by NRB | 13 Feb 2015 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
Some of the very best popular songs depend for their emotional power and resonance on an unspoken backstory. Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer’s ‘One for My Baby’, made memorable by Frank Sinatra, tells us nothing about the broken relationship that has brought the singer...
by NRB | 9 Jan 2015 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
In a column last year I expressed the opinion that Elvis Presley was one of the two greatest popular singers of the 20th century. The other, incontestably, was Frank Sinatra. Sinatra brought an insouciant, louche intimacy to crooning that hadn’t been there before. He...