[sinatraphiles] October 30 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

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Studio

1949 Hollywood

RHCO3937 The Old Master Painter
w/The Modernaires
(H. Gillespie/B. Smith)
Robbins Music Crop. (ASCAP) 1949
Arranged & Conducted by Axel Stordahl
-1 (2:24) CD: Columbia Years 43-52 Vol. 11
78: 38650

NOTE: Sinatra Scholar Ed O'Brien reports that Sinatra sang this ditty a number of times on his Light Up Time shows and raved about what a great song it was.

RHCO3938 Why Remind Me?
w/The Modernaires
(S. Willner/D. Tauber)
Barton Music Corp. (ASCAP) 1949
Arranged & Conducted by Axel Stordahl
-1 (3:09) CD: Columbia Years 43-52 Vol. 11
LP: CL-2741 The Essential Frank Sinatra, Vol. 3
78: 38662

Violins: W. Cllies, N. Pisani, R. Polikian, M. Russell, F. Slatkin, M. Sosson; Violas: M. Perlmutter, G. White; Cello: C. Bernard; Saxes: H. Beau, L. Hartman, J. Kinsler, B. Russin, F. Stulce; Piano: K. Lane; Guitar: A. Reuss; Bass: P. Stephens; Drums: R. Hagan; Harp: A. Mason

1986 Los Angeles
CNY33985 Mack The Knife
(Kurt Weill/Mark Blitzstein/Bertold Brecht)
Weill-Breccht- Harms Co. inc./Kurt Weill Foundation For Music
administered by Hampshire Hous Publishing Corp. (ASCAP)
Arranged by Frank Foster
Conducted by Quincy Jones
-2 (4:52) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 20
CD: 9-26340-2 The Reprise Collection

BB002366 The Girls I've Never Kissed
(Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller)
Jerry Leiber Music/Mike Stoller Music (ASCAP)
Arranged by Billy May
Conducted by Bill Miller
-4 (3:30) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 20

BB002367 Only One To A Customer
(Carolyn Leigh/Jule Styne)
Chappell & Co. inc./WB Music Corp. (ASCAP)
Arranged by Billy May
Conducted by Bill Miller
-3 (2:47) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 20

Note: On CNY33985 Sinatra overdubbed his vocal onto the April 16, 1984 recording.

Radio

1943 Your Hit Parade
Network: CBS
Program #441
Time: 9:00-9:45 P.M. (Rebroadcast October 31, 1943 12:00-12:45 A.M.)
Sponsor: Lucky Strike
Script (Final As Broadcast)
1. Paper Doll (4) - Frank Sinatra
2. Goody Goody - Orchestra
3. For The First Time (9) - Hit Paraders
4. Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey (6) - Bea Wain
5. commercial
6. The Carioca - Orchestra
7. I Heard You Cried Last Night (8) - Frank Sinatra
8. They're Either Too Young Or Too Old (7) - Bea Wain
9. Jingle Jangle Jingle - Orchestra & Hit Paraders
10. station break
11. If You Please (5) - Frank Sinatra
12. Strike Up The Band - Orchestra
13. commercial
14. Sunday, Monday Or Always (3) - Bea Wain
15. Pistol Packin' Mama (2) - Orchestra & Hit Paraders
16. People Will Say We're In Love (1) - Frank Sinatra

1946 Songs By Sinatra (CBS)
9 to 9:30 P.M.
Wednesday Evening
Sponsor: Old Gold Cigarettes
Announcer: Marvin Miller
Orchestra Conducted By: Axel Stordahl
Performers: Frank Sinatra, The Pied Pipers
1. Ole Buttermilk Sky
2. This Time
3. Why Does It Get So Late So Early    Pied Pipers
4. You'll Always Be The One I Love
5. Love Is Just Around The Corner  w/Pied Pipers
6. The Galloping Ghost Of Central High
7. You'll Always Be The One I Love
8. Embraceable You
9. Put Your Dreams Away

AFRS also has "This Is Always" after "This Time."
He also sings "The Galloping Ghost Of Central High."
Pied Pipers sing "Why Does It Get So Late So Early." and
"Linger In My Arms.."
--Ed

1948 Your Hit Parade
Network: NBC
Program #699
Time: 9:00-9:30 P.M. (Rebroadcast 9:00-9:30 P.M. PDST 10:00-10:30 P.M. PST)
Sponsor: Lucky Strike
Script (Final As Broadcast)
1. commercial 1
2. You Call Everybody Darling (5) - Frank Sinatra
3. Crazy Rhythm - Orchestra
4. Underneath The Arches (6) - Beryl Davis
5. Maybe You'll Be There (4) - Frank Sinatra
6. commercial 2
7. Ridin' High - Orchestra
8. It's Magic (7) - Frank Sinatra
9. The Best Things In Life Are Free - Orchestra
10. Hair Of Gold, Eyes Of Blue (3) - Hit Paraders
11. Buttons And Bows (2) - Beryl Davis
12. commercial 3
13. A Tree In The Meadow (1) - Frank Sinatra

