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All Music Guide - Nick Dedina
This is a fine budget-priced box set that puts three single-disc collections from Frank Sinatra's Columbia Records period under one slipcover. Sinatra Sings His Greatest Hits is the single best one-CD overview of the Voice's tenure at Columbia. Swing and Dance With Frank Sinatra lives up to its title by being a hot up-tempo overview that adds a plethora of big-band tracks to his 1950 Sing and Dance album. Sinatra Sings Rodgers & Hammerstein shows that Sinatra was as good at doing art songs and outsized pop ballads as he was at singing from a jazz and swing angle. If you don't have any of Sinatra's Columbia sessions, this is an excellent, well-rounded portrait of the ...
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Editorial Reviews

All Music Guide - Nick Dedina
This is a fine budget-priced box set that puts three single-disc collections from Frank Sinatra's Columbia Records period under one slipcover. Sinatra Sings His Greatest Hits is the single best one-CD overview of the Voice's tenure at Columbia. Swing and Dance With Frank Sinatra lives up to its title by being a hot up-tempo overview that adds a plethora of big-band tracks to his 1950 Sing and Dance album. Sinatra Sings Rodgers & Hammerstein shows that Sinatra was as good at doing art songs and outsized pop ballads as he was at singing from a jazz and swing angle. If you don't have any of Sinatra's Columbia sessions, this is an excellent, well-rounded portrait of the artist during the 1940s.
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 5/4/2004
  • Label: Sony
  • UPC: 074646158227
  • Catalog Number: 61582
  • Sales rank: 188,948

Tracks

Disc 1
  1. 1 All of Me (2:43)
  2. 2 I Could Write a Book (2:44)
  3. 3 I've Got a Crush on You - Bobby Hackett (3:17)
  4. 4 Night and Day (3:41)
  5. 5 Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night in the Week) - Arthur Baker (2:46)
  6. 6 The Brooklyn Bridge (2:38)
  7. 7 Nancy (With the Laughing Face) (3:22)
  8. 8 The House I Live In (3:20)
  9. 9 The Birth of the Blues (3:30)
  10. 10 Body and Soul - Bobby Hackett (3:26)
  11. 11 April in Paris (2:46)
  12. 12 I'm Glad There Is You (3:08)
  13. 13 Sweet Lorraine - The Metronome All-Stars (3:11)
  14. 14 Time After Time (3:12)
  15. 15 Laura (3:21)
  16. 16 The Song Is You (3:17)
  17. 17 I'm a Fool to Want You (2:58)
  18. 18 Put Your Dreams Away (For Another Day) (3:06)
Disc 2
  1. 1 Saturday Night (Is the Lonliest in Night in the Week) [ - Arthur Baker (2:50)
  2. 2 All of Me (2:42)
  3. 3 I've Got a Crush on You - Bobby Hackett (3:16)
  4. 4 The Hucklebuck - Herbie Haymer (3:03)
  5. 5 It All Depends on You - Wolfe Taninbaum (3:27)
  6. 6 Bye Bye Baby - The Pastels (2:46)
  7. 7 All of Me (2:48)
  8. 8 Should I? - Babe Russin (2:26)
  9. 9 You Do Something to Me - Ernie Caceres (2:35)
  10. 10 Lover - Ken Lane (2:41)
  11. 11 When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You) (2:31)
  12. 12 It's Only a Paper Moon (1:58)
  13. 13 My Blue Heaven (2:28)
  14. 14 The Continental - Billy Butterfield (2:33)
  15. 15 Meet Me at the Copa (3:12)
  16. 16 Nevertheless (I'm in Love with You) - Harry James & His Orchestra (3:11)
  17. 17 There's Something Missing - Skylarks (3:21)
  18. 18 Farewell, Farewell to Love - Harry James & His Orchestra (2:54)
Disc 3
  1. 1 Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' (With Chorus) - Bobby Tucker (2:59)
  2. 2 People Will Say We're in Love - Bobby Tucker (3:23)
  3. 3 The Surrey With the Fringe on Top (2:18)
  4. 4 Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' (With Orchestra) (2:35)
  5. 5 If I Loved You - Bobby Tucker Singers (3:07)
  6. 6 You'll Never Walk Alone (3:27)
  7. 7 Soliloquy, Pts. 1 - 2 (8:06)
  8. 8 It Might as Well Be Spring (3:18)
  9. 9 That's for Me (1:51)
  10. 10 A Fellow Needs a Girl (3:13)
  11. 11 So Far (3:11)
  12. 12 Younger Than Springtime (2:21)
  13. 13 Some Enchanted Evening (3:09)
  14. 14 Bali Ha'i (3:18)
  15. 15 Hello, Young Lovers (3:35)
  16. 16 We Kiss in a Shadow (3:38)
  17. 17 I Whistle a Happy Tune (2:28)
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Album Credits

Performance Credits
Frank Sinatra Primary Artist
Bobby Hackett Cornet
Billy Butterfield Trumpet, Muted Trumpet, Muted Trombone
Babe Russin Tenor Saxophone, Track Performer
George Arus Trombone
Ernie Caceres Baritone Saxophone, Track Performer
Herbie Haymer Tenor Saxophone
Ken Lane Piano
Wolfe Taninbaum Tenor Saxophone
Harry James & His Orchestra Track Performer
Zeke Zarchy Trumpet
Jeff Alexander Choir Track Performer
Artie Baker Clarinet
Bobby Tucker Singers Track Performer
Technical Credits
George Gershwin Composer
Frank Sinatra Composer, Author
Andy Gibson Composer
Sy Oliver Arranger
Heine Beau Arranger
The Metronome All-Stars Contributor
Alec Wilder Arranger
Skitch Henderson Orchestra Director
Earl Robinson Composer
George Siravo Arranger, Orchestra Director
Lew Brown Composer
Edward Burke Source Material
Sammy Cahn Composer
Con Conrad Composer
Buddy DeSylva Composer
Jimmy Dorsey Composer
Mark Fisher Composer
Will Friedwald Liner Notes
Ira Gershwin Composer
Joe Goodwin Composer
Oscar Hammerstein II Composer
Ray Henderson Composer
Hugo Winterhalter Orchestra Director
Bert Kalmar Composer
Herbert Magidson Composer
Paul Mann Composer
Johnny Mercer Composer
Paul Mertz Composer
R. O'Brien Composer
Cole Porter Composer
David Raksin Composer
Leo Robin Composer
Harry Ruby Composer
Axel Stordahl Arranger, Composer, Orchestra Director
Jule Styne Composer
James Van Heusen Composer
George David Weiss Composer
Mark Wilder Mastering
Skylarks Contributor
Jack Wolf Composer
Tom "Curly" Ruff Mastering
Tony Sellari Art Direction
Hope Chasin Packaging Manager
Zeke Zarchy Liner Notes, Author
Charles Granata Liner Notes, Source Material
Cozbi Sanchez-Cabrera Art Direction
Randall Martin Cover Design, Packaging
Marc Cozza Cover Design, Packaging
Matt Cavaluzzo Mastering
Mark Warnow Orchestra Director
Rosa Menkes Cover Design, Packaging
Rosemary Mulligan Packaging Manager
Seymour Simons Composer
Gerald Marks Composer
Ruth Lowe Composer
Larry Shay Composer
Paul Madeira Composer
Roy Alfred Composer
Joel Herron Composer
Stephen Weiss Composer
Allen Lewis Composer
Lewis Allan Composer
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