Kristin Chenoweth has a couple of albums, but I think that her last, The Art of Elegance, has something that no one else’s has: national air play via the Sinatra channel of Sirius Satellite. That channel is run by the Sinatra family, and especially daughter Nancy.
She did one of those “Playing Favorites” segments where the host has an hour to play her favorite Sinatra songs, as well as favorite standards by others, and can include one or two of her own recordings. Kristin pretty shamelessly plugged her new album during the hour and surprise, it wound up on the channel’s play list.
I know Nancy loves “I Get Along Without You Very Well,” and Kristin’s recording of that song is really good. Nancy not a big fan of Broadway. She thinks that they should put up a statue of Frank because if he hadn’t recorded and popularized a lot of the songs from now forgotten musicals by Rodgers & Hart, Cole Porter, et al., then the songs would have been forgotten too. She might have a point, but Ella Fitzgerald in her famous Songbook series in the 50s pretty much included all those songs.
