On Friday, December 11, festivities will include a noon showing of On the Town, a 1949 musical film starring Frank Sinatra, directed by Gene Kelly.
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Brown-Forman Travel Retail has launched a series of 26 airport promotions around the world highlighting the Frank Sinatra/Jack Daniel’s partnership to coincide with the upcoming 100th anniversary of the iconic rat-pack singer’s birth.
The high school dropout delivered the Jersey Observer newspaper and worked at a shipyard. They won first prize on a national radio program for amateur entertainers, and Sinatra started along a path that led to big bands, bobby soxers and fame.
He became a singing waiter at The Rustic Cabin in Englewood Cliffs, where he met songwriter Cole Porter, and forgot the words to Porter’s hit, “Night And Day”, the 100 Sinatra website said. And SIRIUSXM will turn on inactive satellite auto radios for free this weekend for listeners to enjoy select channels, including SIRIUSLY SINATRA, ’40s JUNCTION, ’50s ON 5, and RADIO CLASSICS. It showed Sinatra felt there was an opportunity to “do some good for his country under the direction of the Federal Bureau of Investigation”. Mel’s perspective on Sinatra attained worldwide attention when he was interviewed by Joe Franklin on Bloomberg’s “Business of Show Business”. On Sunday, CBS aired “Sinatra 100- An All-Star GRAMMY Concert”, in which artists such as Tony Bennett, John Legend, Usher, Carrie Underwood, Adam Levine, Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood performed his greatest hits.
A commissioner called Sinatra “an obnoxious bully” with a “bloated ego”.
His last engagement in Atlantic City was at the Sands in 1994.
However, some Hoboken residents felt Sinatra had forgotten them, reflected in the reception he got when he rode on a float in a 1947 parade and was pelted with tomatoes, according to biographer Ed Shirak.
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“People unfamiliar with Hoboken seem to think of it as a dumpy small Jersey town, filled with people who really want to live in New York City”, she said.
