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housenuts
03-24-2005, 07:18 AM
when genre of music is frank sinatra, the rat pack, and the new age michael buble considered?
housenuts
03-24-2005, 07:19 AM
and another question:

i like michael buble. who else would i like?
beta1607
03-24-2005, 07:55 AM
According to my I-tunes Frank Sinatra is easy listening which sounds about right but I am not 100% sure if this is correct.
captZEEbo1
03-24-2005, 09:45 AM
I might say Big Band...and it looks like allmusic.com agrees, but includes:
Big Band
Ballads
Swing
Pop
Soft Rock
Standards
Traditional Pop
Vocal Jazz
Show Tunes
RunDownHouse
03-24-2005, 10:00 AM
Standards. And Buble is awesome.
turnipmonster
03-24-2005, 10:30 AM
jazz. my friend plays sax for micheal buble.
STLantny
03-24-2005, 10:40 AM
Standards. Jamie Collum is vv good, hes a "new rat pack type". If you want older stuff, Mel "the velvet fog" Torme is great.
M2d
03-24-2005, 12:01 PM
is egotistical bastard a genre?
Clarkmeister
03-24-2005, 12:06 PM
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The Cool genre.
el kang
03-24-2005, 12:16 PM
These are the first pop stars - Frank is considered the first.
Most of his songs are jazz but would be classified as pop of its day. Now his songs are standards.
turnipmonster
03-24-2005, 12:25 PM
I didn't even know there was a genre called standards. I always thought of him as a jazz singer, in fact in a lot of ways he's the quintessential jazz singer. he started out working for tommy dorsey, he sang with count basie, worked with quincy jones, nelson riddle and a zillion other great jazz arrangers, always had great jazz musicians in his band.

a lot of the traditional jazz repotoire actually comes from frank in many ways, in that jazz musicians often learn tunes from his recordings and in a lot of cases his rendition is considered the definitive version.
astroglide
03-24-2005, 12:42 PM
i think big band says it best
03-24-2005, 12:45 PM
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when genre of music is frank sinatra, the rat pack, and the new age michael buble considered?

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I list him as "swing", which perhaps is a liberal use of the term.

I am a Buble fan too. His Spiderman theme (believe it or not) is fantastic. One cross-over suggestion off the top of my head is Bobby Darin.
youtalkfunny
03-25-2005, 05:49 AM
I never heard of Buble, but based on this thread, I may have to go search this cat out.

I found a "Rat Pack" DVD at Target one day last year, and it was freaking AWESOME. Comes with a CD of the boys in concert. It's my favorite CD, has been since I first heard it.

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