Studio
1948 Hollywood
(Orchestral tracks pre-recorded in Hollywood, December 9, 1947)
HCO3224 It Only Happens When I Dance With You
(I. Berlin )
(from Easter Parade)
Irving Berlin Music (ASCAP) 1948
Arranged & Conducted by Axel Stordahl
-1 (3:18) CD: Columbia Years 43-52 Vol. 9
CD: 44236 Sinatra Rarities
78: 38192
HCO3225 A Fella With An Umbrella
(I. Berlin )
(from Easter Parade)
Irving Berlin Music (ASCAP) 1948
Arranged & Conducted by Axel Stordahl
-1 (2:31) CD: Columbia Years 43-52 Vol. 9
78: 38192
Violins: H. Azen, M. Ceppos, S. Harris, J. Held,
M. Hershaft, S. Kirsner, F.. Orlewitz, M. Pitt,
R. Polikian, B. Sheppard, H. Shomer, H. Urbont;
Violas: S. Deutsch, L. Frengut, R. Hersh; Cello:
A. Kaproff, G. Ricci, H. Shapiro; Saxes: E.
Caceres, H. Feldman, B. Kaufman, J. Mince, W.
Taninbaum; Horns: A. Miranda; Trumpets: G.
Griffin, J. Lausen, M. Solomon; Trombones: R.
Dupont, W. Pritchard, A. Russo; Piano: R. Kitsis;
Guitar: M. Golizio; Bass: H. Alpert; Drums: J. Blowers; Harp: E. Vito Ricci
1983 Los Angeles
How Do You Keep The Music Playing?
w/Bill Miller on piano
(Alan Bergman/Marilyn Bergman/Michel Legrand)
WB Music Corp. (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Joe Parnello
CD: Sinatra Sings Alan & Marilyn Bergman (Capitol October 2019)
Note: The recording was recently released on the Capitol CD
"Sinatra Sings Alan & Marilyn Bergman. The song was
rejected by Sinatra in 1983 and again for the
"Suitcase" in 1995. The arrangement by Joe
Parnello is very different from the recording done
in April of 1984, also a Parnello effort. If you are '
completist, it is worth having in collection.
Ed
Radio
1949 The Bob Hope All Star Show "A Dream Come True"
Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation syndication.
Announcer: Hy Averback
Host: Bob Hope
Performers: Dorothy Shay, Les Brown and His
Orchestra, William Holden, Frank Sinatra, Abe
Burrows, Milton DeLugg, Ralph Edwards, John McGovern.
1. Anything You Can Do (parody) w/Bob Hope & Dorothy Shay
2. On A Slow Boat To China
Notes: Fund appeal for the Arthritis and
Rheumatism Foundation. Approximate Date. 30mins.
Complete. Audio condition: Excellent.
1950 Light Up Time
Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes
Network: NBC
Show #139
Broadcast: 7:00-7:15 PM EST (Repeat: 9:00-9:15 PM PST)
Starring: Frank Sinatra & Dorothy Kirsten
Skitch Henderson And The Orchestra
1. opening
2. Don't Go Away Mad - Frank Sinatra
3. commercial
4. You Go To My Head - Dorothy Kirsten
5. God's Country - Frank Sinatra
6. commercial
7. Let's Fall In Love - Frank Sinatra & Dorothy Kirsten
8. closing
Ed O'Brien
AFRS song, in place of second ad, was a duet with
Dorothy on the classic Alec Wilder tune "While Were Young."
It was taken from the 2-1-50 Light Up Time.
1952 The Big Show
Network: NBC
Sponsor: various sponsors
Show: #52
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM EST
Sunday Evening
Host: Tallulah Bankhead
Guests: , Helen O'Connell, Fred Allen, Frank
Sinatra, Peter Donald, William Gargan
Orchestra Conducted By: Merideth Wilson
Writers: Goodman Ace, Frank Wilson
Announcers: Ed Herlihy, Jimmy Wallington
Produced & Director By: Dee Englebach
Sinatra Performace Information:
1. I Hear a Rhapsody - Frank Sinatra & Meredith
Wilson Choral Group (Axel Stordahl arr..)
2. Pretty Baby - Frank SInatra & Tallulah Bankhead (comic duet)
3. I Will Take You Home Again, Kathleen - Frank
Sinatra (during St. Patrick's Day skit)
note: Frank also sang a segment of "May The Good
Lord Bless And Keep You" at the
closing of the show.
