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Vinyl: Frank Sinatra - The Voice Of Frank Sinatra - 10" LP 33RPM - 1948 CL 6001- V Rare
This extremely rare 1948 recording is not only famous for the silky smooth voice of Frank Sinatra but for being the first 'pop album' catalogue item at 33rpm.
side 1
You go to my head
Someone to watch over me
These foolish things
Why shouldn't I?
Side 2
I don't know why
Try a little tenderness
A ghost of a chance
Paradise
This is a rare find for the Frank Sinatra collectors out there.
Background information
The Voice of Frank Sinatra is the first studio album by American singer Frank Sinatra, released on Columbia Records, catalogue C-112, March 4, 1946. It was first issued as a set of four 78 rpm records totaling eight songs, and went to #1 on the fledgling Billboard chart. It stayed at the top for seven weeks in 1946, spending a total of eighteen weeks on the charts.
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, ironically given the part he would play with Sinatra at Columbia in the early 1950s, oboist Mitch Miller in December. Sinatra would record most of these songs again at later stages in his career.
Certain critics have claimed The Voice to be the first concept album. Beginning in 1939, however, singer Lee Wiley started releasing albums of 78s dedicated to the songs of a single writer, Cole Porter for example, a precursor to the Songbooks sets formulated by Norman Granz and Ella Fitzgerald in 1956. These may loosely be termed concept albums, although Sinatra with The Voice inaugurated his practice of having a common mood, theme, or instrumentation tying the songs together on a specific release.
It also 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.