The Real Complete Columbia Years V-Discs

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The Real Complete Columbia Years V-Discs
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Compilation album by
ReleasedNovember 25, 2003
RecordedOctober 17, 1943-
December 6, 1948
Genre Traditional pop
Length209:52 [1]
Label Jazz Factory
Frank Sinatra chronology
Classic Duets
(2002)
The Real Complete Columbia Years V-Discs
(2003)
The Platinum Collection
(2004)

The Real Complete Columbia Years V-Discs is a 2003 compilation album by the American singer Frank Sinatra.

Contents

The 3-CD compilation includes four transcription discs pressed for Armed Forces Radio Service but not released on The Columbia Years 1943-1952: The V-Discs . The first album is also included in this collection.

Track listing

Disc one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."I Only Have Eyes for You" Al Dubin, Harry Warren 3:58
2."Kiss Me Again" Henry Martyn Blossom, Victor Herbert 2:41
3."(There'll Be A) Hot Time in the Town of Berlin" Joe Bushkin, John DeVries 2:28
4."The Music Stopped" Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh 2:58
5."I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night"Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh3:00
6."The Way You Look Tonight" Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern 2:41
7."I'll Be Around" Alec Wilder 1:40
8."You've Got a Hold on Me" Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe 2:32
9."A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening"Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh3:10
10."(I Got A Woman Crazy For Me) She's Funny That Way" Richard A. Whiting, Neil Moret 2:14
11."Speak Low" Ogden Nash, Kurt Weill 2:21
12."Close to You" Jerry Livingston, Carl Lampl, Al Hoffman 3:13
13."My Shining Hour" Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer 2:26
14."Long Ago (And Far Away)" George Gershwin, Jerome Kern2:37
15."Some Other Time" Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne 2:37
16."Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are"Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne2:02
17."Put Your Dreams Away (For Another Day)" Ruth Lowe, Paul Mann, George David Weiss 1:30
18."And Then You Kissed Me"Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne3:05
19."All the Things You Are" Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern2:52
20."All of Me" Gerald Marks, Seymour Simons 1:42
21."Nancy (With the Laughing Face)" Phil Silvers, Jimmy Van Heusen 3:38
22."Mighty Lak' a Rose" Frank Lebby Stanton, Ethelbert Nevin 3:43
23."Falling in Love With Love" Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers 2:39
24."Cradle Song (Brahms' Lullaby)" Johannes Brahms 2:48
25."I'll Follow My Secret Heart" Noël Coward 2:35
Disc two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Someone to Watch Over Me"George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin 2:10
2."There's No You" Tom Adair, Hal Hopper 2:43
3."Let Me Love You Tonight" Mitchell Parish, René Touzet 2:43
4."Just Close Your Eyes"John M. Elliot, Sam Mineo, Lewis Rodgers1:39
5."If You Are but a Dream" Moe Jaffe, Jack Fulton, Nat Bronx 3:06
6."Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night in the Week)"Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne2:46
7."I Begged Her"Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne3:02
8."What Makes the Sunset?"Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne2:57
9."The Charm of You"Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne3:02
10."When Your Lover Has Gone" Einar Aaron Swan 2:55
11."None But the Lonely Heart" Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Arthur Westbrook3:28
12."Ol' Man River"Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern4:11
13."Over the Rainbow"Arlen, Yip Harburg 3:17
14."You'll Never Walk Alone"Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers3:27
15."Stars in Your Eyes"Mort Greene, Ricardo López Méndez, Gabriel Ruiz (composer) 2:47
16."My Shawl" Xavier Cugat, Pedro Berrios, Stanley Adams 3:17
17."Someone to Watch Over Me"George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin3:22
18."You Go to My Head" J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie 3:02
19."These Foolish Things" Harry Link, Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey 3:10
20."I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)" Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk 2:47
21."Homesick, That's All" Gordon Jenkins 3:14
22."The Night Is Young and You're So Beautiful" Dana Suesse, Irving Kahal, Billy Rose 2:12
23."Aren't You Glad You're You" Johnny Burke, James Van Heusen2:08
24."You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me" Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal, Pierre Connor 1:34
Disc three
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."I'll Never Smile Again"Ruth Lowe3:26
2."Without a Song" Edward Eliscu, Rose, Vincent Youmans 2:20
3."Oh! What It Seemed to Be" Bennie Benjamin, Frankie Carle, George David Weiss 2:56
4."Old School Teacher" Willard Robison 3:24
5."White Christmas" Irving Berlin 3:14
6."My Romance"Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers3:14
7."The Song Is You"Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern3:35
8."Should I? (Reveal)" Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed 2:26
9."Oh Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?"George Gershwin, DuBose Heyward 3:09
10."Soliloquy"Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers8:09
11."I Fall in Love With You Ev'ry Day" Sam H. Stept 1:47
12."They Say It's Wonderful"Irving Berlin2:38
13."You Are Too Beautiful"Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers2:54
14."Come Rain or Come Shine"Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer2:28
15."One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)"Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer3:07
16."Stormy Weather"Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler 3:55
17."Sunflower" Mack David 3:04
18."If You Are But a Dream"Bonx, Fulton, Jaffe3:46
19."Strange Music"Robert B. Wright, George Forrest, Edvard Grieg 3:27
20."Cradle Song (Brahms' Lullaby)" Johannes Brahms 2:37
21."Dick Haymes, Dick Todd and Como"Burke, Cahn, Van Heusen2:40
22."Don't Forget Tonight, Tomorrow"Jay Milton, Ukie Sherin2:28
23."Was the Last Time I Saw You (The Last Time)"Marjorie Goetschius, Edna Osser 2:59

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References

  1. Eder, Bruce. "Frank Sinatra: The Real Complete Columbia Years V-Discs – Overview". AllMusic . RhythmOne. Archived from the original on 25 January 2018. Retrieved 25 January 2018.