How Frank Sinatra Invented The Album

This is a good video (albeit a bit too talky) to post in the wee hours.  

Mark Steyn On Line: In The Wee Small Hours

Song Facts: In The Wee Small Hours

Frank Sintara: One For My Baby, Johnny Mercer, P.J. Clarke's...

For the 12 Days of Sinatra, I did a post on Frank Sinatra homes. Here is one of Frank Sinatra's bars that deserves special mention because of a song Frank Sinatra sang his entire career...

P.J. Clarke's, Upper East Side, 3rd Avenue and 55th Street (Frank's table was #20).

One For My Baby is one of Johnny Mercer's best songs and he wrote it at this bar on a napkin sometime in 1943.

Bob featured a great TV version of One For My Baby at #9 of his Sinatra song list and Mark wrote about it in his Angel Eyes post

Pundette has another great Johnny Mercer saloon song

Here it is performed in the film Young At Heart, which starts as an Angel Eyes crowded bar setting and then transforms to something more intimate between Frank and Doris Day.

Here is the 1958 version arranged by Nelson Riddle with Bill Miller on the piano.

Bill Miller played One For My Baby at Frank Sinatra's funeral

Frank was once on Catalina Island years ago at a place called Christian's Hut, and Duke Wayne was at the bar. Suddenly, on the jukebox comes Frank's recording of 'One For My Baby,' and John Wayne turned to Frank and says, 'What the hell do you listen to when you're alone at three o'clock in the morning?"

Jilly Rizzo and Frank Sinatra, Jilly is buried in the Sinatra family plot

How Sicilian-Italian is that!

P.J. Clarke's was just one of a few places Frank ate and drank at regularly in New York. Frank had a select list of restaurants and bars he frequented, Patsy's (which is still there) opened for him special on Thanksgiving so he wouldn't eat alone (and Frank only found out about that many years later), but his favorite of all was Jilly's. 

A video reading of Frank Sinatra Has A Cold-Jilly's (here is the famous Gay Talese's Frank Sinatra Has A Cold article).

Mark Steyn has Time After Time as his Song of the Century #93.  It really is one of Frank's (and Cahn and Styne's) most terrific (yet under appreciated) songs. I had this song too  referencing It Happened In Brooklyn.

Mark Steyn: One For My Baby is his #100 Sinatra Song of the Century.

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.

Esquire: Frank Sinatra's Favorite Haunts

Frank Sinatra and Rosemary Clooney (with some bonus Louis Armstrong and Bing Crosby)

With Sinatra singing Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! why not some South Pacific?  It's in 1963 with a Nelson Riddle orchestration and Rosemary Clooney from The Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre album.

Here is Sinatra singing Some Enchanted Evening in 1949.  Axel Stordahl arranged.

Here is a song Frank Sinatra co-wrote and then recorded with Rosemary Clooney in 1950. It was originally intended to be done with Dinah Shore, but she declined.  The arranger is George Siravo. Rosemary does a fine job, but this song would have worked with Doris Day.

And here is the 1957 CBS's The Edsel Show with Guest Stars (even these terrific talents could not save the Edsel).  Which include are some of the stars from the 1956 Cole Porter adaption of The Philadelphia Story, High Society (minus Grace Kelly).

Mark Steyn has On Stage with Sinatra: A conversation with Vincent Falcone, Jr, Mark has New York, New York at #87 and George Harrison's Something at #86. Mark's Song of the Century #85 is Sondheim's Send In The Clowns, Song #84 (and by coincidence given the attrocious recent events in France) is the originally French song My Way, and at #83 he has Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's Some Enchanted Evening. For Labor Day Mark had Kern and Hammerstein's Ol Man River (as part of a waterfront labor theme). Mark Steyn has Rodgers and Hammerstein's Soliloquy has Song of the Century #41.  And Mark's Movie Audio Special is High Society.

Mark's Thanksgiving Sampler includes how he loves the song Oklahoma! (which Sinatra, to my knowledge, did not record). Here is an Oklahoma! Thanksgiving. 

