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fadedrose

(10,044 posts)
Sun Mar 29, 2015, 10:15 AM Mar 2015

Just saw a segment on Frank Sinatra on CBS Morning

and I am struck with a feeling that I have only when I hear Frank Sinatra. He makes all other singers sound mediocre.

I can't shake this nostalgia and love for that voice and his music.

I feel sorry for you if you can't hear what it is that's in that voice when he's singing - so true, so honest, so loving. I am pitifully in love with him.

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Just saw a segment on Frank Sinatra on CBS Morning (Original Post) fadedrose Mar 2015 OP
Same here, his voice just resonates in ones mind and soul. n/t RKP5637 Mar 2015 #1
There's nothing else like it . . . nt fadedrose Mar 2015 #3
You will just have to feel sorry for me then. Can't hear or see it. n/t patricia92243 Mar 2015 #2
As good as he is he can't hold a candle to Loius Armstrong srican69 Mar 2015 #4
Sinatra liked him too... fadedrose Mar 2015 #8
There's a guy who lings like Sinatra..Harry??? something. dixiegrrrrl Mar 2015 #5
Ya, I know who you mean...he's from Canada fadedrose Mar 2015 #9
Harry Connick Jr? Nitram Mar 2015 #13
That's him, yes. dixiegrrrrl Mar 2015 #16
You got it! nt fadedrose Mar 2015 #21
he doesn't sing like sinatra. he sings like connick imitating sinatra. it's a pale imitation. ND-Dem Mar 2015 #25
His singing coupled with virtually perfect arrangements PCIntern Mar 2015 #6
Very few nt fadedrose Mar 2015 #10
then you'll have to feel sorry for me. cali Mar 2015 #7
Then I have to feel sorry for you. fadedrose Mar 2015 #11
My jaw dropped when daughter Nancy said tavernier Mar 2015 #12
talk about defaming dead people who can't defend themselves. ND-Dem Mar 2015 #26
SO nice that they interviewed all three kids... the discussion of Sammy Davis JR was really sad... hlthe2b Mar 2015 #14
Ha ha! Just last week my 87 year old father was listening vanlassie Mar 2015 #15
Yep. There is some old school in my playlist and he is there. alphafemale Mar 2015 #17
While I enjoy Sinatra, it's not all or nothing. He definitely does not make ALL other ScreamingMeemie Mar 2015 #18
It wasn't how he sang; it's to whom.... fadedrose Mar 2015 #20
Sorry. Gotta disagree. There's room for more than one at the top... ScreamingMeemie Mar 2015 #22
one of Frank's wives.... grasswire Mar 2015 #19
I was 16 and parking cars at the golf club where I worked. AngryAmish Mar 2015 #23
He sent something to our church's sale after the church wrote a request for an autograph. ND-Dem Mar 2015 #27
great story, AA bigtree Mar 2015 #30
you are missing out on a lot if you feel this way and i love Sinatra JI7 Mar 2015 #24
I like Frank Sinatra - but I would agree JustAnotherGen Mar 2015 #28
I'm more about Jerry Garcia than Frank Sinatra, personally. Warren DeMontague Mar 2015 #29
There is a two-part documentary on Frank Sinatra on HBO - April 5 and 6. djean111 Mar 2015 #31
You can add me SamKnause Mar 2015 #32

srican69

(1,426 posts)
4. As good as he is he can't hold a candle to Loius Armstrong
Sun Mar 29, 2015, 10:35 AM
Mar 2015

Though Armstrong was more a trumpet player than a singer ... But what a singer he was!!

Even with a gruff voice and a limited range .. He could bring out emotions that Sinatra can only dream of.

fadedrose

(10,044 posts)
8. Sinatra liked him too...
Sun Mar 29, 2015, 10:41 AM
Mar 2015

Frank has out more albums and most of them have me in tears when I play them late at night, and his mood is catchy. When he's happy singing, I feel happy, in love, I feel loving, sad, I feel sad. His moods are the most contagious of any singer I ever heard.

I think that singers who sing with the same voice they speak in are the most poignant..

But Satchmo had a lot of great ones...

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
5. There's a guy who lings like Sinatra..Harry??? something.
Sun Mar 29, 2015, 10:37 AM
Mar 2015

He apparently does not have .."it".

My mother's generation was as crazy over Sinatra as my generation was over Elvis.
Luckily, Sinatra's music is still available for us today to appreciate.

Re: Elvis. I first heard his voice on the radio one night in 1958, and immediately thought.."wow".
He had something way different from the music we were used to then.

fadedrose

(10,044 posts)
9. Ya, I know who you mean...he's from Canada
Sun Mar 29, 2015, 10:46 AM
Mar 2015

and I can't think of his name.

When I was about 17 or 18, Elvis appeared on the scene. I liked him too, but nothing like Frank.

I used to take my kids and friends out for a cone, or to the video store, and would play a Sinatra tape, the kids were in high school, and by the time they had heard so much Sinatra over the years with me, they admitted that they honestly had gotten to love him - boys and girls. I could still hear them in my mind singing New York, New York, and we had a great time just going to the store . _

PCIntern

(25,253 posts)
6. His singing coupled with virtually perfect arrangements
Sun Mar 29, 2015, 10:38 AM
Mar 2015

by the likes of Nelson Riddle is the pinnacle of popular music. This rarified region is inhabited by only a few.

