[sinatraphiles] October 17 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

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Studio Recordings

1955 KHJ Studios, Hollywood

14287 You Forgot All The Words (While I Still Remember The Tune)
(B. Wayne/E.H. Jay)
Arranged & Conducted by Nelson Riddle
CD: C2 724383808922 The Complete Capitol Singles
CD: CDP 7-94519-2 No One Cares
LP: 982 This Is Sinatra Vol..2
45: 3552

14633 Love Is Here To Stay
(George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin)
Arranged & Conducted by Nelson Riddle
CD: CDP 7-46570-2 Songs For Swingin' Lovers
LP: W653 Songs For Swingin' Lovers

14634 Weep They Will
(C. Fischer/B. Carey)
Sam Weiss Music, Inc. (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Nelson Riddle
-11 (3:16) CD: C2 724383808922 The Complete Capitol Singles
CD: C2-94777 The Capitol Years
LP: T1919 Tell Her You Love Her
45: 3290

Musicians - Alto Sax: Mahlon Clark, Willie Schwartz; Tenor Sax: Justin Gordon, Warren Webb; Baritone Sax: Robert Lawson; Trumpets: John Best, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Clarence "Shorty" Sherock, Rubin "Zeke" Zarchy; Trombones: Dick Noel, James Pridy, Paul Tanner; Bass Trombone: George Roberts; Violins: Victor Bay, Alex Beller, Samuel Cytron, Robert Gross, Henry Hill, Dan Lube, Alex Murray, Paul Nero, Erno Neufeld, Mischa Russell; Violas: Maxine Johnson, Paul Robyn, David Sterkin; Cellos: Ennio Bolognni, Ray Kramer, Eleanor Slatkin; Piano: Bill Miller; Bass: Joe Comfort; Drums: Irv Cottler; Guitar: George Van Eps; Vibraphone: Frank Flynn; Harp: Kathryn Julye
Session Producer: Vole Gilmore

Radio

1940 Tommy Dorsey's new radio series debuted:
FAME AND FORTUNE w/Connie Haines and Frank Sinatra
Sponsor: Nature's Remedy
WJZ & NBC Blue Network
Thursday 8:30 - 9:00 P.M.
1. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You T.D. & Orch.
2. I'm Nobody's Baby C.H.
3. Only Forever F.S.
4. Song Of India T.D. & Orch.
5. Marie F.S.
Dorsey introduces Ruth Lowe & Horace Heidt
Lowe tells how "I'll Never Smile Again" came to be
6. I'll Never Smile Again F.S. J.S. P.P.
7. Old Black Joe J.S.
8. I've Got A Restless Spell( first song to win amateur contest)
F.S. C.H. J.S. P.P.
9. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You T.D. & Orch.

("Marie" appears on Masters of Jazz Volume 4 & "Only Forever" & "Marie" appear on Masters of Jazz Volume 9 & in the RCA Box Set "The Song Is You")

(Medley: Song Of India & Marie appear on the RCA CD: Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra - That Sentimental Gentleman Of Swing (1940-1944)

("Marie", Ruth Lowe Interview & "I'll Never Smile Again" appear on CD 1 of "A Voice On Air)

NOTE: Sinatra Scholar Ed O'Brien provides some details drawn from the October 23, 1940 issue of Variety:

This program represents NBC's first letdown of the bars it put up against new laxative accounts five years before, so whatever results that Nature's Remedy gets out of the half-hour should be regarded by the account, Lewis-Howe, as so much velvet.

The Tommy Dorsey session also serves as another one of Lewis-Howe's devices a la Pot O' Gold for giving away money. Giveaway appeal on Dorsey's show involves amateur songwriters. Its avowed purpose is to "help" these neophytes up the ladder of fame and fortune. Fortunately for the listeners the program includes only one sample of this solicited stuff. Stunt's sales bluster is greater than its bite, since the amateur entry is but one of seven numbers played.

For the debut occasion, the program offered a crowning example of a first song success in the case history of Ruth Lowe. Heidt also appeared long enough at this mike to assist someone impersonating Miss Lowe in repeating her story, heard before on the air, as to how she came to write "I'll Never Smile Again."

Dorsey, publisher of this tune, vouchsafed at the tail end of the interview that "Never Smile" has sold over 400,000 sheet copies and 500,000 phonograph records. With such inspiration before them the toll of dime-store clerks and busboys suddenly turning to songwriting should be terrific.

