Sinatra Swings

Last updated
Sinatra Swings
Sinatraswings.jpg
Original cover
Studio album by
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
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Mojo Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
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

Personnel

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Harry Edison</span> American jazz trumpeter

Harry "Sweets" Edison was an American jazz trumpeter and a member of the Count Basie Orchestra. His most important contribution was as a Hollywood studio musician, whose muted trumpet can be heard backing singers, most notably Frank Sinatra.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nelson Riddle</span> American arranger, composer, bandleader and orchestrator (1921–1985)

Nelson Smock Riddle Jr. was an American arranger, composer, bandleader and orchestrator whose career stretched from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s. He worked with many vocalists at Capitol Records, including Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Judy Garland, Dean Martin, Peggy Lee, Johnny Mathis, Rosemary Clooney and Keely Smith. He scored and arranged music for many films and television shows, earning an Academy Award and three Grammy Awards. He found commercial and critical success with a new generation in the 1980s, in a trio of Platinum albums with Linda Ronstadt.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Billy May</span> American composer, arranger and trumpeter

Edward William May Jr. was an American composer, arranger and trumpeter. He composed film and television music for The Green Hornet (1966), The Mod Squad (1968), Batman, and Naked City (1960). He collaborated on films such as Pennies from Heaven (1981), and orchestrated Cocoon, and Cocoon: The Return, among others.

Gordon Hill Jenkins was an American arranger, composer, and pianist who was influential in popular music in the 1940s and 1950s. Jenkins worked with The Andrews Sisters, Johnny Cash, The Weavers, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Judy Garland, Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday, Harry Nilsson, Peggy Lee and Ella Fitzgerald.

<i>September of My Years</i> 1965 studio album by Frank Sinatra

September of My Years is a 1965 studio album by American singer Frank Sinatra, released on Reprise Records in August 1965 on LP and October 1986 on CD. The orchestral arrangements are by Gordon Jenkins, their fifth album collaboration. It peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart.

<i>Sing and Dance with Frank Sinatra</i> 1950 studio album by Frank Sinatra

Sing and Dance with Frank Sinatra is the sixth studio album by Frank Sinatra. The tracks were arranged and conducted by George Siravo and his orchestra. Original Columbia 10-inch 33 1/3-rpm LP and 78-rpm album set released October 16, 1950; the 7-inch 45-rpm EP and EP box sets were released in October 1952.

<i>Swing Easy!</i> 1954 studio album by Frank Sinatra

Swing Easy! is the eighth studio album by Frank Sinatra. It was released in 1954 as a 10" album and consisted of only eight songs, as each side of the record only allowed approximately fourteen minutes of music.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Frank Sinatra discography</span>

American vocalist Frank Sinatra recorded 59 studio albums and 297 singles in his solo career, spanning 54 years. Sinatra signed with Columbia Records in 1943; his debut album The Voice of Frank Sinatra was released in 1946. Sinatra would achieve greater success with Capitol and Reprise Records, the former of which he released his final two albums on—Duets and Duets II. Eight compilation albums under Sinatra's name were released in his lifetime, with more albums released following his death in 1998.

<i>Come Fly with Me</i> (Frank Sinatra album) 1958 studio album by Frank Sinatra

Come Fly with Me is the fourteenth studio album by American singer Frank Sinatra, released in 1958.

<i>Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely</i> 1958 studio album by Frank Sinatra

Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely is the fifteenth studio album by American singer Frank Sinatra. It was released on September 8, 1958, through Capitol Records.

<i>Point of No Return</i> (Frank Sinatra album) 1962 studio album by Frank Sinatra

Point of No Return is the twenty-fifth studio album by American singer Frank Sinatra, released in March 1962 by Capitol Records. As the title reflects, the album contains Sinatra's final original recordings with Capitol Records before moving to his own Reprise Records label to achieve more artistic freedom with his recordings. However, Sinatra would later return to Capitol in order to record Duets (1993) and Duets II (1994).

<i>Ring-a-Ding-Ding!</i> 1961 studio album by Frank Sinatra

Ring-a-Ding-Ding! is the twentieth studio album by Frank Sinatra, released on May 7, 1961. It was the inaugural record on Sinatra's Reprise label and, as the initial concept was "an album without ballads", it consisted only of uptempo swing numbers.

<i>A Man and His Music</i> 1965 studio album by Frank Sinatra

A Man and His Music is a 1965 double album by Frank Sinatra. It provides a brief retrospective of Sinatra's musical career. The album won the 1967 Grammy Award for Album of the Year.

<i>Duets</i> (Frank Sinatra album) 1993 studio album by Frank Sinatra

Duets is an album by American singer Frank Sinatra, released in 1993. Recorded near the end of Sinatra's career, it consists of electronically assembled duets between Sinatra and younger singers from various genres. The album was a commercial success, debuting at No. 2 on the Billboard albums chart, reaching No. 5 in the UK, and selling over 3 million copies in the US. It is the only Sinatra album to date to achieve triple platinum certification.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Count Basie Orchestra</span> American big band

The Count Basie Orchestra is a 16- to 18-piece big band, one of the most prominent jazz performing groups of the swing era, founded by Count Basie in 1935 and recording regularly from 1936. Despite a brief disbandment at the beginning of the 1950s, the band survived long past the big band era itself and the death of Basie in 1984. It continues under the direction of trumpeter Scotty Barnhart.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ernie Freeman</span> American pianist, arranger and composer (1922–1981)

Ernest Aaron Freeman was an American pianist, organist, bandleader, and arranger. He was responsible for arranging many successful rhythm and blues and pop records from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Heinie Beau was an American jazz composer, arranger, saxophonist and clarinetist, most notable for his swing clarinet work and recordings done with Tommy Dorsey, Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra and Red Nichols.

William Mitchell Byers was an American jazz trombonist and arranger.

<i>Sinatra at the Sands</i> 1966 live album by Frank Sinatra

Sinatra at the Sands is a live album by Frank Sinatra accompanied by Count Basie and his orchestra, and conducted and arranged by Quincy Jones, recorded live in the Copa Room of the former Sands Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas in 1966.

<i>Sinatra: Best of the Best</i> 2011 compilation album by Frank Sinatra

Sinatra: Best of the Best is a 2011 double compilation album by American singer Frank Sinatra.

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.