Name: 16 Most Requested Songs
Brand: Legacy
SKU: 300325
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16 Most Requested Songs

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Album: 16 Most Requested Songs
#	Song Title	Time
1)	All or Nothing at All
2)	You'll Never Know
3)	Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night in the Week)
4)	Dream (When You're Feeling Blue)
5)	Put Your Dreams Away (For Another Day)
6)	Day by Day
7)	Nancy (With the Laughing Face)
8)	Oh! What It Seemed to Be
9)	Soliloquy (Parts 1 & 2)
10)	Five Minutes More
11)	Things We Did Last Summer, The
12)	Coffee Song, The (They've Got an Awful Lot of Coffee in Brazil)
13)	Time After Time
14)	Mam'selle
15)	Fools Rush In
16)	Birth of the Blues

Album: 16 Most Requested Songs
#	Song Title	Time
1)	All or Nothing at All
2)	You'll Never Know
3)	Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night in the Week)
4)	Dream (When You're Feeling Blue)
5)	Put Your Dreams Away (For Another Day)
6)	Day by Day
7)	Nancy (With the Laughing Face)
8)	Oh! What It Seemed to Be
9)	Soliloquy (Parts 1 & 2)
10)	Five Minutes More
11)	Things We Did Last Summer, The
12)	Coffee Song, The (They've Got an Awful Lot of Coffee in Brazil)
13)	Time After Time
14)	Mam'selle
15)	Fools Rush In
16)	Birth of the Blues

Performer Notes

Personnel includes: Frank Sinatra (vocals); Axel Stordahl (conductor, arranger); Bobby Tucker Singers, Ken Lane Singers (background vocals); Harry James & His Orchestra.
Compilation producer: Didier C. Deutsch.
Recorded between August 31, 1939 and June 3, 1952. Includes liner notes by Arnold Jay Smith.
Digitally remastered by Mark Wilder (Sony Music Studios, New York).
This is part of Legacy's 16 Most Requested Songs series.
These 16 fine selections are all taken from Sinatra's early years at Columbia. The CD opens with his first charted hit, the wonderful "All or Nothing At All" (recorded in 1939 with Harry James and his Orchestra). The years 1940-42 were Dorsey years, captured on RCA; but Sinatra came back to Columbia a true star in 1943, and, until the mid-50s, produced many records with his own arranger and conductor, Axel Stordahl.
Although there were uptempo, swinging numbers recorded during this stretch (Sinatra swaggers on "Saturday Night Is The Loneliest Night of the Week") this era is best characterized as dreamy and romantic. Songs like "Dream (When You're Feeling Blue)," "Nancy (With the Laughing Face)," "The Things We Did Last Summer" and "Fools Rush In" are richly orchestrated, heavy with strings and harp. Sinatra is unfailingly confident and smooth.
Also included here are novelties like the "The Coffee Song (They've Got An Awful Lot of Coffee in Brazil)" and "Soliloquy (Parts 1 & 2)" from the musical, Carousel.