I'm watching Frank Sinatra

[Thankyou4calling]

The Main Event.

Concert from Madison Square Garden.

It’s quite something. Frank seems able to control the audience.

Everyone is dolled up to the nines, the band are rocking. Franks voice is OK but I’d not say anything special but nonetheless his charisma and style is phenomenal.

Is there anyone like this now? Glamorous dinner dance type stuff ( pre Covid restrictions)

What a night for the audience.

[P5BNij]

His voice was incredible, he had away of carrying you through a song like very few were (or are) able to do. It's interesting that one of his favourite singers was Scott Walker, and the feeling was apparently mutual.

[Frank7]

P5BNij said:

His voice was incredible, he had away of carrying you through a song like very few were (or are) able to do. It's interesting that one of his favourite singers was Scott Walker, and the feeling was apparently mutual.

Sinatra was of his time, and he was undoubtedly good, but he wasn’t my bag, if Noël Scott Engel, aka Scott Walker really was one of favourite singers, then he wasn’t a bad judge IMO.
I remember sometime in the seventies, Sinatra was due to appear in London, can’t remember where, RAH, Palladium, I don’t know, but a bunch of devout docker fans were organising a trip to see him.
A guy I knew, a lighterman, was on the fringe of the Sinatra aficionados, but when asked if he wanted a seat on the trip, he declined.
The dockers froze him out, if he walked into the Little Crown in Southwark Park Road after that, he was dead to them, strange people.

[thebraketester]

Thankyou4calling said:

Is there anyone like this now?

In short.... no.

[Badda]

Frank7 said:

Sinatra was of his time, and he was undoubtedly good, but he wasn’t my bag, if Noël Scott Engel, aka Scott Walker really was one of favourite singers, then he wasn’t a bad judge IMO.
I remember sometime in the seventies, Sinatra was due to appear in London, can’t remember where, RAH, Palladium, I don’t know, but a bunch of devout docker fans were organising a trip to see him.
A guy I knew, a lighterman, was on the fringe of the Sinatra aficionados, but when asked if he wanted a seat on the trip, he declined.
The dockers froze him out, if he walked into the Little Crown in Southwark Park Road after that, he was dead to them, strange people.

Another irrelevant and deeply uninteresting anecdote. You should write these all down, then burn the fkrs.

[Louis Balfour]

Frank7 said:

Sinatra was of his time, and he was undoubtedly good, but he wasn’t my bag, if Noël Scott Engel, aka Scott Walker really was one of favourite singers, then he wasn’t a bad judge IMO.
I remember sometime in the seventies, Sinatra was due to appear in London, can’t remember where, RAH, Palladium, I don’t know, but a bunch of devout docker fans were organising a trip to see him.
A guy I knew, a lighterman, was on the fringe of the Sinatra aficionados, but when asked if he wanted a seat on the trip, he declined.
The dockers froze him out, if he walked into the Little Crown in Southwark Park Road after that, he was dead to them, strange people.

Where is Alan Turning when you need him.

[Frank7]

Badda said:

Frank7 said:

Sinatra was of his time, and he was undoubtedly good, but he wasn’t my bag, if Noël Scott Engel, aka Scott Walker really was one of favourite singers, then he wasn’t a bad judge IMO.
I remember sometime in the seventies, Sinatra was due to appear in London, can’t remember where, RAH, Palladium, I don’t know, but a bunch of devout docker fans were organising a trip to see him.
A guy I knew, a lighterman, was on the fringe of the Sinatra aficionados, but when asked if he wanted a seat on the trip, he declined.
The dockers froze him out, if he walked into the Little Crown in Southwark Park Road after that, he was dead to them, strange people.

Another irrelevant and deeply uninteresting anecdote. You should write these all down, then burn the fkrs.

Didn’t you like it, man that’s tough.

[Thankyou4calling]

Frank7 said:

Sinatra was of his time, and he was undoubtedly good, but he wasn’t my bag, if Noël Scott Engel, aka Scott Walker really was one of favourite singers, then he wasn’t a bad judge IMO.
I remember sometime in the seventies, Sinatra was due to appear in London, can’t remember where, RAH, Palladium, I don’t know, but a bunch of devout docker fans were organising a trip to see him.
A guy I knew, a lighterman, was on the fringe of the Sinatra aficionados, but when asked if he wanted a seat on the trip, he declined.
The dockers froze him out, if he walked into the Little Crown in Southwark Park Road after that, he was dead to them, strange people.

Nice story.

But, realistically I don’t think Frank Sinatra would be that miffed at not being welcome at The little Crown in Southwark.

Was he previous regular there?

[Mikebentley]

I liked it Frank. Then again I’m a marginally a bigger fan of Frank7 than of Frank S.

[Frank7]

Louis Balfour said:

Frank7 said:

Sinatra was of his time, and he was undoubtedly good, but he wasn’t my bag, if Noël Scott Engel, aka Scott Walker really was one of favourite singers, then he wasn’t a bad judge IMO.
I remember sometime in the seventies, Sinatra was due to appear in London, can’t remember where, RAH, Palladium, I don’t know, but a bunch of devout docker fans were organising a trip to see him.
A guy I knew, a lighterman, was on the fringe of the Sinatra aficionados, but when asked if he wanted a seat on the trip, he declined.
The dockers froze him out, if he walked into the Little Crown in Southwark Park Road after that, he was dead to them, strange people.

Where is Alan Turning when you need him.

It was meant to be an insight into how Sinatra was a God to some people, on the assumption that you can’t work out long words, and need my post deciphered, I’ll p.m. you it in words of one syllable, oh, and not for nothing, but it’s Alan Turing.

[Wacky Racer]

Frank was good, nearly as good as Matt Monro

[Frank7]

Mikebentley said:

I liked it Frank. Then again I’m a marginally a bigger fan of Frank7 than of Frank S.

Thank you Mike, that may be because you possess a higher intellect, you can obviously work out if there’s merit in what someone posts, and if you think there isn’t, you’re capable of saying intelligently why you’ve arrived at that conclusion.