# The Columbia Years 1943–1952: The Complete Recordings

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The Columbia Years 1943–1952: The Complete Recordings is a 1993 box set album by American singer Frank Sinatra.
This twelve-disc set contains 285 songs Sinatra recorded during his nine-year career with Columbia Records.

## Track listing
### Disc one

* "Close to You" (Al Hoffman, Carl G. Lampl, James Livingston) - 3:17
* "You'll Never Know" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) - 3:00
    Recorded on June 7, 1943
* "Sunday, Monday or Always" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 3:15
* "If You Please" (Burke, Van Heusen) - 2:51
    Recorded on June 22, 1943
* "People Will Say We're in Love" (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) - 3:19
* "Oh What a Beautiful Mornin'" (Rodgers, Hammerstein) - 2:55
    Recorded on August 5, 1943
* "I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night" (Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh) - 2:52
    Recorded on November 3, 1943
* "A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening" (Adamson, McHugh) - 3:13
* "The Music Stopped" (Adamson, McHugh) - 2:59
    Recorded on November 10, 1943
* "If You Are But a Dream (Nat Bonx, Jack Fulton, Moe Jaffe) - 3:03
* "Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week)" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) - 2:43
* "There's No You" - (Tom Adair, Hal Hopper) - 3:26
* "White Christmas" (Irving Berlin) - 3:22
    Recorded on November 14, 1944
* "I Dream of You (More Than You Dream of Me)" - (Marjorie Goetschius, Edna Osser) - 3:07
* "I Begged Her" (Cahn, Styne) - 2:59
* "What Makes the Sunset?" (Cahn, Styne) - 2:54
* "I Fall in Love Too Easily" (Cahn, Styne) - 3:13
    Recorded on December 1, 1944
* "Nancy (With the Laughing Face)" (Phil Silvers, Van Heusen) - 3:19
* "The Cradle Song" (Johannes Brahms) - 3:06
* "Ol' Man River" (Jerome Kern, Hammerstein II) - 4:00
* "Stormy Weather" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 4:13
* "The Charm of You" (Cahn, Styne) - 2:59
    Recorded on December 3, 1944

### Disc two

* "Embraceable You" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 3:16
* "When Your Lover Has Gone" (Einar A. Swan) - 2:52
* "Kiss Me Again" (Henry Blossom, Victor Herbert) - 2:45
* "(I Got a Woman Crazy for Me) She's Funny That Way" (Neil Moret, Richard A. Whiting) - 3:20
    Recorded on December 19, 1944
* "My Melancholy Baby" (Ernie Burnett, George Norton) - 3:08
* "Where or When" (Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 3:13
* "All the Things You Are" (Hammerstein II, Kern) - 3:00
* "Mighty Lak' a Rose" (Ethelbert Nevin, Frank Stanton) - 3:23
    Recorded on January 29, 1945
* "I Should Care" (Cahn, Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston) - 3:00
* "Homesick, That's All" (Gordon Jenkins) - 3:22
* "Dream (When You're Feeling Blue)" (Mercer) - 3:02
* "A Friend of Yours" (Burke, Van Heusen) - 3:01
    Recorded on March 6, 1945
* "Put Your Dreams Away (For Another Day)" (Ruth Lowe, Paul Mann, George David Weiss) - 3:00
* "Over the Rainbow" (Arlen, E.Y. Harburg) - 3:16
* "You'll Never Walk Alone" (Rodgers, Hammerstein II) - 3:25
* "If I Loved You" (Rodgers, Hammerstein II) - 3:03
    Recorded on May 1, 1945
* "Lily Belle" (Irving Taylor, D. Franklin) - 3:29
* "Don't Forget Tonight Tomorrow" (L. Sherin, J. Milton) - 3:02
* "I've Got a Home in That Rock" (Traditional) - 3:10
* "Jesus Is a Rock in That Weary Land" (Traditional) - 3:19
    Recorded on May 16, 1945
* "Stars in Your Eyes" (R. Lopez Mendez, Gabriel Ruiz, M. Greene) - 2:45
* "My Shawl" (S. Adams, Xavier Cugat) - 3:15
    Recorded on May 24, 1945

