Lyrics on a clear day3/26/2023 ![]() He began as a swing band singer and was a big star in the 1940s, so much so that Bing Crosby said of him, “Frank’s the kind of singer that comes along once in a lifetime, but why did he have to come along in mine?” Frank joined Columbia Records and then Capitol Records as a solo artist. So much of his recorded output stands the test of time because above all he knew gold from crap, even though he had the technique to turn ormolu into the genuine article.įrancis Albert Sinatra was born in 1915 and died in 1998. His version of that song is worth checking out he was surely one of the great song pickers of them all. Oh, and speaking of Frank and his opinions on the “new music”, he once said that he considered George Harrison‘s “Something In The Way You Move” to be the best love song written in the past 50 years. ![]() People might go off Frank for the way he lived his personal life, but I doubt there‘s a music fan alive who ever went off Frank for the way he sang. He kept on recording into the ’80s and ’90s long after he should have stopped, but he had only turned fifty in 1965 and still had many vital recordings ahead of him.įrank didn‘t listen to rock singers much, and he thought that popular music had generally gone straight downhill since and including the arrival of Elvis, but here‘s something to consider: rock singers, blues singers, folk singers, you name it, they all listened to Frank‘s music. It‘s time for a little Frank… You see, Frank Sinatra was still having hits in the 1960s: “Strangers in the Night”, “My Way”, “That’s Life”, “It Was A Very Good Year” and others. If there were ever a perfect song written about attaining nirvana, of finding the bliss we are all seeking, Sinatra’s “On A Clear Day” is it.
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