Sinatra Matters: Recent Episodes
Michael Fenenbock
Frank Sinatra. Vibrant, exciting and sublime. Frank Sinatra’s lasting musical legacy is his superlative recordings. In each episode Michael Fenenbock explores and illuminates an essential recording from Sinatra’s body of work.
Nobody swings like Sinatra and nobody plumbs the depths of lost love in a song like Sinatra. He was a musical genius. The kind that only comes along once every hundred years.
Sinatra matters.
Sinatra and Jobim. Here is Sinatra’s delivery of Jobim’s beautiful and moving How Insensitive. From the 1967 album Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim, with NormalGimbel’s English lyrics. Arranged and conducted by Claus Ogerman.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
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Frank Sinatra’s wonderful ballad rendition of Cole Porter’s Night and Day. From the 1962 album Sinatra and Strings. Arranged and conducted by Don Costa.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
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Frank Sinatra and Nelson Riddle. From the 1954 album Swing Easy, here is Cole Porter’s Just One of Those Things. It just doesn’t get any better.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
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From Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “The King and I,” here is Frank Sinatra’s sublime 1951 recording of We Kiss in a Shadow. Arranged and conducted by Axel Stordahl.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
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Sinatra and Billy May swing the Latin classic Brazil. From the 1958 album, Come Fly With Me, here is Ary Barroso’s hugely popular Samba Brazil . . . with English lyrics by Bob Russell.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
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A classic lost love ballad. From the 1955 album In the Wee Small Hours, Sinatra sings Alec Wilder’s I’ll Be Around. Arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
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Raucous Big Band jazz. Sinatra swings All or Nothing at All. From the 1966 album Strangers in the Night, here’s the Arthur Altman/Jack Lawrence standard. Arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
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A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square. Sinatra in London. From the 1962 album Frank Sinatra Sings Great Songs of Great Britain, here is the Eric Maschwitz and Manning Sherwin classic. Arranged and conducted by Robert Farnon.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
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Arranged and conducted by the incomparable Nelson Riddle, from the 1966 album titled Strangers in the Night, here is Sinatra and Summer Wind.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
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New York, New York. Here is Frank Sinatra’s iconic classic. From the 1980 album, Trilogy, John Kander and Fred Ebb’s Theme from New York, New York. Arranged and conducted by Don Costa.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
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From his 1954 album In The Wee Small Hours, an enduring Sinatra classic, Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg’s Last Night When We Were Young. Arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
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One of Frank Sinatra’s most celebrated recordings, from the 1956 album Songs For Swingin’ Lovers,here is Cole Porter’s I’ve Got You Under My Skin. Arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
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Sinatra’s signature recording of Here’s That Rainy Day. From his 1959 album No One Cares, here is the Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke classic. Arranged by Gordon Jenkins.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
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Frank Sinatra’s salute to Bing Crosby. From the 1965 album Moonlight Sinatra, here is Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke’s Moonlight Becomes You. Arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
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Frank Sinatra’s tribute to Tommy Dorsey. From his 1961 album I Remember Tommy, here is George Bassman and Ned Washington’s I'm Getting Sentimental Over You. Arranged and conducted by Sy Oliver.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
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Here is the definitive recording of the Hugh Martin and RalphBlane Christmas classic Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas from the 1957 album A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra. Arranged and conducted by GordonJenkins.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
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A song Sinatra did not record . . . but one that he might have embraced, Cole Porter’s Dream Dancing. Here is the wonderfully talentedRebecca Luker from her 1996 album “Anything Goes- Rebecca Luker Sings Cole Porter.” Arranged by Larry Moore and conducted by Patrick Brady.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
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A Sinatra classic, from the 1960 album of the same name, here is Lew Spence and Marilyn and Alan Bergman’s Nice 'n' Easy. Arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
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Sinatra’s poignant 1956 recording of P.S. I Love You. From the album Close to You, here is GordonJenkins and Johnny Mercer’s classic romantic ballad. Arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
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Frank Sinatra’s mastery of tempo. From the 1961 album Sinatra's Swingin' Session!!! here is Cole Porter’s I Concentrate on You. Arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
