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Formats and Editions
1. Disc One
2. That's My Desire
3. Shine
4. That Lucky Old Sun
5. Mule Train
6. The Cry Of The Wild Goose
7. Swamp Girl (Soprano: Loulie Jean Norman)
8. Music, Maestro, Please
9. Dream A Little Dream Of Me
10. Nevertheless
11. Jezebel
12. Rose, Rose, I Love You
13. Pretty Eyed Baby (With Jo Stafford)
14. In The Cool, Cool, Cool Of The Evening (With Jo Stafford)
15. Wonderful, Wasn't It
16. The Girl In The Wood
17. Hey, Good Lookin' (With Jo Stafford)
18. Gambella (The Gamblin' Lady) (With Jo Stafford)
19. Jealousy
20. One For My Baby
21. Love Is Such A Cheat
22. When It's Sleepy Time Down South
23. The Gandy Dancers' Ball
24. Hambone (With Jo Stafford)
25. To Be Worthy Of You
26. That's How It Goes
27. Sugarbush (With Doris Day)
28. High Noon
29. Rock Of Gibraltar
30. There's A Rainbow Round My Shoulder
31. Settin' The Woods On Fire (With Jo Stafford)
32. I'm Just A Poor Bachelor
33. I Believe
34. Your Cheatin' Heart
35. Ramblin' Man
36. Tell Me A Story (With Jimmy Boyd)
37. Where The Winds Blow
38. Hey Joe!
39. Answer Me
40. Blowing Wild
41. Granada
42. The Kid's Last Fight
43. Some Day
44. There Must Be A Reason
45. My Friend
46. Rain, Rain, Rain (With The Four Lads)
47. In The Beginning
48. Cool Water
49. Strange Lady In Town
50. Humming Bird
51. Hawk-Eye
52. A Woman In Love
53. Sixteen Tons
54. Hell Hath No Fury
55. Moonlight Gambler
56. Love Is A Golden Ring
57. Up Above My Head (With Johnnie Ray)
58. Good Evening Friends (With Johnnie Ray)
59. Rawhide
More Info:
The mighty Frankie Laine was something of a late starter, having already been scuffling for some fifteen years before registering his first hit 'That's My Desire' in 1946. He nonetheless quickly established himself as a major newcomer, becoming one of the world's biggest singing stars between the late 1940s and mid 50. Initially, he was perceived to be a hybrid R&B/Jazz singer, but he was rather more than that, being the first of a "new breed" of white Pop singer, eschewing the popular crooning style of Crosby and Sinatra and instead, drawing from Blues stylists like Joe Turner and Jimmy Rushing. Over the course of his career he notched up the best part of a hundred hit records, worldwide. This compilation presents Frankie's fifty-eight biggest hits between 1947-62, accounting for some seventy-to-eighty million record sales between them.
