Sinatra-Basie: An Historic Musical First

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Sinatra-Basie: An Historic Musical First
Sinatra-Basie: An Historic Musical First cover
Studio album by Frank Sinatra
Released December 10, 1962
Recorded October 2October 3, 1962, Los Angeles
Genre Jazz, Classic pop
Length 33:05
Label Reprise Records
Professional reviews
Frank Sinatra chronology
Sinatra Sings of Love and Things
(1962)
Sinatra-Basie: An Historic Musical First
(1962)
The Concert Sinatra
(1963)

Sinatra-Basie: An Historic Musical First (or simply Sinatra-Basie) is an album by Frank Sinatra, released in 1962.

As the title indicates, this was the first recording that Sinatra made with the Basie orchestra.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Pennies from Heaven" (Arthur Johnston, Johnny Burke) – 3:29
  2. "Please Be Kind" (Saul Chaplin, Sammy Cahn) – 2:43
  3. "(Love Is) The Tender Trap" (Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 2:37
  4. "Looking at the World Through Rose Colored Glasses" (Jimmy Steiger, Tommy Malie) – 2:32
  5. "My Kind of Girl" (Leslie Bricusse) – 4:37
  6. "I Only Have Eyes for You" (Harry Warren, Al Dubin) – 3:31
  7. "Nice Work If You Can Get It" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:37
  8. "Learnin' the Blues" (Dolores Vicki Silvers) – 4:25
  9. "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down (And Write Myself a Letter)" (Fred Ahlert, Joe Young) – 2:36
  10. "I Won't Dance" (Jerome Kern, Jimmy McHugh, Oscar Hammerstein II, Dorothy Fields, Otto Harbach) – 4:07

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