Part 10 · 1981–1988

660 dated entries

September 25, 1981

Concerts

Civic Center, Hartford, CT

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. Fly Me To The Moon

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. Strangers In The Night

5. Say Hello

6. You And Me

7. Pennies From Heaven (Hefti chart)

8. The Best Is Yet To Come

9. Something

10. The Lady Is A Tramp

11. monologue

12. Good Thing Going

13. Luck Be A Lady

14. When Joanna Loved Me

15. My Way

16. These Foolish Things ( V. Falcone on piano )

17. I Loved Her

18. New York, New York

Extras

Civic Center, Hartford, CT

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

OL' BLUE EYES DISPLAYS WIT, URBANITY

Frank Sinatra is still very much the Chairman of the Board, still very much the Chairman of the Unbored as he proved so well Friday night in his opening performance of a two-night, weekend stint at the Hartford Civic Center.

With lights and cameras flashing and the crowd shouting it worshipful hosannas, Sinatra, with his own bodyguards to the left and right of him, was led down the center aisle to the stage where he presented a show graced with artful musicianship and very crafty showman- ship.

Sinatra, the one-time boy wonder from Hoboken, N,J,, is not a kid anymore. He is 65, long past the time when most music superstars hang up their spikes, particularly singers, who, suffer the ravages of time far more than, say, Eubie Blake, Earl Hines or Arthur Rubenstein who apparently can go on eternally.

Sinatra's voice was a bit ragged at times, even a bit hoarse Friday night. His rendition of Tony Bennett's "When Joanna Loved Me," for example, was tattered, maudlin and mediocre. Ol' Blue Eyes, in fact, would do well to drop this tune from his repertoire immediately and send the lead sheets back to Bennett -- preferably C.O.D. The song just isn't Sinatra, the great one who thrives on the absolute creme de la creme of American writers like Richard Rodgers, George Gershwin or Cole Porter.

The Bennett piece was extremely curdled creme at best, one that tended to call attention to those ragged edges that are beginning to sound a bit reminiscent of the latter-day Billie Holiday -- resonating with intimations of age and mortality.

But you can't expect a man of 65 --even a demi-god like Sinatra-- to sound like a 25-year- old, or even like a 35-year- old But then again, you wouldn't expect a 25-year-old to sing with the sort of wit and urbanity and consummate musicianship that Sinatra often demonstrated at the Civic Center.

Rather surprisingly, Sinatra was at the very top of his form on challenging uptempo, swing- ing pieces, with firm accompaniment provided by his hot, jazzy band, which came complete with a harp and a vibraphone. His pipes were in A-one condition on demanding pieces like his very vibrant opening number "I've Got The World On A String." This was first-class Sinatra, singing that transcends all age or even the ages with its undeniable quality, its zesty mix of good Italian bel canto and American jazz syncopation, legato and rubato cooked up like only this master can do so well and with such apparent aplomb and ease. Few pop singers can work within a two-octave range with such smooth musicianship, such a feeling for time and a knack for apt, never pretentious melodic embellishments.

"The Lady Is A Tramp" was a little, classical lesson in Sinatra's use of velvety glis- sandos, those super smooth, swooping Sinatra lines that glided and swung over the top of his band's accompaniment with the precision and coolness of Peggy Fleming's configurations on ice.

The same source of Sinatrancing magic worked on "Strangers In The Night," "The Best Is Yet To Come," " "Luck Be A Lady," and, of course, the all but inevitable "My Way."

"My Way" was written by Paul Anka, but is the quintessential autobiographical song for Sinatra, one that he turned into a first-class soliloquy. Age may have diminished some of his warm tonal colorations -- those cello- like inflections that he can still evoke with his light baritone voice. But age cannot wither or custom stale his infinite variety as a master entertainer -- a singer with a most compelling stage presence, one who uses even the microphone as an instrument in itself, one who choreographs his moves and gestures for maximum effect, even when it comes to smoking a cigarette with all the dramatic impact of Humphrey Bogart.

Because of his experience as an actor, there are few, if any, singers in any style -- whether opera or punk -- who can match his stage command. Being on stage for Sinatra -- a multi, multi-millionaire who doesn't have to knock himself out now at Social Security age with grinding road tours--- just seems to be so natural. It seems like he's in his living room, relaxing at home with a few select friends.

His real secret to success, his real fountain of youth, seems to be that he can always make his audience feel that he just dropped by for a casual visit with old friends. This sort of magic works even in a modern megalithic monument like the Civic Center.

The center's acoustics were quite good, except for a recurring and irritating bit of static that kept cropping up during the most romantic of ballads, as on "These Foolish Things," a little gem that featured Sinatra and his pianist and conductor Vincent Falcone.

Sinatra paced himself well, always managing to conserve his energy. He took a break on stage to drink a glass of wine, which he used to toast his admiring audience. Fans presented him with bottles of wine and bouquets of roses, along with cards and notes, which they left on the edge of the stage, Between songs, Sinatra spoke about himself and made a few jokes in his characteristically light, hip patter.

"This must be California wine. I just drank a few flies," he joked. And instead of keeping the focus entirely on himself, he featured a few members of his road band as soloists. Guitarist Tony Mottola, a veteran studio musician, played "Come Back To Sorrento,:" a tune transformed in the same ethnic vein into "The Tarantella."

Trumpeter Charlie Turner, a hulk of a man, who'd dwarf most professional wrestlers, played a pretty Harry Jamesian version of "Sweet And Lovely," while Sinatra sat in the dark near the stairs to the stage.

Sinatra likes to season his concerts with a bit of Italian themes, like Mottola's "Sorrento," and took great delight in introducing his old buddy from the audience, Willie Pep, the Italian-American Hartford native, who was one of boxing's all-time greats. "If I was 18, I'd be boxing in this arena tonight," said Sinatra, who was a boxer when he was a kid.

Mixed with the old, classic material were some new songs, including a snappy tune called "Say Hello," which will be on a new LP on Reprise Records, an album Sinatra says will be devoted to "saloon songs."

Other fairly new material included "You And Me ( We Wanted It All) by Carol Bayer Sager and Peter Allen, and George Harrison's "Something." Both tunes are on Sinatra's most recent and highly-acclaimed album on Reprise, "Trilogy." Sinatra looked extremely trim and fit, sporting a bright red handkerchief tucked in the jacket of his tuxedo. He even looked fit enough to have gone a few rounds with Willie Pep, back when Pep was the world's greatest will-o'-the-wisp featherweight champion.

The opening act for Sinatra's class performance was a crass and tacky routine by comedian Pat Henry, a specialist in ancient wheezes, ethnic slurs and bathroom humor, most suitable for the poshly upholstered sewers in Las Vegas.

A typical sort of Henryism was: "Eleanor Roosevelt was so ugly that they wouldn't use her face on a stamp. No one would lick it." That was one of his classier remarks. When Sinatra played earlier this month in New York, New York ( a wonderful town), his opening act was the celebrated pianist George Shearing, who performed in a duo format, with the brilliant, young double bassist Brian Torff. New York got the classy, first- string opening act. Hartford got the pits.

Owen McNally

Courant Music Critic

The Hartford Courant

September 27, 1981

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September 26, 1981

Concerts

Civic Center, Hartford, CT

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

Saturday evening

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. Fly Me To The Moon

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. Strangers In The Night

5. Say Hello

6. You And Me

7. Pennies From Heaven

8. The Best Is Yet To Come

9. Something

10. The Lady Is A Tramp monologue

11. Good Thing Going

12. Luck Be A Lady

13. My Way

14. These Foolish Things w/Tony Mottola

15. I Loved Her

16. New York, New York

Notes: TT 68mins.

September 29, 1981

Radio

WOR-AM

New York City

September 29. 30 and October 1, 1981

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

Ed O'Brien:

While appearing at Carnegie Hall, Sinatra was interviewed by Arlene Francis.on the afternoon of 9-15-81 The extensive conversation was broadcast on three consecutive nights over WOR-AM in N..Y.C. The two hour interview covered a wide range of topics.

October 1, 1981

Radio

Arlene Francis Interviews Frank Sinatra

Note: Taped September 15th

Thanks to Fred W for above listing

Television

none

October 6, 1981

Extras

After Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Frank's friend, was assassinated, Frank wrote a public tribute describing him as a man of peace.

Frank Sinatra (quoted): "the single man of the desert who has stood tall in the sand begging for peace"

Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

October 12, 1981

Concerts

Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, Kansas

1. I've Got the World on a String

2. Come Rain or Come Shine

3. When Joanna Loved Me

4. Fly Me to the Moon

5. Something

6. Say Hello

7. Strangers in the Night

8. The Best Is Yet to Come

9. I Loved Her

10. The Lady Is a Tramp

11. Luck Be a Lady

12. As Time Goes By

13. My Way

14. Pennies From Heaven

15. Good Thing Going

16. Theme From New York, New York

HE DOES IT THEIR WAY

SINATRA DELIGHTS HIS FANS AND SPINS A MOOD THAT LINGERS Monday wasn't just another Columbus Day in Kansas City. Frank Sinatra made it something special by turning his singular magic loose on a sold-out house at Municipal auditorium.

Mr. Sinatra, who at 65 is on an eight-city tour of the country, enthralled a crowd of 9,300 listeners -- most of them over 30 -- with standards like "My Way" and "As Time Goes By" and with newer songs like George Harrison's "Something." Backed by a 21-piece orchestra, Mr. Sinatra sang 18 songs in a full and resonant voice. Strolling about the rectangular stage under five huge speakers suspended from cables, he punctuated the musical phrases by flipping his hand and pointing his finger. Mr. Sinatra made his entrance at 8:45 p.m. from the arena's south entrance. Surrounded by about a half-dozen attendants, he looked fittingly august in a black tuxedo and silver hair implant.

To deafening cheers, he took the stage and launched into "I've Got The World On A String." During the 80-minute performance, Mr. Sinatra ignored most interruptions from the crowd, such as a brassiere pitched onto the stage and a cry of "Sing it, Frankie," which broke the mood of the ballad "When Joanna Loved Me."

Midway through the show, Mr. Sinatra took a break and picked up a glass of red wine, saying, "I have to warm up the tonsils from time to time.

Toasting the crowd, he said, "I hope you have everything you want in your lives, particularly an abundance of health. May you live to be 750 years old and the last voice you hear be mine."

When a girl handed him a red rose, he thanked her and handed her the blue handkerchief from his breast pocket. After accepting several more flowers, he cracked, "Next time I'll bring a box of handkerchiefs."

Mr. Sinatra closed out the concert with a rousing rendition of "New York, New York," and then left the stage in a phalanx of attendants and policemen.

Before going out the door, he blew a kiss to the crowd, which stood watching after he was gone, luxuriating in the experience and bidding it and Mr. Sinatra a reluctant farewell. Though the dress of the crowd, made up of people of all ages, was as mixed as a tossed salad, everyone had one interest in common:

"It's not often you get to see a real honest-to-God professional perform," said Sue Blake of Kansas City.

For many of the older people, who clogged the entrance to the auditorium to attend the concert, the anticipation of waiting and then finally hearing the voice, dissolved the years since their youth.

"I admired him when he first started singing, and I remember when I saw him the first time in New York in 1942," said Mrs. Thomas Walch, who attended the concert with her husband and who has 15 to 20 of Mr. Sinatra's albums.

"I wasn't one of those screaming bobby-soxers, but I definitely was a fan. He's the master, and there's nobody like him."

"I'm really excited about this," said Joanne Goulding, who attended the concert with her husband, Ed. "He was one of my favorite singers when I was growing up." Outside the auditorium ticket scalpers worked the in-going crowd, flower salesmen peddled their wares and a woman gave out free packages of cigarettes. Their performances, though, were upstaged by the refrain of Sinatra tunes that echoed in people's minds from well-worn albums or never-forgotten songs heard on the radio.

Mr. Sinatra's hit big records came in the '40s, '50s and '60s and resulted in his wide appeal, evidenced by elderly parents accompanied by their middle-aged children or grand- children.

"His music is timeless," said 31-year old Mike Eastwood.

--James C. Fitzpatrick and Lewis W. Diuguid

Kansas City Star, 10-14-81

Ed O'Brien

Frank's tour in September-October 1981 started in Hartford on 9-25-26 and then moved on to Kansas City, Wichita (10-13 ), Houston ( 10-16), New Orleans( 10-18 ), Denver ( 10-24 ) and then two shows in L.A.. For some reason Kansas City has had a date, 10-10, instead of the correct date, 10-12. The Denver show was a benefit for Diabetes Association Ball and the L.A shows were benefits for Sherman Block (10-25) and St John's Hospital ( 10-30 ). Chicago Stadium was scheduled for 10-9-10, but was canceled.

Songs performed during tour:

I've Got The World On A String

Come Rain Or Come Shine

Fly Me To The Moon

When Joanna Loved Me

Something

Say Hello

Strangers In The Night

The Best Is Yet To Come

I Loved Her

The Lady Is A Tramp

Luck Be A Lady

As Time Goes By w/ Tony Mottola

My Way

These Foolish Things

Pennies From Heaven

Good Thing Going

You And Me

New York, New York

Extras

Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, Kansas

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Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, Kansas

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October 13, 1981

Concerts

Century II Performing Arts & Convention Center, Wichita, KS,

1. I've Got the World on a String

2. Come Rain or Come Shine

3. Fly Me to the Moon

4. Something

5. Say Hello

6. Strangers in the Night

7. The Best Is Yet to Come

8. I Loved Her

9. The Lady Is a Tramp

10. Luck Be a Lady

11. As Time Goes By

12. My Way

13. Pennies From Heaven

14. Good Thing Going

15. Theme From New York, New York

Extras

Century II Performing Arts & Convention Center, Wichita, KS,

October 16, 1981

Concerts

Jones Hall, Houston, Texas

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I've Got the World on a String

2. Come Rain or Come Shine

3. Fly Me to the Moon

4. Something

5. Say Hello

6. Strangers in the Night

7. The Best Is Yet to Come

8. I Loved Her

9. The Lady Is a Tramp

10. Luck Be a Lady

11. As Time Goes By

12. My Way

13. Pennies From Heaven

14. Good Thing Going

15. Theme From New York, New York

October 18, 1981

Concerts

Municipal Auditorium, New Orleans, Louisiana

1. I've Got the World on a String

2. Come Rain or Come Shine

3. Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)

4. Something

5. Say Hello

6. Strangers in the Night

7. The Best Is Yet to Come

8. I Loved Her

9. The Lady Is a Tramp

10. Luck Be a Lady

11. As Time Goes By

12. My Way

13. Pennies From Heaven

14. Good Thing Going

15. Theme From New York, New York

October 24, 1981

Concerts

Currigan Hall, Denver, Colorado

Fourth Annual Carousel Ball To Benefit Children's Diabetes Foundation of Denver

Mrs Marvin Davis founded the Foundation in 1977

Art Buchwald & Merv Griffin were co-emcees

Frank Sinatra entertained

Vinnie Falcone conducted the Denver orchestra and Mr. Sinatra's sidemen. Ed O'Brien

Frank performed at three benefits in seven days. Denver was the first stop before two in L.A. (25 and 30) at the Beverly Hilton.

Extras

Currigan Hall, Denver, Colorado

Fourth Annual Carousel Ball To Benefit Children's Diabetes Foundation of Denver Mrs Marvin Davis founded the Foundation in 1977

Art Buchwald & Merv Griffin were co-emcees

Frank Sinatra entertained

Vinnie Falcone conducted the Denver orchestra and Mr. Sinatra's sidemen.

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October 25, 1981

Concerts

International Ballroom, Beverly Hilton, Los Angeles,

California

Sunday

Peter J. Pitchess Sheriff of Los Angeles County was Honorary Chairman

Gene Autry, Bruce Corwin, Waller Taylor II were Dinner Chairmen

Les Brown Orchestra

Reception at 6:30 p.m.

Dinner at 7:30 p.m.

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. The Best Is Yet To Come

3. Good Thing Going

4. Come Rain Or Come Shine

5. Strangers In The Night

6. Luck Be A Lady

7. My Way

8. Something

9. These Foolish Things

10. monologue

11. Pennies From Heaven

12. I Loved Her

13. New York, New York

Notes: Hailed as a salute to Undersheriff Sherman Block, it was actually a fund raiser for his campaign

Extras

Currigan Hall, Denver, Colorado

Fourth Annual Carousel Ball To Benefit Children's Diabetes Foundation of Denver Mrs Marvin Davis founded the Foundation in 1977

Art Buchwald & Merv Griffin were co-emcees

Frank Sinatra entertained

Vinnie Falcone conducted the Denver orchestra and Mr. Sinatra's sidemen.

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October 30, 1981

Concerts

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.

November 1981

Extras

[Sinatra: Concert for the Americas Cable Special]

Sinatra starred in the cable television special Sinatra: Concert for the Americas, presenting himself as an elder ambassador of American song to an international audience.

Source: Frank Sinatra: The Man, the Music, the Legend, ed. Jeanne Fuchs and Ruth Prigozy (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press / Boydell & Brewer, 2007), essay "Sinatra Meets Television" by Ron Simon.

November 5, 1981

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. Say Hello

2. Without A Song

3. Good Thing Going

4. Come Rain Or Come Shine

5. Strangers In The Night

6. The Lady Is A Tramp

7. monologue

8. Monday Morning Quarterback

9. When Your Lover Has Gone

10.. Night And Day

11. I Loved Her

12. Pennies From Heaven

13. Thanks For The Memory

14.. New York, New York

Notes: TT 63mins.

November 6, 1981

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

12:30am Show

1. Say Hello

2. The Best Is Yet to Come

3. Good Thing Going

4. Come Rain or Come Shine

5. When Joanna Loved Me

6. The Lady Is a Tramp

7. Monologue

8. Monday Morning Quarterback

9. Night and Day

10. Thanks for the Memory

11. Pennies From Heaven

12. But I Loved Here

13. Theme From New York, New York

O.A. Joey Heatherton & Pat Henry

Engagement ran from 11/5 to 11/11

But Caesars decided to impose a

new policy that did not sit well with

Frank. He left after the 11/8 show.

November 7, 1981

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (5-11)

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

Opening Act: Joey Heatherton

Opening Comedian: Pat Henry

(12-14 FS cancels the remaining concerts due to illness)

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. Say Hello

2. The Best Is Yet To Come

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. When Joanna Loved Me

5. The Lady Is A Tramp

6. monologue

7. Monday Morning Quarterback

8. Night And Day

9. Thanks For The Memory

10. Pennies From Heaven

11. Summer Me, Winter Me

12. New York, New York

Notes: TT 70mins.

November 8, 1981

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (5-11)

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. Say Hello

2. The Best Is Yet To Come

3. Good Thing Going

4. Come Rain Or Come Shine

5. When Joanna Loved Me

6. The Lady Is A Tramp

7. monologue

8. Monday Morning Quarterback

9. Night And Day

10. Thanks For The Memory

11. Pennies From Heaven

12. Summer Me, Winter Me

13. New York, New York

Notes: TT 70mins.

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (5-11)

O.A. Pat Henry

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

Midnight Show

1. Say Hello

2 The Best Is Yet To Come

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. When Joanna Loved Me

5. The Lady Is A Tramp

6. monologue

7. Monday Morning Quarterback

8. A Day In The Life Of A Fool Tony Mottola no F.S.

9. Night And Day V. Falcone arg.

10. Thanks For The Memory Vinnie solo accompaniment on piano

11. Second monologue

12. Pennies From Heaven

13. Summer Me, Winter Me

14. New York, New York

November 11, 1981

Extras

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (5-11)

Ed O'Brien:

The engagement was cut short due to illness. Frank

was there November 5-8. He opened with one show

on Thursday, two on Friday and Saturday and a single

on Sunday. Joey Heatherton opened with a 25 minute

stint, followed by 20 minutes of Pat Henry's jokes. During

the engagement Frank introduced "Monday Morning Quart-

erback" from his soon to be released new album "She Shot

Me Down."

November 13, 1981

Radio

William B. Williams, WNEW Radio, New York City

Sinatra calls William B. 11 mins.

November 15, 1981

Concerts

Scopus Award

FS at the Scopus Award presentation to Nancy Reagan

Note: In her acceptance speech Nancy Reagan says "And what an evening, too. It is so nice to be here among the American Friends of Hebrew University and hear Frank Sinatra sing, "Jerusalem is my kind of town."

Extras

Scopus Award

FS at the Scopus Award presentation to Nancy Reagan

November 22, 1981

Television

Sinatra: The Man And His Music (NBC)

Guests: Count Basie And His Orchestra

Taped October 28-29, 1981 at NBC Burbank Studio

1. Nice And Easy

2. The One I Love Belongs To Somebody Else

3. Pennies From Heaven

4. I Loved Her

5. The Girl From Ipenema w/Tony Matola

6. At Long Last Love

7. Something

8. Monday Morning Quarterback

9. The Best Is Yet To Come

10. Good Thing Going

11. Say Hello

12. I Get A Kick Out Of You

13. New York, New York

14. Thanks For The Memory

Notes: Ed O'Brien says this is a terrific hour of great singing. Best "New York , New York" ever! Nevertheless, the show needed an audience.

Sinatra needed one. Vinnie Falcone told O'Brien that Sinatra kept cancelling the taping and NBC stuck him in a room just big enough for the orchestra and the singer. The show has an unusual flatness in tempo and mood directly attributable to the silence in the studio.

Extras

Sinatra: The Man And His Music (NBC)

Cancelled due to illness.

December 5, 1981

Studio

Hollywood

ZCA1518 To Love A Child w/Chorus & Vocal by Nikka Costa

(Hal David/Joe Roposo)

Casa David/Instructional Children's Music Inc. (ASCAP)

Arranged by Don Costa

Conducted by Vincent Falcone, Jr.

(3:20) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 20 45: 7-29903

Extras

Hollywood

ZCA1518 To Love A Child

[image referenced in source but could not be recovered]

1982

Extras

[First Cable TV Special, "Concert for the Americas"]

Sinatra performs at the White House for the Italian Prime Minister and at Radio City Music Hall with Luciano Pavarotti and George Shearing, and stars in his first cable television special, "Sinatra, Concert for the Americas," filmed in the Dominican Republic.

Source: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

[Nancy Joins Her Father's Tour]

Struggling to relaunch her recording career after years focused on raising her children, Nancy asked her father for help. He offered to bring her on tour with him for a year to help rebuild her career before she went solo again.

Source: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

[Performing With Perry Como At The White House]

Sinatra and Perry Como performed together at the White House in 1982.

Source: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

[Reconciliation with Frank Garrick]

Kaplan: In 1982, a sixty-six-year-old Sinatra finally visited eighty-five-year-old Frank Garrick and his wife at their senior-citizens' apartment in Hoboken, bringing secretary Dorothy Uhlemann and friend Jilly Rizzo along, plus a fruit basket and an envelope with five $100 bills. The two men embraced and wept, and Sinatra admitted he'd stayed away out of fear -- fear that, with Dolly now dead, no longer applied.

Source: James Kaplan, "Frank: The Voice" (2010)

[production]

In 1982, Sinatra starred in his first cable television special, Sinatra: Concert for the Americas, filmed in the Dominican Republic.

No corresponding dated entry could be identified in the chronology for this film/context.

Source: Tom Santopietro, "Sinatra in Hollywood" (2008), Knight-Errant (pt. 2) / That's Life

[Princess Grace killed in car crash during Sinatra's Carnegie run]

On the third night of a ten-day Carnegie Hall engagement with the Buddy Rich band, Frank's old friend Princess Grace of Monaco was killed in a car crash near Monaco.

Source: Richard Havers, "Sinatra" (Dorling Kindersley, 2007).

[Porgy and Bess medley -- critical commentary]

Will Friedwald: In 1982 Sinatra and Falcone experimented with an eight-minute Porgy and Bess medley for voice and piano alone, most vividly documented on an unreleased May 8, 1982 concert recording from Buffalo, New York.

Source: Will Friedwald, "Sinatra! The Song Is You: A Singer's Art" (2018 revised edition), Ch. 10, "Concert Years" (1973-1994)

January 7, 1982

Concerts

Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas , Nevada (7-12)

Opening Night

Thursday evening

1. Say Hello

2. Without A Song

3. Good Thing Going

4. Night And Day

5. Thanks For The Memory w/ V. Falcone

6. The Lady Is A Tramp

7. monologue

8. They All Laughed

9. Monday Morning Quarterback

10. I Can't Get Started

11. Get Me To The Church On Time

12. Bang, Bang w/Tony Mottola

13.. New York, New York note: there were two shows opening night.

Frank did the same 12 numbers in both.

Vinnie Falcone conducted. The opening acts were Marlene Ricci and Pat Henry.

Engagement ran from the 7th to the 13th of the month.

Extras

Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas , Nevada (7-12)

Opening Night

Thursday evening

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4-9 Filming for the February 25, 1987 Magnum P.I.

Guest: Frank Sinatra.

Sinatra stars as a retired officer tracking down the killer of his granddaughter

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January 8, 1982

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (7-12)

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. Say Hello

2. Without A Song

3. Good Thing Going

4. Night And Day

5. Thanks For The Memory

6. The Lady Is A Tramp

7. monologue

8. Monday Morning Quarterback

9. Get Me To Church On Time

10. Bang, Bang

11. I Get A Kick Out Of You

12. New York, New York

Notes: FS attends the wedding of Dean Paul Martin. TT 54mins.

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. Say Hello

2. Without A Song

3. Good Thing Going

4. I Can't Get Started

5. The Lady Is A Tramp

6. monologue

7. My Kind Of Town

8. It Had To Be You

9. Monday Morning Quarterback

10. Get Me To Church On Time

11. Bang, Bang

12. I Get A Kick Out Of You

13. New York, New York

Notes: TT 55mins.

January 9, 1982

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (7-12)

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. Say Hello

2. Without A Song

3. Good Thing Going

4. I Can't Get Started

5. The Lady Is A Tramp

6. monologue

7. My Kind Of Town

8. It Had To Be You

9. Monday Morning Quarterback

10. Get Me To Church On Time

11. Bang, Bang

12. I Get A Kick Out Of You

13. New York, New York

Notes: TT 55mins.

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. Say Hello

2. Without A Song

3. Good Thing Going

4. I Can't Get Started

5. The Lady Is A Tramp

6. monologue

7. My Kind Of Town

8. Monday Morning Quarterback

9. Get Me To Church On Time

10. Bang, Bang

11. Oh Marie

12. New York, New York

Notes: TT 50mins.

January 10, 1982

Concerts

Sheraton Plaza Hotel, Palm Springs, California

Temple Isaiah Benefit

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr

Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (7-13)

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. Say Hello

2. Without A Song

3. I Loved Her

4. I Can't Get Started

5. The Lady Is A Tramp

6. monologue

7. My Kind Of Town

8. It Had To Be You

9. Hey Look, No Crying

10. Get Me To Church On Time

11. Bang, Bang

12. I Get A Kick Out Of You

13. New York, New York

Notes: Check to see if there was a show on 1/11. TT 51mins.

Ed O'Brien

Frank was at Caesars from the 7th to the 13th. He did did two shows a night on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Sunday(10) flew down to Palm Springs and did a benefit for Temple Isaih at the Sheraton Hotel. He brought along his opening acts at Caesars, Marlene Ricci and Pat Henry,plus his conductor Vinnie Falcone. Frank then flew back to Vegas and did a midnight show. There was one show a night Monday thru Wednesday.

Ed O'Brien:

There was a show on 1/11 and the engagement ran through 1/13. Tony Mottola was the solo support for Frank on "Bang, Bang." Marlene Ricci and Pat Henry were on the bill with Frank. The above list of songs plus "They All Laughed" and "A Long Night," "Monday Morning Quarterback," "Good Thing Going," "Night & Day," "Thanks For The Memory" and "It Had To Be You" comprised all the songs performed during the engagement.

Extras

Sheraton Plaza Hotel, Palm Springs, California

Temple Isaiah Benefit

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr

January 11, 1982

Concerts

Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (7-12)

January 12, 1982

Concerts

Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (7-12)

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. Say Hello

2. Without A Song

3. I Loved Her

4. The Lady Is A Tramp

5. monologue

6. My Kind Of Town

7. It Had To Be You

8. I Can't Get Started

9. Monday Morning Quarterback

10. Get Me To Church On Time

11. Bang, Bang

12. I Get A Kick Out Of You

13. New York, New York

Notes: TT 56mins.

January 20, 1982

Concerts

The Joe Louis Arena, Detroit, Michigan (Cancelled)

Sinatra had the flu. This concert would be rescheduled to February 3, 1982

Extras

The Joe Louis Arena, Detroit, Michigan (Cancelled)

This concert would be rescheduled to February 3, 1982

January 24, 1982

Concerts

Radio City Music Hall, New York City

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Benefit

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

Other Performers: Luciano Pavarotti, George Shearing Quintet

1. In The Still Of The Night

2. Night And Day arg by V. Falcone ( verse sung in the middle)

3. Without A Song

4. I Can't Get Started

5. My Kind Of Town

6. Monday Morning Quarterback

7. Get Me To The Church On Time

8. It Had To Be You

9. The Lady Is A Tramp

10. New York, New York

Luciano joins Frank on stage for two numbers

11. Santa Lucia

12.. O Sole Mio

Notes: TT 76mins.

Ed noted:

F.S introduces acts preceding his performance

His comments on L. Pavarotti

"To say I've been nervous about being on the same stage with this man is putting it mildly.

The world's finest singer in my time or anybody's time that I know of. The great Luciano."

Pavorotti almost blows Sinatra right off the stage.

Audience cannot stop laughing. You can barely hear

Frank when they sing together. Funniest part is when

FS sings a chorus and then Pavarotti booms in with his enormous voice. It was all in good fun and there was tremendous rapport and respect between the two great singers.

Extras

Radio City Music Hall, New York City

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Benefit

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

Other Performers: Luciano Pavarotti, George Shearing Quintet

David

Rockefeller with two

Italian singers

Daily News

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note: Excellent effort in explaining the greatness

of Sinatra. I have posted hundreds of reviews

in the last 30 years, and to say Frank was under-

estimated in the 1940s is an understatement. In

truth, he was savaged by the critics. A danger to

our youth; a terrible singer who bent notes and

was simply an aberration, that would soon achieve

a well deserved obscurity. How dare anyone compare

this pretender to The Great Crosby.

Nevertheless, there were many musicians and musi-

cologists who knew Frank Sinatra had something

that was extraordinary. And, as this column points

out, they certainly were correct.

When the dust finally settled, he stood alone as the

Voice of the Century.

January 31, 1982

Television

Let Poland Be Poland

1. New York, New York (1-26-80 Maracana Stadium, Rio)

February 3, 1982

Concerts

The Joe Louis Arena, Detroit, Michigan

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. Say Hello

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. When Joanna Loved Me

5. I Can't Get Started

6. Strangers In The Night

7. The Best Is Yet To Come

8. The Lady Is A Tramp

9. monologue

10. My Kind Of Town

11. Monday Morning Quarterback

12. Pennies From Heaven

13. My Way

14. Without A Song

15. I Loved Her

16. New York, New York

Notes: TT 64mins.

Extras

The Joe Louis Arena, Detroit, Michigan

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February 11, 1982

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. Get Me To Church On Time

2. Without A Song

3. I Loved Her

4. The One I Love

5. Hey Look, No Crying

6. The Lady Is A Tramp

7. monologue

8. In The Still Of The Night

9. Monday Morning Quarterback

10. I Can't Get Started

11. Bang, Bang

12. All Or Nothing At All

13. Thanks For The Memory

14. New York, New York

Notes: TT 58mins.

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. Get Me To Church On Time

2. Without A Song

3. Night And Day

4. I Loved Her

5. The One I Love

6. Hey Look, No Crying

7. The Lady Is A Tramp

8. monologue

9. In The Still Of The Night

10. Monday Morning Quarterback

11. I Can't Get Started

12. Bang, Bang

13. All Or Nothing At All

14.. Thanks For The Memory

15. New York, New York

Notes: TT 53mins.

February 12, 1982

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. Get Me To Church On Time

2. Without A Song

3. Night And Day

4. I Loved Her

5. The One I Love

6. A Long Night

7. The Lady Is A Tramp

8. monologue

9. In The Still Of The Night

10. Monday Morning Quarterback

11. I Can't Get Started

12. Bang, Bang

13. All Or Nothing At All

14. Thanks For The Memory

15. New York, New York

Notes: TT 60mins.

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. Get Me To Church On Time

2. Without A Song

3. Night And Day

4. I Loved Her

5. The One I Love

6. A Long Night

7. The Lady Is A Tramp

8. monologue

9. In The Still Of The Night

10. Monday Morning Quarterback

11. I Can't Get Started

12. Bang, Bang

13. All Or Nothing At All

14. These Foolish Things

15. New York, New York

Extras

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

February 13, 1982

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. Get Me To Church On Time

2. Without A Song

3. Night And Day

4. I Loved Her

5. The One I Love

6. Hey Look, No Crying

7. The Lady Is A Tramp

8. monologue

9. In The Still Of The Night

10. Monday Morning Quarterback

11. I Can't Get Started

12. Bang, Bang

13. All Or Nothing At All

14. These Foolish Things

15.. New York, New York

Notes: TT 58mins.

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

Partial Set List:

1. Get Me To Church On Time

2. Without A Song

3. Night And Day

4. I Loved Her

5. The One I Love

6. I Can't Get Started

7. Bang, Bang

8.. All Or Nothing At All

9. Thanks For The Memory

10. New York, New York

Notes: Recording Incomplete. TT 47mins.

February 14, 1982

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

First Show

1. Get Me To Church On Time

2. Without A Song

3. Night And Day

4. I Loved Her

5. The One I Love

6. Hey Look, No Crying

7. The Lady Is A Tramp

8. monologue

9. In The Still Of The Night

10. Monday Morning Quarterback

11. I Can't Get Started

12. Bang, Bang

13. All Or Nothing At All

14. New York, New York

Notes: TT 61mins.

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

Second Show

1. Get Me To Church On Time

2. Without A Song

3. I Loved Her

4. The One I Love

5. Hey Look, No Crying

6. The Lady Is A Tramp

7. In The Still Of The Night

8. Monday Morning Quarterback

9. I Can't Get Started

10. monologue

11. All Or Nothing At All

12. These Foolish Things

13. New York, New York

Notes: TT 47mins.

February 15, 1982

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (11-17)

O.A Pat Henry

Conductor: Vinnie Falcone

1. Get Me To The Church On Time

2. Without A Song

3. I Loved Her

4. The One I Love Belongs To Somebody Else

5. Hey Look, No Crying

6. The Lady Is A Tramp

7. In The Still Of The Night

8. Monday Morning Quarterback

9. I Can't Get Started

10. monologue

11. All Or Nothing At All Riddle chart 1966

12. These Foolish Things w/ V. Falcone on piano

13. New York, New York

February 16, 1982

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. Get Me To Church On Time

2. Without A Song

3. I Loved Her

4. The One I Love

5. Hey Look, No Crying

6. The Lady Is A Tramp

7. monologue

8. In The Still Of The Night

9. Monday Morning Quarterback

10. I Can't Get Started

11. All Or Nothing At All

12. These Foolish Things

13. New York, New York

Notes: TT 53mins.

