When “Two” became “The One”
By Mahnuel Muñoz
“I knew number one was Bing Crosby, but someone had to be number two.”
Frank Sinatra
On January 19, 1942, Frank Sinatra immortalized his first recording as a soloist, apart from Tommy Dorsey’s orchestra. Frank plans to leave Dorsey; He does not want to follow any big band of caliber, which is a suicidal mission for any singer, but not for Sinatra, who, armed with the maps of his self-confidence, does not doubt that it is the natural step for his career to ascend to the heights. heights that he always imagined, since he was a dreamy teenager.
And all his dreams have been surpassed by reality: in less than three years he goes from singing between the tables of a bar to being named by Billboard magazine as one of the best singers in the country, even occupying the sacred throne of Bing Crosby.
With the arrangements of the sublime Axel Stordahl and an orchestra of fifty-one musicians, he recorded “The Night We Called It A Day”, “Night And Day”, “The Song Is You” and “The Lamplighter’s Serenade”, giving them a sound intimate and innovative so extraordinary that both the singer and his entourage feel, with amazement, that they are starring in the immediate future of pop music.
This step, small for man and big for music, marked the beginning of the end of the era of Big Bands as protagonists of popular music and the beginning of the supremacy of soloists.
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