Frankie Laine's Greatest Hits

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Released1958
Label Columbia
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Frankie Laine's Greatest Hits is a compilation album by Frankie Laine released in 1958 on Columbia Records. [2] [3]

In 1962, this monaural album was re-released in an "electronically rechanneled for stereo" version. [4]

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Moonlight Gambler" 
2."Jalousie" 
3."High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me)" (from Stanlay Kramer's prod. High Noon ) 
4."Your Cheatin' Heart" 
5."Some Day" (from Vagabond King ) 
6."I Believe" 
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Jezebel" 
2."Granada" 
3."That Lucky Old Sun" 
4."Rose, Rose, I Love You"
 
5."That's My Desire" 
6."Answer Me" 

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References

  1. Frankie Laine - Frankie Laine's Greatest Hits [Columbia]. AllMusic . Retrieved 2023-01-08.
  2. "Frankie Laine - Frankie Laine's Greatest Hits". Discogs . Retrieved 2023-01-08.
  3. Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 3 November 1958. pp. 6–.
  4. Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 23 June 1962. pp. 22–.