Pundette breaks her top 10 with You Go To My Head at #9 and One Of Those Things at #10. She has #11 Cole Porter's I Concentrate On You, at #12 Porter's You'd Be Nice To Come Home To, as her #13 Cole Porter's What Is This Thing Called Love. Pundette also has a Cole Porter favorite written by Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolph Green Just In Time at #16.

Bob Belvedere is counting down Sinatra albums with Billy May arranged Come Dance With Me at #3, Gordon Jenkins arranged All Alone at #4, Swing Easy at #5 and an interview with Chuck Granata. Bob had Kern and Hammerstein's The Song Is You on his song list (tied at #20).

I remembered Johnny Mercer's birthday (thanks to a tip from Pundette). And here is a sublime song from the forties Kern and Hammerstein's All The Things You Are. I had Frank Sinatra and the President's Marine Corps Band doing You Make Me Feel So Young (and also had a bonus Betty Comden Adolph Green number from On The Town), I had Angie Dickinson's favorite Lean Baby, VanHeusen and Burke's Here's That Rainy Day, 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 here is Frank in 1945 singing from Kern and Hammerstein's Show Boat (among other great songs) and Rodgers and Hammerstein's Soliloquy (Mark featured it at #41 on his list for Father's Day). I also had Cole Porter favorite Irène Bordoni who was the star of Porter's first big hit Paris.

And Happy Thanksgiving.

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

Thanksgiving Sinatra, Ella, and Porter: Anything Goes

Thanksgiving traditionally does not inspire a lot of songs, but beginning lyrics to Anything Goes reference Plymouth Rock.

Times have changed
And we've often rewound the clock
Since the Puritans got a shock
When they landed on Plymouth Rock.
If today
Any shock they should try to stem'
Stead of landing on Plymouth Rock,
Plymouth Rock would land on them.

The Pilgrims were not Puritans (and it is doubtful there was a Plymouth Rock), but Puritans has three syllables, so Porter went with it (and close enough). Unfortunately Frank's version of this song leaves that terrific Puritan preamble off (which I am surprised since Porter had a peeve about singers truncating his songs--and Frank had a lot of respect for Porter). But I included Cole Porter and Ella Fitzgerald's Buddy Bregman arranged cover (in my opinion Ella's 1956 recording from her Cole Porter Songbook album is the best--it's the tops--version out there, even though Frank's is great too) (and Porter and Fitzgerald have the Plymouth intro)

Historically, the Pilgrims and the Plymouth Colony had it tough when they landed.  Forty-five of the One Hundred and Two Mayflower passengers died that first winter (I suspect they would have welcomed a bit of global warming).  

Frank recorded Anything Goes on his Nelson Riddle arranged Songs for Swingin' Lovers album in 1956

This video has outtakes from various Hollywood movies that are somewhat risqué given the time they were made and are of the era that fit the song.  By today's standard they are tame, other than showing Hollywood narcissism and pandering hasn't changed that much over the years.

Jerry, Tom and Ava

I am thankful for the blessing we have, part of which is the greatness of Cole Porter, Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra (and all the other great artist and songwriters featured this year as part of the Sinatra Century). And I am especially thankful for the wonderful posts of Mark Steyn, Pundette, and Bob Belvedere.

Doris Day

Here's a bonus Sinatra and Merman You're The Tops from the 1950 Colgate Comedy Hour

Mark Steyn has On Stage with Sinatra: A conversation with Vincent Falcone, Jr, Mark's Song of the Century #85 is Sondheim's Send In The Clowns, Song #84 (and by coincidence given the attrocious recent events in France) is the originally French song My Way, and at #83 he has Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's Some Enchanted Evening. For Labor Day Mark had Kern and Hammerstein's Ol Man River (as part of a waterfront labor theme).

Rita Hayworth

Pundette breaks her top 10 with One Of Those Things. She has #11 Cole Porter's I Concentrate On You, at #12 Porter's You'd Be Nice To Come Home To, as her #13 Cole Porter's What Is This Thing Called Love. Pundette also has a Cole Porter favorite written by Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolph Green Just In Time at #16.