### Disc three

* "Someone to Watch Over Me" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) - 3:19
* "You Go to My Head" (John Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) - 3:00
* "These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)" (Jack Strachey, Harry Link, Holt Marvell) - 3:08
* "I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)" (Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk) - 2:47
    Recorded on July 30, 1945
* "The House I Live In (That's America to Me)" (Lewis Allan, Earl Robinson) - 3:20
* "Day By Day" (Cahn, Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston) - 3:08
* "Nancy (With the Laughing Face)" - 3:20
* "You Are Too Beautiful" (Rodgers, Hart) - 3:01
    Recorded on August 22, 1945
* "America the Beautiful" (Katherine Lee Bates, Samuel Ward) - 2:32
* "Silent Night, Holy Night" (Joseph Mohr, Franz Gruber) - 3:14
* "The Moon Was Yellow (And the Night Was Young)" (Ahlert, Edgar Leslie) - 2:58
* "I Only Have Eyes for You" (Warren, Al Dubin) - 3:13
    Recorded on August 27, 1945
* "The Old School Teacher" (Willard Robison) - 3:12
* "Just An Old Stone House" (Alec Wilder) - 3:17
    Recorded on November 15, 1945
* "Full Moon and Empty Arms" (Sergei Rachmaninoff, Ted Mossman, Buddy Kaye) - 3:13
* "Oh! What It Seemed to Be" (George David Weiss, Bernie Benjamin, Frank Carle) - 2:59
* "I Have But One Heart" (Marty Symes, J. Farrow) - 3:13
    Recorded on November 30, 1945
* "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You" (Bing Crosby, Ned Washington, Victor Young)
* "Why Shouldn't I?" (Cole Porter)
* "Try a Little Tenderness" (Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly, Harry Woods)
* "Paradise" (Gordon Clifford, Nacio Herb Brown)
    Recorded on December 7, 1945
* "All Through the Day" (Hammerstein II, Kern)
* "One Love" (Leo Robin, D. Rose)
* "Two Hearts Are Better Than One" (Johnny Mercer, Kern)
* "How Cute Can You Be?" (Carl Fischer, Bill Carey)
    Recorded on February 3, 1946

### Disc four

* "From This Day Forward" (Leigh Harline, M. Greene)
* "Where Is My Bess?" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin, DuBose Heyward)
* "Begin the Beguine" (Porter)
* "Something Old, Something New" (R. Idriss, G. Tibbles)
    Recorded on February 24, 1946
* "They Say It's Wonderful" (Irving Berlin)
* "That Old Black Magic" (Harold Arlen, Mercer)
* "The Girl That I Marry" (Berlin)
* "I Fall In Love with You Ev'ry Day" (Sam Stept)
* "How Deep Is the Ocean (How Blue Is the Sky)" (Berlin)
* "Home on the Range" (Traditional)
* "The Song Is You" (Hammerstein II, Kern)
    Recorded on March 10, 1946
* "Soliloquy (Parts 1 & 2)" (Rodgers, Hammerstein II)
* "Somewhere In the Night" (Joseph Myrow, Gordon)
* "Could'ja?" (Fischer, Carey)
* "Five Minutes More" (Cahn, Styne)
    Recorded on May 28, 1946
* "The Things We Did Last Summer" (Cahn, Styne)
* "You'll Know When It Happens" (Carmen Lombardo, John Jacob Loeb)
* "This Is the Night" (R. Evans, L. Bellin)
* "The Coffee Song (They've Got an Awful Lot of Coffee in Brazil)" (Bob Hilliard, Dick Miles)
    Recorded on July 24, 1946
* "Among My Souvenirs" (Leslie, H. Nicholls)
* "I Love You" (Bob Wright, Chet Forrest, Edvard Grieg)
* "September Song" (Kurt Weill, Maxwell Anderson)
* "Blue Skies" (Berlin)
* "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry" (Cahn, Styne)
    Recorded on July 30, 1946

