"P. S I don't have to imagine the Paramount in the 40's, I was in it then."
Schubert I hear you, my father loathed him for exactly the same reasons you do and I certainly get the why of it but probably not to the same extent as someone who witnessed it first hand. The one thing I admire in Sinatra if little else, is his tenacity and belief in himself but conversely his pettyness. He was a very complex individual, generous on one hand, unforgiving and a bully on the other and I suppose this just adds into the equation of the enduring facination with his persona maybe even more so than his singing. I personally don't believe the two can be separate. If you take away the personality from the singer he, at least in my estimation, would have fizzed out long before his remarkable comeback.
Schubert I hear you, my father loathed him for exactly the same reasons you do and I certainly get the why of it but probably not to the same extent as someone who witnessed it first hand. The one thing I admire in Sinatra if little else, is his tenacity and belief in himself but conversely his pettyness. He was a very complex individual, generous on one hand, unforgiving and a bully on the other and I suppose this just adds into the equation of the enduring facination with his persona maybe even more so than his singing. I personally don't believe the two can be separate. If you take away the personality from the singer he, at least in my estimation, would have fizzed out long before his remarkable comeback.