Pete Hamill Interview on Frank Sinatra (Charlie Rose 1998)
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Author & journalist, Pete Hamill is guest on The 'Charlie Rose' Show during this 1998 interview about Frank Sinatra and his significance. Hamill discusses his book: Why Sinatra Matters.
"The voice was obviously there. It was a violin that became a viola that ended up as a cello." -Pete Hamill
Pete Hamill (1935-1920) was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and editor. During his career as a New York City journalist, he was described as "the author of columns that sought to capture the particular flavors of New York City's politics and sports and the particular pathos of its crime." Hamill was a columnist and editor for the New York Post and the New York Daily News.
Francis Albert Sinatra (1915 - 1998) was an American singer, actor and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 150 million records worldwide. Robert Christgau referred to Sinatra as "the greatest singer of the 20th century".[ His popularity is matched only by Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, and Michael Jackson. For Santopietro, Sinatra was the "greatest male pop singer in the history of America", who amassed "unprecedented power onscreen and off", and "seemed to exemplify the common man, an ethnic twentieth-century American male who reached the 'top of the heap', yet never forgot his roots". Santopietro argues that Sinatra created his own world, which he was able to dominate-his career was centered around power, perfecting the ability to capture an audience. Encyclopedia Britannica referred to Sinatra as "often hailed as the greatest American singer of 20th-century popular music....Through his life and his art, he transcended the status of mere icon to become one of the most recognizable symbols of American culture." Gus Levene commented that Sinatra's strength was that when it came to lyrics, telling a story musically, Sinatra displayed a "genius" ability and feeling, which with the "rare combination of voice and showmanship" made him the "original singer" which others who followed most tried to emulate. George Roberts, a trombonist in Sinatra's band, remarked that Sinatra had a "charisma, or whatever it is about him, that no one else had".
The Charlie Rose Show is an American television interview and talk show, with Charlie Rose as executive producer, executive editor, and host. The show was syndicated on PBS until 2017 and is owned by Charlie Rose, Inc. Rose interviewed thinkers, writers, politicians, athletes, entertainers, businesspersons, leaders, scientists, and fellow newsmakers.
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Masterful interview and riveting to watch! Pete Hamill shines!!
Francis Albert, Frank Sinatra, Swoonatra the Idol of Bobby Soxers everywhere. The Voice, Old Blue Eyes, The Chairman of The Board. Call him what you'd like. This man was quite simply the best interpreter of song over the last century.
Pete Hamill is correct about "Why Sinatra Matters" Good interview.
Pete Hamel was a brilliant story teller. There is so much that could be said about him, but I will pass on that for now, as I couldn't do justice in describing his remarkable genius.
Hamill was a treasure. And a damn nice man, to boot.
A fantastic interview!
Wonderful! I have said this about Gardner and his movie career. I’m a Fool to Want You (the 2nd one) is the single greatest thing I have ever heard from anyone. Every single note of it. Love this!❤
Such a fascinating interview, thanks for sharing this
Yes. Pete Hamill was so eloquent. Thanks for watching.
In 1960 Sinatra’s “Only the Lonely” was put into a Time Capsule. It captured the Isolation the new Urban life thrusted upon the population. Sinatra was/is an icon…
@Greg B Part his creation part Lady Day..
@Greg B Interesting…I’ll check that out..
Pete Hamill is great. A nice job of trying to break down Sinatra. Sinatra was a complicated man. He called himself an 18k manic depressant. It’s simple. Sinatra was the best. He will live forever in our hearts!! There will not be another one like him ever!!
The ingenious aspect of Sinatra specifically was he was authentic. His image was who he was in real life. He was a tough guy from a tough urban environment. And stayed that way. He was unable to maintain a False happily married father image for long. He lost that early in his career , as soon as he was seen with Lana Turner and Ava Gardner. He was unapologetically the real deal. Some people really liked that about him. Some didn’t.
Not sure how this informed his singing butnutbporoably did. Nonetheless, nobody outside coastal urban areas gave a rats ass about franks ‘authenticity’ aka crudeness….-they loved his singing . Sinatra singing will last his persona style dress attitude etc will be forgotten. Who knows today what carusos ‘persona’ was ??! Jody will remember Sinatra boozing, infidelity or Charlie birds and Tony Bennett Bennett’s drug addiction, nobody will forget their music though. In using, Sinatra has impeccable taste originality, stayed within his admittedly broad lane, and of course nobody could match his ability to swing AND sing ballads, not even Ella. Streisand had the best voice male or female of the past 150 years BUT she could not swing! Tony bennet is Sinatras only peer, and he can’t match franks versatility, volume of Great recordings, musicianship. , evocation and Range of emotion
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Like Marylin Monroe, Frank Sinatra's supremacy in the annals of popular culture goes beyond his performances as a singer and actor. Which is something, because those performances have never been bettered. As with Marilyn, we have bought into Sinatra's myth, a consciously fabricated persona intended to set him apart, because it tantalizes us with its seeming contradictions. And because as with the vagaries of life, it offers no solution and in so doing becomes the solution.
Sinatra was all about performing. He was aware of his huge gift and backed it up with the determination to be perceived as were medieval times the troubadours whose musical interpretations convey through their delivery the layers of emotion and observation that underpin American culture.
Sinatra's life was a performance, and its theme is consistent: the artist struggling to stay true to his craft despite the forces of doubt and despair, both within himself and as permeated through a consumer culture where ideals are ephemeral, built on a shaky foundation of desire and gratification. By reveling in the constraints and contradictions that make up popular music, Sinatra overcomes its limitations by co-opting them as a carpenter would employ the tools of his trade, to deliver art.
Great art gives us an insight into how we humans respond to the challenges of our mortality. We are here only for a moment and yet are tuned into eternal themes of love, beauty, desire, and permanence. What makes Sinatra's delivery of the American experience so compelling, apart from its incandescent execution, is the counterpoint of doubt and failure that underlies the melody. As in life, we interpret art on multiple levels that are delivered simultaneously. In his delivery of the chorus of "That's Life," with Nelson Riddle's orchestra providing the punctuation, Sinatra gives to us the timeless majesty of technique that validates our notion owe can go beyond ourselves, while at the same time cautioning against complacency because this too shall pass. Like everything in life, our exploration of events to find meaning are limited by our inability to accept a definitive conclusion.
As in life, Sinatra's art never is, but always is in the process of becoming. While other performers promise solutions to the paradox of our impossible aspirations to immortality the journey Sinatra takes us on never reaches its destination. The insights and emotions Sinatra employs along the way to explore aspects of the theme are so grounded in their delivery, we experience the pleasure of reaching our goal. But as it is in life, we never get there. The performance of one of his standards is eagerly anticipated by his fans not because it will answer the theme's underlying question, but in the exploration of arguments and observations we encounter along the way.
Boy, Hamill is so naive about Sinatra and the Mob! Watch “Dark Star”, documentary on Sinatra and the Mob. Sinatra owed the Mov big-time.
For all his faults I sure do miss Rose.