The Columbia Years 1943–1952: The Complete Recordings

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)