1954 To Be Perfectly Frank
Network: NBC
Show: 37
Time: 8:15 p.m
Host: Frank Sinatra
Announcer: Edward King
1. Take A Chance Capitol Recording
2. April In Paris Sauter Finegan
3. I Get So Lonely The Four Knights
4 The Girl Next Door Capitol Recording
5. Sunny Side of The Street w/Sinatra Symphonette
1954 Rocky Fortune, "Psychological Murder"
Network: NBC
Episode: 23
Time: 9:35 p.m.- 10 p.m.
Performers: Frank Sinatra, Maurice Hart, Frank
Gerstle, Betty Lou Gerson, Marvin Miller.
Writers: Norm Sickel,
Directors: Andrew C. Love
Announcer: Edward King
Description: Rocky witnesses the execution of the
will of a wealthy woman who thinks that she's going insane.
1955 The Frank Sinatra Show
Network: NBC
Show Number: 57
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. Why Should I Cry Over You? - Frank Sinatra
2. As Time Goes By - Frank Sinatra w/Bill Miller, piano
3. You, My Love - Frank Sinatra
Notes: Frank plugs his movie "Young at heart."
Television
NONE
FILM
1948 "Miracle of the Bells" (New York City Premiere March 16, 1948)
Starring: Fred MacMurray, Alida Valli, Frank Sinatra, Lee J. Cobb
Produced by: Jesse L. Lasky Jr. and Walter MacEwen
Directed by: Irving Pichel
Granting her final request, a Hollywood press
agent (MacMurray) brings the dead body of an
actress Olga Treskovna (Valli), who died after
making her first and only film, back to her
hometown for burial. To arouse public interest,
and to get the reluctant studio head to release
the film, he asks all the local churches to ring
their bells for three days. Sinatra plays Father
Paul the priest of the smaller and poorer Polish
St. Michael's church where Olga's body is to
buried in accordance with Olga's wishes.
(DVD & Blu-Ray Release date: 2013-05-14)
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Concerts
1940 Paramount Theatre, New York City (March 13 - April 9)
Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra
1941 Adams Theatre, Newark, New Jersey (March 14 - March 16)
Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra
Friday/Saturday/ Sunday
Frank Sinatra, Connie Haines, Jo Stafford, Pied Pipers,
Ziggy Elman, Joe Bushkin, Buddy Rich, Sy Oliver
NOTE: Sinatra Scholar Ed O'Brien provides us with
this early 40s information and sends us a quote from Variety:
"With indie screen fare of little consequence,
Dorsey piled up outstanding $10.600 in three
weekend days. Prices were 40 to 66 cents."
1942 Palm Isle Club, Longvew, Texas Monday evening (one-nighter)
Tommy Dorsey & Orch.
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Note: Previous listings had Dorsey in Houston on
this night. Didn't happen. He was at the Palm Isle Club in Longview, Texas
1943 Riobamba Club, New York City (March 11 - May 12)
10 week engagment
3 shows a night
Nat Brandwynne's Orchestra
Also appearing: Walter O'Keefe, Sheila Barrett,
The Cerney Twins, Russell Patterson Magazine Girls
Songs sang during the engagement:
You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To
That Old Black Magic
Night and Day
Where or When
Embraceable You
I Only Have Eyes For You
The Song Is You
As Time Goes By
Imagination (not verified)
1958 Fontainebleau, Miami Beach, Florida (11-17)
Jack Stuart and his Orchestra
Also appearing: Maria Neglia & Sacasas and his Latin American Orchestra
1959 Southeast Florida State Tuberculosis Hospital, Lantana, FL
Note: "Frank Sinatra entertained them for
more than two hours in the auditorium,
singing songs from a recent album and other all-time Sinatra hits.
After completing his auditorium show, Sinatra
visited the wards where patients
are confined to their beds, and with the aid of a
piano on wheels serenaded the bed patients."
--The Palm Beach Post (West Palm Beach, Florida) March 17, 1959
1959 Fontainebleau, Miami, FLa, (March 3-16)
O.A : Kean & Parker
Red Norvo Quintet: Red Norvo vibraphone, Jerry Dodgion flute & saxaphone
Jimmy Wyble guitar, Red Wooten bass, John Markham drums
1960 Fontainbleau, Miami, Fla, (March 8 to March 27)
26 piece orchestra conducted by: Morty Stevens
Also appearing: The Duquaines & Sacacas and his Latin America Orchestra
Bill Miller (piano)
among the songs:
I Love Paris
I Thought About You
I've Got A Crush On You
Road To Mandalay
River Stay Away From My Door
All The Way
High Hopes
medley: A Foggy Day, I've Got You Under My Skin, Angel Eyes
Come Fly With Me.
