Word: sinatras
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...down to choose a final list of 20 with our partners at cbs News, who are producing an hour prime-time special on each group. The show will air this Thursday at 10 p.m. E.T., and is presided over by the irrepressible Mike Wallace, whose own preferences (notably, Sinatra) and dissents (we'll leave that a secret) were expressed with his usual passion...
Music was particularly hard. People's opinions tend to be based on when they grew up: as Wallace was pushing Sinatra, I was pushing Dylan. Also on where they grew up: I'm from New Orleans, and Pearlstine, whose deities include Miles Davis and Duke Ellington, is convinced that's the only reason Louis Armstrong made the list...
...airwaves were full with the sweet songs of such crooners as Frankie Laine and Mel Torme. Although teenage girl's new-found hysteria was directed to the "new" Frankie's tender tunes, their yearning for the "old" Frank Sinatra turns to nostalgia. "Poor Frankie," a Chicago girl tells Life magazine. "He's old now and has three kids...
...Phil Hartman did a great Frank Sinatra; he did a great Ed McMahon. He did a great Bill Clinton. But the most common character was one we could only call Phil Hartman: smarmy, oily, eminently superficial. We assumed that was all there was to know about Hartman, that he made us chuckle and do our own impressions of him. That was apparently the way Hartman wanted it. Now we'll never know...
...current, still tiny lounge scene--with its tailored suits, martini sipping and laid-back jazzy music--seeks to capture some of the style exemplified by Sinatra and other performers of the Big Band era. The swing scene, a close cousin, tries to focus less on the style and more on the music itself. One swing group, Cherry Poppin' Daddies, currently has a Top 40 CD. Scotty Morris, 30, bandleader for Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, another brisk-selling swing act, says his classmates at the Musicians Institute in Hollywood would play Sinatra records "nonstop." That was 10 years ago. Frank...