FRANK SINATRA SINGS THE SONGBOOKS (10 CDS)

The American singer and actor Francis Albert Sinatra (1915-1998) was one of the most successful pop artists of the 20th century. Even as a teenager he was an ambitious singer and after hearing Bing Crosby, he knew what his dream job would be. As early as 1939, the popular swing trumpeter Harry James brought him to his newly founded big band. The first records found only few buyers, but his move to the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra began the meteoric rise of 25-year-old Sinatra in the Forties. "Polka Dots and Moon Beams" was his first hit in April 1940. Once he was able to get out of an extremely unfavorable contract with Dorsey, he finally established himself as a solo artist in 1943.

Sinatra's repertoire consisted of songs that are now considered classics in the 40s and 50s, immortalized as part of the "Great American Song Book". Sinatra never took up the idea of "songbook albums" out of respect for Ella Fitzgerald, who celebrated her greatest successes with albums dedicated to individual songwriters in the 1950s, from Cole Porter to the Gershwins. Still, Sinatra was a perfect interpreter of these songs, as this 10 CD-set of newly compiled albums with the work of composers and lyricists gathered here shows. It presents Sinatra's versions of the greatest songs by Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, George and Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Johnny Mercer, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, Sammy Cahn, James Van Heusen and Jerome Kern. "Ol' Blue Eyes" always had the best orchestras and arrangers at his side and you will enjoy the work of Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, Axel Stordahl, Alec Wilder, Percy Faith, Nelson Riddle, Billy May, Gordon Jenkins and André Previn on this documentation.

CD 1 : Someone To Watch Over Me - Frank Sinatra Sings The Music Of George & Ira Gershwin / Frank Sinatra Sings The Music Of Duke Ellington

CD 2 : Cheek To Cheek - Frank Sinatra Sings The Music Of Irving Berlin

CD 3 : Too Marvellous For Words - Frank Sinatra Sings The Music Of Johnny Mercer

CD 4 : My Funny Valentine - Frank Sinatra Sings The Music Of Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart

CD 5 : Night And Day - Frank Sinatra Sings The Music Of Cole Porter

CD 6 : Over The Rainbow - Frank Sinatra Sings The Music Of Harold Arlen

CD 7 : Here ́s That Rainy Day - Frank Sinatra Sings The Music Of Johnny Burke & James Van Heusen

CD 8 : Come Fly With Me - Frank Sinatra Sings The Music Of Sammy Cahn & James Van Heusen

CD 9 : Hello, Young Lovers - Frank Sinatra Sings The Music Of Oscar Hammerstein II & Richard Rodgers

CD 10 : I Fall In Love Too Easily - Frank Sinatra Sings The Music Of Sammy Cahn & Jule Styne

CD 1

Love Walked in
Love is Here to Stay
Nice Work if You Can Get It
They Can't Take That Away from Me
A Foggy Day
I Got Plenty O' Nuttin
Someone to Watch over Me
I've Got a Crush on You
Embraceable You
Bess Oh, Where is My Bess?
Mood Indigo
I Got It Bad & That Ain' Good

CD 2

Blue Skies
A Fella with an Umbrella
Cheek to Cheek
There's No Business Like Show Business
They Say It's Wonderful
What'll I Do
How Deep is the Ocean?
It Only Happens when I Dance with You
(Just One Way to Say) I Love You
Let's Take an Old-fashioned Walk
Be Careful, It's My Heart
It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow
Always
All Alone
When I Lost You
Remember
The Song is Ended (But the Melody Lingers On)

CD 3

Jeepers Creepers
Too Marvelous for Words
Something's Gotta Give
Blues in the Night
Fools Rush in
Day in - Day out
I'd Know You Anywhere
Laura
Dream
Autumn Leaves
When the World Was Young
I Thought About You
P.s. I Love You

CD 4

My Funny Valentine
Glad to Be Unhappy
It's Easy to Remember
Dancing on the Ceiling
It Never Entered My Mind
You Are Too Beautiful
Where or when
Falling in Love with Love
Lover
Have You Met Miss Jones?
Little Girl Blue
I Wish I Were in Love Again
Spring is Here
My Romance
You'll Never Walk Alone

CD 5

Being the Beguine
Cherry Pies Ought to Be You
You Do Something to Me
I Concentrate on You
Why Shouldn't I?
I Get a Kick out of You
I've Got You Under My Skin
Anything Goes
What is This Thing Called Love?
Night & Day
Just One of Those Things
You'd Be So Nice to Come Home
At Long Last Love
Why Can't You Behave?
I Love You
I Am Loved
You Don't Remind Me
From This Moment on
You're Sensational
Mind if I Make Love to You?
Well Did You Eva?
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire

CD 6

I've Got the World on a String
It's Only a Paper Moon
For Every Man There's a Woman
That Old Black Magic
My Shining Hour
Stormy Weather
Blues in the Night
The Gal That Got Away
III Wind
Don't Like Goodbyes
Over the Rainbow
You'll Never Know
Come Rain or Shine
I Only Have Eyes for You
Get Happy
One for My Baby

CD 7

You Lucky People, You
Polka Dots & Moon Beams
Imagination
Do You Know Why
Aren't You Glad You Are You
It's Always You
Sunday, Monday or Always
If You Stub Your Toe on the Moon
But Beautiful
If You Please
Life is So Peculiar
(We've Got) a Sure Thing
A Friend of Yours
The Same Old Song & Dance
When is Sometime?
Here's That Rainy Day
Sunshine Cake
Accidents Will Happen

CD 8

Come Fly with Me
It's Nice to Go Trav'ling
(Love Is) the Tender Trap
Look to Your Heart
Indiscreet
All the Way
Come Dance with Me
All My Tomorrows
How Are 'ya Fixed for Love?
Nothing in Common
When No One Cares
Only the Lonely
To Love & Be Loved
The Last Dance
Love & Marriage
The Impatient Years
High Hopes
They Came to Cordura

CD 9

Hello, Young Lovers
Soliloquy
Bali Ha'l
Oh, What a Beautiful Morning
People Will Say We're in Love
Boys & Girls Like You & Me
I Whistle a Happy Tune
The Song is You
All the Things You Are
All This & Heaven Too
Two Hearts Are Better Than One
Ol' Man River
Why Was I Born?
If I Loved You

CD 10

Come Out, Wherever You Are
And then You Kissed Me
What Makes the Sunset?
The Charm of You
Five Minutes More
Things We Did Last Summer
The Brooklyn Bridge
Kisses & Tears
Three Coins in the Fountain
I Begged Her
Time After Time
Guess I'll Hang My Tears out to Dry
Saturday Night
It's the Same Old Dream
I Fall in Love Too Easily
As Long As There is Music
Whose Baby Are You?