Studio
None
Radio
1940
Saturday Afternoon
NBC Red Network
4:30 - 5:20 p. m
WOW Studios - Omaha, Nebraska
Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra
Connie Haines, Frank Sinatra, Jo. Stafford, Pied
Pipers, Buddy Rich,. Joe Bushkin, Ziggy Elman, Sy Oliver
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 TD & Orch.
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 Haines, 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
Sunday Evening
1:00 - 1:30 a.m.
Mutual Network - WOR New York City
Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra
1. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You TD & Orch.
2. Swing High( Sy Oliver arg.) TD & Orch.
3. Violets For Your Furs Frank Sinatra
4. Yes Indeed( Sy Oliver arg.) Jo Stafford & Chuck Peterson
5. Deep River( Sy Oliver arg.) TD & Orch.
1941 Fitch Bandwagon
Show: 163
Sunday
7:30 p.m. 8:000 p.m.
NBC Red Network
Radio City
New York City
WEAF
Announcer: Jack Costello
Host: Tobe Reed
Sponsor: F.W.Fitch Company (shampoo)
Guests: Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra
1. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You TD & Orch.
2. Will You Still Be Mine Connie Haines
3. This Love Of Mine Frank Sinatra
4. Yes, Indeed ( Sy Oliver arg.) TD & Orch..
5. None But The Lonely Heart TD & Orch.
6. Swing High TD & Orch.
7. Closing Theme TD & Orch.
1949 Light Up Time
Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes
Network: NBC
Show #28
Broadcast: 4:00-4:15 PM PST (Repeat: 8:00-8:15 PM PST)
Starring: Frank Sinatra & Dorothy Kirsten
Jeff Alexander And The Orchestra
Guests: The Sky Larks
1. opening
2. Could 'Ja - Frank Sinatra & The Sky Larks
3. commercial 1
4.. These Foolish Things Remind Me Of You - Dorothy Kirsten
5. commercial 1
6. Don't Cry, Joe - Frank Sinatra & Sky Larks
7. Closing
Notes: Sinatra's scheduled performance of "I Only
Have Eyes For You" was cut. Several other changes were made to this script.
Television
1951 Cavalcade of Stars
Jackie Gleason, Pert Kelton, Art Carney
Guests: Mel Tormé, Lois Hunt (Opera Vocalist), Maria Neglia (Violinist)
Frank Sinatra has a cameo appearance
Concerts
1935 Orpheum, San Francisco, CA (October 10-16)
The Hoboken Four
touring with the Major Bowes' Radio Amateurs
1937 The Manhatters with Frank Sinatra, Tenor
WOR 9:45 AM
Emacs!
1939 Panther Room, Hotel Sherman, Chicago , Illinois (September 8 - October 12)
Harry James and his Orchestra w/Frank Sinatra
1940 Chermot Ballroom, Omaha, Nebraska, Saturday Evening, One-Nighter
Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra
1941 Meadowbrook, Cedar Grove , New Jersey (October 9 - October 28)
Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra w/Frank Sinatra
1942 Central Theatre, Passaic, New Jersey
On Screen: "Foreign Agent"
1943 Wedgwood Room, Waldorf Astoria, New York City (October 1 - November 30)
1944 Paramount Theatre , New York City (11-29)
Three-Week Engagement
Frank Sinatra with The Raymond Paige Orchestra
O.A. Eileen Barton, Ollie O'Toole, Pops & Louie
Film: Our Hearts Were Young And Gay
1945 Naval Station & Ward Island, Corpus Christi, Texas
Sinatra performed two shows on October 12, 1945.
Frank Sinatra, Phil Silvers, Faye McKenzie, Saul Chaplin, The Pied Pipers
1953 Sands, Las Vegas, Nevada (October 7-27)
With Ray Sinatra Orchestra
The Nicholas Brothers
1974 The Main Event, Madison Square Garden, New York City
Woody Herman and The Young Thundering Herd
Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. The Lady Is A Tramp
2. I Get A Kick Out Of You
3.. What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life
4. Bad Bad Leroy Brown
5. Let Me Try Again
6. Send In The Clowns
7. My Kind Of Town
8. Autumn In New York
9. If
10. I've Got You Under My Skin
11. Angel Eyes
12. The House I Live In
13. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life
14. My Way
Note: "Autumn In New York" appears on the CD: The
Main Event (Reprise). This concert was recorded
by Reprise. Edited concert is available in the
"Frank Sinatra: New York" set from Reprise ( R2 520602 ), released in 2009.
