Sinatra Matters

Here is Frank Sinatra, accompanied by the sublime Hollywood String Quartet.  From Sinatra's 1956 album Close to You, this is Matt Dennis and Tom Adair’s wonderful jazz standard, Everything Happens to Me. Arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.

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A Great American Songbook classic. From Frank Sinatra’s 1956 album A Swingin' Affair!, here is Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields' I Won’t Dance.  Arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.

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For the Greatest Generation, no other song could match Glenn Miller's Moonlight Serenade.  From Frank Sinatra's 1956 album Moonlight Sinatra, here is his  definitive recording of this iconic song.  Lyrics by Mitchell Parish.  Arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.  

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Unleashed musical imagination from Frank Sinatra. Here is Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler’s Let’s Fall in Love from Sinatra’s 1961 album Ring-a-Ding-Ding!. Arranged and conducted by Johnny Mandel.

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Nobody sings of lost love and longing like Frank Sinatra.  Nobody.  From Sinatra’s 1955 album In the Wee Small Hours, here is Hoagy Carmichael’s enduring classic I Get Along Without You Very Well.  Arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.

From his 1957 album A Swingin’ Affair, here is Frank Sinatra’s classic recording of The Lady is a Tramp. Music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart.  Arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.

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Frank Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim – Bossa Nova. A magical collaboration.  From the 1967 album, Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim, here is The Girl from Ipanema.  Music by Antonio Carlos Jobim, Portuguese lyrics by Vinicius de Moraes , English lyrics by Norman Gimbel.  Arranged and conducted by Claus Ogerman.

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This is what all the fuss is about . . . here is Frank Sinatra at his ballad singing best.  From the 1959 album No One Cares, Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Kahn’s classic torch song, When No One Cares.  Arranged and conducted by Gordon Jenkins.

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Frank Sinatra's definitive recording of Rodgers & Hart's My Heart Stood Still  . . . the ultimate love at first sight hymn.  From the 1963 album The Concert Sinatra.  Arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.

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Honoring Ella Fitzgerald, the First Lady of Song, with a spotlight on her interpretation of Frank Sinatra's hallmark song, All of Me.  Recorded in 1962.  Arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.