[sinatraphiles] Re: February 24 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

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February 24, 1948, Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles

Tribute Dinner for Judge Robert P. Patterson, former Secretary of War

Frank Sinatra, George Murphy, Jules Munshin, Virginia O’Brien, Lena Horne and
others

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Studio Recordings

February 24, 1944 - RKO, Los Angeles
STEP LIVELY (Original Title Manhattan Serenade)
Thursday
Orchestra conducted by Constantin Bakaleinikoff
Arrangement by Axel Stordahl

Some Other Time
w/Gloria DeHaven & Chorus

1946 Hollywood

HCO1733 From This Day Forward
(L. Harline/M. Greene)
(from From This Day Forward)
Barton Music Corp. (ASCAP) 1946
Arranged & Conducted by Axel Stordahl
-1 (3:02) CD: Columbia Years 43-52 Vol. 4
78: 36987

HCO1734 Where Is My Bess?
(G. & I. Gershwin/D. Heyward)
(from Porgy & Bess)
Gershwin Music Pub. Co. (ASCAP) 1935
Arranged & Conducted by Axel Stordahl
-1 (2:55) CD: Columbia Years 43-52 Vol. 4
LP: C6X 40343 The Voice- The Columbia Years, 43-52
LP: CL-1297 The Broadway Kick
78: 37064

NOTE: Sinatraphile Vance Adair points out that Frank, of course, revisited this
mystery in the early
1980s with Vinnie Falcone. The Gershwin Medley from this period is a joy and
should have been
included in the recent Vegas boxed set.

Vinnie told me, when he wrote the piano chart,  he added a number of grace
notes from George Gershwin's
compositions. Sinatra loved it. When Frank played the Metropolitan Center, in
Boston, June of 81, George
Shearing was on the bill with him. One night at dinner, they discussed doing an
album together  - just the
two of them. Frank asked Vinnie to write a piano only chart for the Gershwin
medley. The album never
happened but Frank sang the medley in concert a number of times. Truly a shame
a line recording has
never been made available. Frank singing "Summertime," Ain't Necessarily So"
and "Bess" in 81-82
was simply wonderful. A recital performance all the way.
  -Ed

HCO1735 Begin The Beguine
(C. Porter)
(from Jubilee)
T.B. Harms, Inc. (ASCAP) 1935
Arranged & Conducted by Axel Stordahl
-1 (2:55) CD: Columbia Years 43-52 Vol. 4
LP: C2L6 Frank Sinatra Story In Music
78: 37064

HCO1736 Something Old, Something New
(R. Idriss/G. Tibbles)
Barton Music Corp. (ASCAP) 1946
Arranged & Conducted by Axel Stordahl
-1 (2:52) CD: Columbia Years 43-52 Vol. 4
LP: CL-2739 The Essential Frank Sinatra, Vol. 1
78: 36987

Violins: W. Bloom, H. Blostein, S. Freed, Jr., G. Joyce, G. Kast, M. King, S.
Kindler, S. Levine, S. Middleman, N. Pisani, M. Russell, O. Vail; Violas: A.
Neiman, L. Selic, D. Sterkin; Cellos: F. Goerner, J.. Sewell, J. Tannenbaum;
Saxes: H. Beau, H. Haymer, J. Kinsler, H. Schuchman, A. Smith; Horns: R.
Perissi; Trumpets: M. Herman, E. Klein, R. Linn; Trombones: H. Bohannon, G.
Jenkins, E. Smithers; Piano: M. Mclntyre; Guitar: G.. Van Eps; Bass: P.
Stephens; Drums: R. Hagan; Harp: M. Cambern

1969 Hollywood

M7221 Watch What Happens
(Norman Gimbel/Michel Legrand/Jacques Louis Demy)
Songs Of PolyGram International/Gimbel Music (BMI)
Arranged & Conducted By Don Costa
(2:18) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 14
CD: 1029-2My Way
LP: FS1029My Way

M7222 For Once In My Life
(Ronald Miller/Orlando Murden)
Jobete Music Co. Inc. (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted By Don Costa
(2:50) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 14
CD: 1029-2My Way
LP: FS1029My Way

