Word: sinatras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nancy Sinatra's These Boots Are Made for Walking is among the top ten on record charts in Mexico City, Rome, Bonn and Geneva. Batoman is wowing them on TV in Tokyo and playing in Buenos Aires and London as well. Bonanza is big not only in Africa but in the Middle East and Europe; it is one of South Vietnamese Premier Ky's favorite programs. Pictures of Rock Hudson and Doris Day are pinned on the walls of Philippine homes right beside the family crucifix, and a Budapest newspaper recently exhorted its readers to imitate the manners...
...anything can be significant, right down to the exact state of a President's intestines. Those who voluntarily display themselves, including entertainers, are also presumed to have forfeited their right in some measure. In recent years entertainers have been loud in their pleas for privacy, including a Frank Sinatra, who will take a 20-year-old actress on a yacht trip and then complain that the press is invading his private life...
...rockers are as ready to explain their "hidden meanings." That would destroy the mystique. As a result, the pop-music audience has become divided into two camps: the Dirties, who read debauchery into the most innocuous lyrics (they see Frank Sinatra's Strangers in the Night, for example, as a song about a homosexual pickup), and the Cleans, who would argue that Ray Charles's Let's Go Get Stoned is a call to take part in a Mississippi freedom march. To the Dirties, such songs as Straight Shooter (junkie argot for someone who takes heroin intravenously...
...composers in the U.S. today is a Hamburger. He is a German named Bert Kaempfert who lives in Hamburg, tools all his music for the American public, and has visited the U.S. fewer than a dozen times. Yet his latest song, Strangers in the Night, as recorded by Frank Sinatra, was No. 5 among the bestsellers last week and headed straight for the top. Sinatra's version has already been matched by no fewer than 85 other performers who know a winner when they hear...
Dino's 49th birthday party turned into quite a bash all right. Frank Sinatra, 50, and Manhattan Barkeep Jilly Rizzo were helping Singer Dean Martin celebrate in the Polo Lounge of the Beverly Hills Hotel when an argument started with the fellow at the next table, Fred Weisman, 54, retired president of Hunt Foods and brother-in-law of Tycoon Norton Simon. As Frank first told it, Weisman beefed about the noise at Martin's table. "The guy was cursing me," said Sinatra, "and using four-letter words. I told him, 'I don't think...