Perfectly Frank playlist

Frank gives $5000 in honor of granddaughter AJ Lambert. And she would host a show on Siriusly Sinatra many years later.
 
Another song to add. Don Gibson wrote and recorded I Can't Stop Loving You in December 1957. It was released as the B-side of Oh Lonesome Me (also written by Gibson). Oh Lonesome Me was number one on the country chart for eight weeks in in April-May 1958 and I Can't Stop Loving You peaked at #7 on the May 12 1958 country chart. A version of I Can't Stop Loving You by Ray Charles & The Ralph Burns Chorus was number one on the Hot 100 for five weeks in June-July 1962. Frank Sinatra and Count Basie included the song on their album It Might As Well Be Swing, which reached #13 on Billboard's October 24 1964 Top LP's chart

 
Although I did not list it in my Top10 Sinatra songs. "All the Way" is a song I hear frequently on Siriusly Sinatra that I really enjoy hearing.
I returned to my Senior Center Monday Classic Movies today, first time in a month. The movie was "The Joker is Wild" with Frank Sinatra.
Also other notables: Jeanne Crain, Mitzi Gaynor, Eddie Albert, Beverly Garland and Jackie Coogan. The movie had about 8 different singings and versions of "All the Way:
 
Another rarity to add. Actually two. Perfectly Frank played both versions. The Music Stopped, written by Harold Adamson (lyrics) and Jimmy McHugh (music), was introduced by Frank Sinatra in the RKO musical Higher & Higher, which was released on New Year's Day 1944 and was Sinatra's first movie. The song was released as a V-Disc (#116). On October 29, 1947, Sinatra recorded The Music Stopped with the Alex Stordahl Orchestra. That version was released as a single in March 1950 but failed to chart.



 
My weekend song:
Yes Indeed! - Frank Sinatra (LP/1961)

I will not post the video but the song reminded me of 1st Grade. Our teacher wanted us to sing "Yes Indeed". Everybody knew and was singing the song except for me. Even the bullies were singing. I just pretended I knew it
 
Yes Indeed! was written by Sy Oliver and was first recorded by Sy Oliver, Jo Stafford and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. The song peaked at #4 on Billboard's August 9 1941 Best Sellers chart. Dorsey had 188 top-40 hits between 1935 and 1958 – and Yes Indeed! is the only one that featured vocals by Sy Oliver. (Thirty-five featured vocals by Frank Sinatra.) Sy Oliver and Jo Stafford also sang lead vocals on the 1941 single Swingin' On Nothin' but that one failed to chart.

 
As a vocalist with the Harry James Orchestra, Frank Sinatra released eight singles in 1939-40, then became lead singer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. Perfectly Frank occasionally plays Sinatra's version of Polka Dots & Moonbeams – written by Johnny Burke (lyrics) and Jimmy Van Heusen (music) – from his 1961 album I Remember Tommy. Today they played the original version. It was Sinatra's sixth single with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and the first one to chart. It reached #18 on Billboard's April 27 1940 Music Box Machine chart, which tracked juke box play and in 1944 would be renamed Most Played In Juke Boxes.

 
The Senior Musical this afternoon will be "Pal Joey" with Frank Sinatra. If they have a really good song, I will post it,
 
I was surprised to hear this one today. Frank Sinatra sang Mind If I Make Love To You? to Grace Kelly in the 1956 movie High Society. This was written by Cole Porter and was released as a single but failed to chart. Was that because of the title? – although Jo Stafford's Make Love To Me! was a number-one hit in March 1954. Maybe it was okay for women – but not men – to suggest that?

 
Heard today: Where Are You?, the title song of a 1957 album by Frank Sinatra and the Gordon Jenkins Orchestra. The song was written by Harold Adamson (words) and Jimmy McHugh (music). It was first sung by Gertrude Niesen in the 1937 movie Top Of The Town. Her recording of the song reached #14 in June 1937 and a version by Mildred Bailey reached #5 a month later.

 
My Monday Afternoon Musical at the Senior Club will be "South Pacific" 3 hour movie. I have not watched it for like 20 years.
And though Frank Sinatra is not in this movie, I know he sang his own version of "Some Enchanted Evening" The first I ever heard the any version of the song was from the "Cocoon" movie with Don Ameche. It was also the first time I ever heard a version of "Dancing in the Dark" Not is "South Pacific" just mentioning.
 
