I loved Frank Sinatra's early singing. His voice had a litling sweetness to it that it lacked later due to his suffering a vocal hemorrhage in 1950, plus his drinking and smoking darkened and coarsened his voice as the years went on. In the 1940's though, his voice was silky smooth and pure perfection, as is demonstrated in this song.
@acfinney1 YOU ARE PURE SHIT, you foul mouthed creep. Sinatra was not a real singer, he was a stylist that had to almost swallow the mike to be heard. He had the hemorrage because he never learned to sing properly and constantly forcing his voice brought on the hemorrage plus he was a heavy smoker that also caused him grief. Dick Haymes and Billy Eckstein had well developed voices, not Sinatra. Can you actually read without help!.
@dempsey981 He was a chain smoker and occasionally lost his voice going into a concert. He had to quit smoking for a while to give his throat a rest and it was said that he had a terrible temper without smokes and threw some really nasty tantrums. I never cared much for his singing (crooner) but I will always admire him for working so hard to keep popular music from dying out.
NO WAY. I didn't recognise him! Wow. He really did develop his style A LOT over his years, -to that more straight forward, simplified but subtle form we all recognize as 'Frank'. But MAN. This is wayy cool.
I prefer his version with Tommy Dorsey and his version on Reprise but still this is an absolute beautiful version with James . Sinatra had the magic from the beginning.
WOW! This is RARE! Sinatra and James didn't record this in the studio or it was not released. The Tommy Dorsey version with Frank and The Pied Pipers was a HIT. People sometimes fail to realize "Stardust" was written in 1929 and didn't become a BIG hit until around 1940 with Dorsey and Artie Shaw's versions.
Wow what music. Harry and Frank. Only a prelude to what he would do with Tommy Dorseys band then on his own with Axel Stordal. Thank God Harry James took the time to go to the Rustic Cabin in New Jersey and hear Frank as he was a singing waiter there !
I think Frank would have made it regardless of whether or not Harry James went to the Rustic Cabin, Frank was just too damn good to not get his break@Iloveswing100
@Iloveswing100 Would that be the Rustic Cabin in Lakewood, N.J. ? Passed the closed building many times on Route 9 in the past 20 years but I believe the building is now gone. Anyone know?
@Iloveswing100 I just found out recently that Harry James heard Frank singing on the radio first, then went to see him at the Rustic Cabin. Once he got there, he asked for the "boy singer" and was told "we don't have one, but we have a m.c. who sings a little." Things went on from there.
bjr ! j'ai vu Harry James vers 1946 1947 apres la liberation ! trompette blues ! o k thank you. Gaby De Paris.....................
country12able 5 days ago
Im telling you guys I was born in the wrong year!!
missdarcy321 1 week ago
Why did I have to be born in 1970? I close my eyes and try to imagine being inside Roseland back then - that voice and that trumpet. Magical.
tinareg1999 1 month ago
A HORA !! ME QUEDO SIN PALABRAS , CON FRANK SINATRA , PERDONON MI , ATRASO .
abupico 1 month ago
Fantastic trumpet..HJ was amazing!
ccartnet 1 month ago
I loved Frank Sinatra's early singing. His voice had a litling sweetness to it that it lacked later due to his suffering a vocal hemorrhage in 1950, plus his drinking and smoking darkened and coarsened his voice as the years went on. In the 1940's though, his voice was silky smooth and pure perfection, as is demonstrated in this song.
JerryD121657 2 months ago
I heard it said that when Harry James first heard Sinatra sing, the hairs on the back of his neck stood up.
When Sinatra left Harry James and his orchestra, he apologized for doing so - James said, "If my name weren't on the drums, I'd be going too."
KataclysmKat 3 months ago
The very young Frank, magical and charming!
bernalor1 3 months ago
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@acfinney1 YOU ARE PURE SHIT, you foul mouthed creep. Sinatra was not a real singer, he was a stylist that had to almost swallow the mike to be heard. He had the hemorrage because he never learned to sing properly and constantly forcing his voice brought on the hemorrage plus he was a heavy smoker that also caused him grief. Dick Haymes and Billy Eckstein had well developed voices, not Sinatra. Can you actually read without help!.
