Singers and the SongLed by Frank Sinatra, the generation that emerged during and after World War II raised the performance of the popular song to the level of art. Gene Lees' fascinating book examines some of the most gifted of these singers, including Sinatra, Dick Haymes, Peggy Lee, Jo Stafford, and Sarah Vaughan. Far from being the simple intuitive performers the public thought it knew, these people emerge in Singers and the Song as intelligent, skillful, and fully