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    Duets

    Duets is a moving Experience, if a little surreal. A horde of outsize talent ? from Barbra and Aretha to Bono and Luther ? gangs up on the genius who more or less invented 20th-century popular singing. Predictably, expert players madly dazzle while Frank shadowboxes his former glory. The recent rage...

    1993 RS: Not Rated

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Biography

Baritone Frank Sinatra was indisputably the 20th century's greatest singer of popular song. Though influenced by Bing Crosby's crooning, and by learning from trombonist Tommy Dorsey?s breath control and blues singer Billie Holiday's rhythmic swing, Frank Sinatra mainstreamed the concept of singing colloquially, treating lyrics as personal statements and handling melodies with the ease of a jazz im...

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