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Amazing on many levels - How

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 17 Dec 2015 06:46:22 +0000

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Amazing on many levels - How articulate he was on his feet, the piercing serious interviews Playboy at least once gave, the Christian atheist humanist vision. "if she got big eyes for a bigot I'd break her back". And thoughts on poverty and the end of Communism and the role of partying and music was relatively right. Music was the most insidious component in the Communist world - sneaking in Zappa and Stones and Velvet Underground...

A 1963 Playboy interview with

barefooted — Thu, 17 Dec 2015 03:58:15 +0000

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A 1963 Playboy interview with Frank ...

Hmmm... Frank wearing a

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 04:36:27 +0000

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Hmmm... Frank wearing a message on his t-shirt?

Can see him in straps with a 50's tank-top, his whiskey neat, maybe a Rueger in its holder...

Have had the song "Come Fly with Me..." in my head all day.

Thanks for that, Lulu.

barefooted — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 03:18:22 +0000

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Thanks for that, Lulu.

Yeah, but a t-shirt gifted

barefooted — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 02:56:28 +0000

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Yeah, but a t-shirt gifted from The Old Man kinda blows the jokes out of the bathroom stall water.

I was never a particular fan

A Guy Called LULU — Sun, 13 Dec 2015 17:53:38 +0000

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I was never a particular fan and never, before, had much of an opinion one way or another of him as a person, but here s a great tribute to Sinatra.

https://consortiumnews.com/2015/12/13/the-complex-legend-of-frank-sinatra/

Aside from being one of the

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 13 Dec 2015 12:40:56 +0000

In reply to Ha! How perfectly cool is

Aside from being one of the oldest jokes in the musicians Real Book... and playing bathroom stalls everywhere.

Ha! How perfectly cool is

barefooted — Sat, 12 Dec 2015 22:14:27 +0000

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Ha! How perfectly cool is that?

Thanks for this, barefooted.

Michael Maiello — Sat, 12 Dec 2015 21:08:43 +0000

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Thanks for this, barefooted.

My grandfather was a sideman and studio musician and he played with and for Sinatra, among others. Many Christmases ago, Frank sent him a present. It was a t-shirt that said:

To do is to be - Socrates

To be is to do - Plato

Doo-bee-doo-bee-doo - Sinatra

Nice article! In the early

MrSmith1 — Sat, 12 Dec 2015 13:40:21 +0000

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Nice article! In the early '30's, Bing Crosby and Russ Colombo were responsible for popularizing the Bel Canto style of singing. Sinatra was the young kid who came along ten years later to usurp the title of King of the Crooners. It's fascinating to compare all three. Each had their strengths. Sinatra's phrasing is impeccable and at times, even breathtaking. I don't think you can overstate how much these three changed the style of singing in popular music.