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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJust saw a segment on Frank Sinatra on CBS Morning
and I am struck with a feeling that I have only when I hear Frank Sinatra. He makes all other singers sound mediocre.
I can't shake this nostalgia and love for that voice and his music.
I feel sorry for you if you can't hear what it is that's in that voice when he's singing - so true, so honest, so loving. I am pitifully in love with him.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)fadedrose
(10,044 posts)patricia92243
(12,605 posts)srican69
(1,426 posts)Though Armstrong was more a trumpet player than a singer ... But what a singer he was!!
Even with a gruff voice and a limited range .. He could bring out emotions that Sinatra can only dream of.
fadedrose
(10,044 posts)Frank has out more albums and most of them have me in tears when I play them late at night, and his mood is catchy. When he's happy singing, I feel happy, in love, I feel loving, sad, I feel sad. His moods are the most contagious of any singer I ever heard.
I think that singers who sing with the same voice they speak in are the most poignant..
But Satchmo had a lot of great ones...
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)He apparently does not have .."it".
My mother's generation was as crazy over Sinatra as my generation was over Elvis.
Luckily, Sinatra's music is still available for us today to appreciate.
Re: Elvis. I first heard his voice on the radio one night in 1958, and immediately thought.."wow".
He had something way different from the music we were used to then.
fadedrose
(10,044 posts)and I can't think of his name.
When I was about 17 or 18, Elvis appeared on the scene. I liked him too, but nothing like Frank.
I used to take my kids and friends out for a cone, or to the video store, and would play a Sinatra tape, the kids were in high school, and by the time they had heard so much Sinatra over the years with me, they admitted that they honestly had gotten to love him - boys and girls. I could still hear them in my mind singing New York, New York, and we had a great time just going to the store . _
Nitram
(22,913 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Does not have the "feeling" of Sinatra's voice, to me.
fadedrose
(10,044 posts)ND-Dem
(4,571 posts)PCIntern
(25,601 posts)by the likes of Nelson Riddle is the pinnacle of popular music. This rarified region is inhabited by only a few.
fadedrose
(10,044 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)I was never a big Sinatra fan- or Elvis fan, for that matter.
fadedrose
(10,044 posts)You missed the boat on this one, but you survive anyway because of your knowledge of politics and the importance of links..
tavernier
(12,410 posts)that Frank was ostracized by the Kennedy's because of Sammy Davis Jr. It's quite a well known fact that JFK cut his ties with Sinatra because of his mob connections... not because SD married a white woman. Talk about rewriting history!
ND-Dem
(4,571 posts)hlthe2b
(102,419 posts)Nice piece overall.
vanlassie
(5,692 posts)to Frank sing on some oldies channel and he said "that guy had the best singing voice, ever." And I replied " No, that prize would go to Van Morrison."
Usually, I disagree with him about politics. But on this particular matter, I am dead serious!
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)Along with some Patsy Cline and Hank Sr. and Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole etc etc etc.
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)singers sound mediocre. How sad it would be to only see the talent in one singer. Let me turn the tables, and encourage you to be an active listener when it comes to musicians. For instance, Merle Haggard and the haunted (not haunting, but haunted) sound of his voice is absolutely breath-ending.
fadedrose
(10,044 posts)It's the way he sang that every listener felt he was singing only to them...
I'd swear he was singing just to and for me, but thousands felt that same intimacy.
There are better pipes out there, but nobody can beat him on delivery...
I never felt that any other singer was singing to me, I could feel that great singers are singing to many, not just to me.
Some called it phrasing, but that doesn't describe it at all.
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)I have felt that way with several singers. Sinatra: Great tone? Yes. Great delivery? Yes. The one the only better than everyone? No. I could never say that about any one singer. One of the best deliveries I have ever seen (still won't call it the greatest) was a young man auditioning for one of those music shows a few years back.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)......called him "the Mercedes of men". He had it all. Charisma and talent.
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)He pulled up in a caddy, in the back seat. I did not know what to do so I opened his door.
"Thanks kid."
In he goes for early dinner, cocktails.
Comes out 2 hours later. Driver pulls up the car.
I get the door this time double fast.
Gave me a fifty.
Always liked Frank Sinatra after.
ND-Dem
(4,571 posts)can't remember what he actually sent but it had value. plus he sent a check.
that was years ago but it impressed me.
bigtree
(86,008 posts)JI7
(89,279 posts)but there are many who can make a person feel this way .
JustAnotherGen
(31,937 posts)The OPs words are how I feel about Etta James. When the love of her life was getting married - I cried with her. When she was almost persuaded to cheat - so was I. When she wants a Sunday kind of love - so do I.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)But I do consider Sid Vicious's cover of "My Way" exquisite.
djean111
(14,255 posts)Can't wait.
I remember reading somewhere that there are tapes found somewhere of all of his television shows, would love to see them, too.
Frank is one of my very very favorites, but I do love other singers just as much, like Leonard Cohen, Van Morrison.
I do not care for singers who are the "Jack Jones" versions of Frank - like Michael Buble, for instance. Pale imitations.
No depth. IMO and all that.
SamKnause
(13,110 posts)to your list of people you feel sorry for.