Why Sinatra Matters (2009)
“– AVA GARDNER I AM VERY MUCH SURPRISED WHAT I HAVE BEEN READING IN THE NEWSPAPERS BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR DARLING WIFE. REMEMBER YOU HAVE A DECENT WIFE AND CHILDREN. YOU SHOULD BE VERY HAPPY. REGARDS TO ALL.
–TELEGRAM TO FRANK SINATRA FROM WILLIE (WILLIE MOORE) MORETTI, 1949 5 I’M A FOOL TO WANT YOU ONE OF SINATRA’S most mysterious achievements was also the one that allowed him to endure for more than half a century after Harry James heard him in the Rustic Cabin. It was the nature of his audi...ence. Sinatra started out with far more female than male fans. He ended up with more male fans. This happens to very few pop singers.
On the simplest level it was connected to the times themselves. For millions of women during the war, Sinatra was the romantic voice of the American homefront. He was singing to Rosie the Riveter, the symbolic woman who had walked into a war plant and found employment that was ordinarily reserved for men. She was more than a self-reliant patriot or an earner of a day’s pay for a day’s work.MoreLess
–TELEGRAM TO FRANK SINATRA FROM WILLIE (WILLIE MOORE) MORETTI, 1949 5 I’M A FOOL TO WANT YOU ONE OF SINATRA’S most mysterious achievements was also the one that allowed him to endure for more than half a century after Harry James heard him in the Rustic Cabin. It was the nature of his audi...ence. Sinatra started out with far more female than male fans. He ended up with more male fans. This happens to very few pop singers.
On the simplest level it was connected to the times themselves. For millions of women during the war, Sinatra was the romantic voice of the American homefront. He was singing to Rosie the Riveter, the symbolic woman who had walked into a war plant and found employment that was ordinarily reserved for men. She was more than a self-reliant patriot or an earner of a day’s pay for a day’s work.MoreLess
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