[dfwgator]

The O.G.!

[353FMG]

Sinatra — the only voice worth listening to beside Billy Eckstein

[Fiji Hill]

I actually heard Frank Sinatra perform live. At a star-studded rally at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles to celebrate Ronald Reagan’s birthday in 1980, he led the audience in singing “Happy Birthday.”

[chajin]

A guess, and it’s only a guess, is that many of them might have gotten their love of Sinatra’s singing from their mamas. That’s how I got mine, and I’m about the same age as the first generation of rappers; he was her musical idol from her WWII bobby-soxer days until she died, a bit too young, in the mid 1990s.

[dfwgator]

But don’t they remember all those “bigoted” songs the Rat Pack sang?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaNeh5UXDEU

[lizma2]

My Dad loved Sinatra.

Spent many of Friday nights curled up on the sofa next to my Pops listening to Frank’s albums.

Great memories.

[Married with Children]

Heck, I’m still trying to figure out the deal with all the black females wearing Marilyn Monroe T-shirts over the last few years.

[AlaskaErik]

He was just a little before my time. I pretty much only listen to 90s thru today’s music. 80s is OK, but nothing before that.