Look past the tacky, sad-clown velvet painting on the cover (a Grammy-winner for album design in 1959!), there’s nothing cheap or sentimental about this record–the bleakest and blackest album of popular songs ever recorded, so quietly powerful it can leave you slumped in your chair with the ice cubes still rattling in your glass. Every single “suicide song” (as Sinatra liked to...
Sinatra already had one youthful career behind him by the time he made Songs for Swingin’ Lovers! His were no longer the lustrous pipes of the kid crooner from Hoboken–the voice that made bobbysoxers swoon–but from the first notes of the opening track (“You Make Me Feel So Young”) he seems to have discovered a musical fountain of youth that fully justifies the exclamation...
Sinatra already had one youthful career behind him by the time he made Songs for Swingin’ Lovers! His were no longer the lustrous pipes of the kid crooner from Hoboken–the voice that made bobbysoxers swoon–but from the first notes of the opening track (“You Make Me Feel So Young”) he seems to have discovered a musical fountain of youth that fully justifies the exclamation...
Sinatra already had one youthful career behind him by the time he made Songs for Swingin’ Lovers! His were no longer the lustrous pipes of the kid crooner from Hoboken–the voice that made bobbysoxers swoon–but from the first notes of the opening track (“You Make Me Feel So Young”) he seems to have discovered a musical fountain of youth that fully justifies the exclamation...
Sinatra already had one youthful career behind him by the time he made Songs for Swingin’ Lovers! His were no longer the lustrous pipes of the kid crooner from Hoboken–the voice that made bobbysoxers swoon–but from the first notes of the opening track (“You Make Me Feel So Young”) he seems to have discovered a musical fountain of youth that fully justifies the exclamation...