The Columbia Years 1943–1952: The Complete Recordings
The Columbia Years 1943–1952: The Complete Recordings is a 1993 box set album by American singer Frank Sinatra.
The Columbia Years 1943-1952: The Complete Recordings | ||||
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Released | October 5, 1993 | |||
Recorded | June 7, 1943-September 17, 1952 | |||
Genre | Traditional pop | |||
Length | 860:25 | |||
Label | Columbia Legacy Recordings/Sony Music | |||
Producer | Didier C. Deutsch* (See additional producer credits below) | |||
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This twelve-disc set contains 285 songs Sinatra recorded during his nine-year career with Columbia Records.
Track listing
Disc one
- "Close to You" (Al Hoffman, Carl G. Lampl, James Livingston) - 3:17
- "You'll Never Know" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) - 3:00
- Recorded on June 7, 1943
- "Sunday, Monday or Always" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 3:15
- "If You Please" (Burke, Van Heusen) - 2:51
- Recorded on June 22, 1943
- "People Will Say We're in Love" (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) - 3:19
- "Oh What a Beautiful Mornin'" (Rodgers, Hammerstein) - 2:55
- Recorded on August 5, 1943
- "I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night" (Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh) - 2:52
- Recorded on November 3, 1943
- "A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening" (Adamson, McHugh) - 3:13
- "The Music Stopped" (Adamson, McHugh) - 2:59
- Recorded on November 10, 1943
- "If You Are But a Dream (Nat Bonx, Jack Fulton, Moe Jaffe) - 3:03
- "Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week)" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) - 2:43
- "There's No You" - (Tom Adair, Hal Hopper) - 3:26
- "White Christmas" (Irving Berlin) - 3:22
- Recorded on November 14, 1944
- "I Dream of You (More Than You Dream of Me)" - (Marjorie Goetschius, Edna Osser) - 3:07
- "I Begged Her" (Cahn, Styne) - 2:59
- "What Makes the Sunset?" (Cahn, Styne) - 2:54
- "I Fall in Love Too Easily" (Cahn, Styne) - 3:13
- Recorded on December 1, 1944
- "Nancy (With the Laughing Face)" (Phil Silvers, Van Heusen) - 3:19
- "The Cradle Song" (Johannes Brahms) - 3:06
- "Ol' Man River" (Jerome Kern, Hammerstein II) - 4:00
- "Stormy Weather" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 4:13
- "The Charm of You" (Cahn, Styne) - 2:59
- Recorded on December 3, 1944
Disc two
- "Embraceable You" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 3:16
- "When Your Lover Has Gone" (Einar A. Swan) - 2:52
- "Kiss Me Again" (Henry Blossom, Victor Herbert) - 2:45
- "(I Got a Woman Crazy for Me) She's Funny That Way" (Neil Moret, Richard A. Whiting) - 3:20
- Recorded on December 19, 1944
- "My Melancholy Baby" (Ernie Burnett, George Norton) - 3:08
- "Where or When" (Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 3:13
- "All the Things You Are" (Hammerstein II, Kern) - 3:00
- "Mighty Lak' a Rose" (Ethelbert Nevin, Frank Stanton) - 3:23
- Recorded on January 29, 1945
- "I Should Care" (Cahn, Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston) - 3:00
- "Homesick, That's All" (Gordon Jenkins) - 3:22
