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A Swingin' Affair!

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{{Infobox album

| name = A Swingin' Affair!

| type = studio

| artist = Frank Sinatra

| cover = Aswinginaffair.jpg

| alt =

| released = May 6, 1957

| recorded = November 15 – 28, 1956

| venue =

| studio = Capitol Studio A (Hollywood)

| genre = Vocal jazz, traditional pop

| length = 45:31 (original 15-track album)

| label = Capitol

| producer = Voyle Gilmore

| prev_title = Close to You

| prev_year = 1957

| next_title = Where Are You?

| next_year = 1957

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = Allmusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r24147}}

| rev2 = Encyclopedia of Popular Music

| rev2Score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|edition=4th|isbn=978-0195313734|title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}

| rev3 = Uncut

| rev3Score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{Cite magazine |last=Aiken |first=Kit |date=November 2003 |title=Croon squad |magazine=Uncut |page=92 |issue=20}}

}}

A Swingin' Affair! is the twelfth studio album by Frank Sinatra. It is sometimes mentioned as the sequel to Songs for Swingin' Lovers.

"The Lady Is a Tramp" was bumped from the original album and replaced with "No One Ever Tells You", which had been recorded months earlier. Later, "The Lady is a Tramp" appeared on the soundtrack for Pal Joey. It was restored to the album for the compact disc release.

Track listing

  1. "Night and Day" (Cole Porter)  – 3:58
  2. "I Wish I Were in Love Again" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart)  – 2:27
  3. "I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'" (DuBose Heyward, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)  – 3:09
  4. "I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan" (Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz)  – 2:23
  5. "Nice Work If You Can Get It" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin)  – 2:20
  6. "Stars Fell on Alabama" (Frank Perkins, Mitchell Parish)  – 2:37
  7. "No One Ever Tells You" (Hub Atwood, Carroll Coates)  – 3:23
  8. "I Won't Dance" (Jerome Kern, Jimmy McHugh, Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach, Dorothy Fields)  – 3:21
  9. "The Lonesome Road" (Nat Shilkret, Gene Austin)  – 3:53
  10. "At Long Last Love" (Porter)  – 2:23
  11. "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" (Porter)  – 2:03
  12. "I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)" (Duke Ellington, Paul Francis Webster)  – 3:21
  13. "From This Moment On" (Porter)  – 3:50
  14. "If I Had You" (Jimmy Campbell, Reginald Connelly, Ted Shapiro)  – 2:35
  15. "Oh! Look at Me Now" (Joe Bushkin, John DeVries)  – 2:48
  16. : CD reissue bonus track not included on the original 1957 release:
  17. "The Lady Is a Tramp" (Rodgers, Hart)  – 3:14

Chart positions

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Chart

!Year

!Peak
position

align="left"|UK Albums Chart{{cite web |url= https://www.officialcharts.com/search/albums/A%20Swingin%27%20Affair |title=The Official Charts Company – Frank Sinatra – A Swingin' Affair |work=Official Charts Company |access-date=26 May 2011}}

|align="left"|1957

|align="left"|1

References

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Category:Frank Sinatra albums

Category:Capitol Records albums

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