Judy Garland

Bob Belvedere is counting down Sinatra albums  with Billy May arranged Come Dance With Me at #3, Gordon Jenkins arranged All Alone at #4, Swing Easy at #5 and an interview with Chuck Granata. Bob had Kern and Hammerstein's The Song Is You on his song list (tied at #20).

I remembered Johnny Mercer's birthday (thanks to a tip from Pundette). And here is a sublime song from the forties Kern and Hammerstein's All The Things You Are. I had Frank Sinatra and the President's Marine Corps Band doing You Make Me Feel So Young (and also had a bonus Betty Comden Adolph Green number from On The Town), I had Angie Dickinson's favorite Lean Baby, VanHeusen and Burke's Here's That Rainy Day, 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 here is Frank in 1945 singing from Kern and Hammerstein's Show Boat (among other great songs) and Rodgers and Hammerstein's Soliloquy (Mark featured it at #41 on his list for Father's Day). I also had Cole Porter favorite Irène Bordoni who was the star of Porter's first big hit Paris.

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

Mark's Thanksgiving Sampler includes how he loves the song Oklahoma! (which Sinatra, to my knowledge, did not record).  Sinatra did record other songs from the play. Here is an Oklahoma! Thanksgiving. 

Frank Sinatra and the President's Marine Band: You Make Me Feel So Young

Given tomorrow is the birthday of the Marine Corps, here is Frank Sinatra performing You Make Me Feel So Young with the President's Marine Corps Band conducted by Nelson Riddle. It was a song written by Josef Myrow and Mack Gordon in 1946. Sinatra recorded it on his 1956 Songs for Swingin' Lovers album.

Frank Sinatra (and Robert Mitchum) with Lee Marvin (who was a Marine combat veteran and was seriously wounded during the Battle of Saipan)

Marine Aviator and Combat Vet Ted Williams and Frank Sinatra

And here is Frank Sinatra with Marine Buddy Rich

Sinatra played a Navy Corpsman in None But The Brave (which he also directed)

Nancy visiting her dad on the set

Mark Steyn's Song of the Century #82 is For Once In My Life, #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.  Mark also has We Were Soliders for his movie of the week in honor of Veterans and Remembrance Day.

Pundette has a Cole Porter favorite written by Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolph Green Just In Time at #16, 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 Swing Easy at #5 and an interview with Chuck Granata. Bob had You Make Me Feel So Young as his #14 Sinatra Song.

I had Angie Dickinson's favorite Lean Baby, VanHeusen and Burke's Here's That Rainy Day, 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.

And while Frank was not a Marine or a veteran, he did play a sailor in a movie (which warrants this bonus track written by Betty Comden and Adolph Green)...

Any song with the line: "You're old Dear...Old like gorgonzola..." needs to be posted

Instapundit: Full Metal Pantsuit and Legal Insurrection asks Really?
Kevin Williamson: Hillary and Eleanor

Frank Sinatra Columbus Day Special: They All Laughed

Given Frank's mom's side of the family was from Genoa, it seems appropriate to recognize Columbus Day (above is the Columbus Day Riot of 1944) in association with Sinatra.

They all laughed at Christopher Columbus when he said the world was round...

Given that line, this seemed like a good song for Columbus Day, a George and Ira Gershwin classic from their 1937 film Shall We Dance. This is from Sinatra's 1980 Trilogy album, with Billy May arranging this song as part of Frank's "past."

Below is Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers performing it originally. Ginger was not a great singer but she manages to keep up just fine with Fred Astaire in the dancing department.

Ella Fitzgerald just nails this song, so I have her cover too (originally from her 1959 Gershwin songbook album which Nelson Riddle arranged)

Mark Steyn is all about Nelson Riddle with Van Heusen and Mercer's I Thought About You although he does have this film suggestion and a special Man of Columbus focus for Columbus Day. Pundette has Cole Porter's Night and Day, in Paris and orchestrated by Nelson Riddle. For the Riddle Trifecta, Bob Belvedere has the album Nice and Easy on his #9 for best Sinatra disks and Frank reminisces about Tommy Dorsey for #8.

