"SONGS FROM MY TRUNK"
Here are some facts no one talks about:
Our music from The Great American Songbook did not spring to life as hits. Someone had to make them standards. In fact, many were pitched and kicked around for years first.
Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald and cabaret stars didn't get famous by singing standards. They made it by finding and singing new songs they loved and became stars by "making" them into standards--and being made by them in return.
So think about it: can you sing the standards better than the greats did or do? If not, the path to success is not by supposedly
playing it safe singing what everyone else sings, but by finding new gems just waiting to be someone's hits. Imitation may be flattery,
but why would anyone want an imitator when they can get CD's of the real thing?
Success takes the guts to sing what you like that hasn't been done to death already. There are too many covers of standards by wannabes--hundreds of them.
Somebody has to start thinking about that. How about you? It would make a great New Year's Resolution!
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Songs Sinatra Might Have Sung: Tomorrow's Standards
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Just click on each of the titles below
to hear FULL TRACKS of the music, not
mere clips, in RealAudio format. (If you
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