[sinatraphiles] FEBRUARY 1 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

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1940 Chicago

BS044680 The Sky Fell Down
(E. Heyman/L. Alter)
Warner Bros. Music (ASCAP)
Arranged by Axel Stordahl
-1 (3:12) CD: 07863 66353-2 "The Song Is You" 5CD set Vol 1.
CD: RCA 8324-2
LP: SD 1000
78: 26518
-2 N/R

BS044682 Too Romantic
(from the Paramount Picture The Road To Singapore)
(J. Burke/J.V. Monaco)
Paramount Music Corp. (ASCAP)
Arranged by Paul Weston
-1 (3:08) CD: 07863 66353-2 "The Song Is You" 5CD set Vol 1.
-2 (3:08) CD: 07863 66353-2 "The Song Is You" 5CD set Vol 4
-1 CD: RCA 8554-2-R
-2 LP: Time/Life STBB02
-1 LP: SD1000
-1 78: 26500

Saxes: Hymie Shertzer, Deane Kincade, Johnny Mince, Fred Stulce, Babe
Zimmers; Drums: Buddy Rich; Piano: Howard Smith; Guitar: Carmen Mastren;
Trombones: Ward Silloway, Dave Jacobs, Elmer Smithers; Trumpet: Zeke Zarchy,
Jimmy Blake, Lee Castle; Bass: Gene Traxler
Note: The Sky Fell Down -2 has not been located in the RCA vaults

NOTE: Sinatra Scholar Ed O'Brien emphasizes that this was Frank's first
recording session with the Tommy Dorsey Band.

The alternative take on "Too Romantic" has a slight vocal glitch and was
much sought after many collecting years.

1967 Hollywood

K4815 Once I Loved (O Amor En Paz)
(Antonio Carlos Jobim/Ray Gilbert/Vinicius De Moraes)
Duchess Music Corp./New Thunder Music (BMI)
Arranged & Conducted by Claus Ogerman
-10 (2:36) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 11
CD: 9-26340-2The Reprise Collection
CD: 1021-2Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim
LP: FS1021Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

K4816 How Insensitive (Insensatez)
w/Antonio Carlos Jobim
(Antonio Carlos Jobim/Norman Gimbel/Vinicius De Moraes)
Duchess Music Corp./New Thunder Music (BMI)
Arranged & Conducted by Claus Ogerman
-7 (3:15) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 11
CD: 9-26340-2The Reprise Collection
CD: 1021-2Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim
LP: FS1021Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

K4817 Drinking Again
(Johnny mercer/Doris Tauber)
M. Witmark & Sons (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Claus Ogerman
-6 (3:10) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 11
CD: 1022-2The World We Knew
CD: 9-26340-2The Reprise Collection
LP: FS1022The World We Knew

K4818 Somethin' Stupid
w/Nancy Sinatra
(Carson C. Parks)
Greenwood Music (BMI)
Arranged by Billy Strange
Conducted by Claus Ogerman
-2 (2:38) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 11
CD: 1022-2The World We Knew
CD: 9-26340-2The Reprise Collection
LP: FS1025Frank Sinatra's Greatest Hits
LP: FS1022The World We Knew
45: 056 IT

Notes: Frank completed the Jobim album and then did a simply fabulous
recording of the great Johnny Mercer-Doris Tauber saloon song, "Drinking
Again."  The piano work by Bill Miller is exquisite and Sinatra improvised
on the lyrics until he got just what he wanted on Take 6. A few friends were
lucky enough to catch Frank doing this gem in concert settings, They have
assured O'Brien that you would hear a pin drop the audience was so attentive
throughout, There should have been an album built around this beauty.

Later, several other Sinatraphiles expressed their wonder why Sinatra did
not perform "Drinking Again" more often. Regarding the recording session
itself, Jack Tomsky reports that after Take Two, Sonny Burke told Miller
that the piano was too percussive and asked him to play lighter. After Take
Four, Frank asked Miller to lower it an octave and Burke repeated his
request regarding the percussive problem. After listening to two more
alternate takes, I wonder how much of the master take was Mercer and how
much was Frank adding and subtracting lyrics.

O'Brien, in response, recalls that Sinatra had Bill Miller play his piano
accompaniment an octave lower. Or was it the other way around?

