Good job. To answer your questions: The woman with Frank Sinatra was Nancy Sinatra, his daughter. She was a huge star. Her biggest hit was "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'." She and Frank had a hit duet with "Somethin' Stupid." Frank was just getting started when she was born. Frank was a huge teen idol in the '40s, although it's his '50s and '60s stuff that's most celebrated now. What's interesting about that is that while it's easy to see her as riding her Dad's coattails, it was Nancy who steered Frank to these new musicians and got him hit singles in the '60s when he had not had hits in quite a while. As for the timeline, I'd say they got going at the end of the '50s and it pretty much burned out in the early '70s.
Exactly. The 5th Dimension's producer, Bones Howe, came up working for Phil Spector, and Howe employed Wrecking Crew musicians on the various 5th Dimension albums. Luckily for the 5D, they had a permanent rhythm section in Hal Blaine (drums) and Joe Osborn (bass) - often with their pal Larry Knechtel playing keyboards. So the instrumental backing remained consistent on the 5D albums. It was a great sound.
Frank Sinatra became teen idol/heartthrob famous by the 40s, during the jazz & Big Band era and was iconic by the 60s. Nancy became very famous, too, she worked with her father & did solo stuff, too. The 'Boots' song was massive. She's still around & active. She actually followed me on Twitter since we're both big into Dem politics! She's great.
I asked Google about Carol Kaye's worth. It said $8 million and that she was on 10,000 recordings!!! Frank Sinatra was born in 1915 and so was already making a name in the '30s.
Wow, when they said Mike Melvoin, it clicked for me that he's Wendy Melvoin's dad...she was in Prince's band The Revolution...as in 'Lisa & Wendy'. I didn't realize she was from a legendary music household. Very cool.
He worked a lot with producer Snuff Garrett. Leon arranged a lot of Gary Lewis and the Playboys hits. Leon was head of Liberty Records A&R dept. for a while. Plus Leon Russell was in Phil Spector's Wall of Sound as a keyboardist, years before Mad Dogs and Englishmen.
How very cool! Now you should check out the recent Denny Tedesco documentary about The Section…the group of musicians who took over the studio slots after The Wrecking Crew aged out. Documentary is called The Immediate Family. It won numerous awards at various film festivals last year and is excellent!
Frank Sinatra, kicked opened doors, reached the top , fell to the bottom, and made one of the greatest comebacks in music history. Reinvented himself, several times.. the Chairman of the Board!
If you are not aware, you should look into the stouch Frank had with the unions in Australia in 1974. He could sing, his delivery was unique so many hits, but he was not king everywhere!
The theme song you are referring to/discussing (which Carol Kaye played bass on) is: "The Mission Impossible Theme" written by: Lalo Schifrin. Mission: Impossible was a, long-running, TV series in the 1960s (and into the '70s), LONG before it "got rebooted" and became a movie vehicle! Lots of famous people were part of the cast (esp. over the years), including: Leonard Nimoy [after Star Trek] as well as Barbara Bain and Martin Landau [later to play the leads in: Space: 1999] -who were, actually, married i.r.l. (but not n the TV shows!) (among others).). Peter Graves (whom you might recognize as the pilot in the comedy movie: Airplane! ....if not from the show [He was iconic in this role!!). Peter was the brother of James Arness (Aurness) [but used a different stage name], who was famed for playing 'Marshall Matt Dillon" in the long-running radio and TV serial: Gunsmoke. Actor: Greg Morris was, also, a major member of the cast (as: "Barney") and was one of the first serious black actors to be featured in a regular, weekly series role. (not the first, but: one of very few, at that time!). Sam Elliot and Lesley Ann Warren, also, each, featured in brief recurring roles in the later seasons of the Mission: Impossible series. That music is MORE-than-ICONIC!! 🤘🤘💥
Yes, I watched this myself some months back. I learnt so much and that what you perceive something to be is not always so. How talented were these musicians and just like a lot of backup singers, did not get the kudos they deserved at the time
Glen Campbell, one of the guitarists shown in the Wrecking Crew, became a very famous solo artist w/a long career. 'Rhinestone Cowboy' is the one I remember but I'm sure he had other hits. He was more country music & that's not my thing but Rhinestone Cowboy really crossed over.
Nice catch. I was freaking out that they weren't clocking Glenn. Actually, he is one of the greatest guitarist to ever live, and had many crossover hits "Gentle on My Mind" (a masterpiece), "Wichita Lineman," "By the Time She Gets to Phoenix."
@@Boatzilla2 Yes, I don't think they realize that he became a huge solo artist. I was born in the 60s so I was around when Rhinestone Cowboy came out & was so huge & on regular pop rock radio, not only country. But they're younger & may not have heard his name before.