### Disc five

* "Adeste Fideles (O, Come All Ye Faithful)" (Traditional)
* "Lost in the Stars" (Weill, Anderson)
* "Jingle Bells" (J. S. Pierpont)
* "Falling in Love with Love" (Rodgers, Hart)
    Recorded on August 8, 1946
* "Hush-A-Bye Island" (Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh)
* "So They Tell Me" (H. Mott, J. Gale, Arthur Kent)
* "There's No Business Like Show Business" (Berlin)
* "(Once Upon) A Moonlight Night" (Sidney Clare, Irving Bibo)
    Recorded on August 22, 1946
* "Strange Music" (Wright, Forrest, Grieg)
* "Poinciana (Song of the Tree)" (Buddy Bernier, Nat Simon)
* "The Music Stopped" (Adamson, McHugh)
* "Why Shouldn't It Happen to Us?" (Alberta Nichols, Mann Holiner)
    Recorded on October 15, 1946
* "Time After Time" (Cahn, Styne)
* "It's the Same Old Dream" (Cahn, Styne)
* "I'm Sorry I Made You Cry" (N. J. Clesi)
    Recorded on October 24, 1946
* "None But the Lonely Heart" (Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, B. Westbrook)
* "The Brooklyn Bridge" (Cahn, Styne)
* "I Believe" (Cahn, Styne)
* "I Got a Gal I Love (In North & South Dakota)" (Cahn, Styne)
    Recorded on October 31, 1946
* "The Dum-Dot Song (I Put a Penny In the Gum Slot)" (J. Kay)
* "All of Me" (Seymour Simons, Gerald Marks)
* "It's All Up to You" (Cahn, Styne)
* "My Romance" (Rodgers, Hart)
    Recorded on November 7, 1946

### Disc six

* "Always" (Berlin)
* "I Want to Thank Your Folks" (Weiss, Benjamin)
* "That's How Much I Love You" (Eddy Arnold, Wally Fowler, J. G. Hall)
* "You Can Take My Word for It Baby" (Russ Freeman, Irving Taylor)
    Recorded on December 15, 1946
* "Sweet Lorraine" (Mitchell Parish, Cliff Burwell)
    Recorded on December 17, 1946
* "Always"
* "I Concentrate on You" (Porter)
* "My Love for You" (Harry Jacobson, Edward Heyman)
    Recorded on January 9, 1947
* "Mam'selle" (Gordon, Edmund Goulding)
* "Ain'tcha Ever Comin' Back" (Stordahl, Weston, Taylor)
* "Stella By Starlight" (Washington, Young)
    Recorded on March 11, 1947
* "There But For You Go I" (Alan Lerner, Frederick Loewe)
* "Almost Like Being In Love" (Lerner, Loewe)
    Recorded on March 31, 1947
* "Tea for Two" (Vincent Youmans, Irving Caesar)
* "My Romance" (Rodgers, Hart)
    Recorded on April 25, 1947
* "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin)
* "Christmas Dreaming (A Little Early This Year)" (Irving Gordon, L. Lee)
* "The Stars Will Remember (So Will I)" (Don Pelosi, Leo Towers)
* "It All Came True" (Sunny Skylar)
    Recorded on July 3, 1947
* "That Old Feeling" (Lew Brown, Sammy Fain)
* "If I Had You" (Campbell, Connelly, Ted Shapiro)
* "The Nearness of You" (Hoagy Carmichael, Washington)
* "One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)" (Arlen, Mercer)
    Recorded on August 11, 1947

