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  Stranger56 (stranger56) 2-Debutant Username: stranger56 Post Number: 18 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 165.155.128.121 |
On this, the 6th anniversary of Frank Sinatra's death, I recall an event that occurred in the mid 60's. I thought it might be of interest to you, whether you are a fan of Sinatra's or not: I think of the civil unrest of 1960's U.S. I think of an evening in NY.....star-studded affair....benefitting the civil rights movement.......starring, among many, many others, Mr. Sinatra. Only Sinatra was in L.A., wrapping up a film commitment. Showtime arrives........Sinatra doesn't.....of course, only the performers and people backstage know this....not the celebrity-filled audience. Toward the end of the show, when it seemed the headliner would not make it, Sinatra hastily moves through the backstage door. A multitude of people exhale backstage. A multitude of people stand inside Carnegie Hall, as Sinatra takes the stage. The lights go down.....Sinatra sings... ...Women and men alike, with tears streaming down their faces. Most notably, a young African-American man in the front row. The song that Mr. Sinatra performed that night that brought these people to tears? Old Man River. The young man in the front row? Dr. Martin Luther King. I miss the hell out of Frank Sinatra. Thank God for the enormous musical legacy he left behind. Jim | ||
Stonewall (stonewall) 5-Doyen Username: stonewall Post Number: 228 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 68.237.94.114 |
Ol' Blue Eyes sho' nuff had soul and that will live on and on and on. Proudly, MOTOWN Records did a tremendous tribute to F.A. S. with their album "MOTOWN Celebrates SINATRA"! The cover shows a very young MICHAEL JAX dressed a la classic Sinatra with a top hat, jacket thrown over his shoulder and leaning on a lamppost. The contributing musical artists include (not in any order): Michael Jax, Diana Ross & The Supremes, The Four Tops, Junior Walker, Gladys Knight, Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, The Originals, others -- and even Liz Lands! If U don't have it, get it! Needless to say, though I will anyway, the songs are 'cream of the crop". It's a soulful must with a great tribute to the one and only SINATRA. My absolute and stunning favorite song on this album is the almost surreal and surely lilting and deliberately underplayed version of a signature #1 SINATRA song: "Strangers In The Night" by none other than, no, not another solo male singer but a female girl group: DIANA ROSS & THE SUPREMES!!! Incidentally, The Stonewall Club back in the late 1960s actually somehow had a demo or promo or bootleg copy of this song. Yesss, it was actually in the Stonewall Jukebox for awhile! The Stonewall group, QUEEN ALLYSON & THE ALLYSONIANS use "SITN" to this day as their opening song -- in tribute to both D.R.S. and Sinatra!! And, Strange (is your moniker by any chance after that song?), thanx for letting us all know at SDF that in addition to everything else, Dr. KING even knew and appreciated his SINATRA! | ||
Stranger56 (stranger56) 2-Debutant Username: stranger56 Post Number: 19 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 165.155.128.121 |
Stonewall, I have the Motown Tribute to Sinatra. Excellent job! I shortened my screen name for this forum. My actual email address is "strangerinthenight56@...", so I guess that answers your question. lol Anyway, yes, so apparently Dr. King liked himself some Sinatra! As if we didn't already have enough reasons to respect the good Dr. Jim | ||
Stonewall (stonewall) 5-Doyen Username: stonewall Post Number: 231 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 68.237.94.114 |
Howdy "Stranger" Jim -- No Stranger In The Night: That's great -- in all of the above! Was that ESP or what on my part re: your moniker? "Strangers In The Night" could have easily been released as a single by D.R.S., as U know, but the girlz had one #1 song after another then anyway. I had seen FRANCIS ALBERT only a few years before his passing at Madison Square Garden. My Mother saw him many times at the original Paramount in NY. He surely had "the auduience on a string". P.S. A big one! Let me assure all that "Strangers In The Night" (#1) was posilutely at The Stonewall Club by FAS. There were very few songs more appropriate and memorable at The Stonewall than "SITN" -- by both SINATRA and then several months later that same year in 1966 by DRS. | ||
Stranger56 (stranger56) 2-Debutant Username: stranger56 Post Number: 21 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 24.186.184.6 |
Bumping up the thread for the Frank Fans! | ||
Sudi Kamau (sudi_kamau) 3-Pundit Username: sudi_kamau Post Number: 49 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 66.117.198.35 |
"It Might As Well Be Swing" - Frank Sinatra with the Count Basie Orchestra - Quincy Jones arranging and conducting -- Listen to it!!! | ||
Stranger56 (stranger56) 2-Debutant Username: stranger56 Post Number: 22 Registered: 4-2004 Posted From: 24.186.184.6 |
It Might As Well Be Swing is KILLER, Sudi!! Frank and Basie fit beautifully together. Quincy also arranged Sinatra's 1984 LP, L.A. Is My Lady. Frank's a lot older, but Quincy still gets a lot of swing out of him, with people like Lionel Hampton and George Benson in the Orchestra. If you haven't heard that one, check it out!! Jim |
