Frank Sinatra: All My Tomorrows with bonus High Hopes

The 12 Days of Sinatra continue...

All My Tomorrows is not one of the great immediately recognized Frank Sinatra standards (I do not believe Mark, Bob, or Pundette ever featured it this year) but this Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen written and Nelson Riddle arranged song is very good and seems appropriate as we close in on the big day.

Mark Steyn has Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas as his Sinatra Song of the Century #97, Mark has Body and Soul as his Song of the Century #96. Pundette #4 is The Summer Wind. Bob's top Sinatra Album right now is Songs for Swingin' Lovers and he has the curious case of Bim Bam Baby.

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.

Update Bonus:

Sammy and Jimmy did High Hopes too...

I love "All My Tomorrows," will include it in my 2nd 100 #Sinatra faves. @MsEBL @franksinatra @BobBelvedere @MarkSteynOnline @NancySinatra

— Pundette (@pundette) December 11, 2015

Frank Sinatra and Debbie Reynolds: The Tender Trap

The 12 days of Sinatra countdown continues...

Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen song from the movie The Tender Trap, performed by Debbie Reynolds and Frank Sinatra

Mark has Rodgers and Hart's Lady is a Tramp at #91, Campbell, Connolly and Wood's Try A Little Tenderness at #90, Malneck and Mercer's Goody Goody at #89, Sony Bono's Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) at #88.

Steyn Audio Specials: The Song Is You episode one and Where are you working next week? 

Pundette has Billy May arranged, Kern and Hammerstein's The Song Is You at #6, Billy May swinging Johnny Mercer's Day In and Day Out at #7, and Riddle's arrangement of Cole Porter's I Get A Kick Out Of You at #8.

Here is a breakdown of the fashion in The Tender Trap

Bob Belvedere is counting down Sinatra albums with Jenkin's Wonderfully Depressing No One Cares at #2. He had the film version of The Tender Trap at #17 Sinatra Song and the 1955 recording at #34. 

I had the Begin the Beguine, Frank and Dinah Shore, 12 Days of Sinatra, Peggy Lee and friends, and Rosemary Clooney and Sinatra. 

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

Frank Sinatra: Here's That Rainy Day

An appropriate song for a dreary cold November. This is a Jimmy Van Heusen Johnny Burke song that Sinatra recorded on the Gordon Jenkins arranged No One Cares album in 1959.  As Mark Steyn notes on his Pennies From Heaven post, it was the last collaboration of Van Heusen and Burke and was Van Heusen's all time favorite song.  Frank's version was also Johnny Carson's favorite ballad and he sang it with Bette Middler on his next to last Tonight Show.

Van Heusen and Burke

Mark Steyn's Song of the Century #81 is Quiet Night of Quiet Stars and #80 is The Girl from Ipanema, for Halloween #79 is Me and My Shadow, #78 is Moon Love, at #77 is Strangers In The Night and at #76 is the Gordon Jenkins arranged This Is All I Ask.  Given number #81 and #80 are Brazilian, let's not forget the Coffee Song back at #42.

Pundette has From This Moment On at #17, At Long Last Love at #18, The Nearness of You at #19, Come Fly With Me at #20 and After You've Gone at #64

Bob Belvedere is counting down Sinatra albums with I Remember Tommy at #8,  Ring A Ding Ding for #6, Where Are You? for #7 and an interview with Chuck Granata.

I had Sinatra Lord's Prayer/Ave Maria post, Berlin's When I Lost You, Arlen and Capote's Don't Like Goodbyes, and Gaudio and Holmes' For A While. And I had a collection of Halloween Inspired Sinatra Songs.  And I had Frank, Dean, Bing and Mitzi on TV.  

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.

Frank Sinatra: You Never Had It So Good

Mark Steyn is going with a Labor Day theme, covering Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein's Ol' Man River (my link on the song title goes to a visually dramatic video version of Sinatra singing it) and Johnny Green and Edward Hayman's I Cover The Waterfront for Frank's early days on the Hoboken docks.  

But here is a Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn song from an album that Frank and Bing Crosby did following John F. Kennedy's assassination.  It is not particularly a Labor Day song, but it works (and 9 times out of 10 you can't go wrong with a Van Heusen Cahn song).  And I like this duet with Sinatra and Crosby, backed up by Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians. 