Eugene Lo Curto suggests that the fade out at the end of the recording maybe
a reason why the recording become one of Frank's chief saloon songs. Another
reason? It was included on an album that sold poorly

Ed Spiefel asks:  "Who knows?"  There are countless possibilities, but it
would have been a killer of a saloon song done live!"

Radio

1941 Frank Daley's Meadowbrook, Cedar Grove, New Jersey
CBS broadcast
Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra.
Vocal(s): Frank Sinatra, Connie Haines, Jo Stafford & The Pied Pipers.
Saturday evening
1. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You TD & Orch
2. Swing Low Sweet Chariot TD & Orch
3. Everything Happens To Me F.S.
4. Swanee River TD & Orch.
5. Oh! Look At Me Now FS, C.H., J.S. & P.P.
6. Skater's Waltz TD & Orch.
7. Let's Get Away From It All FS, C.H., J.S. & P.P.
8. The Moon Won't Talk F.S.
9. So What! TD & Orch
10. Closing Theme TD & Orch.

1942  The Hollywood Palladium, California
Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra with Frank Sinatra
NBC Blue
All West Coast Broadcasts from 10:30 to 11:00 PM

1942 Sunday Evening At Tommy Dorsey's
Network: Blue Network
Location:
Time: 8:00PM - 8:30PM (EST)
Show #1 (pending)
Sponsor: (sustaining or unknown)
Personnel (probable): Tommy Dorsey, George Arus, Dave Jacobs, Jimmy Skiles
(trombone); Jimmy Blake, Ziggy Elman, Chuck Peterson, Jimmy Zito, Danni
Vanelli (trumpet); Fred Stulce, Harry Schuchman (clarinet, alto sax); Heinie
Beau (clarinet, tenor sax); Bruce Snyder, Don Lodice (tenor sax); Bernard
Tinterow, Seymour Miroff, William Ehrenkrantz, Leonard Posner, Paul
Poliakine (violin); Sam Ross, Leonard Atkins (viola); Harold Bemko (cello);
Ruth Hill (harp); Clark Yocum (guitar); Phil Stevens (bass); Milt Raskin
(piano); Buddy Rich (drums).
Vocals: Frank Sinatra, The Pied Pipers, Jo Stafford,
Orchestra Conducted By: Tommy Dorsey
Announcer:
Premiere episode of the series

1944 Command Performance
Episode: #104

Taping
Tuesday
Air Date: February 20, 1944
Hostess: Dinah Shore
Guests: Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra

Produced in Hollywood. Announced by Ken Carpenter.  With John Scott Trotter
Orchestra, Ticker Freeman, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Dinah Shore (m.c.)

1.  Blues In The Night
Dinah Shore

2.  Speak Low
Frank Sinatra

3.  Candlelight & Wine                                        Bing Crosby
with John Scott Trotter (Piano)

4.  Comedy Routine with Dinah, Frank, and Bing (Sinatra sings a little bit
of "All Or Nothing At All")

5.  Medley Parodies:  Little Sir Echo (Bing & Frank); This Is The Guy
(Sinatra); Was That The Human

  Thing To Do? (Bing); The Last Round-Up (Sinatra); If I Had My Way (Bing);

  Pony Boy (Sinatra); Falling In Love Again (Bing); I Wonder What's Become

  Of Crosby the Sinatra of 1909 (Sinatra); It Makes No Difference Now
(Bing); I Heard You Cried

  Last Night (Sinatra); The Daring Young Man On The Flying Trapeze
(Sinatra);

  Learn To Croon (Sinatra); Dinah (Bing); Stardust (Sinatra); Sunday, Monday
Or

  Always (Bing); Deep Purple (Sinatra)

6.  People Will Say We're In Love  (Bing & Frank)

1946 The Jimmy Durante Show
Netowork: CBS
Sponsor: Rexall
Jimmy Durante,
Performers: Garry Moore, Frank Sinatra, Roy Bargy and His Orchestra,
Announcer: Howard Petrie
Produced & Directed by: Phil Cohan
Notes: Jimmy messes up his lines and cracks up the cast. The story of
Columbus Durante is told. The cast meets Black Jack Sinatra, the pirate.
The final 13:49 of the program only. Audio condition: Excellent. Incomplete.

