[sinatraphiles] February 18 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

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Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2022 13:15:27 -0500

Studio

1963 Hollywood

1820 Lost In The Stars
(Maxwell Anderson/Kurt Weill)
Hampshire House Publishing Corp./Chappell & Co. Inc.. (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Nelson Riddle
(4:06) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 5
CD: 1015-2My Kind Of Broadway
CD: 1009-2The Concert Sinatra
LP: FS1009The Concert Sinatra

1821 My Heart Stood Still
(Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart)
Harms Inc./Willianson Music Co. Inc. (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Nelson Riddle
(3:01) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 5
CD: 1009-2The Concert Sinatra
LP: FS1009The Concert Sinatra

1822 Ol' Man River
(Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II)
PolyGram International Publishing Co. Inc.. (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Nelson Riddle
(4:24) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 5
CD: 1009-2The Concert Sinatra
LP: FS1009The Concert Sinatra

NOTE: Sinatraphile Rich Rosenberg says he'll never forget the first time he heard this. It was ithe mid-70s and I was a teenage rock fan and I was browsing in a stereo store. I was looking at some expensive speakers and, all of a sudden, this came out of them. I almost fell down. I enjoy some of the live versions, but this may still be the granddaddy of them all. It's interesting to follow this song through its live incarnations.

To Rich's comments, Sinatra Scholar Ed O'Brien responds: George Roberts and Vince DeRosa told me that this was not easy for Sinatra. He struggled mightily to get it right. They told me he was exhausted at the session's end. There are some stunning versions of this tune from Sinatra through the years. We have him singing it at the Hollywood Bowl in 1943 with that angelic voice and he still could do an electrifying renditions in the early 90s. The Bowl version has him singing the line about the "darkies." A few months later he decided it was offensive and never sang the song again using that word. I love the one from "A Man & His Music + Ella + Jobim" in 1967.

Emacs!

Frank Sinatra: The Concert Sinatra
BY CHRISTOPHER LOUDON
In late 1960, with the launch of his Reprise label, Frank Sinatra began the most prolific period of his entire recording career. By the time he got to The Concert Sinatra in early '63, he'd delivered eight Reprise albums (and had already sold up shop to Warner Bros). Despite such steady output, The Concert Sinatra remains the crown jewel of the Chairman's early- to mid-'60s work.
Remarkably, it was Sinatra's first full-length Reprise session with arranger and conductor Nelson Riddle, and Riddle is in superlative form, working with the largest orchestra ever assembled for a Sinatra album, yet masterfully avoiding the lure of grandiosity. To achieve unprecedented richness, the eight tracks were recorded on a movie soundstage, the audio captured on 35mm film. This reissue marks the first time since the release of the original LP nearly a half-century ago that the original sound mix has been employed..

Befitting such majestic settings, Sinatra shapes a playlist of eight Broadway masterpieces (six from the Richard Rodgers songbook). All, including seismic treatments of "Ol' Man River" and the Carousel showstopper "Soliloquy," are magnificently rendered, with slight hints of encroaching vocal rust only adding to their luster. But Kurt Weill's enchanting "Lost in the Stars," an awed Sinatra traversing Riddle's cosmos of strings, is the album's magnum opus, ranking alongside "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning," "I've Got You Under My Skin" and "One for My Baby" at the apex of the entire Sinatra-Riddle canon.

Note: Nelson Riddle told me that Sinatra worked harder on this project than on any of the other great concept LPs they did together.
Frank would sing seven of the eight songs in concert settings through the years. The above session features 57 musicians backing
the singer. Album would peak at # 6 on Billboard and chart for 35 weeks.
Ed

FRANK SINATRA: The Concert Sinatra.
Frank Sinatra (vocals); orchestra, Nelson Riddle cond.
Lost in the Stars; Bewitched; Ol' Man River; and five others.
REPRISE R 91009 $5.98, R 1009* $4.98.
Interest: Broadway's best
Performance: Tries hard
Recording: A bit cloudy
Stereo Quality: All right
The trouble with hearing Frank Sinatra in concert is that he does
not have a concert voice. As a pop singer, he is unquestionably
one of the best, but when called upon to project the full meaning
of these songs, most of them by Rodgers and/or Hammerstein,
he does not have the vocal resources to do them full justice. This
fact is painfully accentuated by the seventy-three-piece orchestra
that seems to inhibit the singer's natural exuberance and forces him
to strain. Most successful are My Heart Stood Still and Bewitched;
least excusable is Ol' Man River, in which Mr. Sinatra holds the note
on "jail" for so long that it sounds as if he did it on a bet. S. G.
STEREO REVIEW
OCTOBER 1963

