Songs for Young Lovers/Swing Easy [Original recording remastered]

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This CD pairs the first two 10-inch records Sinatra recorded for Capitol. In 1955, full-length albums by popular singing stars were still few and far between. These two platters marked the beginning of Sinatra's phenomenally successful relationship with conductor-arranger Nelson Riddle, and presaged the "concept albums" that would become such an important part of Sinatra's Capitol period. Songs for Young Lovers includes such romantic numbers as "My Funny Valentine" and "I Get a Kick Out of You," while Swing Easy offers up danceable versions of "All of Me," "Just One of Those Things," and others. Sinatra sounds great, and there's magic galore in these grooves. --Dan Epstein

Tracks:

Songs For Young Lovers: My Funny Valentine
Songs For Young Lovers: The Girl Next Door
Songs For Young Lovers: A Foggy Day
Songs For Young Lovers: Like Someone In Love
Songs For Young Lovers: I Get A Kick Out Of You
Songs For Young Lovers: Little Girl Blue
Songs For Young Lovers: They Can't Take That Away From Me
Songs For Young Lovers: Violets For Your Furs
Swing Easy: Just One Of Those Things
Swing Easy: I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter
Swing Easy: Sunday
Swing Easy: Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams
Swing Easy: Taking A Chance On Love
Swing Easy: Jeepers Creepers
Swing Easy: Get Happy
Swing Easy: All Of Me

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This CD pairs the first two 10-inch records Sinatra recorded for Capitol. In 1955, full-length albums by popular singing stars were still few and far between. These two platters marked the beginning of Sinatra's phenomenally successful relationship with conductor-arranger Nelson Riddle, and presaged the "concept albums" that would become such an important part of Sinatra's Capitol period. Songs for Young Lovers includes such romantic numbers as "My Funny Valentine" and "I Get a Kick Out of You," while Swing Easy offers up danceable versions of "All of Me," "Just One of Those Things," and others. Sinatra sounds great, and there's magic galore in these grooves. --Dan Epstein

Customer Reviews:

WONDERFUL SINATRA.......2007-04-10

THESE ARE WONDERFUL EASY LISTENING LOVE SONGS. AND COMING FROM SINATRA, THE BEST MUSIC AND VOICE ANYWHERE!!! HE IS THE GREATEST SINGER OF ALL TIME AND THIS IS A MUST FOR ANY SINATRA FAN!!! AT HIS TOP!!

Each day is Valentine's Day........2007-01-13

This CD features Frank Sinatra's first two Capitol Records albums. Back in those days, albums were only ten inches wide, instead of twelve, and they usually had eight songs on them. Songs For Young Lovers was recorded in November, 1953. It features eight classic pop standards arranged by Nelson Riddle. The songs are all ballads, played with a slightly jazzy touch. Sinatra himself sings brilliantly, of course. Swing Easy was recorded in April, 1954. It also features eight standards arranged by Nelson Riddle. This time the songs are up tempo, with a swing jazz touch, but not swinging so much as to distract from Sinatra's singing. Sinatra is fantastic once again, proving why he is considered to be America's greatest interpreter of popular songs. Two great (albeit short) albums for the price of one.

"You Took The Part That Once Was My Heart!".......2006-01-27

This CD fits the description of a "double delight." Two-great-albums-in-one-CD. The sparkling arrangements in both albums were done by none other than the greatest Sinatra arranger/conductor and my top favorite, Nelson Riddle, whom I believe possessed a kind of magic touch that brought out the very best in any singer that he had worked with. These two musical icons brought out the very best in each other. I loved all the albums they recorded together, with no exception. In my opinion, their collaboration resulted in the very best Sinatra-recordings-of-all-time. Mr. Riddle was truly a genius of an arranger/conductor and Mr. Sinatra was truly the best pop singer America ever produced and had enjoyed a world-class recognition.

I recently had dinner with a good friend of mine at one of my favorite restaurants, Buca di Beppo, and we were ushered-in at the Frank Sinatra Room. And to our delight, some Frank Sinatra music was playing on the background and I recall "All Of Me," a meaningful song from this CD, was played.

"Your goodbye. . .
Left me with eyes that cry
How can I get along without you?
You took the part that once was my heart
So why not take all of me?"

I consider this CD as one of the very best from my Sinatra collection. You can't just ignore Riddle's spectacular arrangements and Sinatra's par excellence vocal sophistication in all his performances. The first eight tracks were taken from November 1953 recording of "Songs For Young Lovers" and the last half was taken from "Swing Easy," an album recorded fifty-one years ago in April of 1954.

The Chairman of the Board will serenade you with the quintessential Valentine song, "My Funny Valentine" and an extraordinary song about gazing at stars, hearing guitars, walking as though you had wings, bump into things and feeling . . . "Like Someone In Love." He will dance with you and swing it easy to the danceable tracks such as "A Foggy Day," "I Get A Kick Out Of You," "They Can't Take That Away From Me," "Taking A Chance On Love," "Just One Of Those Things" and "All Of Me."

