“Songs For Swingin’ Lovers!” by Frank Sinatra - album review

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TJR says

The tenth “A-lister” from the recently turned 40 year-old arrived in March 1956 and was an altogether snazzier, more up-tempo affair than its predecessor, the maudlin “In The Wee Small Hours”. If it was conceptualized as a soap opera then he’s now over the break up, there’s a new love in his life, and spring has sprung. Nelson Riddle’s arrangements are fantastic, the musicianship is top drawer and ol’ blue eyes is sparkling. I just can’t get over the fact that this middle of the road fare was ever deemed hip. Some say sophisticated… I say square.

The Jukebox Rebel
15–Oct–2015

Tracklist
A1 [02:57] 4.7.png Frank Sinatra - You Make Me Feel So Young (Mack Gordon, Josef Myrow) Crooner / Cabaret
A2 [02:36] 4.0.png Frank Sinatra - It Happened In Monterey (Billy Rose, Mabel Wayne) Crooner / Cabaret
A3 [02:19] 3.2.png Frank Sinatra - You’re Getting To Be A Habit With Me (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) Crooner / Cabaret
A4 [02:48] 2.8.png Frank Sinatra - You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me (Irving Kahal, Pierre Norman, Sammy Fain) Crooner / Cabaret
A5 [02:29] 2.3.png Frank Sinatra - Too Marvelous For Words (Johnny Mercer, Richard A. Whiting) Crooner / Cabaret
A6 [03:56] 4.2.png Frank Sinatra - Old Devil Moon (Edgar Yipsel Harburg, Burton Lane) Big Band / Jive / Swing
A7 [02:44] 4.3.png Frank Sinatra - Pennies From Heaven (Arthur Johnston, Johnny Burke) Crooner / Cabaret
A8 [02:42] 3.3.png Frank Sinatra - Love Is Here To Stay (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) Crooner / Cabaret
B1 [03:43] 5.1.png Frank Sinatra - I’ve Got You Under My Skin [1956 version] (Cole Porter) Crooner / Cabaret
B2 [02:30] 4.5.png Frank Sinatra - I Thought About You (Johnny Mercer, Jimmy Van Heusen) Crooner / Cabaret
B3 [04:26] 2.6.png Frank Sinatra - We’ll Be Together Again (Frankie Laine, Carl T. Fischer) Crooner / Cabaret
B4 [03:06] 4.8.png Frank Sinatra - Makin’ Whoopee (Gus Kahn, Walter Donaldson) Big Band / Jive / Swing
B5 [02:54] 3.0.png Frank Sinatra - Swingin’ Down The Lane (Gus Kahn, Isham Jones) Big Band / Jive / Swing
B6 [02:43] 3.1.png Frank Sinatra - Anything Goes (Cole Porter) Crooner / Cabaret
B7 [02:45] 3.6.png Frank Sinatra - How About You? (Ralph Freed, Burton Lane) Crooner / Cabaret

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