Song in My Head July 17

July 17, 2005-My Way, Frank Sinatra. The Voice, Chairman of the Board, lead Rat of the Rat Pack. Frank Sinatra incorporated those personas and many more in his storied career. His recordings through the forties, fifties, sixties and into the seventies became anticipated showcases of style and verve. His shows were sell outs wherever he went, he owned Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York and much of the world.

His stylings on such classics as Love and Marriage, Strangers in the Night and New York, New York to name a few speak on their own terms. He could take a song and mould into a creation that he brought much passion to. It's been said that in his time, Sinatra was the definition of American Pop Music.

While it is impossible to probably pick one Sinatra song that highlights his talent, it is rather easy to pick one that defined the Man himself. And that was My Way, written by Paul Anka, Sinatra took the song and made it his signature. If ever a song was to explain a guys career this must be the one.

You can sense the spotlight shining as it begins, the strings increase in intensity as does Sinatra. Interestingly enough it may have seemed like the punctuation of a career but instead he continued to sing long after Anka handed him over the lyric sheet. But for certain when you hear the opening keys to it, you automatically think of gin joints, gals and a guy named Sinatra.

Over the years his legend would grow and his persona became larger than life, yet you look back at any of his performance video and there was a relationship with his audience that seemed to go beyond the books, magazines and films.

As he closes out on My Way, "The record shows, he took the blows and did it his way"! It's how everyone would like to exit the stage isn't it?