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Whatever happened to this style of American singing? Why did it completely disappear? It sounds much more soulful than most pop music nowadays.
More specifically, I’m talking about music style like Frank Sinatra, Connie Francis, Nina Simone, Doris Day etc.
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That GASB/Tin Pan Alley songwriting schtick was very quickly obsoleted by songwriter-driven rock in 1965 onward, even though a few borninlewronggeneration nuts like Seth MacFarlane want to keep it alive. It was too floofy and decorative for the baby boomers onward, it had a sensibility that didn't really work anymore.
The king appeared.
then the 4 from liverpool appeared.
it was over for that old music
It may not have worked for spoiled boomers - it works for me though.
This is still good music, just more for people over 25. Kids like crazy shit. The more complex, tender, and real emotion in Tin Pan Alley songs hit truer for adults.
i think you are confused, there used to be something called adult contemporary, there used to be music for everyone really, nowadays its just nigger rhyming garbage.
i think thats what you are really after
I prefer Tin Pan Alley to that kind of adult contemporary. Don't know if that kind of adult contemporary has really survived.
That's all I listen to and I wish it was more popular among today's generations
My favorite singer from that era is Rosemary Clooney. I think Sinatra is good, but quite overrated
I'm Ella all the way. Best album I've listened to in at least a year. Just fucking sublime.
>My favorite singer from that era is Rosemary Clooney
nah, dude, nah. her chain smoker voice is not for me.
I love Sinatra myself, but wish I could find more male singers from that era that I liked. Bing is good but just not as interesting to me, I just can't get into Nat King Cole for some reason. Basically I always come back to Frank.
I love it, probably because I smoke myself. But her voice only began to be audibly affected by smoking in the mid 60s. I don't like her newer stuff from the 70s onwards cause her voice fell off a cliff
I don't know why, buy I much prefer the female singers of that era and genre. Have you listened to Bennett? He's really good and very easy to listen to, one of my favorites as well
>I don't know why, buy I much prefer the female singers of that era and genre.
Me too, but that's all pop for me, of all eras. Frank has to be my favorite male pop singer of all time.
I guess Frank is my favorite male singer too. However, I'm really a fan of the stuff he recorded during the 50s with some exceptions. His crooner years during the late 30s and early 40s were in my opinion his peak. The work he did with Tommy Dorsey and Harry James is great
The only thing stays the same are drugs.
Sinatra can't even sing in tune. Absolute hack
She somehow managed to keep cranking out albums right up until her death in 2002. I'd rather not guess what she sounded like in her last years when she was 60+, extremely overweight, and suffering the effects of decades of smoking.
even on her 50s stuff she definitely sounds like a smoker, just not as much as when she was older
Also try Chordettes--Eddie My Love if you want smoker voice.
Smoking adds grain and character to a man's voice like with Sinatra. When women do it it just sounds kinda gross.
most people don't like 40s Sinatra as he did nothing but weepy string ballads and of course the audio fidelity was not so good
but elvis sang in that style
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Well I also greatly prefer 50's-60's Sinatra and Ella over their 40's output, but for me its a combo of liking their more mature voices over their higher, younger ones (which sound more generic to me). Also much better recording/production later as you note. I think they just learned to be better more distinctive singers by then. But I like the actual 40's songs.