George Gershwin.-Life and career:Heyward was born in 1885 in Charleston, South Carolina and was a...

    , G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 3:13
  4. "I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan
    I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan
    "I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan" is a popular song.The music was written by Arthur Schwartz; the lyrics by Howard Dietz. The song was published in 1929....

    " (Schwartz, Dietz) – 2:26
  5. "Nice Work if You Can Get It
    Nice Work If You Can Get It (song)
    "Nice Work If You Can Get It" is a popular song.The music was written by George Gershwin, the lyrics by Ira Gershwin. It was one of nine songs George Gershwin wrote for the movie A Damsel in Distress, in which it was performed by Fred Astaire with backing vocals provided by The Stafford Sisters...

    " (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 2:24
  6. "Stars Fell on Alabama
    Stars Fell on Alabama
    "Stars Fell on Alabama" is the title of a 1934 jazz standard composed by Frank Perkins with lyrics by Mitchell Parish.- History :One of the earliest recordings was by the Guy Lombardo orchestra, with his brother Carmen doing a vocal. This version was recorded on August 27, 1934, and issued by Decca...

    " (Frank Perkins
    Frank Perkins
    Frank Perkins was a British engineer, businessman, creator of the Perkins Diesel Engine, and founder of Perkins Engines Company Limited.-Background and early life:...

    , Mitchell Parish
    Mitchell Parish
    Mitchell Parish was an American lyricist.-Early life:Parish was born Michael Hyman Pashelinsky to a Jewish family in Lithuania. His family emigrated to the United States, arriving on February 3, 1901 on the SS Dresden when he was less than a year old...

    ) – 2:41
  7. "No One Ever Tells You" (Hub Atwood, Carroll Coates
    Carroll Coates
    Carroll Coates is a songwriter, composer, and lyricist. His works have been produced commercially from the 1950s through the 1990s. His songs have been recorded by Frank Sinatra, Carmen McRae, Tony Bennett, Sarah Vaughan, Shirley Horn, Mel Tormé, Nancy Wilson, and others...

    ) – 3:28
  8. "I Won't Dance
    I Won't Dance
    "I Won't Dance" is a song composed by Jerome Kern, with lyrics written by Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto Harbach, for the 1934 London musical Three Sisters. However, Three Sisters flopped and was quickly forgotten, so when the time came to film the Kern-Harbach musical Roberta, the song was...

    " (Jerome Kern
    Jerome Kern
    Jerome David Kern was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music. One of the most important American theatre composers of the early 20th century, he wrote more than 700 songs, used in over 100 stage works, including such classics as "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "A...

    , McHugh, Oscar Hammerstein II
    Oscar Hammerstein II
    Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II was an American librettist, theatrical producer, and theatre director of musicals for almost forty years. Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards and was twice awarded an Academy Award for "Best Original Song". Many of his songs are standard repertoire for...

    , Otto Harbach
    Otto Harbach
    Otto Abels Harbach, born Otto Abels Hauerbach was an American lyricist and librettist of about 50 musical comedies...

    , Dorothy Fields
    Dorothy Fields
    Dorothy Fields was an American librettist and lyricist.She wrote over 400 songs for Broadway musicals and films...

    ) – 3:27
  9. "The Lonesome Road
    The Lonesome Road
    "The Lonesome Road" is a 1927 song with music by Nathaniel Shilkret and lyrics by Gene Austin, alternately titled "Lonesome Road", "Look Down that Lonesome Road" and "Lonesome Road Blues." It was written in the style of an African-American folk song....

    " (Nathaniel Shilket, Gene Austin
    Gene Austin
    Gene Austin was an American singer and songwriter, one of the first "crooners". His 1920s compositions "When My Sugar Walks Down the Street" and "The Lonesome Road" became pop and jazz standards.-Career:...

    ) – 3:57
  10. "At Long Last Love
    At Long Last Love (song)
    "At Long Last Love" is a popular song written by Cole Porter, for his 1938 musical You Never Know , where it was introduced by Clifton Webb.-Notable recordings:*Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Loves Cole...

    " (Porter) – 2:27
  11. "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To
    You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To
    "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" is a popular song written by Cole Porter, for the 1943 film Something to Shout About, where it was introduced by Janet Blair and Don Ameche. Dinah Shore had a major hit with the song at the time of its introduction...

    " (Porter) – 2:07
  12. "I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)
    I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)
    "I Got It Bad " is a pop and jazz standard with music by Duke Ellington and lyrics by Paul Francis Webster published in 1941...

    " (Ellington, Paul Francis Webster
    Paul Francis Webster
    Paul Francis Webster was an American lyricist who won three Academy Awards for Best Song and was nominated sixteen times for the award.-Biography:...

    ) – 3:25
  13. "From This Moment On
    From This Moment On (Cole Porter song)
    "From This Moment On" is a 1951 popular song written by Cole Porter, for his musical Out of This World, where it was dropped, but included in MGM's Kiss Me Kate of 1953...

    " (Porter) – 3:56
  14. "If I Had You" (Jimmy Campbell, Reginald Connelly, Ted Shapiro
    Ted Shapiro
    Ted Shapiro was a United States popular music composer, pianist, and sheet music publisher.Shapiro was born in New York City. He became a Tin Pan Alley songwriter and accompanied notable star vaudeville singers of the day, including Nora Bayes and Eva Tanguay. In 1921 he was hired as accompanist...

    ) – 2:39
  15. "Oh! Look at Me Now
    Oh! Look at Me Now
    "Oh! Look at Me Now" is a 1941 song composed by Joe Bushkin, with lyrics by John DeVries. It is strongly associated with Frank Sinatra, who first recorded it with Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra, in an arrangement by Sy Oliver...

    " (Joe Bushkin
    Joe Bushkin
    Joe Bushkin was an American jazz pianist.He began his career by playing trumpet and piano with New York City dance bands. He joined Bunny Berigan's band in 1935, then left to join Muggsy Spanier's Ragtime Band in 1939. From the late 1930s through to the late 1940s he also worked with Eddie Condon...

    , John DeVries) – 2:50
  16. "The Lady Is a Tramp
    The Lady Is a Tramp
    "The Lady Is a Tramp" is a show tune from the 1937 Rodgers and Hart musical Babes In Arms in which it was introduced by former child star Mitzi Green. This song is a spoof of New York high society and its strict etiquette...

    " (Rodgers, Hart) - 3:16

Disc seven

  1. "Jingle Bells
    Jingle Bells
    "Jingle Bells" is one of the best-known and commonly sung winter songs in the world. It was written by James Lord Pierpont and published under the title "One Horse Open Sleigh" in the autumn of 1857...

    " (James Pierpont
    James Pierpont (musician)
    James Lord Pierpont was an American songwriter, arranger, organist, and composer, best known for writing and composing Jingle Bells in 1857, originally entitled "The One Horse Open Sleigh". He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and died in Winter Haven, Florida...

    ) – 2:00
  2. "The Christmas Song
    The Christmas Song
    "The Christmas Song" is a classic Christmas song written in 1944 by musician, composer, and vocalist Mel Tormé and Bob Wells. According to Tormé, the song was written during a blistering hot summer...

    " (Mel Tormé
    Mel Tormé
    Melvin Howard Tormé , nicknamed The Velvet Fog, was an American musician, known for his jazz singing. He was also a jazz composer and arranger, a drummer, an actor in radio, film, and television, and the author of five books...

    , Robert Wells
    Robert Wells (songwriter)
    Robert Wells was an American songwriter, composer, script writer and television producer. During his early career, he collaborated with singer and songwriter Mel Tormé, writing several hit songs, most notably "The Christmas Song" in 1945...

    ) – 3:28
  3. "Mistletoe and Holly" (Hank Sanicola, Sinatra, Doc Stanford) – 2:18
  4. "I'll Be Home for Christmas" (Kim Gannon
    Kim Gannon
    James Kimball "Kim" Gannon was an American songwriter, more commonly a lyricist than a composer. He was born in Brooklyn, New York but grew up in New Jersey where he attended Montclair High School and was a member of The Omega Gamma Delta Fraternity. He graduated from St...