1968 Fontainebleau, Miami Beach, Florida (March 3 - April 6)
Lenny Dawson's Orchestra
Opening Act: Pat Henry
1978 FS cancels the remaining concerts due to a sore throat
1979 Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. New York, New York
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. All I Need Is The Girl
8. You And Me
9. Send In The Clowns
10. I Have Dreamed
11. monologue
12. That's Life
13. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
14. I've Got The World On A String
15. You And Me
16. My Way
Notes: TT 75mins.
1979 Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. New York, New York
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. All I Need Is The Girl
8. Send In The Clowns
9. I Have Dreamed
10. monologue
11. That's Life
12. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
13. I've Got The World On A String
14. You And Me
15. Where Or When
16. My Way
Notes: TT 75mins.
1981 Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. Pennies From Heaven
3. The Best Is Yet To Come
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5.. Come Rain Or Come Shine
6. 'S Wonderful
7.. Angel Eyes
8. monologue
9. Luck Be A Lady
10. Send In The Clowns
11. I Get A Kick Out Of You
12. Street Of Dreams
13. Fly Me To The Moon
14. As Time Goes By
15. Please Be Kind
16. You And Me
17. New York, New York
Notes: TT 63mins.
1982 Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (11-16)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Notes: substitute for Cher
1985 Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello
1. The Lady Is A Tramp
2. It's All Right With Me
3. Someone To Watch Over Me
4. Fly Me To The Moon
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. Mack The Knife
7. monologue
8. L. A. Is My Lady
9. All Of Me
10. Come Rain Or Come Shine
11. All Or Nothing At All
12. Something
13. Pennies From Heaven
14. Don't Worry Bout Me
15. One For My Baby
16. New York, New York
17. My Way
Notes: TT 78mins.
1985 Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello
1. The Lady Is A Tramp
2. It's All Right With Me
3. Someone To Watch Over Me
4. Fly Me To The Moon
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. Mack The Knife
7. monologue
8. L. A. Is My Lady
9. All Of Me
10. Come Rain Or Come Shine
11.. All Or Nothing At All
12. Something
13.. Pennies From Heaven
14. One For My Baby
15. New York, New York
Notes: TT 52mins.
1986 Radio City Music Hall, New York City
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Benefit
Benny Goodman Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Other Performers: Placido Domingo, Red Buttons, Ella Fitzgerald
1. New York, New York
2. Where Or When
3. My Heart Stood Still
4. Change Partners 5. Bewitched
6. It's All Right With Me
7. One For My Baby
8. Mack The Knife
Notes: TT 55mins.
1988 Seattle Center Coliseum, Seattle, Washington
The "TOGETHER AGAIN" Tour
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
w/Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, jr.
1. overture
Dean:
2. When You're Drinking / Bourbon From Heaven
3. Everybody Loves Somebody
4. Where Or When
5. Welcome To My World
6. Here Comes My Baby Back Again
7. That Little Ol' Wine Maker
8. That's Amore
Sammy:
9. Here I'll Stay
10. Another Spring
12. I've Gotta Be Me
13. Medley Sam & Drums
14. The Candy Man
15. What Kind Of Fool Am I
16. Mr. Bojangles
Frank:
17. I've Got The World On A String
18. What Now My Love
19. Maybe This Time
20. For Once In My Life
21. This Is All I Ask
22. Mack The Knife
23. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
24. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life
25. New York, New York
Frank, Dean & Sammy:
26. comedy
27. medley: Side By Side / I've Heard That Song Before / All Or Nothing
At All / Memories Are Made Of This / Something's Gotta Give / Love
And Marriage / Volare - Old Black Magic / Witchcraft / Bye Bye
Blackbird / I've Got Plenty O' Nutin' / Come Fly With Me / Gonna
Build A Mountain / Oh Marie / All Of Me / You're Nobody Till
Somebody Loves You
28. The Oldest Established
Notes: TT 126mins.
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Extra
1976 Eddie Cantor B'nai Brith Lodge, Los Angeles, California
STAG ROAST for Pat Henry
Tuesday evening
$35.00 per seat
Jerry Rosen introduces Billy Daniels who sings The National Anthem
Rosen starts off the evening
John Francis
Jan Murray M.C.
