[sinatraphiles] September 6 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

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Studio Recordings

None

Radio

1943  Broadway Bandbox (CBS)
9:00 P.M. to 10: 00 PM.(Monday)
Salute To "Womanpower In The War"
Frank Sinatra w/Axel Stordahl & His Orchestra in Hollywood
Jerry Lester w/Raymond Scott & His Orchestra in N.Y.C.
Bobby Tucker Singers,, Paul Baron & His Orchestra
Guests: Eileen Farrell, Jerry Lester, Colonel Stoopnagle
Jerry Sullivan, Golden Gate Quartet, Three Sisters, Herbert
Marshall, Joan Brooks, Doris Dudley
1.  Victory Polka
2.  All Or Nothing At All
3.  Ol' Man River
4.  Close To You

1944 Frank Sinatra In Person (CBS)
Guests: Eileen Barton
Orchestra Conducted by: Axel Stordahl
Arrangements by: Axel Stordahl
From the Waves Training Center, San Diego, CA
Guests: Orson Welles
1.  Sweet Lorraine w. Vimms Vocalists
2.  I'll Remember April  ( good but the 10-11-44 is better )
3. These Foolish Things
4. Together w/Eileen Barton
--  Skit w/Orson Welles
5.  Embraceable You/Bidin' My Time w/Vimms Vocalists

note: Show was also a tribute to "Womanpower In The War"

Emacs!

1945 Command Performance. Program #190
This is a rebroadcast of #122 June 3, 1944
Bob Hope (m. c.), Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Meredith Willson
(conductor). 30:03

Frank sang "All The Things You Are," did comedy sketches with the others and
Bing
joined him in a very entertaining medley, parodying a number of great songs
including
"You're The Top" and "You Are My Sunshine."

Note: The show appears on the officially released CD set: 60 Greaest Old
Time Radio Show "Frank Sinatra & Friends"

1945 Jubilee
AFRS Program #146.
Ernest Whitman (m. c.),
Verne Smith (announcer),
Performers: Louis Armstrong, Ella Mae Morse, Alvino Rey, Frank Sinatra
The AFRS Orchestra
Notes: The date above is the date of recording.

1.  Saturday Night is the Loneliest Night of the Week

2.  Blue Skies w. Louis Armstrong

NOTE: Ed O'Brien points out that Sinatra sang "Saturday Night is the
Loneliest Night of the Week"
and Louis Armstrong backed him on trumpet for a very nice reading of Irving
Berlin's "Blue Skies."

1947 Your Hit Parade
Network: NBC
Time: 9:00-9:30 P.M.EST
Sponsor: Lucky Strike
1.  Feudin' Fightin' and a-Fussin' (#4)
2.  That's My Desire (#5)
3.  That Old Black Magic (Hit Parade Extra)
4.  I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now

NOTE: We are grateful to Ed O'Brien for the above program, which marked
Sinatra's return to the Hit Parade broadcasts.
Eileen Barton told Ed that Frank hated the rigid and staid format when he
was the male vocalist in 1943 and 1944.
When he agreed to come back in 1947, it was with the proviso that there
would be some changes made.
He brought along Alex Stordahl, introduced most of the songs, did some
outstanding "Hit Parade Extras,"
and dominated the show for the next 21 months. Doris Day was his female
counterpart in the Fall of 1947

1949 Light Up Time
Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes
Network: NBC
Starring: Frank Sinatra & Dorothy Kirsten
Jeff Alexander And The Orchestra
1.  The Hucklebuck
2.  You're Breaking My Heart
3.  Let's Take An Old Fashioned Walk (with Dorothy Kirsten)

Television

1976 Muscular Dystrophy Association Telethon
Hosted by Jerry Lewis
Las Vegas
Frank's  first appearance
Bill Miller conducted
1. Star Gazer   w/Sam Butera on sax
2. Never Gonna Fall Again
Frank chatted with Jerry, wanted Jerry to meet a friend.
Dean Martin walked out on stage. First time Martin
& Lewis had been together in 20 years( early '50s
Frank was making $10,000 a week, M&L were making
that per night). Jerry called Frank an SOB.
Frank & Dean
did a medley of songs:
I Can't Give You Anything But Love/Too Marvelous
For Words/Pennies From Heaven/A Foggy Day/
Embraceable You/The Lady Is A Tramp/I've Got
The World On A String/Where Or When/All Of Me/
When You're Smiling

