Swing and Dance with Frank Sinatra
cover of 1996 reissue
Studio album by
Frank Sinatra
ReleasedOctober 16, 1950
RecordedApril 14 and April 24, 1950, New York City, except tr.4 July 10, 1949 (original)
Genre
Length50:05 (re-issue)
LabelColumbia
Frank Sinatra chronology
Dedicated to You
(1950) 		Swing and Dance with Frank Sinatra
(1950) 		Songs for Young Lovers
(1954)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]
Allmusic [2](Re-issue)

Sing and Dance with Frank Sinatra is the sixth studio album by Frank Sinatra. The tracks were arranged and conducted by George Siravo and his orchestra (except for track four, which was conducted by Hugo Winterhalter). Original Columbia 10-inch 33 1/3-rpm LP and 78-rpm album set released October 16, 1950; the 7-inch 45-rpm EP and EP box sets were released in October 1952. (See Gramophone record for an explanation of these formats.)

It would prove to be the final album that Sinatra released under the Columbia label, another three years before he would start recording for Capitol and another year after that before his next album, entitled Songs for Young Lovers, would be released in 1954. Six of the eight songs on this LP would be remade for one of his contractual obligation albums to Capitol, Sinatra's Swingin' Session!!!.

For its compact disc reissue in 1996, alternate versions of six songs – including "I've Got a Crush on You" and "All of Me" – are included. The extra songs in this compilation, titled slightly differently as Swing and Dance with Frank Sinatra, were recorded between 1944 and 1951.

Personnel

Expanded CD produced by Charles L. Granata & Didier C. Deutsch

Track listing

Original ("Sing and Dance with Frank Sinatra")

Track Song Title Originally By Length
1. Lover Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart 2:39
2. It's Only a Paper Moon Billy Rose, E.Y. Harburg and Harold Arlen 1:55
3. My Blue Heaven G. Whiting and Walter Donaldson 2:28
4. It All Depends on You B.G. DeSylva, Lew Brown and Ray Henderson 2:43
5. You Do Something to Me Cole Porter 2:33
6. Should I Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown 2:03
7. The Continental Herb Magidson and C. Conrad 2:30
8. When You're Smiling Fisher, Goodwin and Shay 2:28

Re-issue ("Swing and Dance with Frank Sinatra") track listing

Track Song Title Originally By Length
1. *Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week) J. Styne, Sammy Cahn 2:43
2. *All of Me S. Simons and G. Marks 2:44
3. I've Got a Crush on You George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin 3:13
4. *The Hucklebuck R. Alfred and A. Gibson 3:02
5. *It All Depends on You B.G. DeSylva, Lew Brown and Ray Henderson 2:43
6. **Bye Bye Baby J. Styne and Leo Robin 2:44
7. All of Me S. Simons and G. Marks 2:46
8. Should I Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown 2:24
9. You Do Something to Me Cole Porter 2:33
10. Lover Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart 2:39
11. When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You) Fisher, Goodwin and Shay 2:28
12. It's Only a Paper Moon Billy Rose, E.Y. Harburg and Harold Arlen 1:55
13. My Blue Heaven G. Whiting and Walter Donaldson 2:28
14. The Continental Herb Magidson and C. Conrad 2:31
15. *Meet Me at the Copa Axel Stordahl, Sammy Cahn 3:11
16. *Nevertheless (I'm in Love with You) Harry Ruby and Bert Kalmar 3:08
17. *There's Something Missing Rule, O'Brien, Benjamin, Weiss and Downey 3:18
18. ***Farewell, Farewell to Love J. Wolf and George Siravo 2:54

All tracks arranged and conducted by George Siravo except for the marked songs:

* arranged & conducted by Axel Stordahl
** arranged & conducted by Hugo Winterhalter
*** arranged & conducted by Harry James

References

  1. ^ Sing and Dance with Frank Sinatra at AllMusic
  2. ^ Sing and Dance with Frank Sinatra at AllMusic


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