Ring-A-Ding-Ding

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Ring-A-Ding-Ding
Studio album by Frank Sinatra
Released	1961
Recorded	December 19-December 21, 1960 Los Angeles
Genre	Classic pop
Length	39:15
Label	Reprise Records
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Frank Sinatra chronology
Sinatra’s Swingin’ Session!!! (1961)	Ring-A-Ding-Ding (1961)	Sinatra Swings (1961)

Ring-A-Ding-Ding is an album by Frank Sinatra, released in 1961.

It was his first album that he recorded with the label that he founded, Reprise Records.

The title track was written especially for Sinatra by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Ring-A-Ding-Ding" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn)
2. "Let's Fall In Love" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler)
3. "Be Careful, It's My Heart" (Irving Berlin)
4. "A Foggy Day" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)
5. "A Fine Romance" (Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields)
6. "In the Still of the Night" (Cole Porter)
7. "The Coffee Song" (Bob Hilliard, Dick Miles)
8. "When I Take My Sugar to Tea" (Irving Kahal, Sammy Fain, Pierre Norman)
9. "Let's Face the Music and Dance" (Irving Berlin)
10. "You'd Be So Easy to Love" (Cole Porter)
11. "You and the Night and the Music" (Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz)
12. "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" (Irving Berlin)
13. "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart" (J. Hanley)
14. "The Last Dance" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn)
15. "The Second Time Around" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn)

The last three songs are bonus tracks on the 1991 compact disc release, not available on the 1998 Entertainer of the Century remastered series. The last two tracks were arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.

[edit] Personnel

• Frank Sinatra - Vocals
• Johnny Mandel - Arranger
• Felix Slatkin - Conductor