Swing Easy!

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Swing Easy!
Studio album by Frank Sinatra
Released	1954
Recorded	April 7, April 19, 1954 Hollywood
Genre	Vocal Jazz
Length	19:17
Label	Capitol Records
Producer(s)	Voyle Gilmore
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link (expanded CD)
Frank Sinatra chronology
Songs For Young Lovers (1954)	Swing Easy! (1954)	In the Wee Small Hours (1955)

Swing Easy! is a 1954 album by Frank Sinatra, his second released under the Capitol label. It was released as a 10" LP consisting of eight songs, the maximum playing time available to a ten-inch record side being under fourteen minutes.

His second album on Capitol and the first with arrangements by Nelson Riddle, using a swing band format for the instrumentation. As the title implies, the record concentrates on up-tempo swingers done with a light touch. Again, the songs were all standards -- "Just One of Those Things," "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams," "All of Me" -- that benefited from the new thematic setting, the new arrangements, and, of course, Sinatra's increasingly playful and textured vocals.

This album is currently available on compact disc as a double album with Songs For Young Lovers, also initially released in the ten-inch format. It is also available as an expanded disc by import.

[edit] Original LP Track listing

1. "Just One of Those Things" (Cole Porter)
2. "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down (And Write Myself a Letter)" (Fred E. Ahlert, Joe Young)
3. "Sunday" (Chester Conn, Benny Krueger, Ned Miller, Jule Styne)
4. "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams" (Harry Barris, Ted Koehler, Billy Moll)
5. "Taking a Chance on Love" (Vernon Duke, Ted Fetter, John Latouche)
6. "Jeepers Creepers" (Harry Warren, Johnny Mercer)
7. "Get Happy" (Ted Koehler, Harold Arlen)
8. "All of Me" (Gerald Marks, Seymour Simons)

[edit] Expanded CD Track listing

1. "Jeepers Creepers" (Harry Warren, Johnny Mercer)
2. "Taking a Chance on Love" (Vernon Duke, Ted Fetter, John Latouche)
3. "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams" (Harry Barris, Ted Koehler, Billy Moll)
4. "Lean Baby" (Roy Alfred, Billy May)
5. "I Love You" (Harry Archer, Harlan Thompson)
6. "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down (And Write Myself a Letter)" (Fred E. Ahlert, Joe Young)
7. "Get Happy" (Ted Koehler, Harold Arlen)
8. "All of Me" (Seymour Simons, Gerald Marks)
9. "How Could You Do a Thing Like That to Me" (Tyree Glenn, Allan Roberts)
10. "Why Should I Cry Over You?" (Chester Conn, Ned Miller)
11. "Sunday" (Chester Conn, Benny Krueger, Ned Miller, Jule Styne)
12. "Just One of Those Things" (Cole Porter)

[edit] Personnel

• Frank Sinatra - Vocals
• Nelson Riddle - Arranger, Conductor