George Jessel tells audience there are three
champions in the room: Sugar Ray Robinson,
Milton Berle and the most popular entertainer in
the history of show business, Frank Sinatra
Joey Villa
Milton Berle
Sid Gould
John Barbour
Pat McCormick
Fred Travelena
Jackie Vernon
Pat Cooper
Jackie Gayle
Frank Sinatra sings parody of Frank Loesser's "If
I Were A Bell" (Sammy Cahn wrote special lyrics)
Redd Foxx
Pat Henry
Ed O'Brien supplied the roast details and added: 150 minutes, NC-17 All The Way
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1942 Palm Isle Club, Longvew, Texas
Monday evening
Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra
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1943 Riobamba Club, New York City (March 11 - May 12)
10 week engagement
3 shows a night
Nat Brandwynne's Orchestra
Billboard March 27, 1943
Riobamba, New York
Talent policy: Show and dance band;
Latin band; production. floorshow at 8,
midnight and 2. Management: Linton
Weil, operator; Fred Chlaventone, maitre
d'hotel; Zussman & Bayne, publicity..
Prices: $2.50 minimum except Saturday,
holiday and holiday eves, $3.
Off to a fast click, this new East Side
spot is currently spending its heaviest
dough for floorshow talent. It brought
in March 11 Frank Sinatra, making his
cafe debut as a single: Walter O'Keefe,
Sheila Barrett, Carney Twins, line of six
Russell Patterson Magazine Girls, Peggy
Holmes and Ray Dowd.
Biggest excitement is Sinatra, who is
being backed by an aggressive publicity
campaign as Bing Crosby's successor, and
who has RK0 pictures, radio and vehicle
deals set. Sinatra may not be another
Crosby, but he's got sex appeal In his
voice, and that's something that means
dollars at the box office. The club has
been packed since he opened, and women
patrons actually gasp out loud when he
sighs thru some pushy pop ballads.
Crooned eight numbers, including a couple of oldies.
He knows how to sell ballads, making the lyrics sound
sincere and letting his face suggest real feeling.
The men apparently were not carried
away by his torching, but the women. . ..
Sinatra is in for three weeks. .
Nat Brandwynne (piano) leads the
show and dance band (three sax, three
fiddles and three rhythm). It's a good ---,outfit, with the
leader's tine piano leadilng most of the arrangements.
Chavez's band" (seven men) is, as usual, a lively, jumpy;
hotcha Latin outfit. Its rhythms are very danceable.
--Paul Denis.
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1948 "Miracle of the Bells" (New York City Premiere March 16, 1948)
Emacs!
Daily News (New York, New York) 16 Mar 1948, Tue
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1959 Southeast Florida State Tuberculosis Hospital, Lantana, FL
Emacs!
The Palm Beach Post (West Palm Beach, Florida) March 17, 1959
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The Miami Herald (Miami, Florida) · 18 Mar 1959
Frank Sinatra became a part of Floridas musical
history when he gave a secret concert at a hospital in Lantana.
By Larry Aydlette The Palm Beach Post
Posted Oct 14, 2019 at 3:20 PM
He was The Chairman. The Voice. A-Number One. King of The Hill.
So when Frank Sinatra arrived in Palm Beach
County to give a concert 60 years ago, youd
think it would have been a big, fat, ring-a-ding
deal. A lot of hype. Excited fans lining up for tickets.
But hardly anybody knew he was here.
At the time, Francis Albert Sinatra was the most
famous singer in the world. And 1959 marked the
close of a decade that had seen the release of
some of his greatest concept albums -- In The
Wee Small Hours, Songs For Swingin Lovers,
Come Fly With Me and the towering Frank Sinatra Sings For Only The Lonely.
He was a major movie star, catnip to the ladies
and a personality whose every move was fodder for gossip columnists.
So why did he come here under the radar?
Despite many stories of Mob connections and petty
cruelties, Sinatra was just as famous among
friends for his private generosities. And his
appearance on March 16, 1959 at the Southeast
Florida State Tuberculosis Hospital in Lantana
definitely fits the profile of the Sinatra who
would quietly help those in need.
You couldnt buy a ticket. He didnt do any
interviews. Sinatra probably wanted it kept
hush-hush. And who was going to cross Ol Blue Eyes?
