[sinatraphiles] Re: October 10 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Vance Adair <dr.vanceadair@xxxxxxxxx>
To: sinatraphiles@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2022 14:55:56 +0100

Interesting to read the very candid review of the Civic date. ‘76 wasn’t a
vintage year for FS as far as vocals are concerned. It’s all the more
remarkable, then, that even this late in the game FS (very ably assisted by
Falcone) would rediscover his mojo just a few years later. 78-84 were very
good years.

-Vance

On Mon, 10 Oct 2022 at 14:42, Scott Henderson <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

*Studio *NONE

Radio

1940  The Dorsey Hour
Saturday
4:30 – 5:20 p. m.
WOW Studios
Omaha, Nebraska
NBC Red (WOW)
Sustaining
Announcer: Russ . . .
It's that Sentimental Gentleman of Swing, Tommy Dorsey, his golden
voiced trombone and his versatile orchestra - with Connie Haines,
Frank Sinatra and the Pied Pipers - coming to you from the studios
of Station WOW in Omaha, Nebraska. Once more we bring you three
tunes selected to be played today in the "Tommy Dorsey Amateur
Songwriting Contest" and our studio audience here will vote its choice
on our Applause Meter.
1. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You          TD & Orch
2. Lights Out, Hold Me Tight                     Connie Haines
3. The World Is In My Arms                      Frank Sinatra
4. Take It                                                TD & Orch
5. Head On My Pillow                              Frank Sinatra
6. You Got Me This Way                         The Pied Pipers
7. I Could Make You Care                        Frank Sinatra
8. Old Black Joe ( Ziggy Elman solo)        TD & Orch
9. Funny Little Pedro                               The Pied Pipers
10. And So Do I                                      Connie Haines
11. Swanee River                                    TD & Orch
12. Dreamin' Just Dreamin'  ( last week's contest winner)   The Pied Pipers
      Amateur Song Contest
13. Lovely Is The Word For You               Connie Haines
14. Garden Of Roses                              Frank Sinatra
15. What Am I To Do                              The Pied Pipers
16. Who                                                Frank Sinatra  w/
Band Chorus
17. What Am I To Do   -winning song reprised    The Pied Pipers
18. So What!                                         TD & Orch
19. Closing theme

*Ed O'Brien: Before TD introduced "So What!," there was this announcement:
All right, Russ, and here, folks, is our big news about the SENSATIONAL NEW
program starting next Thursday night!! Over another network – YOUR program
-- FAME AND FORTUNE will be on the air! We'll all be on hand – the
orchestra, Frank Sinatra, Connie Hainess, the Pied Pipers and A SPECIAL
SURPRISE GUEST! But most important! The songs YOU send in will be reviewed,
judged and winners declared! To the FIRST PLACE WINNER each week will go a
publishing and royalties contract - and an advance royalty check!!!! And
the second and the third song to be picked will ALSO receive a large CASH
award. Think of it! YOUR song PUBLISHED! A board of famous orchestra
leaders will act as judges! It's REALLY your chance for FAME AND FORTUNE!
So don't miss the program! Remember, it's Thursday night, OCTOBER 17 over
another network. *
*1941 Live Remote: Meadowbrook, Cedar Grove, New Jersey *Friday Evening
Mutual Network - WOR New York City
Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra
Frank Sinatra, Connie Haines, Jo Stafford, Pied Pipers, Sy Oliver, Ziggy
Elman, Joe Bushkin, Heinie Beau
1. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You                                 TD &
Orch.
2. Swing High( Sy Oliver arg.)
TD & Orch.
3. Violets For Your Furs( Heinie Beau arg.)                     Frank
Sinatra
4. Somebody Loves Me
Pied Pipers
5.Yes, Indeed ( Sy Oliver arg.)                                         Jo
Stafford & Chuck Peterson
6 .Blue Skies( Sy Oliver arg.)
Frank Sinatra & Band Chorus
7.I Think Of You( Paul Weston arg.)                               Frank
Sinatra
8.The Skunk Song                                       Tommy Dorsey, Chuck
Peterson, Pied Pipers
9.Hallelujah (Sy Oliver arg.)                                         TD &
Orch
10. Closing Theme                                                       TD
& Orch.