Sad that women gave up a creative career just to be a "Mrs." I talked to a rare female comic book artist, Ramona Fraydon, around 20 years ago or so about why she disappeared. She drew Aquaman in the mid 1950s for DC then vanished. Her line work was exquisite and she was actually embarrassed by her work. She put it in the attic and got married and raised kids. She came back in the late 1970s briefly. What a character. She started the old "Marvel vs DC" bit with me and we had a laugh. I snapped up some of her recent sketches. Just gorgeous.
As someone who is now almost 74, I was kind of pissed off when I first watched this video years ago, as all the groups & such were so idolized back then, but they didn't even play on the records we bought. The Beach Boy stuff was a killer, seeing that they sold us the entire California surfing & car culture along with the vinyl, and about every teenager in the US wanted to go out there and live on the beach. The band members in the video may have been making decent money, but never really got the credit, fame, or wealth (except a few)
This documentary is a great piece of music history. The Wrecking Crew played on most of the big hits in the 60s. Tommy Tedesco, Carol Kaye, Hal Blaine, Earl Palmer… all fantastic musicians. They could play anything.
Frank Sinatra's first long-term gig was with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (big band), and that was early to mid-40's. After that, he got huge, and was a big hearthrob solo artist. So the 40's were when Sinatra achieved mega-stardom.... and as he matured, his audience grew with him... and he just kept selling records!
That song you‘ve never heard of was being sung by The Fifth Dimension called „Stone Cold Picknick“. Checkout some of their other songs like „One Less Bell to Answer“ and „Up, Up and Away (In my beautiful Balloon). Thanks for reviewing The wrecking Crew. You guys are one of the first I‘ve seen. There‘s another documentary covering the house band for MoTown-The Funk Brothers. Cheers
One of the musicians listed around the 8:30 poibtvin your video was Mike Melvoin. His daughter Wendy joined Prince sbd the Revolution in 1983 when she was 19 and was in the band for several albums and the film Purple Rain. She also played on her dad's Weecking Crew band mate, Glen Campbell's final album in 2011. Nancy Sinatra is Frank's daughter. Frank started in 1935 as a singer for other big bands. He began his solo career in 1943.
Fun fact- If you watch and old movie from 1942 called „Ship Ahoy“ starring comedian Red Skeleton and dancer Eleanor Powell you‘ll see an unnamed singer performing with the Tommy Dorsey band. That young singer is Frank Sinatra. Eleanor does quite a few dance routines and is a treasure to watch. Cheers
Everybody ought to check out a Nancy Sinatra song called Some Velvet Morning. It's like somebody was very high when they put that oddity together. And yet I still listen to it, once or twice a year. The opening, with just the male singing, should be the opening music to a movie or a movie scene. A little bit of the feel of a western. But then it gets schizophrenic.
Next documentary should be 20 Feet from Stardom. It is about the back - up singers and their influence on the music of Stones, Ray Charles and many others. Singers stars in their own right.
Since he's in this movie and was part of the Wrecking Crews, you guys may want to check out Glenn Campbell's career. "Gentle on My Mind" is amazing. "Wichita Lineman" is another great one. There are also lots of clips on UA-cam of him going nuts on the guitar.
Hey guys, I waited for the final episode. I’m sure you’re both familiar with The 5th Dimension. If not ask your Mom she’ll know them. When they recorded Aquarius, theirs a song Let The Sun Shine. One of the greatest Bass Lines you’ll ever hear. It was Carol Kaye. And they were paid scale. However much that was an hour idk. Check this out. Tina Turner and the Ikettes are back ground singers on a lot of Zappa’s stuff in the 70’s. They were paid scale. At the time was $ 25.00 per hour as singers. Idk how much the players made. But it was scale. And Sinatra was The new big thing in the 40’s. I grew up with his music flooding my parents home. Sinatra’s in a class of his own.. Love You Guys ❤
Every time I sing “these boots were made for walking and that’s just what they’ll do and one of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you“ -I always go right into “gimme back my bullets” by Skynyrd? Am I a nut ball or does anybody else do that? 😂😂
OMG, some of the ignorance here with the commentary - but love you guys, you'll figure it out. Just for the record, Nancy Sinatra, is Frank Sinatra's daughter, and she had hits like, "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'".
