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Many of Frank Sinatra's songs of innocence later became his songs of experience. This volume of RCA's Falling in Love with... series collects 16 numbers from the Hoboken wonder's early-'40s years with the Dorsey band. Often ethereal--literally in the case of the dreamy "Stardust"--this isn't the adult Sinatra who'd later transform "This Love of Mine" into a dark night and "Night and Day" into a much more lusty plaint. Instead of brooding, the boyish star sounds wonderstruck at the thought that women were responding to his skinny self; on the likes of "I'll Never Smile Again," he's very nearly glad to be unhappy. --Rickey Wright