Frank Sinatra - Songs for Swingin Lovers
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Artist: Frank SinatraEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1998-09-08
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
- You Make Me Feel So Young
- It Happened in Monterey
- You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me
- You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me
- Too Marvelous for Words
- Old Devil Moon
- Pennies from Heaven
- Love Is Here to Stay
- I've Got You Under My Skin
- I Thought About You
- We'll Be Together Again
- Makin' Whoopee
- Swingin' Down the Lane
- Anything Goes
- How About You?
Music reviews of Songs for Swingin Lovers
Music Review: One Of Frank's Most Elegant And Entertaining Albums.
Rating: 5 Stars
My father once said the reason Frank Sinatra is regarded as the finest vocalist in music is because throughout his entire recorded career, he managed to cover the entire gamut of human emotions in his songs. "In The Wee Small Hours" was loneliness, "Only The Lonely" was despair and sorrow, and "September Of My Years" was a propulsive combo of nostalgia, regret, desparation and anticipation.
On the flip side of those albums, "Songs For Swingin' Lovers!" is Frank at his happiest and upbeat. The 15 songs present all swing hard except for one ("We'll Be Together Again"), and even that lone number is hardly a downer.
Frank's voice I think really came into his own this album. By now, he was already well established as the finest singer in the business, but it was here that he perfected his breath control and more importantly his phrasing, perfecting his style of bending certain consenants without sounding over the top or out of context with the melody.
The songs here are among Frank's best. I often likened Frank to an actor who recorded his roles on tape rather than film, and it is here that Ol' Blue Eyes does some of his best "acting" on this record. For example, on "You Make Me Feel So Young," the album's zesty opener and a song forever associated with The Master, Frank truly sounds enraptured by the ferment of true love.
Elsewhere on this magnificent recording, Frank takes us on a stroll down the lane for the gently swingin' "I Thought About You," gets you hooked instantly on the intoxicating "You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me," (a song as addictive as the romance Frank sings about on the song - hey, not a bad addiction to have!), laments on changing times on Cole Porter's "Anything Goes," and, of course, plumbs the depths of romantic obsession and denial on the timeless "I've Got You Under My Skin". That latter recording is often regarded as Frank's finest achievement, and it's hard to argue otherwise. Frank has never laid down a more gripping vocal, clinging to every syllable, every last consenant as if it's the last breath he'll ever breathe in his life, ably aided by Nelson Riddle's delicate, intricate and flat out brilliant arrangement. For my money, it's not only Frank's best, but the finest recording of anything in American music.
The rest of the album is equally solid, with "It Happened In Monterey," "Too Marvelous For Words," "Pennies From Heaven," (not as good as the Basie version, but an excellent recording nonetheless), "Our Love Is Here To Stay" and "How About You" being highlights.
However, not all the credit must go to Frank, as Nelson Riddle concocts some of his most potent and intelligent arrangements on this album, all of which play off marvelously against Frank's vocals.
The sound remastering job is better than a few people here make it out to be, and the liner notes are extremeyl well written.
"Songs For Swingin' Lovers!" is a classic album that belongs in any music lovers' collection.
Description of Songs for Swingin Lovers
Digipak edition of this 1956 album from the legendary crooner. Orchestra conducted by Nelson Riddle.Sinatra already had one youthful career behind him by the time he made Songs for Swingin' Lovers! His were no longer the lustrous pipes of the kid crooner from Hoboken--the voice that made bobbysoxers swoon--but from the first notes of the opening track ("You Make Me Feel So Young") he seems to have discovered a musical fountain of youth that fully justifies the exclamation point in the album title. There's a buoyant new spring in his step, accented by Nelson Riddle's lighter-than-air arrangements, that makes the Columbia records of Sinatra's younger days sound stiff and stodgy in comparison. Even chestnuts like "Old Devil Moon," "Pennies from Heaven," "Makin' Whoopee," and "Anything Goes" are rejuvenated by his vibrant touch. Put this alongside his previous Capitol album, In the Wee Small Hours, and you have the definitive statements by both sides of Sinatra's mature musical personality: the lonely "saloon singer" and the swaggering, sophisticated swinger. Sinatra's carefree confidence achieves its supreme expression in "I've Got You Under My Skin," a performance that builds steadily to an ecstatic climax. Cole Porter may have hated his lyrical embellishments, but by the time the singer jauntily breaks the "fourth wall" on "Anything Goes" ("...may I say before this records spins to a close..."), you can't deny he's taken the title to heart. --Jim Emerson
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