[sinatraphiles] February 11 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

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Studio

1969 Hollywood

M7141 One Note Samba (Samba De Uma Nota So)
w/Antonio Carlos Jobim
(Antonio Carlos Jobim/Newton Mendonca)
Duchess Music Corp. (BMI)
Arranged by Eumir Deodato
Conducted by Morris Stoloff
-6 (2:19) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 13
CD: 1033-2Sinatra & Company
LP: FS1033Sinatra & Company

M7142 Don't Ever Go Away (Por Causa De Voce)
(Ray Gilbert/Delores Duran/Antonio Carlos Jobim)
Devon Music, Inc. (BMI)
Arranged by Eumir Deodato
Conducted by Morris Stoloff
(2:27) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 13
CD: 1033-2Sinatra & Company
LP: FS1033Sinatra & Company

M7143 Wave
(Antonio Carlos Jobim)
Corcovado Music Corp. (BMI)
Arranged by Eumir Deodato
Conducted by Morris Stoloff
(3:18) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 13
CD: 1033-2Sinatra & Company
CD: 9-26340-2The Reprise Collection
LP: FS1033Sinatra & Company

M7145 Bonita
(Antonio Carlos Jobim/Ray Gibert/Gene Lees)
Corcovado Music Corp./Hollis Music Inc./VM Enterprises/Corcovado Music Corp. (BMI)
Arranged by Eumir Deodato
Conducted by Morris Stoloff
N/R

Ed O'Brien notes:
Many years after the sessions for the Sinatra/Jobim album , Antonio was a
guest on Jonathan Schwatz's radio show. He told Jonathan how Sinatra had insisted
on rehearsing for the album. He had to learn all 10 Jobim songs, including one in Portuguese.
At one point during the process, Sinatra told Jobim that he still loved recording, doing concerts
and nightclub work and even occasional TV appearances, but he hated rehearsing.Frank told Jobim that
when a new album project came up he tried to get a couple of "chestnuts" into the mix so there was
less rehearsal time.
I mentioned this to Skitch Henderson a few years ago and he told me Frank got it from Crosby. During the
forties, according to Skitch, Sinatra was tremendously influenced by Der Bingle and tried in many ways to emulate
him. Skitch remembered how much of an impression Crosby's antipathy to rehearsing influenced Sinatra's attitude
toward this aspect of performing.

Radio

1941 Frank Dailey's Meadowbrook, Cedar Grove, New Jersey
Tuesday evening
CBS
WABC in N.Y.C.
11:30 p.m - 12:00 a..m.
30 minutes
Tommy Dorsey & His Orch.
Frank Sinatra, Connie Haines, Jo Stafford, The Pied Pipers,
Ziggy Elman, Buddy Rich, Joe Bushkin, Sy Oliver
Annc: John Allenmore
1. Anything T.D & Orch
2. Swing Low Sweet Chariot T.D. & Orch.
3. Everything Happens To Me F.S. arg. by Axel Stordahl
4. Swanee River T.D. & Orch..
5. Oh! Look At Me Now F.S. C.H. J.S. P.P.
6. The Skater's Waltz T.D. & Orch.
7. Let's Get Away From It All F.S C.H. J.S. P.P.
8. The Moon Won't Talk F.S.
9. So What T.D. & Orch.
10. Anything T.D. & Orch.
Note: Thank to Ed O'Brien for the above radio listing

("Everything Happens To Me", "Oh! Look At Me Now","Let's Get Away From It All", & "The Moon Won't Talk" appear on Masters of Jazz Volume 5)

(The Complete Broadcast is available on LP: Fanfare 29-129 Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra Live At The Meadowbrook)

1942 Hollywood Palladium
TD Band
Wednesday Evening
10:30 - 11:00 pm PWT
NBC Blue Network
KECA    L.A.

1943 Songs By Sinatra
Network: CBS
Location: New York City
Time: 10:45PM - 11:00PM Thursday
Show #25
Sponsor: none (sustaining)
Musicians: Axel Stordahl, CBS Orchestra
Arrangements By: Axel Stordahl
Notes: Confirmed aired on WABC.

