Dedicated to You (Frank Sinatra album)

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Dedicated to You
Frank Sinatra - Dedicated to You 1950.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 1950
Genre Traditional pop
Length24:02
Label Columbia
Frank Sinatra chronology
Frankly Sentimental
(1950)
Dedicated to You
(1950)
Sing and Dance with Frank Sinatra
(1950)
Alternative cover
Frank Sinatra - Dedicated to You 1950 Orange cover.jpg

Dedicated to You is the fifth studio album by American singer Frank Sinatra, released in March 1950 as a set of four 78 rpm records (Catalog: C-197), as well as a 10" LP (CL 6096). [1]

Contents

The tracks were arranged and conducted by Axel Stordahl and his orchestra.

Releases

78 rpm set

LP

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."The Music Stopped" Jimmy McHugh, Harold Adamson 3:01
2."The Moon Was Yellow" Fred E. Ahlert, Edgar Leslie 2:57
3."I Love You" Cole Porter 2:40
4."Strange Music" Edvard Grieg, George Forrest, Robert Wright 2:58
5."Where or When" Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart 3:14
6."None But the Lonely Heart" Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 3:32
7."Always" Irving Berlin 2:57
8."Why Was I Born?" Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II 2:43

Personnel

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References

  1. Granata, Charles L. (2003). Sessions with Sinatra - Frank Sinatra and the Art of Recording. Chicago Review Press. p. 48. ISBN   9781613742815.