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Eighty years on, V-discs “for our servicemen overseas”
There's a thin young man named Frankie hanging around the theater.who is glad to be making more V-discs for the men overseas.Now he'd like to sing"If You are but a Dream.""Sunday, Monday, and Always"…
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The Birth of the Blues (1958 duet, Sinatra and Keely Smith)
On Frank's birthday (12/12). .a rarity. . . with Louis Prima's trumpet as fanfare
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“On Sinatra’s Birthday”
On Sinatra’s Birthday Nobody loves you when you’re down and out.But why try to change me now?An Englishman is happy when he's fighting for his queenand the dawn comes up like thunder. What a…
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“Tea for Two” times six
"Tea for Two"music by Vincent Youmanslyrics by Irving Caesar "Tahiti Trot": Shostakovich's take on"Tea for Two"John McGlinn and the Ambrosia Chorus ("Broadway Showstoppers")Art Tatum (1933, 1939, 1953)Nat King Cole (1957)Doris Day (1950)Frank Sinatra and…
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On Angela Ball’s “Hares” [by Jim Cummins]
photo © Steffi Wacker To talk about Angela Ball's brilliant poem, "Hares," which appeared in the Paris Review last winter, I really have to begin with a look at the voice of the speaker in the…