- "Dream (When You're Feeling Blue)" (Mercer) - 3:02
- "A Friend of Yours" (Burke, Van Heusen) - 3:01
- Recorded on March 6, 1945
- "Put Your Dreams Away (For Another Day)" (Ruth Lowe, Paul Mann, George David Weiss) - 3:00
- "Over the Rainbow" (Arlen, E.Y. Harburg) - 3:16
- "You'll Never Walk Alone" (Rodgers, Hammerstein II) - 3:25
- "If I Loved You" (Rodgers, Hammerstein II) - 3:03
- Recorded on May 1, 1945
- "Lily Belle" (Irving Taylor, D. Franklin) - 3:29
- "Don't Forget Tonight Tomorrow" (L. Sherin, J. Milton) - 3:02
- "I've Got a Home in That Rock" (Traditional) - 3:10
- "Jesus Is a Rock in That Weary Land" (Traditional) - 3:19
- Recorded on May 16, 1945
- "Stars in Your Eyes" (R. Lopez Mendez, Gabriel Ruiz, M. Greene) - 2:45
- "My Shawl" (S. Adams, Xavier Cugat) - 3:15
- Recorded on May 24, 1945
Disc three
- "Someone to Watch Over Me" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) - 3:19
- "You Go to My Head" (John Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) - 3:00
- "These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)" (Jack Strachey, Harry Link, Holt Marvell) - 3:08
- "I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)" (Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk) - 2:47
- Recorded on July 30, 1945
- "The House I Live In (That's America to Me)" (Lewis Allan, Earl Robinson) - 3:20
- "Day By Day" (Cahn, Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston) - 3:08
- "Nancy (With the Laughing Face)" - 3:20
- "You Are Too Beautiful" (Rodgers, Hart) - 3:01
- Recorded on August 22, 1945
- "America the Beautiful" (Katherine Lee Bates, Samuel Ward) - 2:32
- "Silent Night, Holy Night" (Joseph Mohr, Franz Gruber) - 3:14
- "The Moon Was Yellow (And the Night Was Young)" (Ahlert, Edgar Leslie) - 2:58
- "I Only Have Eyes for You" (Warren, Al Dubin) - 3:13
- Recorded on August 27, 1945
- "The Old School Teacher" (Willard Robison) - 3:12
- "Just An Old Stone House" (Alec Wilder) - 3:17
- Recorded on November 15, 1945
- "Full Moon and Empty Arms" (Sergei Rachmaninoff, Ted Mossman, Buddy Kaye) - 3:13
- "Oh, What It Seemed to Be" (George David Weiss, Bernie Benjamin, Frank Carle) - 2:59
- "I Have But One Heart" (Marty Symes, J. Farrow) - 3:13
- Recorded on November 30, 1945
- "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You" (Bing Crosby, Ned Washington, Victor Young)
- "Why Shouldn't I?" (Cole Porter)
- "Try a Little Tenderness" (Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly, Harry Woods)
- "Paradise" (Gordon Clifford, Nacio Herb Brown)
- Recorded on December 7, 1945
- "All Through the Day" (Hammerstein II, Kern)
- "One Love" (Leo Robin, D. Rose)
- "Two Hearts Are Better Than One" (Johnny Mercer, Kern)
- "How Cute Can You Be?" (Carl Fischer, Bill Carey)
- Recorded on February 3, 1946
Disc four
- "From This Day Forward" (Leigh Harline, M. Greene)
- "Where Is My Bess?" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin, DuBose Heyward)
- "Begin the Beguine" (Porter)
- "Something Old, Something New" (R. Idriss, G. Tibbles)
- Recorded on February 24, 1946
- "They Say It's Wonderful" (Irving Berlin)
- "That Old Black Magic" (Harold Arlen, Mercer)
- "The Girl That I Marry" (Berlin)
- "I Fall In Love with You Ev'ry Day" (Sam Stept)
