Glazer is a raconteur, who swears the stories he tells about Sinatra’s family, friends, and the women in his life, are all true.
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Over 400 illustrations and afterwords by Frank Sinatra Jr., Tina Sinatra and Nancy Sinatra punctuate this portrait of one of our most beloved cultural icons.
Two-time Grammy Award victor and Emmy victor, Jack Jones, will celebrate Frank Sinatra’s 100th birthday anniversary with a live interview on Sirius Radio’s Siriusly Sinatra on December 12, 2015. This CD presents key recordings from Sinatra’s time with Columbia, Capitol and Reprise.
He left Capital Records and started his own label, which brought out, besides the ones listed above, the releases Sinatra and Strings, kicking off the lush orchestra sound in pop music; Sinatra & Basie, with Count Basie, and many more releases. Mickey, I think Tom would make a great opening for Frank Sinatra.’ Rudin got a pained expression on his face, and he winked at the Harrah’s VP and I caught the wink.
Schultz conceived Frankly, Sinatra a couple of years ago, when he turned 50 – the same age as Sinatra when he recorded It Was a Very Good Year.
Adding to Sinatra’s allure, the 82-year-old host pointed to the vast breadth of Sinatra’s material. Viviano’s repertoire includes about 500 Sinatra songs; he narrowed that to 40 for Friday’s event.
Van Cleef: Before Frank, there was Bing Crosby, a technically brilliant singer.
“What’s great about Sinatra is his enduring appeal to all generations”, Dodd said in an email.
In New York City, Sinatra will be remembered on Saturday as the Empire State Building is lit up in “Sinatra Blue”, as a tribute to ‘Ol Blue Eyes. “And the juice I got for that was listening to Sinatra”.
Defying Lazar’s predictions, Sinatra also conquered Hollywood. During this period, he also performed on various radio shows with Dorsey and appeared with the band in the films Las Vegas Nights (1941) and Ship Ahoy (1942). He recognized that the Gershwins, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, Leonard Bernstein, Jule Styne, Jimmy Van Heusen and many others had created classic American popular songs.
Born in an ardently Democratic community, Sinatra campaigned for Franklin Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy and spoke out against racial discrimination. He’s long grown comfortable with his musical tastes, though.
“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.
When did you discover the music of Frank Sinatra?
“People thought, whatever did he do for Hoboken?”
Natalina “Dolly” Garaventa, who had arrived in New Jersey as a child from a village near Genoa, Italy, married Marty Sinatra against her parents’ wishes, and because of her strong character and determination, she became the most influential person in Hoboken’s Italian community at a time when local politics were dominated by the Irish.
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Foster said that, on the centennial, most people who came to the museum’s exhibit at this point cared little about his personal foibles.