Chappy83100 4 months ago
DOS COLOSOS, UNA JOYA DE GRABACION
MARINERO154 4 months ago
Lovely singing and playing. TY A.for posting.
paulostroff99 7 months ago
Almost like being there as one of the privileged ones at one on of those ballrooms (radio?). Grateful.
mauricioD 7 months ago
did frank lose his original voice somehow,later in his career?
dempsey981 8 months ago
@dempsey981 He was a chain smoker and occasionally lost his voice going into a concert. He had to quit smoking for a while to give his throat a rest and it was said that he had a terrible temper without smokes and threw some really nasty tantrums. I never cared much for his singing (crooner) but I will always admire him for working so hard to keep popular music from dying out.
Chappy83100 7 months ago
@Chappy83100 hmmm interesting,not uncommon for ciggs to change a voice
dempsey981 7 months ago
Born in 1963, I was exposed only to the worst of his material, and never appreciated Sinatra's work until after he died.
FreemanZee 8 months ago
What a shame that all this music was not recorded with the technologies of future days. Just incredible voice phrasing
SinatraFan64 10 months ago
wow you can already see how Sinatra was unique in his phrasing. Wow. Conversational in style.
joemoe23 10 months ago
One day after my 7th birthday. A good year.
jayseah32 11 months ago 2
I think my parents must have loved tunes like this, both now sadly gone..but what an era for music.
amber3358 1 year ago
WHAT? The singer's Frank Sinatra?
NO WAY. I didn't recognise him! Wow. He really did develop his style A LOT over his years, -to that more straight forward, simplified but subtle form we all recognize as 'Frank'. But MAN. This is wayy cool.
mycheesedguitar 1 year ago
I prefer his version with Tommy Dorsey and his version on Reprise but still this is an absolute beautiful version with James . Sinatra had the magic from the beginning.
RIP frank we miss you.
honeybee7700 1 year ago
OMG! Frank sounds so young in this one! i have heard his stuff only on columbia or the later years.. this is so different and nice :)
i Love The music from here
jimbungle 1 year ago 4
WOW! This is RARE! Sinatra and James didn't record this in the studio or it was not released. The Tommy Dorsey version with Frank and The Pied Pipers was a HIT. People sometimes fail to realize "Stardust" was written in 1929 and didn't become a BIG hit until around 1940 with Dorsey and Artie Shaw's versions.
waltandrus 1 year ago
Wow what music. Harry and Frank. Only a prelude to what he would do with Tommy Dorseys band then on his own with Axel Stordal. Thank God Harry James took the time to go to the Rustic Cabin in New Jersey and hear Frank as he was a singing waiter there !
Iloveswing100 1 year ago
I think Frank would have made it regardless of whether or not Harry James went to the Rustic Cabin, Frank was just too damn good to not get his break@Iloveswing100
peacemonger1967 1 year ago
@Iloveswing100 Would that be the Rustic Cabin in Lakewood, N.J. ? Passed the closed building many times on Route 9 in the past 20 years but I believe the building is now gone. Anyone know?
ridingroy 1 year ago
@Iloveswing100 I just found out recently that Harry James heard Frank singing on the radio first, then went to see him at the Rustic Cabin. Once he got there, he asked for the "boy singer" and was told "we don't have one, but we have a m.c. who sings a little." Things went on from there.
MrGreencheetah 2 months ago
this is so much better than mason profits version!
MissssJupiterSunrise 1 year ago
These were very special days...total perfection...from the whole team.
guitarpicka1 1 year ago 10
@guitarpicka1 Indeed they were, I am glad everyone has enjoyed this music. Thanks to everyone for your comments.
Aristaeus1 1 year ago
@Aristaeus1 I saw both of them, and danced to Harry's music. What a team.
swinginkatz 1 year ago
@guitarpicka1 WOW!!!
PURE SWING!!!
silrosm 10 months ago
Two of the greats in pop music.... James and Sinatra! I wonder what it was like back then. NIce, I bet.
zak3232 1 year ago
Harry & Frank at the top of their games...
sochocki 1 year ago