Ezio Pinza (real name: Fortunato Pinza) sang with the Metropolitan Opera from 1926 to 1948. In 1949-50 he played Emile de Becque in the
original Broadway production of South Pacific opposite Mary Martin, who played Ensign Nellie Forbush. Pinza won the 1950 Tony Award for best lead actor in a musical. His recording of Some Enchanted Evening reached #3 on Billboard's September 24 1949 Best Selling Pop Singles chart. A version by Perry Como was number one for five weeks in July-August 1949 (and spent 19 weeks in the top ten!), a version by Bing Crosby reached #3 in July, a version by Jo Stafford reached #4 in July and and an instrumental version by Paul Weston reached #9 in September. Frank Sinatra's version peaked at #6 on the July 30 1949 chart.

 
Madison said:
My Monday Afternoon Musical at the Senior Club will be "South Pacific" 3 hour movie. I have not watched it for like 20 years.
And though Frank Sinatra is not in this movie, I know he sang his own version of "Some Enchanted Evening" The first I ever heard the any version of the song was from the "Cocoon" movie with Don Ameche. It was also the first time I ever heard a version of "Dancing in the Dark" Not is "South Pacific" just mentioning.
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The music from South Pacific is popular with the community bands I play in.
 
Emile in the "South Pacific" movie was Rossano Brazzi. The other movie I had seen of his was "The Barefoot Contessa" from 1954, a movie referenced by Remington Steele in one of the later seasons, so I had to see it. "South Pacific" was from 1958. He was around 42 but they made him look more like 60. While in "The Barefoot Contessa" (a Bogart movie) he looked more his regular age of 38. Just something I observed and found interesting at the time. Just being Perfectly Frank.

Now to make this post current times: While I attended the movie, I was able to pick up a yard sign for the Club's "AleFest" on Nov 6th. It has a white background with the words in Orange. I put it in my yard scape next to my rose bush. (which still has roses). Same spot I put the Strawberry Fest sign last June. Then I took a few minutes sitting on my porch to admire it. It also blends in with my pumpkins and autumn is for football sign on the porch.
 
Here is a surprise – and this isn't on the list....but that is not the surprise. Hearing it played is a surprise. My Romance was written by Lorenz Hart (words) and Richard Rodgers (music) for the 1935 musical Jumbo. A duet version by Frank Sinatra and Doris Day was released in 1947 as the B-side of their duet of Tea For Two from the 1924 musical No No Nanette. Neither side charted.

 
Here is Light A Candle In The Chapel by Frank Sinatra & the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. This was written by Harry Pease, Ed Nelson and Duke Leonard and reached #21 on Billboard's Best Sellers In Stores chart in August 1942. Frank was only 26. As he got older, he learned how to pronounce "candle" and "chapel."

 
Here is another classic which did not chart. Blue Skies, recorded in July 1941 by Frank Sinatra and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, was Sinatra's 15th song as the band's lead vocalist. Joe Bushkin is the pianist and Buddy Rich is the drummer. The song might have been a hit if not for all the annoying and idiotic background vocals (credited to "Band Chorus").

The Irving Berlin song was introduced by Belle Baker in the 1926 musical Betsy and was a number-one hit for Ben Selvin in April 1927. There were other hit versions that year by George Olsen, Vincent Lopez, Vaughn Deleath, Harry Richman and Johnny Marvin & Ed Smalle. There were top-ten versions in 1946 by Count Basie/Jimmy Rushing and Benny Goodman/Art Lund and a version by Willie Nelson topped the country chart in 1978.

 
Another surprise: Here Comes The Night by 23-year-old Frank Sinatra & The Harry James Orchestra. This was written by Frank Loesser (words) and Herman Edelstein and Carl Hohengarten (music) and released on September 29, 1939. It failed to chart. In 1941, Harry James recorded a new version with Dick Haymes – and that version also failed to chart.

 
Here is Too Romantic, another early Tommy Dorsey/Frank Sinatra recording that failed to chart. Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour sang this song in the 1940 movie Road To Singapore, which also starred Bob Hope. Bing's recording of the song, retitled I'm Too Romantic, reached #3 on Billboard's radio airplay chart in April 1940.

 
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