Terry Teachout's Taking Sinatra Seriously

In the first chapter, this essay primarily addressed the musical aspects of Frank Sinatra. This section will examine his celebrity image, and how it reflected the values of popular culture that spanned his career. Sinatra was the first musician, more specifically a singer, to achieve this kind of fame and notoriety among his audiences. Intentional or not, he started a trend in popular music that would later be replicated by many artists, including Elvis, Michael Jackson, Freddie Mercury, and Barbara Streisand.

Besides from being an excellent singer, Frank could act. He starred in such films as The Man with the Golden Arm, Suddenly, and one of his greatest films Guys and Dolls. “MGM said he (Frank) was so skinny, he wouldn’t throw a shadow. I told them he would throw the biggest shadow Hollywood has ever seen”(George Sidney 2). And in 1953, Frank did just that. He won an Academy Award in Best Supporting Actor for the role of Maggio in movie From Here to Eternity.

Notwithstanding Treasure’s use of vocal coach jargon, he does not go so far as to assume his audience fully understands their meaning as they relate to the topic. He therefore provides definitions and oral examples that connect listeners to the idea. As Treasure used lists, supporting points, and definitions, he does fail to provide much testimony regarding the success of these tactics – other than simply stating what is positive and negative. This is likely a sign of understanding his audience’s common knowledge. Clearly there is a tremendous amount of practice and awareness involved in aptly utilizing the tools Treasure discusses, far and beyond splattering them within one’s speaking. Treasure notes this perfectly, as he states: “First of all, I think absolute honesty may not be what we want. I mean, my goodness, you look ugly this morning. Perhaps that's not necessary. Tempered with love, of course, honesty is a great thing. But also, if you're really wishing somebody well, it's very hard to judge them at the same time. I'm not even sure you can do those two things simultaneously,” (2013). The same rings true with the use and understanding of register (depth), timbre (smoothness), prosody (melody of voice), pace, pitch, and

Loren wouldn’t have minded anyway. Danny’s vocals were entertaining. The ten years she spent in vocal lessons had paid off. Though, if one asked, she’d swear it was a useless talent and a waste of money. It made Loren’s ride with her bearable, so it was completely worth it according to him. He shuddered to think if she was tone deaf and sang as loudly as she did. He probably would have quit a long time ago. When they arrived at their destination, she didn’t get out of the car immediately. Instead they sat in her parking spot, and she sang and danced in her seat.

They were not singing the words, or even the correct notes, they were singing because they simply wanted to. At this moment I realized why the Parisians sang along to Bruce Springsteen’s song of being born in America. They were singing along not because they wanted to imitate Americans, but because the music made them feel something. The music elicited a response that created pride in the audience, the same pride as felt through the lyrics of the song. Music draws out every emotion conceivable, as I have seen grown men cry over Frank Ticheli’s haunting piece,

The Chairman of the Board, as Sinatra was commonly known, decided to start his solo career in 1942, after a brief period singing with Harry James and the Tommy Dorsey Band. Many well-known singers preceded him, such as Billy Holiday and Bing Crosby. None of these performers, however great, led completely self-sufficient careers of their own. Gardner attests that “Sinatra’s success cemented the notion of the interpretive singer as an autonomous musician – in service to the song but also owning it, at least for the duration of the performance”. Given the type of personality he possessed, this was not surprising. Frank had the “street-smarts”, the intelligence, drive, and talent to sustain a solo career.

Frank Sinatra made moves to confirm his desire through his life due to an unpredictable temper: many were of an violent nature. Early on while working with Tommy Dorsey, drummer Buddy Rich was fed up with having to adhere to Sinatra’s slow ballads and called Sinatra a “son-of-a-b- wop bast---” (Kaplan 117). At this, Frank threw a glass water pitcher at Rich’s head, just missing him. Rich tackled Sinatra and they were in a fist-brawl.

He thought people would point and laugh at the way he danced and sang but to his

Frank Sinatra was one of the most if not the most important popular music figure of the 20th century. In a professional career that lasted 60 years, he demonstrated a remarkable ability to maintain his appeal and pursue his musical goals. He came to be known during the swing era of the 1930s and '40s, helped to define the "sing era" of the '40s and '50s, and continued to attract listeners during the rock era that began in the mid-'50s. He scored his first number one hit in 1940 and was still making million-selling recordings in 1994.

Frank Sinatra is an American icon who is still touching the hearts and souls through his music and movies. Frank Sinatra, an American popular singer and actor, was one of the top entertainers of the 20th century. Over a 50-year span, staring in 1,500 songs and started in almost 60 different movies made him recognized. “In 1935, Sinatra quit his newspaper job to pursue a career as a singer after attending a Bing Crosby concert.” (Monica Garving, pg. 1 of 4) Frank joined a group called the Hoboken Four, who won first place, as a quartet group on a radio station, but Frank grow homesick and departed the group to head back to Hoboken, NJ. He landed jobs around his town on local radio stations, sang with local dance bands and received a job

lyrics first and then create the melody. Once I have something there, I write the musical portion of the song.

Even though Ray Charles was blind he still made tons of songs such as Sitting On the Dock of the Bay, Hallelujah I Love Her So, and I Got a Woman. Rolling Stone ranked him 10th on 100 best singers at that time. Ray Charles was sometimes called “The Pioneer of R&B’’. In 1948 He signed with swingtime records. He recorded a few of his best songs there.

Multi-part singing demands the singer to focus on intonation, as well as how their musical line relates to the underlying harmony. Supplying the aural anchors also helps the choir adjust their intonation as it relates to a specific harmonic context. Most importantly, warm-ups that supply a rich harmonic accompaniment enhance the singer’s capacity to actively audiate musical material and establish a greater aural awareness of the entire ensemble. Unison

I think if harry Houdini were a singer or a actor he wouldn’t succeed because he is going to do what he does best because not most people hear or see something like that like songs and other things like that.And some people can’t hear that because they think it’s bad to here.If was older he wouldn’t sound good and he will sond old and rusty.I think he would be better as a entertainer as a magician.Because it takes a lot of time to get ready to be a singer so you will have to practice and take a lot of lessons like all the singers i seen because your voice gets messed up

The initial six years of his examination brought about nothing more critical than a couple of presentations in residential areas and every one of them were without pay. Not long after a little knot created on Pavarotti's vocal harmonies which caused a show in ferrara italy which was known as a deplorable occasion. This made him abandon singing, however this mental breakdown Pavarotti's voice very quickly moved forward. He feels as though this was because of a mental discharge that happened to be associated with this choice. The irregularity at that point vanished bafflingly then he discharged his personal history "All that I had learned met up with my normal voice to make the sound I had been battling so difficult to accomplish."