Sinatra's Songbook

For the 10th anniversary of the death of Frank Sinatra, TCM ran 3 TV specials he did between 1966 and 67. 2 of the 3 were the best and the middle one mediocre. But these little seen specials do serve the purpose of showing how much the Sinatra sound mean to the American songbook. No one, outside of maybe Ella Fitzgerald, popularized it better, and between the 2 Sinatra has the edge on album quality. His late 50's peak includes his most essential music, before he began adding contemporary stuff that bogged down his late 60's work. I wrote after Sinatra died that the man hated Rock music, but Rock music didn't hate Sinatra. I love Rock music but I loved Sinatra's greatest work. The Great American Songbook. Man, that was a wonderful time.