Frank Sinatra - Songs For Swinging Lovers, Capitol LCT 6106

Songs for Swingin' Lovers! was 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 (1955), 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).

 

Original 1956 cover

Capitol LCT 6106 SONGS FOR SWINGING LOVERS (1956)... 15 GBP

Post 1957 cover

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:           CapitolProducer:      Voyle Gilmore

    

Actually one of very good selling LPs on eBay, from 5-10 GBP.

Track Listing

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"You Make Me Feel So Young"	Mack Gordon	Josef Myrow	2:57
2.	"It Happened in Monterey"	Billy Rose	Mabel Wayne	2:36
3.	"You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me"	Al Dubin	Harry Warren	2:19
4.	"You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me"	Irving Kahal, Pierre Norman	Sammy Fain	2:48
5.	"Too Marvelous for Words"	Johnny Mercer	Richard A. Whiting	2:29
6.	"Old Devil Moon"	E.Y. Harburg	Burton Lane	3:56
7.	"Pennies from Heaven"	E.Y. Harburg	Arthur Johnston	2:44
8.	"Love is Here to Stay"	Ira Gershwin	George Gershwin	2:42
9.	"I've Got You Under My Skin"	Cole Porter	Cole Porter	3:43
10.	"I Thought About You"	Johnny Mercer	Jimmy Van Heusen	2:30
11.	"We'll Be Together Again"	Frankie Laine	Carl T. Fischer	4:26
12.	"Makin' Whoopee"	Gus Kahn	Walter Donaldson	3:06
13.	"Swingin' Down the Lane"	Gus Kahn	Isham Jones	2:54
14.	"Anything Goes"	Cole Porter	Cole Porter	2:43
15.	"How About You"	Ralph Freed	Burton Lane	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 Yearscompilation in 1990.