Word: sinatras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rollers are clearly beyond his or anyone else's ken), and his schedule includes appearances at Forest Hills, Chicago, Baltimore and Detroit. His choice for first drop was that citadel of jazz purists, the Newport Jazz Festival. The assault was conducted in the new manner to which Sinatra has become accustomed...
...years since Sinatra toured with a band. Then, the band was Tommy Dorsey's, and the style was smooth and sweet; squealing teen-agers swooned in the aisles. Since then, there has been hot jazz, cool jazz, and most lately, rock 'n' roll. Frankie felt kind of out of it all. He even turned to character acting...
...Frank waved a last goodbye, stepped back into the chopper and disappeared. He could afford to. He had made it. He had captured 14,000 skeptical jazz fans and made them Sinatra fans. "It makes you believe in God," said a guy in the audience...
...Lovers with his sugar-cured ballads. Though his stage personality is about as imposing as his name, he exudes the kind of shy, squinty-eyed sincerity that bowls women over. His songbook is a treatise on good taste, superior arrangements and gimmick-free delivery, after the style of Frank Sinatra, who calls Jones "the best potential singer in the business." Jack, the son of Movie Tenor Allan Jones (Donkey Serenade) and Actress Irene Hervey, grew up "in the trade," spent eight years on the road before Pop decided that he was sincere and took him under his wing...
...best crowd-pleasing bits fall to Sinatra. His serio-comic masquerade as a Nazi becomes more than a stunt when, speaking German with eyes, hands, and shrugged shoulders, he fakes a conversation with a Gestapo man who has spied his American watch. Inevitably, the tedeschi leave a voluptuous collaborator (Raffaella Carra) reclining in the caboose. Sinatra spurns her advances, and when she tries to escape, he regretfully mows her down, simultaneously thumbing his nose at his own public image and giving this rolling-stock melodrama at least one swift, strong, indisputable moment of truth...