[sinatraphiles] October 8 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Scott Henderson <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2022 09:56:09 -0400

Studio

1957 Capitol Studio A, Hollywood

E17696 Blue Hawaii
(Leo Robin/Ralph Rainger)
Arranged & Conducted by Billy May
CD: CDP 7-48469-2 Come Fly With Me
LP: SW920 Come Fly With Me

E17697 Come Fly With Me
(Sammy Cahn/Jimmy Van Heusen)
Maraville Music Corp./Cahn Music Co. (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Billy May
-6 (3:17) CD: CDP 724383595228 Sinatra 80th "All The Best"
CD: CDP 7-48469-2 Come Fly With Me
CD: C2-94777 The Capitol Years
LP: SW920 Come Fly With Me

E17698 Around The World
(Victor Young/Harold Adamson)
Arranged & Conducted by Billy May
CD: CDP 7-48469-2 Come Fly With Me
LP: SW920 Come Fly With Me

NOTE: Sinatraphile John G. says that "Around the World" is one of his favorite songs and wishes that Sinatra would have sung it in concert. Sinatra Scholar Ed O'Brien responds that Billy May told him that it was his favorite of all the recordings he did with Sinatra. May felt the song had a lovely melody and Sinatra got all there was to get from the lyrics.

E17699 It's Nice To Go Trav'ling
(Sammy Cahn/James Van Heusen)
Arranged & Conducted by Billy May
CD: CDP 7-48469-2 Come Fly With Me
LP: SW920 Come Fly With Me

E17700 Brazil
(Ary Barrosa/Bob Russell)
Arranged & Conducted by Billy May
CD: CDP 7-48469-2 Come Fly With Me (unedited)
LP: SW920 Come Fly With Me

Radio

1938, Frank Sinatra, Songs
WAAT 5:15pm
Emacs!

1942 Reflections
Network: CBS
Location: New York City - CBS Playhouse #3
Show #2
Sponsor: none (substaining)
Time: 8:00PM - 8:30PM (EST)
Musicians: Walter Gross's orchestra, Bobby Tucker's Voices
Arrangements By: Axel Stordahl
Notes: Confirmed airing as Reflections on WISV / Listed as Variety Musical on WABC

1944 The Jack Benny Program
Network: NBC
Sponsor: Lucky Strike
Show: #2 of the 1944 Series
Time: 7:00pm EST (Rebroadcast: 9:30 - 10:00 P.M. PWT)
Host: Jack Benny
Guests: Frank Sinatra,
Cast: Don Wilson, Phil Harris, Mary Livingstone, Rochester, Arthur Q. Bryan, Frank Nelson, Sara Berner, Bea Benaderet, A. Speed Riggs (tobacco auctioneer), F. E. Boone (tobacco auctioneer), Basil Ruysdael (announcer)
Writers: Sam Perrin, George Balzer, John Tackaberry, Milt Josefsberg
Producer By: Hilliard Marks
Script (Final As Broadcast, some missing pages)
1. commercial
2. opening
3. first routine - Jack Benny, Marry Livingstone & Rodchester
4. I'll Get By - Phill Harris Orchestra
5. second routine - Jack Benny, Marry Livingstone, Phil Harris, Mel Blanc, Don Wilson & Rodchester
6. All The Things You Are - Frank Sinatra
7. third routine - Jack Benny, Sara Berner, Bea Benaderet, Mel Blanc, Don Wilson, Mary Livingstone & Frank Sinatra
8. commercial
9. closing - Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone & Don Wilson
Notes: Jack looks for a replacment for Dennis Day. TT: 30mins. AFRS & KFI Aircheck survive complete, LOC has 10inch NBC sound reel.

The show appears on the officially released CD set: 60 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows "Frank Sinatra & Friends"

1954 The Frank Sinatra Show
Network: NBC
Show Number: 12
Time 8:15 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Sponsor: Bobbi Home Permanet, White Rain Shampoo, Deep Magic Face lotion
Host: Frank Sinatra
Writers: Norm Sickel
Announcer: Maurice Hart
Producer: Andrew C. Love
1. I've Got The World On A String - Frank Sinatra
2. Let's Try Again - Tony Martin
3. My Funny Valentine - Frank Sinatra

This is an AFRS show culled from the Frank Sinatra Bobbi Show.
The last PF broadcast on NBC was 7-2-54. Bobbi got underway on 9-1-54, on NBC.
--Ed

Television

1987 Renaming Bally's Grand, Atlantic City
Guests: Frank Sinatra, Jerry Lewis, Sammy Davis Jr., Frankie Randell, George Shearing
1. The Oldest Established w/Sammy & Jerry 2. Here's To The Grand w/Sammy And Jerry
Notes: Not televised. Survives on video. 41 min.

Concerts

1935 Fox Theatre, San Diego, CA (October 6-8)
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 Tromar Ballroom, Des Moines, IA (October 8 - one-nighter)
Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra w/Frank Sinatra
(previous postings erroneously had Dorsey in Lawrence, Kansas on this date)

1941 Meyers Lake, Canton , Ohio (October 8 - one-nighter)
Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra w/Frank Sinatra

1942 Central Theatre, Passaic, New Jersey (October 8-14, 1942)
On Screen: "Foreign Agent"

1952 Chase Park Plaza Hotel, St Louis, Missouri (4-10)

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

1976 Buffalo Memorial Auditorium, Buffalo, 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 Once In My Life
9. monologue
10. Like A Sad Song
11. This Is All I Ask
12. Never Gonna Fall In Love Again
13. Empty Tables
14. It Was A Very Good Year
15. Night And Day
16. My Way
Notes: TT 69mins

1980 Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (3-8)
closing night Wednesday
Key Musicians: Vincent Falcone Jr. - piano, Charles Turnner - trumpet, Gene Cherico - bass, Irv Cottler - drums.
Orchestra Conducted by: Vincent Falcone Jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. When Your Lover Has Gone
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. talk
6. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
7. monologue
8. Summer Me, Winter Me
9. Street Of Dreams
10. As Time Goes By
11. Bosa Nova For "C" (Instumental - Sinatra Conducts)
12. I've Got You Under My Skin
13. introductions
14. You And Me
15. My Kind Of Town
16. New York, New York
17. chaser: "My Way"
Notes: TT 61mins.

