Born today Frank Sinatra (Hat Tip to Powerline)

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[LiveFree99]

Oh yes, he definitely turned away from the dark side. Besides the Kennedys, the whole counterculture thing of the 60's seemed to be a turnoff for him. To his credit, he did support our effort in Viet Nam AND our troops. The Reagans were quite friendly with Sinatra and had him over many times to visit the White House.

[dfwgator]

I liked Hartman's Sinatra much better than Piscopo's.

[SevenofNine]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmKi0-Hr27I

Yeah I had agree after seeing Frank handle Sinead O'Conner LOL!

[dfwgator]

I still miss Phil Hartman. :(

[Preachin']

He sure accomplished a lot for being born today.

[SevenofNine]

Yeah me too especially his Frank Sinatra version and Donald Trump also Charlton Heston now that was funny impersonaltion

[dfwgator]

Not to mention all of his voices on The Simpsons. The show hasn't been the same since.

[SevenofNine]

Well according to Kitty Kelley Frank was banging Nancy reagan behind Ronnie back according to that terrible book she did on Frank or Nancy not sure which one

[SevenofNine]

I don't know if you guys know this but remember Vic Fontaine they try get Frank Sinatra JR to play him it was style after Frank Sinatra SR but Sinatra JR want play alien or Klington OH LORDY Can you imagine instead James Darren it be Frank Sinatra JR as Vic Fontatine join Star Trek legecy

[DeFault User]

I thought I had heard something about the breathing technique that Sinatra learned from Tommy Dorsey. (Anyway, it involves breathing in while still holding a note.) Here's Sinatra's comment on it:

"How in the hell did he do it? I used to sit behind him on the bandstand and watch, trying to see him sneak a breath. But I never saw the bellows move on his back. His jacket didn't even move. Finally, after a while, I discovered that he had a 'sneak' pinhole in the corner of his mouth -- not an actual pinhole, but a tiny place where he was breathing. In the middle of a phrase, while the tone was still being carried through the trombone, he'd go shhh and take a quick breath and play another four bars with that breath. Why couldn't a singer do that too?"

[monkapotamus]

I found the Phil Hartman / "The Sinatra Group" video!

http://video.nbc.com/player.html?dlid=2484

[SevenofNine]

OMG I post it earlier go back few posts Monk it is there ROFL

I give you better shot how about Major Kira singing Fever

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0mqroUoWr0

[monkapotamus]

hehehe!

[RGSpincich]

Geez, not even an honorable mention for the Rat Pack at the Sands and Oceans 11? The real Oceans 11.

[supremedoctrine]

"Wasn't he banging Imelda Marcos....?"
Could be~ come to think of it, that may be how he long ago got his job as official spokesman for "The Leather Sole Council" (no joke, look it up)Or maybe he wanted to get close to her to "do research" since she had more pairs of shoes than the Phillipines had nursing students-to-be/ Dancing with Imelda ( saw the pictures), shoes, leather soles tested for danceworthiness..,,,may all have helped lead him to his recent role as contestant in the Dancing with the Stars show. All in all, one of the strangest showbiz careers ever......he played everything from Hank Williams, to Evel Knievel to the American version of Raskolnikov in "Crime and Punishment USA"---(once again,look it up)
I just never saw ANYONE list his name as being a Vietnam draft dodger---maybe he was unfit for service due to being too tan.---I have herewith and for all perpetuity tapped my George Hamilton vein, which I didn't even know I had.

[BubbaHeel]

Dude, I don't have time to reply to the all of the silliness you just wrote, but just as a for instance, this little tidbit

Sousa was a 19th century figure. His last popular song was composed in 1909. And he was not noted as a performer.

is utter and complete nonsense.

You need to re-acquaint yourself with the first quarter of the 20th century:

http://www.dws.org/sousa/content/view/32/39/
http://www.dws.org/sousa/content/view/20/28/

PS: Frank Sinatra was a tone-deaf womanizing Sicilian crook who couldn't sing his way out of a paper bag.

In absolute terms, he was quite possibly the WORST major pop singer of the 20th century [and that's saying something, considering that the competition for dead last includes people like Madonna Louise Ciccone, Courtney Love, Britney Spears, Liza Minelli, and Barbara Streisand].

[dfwgator]

He was actually a pretty big star for a year or two when he did "Love at First Bite" and "Zorro : The Gay Blade."

[perfect stranger]

Live at the Sands with Count Basie

I have that on vinyl, along with about 10 others by him, and they are all still in really great shape. IIRC one is him with The Nelson Riddle Orchestra. Basie's band can swing, they can also get really loud.

At the time he died I was working at a small restaurant that was run by Tony Roma's two sons. I asked Tony jr. if his dad ever met Frank Sinatra. He answered, "Yeah, but he didn't like him very much."

[perfect stranger]

There was some heavy metal band that had a song called "Sinatra's World" and they used that line. I wish I could remember their name.

[chesty_puller]

Kind of a coward, you might say, just like George Hamilton, Sylvester Stallone, Cassius Clay, Bruce Springstein, etc., did during Vietnam.

Legally avoiding Viet Nam does not make you a coward.