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Link to November 29 New York Times article, "When a Skinny Singer Crooned to Knock Your Bobby Socks Off".
Excerpt: The biography offers an almost day-by-day account of Sinatra’s volatile life and times from his difficult birth in 1915 to the evening in 1954 when his comeback from a severe career downturn was secured, and he was handed an Oscar for best supporting actor in “From Here to Eternity.”
The book does music history a huge favor by reminding us that from his days with Tommy Dorsey to the twilight of his Columbia years, Sinatra was a singularly incandescent vocal phenomenon.
Although Sinatra went on to make his greatest records for Capitol in the mid-1950s and early ’60s — a period alluded to but not covered in the biography — even on the album widely regarded as his all-time masterpiece, “In the Wee Small Hours,” his singing is tinged with a noirish worldliness and a slight huskiness that steadily coarsened into the hard, punchy sound of the later years.
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