M7223 Mrs. Robinson
(Paul Simon)
Paul Simon Music (BMI)
Arranged & Conducted By Don Costa
(2:53) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 14
CD: 1029-2My Way
LP: FS1029My Way

note: Sam Nestico wrote the arrangement for Simon's iconic song.
Shortly after his passing last month, I heard an interview in which
Nestico discussed ghost writing the chart for Costa.
   Years ago I saw a Dick Cavett Show with Sammy Cahn and
Paul Simon as his guests. The latter acknowledged he liked Frank's
vocal and Sammy's special lyrics but was less than happy that no one
bothered to contact him and ask for his ok.
Ed

M7224 Hallelujah, I Love her So
(Ray Charles)
Unchappell Music (BMI)
Arranged & Conducted By Don Costa
(2:48) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 14
CD: 1029-2My Way
LP: FS1029My Way

Radio

1940 Meadowbrook, Rte 23 Cedar Grove, New Jersey
NBC Red Network
5:00 -6:pm
Saturday Afternoon
WEAF
New York City
Live Remote -
Announcer: Bill Abernathy
Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra
Vocals: Frank Sinatra, Jo Stafford, The Pied Pipers.
Musician(s): Babe Russin, Buddy Rich
1.  IGSOY (open)
2.  College Medley: Boola Boola (Yale), Fight Song (Lafayette), Hail to Pitt
(Pitt), Yard By Yard (Williams) (PP)
3.  A Lover Is Blue (FS)
4.  Easy Does It
5.  Sorority Medley:  The Loyalty Song (Chi Omega), The Emblem Song
(Delta-Delta-Delta) (PP), The Pi Phi Girl (Pi Beta Phi), The Kappa Sweetheart
(Kappa Kappa Gamma)
6.  March of the Toys
7.  (What Can I Say) After I Say I’m Sorry? (PP)
8.  I Know That You Know
9.  Popular Songs Medley: Do I Love You? (TD solo), Careless (FS), Say “Si Si”
(JS)
10.  Losers Weepers
11.  I've Got My Eyes On You (FS)
12.  Fraternity Medley: Violets (Sigma Alpha Epsilon), Kappa Sigma Sweetheart
(TD solo) (Kappa Sigma), The Song of Lamda Chi (Lamda Chi Alpha), The Songs We
Love (PP) (Phi Delta Theta)
13.  East of the Sun (and West of the Moon) (FS-Band)
14.  Hit Songs of Yesterday Medley: My Melancholy Baby (FS), Time On My Hands
(TD solo)
15.  I Can't Give You Anything But Love (JS)
16.  College Medley: Football Song (Princeton), White on Crimson and Gray St.
Joseph), On the Line (PP) (Johns Hopkins), Hark the Sound (North Carolina)
18.  IGSOY (close)

Note:TD's orch played eight college anthems and covered eight sorority tunes
from major universities. A very busy hour.

(Sinatra's Songs appear on the CD: Jazz Archives & Masters Of Jazz Volume 3)
and the Complete Broadcast is available on CD:  Tommy Dorsey Plays Sweet and
Hot -- Tax (Sweden) CD-3705))

The Complete Broadcast was also issued on the LP:  Radiola MR-1164)

Note: This broadcast was the first of three solid hours of T.D.'s band from the
Meadowbrook.on Saturday
afternoon at 5:P.M. The show was sustaining. I have arranged Sinatra's songs in
the order
they were performed. Bill Abernathy mentions,as the show closes, that the band
will be heard
over the radio during the week.Glenn Miller would open at the Paramount, 3/28..
He would be rushed to the hospital before the opening show. Dorsey would come
over from
the Meadowbrook and conduct the Miller band.
He did four of the seven shows opening day, Thursday(29) TD conducted the first
three
shows, Friday three more and Saturday he did the first show. An amazing man.
--Ed

1940 Meadowbrook, Rte 23 Cedar Grove, New Jersey
Mutual Network
WOR
New York City
11:30 p.. m. - 12:00 a.m.
Live Remote

1950 Light Up Time
Taped: February 23, 1950
Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes
Network: NBC
Show #125
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. Can I Come In For A Second - Frank Sinatra
3. commercial
4. As Time Goes By - Dorothy Kirsten
5. There's A Small Hotel - Frank Sinatra & Dorothy Kirsten
6. commercial
7. All Or Nothing At All - Frank Sinatra
8. closing
Notes: "There's A Small Hotel" was added to the script and "I Don't Stand A
Ghost Of A Chance" & "It's The Little Things That Count" were cut.

