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The enduring appeal of the crooner21 Feb 2006
Ol' blue eyes himself, Frank Sinatra, flew us to the moon, while Bing Crosby crooned It had to be you and Andy Williams wooed us with Moon River. Perhaps the more modern Harry Connick Jnr or Michael Buble hit all the right notes for you now.

Jenni looks at the enduring appeal of the crooner with Gareth Valentine, musical supervisor for Sinatra at the London Palladium, Ken Barnes, record producer and author of Sinatra and the Great Song Stylists and The Crosby Years and singer, Barb Jungr. 

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