NOTE: Sinatra Scholar Ed O'Brien points out that
"Let Me Try Again" is from October 13 until 1:51
and there is an intercut and the rest of the song
is from October 12 O'Brien remarks that the
October 12 performance is outstanding in
relationship to the October 13 show. ABC taped
October 12 as insurance in case Sinatra couldn't perform October 13.
Sinatraphile Vance Adair, in response, points out
that "The Main Event" has always both fascinated
and amused him. Leaving aside the intercuts,
substitutions, apologies, and tantrums I, too,
look forward to the day when Reprise releases the
other dates recorded around this time. Sinatra,
he explains, was very much out of sorts on this
date His onstage behavior during the commercials
(especially apropos New Jersey ) is revealing
indeed. He has spoken with some of the musicians
who performed on this date. By these accounts,
Sinatra was in less than stellar voice and he
knew it. And do did Reprise. There are several
far superior line-tap recordings decaying in the
vaults from this period that merit an official
release. He feels that the Carnegie Hall date
from April of 1974 is an undiluted gem of a concert.
Sinatraphile Jack Tomsky say he agrees that this
show is far superior to the televised show of the
following night. One of the amusing things is
that when Sinatra introduced Howard Cosell, the
audience booed. Ed O'Brien says that Sinatra
didn't like that and came to Cosell's defense. But the booing got louder!
O'Brien says that it took Sinatra five years to
live down The Main Event. He has review after
review, from all over the world, in the writer
would compare an outstanding performance with
that evening in Madison Square Garden.
People involved with the album's release told
O'Brien that the full page ad in the New York
Times on the day of the concert, announcing the
forthcoming LP release, was the only reason it
was issued. They couldn't figure out a way to
make it disappear. Listen to "Skin" and "Angel
Eyes" from that night and then compare them to
the Buffalo tracks on the released album. Really
the difference between night and day!
Carnegie Hall from April, O'Brien observes, was
recorded with the intent of commercial release.
Problem was Sinatra didn't finish the opening
song and blew the lyrics on two others. Reprise
did put together a two LP set titled "Sinatra
SRO" from the April tour. Sinatra listened to it
but didn't like what he heard. The Saloon Trilogy
from Carnegie was mastered and playeD on Music of
Your Life. Really quite marvelous.
These would make a nice CD set, O'Brien points
out: Sinatra's 1971 Retirement Concert, The White
House in 1973, and Carnegie Hall 1974 with a few
substitutes culled from that tour.
1979 Waldorf Astoria , New York City
World Mercy Benefit
1. New York, New York
1. Something
2. The Best is Yet to Come
3. I Can't Get Started
4. It was a Very Good Year
5. Street of Dreams
6. Bewitched
7. The Lady is a Tramp
8.. My Way
Ed O'Brien:
We have here the first anniversary, well almost,
of Frank's performance of Kander & Ebb's "New York, New York."
He would perform the song as the opening number
until his Saratoga concert of 6-22-79. That evening
he electrified a crowd of 7,000 plus by closing
his performance with a dynamite rendition of the song.
From October 13, 1978 until the summer of 1979,
the tune would evolve until Frank's version became
a series of defiant declarative sentences. It is
interesting that a year after introducing the song
Frank would once again use it as his opening
number. This was very unusual because it had
become the final number of almost every concert
after Saratoga. I wonder if he checked the
calendar.
1981 Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, Kansas
1. I've Got the World on a String
2. Come Rain or Come Shine
3. When Joanna Loved Me
4. Fly Me to the Moon
5. Something
6. Say Hello
7. Strangers in the Night
8. The Best Is Yet to Come
9. I Loved Her
10. The Lady Is a Tramp
11. Luck Be a Lady
12. As Time Goes By
13. My Way
14. Pennies From Heaven
15. Good Thing Going
16. Theme From New York, New York
HE DOES IT THEIR WAY
SINATRA DELIGHTS HIS FANS AND SPINS A MOOD THAT LINGERS
Monday wasn't just another Columbus Day in
Kansas City. Frank Sinatra made it
something special by turning his singular magic
loose on a sold-out house at Municipal
auditorium.
