Sinatra Swings

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Sinatra Swings
Sinatraswings.jpg
Original cover
Studio album by
Frank Sinatra
ReleasedJuly 1961
RecordedMay 18, 19, 23, 1961
Studio United (Hollywood, Los Angeles)
Genre
Length33:02
Label Reprise
FS 1002
Producer Sonny Burke
Frank Sinatra chronology
Come Swing with Me!
(1961)		Sinatra Swings
(1961)		 I Remember Tommy
(1961)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
New Record Mirror 5/5 [4]

Sinatra Swings (originally titled Swing Along with Me) is the twenty-second studio album by American singer Frank Sinatra with Billy May and his Orchestra, released in July 1961.

Contents

The album's two titles derive from the fact that Capitol thought the album, originally titled Swing Along With Me, was too close in sound and title to Sinatra's earlier Capitol album Come Swing with Me! that the label sought, and was granted, a court order requiring Reprise to change the title of this, only his second Reprise album, to Sinatra Swings. Reprise was not required to recall LPs already shipped, but had to print new labels and jackets. [5] All compact disc releases have retained the artwork with the alternate title intact.

It was advertised on the record sleeve as featuring "twelve of the most uninhibited Sinatra things ever recorded." The tracks were arranged and conducted by Billy May and his orchestra. Sinatra had a small hit with the single "Granada" included on this album.

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Falling in Love with Love"
1:49
2."The Curse of an Aching Heart"
2:06
3."Don't Cry, Joe (Let Her Go, Let Her Go, Let Her Go)" Joe Marsala 3:05
4."Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone"
2:56
5."Love Walked In"
2:19
6."Granada"
3:38
7."I Never Knew"
2:14
8."Don't Be That Way"
2:41
9."Moonlight on the Ganges"
  • Sherman Myers
  • Chester Wallace
3:18
10."It's a Wonderful World"
2:17
11."Have You Met Miss Jones?"
  • Richard Rodgers
  • Lorenz Hart
2:30
12."You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You"
4:09
Total length:33:02

Complete Personnel

Tracks 1, 7, 8, 10:

19-May-1961 (Friday) - Hollywood.

Conrad Gozzo, Mickey Mangano, Shorty Sherock, Jimmy Zito (tpt); Tommy Pederson, Joe Howard, Ed Kusby (tbn); Ken Shroyer (b-tbn); Willie Schwartz, Harry Klee, Jules Jacob, Justin Gordon, Chuck Gentry (sax/wwd); Verlye Mills (harp); Bill Miller (p); Al Viola (g); Joe Comfort (b); Phil Stephens (tuba); John Markham (d); Emil Richards (perc).

Tracks 2, 4, 5, 11:

18-May-1961 (Thursday)- Hollywood.

Conrad Gozzo, Mickey Mangano, Shorty Sherock, Frank Beach (tpt); Tommy Pederson, Joe Howard, Milt Bernhart (tbn); George Roberts (b-tbn); Harry Klee, Ted Nash, Jules Jacob, Justin Gordon, Chuck Gentry (sax/wwd); Bill Miller (p); Al Viola (g); Joe Comfort (b); Phil Stephens (tuba); John Markham (d); Emil Richards (perc).

Tracks 3, 6, 9, 12:

23-May-1961 (Tuesday) - Hollywood.

Conrad Gozzo, Mickey Mangano, Shorty Sherock, Frank Beach (tpt); Tommy Pederson, Joe Howard, Ed Kusby (tbn); Ken Shroyer (b-tbn); Ted Nash, Harry Klee, Gene Cipriano, Buddy Collette, Chuck Gentry (sax/wwd); Victor Arno, Jacques Gasselin, Marshall Sosson, Gerald Vinci, Herman Clebanoff, James Getzoff, Lou Klass, Nathan Ross, Marvin Limonick, Arnold Sukonick, Lennie Malarsky, Israel Baker (vln); Paul Robyn, Alex Neiman, Alvin Dinkin, Stanley Harris (via); Justin DiTullio, Armand Kaproff, Ossip Giskin, Margaret Aue (vlc); Verlye Mills (harp); Bill Miller (p); Al Viola (g); Joe Comfort (b); Phil Stephens (tuba); Irving Cottler (d); Emil Richards, Larry Bunker (perc).

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References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ Andrew Male Mojo, January 2010, Issue 194.
  3. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2006). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0195313734.
  4. ↑ Watson, Jimmy (October 28, 1961). "Frank Sinatra: Sinatra Swings" (PDF). New Record Mirror . No. 33. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 1, 2022. Retrieved August 5, 2022.
  5. ↑ "Sinatra Swings One More Time". Billboard Music Week. Cincinnati, OH. August 7, 1961. p. 2.
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