- "How Deep Is the Ocean (How Blue Is the Sky)" (Berlin)
- "Home on the Range" (Traditional)
- "The Song Is You" (Hammerstein II, Kern)
- Recorded on March 10, 1946
- "Soliloquy (Parts 1 & 2)" (Rodgers, Hammerstein II)
- "Somewhere In the Night" (Joseph Myrow, Gordon)
- "Could'ja?" (Fischer, Carey)
- "Five Minutes More" (Cahn, Styne)
- Recorded on May 28, 1946
- "The Things We Did Last Summer" (Cahn, Styne)
- "You'll Know When It Happens" (Carmen Lombardo, John Jacob Loeb)
- "This Is the Night" (R. Evans, L. Bellin)
- "The Coffee Song (They've Got an Awful Lot of Coffee in Brazil)" (Bob Hilliard, Dick Miles)
- Recorded on July 24, 1946
- "Among My Souvenirs" (Leslie, H. Nicholls)
- "I Love You" (Bob Wright, Chet Forrest, Edvard Grieg)
- "September Song" (Kurt Weill, Maxwell Anderson)
- "Blue Skies" (Berlin)
- "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry" (Cahn, Styne)
- Recorded on July 30, 1946
Disc five
- "Adeste Fideles (O, Come All Ye Faithful)" (Traditional)
- "Lost in the Stars" (Weill, Anderson)
- "Jingle Bells" (J. S. Pierpont)
- "Falling in Love with Love" (Rodgers, Hart)
- Recorded on August 8, 1946
- "Hush-A-Bye Island" (Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh)
- "So They Tell Me" (H. Mott, J. Gale, Arthur Kent)
- "There's No Business Like Show Business" (Berlin)
- "(Once Upon) A Moonlight Night" (Sidney Clare, Irving Bibo)
- Recorded on August 22, 1946
- "Strange Music" (Wright, Forrest, Grieg)
- "Poinciana (Song of the Tree)" (Buddy Bernier, Nat Simon)
- "The Music Stopped" (Adamson, McHugh)
- "Why Shouldn't It Happen to Us?" (Alberta Nichols, Mann Holiner)
- Recorded on October 15, 1946
- "Time After Time" (Cahn, Styne)
- "It's the Same Old Dream" (Cahn, Styne)
- "I'm Sorry I Made You Cry" (N. J. Clesi)
- Recorded on October 24, 1946
- "None But the Lonely Heart" (Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, B. Westbrook)
- "The Brooklyn Bridge" (Cahn, Styne)
- "I Believe" (Cahn, Styne)
- "I Got a Gal I Love (In North & South Dakota)" (Cahn, Styne)
- Recorded on October 31, 1946
- "The Dum-Dot Song (I Put a Penny In the Gum Slot)" (J. Kay)
- "All of Me" (Seymour Simons, Gerald Marks)
- "It's All Up to You" (Cahn, Styne)
- "My Romance" (Rodgers, Hart)
- Recorded on November 7, 1946
Disc six
- "Always" (Berlin)
- "I Want to Thank Your Folks" (Weiss, Benjamin)
- "That's How Much I Love You" (Eddy Arnold, Wally Fowler, J. G. Hall)
- "You Can Take My Word for It Baby" (Russ Freeman, Irving Taylor)
- Recorded on December 15, 1946
- "Sweet Lorraine" (Mitchell Parish, Cliff Burwell)
- Recorded on December 17, 1946
- "Always"
- "I Concentrate on You" (Porter)
- "My Love for You" (Harry Jacobson, Edward Heyman)
- Recorded on January 9, 1947
- "Mam'selle" (Gordon, Edmund Goulding)
- "Ain'tcha Ever Comin' Back" (Stordahl, Weston, Taylor)
- "Stella By Starlight" (Washington, Young)
- Recorded on March 11, 1947
- "There But For You Go I" (Alan Lerner, Frederick Loewe)
- "Almost Like Being In Love" (Lerner, Loewe)
- Recorded on March 31, 1947
- "Tea for Two" (Vincent Youmans, Irving Caesar)
- "My Romance" (Rodgers, Hart)
- Recorded on April 25, 1947
- "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin)
- "Christmas Dreaming (A Little Early This Year)" (Irving Gordon, L. Lee)