1950 Light Up Time
Taped: January 18, 1950
Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes
Network: NBC
Show #108
Broadcast: 4:00-4:15 PM PST (Repeat: 8:00-8:15 PM PST)
Starring: Frank Sinatra & Dorothy Kirsten
Jeff Alexander And The Orchestra
1. opening
2. Sweet Lorraine - Frank Sinatra
3. commercial
4. Yesterdays - Dorothy Kirsten
5. Sorry - Frank Sinatra
6. commercial
7.. While We're Young - Frank Sinatra & Dorothy Kirsten
8. closing

1955 Heart To Heart #4
Sponsored By: American Heart Association fund appeal. Syndicated.
Host: Frank Sinatra.
Guest : Lauritz Melchior
1. Young At Heart
2. All Of Me
3. I Have But One Heart
4. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter
Note: TT: 15 mins. Sound Excellent

note: This is a good show. A lighthearted competition
between Frank's pop music and Melchior's long hair
music.--Ed

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Television

1958 The Dean Martin Club Oasis Show
Network: NBC
Saturday Evening
Time: 9:00 P.M. - 10:00 P.M.
Host: Dean Martin.
Guests: Frank Sinatra, Danny Thomas. Jill St. John
Sponsor Oasis Cigarettes
1. It Was Much Better Last Week - Cast
2. When Your Smiling - Dean
3. Getting To Know You - Frank & Danny
4. All Alone - Dean
5. Last Night When We Were Young - Frank
6. I Love To Love - Frank & Dean
7. Academy Award Nominee Medley: I Fall In Love Too
Easily / Tender Trap / Three Coins In A Fountain / An
Affair To Remember / All The Way / Jailhouse Rock
8. It Was Much Better Last Week - Cast

1966 Sammy & His Friends (ABC)
Guests: Frank Sinatra, Count Basie, William B. Willams, Joey Heatherton,
Edie Adams
1. Get Me To The Church On Time
2. Luck Be A Lady
3. Medley w/Sammy: Don't Get Around Much
Anymore / The Song Is You / Them There
Eyes / Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams
4. Take The A Train
5. You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You
Notes: 50 min. According to Ed O'Brien, this program was taped at the same
time he did the Hollywood Palace taping in September.
When Sammy and Frank do the medley, you get to hear the latter do the chorus
of "Don't Get Around Much Anymore," and "Take the A Train."
They are simply wonderful and contradict Sinatra's belief that he couldn't
bring much to them for the Ellington album.
Billy May told O'Brien that Frank felt that way and avoided the Ellington
signature tunes when planning the collaboration.

Concerts

1941 Frank Dailey's Meadowbrook, Cedar Grove, New Jersey (Jan 21, 1941 -
Feb. 17, 1941)
Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra

1942 Hollywood Palladium, California (Dec. 30, 1941 - Feb. 23, 1942)
Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra

1943 Paramount Theatre, New York City (Jan. 27 - Feb 20)
w/Johnny Long & Orchestra

1950 Shamrock Hotel, Houston, Texas (January 31st - February 10)
Sinatra was dark on February 6th

1960 Sands, Las Vegas, Nevada (1-13)
Frank, Dean, Sammy, Peter, and Joey appeared nightly
"Oceans Eleven" and "Pepe" were being filmed during their engagement.

1961 Sands, Las Vegas, Nevada (1-14)
Buddy Lester, Copa Girls (12), Garr Nelson,
Antonio Morelli Orch.(32) Conducted by Bill Miller
Choreography by Renne Stuart,
Prioduced by Jack Entratter
$4 minimum

Note: This was the "RADD" engagement. Al
Porcino told me Frank did almost all of the
tracks on the album. Fontainbleau would
be the same basic program.

1963 Sands, Las Vegas, Nevada (January 23 - February 12)
w/Dean & Sammy

1965 Hotel Eden Roc, Miami, Florida (January 29-February 11)
Sinatra and Joe E. Lewis
2 Shows 9 and 12 Nightly
Also appearing:  the Half Brothers, Val Olman and his Orchestra.
Joe E. Lewis was accompanied by Austin Mack
Note:  Sinatra missed the second show on February 7th due to an ear
infection.

