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LP record "Come Fly with Me" — Frank Sinatra with Billy May and his Orchestra (Capitol W920), Cuban pressing "Hecho en Cuba por Panart Nacionalizada"
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A 12-inch, 33⅓ rpm long-play vinyl record in a printed paper sleeve — a Cuban-manufactured pressing of Frank Sinatra's 1958 Capitol concept album of travel songs, arranged and conducted by Billy May. The white Cuban "Capitol Discos" disc label (blue Capitol oval, "Alta Fidelidad / Long Playing") gives the catalog number W-920 and is stamped "Hecho en Cuba".
LP record "Come Fly with Me" — Frank Sinatra with Billy May and his Orchestra (Capitol W920), Cuban pressing "Hecho en Cuba por Panart Nacionalizada"
LP record "Come Fly with Me" — Frank Sinatra with Billy May and his Orchestra (Capitol W920), Cuban pressing "Hecho en Cuba por Panart Nacionalizada" - Image 2
LP record "Come Fly with Me" — Frank Sinatra with Billy May and his Orchestra (Capitol W920), Cuban pressing "Hecho en Cuba por Panart Nacionalizada" - Image 3
2025.1.311
This is one of the most historically precise objects in the collection, because the "Panart Nacionalizada" imprint existed only for a brief window and dates the disc almost to the month. Panart was one of the first and most successful independent record labels in Cuba, founded in 1944 by the engineer Ramón Sabat, and it had served as the Cuban distributor and presser for several foreign labels, including Odeon, Musart, Sonora, and Capitol Records — which is exactly why a Capitol/Sinatra title was being pressed in Havana. Then came the rupture: on May 29, 1961, Panart's studios and factory were seized by the government, and for a short period, until 1962, its records were sold as "Panart Nacionalizada" to reflect this; between 1962 and 1964 the Imprenta Nacional de Cuba was the only legal Cuban label, and in 1964 EGREM took over Panart's facilities. This pressing therefore dates to the narrow 1961–1962 transitional moment — after the seizure, before the EGREM reorganization — when the newly nationalized Cuban plant was still turning out American major-label pop from the catalog Panart had distributed. A jet-age fantasy of frictionless global travel ("Come Fly with Me," "Around the World," "It's Nice to Go Trav'ling"), pressed in a Havana that was being cut off from precisely that world.
33 RPM Record
Music
The Cabrera Arús family collection
Leopoldo Arús Gálvez collection
2025.1
Frank Sinatra
Singer
Billy May and his Orchestra
Band
Capitol Records
Panart Nacionalizada
Jazz
circa 1961
Los Angeles
Southern California
North America
English
The front cover is a simplified, locally printed version — the title and "Frank Sinatra" in dark-green block letters on yellow, with the Capitol logo, rather than the original US illustrated (TWA airliner) artwork. The back reproduces the original Capitol back cover (Sinatra photo, "Flight Plan" track list, "from the Flight Log" notes) and carries, at the foot, the crucial line "Hecho en Cuba por Panart Nacionalizada."
The original recording was made in Hollywood / Los Angeles, USA (Capitol, 1957–58). This copy was manufactured (pressed) in Havana (La Habana), Cuba, at the nationalized Panart plant (Calle San Miguel No. 410, Centro Habana — the facility that soon became EGREM's Areíto studios). Dating: the "Panart Nacionalizada" imprint fixes this to c. 1961–1962
Come fly with me
Sammy Cahn
Lyricist
James Van Heusen
Composer
Around the world
Harold Adamson
Lyricist
Victor Young
Composer
Isle of Capri
Jimmy Kennedy
Lyricist
Will Grosz
Composer
Moonlight in Vermont
John Blackburn
Lyricist
Karl Suessdorf
Composer
Autumn in New York
Vernon Duke
Composer
On the road to Manadalay
Oley Speaks
Composer
Rudyard Kipling
Lyricist
Let's get away from it all
Matt Dennis
Lyricist
Tom Adair
Composer
April in Paris
Yip Harburg
Lyricist
Vernon Duke
Composer
London by night
Caroll Coates
Composer
Brazil
Ary Barroso
Composer
Bob Russell
Lyricist
Blue Hawaii
Leo Robin
Lyricist
Ralph Rainger
Composer
It's nice to go trav'ling
James Van Heusen
Composer
Sammy Cahn
Lyricist
Inscription
Back cover
Come fly with me Frank Sinatra with Billy May and his Orchestra Here's Frank Sinatra at his jaunty, romantic best-- personally guiding you on a high-flying musical tour that spans three continents! Flight plan Side One: COME FLY WITH ME - AROUND THE WORLD - ISLE OF CAPRI - MOONLIGHT IN VERMONT - AUTUMN IN NEW YORK - ON THE ROAD TO MANDALAY Side Two: LET'S GET AWAY FROM IT ALL - APRIL IN PARIS - LONDON BY NIGHT - BRAZIL - BLUE HAWAII - IT'S NICE TO GO TRAV'LING from the FLIGHT LOG AUTUMN IN NEW YORK never found the flying better. Manhattan under the wings, with a soft, breezy quality in those sensitive Sinatra tone. APRIL IN PARIS lay-over for a stroll through those fascinating Paris streets with the romantic Sinatra voice as guide. ISLE OF CAPRI Musical climate gay and swingy. Approach is free-and-easy. Smooth take-off. ROAD TO MANDALAY running into a vocal instrumental storm. Billy May going wild at the controls. BRAZIL wheels touching down on a groovy runway in this hot, swirling land of Latin rhythms. BLUE HAWAII softly swaying palms and a lazy Sinatra sound. No air pockets over this vocal paradise! (Sinatra to Co-Pilot) It's nice to go trav'ling... but it's "Oh, so nice to come home!"
Ink
Back cover description
Note
Top left back cover
Carolina Mi Janes
Pen
Stamp
Top right back cover
52
Number taped on record to locate within record collection
other annotations "Carolina Mijares" and "Piña," inventory "52," price "$5.95."
31 cm
31 cm
vinyl, cover
Fair
Panart Nacionalizada
Capitol Records
Frank Sinatra
artist
Leopoldo Arús Gálvez
owner
Los Angeles
Southern California
North America
recording
Havana
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
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