I've come into a little appreciation lately of Frank Jr's talent, having heard him on Sirius Sinatra. In fact, I'm looking into getting a couple albums.
Today's male singers of standards just don't cut it for me (except, perhaps, Buble'). I like the baritone singers like Sinatra, Joe Williams, Gordon MacRae, et. al. The guys today sound like girly men.
I just love Gordon as well -- yes, THAT'S a singer!!
Did you know that originally, Frank was to play Billy Bigelow in Carousel, not Gordon MacRae? Shirley Jones tells it, the film is going to be shot with the new CinemaScope 55 technology, this required filming scenes twice, the second for wide screen. The first day on the set, Shirley is standing there, Frank shows up ... when he finds out he is going to have to do everything twice, he gets seriously angry, "I am not getting paid to do two ******* movies!" and walks off. Shirley then makes a call to her friend MacRae to please, come take the role, do the movie.