[big band, swing music]
(FANTASIA)
I come from a musical family.
We love all types of music: Jazz, Blues, 
started in Gospel at the age of five.
And so my grandmother and my
grandfather would play
Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday,
and here comes this voice.
From this nice-looking man,
singing, "What's new."
And I remember being a little girl,
and it was something about that song
that went to my mother said,
"Who is that?"
"Who is that guy?"
He was a very emotional singer. 
He sang what he felt.
I would say that about myself.
I love to hear songs and singers
who sing what they feel.
I would have to say "What's New,"
is my favorite Frank Sinatra song.
♪
(MACFARLANE)
♪ What's new ♪
♪ How is the world treating you ♪
(MACFARLANE)
I think Sinatra endures because
it's music that's genre-free.
You know, everybody from
The Beatles, Elvis,
you can classify them
into any variety of musical genres.
There's something about Sinatra's music 
that kind of defies that.
It's not Jazz.
It's not Pop.
It's not Classical.
It's its own thing
that exists outside
the trappings of genres that
I think other music falls into.
♪
(PORTER)
♪ She won't dish the dirt with
 the rest of the girls ♪
♪ That's why the lady is a tramp ♪
(PORTER)
It was early on when
I'd first discovered Frank.
The voice is undeniable.
To have music that has lyrics
that resonate,
classic melodies that
the listener can latch on to.
Where you could hear it one time 
and kind of just sing it back.
And then that voice.
That voice.
♪ That's why the lady is a tramp ♪
[smooth piano music]
(FOSTER)
♪ There are those ♪
♪ who can leave love or take it ♪
(FOSTER)
There's no other better interpreter
 of lyrics than Sinatra.
You know, he really gets
inside of a song
and makes you hear things
that, you know,
you may, you may think you've heard 
a song a million times,
but then you hear Frank Sinatra sing it,
and you go, " Oh, that's what it's about?"
♪ Love is my favorite game ♪
[big band music]
(STING)
♪ 'Cause it's witchcraft ♪
♪ Wicked witchcraft ♪
(STING)
My mother actually
liked Rock and Roll,
but my dad liked the music
of the big bands and Sinatra.
So, I would hear that stuff growing up, 
and it just became part of the
fabric of the music in the house.
♪ When you arouse
a need in me ♪
♪ My heart says, "Yes, indeed" to me ♪
(STING)
He encapsulates an era,
certainly,
40s, 50s and 60s.
The timbre of his voice, the phrasing, 
it's absolutely that period,
but it also translates into this one too.
(FANTASIA)
♪ I get a kick though it's clear to see ♪
♪ you obviously,
do, do not adore me ♪
(MASSEY)
I think the way that Frank
interpreted his music
has had a lasting impression on people
because it still rings true to us.
You know you can look at the cast tonight, 
you see people from Broadway,
from television, from pop world, 
and we're all singing the same music,
and it all makes sense.
It's a real common 
language that is still relevant today.
(ALL)
♪ But I get a kick out of you ♪
♪