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. Get Me To Church On Time

2. Without A Song

3. I Loved Her

4. The One I Love

5. A Long Night

6. The Lady Is A Tramp

7. monologue

8. In The Still Of The Night

9. Monday Morning Quarterback

10. I Can't Get Started

11. All Or Nothing At All

12. These Foolish Things

13. New York, New York

Notes: TT 52mins.

February 17, 1982

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr..

1. Get Me to the Church on Time

2. Without a Song

3. I Loved Her

4. The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else

5. Hey Look, No Crying

6. The Lady Is a Tramp

7. In the Still of the Night

8. Monday Morning Quarterback

9. I Can't Get Started

10. All or Nothing at All

11. These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)

12. Theme From New York, New York

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr..

1. Get Me to the Church on Time

2. Without a Song

3. I Loved Her

4. The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else

5. A Long Night

6. The Lady Is a Tramp

7. In the Still of the Night

8. Monday Morning Quarterback

9. I Can't Get Started

10. All or Nothing at All

11. These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)

12. Theme From New York, New York

Ed O'Brien:

This was the last show of Frank's engagement. Pat Henry had been Frank's opening act at many venues since 1958.

He seemed fine after this show and went to his room in the wee hours. A hotel employee discovered Henry's body later that morning. Sinatra was so shocked he did not immediately release a statement or comment on his long time friend's passing.

February 18, 1982

Extras

Pat Henry, 58, Comedian; Was Opening Act for Sinatra

LAS VEGAS, Nev.

Pat Henry, the comedian who was the opening act for Frank Sinatra for more than two decades, was found dead Thursday in his suite in Caesars Palace Hotel. He was 58 years old. Mr. Henry, who closed an engagement with Mr. Sinatra at Caesars Wednesday night, apparently died in his sleep of natural causes, according to hotel officials. Mr. Henry's real name was Patrick Henry Scarnato. He first appeared with Mr. Sinatra in 1958, at the 500 Club in Atlantic City, and regularly performed with the singer, doing a 30-minute opening monologue with one-line jokes and anecdotes, often about Mr. Sinatra. In 1968 he appeared in the mystery thriller movie ''Lady in Cement,'' which starred Mr. Sinatra. Mr. Henry is survived by his wife, Susan, and a daughter, Tina Wrigley, both of Bellmore, L.I.; a stepson, Dr. Gary Robinson, and a grandson.

--I remember two very funny lines Henry used:

As he was wrapping up his 20 minutes on stage, he would tell the audience not to leave because there was another act. In Saratoga, he told the audience if they hated Paris, they were going to love Albany. -Ed

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February 19, 1982

Extras

Palm Springs, California

Desert Museum Dinner

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

Ed O'Brien:

Mrs Frank Sinatra, Mrs. Leonard Firestone and

Mrs Walter Annenberg were Honorary Chairpersons for the Palm Springs Desert Museum $1,000 per-person dinner and concert on February 19, 1982, celebrating the opening of the museum's new Denney Western Art Wing.

Frank Sinatra introduced Benny Goodman in the museum's

Annenberg Theatre. Mr. Goodman performed with his combo.

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February 20, 1982

Concerts

Beverly Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles, California

Myasthenia Gravis tribute to Ed MacMahon

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. Get Me To Church On Time

2. Without A Song

3. Night And Day

4. Monday Morning Quarterback

5. The One I Love

6. I Can't Get Started

7. The Lady Is A Tramp

8. All Or Nothing At All

9. New York, New York

Notes: TT 61mins.

Extras

Beverly Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles, California

Myasthenia Gravis tribute to Ed MacMahon

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

March 4, 1982

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I Get A Kick Out Of You

2. The One I Love

3. I Can't Get Started

4. Without A Song

5. Hey Look, No Crying

6. The Lady Is A Tramp

7. monologue

8. In The Still Of The Night

9. Night And Day

10. A Long Night

11. All Or Nothing At All

12. Somethin' Stupid - w/Nancy

13. Gershwin medley: Summertime / It Ain't Necessarily So / Bess, Oh

Where's My Bess?

14. New York, New York

Notes: TT 65mins.

Extras

This performance opens a roughly year-long tour on which Nancy Sinatra, then struggling to relaunch her recording career, opened for her father; the two would typically close with a duet of their 1967 number-one hit "Somethin' Stupid" following Frank's "All or Nothing at All." Source: J. Randy Taraborrelli, Sinatra: Behind the Legend.

March 5, 1982

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I Get A Kick Out Of You

2. The One I Love

3. I Can't Get Started

4. Without A Song

5. Hey Look, No Crying

6. The Lady Is A Tramp

7. monologue

8. In The Still Of The Night

9. Night And Day

10.. A Long Night

11. All Or Nothing At All

12. Somethin' Stupid - w/Nancy

13. New York, New York

Notes: TT 53mins.

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I Get A Kick Out Of You

2. The One I Love

3. I Can't Get Started

4. Without A Song

5. Hey Look, No Crying

6. The Lady Is A Tramp

7. monologue

8. In The Still Of The Night

9. Night And Day

10. A Long Night

11. All Or Nothing At All

12. Somethin' Stupid - w/Nancy

13. Gershwin medley: Summertime / It Ain't Necessarily So / Bess, Oh

Where's My Bess?

14. New York, New York

Notes: TT 64mins.

March 6, 1982

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I Get A Kick Out Of You

2. The One I Love

3. I Can't Get Started

4. Without A Song

5. Hey Look, No Crying

6. The Lady Is A Tramp

9. Night And Day

10. A Long Night

11. Somethin' Stupid - w/Nancy

12. Gershwin medley: Summertime / It Ain't Necessarily So / Bess, Oh

Where's My Bess?

13. New York, New York

Notes: TT 60mins.

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I Get A Kick Out Of You

2. The One I Love

3. I Can't Get Started

4. Without A Song

5. Hey Look, No Crying

6. The Lady Is A Tramp

7. monologue

8. In The Still Of The Night

9. Night And Day

10. All Or Nothing At All

11. A Long Night

12. Somethin' Stupid - w/Nanc

13. Gershwin medley: Summertime / It Ain't Necessarily So / Bess, Oh

Where's My Bess?

14. New York, New York

Notes: TT 62mins.

March 7, 1982

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (4-17) w/Nancy

1. I Get A Kick Out Of You

2. The One I Love

3. I Can't Get Started

4. Without A Song

5. Hey Look, No Crying

6. The Lady Is A Tramp

7. monologue

8. Night And Day

9. A Long Night

10. All Or Nothing At All

11. Somethin' Stupid - w/Nancy

12. Gershwin medley: Summertime / It Ain't Necessarily So / Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?

13. New York, New York

Notes: TT 65mins.

March 8, 1982

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

O.A. Shields & Yarnell

Nancy Sinatra

1. I Get A Kick Out Of You

2. I Can't Get Started

3. Without A Song

4. Monday Morning Quarterback

5. The Lady Is A Tramp

6. monologue

7. Night And Day ( verse in middle of song )

8. A Long Night (compares it to Angel Eyes and One For

My Baby)

9. All Or Nothing At All ( Riddle chart 1966)

10. Malaguena

Tony Mottola solo receives standing ovation

11. Somethin' Stupid w/Nancy

12. New York, New York

note: This show was on a Monday night.

Frank performed at 10 P.M. Frank talks about his time on WNEW in

March 9, 1982

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I Get a Kick Out of You

2. I Can't Get Started

3. Without a Song

4. Monday Morning Quarterback

5. The Lady Is a Tramp

6. Get Me to the Church on Time

7. Night and Day

8. A Long Night

9. All or Nothing at All

10. Something Stupid

11. Theme From New York, New York

March 10, 1982

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

March 11, 1982

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (4-16)

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

O.A. Shields & Yarnell

Nancy Sinatra

Frank opened at Caesars on March 4 for a one week engagement.

He was set to close on the 10th. Cher was unable to fulfilled her week following Sinatra. He agreed to stay the extra week.

The opening acts for the two-weeks in March were Shields & Yarnell and Nancy Sinatra.

Here is the set list of songs for the engagement and the alternates.

I Get A Kick Out Of You

The One I Love Belongs To Somebody Else

I Can't Get Started

Without A Song

The Long Night

All Or Nothing At All Riddle uptempo chart

In The Still Of The Night

Something Stupid w/ Nancy

Gershwin Medley with Vinnie Falcone

New York, New York alternates: Get Me To The Church On Time, Bang, Bang w/ T. Mottola, These Foolish Things w/ Falcone on piano

note: During his monologue on 3-8-82, Frank explained why he was subbing for Cher. She had appeared in the Broadway show(1976) and had been offered the same role in Robert Altman's film version. "Come Back To The 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. " Caesars asked Frank to step in for her. He told the audience that Cher was a "one iron", indicating a very, very thin woman. He thought she had the talent to be a smash in dramatic roles. Although he thought the film's title was not good. Who could remember it.

Extras

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (4-16)

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

O.A. Shields & Yarnell

Nancy Sinatra

March 12, 1982

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (11-16)

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

Notes: substitute for Cher

March 13, 1982

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (4-16)

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

Notes: substitute for Cher

Saturday evening

O.A. Shields & Yarnell

Nancy Sinatra

First Show:

1. Get Me To The Church on Time

2. I Get A Kick Out Of You

3. I Can't Get Started

4. Without A Song

5. Hey Look, No Crying

6. The Lady Is A Tramp monologue

7. Night and Day verse sung after first chorus

8. All Or Nothing At All 1966 Riddle chart

9. The One I Love Belongs To Somebody Else

10 These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You) Vinnie Falcone backed Frank on piano 11.Something Stupid(with Nancy Sinatra)

12.Theme From New York, New York

Ed O'Brien:

Frank subbed for Cher and did a six day run ( dark on Monday the 15th ). When the curtain rose Frank would be seen standing by the orchestra, next to Vinnie Falcone. He would then walk downstage to the microphone. This Saturday 35 years ago, there was a slight change in plans. Dean Martin had flown in from Los Angeles a few hours before showtime. He kept out of sight and strolled on stage as Frank was moving forward toward the mike. The audience let out a collective scream and Sinatra realized their eyes were diverted from him to another area of the stage. As he swung around to see what was causing this commotion, Dean grabbed him and planted a big kiss right on Frank's lips. Dean let out a sigh and said, " Oh, does that taste good." The crowd howled with laughter and Sinatra fell down laughing. The show started with a lot of foolishness as the two men did some of their Vegas act for the crowd. Dean then jumped off the stage into a ringside seat, heckling Sinatra throughout the performance. The crowd loved it.

After the show they had dinner and drinks together. Dean then flew back to L.A, probably getting home before Frank's second show got underway.

Ed O'Brien (2016):

Frank opened at Caesars on March 4 for a one week engagement.

He was set to close on the 10th. Cher was unable to fulfilled her week following Sinatra. He agreed to stay the extra week.

Pat Henry had passed away on February 18th, ending a long association with Las Vegas clubs and opening for Frank Sinatra on many occasions. The opening acts for the two-weeks in March were Shields & Yarnell and Nancy Sinatra.

Here is the set list of songs for the engagement and the alternates.

I Get A Kick Out Of You

The One I Love Belongs To Somebody Else

I Can't Get Started

Without A Song

The Long Night

All Or Nothing At All Riddle uptempo chart

In The Still Of The Night

Something Stupid w/ Nancy

Gershwin Medley with Vinnie Falcone

New York, New York alternates: Get Me To The Church On Time, Bang, Bang w/ T. Mottola, These Foolish Things w/ Falcone on piano

Extras

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (4-16)

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

Notes: substitute for Cher

Saturday evening

First show

Ed O'Brien:

Frank subbed for Cher and did a six day run ( dark on Monday the 15th ).

When the curtain rose Frank would be seen standing by the orchestra,

next to Vinnie Falcone. He would then walk downstage to the microphone.

This Saturday 35 years ago, there was a slight change in plans. Dean

Martin had flown in from Los Angeles a few hours before showtime. He

kept out of sight and strolled onstage as Frank was moving forward

toward the mike. The audience let out a collective scream and Sinatra

realized their eyes were diverted from him to another area of the stage.

As he swung around to see what was causing this commotion, Dean

grabbed him and planted a big kiss right on Frank's lips. Dean let

out a sigh and said, " Oh, does that taste good." The crowd howled

with laughter and Sinatra fell down laughing. The show started with

a lot of foolishness as the two men did some of their Vegas act

for the crowd. Dean then jumped off the stage into a ringside seat,

heckling Sinatra thoughout the performance. The crowd loved it.

After the show they had dinner and drinks together. Dean then

White House , Washington D.C.

In honor of Italian President Alessandro Pertini

Key Musicians: Bucky Pizzarelli, Nick Perito, Gene Cherico, Tony Mattola, Vincent Falcone jr., Irv Cottler

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.(Sinatra), Nick Perito (Como)

Other Performers: Perry Como

1. I'm Sitting On Top Of The World - (Frank & Perry)

2. It Can Happen To You - (Perry)

3. I Can't Get Started - (Frank)

4. It's Been A Long, Long Time - (Perry)

5. It Had To Be You - (Frank)

6. It's Impossible - (Perry)

7. I Get A Kick Out Of You - (Frank)

8. Italian medley: (Tony Mattola & Buck Pizzarelli

9. I Have But One Heart - (Perry)

10. Santa Lucia - (Frank)

11. Frank & Perry medley: Blue Skies - A Foggy Day - Hello Young

Lovers - I've Got You Under My Skin - The Way You Look

Tonight - Pennies From Heaven - Prisoner Of Love - Strangers In The Night - Catch A Falling Star - Too Marvelous For Words - Do I Love You - The Lady Is A Tramp - When Your Smiling

12. Ronald Reagan: Closing Speech

Notes: Video taped by the White House.

Extras

White House , Washington D.C.

In honor of Italian President Alessandro Pertini

Key Musicians: Bucky Pizzarelli, Nick Perito, Gene Cherico, Tony Mattola, Vincent Falcone jr., Irv Cottler

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.(Sinatra), Nick Perito (Como)

Other Performers: Perry Como

Left to Right: President Ronald Reagan, Frank Sinatra, First Lady Nancy Reagan, and Perry Como i n the East Room of the White House on March 25, 1982, following a State Dinner in honor of President Alessandro Pertini of Italy.

Frank Sinatra and Perry Como, who were the entertainment for the evening, arrived together. Barbara Sinatra was draped in a striking white, red and green Michael Volbrecht dress and cape. Her matching emerald and diamond necklace, ring and earrings glistened. "These are my Italian colors," she said.

Sinatra and Como, preforming in the East Room in a low-key cabaret style, crooned all their best-known hits, which spanned four decades. Como sang "It's Impossible," and Sinatra did "I've Got You Under My Skin."

Following the performance, Pertini went on the stage and told Sinatra and Como in Italian that "I hope you will come to Italy when Mr. Reagan comes in June. You will be my guests."

President Reagan cracked "President Pertini has just proclaimed you illegal aliens and he's repatriating you."

Then Sinatra and Como were under siege by autographers seekers who lined up by the two pianos. "I just have to have an autograph," said Joe Montana, handing Sinatra a pen and program.

"Oh, Joe, are you kidding," said Sinatra, signing away.

It was the second time Sinatra had performed at the White House. The previous time was when President Nixon also entertained an Italian head of state.

"I was here when Eisenhower was president but I never performed before," said the 69-year-old Como, who seemed to be having the time of his life.

Earlier in the day, White House staff and press gathered in the East Room to hear Sinatra and Como and their Italian backup band practice. "This is the Italian hour," Sinatra joked to the crowd.

Nancy Reagan surprised the singers by showing up for the end of their rehearsal. The first lady danced into the room as the band started playing Rodgers and Hart's "The Lady Is a Tramp." Sinatra sang the song, substituting "champ" for tramp.

Joe Montana, who has the reputation of being cool in combat on the football field, arrived at the White House wringing his hands last night.

"Nervous," he responded when asked how he felt. "I told my dad I was so nervous that he could take my place."

Washington Post

3-26-82

FORMER WHITE HOUSE BUTLER TELLS ALL

DeValerio's stint mostly spanned the Reagan years, when the White House was a revolving door for celebrities. He talked comedy with Carl Reiner and the Yankees with Yogi Berra, and met Sally Struthers, from his favorite sitcom, All in the Family. "There were more celebrities than I can remember," he says.

But serving Sinatra at a state dinner tops the list, he says. Sinatra regaled the ladies at his table with stories. (DeValerio specifically remembers him boasting about punching a reporter and putting him in the hospital. Then, the story goes, Sinatra called the hospital not because he was concerned about the guy, but he wanted to hit him again when he got out.) Then he and Perry Como requested that all the butlers be allowed to hear them perform that night. "We rushed to get our work done and went. There I was sitting in the East Room and listening to Frank Sinatra and Perry Como and getting paid on top of it," DeValerio reminiscces.

Pres. Pertini of Italy arrived1st visit to U.S. He's 84 & a terrific old gentleman. We had the full ceremony under a warm sun. Good meeting. He loves America very touching moment on the way into the W.H. He paused by the Marine holding our flag & kissed it. N.S.C. meeting to hear Sen. Buckley's report on Europe trip trying to get them to join us in shutting off credit to Soviets. I proposed a plan for consideration that we explore if time hadn't come to confront the Russians and tell them all the things we could do for them if they'd quit their bad acting & decide to join the civilized world. State dinner a huge success a really fun time & great entertainment by Perry Como & Frank Sinatra.

--Ronald Reagan

March 31, 1982

Concerts

Annenberg Center, Philadelphia

Tribute to Princess Grace

Extras

Annenberg Center,Philadelphia

Tribute to Princess Grace

Benefit at the Annenberg Center, University of Pennsylvania event honoring Grace Kelly and the Grace Kelly Foundation, Frank Sinatra at center

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April 1, 1982

Concerts

Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey

First Show

Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Charlie Turner (trumpet), Tony Mottola (guitar), Vincent Falcone, jr.. (piano)

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I Get A Kick Out Of You

2. The One I Love

3. I Can't Get Started

4. Without A Song

5. Monday Morning Quarterback

6. The Lady Is A Tramp

7. Gershwin medley: Summertime / It Ain't Necessarily So / Bess, Oh /Where's My Bess?

8. Night And Day

9. All Or Nothing At All

10. Somethin' Stupid - w/Nancy

11. New York, New York

Notes: TT 58mins.

Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Second Show

Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Charlie Turner (trumpet), Tony Mottola (guitar), Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano)

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I Get A Kick Out Of You

2. The One I Love

3. I Can't Get Started

4. Without A Song

5. Monday Morning Quarterback

6. The Lady Is A Tramp

7. monologue

8. Gershwin medley: Summertime / It Ain't Necessarily So / Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?

9. Night And Day

10. All Or Nothing At All

11. Bang, Bang

12. Somethin' Stupid - w/Nancy

13. New York, New York

Notes: TT 54mins.

Extras

Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey ( April 1 to 4 - two shows a night)

Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Charlie Turner (trumpet), Tony Mottola (guitar), Vincent Falcone, jr.. (piano)

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

O.A. Nancy Sinatra ( 30 mins ) Shields & Yarnell ( 15 mins )

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April 2, 1982

Concerts

Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey

First Show

Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Charlie Turner (trumpet), Tony Mottola (guitar), Vincent Falcone, jr.. (piano)

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I Get A Kick Out Of You

2. The One I Love

3. I Can't Get Started

4. Without A Song

5. Monday Morning Quarterback

6. The Lady Is A Tramp

7. monologue

8. Gershwin medley: Summertime / It Ain't Necessarily So / Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?

9. Night And Day

10. All Or Nothing At All

11. Somethin' Stupid - w/Nancy

12. New York, New York

Notes: TT 52mins.

Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Second Show

Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Charlie Turner (trumpet), Tony Mottola (guitar), Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano)

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I Get A Kick Out Of You

2. The One I Love

3. I Can't Get Started

4. Without A Song

5. Monday Morning Quarterback

6. The Lady Is A Tramp

7. monologue

8. Gershwin medley: Summertime / It Ain't Necessarily So / Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?

9. Night And Day

10. All Or Nothing At All

11. Somethin' Stupid - w/Nancy

12. New York, New York

Notes: TT 55mins.

Extras

Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey ( April 1 to 4 - two shows a night)

Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Charlie Turner (trumpet), Tony Mottola (guitar), Vincent Falcone, jr.. (piano)

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

April 3, 1982

Concerts

Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey

First Show

Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Charlie Turner (trumpet), Tony Mottola (guitar), Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano)

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Second Show

Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Charlie Turner (trumpet), Tony Mottola (guitar), Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano)

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I Get A Kick Out Of You

2. The One I Love

3. I Can't Get Started

4. Without A Song

5. Monday Morning Quarterback

6. The Lady Is A Tramp

7. monologue

8. Gershwin medley: Summertime / It Ain't Necessarily So / Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?

9. Night And Day

10. All Or Nothing At All

11. Bang, Bang

12. Somethin' Stupid - w/Nancy

13. New York, New York

Notes: TT 55mins.

April 4, 1982

Concerts

Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey

First Show

Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Charlie

Turner (trumpet), Tony Mottola (guitar), Vincent Falcone, jr.

(piano)

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

Opening Act: Nancy Sinatra

1. I Get A Kick Out Of You

2. The One I Love

3. I Can't Get Started

4. Without A Song

5. Monday Morning Quarterback

6. The Lady Is A Tramp

7. monologue

8. Night And Day

9. Thanks For The Memory

10. Somethin' Stupid - w/Nancy

11. New York, New York

Notes: TT 54mins.

Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Second Show

Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Charlie Turner (trumpet), Tony Mottola (guitar), Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano)

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

Opening Act: Nancy Sinatra

1. I Get A Kick Out Of You

2. The One I Love

3. I Can't Get Started

4. Without A Song

5. Hey Look, No Crying

6. The Lady Is A Tramp

7. monologue

8. Night And Day

9. All Or Nothing At All

10. Somethin' Stupid - w/Nancy

11. New York, New York

Notes: TT 49mins.

April 8, 1982

Studio

Columbia Studio, New York City

Friday evening

5 - 8:PM

Sylvia Syms

Jazz octet

Conducted by Frank Sinatra

Arrangements by Vinnie Falcone

By Myself

You Go To My Head

I Thought About You

Ed O'Brien

I interviewed three of the musicians who played on the last of the three sessions for "Syms By Sinatra." They remembered a very warm relationship between the singer and her conductor. Vinnie not only arranged the charts for the final session(4/8) , he also played piano. He told me Syms wanted Frank to do a duet of "Honeysuckle Rose." She knew how much bigger the album would be. She only wanted one chorus from Francis, but he wouldn't do it. Song wasn't done.

April 18, 1982

Extras

Los Angeles,

Frank Sinatra presents August A. Busch III with the City of Hope Medical Center's Spirit of Life Award

Frank Sinatra, left, presents August A. Busch III with the City of Hope Medical Center's Spirit of Life Award prior to a dinner given in Busch's honor in Los Angeles, April 18, 1982. Busch, president of Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc., was honored for his civic and humanitarian endeavors and particular interest in the world of sports.

April 28, 1982

Concerts

Aladdin Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada

Musicians Emergency Benevolent Fund Benefit

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

Other Performers: Sarah Vaughan

May 4, 1982

Concerts

Civic Center, Pittsburgh, PA

Key Musicians: Tony Mattola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano)

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I Get A Kick Out Of You

2. The One I Love

3. I Can't Get Started

4. Without A Song

5. Monday Morning Quarterback

6. The Lady Is A Tramp

7. monologue

8. Gershwin medley: Summertime / It Ain't Necessarily So / Bess, Oh

Where's My Bess?

9. Night And Day

10. In The Still Of The Night

11. The House I Live In

12. All Or Nothing At All

13. It Had To Be You

14. New York, New York

Notes: TT 64mins.

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Extras

Civic Center, Pittsburgh, PA

Key Musicians: Tony Mattola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano)

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

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May 8, 1982

Concerts

Buffalo Memorial Auditorium, New York

Key Musicians: Tony Mattola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano)

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I Get A Kick Out Of You

2. The One I Love

3. I Can't Get Started

4. Without A Song

5. Monday Morning Quarterback

6. The Lady Is A Tramp

7. monologue

8. Gershwin Medley: Summertime / It Ain't Necessarily So / Where's My Bess

9. Night And Day

10. Laura - Charles Turner Solo

11. In The Still Of The Night

12. The House I Live In

13. All Or Nothing At All

14. It Had To Be You

15. New York, New York

16. chaser "All The Way"

Notes: TT 67mins.

Extras

Buffalo Memorial Auditorium, New York

May 14, 1982

Concerts

Civic Center, Providence, RI

Key Musicians: Tony Mattola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano)

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I Get A Kick Out Of You

2. The One I Love

3. I Can't Get Started

4. Without A Song

5. Monday Morning Quarterback

6. The Lady Is A Tramp

7. monologue

8. 'Gershwin' medley: Summertime / It Ain't Necessarily So / Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?

9. Night And Day

10. In The Still Of The Night

11.. The House I Live In

12. All Or Nothing At All

13. It Had To Be You

14. New York, New York

Extras

Civic Center, Providence, RI

Key Musicians: Tony Mattola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano)

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr

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May 16, 1982

Extras

Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York City

Friars Club for Cary Grant - "Man of the Year"

Award

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

Other Performers: Sammy Davis Jr, Tony Bennett, Peggy Lee, Joe Williams,

Sammy Cahan, Gregory Peck, Rich Littlt, George Burns, Charlie Callas,

MC: Frank Sinatra (Head Abbot)

1. The Most Beautiful Man In The World - (parody)

Notes: TT 90mins.

WILLIAM B. WILLIAMS INTRODUCES FRANK SINATRA

SAMMY CAHN SINGS "TOUCH OF CLASS"

JACK VALENTI PAYS TRIBUTE TO CARY

RICH LITTLE DOES IMITATIONS OF CELEBRITIES

GREGORY PECK REVEALS: MAN BEHIND THE LEGEND

PEGGY LEE SINGS "MR. WONDERFUL"

GEORGE BURNS DELIVERS A VERY FUNNY MONOLOGUE

JOE WILLIAMS SINGS "THE VERY THOUGHT OF YOU"

CHARLIE CALLAS DOES A FUNNY ROUTINE

CY COLEMAN SINGS "PASS ME BY"

TONY BENNETT SINGS "IT AMAZES ME" & "THE BEST IS YET

TO COME"

RED BUTTONS DOES HIS SHOW STOPPER: HE NEVER HAD A DINNER

FRANK SINATRA SINGS "THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MAN IN THE

WORLD"

CARY GRANT GIVES A MEMORABLE SPEECH

TROPHY PRESENTATION AND CONCLUDING REMARKS

May 17, 1982

Concerts

The Spectrum, Philadelphia, Pa.

Monday evening

Vinnie Falcone conducting and playing piano

Opening Act: Charlie Callas

1. I Get A Kick Out Of You arg. by N. Hefti

2. One I Love Belongs To Somebody Else

3. I Can't Get Started

4. Without A Song

5. Monday Morning Quarterback

6. The Lady Is A Tramp monologue

7. Gershwin Medley: Summertime-It Ain't

Necessarily So - Where Is My Bess arg. by V. Falcone accompaniment by V. Falcone

8. Night And Day w/ quintet arg. by V. Falcone

9. House I Live In

10. All Or Nothing At All arg. by Nelson Riddle

11. It Had To Be You

12. New York, New York

Note: Thanks To Ed O'Brien for listing.

Kenny Lucas:

I was at this concert. I also recorded the show on a mini cassette. I couldn't believe the choice of songs, particularly the Gershwin Medley. Falcone was a big part of FS taking more artistic chances. If only he had recorded more standards during that time instead of trying for the hot 100 in Billboard.

Extras

The Spectrum, Philadelphia, Pa.

Monday evening

Vinnie Falcone conducting and playing piano

Opening Act: Charlie Callas

May 27, 1982

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (May 27-31)

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I Won't Dance

2. I Get A Kick Out Of You

3. I Can't Get Started

4. Without A Song

5. Monday Morning Quarterback

6. The Lady Is A Tramp

7. monologue

8. Gershwin medley: Summertime / It Ain't Necessarily So / Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?

9. Night And Day

10. The House I Live In

11. All Or Nothing At All

12. New York, New York

Notes: TT 53mins.

May 28, 1982

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I Won't Dance

2. I Get A Kick Out Of You

3. Without A Song

4. I Can't Get Started

5. Monday Morning Quarterback

6. The Lady Is A Tramp

7. monologue

8. The House I Live In

9. All Or Nothing At All

10. I've Got A Crush On You

11. Night And Day

12. New York, New York

Notes: TT 59mins.

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I Won't Dance

2. I Get A Kick Out Of You

3. Without A Song

4. I Can't Get Started

5. Hey Look, No Crying

6. The Lady Is A Tramp

7. monologue

8. The House I Live In

9. All Or Nothing At All

10. New York, New York

Notes: TT 54mins.

May 29, 1982

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I Won't Dance

2. I Get A Kick Out Of You

3. Without A Song

4. I Can't Get Started

5. Monday Morning Quarterback

6. The Lady Is A Tramp

7. monologue

8. Gershwin medley: Summertime / It Ain’t Necessarily So / Bess, Oh Where’s My Bess?

9. All Or Nothing At All

10. Night And Day

11. New York, New York

Notes: TT 55mins.

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I Get A Kick Out Of You

2. Without A Song

3. I Can't Get Started

4. I Won't Dance

5. Monday Morning Quarterback

6. The Lady Is A Tramp

7. monologue

8. The House I Live In

9. All Or Nothing At All

10. Night And Day

11. New York, New York

Notes: TT 47mins.

May 30, 1982

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I Get A Kick Out Of You

2. Without A Song

3. I Can't Get Started

4. Monday Morning Quarterback

5. The Lady Is A Tramp

6. monologue

7. The House I Live In

8. All Or Nothing At All

9. As Time Goes By

10. New York, New York

Notes: TT 42mins.

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I Get A Kick Out Of You

2. Without A Song

3. I Can't Get Started

4. Monday Morning Quarterback

5. The Lady Is A Tramp

6. monologue

7. The House I Live In

8. All Or Nothing At All

9. As Time Goes By

10. New York, New York

Notes: TT 38mins.

May 31, 1982

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (May 27-31)

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I Get A Kick Out Of You

2. Without A Song

3. I Can't Get Started

4. Monday Morning Quarterback

5. The Lady Is A Tramp

6. monologue

7. The House I Live In

8. All Or Nothing At All

9. A Long Night

10. Night And Day

11. New York, New York

Notes: TT 49mins.

June 1, 1982

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I Get A Kick Out Of You

2. Without A Song

3. I Can't Get Started

4. I Won't Dance

5. Monday Morning Quarterback

6. The Lady Is A Tramp

7. monologue

8. The House I Live In

9. All Or Nothing At All

10. As Time Goes By

11. Night And Day

12. New York, New York

Notes: TT 58mins.

June 2, 1982

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I Get A Kick Out Of You

2. Without A Song

3. I Can't Get Started

4. I Won't Dance

5. Here's That Rainy Day

6. Monday Morning Quarterback

7. The Lady Is A Tramp

8. monologue

9. The House I Live In

10. All Or Nothing At All

11. New York, New York

Notes: TT 52mins.

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada second show

Wednesday evening

O.A. Charlie Callas

Orchestra conducted by Vinnie Falcone

1. I Get A Kick Out Of You N. Hefti arg.

2. Without A Song

3. I Can't Get Started

4. I Won't Dance "tribute to Fred Astaire."

5. Here's That Rainy Day

6. Monday Morning Quarterback

7. The Lady Is A Tramp monologue -- sings a segment of "Jesus Is A Rock In The Weary Land.'

8. The House I Live In

9. Laura no vocal Charlie Turner solo

10. All Or Nothing At All Riddle 66 arg.

11. New York, New York

June 3, 1982

Concerts

Aladdin Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada

University of Nevada Benefit

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

June 10, 1982

Concerts

Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I Get A Kick Out Of You

2. Without A Song

3. I Can't Get Started

4. I Won't Dance

5. Hey Look, No Crying

6. The Lady Is A Tramp

7. monologue

8. The House I Live In

9. Night And Day

10. As Time Goes By

11. All Or Nothing At All

12. New York, New York

Notes: TT 57mins.

Extras

Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

Frank did 14 shows, working eight days. He was paid $50,000 a show. Making a grand total of $700,000.

Here is an explanation of why the engagement was split up into two four day sets:

June 11, 1982

Concerts

Resorts International, Atlantic City , New Jersey

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I Get A Kick Out Of You

2. Without A Song

3. I Can't Get Started

4. I Won't Dance

5. Monday Morning Quarterback

6. The Lady Is A Tramp

7. The House I Live In

8. Night And Day

9. monologue

10. All Or Nothing At All

11. New York, New York

Notes: TT 53mins..

Resorts International, Atlantic City , New Jersey

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I Get A Kick Out Of You

2. Without A Song

3. I Can't Get Started

4. I Won't Dance

5. Monday Morning Quarterback

6. The Lady Is A Tramp

7. The House I Live In

8. monologue

9. Night And Day

10. All Or Nothing At All

11. New York, New York

Notes: TT 51mins.

June 12, 1982

Concerts

Resorts International, Atlantic City , New Jersey

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I Get A Kick Out Of You

2. Without A Song

3. I Can't Get Started

4. I Won't Dance

5. Hey Look, No Crying

6. The Lady Is A Tramp

7. The House I Live In

8. All Or Nothing At All

9. Night And Day

10. New York, New York

Notes: TT 46mins.

Resorts International, Atlantic City , New Jersey

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I Get A Kick Out Of You

2. Without A Song

3. I Can't Get Started

4. I Won't Dance

5. Monday Morning Quarterback

6. The Lady Is A Tramp

7. monologue

8. The House I Live In

9. Night And Day

10. All Or Nothing At All

11. New York, New York

Notes: TT 52mins.

June 13, 1982

Concerts

Resorts International, Atlantic City , New Jersey

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I Get A Kick Out Of You

2. Without A Song

3. I Can't Get Started

4. I Won't Dance

5. Monday Morning Quarterback

6. The Lady Is A Tramp

7. monologue

8. As Time Goes By

9. Night And Day

10. All Or Nothing At All

11. New York, New York

Notes: TT 46mins.

Resorts International, Atlantic City , New Jersey

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I Get A Kick Out Of You

2. Without A Song

3. I Can't Get Started

4. I Won't Dance

5. As Time Goes By

6. The Lady Is A Tramp

7. monologue

8. The House I Live In

9. Night And Day

10. All Or Nothing At All

11. New York, New York

Notes: TT 51mins.