1949 The Jack Benny Program
Network: CBS
Sponsor: Lucky Strike
Show: #8 of the 1949-50 series
Time: 7:00 PM EST (rebroadcast: 9:30 - 10:00 PM PST)
Host: Jack Benny
Guests: Frank Sinatra
Cast: Don Wilson, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Dennis Day, Mel Blanc, Artie Auerbach, Rochester, F. E. Boone (tobacco auctioneer), L. A. Speed Riggs (tobacco auctioneer),
Writers: Sam Perrin, George Balzer, John Tackaberry, Milt Josefsberg
Producer By: Hilliard Marks
Script (Final As Broadcast)
1. commercial
2. first routine - Jack Benny, Don Wilson, Phil Harris, Mary Livingstone & Dennis Day
3. The Last Mile Home - Dennis Day
4. second routine - Jack Benny, Dennis Day, Rodchester, Mary Livingstone & Frank Sinatra
5. You Must've Been A Beautiful Baby - Frank Sinatra & Mel Blanc w/the Spotsman Quartet
6. third routine - Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Frank Sinatra, Mel Blanc, Jerry ?, Frank Nelson, Don Wilson
7. PSA - Don Wilson
8. commercial
9. closing

Note: Sinatra and Benny closing was cut short due to time. Check script for details.
The show appears on the officially released CD set: 60 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows "Frank Sinatra & Friends"

Television

1947 The Show of Shows, Madison Square Garden, New York
Benefit for the New York University - Bellevue Medical Center Fund
WCBS 8:45PM - 1AM
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1951 Frank Sinatra Show
Network: CBS
Location: New York City
Show: 40(in series), 2-04(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
Guests: Jules Munshin, Georgia Gibbs, Gary Moore, Eddie Mayoof

Concerts

1935 Mayfair Theatre, Portland, Oregon (October 26--November 1)
Major Bowes' Radio Amateurs
Sinatra performed with the Hoboken Four

1940 Paramount Theater, Los Angeles, CA (October 18 - 30)
Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra w/Frank Sinatra
(On screen was "Moon Over Burma" with Dorothy Lamour, Robert Preston and Preston Foster)

1941 Meadowbrook, Cedar Grove , New Jersey (October 10 - November 1st)
Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra w/Frank Sinatra

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

1947 The Show of Shows, Madison Square Garden, New York
Benefit for the New York University - Bellevue Medical Center Fund
Celebrities included Sinatra, Harrold Russell, Bojangles, Hellen Hayes, Milton Berle, Henny Youngman, , Connee Boswell,
Helen Hayes, Ginny Simms, Sid Caesar, Mel Torme, Morey Amsterdam, and boxers Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey

1975 Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (10-30 11-6)
First Show
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
OA: The Little Steps, dance act, Pat Henry
1. Where Or When
2. At Long Last Love
3. My Kind Of Town
4. How Deep Is The Ocean?
5. Didn't We?
6. Something
7. They Can't Take That Away From Me
8. monologue
9. Send In The Clowns
10. Ol' Man River
11. I Believe I'm Gonna Love You
12. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
13. I've Got You Under My Skin
Notes: TT 49mins.

1975 Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (10-30 - 11-6)
Second Show
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
OA: The Little Steps, dance act, Pat Henry
1. Where Or When
2. At Long Last Love
3. My Kind Of Town
4. How Deep Is The Ocean?
5. Didn't We?
6. Something
7. They Can't Take That Away From Me
8. monologue
9. Ol' Man River
10. I Believe I'm Gonna Love You
11. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
12. I've Got You Under My Skin
Notes: TT 44mins. Ed O'Brien "Frank did 16 shows" durring the engagement.
This engagement ran from 10-30 thru 11-6.
       Bill Miller conducted the Nat Brandwynne Orchestra
       The Little Steps, dance act, and comedian Pat Henry
       were the opening acts. Frank did 16 shows.
     Ed

1978 Stadium, Chicago, Illinois
Final concert of four city tour
1. Night and Day (Beck arg.)
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady is a Tramp
4. Someone to Watch over Me
5. Here's that Rainy Day
6. My Funny Valentine
7. Gal that Got Away/Never Entered my Mind
8. Monologue
9. That's What God Looks Like to Me
10. Maybe This Time
11. My Way
12. You and Me
13. The Tender Trap
14. Oldest Established Floating Crap Game
15. Remember
16. My Kind of Town
17. America the Beautiful