    , Walter Kent
    Walter Kent
    Walter Kent was a Jewish American composer who wrote the music for songs including the Christmas standard "I'll Be Home for Christmas", and the wartime hit " The White Cliffs of Dover", co-written with fellow American Nat Burton. He died at the age of 82-External links:...

    , Buck Ram
    Buck Ram
    Buck Ram was an American songwriter, and popular music producer and arranger.-Biography:...

    ) – 3:11
  5. "The Christmas Waltz" (Cahn, Styne) – 3:03
  6. "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
    Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
    "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is a song introduced by Judy Garland in the 1944 MGM musical Meet Me in St. Louis. Frank Sinatra later recorded a version with modified lyrics, which has become more common than the original. The song was written by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane...

    " (Blane, Martin) – 3:29
  7. "The First Nowell" (William B. Sandys
    William B. Sandys
    William B. Sandys , was an English solicitor, member of the Percy Society, fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and remembered for his publication Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern , a collection of seasonal carols that Sandys had gathered and also apparently improvised...

    ) – 2:44
  8. "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
    Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
    “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” is a Christmas carol that first appeared in 1739 in the collection Hymns and Sacred Poems, having been written by Charles Wesley. This is not the version widely known today. A sombre man, Wesley had requested and received slow and solemn music for his lyrics, not the...

    " (Felix Mendelssohn
    Felix Mendelssohn
    Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Barthóldy , use the form 'Mendelssohn' and not 'Mendelssohn Bartholdy'. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians gives ' Felix Mendelssohn' as the entry, with 'Mendelssohn' used in the body text...

    , Charles Wesley
    Charles Wesley
    Charles Wesley was an English leader of the Methodist movement, son of Anglican clergyman and poet Samuel Wesley, the younger brother of Anglican clergyman John Wesley and Anglican clergyman Samuel Wesley , and father of musician Samuel Wesley, and grandfather of musician Samuel Sebastian Wesley...

    ) – 2:24
  9. "O Little Town of Bethlehem
    O Little Town of Bethlehem
    "O Little Town of Bethlehem" is a popular Christmas carol. The text was written by Phillips Brooks , an Episcopal priest, Rector of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Philadelphia. He was inspired by visiting the Palestinian city of Bethlehem in 1865. Three years later, he wrote the poem for his...

    " (Lewis H. Redner, Phillips Brooks
    Phillips Brooks
    Phillips Brooks was an American clergyman and author, who briefly served as Bishop of Massachusetts in the Episcopal Church during the early 1890s. In the Episcopal liturgical calendar he is remembered on January 23...

    ) – 2:06
  10. "Adeste Fideles
    Adeste Fideles
    "Adeste Fideles" is a hymn tune attributed to English hymnist John Francis Wade . The text itself has unclear beginnings, and may have been written in the 13th century by John of Reading, though it has been concluded that Wade was probably the author.The original four verses of the hymn were...

    " ("O, Come All Ye Faithful") (John Francis Wade
    John Francis Wade
    John Francis Wade was an English hymnist who is credited with writing and composing the hymn "Adeste Fideles" ....

    ) – 2:34
  11. "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" (Edmund Sears
    Edmund Sears
    Edmund Hamilton Sears was an American Unitarian parish minister and author who wrote a number of theological works influencing 19th century liberal Protestants. Sears is known today primarily as the man who penned the words to "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" in 1849...

    , Richard Storrs Willis) – 2:51
  12. "Silent Night" (Franz Gruber, Josef Mohr
    Josef Mohr
    Joseph Mohr, sometimes spelt Josef was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest and composer, who wrote the words to the Christmas carol "Silent Night".-Biography:...

    ) – 2:31
  13. "White Christmas
    White Christmas (song)
    "White Christmas" is an Irving Berlin song reminiscing about an old-fashioned Christmas setting. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the version sung by Bing Crosby is the best-selling single of all time, with estimated sales in excess of 50 million copies worldwide.Accounts vary as...

    " (Irving Berlin
    Irving Berlin
    Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...

    ) – 2:37
  14. "The Christmas Waltz" (alternate) – 3:01

Disc eight

  1. "Where Are You?" (Adamson, McHugh) – 3:30
  2. "The Night We Called It a Day
    The Night We Called It a Day (song)
    "The Night We Called It a Day" is a popular song and jazz standard.The music was written by Matt Dennis, the lyrics by Tom Adair. The song was published in 1941....

     (Dennis, Adair) – 3:27
  3. "I Cover the Waterfront
    I Cover the Waterfront (song)
    "I Cover the Watefront" is a 1933 popular song and jazz standard composed by Johnny Green with lyrics by Edward Heyman.The song was inspired by Max Miller's 1932 best-selling novel I Cover the Waterfront...

    " (Johnny Green
    Johnny Green
    Johnny Green was an American songwriter, composer, musical arranger, and conductor. He was given the nickname "Beulah" by colleague Conrad Salinger. His most famous song was one of his earliest, "Body and Soul"...

    , Edward Heyman
    Edward Heyman
    Edward Heyman was an American musician and lyricist, best known for his compositions "Body and Soul", "When I Fall in Love", and "For Sentimental Reasons". He also contributed many songs for films.-Biography:...

    ) – 2:59
  4. "Maybe You'll Be There
    Maybe You'll Be There
    "Maybe You'll Be There" is a popular song composed by Rube Bloom, with lyrics written by Sammy Gallop. The song was published in 1947.The recording by Gordon Jenkins was released by Decca Records as catalog number 24403. It first reached the Billboard magazine Best Seller chart on June 11, 1948 and...

    " (Rube Bloom
    Rube Bloom
    Reuben Bloom was a Jewish American multi-faceted entertainer, and in addition to being a songwriter, pianist, arranger, band leader, recording artist, vocalist, and writer .During his career, he worked with many well-known performers, including Bix Beiderbecke, Joe Venuti, Ruth Etting,...

    , Sammy Gallop) – 3:06
  5. "Laura
    Laura (1945 song)
    "Laura" is a 1945 popular song composed by David Raksin, with lyrics written by Johnny Mercer from the 1944 movie starring Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews. It has since become a jazz standard with over four hundred known recordings.Some of the best known versions are by Billy Eckstine, Charlie...

    " (Mercer, David Raksin
    David Raksin
    David Raksin was an American composer born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. With over 100 film scores and 300 television scores to his credit, he became known as the "Grandfather of Film Music." One of his earliest film assignments was as assistant to Charlie Chaplin in the composition of the score...

    ) – 3:27
  6. "Lonely Town" (Leonard Bernstein
    Leonard Bernstein
    Leonard Bernstein August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the United States of America to receive worldwide acclaim...

    , Betty Comden
    Betty Comden
    Betty Comden was one-half of the musical-comedy duo Comden and Green, who provided lyrics, libretti, and screenplays to some of the most beloved and successful Hollywood musicals and Broadway shows of the mid-20th century...

    , Adolph Green
    Adolph Green
    Adolph Green was an American lyricist and playwright who, with long-time collaborator Betty Comden, penned the screenplays and songs for some of the most beloved movie musicals, particularly as part of Arthur Freed's production unit at MGM, during the genre's heyday...

    ) – 4:11
  7. "Autumn Leaves
    Autumn Leaves (song)
    "Autumn Leaves" is a much-recorded popular song. Originally it was a 1945 French song "Les Feuilles mortes" with music by Joseph Kosma and lyrics by poet Jacques Prévert. Yves Montand introduced "Les feuilles mortes" in 1946 in the film Les Portes de la Nuit...

    " (Jacques Prévert
    Jacques Prévert
    Jacques Prévert was a French poet and screenwriter. His poems became and remain very popular in the French-speaking world, particularly in schools. Some of the movies he wrote are extremely well regarded, with Les Enfants du Paradis considered one of the greatest films of all time.-Life and...

    , Mercer, Joseph Kosma
    Joseph Kosma
    Joseph Kosma was a Hungarian-French composer, of Jewish background.-Biography:Kosma was born József Kozma in Budapest, where his parents taught stenography and typing. He had a brother, Akos. A maternal relative was the photographer László Moholy-Nagy, and another relative was the conductor Georg...

