Songs for Young Lovers

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Songs For Young Lovers

Studio album by Frank Sinatra
Released	1954
Recorded	November 5-November 6, 1953 Hollywood
Genre	Classic pop
Length	21:42
Label	Capitol Records
Producer(s)	Voyle Gilmore
All Music Guide (5/5) link (double CD)
Frank Sinatra chronology
Sing And Dance With Frank Sinatra (1950)	Songs For Young Lovers (1954)	Swing Easy! (1954)

Songs For Young Lovers is a 1954 album by Frank Sinatra, his first released under the Capitol label. It was released as a 10" LP as a set of eight songs.

The tracks were conducted by Nelson Riddle, the sessions for this album and the preceding singles ("I've Got the World on A String" and "From Here to Eternity") initiating a long-standing collaboration between the arranger and singer that would continue for the next twenty years. All the arrangements, except for Riddle's own "Like Someone in Love," were by Sinatra's uptempo man from his days at Columbia Records, George Siravo, whose charts Sinatra had continued to use in recent club appearances.

A continuation of his philosophy at Columbia, only this time Sinatra had greater cooperation from his new label in the person of producer Voyle Gilmore, who agreed the new album format should be an event, songs arranged around a specific theme or concept. In addition, the state-of-the-art Capitol studios were capable of producing a more detailed sound, which gave Riddle more freedom in his arrangements and orchestrations.

In 2002, it was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry.

This is currently available on compact disc as a double album with Swing Easy!, also initially released in the ten-inch format and consisting of eight songs.

[edit] Track listing

Track	Song Title	Written By	Time
1.	My Funny Valentine	Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart	2:31
2.	The Girl Next Door	Hugh Blane and Ralph Martin	2:38
3.	A Foggy Day	George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin	2:39
4.	Like Someone in Love	Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke	3:10
5.	I Get a Kick Out of You	Cole Porter	2:55
6.	Little Girl Blue	Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart	2:54
7.	They Can't Take That Away from Me	George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin	1:58
8.	Violets for Your Furs	Tom Adair and Matt Dennis	3:05