1981 Beverly Hilton Hotel International Ballroom, Beverly Hills, California
Benefit For St. John's Hospital And Health Center Foundation, Santa Monica
Friday Evening
BAL ROUGE GALA ON HALLOWEEN EVE
with Bob Newhart, The 5th Dimension and Frank Sinatra
Les Brown And His Band Of Renown
Murray Korda And His Monseigneur Strings
Suggested dress: red, black, white, gold
Cocktails 8:p.m. / dinner 8:45 p.m.
Honored Guests: Barbara Sinatra, Mr and Mrs. James Stewart, Irene Dunne, Mr and Mrs. Ed Asner, Mr. And Mrs. Henry Fonda

Ed O'Brien:
Confusion here regarding locale of the benefit was due to the
location of the hospital. It was in Santa Monica but the gala took
place at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

1987 Bally's Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. You Are the Sunshine of my Life
2. What Now my Love
3. More than You Know
4. Moonlight in Vermont
5. Summer Wind
6. You Will Be my Music
7. For Once in my Life
8. Lonely Town
9. Mack the Knife
10. Monologue
11. Where or When
12. Bewitched
13. Angel Eyes
14. The Lady is a Tramp
15. New York, New York
Notes: TT 55mins.

1988 Bally's Grand, Reno, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Frank Sinatra, jr.

1992 Radio City Music Hall, New York City
Orchestra Conducted By: Frank Sinatra, Jr.
1. Come Fly With Me
2. A Foggy Day
3. In The Still Of The Night
4. For Once In My Life
5. Come Rain Or Come Shine
6. The Lady Is A Tramp
7. monologue
8. The House I Live In
9. Luck Be A Lady
10. The Best Is Yet To Come
11. My Funny Valentine
Notes: incomplete tape running 45mins.

1993 Crystal Room, Desert Inn, Las Vegas, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Frank Sinatra, Jr.
1. You Make Me Feel So Young
2. Fly Me To The Moon
3. A Foggy Day
4. For Once In My Life
5. Come Rain Or Come Shine
6. The Lady Is A Tramp
7. The House I Live In
8. monologue
9. At Long Last Love
10. Strangers In The Night
11. Street Of Dreams
12. Barbara
13. Mack The Knife
14. One For My Baby
15. My Way
16. Summer Wind
17. New York, New York
Notes: TT 70mins.

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EXTRA:

1941 Meadowbrook, Cedar Grove , New Jersey (October 10 - November 1st)
Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra w/Frank Sinatra

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The Herald-News, Passaic, New Jersey, Oct 29th, 1941 for an event on October 30th

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October 30, 1947 Frank Sinatra Day, Hoboken, NJ

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Black-and-white copy photo of Mayor Fred DeSapio presenting Frank Sinatra with the Key to the City at Hoboken City Hall, Hoboken, October 30, 1947. Digital print, 8" x 10" wide. Photographer not indicated. Reverse has modern holographic ink notes by Dr. Gerard DeSapio.

Identified by DeSapio: left to right | Martin Sinatra - Frank's Father [partially seen], Frank [Sinatra] | Dolly Sinatra - Frank's Mother | Mayor DeSapio | Capt. John Marrata.

Lettering on the wood key reads: To Frank Sinatra from The Hearts of the Citizens of the City of Hoboken, N.J. "Sinatra Day" Oct. 30, 1947.

On October 30, 1947, Hoboken celebrated Sinatra Day, the final event in a month-long March of Progress celebration orchestrated by Mayor Fred M. DeSapio with the assistance of his dedicated ward leader, Dolly Sinatra. Twenty thousand people lined Washington Street in the pouring rain to catch a glimpse of the star, who announced, Ive met people in cities all over the country, but folks here in Hoboken, well, theyre just wonderful thats all.

In 1947 Frank Sinatra made his last public appearance in the city for nearly forty years until he returned to accompany Ronald Reagan to St. Annn's Feast in 1984. On October 30, 1947, Hoboken celebrated Sinatra Day, the final event in a month-long March of Progress celebration orchestrated by Mayor Fred M. DeSapio with the assistance of his dedicated ward leader, Dolly Sinatra. Twenty thousand people lined Washington Street in the pouring rain to catch a glimpse of the star, who announced, I've met people in cities all over the country, but folks here in Hoboken, well, they're just wonderful that's all.:
More than a few Hobokenites will return the compliment. As one man wrote to "Blue Eyes" in the sign-in book at Sinatra's birthplace: "I was much younger than you, but grew up in this town, and all my family knew you and your legacy growing up here. Thanks for the world." Hoboken has thanked Frank Sinatra by dedicating its main post office, a waterfront park, and a street along its picturesque waterfront, to the city's most famous son.

Frank Sinatra with his father, Marty Sinatra, on "Sina

Take a look at the above photo and then look at the man center front in the photo you
sent There is a flash camera in front of him. That is Marty Sinatra doing what he can
            to protect his son.
--ED

Stranger in the Night:
The Story of Sinatra and Hoboken and What Went Wrong
By Anthony De Palma, Jr.

