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Continuing the current vein of inappropriate rivalries....Sinatra or Presley?
Posted by Black Type on 20 November 2010 - 1:27am.
(and I don't mean Reg).
(And don't ask who Reg Sinatra is).
Anyway, for me today, the answer is Frank:
Tomorrow, it may well be Elvis.
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My Windows Media Player says:
Presley: 3 songs.
Sinatra 2,4 hours.
Frank
The Prog Years.
One thing's for sure
They don't go well together.
It's gotta be Elvis
Let us never forget that Frank despised rock & roll and so did his mafia-loving, Rat Pack buddies. Remember how Dino held his nose while introducing the Stones on TV? An act so crass it prompted Dylan to demand an apology from Martin in the sleeve notes of the Another Side... album.
On the other hand, Elvis hated the Beatles and tried to turn them in to the CIA for those naughty jazz Woodbines.
Couldn't find a clip
of Dino holding his nose but did find this. Good performance from the Stones and absolutely appalling behaviour from Dino. I hope he lived to regret it but somehow don't think that happened.
That's great stuff!
In a buttock-clenching kind of way. It really is a classic example of worlds colliding.
Dino simply didn't have a clue what was happening. Everything he held dear was crumbling around him.
Sinatra for me as he has the
Sinatra for me as he has the better catalogue overall. Elvis does not really do it for me as he had a very limited number of good songs.
In all honesty I just read that as "Shakira or Presley"...
.
That's..
so funny..
Rock and, most certainly, Roll
Elvis.....before he joined the army.
Does anyone who lived through the 60s actually like Sinatra (I'd have thought that the two things were mutually exclusive) or is it just taxi drivers and 60s dodgers like Bono and Elvis Costello?
Shakira
wins hands down. She sang She Wolf and looks good naked whereas the other 2 don't.
Proof.
I demand proof that Elvis did not look good naked in the late 50's/early 60's. I don't believe it.
As for Sinatra vs Elvis: I'd like both, please. For different reasons.
Sinatra
it ain't why it just is
Pointless Comparison Hits Buffers: Nobody Hurt
When the cheese board comes out I'm torn between "Stangers In The Night" and "I Just Can't Help Believing". Bit of both please. And a pickled onion.
Quite right
You'll need some chalk with that cheese for an appropriate comparison
Well
it's about as "pointless" as the other comparisons/rivalries being posted, as my title intimated. You could actually argue that there is plenty to compare: two extremely handsome and charismatic male singers who drove their female fans wild and were admired by other men; who were both arguably at their artistic peak in the mid-late 1950s; and who vied in various millenial polls and assessments as 'The Voice of The Twentieth Century'.
I agree
Sinatra was the last great icon of the pre-rock & roll era and Elvis was the first icon of the music that deposed him. I think it's fair and interesting to compare them.
Defnitely Elvis
Anybody who records an album like King of America has few rivals.
I'm the one that's going to say "neither!"
In the assumption that nationwide spluttering will happen because I'm so bloody out there.
But, sincerely, I feel that they are both over-adored by far too many people of the generation before me. I will have the odd brief connection with something magical that they have done, but ultimately I've had enough, thanks. No more for me.
Must admit..
growing up in the 60s, as Ranger says above, made it difficult to see what Sinatra was about, apart from uncool old man. Going back means discovering a brilliant interpreter of songs.
Elvis was great too when young, but rather limited in comparison, in terms of output of great stuff. IMO.
A vote for Sinatra.