Frank singing Mrs Robinson and trying to be hip
it didn't work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szLD-XYQL5g&ab_channel=MRjock85
Here's something funny I ran across just yesterday:
"Okay, this one only went to #21, but Frank Sinatra's 1951 duet with Dagmar, Mama Will Bark, together with singing dogs in the background, remained an embarrassment to Sinatra for the rest of his life. Here's Mark Steyn on that tune's history:
Half a century later, Frank Sinatra will sock you on the jaw if you so much as mention "Mama Will Bark," his canine love duet with the big-breasted faux-Scandinavian "actress" Dagmar. The Singing Dogs, who barked their way through "Oh, Susanna," are more relaxed about it, but then, of course, they are dogs...
Novelty [โIMG]songs, they used to call them. But, in the early '50s, novelties weren't so much a novelty as terrifyingly ubiquitous. If you want the entire history of pop music on one single--the tug between its highest aspirations and its basest instincts--Sinatra wrapped it up in 1951: on the B side, "I'm a Fool to Want You," an almost painfully exposed ballad that today ranks as one of his greatest recordings; but, on the A side ... yes, "Mama Will Bark." Mitch Miller, top dog at Columbia Records, insisted Sinatra do it. Frank wound up leaving Columbia, but he never forgave Miller. Years later, they happened to be crossing a Vegas lobby from opposite ends. Miller extended his hand in friendship; Sinatra snarled, "F*** you! Keep walking!"
And yes, it's every bit as awful as you can imagine:"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrHcs2r362w
frank went through a dry spell in the early 1950s.
shareSure, and he's not the Pope. I just thought it was a funny anecdote I didn't expect to run across.
My Dad liked Mitch Miller, and MM was a real cornball. Didn't know Frank got caught in his web.
Sinatra's bio is pretty rich with struggle and success, so it's fun to look at both sides, but the Miller episode made my chuckle.