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Frank Sinatra’s extraordinary performance of Send In the Clowns. Recorded in 1976, here is the Stephen Sondheim classic.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
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Sinatra swings! Arranged by Billy May, here is The Song is You from Frank Sinatra’s 1959 album Come Dance With Me.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
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An update about the podcast. And a raucous Sinatra swinger. From the 1959 album Come Dance With Me, here is Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz’s Dancing in the Dark. Arranged and conducted by Billy May.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
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Sinatra’s singnature sound is impossible to imagine without the influence of jazz. Here is the Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart standard Blue Moon from the 1961 album Sinatra's Swingin' Session!!!. Arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
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A swinging Sinatra classic. Here is Cole Porter’s I Get a Kick Out of You from the 1962 album Sinatra And Swingin' Brass. Arranged and conducted by Neil Hefti.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
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Sinatra’s mastery of legato phrasing. From the 1962 album Point of No Return, this is Eubie Blake and Andy Razaf’s Memories of You. Arranged by Heinie Beau and conducted by Axel Stordahl.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
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From the 1963 album Sinatra's Sinatra, here is Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn's Call Me Irresponsible. Arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
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Sinatra’s epic comeback. From 1953, this is Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler’s I’ve Got theWorld on a String. Arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.
Credits:Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
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Sinatra's wonderful recording of It Had To Be You, the Isham Jones/Gus Kahn classic, from his 1980 album Trilogy. Arranged and conducted by Billy May.
From the 1958 album Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely, here is Jule Steyn and Sammy Cahn’s magnificent torch song Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry. Arranged by Nelson Riddle. Conducted by Felix Slatkin.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
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Sinatra swings the Cole Porter classic, In the Still of the Night. From the 1961 album Ring-a-Ding-Ding!. Arranged and conductedby Johnny Mandel.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
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From the 1963 album The Concert Sinatra, here is Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s Soliloquy from Carousel. Arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
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Don't Worry 'bout Me. Here is Frank Sinatra’s marvelous 1953 recording of the Rube Bloom and Ted Koehler classic. Arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
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From his 1961 album Point Of No Return, here is Frank Sinatra’s poignant wartime ballad -- Sammy Fain and Irving Kahal’sI’ll Be Seeing You. Arranged and conducted by Axel Stordahl.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
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From the 1959 album No One Cares, here is Willard Robison and Larry Conley’s A Cottage for Sale. Arranged by Gordon Jenkins.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
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Swing Easy Sinatra. Here is George and Ira Gershwin’s Love Walked In from the 1961 album Sinatra Swings. Arranged and conducted by Billy May.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
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Arguably Frank Sinatra’s finest recording . . . from his 1957 album Where Are You?,here is the Leonard Bernstein, Adolph Green and Betty Comden classic, Lonely Town. Arranged and conducted by Gordon Jenkins.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
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Here is Miss Peggy Lee’s definitive recording of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II’s often underappreciated classic, The Folks Who Live On the Hill. Arranged by Nelson Riddle. Conducted by Frank Sinatra.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
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Sinatra’s poignant reading of this wonderful classic remains one of his most profound recordings. From his 1961 album Sinatra and Strings, here is Hoagy Carmichael and Mitchell Parish’s Stardust. Arranged and conducted by Don Costa.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
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Here is Frank Sinatra, accompanied by the sublime Hollywood String Quartet. From Sinatra's 1956 album Close to You, this is Matt Dennis and Tom Adair’s wonderful jazz standard, Everything Happens to Me. Arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
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A Great American Songbook classic. From Frank Sinatra’s 1956 album A Swingin' Affair!, here is Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields' I Won’t Dance. Arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
