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{{Infobox album

Name = The Voice of Frank Sinatra |

| name Type = The =Voice [[Albumof (music)|Album]]Frank |Sinatra

| type Artist = [[Frank Sinatra]] |Album

| artist = [[Frank Sinatra]]

Cover = Voiceoffranksinatra.jpg |

| cover = Voiceoffranksinatraoriginal.jpg

Background = Red |

| alt Released = [[March 4]], [[1946]] |=

| released = March 4, 1946

Recorded = [[July 30]], [[1945]] [[Hollywood]]<br>[[December 7]], [[1945]] [[New York City]] |

| recorded = July 30, 1945 Hollywood<br />December 7, 1945 New York City

Genre = [[Vocal]] |

| Lengthvenue = ~~:~~|

| studio =

Label = [[Columbia Records]]<br>[[CBS Records]]|

| genre = [[Traditional pop]]

Producer = |

| Reviewslength = <nowiki></nowiki>24:01

| label = [[Columbia Records|Columbia]] C-112 ([[78 rpm]])<br />Columbia CL-6001 ([[LP album|33 rpm]])<br />[[Legacy Recordings|Legacy]] CK62100

* ''[[All Music Guide]]'' [[Image:4 out of 5.png]] [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:5ekqoarabijx link] |

| producer =

Last album = |

| prev_title =

This album = ''The Voice of Frank Sinatra'' <br /> ([[1946]]) |

| prev_year =

Next album = ''[[Christmas Songs By Sinatra]]'' ([[1948]]) |

| next_title = [[Songs by Sinatra]]

| next_year = 1947

| misc = {{Extra album cover

| header = Alternative cover

| type = studio

| cover = Voiceoffranksinatra.jpg

| border =

| alt =

| caption = The 1948 reissue as the first LP record developed by Columbia Records

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{{Album ratings

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| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>[http://www.allmusic.com/album/voice-of-frank-sinatra-r673839 AllMusic review]</ref>

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'''''The Voice of Frank Sinatra''''' is the debut 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, the individual discs given Columbia 78 catalog numbers 36918, 36919, 36920, and 36921.<ref>[https://sinatrafamily.com/album/the-voice-of-frank-sinatra-1336/ Sinatra Family Discography website retrieved 30 July 2019]</ref> The album went to number 1 on the fledgling ''[[Billboard magazine|Billboard]]'' chart. It stayed at the top for seven weeks in 1946, spending a total of eighteen weeks on the charts. The album chart consisted of just a Top Five until August 1948. The cover depicted is that of the original 78 rpm release cover, also used on the compact disc reissue.

==Content==

'''''The Voice of Frank Sinatra''''' is the first album ever released by [[Frank Sinatra]], on [[Columbia Records]], Set C-112, [[March 4]], [[1946]]. It was first issued as a set of four 78 [[rpm]] records totalling eight songs, and went to #1 on the fledgling [[Billboard]] chart.

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, given the part he played with Sinatra at Columbia in the early 1950s, oboist [[Mitch Miller]] in December. Sinatra recorded most of these songs again at later stages in

It also holds the distinction of being the first pop album evercatalogue releaseditem 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 [[LP album|10"-inch LP]], catalogue number CL 6001 in 1948., with the running order altered from the sequence of the original album of 78s. It was also later issued as two 45 rpm [[Extendedextended play|EPEPs]]s in [[1952]] with catalogue number B-112, a [[LP album|12"-inch LP]] with extraa changed running order including only five of the original tracks in [[1955]] with catalogue number CL-743, and a compact disc, also with extra tracks, in 2003.<ref>Charles L. Granata, ''The Voice of Frank Sinatra''. 2003, [[2003Legacy Records|Columbia Legacy]] CK 62100, [[liner notes]].</ref>

==Track listing==

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 or theme tying the songs together on a specific release.

