UPC: 888750997128
Format: CD (4 disc)
Release Date: Nov 20, 2015
Regular price
$15.95 USD
Regular price
Sale price
$15.95 USD
Unit price
per
Couldn't load pickup availability
FREE SHIPPING
This item is expected to ship between 3 and 6 business days after order placement.
Filling in a gap in Frank Sinatra's history, Legacy's 2015 box A Voice on Air collects over 100 radio broadcasts recorded between 1935 and 1955. This is the first collection to chronicle this era -- over 90 of its 100 tracks are previously unreleased -- and it's pulled from a variety of sources, including the Sinatra estate's vaults, the Library of Congress, and the Paley Center for Media, each strand assisting in sterling re-creations of original broadcasts from Frank's bobbysocks days, World War II, and the nascent saloon singer of the '50s. Sinatra wound up singing some of these songs in the studio but not necessarily in these arrangements, a wrinkle that would be tantalizing enough but a good portion of A Voice on Air is devoted to songs he only sang on the air. Some of these are little more than novelties -- the flashiest being "(Li'l Abner) Don't Marry That Gal," a song co-written by cartoonist Al Capp cashing in on his hit strip -- and there is a fair share of duets, with both musicians (Nat King Cole, Slim Gaillard) and cultural figures (Gov. Jimmie Davis comes in to sing his "You Are My Sunshine"). Part of the appeal of this set is how the very fact that it's grounded in specific years accentuates transience: there are jokes that need footnotes, broadcasts from World War II, commercials for cigarettes, and other musty conventions that never quite seep onto Sinatra's studio recordings. Here, they're part of the main text. There might be a fair amount of standards peppered throughout the set but they're unwitting anchors for a set that's proudly not timeless. Instead, it showcases a Sinatra on the rise, a singer relying on his inventive phrasing and incandescent charisma, elements that are undeniable and vital even when heard in these appealing old-fashioned surroundings. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Tracks:
Disc 1:
1 - Vintage Radio Tuning In/Major Bowes' Show Opening/S-H-I-N-E
2 - Fred Allen Introduces Frank Sinatra and the Four Sharps/Exactly Like You
3 - Moon Love [Live]
4 - Fame and Fortune Show Opening: I'm Getting Sentimental Over You/Marie
5 - Deep Night
6 - Ruth Lowe Interview/I'll Never Smile Again/Fame and Fortune Show Opening: I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
7 - Frenesi
8 - East of the Sun (And West of the Moon)
9 - Carnaval de Broadway Opening: I'm Getting Sentimental Over You/The One I Love
10 - Say It/Carnaval de Broadway Closing: I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
11 - She's Funny That Way
12 - I Don't Believe in Rumors
13 - I'll String Along with You/As Time Goes By
14 - That Old Black Magic
15 - I Heard You Cried Last Night
16 - For Me and My Gal
17 - Moonlight Mood
18 - There Are Such Things
19 - Broadway Bandbox Show Opening/All or Nothing at All
20 - My Heart Stood Still
21 - Right Kind of Love
22 - Close to You
23 - As Time Goes By
24 - It's De-Lovely
25 - Nature's Remedy Commercial
Disc 2:
1 - Songs by Sinatra Show Opening: This Love of Mine/Paper Doll
2 - Kiss Me Again
3 - If Loveliness Were Music
4 - Lover Come Back to Me/Songs by Sinatra Show Closing: Put Your Dreams Away
5 - My Heart Tells Me
6 - My Ideal
7 - News Bulletin/Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower Briefing/President Franklin D. Roosevelt Address of D-Day (Excerpts)/Music for Millions Introduction & Buy a Piece of the Peace
8 - Frank Sinatra D-Day Announcement/The Frank Sinatra Show Opening: This Love of Mine/Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer
9 - Frank Sinatra Commentary on Special D-Day Broadcast/America the Beautiful
10 - Frank Sinatra Dedication to Canadian Soliders at Rockcliffe Hospital, Ontario/I'll Be Seeing You (Rehearsal)
11 - Frank Sinatra Dedication to Soldiers at Halloran Hospital, Staten Island, NY/The Way You Look Tonight
12 - It Had to Be You
13 - Don't Fence Me In
14 - Lonely Love
15 - Long Ago and Far Away
16 - Songs by Sinatra Opening: Night and Day/Aren't You Glad You're You
17 - It Might as Well be Spring
18 - Birthday Greetings for Frank Sinatra's 30th Birthday/Frank Sinatra introduces June Hutton/Button Up Your Overcoat
19 - Day by Day
20 - Lily Belle
21 - Ol' Man River/Songs by Sinatra Show Closing: Put Your Dreams Away
22 - Comedy Sketch: The Battle of the Century
23 - Songs by Sinatra Old Gold "Yankee Doodle Dandy" Commercial
24 - Frank Sinatra Show Vimms Vitamin Commercial
25 - Songs by Sinatra Max Factor Commercial
Disc 3:
1 - Songs by Sinatra Show Opening: Night and Day/I'm an Old Cowhand/Tumblin' Tumbleweeds
2 - Along the Navajo Trail
3 - Frank Sinatra Introduction to "Home on the Range"/Home on the Range
4 - Frank Sinatra Introduces Louisiana Gov. Jimmie Davis/You Are My Sunshine
5 - Exactly Like You [Frank Sinatra Introduces Nat "King" Cole]
6 - Cement Mixer (Put-ti Put-ti) [Frank Sinatra Introduces Slim Gaillard]
7 - You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me
8 - I Only Have Eyes for You
9 - You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby
10 - Don't Forget Tonight Tomorrow
11 - Sweet Lorraine
12 - Personality
13 - Who's Sorry Now?
14 - Don't Marry That Girl
15 - Salute to Al Jolson Show Opening & George Jessel Introduces Frank Sinatra/Rock-A-Bye Your Baby
16 - Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah
17 - These Foolish Things (parody)
18 - (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons
19 - Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better)
20 - Alexander's Ragtime Band [Frank Sinatra Introduces Irving Berlin]
21 - Help Me to Help My Neighbor/Irving Berlin Commentary on Frank Sinatra Winning the Jefferson Award
22 - Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive [Frank Sinatra Introduces Johnny Mercer]
23 - Your Hit Parade Show Opening: Lucky Day/(It's Going to Be a) Great Day
24 - I Wish I Didn't Love You So
25 - Take Me Out to the Ball Game
26 - There's No Business Like Show Business
27 - Serenade of the Bells
28 - Frank Sinatra Receives the Modern Screen Ed Sullivan Award nad the 1946 "Radio Father of the Year Award"/Come Rain or Come Shines
29 - Songs by Sinatra Show Closing: Put Your Dreams Away
Disc 4:
1 - Haunted Heart
2 - Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
3 - I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover
4 - Nature Boy
5 - Little White Lies
6 - On a Slow Boat to China
7 - Light Up Time Show Opening: Lucky Day/It All Depends on You
8 - Some Enchanted Evening
9 - Full Moon and Empty Arms
10 - It's Only a Paper Moon
11 - Mad About You
12 - Fine Romance
13 - I've Got a Crush on You [Dean Martin Introduces Frank Sinatra]
14 - Why Try to Change Me Now
15 - Birth of the Blues
16 - To Be Perfectly Frank Show Opening: Walking and Whistlin' the Blues/I've Got the World on a String
17 - I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
18 - Hundred Years from Today
19 - This Can't Be Love
20 - Them There Eyes/To Be Perfectly Frank Closing: Walkin' and Whistlin' the Blues
21 - Frank Sinatra Show Opening: Young at Heart/Tenderly
22 - Hello, Young Lovers
23 - It's Alright with Me
24 - Our Love Is Here to Stay/The Frank Sinatra Show Closing: Put Your Dreams Away
25 - Sam's Song (The Happy Tune) [Gary Crosby Introduces Frank Sinatra]
26 - Half as Lovely (Twice as True)
27 - Light Up Time/Lucky Strike "LSMFT" Commercial
28 - Frank Sinatra sings Bobbi Home Permanment/White Rain Commercials
1 - Vintage Radio Tuning In/Major Bowes' Show Opening/S-H-I-N-E
2 - Fred Allen Introduces Frank Sinatra and the Four Sharps/Exactly Like You
3 - Moon Love [Live]
4 - Fame and Fortune Show Opening: I'm Getting Sentimental Over You/Marie
5 - Deep Night
6 - Ruth Lowe Interview/I'll Never Smile Again/Fame and Fortune Show Opening: I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
7 - Frenesi
8 - East of the Sun (And West of the Moon)
9 - Carnaval de Broadway Opening: I'm Getting Sentimental Over You/The One I Love
10 - Say It/Carnaval de Broadway Closing: I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
11 - She's Funny That Way
12 - I Don't Believe in Rumors
13 - I'll String Along with You/As Time Goes By
14 - That Old Black Magic
15 - I Heard You Cried Last Night
16 - For Me and My Gal
17 - Moonlight Mood
18 - There Are Such Things
19 - Broadway Bandbox Show Opening/All or Nothing at All
20 - My Heart Stood Still
21 - Right Kind of Love
22 - Close to You
23 - As Time Goes By
24 - It's De-Lovely
25 - Nature's Remedy Commercial
Disc 2:
1 - Songs by Sinatra Show Opening: This Love of Mine/Paper Doll
2 - Kiss Me Again
3 - If Loveliness Were Music
4 - Lover Come Back to Me/Songs by Sinatra Show Closing: Put Your Dreams Away
5 - My Heart Tells Me
6 - My Ideal
7 - News Bulletin/Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower Briefing/President Franklin D. Roosevelt Address of D-Day (Excerpts)/Music for Millions Introduction & Buy a Piece of the Peace
8 - Frank Sinatra D-Day Announcement/The Frank Sinatra Show Opening: This Love of Mine/Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer
9 - Frank Sinatra Commentary on Special D-Day Broadcast/America the Beautiful
10 - Frank Sinatra Dedication to Canadian Soliders at Rockcliffe Hospital, Ontario/I'll Be Seeing You (Rehearsal)
11 - Frank Sinatra Dedication to Soldiers at Halloran Hospital, Staten Island, NY/The Way You Look Tonight
12 - It Had to Be You
13 - Don't Fence Me In
14 - Lonely Love
15 - Long Ago and Far Away
16 - Songs by Sinatra Opening: Night and Day/Aren't You Glad You're You
17 - It Might as Well be Spring
18 - Birthday Greetings for Frank Sinatra's 30th Birthday/Frank Sinatra introduces June Hutton/Button Up Your Overcoat
19 - Day by Day
20 - Lily Belle
21 - Ol' Man River/Songs by Sinatra Show Closing: Put Your Dreams Away
22 - Comedy Sketch: The Battle of the Century
23 - Songs by Sinatra Old Gold "Yankee Doodle Dandy" Commercial
24 - Frank Sinatra Show Vimms Vitamin Commercial
25 - Songs by Sinatra Max Factor Commercial
Disc 3:
1 - Songs by Sinatra Show Opening: Night and Day/I'm an Old Cowhand/Tumblin' Tumbleweeds
2 - Along the Navajo Trail
3 - Frank Sinatra Introduction to "Home on the Range"/Home on the Range
4 - Frank Sinatra Introduces Louisiana Gov. Jimmie Davis/You Are My Sunshine
5 - Exactly Like You [Frank Sinatra Introduces Nat "King" Cole]
6 - Cement Mixer (Put-ti Put-ti) [Frank Sinatra Introduces Slim Gaillard]
7 - You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me
8 - I Only Have Eyes for You
9 - You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby
10 - Don't Forget Tonight Tomorrow
11 - Sweet Lorraine
12 - Personality
13 - Who's Sorry Now?
14 - Don't Marry That Girl
15 - Salute to Al Jolson Show Opening & George Jessel Introduces Frank Sinatra/Rock-A-Bye Your Baby
16 - Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah
17 - These Foolish Things (parody)
18 - (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons
19 - Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better)
20 - Alexander's Ragtime Band [Frank Sinatra Introduces Irving Berlin]
21 - Help Me to Help My Neighbor/Irving Berlin Commentary on Frank Sinatra Winning the Jefferson Award
22 - Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive [Frank Sinatra Introduces Johnny Mercer]
23 - Your Hit Parade Show Opening: Lucky Day/(It's Going to Be a) Great Day
24 - I Wish I Didn't Love You So
25 - Take Me Out to the Ball Game
26 - There's No Business Like Show Business
27 - Serenade of the Bells
28 - Frank Sinatra Receives the Modern Screen Ed Sullivan Award nad the 1946 "Radio Father of the Year Award"/Come Rain or Come Shines
29 - Songs by Sinatra Show Closing: Put Your Dreams Away
Disc 4:
1 - Haunted Heart
2 - Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
3 - I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover
4 - Nature Boy
5 - Little White Lies
6 - On a Slow Boat to China
7 - Light Up Time Show Opening: Lucky Day/It All Depends on You
8 - Some Enchanted Evening
9 - Full Moon and Empty Arms
10 - It's Only a Paper Moon
11 - Mad About You
12 - Fine Romance
13 - I've Got a Crush on You [Dean Martin Introduces Frank Sinatra]
14 - Why Try to Change Me Now
15 - Birth of the Blues
16 - To Be Perfectly Frank Show Opening: Walking and Whistlin' the Blues/I've Got the World on a String
17 - I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
18 - Hundred Years from Today
19 - This Can't Be Love
20 - Them There Eyes/To Be Perfectly Frank Closing: Walkin' and Whistlin' the Blues
21 - Frank Sinatra Show Opening: Young at Heart/Tenderly
22 - Hello, Young Lovers
23 - It's Alright with Me
24 - Our Love Is Here to Stay/The Frank Sinatra Show Closing: Put Your Dreams Away
25 - Sam's Song (The Happy Tune) [Gary Crosby Introduces Frank Sinatra]
26 - Half as Lovely (Twice as True)
27 - Light Up Time/Lucky Strike "LSMFT" Commercial
28 - Frank Sinatra sings Bobbi Home Permanment/White Rain Commercials