This Love of Mine

1941 RCA Victor 78 release by Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra with vocal refrain by Frank Sinatra.
1941 sheet music cover, Embassy Music, New York

"This Love of Mine" is a popular American song that was first recorded in 1941 by Tommy Dorsey with Frank Sinatra and The Pied Pipers. Attribution – according to the original copyright – states that Sinatra wrote the words and Sol Parker (né Solomon Peskin; 1919–2010) and Hank Sanicola wrote the music.[1]

Authorship attribution

Tony Consiglio (né Anthony J. Consiglio; 1917–2008), Sinatra's boyhood friend and longtime right-hand man, claimed that Sinatra did not write the lyrics; but rather, as a condition for recording it – a condition that Sinatra made with his manager, Hank Sanicola – his name had to be included as lyricist,[2][3] a practice (prevalent during the first half of the 20th century) known as "cutting in." The song was released in 1941 as a 78 single on RCA Victor. Nowadays — given the super-stardom of Sinatra — that particular recording serves as a milestone in Sinatra's early career. Yet, when the recording was made, Sinatra was not a superstar. And to that end, Sinatra was merely a featured sideman – as was the case with most big band vocalists of the swing era. Put another way, in the 1940s, Dorsey, not Sinatra, received most of the notoriety for the recording.

Sol Parker – in a book about Tommy Dorsey written by Peter Levinson in 2005 – remembered it differently. Parker told Levinson that Sinatra influenced the song structure, with the aim of making it more commercial.[4]

Background

The Tommy Dorsey recording was released as a 78 RCA Victor B side single, 27508-B, with Frank Sinatra on vocals backed with "Neiani". The single reached #3 on the Billboard pop singles chart in 1941–42 in a chart run of 24 weeks.[5][6] Sinatra re-recorded the song with Nelson Riddle in 1955 for the In The Wee Small Hours album.

Other recordings

The song became a pop and jazz standard that has been recorded by other performers.[7] Artists who have recorded the song include:

References

  1. ↑ Sinatra and Me: The Very Good Years, by Tony Consiglio, as told to Franz Douskey, Tantor eBooks (2012), Ch 9 (1st pg); OCLC 921817945
  2. ↑ "Songs written or co-written by Frank Sinatra: 'This Love of Mine,'" The Database of Popular Music (London)
  3. ↑ Tommy Dorsey: Livin' in a Great Big Way, A Biography, by Peter J. Levinson, Da Capo Press (2005) pg. 142; OCLC 470983721
  4. ↑ "The Billboard Music Popularity Chart – National and Regional Best Selling Retail Records" (for the week ending January 9, 1942), Billboard, January 17, 1942, pg. 10
  5. ↑ "Song artist 21 - Tommy Dorsey"
  6. ↑ "This Love of Mine,", Second Hand Songs
  7. ↑ "allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved June 19, 2017.

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