- "The Stars Will Remember (So Will I)" (Don Pelosi, Leo Towers)
- "It All Came True" (Sunny Skylar)
- Recorded on July 3, 1947
- "That Old Feeling" (Lew Brown, Sammy Fain)
- "If I Had You" (Campbell, Connelly, Ted Shapiro)
- "The Nearness of You" (Hoagy Carmichael, Washington)
- "One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)" (Arlen, Mercer)
- Recorded on August 11, 1947
Disc seven
- "But Beautiful" (Van Heusen, Burke)
- "A Fellow Needs a Girl" (Rodgers, Hammerstein II)
- "So Far" (Rodgers, Hammerstein II)
- Recorded on August 17 1947
- "It All Came True"
- Recorded on September 23, 1947
- "Can't You Just See Yourself?" (Cahn, Styne)
- "You're My Girl" (Cahn, Styne)
- "All of Me"
- Recorded on October 19, 1947
- "I'll Make Up for Ev'rything" (R. Parker)
- "Strange Music"
- "Laura" (Mercer, David Raksin)
- "Night and Day" (Porter)
- Recorded on October 22, 1947
- "My Cousin Louella" (B. Bierman, J. Manus)
- "We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye" (Woods)
- "S'posin'" (Andy Razaf, Paul Denniker)
- Recorded on October 24, 1947
- "Just for Now" (D. Redmond)
- "None But the Lonely Heart"
- "The Night We Called It a Day" (Matt Dennis, Tom Adair)
- "The Song Is You"
- Recorded on October 26, 1947
- "What'll I Do?" (Berlin)
- "Poinciana (Song of the Tree)"
- "(I Offer You the Moon) Senorita" (Heyman, Brown)
- "The Music Stopped" (Adamson, McHugh)
- Recorded on October 29, 1947
Disc eight
- "Mean to Me" (Ahlert, Turk)
- "Spring Is Here" (Rodgers, Hart)
- "Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread)" (Mercer, Rube Bloom)
- Recorded on October 31, 1947
- "When You Wake" (Henry Nemo)
- "It Never Entered My Mind" (Rodgers, Hart)
- "I've Got a Crush on You" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin)
- Recorded on November 5, 1947
- "Body and Soul" (Johnny Green, Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton)
- "I'm Glad There Is You" (Jimmy Dorsey, Paul Madeira Mertz)
- Recorded on November 9, 1947
- "I Went Down to Virginia" (Dave Mann, R. Evans)
- "If I Only Had a Match" (Arthur Johnston, L. Morris, George W. Meyer)
- Recorded on November 25, 1947
- "If I Steal a Kiss" (Heyman, Brown)
- "Autumn in New York" (Vernon Duke)
- "Everybody Loves Somebody" (Taylor, Ken Lane)
- Recorded on December 4, 1947
- "A Little Learnin' Is a Dangerous Thing, Part 1" (Sy Oliver, D. Jacobs)
- "A Little Learnin' Is a Dangerous Thing, Part 2"
- "Ever Homeward" (Cahn, Styne)
- Recorded on December 8, 1947
- "But None Like You" (Ray Noble)
- "Catana" (Ed DeLange, A. Newman)
- Recorded on December 26, 1947
- "Why Was I Born?" (Hammerstein II, Kern)
- "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" (Richard S. Willis, Edmund H. Sears)
- "O Little Town of Bethlehem" (Lewis H. Redner, Phillips Brooks)
- "White Christmas" (Berlin)
- "For Every Man There's a Woman" (Arlen, Robin)
- Recorded on December 28, 1947
Disc nine
- "Help Yourself to My Heart" (B. Kaye, S. Timberg)
- "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" (John Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie)
- Recorded on December 28, 1947
- "If I Forget You" (Caesar)
- "Where Is the One?" (Wilder, E. Finckel)
- "When Is Sometime?" (Van Heusen, Burke)
