This Love of Mine

"This Love of Mine" is a popular American song that was first recorded in 1941 by Tommy Dorsey with Frank Sinatra and The Pied Pipers. Sinatra wrote the words and Sol Parker and Hank Sanicola wrote the music.^[1]

Background

The Tommy Dorsey recording was released as a 78 RCA Victor B side single, 27508-B, with Frank Sinatra^[2] on vocals backed with "Neiani", which did not chart. "This Love of Mine" reached #3 on the Billboard pop singles chart in 1941–42 in a chart run of 24 weeks.^[3]^[4] Sinatra re-recorded the song with Nelson Riddle in 1955 for the In The Wee Small Hours album.

The song was copyrighted on August 11, 1941 by Embassy Music. Frank Sinatra was credited with writing the lyrics although this has been disputed by his aide, Tony Consiglio.^[5] The music was composed by Sol Parker and Hank Sanicola.

Other recordings

The song became a pop and jazz standard that has been recorded by other performers.^[6] Artists who have recorded the song include:

Little Anthony & the Imperials
Count Basie
Shirley Bassey for her album Shirley Bassey (1961)
Michael Bublé
Ray Charles
Freddy Cole
Ray Conniff for his album "Just Kiddin' Around with Billy Butterfield (1963)
Bing Crosby - Songs I Wish I Had Sung the First Time Around (1956)
Sammy Davis Jr.for the album Mood to Be Wooed (1958)
Bill Doggett
Ray Ellis
Ferrante and Teicher
Ella Fitzgerald
Bennie Green
Dale Hawkins
Lonnie Johnson
Jack Jones
Bill Kenny
Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Al Hibbler
Nancy Sinatra
Al Martino
Marian McPartland
Frank Morgan - Mood Indigo (1989)
Tony Mottola
Sonny Rollins
Bud Shank and Lou Levy
Keely Smith for her album Keely Sings Sinatra (2001).^[7]
Van Morrison
Dinah Washington - for her album Unforgettable (1961)
Lawrence Welk

References

^ Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 3, Musical Compositions, 1941 New Series, Vol. 36, No. 7, July 1941, Library of Congress, Copyright Office, pg. 1349
^ "Pop Chronicles 1940s Program #3". 1972.
^ "The Billboard Music Popularity Chart – National and Regional Best Selling Retail Records" (for the week ending January 9, 1942), Billboard, January 17, 1942, pg. 10
^ "Song artist 21 - Tommy Dorsey"
^ Sinatra And Me by Tony Consiglio, p.51
^ "This Love of Mine,", Second Hand Songs
^ "allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved June 19, 2017.

Sources

Granata, Charles L. (1999). Sessions with Sinatra: Frank Sinatra and the Art of Recording. Chicago Review Press. ISBN 1-55652-509-5
Phasey, Chris (1995). Francis Albert Sinatra: Tracked Down (Discography). Buckland Publications. ISBN 0-7212-0935-1
Summers, Antony and Swan, Robbyn (2005). Sinatra: The Life. Doubleday. ISBN 0-552-15331-1

[Copyright_Cat_1941_E_pub_96800-1] Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 3, Musical Compositions, 1941 New Series, Vol. 36, No. 7, July 1941, Library of Congress, Copyright Office, pg. 1349

[2] "Pop Chronicles 1940s Program #3". 1972.

[Billboard_1942_Jan_17-3] "The Billboard Music Popularity Chart – National and Regional Best Selling Retail Records" (for the week ending January 9, 1942), Billboard, January 17, 1942, pg. 10

[tsort.com-TommyDorsey-4] "Song artist 21 - Tommy Dorsey"

[5] Sinatra And Me by Tony Consiglio, p.51

[secondhandsongs-6] "This Love of Mine,", Second Hand Songs

[7] "allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved June 19, 2017.

