>Mafia funded croonslop starts playing
if only the mafia could keep funding some good shit nowadays you know what i'm sayingCIA too, they were funding MC5 and shit and now it's just like Alex Warren and shit. What lame ass dogshit
>>130698860how are his eyes so blue
The mafia was violent and corrupt, but it was better at running things than venture capital. Just look at what happened to Las Vegas.
>>130699055idk man, Jay Leno said that at least the old Mafia-owned comedy clubs gave you free drinks sometimes
>>130698992he did have blue eyes but not like in that picture, they definitely either did a photo trick or painted it
>>130698860Sinatra really loved Meyer Lansky and Israel
>>130698992spice
>>130700259kek
>>130698860Liza Minelli's version of New York New York was better than his: https://youtu.be/5-pyc_z7WbY?si=aRoOMDhXf-wHavCW
>>130698992his nickname was Frankie Blue-Eyes
>>130698910The Ordinary song might be my most hated song of the past decade
and it was great
>>130698860>FAGGOTS IN THE NIGHT
>>130704128factoring in her rather significant advantage in youth (she was 30 when she did the original while Sinatra was in his 60s when he recorded it). of course he still has a bluff masculinity to his that a girl singer can't match.
>>130707788those are some 2/10 covers of TFNYNY and Mack The Knife there. should have done the latter back in '59, honey.
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>>130698860There's a circulated screencap of a /pol/ post or whatever where an anon talked about an Italian restaurant owner blasting Sinatra's music loudly out through the storefront at all hours of the day. When asked why, the owner said that it was like poison to "niggers", they can't stand it, and so it keeps them out the neighborhood. Always thought that was funny, how particular music could be repellent to targeted groups.
>>130704128Sinatra's has way better production and backing music though. Even though he's sounding old by 1980 the arrangement makes up for it.
>>130707871that's funny 'cause there are tons of black singers who idolized Sinatra
>>130707877>that's funny 'cause there are tons of black singers who idolized SinatraHe probably means blacks born in the 90s who only listened to rap, not Marvin Gaye or one of those guys.
>>130707788pulled it up on Youtube, this was from '82 and man her voice was ass by that point. very nasally and raspy.
Nancy still maintains his 40s stuff was best, so...meh.
>>130704128yeah they needed a feel-good anthem for NYC during the era when it was a post-apocalyptic trash hole, we know
>>130707941i can see why, the 40s stuff was more aimed at chicks instead of the jock anthems he did in the 50s onward
He wasted too much time in the 60s remaking his 40s records instead of doing new material. Perry Como was arguably right when he refused to redo his old stuff because you can only do something once and after that it becomes schtick that will never match up to the original recording.
>In an October 1978 interview with the New York Post, Sinatra gave his take on the current state of pop music. "There's still good songs out there if you know where to look. The guys will come to me and say 'We try, but everything's just teenager stuff these days.' I told them 'Well maybe I should hire some actual teenagers to write songs for me.'"[3]
>>130707872>Even though he's sounding old by 1980 the arrangement makes up for itfunny that, but Sinatra's voice significantly lost a step or two during his hiatus in the early 70s. it seemed that once he came back in '73 he was never quite the same again.
>>130700259lmao
Sinatra launched Reprise after splitting from Capitol in '61 over disagreements about his salary. The label was meant to give a home to his aging jazz/crooner buddies like Rosemary Clooney, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, etc, although after it got sold to Warner in two years they promptly canned everyone except him and restocked the roster with rock acts. He was allowed to stay, but on condition that he record modern pop songs in exchange for which he could do a "cred" album he had full creative control over.
>>130708136>Sinatra launched Reprise after splitting from Capitol in '61 over disagreements about his salaryI think it was probably related to the label cutting costs during the late 50s recession.
He was good in From Here to Eternity though.
>>130708178i noticed both him and Nat King Cole had only one LP each out in '60 which could have well been the label cutting back due to the state of the economy then
>>130708136Capitol was a high-gloss label in the 50s, they did not indulge in shitty housewife pop and some of that was them not being an arm of a media company like some other labels were.
>>130698860As far as I know, I always wanted to be a gangster... *ZOOOM!!!**Sinatra croonslop plays**Flashback to 1953, outside Paulie's cabbie stand*
