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Originals - World of Frank Sinatra

Artist Song
Billie Holiday  All of Me  
Liza Minnelli  Theme from New York, New York  
Bing Crosby  I've Got the World On a String  
Robert Alda  Luck Be A Lady  
Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra  The Lady Is a Tramp  
The Kingston Trio  It Was a Very Good Year (Remastered)  
Claude François  Comme d'habitude  
Ethel Merman  I Get a Kick Out of You  
Fred Astaire  The Way You Look Tonight  
Johnny Mathis  Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)  
Ruth Gaylor  My Funny Valentine  
Fred Astaire  They Can't Take That Away from Me  
Vivienne Segal  Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered  

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[i]What? You mean these songs aren't Sinatra's[/i] own [i]originals?[/i] Believe it or not, Frank was just as gifted a listener as he was a singer, and he cast his net wider than you might expect to harvest his hits. Fred Astaire's catalog proved a fertile field for Frank, and the greatest dancer in Hollywood history brings his white-tie-and-tails elegance to the 1947 debut of "One for My Baby," which sounds like more of a salon song than a saloon song in Fred's hands. Liza Minnelli belts one to the Big Apple bleachers in her show-stopping ode to America's favorite city, "Theme from New York, New York." And '60s folksters the Kingston Trio set aside their hootenannying ways for a subdued, almost bittersweet acoustic treatment of "It Was a Very Good Year." As you probe deeper, you'll not only be amazed at Sinatra's ability to stamp his identity onto virtually any style or song that crossed his path, but you'll also hear just why he was so attracted to these tunes.
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