Part One: The Icons

By PopMatters Staff

With DETOURS, the PopMatters staff is celebrating the strange, bizarre, lovely, and funny albums that have emerged from an artist’s desire to try something different. Some of these detours have lead to modern-day classics. Some have lead to laugh-inducing commercial disasters. And others... others are just plain weird. [28 July 2008]

Frank Sinatra: A Voice in Time (1939-1952)

By Tim O'Neil

Sinatra's reputation was a victim of the changing times, and I don't think it's possible to overstate the effect that this transition has had upon the perception of his music. [30 November 2007]

Frank Sinatra: My Way/Live at the Meadowlands

By Steve Horowitz

The one rule about popular music is that everything changes. That doesn’t mean music gets better. Even mid-level Sinatra ranks higher than most other performers’ best stuff. [24 July 2009]

Frank Sinatra: Sinatra at the Movies

By Ross Langager

Ten years after Ol' Blues Eyes exited the world stage, a compilation of his movie songs reminds us of his signature vocal talents, but lacks vital context on Sinatra himself. [9 May 2008]

Frank Sinatra: A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra

By Mike Schiller

Sinatra sounds a little bit tired on A Jolly Christmas. [30 November 2007]

The Frank Sinatra Show: High Hopes - With Dean Martin and Bing Crosby [DVD]

By Roger Holland

In the words of his own director, Jack Donahue: 'There are quite a few performers who have no business on television each week, and Sinatra is one of them.'" [6 December 2005]

Frank Sinatra: Sinatra Sings Cole Porter / Sinatra Sings Gershwin

By Chip O'Brien

Frank Sinatra, A Swingin’ Affair, Songs For Swingin’ Lovers, Songs For Young Lovers/Swing Easy, Com

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