Look: you are ALL screwy with the Sinatras 🤦🤦🙄 ...which *IS* somewhat understandable. ...Lemme try and help you out, here (and I am BY NO MEANS "an expert," here!!!!-keep THAT in mind!-but I *DO* know & understand things!!): Francis Albert ]Frank] was born in 1915. Yes: that is correct. 1915. Just after the turn of the PRIOR century to this one!!! ...Across the river from "THE Big City" [N.Y.C.], in Hoboken {"Ho-BROKEN"] New Joisey. He started singing professionally (meaning: "as a profession") in the (late) 1930s and garnered acclaim after some time (just playing clubs and dancehalls in N.J. and N.Y., etc.)-as a featured vocalist with big bands [such as: Tommy Dorsey or Harry James (those are 2 that I remember, anyway.... 🤷)], generally ...and covering the tunes that couples wanted to dance to, at the time. I believe he got his first solo contract (recording contract) with Columbia Records in 1943 (as I recall) and his singing career took off from there. He, also, began making movies in the '40s. He left Columbia for Capitol Records about a decade after his first contract, but moved on from there, founding Reprise Records (which, later, became part of the Warner Music Group and, eventually (thereby), the "W.E.A." conglomerate [Warner-Elektra-Atlantic ....and all of its various subsidiaries and specialty labels, etc.]) in 1960. It was from this that he acquired the nickname designation: "The Chairman Of The Board". Francis Albert had 3 kids, with his first wife: Nancy. His daughter (also named Nancy!), his son: Frank Jr. and another daughter, Tina. Nancy Sinatra and Frank, Jr. also developed singing careers, as well. Frank, Jr. as, likely, a better arranger than a vocalist, was asked, by his father, to put his own career "on hold" in the late '80s, when Frank, Jr. became Frank Sr.'s musical director and band leader/arranger. [I think he was labelled as "Musical Director" (but don't quote me on that, either....)]. Nancy Sinatra was better known for working with the musician, writer, producer/engineer, "auteur": Lee Hazlewood (yes: spelled incorrectly, that way (with the "e" AFTER the letter "l" in its spelling.🤦🤷 ...Don't, f'in', ask ME why! 🤷🤷)-). ...I *DO* agree that: that interview segment (and a few of the other onee, as well [in: the Wrecking Crew movie] -after all: Denny Tedesco [Tommy's eldest son] who made the film is not, really, "a filmmaker." He's a first-timer and he had access to the people and the stories and knew that these stories needed to be recorded and proliferated/told!]) between: Nancy Sinatra and Don Randi (who ...i never did understand whether he had any relation to the Sinatra family or not🤷 ...or if daughter Nancy, simply, knew/knows him from her times of working with members of the Wrecking Crew. 🤷🤷), but: as far as I am aware: Don Randi is NOT related to the Sinatra family. He is a long-standing member of The Wrecking Crew. He worked on "Somethin' Stupid" with: Nancy Sinatra and Frank Sinatra. Nancy never referred to "The Wrecking Crew" as "we" (she never implied or stated "membership," because she was not (like Cher, or any of the other musicians/vocalists who speak elsewhere in the film!)! ...As Don Randi WAS a member of the Wrecking Crew ...and it is rather certain that: she (Nancy) knew those people much better than her father ever did [Frank spent ZERO time around them while Nancy and Hazelwood spent a fair amount of time around them (in the '60s)!] ...so: she MAY have "we"-ified some phrase, referring to "that group" (who were outside of the other session players Frank was singing with on the rest of the album!) came in to do ...a "toss-off," fun record, with father & daughter (which ended-up becoming a hit !!) ...but in NO way does Nancy Sinatra imply or suggest that SHE is, or ever was!, 'a part of' The Wrecking Crew!, at ALL ...in ANY way!! ...only that: they worked together. ...and did so on the song which was, at that point, being, specifically, discussed ("Somethin' Stupid")! Don Randi WAS a part of The Wrecking Crew and, thereby, some confusion may have entered into the following of the conversation (maybe!) 🤷 --Additionally: Frank Sinatra had an expansive career, but it is generally 'acknowledgeable' that "the greatest heights of his fame and success" appeared in: the 1940s and 1950s (and into the early 1960s [prior to the murder of John F. Kennedy, which, in fact, changed the entire demeanor and "being" of that decade (as if you had forgotten/didn't understand THAT! 