Frankie Laine - "If I Never Sing Another Song"

This song Frankie recorded as a 45 in 1981. It was first recorded on an album in England. It sounds a lot like his life story. Later Don Cornell did the song on one of his Albums.

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[JadeTomZ]

an original voice Frankie holds his place in the line of fine singers.

[markalson1938]

@JadeTomZ Yes, Frankie was one of a kind, One of the finest men I ever met there will never be another like him

[ljliljohn]

Check out the Matt Monro version.

[markalson1938]

@ljliljohn

Yes, Matt had a very good version of this song along with Don Cornell.

[highnrising]

Unbelievable--

Where do you find this stuff?--I've never heard this.

Frankie definitely became a more personally expressive singer in his later years. In his Columbia Records heyday, you had the sense that he was playing a character that didn't necessarily have any connection to the man himself. But this is really expressive.

What were the circumstances that got CBS Records to issue this? FL was long-gone from the Columbia-CBS label by 1981 and they had taken his records out of print.

[markalson1938]

I have no idea why CBS put out the single. I would guess that he still had friends at Cplumbia. It was first on his Polydor album

"Life Is Beautiful" in England. I think he was going to put out on a single for his Score lable which as little distubution and CBS offered to do it.

Now with this song, You have the same split between Frankie's Jazz Fans and his Dramatic

singing styles. I always favored the Dramatic

but that's just my taste

[jackocloud]

what agreat version of this song 5

[KeithAbbott1]

what a great voice full of feeling and emotion,singers like Frankie Laine have a natural ability to perform songs they dont just learn their lines they live the moment !Thankyou for the recording.......Keith Abbott (you tube)

[donkiddick08]

the best version of this i've heard is by shirley bassey, not the one on the side panel but, the live version from a concert in 1980 in holland.

[davidwalsh66]

check out the dorothy squires version it is superb

[1billwill]

one great singer excellant

[river2walk]

It appears that everyone in the music business recorded this great song, there seems to be more versions coming to light every week...most of them like this one are strangely touching, but Matt monro's rendition seems to be the standard by which all the other versions are measured..none so far successfully.

[151166diane]

Frankie didnt do a bad job of this song, but there is only one person who sings this the best ever and that is Matt Monro