    ) – 2:51
  8. "I'm a Fool to Want You" (Sinatra, Jack Wolf, Joel Herron) – 4:50
  9. "I Think of You" (Jack Elliott, Don Marcotte
    Don Marcotte
    Donald Michel Marcotte is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who served his entire National Hockey League career for the Boston Bruins and was noted as a premier defensive forward, while being versatile enough to play any forward position.After playing his junior league hockey for...

    ) – 3:03
  10. "Where Is the One?" (Wilder, Edwin Finckel
    Edwin Finckel
    Edwin A. Finckel was a jazz performer and arranger and a composer of songs and classical music.-Biography:Finckel was born in Washington D.C. as the youngest of six children. His father was a patent attorney and both his parents were musical...

    )- 3:12
  11. "There's No You" (Adair, Hal Hopper) - 3:45
  12. "Baby Won't You Please Come Home" (Charles Warfield, Clarence Williams) - 2:57
  13. "I Can Read Between the Lines" (David Franklin, Ray Getzov) – 2:43
  14. "It Worries Me" (Fritz Schultz-Reichelt, Carl Sigman
    Carl Sigman
    Carl Sigman was an American songwriter.-Biography:Born in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, Sigman graduated from law school and passed his Bar exams to practice in the state of New York...

    ) – 2:53
  15. "Rain (Falling from the Skies)" (Robert Mellin, Gunther Finlay) – 3:25
  16. "Don't Worry 'Bout Me
    Don't Worry 'bout Me
    "Don't Worry 'bout Me" is a 1938 song composed by Rube Bloom, with lyrics written by Ted Koehler.-Notable recordings:*Dave Brubeck - Jazz Goes to College *Ella Fitzgerald - Newport Jazz Festival: Live at Carnegie Hall...

    " (Bloom, Koehler) – 3:08

Disc nine

  1. "Come Fly With Me
    Come Fly with Me (song)
    "Come Fly with Me" is a 1957 popular song composed by Jimmy Van Heusen, with lyrics by Sammy Cahn."Come Fly with Me" was written for Frank Sinatra, and was the title track of his 1958 album of the same name...

    " (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 3:18
  2. "Around the World
    Around the World (1956 song)
    "Around the World" was the theme tune from the 1956 movie Around the World in 80 Days It never actually featured with the lyrics in the Around the World in Eighty Days film, but it is the vocal version which has by far become the better known...

    " (Victor Young
    Victor Young
    Victor Young was an American composer, arranger, violinist and conductor. He was born in Chicago.-Biography:...

    , Adamson) – 3:20
  3. "Isle of Capri
    Isle of Capri (song)
    "Isle of Capri" is a popular song.The music was written by Wilhelm Grosz , the lyrics by Jimmy Kennedy. The song was published in 1934....

    " (Will Grosz, Jimmy Kennedy
    Jimmy Kennedy
    Jimmy Kennedy OBE was an Irish songwriter, predominantly a lyricist, putting words to existing music such as "Teddy Bears' Picnic" and "My Prayer", or co-writing with the composers Michael Carr, Wilhelm Grosz and Nat Simon amongst others.-Biography:Kennedy was born near Omagh...

    ) – 2:29
  4. "Moonlight in Vermont
    Moonlight in Vermont (song)
    "Moonlight in Vermont" is a popular song about the U.S. state of Vermont, written by John Blackburn and Karl Suessdorf and published in 1943. The lyrics are unusual in that they do not rhyme...

    " (Karl Suessdorf
    Karl Suessdorf
    Karl Suessdorf was an American composer, best known for his collaboration with lyricist John Blackburn in composing the jazz standard, "Moonlight in Vermont", which was first recorded in 1943 by Billy Butterfield's Orchestra featuring Margaret Whiting...

    , John Blackburn
    John Blackburn (songwriter)
    John M. Blackburn was a lyricist, perhaps best remembered for writing the lyrics to "Moonlight in Vermont".He was raised in Shaker Heights, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio....

    ) – 3:31
  5. "Autumn in New York
    Autumn in New York (song)
    "Autumn in New York" is a jazz standard composed by Vernon Duke in 1934 for the Broadway musical Thumbs Up! which opened on December 27, 1934, performed by J. Harold Murray...

    " (Duke) – 4:36
  6. On the Road to Mandalay" (Oley Speaks
    Oley Speaks
    Oley Speaks was an accomplished composer and songwriter who was born in Canal Winchester, Franklin County, Ohio...

    , Rudyard Kipling
    Rudyard Kipling
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. Kipling received the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature...

    ) – 3:29
  7. "Let's Get Away from It All
    Let's Get Away from It All
    "Let's Get Away from It All" is a popular song with music by Matt Dennis and lyrics by Tom Adair, published in 1941.The song is best known in a version by Frank Sinatra, but many others have recorded it and it is considered a pop standard....

    " (Dennis, Adair) – 2:10
  8. "April in Paris
    April in Paris (song)
    "April in Paris" is a song composed by Vernon Duke with lyrics by E. Y. Harburg in 1932 for the Broadway musical, Walk A Little Faster. The original 1933 hit was performed by Freddy Martin, and the 1952 remake was by the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra, whose version made the Cashbox Top 50.Composer Alec...

    " (Duke, Harburg) – 2:50
  9. "London By Night" (Carroll Coates
    Carroll Coates
    Carroll Coates is a songwriter, composer, and lyricist. His works have been produced commercially from the 1950s through the 1990s. His songs have been recorded by Frank Sinatra, Carmen McRae, Tony Bennett, Sarah Vaughan, Shirley Horn, Mel Tormé, Nancy Wilson, and others...

    ) – 3:30
  10. "Brazil
    Aquarela do Brasil
    "Aquarela do Brasil" , known in the English-speaking world simply as "Brazil", is one of the most famous Brazilian songs of all time, written by Ary Barroso in 1939.-Background and composition:...

    " (Ary Barroso
    Ary Barroso
    Ary Barroso was a Brazilian composer, pianist, soccer commentator, and talent-show host on radio and TV...

    , Bob Russell
    Bob Russell (songwriter)
    Sidney Keith "Bob" Russell, was an American songwriter born in Passaic, New Jersey.In 1968, Russell along with songwriting partner Quincy Jones was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Original Song category...

    ) – 2:55
  11. "Blue Hawaii
    Blue Hawaii (song)
    Blue Hawaii is a popular song written by Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger for the 1937 Paramount Pictures film Waikiki Wedding, starring Bing Crosby and Shirley Ross...

    " (Rainger, Robin) – 2:43
  12. "It's Nice to go Trav'ling" (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 3:49
  13. "Chicago" (Fred Fisher
    Fred Fisher
    Fred Fisher was a German-born American songwriter and Tin Pan Alley music publisher. Fisher founded Fred Fisher Music Publishing Company in 1907. He was born as Albert von Breitenbach in Cologne...

    ) – 2:14
  14. "South of the Border
    South of the Border (1939 song)
    "South of the Border" is a popular song describing a trip to Mexico, written by Jimmy Kennedy and Michael Carr and published in 1939 for the film of the same name starring country star Gene Autry....

    " (Kennedy, Michael Carr
    Michael Carr (composer)
    Michael Carr , real name Maurice Alfred Cohen, was a British light music composer born in Leeds. He is best remembered for the song "South of the Border ", written with Jimmy Kennedy for the 1939 film of the same name.Among Carr's other compositions were The Shadows instrumental hits "Man of...

    ) – 2:50
  15. "I Love Paris
    I Love Paris
    "I Love Paris" is a popular song written by Cole Porter and published in 1953. The song was introduced by Lilo in the musical Can-Can.Was the title of Michel Legrand's most popular album, which included an orchestral arrangement of the song...

    " (Porter) – 1:49

Disc ten

  1. "Only the Lonely" (Cahn, Van Heusen) - 4:10
  2. "Angel Eyes" (Dennis, Earl Brent) - 3:46
  3. "What's New?
    What's New?
    "What's New?" is a 1939 popular song composed by Bob Haggart, with lyrics by Johnny Burke.It was originally an instrumental tune titled "I'm Free" by Haggart in 1938, when Haggart was a member of Bob Crosby and His Orchestra. The tune was written with a trumpet solo, meant to showcase the talents...

    " (Bob Haggart
    Bob Haggart
    Robert Sherwood Haggart was a dixieland jazz double bass player, composer and arranger...