🤦🙄). Also: do NOT forget that: approx.1939-1945 were (slightly "approximately"- as with ANY such designation!!) "the war years" in the U.S. (much longer and more severe other places, esp. in Europe!!), so that "pre-War" and "post-war" definitely matters and when most people talk about "the 1940s," in "entertainment," or such, they are, nearly always, referring to the post-World War II era of that decade! --"Las Vegas," as YOU have learned to think of it:It did not exist until the post-War 1940s. That is to say: yes: it DID "exist" in a manner, earlier than that, but it, also, really "became what it is"/"became what it is known as" (esp.: because of the mob involvement therein!) in the post-war 1940s. Bugsy Siegel invested in the Flamingo in 1946 and the "high point" of Las Vegas was, really: the 1950s and the early (once again: pre-Kennedy assassination/pre-1963!) '60s!! It was in THIS period that Frank and his compatriots "owned the place" and developed it as "THE destination," in many ways. ..."Hippies" and the youth culture HATED Frank & "The Rat Pack" in the 1960s. They were anachronisms and lacking anything valuable about them (in the eyes of the, then, suddenly dominant, youth; anyway!)! They were, definitely, generally uncool in the mid- and late '60s and '70s, via that. ...and HE, of course, hated those types the same (or worse). ...so: him doing a slightly more "goofy," "pop-leaning" record, with his daughter (who, conversely, had developed herself as possessing/featuring a "cool factor" commensurate with those times, esp. in her work with Lee Hazlewood, especially) ...THIS, then: was -could be viewed as- something of "a capitulation" as well as an 'aw, I didn't really mean it'/"See: I can do something like this, too..." thing, on the part of Frank Sinatra. 🤷🤷.... ...Of course, he would get, further, back on track (for his final decades) by re-recording the title song from the Scorcese movie soundtrack: "New York, New York" in 1980. After that, he was "the elder statesman." (-and hell!!: he was in his 70s and more, after that, so!: He SHOULD have been!). There's a few short lessons,fellas! **smh**....
That bass part was Mission Impossible.
TV show
John Barry wrote the Bond theme but it was actually played by London session guitar player Vic Flick.
Carol Kaye is still with us at age 89
Good job. To answer your questions:
The woman with Frank Sinatra was Nancy Sinatra, his daughter. She was a huge star. Her biggest hit was "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'." She and Frank had a hit duet with "Somethin' Stupid." Frank was just getting started when she was born. Frank was a huge teen idol in the '40s, although it's his '50s and '60s stuff that's most celebrated now. What's interesting about that is that while it's easy to see her as riding her Dad's coattails, it was Nancy who steered Frank to these new musicians and got him hit singles in the '60s when he had not had hits in quite a while.
As for the timeline, I'd say they got going at the end of the '50s and it pretty much burned out in the early '70s.
"Stone Soul Picnic" was The 5th Dimension. Written by Laura Nyro (edit)
Nyro 😊
@@dianel222 Yes
Exactly. The 5th Dimension's producer, Bones Howe, came up working for Phil Spector, and Howe employed Wrecking Crew musicians on the various 5th Dimension albums. Luckily for the 5D, they had a permanent rhythm section in Hal Blaine (drums) and Joe Osborn (bass) - often with their pal Larry Knechtel playing keyboards. So the instrumental backing remained consistent on the 5D albums. It was a great sound.
Did you see the documentary about David Geffen? It's worth a look!
Frank Sinatra started out singing with big bands and launched his solo career in 1943.
....I stand corrected. I thought it began in 1947...
Drummer Hal Blaine was the go to drummer. He is on everything!
So much Joy watching you gentlemen , embracing the history of music. A great documentary.! ❤😂❤
Frank Sinatra became teen idol/heartthrob famous by the 40s, during the jazz & Big Band era and was iconic by the 60s. Nancy became very famous, too, she worked with her father & did solo stuff, too. The 'Boots' song was massive. She's still around & active. She actually followed me on Twitter since we're both big into Dem politics! She's great.
I asked Google about Carol Kaye's worth. It said $8 million and that she was on 10,000 recordings!!!
Frank Sinatra was born in 1915 and so was already making a name in the '30s.
Carol will be 90 next year.
That's so cool!! I'm glad she's got money, she earned every penny of that (and probably more, lol).
Wow, when they said Mike Melvoin, it clicked for me that he's Wendy Melvoin's dad...she was in Prince's band The Revolution...as in 'Lisa & Wendy'. I didn't realize she was from a legendary music household. Very cool.
Didn’t know that Leon Russell was a studio musician. 😮💜💜💜
He worked a lot with producer Snuff Garrett. Leon arranged a lot of Gary Lewis and the Playboys hits. Leon was head of Liberty Records A&R dept. for a while. Plus Leon Russell was in Phil Spector's Wall of Sound as a keyboardist, years before Mad Dogs and Englishmen.
Not completely sure about this, but I think him and Glenn Campbell were the only two of this group to break out and do their own thing successfully.
Check out Elton John's induction of Leon Russell into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Not 007...Mission Impossible. Grew up on that show 😁
Frank was popular in the late 30's.
