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From: "Elizabeth Finkler" <mightymezzo@h...>
"Elizabeth Finkler" <mightymezzo@h...>
Date: Fri Jun 1, 2001 10:49 pm
Subject: Re: [vocalist] Riddle and Sinatra

>From: agoldhammer@y... >From: agoldhammer@y... >--- In vocalist-temporary@y..., Karen Mercedes <> wrote: >--- In vocalist-temporary@y..., Karen Mercedes <> wrote: > > I blame Nelson Riddle for destroying Frank Sinatra's voice. > > > >Cigarette smoking and drinking did far more than Nelson Riddle ever >did. > >Alan > > Also, Sinatra had a notorious series of personal, career *and* vocal troubles in the early '50s, culminating in a vocal hemmorage during a nightclub performance. One could argue that, were it not for Riddle (and for the folks who cast Sinatra in "From Here to Eternity"), Sinatra would now be just a nostalgia trip to the 1940s. Elizabeth Finkler Sunnyvale, California mightymezzo@h... http://home.earthlink.net/~mightymezzo "If you must be wrong, be wrong at the top of your voice!" --Lucy Van Pelt _________________________________________________________________