Frank's second appearance
Bill Miller conducted
1. For Once In My Life
2. Embraceable You
3. Night And Day
Note: Details Ed O'Brien

Concerts

1940 Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto, Canada (September 4 - September
7)
Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra w/Frank Sinatra

1941 Paramount Theatre , New York City (August 27 - September 16)
Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra w/Frank Sinatra

1946 Copacabana , New York City
w/Phil Silvers - Comedy Only

Note:  Sinatra did opening night with Silvers(5)
and then the midnight show on the 6th.
Ed

1951 Desert Inn, Las Vegas , Nevada (September 4-19)

1952 Riviera Club, Fort Lee, New Jersey (September 5-18)

1963 Sands, Las Vegas , Nevada
First Show
w/Dean & Sammy
1. Introduction
Dean:
2. Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes
- I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine
- I Love Paris (parody)
3. Monologue
4. June In January
5. Monologue
6. Via Veneto
7. Volare - On An Evening in Roma
Frank:
8. Intro
9. I Only Have Eyes For You
10. My Heart Stood Still
11. Please Be Kind
12. Monologue
13. Call Me Irresponsible
14. Luck Be A Lady
Frank & Dean
15. Dialogue
16. Kiddie Medley  ( parodies )Marianne - Dance With A Dolly
- You Are Too Beautiful - You Made
Me Love You - Carolina In The Morning
- Beautiful Dreamer - Dancing With Tears
In My Eyes - Maria - Try A Little
Tenderness - What Is This Thing Called
Love
Sammy:
17. The Lady Is A Tramp
18. All The Way (impressions)
Frank, Dean & Sammy:
19. Comedy
Frank & Dean:
20. Guys And Dolls
21. The Oldest Established
Frank, Dean & Sammy:
22. Intros
23. The Oldest Established
24. Chaser "Ring-a-ding- ding"

1963 Sands, Las Vegas , Nevada
Second show
w/Dean & Sammy
1. Introduction
Dean:
2. Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes
- I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine
- I Love Paris (parody)
3. Monologue
4. June In January
5. Monologue
6. Via Veneto
7. Volare - On An Evening in Roma
Frank:
8. Intro
9. I Only Have Eyes For You
10. My Heart Stood Still
11. Please Be Kind
12. Monologue
13. I Have Dreamed
14. Luck Be A Lady
Frank & Dean
15. Dialogue
16. Kiddie Medley  ( parodies )Marianne - Dance With A Dolly
- You Are Too Beautiful - You Made
Me Love You - Carolina In The Morning
- Beautiful Dreamer - Dancing With Tears In
My Eyes - Maria - Try A Little
Tenderness - What Is This Thing Called
Love
Sammy:
17. The Lady Is A Tramp
18. All The Way (impressions)
Frank, Dean & Sammy:
19. Comedy
Frank & Dean:
20. Guys And Dolls
21. The Oldest Established
Frank, Dean & Sammy:
22. Intros
23. The Oldest Established
24. Chaser "Ring-a-ding- ding"

Ed O'Brien:
Sinatra, Martin and Davis did six shows over the Labor Day weekend
from September 6 thru the 8. Reprise Records taped all of them. The
September
6 show is not a Reprise release. However, it was issued on a CD titled
"Indian
Summer At The Sands 1963." Reprise issued a show from the following night
titled " The Rat Pack 'Live At The Sands.' " There were 12 reels of tape
used
for the six shows. Each was assigned a master number from T3314 thru T3325.
The Reprise work sheets states that the same material was done for each
show.

note, Frank, Sammy and Dean cavorted on stage for the first five shows of
the

Labor Day weekend. The second show on 9/8 featured just Frank and Dean

"Luck Be A Lady" was sung without the verse.