How very cool! Now you should check out the recent Denny Tedesco documentary about The Section…the group of musicians who took over the studio slots after The Wrecking Crew aged out.
Documentary is called The Immediate Family. It won numerous awards at various film festivals last year and is excellent!
Yeah they were definitely my generations' wrecking crew. Waddy Wachtel and Lee Sklar have been on half the albums I ever owned!
Followed your reco - Immediate Family was excellent, highly recommend
@@JohnGigerich So glad you enjoyed it and THANK YOU for taking the time to let me know. That’s kind of you.
Frank Sinatra was recording in the early 40’s.
In the 40's Frank Sinatra was Elvis of the day with girls screaming and fainting etc.
Bobby soxers in the mid to late 40s.
Frank Sinatra, kicked opened doors, reached the top , fell to the bottom, and made one of the greatest comebacks in music history. Reinvented himself, several times..
the Chairman of the Board!
Well, Ava Gardner got him the part in From Here to Eternity and that got his career back on track.
@@324cmac yes, however, the Reprise Sessions..and The Rat Pack, didn't hurt a bit.! ✌️...great observation. ❤️
If you are not aware, you should look into the stouch Frank had with the unions in Australia in 1974. He could sing, his delivery was unique so many hits, but he was not king everywhere!
Oh man Stone Soul Picnic...so good. Love the 5th Dimension. A great group to dive into
The theme song you are referring to/discussing (which Carol Kaye played bass on) is: "The Mission Impossible Theme"
written by: Lalo Schifrin.
Mission: Impossible was a, long-running, TV series in the 1960s (and into the '70s), LONG before it "got rebooted" and became a movie vehicle!
Lots of famous people were part of the cast (esp. over the years), including: Leonard Nimoy [after Star Trek] as well as Barbara Bain and Martin Landau [later to play the leads in: Space: 1999] -who were, actually, married i.r.l. (but not n the TV shows!) (among others).).
Peter Graves (whom you might recognize as the pilot in the comedy movie: Airplane! ....if not from the show [He was iconic in this role!!).
Peter was the brother of James Arness (Aurness) [but used a different stage name], who was famed for playing 'Marshall Matt Dillon" in the long-running radio and TV serial: Gunsmoke.
Actor: Greg Morris was, also, a major member of the cast (as: "Barney") and was one of the first serious black actors to be featured in a regular, weekly series role. (not the first, but: one of very few, at that time!).
Sam Elliot and Lesley Ann Warren, also, each, featured in brief recurring roles in the later seasons of the Mission: Impossible series.
That music is MORE-than-ICONIC!! 🤘🤘💥
Frank was a teen idle in the 1940s! He was like the Beatles.
Yes, I watched this myself some months back. I learnt so much and that what you perceive something to be is not always so. How talented were these musicians and just like a lot of backup singers, did not get the kudos they deserved at the time
Stone Soul Picnic is by The Fifth Dimension. You guys should do a deep dive on their story and hits
Frank Sinatra & Tommy Dorsey (1940’s). Personally, my favorite Sinatra vocal sound. “A Sinner Kissed an Angel” 💜💜💜
He was with Harry James before that.
Glen Campbell, one of the guitarists shown in the Wrecking Crew, became a very famous solo artist w/a long career. 'Rhinestone Cowboy' is the one I remember but I'm sure he had other hits. He was more country music & that's not my thing but Rhinestone Cowboy really crossed over.
Nice catch. I was freaking out that they weren't clocking Glenn. Actually, he is one of the greatest guitarist to ever live, and had many crossover hits "Gentle on My Mind" (a masterpiece), "Wichita Lineman," "By the Time She Gets to Phoenix."
@@Boatzilla2 Yes, I don't think they realize that he became a huge solo artist. I was born in the 60s so I was around when Rhinestone Cowboy came out & was so huge & on regular pop rock radio, not only country. But they're younger & may not have heard his name before.
I love this stuff - great reaction!
The "I was making millions" comment was Hal Blaine. Session drummer and the heart of the Wrecking Crew. Millions, for playing drum parts in the 60's.
Wow, a young Leon Russell was in there. Worth chasing that name up....
Nancy Sinatra was Frank's daughter, afaik not part of the wrecking crew.
Frank was a heartthrob starting in the very late 30s going into the 40s with big bands.
Sad that women gave up a creative career just to be a "Mrs." I talked to a rare female comic book artist, Ramona Fraydon, around 20 years ago or so about why she disappeared. She drew Aquaman in the mid 1950s for DC then vanished. Her line work was exquisite and she was actually embarrassed by her work. She put it in the attic and got married and raised kids. She came back in the late 1970s briefly. What a character. She started the old "Marvel vs DC" bit with me and we had a laugh. I snapped up some of her recent sketches. Just gorgeous.