*1943 Broadway Bandbox *Network: CBS
Location: New York City, CBS Playhouse #3
Time: 8:00PM - 8:30AM (EST) Sundays
Show #17
Sponsor: none (sustaining)
Host: Frank Sinatra
Musicians: Raymond Scott Orchestra, Charlie Spivak and His Orchestra
(music fills), Bobby Tucker Singers
Arranged and Conducted By: Axel Stordahl (Sinatra portions)
Announcer: Maurice Hart
Guests: Burt Wheeler, Constance Bennett
1. Pistol Packin' Mama - Frank Sinatra
2. From Taps Till Reveille - Frank Sinatra & Burt Wheeler
3. skit: "English Drawing Room" - Frank & Bennett
4. Ol' Man River - Frank Sinatra
5. Close To You - Frank Sinatra
6. Where Or When - Frank Sinatra
Notes: Confirmed airing on WABC and WTOP

*1945 Songs By Sinatra *Network: CBS
Location: Hollywood
Show #5
Sponsor: Old Gold Cigarettes
Time: 9:00PM - 9:30PM (EST) Wednesday
Orchestra Conducted By: Axel Stordahl
Arrangements By: Axel Stordahl
Announcer: Marvin Miller
Writer: Glenn Wheaton
Directed By: Mann Holiner
Performers: The Pied Pipers
Guest: Frances Langford, Ginny Simms, Jack Carson
CBS Broadcast:
1. opening theme: Night And Day
Langford & Simms come out and start discussing Frank.
Then he joins them and proceeds to sing his opening number:
2. There's No You - Frank Sinatra
3. Langford & Simms, using the Auld Land Syne melody, sing tributes,
individually, to their radio sponsors
4. Baia - Frances Langford
5. It's Been A Long Long Time - Ginny Simms
6. It's Only A Paper Moon - The Pied Pipers
7. All The Things You Are - Frank Sinatra  w/Pied Pipers
8. Frank and Marvin Miller sing "That's Old Gold" jingle
9. Frankie & Johnny musical comedy skit w/ Frank, Ginny, Frances
and Marvin Miller.( special lyrics )
10. closing theme: Put Your Dreams Away
note: AFRS broadvcast included "House I Live In."

[image: Emacs!]

*Note:  Sinatra did not sing "If I Loved You" on the broadcast Ed O'Brien
Notes: A rather unusual Old Gold broadcast. Sinatra did not open with his
standard uptempo number. Langford, Simms and The Pied Pipers did most of
the singing. Frank only sang two numbers. He did a long comedy skit with
Simms and Langford. *
*1949 Light Up Time *Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes
Network: NBC
Show #26
Broadcast: 4:00-4:15 PM PST (Repeat: 8:00-8:15 PM PST)
Starring: Frank Sinatra & Dorothy Kirsten
Jeff Alexander And The Orchestra
Script (as broadcast)
1. opening
2. You Do Something To Me - Frank Sinatra
3. commercial 1
4. The Last Mile Home - Dorothy Kirsten
5. Always - Frank Sinatra
6. How Deep Is The Ocean - Dorothy Kirsten
7. commercial 2
8. On The Isle Of Stromboli - Frank Sinatra
9. closing

*1950 Life With Luigi *Location: New York City
Network: CBS
Sponsor: Wrigley's Spearmint Chewing Gum
Writers: Mac Benoff, Lou Derman
Performers:  J. Carrol Naish, Alan Reed, Frank Sinatra, Mary Shipp, Hans
Conried, Jody Gilbert.

