Songs for Young Lovers by Frank Sinatra

Songs for Young Lovers is the seventh studio album by Frank Sinatra, released in 1954. It was his first on Capitol Records. 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 were by one of Sinatra's Columbia Records arrangers, George Siravo, except for "Like Someone in Love", which Riddle arranged. Sinatra was using Siravo's charts in his contemporaneous night club appearances, and the studio musicians were surprised by the worn condition of the charts, which differed from the new music pages typically distributed at such a recording session. 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 recorded songs would be arranged around a specific theme or concept. This time around, the singer had more artistic freedom, and producer Voyle Gilmore was supportive of the album's consistent format. 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. ℗ 2015 Capitol Records, LLC