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Frank Sinatra: Music Makers
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Frank Sinatra has been added to the NAB list as of March 4, 2007 and torrents have been banned. Sorry, Ol' Blue Eyes, your family doesn't want your fans to listen to your unreleased music (at least not without paying them first, obviously).
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Bill LaVorgna, who grew up on Ryerson Avenue in Paterson's Totowa section, went on to perform with show business greats: Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Dizzy Gillespie, Sammy Davis Jr., Pat Boone and Barry Manilow, among others. For more than 30 years, he was musical director for Garland's daughter, Liza Minnelli.
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Sinatra finally retired from performing in his 80th year in 1995. He later died of a heart attack at 82. Anyone will be astonished at the sheer extent of Sinatra's success as a recording artist over 50 years, due to the changes in popular taste during that period. His popularity as a singer and his productivity has resulted in an overwhelming discography. Its major portions break down into the Columbia years (1943-1952), the Capitol years (1953-1962), and the Reprise years (1960-1981), but airchecks, film and television soundtracks, and other miscellaneous recordings swell it massively. As a movie star and as a celebrity of mixed reputation, Sinatra is so much of a 20th century icon that it is easy to overlook his real musical talents, which are the actual source of his renown.
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Once the musicians' strike was settled in November 1944, Sinatra began recording with Axel Stordahl, who had been a trombonist and lead arranger with Tommy Dorsey. Stordahl's sweet string-laced settings for Sinatra's recordings silhouetted a yearning voice that one writer compared to ''worn velveteen.''
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Beyond the brawling, beyond all the wildly variable films, it will be Frank Sinatra's music that will shape his legacy. True, his image as a vulnerable tough guy, and his actorly skills, pervaded his best singing. But it was that singing itself, as he moved from callow youth to lonely swinger to aging but still magisterial stylist, that defined Sinatra's artistry.
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The musicians put their instruments into their cases, grab their coats, and begin to file out, saying good-night to Sinatra. He knows them all by name, knows much about them personally, from their bachelor days, through their divorces, through their ups and downs, as they know him. When a French-horn player, a short Italian named Vincent DeRosa, who has played with Sinatra since The Lucky Strike "Hit Parade" days on radio, strolled by, Sinatra reached out to hold him for a second.
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