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Duke Station
Durham, NC 27708
919-684-2957
wxdu@duke.edu
Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments | |||
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Frank Sinatra | To Be Perfectly Frank Opening / I've Got the World on a String | A Voice on the Air | Legacy | happy 100th birthday! | |||
Les Paul Trio | Blue Skies | The Trio's Complete Decca Recordings | Les Paul wrote the whistling intro to "To Be Perfectly Frank" | ||||
The Hoboken Four | Major Bowes' Show Opening / SHINE | A Voice on Air | Legacy | 1935, Sinatra's earliest known recording! | |||
Frank Sinatra | Monologue on the Major Bowes Program | Sinatra at the Sands | Reprise | spoken word | |||
Frank Sinatra o/ Tommy Dorsey | Carnaval de Broadway Opening / The One I Love | A Voice on Air | Legacy | Spanish language radio broadcast | |||
Frank Sinatra o/ Nelson Riddle | Mr. Success | The Complete Capitol Singles Collection | Capitol | ||||
Frank Sinatra | In the Still of The Night | Ring-a-Ding-Ding! | Reprise | Sinatra's first album with Reprise, the label he founded when he left Capitol | |||
Frank Sinatra o/ Count Basie | Fly Me to the Moon | It Might as Well Be Swing | Reprise | ||||
Frank Sinatra o/ Metronome All-Stars | Sweet Lorraine | The Best of the Columbia Years | Columbia | rec. 1946, band included Coleman Hawkins, Johnny Hodges, Nat King Cole, Buddy Rich, arr. Sy Oliver | |||
Nat King Cole | I Get a Kick Out of You | The Piano Style of Nat King | Capitol | inst. | |||
Frank Sinatra | I've Got a Crush On You | On the Radio: The Lucky Trike "Lite Up Time" Shows 1949-50 | Acrobat | ||||
Frank Sinatra w/ Slim Gaillard Trio | Sinatra Introduces Slim Gaillard / Cement Mixer Put-Ti Pit-Ti | A Voice on Air | Legacy | rec 1946 | |||
Frank Sinatra o/ Nelson Riddle | The Tender Trap | '57 in Concert | DCC | recorded in Seattle | |||
Frank Sinatra w/ Red Norvo Quintet | On the Road to Mandalay | Live in Australia, 1959 | the story he tells at the beginning was true: this song was kept off the British release of COME FLY WITH ME due to pressure from the Kipling family | ||||
Frank Sinatra | The Lady Is a Tramp | May 22, 1968 - Oakland Coliseum | Baysound | this concert was a benefit for Hubert Humphrey | |||
Frank Sinatra o/ Count Basie | I've Got You Under My Skin | Sinatra at the Sands | Reprise | ||||
Count Basie Orchestra | Silks and Satins | The Atomic Mr. Basie | Blue Note | inst. | |||
Frank Sinatra o/ Don Costa | Being' Green | Sinatra and Company | Reprise | in this set: "songs you wouldn't expect Frank Sinatra to record" | |||
Frank Sinatra | Along the Navajo Trail | A Voice on Air | Legacy | ||||
Frank Sinatra | Zip-A-Dee Doo Dah | A Voice on Air | Legacy | ||||
Frank Sinatra w/ the Nuggets & Big Dave's Music | Two Hearts, Two Kisses (Make One Love) | The Complete Capitol Singles Collection | Capitol | ||||
Frank Sinatra o/ Gordon Jenkins | This Town | Ocean's Thirteen OST | song written by Lee Hazlewood | ||||
Frank Sinatra | Green | Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color | Capitol | c. Gordon Jenkins | |||
Frank Sinatra w Bing Crosby & Dean Martin | The Oldest Established (Permanent Floating Crap Game In New York) | Guys and Dolls OST | Sinatra was apparently so resentful that Marlon Brando was chosen to play Sky Masterson while he played second comedy lead, that he and Brando were not on speaking terms on the set | ||||
Frank Sinatra w Sammy Davis Jr. | Me And My Shadow | Sammy and Friends | Rhino | in contrast, Sammy by all accounts need resented Frank having the limelight when they performed together | |||
Frank Sinatra w/ Betty Garrett | Come Up to My Place | Sinatra in Hollywood: 1940 - 1964 | Reprise | this song exemplifies the "shy skinny kid" persona that Sinatra generally played early in his career | |||
Frank Sinatra w/ King Cole Trio | Sinatra Introduces Nat King Cole / Exactly Like You | A Voice on Air | Legacy | recorded 1946 | |||
Frank Sinatra w/ Ella Fitzgerald & Oscar Peterson Trio | Necessity | Sinatra in Hollywood: 1940 - 1964 | Reprise | recorded for a never-completed animated film version of FINIAN'S RAINBOW | |||
Frank Sinatra w/ Benny Goodman Sextet | I Only Have Eyes For You | A Voice on Air | Legacy | recorded 1946. Band lineup unknown, but at that time Goodman's sextet often included Slam Stewart, Cozy Cole, Mel Powell, Teddy WIlson & Red Norvo | |||
Benny Goodman Sextet | Breakfast Feud | The Original Guitar Hero | Sony | ||||
Frank Sinatra o/Axel Stordahl | The Song is You | The V-Discs: Columbia Years | Columbia | most of Sinatra's Columbia work was with Stordahl | |||
Frank Sinatra o/ Gordon Jenkins | I Cover the Waterfront | Where Are You? | Capitol | this was Sinatra's first album with Jenkins and the first album he did for Capitol with someone other than Nelson Riddle | |||
Frank Sinatra o/ Nelson Riddle | Nice 'N' Easy | Nice 'N' Easy | Capitol | by far most of Sinatra's work at Capitol was with Nelson Riddle | |||
Frank Sinatra w/ Antonio Carlos Jobim | The Girl from Ipanema | Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim | Reprise | arranger Claus Ogerman, who was the arranger for Stan Getz, Wes Montgomery, Cal Tjader and others | |||
Frank Sinatra o/ Billy May | Come Fly With Me | Come Fly With Me | Capitol | ||||
Frank Sinatra o/ Nelson Riddle | You Make Me Feel So Young | Songs for Swingin' Lovers | Capitol | ||||
Nelson Riddle Orchestra | You Make Me Feel So Young / You're Driving Me Crazy (What Did I Do?) | Sing a Song With Riddle | Capitol | ||||
Frank Sinatra o/ Ziggy Elman | Closing and Theme: Put Your Dreams Away For Another Day | On the Radio: The Lucky Trike "Lite Up Time" Shows 1949-50 | Acrobat | ||||
Frank Sinatra | Angel Eyes | Only the Lonely | Capitol |