Mark Steyn has I Cover The Waterfront and Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn's Just In Time. Pundette has Joe Bushkin's Oh! Look At Me Now. Bob Belvedere has Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer's Come Rain Or Come Shine.  And I have Irving Berlin's Let's Take An Old Fashioned Walk which also has a Jimmy Van Heusen's song Young At Heart.  I previously had September Song, September of My Years, and Come Fly With Me.

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.

Frank Sinatra and Doris Day: Let's Take An Old Fashioned Walk and You, My Love

A great duet by Frank Sinatra and Doris Day singing this Irving Berlin song.

And here is Frank and Doris with a Jimmy Van Heusen and Mack Gordon song from the 1954 movie Young at Heart.

Mark Steyn has Just in Time, Angel Eyes, and Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen's Come Fly With Me. Pundette has Some Old Black Magic and another indescribably good Cahn/Van Heusen song this week at #34 on her list. Bob Belvedere has the 1957 Come Fly With Me at #62 on his and Cahn/Van Heusen's Tender Trap at #17. I had September Song, September of My Years, and Come Fly With Me. And I did have Cahn/Styne's Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry and previously had Burke/Van Heusen's Polka Dots and Moonbeams.

Frank looked out for Doris!

Doris Day introduced on the 1948 Hit Parade

Eddie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, Jimmy Van Heusen, Dorris Day and Nat King Cole

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.

EBL: Doris Day Happy 90th

Rule 5 and FMJRA

Frank Sinatra: The September Of My Years

The seasons are changing (well technically September 23) in this celebratory Sinatra century year, and after a few Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen songs in a row, here is another great one to start off September.

Pundette: That Ol' Black Magic (I am saving that and other similar ones for the end of October), Call This Indescribably Good (she is featuring Cahn's Call Me Irresponsible), I'll Be Seeing You, The Coffee Song (the swinging version) and How About You?

Cahn, Sinatra, and Van Heusen

Bob Belvedere: Sinatra's Best 16-14, More, Sammy Cahn's Please Be Kind, and You Make Me Feel So Young, Sinatra's Best 19-17, Almost Like Being In Love, The Gal Who Got Away, The Tender Trap #2 (the film version with Debbie Reynolds), and It Happened In Monterey (Tie), Sinatra's Best 22 through 20, Nice 'n' Easy, I'm a Fool To Want You, The Song Is You and Don't Worry About Me (Tie)

Sinatra, Van Heusen and Sammy Davis Jr. (on his wedding day)

Mark Steyn: Angel Eyes, Come Fly With Me, Ebb Tide, Witchcraft, Stars Fall on Alabama, (Love Is) The Tender Trap, Learnin' the Blues and In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning. And of course, Mark's Sammy Cahn post and podcast: Ain't That A Kick

EBL: Come Fly With Me

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.

Mark Steyn's new book which is outstanding and important about Disgrace to his Profession Michael E. Mann officially comes out today too!

Frank Sinatra's Come Fly With Me Rule 5

Mark Steyn this week has Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen's Come Fly With Me as his Sinatra song of the century this week.  Mark references Meghan's Trainer's comments on this song. This is definitely a song that needs more than one post...

EBL: Frank Sinatra and Jimmy Van Heusen

Angie fondly recalls Jimmy Van Heusen's favorite word!

 (test pilot, song writer, ladies man)

Update: Here is Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen's irreverent Come Pray With Me!

Celebrating Centenials: Sammy Cahn, Frank Sinatra and Jimmy Van Heusen

Jimmy, Sammy and Frank: Do something you love and you will never work a day in your life!

Pundette has another indescribably good Cahn/Van Heusen song this week at #34 on her list and Bob Belvedere has the 1957 Come Fly With Me at #62 on his and Cahn/Van Heusen's Tender Trap at #17. And last week I did have Cahn/Styne's Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry and previously had Burke/Van Heusen's Polka Dots and Moonbeams.

Come Fly With Me is a Sinatra song that cries out for an appropriate Rule 5 post!

 I thought Mark would appreciate Frank with some Canadian Airline Hostesses!

