Sinatra and Strings

1962 studio album by Frank Sinatra

Sinatra and Strings

Studio album by

Frank Sinatra

Released| January 1962
Recorded| November 20–22, 1961, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
Genre|

* Vocal jazz
* traditional pop

Length| 34:50
Label| Reprise
FS 1004
Frank Sinatra chronology
| I Remember Tommy
(1961)  | Sinatra and Strings
(1962)  | Point of No Return
(1962)

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AllMusic| [1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music| [2]

Sinatra and Strings is the twenty-fourth studio album by American singer Frank Sinatra consisting of standard ballads. It was arranged by Don Costa.[1]

The album was the first that Sinatra recorded with Costa.[3] They subsequently worked together on Cycles (1968), My Way (1969), A Man Alone (1969), Some Nice Things I've Missed (1974) and Trilogy (1980). Charles L. Granata, in his 2003 book Sessions with Sinatra: Frank Sinatra and the Art of Recording, felt the producer and mixing engineer of the album "chose to enhance the flat session tapes with just the right shower of reverberation, resulting in an appealingly glossy wet sound".[3]

Costa subsequently felt that the album "was and always will be, the hallmark of my existence" and Sinatra's son, Frank Sinatra Jr., felt that the album with its large orchestra and "lush string sound" marked a new era in his father's recordings.[3]

## Track listing

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No.| Title| Writer(s)| Length

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1.| "I Hadn't Anyone Till You"| Ray Noble| 3:44
2.| "Night and Day"| Cole Porter| 3:37
3.| "Misty"|

* Erroll Garner
* Johnny Burke

| 2:41
4.| "Stardust"|

* Hoagy Carmichael
* Mitchell Parish

| 2:48
5.| "Come Rain or Come Shine"|

* Harold Arlen
* Johnny Mercer

| 4:06
6.| "It Might as Well Be Spring"|

* Richard Rodgers
* Oscar Hammerstein II

| 3:15
7.| "Prisoner of Love"|

* Russ Columbo
* Leo Robin
* Clarence Gaskill

| 3:50
8.| "That's All"|

* Bob Haymes
* Alan Brandt

| 3:21
9.| "All or Nothing at All"|

* Jack Lawrence
* Arthur Altman

| 3:43
10.| "Yesterdays"|

* Otto Harbach
* Jerome Kern

| 3:45
Total length:| 34:50

1991 CD reissue bonus tracksNo.| Title| Writer(s)| Length

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11.| "As You Desire Me"| Allie Wrubel| 2:53
12.| "Don't Take Your Love from Me"| Henry Nemo| 4:05
Total length:| 41:48

## Complete personnel

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* Frank Sinatra – vocals
* Don Costa – arrangement, conductor

Tracks 1, 4, 10, 11:

November 20,1961 (Monday) – Hollywood.

Dick Nash, Dick Noel, Frank Rosolino (tbn); George Roberts (b-tbn); Vincent DeRosa, James Decker, Richard Perissi, William Hinshaw (fr-h); Ted Nash, Harry Klee, Willie Schwartz (fl); Russell Cheever, Justin Gordon (clt); Lloyd Hildebrand (bsn); William Kosinski (oboe); Bill Usselton (b-clt); Erno Neufeld, Felix Slatkin, Gerald Vinci, Anatol Kaminsky, Joe Stepansky, Herman Clebanoff, Nathan Ross, Israel Baker, Amerigo Marino, Paul Shure, James Getzoff, Jacques Gasselin, Marshall Sosson, Victor Arno, Daniel Karpilowsky (vln); Alvin Dinkin, Paul Robyn, Allan Harshman, Virginia Majewski, Robert Ostrowsky, Stanley Harris (via); Ray Kramer, Eleanor Slatkin, Kurt Reher, Justin DiTullio (vlc); Kathryn Julye (harp); Bill Miller (p); Al Viola (g); Eddie Gilbert, Ralph Pena (b); John Markham (d); Emil Richards (perc/timp); Don Costa (arr/cond).

Tracks 2, 5, 9:

November 22, 1961 (Wednesday) – Hollywood.