    , Burke) - 5:13
  4. "It's a Lonesome Old Town" (Harry Tobias
    Harry Tobias
    Harry Tobias was an American lyricist. Like his younger brother Charles, he is an inductee of the Songwriters Hall of Fame....

    , Charles Kisco) - 4:18
  5. "Willow Weep for Me
    Willow Weep for Me
    "Willow Weep for Me" is a popular song composed in 1932 by Ann Ronell, who also wrote the lyrics. It is mostly known as a jazz standard, but it was a Top 40 hit for the British duo Chad & Jeremy in 1964.-Notable recordings:...

    " (Ann Ronell
    Ann Ronell
    Ann Rosenblatt, known as Ann Ronell was an American composer and lyricist best known for the jazz standard "Willow Weep for Me" .- Biography :...

    ) - 4:19
  6. "Goodbye
    Goodbye (Gordon Jenkins song)
    Goodbye is a song written by American composer and arranger Gordon Jenkins, published in 1935. It became well known as the closing theme song of the Benny Goodman orchestra....

    " (Jenkins) - 5:45
  7. "Blues in the Night
    Blues in the Night
    "Blues in the Night" is a popular song which has become a pop standard and is generally considered to be part of the Great American Songbook. The music was written by Harold Arlen, the lyrics by Johnny Mercer, for a 1941 film begun with the working title Hot Nocturne, but finally released as Blues...

    " (Arlen, Mercer) - 4:44
  8. "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry
    Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry
    "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry" is a 1945 song, with music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Sammy Cahn. It was introduced on stage by film star Jane Withers in the 1944 flop, Glad to See You, which closed in Philadelphia and never made it to Broadway...

    " (Cahn, Styne) - 4:00
  9. "Ebb Tide" (Robert Maxwell
    Robert Maxwell (songwriter)
    Robert Maxwell is a harpist and songwriter, who wrote the music for two well-known songs: "Ebb Tide" and "Shangri-La ....

    , Carl Sigman
    Carl Sigman
    Carl Sigman was an American songwriter.-Biography:Born in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, Sigman graduated from law school and passed his Bar exams to practice in the state of New York...

    ) - 3:18
  10. "Spring is Here
    Spring Is Here
    "Spring is Here" is a 1938 popular song composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Lorenz Hart for the musical I Married an Angel , where it was introduced by Dennis King and Vivienne Segal.-Notable recordings:...

    " (Rodgers, Hart) - 4:47
  11. "Gone with the Wind
    Gone with the Wind (song)
    "Gone with the Wind" is a popular song. The music was written by Allie Wrubel, the lyrics by Herb Magidson. The song was published in 1937. A version recorded by Horace Heidt was a #1 song in 1937.Diane E...

    " (Allie Wrubel
    Allie Wrubel
    Allie Wrubel was an American composer and songwriter.-Biography:Born in Middletown, Connecticut, Wrubel attended Wesleyan University and Columbia University before working in dance bands. He began his musical career in Greenwich Village, New York where he roomed with his close friend James Cagney...

    , Herb Magidson
    Herb Magidson
    Herbert A. "Herb" Magidson was an American popular lyricist. His work was used in over 23 films and four Broadway reviews. He won the first Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1934....

    ) - 5:15
  12. "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)
    One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)
    "One for My Baby " is a popular song written by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer for the musical The Sky's the Limit and first performed in the film by Fred Astaire. It was popularized by the American singer Frank Sinatra...

    " (Arlen, Mercer) - 4:23
  13. "Sleep Warm" (Lew Spence
    Lew Spence
    Lew Spence was an American songwriter.Spence received little formal musical training, and led a dance band in his hometown as a teenager. He played piano and sang in his twenties, but did not publish any songs until he was almost 30 years old...

    , Marilyn Keith, Alan Bergman
    Alan Bergman
    Alan Bergman is an American lyricist and songwriter.-Life & career:Born in Brooklyn, New York, he studied at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and UCLA. His involvement in the entertainment industry began in the early 1950s as a director of children's television shows...

    )
  14. "Where or When
    Where or When
    "Where or When" is a show tune from the 1937 Rodgers and Hart musical Babes In Arms. It was first performed by Ray Heatherton and Mitzi Green. That same year, Hal Kemp recorded a popular version. It also appeared in the movie of the same title two years later...

    " (Rodgers, Hart)

Disc eleven

  1. "Come Dance with Me
    Come Dance with Me (song)
    "Come Dance With Me" is a popular song composed by Jimmy Van Heusen, with lyrics by Sammy Cahn as the title track for Frank Sinatra's 1959 album of the same name....

    " (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 2:31
  2. "Something's Gotta Give
    Something's Gotta Give (song)
    "Something's Gotta Give" is a popular song with words and music by Johnny Mercer in 1954. It was published in 1955. It was written for and first performed by Fred Astaire in the 1955 musical film Daddy Long Legs....

    " (Mercer) – 2:38
  3. "Just in Time
    Just in Time (song)
    "Just in Time" is a popular song with the melody written by Jule Styne and the lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. The song was published in 1956....

    " (Styne, Comden, Green ) – 2:24
  4. "Dancing in the Dark" (Schwartz, Dietz) – 2:26
  5. "Too Close for Comfort" (Jerry Bock
    Jerry Bock
    Jerrold Lewis "Jerry" Bock was an American musical theater composer. He received the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama with Sheldon Harnick for their 1959 musical Fiorello! and the Tony Award for Best Composer and Lyricist for the 1964 musical Fiddler on the Roof with...

    , Larry Holofcener, George David Weiss
    George David Weiss
    George David Weiss was an American songwriter and former President of the Songwriters Guild of America.-Career:...

    ) – 2:34
  6. "I Could Have Danced All Night
    I Could Have Danced All Night
    "I Could Have Danced All Night" is a song from the musical My Fair Lady, with music written by Frederick Loewe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, published in 1956...

    " (Alan Jay Lerner
    Alan Jay Lerner
    Alan Jay Lerner was an American lyricist and librettist. In collaboration with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre for both the stage and on film...

    , Frederick Loewe) – 2:40
  7. "Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week)
    Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week)
    "Saturday Night " is a popular song.The music was written by Jule Styne, the lyrics by Sammy Cahn. The song was published in 1944....

    " (Cahn, Styne) – 1:54
  8. "Day In, Day Out
    Day In, Day Out
    "Day In, Day Out" is a popular song with music by Rube Bloom and lyrics by Johnny Mercer and published in 1939.According to Alec Wilder the song, 56 measures long, has a wonderful, soaring melodic line, free from pretentiousness, but full of passion and intensity which is superbly supported by the...

    " (Bloom, Mercer) – 3:25
  9. "Cheek to Cheek
    Cheek to Cheek
    "Cheek to Cheek" is a song written by Irving Berlin, and first performed by Fred Astaire in the movie Top Hat . Astaire's 1935 recording with the Leo Reisman Orchestra was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2000....

    " (Berlin) – 3:06
  10. "Baubles, Bangles and Beads" (Robert Wright
    Robert Wright (writer)
    Robert [Craig] Wright was an American composer-lyricist for Hollywood and the musical theatre best known for the Broadway musical and musical film Kismet, for which he and his professional partner George Forrest adapted themes by Alexander Borodin and added lyrics...

    , George Forrest
    George Forrest (author)
    George Forrest was a writer of music and lyrics for musical theatre best known for the show Kismet, adapted from the works of Alexander Borodin.-Biography:...

    ) – 2:46
  11. "The Song Is You
    The Song Is You (song)
    "The Song Is You" is a popular song composed by Jerome Kern with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. It was written for their musical Music in the Air and sung in that show by Tullio Carminati. In later years the song became often associated with Frank Sinatra."The Song Is You" is the recurring...

    " (Jerome Kern
    Jerome Kern
    Jerome David Kern was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music. One of the most important American theatre composers of the early 20th century, he wrote more than 700 songs, used in over 100 stage works, including such classics as "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "A...

    , Hammerstein) – 2:43
  12. "The Last Dance" (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 2:11
  13. "It All Depends on You
    It All Depends on You
    "It All Depends on You" is a popular song.The music was written by Ray Henderson, with lyrics by Buddy G. DeSylva and Lew Brown. The song was published in 1926.-Recorded versions:*Shirley Bassey...