===10-inch LP release===

{{track listing

|headline=Side one

|title1=[[You Go to My Head]]

|note1=Columbia 36918

|writer1=[[Haven Gillespie]], [[J. Fred Coots]]

|length1=3:00

|title2=[[Someone to Watch Over Me (song)|Someone to Watch Over Me]]

|note2=Columbia 36921

|writer2=[[George Gershwin]], [[Ira Gershwin]]

|length2=3:18

|title3=[[These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)|These Foolish Things]]

|note3=Columbia 36919

|writer3=[[Holt Marvell]], [[Jack Strachey]], [[Harry Link]]

|length3=3:08

|title4=Why Shouldn't I?

|note4=Columbia 36920

|writer4=[[Cole Porter]]

|length4=2:53

}}

{{track listing

|headline=Side two

|title1=[[I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)|I Don't Know Why]]

|note1=Columbia 36918

|writer1=[[Roy Turk]], [[Fred E. Ahlert]]

|length1=2:46

|title2=[[Try a Little Tenderness]]

|note2=Columbia 36920

|writer2=[[Harry M. Woods]], [[Irving King|James Campbell]], [[Irving King|Reginald Connelly]]

|length2=3:08

|title3=[[I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You]]

|note3=Columbia 36919

|writer3=[[Bing Crosby]], [[Ned Washington]], [[Victor Young]]

|length3=3:11

|title4=[[Paradise (1931 song)|Paradise]]

|note4=Columbia 36921

|writer4=[[Nacio Herb Brown]], [[Gordon Clifford (lyricist)|Gordon Clifford]]

|length4=2:37

}}

===2003 reissue bonus tracks===

{{track listing

|title9=[[Mam'selle]]

|writer9=[[Mack Gordon]], [[Edmund Goulding]]

|length9=3:26

|title10=[[That Old Feeling (song)|That Old Feeling]]

|writer10=[[Lew Brown]], [[Sammy Fain]]

|length10=3:19

|title11=[[If I Had You (1928 song)|If I Had You]]

|writer11=[[Ted Shapiro]], Campbell, Connelly

|length11=3:01

|title12=[[The Nearness of You]]

|writer12=Ned Washington, [[Hoagy Carmichael]]

|length12=2:41

|title13=[[Spring is Here]]

|writer13=[[Rodgers and Hart|Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart]]

|length13=2:42

|title14=[[Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread)|Fools Rush In]]

|writer14=[[Johnny Mercer]], [[Rube Bloom]]

|length14=3:01

|title15=When You Awake

|writer15=[[Henry Nemo]]

|length15=3:07

|title16=[[It Never Entered My Mind]]

|writer16=Rodgers, Hart

|length16=3:09

|title17=[[Always (1925 song)|Always]]

|writer17=[[Irving Berlin]]

|length17=2:55

|title18=(I Don't Stand) A Ghost of A Chance (with You)

|writer18=Crosby, Washington, Young

|length18=3:32

|note18=alternate take

}}

===1955 track listing===

{{track listing

|headline=Side one

|title1=I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)

|writer1=Turk, Ahlert

|length1=2:43

|title2=Try a Little Tenderness

|writer2=Woods, Campbell, Connelly

|length2=3:03

|title3=(I Don't Stand) A Ghost of A Chance (with You)

|writer3=Crosby, Washington, Young

|length3=3:16

|title4=Paradise

|writer4=Brown, Clifford

|length4=2:41

|title5=These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)

|writer5=Marvell, Strachey, Link

|length5=3:15

|title6=[[Laura (1945 song)|Laura]]

|writer6=[[Johnny Mercer]], [[David Raksin]]

|length6=3:17

}}

{{track listing

|headline=Side two

|title1=She's Funny That Way

|writer1=[[Neil Moret]], [[Richard A. Whiting]]

|length1=3:25

|title2=Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread)

|writer2=Mercer, Bloom

|length2=3:04

|title3=[[Over The Rainbow]]

|writer3=[[Yip Harburg]], [[Harold Arlen]]

|length3=3:20

|title4=[[That Old Black Magic]]

|writer4=Mercer, Arlen

|length4=2:37

|title5=[[Spring Is Here]]

|writer5=Rodgers, Hart

|length5=2:42

|title6=[[Lover (Rodgers and Hart song)|Lover]]

|writer6=Rodgers, Hart

|length6=2:39

}}

==Personnel==

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.