Before an amateur can submit his manuscript an entry blank must be obtained from a neighborhood drugstore or from Lewis-Howe direct. No manuscipts are returned. Dorsey explained that he and two other orchestra leaders (not named) are the sole judges of a manuscript's worthiness for the weekly prizes, namely, $100 for the song actually performed on the program and $50 each to the two runnersup. The song performed on the opening program was tagged "I've Got a Restless Spell.." Dorsey gave it , as he usually does all his numbers, a craftmanlike arrangement and good vocal backing via Connie Haines and Frank Sinatra.

In line with the network's campaign to wean listeners away from ASCAP music, Dorsey played "Old Black Joe" The advertising copy on Nature's Remedy was heavy but inoffensively phrased. The product, it was pointed out, was not being offered as a cure-all but merely as a laxative help. Also included in the sales argument was a money-back offer and the reliability angle: viz. Nature's Remedy has been on the market for 50 years.

1941 Live Remote: Meadowbrook, Cedar Grove, New Jersey
Friday Evening
CBS Network - WABC New York City
Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra
11:30 p.m. - 12:00 a.m.

1943 Broadway Bandbox
Network: CBS
Location: New York City, CBS Playhouse #3
Time: 11:30PM - 12:00AM (EST) Fridays
Show #18
Sponsor: none (sustaining)
Host: Frank Sinatra
Musicians: Raymond Scott Orchestra augmented by a string section, Bobby Tucker Singers
Arranged and Conducted By: Axel Stordahl (Sinatra portions)
Announcer: Maurice Hart
Guests: Milton Berle
1. Falling In Love With Love
2. skit - Frank & Milton Berle
3. If You Please
4. Are We From Dixie w/Milton Berle
5. There'll Be A Hot Time In The Town Of Berlin
6. I Only Have Eyes For You
7. That Old Black Magic

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Ed O'Brien:
I checked a number of sources and this is what I discovered: FS was in L.A. in June of 43
and Miltion Berle was a guest on the 7-2 show in the Big Apple. But the chat between
them shows it had to be in Oct. FS mentions he had Sunday dinner. Has to be Oct.
Show. The Bandbox. was on Fri. and then Mon. until Oct. I checked all of the Sunday N.Y.C. listings
for Sept and Oct. No Miltie. The 10/17 has Bert Wheeler listed. But, I think Berle was
also on that show. Nothing else makes any sense. We have tapes of the 10-3 and 10-10.So,"It's Delovely" is from the July show on the 4 CD set released in the fall of 2015.
And the show always credited as 7/2 is actually 10/17.
Guy Steele is a man who listens very carefully to the Sinatra patter on the radio shows.
He picked up the disparity regarding the location. I thank him and credit him for his scholar-
ship.

1945 Songs By Sinatra (CBS)
Sponsor: Old Gold Cigarettes
N.Y.C.
9:00 -9:30 P.M.
Announcer: Bill Lazar
Director: Mann Holiner
Orchestra Conducted By: Axel Stordahl
Performers: Frank Sinatra, The Pied Pipers
Guests : Gene Kelly
1. What Makes The Sunset
2. Frank does singing introduction for The Pied Pipers
3. In The Middle Of May          Pied Pipers
Frank & Gene   recreate scene from Anchors Aweigh
4. I Fall In Love Too Easily
Frank & Gene  another scene from Anchors Aweigh
5. I Begged Her w/Gene Kelly
6. The Charm Of You
Kelly plugs "House I Live In" and congratulates Frank
for what he is doing to promote racial and religious
tolerance. Frank says " God never meant for any
man to fight for freedom and have any part of
that freedom denied him by the country for which
he fought."
7. Put Your Dreams Away

NOTE: Ed O'Brien writes that Gene Kelly was a guest on three of Sinatra's shows inn the 40s plus they did Lux Radio and a few other shows together. The October 17, 1945 show was really a long promo for their movie "Anchors Aweigh." The two men recreated a scene that was also a comic skit and all the song sung that evening were from the film. Kelly would receive a Best Actor nomination for his work in the MGM film,

1949 Light Up Time
Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes
Network: NBC
Starring: Frank Sinatra & Dorothy Kirsten
Jeff Alexander And The Orchestra
1. At Sundown - FS
2. Every time I Meet You - DK
3. Younger Than Springtime - FS
4. Full Moon And Empty Arms - FS w/Dorothy Kirsten

1954 The Glenn Miller Era
NBC
Time 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Notes: Volume 2 of the RCA collection of Glenn Miller recordings is played. There are brief interviews with several musicians and Frank Sinatra.