1966 Sands, Las Vegas, Nevada (January 5 - February 1)
Count Basie Orchestra
Conducted by Quincy Jones
Bill Miller piano for saloon songs
Engineer: Lowell Frank
A&R    Sonny Burke
Two Shows A Night
1. Come Fly With Me
2. I've Got A Crush On You
3. I've Got You Under My Skin
4. September Of My Years
5. Street Of Dreams
6. You Make Me Feel So Young
7. The Shadow Of Your Smile
8. Fly Me To The Moon
     Monologue
9. Get Me To The Church On Time
10. It Was A Very Good Year
11. My Kind Of Town

Second Show
1. Come Fly With Me
2. I've Got A Crush On You
3. I've Got You Under My Skin
4. September Of My Years
5. Street Of Dreams
6. One For My Baby w/ Bill Miller on piano
7. Fly Me To The Moon
      Monologue
8. You Make Me Feel So Young
9. The Shadow Of Your Smile
10. Luck Be A Lady
11. It Was A Very Good Year
12. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
13. My Kind Of Town
note: Closing night of a four-week engagement. Reprise
        taped 10 shows during Frank's fourth week..

1978 Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
substitute for Sammy Davis jr.
1.  Night and Day
2.  Where or When
3.  Didn't We
4.  Someone to Watch Over Me
5.  Something
6.  My Funny Valentine
7.  Baubles, Bangles and Beads
8.  The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
9.  My Kind of Town
10.  Send in the Clowns
11.  Maybe This Time
12.  I've Got You Under My Skin
13.  My Way
14.  America the Beautiful

1981 Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (January 29-February 4)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Fly Me To The Moon
2. Pennies From Heaven
3. You And Me
4. The Best Is Yet To Come
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. In The Still Of The Night
7. Please Be Kind
8. Angel Eyes
9. monologue
10. Luck Be A Lady
11. Send In The Clowns
12. I Get A Kick Out Of You
13. Where Or When
14. I've Got You Under My Skin
15. As Time Goes By
16. Summer Me, Winter Me
17. New York, New York
Notes: TT 66mins.

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Extra

1942 Sunday Evening At Tommy Dorsey's
Here is the Billboard review of the first show:

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Taping
1944 Command Performance
Episode: #104
Tuesday
Air Date: February 20, 1944
Hostess: Dinah Shore
Guests: Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra

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1950 Shamrock Hotel, Houston, Texas (Feb. 1 - 10)

Frank Sinatra was set to open at the Emerald Room of the Shamrock Hotel, in
Houston, Texas, January 28, 1950.
Frank and Jimmy Van Heusen had flown to Texas on the 26th Van Heusen was
flying his own plane and they
stopped to refuel in El Paso. Frank was told to call George Evans office
immediately. George was Frank's
press agent and a guiding force all through the bobby-soxer craze and
beyond. Evans secretary informed Frank
George had suffered a fatal heart attack that morning. He was only 48 years
old. Van Heusen flew Frank back
to New York and the Shamrock appearance was put on hold until after the
funeral.
Glenn McCarthy was the owner of the very elegant new hotel in Houston. Edna
Ferber based the character of
Jett Rink on Glenn, in the novel "Giant," after staying at his grand hotel.
James Dean portrayed Rink in George
Steven's film version.
Frank and Chester( Van Heusen's name to all his friends) flew back to Texas
on the first of February. Frank
opened that night(Wednesday)  to a full house including a most welcomed
surprise guest. Ava had flown in
for the opening and Frank was thrilled. They went to dinner between shows. A
photographer spotted the
couple and told Frank he wanted to take a picture. The response was an
explosive "no."  Ava put her hands
over her face and the couple did a quick exit from a very nice Italian
restaurant.. Frank did a second show
and then went to his room. But he couldn't sleep until after the sun came
up. When he woke at 4:30 p.m.,
Frank was a sick man. A doctor was called immediately. The singer was
running a fever, had a raw throat,
and was sick to his stomach. He could not go on that night. What to do? The
movie star Eddie Bracken
had subbed for Frank the previous week. He had hopped a plane that afternoon
en route to California.
The Shamrock did some checking and learned of a quick stop-over in Dallas.
They called the airport
there just five minutes before take-off. Bracken agreed to come back on the
next plane to Houston.
He arrived at 8:30 and was onstage at 9. Meanwhile a heavy lidded Sinatra
was feeling better. He
was weak but insisted on doing the second show of the evening. Chester and
the musicians, including
Henry King, the pianist and orchestra leader, were not sure he could do it.
Frank thought it might make
him feel better. So on he went at 11: p.m. His speaking voice cracked on him
but was fine when he sang.
It looked good until near the end when Frank announced his next number was
"Soliloquy," from "Carousel."
It was not possible in the condition he was in that night. But Frank started
to sing. Here is a description
from Bill Roberts of the Houston Chronicle on what transpired next:

