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Post by Brad Nelson on Jun 12, 2019 16:07:50 GMT -8
Everything Sinatra! Let's start.
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Post by timothylane on Jun 12, 2019 17:37:09 GMT -8
I'd probably go with "It Was a Very Good Year" or "Strangers in the Night" as my favorite Frank Sinatra song. But he certainly had a good one. He did a version of "High Hopes" as a theme song for JFK in 1960 -- carefully leaving out the "apple pie in the sky hopes". Dr. Demento played it in a show segment on political songs that I heard from a friend's tape. (That's also where I encountered "Abe Snake for President", which is available on YouTube.)
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jun 12, 2019 17:58:25 GMT -8
It doesn’t get much better than Frank doing Strangers in the Night. Great song. Great singer.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jun 15, 2019 7:21:41 GMT -8
Today’s Frank Fact®
Wheaties:
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jun 15, 2019 7:59:25 GMT -8
Testing Quick Reply box with enhanced features.  Different fontDifferent size |
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Post by artraveler on Jun 17, 2019 13:47:34 GMT -8
Frank is great but not to forget Glenn Miller, The Dorseys, Kay Kaiser, even Wayne Newton
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jun 17, 2019 13:59:30 GMT -8
Good suggestions. I have been listening to a bit of Glenn Miller lately via Apple Music. And I ran across a similarly interesting album called Harry James & His Orchestra Featuring Frank Sinatra. It's an oldie but goodie and I enjoy listening to this blast of nostalgia. Apple Music had just one song by Kay Kaiser and His Orchestra: "Ev'ry Night About this time." It's rather nice. |
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Post by timothylane on Jun 17, 2019 14:07:16 GMT -8
Many interesting choices, but of course an early ST poll was favorite singers, and I seem to recall that Dame Petula Clark and Karen Carpenter ranked very high. For that matter, partly due to what's available, I listed to Nancy Sinatra a lot more than Frank.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jun 17, 2019 14:07:35 GMT -8
And you've given me the perfect opportunity to test a new plugin. It supposely makes it easy to present stuff from SoundCloud. Here goes... _  Oh, crap. That's nearly worthless. It plays just a few moments of the song. Okay...another song plays all the way through. I guess it just depends on the song. |
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jun 17, 2019 14:17:46 GMT -8
Here's another oldie but goodies. And it doubles as a way to check out the SoundCloud plugin (and what free content they have). |
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Post by artraveler on Jun 17, 2019 19:06:01 GMT -8
Ah, Brad as a early boomer 1948, these guys were still on the radio as I grew up. If its possible to wear out digital recordings then I just might accomplish that task. You can even dip back another 50 years to the early days of jazz and Al Jolson.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jun 17, 2019 19:20:34 GMT -8
You're playing my tune, Traveler. I picked this up a couple years back. This is a true "album" album. It's a fold-out book-like thing with four records in individual sleeves inside. The vinyl is in great shape and sounds fantastic on my 78 rpm player, for which I have a small collection of records.  |
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Post by artraveler on Jun 18, 2019 7:11:18 GMT -8
Back in the 50s Larry Parks made a good movie about Jolson, The Jazz Singer and James Cagney made a movie about George M Cohan. Both are excellent movies that, perhaps overdo the nostalgia of the time before the depression.
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Post by timothylane on Jun 18, 2019 9:02:31 GMT -8
I haven't seen The Jazz Singer, either the original talkie or the latter biopic. I have seen Yankee Doodle Dandy, which is a nice movie. It's unfortunate that Cohan was a Democrat and a fan of FDR (who actually had little use for Irish-Americans). But as Cagney comedies go, I prefer One, Two, Three.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jun 24, 2019 7:19:59 GMT -8
A normal man has dreams about 2o-something (and maybe two- or three-something) young and beautiful women. Last night Frank stopped by a poker party my father was having and everyone was chatting and having a good time as Sinatra held court. (Dean and Sammy where there too.) So this song seems appropriate for your Morning Sinatra:
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Post by kungfuzu on Jun 24, 2019 8:39:33 GMT -8
I see "Young at Heart" was released in 1953, the year I was born. I keep trying to stay young at heart, but my body is doing its best to undermine me. It helps to hear "Old Blue Eyes" sing this tune.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jun 24, 2019 9:29:33 GMT -8
Given that age is just a social construct, I would change my birth date to something like 1982. That would make you 37 and not old. |
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Post by timothylane on Jun 24, 2019 9:34:11 GMT -8
I was born in late 1951, so KFZ is a year or so younger than I am. Of course, I feel a lot older than that, though people say I look younger. Personally I'd rather have a younger body than younger looks (reversing an error made by the main character if the Twilight Zone episode "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville": Going back in time to build up his fortune again (he found making it more tun than having it), he insisted on looking young but neglected to insist on a young body. Miss Devlin (played by Julie Newmar) was quick to take advantage of the opportunity.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jun 24, 2019 9:54:52 GMT -8
Today’s Frank Fact®:
Signature Drink
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Post by timothylane on Jul 9, 2019 7:33:41 GMT -8
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