Monday, March 23, 2015

100 Years of Frank Sinatra: "You'll Never Walk Alone"


Frank Sinatra recorded "You'll Never Walk Alone" for Columbia Records in Hollywood in May 1945, with an arrangement by Axel Stordahl, who served as Sinatra's musical direction into the 1950s.

The Popular Song website ranks it as #22 among the top 40 popular songs of 1945.



"You'll Never Walk Alone" is from the Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein II musical "Carousel", which opened at the Majestic Theater on Broadway on April 19, 1945, where it had a run of 890 performances.

January 26, 1945.  Zion Lutheran Church.  Rockford, Illinois.

Walking together for the next 53 years.


Other Frank Sinatra 100 posts:
"Our Love".  (2/14/2015)
"I'll Never Smile Again".  (2/15/2015)
"Fools Rush In".  (2/16/2015)
"Dolores".  (2/17/2015)
"Oh Look At Me Now".  (2/18/2015)
"This Love of Mine".  (2/20/2015)
"There Are Such Things."  (2/24/2015)
"Night and Day".  (2/26/2015)
"The Night We Called It a Day".  (2/27/2015)
Paramount Theater, December 30, 1942.  (3/2/2015)
Reveille with Beverly.  (3/4/2015)
"You'll Never Know".  (3/7/2015)
Higher and Higher.  (3/8/2015)
"People Will Say We're in Love".  (3/10/2015)
The Shining Future.  (3/17/2015)
"I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night".  (3/19/2015)
Step Lively.  (3/20/2015) .
"Saturday Night (is the Loneliest Night of the Week)".  (3/21/2015)

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