"And somehow a magic fire caught hold of Frank Sinatra. As he warmed up to
"Soliloquy" you could feel the magic catching all
over the Emerald Room. Not one piece of ice tinkled anywhere. Sinatra's
throat opened up and he hit notes he had never hit
before in his life. When he finished the crowd took the roof off the Emerald
Room . . . Then he went upstairs to get ready for
tonight( 3)."

Bracken was asked to stay in the event Frank had a relapse. A very good
move. The ill health continued
to plague him right through the engagement. Eddie stepped in and did some
shows.

Frank Sinatra, recovered from illness which forced Eddie Bracken to sub for
him at Shamrock Hotel in Houston
several nights, resumes his airshow from Hollywood.
  Billboard
2-25-50

Frank felt better on Monday(6) and asked Chester to fly him over to
Galveston. He had heard about the Balinese
Restaurant and Nightclub. Frank needed to work. Here is a picture taken that
night at the Balinese.

Image result for DATES THAT FRANK SINATRA PLAYED AT THE SHAMROC
Anthony Fortitta                  James Van Heusen              Frank
Sinatra         Sam Maceo ( owner)

Frank got the gig. After closing the next night at the Shamrock, he did a
week with the house band at the Balinese. People who
attended the shows remember a terrific performance from Sinatra.
I am indebted to newspapers in both Houston and Galveston, libraries in both
cities, Billboard and Variety plus on line sites that
offered commentary from people who attended the shows in both cities.

Ed

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1958 Club Oasis ads

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1966 Sammy & His Friends (ABC)

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Milton H. Greene Gallery

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1960 Sands, Las Vegas, Nevada (1-13)

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The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) -  2 Feb 1960, Tue

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1961 Sands, Las Vegas, Nevada (1-14)

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Variety
2-8-61

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1965 Hotel Eden Roc, Miami, Florida (January 29-February 11)

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ORIGINAL CAPTION: Feb. 1965: Frank Sinatra, left, and comedian Joe E. Lewis,

2nd from right, talk together in an elevator lobby at the Eden Roc as
several
others, including Sinatra's bodyguard Ed Pucci, far right,
stand nearby. The long-time friends performed a two-week
stand at the hotel during the first two weeks of February.
(Photo by John Dominis / LIFE Magazine)

note: Anthony Quinn was interviewed by Prof. Richard Brown on AMC many
years ago. Brown asked Quinn how he wanted to be remembered. Quinn said,
"I just want to be remembered." He told Brown that when he arrived in Holly-
wood, back in the early 1930s, John Barrymore was the biggest star. He knew
very few people who recalled The Profile by the 1970s. I mention this
because
the unidentified man, standing between Sinatra and Lewis, is George Raft.
Ed

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Frank Sinatra in a room at the Eden Roc Hotel, 1965.

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Sinatra tosses tosses a tablecloth after yanking it from a cluttered
tabletop
in a room at the Eden Roc, Feb. 1, 1965.

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ORIGINAL CAPTION: As onlookers cheer, singer Frank Sinatra stands
with a tablecloth in his hand after successfully pulling it out from under
the dishes (though more than a few glasses seem to have fallen over)
in a room at the Eden Roc hotel,  Feb. 1, 1965. Sinatra was at
the hotel to perform a two-week stand with long-time friend
Joe E. Lewis (not pictured) during the first two weeks of February.
(Photo by Jon Dominis / LIFE Magazine)
(Photo by John Dominis / LIFE Magazine)
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1966 Sands, Las Vegas, Nevada (January 5 - February 1)

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Variety

1-12-66

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BASIE BAND                            QUINCY JONES          FRANK SINATRA

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