A Salute to the Golden Age of American Popular Music

We salute the music from Broadway, Hollywood, New Orleans, Tin Pan Alley and the "melody makers;" i.e. the bands and singers that brought the music to us via the radio, recordings and live events in the period from the 1920's to the 1960's. This is the golden period of Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers, Larry Hart, Oscar Hammerstein, Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael, Jimmy Van Heusen, Harold Arlen, Harry Warren, etc.

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

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Frank Sinatra, Jr. is keeping the memory alive


Keeping the memory alive: Frank Sinatra Jr performs a medley of his father's hits at a Florida nightclub




The  DAILY MAIL REPORTER ran this short piece this week about Frank Sinatra Junior. "The voice wasn’t as rich and the eyes weren’t as blue, but there was no doubt about the name.
Frank Sinatra Jr has a real advantage over any toupee-wearing copycat in keeping his late father’s music alive – it’s in his blood. 

Performing at the Seminole Casino in Coconut Creek, Florida, the 68-year-old singer recreated his father’s old act down to the last detail. 

An outspoken critic of modern digital music, he crooned his way through classic hits from ‘Strangers in the Night’ to ‘I’ve Got the World on a String’ to Sinatra’s traditional encore closer ‘New York.’ 


His stories about Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. also rang true, because he actually lived them rather than picked them up in a dog-eared biography.  

Frank Jr is the only son of the legend who died in 1998 at age 82. The star also had two daughters, Nancy, now 72 , and Tina, 64."


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2173400/Ol-Blue-eyes-Jr--Frank-Sinatra-keeps-fathers-memory-alive-crooning-classics-Florida-casino.html#ixzz21Y8DnpTt


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