Television

None

Film

1956 Around the World in 80 Days (Film Release:  October 17, 1956)
(DVD Release date: 2004-05-18)
Starring:  David Niven, Cantinflas, Shirley MacLaine, Robert Newton
Directed by MIchael Anderson, Produced by Michael Todd
Sinatra is revealed as the honky-tonk piano player in a San Francisco saloon.
(DVD Release date: 2003-01-14)

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Note: In the 2014, biographical film "Cantinflas", there's a recreation of a scene where Cantinflas, David Niven, Marlene Dietrich, and Frank Sinatra,
all in their costumes for the film, pose for the cover of Verité. Sinatra is portrayed in the scene by Rafael Amaya.

Concerts

1935 Memorial Auditorium, Sacramento, CA (One Night Only)
The Hoboken Four
touring with the Major Bowes' Radio Amateurs
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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

1950 Cotton Bowl, State Fair, Dallas Texas (One Night Only)
with Orchestra conducted by Axel Stordahl
1.  When You're Smiling
2.  Bewitched
3.  It All Depends On You
4.  Goodnight, Irene
5.  Embraceable You
6.  Ol Man Crosby (parodoy of Ol' Man River)

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

1961 Sands, Las Vegas
Sinatra joins Sammy Davis on stage during Sammy's opening at the Sands

1975 Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada (17-23)
Thursday evening
South Shore Room
Second Show
Orchestra conducted by Bill Miller
1. Where Or When arg. by Billy Byers
2. My Kind Of Town
3. Didn't We
5. Something arg. by Don Costa
6. They Can't Take That Away From Me arg. by D. Costa
7. Ol' Man River
monologue
8. Send In The Clown B. Miller on piano
9. My Way
10. I Believe I'm Gonna Love You
11. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
12.. I've Got You Under My Skin

1978 Radio City Music Hall, New York City (14-22)
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
21. chaser "I Love New York "
Notes: Audience Tape.

1979 The Forum, Montreal
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Tuesday evening
1. The Song Is You
2. Just The Way You Are
3.. I've Got The World On A String
4.The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Yesterday
6. Something
7. I've Got You Under My Skin
8. The Best Is Ywt To Come
9. I Can't Get Started
10. Gal That Got Away/Never Entered My Mind
monologue
11. My Kind Of Town
12. All The Way
13. Bewitched
14. You And Me
15. Street Of Deams
16. New York, New York

1982 Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (14-24)
Sunday evening
Orchestra conducted by Joe Parnello
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
monologue
6. My Kind Of Town
7. Change Partners arg. by Joe Parnello
8. The Best Is Yet To Come
9. As Time Goes By w/Tony Mottola on guitar
10. New York, New York

Ed O'Brien:
Engagement ran from Thursday, Oct. 14 thru Sunday, Oct 24.
Frank did two shows nightly except on Thursdays and Sundays, when he
did one show. He was dark on the 18th and 19th ( Monday and Tuesday).
This engagement was Frank's swan song at Resorts. His performances
there were memorable. He moved over to Steve Wynn's Golden Nugget
in December of 82.

1987 Centrum, Worcester, Mass.
Saturday evening
1. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life
2. What Now My Love
3. My Heart Stood Still
4. Moonlight In Vermont
5. Summer Wind
6. You Will Be My Music
7. More Than You Know ( full orchestra)
8. Mack The Knife
9. What's New arg. by N. Riddle
10. Bewitched
monologue Fifth anniversary at Centrum
11. Angel Eyes
12. If ( "one of the best love songs ever written")
13. When Joanna Loved Me arg. by Billy May
14. For Once In My Life
15. Lonely Town arg. by G.Jenkins & N. Riddle
16. New York, New York ( audience joins in singing, whistling and clapping)
17. Where Or When arg. by Bill Byers ( Frank tells audience it was arg. by Buck Jones)
18. Maybe This Time
19. The September Of My Years
20. The Lady Is A Tramp

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE:
SINATRA TUGS HEARTSTRINGS AT  CENTRUM'S 5TH
MUSIC REVIEW
BY PETER LANDSDOWNE

