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Personnel includes: Frank Sinatra (vocals); Axel Stordahl (conductor, arranger); Bobby Tucker Singers, Ken Lane Singers (background vocals); Harry James & His Orchestra. Compilation producer: Didier C. Deutsch. Recorded between August 31, 1939 and June 3, 1952. Includes liner notes by Arnold Jay Smith. Digitally remastered by Mark Wilder (Sony Music Studios, New York). This is part of Legacy's 16 Most Requested Songs series. These 16 fine selections are all taken from Sinatra's early years at Columbia. The CD opens with his first charted hit, the wonderful "All or Nothing At All" (recorded in 1939 with Harry James and his Orchestra). The years 1940-42 were Dorsey years, captured on RCA; but Sinatra came back to Columbia a true star in 1943, and, until the mid-50s, produced many records with his own arranger and conductor, Axel Stordahl. Although there were uptempo, swinging numbers recorded during this stretch (Sinatra swaggers on "Saturday Night Is The Loneliest Night of the Week") this era is best char...
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