Conrad Gozzo, Don Fagerquist, Al Porcino, Robert Bryant (tpt); Dick Nash, Dick Noel, Frank Rosolino (tbn); George Roberts (b-tbn); Vincent DeRosa, James Decker, Richard Perissi, John Cave (fr-h); Bud Shank, Abe Most, Justin Gordon (sax/fl); Russell Cheever, Arthur Smith (sax/clt); Jack Marsh (sax/bsn); Jules Jacob (oboe); Bill Usselton (b-clt); Erno Neufeld, Felix Slatkin, Gerald Vinci, Anatol Kaminsky, Joe Stepansky, Herman Clebanoff, Nathan Ross, Israel Baker, Amerigo Marino, Paul Shure, James Getzoff, Jacques Gasselin, Ben Gill, Victor Arno, Daniel Karpilowsky (vln); Alvin Dinkin, Paul Robyn, Allan Harshman, Virginia Majewski, Robert Ostrowsky, Stanley Harris (via); Ray Kramer, Eleanor Slatkin, Armand Kaproff, Justin DiTullio (vlc); Kathryn Julye (harp); Bill Miller (p); Al Viola (g); Eddie Gilbert, Ralph Pena (b); John Markham (d); Emil Richards (perc/tymp); a vocal group [I]. Don Costa, Nelson Riddle (arr).

Tracks 3, 6, 7, 8, 12:

November 21, 1961 (Tuesday) – Hollywood.

Dick Nash, Dick Noel, Frank Rosolino (tbn); George Roberts (b-tbn); John Cave, Richard Perissi, William Hinshaw, Sinclair Lott (fr-h); Arthur Gleghorn, Ethmer Roten, Jules Kinsler (fl); Mahlon Clark, Arthur Smith (clt); Lloyd Hildebrand (bsn); Jules Jacob (oboe); Bill Usselton (b-clt); Erno Neufeld, Felix Slatkin, Gerald Vinci, Anatol Kaminsky, Joe Stepansky, Herman Clebanoff, Nathan Ross, Israel Baker, Amerigo Marino, Paul Shure, James Getzoff, Jacques Gasselin, Marshall Sosson, Victor Arno, Daniel Karpilowsky (vln); Alvin Dinkin, Paul Robyn, Allan Harshman, Virginia Majewski, Robert Ostrowsky, Stanley Harris (via); Ray Kramer, Eleanor Slatkin, Kurt Reher, Justin DiTullio (vlc); Kathryn Julye (harp); Bill Miller (p); Al Viola (g); Eddie Gilbert, Ralph Pena (b); John Markham (d); Emil Richards (perc); Don Costa (arr/cond).[4]

## References

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1. ^ a b Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. Sinatra and Strings at AllMusic
2. ^ Larkin, Colin (2006). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
3. ^ a b c Granata, Charles L. (2003). Sessions with Sinatra: Frank Sinatra and the Art of Recording. Chicago, IL: Chicago Review Press. p. 162\. ISBN 978-1-61374-281-5.
4. ^ Put Your Dreams Away: A Frank Sinatra Discography. ISBN 978-0274963768.

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* The Voice of Frank Sinatra
* Songs by Sinatra
* Christmas Songs by Sinatra
* Frankly Sentimental
* Dedicated to You
* Sing and Dance with Frank Sinatra

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Capitol|

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* In the Wee Small Hours
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* Close to You
* A Swingin' Affair!
* Where Are You?
* A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra
* Come Fly with Me
* Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely
* Come Dance with Me!
* No One Cares
* Nice 'n' Easy
* Sinatra's Swingin' Session!!!
* Come Swing with Me!
* Point of No Return
* Duets
* Duets II

Reprise|

* Ring-a-Ding-Ding!
* Sinatra Swings
* I Remember Tommy
* Sinatra and Strings
* Sinatra and Swingin' Brass
* All Alone
* Sinatra Sings Great Songs from Great Britain
* Sinatra–Basie: An Historic Musical First
* The Concert Sinatra
* Sinatra's Sinatra
* Sinatra Sings Days of Wine and Roses, Moon River, and Other Academy Award Winners
* America, I Hear You Singing
* It Might as Well Be Swing
* 12 Songs of Christmas
* Softly, as I Leave You
* September of My Years
* My Kind of Broadway
* A Man and His Music
* Moonlight Sinatra
* Strangers in the Night
* That's Life
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* The World We Knew
* Francis A. & Edward K.
* The Sinatra Family Wish You a Merry Christmas
* Cycles
* My Way
* A Man Alone
* Watertown
* Sinatra & Company
* Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back
* Some Nice Things I've Missed
* Trilogy: Past Present Future
* She Shot Me Down