Given how scarce female song writers are for American songbook standards, I had Imogen Carpenter's Anytime, Anywhere (although I did enjoy the Mandalay reference too). I had Frank's early hit with Tommy Dorsey Trade Winds. I also had Rain (Falling From The Skies) and The Night We Called It A Day. Before that I had Gershwin's I Got Plenty 'O' Nuttin. I had the jazz standard Indian Summer with bonus Michele Carey. Given Mark's post a Cole Porter Indian Summer classic It's All Right With Me, I posted the Can Can film clip of that performance along with the lovely Juliet Prowse.

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

Instapundit: Admiral of the Ocean Seas
EBL: Hare We Go, Happy Columbus Day, and Trade Winds
Rush Limbaugh: Happy Indigenous Peoples Day

Frank Sinatra: Anytime, Anywhere

While not one of the more popular Frank Sinatra standards, it is still a great song by Imogen Carpenter and Lenny Adelson, arranged by Nelson Riddle.  The songs from Look To Your Heart were recorded between 1953 and 1955, but not released till 1959.

 Imogen Carpenter

Mark Steyn is all about Nelson Riddle with Van Heusen and Mercer's I Thought About You.  And Pundette has Cole Porter's Night and Day, in Paris and orchestrated by Nelson Riddle. And for the Riddle Trifecta, Bob Belvedere has the album Nice and Easy on his #9 for best Sinatra disks.

I had Frank's early hit with Tommy Dorsey Trade Winds. I also had Rain (Falling From The Skies) and The Night We Called It A Day. Before that I had Gershwin's I Got Plenty 'O' Nuttin. I had the jazz standard Indian Summer with bonus Michele Carey. Given Mark's post a Cole Porter Indian Summer classic It's All Right With Me, I posted the Can Can film clip of that performance along with the lovely Juliet Prowse. I added Sinatra and Day singing a terrific version of Take Me Out To The Ball Game in remembrance of Yogi Berra's passing. And I think I collected links to most of the autumn themed Sinatra songs I previously posted in recognition of the autumn equinox. I also had Frank and the Kessler Twins for Oktoberfest.

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: I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' with Sammy Davis Jr. and Chita Rivera

The 1934 opera Porgy and Bess was the George Gershwin's masterwork and personal obsession. Gershwin wrote it mostly on location in South Carolina. It was based off the book and play Porgy by DuBose Heyward.  Heyward and Ira Gershwin both contributed to the lyrics and book of Porgy and Bess. 

Porgy and Bess: George, DuBose and Ira

It may not be summer time right now, but Mark covered Porgy and Bess' Summertime. Mark's review She Likes A Gershwin Tune of Martha Bayles' Hole in Our Soul remains as just as relevant today. These pieces gives some excellent background on George Gershwin's work on Porgy and Bess.

Frank recorded this version on the Nelson Riddle arranged album A Swinging' Affair in 1957.

Sammy Davis Jr. does a great job with his take of the song from 1957 album Boy Meets Girl. This album was arranged by Buddy Bergman (who was Jule Styne's nephew).

Pope Francis and Chita Rivera

Not the best vocals on this one below, but Chita Rivera does a sizzling dance rendition on the Judy Garland Show, and for the time period the camera work is especially good (this was probably 1964):

Pundette is at #27 with the flawed masterpiece Only The Lonely, #28 with It Had To Be You. and at #29 You Make Me Feel So Young. 

Bob completed his top 100 Sinatra songs and his top selections are top notch. Bob is not stopping, listing the top 10 Sinatra albums up through Frank's birthday, starting with this one at #10.

Fitting for all the lunar talk this weekend, Mark has Moonlight In Vermont (a wonderfully lovely song which Pundette, Bob, and myself all had too). Mark also has It's All Right With Me and Autumn Leaves (Mark does a wonderful job explaining and contrasting Mercer's lyrics to the original French version). Mark also talks about Mohammed and the Movies (wow). That is a must read (you will never look at Halloween the same way again) and After the Balls.

