Frank Sinatra - The Road To Mandalay (Live) -

[MsSmallthings]

This gives a whole new dimention to awful. Never again do I want to hear that Frank had a unique ability to choose material suited to him. It's even worse than Down Town, and that was shit.

[rewinder47]

Whilst Peter Dawson might have appreciated Frank's 'My Way' I doubt if he'd liked this - the musical arrangement's perhaps ok, the 'new' words are a bit sick considering the origins of this song. Mr Sinatra should have left this one alone.

[BastardfromtheBush]

Balls!

This song isn't supposed to be sung this way. I wonder how he'll butcher 'Roses of Picardy'

Ol' Blue Eyes should have stuck to his own genre.

[poetview]

@BastardfromtheBush for the same reason the Kipling family were said to have objected to this version of the song (thus 'butchering' Kiplings poem) and it certainly is easy to discover why ... no one needs to be 'broad' minded to ever wonder why this version was replaced on Sinatra's album by other songs due the content in that regard to changes to Kipling's words

[poetview]

@BastardfromtheBush also if you listen to the opening words of the video ... it is to assum this recording relates to that 'Lyrics by Rudyard Kipling's poem' and "his sister objected to Sinatra's version' .... and no doubt Sinatra was singing the song in this manner (in Australia?) on purpose and out of anger of having the song disallowed on his record album .

[BastardfromtheBush]

@poetview It's great how this early 20th century traditional poem fits into song. Best rendered by Lawrence Tibbett or Peter Dawson.

Sinatra, Frankie Laine & Bobby Darin should stick with their own niche and forget about singing this song. It's about a British soldier thinking about his lost love in Mandalay. and how dreary life in London is & how colourless the women are, compared to there

Those singers would be clueless about such a person, what he knows and what he's been through

[frencis983]

heerlijk nummmer waanzinnige zanger 'Frankie

[Odeonremix]

take me out to place tonight haha

[patmcn]

exceptional !!!

[herrdezeeuw]

Beautiful song! With the Red Norvo Quintet, Australia 1959..

[herrdezeeuw]

Beautiful song! With the Red Norvo Quintet, Australia 1959..

[silrosm]

UUU I´VE NEVER HEARD THIS !

THANKS FOR POSTING!