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
The Voice of Frank Sinatra is the first studio album
by American
singer
Frank Sinatra
, released on Columbia Records
, catalogue C-112, March 4, 1946
. It was first issued as a set of four 78 rpm records totaling eight songs, and went to #1 on the fledgling Billboard
chart. It stayed at the top for seven weeks in 1946, spending a total of eighteen weeks on the charts. The album chart consisted of just a Top Five until August of 1948. The cover depicted below is that of the original 78 rpm release cover, also used on the compact disc
reissue.
FOUR RECORD SET, 78 RPM, ORIGINAL 1946 RELEASE, COLUMBIA ALBUM SET C-112... £ 38.00/ $ 57.00
