Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. I'll Be Seeing You
2. Say It
3. Polka Dots and Moonbeams
4. Fools Rush In
5. Imagination
6. You're Lonely and I'm Lonely
7. East of the Sun (And West of the Moon)
8. It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow
9. I'll Never Smile Again
10. All This and Heaven Too
11. Trade Winds
12. One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else
13. Call of the Canyon
14. Love Lies
15. I Could Make You Care
16. Our Love Affair
17. We Three (My Echo, My Shadow, And Me)
18. Stardust - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, The Pied Pipers, Frank Sinatra
19. Oh! Look at Me Now - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Connie Haines, The Pied Pipers, Frank Sinatra
20. You Might Have Belonged to Another - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Connie Haines, The Pied Pipers, Frank Sinatra
21. It's Always You
22. I Tried
23. Dolores - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, The Pied Pipers, Frank Sinatra

Disc 2:

1. Do I Worry? - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, The Pied Pipers, Frank Sinatra
2. Everything Happens to Me
3. This Love of Mine
4. I Guess I'll Have to Dream the Rest - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, The Pied Pipers, Frank Sinatra
5. You and I
6. Blue Skies
7. I Think of You
8. Violets for Your Furs
9. How About You?
10. Night We Called It a Day
11. Song Is You
12. I'll Take Tallulah - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, The Pied Pipers, Frank Sinatra, Jo Stafford
13. Last Call for Love - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, The Pied Pipers, Frank Sinatra
14. Just as Though You Were Here - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, The Pied Pipers, Frank Sinatra
15. Street of Dreams - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, The Pied Pipers, Frank Sinatra
16. Take Me
17. Be Careful It's My Heart
18. In the Blue of Evening
19. There Are Such Things - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, The Pied Pipers, Frank Sinatra
20. Daybreak
21. Light a Candle in the Chapel

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10543 in Music
• Brand: RCA
• Released on: 2005-10-04
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .26 pounds

Customer Reviews

The roots of Sinatra's style
In 1940, Sinatra left The Harry James Band to join the more successful Tommy Dorsey. What initially seemed to be an opportunity for broader exposure (and perhaps larger paychecks) turned into a three year graduate course in many of music's fine-points. Not only did Sinatra refine his trombone-like phrasing and note slides (either as a product of Dorsey's influence, or simply as a fellow traveler), but he also learned the keys that would fuel his later solo career: great songs, top-notch musicians, and arrangements that fit both. Sinatra's later professional style - bullheaded perfectionism, and loyalty to those who served him -- were both an artifact of Dorsey's own temperament.

Listeners weaned on Sinatra's Capitol-era solo records may find these arrangements low-key and the vocals lilting and restrained. His young voice had yet to develop into the rich musical instrument that would make its indelible mark, and he sings atop arrangements that were written more for the band than the singer. As daughter Nancy's liner notes point out, there was little improvising, lest the vocalist bump into the carefully choreographed instrumentation. The result is that, like a lot of big-band music of the swing era, the vocals don't swing nearly as much as the band.

Even without the swing, the pre-bobbysoxer Sinatra possessed a voice and a style that were highly sophisticated, and his animation of a song's lyric, whether written especially for him ("I'll Never Smile Again") or available ("Stardust" "Street of Dreams"), created certified pop standards. Singing with the perfectionist Dorsey taught Sinatra how to fit his voice into the context of a big band, something he'd refine on later solo recordings with arrangers like Axel Stordahl (who, as a trumpeter for Dorsey, provide many of the band's arrangements), Nelson Riddle and Billy May.

These forty-four sides represent the source from which Sinatra's solo success at Columbia, Capitol and Reprise would spring. The band's outstanding musicianship (particularly noting these are all live takes with no overdubbing) is matched by lively charts and exceptional material. The nostalgic tone of these early WWII years is unavoidable, but the heavy shadow of Sinatra's later solo success leaves this material fresh to most listeners' ears. Collectors might want to opt for the 5-CD, 120-track "The Song is You," but for most, this 2-CD helping is an excellent fit. [©2005 hyperbolium dot com]

Frank Sinatra & Tommy Dorsey: A Perfect Match...
This album is great...I could use dozens of words to describe it-but it all comes down to being classified as great. Even at the beginning of his career, Frank Sinatra made sure that it was known that he had talent. Even if you're not a fan-you can't deny that he has talent. Personally, I think that Tommy Dorsey was at his finest here...with his orchestra & Sinatra's vocals-it was a match made in heaven. There were a few box sets available that contained the majority of the music Sinatra & Dorsey recorded together-if not all, but it's easier to get this collection. The 2-disc set contains the best tracks that they've done together, and it's true. If you really are a Frank Sinatra fan-buy this cd...you'll enjoy it tremendously.

When you've lived and loved like Frank...
...you've really loved 'em all really well,...er... or something...Forget how that goes...Anyways, masterful, swinging stuff from the salad days of the Chairman, the cat of all cats, back when he was making the bobbysoxers scream...The Frankster was slightly restrained here, given that he was not encouraged to improvise, but it makes no nevermind - the arrangements and vocals are still just impeccable...