| Identifier | 8406421 |
| Created At | Tue May 23 2023 23:54:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) |
| Media Type | CD |
| Media Count | 2 |
| Show Rating | A++ |
| Sound Rating | A |
| Note | the reason for collecting Sinatra. |
| Source Info | AM radio |
| Trades Allowed |
Performance
| Frank Sinatra 1953-09-?? NBC Studios - "To Be Perfectly Frank", Hollywood, CA | |
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| Set 1 | This Love of Mine
Someone to Watch over Me Blue Moon Try a Little Tenderness Autumn in New York As Time Goes By The Most Blues You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To Love Is Here to Stay September Song My Funny Valentine I've Got a Crush on You She's Funny That Way Everything Happens to Me Where or When I've Got the World on a String If I Had You Should I? Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away) Love Is Just Around the Corner My Blue Heaven Just One of Those Things The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else) An 18 Karat Girl It All Depends on You They Can't Take That Away from Me It's Only a Paper Moon S'posin' I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm All of Me I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me You Do Something to Me That Old Black Magic |
| Set 2 | This Can't Be Love
Nevertheless What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry Hello, Young Lovers Love Me Or Leave Me I'll String Along With You You Took Advantage Of Me Just You, Just Me Let's Fall In Love Them There Eyes Come Rain Or Come Shine Somebody Loves Me I'm In The Mood For Love On The Sunnyside Of The Street S'wonderful Under A Blanket Of Blue I Don't Know Why Sometimes I'm Happy Don'T Blame Me Thou Swell I'm Confessin' Out of Nowhere One Hundred Years From Today Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea Tenderly You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby Taking a Chance on Love Hands Across The Table What Is This Thing Called Love If I Could Be With You Night and Day |
| Set 3 | |
| Comment | 1 - FS AFTER HOURS, WITH BILL MILLER AT THE PIANO
2 - TO BE PERFECTLY FRANK Sinatra is on fire in TO BE PERFECTLY FRANK, a 15-minute program that aired on NBC radio Tuesday and Friday nights from 8:15 to 8:30 p.m. The 70 episodes ran 35 weeks from November 3, 1953 to July 2, 1954. It was entirely pre-recorded at NBC in Hollywood. The program opened (and closed) with the theme "Walking and Whistlin' Blues" by Les Paul followed by announcer Eddie King's introduction (and closing). Sinatra serves as DJ, introducing popular hits (mostly Capitol records) and concluding each episode with one or perhaps two of his own performances recorded at NBC specifically for the program. Why are these songs a milestone in Sinatra's career? Several reasons. Fans have always wanted to hear Sinatra front a small jazz combo. Well, this is it. Two-thirds of the 60+ songs were recorded with "The Sinatra Symphonette" a quintet consisting of piano, drums, bass, guitar, and reeds / flute. Sinatra sings the other third of the songs with only Bill Miller's piano for accompaniment. Sinatra serves as his own arranger with some of the tightest, snappiest arrangements in his ouevre. The program allows Sinatra to experiment with vocal styles and arrangements and to nail songs he never got to do right at Columbia. The number of recording sessions at NBC have not been documented, but there appears to be at least three to four sessions which occur in-between the sessions for SONGS FOR YOUNG LOVERS (1953) and IN THE WEE SMALL HOURS (1955) down the street at Capitol Records. The elastic baritone you hear on those defining masterpieces is the same voice you hear on TO BE PERFECTLY FRANK. These lost songs reveal Sinatra as the brilliant, innovative jazz vocalist his fans always suspected he could be. In addition to Bill Miller, other musicians may have been: Piano: Graham Forbes Drums: Johnny Blowers, Alvin Stoller Bass: John Ryan, Joe Comfort Guitar: Tony Mattola, Alan Reuss Reeds and Flute: Sonny Salad, Abe Most Among the 60-plus songs are over two dozen that he never recorded before or after in the studio, including amazing versions of standards like -- This Can't Be Love, Love Me Or Leave Me, I'll String Along With You, You Took Advantage Of Me, Just You Just Me, Them There Eyes, Somebody Loves Me, I'm In The Mood For Love, S'Wonderful, Under A Blanket Of Blue, Sometimes I'm Happy, Don't Blame Me, Thou Swell, I'm Confessin', Out Of Nowhere, Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea, Tenderly, You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby, Hands Across The Table, and If I Could Be With You. A personal favorite of mine is "Love Is Here To Stay" with Sinatra fronting the rhythm section and a celeste. Some of the up-tempo numbers he would soon re-record at Capitol for the "swing" albums and would become his biggest hits, but these earlier versions are different, and just as memorable. The Armed Forces Radio Network received TO BE PERFECTLY FRANK on transcription platters for airplay overseas, where they would be played for years to come. These platters are probably the source of the surviving episodes that circulate among collectors. Songs from the episodes have never been restored nor officially released, but were pressed on first vinyl and then CD by public domain labels. Today the platters are impossible to obtain and the P.D.'s are oop, extremely scarce, and pricey if you find them. Most of the songs recorded for TO BE PERFECTLY FRANK are preserved here in clear, bright sound. Sinatraphiles consider these songs among Sinatra's finest performances, period. Persistent demand over the decades by fans and industry- pros alike for an official release has met with stony silence. |