The odd thing about Sinatra 100: An All-Star Grammy Concert was something you hardly think about. None of the songs were by Sinatra. That’s testimony to the power of Ol’ Blue Eyes’ artistry. As one famous musician after another stepped to the stage to steep themselves in Frank Sinatra’s big broad legacy, not a single one of them sang a word set to paper by Sinatra himself.
Yet the songs were undeniably Sinatra’s songs, even if they’d been written by Gershwin or Berlin or Sondheim. (Yes, you could persuasively argue that “Someone To Watch Over Me” and others belong as much to Ella Fitzgerald et al as to Francis Albert Sinatra.) Still the Sinatra stamp was pressed deeply into these American Songbook standards. Here’s a list of the artists who embodied Sinatra’s soul for this special night.
Seth McFarlane – One for My Baby
Usher – That’s Life
Harry Connick Jr. – Luck Be a Lady
Celine Dion – All the Way
Carrie Underwood – Someone To Watch Over Me
Tony Bennett – I’ve Got the World on a String
John Legend – Young at Heart
Juanes and Antonio Carlos Jobin — medley
Adam Levine – The Best Is Yet to Come
Garth Brooks – The Lady Is a Tramp
Alicia Keys – I’ve Got a Crust on You
Bono – One Shot of Happy, Two Shots of Sad
Lady Gaga – New York, New York
Nick Jonas – In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
Sam Smith – My Funny Valentine
Trisha Yearwood – I’ll Be Seeing You
Zac Brown – Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered
