Songs for Young Lovers

Infobox Album | Name = Songs for Young Lovers
Type = Album
Artist = Frank Sinatra


Released = 1954
Recorded = November 5-November 6, 1953 Hollywood
Genre = Vocal Jazz, Classic pop
Length = 21:42
Label = Capitol Records
Producer = Voyle Gilmore
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:mkxvad3kv8wn link]
Last album = "Swing and Dance with Frank Sinatra" (1950)
This album = "Songs for Young Lovers"
(1954)
Next album = "Swing Easy!" (1954)

"Songs for Young Lovers" is a 1954 album by Frank Sinatra, his first released for Capitol Records. It was released as a 10" LP as a set of eight songs.

The tracks were conducted by Nelson Riddle, the sessions for this album and the preceding singles ("I've Got the World on a String" and "From Here to Eternity") initiating a long-standing collaboration between the arranger and singer that would continue for the next twenty years. All the arrangements, except for Riddle's own "Like Someone in Love," were by Sinatra's uptempo man from his days at Columbia Records, George Siravo, whose charts Sinatra had continued to use in recent club appearances.

A continuation of his philosophy at Columbia, only this time Sinatra had greater cooperation from his new label in the person of producer Voyle Gilmore, who agreed the new album format should be an event, songs arranged around a specific theme or concept. In addition, the state-of-the-art Capitol studios were capable of producing a more detailed sound, which gave Riddle more freedom in his arrangements and orchestrations.

In 2002, it was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry.

This is currently available on compact disc as a double album with "Swing Easy!", also initially released in the ten-inch format and consisting of eight songs.

Track listing

ide one

#"My Funny Valentine" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 2:31
#"The Girl Next Door" (Hugh Blane, Ralph Martin) – 2:38
#"A Foggy Day" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:39
#"Like Someone in Love" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) – 3:10

ide two

#"I Get a Kick Out of You" (Cole Porter) – 2:55
#"Little Girl Blue" (Rodgers, Hart) – 2:54
#"They Can't Take That Away from Me" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 1:58
#"Violets for Your Furs" (Tom Adair, Matt Dennis) – 3:05

Personnel

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