Frank’s at the bottom of a long list of people significantly better than him.
Vegas usta work....Now we get Hairy Reed.
I watched the two part HBO documentary on him, and found it annoyingly unsatisfying. First, they used the acceptable technique (but one I don’t like) of having ALL commentators/narrators off screen, so you never see who is talking. You just get “voice of Nancy Sinatra.” Second, although they touched on all the questions raised here, they never seem to answer any except to say that Sinatra stood up against racial discrimination, which I think most people know and which he should be applauded for. They of course downplayed the Australian incident where he basically called a female reporter a slut.
We all have our favorites of course. To me Frank is at the pinnacle. The only one who comes close is the a Brit, the late Terence Parson, aka Matt Monro:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcdmq07u2T8
There will only ever be one Chairman of the Board.
Happy Hundredth, Frank.
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My Italian grandfather — also named Frank — loved Sinatra. I remember being at my grandparents’ old row home in Philly, listening to Fridays with Frank with Sid Mark on the radio. Right up until my grandfather’s death, he would sing his favorite Sinatra tunes. Even in his final days in the hospital, he was singing the opening to Nancy: “If I don’t see her each day, I miss her,” which held greater significance in that my grandmother passed a few years before. When I hear Frank, I think of my Pop and Gram, and I am sure Sinatra has left many others with similar memories.
Does the mob really work that way? Pretty sure they liked his singing and he liked their company. Probably they invested in the same businesses, but I doubt he was a made man or went to the mattresses with them or wacked anybody for them.
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I thought Frank Sinatra’s performance in The Manchurian Candidate was superb. Oscar quality work.
Lawrence Harvey and Angela Landsbury also turned in
fine performances.
He was the original Detective John McClane.
I’ll Do things My Way....
Times have changed.
And NOT for the better.
Like him or hate him, Frank Sinatra was an American institution.
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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
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