Songs for Young Lovers
His first album for Capitol: eight songs, issued as a 10-inch LP.
Frank Sinatra, 1954
- Released
- 4 January 1954
- Label
- Capitol
- Producer
- Voyle Gilmore
The seventh studio album of his career and the first for Capitol came out as an eight-song 10-inch LP. Nelson Riddle conducted, but George Siravo wrote the arrangements for every song except Like Someone in Love, which Riddle arranged. Sinatra had been using Siravo's charts in his nightclub appearances, and the studio musicians were surprised by their worn condition. He convinced Gilmore to record the charts he had performed at the Riviera and the Sands.
Riddle was influenced by Siravo's arrangements, and Siravo came to resent that Riddle received the credit. In 1962 the album was reissued as a 12-song 12-inch LP with four extra songs. In 2002 the Library of Congress chose it for the National Recording Registry.
Track listing
- My Funny Valentine2:31
- The Girl Next Door2:38
- A Foggy Day2:39
- Like Someone in Love3:10
- I Get a Kick Out of You2:55
- Little Girl Blue2:54
- They Can't Take That Away from Me1:58
- Violets for Your Furs3:05
Personnel
- Frank Sinatra vocals
- Nelson Riddle conductor, arranger on Like Someone in Love
- George Siravo arranger on all other songs
- Hollywood String Quartet strings
- Voyle Gilmore producer
More from Frank Sinatra
In the Wee Small Hours (1955), Songs for Swingin' Lovers! (1956), Only the Lonely (1958), Come Fly with Me (1958), Nice 'n' Easy (1960), Sinatra-Basie: An Historic Musical First (1962), September of My Years (1965), Sinatra at the Sands (1966), Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim (1967), Francis A. & Edward K. (1967), Watertown (1970), Trilogy: Past Present Future (1980), Duets (1993)
Sources
- Songs for Young Lovers, Wikipedia