As a fan of a wide variety of popular (and not-so-popular) music from the 1950s (and sometimes even earlier) up through the present, one of my bucket list projects for years has been to put together a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. At some point I decided that, once I got around to figuring that out, I could put it out on a blog, for the infinitesimally small proportion of the Internet world that might be interested. So, here we are. While the Top 100 will be a major focus, I also plan to post on a variety of other musical (and occasionally non-musical) topics, in which you may or may not be interested. (If a particular posting doesn’t ring your bell, you’re only a few clicks away from a dancing cat video on YouTube.)

Saturday, November 1, 2014

#11 The Summer Wind -- Frank Sinatra (1966)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug8cBIbxDaY

Sinatra has to be my favorite male singer of all time. (My favorite female singer would be Eva Cassidy.) This is such a great summer song, I really regretted leaving it out of the top 10, and almost wound up doing a last-minute switch. Having said that, it was a close call selecting this as my favorite Sinatra song over some other worthy contenders.

I was surprised and delighted that this song came in at #133 on WXPN’s recent countdown of the “885 All Time Greatest Songs” – the highest entry of 3 Sinatra songs to make the list.
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