Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra became an iconic pop singer in the 1940s, eliciting the kind of fan hysteria that wasn’t seen again until Elvis Presley and the Beatles. He succeeded, as many didn’t, to weather the advent of rock ‘n’ roll, going on to become widely popular as a singer in the middle ground of public taste. Tonight’s programme concentrates on the less well-known material, sampling his huge output during the 1940s.
(First broadcast in 2012)
RTÉ lyric fm, Sunday 26th June, 9pm-10pm