Tin Pan Alley top 5 albums
Apr 19, 2021
4 minutes
Bill DeMain
“Rock’n’roll smells phony and false,” Frank Sinatra said in the late 1950s. “It is sung, played and written for the most part by cretinous goons.”
Thirty years later, Frank may have felt vindicated when some of those cretinous goons began to cover his kind of music.
Although there were a few early examples in the 60s (The Supremes and Aretha Franklin among them), the phenomenon of rock and pop singers recording albums of standards began in earnest, as many things do, with The Beatles. Ironically, the Beatle who might have seemed least qualified to tackle great American songwriters such as Cole Porter and Johnny Mercer was
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