Fischer & Laine- not recognizable as teams like Rodgers & Hammerstein, Lerner & Loewe etc. In fact, Carl Fischer, Pianist and Frankie Laine, an irrepressible pop singer , only wrote one song but it is splendid. In 1945, Fischer & Laine, while working together, wrote a torch song " We'll Be Together Again " It sings of a hopeful reunion of two lovers who, for whatever reason, have to part but believe that " Some Day, Some Way, we Both have a Lifetime before us, So try thinking with your heart, We'll Be Together again." The melody, although strictly speaking is not a blues but it has some of the bone-weary sadness often associated with classic blues songs , The arrangement is by NelsonRiddle who has a muted trumpet played by Harry " Sweets" Edison intersperesed with Frankn Sinatra's singing. But one can easily imagine a saloon where a singer is backed by a small combo playing into the early hours of the morning.
The song is from the remarkable Capitol Records LP record of 1954 " Songs For Swinging Lovers" . This album helped vault Sinatra back into public prominenec after a fallow period in his career. Capitol was started by Johnny Mercer among others and became home to many of the finest pop singers in the 1950's & 60's.
Sinatra's voice became deeper having lost the youthful, sweet sound of his earlier Columbia records era and as a band singer with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey. Listen to Frank singing on an earlier blog post raising the roof with the classic " I've Got You UnderMy Skin " . The mature, confident and the " "Now I'm in charge" Sinatra has finally arrived and for another 40 years he would define how to sing Americ'as popular songs.
LINK: http://youtu.be/Cht_8zpSSfA
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