[sinatraphiles] February 22 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA

From: "Scott Henderson" <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2022 10:38:06 -0500

Studio

1956 Los Angeles
Sinatra's first session at the new Capitol Tower
Wednesday evening
8 to 11:30: P.M.
54 piece orchestra
Conducted by Frank Sinatra

TONE POEMS OF COLOR
concept inspired by the poetry of Norman Sickel
He was the writer on many of Sinatra's radio shows.

1. Black
arranged by Victor Young
2. Orange
arranged by Nelson Riddle
3. White
arranged by Victor Young
4. Brown
arranged by Jeff Alexander

Note: George Roberts played bass-trombone
on the four sessions that made up the recordings
for "Tone Poems." He told me the musicians
knocked themselves out for Sinatra. They wanted
him to succeed because the music was so lovely.
George thought Frank did a great job conducting
a large orchestra.. Sinatra loved the way Victor
Young worked. There is an interview where he
talks about Young paying very close attention
to the lyrics as he conducted. Trying to support
the vocalist during the recording process.

Ed O'Brien supplied the above session info.

Radio

1942 Program about AFL's contribution to the Treasury Department's Defense
Payroll Savings Plan
5pm (L.A. time); 8pm (NY time)
Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra

(Los Angeles Evening Citizen News, February 21, 1942)

1948 The Jack Benny Program
Network: NBC
Sponsor: Lucky Strike
Show: #21 of the 1947-48 series
Time: 7:00pm
Host: Jack Benny
Guests: Frank Sinatra,
Cast: Mary Livingstone, Don Wilson, Dennis Day, Artie Auerbach, Frank
Nelson, Mel Blanc, Rochester, Phil Harris.
Writers: Sam Perrin, George Balzer, John Tackaberry, Milt Josefsberg
Producer By: Hilliard Marks
1. commercial
2. first routine - Jack Benny, Don Wilson, Mary Livingstone, Dennis Day
3. My Adobe Hacienda - Sportmen Quartet
4. second routine - Jack Benny, Mary Livingston, Artie, Don Wilson, Dennis
Day
5. Serenade Of The Bells - Dennis Day
6. third routine - Jack Benny, Dennis Day, Mary Livingstone, Don Wilson,
Frank Nelson, Mel Blanc, Frank Sinatra, Rodchester, Mel Blanc
7. commercial
8. closing
Notes: Sinatra makes brief appearence. Show from Palm Springs. Audio
condition: Good- & Complete. TT: 30mins

1950 Light Up Time
Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes
Network: NBC
Show #123
Broadcast: 4:00-4:15 PM PST (Repeat: 8:00-8:15 PM PST)
Starring: Frank Sinatra & Dorothy Kirsten
Jeff Alexander And The Orchestra
Missing Parts of script
1. Don't Do Something To Someone Else - FS
2. Crazy He Calls Me - DK
3. Sitting By The Window - FS
4. Lookin' For A Little Boy - DK
5. Where Or When - FS

Ed O'Brien:
Dorothy sang "Crazy He Calls Me" and "Lookin' For A Little Boy."
AFRS addition was "Sorry." Frank was very generous to a couple of
fellow singers during this show. Before singing "Don't Do Something
To Someone Else," he encourages his listeners to buy Frankie Laine's
recording. He hypes Billy Eckstine's version of "Sitting By The Window"
before offering his version.

Television

1959 Some Of Mamie's Friends (Taping)
Guests: Frank Sinatra, Dinah Shore, Bob Hope, Nat King Cole.
1. This Love Of Mine
2. Medley w/Dinah Shore

Ed O'Brien:
The show "Some Of Manie's Friends" was
taped on 2-22-59 and broadcast on NBC, 3-3-59.
There is an exquisite Sinatra moment. The camera
pans in on Frank, on the bandstand, dancing couples
in front of him, Riddle conducting the orchestra to Frank's
left , and F.S. leans into the mike and starts to sings "This
Love Of Mine."

Here is Time's review and profile of Manie Sacks from 3-9-59

In show business, palship never reigns but it pours.
To a very few show folk: Al Jolson, Fanny Brice,
Irving Thalberg, Variety Founder Sime Silverman"
has gone an uninterrupted outpouring of vocal,
tearful affection. This week a new name was added
to the roll of comradely love when a clutch of top
entertainers, including Bob Hope, Sid Caesar,
Rosemary Clooney, Perry Como, Dinah Shore, Frank
Sinatra, Jack Webb and Betty Grable, performed at
union minimum rates ($265 each) in a 90-minute NBC
telecast in honor of the late Manie Sacks. The show's
title: Some of Manie's Friends.

