Posted on 05/29/2015 1:23:28 PM PDT by nickcarraway
“Frank is just like you. Just like me. Only bigger.” — George Schlatter, a friend
Let’s get one thing straight. There can’t be another Frank. These days, you don’t operate on that plane and get away with it. Was he in the Mob? Was he an informer? Did he ruin Ava Gardner, sleep with Marilyn, throw a plate against a restaurant wall just because they cooked the pasta too long? Come on, al dente!
Act like that today and you’d be TMZ’d faster than you can tweet Alec Baldwin. But that’s just behavior. Flip on your TV and you’ll understand the other reason nobody can match Sinatra. In this age of the media megatropolis, of over-saturated, over-exposed, over-everything, competition is just too fierce for one figure to so dominate the spotlight. If Milton Berle were starting out now, he wouldn’t get a 30-year deal from NBC. He’d be cross-dressing on Comedy Central to beat out Guy Fieri on a Wednesday night.
With Frank’s 100th birthday approaching, along with an NSO Pops concert devoted to his music, I’ve been talking Sinatra over the past week
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Frank is the best.
I can’t believe that they’re gone, either. They were larger than life.
Shecky Green joke.
“Focusing on if he sang off key or not is missing the core attribute of Sinatra.”
LOL
I suppose that anyone can be a dynamite singer if his phrasing is good?
Wow!
I’m sorry but I look for clarity in a singer’s voice. Off-key and that singer is off of my list! ;-)
Yes. Add Nat King Cole to that list.
Wow!
Good grief - get a brain and some common sense.
Obviously, you’re out on that limb all alone in your “feelings” - kinda like some kooky leftist.
Any Sinatra fan who is not keeping up with Mark Steyn’s Sinatra 100th anniversary series is missing out. It looks like he has now covered 34 different songs. The essays are great not just for the Sinatra stories behind them but the history of the songs themselves. One can learn a great deal of fascinating history of American pop music through these essays.
http://www.steynonline.com/section/18/steyns-song-of-the-week
Dino was cool, a great crooner, and funny!
Yes
“My guess is it boiled down to this: the mob liked his style, and Frank liked their muscle”
Don’t remember the comedian who told the joke, but he said Frank once saved his life. He’d been in a wreck with Sinatras’ limo and after about ten minutes he told his bodyguards”that’s enough boys”
“Better singer, better actor, funny as hell and infinitely cooler. Dean was the King of Cool...and I mean cooler than anyone in showbiz, music, whatever!!”
Elvis wanted to be like Dean
Dude.
No question about it. Deano had it all.
Bfl
Shecky Green.
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Does that make me a strange person?
I know you refuse to get involved
You won't help me out none
You run around like a paperdoll
Pretending it's fun
Oh, baby please don't run
Somethin' in the night, just don't sit right
Looks like I'm gonna be up all night, yeah
(Slap!) “You can act like a man!!” Lol!
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