"The Coffee Song": Song History, Commentary, Discography, Performances on Video

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The Coffee Song
Written: 1946	Music by: Dick Miles	Words by: Bob Hilliard	Written for: Copacabana Revue (show)
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Frank Sinatra

performing

"The Coffee Song"

Arrangement by Johnny Mandel
from the album Ring-A-Ding-Ding
(Recorded Dec. 20, 1960 in Los Angeles)

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About the Copacabana Revue / Origins of the Song

Other songs written for the Copacabana Revue currently included in the Cafe Songbook Catalog of The Great American Songbook: none.

The Copacabana

The Copacabana Revue was an abbreviated version of the show presented at the Copacabana night club in New York City. The revue was often mounted in another venue, commonly the Roxy Theater as the stage show accompanying the movie currently playing. Copacabana Revues were produced periodically during the 1940s. "The Coffee Song" was introduced in the Revue by Julie Wilson in 1946. This preceded Sinatra's first recording of the song, a hit record that came along later in that same year. (Kristin Baggelaar, The Copacabana, Arcadia Publishing, 2006, p. 69.)

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Frank Sinatra, the 1946 Stordahl arrangement: markalson1938;

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Selected Recordings of

"The Coffee Song"

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Frank Sinatra 1 (1946)*
Frank Sinatra 2 (1960)

1946
Frank Sinatra
album:
The Essential Frank Sinatra --
The Columbia Years

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notes: Along with the Johnny Mandel arrangement of "The Coffee Song" that Sinatra recorded in 1960 (See Cafe Songbook Main Stage above.), Frank recorded an arrangement by Axel Stordahl in 1946, which is a track on the album The Essential Frank Sinatra -- The Columbia Years and the music-video above. This version is also available on the box set The Columbia Years (1943-1952) The Complete Recordings [Clean].
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