A Salute to the Golden Age of American Popular Music

We salute the music from Broadway, Hollywood, New Orleans, Tin Pan Alley and the "melody makers;" i.e. the bands and singers that brought the music to us via the radio, recordings and live events in the period from the 1920's to the 1960's. This is the golden period of Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers, Larry Hart, Oscar Hammerstein, Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael, Jimmy Van Heusen, Harold Arlen, Harry Warren, etc.

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Frank Sinatra treasure chest: Sinatra The Capitol Years

Capitol Records offers, what maybe, the greatest collection of Frank Sinatra recordings. The collection contains 21 CDs! And covers the period from 1954, when Frank first teamed with Nelson Riddle, to 1962
Artist: Frank Sinatra
Title Of Album: Frank Sinatra - The Capitol Years (1954-1962)
Year Of Release: November 20, 1998
Label: Capitol Records
Here are the tracks;

CD1. Songs For Young Lovers (1954)

01. "The Girl Next Door" (Hugh Blane, Ralph Martin) 2:39
02. "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) 1:59
03. "Violets for Your Furs" (Tom Adair, Matt Dennis) 3:07
04. "Someone to Watch over Me" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) 2:59
05. "My One and Only Love" (Guy Wood, Robert Mellin) 3:14
06. "Little Girl Blue" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) 2:54
07. "Like Someone in Love" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) 3:13
08. "A Foggy Day" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) 2:41
09. "It Worries Me" (Fritz Schultz-Reichelt, Carl Sigman) 2:55
10. "I Can Read Between the Lines" (Ramon Getzov, Sid Frank) 2:50
11. "I Get a Kick Out of You" (Cole Porter) 2:56
12. "My Funny Valentine" (Rodgers, Hart) 2:31

CD2: Swing Easy (1954)

01. "Jeepers Creepers" (Harry Warren, Johnny Mercer) 2:24
02. "Taking a Chance on Love" (Vernon Duke, Ted Fetter, John Latouche) 2:14
03. "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams" (Harry Barris, Ted Koehler, Billy Moll) 2:17
04. "Lean Baby" (Roy Alfred, Billy May) 2:34
05. "I Love You" (Harry Archer, Harlan Thompson) 2:28
06. "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down (And Write Myself a Letter)" (Fred E. Ahlert, Joe Young) 2:29
07. "Get Happy" (Koehler, Harold Arlen) 2:27
08. "All of Me" (Seymour Simons, Gerald Marks) 2:08
09. "How Could You Do a Thing Like That to Me" (Tyree Glenn, Allan Roberts) 2:44
10. "Why Should I Cry over You?" (Chester Conn, Ned Miller) 2:41
11. "Sunday" (Chester Conn, Benny Krueger, Ned Miller, Jule Styne) 2:31
12. "Just One of Those Things" (Porter) 3:14

CD3. In The Wee Small Hours (1955)

01. "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" (Bob Hilliard, David Mann) 3:02
02. "Mood Indigo" (Barney Bigard, Duke Ellington, Irving Mills) 3:32
03. "Glad to Be Unhappy" (Rodgers, Hart) 2:39
04. "I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes)" (Hoagy Carmichael, Jane Brown Thompson) 3:45
05. "Deep in a Dream" (Eddie DeLange, Van Heusen) 2:51
06. "I See Your Face Before Me" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) 3:27
07. "Can't We Be Friends?" (Paul James, Kay Swift) 2:50
08. "When Your Lover Has Gone" (Einar Aaron Swan) 3:12
09. "What Is This Thing Called Love?" (Porter) 2:36
10. "Last Night When We Were Young" (Arlen, Yip Harburg) 3:18
11. "I'll Be Around" (Alec Wilder) 3:01
12. "Ill Wind" (Arlen, Koehler) 3:48
13. "It Never Entered My Mind" (Rodgers, Hart) 2:43
14. "Dancing on the Ceiling" (Rodgers, Hart) 3:00
15. "I'll Never Be the Same" (Gus Kahn, Matty Malneck, Frank Signorelli) 3:07
16. "This Love of Mine" (Sol Parker, Henry W. Sanicola, Jr., Frank Sinatra) 3:35

