"For all he brought to the understanding of "cool" over the last fifty odd years, the bedrock legacy of Francis Sinatra will always remain his hypnotic singing style: the impeccable spacing of words and breath and the unmatchable ability to make any lyric his own that defined the no-nonsense, Jersey bred crooner in the snap-brim fedora, swinging in the spotlight to the rhythms of the 20th century as they poured out from his Horatio Alger soul. Put more simply Frank Sinatra was the best singer with impeccable taste, whose voice is the soundtrack for the second half of the twentieth century. Two hundred years from now, generations of new Americans will try to emotionally understand the American century by listening to Frank Sinatra."
