Frankie Laine – Frank’s Fifty-Eight Big Ones

• The mighty Frankie Laine was something of a late starter, having already been scuffling for some fifteen years before registering his first hit ‘That’s My Desire’ in 1946.
• He nonetheless quickly established himself as a major newcomer, becoming one of the world’s biggest singing stars between the late 1940s and mid 50s.
• Initially, he was perceived to be a hybrid R&B/Jazz singer, but he was rather more than that, being the first of a “new breed” of white Pop singer, eschewing the popular crooning style of Crosby and Sinatra and instead, drawing from Blues stylists like Joe Turner and Jimmy Rushing.
• Over the course of his career he notched up the best part of a hundred hit records, worldwide.
• This compilation presents Frankie’s fifty-eight biggest hits between 1947-62, accounting for some seventy-to-eighty million record sales between them.

Track Listing
DISC ONE
1. THAT'S MY DESIRE
2. SHINE
3. THAT LUCKY OLD SUN
4. MULE TRAIN
5. THE CRY OF THE WILD GOOSE
6. SWAMP GIRL (soprano: Loulie Jean Norman)
7. MUSIC, MAESTRO, PLEASE
8. DREAM A LITTLE DREAM OF ME
9. NEVERTHELESS
10. JEZEBEL
11. ROSE, ROSE, I LOVE YOU
12. PRETTY EYED BABY (with Jo Stafford)
13. IN THE COOL, COOL, COOL OF THE EVENING (with Jo Stafford)
14. WONDERFUL, WASN'T IT
15. THE GIRL IN THE WOOD
16. HEY, GOOD LOOKIN' (with Jo Stafford)
17. GAMBELLA (The Gamblin' Lady) (with Jo Stafford)
18. JEALOUSY
19. ONE FOR MY BABY
20. LOVE IS SUCH A CHEAT
21. WHEN IT'S SLEEPY TIME DOWN SOUTH
22. THE GANDY DANCERS' BALL
23. HAMBONE (with Jo Stafford)
24. TO BE WORTHY OF YOU
25. THAT'S HOW IT GOES
26. SUGARBUSH (with Doris Day)
27. HIGH NOON
28. ROCK OF GIBRALTAR

DISC TWO
1. THERE'S A RAINBOW ROUND MY SHOULDER
2. SETTIN' THE WOODS ON FIRE (with Jo Stafford)
3. I'M JUST A POOR BACHELOR
4. I BELIEVE
5. YOUR CHEATIN' HEART
6. RAMBLIN' MAN
7. TELL ME A STORY (with Jimmy Boyd)
8. WHERE THE WINDS BLOW
9. HEY JOE!
10. ANSWER ME
11. BLOWING WILD
12. GRANADA
13. THE KID'S LAST FIGHT
14. SOME DAY
15. THERE MUST BE A REASON
16. MY FRIEND
17. RAIN, RAIN, RAIN (with The Four Lads)
18. IN THE BEGINNING
19. COOL WATER
20. STRANGE LADY IN TOWN
21. HUMMING BIRD
22. HAWK-EYE
23. A WOMAN IN LOVE
24. SIXTEEN TONS
25. HELL HATH NO FURY
26. MOONLIGHT GAMBLER
27. LOVE IS A GOLDEN RING
28. UP ABOVE MY HEAD (with Johnnie Ray)
29. GOOD EVENING FRIENDS (with Johnnie Ray)
30. RAWHIDE