Friday with Frank #3

Here is one of the best of the medleys Frank performed on his 1960s television specials. This one is from "Francis Albert Sinatra Does His Thing" and was aired by NBC on November 25, 1968.

The medley consists of parts of four songs.
First heard is the verse of Rodgers and Hart's "Glad to Be Unhappy" from the 1936 musical "On Your Toes."  Then we hear Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke's "Here's That Rainy Day" from the 1953 Broadway show "Carnival in Flanders." Next up is "It Never Entered My Mind," another Rodgers and Hart classic. In his later years, Frank used a Nelson Riddle arrangement of the song, along with "The Gal That Got Away" in his concerts. You can find it on the "She Shot Me Down" album. Back to this medley, Frank next sings Allie Wrubel and Herb Magidson's "Gone With The Wind" from 1936, before reprising a bit of "Here's that Rainy Day" and driving away.

Well, since I mentioned it, we might as well take a listen to the "Gal That Got Away/It Never Entered My Mind" medley. "The Man That Got Away" was written by Harold Arlen and Ira Gershwin for Judy Garland's "A Star is Born." Frank changed the words a bit and recorded it originally in 1954. This performance of the medley is from Carnegie Hall in 1980.

 

And because he only sang a part of the verse from one of my favorite songs, let's hear the whole thing. Rodgers and Hart's "Glad to Be Unhappy," recorded in 1955 and arranged by Nelson Riddle for the "In the Wee Small Hours" album - widely recognized as being the first concept album ever recorded, where all the songs revolve around a certain theme, in this case, lost love.