Favorite Sinatra Tune/Film - Remembering Sinatra 10 Years After His Passing

The Coffee Song
The Manchurian Candidate

I've been listening to the Complete V-Disc set pretty constantly since picking it up at the local used record shop this month - Hot Time In The Town Of Berlin is a definite standout fave. An all time fave I can't decide on...I'll change my mind next week.

How Did All These People Get Into My Room?

I just cued up "Live at the Sands" on the turntable. I don't know if I can name an overall favorite, but it's likely the best for various occasions are on this album.

i liked all of his work, but my favorites would be; thats life, the lady is a tramp, come fly with me, ive got the world on a string and the way you look tonight.

True that.

Nathan Dodge said:

Judge the art, not the artist.

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Frank's music is the best.
His songs expressed every possible emotion and his style will never be equalled.
I miss him every single day.....fortunately there are many recordings in my library.

Witchcraft is one of my faves.

Of All His Work...

...I like his The Complete Capitol Singles Collection best. Most of the songs on this four-CD set were not found on Frank's Capitol albums of the period and were heard on jukeboxes. Will Friedwald writes good adulatory liner notes for the booklet and if there's any Sinatra admirer reading this who hasn't listened to this set, you're going to hear a lot more brilliant Sinatra music! Disc two is especially glorious, with songs like "Same Old Saturday Night" and "Weep They Will", among many, many others.

Song; In the Wee Small Hours

Movie; Ocean's Eleven

Both seem to fit my personality.

Fletch said:

...Fave thing about Frank: His kindness to Red Norvo, who was probably his favorite musician and maybe person. He kept Red in work for many years when the jazz world no longer gave a crap about him, and when Red lost his hearing and could no longer play, Frank made sure he was provided for.

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This is very cool to note. I appreciate you sharing this, Fletch. I share the same hometown (and am still here) with Red, and thanks to your post, I am finding more about him all the time. Kinda kooky, really. I actually have been thinking a bit about a Red Norvo concert or "Day" or something. I recently overheard one of his local contemporaries...at the lumberyard, actually...talking about him, and how little if anything has ever been done to recognize him. We have a sign at the intersection of two main highways:

"Home of Red Norvo...One of the Giants of Jazz"

Or, it's awfully close to that. This wasn't home to him for most of his life, and jazz hasn't been very important here. However, I am doing what I can in this midwest, farming community, river town.

But about Francis...

Favorite artist, for sure.

Movie: Manchurian Candidate (I liked High Society, too. I dig Bing.)
Song: Tougher choice...depends on my mood, almost, and I may have a new favorite from week to week (day to day?). I do, however, continually come back to "On the Sunnyside of the Street" and "I've got the World on a String". Surely my top two, or tied for first.

I can see where a previous poster is coming from (I paraphrase):

"The more I know about the man, the less I like the music..."

I'm not quite there, but I can totally see that. I don't want to know too much. You know? I just finished an Ava Gardner book, and quite frankly, found out things I could have gone forever without knowing. I think I've read enough about him. There are a ton of his movies I haven't seen, and after 20 years of listnening to him, there is still the majority of his recordings that I have yet to hear! Speaking of that...

I like the Capitol Years the best. His Nelson Riddle stuff. Plenty of youth. On the comeback trail. Just super solid. Next, I like the early Dorsey recordings. Some of those I like better than the re-recorded tunes later in life. And third - and actually, I don't even know if I can say I like this - is his Reprise stuff and later. He totally has "It," right up until the end, but some things I just can't stomach. The Duets albums for instance. For me, not so much.

I guess that's all I got. Wow, a lot of "new faces" around here. Well, that happens, I suppose, when one is away for so long. Guess I'm more the new face now.

"Sleep warm..."

Cab

Sinatra, what a crooner! I was doing errands with my son today and listening to "Ole' Blue Eyes", enjoying such great tunes that I don't need to mention here, but when "Witchcraft" came on, I couldn't help myself; I started singing and didn't care who heard me. My two year old boy even started clapping for his Papa! lol The kid knows good music.

Wow, 10 years...it's hard to believe! I don't have a favorite song but my 2 favorite movies are Tony Rome(my hubby even digs this one...) and Some Came Running. I love that that movie has Dean Martin and Shirley Maclaine in it too.

Young at Heart

I don't know how old I was when I first saw this, but I was already a Sinatra and Doris Day fan. So, how great is it when they are both in the same movie! It was so sweet and tragic and funny. When I saw it recently I was startled to see Alan Hale, Jr.! (Pre-Gilligan)

Has anyone seen the original of this movie? Four Daughters (I think that's it), they also had Four Wives and Four Mothers. John Garvie/Garvey played the Sinatra role. He was fab as well.

Witchcraft was my second ( a very close second) favourite.

i must say...frank was the ladies man....i remember when i was 12 me and my grandma were hanging out ya know watching old films,she was waiting for her favorite frankie movie to come on, as soon as the credits were rolling for the movie she acted like a 10 year old who had a puppy love crush.....i just laughed because seeing that young side of her was hilarious/amazingly impossible.lol

I' have to say Witchcraft, I sometimes find myself humming it at work for no reason!!

I was never a fan of Sinatra's until I saw The Detective. An amazingly underplayed performance that I didn't think he was capable of. From then on, I've had nothing but respect for his talents.

Fave album: In The Wee Small Hours (love the album cover!)

Fave radio show: Rocky Fortune, an otherwise unremarkable series that is elevated by Frankie's fun-loving performance.

Fave movie: The Detective, obviously. Difficult to believe this could be considered the prequel to Die Hard -- can you imagine that movie headlined by Sinatra?

Song: "Summer Wind"

Film: "Ocean's Eleven"
Only Danny Ocean could come up with a caper like this.

Now, the song "Summer Wind" is not actually my favorite Sinatra song
BUT it is theeee song that I would have some one, who has never heard Sinatra sing, listen to for hearing the true Sinatra vibe. (It is a game I play with friends to ask about bands and artists they like. Other than their greatest hits what song is the best representation of their true style. Sort of a desert island pix type challenge. <AC/DC= Live version of "Live Wire">)

In the song "Summer Wind" Frank managed to put together his sound and emotion, the phrasing is superb, the arrangement is exquisit, and it all comes together in a song that expresses his style so elegantly, so that I simply think his version is a priceless example of Sinatra singing.

Summer Wind
The summer wind, came blowin in - from across the sea
It lingered there, so warm and fair - to walk with me
All summer long, we sang a song - and strolled on golden sand
Two sweethearts, and the summer wind

Like painted kites, those days and nights - went flyin by
The world was new, beneath a blue - umbrella sky
Then softer than, a piper man - one day it called to you
And I lost you, to the summer wind

The autumn wind, and the winter wind - have come and gone
And still the days, those lonely days - go on and on
And guess who sighs his lullabies - through nights that never end
My fickle friend, the summer wind

"The Way You Look Tonight" - it's "our song"

"From Here to Eternity" - Not a starring role, but I like the movie

Favorite song..."Come Fly With Me"...and also the "Coffee Song". "Come Fly With Me" has been a favorite with me since it was released in 1957. Love the album cover, too, with that great TWA Constellation. I "discovered" the "Coffee Song" much later.

Favorite movie: "On The Town" (1949). Come to think of it, I like any golden era movie set in NYC.

I've got you under my skin, live at the sands version

Oceans Eleven
High Society

Man with the golden arm is his best performance, the other 2 are just fun