Track Listing 1. Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week) 2. I've Got a Crush on You - (previously unreleased, alternate take) 3. Oh! What It Seemed to Be - (previously unreleased, alternate take) 4. Nancy (With the Laughing Face) - (previously unreleased, alternate take) 5. Coffee Song, The (They've Got an Awful Lot of Coffee in Brazil) - (previously unreleased, alternate take) 6. House I Live In, The - (previously unreleased, alternate take) 7. Someone to Watch Over Me 8. Five Minutes More - (previously unreleased, alternate take) 9. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) - (previously unreleased, alternate take) 10. Day by Day 11. Mam'selle - (previously unreleased, alternate take) 12. I'm a Fool to Want You 13. Put Your Dreams Away (For Another Day) 14. All of Me 15. Birth of the Blues, The
| Details | | Producer: | Didier C. Deutsch (Compilation | | Distributor: | Sony Music Distribution ( | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Personnel includes: Frank Sinatra (vocals); Felix Slatkin (violin); Arthur Baker (clarinet); Bobby Hackett (cornet); The Ray Charles Singers. Compilation producers: Didier C. Deutsch, Charles L. Granata, Darcy M. Proper. Recorded between 1944 & 1952. Includes liner notes by Charles L. Granata. Personnel: Felix Slatkin (violin); Arthur Baker, Bobby Hackett (clarinet); Stacey Boyle (sound effects). Liner Note Author: Charles Granata. Recording information: 11/14/1944-06/03/1952. Arrangers: Heine Beau; George Siravo. An assortment of songs from the first two decades of arguably the 20th century's greatest male American singer, THE ESSENTIAL... captures Frank Sinatra at his early interpretive best in the 1940s and early '50s, performing novelty numbers like "The Coffee Song" and weary, after-hours blues like "One More for My Baby" with equal flair and verve. A rarity here is "The House I Live In," a patriotic hymn to American diversity, which demonstrates Sinatra's ability to perform even the most sentimental material convincingly.
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