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Frank Sinatra Songs For Swingin’ Lovers LP RE RM 1975 SM653 Nelson Riddle This is a desert Island disc for me   If I could only take one Sinatra this would be it
Songs for Swingin' Lovers! is the tenth studio album by American singer , and his fourth for . It was arranged by  and released in March 1956. It was the first album ever to top the .
This album was arranged by , and took a different tack after  (1955), recording existing pop standards in a hipper, jazzier fashion, revealing an overall exuberance in the vein of  and .

In 2000, the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, and ranked number 306 on  magazine's list of  in 2003, and 308 in 2012 revised list. Sinatra aficionados often rank it his best or second best album (to ) and many music critics consider it one of the greatest albums of its era.

In 2000 it was voted number 100 in 's .

The LP was the first number one album in the UK. It was knocked off the top after two weeks by  (the 1956 movie's soundtrack).

After the ballad-heavy , Frank Sinatra and  returned to up-tempo, swing material with Songs for Swingin' Lovers!, arguably the vocalist's greatest swing set. Like Sinatra's previous Capitol albums, Songs for Swingin' Lovers! consists of reinterpreted pop standards, ranging from the ten-year-old "You Make Me Feel So Young" to the 20-year-old "Pennies From Heaven" and "I've Got You Under My Skin." Sinatra is supremely confident throughout the album, singing with authority and joy. That joy is replicated in 's arrangements, which manage to rethink these standards in fresh yet reverent ways. Working with a core rhythm section and a full string orchestra,  writes scores that are surprisingly subtle. "I've Got You Under My Skin," with its breathtaking middle section, is a perfect example of how Sinatra works with the band. Both swing hard, stretching out the rhythms and melodies but never losing sight of the original song. Songs for Swingin' Lovers! never loses momentum. The great songs keep coming and the performances are all stellar, resulting in one of Sinatra's true classics.