Love Swings

Love Swings

The current vogue of taking songs from the American songbook, which has served Tony Bennett, Rod Stewart and Barry Manilow so well in recent years, is nothing new; Bobby Darin was doing it back in 1961. Love Swings tells the story of a relationship via twelve classic tracks, with the first six (which would have made up the original first side of the album) concerning the joys of being in a relationship and the second six detailing the downside. It is has been described as the most sophisticated album of Bobby Darin's career and it is hard to disagree.