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For the Greatest Generation, no other song could match Glenn Miller's Moonlight Serenade. From Frank Sinatra's 1956 album Moonlight Sinatra, here is his definitive recording of this iconic song. Lyrics by Mitchell Parish. Arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
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Unleashed musical imagination from Frank Sinatra. Here is Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler’s Let’s Fall in Love from Sinatra’s 1961 album Ring-a-Ding-Ding!. Arranged and conducted by Johnny Mandel.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
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Nobody sings of lost love and longing like Frank Sinatra. Nobody. From Sinatra’s 1955 album In the Wee Small Hours, here is Hoagy Carmichael’s enduring classic I Get Along Without You Very Well.Arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
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From his 1957 album A Swingin’ Affair, here is Frank Sinatra’s classic recording of The Lady is a Tramp. Music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart. Arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
Frank Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim – Bossa Nova. A magical collaboration. From the 1967 album, Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim, here is The Girl from Ipanema. Music by Antonio Carlos Jobim, Portuguese lyrics by Vinicius de Moraes , English lyrics by Norman Gimbel. Arranged and conducted by Claus Ogerman.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
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This is what all the fuss is about . . . here is Frank Sinatra at his ballad singing best. From the 1959 album No One Cares, Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Kahn’s classic torch song, When No One Cares. Arranged and conducted by Gordon Jenkins.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
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Frank Sinatra's definitive recording of Rodgers & Hart's My Heart Stood Still . . . the ultimate love at first sight hymn. From the 1963 album The Concert Sinatra. Arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
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Honoring Ella Fitzgerald, the First Lady of Song, with a spotlight on her interpretation of Frank Sinatra's hallmark song, All of Me. Recorded in 1962. Arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
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This is what all the fuss is about. From Frank Sinatra’s 1959 album No One Cares, here is Vernon Duke and Ira Gershwin’s I Can’t Get Started. Arranged by Gordon Jenkins.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
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From Frank Sinatra's 1957 album A Swingin' Affair!, here is Cole Porter’s From This Moment On.Arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
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A classic Sinatra torch song, from the 1958 album Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely, here is Bob Haggart and Johnny Burke’s What’s New?. Arranged by Nelson Riddle.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
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One of Frank Sinatra’s quintessential anthems, from the 1964 album It Might as Well Be Swing, recorded with the Count Basie Band, here is Bart Howard’s Fly Me to the Moon. Arranged and conducted by Quincy Jones.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
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A song I wish Frank Sinatra had recorded . . . but we do have Tony Bennett. Here is Johnny Mercer’s I Remember You from Tony Bennett’s 2004 Grammy Award winning album, The Art of Romance. With a wonderful Johnny Mandel arrangement.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
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Fasten your seatbelt. From the 1962 album Sinatra-Basie: An Historic First, here is Harry Warren and Al Dubin’s I Only Have Eyes For You. Arranged and conducted by Neal Hefti.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
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From Frank Sinatra’s 1960 album Nice ‘N’ Easy, here is Irving Berlin’s How Deep Is the Ocean. Arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
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From Frank Sinatra’s 1962 album Point of No Return, Noel Coward’s I’ll See You Again. Arranged and conducted by Axel Stordahl.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
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Cole Porter’s Night and Day from Frank Sinatra’s 1957 album A Swingin’ Affair. Arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
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From Frank Sinatra’s 1957 album Where Are You?, here is I’m a Fool to Want You. Arranged and conducted by Gordon Jenkins.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
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From Frank Sinatra's 1956 album Songs For Swingin’ Lovers, here isCole Porter’s I’ve Got You Under My Skin. Arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
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From Frank Sinatra’s 1960 album Nice ‘N’ Easy, here is Sammy Fain and Lew Brown’s That Old Feeling. Arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
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From Frank Sinatra’s1956 album Close to You, here is the definitive recording of Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke’s It Could Happen to You. With the Hollywood String Quartet. Arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
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From 1964, Frank Sinatra's definitive recording of Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields' The Way You Look Tonight. Arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
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