 

cali

(114,904 posts)
7. then you'll have to feel sorry for me.
Sun Mar 29, 2015, 10:38 AM
Mar 2015

I was never a big Sinatra fan- or Elvis fan, for that matter.

fadedrose

(10,044 posts)
11. Then I have to feel sorry for you.
Sun Mar 29, 2015, 10:48 AM
Mar 2015

You missed the boat on this one, but you survive anyway because of your knowledge of politics and the importance of links..

tavernier

(12,299 posts)
12. My jaw dropped when daughter Nancy said
Sun Mar 29, 2015, 11:06 AM
Mar 2015

that Frank was ostracized by the Kennedy's because of Sammy Davis Jr. It's quite a well known fact that JFK cut his ties with Sinatra because of his mob connections... not because SD married a white woman. Talk about rewriting history!

hlthe2b

(101,538 posts)
14. SO nice that they interviewed all three kids... the discussion of Sammy Davis JR was really sad...
Sun Mar 29, 2015, 11:12 AM
Mar 2015

Nice piece overall.

vanlassie

(5,631 posts)
15. Ha ha! Just last week my 87 year old father was listening
Sun Mar 29, 2015, 11:15 AM
Mar 2015

to Frank sing on some oldies channel and he said "that guy had the best singing voice, ever." And I replied " No, that prize would go to Van Morrison."

Usually, I disagree with him about politics. But on this particular matter, I am dead serious!

 

alphafemale

(18,497 posts)
17. Yep. There is some old school in my playlist and he is there.
Sun Mar 29, 2015, 11:30 AM
Mar 2015

Along with some Patsy Cline and Hank Sr. and Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole etc etc etc.

ScreamingMeemie

(68,918 posts)
18. While I enjoy Sinatra, it's not all or nothing. He definitely does not make ALL other
Sun Mar 29, 2015, 11:35 AM
Mar 2015

singers sound mediocre. How sad it would be to only see the talent in one singer. Let me turn the tables, and encourage you to be an active listener when it comes to musicians. For instance, Merle Haggard and the haunted (not haunting, but haunted) sound of his voice is absolutely breath-ending.

fadedrose

(10,044 posts)
20. It wasn't how he sang; it's to whom....
Sun Mar 29, 2015, 06:21 PM
Mar 2015

It's the way he sang that every listener felt he was singing only to them...

I'd swear he was singing just to and for me, but thousands felt that same intimacy.

There are better pipes out there, but nobody can beat him on delivery...

I never felt that any other singer was singing to me, I could feel that great singers are singing to many, not just to me.

Some called it phrasing, but that doesn't describe it at all.

ScreamingMeemie

(68,918 posts)
22. Sorry. Gotta disagree. There's room for more than one at the top...
Sun Mar 29, 2015, 06:41 PM
Mar 2015

I have felt that way with several singers. Sinatra: Great tone? Yes. Great delivery? Yes. The one the only better than everyone? No. I could never say that about any one singer. One of the best deliveries I have ever seen (still won't call it the greatest) was a young man auditioning for one of those music shows a few years back.

 

AngryAmish

(25,704 posts)
23. I was 16 and parking cars at the golf club where I worked.
Sun Mar 29, 2015, 06:47 PM
Mar 2015

He pulled up in a caddy, in the back seat. I did not know what to do so I opened his door.

"Thanks kid."

In he goes for early dinner, cocktails.

Comes out 2 hours later. Driver pulls up the car.

I get the door this time double fast.

Gave me a fifty.

Always liked Frank Sinatra after.

 

ND-Dem

(4,571 posts)
27. He sent something to our church's sale after the church wrote a request for an autograph.
Tue Mar 31, 2015, 05:01 AM
Mar 2015

can't remember what he actually sent but it had value. plus he sent a check.

that was years ago but it impressed me.

JI7

(89,151 posts)
24. you are missing out on a lot if you feel this way and i love Sinatra
Tue Mar 31, 2015, 04:46 AM
Mar 2015

but there are many who can make a person feel this way .

JustAnotherGen

(31,631 posts)
28. I like Frank Sinatra - but I would agree
Tue Mar 31, 2015, 05:23 AM
Mar 2015

The OPs words are how I feel about Etta James. When the love of her life was getting married - I cried with her. When she was almost persuaded to cheat - so was I. When she wants a Sunday kind of love - so do I.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
29. I'm more about Jerry Garcia than Frank Sinatra, personally.
Tue Mar 31, 2015, 05:27 AM
Mar 2015

But I do consider Sid Vicious's cover of "My Way" exquisite.

 

djean111

(14,255 posts)
31. There is a two-part documentary on Frank Sinatra on HBO - April 5 and 6.
Tue Mar 31, 2015, 08:18 AM
Mar 2015

Can't wait.
I remember reading somewhere that there are tapes found somewhere of all of his television shows, would love to see them, too.

Frank is one of my very very favorites, but I do love other singers just as much, like Leonard Cohen, Van Morrison.
I do not care for singers who are the "Jack Jones" versions of Frank - like Michael Buble, for instance. Pale imitations.
No depth. IMO and all that.

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