Capitol Stereo CD, with 2 1953 Monaural Tracks ++

1. When No One Cares
2. Cottage for Sale
3. Stormy Weather
4. Where Do You Go?
5. I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You
6. Here's That Rainy Day
7. I Can't Get Started
8. Why Try to Change Me Now?
9. Just Friends
10. I'll Never Smile Again
11. None But the Lonely Heart
12. One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)[*]
13. This Was My Love[*]
14. I Could Have Told You[*] ++
15. You Forgot All the Words (While I Still Remember the Tune)[*] ++

* bonus tracks not on original LP

++ Monaural Recordings

Here we go (some previous thread addressed this before but I wasn't able to find it) - how many celebrities are pictured on the cover along with Frank! There are many! Happy hunting

Bernhard.

Well, Bernard, I've scrutinized each face w/my magnifying glass, as I have the CD, and none of them do I recognize, other than Francis. Perhaps the blond on the far left could be??? Can't think of her name. But are they all celebrities? This was in 1959?

I give, tell us!

[BobbySoxer]

The question was first asked in New Jersey and started a brouhaha that will probably go on forever.
I didn't recognize anyone, but I phoned Jonathan Schwartz who quickly made the following IDs.

The Mink Stole: Eartha Kitt

The Blond: Peggy Lee

Man on the left: Nelson Riddle

In the background: Sammy Davis Jr. and (I think) Sammy Kahn

Ed and Gonzo will probably remember because one or the other of them asked the question.

To make a long and painful story short nobody agreed, so I phoned Jonathan again. He became
very angry that any mortal soul no matter how well connected to his father, his stepmother, and even their Old English Sheepdog would question his word. I had a few choice words of my own, and that's the last I ever heard of the matter. I made a few attempts to E-Mail Eartha Kitt, but to no avail. In fact, it was rumored that Ms. Kitt was to appear at the forthcoming salute to Peggy Lee, and I intended to slip her a note, or perhaps suggest that Nancy ask her for us. Unfortunately Eartha is not expected to be at Carnegie Hall. I believe she is the only person alive who can answer for the silver mink. It does look like her neck and shoulders though, doesn't it.

Bernhard, if you have a clue, please tell.

Jonathan is correct in his identifications, according to what written information I have seen on this question. Riddle and Lee stand out rather prominently, I would say. Sammy Cahn is wearing his trademark pair of glasses.

Sammy Davis jr. (who is practically not visible on the above scan, but if you have the LP which has a better picture quality than the CD, you will find him, on the right just above Frank's shoulder, in the background, left from the woman who is just about to draw a smoke from her cigarette) has also confirmed this when asked about it during a visit to Germany in 1985.

Bernhard.

Thanks, B&B (and a great brand of liqueur as well!) but the blond doesn't look like Peggy Lee to me! But what do I know! I thought it was that gal Francis dated for a while, whose name absolutely avoids my aging brain!

Oh well, nothing to loose sleep over, for sure!

Have a super week!

[Marty]

The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else), always preferred the swinging version of this particular number that FS did as a duet with Dino on the Judy Garland show.......

[russkish3]

IMHO this album has become lost in the shuffle among so many outstanding titles that teamed Frank Sinatra and Gordon Jenkins. The fact is, this album contains some of the finest efforts between the two. "When No One Cares" gets right to the heart of the matter. What a powerful vocal by The Great Man. "Stormy Weather" has never been presented with such drama. Like an opera in three minutes. "Where Do You Go?" I have always felt could furnish a profound musical backdrop to any public service agency dedicated to assisting the underprivileged. "I Don't Stand A Ghost of A Chance With You" is almost like retro-Sinatra, presenting him in a plaintive setting of lost love. There's more retro Sinatra in "I'll Never Smile Again." My personal favorite is "Here's That Rainy Day," featuring a most-understated string arrangement behind a similarly understated (and yet powerful) vocal by Sinatra. The finale, "None But the Loney Heart," is almost symphonic in its depth and scope. The Jenkins accompaniment sounds like an adagio from a symphony.

The 1959 sound from Capitol Tower is excellent, as is typically the case.