June 16, 1982

Concerts

Resorts International, Atlantic City , New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I Get A Kick Out Of You

2. Without A Song

3. I Can't Get Started

4. I Won't Dance

5. Monday Morning Quarterback

6. The Lady Is A Tramp

7. monologue

8. The House I Live In

9. All Or Nothing At All

10. As Time Goes By

11. New York, New York

Notes: TT 55mins.

Extras

Resorts International, Atlantic City , New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

Frank Sinatra and daughter Nancy pose with a rolling chair presented to Frank from the Resorts International Hotel & Casino upon doing his 100th performance there, Atlantic City, June 16, 1982

[image referenced in source but could not be recovered]

June 17, 1982

Concerts

Resorts International, Atlantic City , New Jersey

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I Get A Kick Out Of You

2. Without A Song

3. I Can't Get Started

4. I Won't Dance

5. The Lady Is A Tramp

6. monologue

7.. The House I Live In

8. Night And Day

9.. New York, New York

Notes: TT 44mins.

Resorts International, Atlantic City , New Jersey

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I Get A Kick Out Of You

2. Without A Song

3. I Can't Get Started

4. I Won't Dance

5. The Lady Is A Tramp

6. monologue

7. The House I Live In

8. Night And Day

9. New York, New York

Notes: TT 40mins.

June 18, 1982

Concerts

Resorts International, Atlantic City , New Jersey

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I Get A Kick Out Of You

2. Without A Song

3. I Can't Get Started

4. I Won't Dance

5. Monday Morning Quarterback

6. The Lady Is A Tramp

7. The House I Live In

8. Night And Day

9. New York, New York

Notes: TT 45mins.

Resorts International, Atlantic City , New Jersey

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I Get A Kick Out Of You

2. Without A Song

3. I Can't Get Started

4. I Won't Dance

5. The Lady Is A Tramp

6. The House I Live In

7. Night And Day

8. All Or Nothing At All

9. New York, New York

Notes: TT 43mins.

June 19, 1982

Concerts

Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. The Lady Is A Tramp

2. Without A Song

3. I Can't Get Started

4. I Won't Dance

5. Monday Morning Quarterback

6. I Get A Kick Out Of You

7. monologue

8. Night And Day

9. All Or Nothing At All

10. New York, New York

Notes: TT 46mins.

Resorts International, Atlantic City , New Jersey

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. The Lady Is A Tramp

2. Without A Song

3. I Can't Get Started

4. I Won't Dance

5. I Get A Kick Out Of You

6.. monologue

7. The House I Live In

8. Night And Day

9. New York, New York

Notes: TT 43mins.

July 1982

Extras

[Sinatra's 'Dodgers and Atlanta' Deadpan]

Nancy Sinatra: Getting dressed backstage before a benefit performance, Sinatra asked Jilly Rizzo what the house looked like. When Rizzo answered that it was sold out, Sinatra, true to his baseball obsession, replied that he meant the Dodgers-Atlanta game, not the audience.

Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

July 15, 1982

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (July 15-21) OPENING NIGHT CANCELLED

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr. with Nancy Sinatra and Charlie Callas

Extras

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (July 15-21) OPENING NIGHT CANCELLED

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr. with Nancy Sinatra and Charlie Callas

July 16, 1982

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. The Lady Is a Tramp

2. The Best Is Yet to Come

3. When Your Lover Has Gone

4. I Get a Kick Out of You

5. When Joanna Loved Me

6. My Kind of Town

7. Come Rain or Come Shine

8. I've Got You Under My Skin

9. I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry

10. Theme From New York, New York

Extras

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

O.A. Charlie Callas Nancy Sinatra

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. The Lady Is a Tramp

2. The Best Is Yet to Come

3. When Your Lover Has Gone

4. I Get a Kick Out of You

5. When Joanna Loved Me

6. My Kind of Town

7. Come Rain or Come Shine

8. I've Got You Under My Skin

9. I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry

10. Theme From New York, New York

The Arizona Republic

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

This calendar, or any parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any fashion

whatsoever without the prior written permission of the publisher (The

Sinatra Archive)

July 17, 1982

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. The Lady Is a Tramp

2. The Best Is Yet to Come

3. When Your Lover Has Gone

4. I Get a Kick Out of You

5. When Joanna Loved Me

6. My Kind of Town

7. I've Got the World on a String

8. Come Rain or Come Shine

9. I've Got You Under My Skin

10. I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry

11. Theme From New York, New York

July 18, 1982

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. The Lady Is A Tramp

2. The Best Is Yet To Come

3. When Your Lover Has Gone

4. I Get Kick Out Of You

5. When Joanna Loved Me

6. My Kind Of Town

7. monologue

8. I've Got The World On A String

9. Searching

10. Sweet And Lovely - Charles Turner Solo

11. I've Got You Under My Skin

12. I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

13. New York, New York

Notes: TT 55mins.

July 19, 1982

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

First Show

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. The Lady Is A Tramp

2. The Best Is Yet To Come

3. When Your Lover Has Gone

4. I Get A Kick Out Of You

5. When Joanna Loved Me

6. My Kind Of Town

7. monologue

8. Come Rain Or Come Shine

9. I've Got You Under My Skin

10. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

11. New York, New York

Notes: TT 47mins.

Extras

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

First Show

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. The Lady Is A Tramp

2. The Best Is Yet To Come

3. When Your Lover Has Gone

4. I Get A Kick Out Of You

5. When Joanna Loved Me

6. My Kind Of Town

7. monologue

8. Come Rain Or Come Shine

9. I've Got You Under My Skin

10. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

11. New York, New York

note: Frank was scheduled to open on 7/15(Thurs)

He was able to do an 11 o'clock show on 7/16

His schedule was tight so instead of extending

the engagement Frank did an extra show on

7-19 and 20. He closed on 7/21.

Charlie Callas and Nancy Sinatra were the opening

acts.

July 20, 1982

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

1. The Lady Is a Tramp

2. The Best Is Yet to Come

3. When Your Lover Has Gone

4. I Get a Kick Out of You

5. When Joanna Loved Me

6. My Kind of Town

7. Come Rain or Come Shine

8. I've Got You Under My Skin

9. I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry

10. Theme From New York, New York

July 21, 1982

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

Two Shows

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. The Lady Is a Tramp

2. The Best Is Yet to Come

3. When Your Lover Has Gone

4. I Get a Kick Out of You

5. When Joanna Loved Me

6. My Kind of Town

7. Come Rain or Come Shine

8. I've Got You Under My Skin

9. I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry

10. Theme From New York, New York

Ed O'Brien:

Frank opened on 7-15 and closed on 7-21. There were two shows a night and the Cahn/Styne song

"Searching" was introduced. A recording was done on 8/17 with a Costa chart.

July 30, 1982

Concerts

Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California

Opening Benefit for Jules Stein Eye Institute and other charities - "A Legendary Evening with Frank Sinatra"

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone Jr.

Other Performers: Cary Grant, Charlton Heston, Dorothy Lamour, James Stewart, Ernest Borgnine, Angie Dickinson

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. I Get A Kick Out Of You

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. When Joanna Loved Me

5. The Lady Is A Tramp

6. When Your Lover Has Gone

7. I've Got You Under My Skin

8. The House I Live In

9. monologue

10. My Kind Of Town

11. Searching

12. It Had To Be You

13. Gershwin medley: Summertime / It Ain't Necessarily So / Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?

14. The Best Is Yet To Come

15. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

16. New York, New York

Notes: TT 79mins. Raised over one million dollars. This show is also listed as 8/30 but 7/30 is the correct date.

Extras

Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California

Opening Benefit for Jules Stein Eye Institute and other charities - "A Legendary Evening with Frank Sinatra"

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

Other Performers: Cary Grant, Charlton Heston, Dorothy Lamour, James Stewart, Ernest Borgnine, Angie Dickinson

Francis Albert Sinatra brings a start-studded crowd to their feet as he sings "New York, New York" as only "Ol' Blue Eyes" can during the opening of the New Universal Amphitheatre July 30, 1982. The amphitheatre, which is on the Universal Studio lot, reopened July 30, 1982 with a benefit concert which drew a host of Hollywood's finest to hear Sinatra and see the amphitheatre which is now enclosed with a new roof

Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California (July 30-August 7) Opening Benefit for Jules Stein Eye Institute and other charities - "A Legendary Evening with Frank Sinatra" - "A Legendary Evening with Frank Sinatra"

Nancy Sinatra and Charlie Callas

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone Jr.

Other Performers: Cary Grant, Charlton Heston, Dorothy Lamour, James Stewart, Ernest Borgnine, Angie Dickinson

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. I Get A Kick Out Of You

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. When Joanna Loved Me

5. The Lady Is A Tramp

6. When Your Lover Has Gone

7. I've Got You Under My Skin

8. The House I Live In

9. monologue

10. My Kind Of Town

11. Searching

12. It Had To Be You

13. Gershwin medley: Summertime / It Ain't Necessarily So / Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?

14. The Best Is Yet To Come

15. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

16. New York, New York

July 31, 1982

Concerts

Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. I Get A Kick Out Of You

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. When Your Lover Has Gone

5. The Lady Is A Tramp

6. The House I Live In

7. monologue

8. My Kind Of Town

9. It Had To Be You

10. When Joanna Loved Me

11. The Best Is Yet To Come

12. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

13. New York, New York

Notes: TT 58mins.

Ed O'Brien:

Frank Sinatra would appear at the Amphitheater in 78,79,80,82,83 and 84. His level of artistic achievement during these engagements was extraordinary.

No other performer commanded a stage like Sinatra did in that period of his career.

If you were lucky enough to see him at that time, it was an unforgettable experience.

His stage presence demanded total involvement from every member of the audience.

He offered a selection of chestnuts beyond category and also included the remarkable recordings from his Reprise albums of that era. There are a great many Sinatra per- formances available from his 60 year career. None offer a better example of his genius than the L.A. Amphitheater from the post retirement years. His ability to live every song, convey a myriad of emotions, communicate every nuance the lyricist intended to his audience, is still awe inspiring. The Amphitheater seemed to fit him better than others venues, such as

Carnegie Hall, or Radio City, or Royal Festival Hall. Perhaps because it was closer to home.

Whatever the reason you can hear a greater confidence in his voice. Al Viola told me he would get chills listening to Frank sing on those warm summer nights. Al fervently wished that a permanent record existed of that magical time. Don't we all.

August 1, 1982

Concerts

Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. I Get A Kick Out Of You

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. Monday Morning Quarterback

5. The Lady Is A Tramp

6. The House I Live In

7. monologue

8. My Kind Of Town

9. It Had To Be You

10. When Joanna Loved Me

11. The Best Is Yet To Come

12. New York, New York

Notes: TT 56mins.

August 2, 1982

Concerts

Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. I Get A Kick Out Of You

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. Monday Morning Quarterback

5. The Lady Is A Tramp

6. The House I Live In

7. monologue

8. My Kind Of Town

9. I Can't Get Started

10. When Joanna Loved Me

11. The Best Is Yet To Come

12. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

13. New York, New York

Notes: TT 56mins.

Extras

San Antonio Express-News, August 2, 1982.

August 3, 1982

Concerts

Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. I Get A Kick Out Of You

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. When Your Lover Has Gone

5. The Lady Is A Tramp

6. The House I Live In

7. monologue

8. My Kind Of Town

9. I Can't Get Started

10. When Joanna Loved Me

11. The Best Is Yet To Come

12. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

13. New York, New York

Notes: TT 64mins.

August 4, 1982

Concerts

Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I've Got the World on a String

2. I Get a Kick out of You

3. Come Rain or Come Shine

4. When Your Lover Has Gone

5. I've Got You under my Skin

6. The House I Live In

7. monologue

8. My Kind of Town

9. I Can't Get Started

10. When Joanna Loved Me

11. The Best is Yet to Come

12. Guess I'll Hang my Tears out to Dry

13. New York, New York

NOTE: Ed O'Brien also supplied this song program. Notes: TT 63mins.

August 5, 1982

Concerts

Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I've Got the World on a String

2. Come Rain or Come Shine

3. I Get a Kick out of You

4. When Your Lover has Gone

5. The Lady is a Tramp

6. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered my Mind

7. monologue

8. My Kind of Town

9. I Can't Get Started

10.. When Joanna Loved Me

11. The Best is Yet to Come

12. Guess I'll Hang my Tears out to Dry

13. New York, New York

Notes: TT 66mins.

August 6, 1982

Concerts

Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I've Got the World on a String

2. Come Rain or Come Shine

3. I Get a Kick out of You

4. When Your Lover Has Gone

5. The Lady is a Tramp

6. Monday Morning Quarterback

7. I've Got You Under my Skin

8.. Gal that Got Away/Never Entered my Mind

9. monologue

10. My Kind of Town

11. I Can't Get Started

12. When Joanna Loved Me

13. The Best is Yet to Come

14. Guess I'll Hang my Tears out to Dry

15. New York, New York

Notes: TT 74mins.

August 7, 1982

Concerts

Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. Come Rain Or Come Shine

3. I Get A Kick Out Of You

4. When Your Lover Has Gone

5. The Lady Is A Tramp

6. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

7. monologue

8. My Kind Of Town

9. It Had To Be You

10. When Joanna Loved Me

11. The Best Is Yet To Come

12. New York, New York

Notes: TT 54mins.

August 10, 1982

Concerts

Chicagofest, Chicago Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. I Get A Kick Out Of You

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. When Joanna Loved Me

5. The Lady Is A Tramp

6. New York, New York

7. It Had To Be You

8. The Best Is Yet To Come

9. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

10. I've Got You Under My Skin

11. The House I Live In

12. My Kind Of Town

Notes: TT 52mins.

Ed O'Brien reports that this was a very windy night in Chicago. Sinatra pulled a crowd estimated to be around 50,000. He didn't disappoint. The reviews of the concert were outstanding.

Extras

Chicagofest, Chicago Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

Chicagofest, Chicago Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

UPI ARCHIVES

AUG. 11, 1982

Ole Blue eyes wows 'em by Lake MichiganBy

ROBERT

KIECKHEFER

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CHICAGO -- An overflow crowd jammed ChicagoFest, some of them waiting nearly 7 hours to get a look at the man behind the 'Ole Blue Eyes' legend -- Frank Sinatra who wowed them with about an hour of old standbys.

'I am a fan like you wouldn't believe,' said Joyce Simon, 50, who was the first person in line before the main gate opened at 4 p.m. Tuesday. 'I would go to the end of the Earth to see Sinatra. Ms. Simon arrived at 9 a.m.,

complete with blanket, pillow and thermos to be sure she would get a good look at her heart throb.

'I saw him when I was in bobby-socks at the Chicago Theater in the '40s,' said Marilyn Rogoff of Skokie, Ill. 'Oh, that brings a tear to my eye. It makes me feel so old.'

Appearing under a neon sign that alternately flashed 'Mayor Byrne's' and 'ChicagoFest,' Sinatra drew a roar from the audience when he put together a medley of 'I Left My Heart in San Francisco,' 'New York, New York,' and the song everyone expected to hear -- 'My Kind of Town.'

'We're really proud to be part of this,' he told the crowd between songs.

He then was whisked into a limousine for a drive to Meigs Field, caught a helicopter to O'Hare Airport and left town.

Promoters said Sinatra has seldom, if ever, done fair-type appearances.

The crowd filled the 25,000 main stage seats and the 10,000 standing-room spaces. Many thousands more stood outside the main stage area, listening when the wind currents drifted Sinatra's voice in their direction.

'I've always avoided ChicagoFest because of the crowd,' said Linda Cohen, who moved to Chicago from Des Moines, Iowa, about five years ago. 'But I figured it would be worth it for this.'

She said she stood far back in the crowd, but was satisfied.

'I told my mother I'd be there vicariously for her,' Ms. Cohen said.

Sinatra, wearing a

black suit and white shirt, was greeted with 10,000 white balloons passed out by promoters. The audience was urged to let the balloons go when Sinatra walked on stage but many apparently kept them as souvenirs.

note: Sinatra was paid $235,000 for this performance. Liza Minnelli received $245,000 for two performances and Tony Bennett

was paid $50,000 for one show.

Photos from that night:

August 17, 1982

Studio

New York City

ANY2952 Love Makes Us Whatever We Want To Be

(Sammy Cahn/Jule Styne)

Chappell & Co. Inc./WB Music Corp. (ASCAP)

Arranged by Billy May

Conducted by Vincent Falcone, Jr.

(2:37) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 20

ANY2953 Searching

(Sammy Cahn/Jule Styne)

Chappell & Co. Inc./WB music Corp. (ASCAP)

Arranged by Don Costa

Conducted by Vincent Falcone, Jr.

(3:46) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 20

NOTE: Ed O'Brien asked Vinnie Falcone why Sinatra recorded these two songs. He told O'Brien that he was as baffled as the musicians.

They were shocked that he devoted a full session to such mediocre material. He also asked Billy

May about the arrangement of "Love Makes Us . .

." May couldn't remember doing it.

Extras

"Love Makes Us Whatever We Want to Be" / "Only One to a Customer" / "The Girls I've Never Kissed" / "My Foolish Heart" / "Cry Me a River"

Frank Sinatra: 'Love Makes Us Whatever We Want to Be' (Cahn/Styne) was attempted in both 1982 and 1983 without a completed master. 'Only One to a Customer' (Styne/Carolyn Leigh) was taped in October 1986, having been performed in concert weeks earlier where Sinatra introduced it as 'arranged by Billy May -- when he was sober.' From the same session, 'The Girls I've Never Kissed' -- the only Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller song Sinatra ever recorded -- was performed at the Golden Nugget on New Year's Eve 1986, with Sinatra comparing it to 'September Song.' In June 1988, Sinatra and May attempted 'My Foolish Heart' (completed, later issued on the Complete Reprise box set) and 'Cry Me a River' (never completed as an issued take, though a surreptitious tape survives of Sinatra singing with his vocal mic turned off).

Source: Will Friedwald, "Sinatra! The Song Is You: A Singer's Art" (2018 revised edition).

[Searching -- critical commentary]

Will Friedwald: 'Searching,' a rangy melody with a deliberately vague lyric, was most famously performed by Sinatra at his pinnacle 1982 Concert for the Americas.

This song/context matches multiple dated entries in the chronology; the specific date Friedwald is referring to could not be determined with confidence.

Source: Will Friedwald, "Sinatra! The Song Is You: A Singer's Art" (2018 revised edition), Ch. 10, "Concert Years" (1973-1994)

August 20, 1982

Television

Concert For The Americas, Dominican Republic

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. I Get A Kick Out Of You

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. When Your Lover Has Gone

5. The Lady Is A Tramp

6. The House I Live In

7. Searching

8. My Kind Of Town

9. Something

10. The Best Is Yet To Come

11. Strangers In The Night

12. All Or Nothing At All

13. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

14. I've Got You Under My Skin

15. Send In The Clowns

16. Quiet Nights

17. I Won't Dance

18. New York , New York

NOTE: Sinatraphile John G. says that this is a great concert! It is a shame that there aren't more concerts released on to video from this time period. Sinatra was in such great form at this time.

Ed O'Brien adds that Vinnie Falcone conducted and played the piano for this super, super show. The trip from their hotel to the Athos De Chavron was over very primitive terrain and took a couple of hours. Sinatra was simply sensational!

Ed O'Brien also sends us a review, written by Jose, from the August 25, 1982 issue of Variety:

An event like this may never turn up again in the Dominican Republic. It was only the strength of Sinatra, who brought in the Buddy Rich Orch, one of the top bands current today, but also the fact that thi bash was the first in the 5,000 seat Amphitheatre. There have been previous concerts at Altos De Chavon, the cultural development where the Amphitheatre is located. These were held on the Plaza of that development, which can accommodate up to 3,000. When that proved inadequate, it was decided to build the Amphitheatre.

The concert iself was an explosion, both literally and figurately. In all instances, these two principals would provide sufficient fireworks by themselves. But following conclusion of Sinatra's final number, a fireworks display by Grucci, said to cost over $35,000, kept the crowd in their seats and applauding for a full five minutes afterward.

Sinatra has rarely been better, He seemed to be having fun. He liked the crowd, which had an age-range from early teens to mature elders. The audience even had a former President of the Republic applauding wildly - or maybe he was applauding his survivak, Sinatra was in great form and in excellent humor, and he communicated this feeling to the audience. There were several standing ovations during and after his turn. Vinnie Falcone conducted superbly.

Much of Sinatra's catalog was familiar, but there were two major items of interest to many. One was a new tune by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne, "Searching," and the other was the revival of "The House I Live In," which Sinatra helped plug when he first became a name performer. His asides, incidental dancing and repartee with the crowd gave him an ovation that can rarely be topped. Buddy Rich Orch., the opening act, was also a revelation to both this crowd and even to himself. The feverish anticipation of Sinatra's appearance, strangely enough, worked to this drummer's advantage. He carried a splendid set of sidemen who also set in with Sinatra. But Rich could have been the whole orchestral show. He possibly has the greatest coordination in the business. He can juggle three separate beats and skin figures into a harmonious unit. He has visual and aural values and provided a finale that left him limp and the audience sky-high.

Sinatraphile Derek J. says he will always remember the first time he saw this concert on TV. He could not believe what he was seeing. Sinatra was superb and everything about the whole was a masterpiece right up to the fireworks climax.

Ed O'Brien then points out that the show won the first ACE award for musical specials on cable. In an interview before the show, Sinatra talked about doing more cable specials. He was interested in doing one built around the great dancers from Astaire to Travolta. O'Brien wishes that Sinatra had followed through with that.

Concerts

"Concert For The Americas" Aitos de Chavon Amphitheatre, La Romana, Dominican Republic

Key Musicians: Tony Mottola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler

(drums), Charles Turner (trumpet), Vincent Falcone Jr (piano).

Buddy Rich Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. I Get A Kick Out Of You

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. When Your Lover Has Gone

5. The Lady Is A Tramp

6. The House I Live In

7. Buddy Rich (Instrumental) : The Jet Song - Something's Coming

8. Searching

9. My Kind Of Town

10. Something 11. The Best Is Yet To Come

12. Strangers In The Night

13. All Or Nothing At All

14. medley: The Gal That Got Away - It Never Entered My Mind

15. I've Got You Under My Skin

16. Send In The Clowns

17. Quiet Nights

18. I Won't Dance

19. New York, New York

20. chaser "New York, New York"

Extras

"Concert For The Americas" Aitos de Chavon Amphitheatre, La Romana, Dominican Republic

Key Musicians: Tony Mottola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Ir

note: Although Paramount Video taped "Concert For The Americas" on 8-20-82, the pay-TV showings were not aired until early November. Seven pay services, around the country, offered it to their member- ship. STAR TV had its premiere of the show on 11/7/82 in the Boston. area. It aired on SHOWTIME, in many areas of the country, beginning on 11/11. It would be offered throughout the month by the seven services. While in Althos de Chavon, Frank agreed to be interviewed by organ- izations covering the inaugural event at the 5,000 seat amphitheater. Frank was quoted by The Hollywood Reporter as saying "Commercial TV is in the doldrums, and pay TV can seize the moment to present programming that will raise the level of entertainment for both the performer and the consumer. Care and creativity can turn the cable consumer on just like the lack of it has turned off the regular TV watcher." The article was published on 8/25. It also quoted Frank envisioning a time when he would do monthly TV shows with guests like Lena Horne, Fred Astaire, John Travolta and Leontyne Price.

Variety referred to the performance as an "explosion" and stated, "Sinatra had rarely been better. Frank was in great form and in excellent humor, and he communicated this feeling to the audience." The Hollywood Reporter called it "one of a kind . . . When he came out to sing, the force of the cheering seemed to momentarily surprise even Sinatra . . . He kicked up his musical heels and flexed his vocal muscles --- the crowd loved every minute of it."

At Concert For The Americas, Sinatra Had The World On A String Sinatra’s Concert For The Americas performance was filmed for a TV special, confirming The Chairman as the master of spectacular, must-see events.

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August 20, 2019

Charles Waring ( https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/concert-for-the-americas-frank-sinatra/ )

Photo: Frank Sinatra Enterprises

On Friday, 20 August 1982, Frank Sinatra delivered the inaugural performance of Concert For The Americas, a weekend-long music festival in a unique Caribbean venue, on a bill that also included the rock acts Heart and Santana. The concert took place in the Dominican Republic, an island sandwiched between Cuba and Puerto Rico. Two hours east of its capital and biggest city, Santo Domingo, lay Altos De Chavón, a newly-created, Mediterranean-style clifftop village designed by Italian architect Roberto Copa and bankrolled by Paramount executive Charles Bluhdorn, who was also chairman of the huge American conglomerate Gulf And Western. It was there that Sinatra stepped onto the stage to find himself in a magnificent 5,000-seater reconstruction of a 14th-century outdoor amphitheatre, filming his performance for a TV special.

Photo: Frank Sinatra Enterprises

Sinatra had flown into the Dominican Republic the day before the concert. The following day, he made his way to Altos De Chavón but he didn’t feel the need to rehearse. He knew his material like the back of his hand (with the exception of one new addition to his repertoire) and trusted that his accompanying musicians his own quartet, plus drummer Buddy Rich and his orchestra did too. Also, like a jazz musician, Sinatra cherished spontaneity and wanted his performance to sound fresh and vibrant.

At 66, The Chairman Of The Board was eligible for retirement, but you wouldn’t guess that from his performance; the Concert For The Americas set found him in magisterial form. From the opening phrases of ‘I’ve Got The World On A String’, it’s obvious that his baritone voice is in peak condition. For Sinatra, though, the first song of a show was always a test of his nerve, as he recalled in a 1988 interview: “I know it’s funny, but seconds before I step on stage, I still get nervous. Will the notes come out? Is my voice OK? And, to tell the truth, it takes 30-40 seconds before I really feel right, and that’s every time.”

If he was a little apprehensive, you couldn’t tell as he reels off a clutch of beloved classics from his back pages, including ‘I Get A Kick Out Of You’, ‘The Lady Is A Tramp’, ‘I’ve Got You Under My Skin’ and ‘Strangers In The Night’. In contrast to the swaggering pizzazz of those finger-clicking swingers, The Chairman also serves up some succulent ballads, highlighting his skill as a lovelorn storyteller. Among these is an exquisite pairing of ‘The Gal That Got Away’ and ‘It Never Entered My Mind’, where Sinatra, in tragic romantic mode, demonstrates the lost art of saloon singing (this medley had appeared on his then most recent LP, 1981’s She Shot Me Down).

In addition to songs drawn from The Great American Songbook, Sinatra performed a Don Costa-arranged version of The Beatles’ George Harrison-penned ballad ‘Something’, which Ol’ Blue Eyes had recorded in the studio twice, in 1970 and 1980, respectively. Extolling its virtues, Sinatra introduces ‘Something’ as “one of the best love songs I believe to have been written in 50 or 100 years and it never says ‘I love you.’”

Sinatra also debuted a new song during Concert For The Americas: a haunting ballad from the pens of Jules Styne and Sammy Cahn called ‘Searching’. “I recorded it three days ago and it’s the first time I’ve done it publicly,” he said, adding, jokingly: “If we don’t get it right, we’ll stay here until we do get it right.” Unsurprisingly, they did get it right, though Sinatra’s studio version didn’t get a release until over a decade later, when it appeared on the mammoth 1995 box set The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings.

Sinatra’s Concert For The Americas set climaxed with the explosive razzamatazz of his Big Apple anthem, ‘Theme From New York, New York’, which was accompanied by a huge firework display. According to the concert’s executive producer, George B Honchar, there was no encore, with Sinatra exiting the venue while rapturous applause still rang in his ears.

The Concert For The Americas performance was released as Sinatra’s first official live VHS in the 80s, before being transferred to DVD in 2002. Fourteen years later, the audio provided a highlight of the 4CD box set World On A String. Heard today, it’s a reminder that, despite his infrequent record releases throughout the 80s, Francis Albert Sinatra was still the main event when it came to spectacular, must-see concerts. At $50 dollars a head, those lucky enough to be in the audience at the Altos De Chavón amphitheatre witnessed something that, in truth, you couldn’t put a price on: the greatest saloon singer of all time, still at the peak of his powers.

Frank, Barbara, Buddy Rich’s daughter Cathy and Buddy after a dress rehearsal for the concert. --Carl

Buddy Rich did a tour de force rendition of his famous "West Side Story" medley during the show. He went way beyond what his heart was able to tolerate. If you watch the show, Buddy is rubber- legged as he walks off the stage. Oxygen was administered in his dressing room. According to his family Buddy suffered a major heart attack. A man who truly sacrificed for his art. Ed

Concert For The Americas, Dominican Republic

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. I Get A Kick Out Of You

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. When Your Lover Has Gone

5. The Lady Is A Tramp

6. The House I Live In

7. Searching

8. My Kind Of Town

9. Something

10. The Best Is Yet To Come

11. Strangers In The Night

12. All Or Nothing At All

13. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

14. I've Got You Under My Skin

15. Send In The Clowns

16. Quiet Nights

17. I Won't Dance

18. New York , New York

September 2, 1982

Concerts

The Centrum, Worcester, Massachusettes

OPENING NIGHT OF NEW ARENA

1. I’ve Got The World On A String

2. I Get A Kick Out Of You

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. When Joanna Loved Me

5. I’ve Got You Under My Skin

6. When Your Lover Has Gone

7. The Lady Is A Tramp

8. The House I Live In

9. My Kind Of Town

10. All Or Nothing At All

11. It Had To Be You

12. The Gal That Got Away/It Never Entered My Mind

13. The Best Is Yet To Come

14. As Time Goes By w/Tony Mottola

15. New York, New York

Extras

The Centrum, Worcester, Massachusettes

OPENING NIGHT OF NEW ARENA

1. I’ve Got The World On A String

2. I Get A Kick Out Of You

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. When Joanna Loved Me

5. I’ve Got You Under My Skin

6. When Your Lover Has Gone

7. The Lady Is A Tramp

8. The House I Live In

9. My Kind Of Town

10. All Or Nothing At All

11. It Had To Be You

12. The Gal That Got Away/It Never Entered My Mind

13. The Best Is Yet To Come

14. As Time Goes By w/Tony Mottola

15. New York, New York

Kudos from 'Chairman' kicks off Centrum

Craig S. Semon30

"No More Little Town Blues" was the headline of the Worcester Telegram on Sept. 3, 1982, and those five words summed up the "high apple pie in the sky hopes" the city had for its new civic center. Restaurants and bars from Lincoln Square to Federal Square did a booming business the night of Frank Sinatra"™s inaugural concert. Several restaurants, such as the Odyssey, Maxwell-Silverman's, The Loft, Plum's and Rovezzi's, were booked. And restaurants not filled reported business increases of 40 to 150 percent. The then 66-year-old Sinatra opened with "I"™ve Got the World on a String" and closed with the "Theme From 'New York, New York' " In between, he sang many standards from the Great American Songbook, as well as the tune "When Your Lover Has Gone" by the late Worcester composer Einar Swan. Sinatra arrived at Worcester Airport at 6:35 p.m. Sept. 2, hit the stage at 9 p.m., finished his 75-minute, 15-song concert at 10:15 p.m., telling his aides that he hoped to be back in New York City by 11:30 to keep a dinner date with his wife, Barbara. Most performing artists and bands playing during the early years of the Centrum ventured into the city earlier in the day (and were often spotted shopping at the Worcester Center Galleria or dining in an area restaurant) and stayed overnight (and, sometimes, were drinking in the bar) at the Worcester Marriott Inn. During his concert, the "Chairman of the Board" complimented the Centrum, by saying, "First of all, the sound is superb, absolutely superb." It was a ringing endorsement that was well worth the $275,000 paid Sinatra (and another $24,000 paid to promoter Frank J. Russo). Ol"™ Blue Eyes also gave a verbal black eye to Beantown, saying, "In Boston, they should tear the old Garden and build a new one." Ouch! Sinatra would play four more times at the Centrum: on Nov. 25, 1983, in honor the Centrum's first anniversary; alongside Liza Minnelli and Sammy Davis Jr. for the Centrum's fifth anniversary on Oct. 17, 1987; on April 20, 1991 in honor of Sinatra's 75th year, and for the Centrum's 10th anniversary on Oct. 2, 1992.

The Centrum, a project also involving public financing and debate, was the hottest ticket in the state when it was revealed that Sinatra would headline the official Opening Night at the 10,000-seat arena. The Centrum is now known as the DCU Center.

Mayor Sara Robertson was among the dignitaries to meet Sinatra, who arrived at Worcester Airport at 6:35 p.m. before taking the stage at 9 p.m. for a 15-song set. He opened with "I've Got the World on a String" and closed with the "Theme From ˜New York, New York." He remarked that he was impressed with the acoustics, to the relief of the many people involved in the planning of the building. Evening of September 2, 1982

Sinatra didn't hang around the city after the show despite the lure of the city's many welcoming restaurants. The story goes that he wanted to be back in New York City by 11:30 p.m., in time for a planned dinner with his wife, Barbara. The headline in the morning paper the next day read, "No More Little Town Blues." For his efforts, Sinatra pocketed $275,000, a huge sum then and now, but the publicity it brought to the arena made it a wise investment. Four decades later, they're still writing about the show. note: I have the Worcester paper with the banner headline " NO MORE LITTLE TOWN BLUES" Photo of Frank on stage directly below that bold announcement.

This calendar, or any parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any fashion whatsoever without the prior written permission of the publisher (The Sinatra Archive)

September 11, 1982

Concerts

Civic Center, Ottawa, Canada

Hospital Benefit

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

Also: Rich Little

1. I've Got the World on a String

2. I Get a Kick Out of You

3. Come Rain or Come Shine

4. When Joanna Loved Me

5. I've Got You Under My Skin

6. When Your Lover Has Gone

7. The Lady Is a Tramp

8. My Kind of Town

9. It Had to Be You

10. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

11. The Best Is Yet to Come

12. As Time Goes By

13. Theme From New York, New York

Note: Sinatra last played Ottawa on July 6th, 1949. Thirty-three years later he was performing for the swells with then Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau in attendance.

The late Trudeau is the father of the current Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau. This was also Sinatra's last appearance in Ottawa. -- Scott

Scott: I so wanted to attend this concert. Unfortunately I had started

University the first week of September 1982 and there was no way I could be in two places. I'm still looking for an audience recording of this concert.

Extras

The Ottawa Citizen

8-28-82

Civic Center, Ottawa, Canada

Hospital Benefit

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

Also: Rich Little

Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau Sinatra Rich Little

September 13, 1982

Concerts

Carnegie Hall, New York City

Opening Night

World Mercy Fund Benefit

Key Musicians: Charlie Turner (trumpet), Tony Mottola (guitar), Vincent

Falcone Jr (piano).

