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Music : Songs for Swingin' Lovers!In association with Amazon.comby: Frank Sinatra  List Price: $17.98 Amazon.com's Price: $10.97 You Save: $7.01 (39%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: Audio CDEAN: 0724349622623 Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered Label: Capitol Manufacturer: Capitol Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Capitol Release Date: September 08, 1998 Studio: Capitol Sales Rank: 4783 MPN: 96226 Disc 1:
Editorial Review: Amazon.com essential recording: 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 Average Rating:
 Rating: - First Rate ALL THE WAYYep I love Frank, just about anything he has ever done sits well with me BUT, this CD here, well it ranks right at the top. Nelson Riddle and Frank were perfect together. The cooking chemistry between these two was nothing short of brilliant and it all fit perfect in this collection of songs. The two cranked out many albums together in the mid and late 50s, all wonderful in their own way (Moonlight Sinatra is my favorite mid 60's), but this one has to be the at the top. Franks chops were in their ... Read More Rating: - Sinatra SwingsThis is one of the very best Sinatra albums, possessing a fine mix of well and not so well-known songs. The rapport between the singer and Nelson Riddle's orchestra is spot-on, ranging from the delicate to the full, and handled with the precision of a piano accompanist. Sinatra has never been in better voice, and his musicality, phrasing, control of tone, and that occasional trademark "smart-mouth" style is used intelligently and not overdone (for instance he changes the lyric in "How About You" from ... Read More Rating:  - The Riddle arrangements are not as great as the vocal performanceMy Dad was a Sinatra fan. We twice thoroughly enjoyed watching a tape I made of a PBS Great Performances broadcast of Sinatra's best television appearances (sadly unavailable on DVD). My own appreciation of Sinatra has grown over the years. When our library purchased this CD, I was eager to audition it. I agree that Sinatra was at a peak vocally when he recorded this album. Some of his live performances are more loose, but in later years his voice was not up to par. It's a matter of taste. ... Read More Rating: - "For Parting Is Not Goodbye . . . We'll Be Together Again""Listening to the marvelously sympathetic, effortlessly swinging orchestrations Riddle provided the singer on these selections, it's easy to understand why the album is rightly considered one of their landmark achievements - as satisfying today as when recorded 30 years ago, and just as fresh-sounding - and why Sinatra described Riddle as "the greatest arranger in the world." ~ Pete Welding ~ I concur with Frank Sinatra when he described Nelson Riddle as "the greatest arranger in the world." ... Read More Rating: - Just listen!What does one say about Frank Sinatra? He's probably one of the most written about human beings in history. So how does one add anything meaningful to what has been written about him. I think by being truthful. I grew up listening to AC/DC, Aerosmith, and many other 80's rock acts. To this day I still enjoy them ocasionally. At the time, if I thought about him, Sinatra seemed like some kind of joke. Some old guy with bad hair and a bad act. But those thoughts spoke more about who I was than about Sinatra. ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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