From the archive, 10 January 1945: Frank Sinatra - the voice and the girls

Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 10 January 1945FROM OUR NEW YORK CORRESPONDENTThe United States is now in the midst of one of those remarkable phenomena of mass hysteria which occur from time to time on this side of the Atlantic! Mr. Frank Sinatra, an amiable young singer of popular songs, is inspiring extraordinary personal devotion on the part of many thousands of young people, and particularly young girls between the ages of, say, twelve and eighteen. The adulation bestowed...

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