Who was Manie Sacks, a man scarcely known outside
the trade, to have attracted so much high-powered
devotion? Wiry, long-faced Manie (pronounced Manny)
was a longtime recording executive for Columbia Records,
later a vice president of both NBC and RCA, and he died
last year of leukemia at 56. Says RCA Board Chairman
David Sarnoff: "He was the most selfless man I ever knew."
Frank Sinatra credits him with "a closetful of right arms."
Adds Variety Editor Abel Green in a bathetic burst: "His was
the unashamed opening of the pores of human kindness."

After starting out in the dress business in Philadelphia,
Sacks charged into radio and public relations. As A. & R.
man (artists and repertory) beginning in 1940, he coralled
Sinatra, Shore, Benny Goodman and Harry James for the
Columbia label. When he left for RCA ten years later, most
of his stable followed him loyally. Later, his duties as NBC
vice president in charge of TV programing and talent still
consisted largely of coddling performers, listening to their
troubles and shrewdly guiding their careers.

Legends of Manie's considerateness sprout all over show business.
One night, the story goes, Bachelor Manie wanted to get away
from a girl who had a yen for him, lied that he had to fly to Detroit.
Smitten, the girl offered to ride out to the airport with him. Rather
than hurt her feelings, Manie wearily went to La Guardia, boarded
a plane and flew to Detroit. A little more than a year ago, goes
another story, Comedian Danny Thomas went to him for help with
a project to benefit leukemia victims; Manie plunged into the project
without letting anyone know that he was dying of the disease himself.
This week's TV show, which raised more than $200,000 for leukemia
research and other work by the Emanuel Sacks medical foundation,
was predictably sentimental, sincere and enthusiastic. Said Singer
Tony Martin of Manie: "He's beginning to sound like the Albert
Schweitzer of show business."

Concerts

1940 Meadowbrook, Cedar Grove, New Jersey (February 20 - March 11)
Tommy Dorsey & Orchestra

1941 Sunnybrook Ballroom, Pottstown, Pennsylvania (one-nighter)
Saturday evening
Tommy Dorsey & Orchestra
Frank Sinatra, Connie Haines, Jo Stafford,
Ziggy Elman, Joe Bushkin, Sy Oliver, Buddy
Rich, Pied Pipers

1942 Hollywood Palladium, California (Dec. 30, 1941 - Feb. 23, 1942)
Tommy Dorsey & His 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
First Show
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. Didn't We?
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5.. Witchcraft
6. My Way
7. monologue
8. Empty Tables
9. I Sing The Songs
10. Let Me Try Again
11. If
12. Send In The Clowns
13. My Kind Of Town
Notes: TT 59mins.

1976 Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Second Show
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. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. What[s New?
5. Didn't We?
6. Here[s That Rainy Day
7. Witchcraft
8. My Way
9.. monologue
10. Empty Tables
11. I Sing The Songs
12. Let Me Try Again
13. If
14. Send In The Clowns
15. My Kind Of Town
Notes: TT 54mins.

1986 Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada
First Show
Key Musicians: Don Baldini (Bass), Bill Miller (Piano), Irv Cottler (Drums),
Tony Mattola (Guitar)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Without A Song
2. Violets For Your Furs
3. L.A. Is My Lady
4. I Have Dreamed
5. For Once In My Life
6. Where Or When
7. One For My Baby
8. monologue
9. You Will Be My Music
10. April In Paris
11. The Best Is Yet To Come
12. Moonlight In Vermont
13. Mack The Knife
Notes: TT 61mins.

1986 Goldem Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada
Second Show
Key Musicians: Don Baldini (Bass), Bill Miller (Piano), Irv Cottler (Drums),
Tony Mattola (Guitar)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Without A Song
2. Violets For Your Furs
3. L.A. Is My Lady
4. I Have Dreamed
5. For Once In My Life
6. Where Or When
7. One For My Baby
8. monologue
9. You Will Be My Music
10. Send In The Clowns
11. April In Paris
12. The Best Is Yet To Come
13. Moonlight In Vermont
14. Mack The Knife
Notes: TT 60mins.

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EXTRA:

1941 Sunnybrook Ballroom, Pottstown, Pennsylvania (one-nighter)
Saturday evening
Tommy Dorsey & Orchestra
Emacs!

Emacs!

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1950 Light Up Time
Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes
Network: NBC
Show #123
Broadcast: 4:00-4:15 PM PST (Repeat: 8:00-8:15 PM PST)
Starring: Frank Sinatra & Dorothy Kirsten

Emacs!

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1959 Some Of Mamie's Friends (Taping)
Guests: Frank Sinatra, Dinah Shore, Bob Hope, Nat King Cole.
1. This Love Of Mine
2. Medley w/Dinah Shore

Emacs!

Emacs!

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