Also sad that the male musicians spend all their time at work and neglect their wife and kids.
To be fair, Carol Kaye probably did too.
Frank Sinatra goes back to the big band crooner era beginning in the late 1930’s. He was born in 1915.
Carol Kaye is one my dream musicians to just sit and jam with.
Don't make us wait for part 4
As someone who is now almost 74, I was kind of pissed off when I first watched this video years ago, as all the groups & such were so idolized back then, but they didn't even play on the records we bought. The Beach Boy stuff was a killer, seeing that they sold us the entire California surfing & car culture along with the vinyl, and about every teenager in the US wanted to go out there and live on the beach. The band members in the video may have been making decent money, but never really got the credit, fame, or wealth (except a few)
Frank’s career was from 1935 onwards according to Wikipedia
This documentary is a great piece of music history. The Wrecking Crew played on most of the big hits in the 60s. Tommy Tedesco, Carol Kaye, Hal Blaine, Earl Palmer… all fantastic musicians. They could play anything.
I love the fact that you guys did this doc, always loved it.
Frank Sinatra's first long-term gig was with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (big band), and that was early to mid-40's. After that, he got huge, and was a big hearthrob solo artist. So the 40's were when Sinatra achieved mega-stardom.... and as he matured, his audience grew with him... and he just kept selling records!
The theme that Carol wrote was Nission Impossible - not the James Bond theme.
That song you‘ve never heard of was being sung by The Fifth Dimension called „Stone Cold Picknick“. Checkout some of their other songs like „One Less Bell to Answer“ and „Up, Up and Away (In my beautiful Balloon). Thanks for reviewing The wrecking Crew. You guys are one of the first I‘ve seen. There‘s another documentary covering the house band for MoTown-The Funk Brothers. Cheers
Mission Impossible Laa and Chee!
Frank for sure was cooking in the 40s
One of the musicians listed around the 8:30 poibtvin your video was Mike Melvoin. His daughter Wendy joined Prince sbd the Revolution in 1983 when she was 19 and was in the band for several albums and the film Purple Rain. She also played on her dad's Weecking Crew band mate, Glen Campbell's final album in 2011.
Nancy Sinatra is Frank's daughter. Frank started in 1935 as a singer for other big bands. He began his solo career in 1943.
Frank's first hit was in 1939.
Mission Impossible.
Excellent review Guys. You may want to look into the doc "Twenty feet from Stardom".
Sinatra was a teenage idol in the 40’s Laa and Chee. Girls loved him.
Fun fact- If you watch and old movie from 1942 called „Ship Ahoy“ starring comedian Red Skeleton and dancer Eleanor Powell you‘ll see an unnamed singer performing with the Tommy Dorsey band. That young singer is Frank Sinatra. Eleanor does quite a few dance routines and is a treasure to watch. Cheers
Sinatra was popular before the 40's
Sinatra was a big band singer with Tommy Dorsey's Band in 1940.
Everybody ought to check out a Nancy Sinatra song called Some Velvet Morning. It's like somebody was very high when they put that oddity together. And yet I still listen to it, once or twice a year. The opening, with just the male singing, should be the opening music to a movie or a movie scene. A little bit of the feel of a western. But then it gets schizophrenic.
The one who said he made millions was Hal Blaine the drummer. He unfortunately lost it all in a divorce, literally the yacht, cars, and house.
That was Frank Sinatra daughter who went into the studio, it was her first hit because she was as novelty as her famous dad sang with her
It's Frank's daughter Nancy, who also had the hot, "These Boots are Made for Walking" on her own. "Something Stupid" w her father.
The song Stone Soul Picnic is by The 5th Dimension.
Next documentary should be 20 Feet from Stardom. It is about the back - up singers and their influence on the music of Stones, Ray Charles and many others. Singers stars in their own right.
My mother was a massive fan of Sinatra in the '40s. She went off him after the big band era
Since he's in this movie and was part of the Wrecking Crews, you guys may want to check out Glenn Campbell's career. "Gentle on My Mind" is amazing. "Wichita Lineman" is another great one. There are also lots of clips on UA-cam of him going nuts on the guitar.
In most cases, these musicians were getting paid union scale.
Mission Impossible Theme. Also, Laura Nyro singing "Stone Soul Picnic." Thanks for sharing this documentary guys!
She may have written it but I think it was the 5th Dimension singing it.
Yes in the 49s Frank was singing with a big band...
