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...extent that on some numbers his sense of swing and invention approaches Ella Fitzgerald's joyous, ineluctable pulse (and justifies Capitol's releasing this find on its Blue Note jazz subsidiary). With I've Got You Under My Skin, Sinatra even surpasses the vocal on his famous Songs for Swingin' Lovers version, which really belongs to arranger Nelson Riddle. And as wonderful as that studio performance is, it doesn't include an audibly rapturous female audience member or an unalloyed Sinatra quip in response: "Get your hand off that broad...
...intense academic environment, libraries are transformed into the swingin' singles scene. While casually browsing over a book cart, Gray Professor of Systematic Botany and Kirkland House Master Donald Pfister came across more than just his required reading. He was a graduate student in mycology and Catherine, his wife and co-master, was part of the library staff at Cornell, Professor Pfister relates, "we saw each other in the library, we were going out, and we got married...the rest is history." No need for extended volumes on this relationship...
...handy symbolic resonance. Tony Bennett, one of the supreme purveyors of popular song, here assembles 24 tunes associated with, and made popular by, Sinatra, ory days: the big-band beginnings, the series of alternately bleak ) and swinging LPs like In the Wee Small Hours and A Swingin' Affair -- concept albums before anyone had cooked up the phrase -- that carried Sinatra triumphantly through the 1950s to the pinnacle of his craft. Bennett, at this time, was enjoying significant success on his own, and though his celebrity missed the mythic dimension of Sinatra's, he did not lack for proper respect. Sinatra...
...words of a '60s platter, life meant "just a-surfin' all day and swingin' " all night. The superswingers, of course, were Warbler Frankie Avalon and matured Mouseketeer Annette Funicello, who boogied by the surf in a string of beach party movies. On Nov. 25 a Dick Clark special on NBC will be co-hosted by Funicello, now 36 and the mother of three, and Avalon, 38, father of eight. "The chemistry between us is just dynamic," giggles Funicello. Frankie agrees, and for good reason. Says he appreciatively: "Annette thinks I am the funniest guy in the world...
Copper Gold by Pauline Glen Winslow (St. Martin's; $8.95). A former Fleet Street court reporter who now lives in Greenwich Village, Winslow, fortyish, focuses on swingin' London's demimonde with Hogarthian relish. Her world of pushers, prossies, punks and rotting Establishment pillars is counterpointed by the decent, diligent coppers who come a cropper. What might otherwise have been a merely expert Scotland Yard procedural is elevated by Soho low jinks and, believe it or not, a pervasive and finally persuasive romanticism...