Start off your day with a piece of music from the Great American Songbook. We couldn’t get the real Frank, so here’s a younger substitute:
Here’s a very talented 11 year old (who sounds like a talented teen) doing the song with a music track:
And, yes, here is the original in a stage performance in 1971:
The lip sync track on the first You Tube embed above comes from this classic Sinatra album that writers upon his death said was among his greatest — the album that revived his career in the early-mid 50s when he teamed up with master arranger Nelson Riddle:
The last embed with Sinatra in live performance has an arrangement that sounds closer to the one by Quincy Jones that is featured on the superb 1962 live performance album “Sinatra at the Sands,” music also conducted by the legendary Jones:
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.