VirginiaHuguenot
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Tip o' the hat to Times Square.
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Sinatra
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I had never heard anything of Sinatra until about a year and a half ago (unbelievable as that may be to some). It's the kind of music I think I would really enjoy live, but don't care for it very much when it's recorded.
For me, in that way, it's the same as classical music which I cannot get enough of when it's in person, but any other time I don't really like listening. In person, it can put me almost immediately in a blissfully worshipful mood, but for some reason, it doesn't transfer at all over the radio or on a cd.
And I'd never actually heard Sinatra's New York New York at all...and it's been spoiled to me, because my first exposure to the tune was this:
[video=youtube;HKZ5qhXBnIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKZ5qhXBnIA[/video]
Now that I've heard the real deal, I'm even more impressed by this guy's ability to copy it.
For me, in that way, it's the same as classical music which I cannot get enough of when it's in person, but any other time I don't really like listening. In person, it can put me almost immediately in a blissfully worshipful mood, but for some reason, it doesn't transfer at all over the radio or on a cd.
And I'd never actually heard Sinatra's New York New York at all...and it's been spoiled to me, because my first exposure to the tune was this:
[video=youtube;HKZ5qhXBnIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKZ5qhXBnIA[/video]
Now that I've heard the real deal, I'm even more impressed by this guy's ability to copy it.
discipulo
Puritan Board Junior
Frank Sinatra, what a voice? The voice!
The great American Songbook of Gershwin, Cole Porter, Mercer, Kern, Rodgers, Ellington, Arlen, …
was sung by several female voices that could make the podium, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan,
Dinah Washington, many others...
But male voice? Wow, Sinatra did it, His Way!
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voiSiT8yEoA]YouTube - My Way - Frank Sinatra. New York - 1974[/ame]
The great American Songbook of Gershwin, Cole Porter, Mercer, Kern, Rodgers, Ellington, Arlen, …
was sung by several female voices that could make the podium, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan,
Dinah Washington, many others...
But male voice? Wow, Sinatra did it, His Way!
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voiSiT8yEoA]YouTube - My Way - Frank Sinatra. New York - 1974[/ame]
bookslover
Puritan Board Doctor
Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 - May 14, 1998). You should listen, especially, to anything he recorded during his prime in the 1950s. Try, especially, Songs for Swingin' Lovers (1956) and Only the Lonely (1958).
The latter is, in the opinion of many music critics, the single most important ballad album ever recorded by a male pop singer. One writer said, "songs written the way they should be written, and sung the way they should be sung."
The latter is, in the opinion of many music critics, the single most important ballad album ever recorded by a male pop singer. One writer said, "songs written the way they should be written, and sung the way they should be sung."
PresbyDane
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since he sings hells national anthom "I did it my way"But he can sing, no doubt about it.
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