Television

1951 The Frank Sinatra Show
Network: CBS
Location: New York City
Script Dated:
Show: #21
Sponsor: Bulova Watch Company (30mins)
Time: 9:00 P.M.-10:00 P.M.
Writers:
Producer: Jack Donahue
Director: Jack Donahue
Announcer: Ken Roberts
Orchestra Conducted By: Axel Stordahl
Guests: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Jean Carroll, Teddy Hale, June Hutton, The
Heathertones
Emacs!

1987 The Morning Program (CBS)
Sinatra & Tom Selleck Interview / 20 min.

Concerts

1940 Meadowbrook, Cedar Grove, New Jersey (February 20 - March 11)

1941 State Theatre, Hartford Connecticut (23-25)
Sunday thru Tuesday
T.D. & Orch
F. Sinatra, C. Haines, J. Stafford, B. Rich,
Z. Elman, J.. Bushkin, Pied Pipers, S. Oliver

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

1966 Fontainebleau, Miami Beach, Florida (February 24 - March 10)
with County Basie and his Orchestra
Also featuring:  Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Al Grey, Marhsall Royal, Freddie Green,
Bill Henderson, and the Magid Triplets

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

1990 Marriott's Desert Springs Resort, Palm Springs, California
Frank Sinatra Celebrity Golf Tournament
Orchestra Conducted By: Frank Sinatra, Jr.
1. Where Or When
2. Come Rain Or Come Shine
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. My Way
5. Barbara
6. Mack The Knife
7. New York, New York

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Extra

1940 Meadowbrook, Rte 23 Cedar Grove, New Jersey
NBC Red Network
5:00 -6:pm
Saturday Afternoon

Radiola LP:
Emacs!

Emacs!

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1955 KHJ Studios, Hollywood

13585 Deep In A Dream (Orchestral Track)
(Jimmy Van Heusen/Eddie De Lange)
Arranged & Conducted by Nelson Riddle

13586 I'll Never Be The Same (Orchestral Track)
(Matty Malneck/Frank Signorelli/Gus Kahn)
Arranged & Conducted by Nelson Riddle

Ed O'Brien Notes:
There were no vocals done at this session.
Riddle conducted and the orchestral tracks were laid down.

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1966 Fontainebleau, Miami Beach, Florida (February 24 - March 10)

Emacs!

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1976 FRIARS CLUB, WALDORF ASTORIA, NEW YORK CITY
Tuesday evening
8 to 11: PM
ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR AWARD
RECIPIENT: FRANK SINATRA
Peter Duchin & Orchestra
Friar Abbot: Buddy Howe
Show Opens with National Anthem
Invocation by Father Bob
Friars Choral Group sing the Friars' Song
Commentator: Howard Cosell
Governor Hugh Carey
Milton Berle
Bob White ( booked Frank at the Paramount as a solo)
Frank Sinatra, Jr. sings "My Favorite Things" and parody of "Bill."
George Jessel
William B. Williams
Cosell introduces dignitaries in the audience
Robert Merrill sings "My Way" parody by Sammy Cahn and "Figaro's
Aria" from "The Barber Of Seville."
Jan Murray
Spiro Agnew
Second commentator for the evening: Ed McMahon
Sarah Vaughan sings "A Foggy Day" and "Send In The Clowns"
Cary Grant
Pat Henry
John Denver sings "Downtown Toledo"
Mickey Rudin
Don Rickles
Abe Beame
Buddy Howe award presentation
Frank Sinatra

The Friars Club Through the Years | THIRTEEN - New York Public

excerpt from speech
"I remain eternally grateful that you are here
to help me tie a ribbon, so to speak, around
this particular evening in my life.
I will confine the balance of my remarks to
a pair of people I met early in life, just across
the river, whom I've adored ever since. My
mother, bless her, who lives in the desert
with me and my father, rest his soul, who is
living without me in a place that's even sunnier
than Palm Springs will ever be. It wasn't so long
ago , as historians viewed it, half-a-century to be
exact, that I was on the Jersey side of the river,
daydreaming in the fourth grade I might make it
as a prizefighter. My father at the time was bringing
home about 22 bucks a week -- which wouldn't even
cover the salad that you've got here tonight. He was
a good man; he was the greatest man I ever knew.
He was a simple man. He was not born in this great
country, but he made sure to it that I was born in this
country. For that, I thank him as I thank him for every-
thing else that has ever happened to me. He was a
city fireman, who knew he would never set the whole
world on fire. He worried most that his boy would wind
up in a reform school like most of the poor, unfortunate
kids in our jungle did. Well, thank God, he lived long
enough to know I was going to do something in my life.
But not long enough to share your friendship tonight"

Note: Ed O'Brien contributed the above extra.