CD4. This is Sinatra (1956)

01. "I've Got the World on a String" (Arlen, Koehler) 2:14
02. "Three Coins in the Fountain" (Styne, Sammy Cahn) 3:07
03. "Love and Marriage" (Cahn, Van Heusen) 2:41
04. "From Here to Eternity" (Freddie Karger, Robert Wells) 3:01
05. "South of the Border" (Jimmy Kennedy, Michael Carr) 2:52
06. "Rain (Falling from the Skies)" (Robert Mellin, Gunther Finlay) 3:27
07. "The Gal That Got Away" (Arlen, I. Gershwin) 3:12
08. "Young at Heart" (Johnny Richards, Carolyn Leigh) 2:53
09. "Learnin' the Blues" (Dolores Vicki Silvers) 3:04
10. "My One and Only Love" 3:15
11. "(Love Is) The Tender Trap" (Van Heusen, Cahn) 3:00
12. "Don't Worry 'bout Me" (Rube Bloom, Koehler) - 3:07

CD5. Songs For Swingin' Lovers! (1956)

01. "You Make Me Feel So Young" (Josef Myrow, Mack Gordon) 2:57
02. "It Happened in Monterey" (Mabel Wayne, Billy Rose) 2:37
03. "You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me" (Warren, Al Dubin) 2:19
04. "You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me" (Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal, Pierre Norman) 2:49
05. "Too Marvelous for Words" (Richard A. Whiting, Mercer) 2:32
06. "Old Devil Moon" (Burton Lane, Harburg) 3:57
07. "Pennies from Heaven" (Arthur Johnston, Burke) 2:45
08. "Our Love Is Here to Stay" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) 2:42
09. "I've Got You Under My Skin" (Porter) 3:45
10. "I Thought About You" (Van Heusen, Mercer) 2:31
11. "We'll Be Together Again" (Carl Fischer, Frankie Laine) 4:27
12. "Makin' Whoopee" (Walter Donaldson, Kahn) 3:08
13. "Swingin' Down the Lane" (Isham Jones, Kahn) 2:54
14. "Anything Goes" (Porter) 2:44
15. "How About You?" (Burton Lane, Ralph Freed) 2:45

CD6. Close to you (1957)

01. "Close to You" (Al Hoffman, Carl G. Lampl, Jerry Livingston) 3:40
02. "P.S. I Love You" (Gordon Jenkins, Mercer) 4:24
03. "Love Locked Out" (Max Kester, Ray Noble) 2:45
04. "Everything Happens to Me" (Adair, Dennis) 3:22
05. "It's Easy to Remember" (Rodgers, Hart) 3:37
06. "Don't Like Goodbyes" (Arlen, Truman Capote) 4:52
07. "With Every Breath I Take" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) 3:41
08. "Blame It on My Youth" (Edward Heyman, Oscar Levant) 3:00
09. "It Could Happen to You" (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, Jimmy McHugh) 3:28
12. "The End of a Love Affair" (Edward Redding) 4:09

CD7. A Swingin' Affair (1957)

01. "Night and Day" (Porter) 4:02
02. "I Wish I Were in Love Again" (Rodgers, Hart) 2:31
03. "I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'" (DuBose Heyward, G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) 3:13
04. "I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan" (Schwartz, Dietz) 2:26
05. "Nice Work if You Can Get It" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) 2:24
06. "Stars Fell on Alabama" (Frank Perkins, Mitchell Parish) 2:41
07. "No One Ever Tells You" (Hub Atwood, Carroll Coates) 3:28
08. "I Won't Dance" (Jerome Kern, McHugh, Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach, Dorothy Fields) 3:27
09. "Lonesome Road" (Nathaniel Shilket, Gene Austin) 3:57
10. "At Long Last Love" (Porter) 2:27
11. "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" (Porter) 2:07
12. "I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)" (Ellington, Paul Francis Webster) 3:25
13. "From This Moment On" (Porter) 3:56
14. "If I Had You" (Jimmy Campbell, Reginald Connelly, Ted Shapiro) 2:39
15. "Oh! Look at Me Now" (Joe Bushkin, John DeVries) 2:50

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