Posted on 03/22/2016 5:03:46 AM PDT by simpson96
An interesting look at the process. Note the small audience of people seated there watching him. He always wanted people to watch him while he recorded in the studio, because he felt it made his performance better.
Sinatra’s signature hat is hanging on the mike stand.
In Frank's honor, his favorite drink.
It Was A Very Good Year
Sinatra Song of the Century #1
http://www.steynonline.com/6737/it-was-a-very-good-year
http://www.venetian.com/entertainment/shows/frank.html
Last trip to Vegas I went to this show while it was still at Pallazzo. Outstanding. Outstanding. Repeat - outstanding. Many in the orchestra actually were in Sinatra’s bands.
The best number of the whole show was a re-enactment of the first take of I’ve Got The World On A String - all the onlookers and rehearsal chatter etc. The exact same thing you are talking about here. Can’t you just hear him - fiiingggerrrrs....!
No high tech, everybody be quiet, a picture of society that still got along without someone painting lines on the road or signs on the door
And I LOVE(d) that song .... along with "My Way"
Thanks for posting
Until I saw him singing live in front of an orchestra I did not really understand why Sinatra was the “Chairman of the Board”. His voice blended with the music and laid over it like a warm, fitted blanket. It was itself a musical instrument. I’ve never heard anything before or since like that in anyone’s voice.
Although I like both, I thought Dean Martin was a far better singer. Also a better actor, comedian, and all around performer.
Yes it was an instrument katana. I think it was Tony Bennett who told Harry Conic ( or was it Michael Buble ) not to kill the lyrics, and I bet he learned that from Frank. Sinatra never did all sorts of Maria Carey “runs” he told the story. Nothing against him, but man how could you not lay down good tracks with his orchestra. The only crooner IMHO that tried not to kill it like Frank was Jim Morrison of the Doors, listen to him when he wasn’t screaming or stoned out of his gored, he was trying to find his inner Frank and noted he was a fan of his ( style my guess ).
Thanks, great post.
Not even a Sinatra fan to speak of but that as awesome. What true God given talent really was IMO. Thanks for sharing.
When I was seventeen
It was a very good year
It was a very good year for small town girls
And soft summer nights
Wed hide from the lights
On the village green
When I was seventeen
When I was twenty-one
It was a very good year
It was a very good year for city girls
Who lived up the stair
With all that perfumed hair
And it came undone
When I was twenty-one
When I was thirty-five
It was a very good year
It was a very good year for blue-blooded girls
Of independent means
Wed ride in limousines
Their chauffeurs would drive
When I was thirty-five
But now the days grow short
I’m in the autumn of the year
And now I think of my life as vintage wine
>from fine old kegs
>from the brim to the dregs
And it poured sweet and clear
It was a very good year
It was a mess of good years
Thanks! I needed that!
cheers
Jim
Classic. Great seeing the actual recording session.
BMFL
We all simply prefer what we prefer. Compared to Sinatra, I thought Dino had a weak voice. You don't hear him really push out the sound the way Sinatra does on his more epic performances. Also, I always thought Dino had a lazy, laid back approach that does not work for some songs. Dean gave a few really good acting performances (particularly in Rio Bravo), but most of his acting IMO is also of the lazy phoning it in variety. I don't really mean that as a criticism of Dino. He was fairly up front about how he performed. When he did his long-running TV show, he was practically forced to do it. He only did on the condition that he always got to wear a tux, and that he never had to rehearse. For a relaxed, lazy sound (sometimes that is what is called for), Dino is unbeatable.
That clip of Sinatra singing "It Was a Very Good Year" isn't even Sinatra in his prime. His vocal peak was probably 1958, but he still made some great recordings, even though his vocal instrument had lost a little.
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