I had the jazz standard Indian Summer with bonus Michele Carey. Given Mark's post a Cole Porter Indian Summer classic It's All Right With Me I posted the Can Can film clip of that performance along with the lovely Juliet Prowse. I added Sinatra and Day singing a terrific version of Take Me Out To The Ball Game in remembrance of Yogi Berra's passing.  And I think I collected links to most of the autumn themed Sinatra songs I previously posted in recognition of the autumn equinox. I also had Frank and the Kessler Twins for Oktoberfest. And the bittersweet The Shadow of Your Smile.

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: September In The Rain

I posted September of My Years and September Song, but Al Dubin and Henry Warren's September in the Rain is worth a bit more attention if only for the excuse of adding these great covers by Doris Day, Julie London and Sarah Vaughan. Dubin and Warren (who wrote some terrific songs) also did a lot of the music for Warner's Looney Toons and Merry Melodies.

Young Doris and Frank

JFK and Julie London

Count Basie, Sarah Vaughan and Frank Sinatra

Sarah Vaughan: To Be Bop or Be Pop

For Labour Day Mark Steyn has I Cover The Waterfront and Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn's Just In Time. Pundette has Styne and Cahn's Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry (with Mark's earlier post), Joe Bushkin's Oh! Look At Me Now. Bob Belvedere has Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer's Come Rain Or Come Shine. And have 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

Frank Sinatra: Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

A Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn song from 1945 (from a play that never made it to Broadway) that Sinatra made popular in 1958 on the Only The Lonely Album. It is a lovely song that has a lot of depth and Sinatra and Riddle do a fabulous job with it.

EBL: Time After Time

Pundette: 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? And to answer Pundette's query: yes I like hearing this one more than once!

Bob Belvedere: 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)

Frank, Sammy and Jule (Mark's podcast)

Jule and Sammy did a lot of songs

Mark Steyn: His latest are 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 and Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

Sammy being Hammy

EBL: Sinatra at Pompeii, This Was Nearly Mine, Stardust, Stars Fell on Alabama, in the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening, Soliloquy, Sinatra at the Hollywood Bowl (in August), More Sinatra Moon Songs, Blue Moon, The Nearness of You (another Carmichael classic), More Sinatra Summer, Things We Did Last Summer, Sinatra at the Beach, Frank Sinatra and Kathryn Grayson: Time After Time, and from Only The Lonely: Ebb Tide

Sammy and Jule

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

Frank Sinatra: Stars Fell On Alabama

With the Perseids meteor event the other day (an August summer astronomy tradition) let's go with this Frank Perkins and Mitchell Parish song, arranged by Nelson Riddle, even if the inspiration for the song may have been the Leonid meteors of November. If that is the case, I am early.

Update: Mark Steyn give a lot more history of this song with it as his Sinatra Song of the Century #58.

And I love this cover too...

Pundette: Goes with an Irving Berlin song written for Bing Crosby (Frank loved to do Bing songs), Be Careful It's My Heart, and last week she had And the Bell Goes... (with Mark's Sammy Cahn Podcast) and that #54 on her list she had Mercer's Drinking Again and Cool Cool at her #100

Bob Belvedere: 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'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 Bob has a couple of Mercer classics on his Sinatra #43 through #41 post.

Mark Steyn: His latest are (Love Is) The Tender Trap, Learnin' the Blues and In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning and he has a number of Mercer and Carmichael songs. Here's Mark's Mercer Podcast. And (update) here is Stars Fell On Alabama.

EBL: In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening, Soliloquy, Sinatra at the Hollywood Bowl (in August), More Sinatra Moon Songs, Blue Moon, The Nearness of You (another Carmichael classic), More Sinatra Summer, Things We Did Last Summer, and Sinatra at the Beach and Frank Sinatra and Kathryn Grayson: Time After Time

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.

Instapundit: The story behind Sweet Home Alabama

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.