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Article: FRANKLY SINATRA IN 75 YEARS, NOBODY HAS EVER BEEN ABLE TO DO IT HIS WAY.(Living)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- December 12, 1990
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Byline: Lawrence Devine Knight-Ridder
Frank Sinatra is a solid 75 years into his remarkable life today, and nobody in all that time ever had any luck imitating him.
Lesser lads aped the Beatles, Elvis, Ray Charles, Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole and Billy Eckstine, but nobody, including Duke Hazlitt, ever had much luck in getting in on the sly magnetism that made Frank Sinatra king of the hill.
Heaven knows, Duke Hazlitt tried, but somebody should have told him it was a losing proposition.
Long ago and far away, say 20- some years ago in a exotic little cave off a causeway in Miami Beach, kept dark so the straight patrons and the ...