[sinatraphiles] October 16 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

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Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2022 15:46:12 -0400

Studio

1940 Hollywood

PBS055110 Do You Know Why?
(from Paramount Picture Love Thy Neighbor)
(J. Burke/J. Van Heusen)
Famous Music Co. (ASCAP)
Arranged by Deane Kincaide
-1 (3:10) CD: 07863 66353-2 "The Song Is You" 5CD set Vol 2
CD: RCA 9679-2-R
LP: SD 1000
78: 26798
Saxes: Fred Stulce, Johnny Mince, Paul Mason, Heinie Beau, Don Lodice; Trumpets: Ziggy Elman, Ray Linn, Chuck Peterson; Piano: Joe Bushkin; Trombones: Les Jenkins, George Arus, Lowell Martin; Guitar: Clark Yocum; Bass: Sid Weiss; Drums: Buddy Rich

Radio

1943 Your Hit Parade
Network: CBS
Program #439
Time: 9:00-9:45 P.M.. (Rebroadcast October 17, 1943 12:00-12:45 A.M.)
Sponsor: Lucky Strike
Script (Final As Broadcast)
1. All Or Nothing At All (7) - Sinatra
2. Everybody Step - Orchesta
3. You'll Never Know (8) - Hit Paraders
4. Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey (6) - Bea Wain
5. commercial
6. El Rancho Grande - Orchestra & Hit Paraders
7. I Heard You Cried Last Night (4) - Sinatra
8. They're Either Too Young Or Too Old (9) - Bea Wain
9. Forty-Second Street - Orchestra
10. station break
11. Pistol Packin' Mama (5) - Sinatra
12. For Me And My Gal - Orchestra & Hit Paraders
13. commercial
14. Paper Doll (3) - Hit Paraders
15. People Will Say We're In Love (2) - Bea Wain
16. Sunday, Monday Or Always (1) - Sinatra

1946 Songs By Sinatra (CBS)
Sponsor: Old Gold Cigarettes
Announcer: Marvin Miller
Orchestra Conducted By: Axel Stordahl
Performers: Frank Sinatra, The Pied Pipers, Andre Previn
1. Great Day
2. Linger In My Arms A Little Longer, Baby - The Pied  Pipers
3. The First Movement of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto - Andre Previn
4. Medley w/Andre Previn: East Side-West Side, Bedelia, Call Me Up Some Rainy Afternoon,
    If I Had My Way Dear ( complete)
5. South America Take It Away  Sinatra  & The Pied Pipers
6. Lost In The Stars
7. Put Your Dreams Away
NOTE: Sinatraphile Scott Henderson says he listened to the 1946 Songs by Sinatra recording. He especially loved "Lost in the Stars."

1948 Your Hit Parade
Network: NBC
Program #697
Time: 9:00-9:30 P.M. (Rebroadcast 9:00-9:30 P.M. PST 10:00-10:30 P.M. PDST)
Sponsor: Lucky Strike
Script (Final As Broadcast)
1. commercial 1
2. Love Somebody (7) - Frank Sinatra & Hit Paraders
3. Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart - Orchestra
4. Bluebird Of Happiness (5) - Beryl Davis
5. My Happiness (6) - Hit Paraders
6. commercial 2
7. Green Eyes - Orchestra
8. It's Magic (4) - Frank Sinatra & Hit Paraders
9. Of Thee I Sing - Orchestra
10. Hair Of Gold, Eyes Of Blue (3) - Frank Sinatra
11. You Call Everybody Darling (2) - Beryl Davis
12. commercial 3
13. A Tree In The Meadow (1) - Frank Sinatra

