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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: Starsky on August 30, 2021, 07:43:52 pm
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I dug up a rider from the 1990s
He really was an unfiltered camels guy til the end… and Jack
No beer?
(https://i.ibb.co/8DZ25gD/CD452130-81-CB-4852-B751-20-CA89-A96983.jpg) (https://ibb.co/FbTJw4b)
No m&m’s
(I started this thread in part because I cannot remain a member of a board with three Trash Can Sinatra’s threads and not one Sinatra)
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Whew. I was worried here for a second he had passed.
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That was a bummer of a day
I remember being at Olson’s on Wisconsin Ave that day
I didn’t know then I would get into his music as much as I have… I think only the previous year I bought the cd compiling his first two 10” records Songs for Young Lovers / Swing Easy…and I was hooked… I Get A kick out of you and I’ve got you under my skin in particular…Also when I first really noticed Cole Porter
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Wrapping up the second volume - well, still 210 pages to go- and we get to the song “Strangers in the night”….this was my introduction to Frank as my parents used to play it a lot…I kind of thought of it as a romantic song.
“I don’t want to sing this. It’s a piece of shit.” (At 50 he needed a hit. He sang it)
Frank Sinatra introducing “Strangers in the night” in Jerusalem in 1975:
“Here’s a song that I cannot stand. I just cannot stand this song. But what the hell.”
Oh well….
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I actually just listened to a Sinatra album right before seeing this thread. He sang some horrible schmaltzy shit, but I guess that was the times.