Qwest|

* L.A. Is My Lady

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* Sinatra at the Sands
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* Sinatra Saga
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* Sinatra & Sextet: Live in Paris
* Sinatra 80th: Live in Concert
* With Red Norvo Quintet: Live in Australia, 1959
* Sinatra '57 in Concert
* Live from Las Vegas
* Sinatra: Vegas
* Frank Sinatra: The Greatest Concerts
* Live at the Meadowlands
* Sinatra: New York
* Best of Vegas
* Sinatra: London
* Sinatra: World On a String
* Sinatra: Standing Room Only

Compilations|

* This Is Sinatra!
* This Is Sinatra Vol. 2
* Look to Your Heart
* All the Way
* Sinatra Sings of Love and Things
* Sinatra '65: The Singer Today
* Frank Sinatra's Greatest Hits
* Frank Sinatra's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
* Portrait of Sinatra – Forty Songs from the Life of a Man
* Sinatra–Jobim Sessions
* Screen Sinatra
* All-Time Greatest Dorsey/Sinatra Hits, Vol. 1-4
* Capitol Collector's Series
* Sinatra Reprise: The Very Good Years
* Sinatra Sings the Songs of Van Heusen & Cahn
* Sinatra: Soundtrack to the CBS Mini-Series
* The Best of the Capitol Years
* Christmas Songs by Sinatra
* Frank Sinatra Sings the Select Johnny Mercer
* Frank Sinatra Sings the Select Rodgers & Hart
* The Complete Recordings Nineteen Thirty-Nine
* Sinatra 80th: All the Best
* Everything Happens to Me
* Frank Sinatra Sings the Select Cole Porter
* Frank Sinatra Sings the Select Sammy Cahn
* Greatest Hits: Early Years
* The Very Best of Frank Sinatra
* Portrait of Sinatra: Columbia Classics
* Lucky Numbers
* Classic Sinatra: His Greatest Performances 1953–1960
* Super Hits
* My Way: The Best of Frank Sinatra
* Love Songs
* Greatest Love Songs
* Christmas with the Rat Pack
* Frank Sinatra Christmas Collection
* Romance
* Duets/Duets II: 90th Birthday Limited Collector's Edition
* Romance: Songs from the Heart
* Sinatra at the Movies
* Nothing but the Best
* Seduction: Sinatra Sings of Love
* Classic Sinatra II
* Christmas with Sinatra & Friends
* 36 Greatest Hits!
* Come Fly Away
* Sinatra/Jobim: The Complete Reprise Recordings
* Sinatra/Basie: The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings
* Sinatra: Best of the Best
* Best of Duets
* Sinatra, with Love

Soundtrack
albums|

* High Society
* Young at Heart
* Robin and the 7 Hoods

Other
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* Frank Sinatra Conducts the Music of Alec Wilder
* Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color
* The Man I Love
* Sleep Warm
* Frank Sinatra Conducts Music from Pictures and Plays
* Syms by Sinatra

Box
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* Sinatra–Jobim Sessions
* The Reprise Collection
* The Capitol Years
* Concepts
* The Complete Recordings
* The Song Is You
* The V-Discs
* The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings
* The Complete Capitol Singles Collection
* The Best of the Columbia Years
* Frank Sinatra & the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
* The Capitol Years
* Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre
* Frank Sinatra in Hollywood
* The Real Complete Columbia Years V-Discs
* The Voice: Frank Sinatra, the Columbia Years (1943–1952)
* The Reprise Years
* Duets: 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
* Ultimate Sinatra

Tribute
albums|

* A Jazz Portrait of Frank Sinatra
* Perfectly Frank
* Manilow Sings Sinatra
* ...Allow Us to Be Frank
* Bolton Swings Sinatra: The Second Time Around
* A Tribute to Frank Sinatra

Tribute
films|

* The Rat Pack
* The Night We Called It a Day

Videography|

* A Man and His Music
* A Man and His Music – Part II
* A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim
* Francis Albert Sinatra Does His Thing
* Sinatra
* Sinatra in Concert at Royal Festival Hall
* Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back
* Sinatra – The Main Event
* Sinatra and Friends
* The First 40 Years
* The Man and His Music

Digital|

* Reprise Rarities (Volume 1)
* Reprise Rarities (Volume 2)
* Reprise Rarities (Volume 3)
* Reprise Rarities (Volume 4)
* Reprise Rarities (Volume 5)

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