Let's end the week with clips of Frank Sinatra singing in films between 1942 and 1951, when he was still idolized by women and before middle-aged men stole him away in the mid-1950s:
Here's Sinatra singing Poor You from Ship Ahoy in 1942 with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra...
Here's Sinatra singing The Music Stopped from Higher and Higher in 1943...
Here's Sinatra, again from A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening...
Here's Sinatra and Gloria DeHaven singing Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are from Step Lively in 1944 (the arranger was Axel Stordahl)...
Here's Sinatra at a Columbia Records recording session singing If You Are But a Dream in 1944, with Axel Stordahl conducting. Notice how hip Sinatra's phrasing is after taking the intro as a straight croon...
Here's Sinatra and Jane Russell singing a duet on Kisses and Tears from Double Dynamite in 1951...
And here's Sinatra singing She's Funny That Way from Meet Danny Wilson in 1951. I thought the horn solo was by cornetist Bobby Hackett, but trumpeter-reader Jeff Helgesen writes, "Here's what I have for the trumpet personnel for Meet Danny Wilson: Mannie Klein, Robert Goodrich and Don Linder. At first blush I would have guessed that Mannie Klein took the obligato, but the "actor" in the scene is playing the trumpet in all the right spots. IMDB lists the uncredited trumpet player on screen as Charlie Parlato, who would later play with the Lawrence Welk Orchestra. So...likely him." As Sinatra says at the end of the clip, "That's the way we go"...
