Editing Swing music (section)

===Swingin' pop===
[[File:Frank Sinatra laughing.jpg|thumb|upright|Frank Sinatra]]
Swing bands and sales continued to decline from 1953 to 1954. In 1955, a list of top recording artists from the previous year was publicly released. The list revealed that big band sales had decreased since the early 1950s.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Walker|first=Leo|title=The Wonderful Era of the Great Dance Bands|publisher=[[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]]|year=1972|location=[[Garden City, New York]]|pages=152}}</ref> However, big band music saw a revival in the 1950s and 1960s. One impetus was the demand for studio and stage orchestras as backups for popular vocalists, and in radio and television broadcasts. Ability to adapt performing styles to various situations was an essential skill among these bands-for-hire, with a somewhat sedated version of swing in common use for backing up vocalists. The resurgent commercial success of [[Frank Sinatra]] with a mildly swinging backup during the mid-1950s solidified the trend. It became a sound associated with pop vocalists such as [[Bobby Darin]], [[Dean Martin]], [[Judy Garland]], and [[Nat King Cole]], as well as jazz-oriented vocalists such as [[Ella Fitzgerald]] and [[Keely Smith]]. Many of these singers were also involved in the "less swinging" vocal pop music of this period. The bands in these contexts performed in relative anonymity, receiving secondary credit beneath the top billing. Some, such as the [[Nelson Riddle]] and [[Gordon Jenkins]] Orchestras, became well known in their own right, with Riddle particularly associated with the success of Sinatra and Cole. Swingin' pop remained popular into the mid-1960s, becoming one current of the "easy listening" genre.