Frank Sinatra(1915-1998)

 This is the masterpiece to improve that he is the singer that we can find once a hundred years. People say he is genius, but he gained his own way finally with his great efforts to listen to his own singings and study about it a lot. The first edition of this song was released in 1956 when he was forty-one. This is a good example to show his swing style.

 "Use your mentality"...I have never found that kind of cool phrase in Japanese songs!! Everyone, just listen as the advice by Cole Poter and Sinatra, even though it makes your ears burn!!

 In the swing era, many good vocalists attached to big bands were brought up in it like Sinatra. They parted their bands and became topnotch singers. Sinatra made a debut in Harry James and his Orchestra in 1939 and the next year he was poached and moved into Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra. You know how he spent his glorious way as a singer after that!!

 Surely his voice became so rough and didn't reach to high tones, but I still loved his songs at that time. The soul of songs is beyond singers' voices and ways of singing, I believe. If someone says like the above, I think that they are the kind of people who regard younger ladies are better. Of course people get older and weaker physically. But the elder we become, the more we gain than the amounts we have lost, I'm sure.

 Vladimir Horowitz had concerts even though he became feeble and shaky, and I also felt that he should have stopped playing, like the people I mentioned above. But now, I reflect on myself.