Come Fly With Me:
Sinatra on Capitol

capitol CDP 7 48469 2

Billy May and Frank Sinatra finally got together to record again...for the first time on October 1, 3, 8, 1957. After those May "sound-alike" sides of April 30, 1953, Billy was finally able to record with Frank. Come Fly With Me became Frank's first #1 Chart Album and was Capitol's second stereo production. Bill May's arrangements were full blown for brass, with fast tempos but he also showed that he could arrange for strings.

This is the album that contained On The Road To Mandalay which was not amusing to the Rudyard Kipling estate. Kipling's poem was still in copyright in Great Britain and when EMI released the album, the song was deleted with the earlier recording of Chicago taking its place. You can hear Sinatra joke about it on his CD, Sinatra-A Tour de Force: the legendary concert in Melbourne, Australia in 1959 with the Red Norvo Quintet (Bravura CD-102).

TRACKS:

• 1. Come Fly With Me (Jimmy Van Heusen-Sammy Cahn)
• 2. Around The World (Victor Young-Harold Adamson)
• 3. Isle Of Capri (Will Grosz-Jimmy Kennedy)
• 4. Moonlight In Vermont (Karl Suessdorf-John Blackburn)
• 5. Autumn In New York (Vernon Duke)
• 6. On The Road To Mandalay (Oley Speaks-Rudyard Kipling)
• 7. Let's Get Away From It All (Matt Dennis-Tom Adair)
• 8. April In Paris (Vernon Duke-E.Y. "Yip" Harburg)
• 9. London By Night (Carroll Coates)
• 10. Brazil (Ary Barroso-Bob Russell)
• 11. Blue Hawaii (Ralph Rainger-Leo Robin)
• 12. It's Nice To Go Trav'ling (Jimmy Van Heusen-Sammy Cahn)
• 13. Chicago (Fred Fisher)
• 14. South Of The Border (Jimmy Kennedy-Michael Carr)
• 15. I Love Paris (Cole Porter)