"Put Your Dreams Away (For Another Day)" is a

1943 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured. * January 4 – ...

song written by Ruth Lowe, Paul Mann, and Stephan Weiss.

Frank Sinatra Francis Albert Sinatra (; December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor. Nicknamed the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Chairman of the Board" and later called "Ol' Blue Eyes", Sinatra was one of the most popular ...

first recorded the song for commercial release by

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on May 1, 1945, having previously recorded it for a V-Disc and his radio show on May 24, 1944. It was during this period that Sinatra used "Put Your Dreams Away" as the closing theme song for his radio series. He recorded the song again for

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on December 11, 1957, and again for

Reprise Records Reprise Records is an American record label founded in 1960 by Frank Sinatra. It is owned by Warner Music Group, and operates through Warner Records, one of its flagship labels. Artists currently signed to Reprise Records include Enya, Michael ...

on April 30, 1963 (for the album '' Sinatra's Sinatra'', a set of re-recordings of songs he originally recorded for Columbia and Capitol.) For the 1965 album '' A Man and His Music'', a spoken-word introduction was overdubbed by Sinatra onto the 1963 recording, in which the singer praised his theme song for having come a long way with him - "all the way from nowhere to somewhere." The song was played at Sinatra's funeral. Lowe had also written Sinatra's first hit (as a vocalist with the Tommy Dorsey orchestra), " I'll Never Smile Again".

Other recordings

* The Hi-Lo's - for their album ''The Hi-Lo's, I Presume'' (1955). *

Barry Manilow Barry Manilow (born Barry Alan Pincus; June 17, 1943) is an American singer and songwriter with a career that spans seven decades. His hit recordings include "Could It Be Magic", " Somewhere Down the Road", " Mandy", "I Write the Songs", " Can ...

- '' Manilow Sings Sinatra'' (1998) * Carol Kidd - ''A Place in My Heart'' (1999).

References

* Albert I. Lonstein. ''The Revised Complete Sinatra: discography, filmography, television appearances, motion picture appearances, radio appearances, concert appearances, stage appearances.'' 1979. {{Authority control 1945 songs Frank Sinatra songs Songs written by Ruth Lowe