The Voice Of Our Times
In 1995, CBS News Sunday Morning correspondent Anthony Mason reflected back on the career of Frank Sinatra.size>
The Voice of Our Time came through a radio at first -- one of those big floor-model consoles where the speakers hid behind a tight screen of golden mesh. We heard The Voice on the phonograph, too, the kind that spun the black platter at 78 turns per minute.
That's how long ago it was, in the days of radios and phonograph needles, and of stage shows before the double-feature began down at the movie palace. And still, we have the voice today -- if not from the actual man, at least from the little silver disks embedded with microscopic ones and zeros.
As CBS News Sunday Morning looked back on the sonic gifts Frank Sinatra gave us, it introduced us to several men who helped preserve Sinatra's legacy for generations to come.
Record Producer Didier Deutch 
In doing his part to bring Sinatra into the world of compact discs, record producer Didier Deutch had to dust off the recordings Sinatra made for Columbia Records -- a painstaking task of eliminating each glitch and crackle from the original glass discs and fragile acetates.
"We are able to make the recordings sound much better than they've ever been before," Deutch said. "In the process, we are also discovering tracks that were unreleased."
Now, pretty much all of Sinatra's decade-long career is available on CD. That's about 1,800 individual recordings, enough for more than an afternoon of easy listening.
Sinatra Collector Chuck Granata
Chuck Granata was a New Jersey police officer who had been listening and collecting Sinatra music for most of his 31 years. Three years ago, Granata was doing his part to preserve the Chairman's legacy. He had helped the record labels unearth rare Sinatra material. For Sunday Morning, Granata also helped unearth Sinatra's essence.
"I think Sinatra realized that it wasn't enough just to sing a lyric," he said. "You had to feel the lyric and interpret the lyric and give it your own shading and your own subtle style. And that's really where Sinatra broke out of the mold f most other singers."
Radio Host Sid Mark
For 40 years, Sid Mark had been serving up a steady Sinatra diet on the ratio. Mark had grown up on Sinatra and, at the time he talked to correspondent Anthony Mason, was hosting four weekly radio shows -- all Sinatra, all the time.
"When Frank Sinatra gets his teeth into a ballad that he can relate to, that I can relate to, that I've lived, that he's lived, that you've lived, it's quite an experience," Mark said.
"My whole life has always been a Sinatra song. There's not a time in my life where he wasn't singing something that relates to what I'm doing now. And when I met my first girl, I understood really what Frank was singing about. And the first one that said to me, 'I'm not interested. You're a nice boy. go away,' all of a sudden, I knew what he was singing about when he said, 'I'm a fool to want you.' "
