Posted on 10/20/2006 9:39:51 PM PDT by FightThePower!
Not Sinatra....... but so excellent.
Hard to pick a favorite. Damned hard, which is why Sinatra is timeless and like no other.
While driving down 95 through NC a while back,I spotted a sign for the Ava Gardner Museum in Smithfield.I needed a break so I stopped in,given that I've been a fan of hers since seeing Night of the Iguana.
Very interesting...very impressive.Well worth some time and $5.
So much of what he did was outstanding that I can't really choose a favorite.
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“Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the Bible says love your enemy.”
“It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.”
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"It Was A Very Good Year"
"My Way"
Barefoot...........
I liked Frank's song, "Five Minutes More."
Give me five minutes more, only five minutes more,
Let me stay, let me stay, in your arms ...
Here I am, begging for, only five minutes more,
Only five minutes more of your charms.
All week long I dreamed about our Saturday date--
Don't you know that Sunday morning you can sleep late!
Here I am, begging for, only five minutes more,
let me stay, let me stay, in your arms!
"It was a very good year"
Frank Sinatra was, in my opinion; the finest singer of his own generation, as well as any other generation. He recorded over 1600 songs,they all are pretty fabulous; so it's truly difficult to pick just one.
May I pick an album instead ?
"Francis Albert Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim"
This album was recorded in 1967, and is generally considered by Sinatraphiles to be one of Sinatra's finest efforts in the recording studio, even though it comes in at only 28 minutes long! Highly recommended.
*I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king ...
I've been up and down and over and out, but I know one thing ...
Each time I find myself flat on my face ...
I pick myself up and get ... back .. in ... the ... race ...
That's life .... I can't deny it ...
Many times I've thought of cutting out, but my heart just won't buy it ....
And if there's nothing shakin' come this here July ...
I'm gonna roll myself up in a big ball ... aa-a-n-n-nd ... die ...
My ... my.
It's not my favorite, but it's quintessential modern Frank, I think. I mostly prefer his 40s Big Band things, but like just about everything he did.
"Young at Heart" is probably my most favorite of his. But also:
"I'll be Seeing You"
"Stars Fell on Alabama"
(When somebody loves you, it's no good unless she loves you) "All The Way"
"Autumn Leaves"
"September Song"
"All of Me" (why not take all of me?)
"Laura" (*swoon*)
"They Can't Take That Away from Me"
"Our Love is Here to Stay"
"I'll Never Smile Again"
"Night and Day"
"I Get a Kick Out of You"
"From Here to Eternity"
"Sentimental Journey"
"I've Got You Under My Skin"
"Anything Goes"
"Just in Time"
(I Saw You Last Night and Got) "That Old Feeling"
"I've Heard That Song Before"
"These Foolish Things" (remind me of you)
"I Only Have Eyes for You"
So many more ...
Hands down the best Frankie ever did:
http://www.animatronics.org/strangers/strangers.htm
I finally got a chance to listen to Opus 27 (etc.). I didn't know such sites were "out there." Thank you for the ping. I wouldn't trade living in this age for anything, but can you imagine the thrill it gave people in Chopin's time when an earnest, talented pianist or two performed such selections at soirees, when all fell silent under the enchantment of the music and the moment, in honor of the composer and the hard work of the artist who played it?
Ahh...my favorite Sinatra song! LOL!
Some of my favorites:
"I've Got You Under My Skin"
"Night and Day"
"Here's That Rainy Day"
"Good-Bye"
"Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry"
"One For My Baby"
"I've Got the World On a String"
"The Night We Called It a Day"
"All or Nothing At All"
Tie:
Walking in the Sunshine of Your Love
The Best is Yet to Come
One More For the Road
Oops, I left off "You Make Me Feel So Young."
Young at Heart
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