    " (Buddy DeSylva, Lew Brown
    Lew Brown
    Lew Brown was a lyricist for popular songs in the United States.Brown was born as Louis Brownstein in Odessa, Russian Empire...

    , Ray Henderson
    Ray Henderson
    Ray Henderson , was an American songwriter.Born Raymond Brost in Buffalo, New York, Henderson moved to New York City and became a popular composer in Tin Pan Alley...

    ) – 2:06
  14. "Nothing in Common" (duet with Keely Smith
    Keely Smith
    Keely Smith is an American jazz and popular music singer who enjoyed popularity in the 1950s and 1960s. She collaborated with, among others, Louis Prima and Frank Sinatra.-Career:...

    ) (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 2:32
  15. "Same Old Song and Dance" (Cahn, Van Heusen, Bobby Worth
    Bobby Worth
    Bobby Worth was an American songwriter. His best known songs are "Do I Worry?", "'Til Reveille", "Tonight We Love", and "Don't You Know?"....

    ) – 2:52
  16. "How Are Ya' Fixed for Love?" (with Keely Smith
    Keely Smith
    Keely Smith is an American jazz and popular music singer who enjoyed popularity in the 1950s and 1960s. She collaborated with, among others, Louis Prima and Frank Sinatra.-Career:...

    ) (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 2:25

Disc twelve

  1. "When No One Cares" (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 2:42
  2. "A Cottage for Sale
    A Cottage for Sale
    "A Cottage for Sale" is a popular song. The music was composed by Willard Robison, and the lyrics were written by . The song was first published in 1929, and over 100 performers have recorded versions of "A Cottage for Sale." The first versions of the song were released by The Revelers in January...

    " (Larry Conley
    Larry Conley
    George Larry Conley is a retired American professional basketball player.A 6'3" guard, Conley played college basketball at the University of Kentucky under legendary coach Adolph Rupp. During the 1965-66 season, Conley was a starter on an all-white Kentucky team that also featured Pat Riley and...

    , Willard Robison
    Willard Robison
    Willard Robison was an American composer of popular song. Born in Shelbina, Missouri, his songs reflect a rural, melancholy theme steeped in Americana. Their warm style has drawn comparison to Hoagy Carmichael...

    ) – 3:16
  3. "Stormy Weather" (Arlen, Koehler) – 3:20
  4. "Where Do You Go?" (Arnold Sundgaard, Wilder) – 2:34
  5. "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You
    I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You
    "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You" is a 1932 song composed by Victor Young, with lyrics written by Ned Washington and Bing Crosby, recorded on October 14, 1932 by Bing Crosby in New York. Bing Crosby was accompanied by the ARC Brunswick Studio Orchestra with Lennie Hayton on piano. Two...

    " (Bing Crosby
    Bing Crosby
    Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an American singer and actor. Crosby's trademark bass-baritone voice made him one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century, with over half a billion records in circulation....

    , Ned Washington
    Ned Washington
    Ned Washington was an American lyricist.-Biography:Washington was nominated for eleven Academy Awards from 1940 to 1962...

    , Young) – 3:16
  6. "Here's That Rainy Day
    Here's That Rainy Day
    "Here's That Rainy Day" is a popular song with music by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyrics by Johnny Burke, published in 1953. It was introduced by Dolores Gray in the Broadway musical Carnival in Flanders...

    " (Burke, Van Heusen) – 3:34
  7. "I Can't Get Started
    I Can't Get Started
    "I Can't Get Started" is a popular song, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin and music by Vernon Duke, that was first heard in the theatrical production Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 where it was sung by Bob Hope...

    " (Duke, I. Gershwin) – 4:01
  8. "Why Try to Change Me Now?" (Cy Coleman
    Cy Coleman
    Cy Coleman was an American composer, songwriter, and jazz pianist.-Life and career:He was born Seymour Kaufman on June 14, 1929, in New York City to Eastern European Jewish parents, and was raised in the Bronx. His mother, Ida was an apartment landlady and his father was a brickmason...

    , Joseph Allan McCarthy
    Joseph McCarthy (lyricist)
    Joseph McCarthy was an American lyricist whose most famous songs include You Made Me Love You, and I'm Always Chasing Rainbows, based upon the haunting melody from the middle section of Chopin's "Fantasie Impromptu".McCarthy, who was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, was a frequent collaborator...

    ) – 3:41
  9. "Just Friends
    Just Friends (1931 song)
    "Just Friends" is a popular song that has become a jazz standard. The song was written in 1931 by John Klenner with lyrics by Sam M. Lewis. Although introduced by Red McKenzie and His Orchestra in October 1931, it first became a hit when singer Russ Columbo performed it with Leonard Joy’s...

    " (John Klenner, Sam M. Lewis
    Sam M. Lewis
    Sam M. Lewis was a Jewish-American singer and lyricist, born in New York City, New York as Samuel Levine-Biography:...

    ) – 3:40
  10. "I'll Never Smile Again" (Lowe) – 3:46
  11. "None But the Lonely Heart" (Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Bill Westbrook) – 3:41
  12. "The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)
    The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)
    "The One I Love " is a popular song.The music was written by Isham Jones, the lyrics by Gus Kahn. The song was published in 1924. It was first introduced by Al Jolson. The song was performed in the 1951 film I'll See You in My Dreams, starring Doris Day and Danny Thomas...

    " (Jones, Kahn) – 3:05
  13. "This Was My Love" (Jim Harbert) – 3:28
  14. "I Could Have Told You" (Carl Sigman
    Carl Sigman
    Carl Sigman was an American songwriter.-Biography:Born in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, Sigman graduated from law school and passed his Bar exams to practice in the state of New York...

    , Van Heusen) – 3:18
  15. "You Forgot All the Words (While I Still Remember the Tune)" (Bernie Wayne, E.H. Jay) – 3:24

Disc thirteen

  1. "Nice 'n' Easy" (Spence, Keith, Bergman) – 2:45
  2. "That Old Feeling
    That Old Feeling (song)
    "That Old Feeling" is a popular song.The music was written by Sammy Fain, the lyrics by Lew Brown. The song was published in 1937.The song first appeared in the movie Vogues of 1938, actually released in 1937. It was immediately a hit in a version recorded by Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm...

    " (Lew Brown
    Lew Brown
    Lew Brown was a lyricist for popular songs in the United States.Brown was born as Louis Brownstein in Odessa, Russian Empire...

    , Fain) – 3:33
  3. "How Deep Is The Ocean?
    How Deep Is the Ocean?
    "How Deep Is the Ocean?" is a popular song written by Irving Berlin in 1932, and can be heard in the background of the 1933 film The Life of Jimmy Dolan...

    " (Berlin) – 3:15
  4. "I've Got a Crush on You
    I've Got a Crush on You
    "I've Got a Crush on You" is a song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin.It is unique among Gershwin compositions in that it was used for two different Broadway productions, Treasure Girl , and Strike Up the Band ....

    " (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 2:16
  5. "You Go To My Head
    You Go to My Head
    "You Go to My Head" is a 1938 popular song composed by J. Fred Coots with lyrics by Haven Gillespie. The song is a unique conjunction of a sophisticated lyric and complex, lush harmonic structure by two songwriters who were not generally known for such elegance; nevertheless the song is highly...

    " (J. Fred Coots
    J. Fred Coots
    John Frederick Coots was an American songwriter. He wrote over 700 songs.He is most famous for the song "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town", a song that became one of the biggest best sellers in American music history....

    , Haven Gillespie
    Haven Gillespie
    James Lamont "Haven" Gillespie was an American Tin Pan Alley composer and lyricist. He was the writer of "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" as well as "You Go to My Head", "Honey", "By the Sycamore Tree", "That Lucky Old Sun", "Breezin' Along With The Breeze", "Right or Wrong," "Beautiful Love",...

    ) – 4:28
  6. "Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread)
    Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread)
    "Fools Rush In" is a popular song. The lyrics were written by Johnny Mercer with music by Rube Bloom. The major hits at the time of introduction were Glenn Miller with Ray Eberle and Tommy Dorsey with Frank Sinatra. It was also recorded by Billy Eckstine...

