Sinatra/; 2 distinct versions of Night & Day.  The 1957version, arrangement by Nelson Riddle is a relentlessy swinging Big Band version emphasizing the elation experienced by Sinatra, a great singing actor. It is positive. energetic and most convincing of the singers devotion to the peron about whom he singsall Night & Day. The arrangement does ot feature the verse or introductory segement to to the main chorus.
In vivid contrast is the 1972 version arranged by Don Costa. The verse  beginning with " Like the beat,beat, beat of the like the drip,drip.drip of the rinfalls, like the tick.tock tick of the stately clock" creates a musical tension from the repeating notes and words. The verse does set the mood for what follows is a symphonic approach unlike the Big Band version of 1957. Here, Sinatra is more reflective, no less engrossed in thinking about that special person than he expressed in he Riddle arrangement. But, now he is more reverential and less exclamatory.
I believe that this verse, like any verse in popular song, can really seduce the listener by setting a mood, with music and words, for what's to follow. See which version you prefer.

https://youtu.be/qn_cfbK9M14 

https://youtu.be/mGGirB4XOmI 

'  "You've Been a good old wagon but you've done broke Down"  This is a 1895 early blues of Ben Harney. Although it is really about a womens lament about diminishing male capability, I choose to adopt it for anyone who has orthopaedic problems with hips and/or knees. Myself, 2 hips and one knee replacement and this old wgon hqs done broke down. I may need replacements for my earlier limb replacements but this old wagon has now officially done broke down.
Dinah Washington, a great blues singer, sings with energy and sadness at the diminiushed capacity of her man. I post it as a direct statement of my own decreased mobility. Maybe, after twenty years, the inplant has run its course.


https://youtu.be/OxnHIBEvZ8U

Hit the road to dreamland    bouncy Arlen song with very hip lyrics by Johnny Mercer  like " Dig you in the lsnd of nod"  look at that knocked out moon"  "  The rooster has finally crowed,  Time to Hit The Raod."

Bing Crosby and Trudy Erwin swing this little diity on a radio broadcast. 

https://youtu.be/Z8Q8ZjPivuo

Love Thene from " the Bad and the Beautiful"  Composer David Raksin wrote the famous song " Laura." Both Irving Berlin and Cole Porter admitted that Laura was the one song they wish that they had written.
For the " Bad and the Beautiful" Raksin wrote a " siren song" that is quite complex in the use of extraordinaarily lush chords which jazz players like Bill Evans like to explore. Evans plays solo piano of the theme plus Michael Feinstein sings the lyrics which I thought were written by Dory Previn. This is a melody of the very highest attainment in popular song.

 https://youtu.be/BgERf0KqX9Q

https://youtu.be/7Gdxw0xSs3o 

Frank Sinatra asks " Where is the One ?" The song probes the issue of anyone wnting to make a permanent life connectiop with that one-and-only one. Written by Alec Wilder, noted song scholar, composer& arranger whose magnum opus is " American Populasr Song: The Great Innovators: 1900-1950." He studied over 17,000 songs to assess what is good and why  providing criteria he felt would characterize th best in American popular song.


 https://youtu.be/KpsT6uHVgoI

Sinatra and Ella sing "  Moonlight in Vermont: Written in 1944 by Suessdorf & Blackburn, it features two singers who have done more than any other singers to highlight the glories of the Great American Songbook . The melody is very graceful and most singeable.
Of note is the fact that there is not a single rhyme throughout the song. Most unusual for a pop song but the absence of rhyming is not missed at all.


https://youtu.be/cyyRi3l7E_k

DICK Haymes sings " If there is someone lovelier than you", a song that does not enshrine physical beauty but inner aspects of character and humanity. Composed by Arthur Schwartz with lyrics by Howard Dietz. DIETZ, like Oscar Hammerstein, Lorenz Hart, Ira Gershwin and E.Y Harburg were the poets of Tin Pan Alley who all attended Columbia University in the 1920's. 
A wonderful tribute to the best of what we all love about women.

https://youtu.be/BhpjMyV-h0w