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. I Get A Kick Out Of You

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. When Joanna Loved Me

5. I've Got You Under My Skin

6. When Your Lover Has Gone

7. The Lady Is A Tramp

8. monologue

9. The House I Live In

10. My Kind Of Town

11. It Had To Be You

12. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

13. The Best Is Yet To Come

14. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

15. I Won't Dance

16. As Time Goes By

17. New York, New York

Notes: TT 75mins.

Extras

Carnegie Hall, New York City

Opening Night

World Mercy Fund Benefit

Key Musicians: Charlie Turner (trumpet), Tony Mottola (guitar), Vincent

Falcone Jr (piano).

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

note: Frank was dark on Monday(20). Charlie Callas was on the bill for the benefit performance on 9/13.

New York

Times reviewed the 9/14 show

NYT

September 14, 1982

Concerts

Carnegie Hall, New York City

Key Musicians: Charlie Turner (trumpet), Tony Mottola (guitar), Vincent Falcone Jr (piano).

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. I Get A Kick Out Of You

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. When Joanna Loved Me

5. I've Got You Under My Skin

6. When Your Lover Has Gone

7. The Lady Is A Tramp

8. monologue

9. The House I Live In

10. My Kind Of Town

11. It Had To Be You

12. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

13. The Best Is Yet To Come

14. I Won't Dance

15. As Time Goes By

16. New York, New York

Notes: TT 64mins.

September 15, 1982

Concerts

Carnegie Hall, New York City

Time: 8:00 PM

Key Musicians: Charlie Turner (trumpet), Tony Mottola (guitar), Vincent Falcone Jr (piano).

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. I Get A Kick Out Of You

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. When Joanna Loved Me

5. I've Got You Under My Skin

6. When Your Lover Has Gone

7. The Lady Is A Tramp

8. monologue

9. The House I Live In

10, My Kind Of Town

11. It Had To Be You

12. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

13. The Best Is Yet To Come

14. I Won't Dance

15. As Time Goes By

16. Lullaby of Broadway (only about 1 minute of song)

16. New York, New York

Notes: TT 72mins.

Sinatraphile Eugene Lo Curto asks if "Lullaby of Broadway" has been unintentionally left out of the above song program provided by Ed O'Brien.

O'Brien responds: "[Sinatra] did enough of the song that night to merit an inclusion. Your question reminded me of the efforts of Gov. Carey and Mayor Koch. After " New York , New York " became an unofficial anthem of the Big Apple, they contacted Sinatra and urged him to record an album of New York songs. They suggested " Manhattan ," " 42nd Street ," "I Happen to Like New York ," "Autumn in New York ," "Lullaby of Broadway" , and others. Sinatra passed. O'Brien thinks it would have been a great album.

Scott: Lullaby of Broadway has been add to set-list as of September 15, 2020

Extras

Frank's friend Princess Grace of Monaco died in a car accident; he was unable to attend the funeral but sent a written message of condolence to her family.

Frank Sinatra (quoted): "I feel as though the sword of suffering pierced my heart."

Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

September 16, 1982

Concerts

Carnegie Hall, New York City

Key Musicians: Charlie Turner (trumpet), Tony Mottola (guitar), Vincent Falcone Jr (piano).

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. I Get A Kick Out Of You

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. When Joanna Loved Me

5. I've Got You Under My Skin

6. When Your Lover Has Gone

7. The Lady Is A Tramp

8. monologue

9. My Kind Of Town

10. It Had To Be You

11. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

12. The Best Is Yet To Come

13. I Won't Dance

14. As Time Goes By - w/Tony Mattola (guitar)

15. New York, New York

Notes: TT 67mins.

Extras

Carnegie Hall, New York City

Key Musicians: Charlie Turner (trumpet), Tony Mottola (guitar), Vincent Falcone Jr (piano).

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

POP: 70 SINATRA MINUTES THRILL OLD AND YOUNG

By Robert Palmer

New York Times, Sept. 16, 1982

SOME came to Frank Sinatra's Carnegie Hall concert in limousines Tuesday night, and some came on the subway. Some were wearing designer dresses and furs, and some were wearing jeans. ''Atta boy, Frankie,'' they shouted, and ''Sing it!'' Many of them were old enough to have been listening to Frank Sinatra since 1939, when he left his job as singing master of ceremonies in a New Jersey roadhouse to join the Harry James band. But a surprising number were young enough to be the grandchildren of Mr. Sinatra's early fans. They were not deterred by steep ticket prices - $50 for a choice orchestra seat. This was Sinatra!

Television crews roamed the street outside the hall, asking people why they had come. Some older fans talked about remembering their youth, but most of the answers, from young and old alike, were surprisingly similar. ''Sinatra's a legend,'' one fiftyish man said. A young woman who said she was a rock fan noted: ''Frank Sinatra is one thing I can agree with my parents about. They've been playing his records since I was born, and I don't ordinarily like that kind of music much, but he's a great singer.''

These are the expectations that Mr. Sinatra's fans bring to his concerts: he must be a superb vocal musician, and also a figure who is larger than life. But Mr. Sinatra seems to see himself more as a man with a mission - a man whose musical and extramusical values are in danger of being eroded yet must be upheld.

The musical aspect of this sense of mission has led Mr. Sinatra to turn his concerts into object lessons on musical excellence. Tuesday night he concentrated on the cream of his standard repertory. There were no experiments with ''contemporary'' material such as George Harrison's ''Something,'' which he attempted to adapt to the demands of his swing-rooted style several years ago, with limited success. And he was careful to announce the names of each songwriter (Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) and arranger (the bulk of the arrangements were familiar favorites by Nelson Riddle).

Mr. Sinatra's sense of mission was probably responsible for the program's only miscalculation, a revival of ''The House I Live In'' that attempted to wave the flag of patriotism but was met only with polite, restrained applause. The song by Lewis Allen and Earl Robinson asks ''What is America to me?'' and answers with a sentimental portrait of American neighborhoods and a low-keyed plea for racial and religious harmony. Yet when Mr. Sinatra sang it in a 1945 film short with the same title as the song, it was considered left-leaning, even radical by some people, and several anti-Communist crusaders denounced Mr. Sinatra for it. (The movie won a special Academy Award as the best tolerance short subject of 1945.) The contrast between the song's original, liberal intent and the way it sounds today is a striking one. But so is the contrast between Mr. Sinatra's image of himself as a humanitarian, even something of a crusader, and the widespread perception that he is an establishment figure, a conservative.

Fortunately, the rest of the show found Mr. Sinatra's mission and his music meshing seamlessly. By choosing to sing only the best songs, even though he has sung them countless times, Mr. Sinatra runs the risk of becoming stale and mechanical. But Tuesday he sang with a generous, open-throated passion, and with intonation so accurate that it was a joy just to hear him hit a note and hold it.

Buddy Rich, who was Mr. Sinatra's roommate when they were both with Tommy Dorsey, opened the concert at the helm of his crack big band, and the band's brass and reed players stuck around to augment Mr. Sinatra's rhythm section and his lead trumpeter, Charlie Turner. The Rich band was spectacularly tight; its punch was particularly impressive on Quincy Jones's arrangement of ''The Best Is Yet to Come,'' and Mr. Sinatra responded with a relaxed but rhythmically incisive gem of a performance. His debt to jazz singing, and particularly to Billie Holiday, has rarely been more evident.

If there was a flaw in his singing, it was his tendency to depend a little too much on a dramatic upward glissando, a sort of ''He-e-e-eere's Frankie!'' that worked the first time but was a bit tiresome the third time around. But the 70-minute set included more than its share of magic - an intimate, languid ''As Time Goes By,'' a convincingly melancholy and exquisitely paced ''When Your Lover Has Gone,'' the delicate dynamics on ''I've Got You Under My Skin,'' for example.

Through it all, Mr. Sinatra flashed his baby-blue eyes and a grin that preserves a kind of boyish brashness. He didn't really seem larger than life, but he communicated a joy in being alive, and that was even better. And he sang. Atta boy, Frankie.

Mr. Sinatra will be singing at Carnegie Hall tonight through Sunday and next Tuesday through Thursday.

September 17, 1982

Concerts

Carnegie Hall, New York City

Key Musicians: Charlie Turner (trumpet), Tony

Mottola (guitar), Vincent Falcone Jr (piano).

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I've Got The World On A String

2.. I Get A Kick Out Of You

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. When Joanna Loved Me

5. I've Got You Under My Skin

6. When Your Lover Has Gone

7. The Lady Is A Tramp

8. monologue

9. My Kind Of Town

10. I Can't Get Started

11. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

12. The Best Is Yet To Come

13. I Won't Dance

14. As Time Goes By - w/Tony Mattola (guitar)

15. New York, New York

Notes: TT 75mins.

September 18, 1982

Concerts

Carnegie Hall, New York City

Key Musicians: Charlie Turner (trumpet), Tony Mottola (guitar), Vincent Falcone Jr (piano).

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. I Get A Kick Out Of You

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. When Joanna Loved Me

5. I've Got You Under My Skin

6. When Your Lover Has Gone

7. The Lady Is A Tramp

8. monologue

9. My Kind Of Town

10. I Can't Get Started

11. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

12. The Best Is Yet To Come

13. I Won't Dance

14. As Time Goes By - w/Tony Mattola (guitar)

15. New York, New York

Notes: TT 75mins.

September 19, 1982

Concerts

Carnegie Hall, New York City (September 13-23)

Buddy Rich & His Orchestra

Charlie Turner (trumpet), Tony Mottola (guitar), Vincent Falcone Jr conductor (piano).

1. I,ve Got The World On A String

2. I Get A Kick Out Of You

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. When Joanna Loved Me

5. I've Got You Under My Skin

6. When Your Lover Has Gone

7. The Lady Is A Tramp

8. monologue

9. My Kind Of Town

10. I Can't Get Started

11. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

12. The Best Is Yet To Come

13. I Wont Dance

14. As Time Goes By - w/Tony Mottola (guitar)

15. New York, New York

Extras

Carnegie Hall, New York City (September 13-23)

Buddy Rich & His Orchestra

Charlie Turner (trumpet), Tony Mottola (guitar), Vincent Falcone Jr conductor (piano).

I found this interesting blog about someone who attended this concert with their mother.

Source: https://anotherthinline.wordpress.com/2014/10/11/me-mom-frank-sinatra/

Me, Mom & Frank Sinatra

October 11, 2014

Like any good son that loves his mother I always wanted to do something nice for her on her birthday. And I usually did. One exception was that time when I was about 12-years old when mom told me that she didn’t want anything for her birthday. That was the year that I went out and bought a baseball glove with the money I was going to spend on her birthday gift.

When her birthday rolled around and all she got from me was a card, I could sense her disappointment. Then my Aunt Toni called me on the phone and berated me for not getting her sister a present. Needless to say I learned at a young age that women never mean what they say. That lesson has served me well in life with the exception of the one time I slipped. It was around 1987 and my then girlfriend told me, “Go to your friend’s bachelor party, have fun, I’ll be alright home alone.”

Of course when I got home I heard, “I don’t believe that you actually went to that bachelor party, and left me here alone on a Saturday night.”

I really couldn’t understand this. I mean we had cable and a VCR player, it’s not like she was all alone.

For more on the subject of women never saying what they mean see the movie Tootsie. There is an exchange between Dustin Hoffman and Jessica Lange that will drive this point home.

Mom’s birthday is October 12, which is kind of cool that a genuine Italian mother was born on Columbus Day. She’d even get a parade on her birthday! In the summer of 1982, I procured two tickets for a Frank Sinatra concert at Carnegie Hall on September 19. It was a little early for mom’s birthday but I didn’t have any say in Sinatra’s tour planning.

I secured the ducats through my friend Mike who got them from a ticket scalper named Sidney whom Mike knew from around Madison Square Garden. Sidney was nicknamed “Mumbles” by the other ticket scalpers because he could barely talk due to a tracheotomy tube he had inserted in his neck. Mike and I never referred to him by his obviously very un-PC nickname. We were always respectful and called him Sidney. I paid $80 for two seats in the first row of the balcony in Carnegie Hall, which for a college student at the time was a lot of money. But mom was worth it.

The night of the show we took the bus across town to 57th and Broadway and walked south for a bit. We found a Chinese restaurant near the Ed Sullivan Theater and had dinner. When we got to Carnegie Hall, mom realized she would have to climb a lot of steps to get to our seats, which she was not happy about. Diabetes and a smoking habit made stairs difficult for her. I told her to just take her time and if she had to go to the bathroom now would be a good time. Once the show started I knew she would not want to get up.

The problem with seats in the first row of the balcony is that once you get to the top of the balcony, you have to walk down to your seats. I could see the look on her face that said “not more stairs!” We made our way to our seats and settled in to listen to some music. First up was drummer Buddy Rich who was absolutely amazing. I would place Carl Palmer and Mr. Rich as the two best drummers I have ever seen just for sheer speed. Keep in mind I was never fortunate enough to see Keith Moon or John Bonham.

After Buddy’s set and a brief intermission, it was time for the Chairman of the Board, Old Blue Eyes himself. He opened with “I’ve Got the World on a String.” Somewhere in the middle of the song mom turned to me and said, “The girl next to me has a tape recorder in her bag, she’s recording the show.” Obviously this was mom’s first ever encounter with a concert bootlegger. However, I am pretty sure she knew other types of bootleggers, having been born during prohibition.

I told her to just enjoy the show try not to say anything that would ruin the girls recording, clap nicely after each song and for God’s sake, do NOT yell out “Freebird.” The last reference went right over her head.

Sinatra played a decent 14-song set that included: “My Kind of Town,” “The Lady is a Tramp,” “I’ve got you Under My Skin” closing with “New York, New York.” At one point between songs, he burped into the microphone and said, “Well, what did you expect from a saloon singer?” This brought a roar of laughter from the crowd.

Another highlight was a woman, whom I estimated to be in her twenties, in the orchestra section who must have been motioning for a kiss or a hug from Sinatra. He called her over to the stage and when the singer bent down to oblige her request; she kissed him and picked the handkerchief out of the pocket of his tuxedo. She then bolted up a side aisle back to her seat waving her stolen hankie. I half expected Jilly Rizzo and some of the boys to appear out of nowhere and lean on her to give the hanky back, but that never happened. I just hope that girl still has the handkerchief as it is a nice souvenir.

After the show I told mom to just relax and let the people file out so that we wouldn’t have to contend with the crowd. This would also make it easier for me to talk to an usher or a security person to see if we could take the elevator down to the first floor. A security person that I spoke to and explained that my mom wasn’t feeling up to walking down several flights of stairs was kind enough to get us an elevator.

As we left Carnegie Hall mom was beaming, she loved the show. “That was the second time I’ve seen him,” she said to me. Obviously the first time was probably in the 1940’s at the Paramount. When she told me this I thought to myself, that at that point in time I had already seen Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones and Queen three times each. Currently I’m up to around 75 Springsteen shows, nine for the Stones, six for U2, four each for Paul McCartney and Billy Joel (including two New Years Eve shows) and three for the Who. Yeah I guess you can say I like live music. A few months after this Sinatra show I saw a great double bill at Hofstra University featuring the Ramones and the B-52’s. As you can see I like all kinds of music.

I’m just glad mom had a great time and enjoyed her birthday present. It was better than a baseball mitt. Of course if she was still here today I would probably get her the bootleg of that show! Happy Birthday in Heaven mom.

September 21, 1982

Concerts

Carnegie Hall, New York City (September 13-23)

Buddy Rich & His Orchestra

Charlie Turner (trumpet), Tony Mottola (guitar), Vincent Falcone Jr conductor (piano)

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. I Get A Kick Out Of You

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. When Joanna Loved Me

5. I've Got You Under My Skin

6. When Your Lover Has Gone

7. The Lady Is A Tramp

8. monologue

9. My Kind Of Town

10. I Can't Get Started

11 The Best Is Yet To Come

12. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

13. I Won't Dance

14. As Time Goes By - w/Tony Mottola (guitar)

15. New York, New York

September 22, 1982

Concerts

Carnegie Hall , New York City (September 13-23)

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. I Get A Kick Out Of You

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. When Joanna Loved Me

5. I've Got You Under My Skin

6. When Your Lover Has Gone

7. The Lady Is A Tramp

8. Monologue

9. My Kind Of Town

10. I Can't Get Started

11. Laura - Charles Turner Solo

12. Medley: The Gal That Got Away - It Never Entered My Mind

13. The Best Is Yet To Come

14. I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

15. I Won't Dance

16. As Time Goes By

17. New York, New York

September 23, 1982

Concerts

Carnegie Hall, New York City (September 13-23)

Buddy Rich & His Orchestra

Charlie Turner (trumpet), Tony Mottola (guitar), Vincent Falcone Jr conductor (piano) Thursday evening ( closing night )

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. I Get A Kick Out Of You

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. When Joanna Loved Me

5. I've Got You Under My Skin

6. When Your Lover Has Gone

7. The Lady Is A Tramp

8. monologue

9. My Kind Of Town

10. I Can't Get Started

11. Gal That Got Away/It Never Entered My Mind

12. The Best Is Yet To Come

13. I Won't Dance

14. As Time Goes By - w/Tony Mottola (guitar)

15. New York, New York

September 25, 1982

Concerts

Irvine Meadows Amphitheater, California

Benefit

Orchestra Conducted By:

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. I Get A Kick Out Of You

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. I've Got You Under My Skin

5. When Your Lover Has Gone

6. The Lady Is A Tramp

7. monologue

8. My Kind Of Town

9. I Can't Get Started

10. The Best Is Yet To Come

11. New York, New York

Notes: stopped by rain after 45 mins

Extras

Irvine Meadows Amphitheater, California

Benefit

Orchestra Conducted By:

Los Angeles Times

9-27-82 note: The reverence and appreciation for Sinatra's artistry was at an all-time high in the early 1980s. He had become the consummate concert performer of that era. His magnificence onstage was celebrated by both the concertgoer and the critic. What a joy it was to see the man and hear him sing.

note: The reverence and appreciation for Sinatra's artistry was at an all-time high in the early 1980s. He had become the consummate concert performer of that era. His magnificence onstage was celebrated by both the concertgoer and the critic. What a joy it was to see the man and hear him sing.

Irvine Meadows Amphitheater, California

Benefit

Orchestra Conducted By:

Los Angeles Times

September 30, 1982

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

Opening Night

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I've Got the World on a String

2. I Get a Kick Out of You

3. Come Rain or Come Shine

4. When Joanna Loved Me

5. I've Got You Under My Skin

6. Summer Me, Winter Me

7. The Lady Is a Tramp

8. I Can't Get Started

9. The Best Is Yet to Come

10. Theme From New York, New York

October 1, 1982

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. Come Rain Or Come Shine

3. When Joanna Loved Me

4. I've Got You Under My Skin

5. Summer Me, Winter Me

6. The Lady Is A Tramp

7. I Can't Get Started

8. The Best Is Yet To Come

9. I Won't Dance

10. New York, New York

Notes: TT 37mins.

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I've Got the World on a String

2. I Get a Kick Out of You

3. Come Rain or Come Shine

4. I've Got You Under My Skin

5. Summer Me, Winter Me

6. The Lady Is a Tramp

7. I Can't Get Started

8. The Best Is Yet to Come

9. As Time Goes By

10. Theme From New York, New York

October 2, 1982

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I've Got the World on a String

2. I Get a Kick Out of You

3. Come Rain or Come Shine

4. When Joanna Loved Me

5. I've Got You Under My Skin

6. Summer Me, Winter Me

7. The Lady Is a Tramp

8. I Can't Get Started

Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. Come Rain Or Come Shine

3. I've Got You Under My Skin

4. Summer Me, Winter Me

5. The Lady Is A Tramp

6. monologue

7. My Kind Of Town

8. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

9. Change Partners

10. A Day In The Life Of A Fool T. Mottola instrumental

11. Send In The Clowns T. Mottola on guitar

12. The Best Is Yet To Come

13. When Your Lover Has Gone

14. second monologue

15. New York, New York

Notes: TT 62mins.

October 15, 1982

Concerts

Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. Come Rain Or Come Shine

3. I've Got You Under My Skin

4. Summer Me, Winter Me

5. The Lady Is A Tramp

6. monologue

7. My Kind Of Town

8. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

9. Change Partners

10. The Best Is Yet To Come

11. When Your Lover Has Gone

12. New York, New York

Notes: TT 52mins.

October 16, 1982

Concerts

Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. Come Rain Or Come Shine

3. I've Got You Under My Skin

4. Summer Me, Winter Me

5. The Lady Is A Tramp

6. monologue

7. My Kind Of Town

8. Change Partners

9. The Best Is Yet To Come

10. When Your Lover Has Gone

11. monologue

12. New York, New York

Notes: TT 45mins.

Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. Come Rain Or Come Shine

3. I've Got You Under My Skin

4. Summer Me, Winter Me

5. The Lady Is A Tramp

6. monologue

7. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

8. A Day In The Life Of A Fool T. Mottola instrumental

9. As Time Goes By w/ T Mottola on guitar

10. Change Partners

11. second monologue

12. New York, New York

Notes: TT 52mins.

October 17, 1982

Concerts

Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (14-24) Sunday evening

Orchestra conducted by Joe Parnello

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. Come Rain Or Come Shine

3. I've Got You Under My Skin

4. Summer Me, Winter Me

5. The Lady Is A Tramp monologue

6. My Kind Of Town

7. Change Partners arg. by Joe Parnello

8. The Best Is Yet To Come

9. As Time Goes By w/Tony Mottola on guitar

10. New York, New York

Ed O'Brien:

Engagement ran from Thursday, Oct. 14 thru Sunday, Oct 24.

Frank did two shows nightly except on Thursdays and Sundays, when he did one show. He was dark on the 18th and 19th ( Monday and Tuesday). This engagement was Frank's swan song at Resorts. His performances there were memorable. He moved over to Steve Wynn's Golden Nugget in December of 82.

October 18, 1982

Concerts

Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (14-18)

October 19, 1982

Concerts

White House Lawn, Washington DC

Foster Grandparents Day

1. To Love A Child w/chorus

2. To Love A Child w/Nacy Reagan & Chorus

3. America The Beautiful w/Nancy Reagan & Chorus

Extras

White House Lawn, Washington DC

Foster Grandparents Day

1. To Love A Child w/chorus

2. To Love A Child w/Nacy Reagan & Chorus

3. America The Beautiful w/Nancy Reagan & Chorus

October 20, 1982

Television

CBS This Morning

Pat Collins Interviews Frank Sinatra

Concerts

Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (14-24)

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

October 21, 1982

Concerts

Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (19-24) Thursday evening

First Show

Joe Parnello conducted

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. I Get A Kick Out Of You

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

5. I've Got You Under My Skin

6. When Your Lover Has Gone T. Mottola guitar

7. The Lady Is A Tramp monologue

8. Change Partners

9. The Best Is Yet To Come

10. New York, New York

Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (19-24) Thursday evening

Second Show

Joe Parnello conducted

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. I Get A Kick Out Of You

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

5. I've Got You Under My Skin

6. When Your Lover Has Gone T. Mottola guitar

7. The Lady Is A Tramp monologue

8. Change Partners

9. The Best Is Yet To Come

10. New York, New York

October 22, 1982

Concerts

Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (19-24) Friday evening

Joe Parnello conducted

1. I've Got You Under My Skin

2. I Get A Kick Out Of You

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

5.When Your Lover Has Gone T. Mottola

6. The Lady Is A Tramp monologue

7. I've Got The World On A String

8. Change Partners

9. New York, New York

October 23, 1982

Concerts

Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (14-24) First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. I've Got You Under My Skin

2. I Get A Kick Out Of You

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. When Your Lover Has Gone

5. The Lady Is A Tramp

6. monologue

7. Change Partners

8. Summer Me, Winter Me

9. The Best Is Yet To Come

Notes: TT 53mins.

Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (14-24) Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. I've Got You Under My Skin

2. I Get A Kick Out Of You

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. When Your Lover Has Gone

5. The Lady Is A Tramp

6. monologue

7. Change Partners

8. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

9. The Best Is Yet To Come

10. New York, New York

Notes: TT 47mins.

October 24, 1982

Concerts

Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (14-24)

O.A. Charlie Callas

Nancy Sinatra

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. I've Got You Under My Skin

2. I Get A Kick Out Of You

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. When Your Lover Has Gone

5. The Lady Is A Tramp

6. monologue

7. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

8. Change Partners

9. The Best Is Yet To Come

10. New York, New York

note: For years the accepted dates for this engagement have been 10-14 to 24.

As you can see here, Frank opened on 10-14, did five shows through the

17th, was dark on both the 18th and 19th. The second engagement got

underway 10-20 and ran until 10-24. Frank did six shows for a total of 11.

Resorts billed it as two weekend appearances.

The Vinnie Falcone years had come to an end with the Carnegie Hall dates

in September. Frank new arranger, conductor and sometimes concertmaster

was Joe Parnello. Frank introduced an uptempo on "Change Partners," com-

posed by Parnello.

Frank's 10 song Sunday night performance would be his last at Resorts.

See below:

The Star Ledger

October 31, 1982

Extras

Beverly Hilton, Beverly Hill, CA

Scopus Award to Milton A. Rudin presented by Frank Sinatra

[image referenced in source but could not be recovered]

Scopus Awards Dinner

Frank Sinatra, George Burns

November 4, 1982

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. All Or Nothing At All

2. Come Rain Or Come Shine

3. I've Got You Under My Skin

4. This Is All I Ask

5. The Lady Is A Tramp

6. monologue

7. Change Partners

8. I'll Never Smile Again

9. New York, New York

Notes: TT 56mins.

November 5, 1982

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. All or Nothing at All

2. Come Rain or Come Shine

3. I've Got You Under My Skin

4. This Is All I Ask

5. The Lady Is a Tramp

6. Change Partners

7. I'll Never Smile Again

8. Theme From New York, New York

November 6, 1982

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. All Or Nothing At All

2. Come Rain Or Come Shine

3. I've Got You Under My Skin

4. This Is All I Ask

5. The Lady Is A Tramp

6. monologue

7. Change Partners

8. The Best Is Yet To Come

9. It Never Entered My Mind

10. New York, New York

Notes: TT 54mins.

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

Vinnie was let go in late September

Joe Parnello was firmly ensconced

by early November.

Engagement ran from 11/4 to 11/17.

O.A. Nancy Sinatra

Charlie Callas

November 7, 1982

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (4-13)

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. All Or Nothing At All

2. Come Rain Or Come Shine

3. I've Got You Under My Skin

4. This Is All I Ask

5. The Lady Is A Tramp

6. monologue

7. Change Partners

8. I'll Never Smile Again

9. The Best Is Yet To Come

10. It Never Entered My Mind

11. New York, New York

Notes: TT 47mins.

November 8, 1982

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (4-13)

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. All Or Nothing At All

2. Come Rain Or Come Shine

3. I've Got You Under My Skin

4. This Is All I Ask

5. The Lady Is A Tramp

6. monologue

7. Change Partners

8. The Best Is Yet To Come

9. It Never Entered My Mind

10. New York, New York

Notes: TT 58mins.

November 9, 1982

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (4-13)

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. All Or Nothing At All

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (4-13)

First Show

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (4-13)

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. All Or Nothing At All

2. Come Rain Or Come Shine

3. I've Got You Under My Skin

4. This Is All I Ask

5. The Lady Is A Tramp

6. monologue

7. Change Partners

8. I'll Never Smile Again

9. The Best Is Yet To Come

10. It Never Entered My Mind

11. New York, New York

Notes: TT 51mins.

November 13, 1982

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (4-13)

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. All or Nothing at All

2. Come Rain or Come Shine

3. I've Got You Under My Skin

4. This Is All I Ask

5. The Lady Is a Tramp

6. Change Partners

7. I'll Never Smile Again

8. The Best Is Yet to Come

9. It Never Entered My Mind

10. Theme From New York, New York

December 2, 1982

Concerts

Beverly Hilton, Beverly Hills, California

American Cancer Fund Benefit

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I've Got You Under My Skin

2. All Or Nothing At All

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. The Lady Is A Tramp

5.. I Get A Kick Out Of You

6. I've Got The World On A String

7. When Joanna Loved Me

8. Change Partners

9. I Can't Get Started

10. New York, New York

Notes: TT 39mins.

December 8, 1982

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey (8 - 10)

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I've Got You Under My Skin

2. I Get a Kick Out of You

3. Come Rain or Come Shine

4. This Is All I Ask

5. The Lady Is a Tramp

6. Here's to the Band

7. When Your Lover Has Gone

8. I've Got the World on a String

9. Summer Me, Winter Me

10. Change Partners

11. As Time Goes By

12. The Best Is Yet to Come

13. It Never Entered My Mind

14. Theme From New York, New York

December 9, 1982

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey (8 - 10)

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I've Got You Under My Skin

2. I Get A Kick Out Of You

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. Change Partners

5. This Is All I Ask

6. The Lady Is A Tramp

7. monologue

8. Here's To The Band

9. When Your Lover Has Gone

10. I've Got The World On A String

11. Summer Me, Winter Me

12. As Time Goes By

13. The Best Is Yet To Come

14. It Never Entered My Mind

15. New York, New York

Notes: TT 55mins.

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey (8 - 10)

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I've Got You Under My Skin

2. I Get A Kick Out Of You

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. This Is All I Ask

5. The Lady Is A Tramp

6. monologue

7. Here's To The Band

8. When Your Lover Has Gone

9. I've Got The World On A String

10. Summer Me, Winter Me

11. Change Partners

12. As Time Goes By

13. The Best Is Yet To Come

14. It Never Entered My Mind

15. New York, New York

Notes: TT 60mins.

December 10, 1982

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey (8 - 10)

1. I've Got You Under My Skin

2. I Get a Kick Out of You

3. Come Rain or Come Shine

4. This Is All I Ask

5. The Lady Is a Tramp

6. Here's to the Band

7. When Your Lover Has Gone

8. I've Got the World on a String

9. Summer Me, Winter Me

10. Change Partners

11. As Time Goes By

12. The Best Is Yet to Come

13. It Never Entered My Mind

14. Theme From New York, New York

1983

Extras

[A Family Rift Over the Kennedy Center State Dinner]

Because seating was limited, Tina's boyfriend of over two years was excluded from the Kennedy Center Honors state dinner; Tina refused to attend without him, causing weeks of silence between father and daughter. Barbara Sinatra tried unsuccessfully to get Nancy to intervene, defending Frank's old-fashioned view that an unmarried couple didn't warrant an invitation.

Source: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

[Don Costa's Heart Attack Before the Syms Sessions]

Arranger Don Costa suffered a heart attack shortly before the Sinatra and Syms recording sessions began; the charts he wrote for that album turned out to be his last.

Source: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

[Kennedy Center Honors Lifetime Achievement Award]

Sinatra receives the Kennedy Center Honors Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the Sinatra Family Children's Unit for the Chronically Ill is dedicated at Seattle Children's Orthopedic Hospital through the Variety Clubs.

Source: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

[Kennedy Center Honors Ceremony for Sinatra]

Nancy recalls watching her father, seated in the presidential box, honored at the Kennedy Center for his lifetime in the arts; Gene Kelly, who introduced him, remarked that Sinatra would never have a successor. Nancy notes that during the tribute her father seemed to visibly age before her eyes.

Source: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

[Kennedy Center Honors]

Sinatra received a Kennedy Center Honor for lifetime achievement, photographed alongside fellow honorees Virgil Thomson, Elia Kazan, Katherine Dunham, and James Stewart, with President and Mrs. Reagan.

Source: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

[Nancy Recalls Don Costa's Death While on Tour]

Nancy was touring with her father in 1983 when arranger Don Costa died. She recalled sitting on Costa's lap as a child in the wings at Caesar's Palace watching her father perform "Come Rain or Come Shine," with a melancholy Costa telling her it was the best chart he ever wrote.

Source: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

[Recording The Album What's New]

In early 1983 Sinatra recorded the album What's New, conducting for his lead trumpet player, Charles Turner.

Source: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

[Sinatra On His Restless Need To Keep Working]

In a quote used as the chapter epigraph, Sinatra remarked that he did not know how to stop doing things and felt compelled to keep busy, encapsulating his inability to stay retired.

Source: The Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra, chapter "I Want to Be a Part of It, 1971-98."

[Variety Clubs International 'All-Star Party' Tribute]

In 1983 Variety Clubs International honored Sinatra's lifelong charitable work with a televised "All-Star Party," attended by stars including Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, Vic Damone, Carol Burnett, and Julio Iglesias, with Richard Burton delivering the evening's centerpiece speech.

Source: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

[Radio City Music Hall, Barbara Sinatra and Tom Selleck]

Consiglio: Sinatra played Radio City Music Hall around 1983. Backstage, Consiglio recalls Barbara Sinatra telling Tom Selleck, in the elevator, that Consiglio was "closer to Frank" than she was -- a remark that unsettled Consiglio's wife.

Source: Tony Consiglio (as told to Franz Douskey), "Sinatra and Me: The Very Good Years" (2012)

[awards]

Sinatra received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1983 and, a citation he was particularly proud of, the NAACP Lifetime Achievement Award in 1987.

No corresponding dated entry could be identified in the chronology for this film/context.

Source: Tom Santopietro, "Sinatra in Hollywood" (2008), Knight-Errant (pt. 2) / That's Life

[controversy]

Frank Sinatra: At an Atlantic City casino in late 1983, Sinatra snapped at an intimidated Korean card dealer who hesitated at his request to deal by hand, telling her "If you don't want to do it, go back to China" -- an episode Santopietro cites as evidence of Sinatra's persistent, casual cruelty even in his late sixties.

No corresponding dated entry could be identified in the chronology for this film/context.

Source: Tom Santopietro, "Sinatra in Hollywood" (2008), Knight-Errant (pt. 2) / That's Life

[It's Sunday -- critical commentary]

Tony Mottola: Sinatra rejected two full-orchestra charts for Jule Styne's 'It's Sunday' -- first by newcomer Peter Matz, then by Costa -- insisting instead on intimacy: 'You know, you're missing the whole point. I want this to be a very intimate thing. Let me do it with Tony for a little bit to show you what I mean.' At the actual February 1983 Warner Bros. session, after recording it with the full Costa orchestration, Sinatra asked, 'Tony, why don't we just dismiss the band and see what happens with the two of us?' The resulting guitar-and-voice duet with Tony Mottola was, per Mottola, 'a love song for mature people, not teenagers... It's the first time that he's ever recorded anything with a solo guitar.'

Source: Will Friedwald, "Sinatra! The Song Is You: A Singer's Art" (2018 revised edition), Ch. 10, "Concert Years" (1973-1994)

[technique/engineering (background) -- critical commentary]

As general technical background, Granata explains that compact discs -- introduced by Philips and Sony in 1983 -- store digital audio as binary code read by laser, offering higher-fidelity, more durable playback than vinyl or tape, and that the shift to digital in the mid-1980s spurred renewed record-company interest in restoring and reissuing older analog material from their vaults (relevant context for Sinatra catalog reissues).

