Music Monday ~ Sinatra Centenary This Week

12 December 2015 will be the 100th anniversary of the birth, in 1915,
of Francis Albert Sinatra. As stated in my post about Sinatra in 2011, I have idolised him since the 1960s. Appreciation of his singing was possibly the only thing I took from my first short and disastrous marriage to an Italian guy. Fortunately, both of my subsequent long-term partners have shared my love of Sinatra's music. It wasn't a prerequisite, it just seemed to happen that way - and it worked out well both times!

More from the 2011 post:

Sinatra turns every song he performs into a work of art. I use the present tense advisedly. For me, he will never die. The wonderful lyrics of Sammy Cahn, Johnny Mercer, Cole Porter and their ilk come instantly to life sung by Sinatra. His magic embellishes less classic offerings with a quality they perhaps do not deserve. He is able to take modern classics by Lennon and McCartney, George Harrison, Neil Diamond, Kris Kristofferson, etc. and turn them golden in a different way.

Frank Sinatra, in my eyes, could do no wrong. I am not interested in the scandals. What he did and does for his audience, while singing or acting (he was no slouch as an actor too, by the way) is all that matters.

"That old black magic" has me in its spell again and again whenever I watch a DVD of his shows or listen to one of his albums.

I have a theory that people are attracted to entertainers, writers, musicians, actors, well-known figures whose charts contain some correlation with their own. By some peculiar means we are able to "sense" the connection, even via screen, audio, or literature. I've found in my own experience that the clearest and longest lasting attractions involve the closest astrological connections.

Note: when commenter mike recently alerted me to the fact that there were several links between my own natal chart and that of Frank Sinatra, I'd forgotten that I'd been aware of these, or some of them, when writing the 2011 post.

My theory holds good in Sinatra's case. His Sun was at 19.13* Sagittarius conjoins my Venus at 19.59* Sagittarius ! His Mercury is at 17* Sagittarius too. His Moon at 5.07 Pisces conjoins my natal Jupiter at 6.03 Pisces.

"It's such an ancient pitch, But one I wouldn't switch, 'Cos there's no nicer witch than.........."

Commenter Gian Paul, back in 2011 observed that

"Neptune conjunct his MC early in Leo certainly must have "had a word" in him becoming a singer (instead of maybe a trumpetist). No doubt the songs he left us with (and especially the more sensitive women in this world) were engulfing. And they were not just "illusion" (Neptune). His unfortunate Saturn in 69, opposing his natal Venus, but trine Jupiter in Pisces, give him that heartfelt quality which pardons all the "Frankie he was".

The videos I posted back in 2011 have now all gone dark, possibly due to more stringent copyright purges since then. A few replacements - not yer usual Sinatra numbers, but some I especially like which may be generally less well-known:


The Song of the Sabia

I first heard this on a set of 3 cassette tapes I had, back in the UK, but lost them in our Great Fire of 1996. I never did find an exact replacement. This song remained in my memory; I was so happy to find it again on YouTube:

"All the plans I made to deceive myself, all the roads I made just to lose myself, all the love I made to forget myself, those mistakes I made just to find myself..."

Cycles

Astrology buffs know a thing or two about these!

A lovely song featured on one of his later CDs

You Will Be My Music

Music was Sinatra's highlight, movies were but a side-light for him, and they weren't all glitz and fizz. He starred in some darn good films, think From Here to Eternity, The Manchurian Candidate, The Man with the Golden Arm, The Joker is Wild, None but the Brave.....