My Baby Loves to Swing

My Baby Loves to Swing is the seventeenth studio album by American singer Vic Damone, released by Capitol Records in January 1963,^[1] and was available both in stereo and mono.^[2] It was produced by Jack Marshall.

The albums contains mix of originals and covers of songs from the 1910s (''Baby Won't You Please Come Home", "My Melancholy Baby"), 1920s ("Everybody Loves My Baby"), 1930s ("You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby", My Baby Just Cares for Me "), and 1940s ("Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby")^[3]

The album was released on compact disc by EMI Music Distribution in 1997 as a double album pairing it with Damone's 1962 debut with Capitol, Linger Awhile with Vic Damone.^[4]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[5]
Disc	^[6]

AllMusic's Nick Dedina thought the album "finds a middle ground between the ones Nelson Riddle and Billy May crafted for Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole, and Damone's smooth delivery contrasts nicely with Marshall's charts"^[1]

Billboard praised Damone "for using a variety of stylings (smooth ballads, bossa nova, blues) serenades with "Baby Won't You Please Come Home", "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby", "My Melancholy Baby", and other strong oldies".^[7]

Cashbox stated that "the tunes are rendered in a variety of danceable rhythms including Bossa Nova, cha-cha and waltz"^[8]

Nigel Hunter of Disc notes Damone "works through well-known standards ... and sings clearly with mellow tone and impeccable pharsing"^[6]

In A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers, Will Friedwald describes as it gets an odd (but not unappealing) military press roll and lots of modulations, ending with Damone socking in to a real high note. There are also two Cahn and Van Heusen originals, which sound like leftover from a Sinatra concept album.^[3]

Both The Encyclopedia of Popular Music and Disc gave the album four-star ratings,^[5]^[6] while getting a lower three-star rating from AllMusic.^[1]

Track listing

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"I'm Nobody's Baby"	Milton Ager, Benny Davis, Lester Santly	2:15
2.	"Everybody Loves My Baby"	Jack Palmer, Spencer Williams	2:30
3.	"You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" (from the Warner Bros. film: Hard to Get)	Johnny Mercer, Harry Warren	1:46
4.	"Alright, Okay, You Win"	Sid Wyche, Sidney Wyche	2:24
5.	"My Melancholy Baby"	William Frawley, George A. Norton	2:22
6.	"Let's Sit This One Out"	Sammy Cahn, James Van Heusen	3:05

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"My Baby Loves to Swing"	Sammy Cahn, James Van Heusen	2:48
2.	"My Baby Just Cares for Me" (from the United Artists film: Whoopee!)	Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn	2:09
3.	"Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby"	Louis Jordan, Billy Austin	2:13
4.	"Baby, Baby All the Time"	Bobby Troup	2:31
5.	"Baby Won't You Please Come Home"	Charles Warfield, Clarence Williams	1:56
6.	"Make This a Slow Goodbye"	Frank J. Myers, Jack Sher, Joe Sher	2:51

References

1 2 3 4 Vic Damone – My Baby Loves to Swing: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved 2023-10-01.
↑ Kinslow, Chris (2015). Goldmine Record Album Price Guide 2015. Penguin. p. 140. ISBN 9-781440-243721. Retrieved March 6, 2026.
1 2 Friedwald, Will (2010). A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers. Pantheon Books. p. 133. ISBN 9780375421495.
↑ Vic Damone – Linger Awhile with Vic Damone/My Baby Loves to Swing at AllMusic. Retrieved December 27, 2023.
1 2 Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p. 392. ISBN 9781846098567. Retrieved August 31, 2024.
1 2 3 Hunter, Nigel (June 8, 1963). "LPs reviewed by Nigel Hunter, Ella with Riddle is just great: My Baby Loves to Swing" (PDF). Disc. No. 272. p. 10. Retrieved April 8, 2025.
↑ "Pop Spotlight: My Baby Loves to Swing". Billboard. Vol. 75, no. 1. January 5, 1963. p. 25.
↑ "Cashbox Album Popular Picks Of The Week Review: My Baby Loves to Swing". Cash Box. Vol. 24, no. 15. January 5, 1963. p. 22.

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Discography
Studio albums	That Towering Feeling! Closer Than a Kiss This Game of Love On the Swingin' Side Linger Awhile with Vic Damone Strange Enchantment The Lively Ones Young and Lively My Baby Loves to Swing On the Street Where You Live You Were Only Fooling Country Love Songs Stay with Me On the South Side of Chicago The Damone Type of Thing Why Can't I Walk Away
Live albums	The Liveliest
Singles	"Again" "An Affair to Remember (Our Love Affair)" "April in Portugal" "Can Anyone Explain? (No! No! No!)" "Ebb Tide" "Glory of Love" "I Have But One Heart" "Just Say I Love Her" "My Heart Cries for You" "My Truly, Truly Fair" "On the Street Where You Live" "Take My Heart" "Tzena, Tzena, Tzena" "You're Breaking My Heart" "Why Don't You Believe Me?"
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