- Recorded on December 30, 1947
- "It Only Happens When I Dance With You" (Berlin)
- "A Fella With an Umbrella" (Berlin)
- Recorded on March 16, 1948
- "Nature Boy" (Eden Ahbez)
- Recorded on April 10, 1948
- "Sunflower" (David)
- Recorded on December 6, 1948
- "Once In Love With Amy" (Frank Loesser)
- Recorded on December 14, 1948
- "Once in Love With Amy"
- "Why Can't You Behave?" (Porter)
- "Bop! Goes My Heart" (Styne, W. Bishop)
- Recorded on December 15, 1948
- "Comme Ci Comme Ca" (Joan Whitney, Alex Kramer, P. Dudan, B. Coquatrix)
- "No Orchids for My Lady" (Jack Strachey, A. Stranks)
- "While the Angelus Was Ringing (Les Trois Cloches)" (Dick Manning, J. Villard)
- Recorded on December 19, 1948
- "If You Stub Your Toe On the Moon" (Van Heusen, Burke)
- "Kisses and Tears" (Cahn, Styne)
- Recorded on January 4, 1949
- "Some Enchanted Evening" (Rodgers, Hammerstein II)
- "Bali Ha'i" (Rodgers, Hammerstein II)
- Recorded on February 28, 1949
- "The Right Girl for Me" (Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Roger Edens)
- "Night After Night" (Cahn, Stordahl, Weston)
- Recorded on March 3, 1949
- "The Huckle-Buck" (Alfred, Gibson)
- "It Happens Every Spring" (Myrow, Gordon)
- Recorded on April 10, 1949
Disc ten
- "Let's Take an Old-Fashioned Walk" (Berlin)
- "(Just One Way to Say) I Love You" (Berlin)
- Recorded on May 6, 1949
- "It All Depends On You" (Brown, Buddy DeSylva, Ray Henderson)
- "Bye Bye Baby" (Robin, Styne)
- "Don't Cry Joe (Let Her Go, Let Her Go, Let Her Go)" (Al Piantados, Joe Marsala)
- Recorded on July 10, 1949
- "Every Man Should Marry" (Silver, Benny Davis)
- "If I Ever Love Again" (R. Carlyle, D. Reynolds)
- Recorded on July 14, 1949
- "We're Just a Kiss Apart" (Leo Robin, Jule Styne)
- "Every Man Should Marry"
- "The Wedding of Lili Marlene" (T. Connor, J. Reine)
- Recorded on July 21, 1949
- "That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day)" (Gillespie, B. Smith)
- "Mad About You" (Washington, Young)
- "(On the Island of) Stromboli" (Taylor, Lane)
- Recorded on September 15, 1949
- "The Old Master Painter" (Gillespie, Smith)
- "Why Remind Me?" (D. Tauber, S. Willner)
- Recorded on October 30, 1949
- "Sorry" (Richard Whiting, Anna Sosenko, Buddy Pepper)
- "Sunshine Cake" (Van Heusen, Burke)
- "(We've Got A) Sure Thing" (Van Heusen, Burke)
- Recorded on November 8, 1949
- "God's Country" (Gillespie, Smith)
- "Sheila" (Frank Sinatra, B. Hayward, R. Staver)
- "Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy" (Harry Stone, Jack Stapp)
- Recorded on January 12, 1950
- "Kisses and Tears"
- "When the Sun Goes Down" (LeRoy Carr)
- Recorded on February 23, 1950
- "American Beauty Rose" (R. Evans, Arthur Altman, David)
- Recorded on March 10, 1950
Disc eleven
- "Peachtree Street" (Sinatra, L. Mason, J. Saunders)
- Recorded on April 8, 1950
- "Should I (Reveal)" (Brown, Freed)
- "You Do Something to Me" (Porter)
- "Lover" (Rodgers, Hart)
- Recorded on April 14, 1950
- "When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You)" (Joe Goodwin, Larry Shay, Marvin Fisher)
- "It's Only a Paper Moon" (Arlen, Erwin 'Yip' Harburg, Billy Rose)
- "My Blue Heaven" (Walter Donaldson, George Whiting)
- "The Continental" (Herb Magidson, Con Conrad)
