Man do I love Frank Sinatra

[SoFlaJet]

right now on one of the 2 public tellevision stations is The Chairman of the board and Ella Fitzgerald doing duets.Shwew.....as an artist myself I gotta say they blow me away even still after all these years

[latebloomer]

1. Me too

Incomparable and irreplaceable.

[terrya]

2. I love his version of "One More for the Road"

I'm a fan. And of course, he was wonderful in "The Manchurian Candidate" :-)

[SoFlaJet]

4. that song inspired me

to write Symphony for a fool-it's a song that Jerry Springers'producer Richard Dominick loved(Richard is the guy who looks like he's in a chimney on the Springer show.I'm a singer songwriter-a workin one too I might add

[terrya]

12. Cool!

Having Sinatra as an influence ain't bad...

My best wishes for your music.

[SoFlaJet]

29. Thank you Terr

it ain't a bad way to make a living-that and oh yea I can't seem to keep any other job

[AlCzervik]

18. I watched that this weekend

he was very good in it.

[Goldmund]

3. I _hate_ him

the man redefined schmalz and kitch.

[latebloomer]

6. He did do a lot of kitschy songs

especially during the 70s. Heard him on the radio yesterday doin "Tie A Yellow Ribbon" and I cringed.

But his music of the 50s and 60s is romantic, elegant, and reeking with CLASS!

[terrya]

7. "Bad Bad Leroy Brown" is another cringe worthy moment.

But the stuff from the 50's and 60's...just class through and through.

[Goldmund]

9. LOL maybe that's my problem:

I don't dig class. Seriously, I think that "class" lacks grit, and is therefore not representative of the true human experience.

[latebloomer]

11. Oy!

What, pray tell, is the "true human experience"?

[Goldmund]

27. One that is neither pretty nor ugly,

and not filtered nor processed. One that is raw.

[Dookus]

8. Then you haven't heard enough of him....

[mac56]

10. Amen to that.

Every recording artist of any tenure has put out some cheese. But listen to the albums "Songs For Swingin' Lovers" and "In The Wee Small Hours", and tell me if you still think that's schmalz.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

13. your thinking of Paul Anka

[Goldmund]

28. Don't even get me started on...

...Paul Anka.

[Daisey Mae]

5. LOVE THAT MAN

The only thing better than Sinatra is Sinatra and Ella........

[terrya]

14. Just my .02, but "Nancy with the Laughing Face" is a nice love song.

Sinatra has done some nice, romantic music. Definitely.

[SoFlaJet]

30. That's about his daughter

Nancy"these boots are made for walkin"-and STILL a hottie at 50 plus Sinatra

[ALago1]

15. I don't like him either

To my ears, he sounds like a tone-deaf hack singing songs other mediocre songwriters wrote for him.

Just my two cents...

[Dookus]

16. mediocre songwriters?

yeah, that Cole Porter sure sucked, didn't he? :eyes:

[ALago1]

19. Not my style

An earlier poster accurately summed up how I feel - that being the overall pervading sense of "schmaltz" found in his work.

My dad is a great fan of Sinatra so I've heard music of his covering all eras of his career.

And yeah, the songwriters mentioned don't impress me much

[latebloomer]

20. You say schmaltzy

I say sexy

Let's call the whole thing off!

[Dookus]

21. and I would posit

that you haven't heard much of his work if you only get an overall pervading sense of "schmaltz".

As to being unimpressed by the great songwriters of the 20th century, you're just too cool for school, hepcat.

[ALago1]

22. Why so reactionary?

I expressed my opinion, no need to get sardonic.

[ronnykmarshall]

25. Oy! #2

Talk about recactionary. Dookus' post was in jest. My GAWD!

[latebloomer]

17. "mediocre songwriters"?!?

Like Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hart, Sammy Cahn, Johnny Mercer, Jules Styne?

[CO Liberal]

23. Loving Sinatra Was The Law In My Native New Jersey...

Ol'Blue Eyes was born in Hoboken.

[soupkitchen]

24. As was I.

Though I really grew up in Jersey City.
But of course everybody I knew. knew Frank Sinatra at one time or another.
Just as everybody I know now, knows Bruce Springsteen. Except for me of course

[latebloomer]

26. Ah, I'm from Joisey too!

And I love them both.

[gpandas]

31. the mention of sinatra..

makes me think of saturday night live skit with phil hartmann, and then i gotta laugh.