Mr. Sinatra, who at 65 is on an eight-city
tour of the country, enthralled a crowd of
9,300 listeners -- most of them over 30 -- with
standards like "My Way" and "As Time
Goes By" and with newer songs like George Harrison's "Something."
Backed by a 21-piece orchestra, Mr.
Sinatra sang 18 songs in a full and resonant
voice. Strolling about the rectangular stage
under five huge speakers suspended from cables,
he punctuated the musical phrases by flipping his hand and pointing his finger.
Mr. Sinatra made his entrance at 8:45 p.m.
from the arena's south entrance. Surrounded
by about a half-dozen attendants, he looked
fittingly august in a black tuxedo and silver
hair implant.
To deafening cheers, he took the stage and
launched into "I've Got The World On A String."
During the 80-minute performance, Mr.
Sinatra ignored most interruptions from the crowd,
such as a brassiere pitched onto the stage and a
cry of "Sing it, Frankie," which broke the
mood of the ballad "When Joanna Loved Me."
Midway through the show, Mr. Sinatra took a
break and picked up a glass of red wine,
saying, "I have to warm up the tonsils from time to time.
Toasting the crowd, he said, "I hope you
have everything you want in your lives, particularly
an abundance of health. May you live to be 750
years old and the last voice you hear be
mine."
When a girl handed him a red rose, he
thanked her and handed her the blue handkerchief
from his breast pocket. After accepting several
more flowers, he cracked, "Next time I'll bring
a box of handkerchiefs."
Mr. Sinatra closed out the concert with a
rousing rendition of "New York, New York," and
then left the stage in a phalanx of attendants and policemen.
Before going out the door, he blew a kiss
to the crowd, which stood watching after he was
gone, luxuriating in the experience and bidding
it and Mr. Sinatra a reluctant farewell.
Though the dress of the crowd, made up of
people of all ages, was as mixed as a tossed
salad, everyone had one interest in common:
"It's not often you get to see a real
honest-to-God professional perform," said Sue Blake
of Kansas City.
For many of the older people, who clogged
the entrance to the auditorium to attend the
concert, the anticipation of waiting and then
finally hearing the voice, dissolved the years
since their youth.
"I admired him when he first started
singing, and I remember when I saw him the first
time in New York in 1942," said Mrs. Thomas
Walch, who attended the concert with
her husband and who has 15 to 20 of Mr. Sinatra's albums.
"I wasn't one of those screaming
bobby-soxers, but I definitely was a fan. He's the
master, and there's nobody like him."
"I'm really excited about this," said
Joanne Goulding, who attended the concert with
her husband, Ed. "He was one of my favorite singers when I was growing up."
Outside the auditorium ticket scalpers
worked the in-going crowd, flower salesmen
peddled their wares and a woman gave out free
packages of cigarettes. Their performances,
though, were upstaged by the refrain of Sinatra
tunes that echoed in people's minds from
well-worn albums or never-forgotten songs heard on the radio.
Mr. Sinatra's hit big records came in the
'40s, '50s and '60s and resulted in his wide
appeal, evidenced by elderly parents accompanied
by their middle-aged children or grand-
children.
"His music is timeless," said 31-year old Mike Eastwood.
--James C. Fitzpatrick and Lewis W. Diuguid
Kansas City Star, 10-14-81
Ed O'Brien
Frank's tour in September-October 1981 started in
Hartford on 9-25-26 and then moved on to
Kansas City, Wichita (10-13 ), Houston ( 10-16),
New Orleans( 10-18 ), Denver ( 10-24 ) and then
two shows in L.A.. For some reason Kansas City
has had a date, 10-10, instead of the correct date, 10-12.
The Denver show was a benefit for Diabetes
Association Ball and the L.A shows were benefits for Sherman
Block (10-25) and St John's Hospital ( 10-30 ).
Chicago Stadium was scheduled for 10-9-10, but was canceled.
