The Voice of Frank Sinatra

The Voice of Frank Sinatra is the first studio album by American singer Frank Sinatra, released on Columbia Records, catalogue C-112, March 4, 1946. It was first issued as a set of four 78 rpm records totaling eight songs, the individual discs given Columbia 78 catalog numbers 36918, 36919, 36920, and 36921.[2] The album went to number 1 on the fledgling Billboard chart. It stayed at the top for seven weeks in 1946, spending a total of eighteen weeks on the charts. The album chart consisted of just a Top Five until August 1948. The cover depicted is that of the original 78 rpm release cover, also used on the compact disc reissue.

The Voice of Frank Sinatra
Studio album by
Frank Sinatra
ReleasedMarch 4, 1946
RecordedJuly 30, 1945 Hollywood
December 7, 1945 New York City
GenreTraditional pop
Length24:01
LabelColumbia C-112 (78 rpm)
Columbia CL-6001 (33 rpm)
Legacy CK62100
Frank Sinatra chronology
The Voice of Frank Sinatra
(1946)		 Songs by Sinatra
(1947)
Alternative cover
The 1948 reissue as the first LP record developed by Columbia Records
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Content

The tracks were arranged and conducted by Axel Stordahl and his orchestra, on both dates consisting of a string quartet and four-piece rhythm section, augmented by flutist John Mayhew in July, and, given the part he played with Sinatra at Columbia in the early 1950s, oboist Mitch Miller in December. Sinatra recorded most of these songs again at later stages in his career.

Certain critics have claimed The Voice to be the first concept album. Beginning in 1939, however, singer Lee Wiley started releasing albums of 78s dedicated to the songs of a single writer, Cole Porter for example, a precursor to the Songbooks sets formulated by Norman Granz and Ella Fitzgerald in 1956. These may loosely be termed concept albums, although Sinatra with The Voice inaugurated his practice of having a common mood, theme, or instrumentation tying the songs together on a specific release.

It also holds the distinction of being the first pop album catalogue item at 33⅓ rpm, when Columbia premiered long-playing vinyl records in 1948, ten-inch and twelve-inch format for classical music, ten-inch only for pop. The Voice was reissued as a 10-inch LP, catalogue number CL 6001 in 1948, with the running order altered from the sequence of the original album of 78s. It was also later issued as two 45 rpm EPs in 1952 with catalogue number B-112, a 12-inch LP with a changed running order including only five of the original tracks in 1955 with catalogue number CL-743, and a compact disc with extra tracks in 2003.[3]

Track listing

10-inch LP release
Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."You Go to My Head" (Columbia 36918)Haven Gillespie, J. Fred Coots3:00
2."Someone to Watch Over Me" (Columbia 36921)George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin3:18
3."These Foolish Things" (Columbia 36919)Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey, Harry Link3:08
4."Why Shouldn't I?" (Columbia 36920)Cole Porter2:53
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."I Don't Know Why" (Columbia 36918)Roy Turk, Fred E. Ahlert2:46
2."Try a Little Tenderness" (Columbia 36920)Harry M. Woods, James Campbell, Reginald Connelly3:08
3."I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You" (Columbia 36919)Bing Crosby, Ned Washington, Victor Young3:11
4."Paradise" (Columbia 36921)Nacio Herb Brown, Gordon Clifford2:37

2003 reissue bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
9."Mam'selle"Mack Gordon, Edmund Goulding3:26
10."That Old Feeling"Lew Brown, Sammy Fain3:19
11."If I Had You"Ted Shapiro, Campbell, Connelly3:01
12."The Nearness of You"Ned Washington, Hoagy Carmichael2:41
13."Spring is Here"Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart2:42
14."Fools Rush In"Johnny Mercer, Rube Bloom3:01
15."When You Awake"Henry Nemo3:07
16."It Never Entered My Mind"Rodgers, Hart3:09
17."Always"Irving Berlin2:55
18."(I Don't Stand) A Ghost of A Chance (with You)" (alternate take)Crosby, Washington, Young3:32

1955 track listing
Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)"Turk, Ahlert2:43
2."Try a Little Tenderness"Woods, Campbell, Connelly3:03
3."(I Don't Stand) A Ghost of A Chance (with You)"Crosby, Washington, Young3:16
4."Paradise"Brown, Clifford2:41
5."These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)"Marvell, Strachey, Link3:15
6."Laura"Johnny Mercer, David Raksin3:17
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."She's Funny That Way"Neil Moret, Richard A. Whiting3:25
2."Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread)"Mercer, Bloom3:04
3."Over The Rainbow"Yip Harburg, Harold Arlen3:20
4."That Old Black Magic"Mercer, Arlen2:37
5."Spring Is Here"Rodgers, Hart2:42
6."Lover"Rodgers, Hart2:39

Personnel

New York sessions
  • Leonard Posner. Raoul Polikian – violins
  • Sidney Brecher – viola
  • Anthony Sophos – cello
  • Mitch Miller – oboe
  • Matty Golizio – guitar
  • Bill Clifton – piano
  • Frank Siravo – bass
  • Nat Polen – drums

Hollywood sessions
  • Mischa Russell, David Frisina – violins
  • Sam Freed – viola
  • Fred Goerner – cello
  • Jack Mayhew – flute
  • George Van Eps – guitar
  • Mark McIntyre – piano
  • John Ryan – bass
  • Ray Hagan – drums

Production personnel
  • Bill Richards – producer
  • Charles L. Granata, Didier C. Deutsch – compact disc reissue producers
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References
  1. AllMusic review
  2. Sinatra Family Discography website retrieved 30 July 2019
  3. Charles L. Granata, The Voice of Frank Sinatra. 2003, Columbia Legacy CK 62100, liner notes.
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