Sinatra! The Song is You: A Singer s Art - Hardcover

Friedwald, Will

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 068419368X ISBN 13: 9780684193687

Publisher: Scribner, 1995

Synopsis

A musical biography documents Frank Sinatra's legacy through seven decades, including The Skinny Years in the 1930s and 1940s; The Hat Years of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s; and the Tux Years of the 1980s and 1990s. 25,000 first printing.

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Review:

Not surprisingly, most of Frank Sinatra's biographers have raked through the muck of the singer's marriages, divorces, mob connections, and outbursts of foul-mouthed misogyny. Will Friedwald takes a different tack. Oh, the biographical facts are there, but Friedwald is mostly interested in the Voice--that irresistible, inimitable instrument, the absence of which would punch a major hole in the soundtrack of life. This is certainly the best book ever written on Sinatra's music, which means that it sheds a great deal of light on American pop music in general. And while Friedwald gets downright rhapsodic when it comes to the career highlights, he's not afraid to tweak Ol' Blue Eyes when he comes up with a dud.

About the Author:

The week Will Friedwald was born, Frank Sinatra commemorated the occasion by recording Point of No Return. The author of Jazz Singing: America's Great Voices from Bessie Smith to Bebop and Beyond and a regular contributor to The Village Voice and The New York Times, Friedwald has also written for New York magazine, Entertainment Weekly, New York Newsday, L.A. Weekly, and The New York Observer, as well as for numerous music and film journals. He has been a consultant on many television documentaries and has produced and annotated hundreds of compact disc reissues, including several Grammy-winning packages. In 1990, Nancy Sinatra Lambert invited him to write an essay for Frank Sinatra: The Capitol Years. Since then he has contributed to compilations of the music of Frank Sinatra on all four labels on which Sinatra has recorded.

About this edition

• Publisher: Scribner
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 068419368X
• ISBN 13: 9780684193687
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 560