    " (Bloom, Mercer) – 3:22
  7. "Nevertheless
    Nevertheless (I'm in Love with You)
    "Nevertheless I'm in Love with You" is a popular song written by Harry Ruby with lyrics by Bert Kalmar, first published in 1931...

    " (Bert Kalmar
    Bert Kalmar
    Bert Kalmar was a Jewish American lyricist.He was born in New York, New York. He ran away from home at the age of 10 to become a magician at a tent show, and retained an interest in magic all his life. He never got much of an education, but decided to make a career in show business...

    , Harry Ruby
    Harry Ruby
    Harry Ruby was a Jewish American songwriter and screenwriter.After failing in his early ambition to become a professional baseball player,...

    ) – 3:18
  8. "She's Funny That Way" (Neil Moret
    Neil Moret
    Charles N. Daniels , was a composer, occasional lyricist, and music publishing executive. He employed many pseudonyms, including Neil Moret, Jules Lemare, L'Albert, Paul Bertrand, Julian Strauss, and Sidney Carter...

    , Richard A. Whiting
    Richard A. Whiting
    Richard Armstrong Whiting was a composer of popular songs including the standards, "Hooray for Hollywood", "Ain't We Got Fun?" & "On the Good Ship Lollipop"....

    ) – 3:55
  9. "Try a Little Tenderness
    Try a Little Tenderness
    "Try a Little Tenderness" is a love song written by Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly and Harry M. Woods, and recorded initially on December 8, 1932 by the Ray Noble Orchestra followed by both Ruth Etting and Bing Crosby in 1933...

    " (Jimmy Campbell, Reginald Connelly, Harry M. Woods
    Harry M. Woods
    Henry MacGregor Woods was a Tin Pan Alley songwriter and pianist. Woods is sometimes credited as Harry Woods.-Early life:...

    ) – 3:22
  10. "Embraceable You
    Embraceable You
    "Embraceable You" is a popular song, with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. The song was originally written in 1928 for an unpublished operetta named East is West. It was eventually published in 1930 and included in the Broadway musical Girl Crazy. where it was performed by...

    " (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 3:24
  11. "Mam'selle
    Mam'selle
    "Mam'selle" is a bittersweet song about a rendez-vous with a "mam'selle" in a small café. The music was written by Edmund Goulding, the lyrics by Mack Gordon....

    " (Gordon, Edmund Goulding
    Edmund Goulding
    Edmund Goulding was a British film writer and director. As an actor early in his career he was one of the 'Ghosts' in the 1922 British made Paramount silent Three Live Ghosts alongside Norman Kerry and Cyril Chadwick. Also in the early 20s he wrote several screenplays for star Mae Murray and...

    ) – 2:48
  12. "Dream
    Dream (song)
    "Dream", sometimes referred to as "Dream ", is a jazz and pop standard with words and music written by Johnny Mercer in 1944...

    " (Mercer) – 2:57
  13. "The Nearness of You
    The Nearness of You
    "The Nearness of You" is a popular song, written in 1938 by Hoagy Carmichael with lyrics by Ned Washington.The biggest selling 1938 version was recorded by the Glenn Miller Orchestra, with a vocal by Ray Eberle...

    " (Hoagy Carmichael
    Hoagy Carmichael
    Howard Hoagland "Hoagy" Carmichael was an American composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader. He is best known for writing "Stardust", "Georgia On My Mind", "The Nearness of You", and "Heart and Soul", four of the most-recorded American songs of all time.Alec Wilder, in his study of the...

    , Washington) - 2:44
  14. "Someone to Watch over Me
    Someone to Watch over Me (song)
    "Someone to Watch Over Me" is a song composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin from the musical Oh, Kay! , where it was introduced by Gertrude Lawrence...

    " (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) - 2:57
  15. "Day In, Day Out
    Day In, Day Out
    "Day In, Day Out" is a popular song with music by Rube Bloom and lyrics by Johnny Mercer and published in 1939.According to Alec Wilder the song, 56 measures long, has a wonderful, soaring melodic line, free from pretentiousness, but full of passion and intensity which is superbly supported by the...

    " - 3:07
  16. "My One and Only Love" (Mellin, Wood) - 3:12

Disc fourteen

  1. "When You're Smiling
    When You're Smiling
    "When You're Smiling" is a song by Larry Shay, Mark Fisher, and Joe Goodwin , and made famous by Louis Armstrong, who recorded it at least three times, in 1929, 1932, and 1956...

    " (Mark Fisher
    Mark Fisher (songwriter)
    Mark Fisher was an American songwriter.He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.He died in Long Lake or Ingleside, Illinois. Many of his compositions were joint ventures with Joe Goodwin and Larry Shay . Another collaborator was Joe Burke.-External references:*...

    , Joe Goodwin, Larry Shay
    Larry Shay
    Larry Shay was an American songwriter.Shay was born in Chicago, Illinois. While still young, he studied the piano at the Bush Conservatory of Music in Chicago. He eventually moved to New York City to become a songwriter. His first composition was "Do You, Don't You, Will You, Won't You," published...

    ) – 2:00
  2. "Blue Moon
    Blue Moon (song)
    "Blue Moon"'s first crossover recording to rock and roll came from Elvis Presley in 1956. His cover version of the song was included on his self-titled debut album Elvis Presley....

    " (Rodgers, Hart) – 2:51
  3. "S'Posin" (Paul Denniker, Andy Razaf) – 1:48
  4. "It All Depends on You" – 2:02
  5. "It's Only a Paper Moon
    It's Only a Paper Moon (song)
    "It's Only a Paper Moon" is a popular song. Published in 1933, it was written by Harold Arlen with lyrics by E. Y. Harburg and Billy Rose. It was written originally for an unsuccessful Broadway play called The Great Magoo, set in Coney Island. It was subsequently used in the movie Take a Chance, in...

    " (Arlen, Harburg, Rose) – 2:19
  6. "My Blue Heaven
    My Blue Heaven (song)
    "My Blue Heaven" is a popular song written by Walter Donaldson with lyrics by George A. Whiting. It has become part of various fake book collections....

    " (Donaldson, George A. Whiting
    George A. Whiting
    George A. Whiting was a vaudeville song and dance man, and also a writer of lyrics for popular songs during the vaudeville era. He toured with singer Sadie Burt, whom he later married and had 3 daughters with. His best known work is "My Blue Heaven", with music by Walter Donaldson...

    ) – 2:03
  7. "Should I?" (Arthur Freed
    Arthur Freed
    Arthur Freed was born Arthur Grossman in Charleston, South Carolina. He was a Jewish American lyricist and a Hollywood film producer.- Biography :Freed began his career as a song-plugger and pianist in Chicago...

    , Nacio Herb Brown
    Nacio Herb Brown
    Nacio Herb Brown was an American writer of popular songs, movie scores, and Broadway theatre music in the 1920s through the early 1950s.-Biography:...

    ) – 1:30
  8. "September in the Rain
    September in the Rain
    "September in the Rain" is a popular song by Harry Warren and Al Dubin, published in 1937. The song was introduced by James Melton in the film Melody for Two...

    " (Warren, Dubin) – 2:58
  9. "Always" (Berlin) – 2:17
  10. "I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me" (Clarence Gaskill, McHugh) – 2:25
  11. "I Concentrate on You
    I Concentrate on You
    "I Concentrate on You" is a song written by Cole Porter for the 1940 film Broadway Melody of 1940, where it was introduced by Douglas McPhail.-Notable recordings:...

    " (Porter) – 2:23
  12. "You Do Something to Me
    You Do Something to Me
    "You Do Something to Me" is a song written by Cole Porter. It is notable in that it was the first number in Porter's first fully integrated-book musical Fifty Million Frenchmen...

    " (Porter) – 1:33
  13. "Sentimental Baby" (Spence, Keith, Bergman) – 2:36
  14. "Hidden Persuasion" (Wainwright Churchill III) – 2:25
  15. "Ol' McDonald
    Old McDonald Had a Farm
    "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" is a children's song and nursery rhyme about a farmer named MacDonald and the various animals he keeps on his farm. Each verse of the song changes the name of the animal and its respective noise. In many versions, the song is cumulative, with the noises from all the...

