# The greatest song of the 1970s, according to Frank Sinatra

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/the-greatest-song-of-the-1970s-according-to-frank-sinatra/
- Published: 2026-08-04T20:30:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-08-25T07:32:46+00:00
- Original publisher: Far Out
- Original article: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/greatest-song-1970s-frank-sinatra/
- Topics: Entertainment, Music

## Key points

- Sinatra despised rock and roll and 1970s counterculture music.
- Career decline forced him to soften his stance in the early 1970s.
- He praised The Little River Band's "Reminiscing" as the decade's best song.

## Summary

Frank Sinatra was famously hostile to rock and roll and the 1970s counterculture, once branding rock "phoney and false" and even stepping away from live performing in 1971-72 as his popularity waned amid the genre's rise. To salvage his career, he was forced to reconsider his stance and seek out contemporary songs he could genuinely embrace, leading to a notable softening of his earlier views.

During this period Sinatra reversed his position on The Beatles, calling their 1969 track "Something" the greatest love song ever written, and he also singled out the Little River Band's 1970s hit "Reminiscing" as the greatest song of that decade. Unusually, he chose not to record his own cover version of the track, as he typically did with songs he admired, which the article suggests reflects the depth of his regard for it.

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