Songs for Swingin' Lovers!

This article is about the Frank Sinatra album. For the Indelicates album, see Songs for Swinging Lovers (album).

Songs for Swingin' Lovers!
Studio album by Frank Sinatra
Released	March 1956
Recorded	October 17, 1955, January 9 – 12, 16, 1956 Capitol Records Studios (Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California)
Genre	Vocal jazz, Traditional pop music
Length	43:59
Label	Capitol W653
Producer	Voyle Gilmore
Frank Sinatra chronology
In the Wee Small Hours (1955) Songs for Swingin' Lovers (1956) This Is Sinatra! (1956) Post 1957 album cover

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Songs for Swingin' Lovers! is the tenth studio album recorded by the American singer Frank Sinatra for Capitol Records, it was arranged by Nelson Riddle and released in March 1956.

It took an alternative tack after In the Wee Small Hours (1954), 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 original cover had Sinatra facing away from the young couple, but in 1957 Capitol altered the cover with a new image of Sinatra facing the couple. All CD releases have retained the new cover.

In 2000 the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, and ranked number 306 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time in 2003.

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

1. "You Make Me Feel So Young" (Josef Myrow, Mack Gordon) – 2:57
2. "It Happened in Monterey" (Mabel Wayne, Billy Rose) – 2:36
3. "You're Getting to be a Habit with Me" (Harry Warren, Al Dubin) – 2:19
4. "You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me" (Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal, Pierre Norman) – 2:48
5. "Too Marvelous for Words" (Richard A. Whiting, Johnny Mercer) – 2:29
6. "Old Devil Moon" (Burton Lane, E.Y. Harburg) – 3:56
7. "Pennies From Heaven" (Arthur Johnston, Johnny Burke) – 2:44
8. "Love is Here to Stay" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:42
9. "I've Got You Under My Skin" (Cole Porter) – 3:43
10. "I Thought About You" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Mercer) – 2:30
11. "We'll Be Together Again" (Carl T. Fischer, Frankie Laine) – 4:26
12. "Makin' Whoopee" (Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn) – 3:06
13. "Swingin' Down the Lane" (Isham Jones, Kahn) – 2:54
14. "Anything Goes" (Porter) – 2:43
15. "How About You?" (Burton Lane, Ralph Freed) – 2:45

An additional track, "Memories of You", was recorded during the sessions but ultimately left off the album. (As a slow ballad, it was deemed inappropriate an album of "swingin'" uptempo numbers.) While Sinatra would re-record the tune with Axel Stordahl in 1961 for the Point of No Return album, the 1956 recording with Riddle would remain unreleased until its inclusion on the Capitol Years compilation in 1990.

Selected personnel

• Frank Sinatra – vocals
• Nelson Riddle – arranger, conductor

Chart positions

Album

Chart (1956)	Peak position
UK Albums Chart	1

Preceded by N/A Carousel by Original Soundtrack

UK Albums Chart number-one album 28 July 1956 - 11 August 1956 25 August 1956 - 1 September 1956

Succeeded by Carousel by Original Soundtrack Carousel by Original Soundtrack

External links

• #306 on the Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time

Category talk:Albums recorded at Capitol Studios