SOMEWHERE BEYOND THE SEA
SOMEWHERE WAITING FOR ME
MY LOVER STANDS ON GOLDEN SAAAAAAANDS

>>127067278 (OP)
Italian boomers from New Jersey think this schlock was the summit of 20th century musical achievement.

Bobby would have your guts for garters, you gobby little shit.

>>127067278 (OP)
They tried to make him a teen idol and he said “nah, I wanna be sinatra”.

>>127067385
so w/e man, same with Rosemary Clooney but she wanted to be Ella Fitzgerald

With Connie Francis it was the opposite she started out as a jazz/standards kind of singer didn't have any luck with that for almost three years and only succeeded when they remade her as a teen idol.

>>127067501
the early records weren't that catchy and she was doing jazzy pop that was a dime a dozen in the 50s and didn't do anything to stand out there

>>127067278 (OP)
That guy sure didn't last too long.

>>127067473
she won her freedom after 1954 when she stopped chasing pop hits

back then it was very much a belief that you had to do standards to be taken seriously. many rock and R&B acts covered them and often had major hits with updated production like the Flamingos' "I Only Have Eyes For You"

>>127067278 (OP)
>>127067297
too much riceroni for my tastes. Italians like all Latin people like everything very overdone and flashy.

>>127068928
be nice to italians

>>127067653
She didn't want to spend the rest of her life singing in Bing Crosby movies

>>127068970
I also assume she didn't want to sing Mitch Miller slop for the rest of forever.

>>127067653
I think having 5 kids in 7 years also had something to do with it.

>>127067616
he had heart damage from childhood rheumatic fever. it used to be common before modern vaccines.

>>127069025
Everyone pays their dues in some way I mean Eileen Rodgers also ground out Miller slop for a few years before leaving the business to become a Broadway performer.

>>127069091
never taking it