Mr. Frank Sinatra. 100 years on...

[cloughie]

Without the head it's never convincing IMV

Looks a bit like Mr Turnip, also at his best in the 50s.

[Tevot]

Without the head it's never convincing IMV

This bizarrely reminds me of a film called Air Doll which features the excellent Korean actress Bae Doona

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bae_Doona

3 more moves and I'm sure we'll end up with Kevin Bacon

[pastoralguy]

Happy 100th Birthday, Frank.

Here's to the next 100 years!

[MrGongGong]

Looks a bit like Mr Turnip, also at his best in the 50s.

The real Frank

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcAME_Hs9mg

[P. G. Tipps]

The real Frank

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcAME_Hs9mg

The Stonemasons was one of my local refreshment halts when I lived in nearby Sale.

From memory, Frank, who's been around a very long time, is undoubtedly one of the least eccentric regulars.

PS ... Oh dear, it looks like he's passed away as well.

[Mary Chambers]

Is it obligatory for people involved in 'classical' music to like Sinatra now? I do hope not, because I don't.

[doversoul1]

I don’t think so, Mary. It’s just that a lot of us enjoy / enjoyed popular songs along with classical music. To me, the Sinatra Prom was a disservice if not a plain insult to both popular songs and classical music. They are two separate things.

[MrGongGong]

Is it obligatory for people involved in 'classical' music to like Sinatra now? I do hope not, because I don't.

No, but they HAVE to like Franks Zappa, Sidebottom and Bridge

[Beef Oven!]

They're all good - Frank Zappa, Frank Sinatra, F̶r̶a̶n̶k̶i̶e̶ ̶V̶a̶l̶l̶i̶, et al.

[teamsaint]

They're all good - Frank Zappa, Frank Sinatra, F̶r̶a̶n̶k̶i̶e̶ ̶V̶a̶l̶l̶i̶, et al.

you missed out iegoestohollywood.

[Beef Oven!]

you missed out iegoestohollywood.

Covered in 'et al'

[cloughie]

Covered in 'et al'

Laine? Vaughan? Crumit? Cesar .......c....? Schmidt? And of course we all love Frenchie!

[P. G. Tipps]

Is it obligatory for people involved in 'classical' music to like Sinatra now? I do hope not, because I don't.

Good for you, Mary ... the refreshingly reasoned voice of anti-Sinatra Political Correctness at last!

It certainly appears it is obligatory at the BBC judging by the repetitive and quite absurd adulatory outpourings of Presenters on R4's Today programme yesterday.

What the, by now, very common adulatory outpourings of Presenters on R3 were like I shudder to even begin to contemplate ...

[MrGongGong]

One way of dealing with Sinatra bores

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJxS_1LzUKw

[doversoul1]

Good for you, Mary ... the refreshingly reasoned voice of anti-Sinatra Political Correctness at last!

It certainly appears it is obligatory at the BBC judging by the repetitive and quite absurd adulatory outpourings of Presenters on R4's Today programme yesterday.

What the, by now, very common adulatory outpourings of Presenters on R3 were like I shudder to even begin to contemplate ...

Some (I imagine many on this thread) of us simply like / liked Sinatra’s singing. As far as I am concerned, I have not heard a word mentioned about Sinatra on Radio 3, on the programmes I have been listening to, that is.

I thought this thread was refreshingly apolitical. You don’t need to be on the lookout all the time. Relax. Christmas is coming.