1969 Hollywood

M7180 All My Tomorrows
(Sammy Cahn/Jimmy Van Heusen)
Maraville Music Corp. (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted By Don Costa
(4:37) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 14
CD: 1029-2My Way
LP: FS1029My Way
M7181 Didn't We?
(Jimmy Webb)
Jobete Music Co. Inc. (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted By Don Costa
(2:55) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 14
CD: 1029-2My Way
LP: FS1029My Way

Radio

1942 Hollywood Palladium
Wednesday Evening
NBC Blue Network
10:30 - 11:00 pm (PWT)
KECA Los Angeles
Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra

1943 Songs By Sinatra
Network: CBS
Location: NewYork City
Time: 10:45PM - 11:00PM Thursday
Show #27
Sponsor: none (sustaining)
Musicians: Axel Stordahl, Raymond Scott, CBS Orchestra
Arrangements By: Axel Stordahl
Notes: Confirmed aired on WABC.

1951 Meet Frank Sinatra
Show #17
Network: CBS
Script: January 31, 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: Perry Como
Notes: Confirmed aired on WCBS

1955 The Frank Sinatra Show
Network: NBC
Show Number: 50
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

Television

None

Concerts

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

PALLADIUM REPORT ON T.D.
Dorsey name continues to be magic for youngsters
adding a 4,000 ticket sales for a B'nai B'rith benefit,
soared past 20,000. Claude Thornhill comes in on
February 24th.
Variety
February 18, 1942

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

1965 Sands, Las Vegas, Nevada ( February 17 - March 2)
w/Joe E. Lewis

1967 Fontainebleau, Miami Beach, Florida (February 16 - March 1)

1976 Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Irv Cottler (drums), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Bill Miller (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. I've Got You Under My Skin
2. Where Or When
3. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. What's New?
6. Didn't We?
7. Empty Tables
8. Here's That Rainy Day
9. Witchcraft
10. My Way
11. monologue
12. I Sing The Songs
13. Let Me Try Again
14. If
15. Send In The Clowns
16. My Kind Of Town
Notes: TT 60mins.

1979 Arie Crown Theater, Chicago, Illinois
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Night And Day
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4.. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. This Is All I Ask
6. There's Something About You
7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. monologue
9. Where Or When
10. It Was A Very Good Year
11. I've Got The World On A String
12. You And Me
13. My Way
14. My Kind Of Town
Notes: TT 66mins.

Note; This was a last minute engagement.
Frank opened on the 13th and closed on
the 18th. There were eight shows in all.
Alternates: Chicago, Remember, My
Funny Valentine and You Make Me
Feel So Young
--Ed

1981 Caesars Palace, Lake Tahoe , Nevada
Key Musicians: Vincent Falcone Jr. (piano), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Tony Mattola (guitar), Charles Tunner (trumpet), Bobby Sann (trombone)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. Pennies From Heaven
3. You And Me
4. The Best Is Yet To Come
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. Fly Me To The Moon
7. Angel Eyes
8. Luck Be A Lady
9. Send In The Clowns
10. I Get A Kick Out Of You
11. Where Or When
12. I've Got You Under My Skin
13. As Time Goes By
14. Summer Me, Winter Me
15. New York, New York
Notes: TT 61mins.

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Extra

1945 Sixteenth Annual Charity Ball of the Junior Auxiliary of the Home for the Aged, Los Angeles, CA
Sinatra receives the Home's annual award for outstanding service

Emacs!

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1951 Meet Frank Sinatra
Show #17
Network: CBS
Script: January 31, 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: Perry Como
Notes: Confirmed aired on WCBS

Emacs!

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1982
Pat Henry, 58, Comedian; Was Opening Act for Sinatra
LAS VEGAS, Nev.

Pat Henry, the comedian who was the opening act for Frank Sinatra for more than two decades, was found dead Thursday in his suite in Caesars Palace Hotel. He was 58 years old.
Mr. Henry, who closed an engagement with Mr. Sinatra at Caesars Wednesday night, apparently died in his sleep of natural causes, according to hotel officials.
Mr. Henry's real name was Patrick Henry Scarnato. He first appeared with Mr. Sinatra in 1958, at the 500 Club in Atlantic City, and regularly performed with the singer, doing a 30-minute opening monologue with one-line jokes and anecdotes, often about Mr. Sinatra. In 1968 he appeared in the mystery thriller movie ''Lady in Cement,'' which starred Mr. Sinatra.
Mr. Henry is survived by his wife, Susan, and a daughter, Tina Wrigley, both of Bellmore, L.I.; a stepson, Dr. Gary Robinson, and a grandson.

--I remember two very funny lines Henry used:
As he was wrapping up his 20 minutes on stage, he would tell the audience not to leave because there was another act.
In Saratoga, he told the audience if they hated Paris, they were going to love Albany.
-Ed

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