Recorded for Columbia February 2, 1946.
Sang at the Waldorf-Astoria’s Wedgwood Room, 1945.
Sinatra Takes Over Wedgewood Room and Wins Crowd Despite His Illness
The quality of laryngitis is strained these nights at the Waldorf-Astoria’s Wedgwood Room where Frank Sinatra is making a belated start on a short engagement. 
It is painfully obvious that he shouldn’t be singing until he has had proper rest yet he sang 14 numbers Wednesday night, the concluding one “Old Man River.”
Ordinarily the slim technician of modern song-phrasing is in his element with a large band behind him-wasn’t he once a swing band vocalist? And Dick Stable’s 22-piece band, featuring numerous violins and a harp, lends splendid support, but the voice that has hypnotized millions was like a butterfly in a whirlpool.
It was a masterful performance, nevertheless. . .
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After rendering “My Romance,” from the still-remembered “Jumbo,” and “When I Marry Sweet Lorraine,” he pulled the first surprise of the evening with “Bess, Where Is My Bess.” A haunting, lovely tune, he sanit very well. >> f
rom Tips on Tables, by Robert W. Dana, Nov. 30, 1945.
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