The Voice of Frank Sinatra

The Voice of Frank Sinatra, sometimes referred to as just The Voice, is the very first studio album by Frank Sinatra. The Voice was recorded in 1945 and released in 1946.

Side one

 * 1) "You Go to My Head" (Haven Gillespie, J. Fred Coots) – 3:00
 * 2) "Someone to Watch Over Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 3:18
 * 3) "These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)" (Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey, Harry Link) – 3:08
 * 4) "Why Shouldn't I?" (Cole Porter) – 2:53

Side two

 * 1) "I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)" (Roy Turk, Fred E. Ahlert) – 2:46
 * 2) "Try a Little Tenderness" (Harry M. Woods, James Campbell, Reginald Connelly) – 3:08
 * 3) "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You" (Bing Crosby, Ned Washington, Victor Young) – 3:11
 * 4) "Paradise" (Nacio Herb Brown, G. Clifford) – 2:37

Side one

 * 1) "I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)" (Roy Turk, Fred E. Ahlert) – 2:46
 * 2) "Try a Little Tenderness" (Harry M. Woods, James Campbell, Reginald Connelly) – 3:08
 * 3) "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You" (Bing Crosby, Ned Washington, Victor Young) – 3:11
 * 4) "Paradise" (Nacio Herb Brown, G. Clifford) – 2:37
 * 5) "These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)" (Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey, Harry Link) – 3:08
 * 6) "Laura" (Johnny Mercer, David Raksin)

Side two

 * 1) "She's Funny That Way" (Neil Moret, Richard A. Whiting)
 * 2) "Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread)" (Johnny Mercer, Rube Bloom) – 3:01
 * 3) "Over The Rainbow" (Harburg, Harold Arlen)
 * 4) "That Old Black Magic" (Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen)
 * 5) "Spring is Here" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 2:42
 * 6) "Lover" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers)

CD release

 * 1) "You Go to My Head" (Haven Gillespie, J. Fred Coots) – 3:00
 * 2) "Someone to Watch Over Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 3:18
 * 3) "These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)" (Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey, Harry Link) – 3:08
 * 4) "Why Shouldn't I?" (Cole Porter) – 2:53
 * 5) "I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)" (Roy Turk, Fred E. Ahlert) – 2:46
 * 6) "Try a Little Tenderness" (Harry M. Woods, James Campbell, Reginald Connelly) – 3:08
 * 7) "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You" (Bing Crosby, Ned Washington, Victor Young) – 3:11
 * 8) "Paradise" (Nacio Herb Brown, G. Clifford) – 2:37
 * 9) "Mam'selle" (Mack Gordon, Edmund Goulding) – 3:26
 * 10) "That Old Feeling" (Lew Brown, Sammy Fain) – 3:19
 * 11) "If I Had You" (Ted Shapiro, Campbell, Connelly) – 3:01
 * 12) "The Nearness of You" (N. Washington, Hoagy Carmichael) – 2:41
 * 13) "Spring is Here" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 2:42
 * 14) "Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread)" (Johnny Mercer, Rube Bloom) – 3:01
 * 15) "When You Awake" (Henry Nemo) – 3:07
 * 16) "It Never Entered My Mind" (Rodgers, Hart) – 3:09
 * 17) "Always" (Irving Berlin) – 2:55
 * 18) "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You" (alternate take) – 3:32

Reception
Allmusic gave the album a four out of five stars, praising the Axel Stordahl's arrangements and Sinatra's "utter seriousness" with the lyrics as they "gave the songs unusual depth of meaning."