Television

1951 Frank Sinatra Show
Network: CBS
Script: Dated October 16, 1951
Location: New York City
Show: 38(in series), 2-02(in season)
Tuesday 8:00 P.M.-9:00 P.M.
Sponsor: Ekco Housewares (first 15mins), sustaining (final 45mins)
Orchestra Conducted By: Axel Stordahl
Producer: Max Gordon
Executive Producer: Marlo Lewis
Writers: Harry Crane
Guests: Jackie Gleason, Anne Jeffreys, Stanton and Luster (dancers)
1. All Of Me - Frank Sinatra
2. I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me - Frank Sinatra
3. Body And Soul - Frank Sinatra

Note: Sinatra had a cameo four days earlier on Gleason's October 12, 1951 episode of Cavalcade of Stars

Review:
Program: Frank Sinatra Show,
CBS -TV, Tuesday, 8 -9 p.m.
Approx. cost: $41,500.
"Sponsor: Ekco Products Corp.
(first 15 minutes).
Agency: Earle Ludgin & Co.,
Chicago.
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Jackie Gleason,
Anne Jeffreys, Jack Stanton
and Betty Luster.
Producer: Max Gordon.
Director: Jack Donohue.
Musical director: Axel Stordahl,
Writers: Al Schwartz, Howard
Snyder, Hugh Wedlock and
Arnold Auerbach.

TO JUDGE by his Oct. 16 CBS
Television performance, Frank Sinatra has decided the best way
to compete with Milton Berle, who is opposite him on NBC -TV, is to
fight fire with fire.
This decision might have been wise were it not for the handicap
that Mr. Sinatra himself is no more than a wisp of smoke and
the comedian he imported to assist him, Jackie Gleason, would
find it hard to touch off a spark with a dynamite cap and a sledge
hammer.
Mr. Sinatra's second round against Mr. Berle de-emphasized
his singing and featured him and Mr. Gleason as comics in a series
of bits not unlike the sort of thing that has been happening every
Tuesday evening over on NBCTV for years.
One scene aboard a Pullman car had Messrs. Sinatra and Gleason
dressed in night caps and pajamas. Sample gag:
Mr. Gleason: How do you like
my sleeping bag? I bought it at
Brooks Brothers.
Mr.Sinatra: It looks like the
brothers were still in it.
This type of joke is endemic to The Berle show. It should not be
borrowed by Mr. Sinatra unless he wishes to become a pallid version
of his competition.
Possibly half the gags delivered by Mr. Gleason on the show dealt
with Mr . Sinatra's physical condition which is, to be optimistic,
alarming. It is plain that he has been strained by his recent life
off -screen.
It seemed to this reviewer that Mr. Sinatra is thinner than he
used to be, a condition that should be of interest to the American
Medical Assn. He is also more listless, which is to say he is approaching
an almost inanimate state. His voice, which was never a robust
instrument, has suffered.
The therapy this reviewer advocates for Mr. Sinatra -if he
hopes to last out the season and establish his show -is a steak, a
night's sleep and a production that does not try to overcome the opposition
by imitation.
Broadcast Magazine
October 22, 1951

1965 The Hollywood Palace (ABC)
Taped: September 26, 1965
Host: Frank Sinatra
Guests: The Count Basie Orchestra, Jackie Leonard
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. Fly Me To The Moon
3. Please Be Kind
4. Too Marvelous For Words
5. Everybody's Got The Right To Be Wrong
6. The Gal That Got Away
Notes: 60 min.

OTE: Sinatraphile Vance Adair reports this is a nice performance, especially on "Everybody has the Right to be Wrong." The complete show was available on Youtube for a while. It may still be lurking there somewhere.

Ed O'Brien adds that this, the 42nd episode of The Hollywood Palace, was taped in Hollywood. The guests were Jack E. Leonard, Pete Gennaro, Alice and Ellen Kessler plus Mitchell Ayres and the Hollywood Palace Orchestra.

Sinatra opened the show with "I've Got the World on a String," backed by the Ayres Orchestra playing the famous Riddle chart. Sinatra did a skit with Leonard and introduced the other acts. After Basie and Band played an orchestral track, Sinatra joined them with Conductor Quincy Jones. "Fly Me to the Moon" opened that segment followed by "Please Be Kind."