Best regards,

Russell Kishi
Glendale, California

[Yvonne]

This album is outstanding and the perfect companion when you're lovesick.

My personal favourites are:
I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance With You, I Can't Get Started, I Could Have Told You and last but not least:
This Was My Love

And I do agree with you, Russ, the sound is excellent.

[vinvictory]

when no one cares, just friends, a cottage for sale....real great torch songs. too bad the bonus track wasnt on the original...i could have told you...one of my fav sinatra songs...although it wasnt recorded during the original cuts.


vinny b.

Returning to the subject of the LP cover for a moment and irrespective of the celebrities in the background, that image of Frank, drinking alone at the bar, has long fascinated me. Does anyone know whether it's possible to buy an enlargement of the photograph for framing as I'd love to hang it on my wall at home.

Regards

Bob

This is such a beautiful album. Every song on it is impecably done by Mr. S. You can't go wrong with songs like Stormy Weather; I Don't Stand A Ghost of a Chance; Here's that Rainy Day (a real tear jerker); A beautiful rendition of Vernon Duke song, I Can't Get Started, made very popular by Bunny Berigan in 1938; Frank revisiting I'll Never Smile Again (another tear jerker) and The One I Love Belongs To Somebody Else (slow version) beautifully done.

Gordon Jenkins provides excellent arrangements on all these tracks. If you don't have this one, what are you waiting for? Get it. It will provide such listening pleasure.

for me the most moving song is "Cottage for Sale".

Anyone going though a divorce, by choice or otherwise, should refrain from listening to this recording. It captures the feeling of despair that occurs when a marriage has ended.

I agree, Forrest - that's the most intense song on the album (closely followed by "Here's That Rainy Day" and "None But The Lonely Heart"). And Sinatra's heartbroken lyric depicts the scenery so (again, heartbreakingly) real and vivid.

If anyone wants proof for the fact that Frank Sinatra was THE GENIUS OF A CENTURY for lyrical song-singing, I'd urge them to listen to how he sings these lines in "A Cottage For Sale":

"The keeeyss in the maiil-boxxx, the saamme as before -
but no-one is waitinnngg for meeeee anyymooore...
theee ennnnd of our storyyy is there on the dooor...
a cottaagggge
fooo-uh-oooor saaaaaaaaale...."

He sings it SOOOO greatly. And Gordon Jenkins' arrangement underlines this so "deadly". It breaks your heart when you're down-and-out while listening to it (and at the same time, comforts it), but it also breaks your heart in a sense when you are not in a depressive mood (and that, artistically, is even more important I think) because it is simply ABSOLUTELY UNBEVIEABLE how a singer's voice can reach such poignant dimensions in just a few lines of a song.... !!!!

Through the years I have put to words many a ramble on Sinatra's music, but "Cottage" by Sinatra remains one of the tunes that simply can't be written about (haha ok I'm just doing the contrary right now, but what the hell). It is SO poignant and SO perfect and SO lyrically sad, that the only thing you can do, I think, is drop everything, listen to this recording, and marvel at what this guy, Francis Albert Sinatra from Hoboken/NJ, was able to do with a song through his Voice.

God bless you, Frank. You REMAIN THE BEST !!!!



Bernhard.

is SO poignant and SO perfect and SO lyrically sad, that the only thing you can do, I think, is drop everything, listen to this recording, and marvel at what this guy, Francis Albert Sinatra from Hoboken/NJ, was able to do with a song through his Voice.

I prefer to get a bottle of Jack and fight back the tears!

I agree that a bottle of Jack D won't hurt . But be aware of the risks, my friend... Frank Sinatra looks into your heart like no other singer. That's one of his "secrets", I think...

Look to your heart today...

Bernhard.

[Lourdes]

A great album, greats songs, great SINATRA!

These songs are so beautiful, but sad. I don't think I would want Jack Daniels or any other booze while listening to the album. It would hurt even more.

Frank Sinatra looks into your heart like no other singer. That's one of his "secrets", I think...

Very True!

I don't think I would want Jack Daniels or any other booze while listening to the album. It would hurt even more.

If you drink enough, it begins to numb the pain!