Host Ira Glass, with a recording of a 1962 Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy
Davis Jr., appearance at the Villa Venice, a club outside Chicago. What's fascinating
about Sinatra is how he is so many different people at once, and they're all on display
in this recording: sentimental crooner, cruel woman-baiter, bully, goofball. Writer Rennie
Sparks makes the case that Sinatra is mesmerizing because he's every man, every
possible man, all rolled into one.
(8 minutes)