Songs for Swingin' Lovers

Infobox Album | Name = Songs For Swingin' Lovers
Type = Album
Artist = Frank Sinatra


Released = 1956
Recorded = October 17, 1955-January 16, 1956 KHJ Studios, Hollywood
Genre = Vocal Jazz, Classic pop
Length = 43:59
Label = Capitol Records
Producer = Voyle Gilmore
Reviews =
* Allmusic rating|5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:57j4eat04x87 link]
Last album = "In the Wee Small Hours"
(1955)
This album = "Songs For Swingin' Lovers"
(1956)
Next album = "This Is Sinatra!"
(1956) |

"Songs For Swingin' Lovers" is an album by Frank Sinatra, released in 1956.

It took an alternative tack after "In the Wee Small Hours", recording existing pop standards in a hipper, jazzier fashion, revealing an overall exuberance in the vein of "Songs For Young Lovers" and "Swing Easy".

The album was the first ever number one album in the UK. It was knocked off the top after two weeks by "Carousel" (the 1956 movie's soundtrack).

Track listing

ide one

#"You Make Me Feel So Young" (Josef Myrow, Mack Gordon) – 2:57
#"It Happened in Monterey" (Mabel Wayne, Billy Rose) – 2:36
#"You're Getting to be a Habit with Me" (Harry Warren, Al Dubin) – 2:19
#"You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me" (Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal, Pierre Norman) – 2:48
#"Too Marvelous for Words" (Richard A. Whiting, Johnny Mercer) – 2:29
#"Old Devil Moon" (Burton Lane, E.Y. Harburg) – 3:56
#"Pennies From Heaven" (Arthur Johnston, Johnny Burke) – 2:44
#"Love is Here to Stay" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:42

ide two

#"I've Got You Under My Skin" (Cole Porter) – 3:43
#"I Thought About You" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Mercer) – 2:30
#"We'll Be Together Again" (Carl Fischer, Frankie Laine) – 4:26
#"Makin' Whoopee" (Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn) – 3:06
#"Swingin' Down the Lane" (Isham Jones, Kahn) – 2:54
#"Anything Goes" (Porter) – 2:43
#"How About You?" (Burton Lane, Ralph Freed) – 2:45

Personnel

* Frank Sinatra - vocals
* Nelson Riddle - arranger, conductor

External links

* [http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/6599187 #306 on the Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]