The Wrecking Crew only got paid for each session. No royalties, no publishing money, and no touring money.
Frank was singing with bands in the 30s
That was Frank’s daughter, Nancy Sinatra, who had a big hit with These Boots Are Made For Walkin’. and Something Stupid with her Dad.
"Tom Dowd And The Language Of Music" next
It's true - Frank Sinatra was a young Pop star in the early 1940s. ;)
We! Frank and Nancy Sinatra, his daughter!
Hey guys, I waited for the final episode. I’m sure you’re both familiar with The 5th Dimension. If not ask your Mom she’ll know them. When they recorded Aquarius, theirs a song Let The Sun Shine. One of the greatest Bass Lines you’ll ever hear. It was Carol Kaye. And they were paid scale. However much that was an hour idk. Check this out. Tina Turner and the Ikettes are back ground singers on a lot of Zappa’s stuff in the 70’s. They were paid scale. At the time was
$ 25.00 per hour as singers. Idk how much the players made. But it was scale. And Sinatra was The new big thing in the 40’s. I grew up with his music flooding my parents home.
Sinatra’s in a class of his own.. Love You Guys ❤
that's Frank Sinatra's daughter NANCY SINATRA!
The narrators Dad Tommy said he made millions no writing credits just session work.
That was Louie Belson, a drummer who made millions.
* Correction-Hal Blaine
Something Stupid was a duet with Frank and Nancy Sinatra
Frank was totally cooking in the 40's!
Every time I sing “these boots were made for walking and that’s just what they’ll do and one of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you“ -I always go right into “gimme back my bullets” by Skynyrd? Am I a nut ball or does anybody else do that? 😂😂
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The 1940s was when FRANK was on the level with ELVIS...
Go research
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If you search UA-cam for all the hits Carol played on you will be shocked.
Frank Sinatra signed with Columbia in 1943. Peace.
OMG, some of the ignorance here with the commentary - but love you guys, you'll figure it out. Just for the record, Nancy Sinatra, is Frank Sinatra's daughter, and she had hits like, "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'".
Not easy recording yourself watching a movie and retaining everything
21:38 NANCY SINATRA
Sinatra was with Tommy Dorsey in the 30's
Nancy is franks daughter
Beach boys were mid sixties with the wrecking crew
I just don't agree with the families always suffering because musicians are never home.
Something Stupid by Frank and Nancy Sinatra is a weird (creepy) song because it's a romantic song sung by a father and daughter.
It's a fav of Donald's
It was a #1 hit. Not so creepy to all those who worked on it and listened to it.
@@jons.105 The lyrics should be sung by lovers not a father and a daughter.
@@324cmac Wow, really? You can't just listen and enjoy the song?
Look: you are ALL screwy with the Sinatras 🤦🤦🙄 ...which *IS* somewhat understandable. ...Lemme try and help you out, here (and I am BY NO MEANS "an expert," here!!!!-keep THAT in mind!-but I *DO* know & understand things!!):
Francis Albert ]Frank] was born in 1915. Yes: that is correct. 1915. Just after the turn of the PRIOR century to this one!!!
...Across the river from "THE Big City" [N.Y.C.], in Hoboken {"Ho-BROKEN"] New Joisey.
He started singing professionally (meaning: "as a profession") in the (late) 1930s and garnered acclaim after some time (just playing clubs and dancehalls in N.J. and N.Y., etc.)-as a featured vocalist with big bands [such as: Tommy Dorsey or Harry James (those are 2 that I remember, anyway.... 🤷)], generally ...and covering the tunes that couples wanted to dance to, at the time.
I believe he got his first solo contract (recording contract) with Columbia Records in 1943 (as I recall) and his singing career took off from there.
He, also, began making movies in the '40s.
He left Columbia for Capitol Records about a decade after his first contract, but moved on from there, founding Reprise Records (which, later, became part of the Warner Music Group and, eventually (thereby), the "W.E.A." conglomerate [Warner-Elektra-Atlantic ....and all of its various subsidiaries and specialty labels, etc.]) in 1960.
It was from this that he acquired the nickname designation: "The Chairman Of The Board".
Francis Albert had 3 kids, with his first wife: Nancy.
His daughter (also named Nancy!), his son: Frank Jr. and another daughter, Tina.
Nancy Sinatra and Frank, Jr. also developed singing careers, as well.
Frank, Jr. as, likely, a better arranger than a vocalist, was asked, by his father, to put his own career "on hold" in the late '80s, when Frank, Jr. became Frank Sr.'s musical director and band leader/arranger. [I think he was labelled as "Musical Director" (but don't quote me on that, either....)].