### Disc seven

* "But Beautiful" (Van Heusen, Burke)
* "A Fellow Needs a Girl" (Rodgers, Hammerstein II)
* "So Far" (Rodgers, Hammerstein II)
    Recorded on August 17, 1947
* "It All Came True"
    Recorded on September 23, 1947
* "Can't You Just See Yourself?" (Cahn, Styne)
* "You're My Girl" (Cahn, Styne)
* "All of Me"
    Recorded on October 19, 1947
* "I'll Make Up for Ev'rything" (R. Parker)
* "Strange Music"
* "Laura" (Mercer, David Raksin)
* "Night and Day" (Porter)
    Recorded on October 22, 1947
* "My Cousin Louella" (B. Bierman, J. Manus)
* "We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye" (Woods)
* "S'posin'" (Andy Razaf, Paul Denniker)
    Recorded on October 24, 1947
* "Just for Now" (D. Redmond)
* "None But the Lonely Heart"
* "The Night We Called It a Day" (Matt Dennis, Tom Adair)
* "The Song Is You"
    Recorded on October 26, 1947
* "What'll I Do?" (Berlin)
* "Poinciana (Song of the Tree)"
* "(I Offer You the Moon) Senorita" (Heyman, Brown)
* "The Music Stopped" (Adamson, McHugh)
    Recorded on October 29, 1947

### Disc eight

* "Mean to Me" (Ahlert, Turk)
* "Spring Is Here" (Rodgers, Hart)
* "Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread)" (Mercer, Rube Bloom)
    Recorded on October 31, 1947
* "When You Wake" (Henry Nemo)
* "It Never Entered My Mind" (Rodgers, Hart)
* "I've Got a Crush on You" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin)
    Recorded on November 5, 1947
* "Body and Soul" (Johnny Green, Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton)
* "I'm Glad There Is You" (Jimmy Dorsey, Paul Madeira Mertz)
    Recorded on November 9, 1947
* "I Went Down to Virginia" (Dave Mann, R. Evans)
* "If I Only Had a Match" (Arthur Johnston, L. Morris, George W. Meyer)
    Recorded on November 25, 1947
* "If I Steal a Kiss" (Heyman, Brown)
* "Autumn in New York" (Vernon Duke)
* "Everybody Loves Somebody" (Taylor, Ken Lane)
    Recorded on December 4, 1947
* "A Little Learnin' Is a Dangerous Thing, Part 1" (Sy Oliver, D. Jacobs)
* "A Little Learnin' Is a Dangerous Thing, Part 2"
* "Ever Homeward" (Cahn, Styne)
    Recorded on December 8, 1947
* "But None Like You" (Ray Noble)
* "Catana" (Ed DeLange, A. Newman)
    Recorded on December 26, 1947
* "Why Was I Born?" (Hammerstein II, Kern)
* "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" (Richard S. Willis, Edmund H. Sears)
* "O Little Town of Bethlehem" (Lewis H. Redner, Phillips Brooks)
* "White Christmas" (Berlin)
* "For Every Man There's a Woman" (Arlen, Robin)
    Recorded on December 28, 1947

