All Alone (Frank Sinatra album) explained

All Alone is the twenty-seventh studio album by American singer Frank Sinatra, released in October 1962.

Originally, All Alone was going to be titled Come Waltz with Me. Although the title and the accompanying specially written title song were dropped before the album's release, the album remained a stately collection of waltzes, arranged and conducted by Gordon Jenkins. The original title track is included as a bonus track on the 1992 compact disc release of the album. This was the first studio album from Sinatra not to make the U.S. Top Twenty since 1950.

All of the tracks on the album are torch songs, hence the lonely name of the album. Five of the tracks were written by Irving Berlin.

The cover is a trimmed portion of a painting that hung in Sinatra's Palm Springs home.

Track listing

Side 1:

1. "All Alone" (Irving Berlin) – 2:42
2. "The Girl Next Door" (Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane) – 3:18
3. "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" (Roy Turk, Lou Handman) – 3:31
4. "Charmaine", (Erno Rapee, Lew Pollack) – 3:17
5. "What'll I Do?" (Berlin) – 3:15
6. "When I Lost You" (Berlin) – 3:43

Side 2:

1. (7) "Oh, How I Miss You Tonight" (Benny Davis, Joe Burke, Mark Fisher) – 3:21
2. (8) "Indiscreet" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 3:52
3. (9) "Remember" (Berlin) – 3:23
4. (10) "Together" (B.G. DeSylva, Lew Brown, Ray Henderson, Stephen Ballantine) – 3:21
5. (11) "The Song is Ended (But The Melody Lingers On)" (Berlin) – 3:25

CD reissue bonus tracks not included on the original 1962 release:

1. (12) "Come Waltz With Me" (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 2:53

Complete Personnel

• Frank Sinatra - vocals
• Gordon Jenkins - arranger, conductor

Tracks 1, 4, 6, 11:

15-January-1962 (Monday) - Hollywood. United Recording (from 8 to 11 P.M.).

Vincent DeRosa, Richard Perissi, John Cave (fr-h); Bert Gassman, Wayne Songer (clt); Lloyd Hildebrand (b-clt); Harry Klee (fl/clt); Sheridon Stokes (cit); Emo Neufeld, Dan Lube, Paul Shure, Lou Raderman, Israel Baker, Ralph Schaeffer, Jacques Gasselin, Marshall Sosson, Joseph Quadri, Joseph Livoti, Felix Slatkin, Victor Amo, David Frisina, Amerigo Marino, Walter Edelstein, Nicholas Pisani (vln); Louis Kievman, Paul Robyn, Ray Menhennick, Alvin Dinkin (vla); Armand Kaproff, Ray Kramer (vlc); Kathryn Thompson Vail (harp); Bill Miller (p); Al Hendrickson (g); Jack Ryan (b); Nick Fatool (d/chimes); Norma Zimmer (voe [l]).

Tracks 2, 8, 9, 10:

16-January-1962 (Tuesday) - Hollywood. United Recording (from 8 to 11 P.M.).

Vincent DeRosa, Richard Perissi, John Cave (fr-h); Bert Gassman, Wayne Songer, Sheridon Stokes (wwd); Lloyd Hildebrand (b-clt); Harry Klee (fl/cit); Emo Neufeld, Dan Lube, Paul Shure, Lou Raderman, Israel Baker, Ralph Schaeffer, Jacques Gasselin, Marshall Sasson, Joseph Quadri, Joseph Livoti, Felix Slatkin, Victor Amo, David Frisina, Amerigo Marino, Walter Edelstein, Samuel Cytron (vln); Louis Kievman, Paul Robyn, Ray Menhennick, Alvin Dinkin (via); Armand Kaproff, Ray Kramer (vie); Kathryn Thompson Vail (harp); Bill Miller (p); Al Hendrickson (g); Jack Ryan (b); Nick Fatool (d/chimes).

Tracks 3, 5, 7, 12:

17-January-1962 (Wednesday) - Hollywood. United Recording (from 8 to 11 P.M.).

Vincent DeRosa, Richard Perissi, John Cave (fr-h); Norman Benno, Wayne Songer, Sheridon Stokes (wwd); Lloyd Hildebrand (b-clt); Harry Klee (fl/cit); Emo Neufeld, Dan Lube, Paul Shure, Lou Raderman, Israel Baker, Ralph Schaeffer, Jacques Gasselin, Marshall Sosson, Joseph Quadri, Joseph Livoti, Felix Slatkin, Victor Arno, Samuel Cytron, Amerigo Marino, Walter Edelstein, Joe Stepansky (vln); Louis Kievman, Paul Robyn, Ray Menhennick, Alvin Dinkin (via); Armand Kaproff, Ray Kramer (vlc); Kathryn Thompson Vail (harp); Bill Miller (p); Al Hendrickson (g); Jack Ryan (b); Nick Fatool (d).