Sinatra then did a fabulous swing version of Johnny Mercer's "Too Marvelous for Words." A monologue came next with Sinatra sitting on a stool drinking a cup of tea. He then told of seeing "Skyscraper" on Broadway and he segued into "Every Body had the Right to be Wrong (At Least Once)" from that show. The audience game him a thunderous ovation and he responded by doing a reprise of the final chorus. He closed the show by mentioning Judy Garland before singing "The Gal that Got Away." All in all, a great evening of Sinatra and Basie. Sinatra also taped "Sammy and Friends" over the next few days. It would air on February 1, 1966.

Concerts

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

1939 Panther Room, Hotel Sherman, Chicago, Illinois (September 9 - October 27)
Harry James and his Orchestra w/Frank Sinatra

1941 Meadowbrook, Cedar Grove , New Jersey (October 9 - October 28)
Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra w/Frank Sinatra

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

1944 Paramount Theatre, New York City (10-11-44 to 10-29-44)
Opening Day Of A 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
NIGHT CLUBS - VAUDEVILLE
Paramount, New York

1948 Annual Hollywood Press Photographer's Costume Ball, Ciro's Restaurant, Los Angeles, CA
Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly performed (among others)

1953 Sands, Las Vegas, Nevada (7-27)
Frank Sinatra & Orch (8) with Bill Miller, Nicholas
Bros.(2),Charles Nelson, Bek Steiner, Bryon Balmer,
Copa Girls (10), Ray Sinatra Orch (12); no cover or
minimum

1976 Onondaga County War Memorial, Syracuse, New York
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. I Sing The Songs
2. Where Or When
3. Stargazer - w/Sam Butera
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Embraceable You
6. My Funny Valentine
7. I Get Along Without You Very Well
8. For One In My Life
9. monologue
10. Like A Sad Song
11. This Is All I Ask
12. Never Gonna Fall In Love Again
13. Send In The Clowns
14. It Was A Very Good Year
15. Night And Day
16. My Way
Notes: TT 68mins.

1978 Radio City Music Hall, New York City
1. New York, New York
2. Night And Day
3. At Long Last Love
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. Here's That Rainy Day
7. My Funny Valentine
8. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
9. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
10. monologue
11. That's What God Looks Like To Me
12. Maybe This Time
13. Autumn In New York
14. You And Me
15. The Tender Trap
16. Lonely Town
17. The Oldest Established
18. Remember
19. My Way
20.America, The Beautiful

1981 Jones Hall, Houston, Texas
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1.  I've Got the World on a String
2.  Come Rain or Come Shine
3.  Fly Me to the Moon
4.  Something
5.  Say Hello
6.  Strangers in the Night
7.  The Best Is Yet to Come
8.  I Loved Her
9.  The Lady Is a Tramp
10.  Luck Be a Lady
11.  As Time Goes By
12.  My Way
13.  Pennies From Heaven
14.  Good Thing Going
15.  Theme From New York, New York

1982 Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. Come Rain Or Come Shine
3. I've Got You Under My Skin
4. Summer Me, Winter Me
5. The Lady Is A Tramp
6. monologue
7. My Kind Of Town
8. Change Partners
9. The Best Is Yet To Come
10. When Your Lover Has Gone
11. monologue
12. New York, New York
Notes: TT 45mins.

1982 Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. Come Rain Or Come Shine
3. I've Got You Under My Skin
4. Summer Me, Winter Me
5. The Lady Is A Tramp
6. monologue
7. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
8. A Day In The Life Of A Fool T. Mottola instrumental
9. As Time Goes By w/ T Mottola on guitar
10. Change Partners
11. second monologue
12. New York, New York
Notes: TT 52mins.

