Songs for Swingin' Lovers!

Background

This album took a different track 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. Most 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. Sinatra aficionados often rank it his best or second best album (to In the Wee Small Hours) and many music critics consider it one of the greatest albums of its era.

The LP was the first number one album in the UK. It was knocked off the top after two weeks by Carousel (the 1956 movie's soundtrack).

In February 2014, Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab released a hybrid disc (SACD + CD) of the album. The original 1956 front cover art was re-used for this issue.

Track listing

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" (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" (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" (Kahn, Isham Jones) - 2:54
14. "Anything Goes" (Porter) - 2:43
15. "How About You?" (Ralph Freed, 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 on an album of "swinging" uptempo numbers since the album already included the ballad "We'll Be Together Again.") 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 Longines Symphonette album "Sinatra Like Never Before" (SYS-5637), which was released in September 1973 as a bonus LP in the 10-album boxed set "Sinatra, The Works." The 1956 recording eventually reached a wider audience when it was released on The Capitol Years compilation in 1990.

Selected personnel