record_label a swingin' affair!
A Swingin ' Affair ! is the twelfth ___MASK87___ by Frank Sinatra . It is claimed to be the sequel to Songs for Swingin ' Lovers . `` The Lady Is a Tramp '' was bumped from the original ___MASK100___ 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 ___MASK100___ for the compact disc release . Harry Haag James ( March 15 , 1916  July 5 , 1983 ) was an American musician who is best known as a trumpet playing band leader who led a ___MASK14___ from 1939 to 1946 . He broke up his band for a short period in 1947 but shortly after he re - organized and was active again with his band from then until his death in 1983 . He was especially known among musicians for his astonishing technical proficiency as well as his superior tone , and was extremely influential on up and coming trumpet players from the late 1930s into the 1940s . He was also an actor in a number of motion pictures that usually featured his bands in some way . Francis Albert Sinatra ( December 12 , 1915  May 14 , 1998 ) was an American singer , actor , and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century . He is one of the best - selling music artists of all time , having sold more than 150 million records worldwide . Born in Hoboken , New Jersey , to Italian immigrants , Sinatra began his musical career in the swing era with bandleaders Harry James and Tommy Dorsey . Sinatra found success as a solo artist after he signed with ___MASK23___ in 1943 , becoming the idol of the " bobby soxers ". He released his debut ___MASK100___ , " The Voice of Frank Sinatra ", in 1946 . Sinatra ' s professional career had stalled by the early 1950s , and he turned to Las Vegas , where he became one of its best known performers as part of the Rat Pack . His career was reborn in 1953 with the success of " From Here to Eternity " and his subsequent Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor . Sinatra released several critically lauded albums , including " In the Wee Small Hours " ( 1955 ), " Songs for Swingin ' Lovers !" ( 1956 ), " Come Fly with Me " ( 1958 ), " Only the Lonely " ( 1958 ) and " Nice ' n ' Easy " ( 1960 ). Nice ' n ' Easy is a 1960 ___MASK100___ by Frank Sinatra . The Voice of Frank Sinatra is the first ___MASK87___ by American singer Frank Sinatra , released on ___MASK23___ , catalogue C - 112 , March 4 , 1946 . It was first issued as a set of four 78 ___MASK39___ totaling eight songs , the individual discs having been previously released as singles , consisting of catalog # s 36762 , 36919 , 36921 , and 37089 . The album went to # 1 on the fledgling Billboard chart . It stayed at the top for seven weeks in 1946 , spending a total of eighteen weeks on the charts . The album chart consisted of just a Top Five until August 1948 . The cover depicted to the right is that of the original 78 rpm release cover , also used on the compact disc reissue . The LP ( from " long playing " or " long play ") is an analog sound storage medium , a vinyl ___MASK52___ format characterized by a speed of rpm , a 12 or 10 inch ( 30 or 25 cm ) diameter , and use of the " microgroove " groove specification . Introduced by Columbia in 1948 , it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire ___MASK52___ industry . Apart from a few relatively minor refinements and the important later addition of stereophonic sound , it has remained the standard format for vinyl albums . Bobby soxer is a 1940s sociological coinage describing the often very zealous fans of traditional ___MASK76___ music , in particular its creators like singer Frank Sinatra . Bobby soxers were usually teenage girls and young adult women from about 12 to 25 . Fashionable adolescent girls wore poodle skirts and rolled down their socks to the ankle . In high schools and colleges , the gymnasium was often used as a dance floor ; however , since street shoes and street detritus might damage the polished wood floors , the students were required to remove their shoes and flop dance in their bobby socks , hence the phrase " sock hop ". ___MASK23___ ( also known simply as Columbia ) is an American ___MASK52___ ___MASK91___ owned by ___MASK81___ ( SME ), a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America , Inc ., the United States division of Sony Corporation . It was founded in 1887 , evolving from an earlier enterprise named the American Graphophone Company , the successor to the Volta Graphophone Company . Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in the recorded sound business , being the second major ___MASK52___ company to produce recorded records . ___MASK23___ went on to release records by an array of notable singers , instrumentalists , and bands . From 1961 to 1990 , its recordings were released outside the U . S . and Canada by the CBS Records ___MASK91___ ( which was named after the Columbia Broadcasting System ) to avoid confusion with the EMI ___MASK91___ of the same name , before adopting the Columbia name internationally in 1990 . It is one of Sony Music ' s three flagship ___MASK52___ labels alongside RCA Records and Epic Records . MPEG - 1 and / or MPEG - 2 Audio Layer III , more commonly referred to as MP3 , is an audio coding format for ___MASK50___ which uses a form of lossy data compression . It is a common audio format for consumer audio streaming or storage , as well as a de facto standard of ___MASK50___ compression for the transfer and playback of music on most ___MASK50___ players and computing devices . Compact disc ( CD ) is a ___MASK60___ optical disc data storage format released in ___MASK65___ and co - developed by Philips and ___MASK73___ . The format was originally developed to store and play only sound recordings but was later adapted for storage of data ( CD - ROM ). Several other formats were further derived from these , including write - once audio and data storage ( CD - R ), rewritable media ( CD - RW ), Video Compact Disc ( VCD ), Super Video Compact Disc ( SVCD ), Photo CD , PictureCD , CD - i , and Enhanced Music CD . Audio CD players have been commercially available since October ___MASK65___ , when the first commercially available CD player was released in Japan . In the Wee Small Hours is the ninth ___MASK87___ by American vocalist Frank Sinatra . It was released in April 1955 on ___MASK22___ , produced by Voyle Gilmore with arrangements by Nelson Riddle . All the songs on the album deal with specific themes such as loneliness , introspection , lost love , failed relationships , depression and night - life ; as a result , " In the Wee Small Hours " has been called one of the first concept albums . The cover artwork reflects these themes , portraying Sinatra on an eerie and deserted street awash in blue - tinged street lights . He had been developing this idea since 1946 with his first album release , " The Voice "; he would successfully continue this " concept " formula with later albums such as " Songs for Swingin ' Lovers !" and " Only the Lonely ". The swing era ( also frequently referred to as the " ___MASK14___ era ") was the period of time ( around 1935  1946 ) when ___MASK14___ swing music was the most popular music in the United States . Though this was its most popular period , the music had actually been around since the late 1920s and early 1930s , being played by black bands led by such artists as Duke Ellington , Jimmie Lunceford , Bennie Moten , Cab Calloway , and Fletcher Henderson , and white bands from the 1920s led by the likes of Russ Morgan and Isham Jones . The era ' s beginning is sometimes dated from  the King of Swing  Benny Goodman ' s performance at the Palomar Ballroom in Los Angeles on August 21 , 1935 , bringing the music to the rest of the country . 1930s also became the era of other great soloists : the tenor saxist Coleman Hawkins and Chu Berry ; the alto saxists Benny Carter and Johnny Hodges ; the drummers Gene Krupa , Cozy Cole and Sid Catlett ; the pianists Fats Waller and Teddy Wilson ; the trumpeters Roy Eldridge , Bunny Berigan , and Rex Stewart . Songs for Swingin ' Lovers ! is the tenth ___MASK87___ by American singer Frank Sinatra and his fourth for ___MASK22___ . It was arranged by Nelson Riddle and released in March 1956 . It was the first album ever to top the UK Albums Chart . Thomas Francis " Tommy " Dorsey , Jr . ( November 19 , 1905  November 26 , 1956 ) was an American jazz trombonist , composer , conductor and bandleader of the ___MASK14___ era . He was known as the " Sentimental Gentleman of Swing ", because of his smooth - toned trombone playing . Although he was not known for being a soloist , his technical skill on the trombone gave him renown among other musicians . He was the younger brother of bandleader Jimmy Dorsey . After Dorsey broke with his brother in the mid - 1930s , he led an extremely popular and highly successful band from the late 1930s into the 1950s . He is best remembered for standards such as " Opus One ", " Song of India ", " Marie ", " On Treasure ___MASK45___ ", and his biggest hit single " I ' ll Never Smile Again ". Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century , first as books of individual 78rpm records , then from 1948 as vinyl LP records played at rpm . Vinyl LPs are still issued , though in the 21st century ___MASK100___ sales have mostly focused on compact disc ( CD ) and MP3 formats . The audio cassette was a format used from the late 1970s through to the 1990s alongside vinyl . A book is a set of written , printed , illustrated , or blank sheets , made of paper , parchment , or other materials , fastened together to hinge at one side , with text and / or images printed in ink . A single sheet within a book is a ___MASK83___ , and each side of a ___MASK83___ is a page . A set of text - filled or illustrated pages produced in electronic format is known as an electronic book , or e - book .