Remembering Sinatra

Song Folio #2

    To this songwriter, the current catalog of original, copyrighted music contains more than 1,000 songs.  They include MOR, Pop, Country & Western, Ballads, Novelty, Folk Songs, Blues, Jazz, Easy Listening, Light Classics, Waltzes, Polkas, Hawaiian, Gospel and Contemporary Christian, Disco, Rhythm & Blues, Marches and Children's Songs.  Much of this catalog is made possible by the absolutely EXCELLENT abilities of my many Co-Writers, who either supplied the Music to my Lyrics or the Lyrics to my Music.  They are, each and everyone, immensely appreciated, and I am grateful to them each and all.

    It was many years ago when I first heard Frank Sinatra - back when he was first starting out.  That first occasion was the Indiana Roof Ballroom, in Indianapolis, Indiana, where the great Tommy Dorsey Orchestra shared a "rotating bandstand" with another fine Orchestra (Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm).

    On stage with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra was his featured male vocalist, a young singer named Frank Sinatra.  Jo Stafford was there, as well, with the Pied Pipers and the evening was full of music.  There was something about Frank Sinatra - then and now - that made him outstanding and justifiably an American icon in the music world.

    Subconsciously, perhaps, his style of delivery affected me, as I began to write music, myself.  His phrasing?  Absolutely!  His vocal delivery skills?  Absolutely!  His abilities to emphasize the Lyrics to any song he ever sang in his long and illustrious career?  Yes!  Years later, when I had accumulated quite a sizable library/catalog of my own music, I recall taking them to a bandleader in Indiana for his review.  He said to me: "your songs sound a lot like the kind of music that Frank Sinatra does".  I had not thought of them in that way.  Perhaps it's the attention paid to the Lyrics.  I believe that Frank Sinatra always placed a special emphasis upon the lyrics to the songs he did so well.  In any event, this Song Folio is the second of four (4) such Song Folios.  To those Vocalists and Entertainers who may seek to emulate the song styling of Francis Albert Sinatra, today and tomorrow, he certainly deserves a place in the permanent memory of each of them and to the public, who still remember.

    If, perhaps, any of these songs may fit in, somewhere along the line, remember that the best way to keep his memory alive and well is to keep the kind of songs he did coming on, to new generations of Frank Sinatra fans.  He richly deserves that.

This Song Folio contains Lyric pages and Lead Sheet pages, along with biographies of the co-writes.  The following is a list of the contents and copyright dates of the songs included in this, second of four, Song Folios: