Frank Sinatra in general

So many albums, so many songs, so much life. Sinatra sings for lovers, dreamers, the lonely, the sad, the happy, the drunk! From a skinny kid in New York, born from Italian immigrant parents, Sinatra became the very epitomy of the word Crooner. I expected to find him categorised in the Jazz section, as Sinatra sang Jazz. The bands that back him, with names such as Nelson Riddle, Billy May stand on their own as pure genius. A break in a Sinatra song is all the more enjoyable as you have the chance to listen to their own magic. He was a generous performer. In all his live concerts, club appearances, he always introduced a song by naming the ...

In a transient industry like popular music Frank Sinatra shines out like a beacon. He was an enormous personality that could not only sing but act to oscar standards. His unique style endured over many years and he was able to hold an audience spell bound with his idiosyncratic delivery and smooth tones. It is hard to imagine anybody from the modern era of music who will still be loved and performing in 30 years time, yet Frank continued to grow his audience right up to his death. I have just realised that Cliff Richard could be considered a hero by applying my criteria of longevity and personality. However Frank will live forever in the ...

I saw this link in an Easy Listening section, and big Frank was to be found sandwiched between Cliff Richard and Sarah Brightman. I weep for the world. Anyway, it's not difficult to see why Frank Sinatra is still a musical God. All of the mistakes he made, all of the bad haircuts (all the bad hairpieces), the bobby-sox heart-throb phase, some really bad movies and the self-parody of certain songs ('My Way', 'New York New York') - we can ignore all of it. Increasingly, compilations of Sinatra seem to be concentrated on his most fruitful period, the Capitol years of the fifties. Sinatra is comfortably fixed in the collective ...