- Recorded on April 24, 1950
- "Goodnight, Irene" (H. Ledbetter, J. Lomax)
- "Dear Little Boy of Mine" (J. K. Brennan, Ernest R. Ball)
- Recorded on June 28, 1950
- "Life Is So Peculiar" (Van Heusen, Burke)
- Recorded on August 2, 1950
- "Accidents Will Happen" (Van Heusen, Burke)
- "One Finger Melody" (Hoffman, Kermit Goell, Fred Spielman)
- Recorded on September 18, 1950
- "Remember Me in Your Dreams" (David, Marty Nevins)
- "If Only She'd Look My Way" (Ivor Novello, A. Melville)
- "London By Night" (Carroll Coates)
- "Meet Me at the Copa" (Cahn, Stordahl)
- Recorded on September 21, 1950
- "Come Back to Sorrento (Torna A Surriento)" (Claude Aveling, Ernesto DeCurtis)
- "April in Paris" (Duke, Harburg)
- "I Guess I'll Have to Dream the Rest" (Mickey Stoner, Bud Green, Martin Block)
- "Nevertheless (I'm In Love With You)" (Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby)
- Recorded on November 5, 1950
- "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" (Cahn, Styne)
- Recorded on October 9, 1950
- "Take My Love" (Jack Wolf, Joel Herron, Sinatra)
- "I Am Loved" (Porter)
- "You Don't Remind Me" (Porter)
- Recorded on November 11, 1950
- "Love Means Love" (Carl Sigman, Bonnie Lake)
- "Cherry Pies 'Ought to Be You" (Porter)
- Recorded on December 11, 1950
Disc twelve
- "Faithful" (Jimmy Kennedy, A. Stone)
- "You're the One" (Washington, Young)
- "There's Something Missing" (Weiss, Benjamin, J. Rule, R. O'Brien, M. Downe)
- Recorded on January 16, 1951
- "Hello, Young Lovers" (Rodgers, Hammerstein II)
- "We Kiss In a Shadow" (Rodgers, Hammerstein II)
- Recorded on March 2, 1951
- "I Whistle a Happy Tune" (Rodgers, Hammerstein II)
- "I'm a Fool to Want You" (Wolf, Herron, Sinatra)
- "Love Me" (Washington, Young)
- Recorded on March 27, 1951
- "Mama Will Bark" (Manning)
- "It's a Long Way (From Your House to My House)" (Sid Tepper, Roy Brodsky)
- Recorded on May 10, 1951
- "Castle Rock" (Ervin Drake, J. Shirl, Al Sears)
- "Farewell, Farewell to Love" (Wolf, George Siravo)
- "Deep Night" (Rudy Vallée, Charlie Henderson)
- Recorded on July 19, 1951
- "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" (Eddie Green)
- Recorded on October 16, 1951
- "I Could Write a Book" (Rodgers, Hart)
- "I Hear a Rhapsody" (George Fragos, Jack Baker, Dick Gasparre)
- "Walking In the Sunshine" (B. Merrill)
- Recorded on January 7, 1952
- "My Girl" (C. Freed)
- "Feet of Clay" (Joan Whitney, Alex Kramer, Hy Zaret)
- "Don't Ever Be Afraid to Go Home" (Sigman, Bob Hilliard)
- Recorded on February 6, 1952
- "Luna Rossa (Blushing Moon)" (Goell, V. De Crescenzo, A. Vian)
- "The Birth of the Blues" (Brown, DeSylva, Henderson)
- "Azure-Te (Paris Blues)" (Wolf, Davis)
- "Tennessee Newsboy (The Newsboy Blues)" (Percy Faith, Manning)
- "Bim Bam Baby" (Sammy Mysels)
- Recorded on June 3, 1952
- "Why Try to Change Me Now?" (Cy Coleman, Joseph McCarthy)
- Recorded on September 17, 1952
Personnel
- Frank Sinatra - Vocals
Production
- Executive Producer: Jerry Shulman
- Producer: Didier C. Deutsch
- Associate Producer: Mark Wilder
- Project Director: Gary Pacheco
- Associated Executive Producer: Ria Curley
- Liner notes: Will Friedwald
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