Word: sinatra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio programs for over a year, was swamping Tin Pan Alley. Big names in the drawling art of country and cowboy balladry like Gene Autry, the Carter Family, Roy Acuff and Al Dexter were selling on disks as never before. Top-flight songsters like Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra were making their biggest smashes with hill billy tunes. A homely earful of the purest Texas corn, Al Dexter's Pistol Packin' Mama, had edged its way to first place among the nation's juke-box favorites...
...Frank Sinatra bought himself back from Swingster Tommy Dorsey, who had owned a third of him for nearly a year. When the singer quit Dorsey's band last October, he bought off his contract by signing over a third of his earnings-to-come for the next ten years. For full title to himself, the crooner last week paid more than...
...Washington and Cleveland Sinatra appeared on summer programs with only temporary damage to symphonic dignity and considerable benefit to the box office. In Manhattan the Philharmonic hired him and held its nose all for nothing-he scarcely half-filled the bleachers of Lewisohn Stadium...
...announcement of Frankie's appearance in the Hollywood Bowl had thrown Los Angeles high-brow music lovers into a self-righteous williwaw, Sinatra's fans at Pasadena, where he got off the train, into a squealing ecstasy (see cut). But Frankie's Los Angeles symphonic debut was like the calm after the storm...
...into Dancing in the Dark, only a self-conscious handful of female fans whinnied "Oh Frankie!" Halfheartedly, the press photographers posed a couple of shots of Hollywood babes "rushing" an accommodating cop or two. But when the box-office take was added the orchestra management found that Sinatra had drawn a $12,500 house, biggest of the season. Said Sinatra in a speech...