But as Bob Dylan might croon,“the Times they are mistaken.”.
In 2007, everyone remembers Prince Crooning“Purple Rain” during an actual torrential rainstorm.
To paraphrase Frank Sinatra's crooned take on the city,
Chicago can be your kind of town- even if you're skint.
Since then there have been many occasions where the same old raga of Intolerance in India has been crooned.
Many of us grew up in the‘50s, formative years when Einstein was still thinking, Hemingway was still writing,
and Sinatra was still Crooning.
For one, it facilitated
the development of intimate, expressive singing styles such as"Crooning" which would not have enough projection and volume if done without a microphone.
As historian Penne Restad
puts it in her 1995 book“Christmas in America,” Crosby's Crooning offers the“quintessential expression” of the holidays,
a world which“has no dark side”- one in which“war is forgotten.”.