By Sol Parker, Henry Sanicola & Frank Sinatra1941
As a way of commemorating the birthday of Frank Sinatra, perhaps the greatest ambassador of the Great American Songbook, we're spotlighting one of the handful of songs he actually had a hand in writing. Possibly his most famous composition (he served as lyricist), "This Love of Mine" was written during Frank's time with the Tommy Dorsey orchestra, and it was Dorsey's band that introduced it, with a record that rose to #3 on the charts. It would forever be associated with the crooner, who re-recorded the tune on his seminal 1955 album In the Wee Small Hours.
Lyrics:
This love of mine goes on and on,
Tho' life is empty since you have gone.
You're always on my mind, tho' out of sight
It's lonesome thru the day,
But oh! the night.
I cry my heart out it's bound to break,
Since nothing matters, let it break.
I ask the sun and the moon,
The stars that shine,
What's to become of it, this love of mine.
Recorded By:
Ella Fitzgerald
Stan Kenton w/Cyd Charisse
Sonny Rollins Quartet
Jack Jones
Ray Charles
HAPPY BIRTHDAY FRANK!
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3 comments:
Another great ballad--also a quodlibet with "Fools Rush In." To avoid repeating lyrics, I added a new stanza before the interlude:
"And in the morning, begin again.
Who am I fooling? Can't win again.
You left me here alone to wait and pine.
I have no pow'r against this love of mine."
Keep up the good work, Brian!
Great stuff, Axe! Frank would be proud.
thank you for your appreciation of my dad's first song written with Frank and Henry Sanicola (soon to become Frank's manager)
I would like to add some artists names that have recorded the song.
Among others - Ray Charles, Shirley Bassey, Nancy Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Ferrante and Teicher.
Barry I. Parker
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