Source: Charles L. Granata, "Sessions with Sinatra: Frank Sinatra and the Art of Recording" (1999/2003), Part V: Capitol Revisited

January 6, 1983

Concerts

Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (6-12)

2 Shows

1. I've Got the World on a String

2. Change Partners

3. This Is All I Ask

4. The Lady Is a Tramp

5. Here's to the Band

6. My Kind of Town

7. When Your Lover Has Gone

8. Come Rain or Come Shine

9. As Time Goes By

10. Theme From New York, New York

January 7, 1983

Concerts

Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas , Nevada (6-12)

Friday evening

Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (6-12)

January 11, 1983

Concerts

Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (6-12)

January 12, 1983

Concerts

Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (6-12)

January 14, 1983

Concerts

Harrah's, Lake Tahoe , Nevada (14-16)

O.A. Nancy Sinatra

Brian Farnon Orchestra

Conducted by Joe Parnello

Two shows a night

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I’ve Got The World On A String

2. Change Partners

3. This Is All I Ask

4. The Lady Is A Tramp

5.. When Joanna Loved Me

6. Here’s To The Band

7. monologue

8. My Kind Of Town

9. Come Rain Or Come Shine

10. I Get A Kick Out Of You

11. As Time Goes By

12. New York, New York

Notes: TT 52mins.

Harrah's, Lake Tahoe , Nevada (14-16)

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I’ve Got The World On A String

2. Change Partners

3. This Is All I Ask

4. The Lady Is A Tramp

5. When Joanna Loved Me

6. Here’s To The Band

7. monologue

8. My Kind Of Town

9. Come Rain Or Come Shine

10. I Get A Kick Out Of You

11. As Time Goes By

12. New York, New York

Notes: TT 54mins.

Extras

Harrah's, Lake Tahoe , Nevada (14-16)

O.A. Nancy Sinatra

Brian Farnon Orchestra

Conducted by Joe Parnello

Two shows a night

January 14, 1992, Desert Inn, Las Vegas, Nevada

Sinatra, Paul Anka, Shirley MacLaine, Steve & Eydie attend a press conference for the Desert Inn

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January 15, 1983

Concerts

Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada (14-16)

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. Change Partners

3. This Is All I Ask

4. The Lady Is A Tramp

5. When Joanna Loved Me

6. Here's To The Band

7. monologue

8. My Kind Of Town

9. Come Rain Or Come Shine

10. I Get A Kick Out Of You

11. As Time Goes By

12. New York, New York

Notes: TT 56mins.

Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada (14-16)

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. Change Partners

3. This Is All I Ask

4. The Lady Is A Tramp

5.. Here's To The Band

6. monologue

7. My Kind Of Town

8. Come Rain Or Come Shine

9. I Get A Kick Out Of You

10. As Time Goes By

11.. New York, New York

Notes: TT 54mins.

January 16, 1983

Concerts

Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada (14-16)

First Show - South Shore Room

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. Change Partners

3. This Is All I Ask

4. The Lady Is A Tramp

5. As Time Goes By

6. monologue

7. Here's To The Band

8. My Kind Of Town

9. Come Rain Or Come Shine

10. I Get A Kick Out Of You

11. New York, New York

Notes: TT 59mins.

Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada

Second Show - South Shore Room

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. Change Partners

3. This Is All I Ask

4. The Lady Is A Tramp

5. Here's To The Band

6. monologue

7. My Kind Of Town

8. Come Rain Or Come Shine

9. I Get A Kick Out Of You

10. As Time Goes By

11. New York, New York

Notes: TT 46mins.

January 19, 1983

Studio

New York City

B1066 Searching N/R

(Sammy Cahn/Jule Styne)

Chappell & Co. Inc./WB music Corp. (ASCAP)

Arranged by Don Costa

Conducted by Joe Parnello

NOTE: In response to an inquiry from Sinatraphile John Boskello about this never-released recording of "Searching"

Ed O'Brien points out that Sinatra recorded "Searching" on August 17, 1982 in New York City . That recording was released in 1995 as part of the 20 cd Complete Reprise Recordings. He also did a recording of the song on January 19, 1983, again in NYC, that remains unissued. The tune that Barbara Sinatra didn't like was titled "Just Rehearsing" and Sinatra never recorded it. O'Brien adds that Sinatra never sang "Just Rehearsing" in a recorded concert either.

B1067 Love Makes Us Whatever We Want To Be N/R

(Sammy Cahn/Jule Styne)

Chappell & Co. Inc./WB Music Corp. (ASCAP)

Arranged by Billy May

Conducted by Joe Parnello

BNY3127 It's Sunday N/R

(Jule Styne/Susan Birkenhead)

Saloon Songs inc./Unchappell Music BMI/Chappell & Co. Inc./WB Music Corp (ASCAP) Arranged by Tony Mattola

Conducted by Joe Parnello

Ed O'Brien:

"It's Sunday" was recorded with a full orchestra and a Costa chart. Tony Mattola told me Frank wasn't comfortable with the sound. He then laid down a demo vocal with just Tony on guitar. On 2-28, they made a magnificent recording.

Extras

Longtime arranger Don Costa died; scheduled recording sessions with Frank were canceled, and a memorial service followed on January 24. Frank wrote a comforting personal letter to Costa's daughter Nikka, drawing on his own experience of losing his mother.

Frank Sinatra (quoted): "We're all better people because we knew and loved Don."

Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

January 23, 1983

Concerts

Radio City Music Hall, New York City

Sloan Kettering Benefit w/Victor Borge

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1 I've Got The World On A String

2 Change Partners

3 This Is All I Ask

4 Come Rain Or Come Shine

5 Here's To The Band introduces Victor Borge who does his act

Frank returns

6. The Lady Is A Tramp

7. When Joanna Loved Me ( used rare Riddle chart)

8. I Get A Kick Out Of You

9. When Your Lover Has Gone

10. As Time Goes By w/Tony Mottola

11. New York, New York

Extras

Radio City Music Hall, New York City

Sloan Kettering Benefit w/Victor Borge

Hi Carl,

I have that program, but the photo knocked me out. Borge was a very funny man. Frank and Victor did a ridiculous version of "Autumn Leaves" that night. It is quite similar to the one Frank and Bob Hope did on the first ABC-TV Sinatra show, 10-18-57. Audiences loved it both times.

Thank you,

Frank Sinatra Frank Sinatra embraces pianist-comedian, Victor Borge prior to their concert benefiting Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center at Radio City Music Hall. Proceeds of the concert will help pay for treating patients whose economic resources have been exhausted and for cancer research..

January 25, 1983

Studio

New York City

BNY3126 Here's To The Band

(Sharman Howe/Alfred Nittoli/Arthur Schroeck)

Saloon Songs inc./Al Gallico Music/EMI Algee Music Corp. (BMI) Arranged & Conducted by Joe Parnello

(4:09) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 20

CD: 9-26340-2 The Reprise Collection

45: 7-29677

D4841 All The Way Home

(Teddy Randazzo)

Saloon Songs Inc./Teddy Randazzo Music (BMI)

Arranged & Conducted by Joe Parnello

(3:53) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 20

NOTE: Sinatra Scholar Ed O'Brien interviewed Walt Levinsky who conducted this session after Don Costa's sudden death. Walt was amazed that they got the date done. Sinatra was upset over the loss of Don and the mikes in the orchestra kept cutting out during "Here's to the Band." Frank was undeterred. He hung in until they got a record.

O'Brien says that guitarist Tony Mottola shared with him his high regard for the song. He was shocked Frank didn't have a hit with such a perfect "Sinatra" song. After "Band" was completed, Levinsky was sure the session was over, but Frank insisted on doing a little gem that Teddy Randazzo wrote for him in 1977 titled "All the Way Home." Walt told O'Brien that Frank gave the song the A+ Sinatra treatment.

In O'Brien's interview with Randazzo, they discussed the song Teddy wrote for Sinatra. "All the Way Home" happened when Teddy visited him backstage at the Premier Theatre in May of 1977. Frank wanted a song about the values of family and the rewards inherent in the commitment. As they were discussing what should be in the song, Teddy noticed that Frank had a large bowl of penny candy on the coffee table. Teddy asked him why and Frank laughed as he told him how much he loved penny candy and always had it in his dressing room. Teddy put it in the song. He didn't know the song had been recorded by Frank until the 1995 release until Gershwin's niece called him with the news. He was stunned and called Frank Military and requested a copy. He told O'Brien that it knocked him out.

January 26, 1983

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey (26-29)

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. I've Got You Under My Skin

2. Change Partners

3. This Is All I Ask

4. Come Rain Or Come Shine

5. Searching

6. Here's To The Band

7.. monologue

8. The Lady Is A Tramp

9. It's Sunday

10. New York, New York

Notes: TT 46mins.

Extras

Frank became a spokesperson for Steve Wynn's Golden Nugget casino in Atlantic City, appearing in national commercials with Wynn; the resort's New Jersey revenues reportedly jumped 42 percent that year, and Frank remarked he'd always wanted this kind of business involvement.

Frank Sinatra (quoted): "This is what I always wanted to do, but nobody ever asked me."

Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

January 27, 1983

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey (26-29)

Joe Parnello conducting

Thursday evening

1. I've Got You Under My Skin

2. Change Partners

3. This Is All I Ask

4.. Come Rain Or Come Shine

5. I Get A Kick Out Of You

6. Here's To The Band

7. The Lady Is A Tramp

8. monologue

9. It's Sunday w/ Tony Mottola

10. New York, New York

January 28, 1983

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey (26-29)

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. I've Got You Under My Skin

2. Change Partners

3. This Is All I Ask

4. Come Rain Or Come Shine

5. I Get A Kick Out Of You

6. Here's To The Band

7. The Lady Is A Tramp

8. As Time Goes By

9. New York, New York

Notes: TT 49mins.

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. I've Got You Under My Skin

2. Change Partners

3. This Is All I Ask

4. Come Rain Or Come Shine

5. I Get A Kick Out Of You

6. Here's To The Band

7. monologue

8. The Lady Is A Tramp

9. As Time Goes By

10. New York, New York

Notes: TT 45mins.

January 29, 1983

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey (26-29)

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

Arizone Republic

February 5, 1983

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (3-9)

Canyon Country Club, Palm Desert, California

Valentine Love-In 2 - Desert Hospital Benefit

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

Other Performers: Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Nancy Sinatra & George Kirby

Sinatra:

1. Come Rain Or Come Shine

2. Theme From New York

3. The Oldest Established (Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York) (with Dean & Sammy)

Extras

Canyon Country Club, Palm Desert, California

Valentine Love-In 2 - Desert Hospital Benefit

Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis, Jr. performing at the Canyon Hotel for Valentine Love-in Benefit for Desert Hospital, 1983. (Photo: Desert Publications/Special to The Desert Sun)

Sinatra, Ed McMahon, Dean, Sammy, George Kirby

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February 27, 1983

Concerts

20th Century Fox Studio, Los Angeles, California

In Honor of Queen Elizabeth

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

Other Performers: George Burns, Perry Como, Dionne Warwick

note: Frank's segment was an abbreviated version of the show he did with Perry Como at The White House, 3-25-82. Perry and Frank opened with "Sitting On Top Of The World" and they closed the long medley with "When You're Smiling." They would repeat the act again in Durham, N,C. 5-21-83 at the Duke Children's Classic.

Dionne Warwick opened the entertainment segment, then

George Burns with Frank and Perry as the closing act. According to the news reports, the Queen was very pleased with the show.

--Ed

Extras

20th Century Fox Studio, Los Angeles, California

In Honor of Queen Elizabeth

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

Other Performers: George Burns, Perry Como, Dionne Warwick

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February 28, 1983

Studio

( Monday )

10:00 A.M to 12:00 P.M.

Frank Sinatra and Tony Mottola

( Jule Styne & Susan Birkenhead )

arranged by Tony Mottlola

CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 20

CD: 9-26340-2 The Reprise Collection

45: 7-29677

note: Tony gave me an 8 x 10 copy of this photo. His wife Mitzi was the

photographer. Frank wanted to take advantage of the deeper bass sound

his voice had in the morning. Tony told me it was pouring rain when they

arrived at the studio. Susan Birkenhead told me how the song came to

be and how much she adored it. During the session, Frank told Tony

they would keep doing recordings until they had a complete album with

just vocal and guitar. We wish.

--Ed

When I finished "Sinatra 101," Jonathan Schwartz called and asked

me what was #101, I told him it was Sinatra's magnificent recording

of "It's Sunday." He agreed with my assessment but had no idea

how much of an impact it would have on his life some years down

the road.

One day in 2009 the actress Zohra Lambert would call him while

he was on the air. The previous weekend he had played "It's Sunday"

on his show. Zohra wanted to know how she could obtain a copy.

Jonathan offered to give her a copy and suggested they meet for

coffee. They did and in 2010 Jonathan and Zohra married. The

song was played at the reception. Tony Bennett was an invited

guest. He sang "I See Your Face Before Me."

One can only imagine how many similar Sinatra stories there

must be out there.

I hope the list enjoyed this one.

note: Susan Birkenhead received a call from Jule Styne

in the late fall of 1982. Frank wanted a sophisticated

song - a la Sondheim - about a couple having a quiet

time together. She told me Frank loved the song.

His first attempt, with a Costa chart ( 1-19-83 ), did

not please him. Frank felt the chart overwhelmed

the quiet sensitivity that was the essence of the song.

At the next session, Frank laid down a demo chart

with Tony. It was done for Costa, so he would get

the feel for what Frank wanted. Don did the new

arrangement, but Frank still wasn't satisfied. He

then asked Peter Matz to write a chart. Still wasn't

right. He listened again to the demo with Tony and

realized that the marriage of just vocal with guitar

was perfect. Tony shared this journey with me that

ended at Reprise on 2-28-83.

--Ed

Drowsy morning sunlight

Gentle kisses

For my love

It's Sunday

She needn't waken

I'll fix the eggs and bacon her way

While she just dozes

Lately I've taken to bringing her a flower on her tray

She's fond of roses

We'll talk away the morning

Read the papers

Misbehave

Enjoying each other

The world is ours to play in

We'll take a walk or stay in

Long and lazy hours

To have and hide away in

For one day

Thank goodness

It's Sunday

Extras

Burbank, California

BNY3127 It's Sunday

Warner Brothers Studio

Burbank, California

2-28-83 ( Monday )

10:00 A.M to 12:00 P.M.

Frank Sinatra and Tony Mottola

( Jule Styne & Susan Birkenhead ) arranged by Tony Mottlola

CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 20

CD: 9-26340-2 The Reprise Collection

45: 7-29677

( Monday )

10:00 A.M to 12:00 P.M.

Frank Sinatra and Tony Mottola

( Jule Styne & Susan Birkenhead ) arranged by Tony Mottlola

CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 20

CD: 9-26340-2 The Reprise Collection

45: 7-29677

Burbank, California

BNY3127 It's Sunday

Warner Brothers Studio

Burbank, California

March 1, 1983

Extras

Moore-Duran fight was rescheduled for 6-16-83.

Moore was a 4 to 1 favorite. Duran gave him a

savage beating-- knocking him out in the eighth

round in M.S.G.

Frank's schedule got in the way of the June date.

March 3, 1983

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (3-9)

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

March 4, 1983

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (3-9)

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. I Get a Kick Out of You

2. Come Rain or Come Shine

3. I've Got You Under My Skin

4. Here's to the Band

5. When Your Lover Has Gone

6. The Lady Is a Tramp

7. How Do You Keep the Music Playing?

8. Change Partners

9. As Time Goes By

10. Theme From New York, New York

11. Here's to the Band

March 5, 1983

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (3-9)

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. I Get a Kick Out of You

2. Come Rain or Come Shine

3. I've Got You Under My Skin

4. Here's to the Band

5. When Your Lover Has Gone

6. The Lady Is a Tramp

7. How Do You Keep the Music Playing?

8. Change Partners

9. As Time Goes By

10. Theme From New York, New York

11. Here's to the Band

March 6, 1983

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (3-9)

Concerts

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (3-9)

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. I Get a Kick Out of You

2. Come Rain or Come Shine

3. I've Got You Under My Skin

4. Here's to the Band

5. When Your Lover Has Gone

6. The Lady Is a Tramp

7. How Do You Keep the Music Playing?

8. Change Partners

9. As Time Goes By

10. Theme From New York, New York

11.. Here's to the Band

March 12, 1983

Concerts

Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. I Get A Kick Out Of You

2. Come Rain Or Come Shine

3. I've Got You Under My Skin

4. This Is All I Ask

5. Here's To The Band

6. monologue

7. Satisfy Me One More Time

8. When Joanna Loved Me

9. The Lady Is A Tramp

10. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

11. Change Partners

12. It's Sunday

13. New York, New York

14. Here's To The Band

Notes: TT 68mins.

Ed notes re: "How Do You Keep The Music Playing"

Frank would record the song on 3-16-83

with Bill Miller returning for the session.

There were 12 takes. Frank had laryngitis

and the recording has never been released.

Note: I wanted to up date this post.. The recording

was recently released on the Capitol CD "Sinatra

Sings Alan & Marilyn Bergman. The song was

rejected by Sinatra in 1983 and again for the

"Suitcase" in 1995. The arrangement by Joe

Parnello is very different from the recording done

in April of 1984, also a Parnello effort. If you are '

completist, it is worth having in collection.

Sinatra did three recordings of this song.

Up until the Bergman CD only one had been issued

Made me wonder how many songs re-

ceived that much attention during the

post-retirement years.

Empty Tables two were released

You Are The Sunshine Of My Life one released

It's Sunday one released

Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

March 13, 1983

Concerts

Harrah's Tahoe, Nevada, March 12 -14 two shows a night

Brian Farnon Orchestra

Conducted by Joe Parnello

Notes: 3/13 FS cancels due to a sore throat; John Denver fills in.

Extras

Harrah's Tahoe, Nevada

March 12 -14 two shows a night

Brian Farnon Orchestra

Conducted by Joe Parnello

Notes: 3/13 FS cancels due to a sore throat; John Denver fills in.

March 14, 1983

Concerts

Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. I Get A Kick Out Of You

2. Come Rain Or Come Shine

3. I've Got You Under My Skin

4. Here's To The Band

5.. When Your Lover Has Gone

6. The Lady Is A Tramp

7. monologue

8. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

9. Change Partners

10. As Time Goes By

11. New York, New York

12. Here's To The Band

Notes: TT 59mins.

Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. I Get A Kick Out Of You

2. Come Rain Or Come Shine

3. I've Got You Under My Skin

4. Here's To The Band

5. monologue

6. The Lady Is A Tramp

7. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

8. Change Partners

9. New York, New York

10. Here's To The Band

Notes: TT 51mins.

March 16, 1983

Studio

Los Angeles

How Do You Keep The Music Playing? w/Bill Miller on piano

(Alan Bergman/Marilyn Bergman/Michel Legrand)

WB Music Corp. (ASCAP)

Arranged & Conducted by Joe Parnello

CD: Sinatra Sings Alan & Marilyn Bergman (Capitol October 2019)

--Also released as bonus track on the Capitol 2024 CD release of L.A. Is My Lady

Note: The recording was recently released on the Capitol CD

"Sinatra Sings Alan & Marilyn Bergman. The song was rejected by Sinatra in 1983 and again for the

"Suitcase" in 1995. The arrangement by Joe

Parnello is very different from the recording done in April of 1984, also a Parnello effort. If you are ' completist, it is worth having in your collection.

April 8, 1983

Concerts

Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

Benefit

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. I Get A Kick Out Of You

2. Come Rain Or Come Shine

3. This Is All I Ask

4. I've Got The World On A String

5. New York, New York

6. Hereâ s To The Band

7. I've Got You Under My My Skin

8. When Your Lover Has Gone

9. Change Partners

10. My Way

11. Here's To The Band

Extras

Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

Benefit

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

April 15, 1983

Concerts

Symphony Hall, Boston, Mass

Benefit for Tony Conigliaro - "AN EVENING FOR TONY C"

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

New York Times: SPOTS PEOPLE April 17, 1983

1. I Get A Kick Out Of You

2. Come Rain Or Come Shine

3. This Is All I Ask

4. Here's To The Band

5. monologue

6. When Your Lover Has Gone

7. New York, New York

8. Here's To The Band

Notes: Sinatra portion TT 30mins.

Extras

Symphony Hall, Boston, Mass

Benefit for Tony Conigliaro - "AN EVENING FOR TONY C"

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

New York Times: SPOTS PEOPLE April 17, 1983

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April 18, 1983

Concerts

The Kennedy Center, Washington DC

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. I Get A Kick Out Of You

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. I've Got You Under My Skin

5. This Is All I Ask

6. Here's To The Band

7. monologue

8. Satisfy Me One More Time

9. When Your Lover Has Gone

10. The Lady Is A Tramp

11.. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

12. Change Partners

13. As Time Goes By

14. New York, New York

15. Here's To The Band (reprise)

Notes: TT 64mins.

Extras

The Kennedy Center, Washington DC

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

April 19, 1983

Concerts

The Kennedy Center, Washington DC (18-21)

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. I Get A Kick Out Of You

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. I've Got You Under My Skin

5. This Is All I Ask

6. Here's To The Band

7. monologue

8. My Kind Of Town

9. When Joanna Loved Me

10. The Lady Is A Tramp

11. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

12. Change Partners

13. New York, New York

Notes: TT 64mins.

Ed O'Brien:

Ed Walker of WMAL in Wash. D.C.. taped an interview with Frank on 4/19. It was aired on 4/24.

Walker asked Frank to name his favorite albums.

He cited "Wee Small Hours," "Only The Lonely" and one of the swingin' albums with Billy May in the 50's. Walker asked if it was "Swingin' Sessions."

Frank answered it was something like that. I so wish the interviewer had known a little bit more about the

May albums.

Extras

The Kennedy Center, Washington DC

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

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The Kennedy Center, Washington DC

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

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April 20, 1983

Concerts

The Kennedy Center, Washington DC (18-21)

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. I Get A Kick Out Of You

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. I've Got You Under My Skin

5. This Is All I Ask

6. Here's To The Band

7. monologue

8. My Kind Of Town

9. When Joanna Loved Me

10. The Lady Is A Tramp

11. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

12. Change Partners

13. It Never Entered My Mind

14. New York, New York

15. Here's To The Band

Notes: TT 60mins.

note: Engagement was from 4/18 to 4/21.

Frank did one show a night. There was a packed house for every show.

Frank received excellent reviews but his opening night comments, on the press, received much more coverage than his singing.

April 21, 1983

Concerts

The Kennedy Center, Washington DC (18-21)

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. I Get A Kick Out Of You

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. I've Got You Under My Skin

5. This Is All I Ask

6. Here's To The Band

7. monologue

8. My Kind Of Town

9. When Joanna Loved Me

10. The Lady Is A Tramp

11. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

12. Change Partners

13. These Foolish Things

14. New York, New York

15. Here's To The Band

Notes: TT 69mins.

April 23, 1983

Concerts

The Meadowlands, East Rutherford, New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. I've Got The World on A String

2. I Get A Kick Out Of You

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. I've Got You Under my Skin

5. This Is All I Ask

6. Here's To The Band

7. monologue

8. When Joanna Loved Me

9. The Lady Is A Tramp

10. How Do You Keep The Music Playing

11. Change Partners

12. Introductions

13. Tony Mattola: Guitar Solo

14. These Foolish Things

15. New York, New York

16. Here's To The Band

Notes: TT 70mins.

note: Concert was Frank's first at the Meadowlands. Promoter billed it as the "Homecoming Concert."

Extras

The Meadowlands, East Rutherford, New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

note: Milt Richman and Bill Gallo interviewed Frank in the dressing room before he went onstage. Richman mentions some of what was discussed. Gallo had the interview Daily News. I will post it

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April 23, 1989 Sinatra receives plaque commemorating the bi-millennium of the City of Paris

On Sunday 23 April at the end of the afternoon, Frank was received at Paris City Hall by mayor Jacques Chirac, future Pt of the Republic who presented him a plaque commemorating the bi-millennium of the City of Paris.

It was Frank's second visit at the town hall after that of 1962. He was accompanied by Barbara, Liza, Sammy and Altovise Davis, Gregory and Veronique Peck, Roger Moore and his wife, Jilly Rizzo and a young lady, Dorothy Uhleman and possibly Susan Reynolds too and more I didn't know

The ceremony was largely initiated and organized by the singer and actress Line Renaud - very close to the Chirac Family - who had the opportunity to know Frank well when she performed for several years in Las Vegas. For the occasion all the gratin of parisian showbuiness was invited. Thanks to Barbara I was able to tell Frank in a few words all the admiration and recognition of his french fans.

Note: Thanks to Michel Macaire for above information and photos below:

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April 28, 1983

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. Change Partners

3. When Joanna Loved Me

4. At Long Last Love

5. I Can't Get Started

6. Here’s To The Band

7. monologue

8. My Kind Of Town

9. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

10. I Get A Kick Out Of You

11. When Your Lover Has Gone

12. I’ve Got A Crush On You

13. New York, New York

14. Here’s To The Band

Notes: TT 55mins.

April 29, 1983

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. Change Partners

3. When Joanna Loved Me

4. At Long Last Love

5. I Can't Get Started

6. Come Rain Or Come Shine

7. monologue

8. New York, New York

9. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

10. Laura - Charles Turner Solo

11. I Get A Kick Out Of You

12. When Your Lover Has Gone

13. Tony Mattola - Solo

14. These Foolish Things

15. Here's To The Band

Notes: TT 60mins.

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Change Partners

2. When Joanna Loved Me

3. At Long Last Love

4. I Can't Get Started

5. Come Rain Or Come Shine

6. monologue

7. New York, New York

8. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

9. I Get A Kick Out Of You

10. When Your Lover Has Gone

11. These Foolish Things

12. Here's To The Band

Notes: TT 50mins.

April 30, 1983

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Change Partners

2. At Long Last Love

3. When Joanna Loved Me

4. I Can't Get Started

5. Come Rain Or Come Shine

6. monologue

7. New York, New York

8. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

9. I Get A Kick Out Of You

10. When Your Lover Has Gone

11. These Foolish Things

12. Here's To The Band

Notes: TT 53mins.

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Change Partners

2. At Long Last Love

3. When Joanna Loved Me

4. I Can't Get Started

5. Come Rain Or Come Shine

6. monologue

7. New York, New York

8. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

9. I Get A Kick Out Of You

10. When Your Lover Has Gone

11. These Foolish Things

12. Here's To The Band

Notes: TT 40mins.

May 1, 1983

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Change Partners

2. At Long Last Love

3. When Joanna Loved Me

4. I Can't Get Started

5. Come Rain Or Come Shine

6. monologue

7. New York, New York

8. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

9. I Get A Kick Out Of You

10. When Your Lover Has Gone

11. Here's To The Band

Notes: TT 43mins.

May 3, 1983

Concerts

Arie Crown Theater, Chicago, Illinois

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Change Partners

2. At Long Last Love

3. When Joanna Loved Me

4. I Can't Get Started

5. This Is All I Ask

6. Come Rain or Come Shine

7. Theme From New York, New York

8. I Get a Kick Out of You

9. How Do You Keep the Music Playing?

10. My Kind of Town

11. When Your Lover Has Gone

12. These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)

13. Here's to the Band

Extras

Arie Crown Theater, Chicago, Illinois

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

O.A. Buddy Rich & His Band

May 4, 1983

Concerts

Arie Crown Theater, Chicago, Illinois

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Change Partners

2. At Long Last Love

3. When Joanna Loved Me

4. I Can't Get Started

5. Come Rain or Come Shine

6. Theme From New York, New York

7. I Get a Kick Out of You

8. How Do You Keep the Music Playing?

9. My Kind of Town

10. When Your Lover Has Gone

11. These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)

12. Here's to the Band

May 5, 1983

Concerts

Arie Crown Theater, Chicago, Illinois

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Change Partners

2. At Long Last Love

3. When Joanna Loved Me

4. I Can't Get Started

5. Come Rain Or Come Shine

6. New York, New York

7. monologue

8. I Get A Kick Out Of You

9. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

10. My Kind Of Town

11. When Your Lover Has Gone

12. These Foolish Things

13. Here's To The Band

Notes: TT 68mins.

May 6, 1983

Concerts

Arie Crown Theater, Chicago, Illinois

Opening Act: Buddy Rich Orchestra

1. Change Partners

2. At Long Last Love

3. When Joanna Loved Me

4. I Can't Get Started

5. Come Rain or Come Shine

6. Theme From New York, New York

7. I Get a Kick Out of You

8. How Do You Keep the Music Playing?

9. My Kind of Town

10. When Your Lover Has Gone

11. These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)

12. Here's to the Band

May 7, 1983

Concerts

Arie Crown Theater, Chicago, Illinois

Extras

Arie Crown Theater, Chicago, Illinois (May 4 - 7)

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May 20, 1983

Concerts

Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York City

Hospital Benefit

Friday evening

Red Buttons opened

Joe Parnello conducted

1. Change Partners (J. Parnello arg.)

2. At Long Last Love (Hefti arg.)

3. When Joanna Loved Me (B. May arg.)

4. I Can't Get Started

5. This Is All I Ask

6. Come Rain Or Come Shine

7. Here's To The Band

8. How Do You Keep The Music Playing

9. New York, New York

10. Here's To The Band (reprise)

Notes: TT 35mins.

Extras

Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York City

Hospital Benefit

Friday evening

Red Buttons opened

Joe Parnello conducted

Cancelled Frank Sinatra Jr. fills in.

May 21, 1983

Concerts

Duke's Children's Classic, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Saturday evening

Frank Sinatra & Perry Como

Orch conducted by Joe Parnello and Nick Perito

Twenty-one songs were performed.

Frank's contribution was as follows:

1. Sitting On Top Of The World w/ Perry

2. I Can't Get Started

3. It Had To Be You

4. I Get A Kick Out Of You

5. A Foggy Day

6. Hello Young Lover w/ Perry

7. I've Got You Under My Skin

8. Pennies From Heaven

9. Strangers In The Night

10. Too Marvelous For Your Age (parody)

11. The Lady Is A Tramp

12. When You're Smiling w/ Perry

Ed O'Brien added:

Tony Mottola played this gig..

He told me that Frank wanted to say hello to Roselle, Perry's wife, after the show. Jilly kept telling him if he didn't move it they would miss their plane. Frank stayed. Had a warm exchange with Roselle and missed the plane. Tony laughed because Frank was then furious because of the delay leaving

Durham..

Vance Adair:

I had the inestimable pleasure of meeting Roselle and Perry in the early 90s. They were quite adorable and evidently still very much devoted to each other.

Como was the very epitome of charm and relaxed bonhomie. When I remarked, somewhat precociously for a 20 year old, that he was the most naturally beautiful singer in all of popular music, he responded by ruffling my hair and extolling the virtues of the Florida climate. He was a lovely, unassuming and joyful man. Unlike Frank, I never missed a plane - but that

Como induced high could easily have propelled me over the Atlantic. Incidentally, my admiration of Como's abilities as a singer has grown in the intervening years.

He is an extraordinarily gifted and woefully neglected vocalist.

Ed O'Brien adds:

I so agree with your assessment. Perry was a terrific singer.

Sinatra did a private interview in 1959 and discussed many singers. He reserved the most praise for Ella and Perry. His admiration for Perry's talent was obvious throughout his career. Whenever he mentioned him in concert it was always done with great affection and respect. In the 59 interview, Frank called

Perry the most consistently good vocalist on the scene. He states that Perry, if he wished to do so, could maintain a huge following for the next fifty years just doing what he was doing in 1959. I saw Perry in 1981 and his voice was still remarkable and the performance that evening was extraordinary.

Extras

Duke's Children's Classic, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Saturday evening

Frank Sinatra & Perry Como

Orch conducted by Joe Parnello and Nick Perito

May 22, 1983

Extras

Waldorf Astoria, N.Y.C.

Sunday evening

Friars Honored Elizabeth Taylor

W.B. Williams opening introductions

Robert Merrill sang the National Anthem

On the dais but not speaking or performing:

Elizabeth Ashley, Sammy Cahn, Ellen Burstyn,

Len Cariou,Martha Graham, John Cullum, Ruby Keeler, Abe Beame, Robert Lansing, Mr. Halston, John W. Kluge, Margaret O'Brien, Dina Merrill, Cheryl Tiegs, Janet Leigh, Ben Vereen, more well known industry people

Mistress of Cermonies : Dinah Shore

(first time a woman had ever been asked to perform that task)

Dinah sang parody of "Camelot" courtesy of Mr Cahn.

Robert Merrill sings the aria from "Barber of Seville."

Buddy Hackett comedy routine

Cicely Tyson tribute

Joe Williams sang "Just The Way You Are." and "I'd Give A Dollar For A Dime.."

Rod McKuen read a poem he wrote for Elizabeth

Robert Klein comedy routine

Roger Moore droll, very droll

Ella Fitzgerald sang "Night And Day" announced she was nervous because Frank was up there

Red Buttons simply hilarious "I was there" routine and "never got a dinner" routine

W.B. Williams introduced Frank Sinatra

Sinatra presented to Ms. Taylor a handcrafted 18 karat gold watch with diamonds - lauded her with heartfelt praise

Elizabeth Taylor nice speech

Willie B. presented Ms. Taylor will Friars Club appreciation award. He closed out the festivities.

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June 8, 1983

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Change Partners

2. At Long Last Love

3. This Is All I Ask

4. The Lady Is A Tramp

5. When Joanna Loved Me

6. Come Rain Or Come Shine

7. Monologue

8. Happy Birthday

9. Here's To The Band

10. What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?

11. I Can't Get Started

12. I've Got You Under My Skin

13. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

14. Tony Mottola instrumental - "The Shadow of Your Smile"

15. medley: It Never Entered My Mind / In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning

16. New York, New York

17. Here's To The Band

Notes: TT 61mins.

June 9, 1983

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

June 10, 1983

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Change Partners

2. At Long Last Love

3. This Is All I Ask

4. The Lady Is A Tramp

5. When Joanna Loved Me

6. Come Rain Or Come Shine

7. monologue

8. Here's To The Band

9. These Foolish Things

10. I Can't Get Started

11. I've Got You Under My Skin

12. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

13. medley: It Never Entered My Mind / In The Wee Small Hours Of The

Morning

14. New York, New York

15. Here's To The Band

Notes: TT 62mins.

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. At Long Last Love

3. This Is All I Ask

4. The Lady Is A Tramp

5. When Your Lover Has Gone

6. Come Rain Or Come Shine

7. monologue

8. Here's To The Band

9. I Can't Get Started

10. I've Got You Under My Skin

11. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

12. medley: It Never Entered My Mind / In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning

13. New York, New York

14. Here's To The Band

Notes: TT 64mins.

