Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald – Ode to Billy Joe, by Jim Demetre

This may be the moment Frank jumped the shark.

Most true Sinatra scholars point to his marriage to Mia Farrow and brief flirtation with facial hair (a sketchy goatee) in 1965 as the end of Sinatra’s career. A much smaller group – one that includes myself – looks at his 1967 collaboration with Jobim as a tasteful encore performance.

– Jim Demetre is a Seattle-based writer and the publisher and editor of Artdish.

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