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Discography
Columbia singles (1939–1940)	"It's Funny to Everyone but Me" "On a Little Street in Singapore" "Ciribiribin" "All or Nothing at All"
RCA Victor singles (1940–1942)	"Imagination" "I'll Be Seeing You" "East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)" "I'll Never Smile Again" "The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)" "Our Love Affair" "We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me)" "Stardust" "Dolores" "It's Always You" "Oh! Look at Me Now" "Without a Song" "Let's Get Away from It All" "This Love of Mine" "Blue Skies" "Pale Moon (An Indian Love Song)" "Embraceable You" "Just as Though You Were Here" "Take Me" "In the Blue of Evening" "How About You?" "There Are Such Things"
Bluebird singles (1942–1943)	"Night and Day" "The Night We Called It a Day" "The Song Is You"
Columbia singles (1943–1953)	"Close to You" "You'll Never Know" "Sunday, Monday, or Always" "People Will Say We're in Love" "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'" "A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening" "White Christmas" "Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week)" "I Dream of You (More Than You Dream I Do)" "Ol' Man River" "Stormy Weather" "When Your Lover Has Gone" "Dream" "If I Loved You" "You'll Never Walk Alone" "Mighty Lak' a Rose" "Nancy (with the Laughing Face)" "America the Beautiful" "Day by Day" "Full Moon and Empty Arms" "Soliloquy (Part 1 & 2)" "Begin the Beguine" "Silent Night" "Adeste Fideles" "Jingle Bells" "Oh! What It Seemed to Be" "September Song" "Five Minutes More" "Sweet Lorraine" "Time after Time" "Mam'selle" "Almost Like Being in Love" "Tea for Two" "My Romance" "So Far" "A Fellow Needs a Girl" "But Beautiful" "I've Got a Crush on You" "All of Me" "Nature Boy" "Everybody Loves Somebody" "My Melancholy Baby" "Autumn in New York" "Why Can't You Behave?" "Some Enchanted Evening" "Bali Ha'i" "Let's Take an Old Fashioned Walk" "I Only Have Eyes for You" "The Old Master Painter" "Peachtree Street" "Goodnight, Irene" "Nevertheless (I'm in Love with You)" "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" "We Kiss in a Shadow" "April in Paris" "I Could Write a Book" "The Birth of the Blues"
Capitol singles (1953–1961)	"I'm Walking Behind You" "I've Got the World on a String" "My One and Only Love" "South of the Border (Down Mexico Way)" "I Love You" "Young at Heart" "Don't Worry 'bout Me" "Three Coins in the Fountain" "The Gal That Got Away" "Someone to Watch Over Me" "Melody of Love" "Learnin' the Blues" "Love and Marriage" "(Love Is) The Tender Trap" "You're Sensational" "True Love" "Well, Did You Evah!" "Mind If I Make Love to You?" "Hey! Jealous Lover" "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" "All the Way" "Chicago (That Toddlin' Town)" "Witchcraft" "Mistletoe and Holly" "French Foreign Legion" "High Hopes" "Old MacDonald" "My Blue Heaven" "I'll Remember April" "I Love Paris"
Reprise singles (1961–1983)	"Granada" "I'll Be Seeing You" "The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)" "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" "Without a Song" "Stardust" "Come Rain or Come Shine" "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" "Me and My Shadow" "Call Me Irresponsible" "I Have Dreamed" "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" "My Kind of Town" "Softly, as I Leave You" "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" "The Little Drummer Boy" "It Was a Very Good Year" "Strangers in the Night" "Summer Wind" "You Make Me Feel So Young" "That's Life" "The September of My Years" "Somethin' Stupid" "The World We Knew (Over and Over)" "My Way of Life" "My Way" "Goin' Out of My Head" "Something" "Bein' Green" "Send In the Clowns" "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" "Theme from New York, New York" "Here's to the Band" "To Love a Child"
Qwest singles (1983–1984)	"Teach Me Tonight" "Mack the Knife" "It's All Right with Me" "Until the Real Thing Comes Along"
Compositions	"This Love of Mine" "Sheila" "Peachtree Street" "Take My Love" "I'm a Fool to Want You" "Mistletoe and Holly" "Mr. Success"
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