June 11, 1983

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

Joe Parnello conducted

1. Change Partners

2. At Long Last Love

3. This Is All I Ask

4. The Lady Is A Tramp

5. When Your Lover Has Gone

6. Come Rain Or Come Shine monologue

7. Here's To The Band

8. These Foolish Things w/ T. Mottola

9. I Can't Get Started

10. I've Got You Under My Skin

11. How Do You Keep The Music Playing

12. It Never Entered My Mind/In The Wee Small Hours T. Mottola

Tony told me he could not get through the Rodgers & Hart classic without tearing up. Frank's interpretation touched him that deeply

13. New York, New York

14. Here's To The Band (reprise)

Notes: Ed's notes above. TT 62mins.

June 12, 1983

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Change Partners

2. At Long Last Love

3. This Is All I Ask

4. The Lady Is A Tramp

5. When Your Lover Has Gone

6. Come Rain Or Come Shine

7. monologue

8. Here's To The Band

9. These Foolish Things

10. I Can't Get Started

11. I've Got You Under My Skin

12. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

13. medley: It Never Entered My Mind / In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning

14. New York, New York

15. Here's To The Band

Notes: TT 60mins.

June 15, 1983

Concerts

Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Change Partners

2. At Long Last Love

3. This Is All I Ask

4. The Lady Is A Tramp

5. Come Rain Or Come Shine

6. New York, New York

7. monologue

8. These Foolish Things

9. I Can't Get Started

10. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

11. Street Of Dreams

12. medley: It Never Entered My Mind / In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning

13. Here's To The Band

Notes: 57mins.

Extras

Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

Barbara Sinatra, George Schlatter, Frank Sinatra, and guest attend a party at Fung Lum, a restaurant in University City, California, on June 15, 1983.

Frank Sinatra, Barbara Sinatra, Gregory Peck, and Veronique Peck attend a party at Fung Lum, a restaurant in University City, California, on June 15, 1983.

June 14 thru 17, 1990 Radio City Music Hall, New York City

O.A. Al Hirt

Orchestra conducted by Frank Sinatra Jr.

June 16, 1983

Concerts

Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Change Partners

2. At Long Last Love

3. This Is All I Ask

4. The Lady Is A Tramp

5. Come Rain Or Come Shine

6. New York, New York

7. monologue

8. Sammy Davis Jr. - Candy Man

9. I've Got You Under My Skin

10. These Foolish Things

11. I Can't Get Started

12. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

13. Street Of Dreams

14. medley: It Never Entered My Mind / In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning

15. Here's To The Band

Notes: 64mins.

June 17, 1983

Concerts

Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Change Partners

2. At Long Last Love

3. This Is All I Ask

4. The Lady Is A Tramp

5. Come Rain Or Come Shine

6. New York, New York

7. monologue

8. I've Got You Under My Skin

9. These Foolish Things

10. I Can't Get Started

11. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

12. Street Of Dreams

13. medley: It Never Entered My Mind / In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning

14. Here's To The Band

Notes: TT 60mins.

June 18, 1983

Concerts

Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, California

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Change Partners

2. At Long Last Love

3. This Is All I Ask

4. The Lady Is A Tramp

5. Come Rain Or Come Shine

6. New York, New York

7. monologue

8. I've Got You Under My Skin

9. These Foolish Things

10. These Foolish Things Parody (raunchy)

11. I Can't Get Started

12. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

13. medley: It Never Entered My Mind / In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning

14. Here's To The Band

Notes: TT 62mins.

Extras

Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, California

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

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June 19, 1983

Concerts

Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California

Closing Night

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Change Partners

2. At Long Last Love

3. This Is All I Ask

4. The Lady Is A Tramp

5. New York, New York

6. monologue

7. I've Got You Under My Skin

8.. These Foolish Things

9. I Can't Get Started

10. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

11. My Kind Of Town

12. medley: It Never Entered My Mind / In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning

13. Here's To The Band

Notes: TT 59mins.

July 1983

Extras

[Frank's Late-Night Confession of Regret to Nancy Sr.]

In July 1983, after a New York trip, Frank returned alone to Palm Springs while Barbara went to Wimbledon, and called Tina's mother late at night in tears, saying he never should have left her or their home. The next morning, Tina's mother confirmed with the housekeeper Vine that he hadn't been drinking.

Source: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

[Harry James Dies]

Bandleader Harry James, who had given Sinatra his first big-band break, died. Sinatra told Nancy that James had made his whole career possible.

Source: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

[Sinatra Does A One-Night Cameo For Sammy In Cannonball Run II]

Nancy Sinatra: Sinatra flew to Tucson for a single day to shoot a cameo in Burt Reynolds's Cannonball Run II, working only about four hours but saying he would gladly have done more. Sammy Davis Jr. had asked him for the favor because, after years of trying, no one had managed to put together another true Rat Pack "Summit" picture, so this stood in as the group's last film reunion.

Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Frank, Frank Jr and Jilly attended.

Frank read eulogy..

Harry is buried in Memoral Park.

Note: Extra supplied by Fredrick J Wadsworth

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August 5, 1983

Concerts

Monte Carlo, Monaco

Princess Grace Red Cross Fund

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Change Partners

2. At Long Last Love

3. This Is All I Ask

4. Theme From New York, New York

5. I've Got You Under My Skin

6. I Can't Get Started

7. How Do You Keep the Music Playing?

8. My Kind of Town

9. It Never Entered My Mind / In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning

10. Here's to the Band

11. The Lady Is a Tramp

Extras

Monte Carlo, Monaco

Princess Grace Red Cross Fund

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

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Monte Carlo, Monaco

Princess Grace Red Cross Fund

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

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September 20, 1983

Concerts

Waldorf Astoria, New York

Benefit Fundraiser For Retinitis Pigmentosa Foundation

with Dean Martin

1. At Long Last Love

2. I've Got You Under My Skin

3. This Is All I Ask

4. Here's to the Band

5. The Lady Is a Tramp

6. Come Rain or Come Shine

7. How Do You Keep the Music Playing?

8. Theme From New York, New York

9. When You're Smiling (with Dean Martin)

Extras

Waldorf Astoria, New York

Benefit Fundraiser For Retinitis Pigmentosa Foundation

with Dean Martin

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September 21, 1983

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey (September 21-25) w/Dean

Dean:

1. Medley: When Your Drinking - Bourbon From Heaven

2. Everybody Loves Somebody

3.. Where Or When

4. Welcome To My World

5. Love Put A Song In My Heart

6. That's Amore

Frank:

7. I've Got You Under My Skin

8. Come Rain Or Come Shine

9. This Is All I Ask

10. At Long Last Love

11. My Way

12. Luck Be A Lady

13. How Do You Keep The Music Playing

14. Here's To The Band

15. Guess I'll hang My Tears Out To Dry

16. New York, New York

17. Frank & Dean: Comedy - Medley

Extras

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey (September 21-25) w/Dean

The same day this engagement opened, Mickey Rudin filed a $2 million lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court against biographer Kitty Kelley and her publisher, Bantam, in a failed attempt to block her forthcoming book before publication. Frank, worried Kelley's research had uncovered his mother Dolly's history performing illegal abortions in Hoboken, had earlier floated paying Kelley to back off before Rudin talked him out of it; writers' groups rallied to Kelley's defense, and Sinatra dropped the suit in 1984. Source: J. Randy Taraborrelli, Sinatra: Behind the Legend.

September 22, 1983

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey (September 21-25) w/Dean Martin

Joe Parnello conducting

Thusday evening

Dean opens does 40 minutes

Frank

1. I've Got You Under My Skin

2. Come Rain Or Come Shine

3. This Is All I Ask

4. At Long Last Love monologue

4. Luck Be A Lady

5. My Way

6. How Do You Keep The Music Playing

7. It Never Entered My Mind/In The Wee Small Hours w/ T. Mottola

8. New York, New York

9. The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game In New York w/ Dean

September 23, 1983

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey (September 21-25)

w/Dean Martin

Joe Parnello conducting

Friday evening

Dean opens does 40 minutes

Frank

1. I've Got You Under My Skin

2. Come Rain Or Come Shine

3. This Is All I Ask

4. Luck Be A Lady

5. My Way

6. How Do You Keep The Music Playing

7. Here's To The Band

8. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

9. New York, New York

10.. When You're Smiling w/ Dean

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey (September 21-25) w/Dean Martin

Joe Parnello conducting

11pm Show

Extras

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey (September 21-25) w/Dean Martin

Joe Parnello conducting

11pm Show

Frank and Dean played a benefit at the Waldorf Astoria on 9-20-83. They opened in Atlantic City the following night.

There would be one show a night thru the 25th. Showtime, except on Sunday, was 8 P.M. So, I think the second show of Friday(23) was definitely for the high rollers. Steve Wynn loved to romance the big spenders. They loved to gamble big time and they loved Frank.

Frank and John Denver played the South Room at Harrah's, in Lake Tahoe, September of 1976. Denver came up with the idea of doing a private show for the employees on closing night (12). So a third performance was done in the wee hours for all the people who gave it their all that weekend. Not exactly what Mr Wynn had in mind, but nice. --Ed

Sinatra was to have played two shows at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles September 23-24, 1994. The Los Angeles Times, September 9, 1994, explains why the two shows were cancelled: Ed O'Brien offers up a better explanation why the Greek Theatre dates were cancelled: Shows cancelled at Greek Theater had nothing to do with Frank recording. He sold out the Greek in just a few days. Barbara had been told how much Frank had struggled in Boston, Lenox, Cincinnati, etc. She did not want that to happen in L.A.. --ED © 1997-2024 The Sinatra Archive

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. They opened in Atlantic City the following night.

There would be one show a night thru the 25th. Showtime, except

on Sunday, was 8 P.M. So, I think the second show of Friday(23)

was definitely for the high rollers. Steve Wynn loved to romance

the big spenders. They loved to gamble big time and they loved

Frank.

Frank and John Denver played the South Room at Harrah's,

in Lake Tahoe, September of 1976. Denver came up with the idea of

doing a private show for the employees on closing night (12). So a third

performance was done in the wee hours for all the people who gave it

their all that weekend. Not exactly what Mr Wynn had in mind, but nice.

--Ed

Sinatra was to have played two shows at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles September 23-24, 1994. The Los Angeles Times, September 9, 1994, explains why the two shows were cancelled:

Ed O'Brien offers up a better explanation why the Greek Theatre dates were cancelled:

Shows cancelled at Greek Theater had nothing to do with Frank recording.

He sold out the Greek in just a few days. Barbara had been told how much Frank had struggled in

Boston, Lenox, Cincinnati, etc. She did not want that to happen in L.A.. --ED

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Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey (September 21-25)

w/Dean Martin

Joe Parnello conducting

11pm Show

Frank and Dean played a benefit at the Waldorf Astoria on

September 24, 1983

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

Other Performers: Dean Martin

Dean's Set:

1. Drinking Medley

2. monologue

3. Everybody Loves Somebody

4. Where Or When

5. 2nd Monologue

6. Welcome To My World

7. Bumming Around

8. That's Amore

Frank's Set:

9. I've Got You Under My Skin

10. Come Rain or Come Shine

11. This Is All I Ask

12. At Long Last Love

13. My Way

14. Luck Be A Lady

15. How Do You Keep The Music Playing

16. New York, New York

17. Comedy Routine with Dean & Frank

18. Medley: I Can't Give You Anything But Love (DM)/ My Kind of Town

(FS)/ Almost Like Being in Love (DM)/ A Foggy Day (FS)/ New York, New York (DM)/ Autumn In New York (FS)/ Nevertheless I'm In Love With You (DM)/ They Can't Take That Away From Me (FS)/ Oh Marie (DM)/ When You're Smiling (FS & DM)

Note: Scott Henderson supplied the above set list and added the following:

Sinatra's portion from first song to end of Medley runs 60 minutes. The whole length of the concert including Dean's sets runs 89:26.

September 25, 1983

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. I've Got You Under My Skin

2, Come Rain Or Come Shine

3, This Is All I Ask

4. At Long Last Love

5. monologue

6. My Way

7. Luck Be A Lady

8.. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

9. New York, New York

10. medley w/Dean: My Kind Of Town / A Foggy Day / Autumn In New

York / They Can't Take That Away From Me / When You're Smiling

Notes: TT 91mins.

November 20, 1983

Extras

A television tribute, "The Variety Clubs All-Star Party," was taped at NBC in Burbank honoring Frank's fundraising, which had helped build a Seattle Children's Orthopedic Hospital wing named for the Sinatra family. Richard Burton gave a moving tribute calling Frank "Mr. Anonymous" for his secret charitable giving, and Steve Lawrence and Vic Damone performed a medley called "Sinatra from A to Z."

Frank Sinatra (quoted): "Mr. Anonymous you have asked to be; Mr. Anonymous you shall be called."

Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

November 25, 1983

Concerts

Centrum, Worcester, Mass.

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. At Long Last Love

3. I've Got You Under My Skin

4. When Your Lover Has Gone

5. Change Partners

6. This Is All I Ask

7. Come Rain Or Come Shine

8. Luck Be A Lady

9. My Way

10. monologue

11. Here's To The Band

12. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

13. The Lady Is A Tramp

14. I Can't Get Started

15. Strangers In The Night

16. When Joanna Loved Me

17. New York, New York

Notes: TT 64mins.

Extras

Centrum, Worcester, Mass.

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

note: Frank was scheduled to open an extended tour on 11-1-83 at the

Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati. Over 16,000 tickets had been sold.

The concert was rescheduled for 11/29. In mid-November, his publicist

announced that difficulties in rearranging a busy schedule precluded

the second scheduling. The Civic Center, in Hartford, set for 11-3, was

reset for 11/27. The Centrum in Worcester was moved from 11/5 to 11/25.

Milwaukee Arena, originally intended for,11/8, was pushed forward to 12/9,

but on the advise of his doctors was again cancelled. Long Beach, 11/11,

and San Diego, 11/15, were also cancelled. Tentative dates for Secaucus,

N.J. and Nassau, N.Y. were also shelved.

November 27, 1983

Concerts

Civic Center, Hartford, CT

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. At Long Last Love

3. I've Got You Under My Skin

4. When Your Lover Has Gone

5. Change Partners

6. This Is All I Ask

7. Come Rain Or Come Shine

8. monologue

9. Luck Be A Lady

10. My Way

11. Here's To The Band

12. I Can't Get Started

13. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

14. The Lady Is A Tramp

15. Strangers In The Night

16. When Joanna Loved Me

17. New York, New York

Notes: TT 62mins.

Extras

Civic Center, Hartford, CT

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

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November 28, 1983

Concerts

The Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New York

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. At Long Last Love

3. I'e Got You Under My Skin

4. When Your Lover Has Gone

5. Change Partners

6. This Is All I Ask

7. Come Rain Or Come Shine

8. monologue

9. Luck Be A Lady

10. My Way

11. Here's To The Band

12. I Can't Get Started

13. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

14. The Lady Is A Tramp

15. Strangers In The Night

16. When Joanna Loved Me

17. New York, New York

Notes: TT 69mins.

Extras

The Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New York

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

November 30, 1983

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

Extras

During a Golden Nugget engagement in Atlantic City, Frank and Dean Martin sat down at a blackjack table where a dealer, at the pit boss's direction, dealt from her hand instead of the shoe, against house rules unbeknownst to the players. The Nugget reported the incident to the gaming commission to cover itself, which led to exaggerated press reports of a blowup and huge losses; according to Dean's manager Mort Viner, the actual loss was about $600 and Steve Wynn later apologized to Frank and Dean.

Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

December 1, 1983

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Change Partners

2. Come Rain Or Come Shine

3. Here's That Rainy Day

4. Here's To The Band

5. My Way

6. monologue

7. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

8. Luck Be A Lady

9. This Is All I Ask

10. New York, New York

11. My Kind Of Town

12. Autumn In New York

13. They Can't Take That Away From Me

14. When You're Smiling - w/Dean

Notes: TT 86mins.

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

Other Performers: Dean Martin

1. Change Partners

2. Come Rain Or Come Shine

3. Here's That Rainy Day

4. Here's To The Band

5. My Way

6. My Kind Of Town - w/Dean

7. I Love You

8. A Foggy Day

9. Autumn In New York

10. They Can't Take That Away From Me

11. New York, New York

Notes: TT 44mins.

Vance Adair asks:

I am intrigued by the inclusion of a song called 'I Love You' on the Golden Nugget date from 1983. What is the provenance of this song?

Ed responded:

"I Love You" is the 4-30-53 Archer/Thompson song.

Frank often made attempts to sing requests from the audience. He rarely did more than a few lines. There are a few exceptions including "I'll Never Smile Again," which he always knew. But the attempt at the G.N. in 83 along with many others are incomplete efforts. Off the top of my head here are a few he try: "Lean Baby," I'm In The Mood For Love," "Jesus Is A Rock In The Weary Land" and "Melody Of Love. I'm omitting songs like "Here's That Rainy Day," even though there were requests and he made a game effort. The ones often done in concert were some- times tried when dropped from the act.

December 2, 1983

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

December 6, 1983

Extras

Days after receiving the Kennedy Center Honors, Frank Sinatra was recorded on casino surveillance video berating a blackjack dealer, Kyong Kim, at the Golden Nugget in Atlantic City — including a remark telling her to “go back to China” — after demanding she deal by hand in violation of state gaming rules; the footage aired on CBS Evening News. The New Jersey Casino Control Commission subsequently fined the Golden Nugget $25,000 and suspended four employees. Kelley gives no more precise date than “days after” Sinatra's December 4, 1983 Kennedy Center Honors ceremony. Note: This account comes solely from Kelley's book, which is widely regarded as containing embellished or unverified claims; it is not independently corroborated elsewhere in this chronology. Source: Kitty Kelley, "His Way: An Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra" (1986).

December 3, 1983

Extras

Frank received the Kennedy Center Honor for Lifetime Achievement alongside James Stewart, Katherine Dunham, Elia Kazan, and Virgil Thomson. He brought the whole family to Washington; a state dinner hosted by George Shultz preceded the White House and Kennedy Center ceremonies, and Mikhail Baryshnikov and Elaine Kudo danced Twyla Tharp's "The Sinatra Suite" to his music.

Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

December 8, 1983

Concerts

Meadowlands Arena, New Jersey

1. walk on music ( NY , NY )

2. I've Got The World On A String

3. At Long Last Love

4. I've Got You Under My Skin

5. When Your Lover Has Gone

6. Change Partners

7. This Is All I Ask

8. Come Rain Or Come Shine

9. Luck Be A Lady

10. My Way

11. monologue

12. Here's To The band

13. introductions

14. Tony Mattola solo

15. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

16. The Lady Is A Tramp

17.. Strangers In The Night

18. When Joanna Loved Me

19. New York , New York

20. chaser "Here's To The Band"

By Stephen Holden

Frank Sinatra was in an expansive mood when he took the stage at the Byrne Meadowlands Arena on Thursday night. For one thing, the singer was on his home turf. ''I knew this area better than the guys who built the building,'' the singer recalled in between ''My Way'' and ''Here's to the Band.'' ''It was a great place to play hooky in, and I got a degree in escapism.'' But more important, Mr. Sinatra, just four days away from his 68th birthday, was in remarkable vocal condition. Backed by the Buddy Rich Orchestra, he demonstrated the range and tonal control of a singer half his age. Mr. Sinatra has been such a massive influence on the younger generation of singers who have developed what could be called ''the Las Vegas style'' of saloon singing that it is tempting to blame him for the mannerisms and the cynicism that singers like Wayne Newton, Robert Goulet and others have brought to that style. But Mr. Sinatra showed repeatedly that there is a vast, if subtle, difference between the real thing and his many followers and imitators. That difference has to do with integrity and commitment. Along with the emphatic aggressiveness that other singers have caricatured came an elegance of phrase and an emotional depth that contradicted the stock image of Mr. Sinatra as a punchy swinger. One of the evening's many happy surprises was Mr. Sinatra's understated, almost ironically humble rendition of ''My Way.'' In ''Come Rain or Come Shine'' and ''This Is All I Ask,'' he drew out the phrases with a controlled legato that was thrilling in its combination of physical discipline and emotional openness. Even ''New York, New York,'' a song that one would normally not expect Mr. Sinatra to do anything more with than he's already done, took on different resonances. Where ordinarily the song invites an attitude of feisty braggadocio, Mr. Sinatra gradually built it up into an anthem of joy and gratitude, expressed in suspended high notes that surged with triumphant optimism. Mr. Sinatra also punctuated the evening with moments of cutting humor. The most acute joke was his deliberate mockery of ''Strangers in the Night,'' a song he said he hadn't performed in 12 years. ''If you like that song, you must be crazy about pineapple yogurt,'' the singer joked. NYT

12-11-83

Extras

Meadowlands Arena, New Jersey

December 11, 1983

Television

Variety Clubs All Star Party For Frank Sinatra

CBS (Taped at NBC in Burbank, California, 11-20-83)

Sunday Evening

8:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Guests : Cary Grant, Richard Burton, Julio Iglesias, Burt Reynolds, Vic Damone, Steve Lawrence, Michelle Lee, Carol Burnett, Dionne Warwick, James Stewart, Howard Keel, Robert Wagner, Jill St. John, Florence Henderson, Ricardo Montalban, Foster Brooks, Tommy LaSorda, Daniel Travanti, Alan King, Cliff Robertson, Michael Caine, Monty Hall and others

Taped November 20, 1983

Ed O'Brien:

Show garnered a 23 share in the Nielsen ratings. Highest in prime time that evening. Show is most remembered for the stirring "Mr. Anonymous" speech, delivered by Mr. Burton.

December 12, 1983

Concerts

The Whilshire Hotel, Beverly Hills, California

City of Hope BRAVO chapter Benefit

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

Other Performers: Count Basie, Sarah Vaughan, Ed MacMahon

Note: Sinatra turns 68

1987 Bally's Grand, Atlantic City, New Jersey (11 -13)

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller w/Liza Minnelli

Early Show

1. You Are the Sunshine of My Life

2. Where or When

3. Come Fly With Me

4. For Once in My Life

5. Summer Wind

6. The September of My Years

7. You Make Me Feel So Young

8. You Will Be My Music

9. The Gal That Got Away/It Never Entered My Mind

10. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)

11. All of Me

12. Lonely Town

13. My Way

14. Mack the Knife

15. Medley : New York, New York (On the Town), East Side, West Side, The Bowery, Forty-Second Street (all with Liza Minnelli)

16. Autumn in New York

17. How About You (with Liza Minnelli)

18. Theme From New York, New York (with Liza Minnelli)

Extras

December 12, 1983, Beverly Wilshire Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA Frank with Count Basie, Sarah Vaughan and Dionne Warwick at the BRAVO Chapter of the City of Hope in honor of Count Basie Taping for CBS special:

1990 Meadowlands, East Rutherford, New Jersey

75th Birthday Concert

Opening of the World Tour

Orchestra Conducted By: Frank Sinatra, Jr.

Introduction By: Rooger Moore

Opening Act: Steve Lawrence, Eydie Gorme

Special Guest: Liza Minelli

NOTE: Ed O'Brien reports that Sinatra had a bad cold but insisted on performing. He was fine throughout and just before "New York , New York ," Liza Minelli was introduced and joined Frank on stage. He asked her to do the song with him and it is the highlight of his 75th birthday performance.

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December 15, 1983

Concerts

Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach, California

Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums), Joe Parnello (Piano), Tony Mattola (Guitar)

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. At Long Last Love

3. I've Got You Under My Skin

4. When Your Lover Has Gone

5. Change Partners

6.. This Is All I Ask

7. Come Rain Or Come Shine

8. Monologue: Major Bowes

9. Luck Be A Lady

10. My Way

11. Here's To The Band

12. Talk: Buddy Berigan story

13. I Can't Get Started (add lib)

14. Tony Mattola Solo

15. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry w/Tony Mattola

16. The Lady Is A Tramp

17. Strangers In The Night

18. How Do You Keep The Music Playing

19. Introductions: Alan & Marylin Bergman, Tommy Lasorda

20. New York , New York

21. Chaser: "Here's To The Band"

Notes: TT 75mins.

Extras

Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach, California

Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums), Joe Parnello (Piano), Tony Mattola (Guitar)

December 16, 1983

Concerts

Aladdin Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada

University of Nevada Benefit

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

Other Performers: Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Diana Ross

Extras

Aladdin Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada

University of Nevada Benefit

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

Other Performers: Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Diana Ross

Apparently Sammy did not appear due to an injury suffered in a fall week before the event.

December 18, 1983

Concerts

Palm Springs , California

Benefit for Temple Isaiah

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

The Desert Sun (Palm Springs, California) · 27 Oct 1983

The Desert Sun (Palm Springs, California) · 19 Dec 1983

December 27, 1983

Television

Kennedy Center Honors

Gene Kelly speaks about Sinatra & Perry Como preforms "Young At Heart" with a children's chorus.

Extras

Kennedy Center Honors

FIVE GIVEN KENNEDY CENTER AWARDS

By Irvin Molotsky

New York Times

December 5, 1983,

Five Americans were honored today by President Reagan with the closest thing that the United States has to Federal recognition in the arts, the Kennedy Center Honors for lifetime achievement.

The awards were presented at a Kennedy Center gala - after a round of parties and receptions at such places as the White House and the State Department - to these figures in the arts:

- Katherine Dunham, the dancer and choreographer who traveled to Haiti in the 1930's and brought back to the United States an interest in the dances of the Caribbean.

- Elia Kazan, the director and writer of such novels as ''The Arrangement.''

- James Stewart, the actor whose work is being appreciated by yet another generation of moviegoers because of the re-release of some old masterly films by Alfred Hitchcock.

- Virgil Thomson, who combined careers as a music critic and one of the leading American composers of this century.

- Frank Sinatra, the singer, who has had a major influence on American popular music. President Praises Recipients

At a ceremony in the East Room of the White House, President Reagan remarked on the careers of each of the recipients.

Of Mr. Thomson, the President recalled the composer's many years of struggle while a young man in France where, years later, he was to write two operas with Gertrude Stein. ''He decided that if he was going to starve, he was going to starve where the food was good,'' Mr. Reagan said

Of Miss Dunham, Mr. Reagan praised her scholarship, saying that the Kennedy Center honor was as much in recognition of her work in anthropology as it was for dance.

Mr. Kazan was praised for having directed such Broadway plays and movies as ''Death of a Salesman'' and ''A Streetcar Named Desire.''

But it was for the President's Hollywood friends, Mr. Sinatra and Mr. Stewart, that Mr. Reagan spoke most warmly. ''They are special friends of Nancy and me,'' Mr. Reagan said. Sinatra's Films Remembered

President Reagan listed Mr. Sinatra's film credits, such as ''From Here to Eternity'' and High Society,'' and said, ''If they had ever given me roles like that, I may never have left Hollywood.''

''You did it your way,'' Mr. Reagan said in a paraphrase of a Sinatra song.

Mr. Reagan noted that Mr. Stewart had starred in ''Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,'' about the attempts of an eager amateur politician who is elected to Congress and tries to rouse that institution from its drowsiness

''I wish everyone here would see that film,'' Mr. Reagan said.

The President also retold a tale about his own ambitions and typecasting in Hollywood: ''When Jack Warner of Warner Bros. heard I was running for Governor of California, he said, 'No! No! Jimmy Stewart for Governor. Ronald Reagan for best friend!' ''

Mr. Sinatra was the only one of the recipients to refuse to be interviewed, but he chatted amiably with reporters in a White House hall. 'I'm Way Up in the Air'

''I'm way up in the air,'' he said. ''This is the most coveted award you can win. It's a big bang.''

The gala included examples of each recipient's work - such as part of the opera ''The Mother of Us All'' by Mr. Thomson and Gertrude Stein - and was taped for broadcast on CBS-TV on Dec. 17.

If there was a favorite of the gala crowd in the Kennedy Center Opera House, it was Mr. Sinatra. The dancer Gene Kelly, who introduced Mr. Sinatra to the audience, said, ''There is not the remotest possibility that he will have a successor,'' and everyone applauded loudly.

The description of Mr. Sinatra's career was frank, dealing with the loss of his voice in the 1950's and his inability to get work on the stage or the screen. Scenes of ''From Here to Eternity,'' for which he won an Oscar, rescuing his career, were shown, and there was more applause.

Then a very sensuous dance, choreographed by Twyla Thwarp and called ''Sinatra Suite,'' was performed by Mikhail Baryshnikov and Elaine Kudo. It was danced to such Sinatra songs as ''My Way,'' and was a highlight of the gala. Stewart Accomplishments Cited

Mr. Stewart's accomplishments were described by the comedian Carol Burnett. The chorus of the United States Air Force Academy appeared on stage with her, an acknowledgement of Mr. Stewart's role as a bomber pilot in World War II.

Mr. Stewart was seated next to Nancy Reagan in the Presidential box and, when the audience rose to applaud the actor, the First Lady leaned over and kissed her old friend.

Earlier, at the White House reception, the comedian Sid Caesar went through the receiving line, shook hands with the President and looked around at the assembled members of Congress, Supreme Court justices, singers, dancers, musicians and writers.

''At this party,'' Mr. Caesar said, ''there are no second bananas.'' Thomson a Former Music Critic

Earlier, Mr. Thomson was the guest of honor at a luncheon sponsored by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, of which he is an active member. The luncheon was held in the Decatur House, a historic town house on Lafayette Square, a block from the White House.

The Kennedy Center honor, Mr. Thomson allowed, would require him to wear a tuxedo, something that he has avoided in recent years. ''I hardly ever wear black tie anymore, maybe once a year,'' he said. ''We used to wear tuxedos and put a gardenia in the lapel, and when you got home, you'd pop the gardenia in your mouth and eat it.'

Mr. Thomson was the music critic of The New York Herald Tribune from 1940 to 1953, and he misses his old newspaper, but not his old profession. ''I had heard all the artists there were and all the music there was,'' he said.

He accepted the applause of his friends and colleagues at the luncheon by raising a glass of a fine white burgundy high above his head. Looking at the others at his table - including the songwriters Sammy Cahn and Hal David - he said in comparing the art of the ''serious'' music writer and that of the popular composer:

''We're not fancy. We just write longer pieces with more complex orchestration.'' Haitians Honor Miss Dunham

Another early event was held at the Haitian Embassy, which gave a reception for Miss Dunham and presented her with its government's highest award, the Grand Croix Honneur et Merite. Miss Dunham had first visited Haiti in 1936 as a student at the University of Chicago and later wrote her master's thesis on the dances of that Caribbean country.

Miss Dunham, who has maintained a home in Haiti since 1948, said in receiving the award, ''Haiti has had its problems, but where are there not problems?''

When asked in an interview what had attracted her to Haiti, Miss Dunham said, ''I was thrilled to see black people take the lead for the destiny of their country.''

At the Kennedy Center gala, Miss Dunham was praised by the choreographer Agnes De Mille for having worked to open dance schools for blacks and to remove segregation in American theaters and hotels. New Popularity Amazes Stewar

On Saturday, Mr. Stewart held forth at the Ritz Carlton Hotel, giving interviews as he prepared for an elegant dinner for the honorees that night in the State Department's formal rooms.

He marveled at his renewed popularity that has come from the rerelease of one of the four movies that he made for Mr. Hitchcock, ''Rear Window.''

''Why Hitchcock never got an Academy Award I'll never know,'' Mr. Stewart said, adding that, had he lived, the director certainly would have received the Kennedy Center award. Mr. Stewart said that he would fly to London on Monday, and later to Paris, to promote the reopenings of the film. Arts Group Nominates Recipients

People are nominated for the Kennedy Center award by an artists committee that includes some of the best known writers and performers in the country. This year, for example, the committee consisted of 85 members who ran alphabetically from Edward Albee to Pinchas Zukerman, and included Ed Asner, Sid Caesar, Walter Cronkite, Mary Martin, Gregory Peck, Elizabeth Taylor and Liv Ullmann.

Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Stewart, Elia Kazan, Virgil Thomson, and Katherine Dunham

THE KENNEDY CENTER HONORS

By Carla Hall and Joe Brown

December 5, 1983

The Washington Post

ON THE STAGE of the Opera House, Hollywood greats told tales of other Hollywood greats overcoming adversity, and in the audience Kennedy Center honorees wiped back tears as the tributes grew sumptuous and moving. It was all for five Americans with distinguished careers in the performing arts--all awarded Kennedy Center Honors last night in this sixth annual ceremony: Frank Sinatra, 67; Jimmy Stewart, 75, Elia Kazan, 73; Virgil Thomson, 87; and Katherine Dunham, 71. Seated in the Presidential Box along with Ronald and Nancy Reagan, they applauded each other and took the kudos they received with grace.

It was a night of tears and applause and funny stories and tributes in which people thanked others for changing their lives. And it was a night when President Reagan stepped away for a while from the anguish in Lebanon--though the military activity there cast a long shadow from which no one completely escaped.

It was a night of the older meeting the younger: Mikhail Baryshnikov dancing to Sinatra's crooning; the New York City Breakers, young kids dancing fast and soulfully, bounding off the stage, careening down the aisles, slapping hands with Gene Kelly as they passed him during their salute to Dunham. And Agnes De Mille, who was a 1980 honoree, proclaimed that when choreographer Katherine Dunham first came to New York, "No one, no one who saw her then could possibly forget her."

Between moving tributes to the honorees, the incorrigible Art Buchwald took to the stage, booming in his nasal voice: "Mr. President, it's now exactly 8:14 p.m. Do you know where Prince Andrew is? And don't you wish you were with him?" The audience broke into guffaws.

"First of all," Buchwald continued, "I would like to thank the secretary of Defense for permitting the press to be here. The original Pentagon plan was to allow the press to watch the show from the island of Barbados."

Buchwald lamented, "This is not an easy time for political humorists--because the government is now funnier than we are." Buchwald urged the president to take care with his Latin American policy. "If the Kennedy Center goes Communist," Buchwald warned, "the Hollywood Bowl will go next."

Carol Burnett and retired brigadier general Chuck Yeager, the test pilot who broke the sound barrier, accompanied by the Cadet Chorale from the U.S. Air Force Academy, serenaded Stewart with "Auld Lang Syne," part of the closing scene in the Frank Capra movie "It's a Wonderful Life," in which Stewart starred.

Burnett began by saying, "I have not kept it a secret over the years that I have been in love with James Stewart my whole life." Of her first meeting with Stewart, when she was a starstruck kid visiting the soundstage of "The FBI Story," she said:

"I stepped into a bucket of whitewash, and I didn't turn around--I dragged it all the way across the soundstage thinking, 'Maybe he'll think I did this on purpose.' " Burnett then sang "Easy to Love" with the 100-voice Air Force Academy Cadet Chorale, the only song Stewart ever sang in a movie (to Eleanor Powell). Stewart, from the Presidential Box, blew Burnett a kiss and saluted Yeager while the 2,100 in the audience looked on.

