{"podcast":{"title":"Only Three Lads - Classic Alternative Music Podcast","slug":"only-three-lads-classic-alternative-music-podcast-357570","podcast_index_feed_id":357570,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/onlythreelads","website_url":"https://onlythreelads.codeadx.me","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/554fa0b4-d3ed-11ed-8322-abbfb1668ca0/image/1dc9a3c3714f940fa7191ffb2ed70072.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"O3L Media","episode_count":414,"summary":"Only Three Lads is a lively podcast celebrating the Golden Age of Alternative Music from the '70s, '80s & '90s. Join Uncle Gregg, Brett Vargo, and a variety of ”Third Lads” as we share our Top Fives, stories, and news about the music we love, and have a lot of fun along the way! Whether you‘re into indie, punk, new wave, Britpop, power pop, synth pop, shoegaze, grunge...or whatever...there is going to be something for you to discover and love. Part of Pantheon Podcasts.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-07T16:21:18.417951+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/only-three-lads-classic-alternative-music-podcast-357570"},"episode":{"title":"E319 - Chuck Granata - Top 5 Alternative Crooners","slug":"e319-chuck-granata-top-5-alternative-crooners","published_at":"2026-03-03T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/only-three-lads-classic-alternative-music-podcast-357570/e319-chuck-granata-top-5-alternative-crooners","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/only-three-lads-classic-alternative-music-podcast-357570","url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PAN1121088963.mp3?updated=1772547185","audio_url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/PAN1121088963.mp3?updated=1772547185","summary":"Croon•er (n) ['kru:nər]: a singer, particularly a male one, who sings sentimental songs in a soft, low voice. Decades before Elvis, The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Justin Bieber, or Uncle Gregg captured the hearts, imaginations, and undergarments of a swooning audience, crooners ruled the earth. The term typically conjures up golden throated singers like Bing Crosby, Nat \"King\" Cole, Tony Bennett, and Mel Torme interpreting the timeless songs of Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Irving Berlin. But one crooner reigned supreme: Ol' Blue Eyes himself, Frank Sinatra. He was \"The Voice,\" possessing an instrument of rare, pure, crystalline perfection, with a phrasing, tone, and ability to charge every word with such emotion that you can palpably sense his audience getting weak in the knees. Never has Sinatra's legendary 1940s performing career sounded as immaculately and pristinely alive as it does on the SING label's recent archival projects: At the Hollywood Bowl 1943-48; Christmas on the Air; and the 5-LP box set Long Ago, Far Away, all lovingly restored and mastered by an award winning team and featuring exquisitely detailed liner notes by no greater authority than record producer, historian, archivist, author of the acclaimed Sessions with Sinatra, and host of the weekly radio show Sinatra Standard Time, Chuck Granata. We are fortunate to have Chuck join us this week to chat about all things Sinatra: the innovative new sets, his important role in pop music's breakthrough, his classic and most underrated albums, and the use of AI for good. And, of course, because O3L is focused on classic alternative music, our lists cover some of our favorite singers who carried on crooning into the '70s, '80s & '90s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit meg…","meta_description":"Croon•er (n) ['kru:nər]: a singer, particularly a male one, who sings sentimental songs in a soft, low voice. Decades before Elvis, The Beatles, Michael J…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6448,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/only-three-lads-classic-alternative-music-podcast-357570/episodes/e319-chuck-granata-top-5-alternative-crooners/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/only-three-lads-classic-alternative-music-podcast-357570/e319-chuck-granata-top-5-alternative-crooners.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}