1987 Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, Conn.
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. You Are the Sunshine of my Life
1. What now my Love
2. My Heart Stood Still
3. Moonlight in Vermont
4. Summer Wind
5. You Will be my Music "written by my dear friend Joe Raposo"
6. More Than You Know "written before any of us were around"
7. Mack the Knife
8. What's New
9. Bewitched "Nelson's wonderful orchestration. Thank God for that man. It's a shame that he left us, but he wrote some pretty orchestrations."
10. Monologue "Tells audience he is a train buff. Sings one line of "I Thought About You."
11. Angel Eyes
12. If
13. For Once in my Life
14. Lonely Town
15. New York , New York "This is the National Anthem."
16. Where or When
17. Maybe This Time
18. September of my Years
19. All the Way "concertgoer yells for the song. Sinatra responds, "Oh. Let's do All the Way. We will fake it for you with the piano because we didn't bring the music." Other audience members start yelling for other songs including "Leroy Brown." Sinatra does a letter perfect reading of the Cahn-Van Heusen tune.
20. The Lady is a Tramp
Notes: TT 64mins.

1988 Centrum, Worcester, Mass (October 15-16)
Orchestra Conducted By: Frank Sinatra, jr..
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. Come Rain Or Come Shine
3. Where Or When
4. My Heart Stood Still
5. Summer Wind
6.. Mack The Knife
7. Soliloquy
8. Strangers In The Night
9. My Way
10, One For My Baby
11. Frank Liza & Sammy medley: Guys And Dolls / Luck Be A Lady /
The Oldest Established / Style / Witchcraft / All Or Nothing At All /
I've Got You Under My Skin / All The Way / Luck Be A Lady /
New York, New York
Notes: TT 75mins.

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EXTRA:

1948 Annual Hollywood Press Photographer's Costume Ball, Ciro's Restaurant, Los Angeles, CA
Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly performed (among others)

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These are the same costumes they used in Take Me Out To The Ballgame

Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly - Take Me Out to the Ball Game - Y

From the film

I was born with a couple of left feet, and I didn't even know how to walk, let alone dance. It was Gene who saw me through. We became a team only because he had the patience of Job, and the fortitude not to punch me in the mouth because I was so impatient. Moviemaking takes a lot of time, and I couldn't understand why. He managed to calm me when it was important to calm me [...] Apart from being a great artist, he's a born teacher, and he taught me how to move and how to dance [...] I couldn't dance exactly like he danced so he danced down to me. He taught me everything I know.
(Frank Sinatra on Gene Kelly)

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1951 Frank Sinatra Show
Network: CBS
Script: Dated October 16, 1951
Location: New York City
Show: 38(in series), 2-02(in season)
Tuesday 8:00 P.M.-9:00 P.M.
Sponsor: Ekco Housewares (first 15mins), sustaining (final 45mins)
Orchestra Conducted By: Axel Stordahl
Producer: Max Gordon
Executive Producer: Marlo Lewis
Writers: Harry Crane
Guests: Jackie Gleason, Anne Jeffreys, Stanton and Luster (dancers)

Emacs!

Frank Sinatra & Jackie Gleason in rehearsal for The Frank Sinatra Show, 1951

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Not sure if this photo is from the rehearsal for the program but it's a great shot of Sinatra and Gleason

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1965 The Hollywood Palace (ABC)
Taped: September 26, 1965
Host: Frank Sinatra
Guests: The Count Basie Orchestra, Jackie Leonard

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1976 Onondaga County War Memorial, Syracuse, New York
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Frank Sinatra played at the Onondaga County War Memorial in front of crowd of 9,000 people in downtown Syracuse. The concert had been sold-out for months.
The songs Sinatra sang included "Stargazer", "For Once in My Life", "Like a Sad Song", "Send in the Clowns", and he finished with "My Way."
He returned to Syracuse to perform in 1978 at the New York State Fair Grandstand, 1980 at the Carrier Dome, and 1994 at the War Memorial.

Frank Sinatra, October 16, 1976 - 10439067-essay

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1987 Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, Conn.
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