One more thing . . . this is one of the many masterpieces of the great Sinatra/Riddle team.

One last thing . . . this is timeless music and so deserves that special spot in your music library.

A Tale of Two Albums - One Good, The Other Great!.......2004-09-18

In my opinion, the "Songs For Young Lovers" portion of this double album, while good, is Frank Sinatra's weakest album at Capitol. On the other hand, the "Swing Easy" portion is superb.

Getting back to the first point: With the exception of "A Foggy Day," "I Get a Kick Out of You," "They Can't Take That Away From Me," and "My Funny Valentine" (and, possibly, "Violets for Your Furs"), the 3 remaining songs suffer from overly mawkish arrangements and singing. In particular, "Little Girl Blue" is just plain wimpy, and "The Girl Next Door" is handily beaten by Frank's Reprise-era rendition from 1962. George Siravo's arrangements are too syrupy for my taste, and Sinatra seems to be trying too hard to merely sound pretty as opposed to really grabbing you by the lapels as he normally does.

Don't get me wrong - I usually love Frank's ballad singing every bit as much as his handling of up-tempo numbers. However, this album falls short of his admittedly stellar standards. For far superior ballad singing, I would strongly recommend the following Capitol albums: "Where Are You?", "Frank Sinatra Sings For Only the Lonely," "In the Wee Small Hours," "No One Cares," and "Close to You." In other words, any of his other ballad concept albums for Capitol!

And it melted wherrrre it lay.......2004-09-04

This review concerns the one song Violets For Your Furs where Sinatra sings "and it melted where it lay." He hits a low note on the word "where" that I have enjoyed for the last 25 years. I always considered it to be vocal magic, a stroke of genius. I recently played it for a girlfriend and she said it sounded way off. While I realize that it is out of his range I always found it to be perfect. I'd have to rate it as one of my top ten Sinatra moments. I later played it for a friend and he said it sounded awakward, like a mistake that should have been redone. He can't imagine Sinatra doing it on purpose and feels that at best it was a mistake that Sinatra must have liked and chose to keep. My friend thinks it sounds awful. On the live in Seattle 1957 Sinatra does the same thing so I guess it's on purpose. I would like some input on this. What do you people think? Post a review and or email me at johnparadis@webtv.net. I'm real interested in what Jonathan Schwartz has to say about this. It's keeping me awake at night!

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Swing Easy/Songs for Young Lovers ~ Frank Sinatra

Songs for Young Lovers/Swing Easy!
Frank Sinatra
Manufacturer: EMI Gold Imports
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Jazz | Styles | Music

Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

Traditional Jazz General | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music

Vocal Jazz General | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music

General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music

Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music

Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music

General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music

Broadway & Vocalists | Imports | Stores | Music

Pop | Imports | Stores | Music
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Songs for Swingin' Lovers!
Come Dance with Me!
Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely
A Swingin' Affair!
In the Wee Small Hours

ASIN: B0000073TP
Release Date: 1995-08-15

Tracks:

My Funny Valentine
The Girl Next Door
A Foggy Day
Like Someone In Love
I Get A Kick Out Of You
Little Girl Blue
They Can't Take That Away From Me
Violets For Your Furs
Just One Of Those Things
I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter
Sunday
Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams
Taking A Chance On Love
Jeepers Creepers
Get Happy
All Of Me

Customer Reviews:

Swing Easy/Songs for Young Lovers ~ Frank Sinatra.......2005-06-28

Sinatra is such a good crooner that he is totally in a class of his own. His vocals are so good that adjectives almost do not do them justice. However, words like stupendous, amazing and out of this world just barely scratch the surface. It is true that he did not write any of the lyrics on this album but it is his vocals that one listen to. The lyrics are well written and have not aged one bit. This actutally a re-release of two of his most enjoyed albums, these being swing easy and songs for young lovers. I love the book-let with the intersting tid bit regarding these albums and the photos are awesome. This is an album not to be missed.

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Swing Easy/Songs for Young Lovers
Frank Sinatra
Manufacturer: Toshiba EMI
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music

General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music

Classic | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music

Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music

Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00005LA15
Release Date: 2002-08-30

Tracks:

Just One of Those Things
I'm Gonna Sit Right Down (And Write Myself a Letter)
Sunday
Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away)
Taking a Chance on Love
Jeepers Creepers
Get Happy
All of Me
My Funny Valentine
Girl Next Door
Foggy Day
Like Someone in Love
I Get a Kick Out of You
Little Girl Blue
They Can't Take That Away from Me
Violets for Your Furs

Album Description

Part of the 'Super Bit Jazz Classics Series'. Japanese 20-bit digitally remastered limited edition reissue of 1955 album packaged in a miniature LP sleeve.

Album Details

Japanese 20bit Digitally Remastered in a Limited Edition LP-STYLE Sleeve for the Initial Pressing Only.

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Swing Easy & Songs for Young Lovers

ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000GALFQC
Release Date: 2006-08-29

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