Frank Sinatra: Autumn in New York

It won't be autumn in New York until September 23 (a week from today), but this is worth posting for the terrific video alone.  This is the Billy May arranged version from the Come Fly With Me album in 1958.

Vernon Duke and the Sweet Bye and Bye

Vernon Duke, originally Vladimir Alexandrovich Dukelsky, who's family fled Russia after the Communist Revolution (his biography would make a heck of a movie), wrote this song for the 1934 musical Thumbs Up.  It has been recorded by many of the greats including Billie Holiday, John Coltrane and Stan Getz, Charlie Parker, and Charles Mingus (just to name a few).

Frank and Gloria Vanderbilt in New York (it could be autumn, but actually it's December 31, 1954)

Here is Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong's doing a great version of it:

And I love Sarah Vaughan's version of it too:

Here is the 1947 Axel Stordahl version:

Mark Steyn has the Bergmans' Ol MacDonald and Nice 'N' Easy,  Johnny Green and Edward Heyman's I Cover The Waterfront, and Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn's Just In Time.  Mark also had an other Vernon Duke seasonal song earlier this year with April in Paris.  

Pundette has Brazilian Irving Berlin Change Partners, Styne and Cahn's Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry (with Mark's earlier post) and Joe Bushkin's Oh! Look At Me Now. Pundette had Autumn Leaves at her #78.

Bob Belvedere is into his top ten with Songs #10 through #6: Let's Get Away From It All, One For My Baby, I've Got The World On A Strong, That's Why The Lady Is A Tramp, and The Way You Look Tonight. Bob last week had Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer's Come Rain Or Come Shine.  Bob had Autumn Leaves at his #38.

I had Autumn Leaves, September in the Rain, Irving Berlin's Let's Take An Old Fashioned Walk (with the lovely Doris Day doing a duet with Frank) which also has a Jimmy Van Heusen's song Young At Heart. I previously had You Never Had It So Good, September Song, September of My Years, Come Fly With Me, and Frank and Sarah Vaughan with The Nearness of You.

Don’t forget to also keep checking out

Pundette’s Sinatra 100 countdown,

Ms Evi’s Sinatra Celebration,

Dispatches from the Camp of the Saints Sinatra, &

Mark Steyn’s Sinatra Songs Of The Century.

It’s a swingin’ world.

Rule 5 and FMJRA