A bearded Burt Lancaster remembered Stewart as "a lean gangly, idealistic young man, grown into what has been called the most complete cinema personality on the screen . . . as an actor he is respected for what he has done, and as a man he is respected for what he is." As Stewart rose to the audience's applause, Nancy Reagan leaned over and kissed him, and his old friend, the president, shook his hand.

Warren Beatty spoke of working with director Kazan. "Elia Kazan gave me my start in the movies, so I'm going to try and use a little restraint here and not embarrass him," said Beatty, adding, "I think he's the greatest American director who ever lived, so I was lucky to observe this man in my first picture." Beatty addressed President Reagan, asking him to use his influence with Kazan to get Beatty the part of Kazan in a movie of his life.

"I think actually you could be a big help in that," Beatty said. "Do you think you could take him aside and at least mention to him that I look Greek? Who knows, Mr. President--in five years you might want me to take him aside and mention you. Let me put it this way--it would be the nicest thing I ever did for a Republican," Beatty said as a clever, filmed biography of Kazan loomed behind on a huge screen.

Next up for Kazan was Anthony Quinn, who won his first Oscar in Kazan's "Viva Zapata!" Quinn and the cast of his current Broadway show "Zorba!" performed two numbers from the show.

"I say this unabashedly. You gave me freedom . . . but then you gave all your actors that freedom, and that was your genius," Quinn said and then growled out the song "I Am Free" from "Zorba!"

Each artist was honored with a filmed biography, which had as a running thread the theme of how each artist overcame major stumbling blocks on the way to success: Kazan spent seven years searching for a producer for his film "On the Waterfront"; Frank Sinatra lost his voice at the peak of his popularity; Dunham took her shows to places where blacks couldn't even sit in the audience;and Virgil Thomson spent six years writing "Four Saints in Three Acts," which no opera house in New York would touch.

John Houseman, speaking of Thomson, said he was "awed by his wisdom, his clarity of vision and his profound sense . . . that made him the nearest thing to a guru in my life."

Houseman brought on the cast of the current New York production of "The Mother of Us All," Thomson's second opera, with text by Gertrude Stein. "It's about the winning of political rights for women," Houseman said, "a subject that was apparently not completely resolved by that production."

Gene Kelly, a 1982 honoree, told the audience of his first meeting with Sinatra in New York. "I decided to check out this new kid on the block. My first impression was 'he just looks awful!' He was a skinny runt, and then he opened his mouth and it was awesome."

Perry Como came on with a large children's chorus and sang "Young at Heart" in tribute to Sinatra with new lyrics: "Though you once were the rage on the Paramount stage . . . Though you're past middle age--Frank, you'll always be among the very young at heart."

"Once each year, we gather here to give Art Buchwald an opportunity to make fun of the Kennedy Center deficit," said Kennedy Center chairman Roger L. Stevens, "and to give all of you a chance to do something about it." (Stevens also said the center would make about $500,000 from the evening. The show was produced by George Stevens Jr. and Nick Vanoff, and was taped to air on CBS Dec. 27.)

Stevens then introduced a big surprise--American Ballet Theatre artistic director Baryshnikov, who performed Twyla Tharp's new ballet, "Sinatra Suite," in black tie to five Sinatra standards. Before he left the stage, Ol' Blue Eyes and Misha saluted each other across the hall.

Before his dance, Baryshnikov read a telegram from one Sinatra fan who couldn't make it last night. It read: "All the best from the kid on the block. Jimmy Cagney."

Agnes De Mille walked slowly onstage in a full sky-blue gown, and seemed moved as the audience rose to its feet for her. Dunham blew De Mille a kiss toward the stage.

She said Dunham gave a gift to all artists. "She told us what art really is--communication--a direct speech of the heart. Oh, Katie, bonnie Katie, we love you."

Master of ceremonies Walter Cronkite ended the tribute in typical Uncle Walter style, addressing the five honorees. "For you, the show will always go on--for that's the way it is. You know, that's the way it's been for most of a century. You've graced our stages, you've graced our lives, you graced our history. And now it's time for you to take another bow and for us to show our gratitude." The audience rose for the last time as the honorees held hands and raised them high.

The glittering crowd loved it all.

At the end of the first half Sissy Spacek, in the lobby, said, "I was just so moved by the show. When the kids came out and sang with Perry Como, I didn't think I'd make it through."

She said the evening was as thrilling for her as for anyone else because she got to see her "idols," like "Jimmy Stewart and, oh, Jimmy Stewart."

Eva Marie Saint said the honors gave people in the business a chance to see each other. "People think we all see each other all the time. I've seen Kazan maybe once since 'On the Waterfront,' and that was 30 years ago."

After the gala 1,100 guests stayed for dinner and dancing in the foyer--and not always in that order. Businessman W. Clement Stone and his partner danced while most guests were still midway through dinner. William Paley talked with Cary Grant.

Anne Jackson chatted in the aisle with Warren Beatty. Burt Lancaster was introduced to Baryshnikov and gave him a big hug saying, "We've never met, but we almost made a movie together."

Burnett, who had professed her life-long love of Stewart, got to sit next to him at dinner.

"No question," said Stewart. "It's the greatest moment of my life." He shrugged. "Period."

Beatty divulged little about his view of the evening ("I had a lot of fun"), what Kazan thought of Beatty's tribute ("he said 'Thank you' ") or what he was working on ("I'm working on several things") but he was seen signing autographs for other guests.

Of the 2,100 seats in the Opera House--with orchestra seats going for $300 and a box going for $6,000--Kennedy Center officials estimate that no more than 200 were complimentary. Those went to performers on the artists' committee, the honorees and their families and friends. Everyone else paid his own way.

The festivities had moved to the Kennedy Center after a late-afternoon reception at the White House.

Sinatra, a longtime close friend of the Reagans, said he had had no time to chat privately or informally with the president. "Not this time," he said. "He's got enough on his mind."

Indeed he did. There was the U.S. air strike Sunday morning on Syrian positions in Lebanon followed by the Syrians' downing of two American fighter-bombers used in the strike. About an hour before the reception began there was word of Druze militia forces firing on U.S. Marine positions in Lebanon, killing some American soldiers.

Secretary of State George Shultz, strolling through the foyer of the White House wearing a red vest under his black tuxedo jacket, was descended upon by reporters.

"I've just had a report that there was heavy shelling and some casualties but I don't know how many," said Shultz. He would not comment further on that or on the status of the pilots of the downed U.S. aircraft. "I don't want to hold an impromptu press conference," he said. "I'm keeping track of it. I don't want to respond on the basis of fragmentary information."

Reagan, during his remarks at the reception, said nothing about the day's military events. His words were devoted solely to the honorees.

"President Kennedy once said that he looked forward to an America not afraid of its grace and beauty," Reagan said. He called the honorees "five who have helped build an America of grace and beauty."

He said Sinatra and Stewart were "special friends of Nancy's and mine." And he recalled that Sinatra in 1937 had sung for $15 a week. "Let me repeat that," said Reagan. "Frank Sinatra worked for $15 a week. But it paid off. He got a $10-a-week raise."

He said Sinatra had recorded "more hits than just about anyone else" and had been in a number of movies, including "High Society." "You know, Frank," Reagan said, "if they'd only given me roles like that I'd never have left Hollywood." The audience guffawed and Reagan concluded, "All along your style has been relaxed and full of life . . . and one other thing, Frank--you did it your way."

In the crowd, actress Angie Dickinson, wearing a royal blue beaded dress, squeezed into a little clump of people waiting for the president's remarks in the East Room. Ethel Kennedy, standing with singer Andy Williams, spotted Dickinson and waved.

Sinatra brought a lot of his family. There was his son Frank Jr., his daughters Tina and Nancy, and Nancy's daughters, Amanda, 7, and Angela, 9, attired in long velvet dresses.

"Last night I said to George Stevens, 'What do I do?' " said Frank Sinatra, wearing the official multicolored ribbon that adorns the honorees. "He said, 'Just sit there.' I said, 'Great idea.' I think it's probably the most coveted honor. It's our government. It's a big bang."

Said Frank Sinatra Jr., standing near his father, "It's so nice that one night all the honorees can take their honor and wear it . . . It's so nice to see some good old-fashioned protocol." Sinatra Jr. watched his father hovering over Nancy Sinatra's children. "My old man," he said. "He's the world's greatest grandfather."

Even before the White House reception, many of the celebrants began yesterday with an elegant brunch at the Jockey Club in the Ritz-Carlton hosted by John and Virginia Coleman, owners of the hotel. Figures from politics and entertainment seemed equally awed by and enamored of each other.

"Forget power! It's talent that counts," said Sid Caesar, who had just briefly spoken with USIA director Charles Z. Wick.

"Sid! What are you up to lately?" Wick asked. "With a talent like yours we ought to see more of you."

The crowd included Celeste Holm, Jule Styne, Gerald Rafshoon and Mayor Marion Barry. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. was there tan and dapper, in a bright pink shirt and pink-and-green striped tie. Sissy Spacek showed baby pictures of her daughter Schuyler to Walter Cronkite and Roger Mudd, who were talking in the buffet line.

December 31, 1983

Radio

Sounds Of Sinatra Sid Mark

WYNY 90 minutes

Interview with Sinatra

1984

Extras

[At The White House, 1984]

A photograph shows Sinatra at the White House in 1984.

Source: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

[Critic John Swenson on Sinatra's Enduring Pull]

Reviewing a recent Sinatra album, critic John Swenson observed that even people who would never set foot in Manhattan kept paying to hear Sinatra's rendition of "New York, New York."

Source: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

[Granddaughter Amanda's Poem "My Grandpa"]

At about age eight, granddaughter Amanda Lambert wrote a poem calling her grandfather Frank Sinatra the best grandpa in the world, noting his love of kids and his fame as "Ol' Blue Eyes."

Source: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

[LA Is My Lady Disappoints Despite Star Talent]

Working with producer Quincy Jones and an all-star band, Sinatra recorded the album LA Is My Lady, which despite polished arrangements failed to satisfy him or most listeners.

Source: The Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra, chapter "I Want to Be a Part of It, 1971-98."

[Murray Kempton's Newsday Reflection]

Writing in Newsday, journalist Murray Kempton reflected that hearing Sinatra sing made him briefly believe, against reason, that the singer's world-weary heart had finally learned its lesson.

Source: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

[Quincy Jones on Recording L.A. Is My Lady Live]

Quincy Jones described Frank's remarkably fast working method on L.A. Is My Lady: arriving at Jones's office, he rehearsed, set keys, and routined ten songs in under two hours; at a New York session with a full orchestra booked and rehearsed in advance, Frank came in at 7 p.m. and had recorded four songs and gone home by 8:28. Frank told Jones he could hardly believe how many years he'd spent waiting on musicians to work out notes the old way.

Source: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

[Reunites With Quincy Jones For L.A. Is My Lady]

In 1984 Sinatra again teamed with arranger-producer Quincy Jones on the album L.A. Is My Lady.

Source: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

[Quincy Jones Introduces Sinatra To Michael Jackson]

Nancy Sinatra: During the recording of L.A. Is My Lady, producer Quincy Jones arranged for Michael Jackson to visit the studio and meet Sinatra for the first time. Jones, who had produced both artists, remarked that only a handful of performers in history possessed that rare, singular gift, naming Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Sinatra and Jackson among them.

Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

[Death of Peter Lawford]

Consiglio: Consiglio notes that Peter Lawford's career and health declined steadily after losing Marilyn Monroe and JFK; he eventually died in 1984 at age sixty-one, his liver having given out.

Source: Tony Consiglio (as told to Franz Douskey), "Sinatra and Me: The Very Good Years" (2012)

[personal life]

Antoinette Giancana (via Santopietro): In her 1984 autobiography, Antoinette Giancana claimed her father Sam Giancana told her he and Sinatra had "an interest in the casino together" at Cal-Neva, and disputed Sinatra's public claim of only knowing Giancana since 1960, though Santopietro notes she offers no supporting evidence beyond her own recollection.

No corresponding dated entry could be identified in the chronology for this film/context.

Source: Tom Santopietro, "Sinatra in Hollywood" (2008), The Rat Pack (pt. 2)

[anecdote -- critical commentary]

Phil Ramone: During the L.A. Is My Lady sessions, Sinatra was visibly starstruck when Michael Jackson visited the studio, asking Phil Ramone whether Jackson would mind giving an autograph for his granddaughter.

Source: Charles L. Granata, "Sessions with Sinatra: Frank Sinatra and the Art of Recording" (1999/2003), Part IV: The Reprise Years

[anecdote/production -- critical commentary]

Phil Ramone: Quincy Jones had the L.A. Is My Lady sessions filmed on 16mm, but the lighting rig set up above Sinatra's vocal booth bothered him and he had it removed as soon as he entered; as a result much of the best rehearsal footage (with Sinatra relaxed, laughing, flubbing lyrics) was too dim to use.

Source: Charles L. Granata, "Sessions with Sinatra: Frank Sinatra and the Art of Recording" (1999/2003), Part IV: The Reprise Years

[engineering/studio description -- critical commentary]

Phil Ramone: Phil Ramone describes the A&R Studios vocal booth used for L.A. Is My Lady, originally built for Sinatra's 1967 return to New York recording, as a large forty-foot open sound-stage-like space with a piano and couch. Sinatra, on arrival, recognized it and remarked, 'I've been in this joint before.'

Source: Charles L. Granata, "Sessions with Sinatra: Frank Sinatra and the Art of Recording" (1999/2003), Part IV: The Reprise Years

January 11, 1984

Concerts

Hyatt Regency, Houston, Texas

Wortham Theater Center Benefit for Arts and Humanities w/Buddy Rich

1. I've Got the World on a String

2. At Long Last Love

3. I've Got You Under My Skin

4. When Your Lover Has Gone

5. Change Partners

6. This Is All I Ask

7. Come Rain or Come Shine

8. Luck Be a Lady

9. My Way

10. Here's to the Band

11. Pennies From Heaven

12. I Can't Get Started

13. I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry

14. The Lady Is a Tramp

15. Theme From New York, New York

NOTE: Jim White was living and working in Houston when this event took place, but could not afford the big bucks to join the sponsoring organization and attend the event! It was certainly the event of the year insofar as Houston High Society was concerned.

Extras

Hyatt Regency, Houston, Texas

Wortham Theater Center Benefit for Arts and Humanities

w/Buddy Rich

Houston Major Kathy Whitmire (L) has a friendly chat with Frank Sinatra (R)before his benefit concert January 11, 1984.

Sinatra is donating all the proceeds to the Houston Wortham Theater Center and the Texas Commission on the Arts.

Admission per person ranged from $1,000 to $2,500 which the fundrasing effort expected to raise $1,000,000.

Singer Frank Sinatra, left, a member of President Reagan's Committee on the Arts and Humanities,

is donating his services to a concert on Wednesday night at the Hyatt Regency that benefits

the Wortham Theater Center and the Texas Commission on the Arts. He's chatting here

with Vincent and Mary Kickerillo, underwriters of the event to the tune of $100,000, during a recent visit to Houston

This calendar, or any parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any fashion

whatsoever without the prior written permission of the publisher (The

Sinatra Archive)

January 12, 1984

Concerts

Reunion Arena, Dallas, Texas

Buddy Rich & His Band

Thursday evening

Orchestra conducted by Joe Parnello

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. At Long Last Love

3. I've Got You Under My Skin

4. When Your Lover Has Gone

5. Change Partners

6. This Is All I Ask

7. Come Rain Or Come Shine

8. Luck Be A Lady

9. My Way

10. Here's To The Band

11. Pennies From Heaven

12. I Can't Get Started

13. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

14. The Lady Is A Tramp

15. New York, New York

Extras

Reunion Arena, Dallas, Texas

Buddy Rich & His Band

Thursday evening

Orchestra conducted by Joe Parnello

January 21, 1984

Concerts

Sun Dome, Tampa, Florida

First show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. At Long Last Love

3. I've Got You Under My Skin

4. When Your Lover Has Gone

5. Change Partners

6. This Is All I Ask

7. Come Rain Or Come Shine

8. monologue

9. Strangers In The Night

10. Luck Be A Lady

11. My Way

12. Here's To The Band

13. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

14. Pennies From Heaven

15. I Can't Get Started

16. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

17. The Lady Is A Tramp

18. New York, New York

Notes: TT 65mins.

Sun Dome Arena, Tampa, Florida

Second show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. At Long Last Love

3. I've Got You Under My Skin

4. When Your Lover Has Gone

5. Change Partners

6. This Is All I Ask

7. Come Rain Or Come Shine

8. Luck Be A Lady

9. My Way

10. Here's To The Band

11. Pennies From Heaven

12. Guess I’ll Hl Hang My Tears Out To Dry

13. I Can't Get Started

14. The Lady Is A Tramp

15. Strangers In The Night

16. New York, New York

Notes: TT 63mins.

note: Buddy Rich band backed Sinatra

Extras

Sun Dome, Tampa, Florida

First show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

January 30, 1984

Extras

In a January 30, 1984 letter to Nancy, former President Nixon recalled Sinatra's White House performance for the Italian president as one of his best decisions, dismissing critics who objected to Sinatra's presence over his reputation. Source: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

February 16, 1984

Concerts

Century Plaza, Los Angeles, California

Crystal Ball Gala, St. John's Hospital Benefit

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

Other Performers: Dean Martin, Sammy Davis

March 10, 1984

Extras

Friars Club, New York City

Saturday evening

Friars Testimonial Dinner For William B. Williams

Frank Sinatra and a host of stars.

Runs two and half hours.

March 15, 1984

Concerts

Riverfront Coliseum, Cincinnati, Ohio

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. I've Got the World on a String

2. At Long Last Love

3. I've Got You Under My Skin

4. When Your Lover Has Gone

5. Change Partners

6. This Is All I Ask

7. Come Rain or Come Shine

8. Luck Be a Lady

9. My Way

10. Here's to the Band

11. How You Keep the Music Playing?

12. I Can't Get Started

13. I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry

14. The Lady Is a Tramp

15. Strangers in the Night

16. Theme From New York, New York

Extras

Riverfront Coliseum, Cincinnati, Ohio

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

March 18, 1984

Concerts

Radio City Music Hall, New York City

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Benefit

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

Other Performers: Buddy Rich, Luciano Pavarotti, Diana Ross and Montserrat Caballe

1. I've Got You Under My Skin

2. I Get A Kick Out Of You

3. Pennies From Heaven

4. At Long Last Love

5. Come Rain Or Come Shine

6. Here's To The Band

7. Here's That Rainy Day

8. Change Partners

9. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

10. Luck Be A Lady

Notes: TT 62mins.

Extras

Radio City Music Hall, New York City

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Benefit

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

Other Performers: Buddy Rich, Luciano Pavarotti, Diana Ross and Montserrat Caballe

March 20, 1984

Concerts

Veterans Memorial Coliseum, New Haven, Conn.

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. At Long Last Love

3. I've Got You Under My Skin

4. When Your Lover Has Gone

5. Change Partners

6. This Is All I Ask

7. Come Rain Or Come Shine

8. monologue

9. Luck Be A Lady

10.. My Way

11. Here's To The Band

12. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

13. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

14. The Lady Is A Tramp

15. Strangers In The Night

16. New York, New York

Notes: TT 57mins.

Extras

Veterans Memorial Coliseum, New Haven, Conn.

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

March 23, 1984

Concerts

Premier Entertainment Center, Detroit, Michigan

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. At Long Last Love

3. I've Got You Under My Skin

4. When Your Lover Has Gone

5. Change Partners

6. This Is All I Ask

7. Come Rain Or Come Shine

8. monologue

9. Luck Be A Lady

10. My Way

11. Here's To The Band

12. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

13. I Can't Get Started

14. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

15. The Lady Is A Tramp

16. Strangers In The Night

17. New York, New York

Notes: TT 67mins.

Extras

Premier Entertainment Center, Detroit, Michigan

March 24, 1984

Concerts

Premier Entertainment Center, Detroit, Michigan

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

First Show

1. I've Got the World on a String

2. At Long Last Love

3. I've Got You Under My Skin

4. When Your Lover Has Gone

5. Change Partners

6. This Is All I Ask

7. Come Rain or Come Shine

8. Luck Be a Lady

9. My Way

10. Here's to the Band

11. How Do You Keep the Music Playing?

12. I Can't Get Started

13. I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry

14. The Lady Is a Tramp

15. Strangers in the Night

16. Theme From New York, New York

Premier Entertainment Center, Detroit, Michigan

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

Second Show

1. I've Got the World on a String

2. At Long Last Love

3. I've Got You Under My Skin

4. When Your Lover Has Gone

5. Change Partners

6. This Is All I Ask

7. Come Rain or Come Shine

8. Luck Be a Lady

9. My Way

10. Here's to the Band

11. How Do You Keep the Music Playing?

12. I Can't Get Started

13. I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry

14. The Lady Is a Tramp

15. Strangers in the Night

16. Theme From New York, New York

April 1984

Extras

[recording session/personnel -- critical commentary]

Sinatra recorded his very last 'live to tape' album, L.A. Is My Lady, over three nights at New York's A&R Studios in April 1984, with producer Quincy Jones and engineer Phil Ramone (making a rare return to the engineering booth).

Source: Charles L. Granata, "Sessions with Sinatra: Frank Sinatra and the Art of Recording" (1999/2003), Part IV: The Reprise Years

April 11, 1984

Concerts

Pittsburgh Civic Center, PA

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. At Long Last Love

3. I've Got You Under My Skin

4. When Your Lover Has Gone

5. Change Partners

6. This Is All I Ask

7. Come Rain Or Come Shine

8. Luck Be A Lady

9. My Way

10. Here's To The Band

11. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

12. I Can't Get Started

13. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

14. The Lady Is A Tramp

15. Strangers In The Night

16. New York, New York

Notes: TT 58mins.

Extras

Pittsburgh Civic Center, PA

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

April 13, 1984

Studio

New York City

CNY3370 Until The Real Thing Comes Along

(Mann Holiner/Alberta Nichols/Sammy Cahn/Saul Chaplin/L.E. Freeman) Chappell & Co. inc./Anne-Rachel Music Corp./WB Music Copr. (ASCAP) Arranged by Sam Nestico

Conducted by Quincy Jones

-5 (3:04) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 20

LP: 1-25145 L.A. Is My Lady

45: 7-29223

CNY3369 L.A. Is My Lady (NR)

(Alan Bergman/Marilyn Bergman/Quincy Jones/Peggy Lipton Jones) Yellow Brick Road Music (ASCAP)/Rashida Music (BMI)

Arranged by Quincy Jones, Dave Matthews, Jerry Hey & Torrie Zito Conducted by Quincy Jones

CNY3402 After You've Gone

(Henry Creamer/Turner Layton)

Morley Music Co. (ASCAP)

Arranged by Frank Foster

Conducted by Quincy Jones

-3 (3:17) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 20

LP: 1-25145 L.A. Is My Lady

CNY3372 Body And Soul

Arranged by Bob James

Conducted by Quincy Jones

Orchestral Overdub 10/26/07 Conducted by Frank Sinatra Jr.

CD: OPCD-8286 - Nothing But The Best

Also released as bonus track on the Capitol (602465930634) 2024 CD release of L.A. Is My Lady

Ed Notes:

The title track for this album recorded in NYC remains unreleased. Sinatra did a vocal overdub in

LA on 5-17-84. "Body And Soul" was attempted (3 takes) but Sinatra wasn't at all satisfied. He told Quincy Jones that they would try it again at the next session.

He did not make another attempt.

Eventually the song was released on the 2008 release

"Nothing But The Best" with an Orchestral Overdub from

October 26, 2007 conducted by Frank Sinatra Jr.

--Scott

Note: Bob James did a jazz arrangement for the 1984 recording. The released recording has a chart by Torrie Zito that is very un-jazz like. If you have seen the video of Jr's orchestral session, his movements are totally out of synch with the vocal. Tis' a mystery why this was done.

--Ed

Extras

New York City

CNY3370 Until The Real Thing Comes Along

CNY3369 L.A. Is My Lady

CNY3402 After You've Gone

CNY3372 Body And Soul

"Body and Soul"

Frank Sinatra: On the never-released 'Body and Soul' (arranged by smooth-jazz figure Bob James, his only Sinatra chart), session tapes capture Sinatra actively directing the production, telling Quincy Jones to strip the opening down: 'Do it with piano and voice, make it sound like a saloon in front.' It was Sinatra's first attempt at the standard since 1947, but he judged his own scratchy-throated vocal not good enough to release.

Source: Will Friedwald, "Sinatra! The Song Is You: A Singer's Art" (2018 revised edition).

"After You've Gone"

Frank Foster: Frank Foster described deliberately writing an idiosyncratic, personal chart: 'I was just trying to put a heavy personal Frank Foster touch on it. I try not to borrow from anybody else. I just went down into my own arsenal of licks and said, "I'm just going to make this a bad motherfucker!" I liked the challenge of writing the up-tempo arrangement.'

Source: Will Friedwald, "Sinatra! The Song Is You: A Singer's Art" (2018 revised edition).

Source: CS 050 -- Getzel #1, "Sinatra Unreleased" liner notes. The bootleg's annotator places "Body and Soul" at the end of the first day of the "L.A. Is My Lady" sessions, recalling that a ready-to-leave, unhappy Sinatra told the studio, "We'll do it on the next date" -- a redo that, per the notes, never happened, leaving the song unreleased.

[Body and Soul / Stormy Weather -- critical commentary]

Allen Sides / Granata: One New York session for L.A. Is My Lady was marred by an air-conditioning failure and electrical power outage; several songs were re-recorded in Los Angeles. Accounts differ on the details -- Allen Sides recalls a session where Sinatra, partway through, chose to intercut a new section rather than restart 'Body and Soul' (his first attempt at the song since his 1947 Columbia recording) after concern about running late for an appointment cut a full retake short.

This song/context matches multiple dated entries in the chronology, or lacked a sufficiently precise date; the specific date could not be determined with confidence.

Source: Charles L. Granata, "Sessions with Sinatra: Frank Sinatra and the Art of Recording" (1999/2003), Part IV: The Reprise Years

[L.A. Is My Lady -- critical commentary]

Quincy Jones: Quincy Jones and his then-wife Peggy Lipton wrote 'L.A. Is My Lady' for a civic celebration involving L.A. mayor Tom Bradley, not with Sinatra in mind. Jones: 'They might have written a different song if they had known that at the time.' Sinatra heard it independently, called Jones, and proposed using it as a title track for a new album. Friedwald judges the finished track a misguided attempt, via a Garland-style slow-down climax, to replicate the 'New York, New York' formula, and faults its disco-inflected sound as dated for 1984.

This song/context matches multiple dated entries in the chronology; the specific date Friedwald is referring to could not be determined with confidence.

Source: Will Friedwald, "Sinatra! The Song Is You: A Singer's Art" (2018 revised edition), Ch. 10, "Concert Years" (1973-1994)

April 14, 1984

Concerts

Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. At Long Last Love

3. I've Got You Under My Skin

4. When Your Lover Has Gone

5. Change Partners

6. This Is All I Ask

7. Come Rain Or Come Shine

8. monologue

9. Luck Be A Lady

10. My Way

11. Here's To The Band

12. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

13. I Can't Get Started

14. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

15. The Lady Is A Tramp

16. Strangers In The Night

17. New York, New York

Notes: TT 74mins.

Extras

Spectrum, Philadelphia, PA

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

[image referenced in source but could not be recovered]

April 16, 1984

Studio

New York City

CNY3401 A Hundred Years From Today

(Joe Young/Ned Washington/Victor Young)

EMI Robbins Catalog Inc./Warock Corp. (ASCAP)

Arranged by Sam Nestico

Conducted by Quincy Jones

-5 (3:07) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 20

LP: 1-25145 L.A. Is My Lady

CNY3394 The Best Of Everything

(Fred Ebb/John Kander)

Fiddeback Music Publishing Co. Inc./Kander & Ebb Inc. (BMI) Arranged by Joe Parnello

Conducted by Quincy Jones

-2 (2:47) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 20

LP: 1-25145 L.A. Is My Lady

45: 7-28844

CNY3397 It's Alright With Me

(Cole Porter)

Chappell & Co. inc. (ASCAP)

Arranged by Sam Nestico

Conducted by Quincy Jones

-2 (2:40) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 20

LP: 1-25145 L.A. Is My Lady

45: 7-29139

CNY3398 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

-3 LP: 1-25145 L.A. Is My Lady

45: 7-29139

12 inch single with remix

Extras

[Mack the Knife -- critical commentary]

Quincy Jones / Frank Foster: Sinatra initially resisted recording 'Mack the Knife,' telling Quincy Jones, 'Louis [Armstrong] and all of them did it so well, what the hell can we do with it?' Jones insisted he could make it 'distinctively yours' and told arranger Frank Foster simply to 'Make it funky.' Foster: 'I stole some licks from Lionel Hampton's "Flying Home," and I just put a whole potpourri of stuff in there [as countermelodies]. When the band played it, it was swinging so hard and so was Frank, and when he got to the end of it, he was so delighted with it, he threw the whole arrangement up in the air!' Foster's lyric additions explicitly acknowledge Armstrong, Darin, and Ella Fitzgerald's prior versions.

This song/context matches multiple dated entries in the chronology; the specific date Friedwald is referring to could not be determined with confidence.

Source: Will Friedwald, "Sinatra! The Song Is You: A Singer's Art" (2018 revised edition), Ch. 10, "Concert Years" (1973-1994)

[Mack the Knife -- critical commentary]

'Mack the Knife' became a longtime Sinatra favorite from the L.A. Is My Lady sessions; he knew it was a strong take in the studio, signaling for an immediate playback by twirling his finger in the air the moment the take ended.

This song/context matches multiple dated entries in the chronology, or lacked a sufficiently precise date; the specific date could not be determined with confidence.

Source: Charles L. Granata, "Sessions with Sinatra: Frank Sinatra and the Art of Recording" (1999/2003), Part IV: The Reprise Years

April 17, 1984

Studio

New York City

CNY3396 Teach Me Tonight

(Sammy Cahn/Gene De Paul)

WB Music Corp./Hub Music Co. inc. (ASCAP)

Arranged by Torrie Zito

Conducted by Quincy Jones

-2 (3:45) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 20

LP: 1-25145 L.A. Is My Lady

45: 7-28844

Flip side of single was "The Best Of Everything"

Extras

New York City

CNY3396 Teach Me Tonight

CNY3399 Stormy Weather -3 (N/R)

CNY3400 If I Should Lose You

CNY3395 How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

[Teach Me Tonight / Until the Real Thing Comes Along / Mack the Knife -- critical commentary]

Frank Foster: Sammy Cahn wrote racy new special lyrics for Sinatra's L.A. Is My Lady versions of 'Until the Real Thing Comes Along' and 'Teach Me Tonight,' the latter adding a triple rhyme ('graduate,' 'articulate,' 'matriculate'). Frank Foster, who had written his own additional lyrics for 'Mack the Knife' on the same album, remarked: 'I had thought the words that I added to "Mack" were pretty out there, but Sammy's (on "Teach Me Tonight") were really "hellified!" Yeah, they were pretty risque.'

This song/context matches multiple dated entries in the chronology; the specific date Friedwald is referring to could not be determined with confidence.

Source: Will Friedwald, "Sinatra! The Song Is You: A Singer's Art" (2018 revised edition), Ch. 10, "Concert Years" (1973-1994)

April 19, 1984

Concerts

Devaney Sports Arena, Lincoln, Nebraska

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. At Long Last Love

3. I've Got You Under My Skin

4. When Your Lover Has Gone

5. Change Partners ( Parnello arg.)

6. Come Rain Or Come Shine

7. Luck Be A Lady

8. My Way monologue

9. Here's To The Band

10. I Can't Get Started

11. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

12. The Lady Is A Tramp

13. Strangers In The Night

14. New York, New York

Ed O'Brien

Frank's first concert after the New York sessions for "L.A. Is My Lady" album. He opted not to sing any of the songs laid down on 4/13/16/17.

Extras

Devaney Sports Arena, Lincoln, Nebraska

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

Liner Notes: L.A. IS MY LADY

L.A. Is My Lady pairs Sinatra, at sixty-eight, with producer and arranger Quincy Jones for the first time since the two had worked together on live dates years earlier -- a collaboration that brings a noticeably more contemporary, jazz-inflected sheen to Sinatra's sound, built around a crack studio band that included jazz musicians of the first rank.

The title track, a rewrite of a song originally built around Chicago, gives the record its organizing conceit -- a tribute to Sinatra's adopted home turned into a swinging, up-tempo opener -- while the rest of the album balances brisk uptempo numbers against a handful of ballads that showcase a voice inevitably marked by age but still capable of real interpretive precision.

It would be Sinatra's final studio album of new material recorded specifically as a full-length project before the Duets records of the following decade changed the terms of what a late-career Sinatra album could even be. L.A. Is My Lady closes out, with real energy and considerable craft, the long line of Sinatra studio albums that began, three decades earlier, with Songs for Young Lovers.

Written by Claude (Anthropic), commissioned for this chronology, 2026.

April 20, 1984

Television

Jerry Lewis Talk Show

Guest: Frank Sinatra.

Sinatra Was The First Guest On His Short Lived Talk Show

April 28, 1984

Concerts

UCLA-Pauley Pavilion, Los Angeles, California

SHARE Inc. Boomtown Benefit

Orchestra Conducted By: Henry Mancini

Other Performers: Dean Martin,Sammy Davis jr., Lionel Richie

M.C.: Tom Selleck

1. New York, New York

May 1, 1984

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Fly Me to the Moon

2. Here's to the Band

3. Please Be Kind

4. How Do You Keep the Music Playing?

5. Pennies From Heaven

6. My Way

7. Theme From New York, New York

8. The Best of Everything

9. This Is All I Ask

10. The Lady Is a Tramp

11. Here's That Rainy Day

12. L.A. Is My Lady

13. It's All Right With Me

14. When Your Lover Has Gone

15. Come Rain or Come Shine

16. Luck Be a Lady

Extras

Gordon Jenkins died in Los Angeles on May 1st, 1984. Frank later described him as one of the modern "geniuses of good pop music.". (Source: Richard Havers, "Sinatra" (Dorling Kindersley, 2007).)

May 2, 1984

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. Hereâ s To The Band

3. Please Be Kind nd

4. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

5. Pennies From Heaven

6. My Way

7. New York, New York

8. monologue

9. The Best Of Everything

10. This Is All I Ask

11. The Lady Is A Tramp

12. Here's That Rainy Day

13. L. A. Is My Lady

14. A Foggy Day

15. It's All Right With Me

16. When Your Lover Has Gone

17. Come Rain Or Come Shine

18. Luck Be A Lady

Notes: TT 73mins..