1967 Sands, Las Vegas , Nevada (August 31 - September 17)

1970 Caesars Palace, Las Vegas , Nevada (September 3-6)

1974 Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada (September 4-10)
The Veterans
Pat Henry
Frank Sinatra Jr.
Woody Herman & His New Thundering Herd
Nancy Sinatra
Frank Sinatra
1. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
2.  I Get a Kick Out of You
3.  Don't Worry 'Bout Me
4.. Send in the Clowns w/Bill Miller
5. Let Me Try Again
6. Monologue
7. If
8. My Kind Of Town
9.Angel Eyes
10. I've Got You Under My Skin
11. My Way

1976 Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (September 2-10)
Orchestra conducted by Bill Miller
O.A. Pat Henry
1.  Stargazer
2.  Where Or When
3.  Embraceable You
4.  Here's That Rainy Day
5.  For Once In My Life
6.  monologue
7.  It Was A Very Good Year
8.  Never Gonna Fall In Love Again
9.  My Way
10.  Night And Day
11.  This Is All I Ask
12.  Empty Tables  w/ B. Miller on piano
13.  I Sing The Songs

The song selection was the same for both the dinner and midnight shows
Dionne Warwicke was in the audience for the first show and Sergio Mendes
was in attendance for the second. Both shows ran a little under an hour.

1978 Jai Alai Fronton, Hartford, CT (September 4-6)
1.  Night and Day
2.  At Long Last Love
3.  All of Me
4.  The Lady Is a Tramp
5.  Didn't We
6.  Someone to Watch Over Me
7.  Something
8.  Baubles, Bangles and Beads
9.  The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
10.  That's What God Looks Like to Me
11.  You and Me (We Wanted It All)
12.  The Oldest Established (Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York)
13.  Lonely Town
14.  My Kind of Town
15.  Remember
16.  Maybe This Time
17.  My Way
18.  America the Beautiful

1979 Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (September 3-9)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, Jr.
Key Musicians: Irv Cottler, Charles Turner, Gene Cherico, Al Viola, Joe
Malin
Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, Jr.
Friday evening
1.  I've Got The World On A String
2.  Street Of Dreams
3.  The Lady Is A Tramp
4.  Yesterday
5.  Something
6.  The Best Is Yet To Come
7.  I Can't Get Started (V. Falcone arg.)
8.  Don't Worry 'Bout Me (B. May arg.)
9.  Gal That Got Away/It Never Entered My Mind
10.  monologue
11.  Sinatra offered three songs from film musicals he starred in through
the years.
12.  My Kind Of Town
13.  All The Way
14.  Bewitched
15.  I've Got You Under My Skin
16.  You And Me
17.  New York, New York

1985 Carnegie Hall, New York City (September 5-14)
1. Where or When
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 (uptempo Parnello arrangement)
7. Something
8. All or Nothing at All
9. Lost in the Stars
10. Gal That Got Away
11. Monologue
12. Here's to the Band
13. More Than You Know w/Tony Mottola, guitar
14. Mack the Knife
15. It was a very good Year
16. Come Rain or Come Shine
17. One for my Baby
18. I've Got You Under My Skin
19. New York , New York

1986 Riverbend, Cincinnati , Ohio
1. L.A. Is My Lady
2. Summer Wind
3. What Now My Love
4. Where or When
5. Someone to Watch over Me
6. It's All Right with Me
7. I've Got You under my Skin
8. Bewitched
9. For Once in my Life
10. Soliloquy
11. Monologue
12. New York, New York
13. My Heart Stood Still
14. The Best is Yet to Come
15. Moonlight in Vermont
16. Come Rain or Come Shine
17. More Than You Know
18. Mack the Knife

1990 Greek Theater, Los Angeles , California( September 6-7)
Frank Sinatra, Don Rickles, Pia Zadora
Bill Miller on piano for Mr. Sinatra
Orchestra Conducted by Frank Sinatra Jr.
Vinnie Falcone conducted for Ms. Zadora
Nelson Cole conducted for Mr. Rickles
1. You Make me Feel so Young
2. In the Still of the Night
3. For Once in My Life
4. Come Rain or Come Shine
5. The Lady is a Tramp
6. Summer Me, Winter Me
7. Where or When
8. My Heart Stood Still
9. What Now my Love
10. Strangers in the Night
11. Barbara
12. The Best is Yet to Come
13. Soliloquy
14. Mack the Knife

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EXTRA:

1941 Steel Pier. Atlantic City, New Jersey (Never Happened)
Saturday Afternoon
Dance

Some sources list Tommy Dorsey as being at the Steel Pier on September 6,
1941.  He was not there.  The following advertisement from the September 6,
1941 Philadelphia Inquirer shows that Artie Shaw was there:

Emacs!

