When Frank Sinatra broke away from Tommy Dorsey to start his solo career, he brought along the longtime and popular Dorsey arranger Axel Stordahl to be his music director for radio and records to the big screen. Axel's success with Sinatra made him the go-to arranger for other musicians in the Capitol Records lineup and even gave him the opportunity to release his own albums. Axel Stordahl's debut album Dreamtime - The Strings of Stordahl came out in 1953 on Capitol.
Here is the discography surrounding Axel Stordahl's debut album:
Foolish Tears (1950 single with His Orchestra)
Sadie Thompson's Song (1953 single with His Orchestra)
Carefree (1953 single with His Orchestra)
The Piccolino (1953 single with His Orchestra) Dreamtime - The Strings of Stordahl
Dreamtime - The String of Stordahl by Axel Stordahl
The album cover for our last stop, Smash Song Hits by Rodgers & Hart is considered to be the very first album cover. The cover was designed by legendary graphic designer Alex Steinweiss, who also invented the concept and pitched it to record executives. Steinweiss would go on to design hundreds of album covers including the cover for Frank Sinatra's debut album The Voice of Frank Sinatra released in 1946 on Columbia Records.
Here is the discography surrounding Frank Sinatra's debut album:
Our Love (1939 personal recording)
Harry James and His Orchestra Featuring Frank Sinatra: The Complete Recordings Nineteen Thirty-Nine (compilation album with Harry James and His Orchestra)
The Song Is You (compilation album with Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra)
The Lamplighter's Serenade (1942 single)
Night and Day (1942 single)
Close to You (1943 single)
Sunday, Monday or Always (1943 single)
People Will Say We're in Love (1943 single)
Saturday Night (Is The Loneliest Night of the Week) (1944 single)
The War Bond Man (1944 single)
I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night (1944 single)
White Christmas (1944 single)
I Fall in Love Too Easily (1944 single)
I Should Care (1944 single)
America the Beautiful (1945 single)
Lily Belle (1945 single)
My Shawl (1945 single)
Nancy (With the Laughing Face) (1945 single)
Ol' Man River (1945 single)
Put Your Dreams Away (For Another Day)
The Charm of You (1945 single)
What Makes the Sunset? (1945 single)
Dream (1945 single)
If You Are But a Dream (1945 single)
Embraceable You (1945 single)
She's Funny That Way (1945 single)
If I Loved You (1945 single)
White Christmas (1945 single)
Homesick, That's All (1945 single)
Begin the Beguine (1946 single)
Five Minutes More (1946 single)
From This Day Forward (1946 single)
Home on the Range (1946 single)
It's All Up to You (1946 single with Dinah Shore)
Jingle Bells (1946 single)
One Love (1946 single)
Poinciana (Song of the Tree) (1946 single)
September Song (1946 single)
Hush-A-Bye Island (1946 single)
Silent Night, Holy Night (1946 single)
Soliloquy (1946 single)
That Old Black Magic (1946 single)
The Coffee Song (1946 single)
They Say It's Wonderful (1946 single)
Oh! What It Seemed to Be (1946 single)
Full Moon and Empty Arms (1946 single)
All Through the Day (1946 single)
These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You) (1946 single)
I Dream of You (More Than You Dream I Do) (1946 single)
I Don't Know Why (I Just Do) (1946 single)
The Rarest Sinatra (compilation album)
Frank Sinatra Conducts the Music of Alec Wilder (1946 album) The Voice of Frank Sinatra
The Real Complete Columbia Years V-Discs (compilation album)
"The Music Stopped" by Frank Sinatra
"Poinciana (Song of the Tree)" by Frank Sinatra
"Soliloquy" by Frank Sinatra
"We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me)" by Frank Sinatra with Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra
"Just as Though You Were Here" by Frank Sinatra with The Pied Pipers and Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra
"It's Funny to Everyone but Me" by Frank Sinatra with Harry James and His Orchestra