Politicians Put on Grill as the Friars Roast Sinatra

By Fred Ferretti
Feb. 26, 1976
New York Times

It was Frank Sinatra's Friars Club roast, but Governor Carey and Mayor Beame
were the ones who were slightly singed as former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
sat by. watching and grinning.

The Governor was congratulated for being Irish. Mayor Beame was cited for being
short. Mr. Carey sang and was booed. Mayor Beame was told not to ask for any
more state money. Mr. Sinatra spoke about former President Richard M. Nixon.
And Mr: Agnew mentioned loyalty.

The evening, although punctuated with the boisterous, often off-color, totally
topical, highly personal humor that characterizes Friars Club roasts, had a
decided political cast. a texture that was appreciated as much by the
$500-platers in the first row of tables in the Waldorf Astoria Grand Ballroom
Tuesday night, as by those in the $200 economy seats.

The dinner, an annual event of the Friars Club, an organization of
entertainers, comedians and public figures, was closed to reporters; as it is
always. The account of the political byplay that occurred was reconstructed
from interviews with some of those who attended the dinner.

Mr. Sinatra. who was introduced by Howard Cosell, the sportscaster. stood up
and told the 1,000 paying guests, "I feel like exâ€President Nixon, who must
have said when he arrived in Peking, â€˜It's nice to be among friends again. "

The singer, who sat in the front row of the twotiered dais, had Mr. Carey and
Mr. Beanie at his right. Mr. Agnew was off to his left, wedged between Milton
Berle, the comedian, and Robert Merrill, the Metropolitan Opera baritone.

One of the first comedians to be called upon in the roast was Don Rickles, who
looked around, focused on Mr. Carey and told him. "It's good to see you here.
You're Irish. We need the Irish." He paused. "For parades."

Following him was another comedian, Pat Henry, who also made a point of looking
about. squinting. "I'm looking for Mayor Beame," he said. "You know someone
else was looking for Mayor Beame and he was told, â€˜Hey he's here, pacing up
and down nervously underneath the table."

The Whisperers

Mr. Agnew laughed loudly at the discomfort of his fellow politicians, louder
still when Mr. Henry looked at Mr. Beame and Mr. Carey whispering to each other
and said, "What are you asking him for money for? He came down here from Albany
on a bus."

Mr. Agnew, who was introduced by Ed McMahon, the television personality, was
brief, and personal. He said that Mr: Sinatra was a fine singer and a talented
actor but that he also had "a fierce sense of loyalty—he never leet a friend
down."

"If he lives to 100 he'll never get back the loyalty he has bestowed," he added.

Mayor Beame presented a plaque of appreciation to Mr. Sinatra on behalf of New
York, saying that although Mr. Sinatra is known for a song, "My Kind of Town,
Chicago Is," the singer was "a New York kind of guy."

Following the presentation, Mr. Henry introduced Governor Carey, saying it was
a "low point" in the evening's festivities to introduce the Governor, who was
about to sing. Mr. Carey sang what he called a "Sinatra favorite" —a song
entitled "This love of Mineâ€€ — in a kind of hoarse tenorâ€baritone.

He finished to a chorus of boos and hisses.

No "Quid Pro Quo"

Mr. Carey's performance was not "a quid pro quo" for a singing benefit done for
him by Mr. Sinatra in October of 1974 during his campaign for Governor, Mr.
Carey's former campaign manager, Gerald Cummins, said yesterday. "It wasn't any
repayment at all."

He said Mr. Sinatra had done a fundâ€raising benefit at Madison Square Garden
for the whole Democratic ticket in 1974, "but there was no 'you did it for me
so I'll do it for vole about this. I'm surprised the Governor went. I didn't
know he was going.

In addition to the entertainment, those at the roasting were rewarded with a
dinner consisting of fish and oysters in a white wine sauce, a Bicentennial
filet mignon, and ice cream and coffee.

What, a Friars Club man was asked, was a Bicentennial filet mignon?

"1976 roast beef," he said.

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