Come Fly with Me (album)

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Come Fly with Me

Studio album by Frank Sinatra
Released	1958
Recorded	October 1-October 8, 1957 Capitol Studio A, Hollywood
Genre	Jazz Vocal
Length	46:08
Label	Capitol Records
Producer(s)	Voyle Gilmore
All Music Guide (5/5) link
Frank Sinatra chronology
A Jolly Christmas From Frank Sinatra (1957)	Come Fly With Me (1958)	This Is Sinatra Volume 2 (1958)

Come Fly with Me is an album by American singer Frank Sinatra, released in 1958.

This was Sinatra's first collaboration with arranger/conductor Billy May. It was designed as a musical trip around the world. The title track was written at Sinatra's request.

EMI producer George Martin (EMI had recently purchased Capitol Records) mentioned in his autobiography All You Need is Ears that he visited the Capitol Tower and witnessed the recording sessions. Everything went well until Sinatra was shown the mockup of the album cover which he expressed an intense dislike for as it looked like a commercial tie-in with TWA.

[edit] Track listing

"Come Fly with Me" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 3:19
"Around the World" (Victor Young, Harold Adamson) – 3:20
"Isle of Capri" (Will Grosz, Jimmy Kennedy) – 2:29
"Moonlight in Vermont" (Karl Suessdorf, John Blackburn) – 3:32
"Autumn in New York" (Vernon Duke) – 4:37
"On the Road to Mandalay" (Oley Speaks, Rudyard Kipling) – 3:28
"Let's Get Away From It All" (Matt Dennis, Tom Adair) – 2:11
"April in Paris" (Vernon Duke, E.Y. Harburg) – 2:50
"London By Night" (Carroll Coates) – 3:50
"Brazil" (Ary Barrosa, Bob Russell) – 2:55
"Blue Hawaii" (Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger) – 2:44
"It's Nice to go Trav'ling" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 3:52
"Chicago" (Fred Fisher) – 2:14
"South of the Border" (Jimmy Kennedy, Michael Carr) – 2:50
"I Love Paris" (Cole Porter) – 1:49

The last three songs are bonus tracks on the compact disc release. They are from sessions in 1957, 1953 and 1960 respectively. They were arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.