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From 1957 to 1958 there was a television program called “The Frank Sinatra” show. It starred Sinatra, of course, along with arranger and band maestro Nelson Riddle. One episode of the program begins with the closing few bars of “(Love Is) The Tender Trap,” and Sinatra launches into “I Won’t Dance”. The song has stayed a paragon of swing since it first appeared on the Sinatra concept album “A Swingin’ Affair” in 1957. The song was originally written by Hammerstein, but was extensively rewritten by Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh. The music is Jerome Kern’s, and the arrangement Sinatra usually performed is Nelson Riddle’s and, later, Neal Hefti’s. Here is how one episode of “The Frank Sinatra Show” began.