For those who responded the other day to that Carousel/”I Walk Alone” YouTube clip, here’s a wav file of Frank Sinatra (the first Billy Bigelow in the 20th Century Fox/Henry King film before he quit and Gordon MacRae was hired to replace him) signing Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Soliloquy.” Sinatra was five times the singer that MacRae was — here’s proof.
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