* [[Frank Sinatra]] – vocal

* [[Axel Stordahl]] – arranger

==Track=New listingYork sessions===

* Leonard Posner. Raoul Polikian – violins

* Sidney Brecher – [[viola]]

* Anthony Sophos – cello

* [[Mitch Miller]] – [[oboe]]

* Matty Golizio – guitar

* [[Bill Clifton (pianist)|Bill Clifton]] – piano

* Frank Siravo – [[double bass|bass]]

* Nat Polen – drums

===Hollywood sessions===

#"You Go To My Head" (H. Gillespie, J.F. Coots) 3:00

* Mischa Russell, David Frisina – violins

#"Someone To Watch Over Me" ([[George Gershwin]], [[Ira Gershwin]]) 3:18

* Sam Freed – viola

#"These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)" (H. Marvell, J. Strachey, H. Link) 3:08

* Fred Goerner – cello

#"Why Shouldn't I?" (C. Porter) 2:53

* Jack Mayhew – flute

#"I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)" (R. Turk, F. Ahlert) 2:46

* [[George Van Eps]] – guitar

#"Try A Little Tenderness" (H. Woods, J. Campbell, R. Connelly) 3:08

* Mark McIntyre – piano

#"(I Don't Stand) A Ghost Of A Chance" ([[Bing Crosby]], N. Washington, V. Young) 3:11

* John Ryan – bass

#"Paradise" (N.H. Brown, G. Clifford) 2:37

* Ray Hagan – drums

===Production personnel===

==Bonus Tracks on 2003 compact disc reissue==

* Bill Richards – producer

* Charles L. Granata, Didier C. Deutsch – compact disc reissue producers

==Charts==

#"Mam'selle" (M. Gordon, E. Goulding) 3:26

;Weekly Charts

#"That Old Feeling" (L. Brown, S. Fain) 3:19

#"If I Had You" (T. Shapiro, J. Campbell, R. Connelly) 3:01

#"The Nearness of You" (N. Washington, H. Carmichael) 2:41

#"Spring Is Here" ([[Lorenz Hart]], [[Richard Rodgers]]) 2:42

#"Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread)" ([[Johnny Mercer]], R. Bloom) 3:01

#"When You Awake" (H. Nemo) 3:07

#"It Never Entered My Mind" (L. Hart, R. Rodgers) 3:09

#"Always" ([[Irving Berlin]]) 2:55

#"(I Don't Stand) A Ghost Of A Chance" (B. Crosby, N. Washington, V. Young) (alternate take) 3:32

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==Personnel==

|-

* [[Frank Sinatra]] - Vocals

! scope="col" | Chart (1946)

* [[Axel Stordahl]] - Arranger, Conductor

! scope="col" | Peak<br/>position

|-

! scope="row" | US ''Billboard'' Best-Selling Popular Record Albums<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3hkEAAAAMBAJ&q=best-selling&pg=PT21|title=Best-Selling Popular Record Albums|date=April 6, 1946|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|access-date=March 29, 2021|page=32|via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>

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|}

;Year-end charts

{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"

|-

! scope="col" | Chart (1946)

! scope="col" | Position

|-

! scope="row" | US ''Billboard'' Best-Selling Popular Record Albums<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=txoEAAAAMBAJ&q=frank+sinatra&pg=PA2|title=Best-Selling Popular Record Albums|date=January 4, 1947|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|access-date=April 7, 2021|page=2|via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>

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