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''Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely'' (1958, also known as ''Sings for Only the Lonely'' or simply ''Only the Lonely'') is an album by Frank Sinatra. The album consists of a collection of torch songs, following a formula similar to Sinatra's previous albums ''In the Wee Small Hours'' (1955) and ''Where Are You?'' (1957).〔Summers, Antony, and Robbyn Swan, ''Sinatra: The Life''. Doubleday, 2005, ISBN 0-552-15331-1, p. 271.〕 According to John Rockwell's book, ''Sinatra: An American Classic'', when asked at a party in the mid-1970s if he had a favorite album among his recordings, without hesitation, Sinatra chose ''Only the Lonely''.〔Petkov, Steven, and Leonard Mustazza, ''The Frank Sinatra Reader'', Oxford, 1995, ISBN 978-0-19-511389-1, p. 70.〕 The album's front cover (painted by Nicholas Volpe) features Sinatra as a sullen, Pagliacci-like clown. Sketched on the album's back cover is one of Sinatra's recurrent visual motifs: a lamppost. ==Background== Sinatra had planned to record the album with arranger Gordon Jenkins, with whom he had worked on ''Where Are You?''. Since Jenkins was unavailable at the time, Sinatra chose to work with his frequent collaborator, Nelson Riddle. The three tracks conducted by Riddle at the first session were not used, and the subsequent sessions were conducted by Felix Slatkin, after Riddle went on a pre-arranged tour with Nat King Cole.〔〔 At the time of the recording, Sinatra's divorce from Ava Gardner had been finalized, and Nelson Riddle (who wrote the album's arrangements) had recently suffered the deaths of his mother and daughter.〔Ingham, Chris. ''The Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra''. Rough Guides Ltd, June 30, 2005. ISBN 1-84353-414-2, p. 174.〕 Of these events, Riddle remarked: "If I can attach events like that to music...perhaps ''Only the Lonely'' was the result."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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