Swing and Dance with Frank Sinatra (1944)

About this title: When Columbia decided to reissue Frank Sinatra's early-'50s albums on CD, they did it right, choosing to expand each of the original albums with bonus tracks and release them at a budget price. Such is the case with Swing and Dance with Frank Sinatra, which is built around an eight-song, 10" record of the same name originally released in 1950 and expanded by ten stylistically related songs from long before and somewhat after the original LP sessions. Although Sinatra's star wasn't shining as brightly in 1950 as it was in the '40s, he was still capable of turning out a charming recording, ... read more

Tracks:

1. Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night in the Week) [Alternate Take] [Styne/Cahn]
2. All of Me [Alternate Take] [Simons/Marks]
3. I've Got a Crush on You [Alternate Take] [Gershwin/Gershwin]
4. The Hucklebuck [Alfred/Gibson]
5. It All Depends on You [Alternate Take] [Brown/DeSylva/Hende]
6. Bye Bye Baby [Alternate Take] [Styne/Robin]
7. All of Me [Alternate Take] [Simons/Marks]
8. Should I? [Brown/Freed]
9. You Do Something to Me [Porter]
10. Lover [Rodgers/Hart]
11. When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles with You) [Fisher/Goodwin/Shay]
12. It's Only a Paper Moon [Arlen/Harburg/Rose]
13. My Blue Heaven [Whiting/Donaldson]
14. The Continental [Magidson/Conrad]
15. Meet Me at the Copa [Stordahl/Cahn]
16. Nevertheless (I'm in Love with You) [Ruby/Kalmar]
17. There's Something Missing [Rule/Benjamin/Weiss]
18. Farewell, Farewell to Love [Wolf/Siravo]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.