{"id":34639,"date":"2014-01-27T23:13:44","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T04:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=34639"},"modified":"2014-01-27T23:15:59","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T04:45:59","slug":"frank-sinatra-remembered-a-fan-and-collector-looks-back-music-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=34639","title":{"rendered":"Frank Sinatra Remembered: A Fan and Collector Looks Back – Music News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>By “Bad” Brad Berkwitt<\/strong>
\n(Painting photo copyrighted by badbradberkwitt.com)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI detest bad manners. If people are polite, I am. They shouldn\u2019t try to get away with not being polite to me.\u201d\u2014 Francis Albert Sinatra<\/span><\/p>\n

This past May 14th, marked the 15th anniversary of the passing of Music Icon Francis Albert Sinatra at the age of 82. As an avid fan who grew up to the sounds and stories of Sinatra from my late Father, Alvin Berkwitt, who collected his albums, worked rooms that he played at the Fountainbleau Hotel on Miami Beach, and watched all of his movies, I didn\u2019t learn to really appreciate what Frank did for the world. It would hit me on my 22nd year on Planet Earth back in 1990, while stationed in Italy, and it hit me like a ton of bricks.<\/p>\n

Never has one artist been so recognizable by a body of songs, recorded over a span of almost 70 years. Whether its unrequited love in the Columbia Version of \u201cI\u2019m A Fool To Want You,\u201d or maybe one of his finest vocal recordings on his 1957 album \u201cCome Fly With Me\u201d of \u201cApril In Paris,\u201d which takes you to the wonderful city as Sinatra belts out the tune. Or maybe the \u201cSummer Wind\u201d came blowing into your town to his cover of that song. How about a reflection on your own life in: \u201cIt Was A Very Good Year?\u201d I know as I have listened to this song, I can relate at each point from 17 to 21 to 35 for sure, and it\u2019s been many good years.<\/p>\n

Read the rest of:\u00a0Frank Sinatra Remembered: A Fan and Collector Looks Back – Music News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By “Bad” Brad Berkwitt (Painting photo copyrighted by badbradberkwitt.com) \u201cI detest bad manners. If people are polite, I am. They shouldn\u2019t try to get away with not being polite to me.\u201d\u2014 Francis Albert Sinatra This past May 14th, marked the 15th anniversary of the passing of Music Icon Francis Albert Sinatra at the age of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9620],"class_list":["post-34639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-frank-sinatra-remembered-a-fan-and-collector-looks-back-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34639"}],"version-history":[{"count":-2,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}