Songs for Young Lovers is the seventh Studio Album by Frank Sinatra, his first released for Capitol Records. It was released as a 10" LP as a set of eight songs. It was also the first Sinatra "album" to not have a 78rpm album set release.
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 t...
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Songs for Young Lovers is the seventh Studio Album by Frank Sinatra, his first released for Capitol Records. It was released as a 10" LP as a set of eight songs. It was also the first Sinatra "album" to not have a 78rpm album set release.
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.
According to www.jamesdean.com, it was the favorite album of James Dean.
Songs For Young Lovers followed a formula similar to Sinatra's previous releases for Columbia - rather than compiling a potentially inconsistent set of former hits, a set of newly...
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