first artist whose name i recognize (but honestly such a big name that who wouldn't). based on the album art that this site provides i'm listening to the 1956 version, not the 1998 remaster, and all the vinyl sounds that comes with the digitalization track 1, You Make Me Feel So Young track 2: It Happened In Monterey track 3: You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me it was at this point i realized i'd hard zoned out and did not notice the track switching other than the bpm of the song changing, these really all sound the same to me (most songs i hear from around this time period do) so for this album i'm dropping the by-track commentary and going by blocks when thoughts come to me track 4, You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me track 5, Too Marvelous For Words track 6: Old Devil Moon none of these songs on this album are BAD. by all rights they're perfectly enjoyable. it's just singing over a medium-slow older jazzish orchestration and i've already missed a song while i was typing this, track 7: Pennies From Heaven track 8: Love Is Here To Stay sinatra sings a lot about love in this album, or loving someone, or being physical with them, etc. maybe this album is just all love songs! maybe he was singing about someone, or someones, that he loved. SIDE 2 track 9: I've Got You Under My Skin this one's more upbeat at least, the past few have been SUPER slow and man if a song is too slow it just kinda makes my skin itch. really funny for this track name too okay yeah the album is literally called "songs for swinging lovers" i don't know what i expected when i described these songs as love songs ahahaha track 10: I Thought About You i can't imagine listening to these songs in any other context than slow dancing with your significant other. swaying gently in the living room holding them gently while little baby uh. hold on i've gotta google something track 11: We'll Be Together Again okay the most popular baby names of the 1950s were james, michael, and robert. so yeah, swaying gently while little baby jimmy was in the other room sleeping sound in his crib, not knowing that his parents were getting up to the naughty business of- track 12: Makin' Whoopee well not THAT, certainly. this song goes from nervousness before a wedding to the husband doing household chores and prepping for a child. how is this a song for swinging lovers? maybe if they were rocking gently in bed lmao it's okay, frank, you just just call it sex. track 13: Swingin' Down The Lane i'm actually kind of feeling this one, i like the light bells and how they make me think of a starry sky. the light pollution had to have been so much lower when this album came out, back when taking your date to the top of a cliff to sit on the hood of your car and stargaze was actually feasible while you lived within an hour of a major city. putting your hand down just an inch too close to theirs so your pinkies cross, stealing a glance at each other, and enjoying the evening track 14: Anything Goes oh i actually recognize this one, or maybe i've heard a cover of it before. imagine how different things are now than they were in the 50s, geez. "a glimpse of a stock was shocking but now anything goes" and we've got short-shorts and low-cut tops and the like. the song does close with somewhat of an embrace of the phrase "anything goes", accepting things are different (and better?) than they used to be track 15: How About You new york in june is HOT, frank. it's SO hot. i'm melting thinking about it. i suppose when the backing tracks are all very same-y, all that's left to talk about are the words (and the vibes, but that's 24/7 here). i couldn't say for sure whether mr. sinatra chose everything he sung about, that's not the wikipedia deep dive i'd like to have tonight, but i'd say at least 75% of this album is pretty good to slow-dance to. not sure how easy it is to skip tracks on a vinyl. i came out of this album feeling better than i did going into it, though, so that's points in its favor. i'd say somewhere between a 5 and a 6 out of 10.