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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).

According to John Rockwell's book, Sinatra: An American Classic, when asked at a party in the mid1970s if he had a favorite album among his recordings, without hesitation, Sinatra chose Only the Lonely.

The album's front cover was painted by Nicholas Volpe, who won a Grammy Award for the painting.The painting features Sinatra as a sullen, Pagliaccilike clown. Sketched on the album's back cover is one of Sinatra's recurrent visual motifs: a lamppost.

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 wouldbe first session (May 5, 1958) were not used, and the subsequent May 29 session was conducted by Felix Slatkin,[6] uncredited, after Riddle went on a prearranged 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. Of these events, Riddle remarked: "If I can attach events like that to music...perhaps Only the Lonely was the result."

Selected personnel:
Frank Sinatra – vocals
Nelson Riddle – arranger, conductor
Dave Cavanaugh – producer
Felix Slatkin – conductor
Pete Condoli – trumpet
Milt Berhardt – trombone
Vince deRosa – french horn
Gus Bivona – woodwinds
Harry Klee – woodwinds
Bill Miller – piano
Al Viola – guitar
Joe Comfort – bass