 Here are some Pan American Stewardesses

Jimmy Van Heusen and Nanette Fabray

EBL: Rule 5 Vintage Stewardesses

Rule 5 and FMJRA

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.

Don Surber: Astaire Way To Heaven

Mark Steyn: Catch Me If You Can
Instapundit: Mark Steyn: Fly the Blacklist Skies of United

More Sinatra Moon Songs

Fly Me To The Moon

Beyond some of the more obvious ones like Blue Moon, Moonlight in Vermont (Bob had that one at #76), and probably Sinatra's most popular moon song Bart Howard's Fly Me To The Moon, Frank Sinatra did quite a few songs with a lunar theme.

Moonlight Sinatra album: a Sinatra Riddle Reprise album dedicated to moon songs

Sam Coslow and Arthur Johnson wrote this one.  Frank recorded it in 1965:

Moon River has been so overplayed we stop really listening to it, but Frank does a great job with Mercer's lyrics.

Frank does a fabulous version of Glenn Miller and Mitchell Parish's Moonlight Serenade (Bob also had this at #91):

Jimmy Van-Heusen and Johnny Burke wrote Polkadots and Moonbeams and Moonlight Becomes You. Polkadots and Moonbeams was one of Frank's first big hits with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra.

This is also a Van-Heusen Burke song:

And here is Frank Sinatra singing and Billy May orchestrating Moonlight on the Ganges:

Pundette: Gershwin's Foggy Day and They Can't Take That Away From Me (both Pundette and Mark went with Gershwin last week and she had Billy May's orchestrated Baubles, Bangles and Beads at #48 on her list and Mark has it as his song of the century this week) and Pundette had Old Devil Moon at #61

Bob Belvedere: Sinatra's Best 25 through 23 At Long Last Love, That's Life, Angel Eyes, and My Funny Valentine (a Rogers and Hart song like my last week's pick Blue Moon) and Honorable Mentions 6 (which has Roger and Hart's I Didn't Know What Time It Was) and Bob had Old Devil Moon at #93

Mark Steyn: Baubles, Bangles and Beads, Arlen and Gershwin's The Gal That Got Away, Young at Heart and I've Got the World on a String and Mark had East of the Sun (and West of the Moon) at #19

EBL: Blue Moon, The Nearness of You, More Sinatra Summer, Things We Did Last Summer, and Sinatra at the Beach

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.

Mark Steyn: Moon Love: Sinatra Song of the Century #78 Sometimes too much freedom can be a constraint, but this is a great song.

Frank Sinatra: Polka Dots and Moonbeams, Moonlight Becomes You, and Jimmy Van Heusen

This is a lovely 1940 song by Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke.

Jimmy Van Heusen, what a life.

Sinatra and VanHeusen in the 50s

Van Heusen was a song writer and test pilot, and was reportedly quite the ladies man.  

Come Fly With Me!: Bob had Frank's  '57 version as his #62

Living the Dream (and those eastern critics don't know what they are talking about)

Nanette Fabray and Jimmy Van Heusen

Eddie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, Jimmy Van Heusen, Doris Day, and Nat King Cole

Time to make a pizza?

Here is another Van Heusen Burke collaboration (this one from 1942 that Sinatra recorded later on):

Mark Steyn goes into detail about The House I Live In (I did American the Beautiful and the The House I live In for the 4th of July, but Mark gives the rest of the story--read the whole thing). Mark did write a book on Songs for the Season (which you should go buy).

Mark also had a Dominion Day song How About You? (it is about New York but written by Ralph Freed who was born in Vancouver, BC) and earlier had the Cole Porter's classic, I Concentrate On You.

Bob Belvedere this week has Street of Dreams, Brooklyn Bridge (It Happened in Brooklyn* had a lot of great songs), and Cottage for Sale. Bob last week had a Cahn-Van Heusen classic The Tender Trap, along with Makin' Whoppie, Gershwin's I Have A Crush On You, and Are You Lonesome Tonight.

Pundette had Luck Me A Lady, Too Close for Comfort, Something's Gotta Give, and It Might As Well Be Spring and Blame It On The Bossa Nova!

*I did posts featuring songs and performances from It Happened in Brooklyn here and here.

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.