Personally, I don’t think this song suits Sinatra’s voice. It’s probably for the best – keep ’em wanting more, eh? Who will be the lucky lover? Just one wish will be granted, One heart will wear a Valentine, Make it mine, Make it mine, Make it mine! But we never find out. The line: Three coins in the fountain, Through the ripples, how they shine, is a particularly nice one, painting a picture of a summer’s night in Rome. I do like the fact that we get a bit of a story, in amongst the usual trite lines. The song tells the story of three lovelorn young men, chucking coins into the Trevi Fountain. Three coins in the fountain, Each one seeking happiness, Thrown by three hopeful lovers, Which one will the fountain bless? Maybe that’s the problem – twenty-two songs in and, with a few notable exceptions (for better or for worse) they’re starting to merge into a gloopy, sentimental mush. And then, musically, it’s nothing that we haven’t heard before. It starts with a flourish of cymbals, which makes it sound as if it’s from a film soundtrack (it was). And, to be honest, it’s a very low-key first appearance for Ol’ Blue Eyes. Has anyone listened to ‘Three Coins in the Fountain’ since 1954? I certainly wouldn’t have heard it, had it not popped up on this list. But still your average Joe off the streets could have a stab at naming three of his hits: you’ve got your ‘My Way’, your ‘New York, New York’, your ‘Fly Me to the Moon’… Your ‘Three Coins in the Fountain’? His last real chart presence was twenty years before that. You know who I mean: Elvis, the Beatles, the Stones, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Busted… The biggies.īut then, these stars don’t need no intro, really. Artists that I should perhaps put a little more effort into introducing. Maybe emboss this post with a gold border (does WordPress run to such extravagances?) When I scan down my list of Number Ones, certain artists stand out. I feel I should give him a fanfare, or something. We’ve flirted with fame so far in this countdown – Doris Day is a household name, Johnnie Ray, Perry Como and Frankie Laine were very big in their day. Three Coins in the Fountain, by Frank Sinatra (his first of three #1s)įrom a one-hit wonder to a… lots-of-hits wonder?
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