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1943  Broadway Bandbox (CBS)
9:00 P.M. to 10: 00 PM.(Monday)
Salute To "Womanpower In The War"
Frank Sinatra w/Axel Stordahl & His Orchestra in Hollywood

Emacs!

Variety

9-8-43

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1944 Frank Sinatra In Person (CBS)
Guests: Eileen Barton
Orchestra Conducted by: Axel Stordahl
Arrangements by: Axel Stordahl
From the Waves Training Center, San Diego, CA
Guests: Orson Welles

Emacs!

Emacs!

Frank Sinatra                                                Orson Welles

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1946 Copacabana , New York City
w/Phil Silvers - Comedy Only

Note:  Sinatra did opening night with Silvers(5)
and then the midnight show on the 6th.
Ed

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1951 Desert Inn, Las Vegas , Nevada

DESERT INN, LAS VEGAS

Painted Desert Room )

Las Vegas, Sept. 6

Frank Sinatra, Jay Marshall, Ruby Ring, Gene Griffin, Arden-Fletcher
Dancers,(8)

Graham Forbes, Carlton Hayes Orch. (11); no cover, no minimum

  Plenty of controversy is flipping back and forth about the Sinatra stand
at the

Desert Inn, with customer opinion divided. Maitre d' will cry for mercy
during this

fortnight, because tables are at a premium.

  Controversy edges around those who scoff as Sinatra's voice goes off form
a

bit, and those who put him forward as being one of the greatest showmen seen

in these parts. After waves of attendant publicity, and some not too
flattering, a

tendency has become to scalp "The Voice" before it has a chance to be really

heard.

  Sinatra displays marvelous ease while setting forth in some clever patter

preceding his tunes.Works <http://tunes.works/>  through a succession of
standards and a pop or

two, until he boffs with a ditty he had a hand in cleffing: "I'm A Fool To
Want

You." Sunday punch is "Soliloquy," a seven-minute song dissertation that
KO's

the whole room, but good. Repertoire also includes "When You're Smiling,"

"Hello Young Lovers," "Black Magic," "Crush On You," "All Of Me," "I

Concentrate On You," "My Blue Heaven," "I'll Never Smile Again" and "Come

Rain Or Come Shine."

  Emcee Gene Griffin tosses in spark with some intro gabs plus enlivening

production romps with neat warbling. Sinatra himself pays high trib to back-

stopping Carlton Hayes and Windjammers who sound better than good. Graham

Forbes slides in during his stint for all keyboard accomps.

Walt

Variety

9-12-51

note:The Las Vegas Morning Sun's publisher, Hank Greenspan, wrote a guest

column in the paper on 9-9-51. He had attended a show at the Desert Inn,
leaving

him with a $33.00 tab that was not worth the entertainment Sinatra was
offering.

Variety columnist, Bill Willard, immediately responded with a vigorous
defense

of the singing he had heard at the inn.. Greenspan thought Frank was a shell
of

the great teen idol of the mid-1940s. Willard argued that the voice had
changed,

but was still marvelous. A number of other papers joined the debate. Frank,
who

was at the D.I. for two weeks, at $15,000 per week, added to the controversy
by

aiming some rather nasty barbs at Rosie Clooney and a few other performers.

This was done on stage and just added fuel to the fire. Despite this
nastiness,

Frank had found a place in the sun. Vegas and The Voice would carry on a

love affair that lasted more than 40 years.

During a concert in the late 1970s, Frank told of his travails with his
piano player,

Ken Lane, during the summer of 1951. Frank remembered Lane running out on

him during the Desert Inn engagement. Frank's memory failed him on this one.

