Word: sinatras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pons, Pinza. Four out of the six had yet to be heard this season. Some stars whom season subscribers paid to see now put in only two or three "prestige" performances a year to keep their names bright for the movies and the cigarette ads, the guest appearances on Sinatra programs, and the fat recording contracts...
...uncombed locks stood forever snarled in bronze. John D. Rockefeller Sr. pursed withered lips. Ernie Pyle grinned shyly from a pedestal. And there was also a bust of an emaciated, fanatically intense young artist in a floppy tie, who, on close inspection, turned out to be Frank Sinatra...
Dinah Shore, said the reports, had just finished eight solid days of recording. The Andrews Sisters, who normally record 24 sides a year, would make nearly that many in the next six weeks. Crosby and Sinatra master platters were stacked ceiling-high. RCA-Victor had enough classical masters to last 25 years. Popular bandleaders were canceling fat dance dates to squeeze in recording dates. Everyone was getting set for the ban on record-making that James Caesar Petrillo, boss of the Musicians' Union, had ordered...
...write 35 versions of the lyrics before he finally settled on one written by John (Heartaches') Klenner. He named it Summer Moon. Stravinsky changed only one word. Copies went out to what Levy calls "the guys with the big pipes"-Melchior, Nelson Eddy. Said Levy: "When guys like Sinatra and Crosby hear them singing it, they'll want to do it quick. Create a demand, that's what you do. But control the demand too. You gotta try to establish a song as a 'standard' like White Christmas...
...Principal refused to let them cut classes to hear Frank Sinatra...