note: Raymond Scott was not involved with this show. I checked
a number of bios and tributes. Scott backed Frank on "Broadway
Bandbox." There isn't a lot known about "Songs By Sinatra" from
1942 into early 1943. Axel Stordahl was the arranger/conductor
for the fall version of the show in 1943. I think he was also the
leader of the earlier shows and the Bobby Tucker Singers were
probably on board. They were on the half-hour "Reflections"
series in the fall of 42 with Frank. Walter Gross oversaw the
orchestral chores on that show. They were all sustaining broad-
casts.
Ed

1944 Sportstime for the Golden Gloves War Bond Rally
KMPC Los Angeles, 8:30-9:30
Sinatra was part of a quartet

1951 Meet Frank Sinatra
Show #16
Network: CBS
Script: January 24, 1951
Sponsor: Tintair, Ludens
Time: 5:00PM - 5:45PM (EST), Sunday
Producers: Mark Goodson, Bill Todman
Musicans: Graham Forbes and His Quartet
Announcer: Hal Sims
Writers: Harry Crane
Guest: Jules Styne, Lynn Burton
1. ' S Wonderful - w/Graham Forbes and His Quartet
2. chat/intro/talk w/Jule Styne
3. medley w/ Jule Styne (piano): It's Been A Long,
Long Time / I Don't Want To Walk Without
You / Papa, Won't You Dance With Me
4. Time After Time - w/Jule Styne (piano)
5. comedy/patter with audience
6. If - w/Graham Forbes (piano)
7. into/talk w/ Lynn Burton
8. Bye Bye Baby - Lynn Burton
9. One For My Baby - w/Graham Forbes (piano)
10. The Moon Was Yellow
11. There;s Something Missing (Columbia Recording)
12. Put Your Dreams Away
Notes: Listed as being rehearsed/taped on January 3, 1951. Date is incorrect. Script for show wasn't even written till January 24th. Confirmed aired on WCBS

Ed O'Brien notes:
Easily the best of the shows that are in circulation from this series. We get to hear Frank sing the marvelous
Gershwin tune "S''Wonderful, ' with a quintet, and a song he literally redefined "One For My Baby," with just Mr Forbes
backing him. This version gives the listener a peek into the maturation process that Sinatra was going through
in the early fifties. What would become one of his great signature songs, started here. "The Moon Was Yellow" was
a Sinatra favorite. He would record it on three major labels and perform it often in concert. "Perry Como's huge hit "If"
receives a spectacular vocal effort from Mr Sinatra. His singing here certainly exposes the crazy idea that he was
at a low point vocally in the early fifties. And, of course, we also have the pleasure of hearing Sinatra sing a wonderful
group of songs with Jule Styne accompanying him on piano. Styne wrote many of Frank's hits in the forties and would
continue to be a major contributor into the 1980s. The singing on "Time After Time" is simply exquisite.

Scott: Sinatra singing "If". It doesn't get much better. I wish he had recorded it.

1955 The Frank Sinatra Show
Network: NBC
Show Number: 48
Time 8:15 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Sponsor: Bobbi Home Permanet, White Rain Shampoo, Deep Magic Face lotion
Host: Frank Sinatra
Writers: Norm Sickel
Announcer: Maurice Hart
Producer: Andrew C. Love
1. I Got A Crush On You - Frank Sinatra
2. Celeste - Frank Sinatra w/Bill Miller, piano
3. Melody Of Love - Frank Sinatra

Ed O'Brien notes:
Celeste was the name of the Bobbi Permanent Girl.
Song was written for the show and Frank performed it twice,
both efforts with just Bill Miller on piano.

Television

1981 Sinatra Testifies Before Nevada Gaming Commission
Sinatra Was Asked Almost 2 Hours Of Questions.

Ed O'Brien noted:
CNN televised the entire hearing including testimony
from Kirk Douglas, Gregory Peck and all of the question/answer
segments with Sinatra.

