Word: sinatras
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...Never Smile Again, by Frank Sinatra and Tommy Dorsey, ranks No. 1 on Billboard's first hit-singles chart...
...into almost all forms of rock-'n'-roll music, including blues rock and rockabilly. Presley led not only his fans but also performers worldwide. There had never been such an idol. The world had seen Rudolph Valentino in films drive young women insane. The postwar bobby-soxers screamed for Sinatra. But before the Beatles' popularity enveloped the earth, "Presleymania" was the biggest thing ever to hit the entertainment world...
...from him, and every school of jazz since has had to address how he interpreted the basics of the idiom--swing, blues, ballads and Afro-Hispanic rhythms. While every jazz instrumentalist owes him an enormous debt, singers as different as Bing Crosby, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley and Marvin Gaye have Armstrong in common as well. His freedom, his wit, his discipline, his bawdiness, his majesty and his irrepressible willingness to do battle with deep sorrow and the wages of death give his music a perpetual position in the wave of the future that...
...Frank Sinatra has received far too many tributes already. Even before his death last month there was the 80th-birthday hoopla of 2 1/2 years ago, followed by the flock of recently published books circling, vulture-like, in clear anticipation of his passing. At this point any recounting of his accomplishments--his unassailable greatness as a singer, his somewhat more assailable greatness as an actor, his impeccable taste as a curator of the great American songbook, his ancillary talents as both philanthropist and thug, his status as a totem of midcentury masculinity--inevitably takes on a dutiful, ritualistic...
...George Steinbrenner with a voice" was the epithet coined by a colleague of mine--born in the baby boom's dead center, it should be noted--who objects to the bad-hair Republican bluster of Sinatra's later years, his belting out of all those anthems of middle-aged self-assertion. He did it his way. He can make it anywhere. He picks himself up and gets back in the race--that's life, or Sinatra's blowhard version of it anyway. It is the artfully projected world view of a casino entertainer, a glorified greeter, whose...