    " (Traditional, Bergman, Keith, Spence) – 2:41

Disc fifteen

  1. "Day by Day
    Day by Day (song)
    "Day by Day" is a popular song with music by Axel Stordahl and Paul Weston and lyrics by Sammy Cahn.-Recorded versions:*Ernestine Anderson*Ray Anthony*Shirley Bassey*Les Brown & His Orchestra *Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Sextet...

    " (Axel Stordahl
    Axel Stordahl
    Axel Stordahl was an arranger who was active from the late 1930s through the 1950s. He is perhaps best known for his work with Frank Sinatra in the 1940s at Columbia Records...

    , Paul Weston
    Paul Weston
    Paul Weston was an American pianist, arranger, composer and conductor. Weston was born Paul Wetstein in Springfield, Massachusetts...

    , Cahn) – 2:39
  2. "Sentimental Journey
    Sentimental Journey (song)
    "Sentimental Journey" is a popular song, published in 1944. The music was written by Les Brown and Ben Homer, and the lyrics were written by Arthur Green.-History:...

    " (Brown
    Les Brown (bandleader)
    Les Brown, Sr. and the Band of Renown are a big band that began in the late 1930s, initially as the group Les Brown and His Blue Devils that Brown led while a student at Duke University. He was the first president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences...

    , Ben Homer, Bud Green
    Bud Green
    Bud Green was an Austrian-born songwriter. Bud Green grew up in Harlem at 108th & Madison Ave. at the turn of the century, the eldest of seven. He dropped out of elementary school to sell newspapers and help the family...

    ) – 3:26
  3. "Almost Like Being in Love
    Almost Like Being in Love
    "Almost Like Being in Love" is a popular song published in 1947. The music was written by Frederick Loewe, and the lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner....

    " (Loewe, Lerner) – 2:02
  4. "Five Minutes More" (Cahn, Styne) – 2:36
  5. "American Beauty Rose" (Mack David
    Mack David
    Mack David was an American lyricist and songwriter, best known for his work in film and television, with a career spanning from the early 1940s through the early 1970s. Mack was credited with writing lyrics and/or music for over one thousand songs...

    , Redd Evans
    Redd Evans
    Redd Evans was a music lyricist whose songs have been recorded by Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra and Doris Day amongst many others....

    , Arthur Altman
    Arthur Altman
    Arthur Altman was an American songwriter whose credits "All or Nothing at All," and the lyrics for "All Alone Am I" and "I Will Follow Him."...

    ) – 2:22
  6. "Yes Indeed!" (Sy Oliver
    Sy Oliver
    Melvin "Sy" Oliver was a jazz arranger, trumpeter, composer, singer and bandleader...

    ) – 2:35
  7. "On the Sunny Side of the Street
    On the Sunny Side of the Street
    "On the Sunny Side of the Street" is a song with music composed by Jimmy McHugh and lyrics by Dorothy Fields, which was introduced in the Broadway musical Lew Leslie's International Revue, starring Harry Richman and Gertrude Lawrence....

    " (McHugh, Fields) – 2:42
  8. "Don't Take Your Love From Me
    Don't Take Your Love from Me
    "Don't Take Your Love from Me" is a popular song written by Henry Nemo and published in 1941. It was introduced that year by singer Joan Brooks.-Recorded versions:*Eddy Arnold* Joan Brooks *Georgia Brown - Georgia Brown...

    " (Henry Nemo
    Henry Nemo
    Henry Nemo was a musician, songwriter and actor in Hollywood films who had a reputation as a hipster and was sometimes referred to as the "creator of jive" talk...

    ) – 1:59
  9. "That Old Black Magic" (Arlen, Mercer) – 4:05
  10. "Lover
    Lover (song)
    "Lover" is a popular song written by Richard Rodgers, with words by Lorenz Hart. It was featured in the movie Love Me Tonight . Les Paul's version was a guitar instrumental released by Capitol Records in 1948. It has a french title Partout Toi...

    " (Rodgers, Hart) – 1:53
  11. "Paper Doll" (Johnny S. Black) – 2:08
  12. "I've Heard That Song Before" (Cahn, Styne) – 2:33
  13. "I Love You" (Harry Archer, Harlan Thompson) – 2:28
  14. "Why Should I Cry over You?" (Chester Conn
    Chester Conn
    Chester Conn , sometimes spelled Chester Cohn, was an American composer of popular music.Conn's best-known song is the jazz standard "Sunday", which he wrote with Jule Styne, Ned Miller, and Benny Krueger...

    , Ned Miller
    Ned Miller
    Henry Ned Miller is an American country music artist. Active as a recording artist from 1956 to 1970, he is known primarily for his hit single, "From a Jack to a King", a crossover hit in 1962 which reached Top 10 on the country music, adult contemporary, and Billboard Hot 100 charts...

    ) – 2:41
  15. "How Could You Do a Thing Like That to Me" (Tyree Glenn
    Tyree Glenn
    Evan Tyree Glenn was an American trombone player.-Biography:...

    , Allan Roberts
    Allan Roberts
    Allan Roberts was a British politician who was a Labour Member of Parliament from 1979 until his death. A teacher and social worker before his election, he was a member of the left-wing of the party.-Early life:...

    ) – 2:44
  16. "River, Stay 'Way from My Door" (Matt Dixon
    Matt Dixon
    Matthew William "Matt" Dixon is an Australian cricketer currently playing for the Western Australia cricket team.-Career:...

    , Harry M. Woods
    Harry M. Woods
    Henry MacGregor Woods was a Tin Pan Alley songwriter and pianist. Woods is sometimes credited as Harry Woods.-Early life:...

    ) – 2:39
  17. "I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
    I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
    "I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues" is a popular song with music by Harold Arlen and the lyrics by Ted Koehler, published in 1932. The song has become a jazz and blues standard....

    " (Arlen, Koehler) - 3:00

Disc sixteen

  1. "(Ah, the Apple Trees) When the World Was Young
    (Ah, the Apple Trees) When the World Was Young
    When the World Was Young is a popular song composed by M. Philippe-Gerard, with lyrics by Angele Vannier. The English lyrics were written by Johnny Mercer. The original French title was "Le Chevalier de Paris"....

    " (Mercer, M. Philippe-Gerard, Angele Marie T. Vannier) - 3:48
  2. "I'll Remember April
    I'll Remember April (song)
    "I'll Remember April" is a popular song. The music for the song was written by Gene de Paul, and the lyrics were written by Patricia Johnston and Don Raye....

    " (Don Raye
    Don Raye
    Don Raye , born Donald MacRae Wilhoite, Jr., in Washington, D.C., was an American vaudevillian and songwriter, best known for his songs for the Andrews Sisters such as "Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar", "The House of Blue Lights", "Just For A Thrill" and "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy."While known for...

    , Gene de Paul
    Gene de Paul
    Gene de Paul was an American pianist, composer and songwriter.-Biography:Born in New York City, he served in the United States Army during World War II....

    , Patricia Johnston) - 2:50
  3. "September Song
    September Song
    "September Song" is an American pop standard composed by Kurt Weill, with lyrics by Maxwell Anderson, introduced by Walter Huston in the 1938 Broadway musical Knickerbocker Holiday. It has since been recorded by numerous singers and instrumentalists...

    " (Kurt Weill
    Kurt Weill
    Kurt Julian Weill was a German-Jewish composer, active from the 1920s, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht...

    , Maxwell Anderson
    Maxwell Anderson
    James Maxwell Anderson was an American playwright, author, poet, journalist and lyricist.-Early years:Anderson was born in Atlantic, Pennsylvania, the second of eight children to William Lincoln "Link" Anderson, a Baptist minister, and Charlotte Perrimela Stephenson, both of Scots and Irish descent...

    ) - 4:21
  4. "A Million Dreams Ago" (Lew Quadling, Eddie Howard, Dick Jurgens
    Dick Jurgens
    Dick Henry Jurgens was an American swing music bandleader, who enjoyed great popularity in the late 1930s and early 1940s....