Nancy Sinatra was better known for working with the musician, writer, producer/engineer, "auteur": Lee Hazlewood (yes: spelled incorrectly, that way (with the "e" AFTER the letter "l" in its spelling.🤦🤷 ...Don't, f'in', ask ME why! 🤷🤷)-).
...I *DO* agree that: that interview segment (and a few of the other onee, as well [in: the Wrecking Crew movie] -after all: Denny Tedesco [Tommy's eldest son] who made the film is not, really, "a filmmaker." He's a first-timer and he had access to the people and the stories and knew that these stories needed to be recorded and proliferated/told!])
between: Nancy Sinatra and Don Randi (who ...i never did understand whether he had any relation to the Sinatra family or not🤷 ...or if daughter Nancy, simply, knew/knows him from her times of working with members of the Wrecking Crew. 🤷🤷), but: as far as I am aware:
Don Randi is NOT related to the Sinatra family. He is a long-standing member of The Wrecking Crew.
He worked on "Somethin' Stupid" with: Nancy Sinatra and Frank Sinatra.
Nancy never referred to "The Wrecking Crew" as "we" (she never implied or stated "membership," because she was not (like Cher, or any of the other musicians/vocalists who speak elsewhere in the film!)!
...As Don Randi WAS a member of the Wrecking Crew ...and it is rather certain that: she (Nancy) knew those people much better than her father ever did [Frank spent ZERO time around them while Nancy and Hazelwood spent a fair amount of time around them (in the '60s)!] ...so: she MAY have "we"-ified some phrase, referring to "that group" (who were outside of the other session players Frank was singing with on the rest of the album!) came in to do ...a "toss-off," fun record, with father & daughter (which ended-up becoming a hit !!)
...but in NO way does Nancy Sinatra imply or suggest that SHE is, or ever was!, 'a part of' The Wrecking Crew!, at ALL ...in ANY way!!
...only that: they worked together.
...and did so on the song which was, at that point, being, specifically, discussed ("Somethin' Stupid")!
Don Randi WAS a part of The Wrecking Crew and, thereby, some confusion may have entered into the following of the conversation (maybe!) 🤷
--Additionally: Frank Sinatra had an expansive career, but it is generally 'acknowledgeable' that "the greatest heights of his fame and success" appeared in: the 1940s and 1950s (and into the early 1960s [prior to the murder of John F. Kennedy, which, in fact, changed the entire demeanor and "being" of that decade (as if you had forgotten/didn't understand THAT! 🤦🙄).
Also: do NOT forget that: approx.1939-1945 were (slightly "approximately"- as with ANY such designation!!) "the war years" in the U.S. (much longer and more severe other places, esp. in Europe!!), so that "pre-War" and "post-war" definitely matters and when most people talk about "the 1940s," in "entertainment," or such, they are, nearly always, referring to the post-World War II era of that decade!
--"Las Vegas," as YOU have learned to think of it:It did not exist until the post-War 1940s. That is to say: yes: it DID "exist" in a manner, earlier than that, but it, also, really "became what it is"/"became what it is known as" (esp.: because of the mob involvement therein!) in the post-war 1940s. Bugsy Siegel invested in the Flamingo in 1946 and the "high point" of Las Vegas was, really: the 1950s and the early (once again: pre-Kennedy assassination/pre-1963!) '60s!!
It was in THIS period that Frank and his compatriots "owned the place" and developed it as "THE destination," in many ways.
..."Hippies" and the youth culture HATED Frank & "The Rat Pack" in the 1960s. They were anachronisms and lacking anything valuable about them (in the eyes of the, then, suddenly dominant, youth; anyway!)!
They were, definitely, generally uncool in the mid- and late '60s and '70s, via that. ...and HE, of course, hated those types the same (or worse).
...so: him doing a slightly more "goofy," "pop-leaning" record, with his daughter (who, conversely, had developed herself as possessing/featuring a "cool factor" commensurate with those times, esp. in her work with Lee Hazlewood, especially)
...THIS, then: was -could be viewed as- something of "a capitulation" as well as an 'aw, I didn't really mean it'/"See: I can do something like this, too..." thing, on the part of Frank Sinatra. 🤷🤷....
...Of course, he would get, further, back on track (for his final decades) by re-recording the title song from the Scorcese movie soundtrack: "New York, New York" in 1980.
After that, he was "the elder statesman." (-and hell!!: he was in his 70s and more, after that, so!: He SHOULD have been!).
There's a few short lessons,fellas! **smh**....
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God you guys are so young ...you know nothing...IT'S NANCY SINATRA...FRANKS SINATRAS DAUGHTER...!!!!