FILM

1965 None but the Brave (US Film Premiere - Chicago: February 11, 1965) (Released in Japan January 15, 1965)
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Tatsuya Mihashi, Takeshi Kato, Clint Walker, Tommy Sands, Brad Dexter, Tony Bill
Produced & Directed by:  Frank Sinatra
American and Japanese soldiers, stranded on a tiny Pacific island during World War II, must make a temporary truce and cooperate to survive various tribulations. Told through the eyes of the American and Japanese unit commanders, who must deal with an atmosphere of growing distrust and tension between their men.
(DVD Release date: 2008-05-13) (Blu-Ray Release through Warner Achives: 2019-06-11)
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There was also a comic book adaptation of the movie with Sinatra's likeness on the cover:

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Concerts

1940 Graystone Ballroom, Detroit, MI (one-nighter)
TD & Orchestra played

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 with Frank Sinatra

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

1950 Balinese Restaurant and Nightclub, Galveston, Texas (11-17?)

1951 State Theater, Hartford, Connecticut (One Day Only)

1953 Chez Peree, Montreal, Quebec (6-15)
w/Bob Harrington Orchestra

1954 Beachcomber Club, Miami Beach, Florida  (8 - 14)
Opened on the 8th, Closed on the 14th.
On The Bill: Frank Sinatra, Dick Shawn (comedian), The
Dunhills (dance team), Harry Richman (m.c.)
Frank subbed for Sophie Tucker

1960 Sands, Las Vegas, Nevada (Jan. 20 - Feb. 16)
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

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

1982 Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Get Me To Church On Time
2. Without A Song
3. I Loved Her
4. The One I Love
5. Hey Look, No Crying
6. The Lady Is A Tramp
7. monologue
8. In The Still Of The Night
9. Monday Morning Quarterback
10. I Can't Get Started
11. Bang, Bang
12. All Or Nothing At All
13. Thanks For The Memory
14. New York, New York
Notes: TT 58mins.

1982 Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Get Me To Church On Time
2. Without A Song
3. Night And Day
4. I Loved Her
5. The One I Love
6. Hey Look, No Crying
7. The Lady Is A Tramp
8. monologue
9. In The Still Of The Night
10. Monday Morning Quarterback
11. I Can't Get Started
12. Bang, Bang
13. All Or Nothing At All
14.. Thanks For The Memory
15. New York, New York
Notes: TT 53mins.

1985 Sunrise Musical Theater, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello
1.  L.A. Is My Lady
2.  It's All Right With Me
3.  Don't Worry 'Bout Me
4.  Theme From New York, New York
5.  Luck Be a Lady
6.  Here's That Rainy Day
7.  Here's to the Band
8.  One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)
9.  I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry
10.  Come Rain or Come Shine
11.  Pennies From Heaven
12.  This Is All I Ask
13.  Mack the Knife
14.  Strangers in the Night
15.  My Way

1988 Bally's Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. For Once In My Life
2. Where Or When
3. Maybe This Time
4. The September Of My Years
5. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life
6. Moonlight In Vermont
7. The Girls I Never Kissed
8. Mack The Knife
9. monologue
10. Soliloquy
11. Goody, Goody
12. Here's That Rainy Day
13. New York, New York
14. Barbara
15. In The Still Of The Night
16. Love Is Just Around The Corner
17. My Way
18. One For My Baby
19. Something
Notes: TT 95mins.

1988 Bally's Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. For Once In My Life
2. Where Or When
3. Maybe This Time
4. Bewitched
5. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life
6. Moonlight In Vermont
7. The Girls I've Never Kissed
8. Mack The Knife
9. monologue
10. Here's That Rainy Day
11. New York, New York
12. My Way
13. More Than You Know
14. One For My Baby

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Extra

1940 Graystone Ballroom, Detroit, MI (one-nighter)
TD & Orchestra played

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1941 Frank Dailey's Meadowbrook, Cedar Grove, New Jersey

Tommy Dorsey & His Orch.
Frank Sinatra, Connie Haines, Jo Stafford, The Pied Pipers,

(The Complete Broadcast is available on LP: Fanfare 29-129 Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra Live At The Meadowbrook)

