Come Dance with Me!

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Come Dance With Me!
Come Dance With Me! cover
Studio album by Frank Sinatra
Released 1959
Recorded December 9-December 23, 1958 Capitol Studio A, Hollywood
Genre Vocal Jazz, Classic pop
Length 41:59
Label Capitol Records
Producer Dave Cavanaugh
Professional reviews
Frank Sinatra chronology
Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely
(1958)
Come Dance With Me!
(1959)
Look To Your Heart
(1959)

Come Dance With Me! is an album by American singer Frank Sinatra, released in 1959.

It was the most successful album of Frank Sinatra's career, spending two and a half years on the Billboard charts. Stereo Review wrote in 1959 that "Sinatra swaggers his way with effortless verve through an appealing collection of bouncy standards, aptly described in the album notes as vocals that dance". At the Grammy Awards of 1960, Come Dance With Me! won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, as well as Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Male for Sinatra. Billy May won the Grammy Award for Best Arrangement.

Come Dance With Me stayed on Billboard's Pop album chart for 140 weeks, peaking at #2.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Come Dance with Me" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 2:31
  2. "Something's Gotta Give" (Johnny Mercer) – 2:38
  3. "Just in Time" (Jule Styne, Betty Comden, Adolph Green) – 2:24
  4. "Dancing in the Dark" (Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz) – 2:26
  5. "Too Close for Comfort" (Jerry Bock, Larry Holofcener, George Weiss) – 2:34
  6. "I Could Have Danced All Night" (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) – 2:40
  7. "Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week)" (Cahn, Styne) – 1:54
  8. "Day In, Day Out" (Rube Bloom, Mercer) – 3:25
  9. "Cheek to Cheek" (Irving Berlin) – 3:06
  10. "Baubles, Bangles and Beads" (Robert Wright, George Forrest) – 2:46
  11. "The Song Is You" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 2:43
  12. "The Last Dance" (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 2:11
    Cd reissue bonus tracks not included on the original 1959 release:
  13. "It All Depends on You" (B.G. DeSylva, Lew Brown, Ray Henderson) – 2:06
  14. "Nothing in Common" (duet with Keely Smith) (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 2:32
  15. "Same Old Song and Dance" (Cahn, Van Heusen, Bobby Worth) – 2:52
  16. "How Are Ya' Fixed for Love?" (with Keely Smith) (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 2:25

[edit] Personnel