Frankie Laine - Robin Hood / Champion The Wonder Horse

In 1956 Frankie recorded two songs that was to go on a Children's Album. The Album never came to pass. The recordings were put out on a special 45rpm recording but I don't think it much notice. They were never used on an LP so never on a CD (except for the Bear Box set #3)

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[larrydonguy]

I suppose one could say that Sinatra was smart in generally recording as many classic songs as he could and usually avoiding the novelty numbers. However, there is also something charming about Laine's approach in singing as many different kinds of songs as he did and always (as he does here) giving them his best shot.

[markalson1938]

@larrydonguy I don't know what people have against what they call novelty numbers. And it doesn't seem like anyone can really say wht a novelty song is. I know some are down right stupid but I think most are very good and why not look on the lighte side of life.

[gummibroetchen]

I will never understand why Frankie Laine has not become at least as popular as Frank Sinatra or Dean Martin here in Germany. Perhaps it's because he was too multi-talented. I remember having driven the disk-sellers crazy with my persistant questions after disks of him!

[markalson1938]

I think the reason for Frankie not being as well known as the others you mentioned is because the others had something else that kept them in the spotlight for a very long time.

Some like Bing, Frank, and Dean had long and very popular movie careers and some like

Perry and Tenn Ford had long running TV shows that kept them in the puplic eye long after their hit making days were over. Frankie didn't have that to the extent the others did.

[gummibroetchen]

He could sing anything, Jazz, Rock, Blues, Western, Country. I've been a great fan of his voice since I was a little girl. Now I'm 65 ;-)

But there are some songs I don't like sung by hin: one of them is "Granada". This belongs to the songs which come better sung by belcanto singers.

[markalson1938]

I agree with you Frankie could and did sing almost any type of song. But I don't agree with you about "GRANADA". I loved this song, I liked Frankie's Big voice and the fact that he could hold a note with the best of them. I'm 71 and a song similar to "Granada" in 1950 helped make that 12 year boy a life long fan. That was "Black Lace" Never a hit but a great song.

[larrydonguy]

@markalson1938 I think you know them when you hear them. Some are pretty good and some are pretty bad but if one rarely records them in favor of "serious" music it probably can enhance one's reputation as a serious singer as it did Sinatra's. Of course, the other big factor in Sinatra's fame, besides his ability to "put over" a song (he didn't have a great voice in the way that a Gordon MacRae, an Ernie Ford, or a Mario Lanza did) was his colorful "personal" life.

[cf1934]

@markalson1938 I agree with you, Frankie did a great job with Granada!

[WildmanBorneo]

Yeh ...big knobbin hell this is so funkin good... back to me childhood !

[gummibroetchen]

anyway I'm glad about YouTube and the fact that almost anything of him can be found here. - Also that a lot of him is beeing published on CD now, though it's sad, that the reason is Frankie's death. -Robin Hood and Champion the wonderhorse I actually possessed on two of these old disks as child! Which shows that it was available in Germany!