Songs for Swingin' Lovers!
Occupation
- Vocals - Frank Sinatra
- Conductor, arranger - Nelson Riddle
- Trumpet - Sweets Edison, Conrad Gozzo, Mannie Klein, Mickey Mangano, Zeke Zarchy
- Trombone - Milt Bernhart, Joe Howard, Dick Noel, Jimmy Priddy, Paul Tanner
- Valve trombone - Juan Tizol
- Bass Trombone - George Roberts
- Alto Saxophone - Harry Klee, Willie Schwartz
- Tenor Saxophone - Justin Gordon, Ted Nash, Babe Russin, James Williamson
- Baritone Saxophone - Mort Friedman
- Clarinet - Harry Klee, Willie Schwartz
- Violin - Felix Slatkin ( Concertmaster); Victor Bay, Alex Beller, Harry Bluestone, Samuel Cytron, Harold Dicterow, Walter Edelstein, David Frisina, Robert Gross, Henry Hill, Dan Lube, Alex Murray, Paul Nero, Erno Neufeld, Nathan Ross, Mischa Russell, Paul Shure, Marshall Sosson
- Viola - Alvin Dinkin, Maxine Johnson, Paul Robyn, David Sterkin, Milton Thomas
- Cello - Cy Bernard, Ennio Bolognini, Ray Kramer, Edgar Lustgarten, Eleanor Slatkin
- Harp - Kathryn Julye
- Piano - Bill Miller
- Guitar - George Van Eps
- Bass - Joe Comfort
- Drums - Irving Cottler, Alvin Stoller
- Percussion - Frank Flynn
Songs for Swingin ' Lovers is a book published in March 1956 by Capitol Swing concept album by Frank Sinatra in collaboration with Nelson Riddle. In song selection, arrangement and interpretation, it is one of the most important recordings of the Great American Songbook.
Genesis
Since the end of April 1953 Frank Sinatra worked with his recordings for Capitol Records together with arranger and orchestra leader Nelson Riddle. The preparations for their fourth joint albums project (after Songs for Young Lovers 1953 Swing Easy 1954 and In the Wee Small Hours 1955) began in early summer 1955. On June 30, 1955 was a first test session instead ( Sinatra took a previously officially unreleased version of I Thought About You on, and Riddle proven his arrangements for Memories of You and We'll Be Together Again - all three songs took Sinatra later for the new album ).
By late autumn 1955, the song selection was made which consisted of 15 songs in the early years from 1923 to 1947, with a strong emphasis on pieces dating from the 1930s, most of which come from Broadway musicals or music films. The recording sessions for the album took place on four evenings between 9th and 16th January 1956 in Hollywood, where Sinatra grossed a total of 15 pieces. The final arrangements for Riddle had only partly completed very shortly, in collaboration with his copyists Vern Yocum. 14 of the 15 recorded songs found a place on the album, another, Memories of You initially remained unpublished and was replaced on the album by Love Is Here to Stay, Sinatra and Riddle had already played in October 1955.
Chart successes, issues and Awards
Early March, published in 1956, the album has climbed at the end of the month on the Billboard charts and reached there for several weeks 2nd place Overall, the album held more than 14 months (66 weeks) on the Billboard charts. Also in the British charts and other European countries, the album reached top positions. Part also later re-releases were again noted in the charts.
The first edition, which came out at the same time as the LP and 4 -EP set, has sold about 500,000 copies. Except in the United States and various European countries since the album on LP and CD in Australia, Brazil, Japan and South Africa has been republished in its own pressures with partly different cover design. Various sections of the album appeared in the 1960s in a number of countries of the former Eastern Bloc.
The Grammy it was in the release of the album yet - in 2000 Songs for Swingin ' Lovers was as a whole, but then won the " Grammy Hall of Fame " award after two years before the same honor already the album recording of I 've Got You Under My Skin was been bestowed.
In 2003 the music magazine Rolling Stone Songs for Swingin ' Lovers counted ranked 306 among the 500 best albums of all time.
Musical meaning
Songs for Swingin ' Lovers applies in swing area as the first and best example of the jointly developed by Sinatra and Riddle "heartbeat rhythm", a steady, sustained swinging, but mostly in comparison to other recordings of the genre held in a more moderate pace rhythm, said of the Riddle that it affects most people, because he is " the natural cycle of their pulse rate during walking " correspond. This approach has since been picked up and copied by various artists. Furthermore, many of the represented on the album arrangements later developed for the respective songs themselves, first and foremost took Cole Porter's I've Got You Under My Skin, for whose played by Milt Bernhart Trombone solo Riddle bonds with compositions by Stan Kenton.
During the recordings worked with many prominent jazz musicians such as Juan Tizol and Ted Nash, for the first time here - and then in a similar occupation for many more years - formed the backbone for Sinatra - Riddle's studio orchestra. Many of them had previously worked for other prominent orchestras, including Stan Kenton, and let such negative influences in their game recognize. Therefore, the album is also considered successful synthesis of instrumental improvisation and Sinatra's typical small variations of the lyrics.
The music magazine Jazzwise recorded the album in the list The 100 Jazz Albums That Shook the World; Keith Shadwick wrote:
Title list
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- 9 I've Got You Under My Skin ( Cole Porter, 1936) - 3:43
- 10 I Thought About You ( Jimmy Van Heusen / Johnny Mercer, 1939) - 2:30
- 11 We'll Be Together Again (Carl Fischer / Frankie Laine, 1945) - 4:26
- 12 Makin ' Whoopee (Walter Donaldson / Gus Kahn, 1928) - 3:06
- 13 Swingin ' Down the Lane ( Isham Jones / Gus Kahn, 1923) - 2:54
- 14 Anything Goes ( Cole Porter, 1934) - 2:43
- 15 How About You? ( Burton Lane / Ralph Freed, 1941) - 2:45