A Myth Debunked: Everybody Booed and Threw Fruit

Hoboken doesn't resent Sinatra's success, but people are bothered, and a bit ashamed, that he never came back. There had to be a reason, and when Sinatra himself never publicly admitted anything, they came up with their own. Fred Tamburro, and some other Hoboken characters who tried to hit Sinatra for favors, often get the blame. Choosing Tamby as the scapegoat somehow makes the rebuke easier to accept. "Those guys think they owned Sinatra, and they always wanted something from him," the others say. "No wonder he never came back."

Other tales, loosely based on the truth, are told, but over the years they have been shaded with more legend than fact. "Oh, it was the parade they gave Sinatra," goes one of them. "Everybody booed and threw fruit. He swore he'd never come back after that."

That explanation for Sinatra's thirty-year estrangement from Hoboken is so commonly offered that even some of those who attended the parade now doubt what they saw back in 1947, just a few months after Fred M. DeSapio, a Hoboken businessman, had succeeded in bucking the Hudson County political machine by upsetting Bernard McFeely in the mayoral election. DeSapio won with the help of Dolly Sinatra, who by then was as well known in Hoboken as her son. By late September, part of DeSapio's reform team had started to splinter off, forming its own coalition, and the new mayor, looking at a postwar Hoboken and the beginnings of a thirty-year ride on the skids that would ravage the city, needed a big boost. He rallied the local chamber of commerce to show off Hoboken in a March of Progress celebration that would last the entire month of October. DeSapio saved his trump card for last, squeezing every bit of advantage from the scheduled appearance on October 30 of Frank Sinatra. His faithful ward leader had not let him down.

What actually transpired that day, the only official Sinatra Day, Hoboken ever had, differs substantially from the legend. The day before Halloween in 1947 was wet and gloomy. Despite a heavy downpour, the crowds began gathering at City Hall in the early afternoon, and by 7 P.M., some 20,000 people lined Washington Street, waiting for the parade they were not even sure was still going to happen. Sinatra, in a trenchcoat, finally arrived at City Hall, determined to take that ride down the main drag of his hometown in a fire engine driven by his dad. Hoboken organizers were stunned by the crush of photographers and reporters who crowded into City Hall, but they somehow managed to complete a photo session and to present Sinatra with a roughly cut wooden key to the city from "the hearts of the citizens of Hoboken, New Jersey."

Standing on the steps of City Hall, just around the corner from the Hudson Observer offices where he had worked as a copy boy, Sinatra blushed and told the crowd in the best, hero-returns-home fashion, "Gosh, little did I think when I worked for the Obby that I'd be greeted like this." He reached out to the crowds jumping and screaming in front of him, his fans from all over the metropolitan area mixed with his old babysitters, his stickball second baseman, his old gang. "You know," he told them, "I've met people in cities all over the country but folks here in Hoboken, well, they're just wonderful - that's all."

Sinatra weaved through the crowd and jumped on the fire engine with his father. Overloaded with photographers who clung to the side of the engine, Sinatra and company made their way slowly down Washington Street. Cheers went up as they approached. Occasionally, Sinatra shouted to a recognized old buddy. "Hi, Gus. How ya doing?"

By the time the parade reached Eleventh Street, the rain had become too much, and Sinatra hopped off the engine and into Mayor DeSapio's car for a retreat to City Hall. Most of the program - an awards presentation at Veterans' Field, an address at Joseph F. Brandt school - had to be canceled. It was ten o'clock, and Sinatra had to be in Madison Square Garden for a Bellevue Hospital benefit by eleven. He made his apologies and left, and the crowds still waiting at the field and school had to be told he wasn't coming. They groused a bit, but understood.

Both local newspapers carried stories on the parade and reported that the crowds were exhilarated at their brief glimpse of Frankie. Even the gossipy fan magazines were there, and although they probably would have loved to report that the crowds booed and threw fruit, they mentioned only screams and excitement coming from the rainsoaked mob. The booing story that has made the rounds so frequently in Hoboken that it is now considered truth was phony. And, in fact, Sinatra returned to play Hoboken one more time. In so doing he provided the city with the basis for yet another legend about the last time he came home.

Note: WPAT from Paterson, New Jersey would air coverage of some of Frank Sinatra Day on November 2, 1947 over WPAT radio:
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1947 The Show of Shows, Madison Square Garden, New York
Benefit for the New York University - Bellevue Medical Center Fund
Celebrities included Sinatra, Harrold Russell, Bojangles, Hellen Hayes, Milton Berle, Henny Youngman, Helen Hayes, Ginny Simms, Sid Caesar, Mel Torme, Morey Amsterdam, and boxers Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey

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Variety November 5, 1947

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1988 Bally's Grand, Reno, Nevada

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