A lonely teen age girl sits in the dark listening to the new sensation, Frank Sinatra, as he croons a soft love ballad on his nightly radio show.
He signs off every program with these lyrics:
“Put your dreams away
For another day,
And I will take their placeIn your heart.
Wishing on a star
Never got you far
So it’s time to make
A new start”
She turns off the radio, takes out her bobby pins, dampens each strand of her Toni Home Permed brown hair. Then rolls it up in small, flat, pin curls.
She arranges her books for the next school day. Says a prayer for her three brothers who are serving overseas in the war.
Soon she goes to sleep hoping to dream of Frankie.
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5 comments:
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I'm dreaming of old loves here lately, too, Chancy. What gives with us???
Don't know why but it was damn near impossible not to like Sinatra!!!! But I did and I'm not famous for being attracted to short Italian guys.
I know the lyrics to mostf his songs to this day
(And you forgot to take off your bobby sox.)
Though Frank's show was a little before my time...I definitely had the same thing going with Elvis and his movies. Oh those guys and their blue eyes....
I never had crushes on any celebrities though I certainly had favorite voices and tunes that transported me into another dimension. Sometimes it was the music alone, or the lyrics. The person who sang was the instrument.
Sinatra was one such singer whose voice I especially liked, but not until he had a little age on it beginning for me in the 1950s. Could never understand, and still can't, why girls scream and drown out the voice they want to hear. I read once that Sinatra started that girls screaming and fainting act that became contagious for many. Reportedly he hired girls to behave in that manner early in his career when he had a NYC appearance and he wanted to create media attention.
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