Frank Sinatra with Count Basie Orchestra - "I Only Have Eyes For You". 1962.

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I have made this video and dedicated it to my husband, Jon. When I played it for him, all he could do was conduct it for me. As most people know, Jon has been very ill, and he is still not out of the woods, so to speak, but he is much better than he was 10 months ago when he became ill with serious Urinary tract problems. I would like to thank all my Christian friends who have faithfully prayed for Jon throughout his ordeal. I believe that your prayers were instrumental in bringing him to Christ on 30th January, 2025. May God continue to work in Jon's life and may his illness and his strength through it all be a testimony to his family and friends. The picture I have used of myself in this video was taken at our civil wedding ceremony on 12th February, 2003. I only had eyes for him on that day and since.
Thank you very much. (^_^)

Sinatra–Basie: An Historic Musical First (a.k.a. Sinatra-Basie) is a 1962 studio album by Frank Sinatra, arranged by Neal Hefti.

This was the first recording that Sinatra made with the Count Basie Orchestra. In 1964, Sinatra and Basie would make a final studio recording, It Might as Well Be Swing, orchestrated by Quincy Jones, and Sinatra's first live album, Sinatra at the Sands (1966) would feature the Basie band.

Sinatra appeared on an episode of The Dinah Shore Show that aired on December 9, 1962, the day before Sinatra-Basie was released, and performed the album's arrangement of "Please Be Kind".

According to Will Friedwald's book, Sinatra! The Song Is You:

"Basie didn't play piano on several of the tracks: 'The day before the first date, we rehearsed all day, all night', said [Sinatra's longtime pianist] Bill Miller, officially serving as contractor. 'Everybody also came in an hour before so we could go over them again.' As Joe Bushkin has pointed out, 'The Basie guys could read [sheet music] as well as any studio band', but to help them nail the charts even tighter, Sinatra and Miller brought in ace lead trumpeter Al Porcino. Basie was a capable but not an expert reader, Miller continued, 'and he was very slow to learn new tunes, so on a couple of the songs, he said, "You play it."' Long story short, Bill Miller played piano on 'Pennies from Heaven.'"[excessive quote]
Track listing
"Pennies from Heaven" (Arthur Johnston, Johnny Burke) – 3:29
"Please Be Kind" (Saul Chaplin, Sammy Cahn) – 2:43
"(Love Is) The Tender Trap" (Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 2:37
"Looking at the World Through Rose Colored Glasses" (Jimmy Steiger, Tommy Mailie) – 2:32
"My Kind of Girl" (Leslie Bricusse) – 4:37
"I Only Have Eyes for You" (Harry Warren, Al Dubin) – 3:31
"Nice Work If You Can Get It" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:37
"Learnin' the Blues" (Dolores Vicki Silvers) – 4:25
"I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter" (Fred Ahlert, Joe Young) – 2:36
"I Won't Dance" (Jerome Kern, Jimmy McHugh, Oscar Hammerstein II, Dorothy Fields, Otto Harbach) – 4:07
Personnel
Frank Sinatra – vocals
Count Basie – piano
Bill Miller – piano
Eric Dixon – flute, tenor saxophone
Frank Wess – flute, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
Frank Foster – tenor saxophone
Marshall Royal – clarinet, alto saxophone
Charlie Fowlkes – baritone saxophone
Al Aarons – trumpet
Sonny Cohn – trumpet
Thad Jones – trumpet
Al Porcino – trumpet
Fip Ricard – trumpet
Henry Coker – trombone
Benny Powell – trombone
Rufus Wagner – trombone
Buddy Catlett – bass
Freddie Green – guitar
Sonny Payne – drums