The Voice of Frank Sinatra

The Voice of Frank Sinatra
The Voice of Frank Sinatra
Studio album by Frank Sinatra
Released	March 4, 1946
Recorded	July 30, 1945 Hollywood; December 7, 1945 New York City
Genre	Traditional pop
Length	24:01
Label	Columbia C-112 (78 rpm); Columbia CL-6001 (33 rpm); Legacy CK62100
Frank Sinatra chronology
Alternative cover
	The 1948 reissue as the first LP record developed by Columbia Records

Last updated October 07, 2025

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

The Voice of Frank Sinatra is the debut studio album by American singer Frank Sinatra, released by Columbia Records (catalogue number C-112) on March 4, 1946. The album was originally issued as a set of four 78 rpm records, comprising eight songs in total. Each disc was released under the Columbia catalog numbers 36918, 36919, 36920, and 36921.^[2]

Upon its release, the album reached number one on the then-fledgling Billboard chart, where it remained at the top for seven consecutive weeks in 1946 and spent a total of eighteen weeks on the chart overall. At the time, the album chart featured only a Top Five ranking, a format that continued until August 1948.

Content

The tracks were arranged and conducted by Axel Stordahl and his orchestra, on both dates consisting of a string quartet and four-piece rhythm section, augmented by flutist John Mayhew in July, and, given the part he played with Sinatra at Columbia in the early 1950s, oboist Mitch Miller in December. Sinatra recorded most of these songs again at later stages in

It holds the distinction of being the first pop album catalogue item at 33⅓ rpm, when Columbia premiered long-playing vinyl records in 1948, ten-inch and twelve-inch format for classical music, ten-inch only for pop. The Voice was reissued as a 10-inch LP, catalogue number CL 6001 in 1948, with the running order altered from the sequence of the original album of 78s. It was also later issued as two 45 rpm EPs in 1952 with catalogue number B-112, a 12-inch LP with a changed running order including only five of the original tracks in 1955 with catalogue number CL-743, and a compact disc with extra tracks in 2003.^[3]

Track listing

10-inch LP release

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"You Go to My Head" (Columbia 36918)	Haven Gillespie, J. Fred Coots	3:00
2.	"Someone to Watch Over Me" (Columbia 36921)	George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin	3:18
3.	"These Foolish Things" (Columbia 36919)	Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey, Harry Link	3:08
4.	"Why Shouldn't I?" (Columbia 36920)	Cole Porter	2:53

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"I Don't Know Why" (Columbia 36918)	Roy Turk, Fred E. Ahlert	2:46
2.	"Try a Little Tenderness" (Columbia 36920)	Harry M. Woods, James Campbell, Reginald Connelly	3:08
3.	"I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You" (Columbia 36919)	Bing Crosby, Ned Washington, Victor Young	3:11
4.	"Paradise" (Columbia 36921)	Nacio Herb Brown, Gordon Clifford	2:37

2003 reissue bonus tracks

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
9.	"Mam'selle"	Mack Gordon, Edmund Goulding	3:26
10.	"That Old Feeling"	Lew Brown, Sammy Fain	3:19
11.	"If I Had You"	Ted Shapiro, Campbell, Connelly	3:01
12.	"The Nearness of You"	Ned Washington, Hoagy Carmichael	2:41
13.	"Spring is Here"	Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart	2:42
14.	"Fools Rush In"	Johnny Mercer, Rube Bloom	3:01
15.	"When You Awake"	Henry Nemo	3:07
16.	"It Never Entered My Mind"	Rodgers, Hart	3:09
17.	"Always"	Irving Berlin	2:55
18.	"(I Don't Stand) A Ghost of A Chance (with You)" (alternate take)	Crosby, Washington, Young	3:32

1955 track listing

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)"	Turk, Ahlert	2:43
2.	"Try a Little Tenderness"	Woods, Campbell, Connelly	3:03
3.	"(I Don't Stand) A Ghost of A Chance (with You)"	Crosby, Washington, Young	3:16
4.	"Paradise"	Brown, Clifford	2:41
5.	"These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)"	Marvell, Strachey, Link	3:15
6.	"Laura"	Johnny Mercer, David Raksin	3:17

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"She's Funny That Way"	Neil Moret, Richard A. Whiting	3:25
2.	"Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread)"	Mercer, Bloom	3:04
3.	"Over The Rainbow"	Yip Harburg, Harold Arlen	3:20
4.	"That Old Black Magic"	Mercer, Arlen	2:37
5.	"Spring Is Here"	Rodgers, Hart	2:42
6.	"Lover"	Rodgers, Hart	2:39

Personnel

Frank Sinatra – vocal
Axel Stordahl – arranger

New York sessions

Leonard Posner. Raoul Polikian – violins
Sidney Brecher – viola
Anthony Sophos – cello
Mitch Miller – oboe
Matty Golizio – guitar
Bill Clifton – piano
Frank Siravo – bass
Nat Polen – drums

Hollywood sessions

Mischa Russell, David Frisina – violins
Sam Freed – viola
Fred Goerner – cello
Jack Mayhew – flute
George Van Eps – guitar
Mark McIntyre – piano
John Ryan – bass
Ray Hagan – drums

Production personnel

Bill Richards – producer
Charles L. Granata, Didier C. Deutsch – compact disc reissue producers

Charts

Weekly Charts

Chart (1946)	Peak position
US Billboard Best-Selling Popular Record Albums^[4]	1

Year-end charts

Chart (1946)	Position
US Billboard Best-Selling Popular Record Albums^[5]	2

References

↑ AllMusic review
↑ Sinatra Family Discography website retrieved 30 July 2019
↑ Charles L. Granata, The Voice of Frank Sinatra. 2003, Columbia Legacy CK 62100, liner notes.
↑ "Best-Selling Popular Record Albums". Billboard . April 6, 1946. p. 32. Retrieved March 29, 2021– via Google Books.
↑ "Best-Selling Popular Record Albums". Billboard . January 4, 1947. p. 2. Retrieved April 7, 2021– via Google Books.

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[1] AllMusic review

[2] Sinatra Family Discography website retrieved 30 July 2019

[3] Charles L. Granata, The Voice of Frank Sinatra. 2003, Columbia Legacy CK 62100, liner notes.

[4] "Best-Selling Popular Record Albums". Billboard . April 6, 1946. p. 32. Retrieved March 29, 2021– via Google Books.

[5] "Best-Selling Popular Record Albums". Billboard . January 4, 1947. p. 2. Retrieved April 7, 2021– via Google Books.

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