1987 Bally's Grand, Atlantic City
Special celebration to change the Golden Nuggett name to Bally's Grand
Guests: Frank Sinatra, Jerry Lewis, Sammy Davis Jr., Frankie Randell, George Shearing
1. The Oldest Established w/Sammy & Jerry
2. Here's To The Grand w/Sammy And Jerry
Notes: 41 min.

1992 Radio City Music Hall, New York City
First Show, Opening Night
Orchestra Conducted By: Frank Sinatra, Jr.
1. All Or Nothing At All
2. For Once In My Life
3. Come Rain Or Come Shine
4. I've Got You Under My Skin
5. The House I Live In
6. Luck Be A Lady
7. Barbara
8. Summer Wind
9. Moonlight In Vermont
10. What Now My Love
11. medley: The Gal That Got Away - It Never Entered My Mind
12. Mack The Knife
13. My Way
14. medley Frank & Shirley: Let's Do It (Shirley) - You Make Me
Feel So Young (Frank) - You Do Something To Me (Shirley) -
Witchcraft (Frank) - Cheek To Cheek (Shirley) - That's What I Call
Balling (Shirley) - Let's Do It (Frank & Shirley)
15. New York New York

1992 Radio City Music Hall, New York City
Second Show, Opening Night
Orchestra Conducted By: Frank Sinatra, Jr.
1. Come Fly With Me
2. For Once In My Life
3. Come Rain Or Come Shine
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. The House I Live In
6. Strangers In The Night
7. Barbara
8. I Get A Kick Out Of You
9. Autumn in New York
10. The Best Is Yet To Come
11. Soliloquy
12. Mack The Knife
13. One For My Baby
14. My Way
15. medley Frank & Shirley: Let's Do It (Shirley) - You Make Me
Feel So Young (Frank) - You Do Something To Me (Shirley) -
Witchcraft (Frank) - Cheek To Cheek (Shirley) - That's What I Call
Balling (Shirley) - Let's Do It (Frank & Shirley)
16. New York, New York
Notes: 80mins.

note: Frank was set to play RCMH from 10/8 thru 10/17. He did shows
up thru 10/11 and then missed the 12th, 13th, 14. He finished the run
from the 15th to the 17th. He came back on 10/30 and made up the three
days missed earlier, closing on 11/1.. Shirley MacLaine was there for both
engagements.
--Ed

1993 Civic Arena, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Orchestra Conducted By: Frank Sinatra, Jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. At Long Last Love
3. All Or Nothing At All
4. For Once In My Life
5. Come Rain Or Come Shine
6. I've Got You Under My Skin
7. The House I Live In
8. Fly Me To The Moon
9. Strangers In The Night
10. Luck Be A Lady
11. The Best Is Yet To Come
12. My Heart Stood Still
13. Mack The Knife
14. Angel Eyes
15. My Way
16. Summer Wind
17. New York, New York
Notes: TT 77mins.

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EXTRA:

1940 Tromar Ballroom, Des Moines, IA
Both notices from
The Des Moines Register (Des Moines, Iowa) · 6 Oct 1940:
Emacs!

Emacs!

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1941 Meyers Lake, Canton , Ohio (October 8 - one-nighter)

The Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, Ohio) · 8 Oct 1941
Emacs!

When I was working on my 1992 book, RCA gave me all of the session
sheets from 1940 thru 1942. They also included some interesting odds and ends.
Here is a copy of the contract Dorsey signed for his appearance in Canton, Ohio,
10-8-41.
Ed

Emacs!

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

Emacs!

note: Frank had left Dorsey in early September of 1942. He sang a musical number in the
Columbia Pictures film "Reveille With Beverly" and was able to secure two sustaining radio
programs that got underway in early October. But he was very nervous. There were no
club bookings and he had just bought his first house in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey.
Actually, Frankie was scared it might not go the way he had planned. Desperate, he
had heard about the vaudeville shows at the Central Theatre in Passaic, N.J. He dropped
in one day and asked the manager for a job. He planned to ask for just four days to prove
himself, but the manager knew who Frank Sinatra was and gave him a week. Word of
mouth got scouts coming over from the major theatres in New York City. Frankie was a
hit and that led to more local bookings. And this led to the Paramount Theatre on 12-30-42.
The Central asked Frank to do an encore performance in December. Even though he had
the Big Apple booking, Frank was grateful and immediately agreed to be part of the pre-
Christmas show.

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1942 Reflections
Network: CBS
Location: New York City - CBS Playhouse #3
Show #2
Sponsor: none (substaining)
Time: 8:00PM - 8:30PM (EST)
Musicians: Walter Gross's orchestra, Bobby Tucker's Voices
Arrangements By: Axel Stordahl
Notes: Confirmed airing as Reflections on WISV / Listed as Variety Musical on WABC

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1992 Radio City Music Hall, New York City
Opening Night
Orchestra Conducted By: Frank Sinatra, Jr.

Emacs!

Emacs!

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