### Disc nine

* "Help Yourself to My Heart" (B. Kaye, S. Timberg)
* "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" (John Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie)
    Recorded on December 28, 1947
* "If I Forget You" (Caesar)
* "Where Is the One?" (Wilder, E. Finckel)
* "When Is Sometime?" (Van Heusen, Burke)
    Recorded on December 30, 1947
* "It Only Happens When I Dance With You" (Berlin)
* "A Fella With an Umbrella" (Berlin)
    Recorded on March 16, 1948
* "Nature Boy" (Eden Ahbez)
    Recorded on April 10, 1948
* "Sunflower" (David)
    Recorded on December 6, 1948
* "Once In Love With Amy" (Frank Loesser)
    Recorded on December 14, 1948
* "Once in Love With Amy"
* "Why Can't You Behave?" (Porter)
* "Bop! Goes My Heart" (Styne, W. Bishop)
    Recorded on December 15, 1948
* "Comme Ci Comme Ca" (Joan Whitney, Alex Kramer, P. Dudan, B. Coquatrix)
* "No Orchids for My Lady" (Jack Strachey, A. Stranks)
* "While the Angelus Was Ringing (Les Trois Cloches)" (Dick Manning, J. Villard)
    Recorded on December 19, 1948
* "If You Stub Your Toe On the Moon" (Van Heusen, Burke)
* "Kisses and Tears" (Cahn, Styne)
    Recorded on January 4, 1949
* "Some Enchanted Evening" (Rodgers, Hammerstein II)
* "Bali Ha'i" (Rodgers, Hammerstein II)
    Recorded on February 28, 1949
* "The Right Girl for Me" (Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Roger Edens)
* "Night After Night" (Cahn, Stordahl, Weston)
    Recorded on March 3, 1949
* "The Hucklebuck" (Alfred, Gibson)
* "It Happens Every Spring" (Myrow, Gordon)
    Recorded on April 10, 1949

### Disc ten

* "Let's Take an Old-Fashioned Walk" (Berlin)
* "(Just One Way to Say) I Love You" (Berlin)
    Recorded on May 6, 1949
* "It All Depends On You" (Brown, Buddy DeSylva, Ray Henderson)
* "Bye Bye Baby" (Robin, Styne)
* "Don't Cry Joe (Let Her Go, Let Her Go, Let Her Go)" (Al Piantados, Joe Marsala)
    Recorded on July 10, 1949
* "Every Man Should Marry" (Silver, Benny Davis)
* "If I Ever Love Again" (R. Carlyle, D. Reynolds)
    Recorded on July 14, 1949
* "We're Just a Kiss Apart" (Leo Robin, Jule Styne)
* "Every Man Should Marry"
* "The Wedding of Lili Marlene" (T. Connor, J. Reine)
    Recorded on July 21, 1949
* "That Lucky Old Sun" (Gillespie, B. Smith)
* "Mad About You" (Washington, Young)
* "(On the Island of) Stromboli" (Taylor, Lane)
    Recorded on September 15, 1949
* "The Old Master Painter" (Gillespie, Smith)
* "Why Remind Me?" (D. Tauber, S. Willner)
    Recorded on October 30, 1949
* "Sorry" (Richard Whiting, Anna Sosenko, Buddy Pepper)
* "Sunshine Cake" (Van Heusen, Burke)
* "(We've Got A) Sure Thing" (Van Heusen, Burke)
    Recorded on November 8, 1949
* "God's Country" (Gillespie, Smith)
* "Sheila" (Frank Sinatra, B. Hayward, R. Staver)
* "Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy" (Harry Stone, Jack Stapp)
    Recorded on January 12, 1950
* "Kisses and Tears"
* "When the Sun Goes Down" (LeRoy Carr)
    Recorded on February 23, 1950
* "American Beauty Rose" (R. Evans, Arthur Altman, David)
    Recorded on March 10, 1950