Review, Fanfare 29-129, by William Esposito

"The arguments will continue,
until the last note is played for all of us, as to which big band was the best of
the big band era. There were a veritable ton of bands and for each, ten ton of
supporters. Today, long after the rising stage of the New York Paramount
dropped into oblivion, the discussions, heated and unheated, go on. If you
want to avoid a possible shot in the chops, don't go for the big band era but
for the era of a big band. Case in Point: The Tommy Dorsey band of 1940-42,
give or take a few months. Pound for inch, it may well have been the greatest
of them all on any or many given nights for those days. Just enjoy TD and his
lads on one of their sand-blaster arrangements. "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot' as
a broadcast from Frank Dailey's Meadowbrook comes out of this LP, recreating
the date of February 11th, 1941. The old gospel favorite jumps, pivots, cuts across
the airwaves with a definitive swing. Ziggy Elman's trumpet and Heine Beau's
reed work - that alto solo is something you didn't hear too much on Dorsey
arrangements - blend in on schedule and you have a standby of the swing solstice.
And, in the accepted manner of those days, after a flag-waver opener, the leader
would quiet things down a bit by â introducing our vocalistâ who, ho, in this case, was
a callow youth named Frank Sinatra just into the big time after a hitch with the Harry
James' band. Francis Albert warbles about everything happening to him and does his
usual classy job but go a bit further here... The flip side has the Dorsey band some 18
months later, in August of 1942 at the Capitol Theatre in Washington and give a listen
to how much Frank had polished his already enormous talent in that short time. There
is a striking difference, which should delight Sinatra-fans but not surprise them.
Frank has improved every day and is still doing it when most men his age are considering
the pipe and slippers and the social security check in the mail. Typical Dorsey dance delivery
can be found down by the Swanee River and another stamp of those salad days teams up
Sinatra with the pert Connie Haynes on Oh, Look At Me Now, one of the band's big record
sellers. And it wasn't just the Bob Crosby band which featured Skater's Waltz, for the Dorsey
version here rolls along in a plain and simple showcase for Elman's horn and the tenor sax of
Don Lodice, a Dorsey clean up hitter and tenor man all too often passed over by those jazz
archivists who delve into a history of the tenor sax. Another of the up-tempo tunes which
bordered on far-out fantasy (all right, did you ever take a kayak to Quincy or Nyack? Have
you ever been to Nyack?) gives the leader himself a chance to shine after Joe Bushkin's does
his major league job on piano. Permit an opinion Joe Bushhkin could play from the yellow
pages of the Calcutta phone book and make it swing. And, for the closer at the Meadowbrook
on what was most likely a chilly February night in that memorable year of 19 and 41, the question
is asked, So What? So great, that's all, But why so short?"

note: The Dorsey orchestra was very popular in the era of the big band. In the late 1930s,
Artie Shaw was the winner of most polls with TD & Co. placing second and during the Sinatra
Years, Glenn Miller's contingent was more popular. But the best band wasn't that much
of an argument. Dorsey had employed the best of the best: Buddy Rich, Joe Bushkin, Ziggy
Elman, Heine Beau, Sy Oliver, Jo Stafford and Frank Sinatra. Eliminate Sinatra and the
group is still an astonishing array of marvelous musicians. A great joy is listening to a one-nighter
or a weekly radio show with the amazing sound offered by Dorsey, who was arguably the
most talented in the group, and his great ensemble.
Ed

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1944 Sportstime for the Golden Gloves War Bond Rally
KMPC Los Angeles, 8:30-9:30
Sinatra was part of a quartet

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1950 Balinese Restaurant and Nightclub, Galveston, Texas (11-17?)

A STORY YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT FRANK SINATRA --- By Dallas Realtor Bill Cherry

By <https://activerain.com/profile/billcherry>BILL CHERRY
Real Estate Agent with Bill Cherry, Realtor 0124242
November 13, 2007 03:27 PM

Even though I'm a Dallas resident and business man now, most of my life was spent living in the Galveston-Houston area. My real estate company had two offices in Galveston and one in the museum district of Houston.

And from the age of fourteen, my avocation has been performing on radio and television. I still do. I found this script of a piece I did on TV's News-24 Houston on June 21, 2003, and I thought you would find it interesting.

