The Voice of Frank Sinatra

Discography Browser

  • The Voice of Frank Sinatra
  • Swing and Dance with Frank Sinatra
  • Swing Easy!
  • Songs for Young Lovers
  • The Voice
  • In the Wee Small Hours
  • Songs for Swingin' Lovers!
  • High Society
  • Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color
  • Where Are You?
  • A Swingin' Affair!
  • Pal Joey [Original Soundtrack]
  • A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra
  • Close to You and More
  • Only the Lonely
  • Come Fly with Me
  • No One Cares
  • Come Dance with Me!
  • Nice 'n' Easy
  • Can-Can [Original Soundtrack]
  • Swing Along with Me
  • Sinatra's Swingin' Session!!! And More
  • Ring-a-Ding Ding!
  • Point of No Return
  • Come Swing with Me!
  • Sinatra & Strings
  • Sinatra-Basie: An Historic Musical First
  • Sinatra Sings Great Songs from Great Britain
  • Sinatra and Swingin' Brass
  • Sinatra & Sextet: Live in Paris
  • All Alone
  • Sinatra's Sinatra: A Collection of Frank's Favorites
  • I Remember Tommy
  • The Concert Sinatra
  • Softly, As I Leave You
  • Robin and the 7 Hoods
  • It Might as Well Be Swing
  • Guys and Dolls [Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre]
  • Days of Wine and Roses, Moon River and Other Academy Award Winners
  • America, I Hear You Singing
  • Sinatra '65
  • September of My Years
  • My Kind of Broadway
  • Moonlight Sinatra
  • Sinatra at the Sands
  • That's Life
  • Strangers in the Night
  • Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim
  • Francis A. & Edward K.
  • The World We Knew
  • The Sinatra Family Wish You a Merry Christmas
  • Cycles
  • Watertown
  • My Way
  • A Man Alone: The Words & Music of McKuen
  • Sinatra & Company
  • Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back
  • The Main Event: Live
  • Some Nice Things I've Missed
  • Trilogy: Past, Present & Future
  • She Shot Me Down
  • L.A. Is My Lady
  • A Man and His Music
  • Duets
  • Duets II
  • Rat Pack Collection [Madacy]
  • New Wonders of Frank: New Arrangements & Reconstruction

Stream or buy on:

Release Date

March 4, 1946

Duration

55:19

Genre

Styles

Recording Date

July 30, 1945 & December 7, 1945

Recording Location

  • CBS Vine Street Studio, Hollywood, CA
  • Liederkranz Hall, New York, NY
Submit Corrections

Album Moods

Album Themes

Frank Sinatra

The Voice of Frank Sinatra

Add to Custom List

Add to My Collection

  • AllMusic Rating
    8
  • User Ratings (0)
  • Your Rating

AllMusic Review by William Ruhlmann

In 1945, Frank Sinatra recorded his first album after a career previously devoted solely to single records. Over two sessions, he performed the eight songs included in The Voice of Frank Sinatra, which Columbia released as a four-LP set of 78-rpm records on March 4, 1946. The collection quickly topped the then-recently established Billboard album chart. The Voice of Frank Sinatra was a precursor to the "concept" albums Sinatra would pioneer at Capitol eight years later, a carefully chosen and arranged selection of songs creating a specific mood. In this case, arranger/conductor Axel Stordahl used a string quartet and a rhythm section, with occasional added instruments, to create settings for a group of classic ballads, all from the '20s and '30s. Sinatra took the material very seriously, singing the love lyrics with utter sincerity. His singing and the classically influenced settings gave the songs an unusual depth of meaning.

Track Listing

Title/Composer Performer Time Stream
1
You Go to My Head
J. Fred Coots / Haven Gillespie
Frank Sinatra 03:01 SpotifyAmazon
2
Someone to Watch Over Me
George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin
Frank Sinatra 03:21
3
These Foolish Things
Harry Link / Holt Marvell / Jack Strachey
Frank Sinatra 03:10 Amazon
4
Why Shouldn't I?
Cole Porter
Frank Sinatra 02:54 SpotifyAmazon
5
I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)
Fred E. Ahlert / Roy Turk
Frank Sinatra 02:48 Amazon
6
Try a Little Tenderness
Jimmy Campbell / Reginald Connelly / Harry Woods
Frank Sinatra 03:09 SpotifyAmazon
7
(I Don't Stand) A Ghost of a Chance
Bing Crosby / Frank Sinatra / Ned Washington / Victor Young
Frank Sinatra 03:12 SpotifyAmazon
8
Paradise
Nacio Herb Brown / Gordon Clifford
Frank Sinatra 02:38 SpotifyAmazon
9
Mam'selle
Mack Gordon / Edmund Goulding / Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra 03:27 SpotifyAmazon
10
That Old Feeling
Lew Brown / Sammy Fain / Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra 03:21 SpotifyAmazon
11
If I Had You
Jimmy Campbell / Reginald Connelly / Ted Shapiro
Frank Sinatra 03:02 SpotifyAmazon
12
The Nearness of You
Hoagy Carmichael / Frank Sinatra / Ned Washington
Frank Sinatra 02:43 SpotifyAmazon
13
Spring Is Here
Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers / Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra 02:44 SpotifyAmazon
14
Fools Rush In
Rube Bloom / Johnny Mercer / Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra 03:03 Amazon
15
When You Awake
Henry Nemo / Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra 03:09 SpotifyAmazon
16
It Never Entered My Mind
Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers
Frank Sinatra 03:10 SpotifyAmazon
17
Always
Irving Berlin / Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra 02:56 SpotifyAmazon
18
(I Don't Stand) A Ghost of a Chance
Bing Crosby / Frank Sinatra / Ned Washington / Victor Young
Frank Sinatra 03:31 SpotifyAmazon
blue highlight denotes track pick