### Disc eleven

* "Peachtree Street" (Sinatra, L. Mason, J. Saunders)
    Recorded on April 8, 1950
* "Should I (Reveal)" (Brown, Freed)
* "You Do Something to Me" (Porter)
* "Lover" (Rodgers, Hart)
    Recorded on April 14, 1950
* "When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You)" (Joe Goodwin, Larry Shay, Marvin Fisher)
* "It's Only a Paper Moon" (Arlen, Erwin 'Yip' Harburg, Billy Rose)
* "My Blue Heaven" (Walter Donaldson, George Whiting)
* "The Continental" (Herb Magidson, Con Conrad)
    Recorded on April 24, 1950
* "Goodnight, Irene" (H. Ledbetter, J. Lomax)
* "Dear Little Boy of Mine" (J. K. Brennan, Ernest R. Ball)
    Recorded on June 28, 1950
* "Life Is So Peculiar" (Van Heusen, Burke)
    Recorded on August 2, 1950
* "Accidents Will Happen" (Van Heusen, Burke)
* "One Finger Melody" (Hoffman, Kermit Goell, Fred Spielman)
    Recorded on September 18, 1950
* "Remember Me in Your Dreams" (David, Marty Nevins)
* "If Only She'd Look My Way" (Ivor Novello, A. Melville)
* "London By Night" (Carroll Coates)
* "Meet Me at the Copa" (Cahn, Stordahl)
    Recorded on September 21, 1950
* "Come Back to Sorrento (Torna A Surriento)" (Claude Aveling, Ernesto DeCurtis)
* "April in Paris" (Duke, Harburg)
* "I Guess I'll Have to Dream the Rest" (Mickey Stoner, Bud Green, Martin Block)
* "Nevertheless (I'm In Love With You)" (Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby)
    Recorded on November 5, 1950
* "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" (Cahn, Styne)
    Recorded on October 9, 1950
* "Take My Love" (Jack Wolf, Joel Herron, Sinatra)
* "I Am Loved" (Porter)
* "You Don't Remind Me" (Porter)
    Recorded on November 11, 1950
* "Love Means Love" (Carl Sigman, Bonnie Lake)
* "Cherry Pies 'Ought to Be You" (Porter)
    Recorded on December 11, 1950

### Disc twelve

* "Faithful" (Jimmy Kennedy, A. Alstone)
* "You're the One" (Washington, Young)
* "There's Something Missing" (Weiss, Benjamin, J. Rule, R. O'Brien, M. Downe)
    Recorded on January 16, 1951
* "Hello, Young Lovers" (Rodgers, Hammerstein II)
* "We Kiss in a Shadow" (Rodgers, Hammerstein II)
    Recorded on March 2, 1951
* "I Whistle a Happy Tune" (Rodgers, Hammerstein II)
* "I'm a Fool to Want You" (Wolf, Herron, Sinatra)
* "Love Me" (Washington, Young)
    Recorded on March 27, 1951
* "Mama Will Bark" (Manning)
* "It's a Long Way (From Your House to My House)" (Sid Tepper, Roy Brodsky)
    Recorded on May 10, 1951
* "Castle Rock" (Ervin Drake, J. Shirl, Al Sears)
* "Farewell, Farewell to Love" (Wolf, George Siravo)
* "Deep Night" (Rudy Vallée, Charlie Henderson)
    Recorded on July 19, 1951
* "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" (Eddie Green)
    Recorded on October 16, 1951
* "I Could Write a Book" (Rodgers, Hart)
* "I Hear a Rhapsody" (George Fragos, Jack Baker, Dick Gasparre)
* "Walking In the Sunshine" (B. Merrill)
    Recorded on January 7, 1952
* "My Girl" (C. Freed)
* "Feet of Clay" (Joan Whitney, Alex Kramer, Hy Zaret)
* "Don't Ever Be Afraid to Go Home" (Sigman, Bob Hilliard)
    Recorded on February 6, 1952
* "Luna Rossa (Blushing Moon)" (Goell, V. De Crescenzo, A. Vian)
* "The Birth of the Blues" (Brown, DeSylva, Henderson)
* "Azure-Te (Paris Blues)" (Wolf, Davis)
* "Tennessee Newsboy (The Newsboy Blues)" (Percy Faith, Manning)
* "Bim Bam Baby" (Sammy Mysels)
    Recorded on June 3, 1952
* "Why Try to Change Me Now?" (Cy Coleman, Joseph McCarthy)
    Recorded on September 17, 1952

## Personnel

* Frank Sinatra - Vocals

## Production

* Executive Producer: Jerry Shulman
* Producer: Didier C. Deutsch
* Associate Producer: Mark Wilder
* Project Director: Gary Pacheco
* Associated Executive Producer: Ria Curley
* Liner notes: Will Friedwald