Lane must have played the Riverside Restaurant & Hotel, in Reno, prior to
the

Vegas setting. Graham Forbes was Frank's pianist at the Desert Inn. Forbes

had told Frank he wanted his base to be New York City, so the Vegas gig was

his swan song. Jimmy Van Heusen went looking for a piano player and found

Bill Miller working on the Vegas strip... Bill backed Frank when the second
season

of the CBS-TV series got underway on 10-9-51.

Sinatra was paid $10,000 a week for the Reno two-weeker and $15,000 at

the Desert Inn, per week. That $50,000 was a lot of money in 1951 and Frank

needed every penny he could earn at that time.

Desert Inn gig ran from 9/4 thru 9/17. Ella Logan opened on the 18th.

Ed

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September 6, 1955 & September 6, 1965

Two Magazine Covers 10 Years apart:

Look Magazine September 6, 1955:
Emacs!

Newsweek September 6, 1965:
Emacs!

note: Newsweek photographer encountered a problem with photos he took for
this cover article. Yul Brynner saved
the day by offering magazine some recent shots he had done at Frank's Palm
Springs home.
Ed

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1956 Cooks Fashion, Minneapolis, Minnesota (cancelled appearance)

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1974 Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada (September 4-10)
The Veterans
Pat Henry
Frank Sinatra Jr.
Woody Herman & His New Thundering Herd
Nancy Sinatra
Frank Sinatra

Review of this show:
FRANK SINATRA
and FAMILY
WOODY HERMAN
Harrah's Tahoe

For the first time, The Voice cum offspring
are an attraction, with the kids the opening act.
The offspring are not so divinely gifted as the
father. Frank Jr. looks Ike and sings like an
ex-Marine. Nancy, overweight and overdressed,
sang some nice but soulless tunes. at times with
husband Hugh Lambert, who was credited with
production and direction of the show.
Ol' Blue Eyes was a different story. It was the
first time the reporter had been exposed to the
Sinatra magic in person, and suffice to say that
by the end of the Sept. 6 show, which concluded
with "My Way," (the "national anthem." as Sinatra
put it) I had been reduced to a helpless mass of
emotional protoplasm.
Sinatra's voice, awesome in its depth, coloring
and subtlety, paints a world of love. independence
and determination in the most intimate and torchlike
fashion. Sinatra is the incarnation of every impulse of
lust, passion or love that has ever passed through the
air of any bar or lounge in America since 1940.
He is a perfect mirror of his particular social
environment. He drinks and smokes his way
through songs just as the people in his songs
(himself usually as a main character), and the
people watching him also drink and smoke their
way through the memories he sings about.
He mirrors his environments in other ways:
Chicago, for instance, is something more for
being Frank's kind of town.
Sinatra stuck pretty close to the same pro -
gression of songs during this seven night en -
gagement: "Leroy Brown," "I Get Kick Out of
You," "Don't Worry About Me," "Let Me Try
Again," Steven Sondheim's "Send In the
Clowns," (which moved me more than any other
song except "My Way "), "My Kind of Town,"
"I've Got You Under My Skin."
Woody Herman and the New Thundering
Herd backed Sinatra with power and verve after
having 10 minutes of their own between Frank
Jr. and Nancy. I doubt that I have ever heard
anyone come off the line at zero and do 10 min.
of more concentrated, calculated and convincing
heat.
Needless to say, every performance at the
somewhat small (about 1,000) South Shore
Room was sold out (at $20 minimum per) and
the week grossed over $300,000. The same
show went to Vegas the week following.
JACK MCDONOUGH
Billboard
September 28, 1974

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1976 Muscular Dystrophy Association Telethon
Hosted by Jerry Lewis
Frank chatted with Jerry, wanted Jerry to meet a friend.
Dean Martin walked out on stage. First time Martin
& Lewis had been together in 20 years

Emacs!

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Emacs!

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1990 Greek Theater, Los Angeles , California( September 6-7)
Frank Sinatra, Don Rickles, Pia Zadora
Bill Miller on piano for Mr. Sinatra
Orchestra Conducted by Frank Sinatra Jr.
Vinnie Falcone conducted for Ms. Zadora
Nelson Cole conducted for Mr. Rickles

Emacs!

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