![]() ![]() ![]() Yet as he sings the first chorus - I’ll never smile again, until I smile at you, I’ll never laugh again, what good would it do- something quite strange happens. Singing over Jenkins’s sad strings, Sinatra sounds tender and vulnerable and middle-aged there’s a slight quaver to his voice that’s not at all unattractive. When one listens to the recordings Frank made on the night of May 14 -and especially to his new “I’ll Never Smile Again”- it’s hard to escape the impression that, consciously or not, he already had one foot out the door. ![]() He had been agitating for many things-a greater share of the profits, a producer of his own, control of his master recordings-but it’s hard to escape the impression that what he wanted most of all was out. Sinatra had been growing steadily more impatient with Capitol Records, with which his contract would expire in November 1962. ![]()
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