Songs performed during tour:
I've Got The World On A String
Come Rain Or Come Shine
Fly Me To The Moon
When Joanna Loved Me
Something
Say Hello
Strangers In The Night
The Best Is Yet To Come
I Loved Her
The Lady Is A Tramp
Luck Be A Lady
As Time Goes By w/ Tony Mottola
My Way
These Foolish Things
Pennies From Heaven
Good Thing Going
You And Me
New York, New York
1984 Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada (12-13)
Friday evening
First show
Orchestra conducted by Joe Parnello
1. L. A. Is My Lady
2. Come Rain Or Come Shine
3. It's All Right With Me
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5. Luck Be A Lady
monologue
6. Pennies From Heaven
7. These Foolish Things w/T. Mottola
8. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
9. New York, New York
10. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
11. Strangers In The Night
12. Mack The Knife
1984 Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada (12-13)
Friday evening
second show
Orchestra conducted by Joe Parnello
1. L. A. Is My Lady
2. Come Rain Or Come Shine
3. It's All Right With Me
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5. Luck Be A Lady
monologue
6. Pennies From Heaven
7. These Foolish Things w/T. Mottola
8. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
9. New York, New York
10. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
11. Strangers In The Night
12. Mack The Knife
1985 Golden Nugget, Atlantic City New Jersey (9-13)
Orchestra conducted by Joe Parnello
Saturday evening
First show:
1.. All Or Nothing At All (Riddle arg. 1966)
"That song was orchestrated by my friend Nelson Riddle,whom
we dedicate every performance from now to the end of this
year -- or forever -- to his memory." Riddle died 10-8-85
2. It's All Right With Me
3. Autumn Leaves (terrific vocal)
4. L.A. Is My Lady
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. Change Partners Parnello arg. 1982
7. Something Riddle arg. 1974
8. Where Or When Byers arg. 1966
9. In The Wee Small Hours ( "Song written by Jule Styne," according
to Frank)
11. The Gal That Got Away ( tribute to Judy )
monologue
12. More Than You Know w/ Tony Mottola
12. Mack The Knife
13. It Was A Very Good Year
14.. The Best Is Yet To Come
15. One For My Baby
1985 Golden Nugget, Atlantic City New Jersey (9-13)
Orchestra conducted by Joe Parnello
Saturday evening
second show:
1. All Or Nothing At All Riddle arg. 1966
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 Parnello arg. 1982
7. Something Riddle arg. 1974
8. Where Or When Byers arg. 1966
9. In The Wee Small Hours
11. The Gal That Got Away
monologue
12. More Than You Know w/ Tony Mottola
12. Mack The Knife
13. It Was A Very Good Year
14. The Best Is Yet To Come
15. One For My Baby
1992 Radio City Music Hall, New York City (8-17)
w/ Shirley MacLaine
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. My Funny Valentine
11. What Now My Love
12. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
13. Mack the Knife
14. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)
15. My Way
16. Medley - Let's Sing It(with Shirley MacLaine)
17. You Make Me Feel So Young
18. Witchcraft
19. Theme From New York, New York
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EXTRA:
1940 Chermot Ballroom, Omaha, Nebraska, Saturday Evening, One-Nighter
Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra
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1944 Paramount Theatre , New York City (11-29)
Three-Week Engagement
Frank Sinatra with The Raymond Paige Orchestra
O.A. Eileen Barton, Ollie O'Toole, Pops & Louie
Film: Our Hearts Were Young And Gay
Emacs!
NYT
10-13-44
Columbus Day Riots:
Emacs!
Frank Sinatra fans at the Columbus Day riot.
Photograph: Weegee (Arthur Fellig)/International/Getty Images
<https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jonsavage>Jon Savage
Fri 10 Jun 2011 19.50 EDT
On 12 October 1944,
<https://www.theguardian.com/music/frank-sinatra>Frank
Sinatra opened his third season at New York's
Paramount theatre. It was Columbus Day, a public
holiday, and the bobby-soxers turned out in
force. The famed New York photographer Weegee
(Arthur Fellig) was there with his camera and
notebook, capturing the scene in hyperventilated prose.
"Oh! Oh! Frankie," he began, mimicking the girls'
ululations. "The line in front of the Paramount
theatre on Broadway starts forming at midnight.
By four in the morning, there are over 500 girls
they wear bobby sox (of course), bow ties (the
same as Frankie wears) and have photos of Sinatra pinned to their dresses
"Then the great moment arrived. Sinatra appeared
on stage ... hysterical shouts of 'Frankie ...
Frankie'; you've heard the squeals on the radio
when he sings. Multiply that by about a thousand
times and you get an idea of the deafening noise."
For Weegee, this was another example of the human
extremities that he documented with his instinct
for the climatic moments in New York life: what
he didn't mention was the fact that, after each
performance, the Paramount was drenched in urine.
Like Rudolph Valentino's funeral in 1926, or The
Wizard of Oz opening in 1939, the Columbus Day
riot was a generation-defining media event acted
out on Manhattan's streets: during the day some
30,000 frenzied bobby-soxers swarmed over Times
Square in an exhilarated display of girl power.
The New Republic editor Bruce Bliven called it "a
phenomenon of mass hysteria that is only seen two
or three times in a century. You need to go back
not merely to Lindbergh [Charles Lindbergh's
first flight] and Valentino to understand it, but
to the dance madness that overtook some German
villages in the middle ages, or to the Children's
Crusade." What was new was the power that one
singer held, heralded by mass screaming, and the
advent of the teenager as a social ideal. Sinatra
was the first modern pop star.
Sinatra's fame had been steadily building. His
breakthrough came in his first Paramount season
in December 1942, when the theatre erupted with
"five thousand kids stamping, yelling, screaming,
applauding". These scenes only intensified during
his return in May 1943. The mania overtook the
hype: his press agents remembered hiring "girls
to scream when he sexily rolled a note. But we
needn't have. The dozen girls we hired to scream
and swoon did exactly as we told them. But
hundreds more we didn't hire screamed even
louder. It was wild, crazy, completely out of control."
Although nearly 29 by October 1944, Sinatra was
slightly built, nervous and youthful: "It was the
war years," he later said, "there was a great
loneliness. I was the boy in every corner
drugstore, the boy who had gone to war."
In concert, he seduced his young audience. His
bright blue eyes raked the crowd, singling out
individuals so that he appeared to be singing for
them alone, just one in a crowd of thousands.
Matched to the ethereal kitsch of slow ballads
such as Embraceable You, "The Voice" as Sinatra
was known cast a spell that suspended time.
Sinatra's rise was unstoppable, for he filled a
deep need. Bliven thought that the bobby-soxers
at the Paramount "found in him, for all his
youthfulness, something of a father image. And
beyond that, he represents a dream of what they
themselves might conceivably do or become."
In the mid-40s, Sinatra became a national figure
of controversy and criticism. He was blamed for
making young people lose "control of their
emotions", and was attacked for being out of
uniform: because of an injury, he had been ruled unfit for duty in 1943.
Yet his status was confirmed in September 1944
when he went to the White House and met the
president. Franklin Roosevelt had already made
public statements linking American politics with
its popular music, but this meeting was a
shrewdly taken opportunity to reaffirm that
adolescents were a vital part of American society.
The Columbus Day riots coincided with the
invention of the teenage market. In September
1944, the magazine Seventeen was launched, which
declared to its primarily female readers: "you
are the bosses of the business". It was an
immediate success, selling half a million copies.
Seventeen offered a non-patronising approach that
struck a chord, and it focused Americans on the
barely recognised purchasing power of adolescents: estimated at $750m ( 465m).
The hysteria that surrounded Sinatra in October
1944 came at a crux time in the history of
America and its youth. It reaffirmed the
collective power of young women, and how they have always been central to pop.
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1945 Naval Station & Ward Island, Corpus Christi, Texas
Sinatra performed two shows on October 12, 1945.
Frank Sinatra, Phil Silvers, Faye McKenzie, Saul Chaplin, The Pied Pipers
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1979 Waldorf Astoria , New York City
World Mercy Benefit
Thanks to Carl Rasmussen for supplying the image below:
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Frank Sinatra belts out "The Lady is a Tramp" and
Geraldine UNITED STATES - OCTOBER 12:
Frank Sinatra belts out "The Lady is a Tramp" and
Geraldine (better known as comedian Flip Wilson)
refuses to let a feather boa constrict her on
stage at the Waldorf-Astoria. Sinatra was being honored at the bash
at which he received the World Mercy Fund's Award
for his humanitarian efforts on behalf of the fund's programs
to aid the needy in West Africa. (Photo by Hy
Simon/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)
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