A Swingin' Affair!

A Swingin' Affair!
Studio album by Frank Sinatra
Released	May 6, 1957
Recorded	November 15 – 28, 1956
Studio	Capitol Studio A (Hollywood)
Genre	Vocal jazz, traditional pop
Length	45:31 (original 15-track album)
Label	Capitol
Producer	Voyle Gilmore
Frank Sinatra chronology
Close to You (1957) A Swingin' Affair! (1957) Where Are You? (1957)

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Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[2]

A Swingin' Affair! is the twelfth studio album by Frank Sinatra. It is sometimes mentioned as the sequel to Songs for Swingin' Lovers.

"The Lady Is a Tramp" was bumped from the original album and replaced with "No One Ever Tells You", which had been recorded months earlier. Later, "The Lady is a Tramp" appeared on the soundtrack for Pal Joey. It was restored to the album for the compact disc release.

Track listing

1. "Night and Day" (Cole Porter)  – 3:58
2. "I Wish I Were in Love Again" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart)  – 2:27
3. "I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'" (DuBose Heyward, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)  – 3:09
4. "I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan" (Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz)  – 2:23
5. "Nice Work If You Can Get It" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin)  – 2:20
6. "Stars Fell on Alabama" (Frank Perkins, Mitchell Parish)  – 2:37
7. "No One Ever Tells You" (Hub Atwood, Carroll Coates)  – 3:23
8. "I Won't Dance" (Jerome Kern, Jimmy McHugh, Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach, Dorothy Fields)  – 3:21
9. "The Lonesome Road" (Nat Shilkret, Gene Austin)  – 3:53
10. "At Long Last Love" (Porter)  – 2:23
11. "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" (Porter)  – 2:03
12. "I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)" (Duke Ellington, Paul Francis Webster)  – 3:21
13. "From This Moment On" (Porter)  – 3:50
14. "If I Had You" (Jimmy Campbell, Reginald Connelly, Ted Shapiro)  – 2:35
15. "Oh! Look at Me Now" (Joe Bushkin, John DeVries)  – 2:48

    CD reissue bonus track not included on the original 1957 release:

16. "The Lady Is a Tramp" (Rodgers, Hart)  – 3:14

Chart positions

Complete personnel

• Frank Sinatra – vocals
• Nelson Riddle – arranger, conductor

Tracks 1, 9, 14, 16:

26-November-1956 (Monday) - Hollywood. Mickey Mangano, Harry Edison, Shorty Sherock, Ray Linn (tpt); Juan Tizol, Murray McEachern, Dick Noel (tbn); George Roberts (b-tbn); Willie Schwartz, Harry Klee (alt); Jules Kinsler, James Williamson (ten); Joe Koch (bar); Victor Bay, Emo Neufeld, Alex Beller, Joe Stepansky, David Frisina, Eudice Shapiro, Harold Dicterow, Alex Murray, Kurt Dieterle, Lou Raderman (vln); Stanley Harris, Maxine Johnson, Alvin Dinkin (via); Eleanor Slatkin, Ennio Bolognini, Edgar Lustgarten (vlc); Kathryn Julye (harp); Bill Miller (p); Nick Bonney (g); Joe Comfort (b); Irving Cottler (d).

Tracks 2, 4, 5, 10:

Mickey Mangano, Conrad Gozzo, Harry Edison, Shorty Sherock (tpt); George Arus, Dick Noel, Ed Kusby (tbn); George Roberts (b-tbn); Willie Schwartz, Harry Klee (alt); Ted Nash, James Briggs (ten); Joe Koch (bar); Felix Slatkin, Paul Shure, Alex Beller, Emo Neufeld, Lou Raderman, Marshall Sosson, Mischa Russell, Nathan Ross, Victor Bay, Gerald Vinci (vln); Maxine Johnson, Alvin Dinkin, David Sterkin (vla); Eleanor Slatkin, Cy Bernard, Edgar Lustgarten (vlc); Kathryn Julye (harp); Bill Miller (p); Nick Bonney (g); Joe Comfort (b); Alvin Stoller (d).

Tracks 3, 6, 8:

Conrad Gozzo, Harry Edison, Mickey Mangano, Mannie Klein (tpt); George Arns, Dick Noel, Ed Kusby (tbn); George Roberts (b-tbn); Jack Dumont, Dominic Mumolo (alt); Don Raffell, Buck Skalak (ten); Paul Lawson (bar); Henry Hill, Alex Beller, Marshall Sosson, Felix Slatkin, Paul Shure, Erno Neufeld, Walter Edelstein, Jacques Gasselin, Nathan Ross, Dan Lube (vln); Maxine Johnson, Alvin Dinkin, David Sterkin (vla); Ennio Bolognini, Eleanor Slatkin, Cy Bernard (vlc); Kathryn Julye (harp); Bill Miller (p); Nick Bonney (g); Joe Comfort (b); Irving Cottler (d).

Track 7:

Ray Linn, Mannie Klein, Shorty Sherock, Harry Edison (tpt); Jimmy Priddy, Milt Bernhart, Ed Kusby (tbn); George Roberts (b-tbn); Willie Schwartz, Harry Klee (alt); Champ Webb, Babe Russin (ten); Chuck Gentry (bar); Felix Slatkin, Paul Shure, Mischa Russell, Harry Bluestone, Henry Hill, Marshall Sosson, Arnold Bdnick, Alex Beller, Victor Bay (vln); Alvin Dinkin, Maxine Johnson (via); Eleanor Slatkin, Cy Bernard, Ennio Bolognini (vlc); Helen Hutchinson (harp); Bill Miller (p); George Van Eps (g); Joe Comfort (b); Alvin Stoller (d); Marilyn Lewis, Alicia Adams, Allan Davies, Ralph Brewster, John Mann, Lee Gotch (voe [1]).

Tracks 11, 12, 13, 15

Pete Candoli, Harry Edison, Shorty Sherock, Ray Linn (tpt); Dick Nash, Tommy Pederson (tbn); Juan Tizol (v-tbn); George Roberts (b-tbn); Skeets Herfurt, Harry Klee (alt); Ted Nash, James Williamson (ten); Joe Koch (bar); Victor Bay, Emo Neufeld, Alex Beller, Victor Amo, David Frisina, Eudice Shapiro, Jacques Gasselin, Felix Slatkin, Paul Shure, Marshall Sosson (vln); David Sterkin, Maxine Johnson, Alvin Dinkin (via); Eleanor Slatkin, Ennio Bolognini, Cy Bernard (vie); Kathryn Julye (harp); Bill Miller (p); Nick Bonney (g); Joe Comfort (b); Alvin Stoller (d).

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