1991
1998
A Swingin' Affair! is Frank Sinatra's fourteenth studio album. Released in 1957, the tracks were arranged by Nelson Riddle for Capitol Records.
Track listing[]
- "Night and Day" (Cole Porter) – 3:58
- "I Wish I Were in Love Again" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 2:27
- "I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'" (DuBose Heyward, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 3:09
- "I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan" (Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz) – 2:23
- "Nice Work if You Can Get It" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 2:20
- "Stars Fell on Alabama" (Frank Perkins, Mitchell Parish) – 2:37
- "No One Ever Tells You" (Hub Atwood, Carroll Coates) – 3:23
- "I Won't Dance" (Jerome Kern, Jimmy McHugh, Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach, Dorothy Fields) – 3:21
- "The Lonesome Road" (Nat Shilkret, Gene Austin) – 3:53
- "At Long Last Love" (Porter) – 2:23
- "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" (Porter) – 2:03
- "I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)" (Duke Ellington, Paul Francis Webster) – 3:21
- "From This Moment On" (Porter) – 3:50
- "If I Had You" (Jimmy Campbell, Reginald Connelly, Ted Shapiro) – 2:35
- "Oh! Look at Me Now" (Joe Bushkin, John DeVries) – 2:48
- CD bonus track:
- "The Lady Is a Tramp" (Rodgers, Hart) – 3:14
Singles[]
The song "No One Ever Tells You" was released as a B-side single of the single release for "To Love and Be Loved."[1]
Reception[]
Allmusic gave the album a perfect score of five out of five stars. In comparison to the previous year's Songs for Swingin' Lovers, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic claimed that "A Swingin' Affair! is a forceful, brassy album -- it exudes a self-assured, confident aura."[2]
Rolling Stone gave the album a perfect score of five out of five stars as well.[3]
A Swingin' Affair! peaked at #2 ont he Billboard 200 charts of 1957.[4] The album also peaked at #1 on the UK Albums Chart. [5]
Personnel[]
Voyle Gilmore | Producer |
Nelson Riddle | Arranger, Conductor |
Frank Sinatra | Vocals |
Larry Walsh | Remastering |
Pete Welding | Liner Notes |