    ) - 2:41
  5. "I'll See You Again
    I'll See You Again
    "I'll See You Again" is a song by the English songwriter Sir Noel Coward.It originated in Coward's 1929 operetta Bitter Sweet, however soon emerged as a standard in its own right and became one of Coward's best known compositions...

    " (Noël Coward
    Noël Coward
    Sir Noël Peirce Coward was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".Born in Teddington, a suburb of London, Coward attended a dance academy...

    ) - 2:44
  6. "There Will Never Be Another You
    There Will Never Be Another You
    "There Will Never Be Another You" is a popular song with music by Harry Warren and lyrics by Mack Gordon for the Twentieth Century Fox musical Iceland starring Sonja Henie...

    " (Gordon, Warren) - 3:09
  7. "Somewhere Along the Way" (Kurt Adams, Gallop) - 3:01
  8. "It's a Blue World" (Bob Wright, Chet Forrest) - 2:49
  9. "These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)
    These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You)
    "These Foolish Things " is a standard with words by Eric Maschwitz and music by Jack Strachey. Harry Link, an American, sometimes appears as a co-writer, but his input was probably limited to changes to suit the U.S. market. It is one of a group of 'Mayfair Songs', like "A Nightingale Sang in...

    " (Jack Strachey
    Jack Strachey
    Jack Strachey , was an English composer and songwriterBorn John Francis Strachey in London, England on 25 September 1894 he began writing songs in the 1920s for the theatre and the music hall, scoring his first success with songs he had written for Frith Shephard's long running musical revue Lady...

    , Harry Link
    Harry Link
    Harry Link, born Harry Linkey was an American songwriter. He wrote or co-wrote several well-known jazz standards....

    , Holt Marvell) - 3:59
  10. "As Time Goes By
    As Time Goes By (song)
    "As Time Goes By" is a song written by Herman Hupfeld in 1931. It became most famous in 1942 when it was sung by the character Sam in the movie Casablanca. The song was voted #2 on the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs special, commemorating the best songs in film. It was used as a fanfare for Warner...

    " (Herman Hupfeld
    Herman Hupfeld
    Herman Hupfeld was an American songwriter whose most notable composition was "As Time Goes By."-Biography:Hupfeld studied violin in Germany at 9. He was in the military during World War I, and he entertained camps and hospitals during World War II...

    ) - 3:17
  11. "I'll Be Seeing You
    I'll Be Seeing You (song)
    "I'll Be Seeing You" is a popular song, with music by Sammy Fain and lyrics by Irving Kahal. Published in 1938, the song was inserted into the Broadway musical Right This Way, which closed after fifteen performances. The song is a jazz standard, and has been covered by countless musicians.The...

    " (Fain, Irving Kahal
    Irving Kahal
    Irving Kahal was a popular lyricist active in the 1920's and '30's. He is best remembered for his collaborations with composer Sammy Fain which started in 1926 when Kahal was working in vaudeville sketches written by Gus Edwards...

    ) - 2:47
  12. "Memories of You
    Memories of You
    "Memories of You" is a popular song with lyrics written by Andy Razaf and music composed by Eubie Blake and published in 1930.-Song history:The song was introduced by singer Minto Cato in the Broadway show Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1930...

    " (Eubie Blake
    Eubie Blake
    James Hubert Blake was an American composer, lyricist, and pianist of ragtime, jazz, and popular music. In 1921, Blake and long-time collaborator Noble Sissle wrote the Broadway musical Shuffle Along, one of the first Broadway musicals to be written and directed by African Americans...

    , Razaf) - 3:53
  13. "Day In, Day Out
    Day In, Day Out
    "Day In, Day Out" is a popular song with music by Rube Bloom and lyrics by Johnny Mercer and published in 1939.According to Alec Wilder the song, 56 measures long, has a wonderful, soaring melodic line, free from pretentiousness, but full of passion and intensity which is superbly supported by the...

    " – 3:19
  14. "Don't Make a Beggar of Me
    Don't Make a Beggar of Me
    "Don't Make a Beggar of Me" is a popular song recorded by Frank Sinatra on 2 April, 1953, at his first recording session for Capitol Records, but not released until the CD reissue of his 1962 album, Point of No Return. The song was written by former Tin Pan Alley tunesmith, Al Sherman., and...

    " (Al Sherman
    Al Sherman
    Al Sherman was an American Tin Pan Alley songwriter from the first half of the twentieth century. Sherman is a link in a long chain of musical Sherman family members.-Early life:...

    ) – 3:04
  15. "Lean Baby" (Roy Alfred, Billy May
    Billy May
    William E. "Billy" May was an American composer, arranger and trumpeter. He composed film and television music, for The Green Hornet , Batman , and Naked City and collaborated on films, such as Pennies from Heaven , and orchestrated Cocoon, and Cocoon: The Return among...

    ) – 2:34
  16. "I'm Walking Behind You
    I'm Walking Behind You
    "I'm Walking Behind You" is a popular song written by Billy Reid and published in 1953.Eddie Fisher's rendition of the song became a number-one hit single on both the Cash Box and Billboard record charts in 1953 in the United States, as well as reaching number one on the UK Singles Chart.The...

    " (Billy Reid) – 2:58

Personnel

  • Frank Sinatra
    Frank Sinatra
    Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...

     - vocals
  • Gordon Jenkins
    Gordon Jenkins
    Gordon Hill Jenkins was an American arranger, composer and pianist who was an influential figure in popular music in the 1940s and 1950s, renowned for his lush string arrangements...

     - arranger, conductor
  • Heinie Beau
    Heinie Beau
    Heinie Beau was an American jazz composer, arranger, saxophonist and clarinetist, most notable for his swing clarinet work and recordings done with Tommy Dorsey, Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra and Red Nichols...

     - arranger
  • Ted Allan - Photography
  • Paul Atkinson - Reissue Producer
  • Sid Avery - Photography
  • Brad Benedict - Photo Research
  • Sammy Cahn
    Sammy Cahn
    Sammy Cahn was an American lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to films and Broadway songs, as well as stand-alone songs premiered by recording companies in the Greater Los Angeles Area...

     - Liner Notes
  • Dave Cavanaugh - Producer
  • William Claxton - Photography
  • Will Friedwald
    Will Friedwald
    Will Friedwald is an American author and music critic. He has written for such newspapers as The New York Times, The Village Voice, Newsday, The New York Observer, and The New York Sun, and for such magazines as Entertainment Weekly, Oxford American, New York, Mojo, BBC Music Magazine, Stereo...

     - Liner Notes
  • Voyle Gilmore
    Voyle Gilmore
    Voyle Gilmore was an American record producer and arranger. He was best known for his work with Frank Sinatra and The Kingston Trio on Capitol Records...

     - Producer
  • Concetta Halstead - Design
  • Gene Howard - Photography
  • Skip Martin
    Skip Martin
    Lloyd "Skip" Martin was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and music arranger....

     - Arranger, Conductor
  • Billy May
    Billy May
    William E. "Billy" May was an American composer, arranger and trumpeter. He composed film and television music, for The Green Hornet , Batman , and Naked City and collaborated on films, such as Pennies from Heaven , and orchestrated Cocoon, and Cocoon: The Return among...

     - Arranger, Conductor
  • Bill Miller - Producer
  • Nelson Riddle
    Nelson Riddle
    Nelson Smock Riddle, Jr. was an American arranger, composer, bandleader and orchestrator whose career stretched from the late 1940s to the mid 1980s...

     - Arranger, Conductor
  • Norman Sickel - Poetry
  • Keely Smith - Performer
  • Tommy Steele - Art Direction
  • Axel Stordahl
    Axel Stordahl
    Axel Stordahl was an arranger who was active from the late 1930s through the 1950s. He is perhaps best known for his work with Frank Sinatra in the 1940s at Columbia Records...

     - Arranger, Conductor
  • James Van Heusen
    James Van Heusen
    Jimmy Van Heusen , was an American composer. He wrote songs mainly for films and television , and won an Emmy and four Academy Awards for Best Original Song.-Life and career:...

    - Liner Notes
  • Ken Veeder - Photography
  • Larry Walsh - Remastering, Digital Remastering
  • Pete Welding - Liner Notes, Compilation, Reissue Compilation
  • Tim Weston - Design
  • Bob Willoughby - Photography
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