*Note: The show appears on the officially released CD set: 60 Greaest Old
Time Radio Show "Frank Sinatra & Friends" Ed O'Brien notes: J. Carroll
Naish was Luigi. He had worked with Frank at MGM (Kissing Bandit). The
half-hour show was broadcast Tuesday nights on CBS. Wrigley Gum was the
sponsor and Lyn Murray & Orch. provided the music. Frank sang a lovely
version of "Oh Marie" in Italian. *

*Television *NONE

Concerts

1935 Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco, CA (October 10-16)
The Hoboken Four
touring with the Major Bowes' Radio Amateurs

*1939 Panther Room, Hotel Sherman, Chicago , Illinois (September 8 -
October 12) *Harry James and his Orchestra w/Frank Sinatra

*1940 Pla-Mor Ballroom, Kansas City , Missouri (October 10 - one-nighter)
*Tommy
Dorsey and his Orchestra w/Frank Sinatra

*       Kansas City, Oct. 15 – -- The first sizable band of the fall
season was the Thursday (10) night stand of the Tommy Dorsey crew at the
Pla-Mor Ballroom. The band drew over 3,000 customers at a gate admission of
$1.30 per head and an advance fee of $1.15. A total of $3,250 is big money
for this spot, but the mid-week date held down the take. Dorsey and the
band made a string of one-nighters between a date in St. Louis and its
opening at the Palladium Ballroom, Hollywood, where the orchestra will play
while working in Paramount's "Las Vegas Nights,' Dorsey's first film
venture. Lawrence, Kansas, Omaha and Ogden were stops on the one-nighter
route. Manager Will Wittig of the Pla-Mor officially inaugurated the fall
season in his newly decorated hall with the Dorsey engagement. Variety
10-16-40 *1941 Meadowbrook, Cedar Grove ,New Jersey (October 9 - October
28)
Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra w/Frank Sinatra

*1942 Central Theatre, Passaic, New Jersey (October 8-14, 1942) *

*On Screen:  "Foreign Agent" *

*1943 Wedgwood Room, Waldorf Astoria, New York City (October 1 - November
30) *

*WEDGEWOOD ROOM, WALDORF-ASTORIA HOTEL, NEW YORK Talent policy: Dance and
relief bands; floorshows at 8:30, 12:30 and 2. Management: Lucius Boomer,
managing director; Ted Saucier, publicity. Prices: Weekday cover charge,
$1; Fridays, Saturdays and holidays, $2. For the opening of the ultra-smart
Wedgewood Room. Lucius Boomer has obtained two attract- ions representing
the height of popular appeal to contrast with a tasty item, with a major
appeal to the swank set. As it is both acts go over with an accolade rarely
evident among the usually restrain- ed Park Avenue clientele. Frank Sinatra
and a dance pair from the Ballet Russe, Volkoff and Milada, give the room
one of the smartest shows in the hotel sector. Sinatra, with this
engagement, proves that the social register is as susceptible as the
Paramount Theater audience when there is swooning to be done. His effect on
the femmes is equally as devast- ating. He ran the gamut of the current
swoon numbers, including "Sunday, Monday,Or Always,;" "All or Nothing At
All," a medley from "Oklahoma," and two sets of encores. He made a graceful
bow-off speech that further ingratiated him with the audience. Leo Reisman,
who moved down from the Starlight Roof, continues to provide the
showbacking and dance numbers. For Sinatra's turn, he uses a femme harpist,
mainly for atmospheric reasons. Mischa Borr does the relief work. Billboard
J.C. October 9, 1943 note: Frank opened on 10-1-43 and the engagement ran
through 11-30-43 *

*1952 Chase Park Plaza Hotel, St Louis, Missouri (4-10) 1976 Civic Arena,
Pittsburgh, PA *Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1.  I Write the Songs
2.  Where or When
3.  Stargazer
4.  The Lady Is a Tramp
5.  Embraceable You
6.  My Funny Valentine
7.  I Get Along Without You Very Well
8.  For Once in My Life
9.  Like a Sad Song
10. This Is All I Ask
11. Never Gonna Fall in Love Again
12. Empty Tables
13. It Was a Very Good Year
14. Night and Day
15. My Way

*1985 Golden Nugget, Atlantic City New Jersey *Key Musicians: Don Baldini
(Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums), Tony Mattola (Guitar), Joe Parnello (piano)
Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello
Partial Recording:
1. Where Or When
2. It's All right With Me
3. Autumn Leaves
4. L.A. Is My Lady
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. Change Partners
7. Something
8. All Or Nothing At All
9. Lost In The Stars
10. The Gal That Got Away
11. monologue
12. Tony Mattola: solo
Notes: incomplete TT 43mins.