The brief story of his appearance -- Frank
Sinatra Visits Hospital -- was buried the next
day in The Palm Beach Post on Page 13, dutifully
reported by Lake Worth News correspondent
Wilbur Royce.. It shared space with less flashy
community headlines, such as Water Pressure Temporarily Low.
The six-paragraph story said the patients had
the time of their lives when Sinatra spent more
than two hours in the hospital auditorium,
singing songs from a recent album and other all-time Sinatra hits.
But he didnt just perform in the auditorium.
Sinatra visited the wards where patients are
confined to their beds, and with the aid of a
piano on wheels serenaded the bed patients, the Post reported.
Needless to say, a hospital official said there
had never been such enthusiastic reception for
any show staged at the hospital. We wish to
thank Sinatra a great deal for leading the way in
what we hope will be a parade of stars to
entertain patients here, said H.E. Melton, the
hospitals special services officer.
The patients certainly deserved a respite from
their isolated suffering. Tuberculosis, primarily
a lung disease , was a leading cause of death in
the United States from the early 20th century
through the 1950s. Sanitariums began popping up
across the country, and the 500-bed Lantana
hospital had opened only nine years before Sinatra appeared.
Longtime residents probably remember it as the
A.G. Holley State Hospital, re-named in 1969 for
a state tuberculosis board member. By the 1970s,
it was the states only TB hospital, down to 150
patients. After numerous attempts to shut it
down, the state finally succeeded in 2012,
despite the fact that Florida had just
experienced its worst TB outbreak in decades.
Its unknown how Sinatra was recruited for the
hospital show. He was a supporter of many
charities, including the American Lung
Association. And, perhaps most important, he was
hanging out just down the road.
A few days before, he began a two-week stint at
Miami Beachs fabled Fontainebleau hotel. He had
been a frequent visitor to Miami since the 40s.
He had recently filmed Frank Capras A Hole In
The Head on South Beach, and would make his Tony
Rome detective pictures there during the 60s.
When he opened with the Red Norvo combo on March
3 at the hotels 750-seat La Ronde room, UPI
reported that several hundred people were turned
away. It was our largest opening night of the
season, a hotel official told the news service.
As always, gossip trailed after him, this time
reports of a feud with Sammy Davis, Jr. Sinatra
wouldnt talk about it. He stuck to his singing
-- and hits from Night and Day to All The Way.
To get an idea of what Sinatra Prime must have
been like at the Lantana hospital, consider what
Herb Kelly of The Miami News said about his Fontainebleau show:
Maybe a professional head shrinker can explain
how Frank Sinatra does it. The thin man dressed
in jet black suit, jet black shoes and light
pink tie...lifts the skinny microphone from its
stand and sings I Could Have Danced All Night in the beat of the blues.
And for a solid hour, by some mysterious
magnetism, he held the audience in a
spell...Everything about the act is reserved and
refined. To coin one of Sinatras polite expressions, Its a gasser.
The French singer and film star Maurice Chevalier
saw Sinatras last show at the Fontainebleau, and
was impressed by his talent. But he also glimpsed the other side of Sinatra.
He can turn on his audience in only a moment,
and I must say it, hes a little frightening when
he does this, Chevalier told the Miami News.
That shadow haunted Sinatra throughout his life
and career. Palm Beach County would not get a
chance at another Sinatra concert until 1993,
when he was 77 and did a four-show run at the
Kravis Center. In the September of his years,
Sinatras vocals werent all there. Neither was
his memory, but he still had plenty of that mysterious magnetism.
As for the tuberculosis hospital, the wrecking
ball started knocking down the old A.G. Holley
buildings in 2014. In its place is Lantanas
largest development, a long-gestating, mixed-use
complex of retail and apartments known as Water Tower Commons.
Maybe one day, somebody will be walking through
one of the complexs shops and hear a voice --
The Voice, in fact. And a Sinatra song will once
again serenade the area just like the man himself did 60 years ago.
This story was based on original reporting in The
Palm Beach Post, the Miami News, the Fort
Lauderdale News, and stories by Post reporter
Jeff Ostrowski and former Palm Beach Post writers
Michelle Quigley, Stacey Singer, Lauren Fisher and Charles Passy.
--Thanks to Ed O'Brien for posting the above story.
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1988 Seattle Center Coliseum, Seattle, Washington
The "TOGETHER AGAIN" Tour
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
w/Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, jr.
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