How would you like Frank Sinatra on hand to help you
celebrate your fifth birthday?
That was exactly the case last night as The Chairman
of the Board took command of the Centrum and put the
finishing touches on the facility's Fifth Anniversary Gala
Ol' Blue Eyes, you will recall, opened the Centrum on
September 2, 1982. He returned a little more than a year
later to mark the first anniversary of the arena. A May 1986
appearance was canceled because Sinatra wanted to lighten
his performance schedule.
The singer more than made up for that missed date last
night.
"I'm well, I'm healthy, I'm happy, and I'm in love," Sinatra
told the sell-out crowd of 13,400 halfway through the concert,
a 75-minute set of 20 classic tunes from the American song
book.
The singer, who turns 72 on Dec. 12, was in rare form and
sounded almost completely recovered from the laryngitis that
caused him to cancel the final night of a two-week Carnegie
Hall stint two weeks ago.
Best known for performing songs by the likes of Rodgers
and Hart, George Gershwin, Johnny Mercer and Cole Porter,
Sinatra is evidently expanding his repertoire. He has added
Stevie Wonder's "You Are The Sunshine Of My Life" and "For
Once In My Life" to his set list.
The former started off the performance. The crowd was on
its feet even before Sinatra reached the stage, and cries of
"Frankie! Frankie!" drowned out the first few bars of the tune,
which the singer turned into a big band swinger. He intoned
"light my fire" three times to end the song. Sinatra a Jim
Morrison fan? No, there weren't any Doors tunes in the concert,
but the singer did belt out Wonder's "For Once In My Life," which
featured a shouting chart by Don Costa.
Sinatra also essayed David Gates' "If," a hit for the group
Bread. In Sinatra's hands - and voice - the sappy tune became
a tender and heartfelt love song. The singer held on to the last
note in an impressive display of his breath control.
Sinatra struggled briefly, however, on some of the ballads,
particularly on songs that required him to dip into his lower
register on soft passages. His voice occasionally creaked and
groaned, but Sinatra more than made up for these minor flaws
on the uptempo material.
He was flawless, for example, on "Mack The Knife." The
Frank Foster arrangement had Sinatra changing keys on every
chorus in order to build intensity. The singer was swinging re-
lentlessly by the end of the song and paid tribute to Louis
Armstrong, Bobby Darin and Ella Fitzgerald, who also sang
superb renditions of the tune, in a semi-improvised final
chorus.
Sinatra's performance was notable for the juxtaposition
of the songs. He followed a jaunty "What Now My Love,"
for example, with the tender "My Heart Stood Still," and capped
off an exquisitely rendered version of "Moonlight In Vermont" with
a constantly escalating "Summer Wind."
The best song of the 20 in Sinatra's performance? "New York,
New York" got the most applause, and the singer also was near
his peak on tunes like "More Than You Know," "What's New"
and "The Lady Is A Tramp."
For my money, though, the topper was Matt Dennis' "Angel
Eyes," a bona fide saloon song. Sinatra took on the persona of
a down-and-out boozer who has just lost his lady love and is
looking for her in the bottom of a shot glass. Nobody, but nobody,
can even come close to Sinatra's definitive interpretation of
this song.
What's Sinatra's secret? Perhaps Nancy Sinatra said it best
in "My Father,' her biography of her dad. "The music of Frank
Sinatra sings our joys, our sorrows and our silences," she wrote.
"His voice goes on filling our hearts as well as our ears and is
likely to go on doing so for a long time."
The Centrum is five, Sinatra is almost 72. Let's hope that
this certifiable living legend is on hand to celebrate many more
anniversaries at the arena.
SUNDAY TELEGRAM
Worcester, Mass.
October 18, 1987

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EXTRA:

1935 Memorial Auditorium, Sacramento, CA (One Night Only)
The Hoboken Four
touring with the Major Bowes' Radio Amateurs

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1950 Cotton Bowl, State Fair, Dallas Texas (One Night Only)

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1956 Around the World in 80 Days (Film Release:  October 17, 1956 )
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Sinatra is fifth from the left on the bottom.

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1961 Sands, Las Vegas
Sinatra joins Sammy Davis on stage during Sammy's opening at the Sands

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Variety
10-25-61
note: I have Bill Miller's list of
some Sinatra appearances at
the Sands that ran less than a
week. Frank subbed for Dean
Martin from October 9 thru the
12th of October in 1961. And,
as you can see, he was part
of Sammy's opening act on
10-17.
Ed

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October 17, 1979 The Forum, Montreal, Quebec

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