Sinatra

[lisajl]

I love Frank and Dean. My 17 year old son and 14 year old son listen to old music with me. My 17 year old likes big band music, too.
I think if you only listen to music of today, you are missing a whole lot of great music!

 

[Sugardimples]

Frank was the best.

 

[eliza61]

Absolutely. The themes are timeless and ol' blue eyes was not the first the stumble on those either.

No he probably was not the first, but him and his contemporaries (Dean, Ella, Johnny Mathis, Tony B) seemed to have perfected the art of conveying those themes to music. Maybe it was better lyricist (it's seems like todays artist all seem to think just because they can sing they can write also and personally I'm hard pressed to say they can sing. ) arrangers or maybe because so many of them used actual orchestration with real musicians as opposed to the cheaper digitally enhanced tracts but some thing definitely provided them with the quality that is extremely rare in todays music.

 

[Jennasis]

No he probably was not the first, but him and his contemporaries (Dean, Ella, Johnny Mathis, Tony B) seemed to have perfected the art of conveying those themes to music. Maybe it was better lyricist (it's seems like todays artist all seem to think just because they can sing they can write also and personally I'm hard pressed to say they can sing. ) arrangers or maybe because so many of them used actual orchestration with real musicians as opposed to the cheaper digitally enhanced tracts but some thing definitely provided them with the quality that is extremely rare in todays music.

I bet you shake your fist angrily at the radio and complain about how today's music just ain't what it used to be. Cause really, I do. All the time.

I'm glad you think the art of conveving those themes to music was somehow perfected by Sinatra and his contemporaries, but with all things music and arts, that is just your opinion (and one that is likely shared by plenty of people). but I can think of plenty who think that it was perfected by Elvis, or the Beatles, or The Stones, or Nirvana, or Aerosmith, or even (God help us) Justin Beiber, and on and on.

Music is subjective. Completely. I love Frank and the rat pack, but I also happen to think most music isn't "timeless". Most music sounds, to me, very indicative of the time in which it was produced and would not hold up by the standards of other eras. Does that mean I wouldn't enjoy it? Not at all! Love popping in my Golden Oldies.

Frank and company are what I would call FIXTURES, ICONS, or BASTIONS of great music. But not timeless, IMO.

Now I have to go complain about Lady Gaga (who I just don't get).

 

[7165red]

Love Sinatra's "The House I Live in" it can bring me to tears. I also like Dean Martin's "Return to me"

 

[Cogswel_Cogs]

Ella