Songs for Swingin' Lovers! Songwriting Credits by Frank Sinatra

Songs for Swingin' Lovers! is the eighth studio album by Frank Sinatra, released in March 1956 on Capitol Records and produced by Voyle Gilmore with arrangements by Nelson Riddle. It is the commercial and artistic complement to In the Wee Small Hours, deploying the same Riddle-Sinatra partnership in an entirely different emotional register: jubilant, sophisticated, and rhythmically alive. Sinatra did not write any of the 15 tracks; the album draws from the Great American Songbook, including Cole Porter's 'I've Got You Under My Skin' (featuring a remarkable Milt Bernhart trombone solo), 'You Make Me Feel So Young,' 'Pennies from Heaven,' and 'Makin' Whoopee.' Riddle's big band arrangements, built on brass accents, swinging rhythm sections, and the particular space he gave Sinatra's voice, represent the aesthetic opposite of the quiet orchestral settings of Wee Small Hours, demonstrating the range that had made the Capitol period the most creatively productive of Sinatra's career. Songs for Swingin' Lovers! reached number one on the US albums chart and has been certified double platinum; it is consistently ranked among the greatest albums in music history and is the primary reference point for the Nelson Riddle-Sinatra swinging orchestral sound that defined the premium end of American popular music in the mid-1950s. Paul McCartney cited the album as directly influential on his compositional approach, and its influence on sophisticated pop production extends through the work of Harry Connick Jr., Michael Bublé, and every subsequent artist working in the Great American Songbook tradition.