Frank Sinatra - Songs for Swingin' Lovers! (w/ guests Right Said Fred)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2017

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

Musicians Fred and Richard Fairbrass (aka Right Said Fred) join Bill and Brian to discuss Frank Sinatra's 10th studio album Songs for Swingin' Lovers (1956, Capitol). After getting the requisite conversation about their tour prepping and some of the trappings of being celebrities out of the way, Fred and Richard talk about discovering Sinatra through their parents, especially from the influence of their 'mum.' Bill, Brian, Fred, and Richard then discuss Nelson Riddle's arrangements, Sinatra's feelings about Elvis, the Beatles, and rock'n'roll, a little on Brian's favorite Sinatra album Watertown, how Sinatra found his voice as he matured, and a few of our favorite tracks from the album! Don't forget that Right Said Fred's latest album, Exactly!, is available in all the places you can find good tunes, including rightsaidfred.com.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Great Albums podcast. I'm Bill.
0:02.7	And I'm Brian.
0:03.4	And what are we talking about today, Brian?
0:05.6	1956's Songs for Swinging Lovers by Frank Sinatra.
0:14.0	You make me feel so young.
0:25.0	You make me feel so spring has sprung and every time I see you grin
0:28.9	I'm such a happy individual
0:32.9	what we do here every week on the podcast
0:34.8	is take an album of music and talk about what makes it great.
0:38.3	We try to have the conversation around the music of the how and the why we're fans of the album.
0:44.9	Yeah, I love hows and whys.
0:47.1	So that's why this show works for me.
0:50.7	And then we finish off every episode with a track-by-track review. But we're not going to do it
0:56.1	alone, Brian. Not this week, no. Joining us via the ones and zeros of Skype are Richard and Fred
1:04.6	Fairbrass, aka Right Said Fred, who you may remember from their early 90s hit, I'm Too Sexy.
1:14.9	You know, if it seems like you, you know, it's been a little while since you've, you know,
1:19.2	heard from them. Well, now's the chance they have a, basically a brand new album. It came out
1:24.8	fairly recently. It's called Exactly. Yeah, just a couple months ago.
1:28.7	It's pretty cool, too, because for anyone not in the know, they actually have been making albums
1:34.1	this entire time. Fred and Richard have continued to be musicians and writers, because I think
1:41.5	some people probably just think of them as this one-off thing
1:45.4	with their one hit, which is, you know, a little bit of a novelty song, but, and they're
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