*1991 Point, Dublin, Ireland *Orchestra Conducted By: Frank Sinatra, Jr.
1. Come Fly With Me
2. Where Or When
3. You Make Me Feel So Young
4. Come Rain Or Come Shine
5. For Once In My Life
6. The Lady Is A Tramp
7. monologue
8. My Heart Stood Still
9. The Best Is Yet To Come
10. Barbara
11. The Summer Wind
12. Soliloquy
13. Mack The Knife
14. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
15. New York, New York
16. Frank, Steve, & Eydie - Hits Medley: All Or Nothing At All (SL) -
    Bewitched (EG) - Come Fly With Me (FS) - Oh Look At Me Now
    (EG) - Night And Day (FS) - Day In, Day Out (All) - I Thought
    About You (SL) - Saturday Night (FS) - Come Dance With Me (SL)
    - I Won't Dance (EG) - I Get A Kick Out Of You (FS) - The Tender
    Trap (SL) - Witchcraft (EG) - Strangers In The Night (SL-EG) - I've
    Got The World On A String (FS) - You Make Me Feel So Young
    (SL-EG) - A Lovely Way To Spend An Evening (SL) - This Love
    Of Mine (EG) - I'll Never Smile Again (SL-FS) - Everything
    Happens To Me (SL-EG) - All The Way (FS) - One For My Baby
    (All) - That's Life (SL) - When You're Smiling (All) - Young At
    Heart (All) - Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart (All)
17. My Way
Notes: TT 90mins.

*1992 Radio City Music Hall, New York City *Orchestra Conducted By: Frank
Sinatra, Jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. All Or Nothing At All
3. For Once In My Life
4. Come Rain Or Come Shine
5. I've Got You Under My Skin
6. The House I Live In
7. Luck Be A Lady
8. Barbara
9. Summer Wind
10. I've Got A Crush On You
11. What Now, My Love?
12. Soliloquy
13. Mack The Knife
14. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
15. New York, New York
Notes: TT 75mins.

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*Extra: *1935 Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco, CA (October 10-16)
The Hoboken Four
touring with the Major Bowes' Radio Amateurs

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*1940 Pla-Mor Ballroom, Kansas City , Missouri (October 10 - one-nighter)
*Tommy
Dorsey and his Orchestra w/Frank Sinatra

[image: Emacs!]

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*1943 Broadway Bandbox *Network: CBS
Location: New York City, CBS Playhouse #3
Time: 8:00PM - 8:30AM (EST) Sundays
Show #17
Sponsor: none (sustaining)
Host: Frank Sinatra
Musicians: Raymond Scott Orchestra, Charlie Spivak and His Orchestra
(music fills), Bobby Tucker Singers
Arranged and Conducted By: Axel Stordahl (Sinatra portions)
Announcer: Maurice Hart
Guests: Burt Wheeler, Constance Bennett

[image: Emacs!]

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*1950 Life With Luigi *Location: New York City
Network: CBS
Sponsor: Wrigley's Spearmint Chewing Gum
Writers: Mac Benoff, Lou Derman
Performers:  J. Carrol Naish, Alan Reed, Frank Sinatra, Mary Shipp, Hans
Conried, Jody Gilbert.

*Note: The show appears on the officially released CD set: 60 Greaest Old
Time Radio Show "Frank Sinatra & Friends" [image: Emacs!]*

note: Been searching for songs Frank wrote that were never published.
Quite by accident
I stumbled upon this article from 9-17-48. Naish, who was Irish, wrote a
story about a tinker - a
wandering handyman. Frank was interested in playing the lead. Title of the
film was "The Tinker
Of Ballycullen." Film would have shown the charm and atmosphere of Ireland
as it was 70 years ago.
Another of so many unrealized Sinatra film projects.
Ed

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*1976 Civic Arena, Pittsburgh, PA *[image: Emacs!]

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