Bill Cherry's Memories -Sinatra Visits Galveston

People past 60 who lived or came to this island in the old days, love to tell the tales of when big-time stars headlined in Galveston.

Night clubs like the Sui Jin and the Hollywood Dinner Club and the Balinese Room and the Studio Lounge booked entertainers like Fred Astaire and big bands like Harry James.

Most of us refer to it as Galveston's Golden Days, but those golden days only had a span of thirty years. From the 1920s through most of the 1950s.

And that sure is a small piece of time...actually just 17%.... out of the 175 years the island's had civilized people living on it.

My favorite story from that era is when old Frank Sinatra was down on his luck. He was an almost has-been even though he was just 35-years old. We're talking about 1950. And wouldn't you know that's when he was married to glamorous movie star Ava Gardner. And she was making tons of money.

Desperate for a job, somehow he talked legendary oilman Glenn McCarthy into giving him a short gig at Houston's Cork Club, a plush private nightspot on top of McCarthy's legendary Shamrock Hotel.

Bill Roberts, a Houston gossip columnist, reported that Ava Gardner came to Houston with Sinatra, but nobody ever saw her ringside at his shows. The truth is, she wasn't there, and it was because their marriage was on the rocks.

Sinatra started driving to the island almost everyday. He came to pester Sam Maceo, owner of the Balinese Room, into letting him follow the Cork Club gig with one at the Balinese. If Maceo didn't hire him, Sinatra had no place to go after the Cork Club.

Finally. Maceo said OK, but only as a singer with the house band. So Sinatra came, and he stayed in one of the Island's flea bag hotels, and he ate his meals on credit at Biaggio DeAndrea's Speedway Café, right next to the famous Mountain Speedway roller coaster.

Within two years of his down and out Galveston gig, Sinatra moved back on top, but this time as a movie star in "From Here to Eternity." That's a story in itself.

But Sinatra never forgot his Galveston gig and the benevolence of Biaggio DeAndrea and his Speedway Café.

A few years later, Sinatra campaigned for the election of John F. Kennedy for president. When Kennedy won, he asked Sinatra if there might be a handful of people he'd like to have invited to his inauguration.

One Sinatra picked was his friend at the Speedway, Biaggio DeAndrea. And sure enough, a fancy embossed invitation was sent. DeAndrea didn't go, but that invitation was thumb tacked on the wall behind the lunch counter for all to see until the Speedway closed years later.

And Biaggio told me Sinatra settled up his tab at the café, too.

I'm Galvestonian Bill Cherry, and Frank Sinatra's visit to Galveston is one of my memories.

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1951 State Theater, Hartford, Connecticut (One Day Only)

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1965 None but the Brave (US Film Premiere - Chicago: February 11, 1965) (Released in Japan January 15, 1965)
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Tatsuya Mihashi, Takeshi Kato, Clint Walker, Tommy Sands, Brad Dexter, Tony Bill
Produced & Directed by:  Frank Sinatra

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1969 Hollywood

M7141 One Note Samba (Samba De Uma Nota So)
w/Antonio Carlos Jobim

M7142 Don't Ever Go Away (Por Causa De Voce)

M7143 Wave
(Antonio Carlos Jobim)

M7145 Bonita

Image result for photos of frank sinatra and antonio carlos job

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1996 Frank Sinatra Golf Tournament ,Palm Springs, California
Sunday Evening
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Ed O'Brien:
One more time would be a good heading
for this last hurrah in Frank's desert paradise.
The weekend festivities concluded with a rousing
version of "New York, New York." Andy Williams,
Jerry Vale, Jack Jones, Buddy Greco, Vic Damone
and Susan Anton did the vocal honors. The comedian,
Tom Dressen, approached the stage as the song
concluded. Suddenly, the audience stood and cheered as
Sinatra strode onto a stage for the very last time. Dressen
announced  that a "national treasure" was making an appear-
ance. Frank, dressed in a tux, waved and gave a salute to the
audience.. He beamed at the singers as they applauded him.
And then he was gone.

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