<p>With a foreword by another great singer, Jerry Vale, this book is special in that it s strictly about singing: Sinatra Singing. For this book I called upon a wide variety of artists from Tony Bennett to Michael Feinstein, who were asked to explain how they sing, how they practice their craft, especially before a recording session or in preparation for a live concert, and how and if they learned anything from Sinatra by listening or studying him. Did Sinatra inspire them? If so, they tell us about it. You will find lots of things not included in this book. Things that are usually part of most Sinatra books: The Rat Pack, Ava Gardner and his other wives and friends, the angst and trouble that filled some of Sinatra s life. This is a book about SINGING. SINATRA SINGING. Inside you will meet his arrangers, conductors, musicians, read the interviews about his singing career, the songwriters, the songs, technical notes on bel canto, breathing, vocal cord problems, conquering stage fright, song polls taken over the years, singing instruction, the albums, and many special features from The Hit Parade to the history of the song "My Way" and others. This is the Sinatra book you have been waiting for that is indeed different, and that clears away all the dust and let s you in on the important aspects of Sinatra s singing career. You will love the great selection of over 250 photos. Many are rare.</p>

Sinatra Singing

Arts & Photography

Richard Grudens

Music

Celebrity Profiles Publishing Commpany

If you ask anyone under the age of forty to identify the singing groups of the 20th Century-The Mills Brothers, Boswell or Andrews Sisters, and you may toss in the Pied Pipers, Modernaires, Ink Spots or the King Sisters and the McGuire Sisters, you would undoubtedly earn a long, blank stare of wonderment. This book is their story. Each of these groups and many more carved out a musical career of great stature and popularity over many years, reaching back a few generations during what was know to all as the Big Band Era and Swing Era, at a time when the Great American Songbook was in its infancy, and has just settled down long enough to be defined. For those of you who were fortunate enough to have lived through a part of this era and had witnessed one or more of their performances on the stage, on film, radio and television, and for those of you who didn't, please stand by, you're ON THE AIR....this is their story as never told before in one book written by Richard Grudens, whom Kathryn Crosby, the wife of Bing Crosby describes as ;The Musical Historian of our time. Without him, the magic would be lost forever. We all owe him a debt that we can never repay.

Perfect Harmony-Singing Groups of the 20th Century

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Sinatra Singing

Perfect Harmony-Singing Groups of the 20th Century