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"Peachtree Street" is a 1950 song co-written and recorded byFrank Sinatra in a duet withRosemary Clooney. The song was released as aColumbia Records single.
Frank Sinatra co-wrote the song with Leni Mason and Jimmy Saunders.[1] Mason composed the music while Sinatra and Saunders wrote the lyrics. The song was arranged byGeorge Siravo
The song was released as an A side Columbia 10" 78 single, Catalog Number 38853, Matrix Number CO-43100-1 and as a 7" 33, 1-669. The B side was the re-issued "This Is the Night." Neither of the songs charted.[2]
The subject of the song is a stroll downPeachtree Street inAtlanta, Georgia. Sinatra originally intendedDinah Shore to sing the duet with him.[3] When Shore declined, Clooney was asked. The song was recorded on April 8, 1950.
The song features spoken asides by Sinatra and Clooney. Rosemary Clooney asks: "Say, Frank, you wanna take a walk?" Frank Sinatra replies: "Sure, sweetie, just pick a street." He noted how there were no peach trees on the street. She replied that they had to look back at the history of the street: "We'll have to go back a few years." In one of the asides, he noted that Clooney's real birthplace wasMaysville, Kentucky. The song makes reference to an eventual marriage in the city of Atlanta. At the end, Sinatra asks whether she wants to carry him or call a cab. She whistles for a taxi.
The song appeared on the 1993 Frank Sinatra Sony compilation albumThe Columbia Years 1943–1952: The Complete Recordings, Volume 11, the 1999 Concord Records releaseRosemary Clooney: Songs from the Girl Singer: A Musical Autobiography, and the 2002 albumRosemary Clooney: Complete 1950-1952 Columbia Master Takes on the Jazz Factory label.
The song was recorded on April 8, 1950 in New York. The personnel on the session were:Frank Sinatra (ldr),George Siravo (con),Emmett Callen,Leonard Hartman,Al Klink,Babe Russin,Herman Schertzer (sax),Chris Griffin,Pinky Savitt,Richard Trent,Ruby Weinstein (t),George Arus,Robert Cutshall (tb),Allan Reuss (g), Philip Stephens (b),Ken Lane (p),Maurice Purtill (d),Rosemary Clooney,Frank Sinatra (v).[4]
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