FRANK SINATRA "SONGS FOR SWINGIN' LOVERS" 1956 PRISTINE
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Francis Albert “Frank” Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American popular singer and Academy Award-winning film actor.
Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers". His professional career had stalled by the 1950s, but it was reborn in 1954 after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
He signed with Capitol Records and released several critically lauded albums (such as In the Wee Small Hours, Songs for Swingin' Lovers, Come Fly with Me, Only the Lonely and Nice 'n' Easy). Sinatra left Capitol to found his own record label, Reprise Records (finding success with albums such as Ring-A-Ding-Ding, Sinatra at the Sands and Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim), toured internationally, and fraternized with the Rat Pack and President John F. Kennedy in the early 1960s. Sinatra turned 50 in 1965, recorded the retrospective September of My Years, starred in the Emmy-winning television special Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music, and scored hits with "Strangers in the Night" and "My Way".
Sinatra attempted to weather the changing tastes in popular music, but with dwindling album sales and after appearing in several poorly received films, he retired in 1971. Coming out of retirement in 1973, he recorded several albums, scoring a hit with "(Theme From) New York, New York" in 1980, and toured both within the United States and internationally until a few years before his death in 1998.
Songs For Swingin' Lovers is an album by Frank Sinatra, released in 1956.
It took an alternative tack after In the Wee Small Hours, recording existing pop standards in a hipper, jazzier fashion, revealing an overall exuberance.
In 2003, the album was ranked number 306 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
The album was the first ever number one album in the UK
Track listing
- "You Make Me Feel So Young" (Josef Myrow, Mack Gordon) – 2:57
- "It Happened in Monterey" (Mabel Wayne, Billy Rose) – 2:36
- "You're Getting to be a Habit with Me" (Harry Warren, Al Dubin) – 2:19
- "You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me" (Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal, Pierre Norman) – 2:48
- "Too Marvelous for Words" (Richard A. Whiting, Johnny Mercer) – 2:29
- "Old Devil Moon" (Burton Lane, E.Y. Harburg) – 3:56
- "Pennies From Heaven" (Arthur Johnston, Johnny Burke) – 2:44
- "Love is Here to Stay" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:42
- "I've Got You Under My Skin" (Cole Porter) – 3:43
- "I Thought About You" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Mercer) – 2:30
- "We'll Be Together Again" (Carl Fischer, Frankie Laine) – 4:26
- "Makin' Whoopee" (Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn) – 3:06
- "Swingin' Down the Lane" (Isham Jones, Kahn) – 2:54
- "Anything Goes" (Porter) – 2:43
- "How About You?" (Burton Lane, Ralph Freed) – 2:45 ( Wikipedia )
This then is the excellent and very early High Fidelity 1956 Frank Sinatra album entitled " Songs For Swingin' Lovers " on the Capitol record label No LCT 6106. This record is very carefully described as follows:
ALBUM is graded as in excellent + condition with very light marks on the surface only. ( Seen under very strong light ). LABELS are in pristine condition with no marks or stains seen. ( Rainbow edge ) COVER is in pristine condition with no marks or stains seen. There is very light edge wear and very light corner scuffs. INNER contains a plain white paper inner. SPINE is in pristine condition. I will be selling a large number of Frank Sinatra albums over the next week or so. All of them are in remarkable condition, with most of these albums being nearly 50 years of age. All have been sound checked, which has been an absolute pleasure once more for me. Keep looking on my site you may find that Frank Sinatra album you've been looking for. RECORD CONDITIONS NEAR MINT The very lightest of marks on the Playing surface. EXCELLENT Very light marks on the playing surface. VERY GOOD Light marks and some light scratches on the playing surface. GOOD ONLY Many light marks and many light scratches on the playing surface. All records will be sent in a protective polythene record cover. The records will be posted in bespoke record packaging, with an additional stiffener. I will give good postage reductions for multiple sales. POSTAGE UK £2.75 Europe £3.75 Rest of the World £6.75
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