Sinatra / Capitol Sound Quality and General Discussion: "Where Are You?" (1957 album)*

Listening to Where Are You? tonight with the house by myself. There's a 3 song sequence on this album that just slays me
and I find myself listening to it over and over again! Lonely Town, Autumn Leaves and I'm A Fool To Want You.

Just vocally and passionately and emotionally mesmerizing!!!!! This is just such good stuff. I feel like a kid at Christmas and
can't believe the whole world doesn't share my experience!

But there's a few of you here that do!

 

Matt I did not know that! Grasshopper here has much to learn!

 

I was thumbing through the Pignone book at Barnes and Noble last night and in it was a shot from this session. From what I could make out, it looked like Frank's music said "I Cover the Waterfront."

Perhaps someone with the book can confirm.

 

If you mean the b&w photo with Gordon Jenkins on page 111 (facing page has one with Peggy Lee), your eyes are better than mine. It does look like the first letter of the title may be "I". If correct that it's "I Cover the Waterfront," that pegs this as the session of April 29, 1957.

Another possibility is "I Think of You," which would make it May 1, 1957.

 

Seems up thread someplace there was mention that the clock read just a little after 9 pm. "Waterfront" was the first song recorded that night, and as I think we've seen with other sessions (the Septemper CDWM comes to mind), many of the pics were snapped early on in the session. Conversely, "I Think of You" was recorded at the end of the May 1 session.

 

"I Think of You" was the second song recorded on May 1, but you're right: Both sessions started at 9 p.m., and "I Cover the Waterfront" was first on April 29. This is the photo with the clock:

 

My mistake regarding "I Think of You." I was using this site as reference, and it says otherwise.

 

I could be mistaken also, but I was using the order shown in Silva's discography. According to the master numbers, "I Think of You" should be last. But all of those numbers are out of sequence with those of the previous session, and Silva takes his data from the session sheets, I think. There's something strange about that master number sequence.

 

A little too bald?

 

Re: Session of May 1, 1957

Nothing to do with the photo theorizing, but more info is found in the O'Brien & Sayers discography. They agree with the song order shown by Silva, with the addition of two footnotes:

E16863 – Where Are You?
E16869 – I Think of You
E16867* – I'm a Fool to Want You
E16868† – Maybe You'll Be There

* Note: Master number was later changed by Capitol to E17040.
† Note: Master number was later changed by Capitol to E17041.

 

AFM sheets have been known to list songs out of sequence, whether or not that's how they were actually recorded. Without being able to listen to session tapes start to finish, it's virtually impossible to know for sure.

 

I think it's a safe bet, though, that the Jazz Discography site you linked was putting them in master number order (using outdated numbers). I've checked two more books (Ridgway and Ackelson), and they both show the order I listed above.

There's still the question of why the master numbers are out of sequence with the previous session. Perhaps there was an earlier, undocumented session for these four songs?

 

Agreed. And just for good measure, the Ruppli discography uses your order as well.

 

The photo I posted above from the new Howick book actually shares a page with another we haven't seen yet in this thread:

 

Ya know, the title on that bottom photograph looks pretty short..."Laura"??? Although, that would completely discredit my theory that the photographs were all taken at the beginning of the session.

 

This picture is not just cool -- it's INSANELY cool!!!

 

I have that picture titled "Autumn in Sinatra" hanging in my hallway.

You can see it online under Gary Moritz. I don't know how to add a photo.

And I have the CD "Twenty Golden Greats" one of if not the first Sinatra CD's I bought.