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A Swingin' Affair!

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A Swingin' Affair!
Studio album by
ReleasedMay 6, 1957
RecordedNovember 15 – 28, 1956
StudioCapitol Studio A (Hollywood)
GenreVocal jazz, traditional pop
Length45:31 (original 15-track album)
LabelCapitol
ProducerVoyle Gilmore
Frank Sinatra chronology
Close to You
(1957)
A Swingin' Affair!
(1957)
Where Are You?
(1957)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]
Uncut[3]

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

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  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

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Chart Year Peak
position
UK Albums Chart[4] 1957 1

References

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  1. ^ A Swingin' Affair! at AllMusic
  2. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  3. ^ Aiken, Kit (November 2003). "Croon squad". Uncut. No. 20. p. 92.
  4. ^ "The Official Charts Company – Frank Sinatra – A Swingin' Affair". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 26 May 2011.