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Terence Eden
@edent.tel

New blog post: Did Frank Sinatra really think "Something" was a Lennon/McCartney song? https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/06/did-frank-sinatra-really-think-something-was-a-lennon-mccartney-song/ Read enough articles about The Beatles and you'll repeatedly hit the claim that Frank Sinatra frequently …

shkspr.mobiDid Frank Sinatra really think "Something" was a Lennon/McCartney song?Read enough articles about The Beatles and you'll repeatedly hit the claim that Frank Sinatra frequently introduced his cover of George Harrison's "Something" as his "favourite Lennon & McCartney number." Much like the misquote about Ringo not being the best drummer in The Beatles, I think this might be one of those semi-apocryphal lines which has taken on a life of its own. Here's what Paul…

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Gimme Some Truth Podcast
@gimmesometruthpod.bsky.social

Good work! Here is a syndicated article from August 1975 that is the likely source for Sinatra saying that 'Something' is the greatest love song of "the last half-century." As far as I know, George was the only Beatle Sinatra met by this time?

Jake
@gloriousnoise.bsky.social

Huh! Sinatra expert Jonathan Schwarz says “his identification of Lennon/McCartney as writers went uncorrected for years” in his liner notes to The Reprise Collection (1990), and I would’ve sworn I can *hear* him saying it (but that very likely could be the mandela effect!).

Terence Eden
@edent.tel

I keep stumbling across thing like this where "everyone knows" that he said it but no one can say when he said it 😄 I'd love to be proved wrong, but he was crediting Harrison in all the recordings I've found.