May 3, 1984

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. Here's To The Band

3. How Do You Keep The Music Playing

4. Please Be Kind

5. The Best Of Everything

6. My Way

7. Pennies From Heaven

8. This Is All I Ask

9. Come Rain Or Come Shine

10. When Your Lover Has Gone

11. It's Alright With Me

13. L.A. Is My Lady

12. Here's That Rainy Day

14. New York, New York

15. Luck Be A Lady

Notes: TT 53mins.

May 4, 1984

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. Here's To The Band

3. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

4. The Best Of Everything

5. My Way

6. Pennies From Heaven

7. This Is All I Ask

8. Come Rain Or Come Shine

9. When Your Lover Has Gone

10. L. A. Is My Lady

11. New York, New York

12. Luck Be A Lady

Notes: TT 53mins.

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. Here's To The Band

3. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

4. The Best Of Everything

5. My Way

6. Pennies From Heaven

7. This Is All I Ask

8. Come Rain Or Come Shine

9. When Your Lover Has Gone

10. L. A. Is My Lady

11. New York, New York

12. Luck Be A Lady

Notes: TT 53mins.

May 5, 1984

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

First Show

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. Here's To The Band

3. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

4. Please Be Kind

5. The Best Of Everything

6. My Way

7. Pennies From Heaven

8. This Is All I Ask

9. Come Rain Or Come Shine

10. When Your Lover Has Gone

11. L.A. Is My Lady

12. Here's That Rainy Day

13. Luck Be A Lady

Notes: TT 57mins.

May 8, 1984

Concerts

Arie Crown Theater, Chicago, Illinois

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Fly Me to the Moon

2. Here's to the Band

3. Please Be Kind

4. The Best of Everything

5. My Way

6. Theme From New York, New York

7. This Is All I Ask

8. Come Rain or Come Shine

9. It's All Right With Me

10. When Your Lover Has Gone

11. L.A. Is My Lady

12. I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry

13. Pennies From Heaven

14. How Do You Keep the Music Playing?

15. My Kind of Town

Extras

Arie Crown Theater, Chicago, Illinois

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

May 9, 1984

Concerts

Arie Crown Theater, Chicago, Illinois

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. Here's To The Band

3. Please Be Kind

4. The Best Of Everything

5. My Way

6. New York, New York

7. This Is All I Ask

8. Come Rain Or Come Shine

9. monologue

10. It's All Right With Me

11. Strangers In The Night

12. When Your Lover Has Gone

13. L.A. Is My Lady

14. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

15. Pennies From Heaven

16. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

17. My Kind Of Town

Notes: TT 71mins.

May 10, 1984

Concerts

Arie Crown Theater, Chicago, Illinois (9 - 12)

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Fly Me to the Moon

2. Here's to the Band

3. Please Be Kind

4. The Best of Everything

5. My Way

6. Theme From New York, New York

7. This Is All I Ask

8. Come Rain or Come Shine

9. It's All Right With Me

10. When Your Lover Has Gone

11. L.A. Is My Lady

12. I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry

13. Pennies From Heaven

14. How Do You Keep the Music Playing?

15. My Kind of Town

May 11, 1984

Concerts

Arie Crown Theater, Chicago, Illinois (9 - 12)

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. Here's To The Band

3. Please Be Kind

4. The Best Of Everything

5. My Way

6. New York, New York

7. This Is All I Ask

8. Come Rain Or Come Shine

9. monologue

10. It's All Right With Me

11. When Your Lover Has Gone

12. L. A. Is My Lady

13. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

14. Pennies From Heaven

15. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

16. My Kind Of Town

Notes: TT 65mins.

May 12, 1984

Concerts

Arie Crown Theater, Chicago, Illinois

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. Here's To The Band

3. Please Be Kind

4. The Best Of Everything

5. My Way

6. New York, New York

7. This Is All I Ask

8. Come Rain Or Come Shine

9. monologue

10. It's All Right With Me

11. When Your Lover Has Gone

12. L. A. Is My Lady

13. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

14. Pennies From Heaven

15. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

16. My Kind Of Town

Notes: TT 70mins.

May 13, 1984

Concerts

Mecca Arena, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. Fly Me To The Moon

3. Here's To The Band

4. Please Be Kind

5. The Best Of Everything

6. My Way

7. New York, New York

8. This Is All I Ask

9. Come Rain Or Come Shine

10. monologue

11. L. A. Is My Lady

12. When Your Lover Has Gone

13. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

14. Pennies From Heaven

15. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

16. The Lady Is A Tramp

17. Luck Be A Lady

Notes: TT 73mins.

May 14, 1984

Concerts

Mecca Arena, Milwaukee, WI,

The orchestra was conducted by Joe Parnello

1. I've Got the World on a String

2. Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)

3. Here's to the Band

4. Please Be Kind

5. The Best of Everything

6. My Way

7. Theme From New York, New York

8. This Is All I Ask

9. Come Rain or Come Shine

10. L.A. Is My Lady

11. When Your Lover Has Gone

12. I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry

13. Pennies From Heaven

14. How Do You Keep the Music Playing?

15. The Lady Is a Tramp

16. Luck Be a Lady

Extras

Mecca Arena, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

When worlds collide Sinatra fans, Clash fans share the street in 1984

Concertgoers heading to see Frank Sinatra at the Milwaukee Arena share sidewalk space on W. Kilbourn Ave. with a fan of the influential punk band the Clash, who were playing at the Auditorium at the same time on May 14, 1984. Credit: Journal sentinel files

Oct. 13, 2015

By Chris Foran of the Journal Sentinel

On a spring night in Milwaukee, the pop-music equivalents of matter and antimatter met without explosion or incident.

On May 14, 1984, Frank Sinatra, the 69-year-old Chairman of the Board, was making a rare Milwaukee concert appearance before 10,728 at the Arena (now UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena). Next door, the British punk legends the Clash, were making a rare stop in town, too, playing before 3,625 fans at the Auditorium (now the Milwaukee Theatre).

As crowds made their way downtown to see the two very different shows, old school met new school. Milwaukee Journal photographer Richard Brodzeller captured it in a photo that ran on the front page of the May 15, 1984, Journal; the caption started with, "When Worlds Collide..."

In a Journal story that accompanied the photo, Gerald Kloss talked with an Oak Creek woman who was seeing Sinatra for the second time the first time was at the Riverside Theater more than 40 years earlier.

Back then, the woman, then a 13-year-old bobby-soxer, and two of her friends got into the show for 35 cents. (They sat through it four times; the program also included a movie, cartoon and a newsreel.) Tickets for the show she saw at the Arena in 1984 were a then-steep $25.

Although she loved the show the second time around, she told Kloss, "I wish he'd sung at least one of his old songs from the '40s. Like 'All or Nothing at All' or 'I'll Never Smile Again' or 'This Love of Mine.' The things he sang at the Riverside, you know."

As Milwaukee Sentinel reviewer Jim Higgins pointed out in his Page 1 review in the May 15 edition, the Sinatra she saw wasn't the same guy as the 1940s crooner.

"When Frank Sinatra first fought for the big purses, he was like Sugar Ray Robinson daring and cat-quick," Higgins wrote. "Now he's like Jake LaMotta slower, perhaps, but a brawler who could pound his way through a bank vault. The styles, though, have never mattered because the result is always the same. The audience gets knocked out, and Sinatra is declared champion."

The Clash's show that night was similarly a bit of a slugfest, wrote Terry Higgins, Jim's brother, who reviewed the Clash's concert for the Sentinel.

"The band's performance Monday at the Auditorium was a ragged but passionate defense of some pretty strong beliefs, and (was) notice that the group is not yet ready to explode under internal instability."

By the time of the Auditorium show, the band that had set the standard for smart, aggressive and still tuneful punk music was in disarray. By 1984, singer-guitarist Joe Strummer was without the band's other key driving forces, drummer Topper Headon and singer and co-songwriter Mick Jones, and struggling to retain its focus.

But the concert showed there was still enough passion, especially from Strummer, to keep the music relevant and engaging.

"The Clash has been accused of selling out by moderating and expanding its sound," Terry Higgins wrote. "But the concert was proof the group is still as involved and committed as ever."

Journal critic Divina Infusino agreed: "...Generally, the Clash gave the kind of convincing and heartfelt performance that will keep it not only alive, but also growing."

It didn't work out that way, however. The Clash never played in Milwaukee again, at least according to the list of gigs on the band's official website; the band broke up for good in 1985, and Strummer, after a vital diverse solo career, died of heart failure in 2002 at age 50. The Clash was elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003.

Sinatra, however, did play Milwaukee again, including a benefit concert for the Italian Community Center at the Marcus Amphitheater in 1990 with Don Rickles and Pia Zadora opening and a show at the Bradley Center in 1992.

But the voice that got him there continued to fade. The signs were abundant in the 1984 concert; in her review, Journal reviewer Jackie Loohauis noted that pitch trouble diminished the impact of many of his signature tunes, including "Theme From New York, New York."

But even then, Loohauis wrote, "Sinatra could dip into the deepest well of his range on one number and then crack halfway there on the next song. A note he missed in one verse he scooped up in his first in the next."

Sinatra continued performing, and punching for several more years. He died in 1998, at age 82.

As Jim Higgins pointed out in his Sinatra review, maybe those two worlds had more in common after all.

"In spite of what people may have heard, the Clash and Sinatra aren't all that different," Jim Higgins wrote.

"The Clash have billed themselves as 'the only band that matters.' Sinatra has always felt that way, too about himself."

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May 15, 1984

Concerts

Constitution Hall, Washington DC

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. I've Got the World on a String

2. Fly Me to the Moon

3. Here's to the Band

4. Please Be Kind

5. The Best of Everything

6. My Way

7. Theme From New York, New York

8. This Is All I Ask

9. Come Rain or Come Shine

10. L.A. Is My Lady

11. When Your Lover Has Gone

12. I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry

13. Pennies From Heaven

14. How Do You Keep the Music Playing?

15. The Lady Is a Tramp

16. Luck Be a Lady

May 17, 1984

Studio

Los Angeles

CNY3369 L.A. Is My Lady

(Alan Bergman/Marilyn Bergman/Quincy Jones/Peggy Lipton Jones)

Yellow Brick Road Music (ASCAP)/Rashida Music (BMI)

Arranged by Quincy Jones, Dave Matthews, Jerry Hey & Torrie Zito

Conducted by Quincy Jones

-2 (3:12) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 20

LP: 1-25145 L.A. Is My Lady

45: 7-29223 (Edited)

The title track for this album recorded in NYC 4-13-84

remains unreleased. Sinatra did a vocal overdub in

LA on 5-17-84.

CNY3399 Stormy Weather

(Ted Kochler/Harold Arlen)

Fred Ahlert Music Corp./The Songwriters Guild (ASCAP)

Arranged by Sam Nestico

Conducted by Joe Parnello

(3:40) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 20

LP: 1-25145 L.A. Is My Lady

CNY3395 How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

(Alan Bergman/Marilyn Bergman/Michel Legrand)

WB Music Corp. (ASCAP)

Arranged by Bob Florence

Conducted by Joe Parnello

CD: Capitol Records – 602465930634 - L.A. Is My Lady Deluxe Edition, 2024

correction on overdub

NOTE: Sinatra Scholar Ed O'Brien tells us that the title track of the "L.A. Is My Lady" album was recorded at this session. However, that recording, made in New York City, remains unreleased. It is O'Brien's understanding that Sinatra got a few words wrong and the Los Angeles recording was deemed necessary. The recording of "How Do You Keep the Music Playing" with the Bob Florence arrangement is considered superior to the released version with Parnello's chart. But, O'Brien points out, Sinatra mixed up a few words on the re-do. "Stormy Weather" was also a remake from the New York sessions. Sinatra had a song dropped a full tone for the May effort.

Extras

[Stormy Weather -- critical commentary]

Phil Ramone: Originally cut in New York on April 17, 1984 right after 'Teach Me Tonight,' Sinatra's third official 'Stormy Weather' had to be entirely rerecorded in L.A. after producer Phil Ramone and Quincy Jones discovered on playback that the orchestra had been a half-step high. Ramone recalled the original vocal was 'beautiful. He sang his ass off,' but the West Coast remake, done weeks later, was 'not as great.'

This song/context matches multiple dated entries in the chronology; the specific date Friedwald is referring to could not be determined with confidence.

Source: Will Friedwald, "Sinatra! The Song Is You: A Singer's Art" (2018 revised edition), Ch. 10, "Concert Years" (1973-1994)

June 1, 1984

Concerts

The Fox Theater, Atlanta, GA

AT&T Benefit

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. Teach Me Tonight

3. It's All Right With Me

4. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

5. Stormy Weather

6. L.. A. Is My Lady

7. Come Rain Or Come Shine

8. monologue

9. Luck Be A Lady

10. The Best Of Everything

11. Here's That Rainy Day

12. Pennies From Heaven

13. My Way

14. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

15. New York, New York

Notes: TT 67mins.

June 4, 1984

Concerts

Carnegie Hall, New York City

Benefit for Carnegie Hall

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. L.A. Is My Lady

3. The Best Of Everything

4. Here's That Rainy Day

5. Luck Be A Lady

6. This Is All I Ask

7. Come Rain Or Come Shine

8. My Way

9. monologue

10. Mack The Knife

11. Stormy Weather

12. It's All Right With Me

13. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

14. Teach Me Tonight

15. Pennies From Heaven

16. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

17. New York, New York

Note: Engagement would run through the 17th of the month. Frank would be dark on the 11th and miss the14th with a sore throat. Twelve shows in all. He was introducing his new album and The Times review will describes how he did it.

CONCERT: FRANK SINATRA AT CARNEGIE BENEFIT

By Jon Pareles

June 6, 1984

Amid the hoopla that inevitably surrounds Frank Sinatra's concerts, like the 13- night stand at Carnegie Hall that started Monday with a black-tie benefit for the hall, the singer himself has become disarmingly low-key. He ambles to center stage, introduces each song with credits for composer, lyricist and arranger, then sings in a calm, musicianly way - taking a little chance with the timing here, tossing off a smoothly burnished phrase there, letting his big band carry him up to a swaggering climax, then easing off. Although the band sits before a Las Vegas-style backdrop, sometimes illuminated by slides of cities or clouds, Mr. Sinatra acts like a recitalist, not a pop idol.

As in a recital, concentration is the key; the unexamined phrase is not worth singing. And the 68-year-old singer with one of the world's most celebrated baritone voices lets us hear every one of his vocal ideas, not hiding himself in busy arrangements as a lesser singer might. Despite occasional lapses of attention, and a few technical problems at quiet moments, he gave most songs a subtle glow.

Mr. Sinatra has just finished recording an album, and in Monday's show he consulted lyric sheets as he sang newer songs, which were interspersed with such standards as ''Here's That Rainy Day,'' ''Fly Me to the Moon'' and ''Stormy Weather.'' The inevitable comparison made the more recent songs - too many of which are saddled with bathetic lyrics by Marilyn and Alan Bergman - sound disposable, and Mr. Sinatra made his way through them dutifully but without much flair.

He saved his better efforts for older tunes. In ''Luck Be a Lady,'' from ''Guys and Dolls,'' he adopted his Nathan Detroit demeanor and cruised through a tricky, chromatic arrangement. ''Pennies From Heaven,'' ''Come Rain or Come Shine'' and an up-tempo version of Cole Porter's ''It's All Right With Me'' were bouyant and playful, with one perfectly placed, octave-long slide to top Don Costa's bustling arrangement on ''Come Rain or Come Shine.'' While some of the ballads on the program were shaky and unconvincing, Mr. Sinatra found a quietly rueful approach to ''Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry.'' And as in his December concert at Meadowlands Stadium, he recast ''My Way'' virtually without braggadocio. Although Mr. Sinatra's patter between songs had its embarrassing moments, he projects something like humility before the songs he sings - a posture grounded in genuine confidence. By making the songs the center of attention, he doesn't do badly by the singer, either.

The Buddy Rich band opened the concert with a half hour of brassy arrangements that were as unerring, and as emotional, as a jackhammer.

Extras

Carnegie Hall, New York City

Benefit for Carnegie Hall

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

note: Wednesday night, 6-6-84, was the official opening for the public. The 6/4 and 6/5 were both benefit performances

Sinatra would do 12 performances counting the two benefits from

6-4 thru 6-17. He did not appear in the hall on 6/13 or 6/14. 6/11-Frank was dark that night.

He did 11 shows.

This calendar, or any parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any fashion

whatsoever without the prior written permission of the publisher (The

Sinatra Archive)

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June 5, 1984

Concerts

Carnegie Hall, New York City

Benefit for Police Athletic League

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. L. A. Is My Lady

3. The Best Of Everything

4. Here's That Rainy Day

5. Luck Be A Lady

6. This Is All I Ask

7. Come Rain Or Come Shine

8. My Way

9. monologue

10. Mack The Knife

11. Stormy Weather

12. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

13. Teach Me Tonight

14. Pennies From Heaven

15. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

16. New York, New York

Notes: TT 74mins.

June 6, 1984

Concerts

Carnegie Hall, New York City

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1.. Fly Me To The Moon

2. L.A. Is My Lady

3. The Best Of Everything

4. Here's That Rainy Day

5. Luck Be A Lady

6. This Is All I Ask

7. Come Rain Or Come Shine

8. My Way

9. monologue

10. Mack The Knife

11. Stormy Weather

12. It's All Right With Me

13. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

14. Teach Me Tonight

15. Pennies From Heaven

16. Tony Mattola - Solo

17. I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

18. New York, New York

Notes: TT 77mins.

NOTE: Ed O'Brien reports that there was a music stand on the stage. Sinatra would walk out holding the lyric sheets, place them on the stand, and begin singing. He had recorded the "L.A. is my Lady" album in April and May without learning the lyrics. He sang seven songs from the album on opening night.

June 7, 1984

Concerts

Carnegie Hall, New York City

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. L. A. Is My Lady

3. The Best Of Everything

4. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

5. Luck Be A Lady

6. This Is All I Ask

7. Come Rain Or Come Shine

8. My Way

9. monologue

10. Mack The Knife

11. Stormy Weather

12. It's All Right With Me

13. Here's That Rainy Day

14. Teach Me Tonight

15. Pennies From Heaven

16. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

17. New York, New York

Notes: TT 71mins.

June 8, 1984

Concerts

Carnegie Hall, New York City

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. L. A. Is My Lady

3. The Best Of Everything

4. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

5. Luck Be A Lady

6. This Is All I Ask

7. Come Rain Or Come Shine

8. My Way

9. monologue

10. Mack The Knife

11. Stormy Weather

12. Here's That Rainy Day

13. Teach Me Tonight

14. Pennies From Heaven

15. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning

16. New York, New York

Notes: TT 76mins.

J. Daniels:

I cannot find much information on Joe Parnello, FS's musical director for what appears to be a couple of years. Never seen much discussion about his influence on Frank, the working relationship between the two, etc......

Ed O'Brien:

Parnello joined Frank in the fall of 1982. He would serve as Frank's arranger/conductor/pianist. Joe's arrangements for "How Do You Keep The Music Playing." "Change Partners," "The Best Of Everything" are his best known efforts. He also did some excellent charts for Frank's stage performances including "Come Rain Or Come Shine" ( uptempo w/quartet) and "One Flor My Baby" with quartet. Interesting tempo. Parnello's charts did not challenge the singer and he told Sinatra this would extend the career. You can see him conduct on the "Sinatra In Japan 1985" and he is seen many times on "Portrait Of An Album."

Parnello had to leave Frank in 1986 when a serious illness made it impossible for him to continue working. He died in 1987.

June 9, 1984

Concerts

Carnegie Hall, New York City

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. L. A. Is My Lady

3. The Best Of Everything

4. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

5. Luck Be A Lady

6. This Is All I Ask

7. Come Rain Or Come Shine

8. My Way

9. monologue

10. Mack The Knife

11. Stormy Weather

12. It's All Right With Me

13. Here's That Rainy Day

14. Teach Me Tonight

15. Pennies From Heaven

16. medley: It Never Entered My Mind / In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning

17.. New York, New York

Notes: TT 77mins.

June 10, 1984

Concerts

Carnegie Hall, New York City

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. L. A. Is My Lady

3. The Best Of Everything

4. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

5. Luck Be A Lady

6. This Is All I Ask

7. Come Rain Or Come Shine

8. monologue

9. My Way

10. Mack The Knife

11. Stormy Weather

12. Until The Real Thing Comes Along

13. Here's That Rainy Day

14. Teach Me Tonight

15. Pennies From Heaven

16. medley: It Never Entered My Mind / In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning

17. New York, New York

Notes: TT 64mins.

Extras

Carnegie Hall, New York City

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

June 11, 1984

Television

Jerry Lewis Show

Syndicated series

Monday evening

F.S. and Charlie Callas were the guests.

June 12, 1984

Concerts

Carnegie Hall, New York City

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. L. A. Is My Lady

3. The Best Of Everything

4. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

5. Luck Be A Lady

6. This Is All I Ask

7. Come Rain Or Come Shine

8. My Way

9. Mack The Knife

10. Stormy Weather

11. It's All Right With Me

12. Here's That Rainy Day

13. Teach Me Tonight

14.. Pennies From Heaven

15. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

16. New York, New York

Notes: TT 75mins.

June 14, 1984

Concerts

Carnegie Hall, New York City (Cancelled)

Notes: NYTimes Sinatra Cancels a Concert, Published: June 14, 1984. Frank Sinatra canceled his concert scheduled for tonight at Carnegie Hall, because of a sore throat, his representatives said. Refunds will be made where the tickets were purchased. The singer will return for the concerts tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday.

Ed O'Brien:

Frank opened on 6/4. He did one show a night through the 10th. Dark on the 11th. Came back on the 12th and struggled with some with throat problems. Missed both the 13th and 14th and then finished the engagement with shows on the 15th thru the 17th. The 11 shows set a new high b.o. record for both attendance and gross.

June 15, 1984

Concerts

Carnegie Hall, New York City

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. monologue

3. L. A. Is My Lady

4. The Lady Is A Tramp

5. The Best Of Everything

6. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

7. Luck Be A Lady

8. This Is All I Ask

9. Come Rain Or Come Shine

10. My Way

11. Here's To The Band

12. Mack The Knife

13. Stormy Weather

14. Until The Real Thing Comes Along

15. Here's That Rainy Day

16. Teach Me Tonight

17. Pennies From Heaven

18. medley: It Never Entered My Mind / In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning

19. New York, New York

Notes: TT 85mins.

June 16, 1984

Concerts

Carnegie Hall, New York City

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. L. A. Is My Lady

3. The Lady Is A Tramp

4. The Best Of Everything

5. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

6. Luck Be A Lady

7. This Is All I Ask

8. Come Rain Or Come Shine

9. My Way

10. Here's To The Band

11. monologue

12. Mack The Knife

13. Stormy Weather

14.. Until The Real Thing Comes Along

15. Here's That Rainy Day

16. Teach Me Tonight

17. Pennies From Heaven

18. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

19. New York, New York

Notes: TT 90mins.

June 17, 1984

Concerts

Carnegie Hall, New York City

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. L. A. Is My Lady

3. The Lady Is A Tramp

4. The Best Of Everything

5. Until The Real Thing Comes Along

6. Luck Be A Lady

7. This Is All I Ask

8. Come Rain Or Come Shine

9. My Way

10. Here's To The Band

11. monologue

12. Mack The Knife

13. Stormy Weather

14. Here's That Rainy Day

15. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

16. Teach Me Tonight

17. Pennies From Heaven

18. medley: It Never Entered My Mind / In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning

19. New York, New York

Notes: TT 83mins.

June 18, 1984

Concerts

The White House, Washington, DC

Sinatra sang "My Way" in honor of a visit by Sri Lankan leader, President J.R. Jayewardene Setlist include:

--Strangers In The Night

--Fly Me To The Moon

--My Way

--A Foggy Day

--Mack The Knife

note: Sinatra also sang "Mack The Knife" and "A Foggy Day."

There is a video of this event. Highlights include the

Sri Lankan president telling the dinner guests how much Sinatra hated "My Way" and Frank's wonderful rendition of "A Foggy Day."

Extras

The White House, Washington, DC

Sinatra performed in honor of a visit by Sri Lankan leader, President J.R. Jayewardene

President J.R. Jayewardene was hosted to dinner at the White House on 18 June 1984 by the then US President Ronald Reagan during his state visit to the USA where the Sri Lankan leader made public his love for Sinatra’s song.

“I haven’t forgotten about the help your country has given us during the last few years. But I didn’t come here to ask for help. That’s not my way. I’m waiting to hear Mr. Frank Sinatra sing ‘My Way’. [Laughter] That’s one of my favorite songs, but I understand he didn’t like it. I used it in part of my election campaign and asked the people to vote for my way, which they did,” President Jayewardene said during the toast.

And he was not disappointed. President Reagan had made special arrangement to have Frank Sinatra to be present at the White House dinner so that he could sing for the Lankan leader.

According to media reports, Frank Sinatra didn’t have much time to rehearse when the Reagan White House asked him to perform for a State dinner for the Sri Lankan leader in 1984. “Security at the White House was tightened in the aftermath of the bombing of the US Embassy in Beirut, and so bomb-sniffing dogs had to check out everything coming into the mansion, including musical instruments. On the day of the dinner, the dogs became too exhausted to work anymore, and Sinatra’s instruments were stranded outside the East Gate until replacement dogs could be called in,” according to an article published in the victoria advocate website in 2009 on White House music vignettes. https://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/2009/oct/19/bc-us-white-house-music-vignettes/

However, despite the obstacles, he did perform ‘My Way’ much to the delight of the Sri Lankan leader and other guests.

At the White House By Imitation Only

The Washington Post

By Elisabeth Burmiller and Elizabeth Kastor

June 19, 1984

YOU CAN TELL it's the last White House state dinner before the election when the guest list includes two interpreters of the presidential persona--author Theodore White and comedian Rich Little. Last night at the dinner for Sri Lanka, White said the only woman who could save Walter Mondale's Democratic ticket would be "Florence Nightingale or Joan of Arc." Several elbows away, Little imitated Ronald Reagan in a conversation over coffee with . . . Ronald Reagan.

So when the president was asked whom he would least like to run against in the fall, he turned to Little.

"Dolly Parton," piped up the comedian.

When the president was asked how he felt about a Mondale-Hart ticket, he once again turned to Little and said, "Go ahead, you're doing fine."

"I think the president would like a Hart bypass," said Little. The president laughed politely.

A few moments later, Reagan did his own imitation of Jimmy Stewart, which he seemed to enjoy more than answering questions about the possibility of nuclear arms talks with Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko. "I have no resistance to meeting with him," Reagan said. "I said that the other night 21 times."

It was a state dinner for President Junius R. Jayewardene of Sri Lanka, and the usual mix of aging movie stars, American industrialists and pivotal politicians sat down to eat game hens, then listened to Frank Sinatra, the singer whom Nancy Reagan is said to have had a crush on since childhood. Sinatra, who sang "Strangers in the Night" and "Fly Me to the Moon," could only have been upstaged by Jayathu, an 18-month-old, 300-pound female elephant presented to Reagan by Jayewardene. But the elephant spent the night at the National Zoo, where she will make her home.

Thinnest among the guests was Jane Powell, the actress, who said she and Reagan "were very good friends at one time." She wore a shimmering peach and white silk dress that provoked the inevitable question: What does she eat?

"Everything I can get my hands on," she said, smiling.

"Let's follow her around for two days--and watch," said the first lady's press secretary, Sheila Tate.

As for White, he's writing his quadrennial book on the election, and when asked who would win, replied: "I know absolutely, but I promised I would keep it a secret."

Vice President Bush, meanwhile, said he didn't think Mondale's choice of a running mate was particularly important to the election. "I'm not overcome with instant modesty," he said, "but I just don't believe it's a determining factor."

Jayewardene is the fifth South Asian chief of state to visit the White House in the past two years. Earlier in the day, he and Reagan met in the Oval Office and talked about the Tamil separatists who want to form a nation on the northern part of the lush, pear-shaped tropical island just off the southeast coast of India. Once a state-controlled socialist economy, Sri Lanka has now opened up to free enterprise.

"You've led your country in a new direction and, by doing so, you created new opportunities for your people," Reagan said in his toast over dinner. "With the incentives that you now offer to investors, your country is attracting business and capturing the attention of American entrepreneurs."

In his toast, Jayewardene remembered growing up watching Charlie Chaplin and Laurel and Hardy and reading stories about Buffalo Bill. He made frequent jokes that kept the audience laughing, but then turned to the recent unrest in his country. (Earlier in the day, London officials of Amnesty International, a human rights organization, accused Sri Lankan security forces of random shootings of civilians during rioting last year. In an advertisement that appeared in Washington and New York newspapers yesterday, supporters of the Tamil separatists criticized Jayewardene and his government.)

"In the long history of Sri Lanka," Jayewardene said, "there have been murders, there have been assassinations, there have been riots, there have been good deeds, bad deeds. Last July, we had some of those bad periods. I see in one of your newspapers an advertisement in which some people are trying to make us remember that day, a day in which several people were killed. It was not done by the government; it was done by a gang of hooligans."

At the dinner, the Sri Lankan women guests wore saris and the men wore long white skirts. Nancy Reagan wore a beige gown by Galanos with a rhinestone-embroidered jacket and a slit on the left side of the skirt that went to just above her knee and revealed a fair amount of leg. She had sparkles on her heels and wore long, dangling Lucite earrings. Ronald Reagan wore a tuxedo.

Guests arrived at the East Gate, since the White House entrance facing Pennsylvania Avenue has a plywood door as it undergoes renovation. They walked by a painting of Chester Arthur, then up a flight of stairs to the Great Hall where mounds of geraniums and begonias were piled under two statues of nude women that held candles. As usual, almost everyone was a nervous wreck.

But Dallas Cowboys coach Tom Landry arrived looking tan and relaxed. He's a Reagan supporter who has been making appearances for him. Is the president a good football player?

"He's old enough now, he's got to be good," Landry said. "Nobody can remember. He's like me."

After dinner, Susan Baker and Carolyn Deaver, wives of the White House aides, were hanging around in the great hall. When asked what James Baker, the White House chief of staff, would do after the election, Susan Baker sighed and said: "We have a board at home where you spin the wheel. Who knows? I have no idea." Asked if Baker wanted to be president, she said, "He doesn't have the drive. He's tired. He's given his all for four years."

Carolyn Deaver, wife of Mike, the deputy chief of staff, shrugged about her husband's plans and said, "These are tossed salad days. But boy are we good at fingerbowls." Meanwhile, the husbands had escaped early, as they always do at state dinners--down the stairs and out the door right after the meal and before Sinatra sang.

In his toast, Jayewardene said, "I haven't forgotten about the help your country has given us in the last few years, but I didn't come here to ask for help. That's not my way. I am waiting for Frank Sinatra to sing 'My Way.' That's one of my favorite songs."

And Sinatra did.

It was at yesterday's formal welcoming ceremonies that Jayewardene presented Reagan with the baby elephant.

"I should have brought a jellybean," Reagan said as he admired the gift. Then, always the consummate politician, he reached down and shook the elephant's trunk.

Jayewardene explained that the elephant's name, Jayathu, means victory.

"I appreciate, in view of her name, your fine sense of timing," Reagan said. "And I hope to have a little more time to be on hand to watch her grow."

The elephant arrived in the United States June 12. Zoologists and veterinarians at the National Zoo planned the arrival so the animal would have several days to recover from her 36-hour trip from Sri Lanka. Even elephants, it seems, can suffer from jet lag.

At the state dinner, the guests included Kenneth Gilmore, editor in chief of Reader's Digest; Arthur Hailey, the author of "Airport" and "Hotel"; Margaret Hance, former mayor of Phoenix and now national cochair of Reagan-Bush '84; Fred MacMurray, the actor; Mandell and Betty Lou Ourisman, Washington socialites; Frank Rothman, chairman of MGM/United Artists; Nelson Bunker Hunt, chairman of Hunt International Resources Corp.; Alan Shepard, the former astronaut; and Ben Wattenberg, columnist and Democrat.

Last year, Wattenberg did a documentary on Sri Lanka. "I assume that's why I'm here," he said.

Besides the game hens, guests ate poached salmon and cucumber mousse, rice, beans and white turnips, a Belgian endive salad and petits fours.

The dinner lasted longer than usual because the Reagans took their time getting upstairs. Nobody likes to leave before they do, so guests were milling around while Reagan was talking on and on with Little. Finally, Nancy Reagan grabbed her husband's arm and said, "Come on, I'm going to take you to bed."

Reagan moved slowly across the hallway, first stopping to talk with MacMurray and then stopping again to talk about his own shirt, which appeared to have no buttons or studs. "There are buttons underneath," Reagan said, "and then on a trip, you don't have to carry studs with you."

Nancy Reagan was getting impatient. When Reagan stopped one last time to talk to Robert Conrad, the former heartthrob of television's "The Wild, Wild West" and an avid Republican, Nancy, who was waiting near the elevator, threw up her arms and said, "Where is Ronnie?"

Finally, the two went upstairs. "That's one thing about this job," Reagan said. "We know we have to go first."

Frank Sinatra arrives at the White House June 18, 1984 wearing his Los Angeles Olympic jacket (L) then changes into his tuxedo and performs (R) as the main entertainer at the State Dinner honoring President Jeyewardene of Sri Lanka.

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June 23, 1984

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

Opening Night

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

Key Musicians: Tony Mattola (Guitar), Don Baldini (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums), Joe Parnello (piano).

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. LA Is My Lady

3. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

4. Mack The Knife (Flub)

5. The Lady Is A Tramp

6.. Teach Me Tonight (Flub)

7. Come Rain Or Come Shine

8. Luck Be A Lady

9. Chaser: "You Are There"

Notes: Sinatra was the opening act of the show. TT 35mins.

Sinatra Scholar Ed O'Brien writes that Sinatra is very funny when he tells the audience, very sarcastically, what a thrill it is to be opening for Willie Nelson. The show only runs about 35 minutes and a real highlight is "Teach Me Tonight,"

Sinatraphile J Daniels, saying he does not mean to take anything away from Willie, but asks why in the world did Sinatra open for him. O'Brien answers that Sinatra was very good at subbing for other performers. He did it many times through the years. Steve Wynn paid Sinatra a very large sum of money to appear at his casino. O'Brien says he is certain that the request to open for Willie was done of necessity. Sinatra was funny about it on stage. Nelson adored Frank. O'Brien is sure he still does.

Danny Faux:

I booked Willie Nelson for a TV Show in Madrid back in 1988. He was a sweet man, a real gentle soul. His sister Bobbi, who played piano in the band, was one of the sweetest persons I ever met. Of course, I believe Willie is a great artist as well. He told me that Frank was his favorite singer, above all genres and styles of music.

June 27, 1984

Television

MTV

Aired Video For L.A. Is My Lady

June 29, 1984

Film

"Cannon Ball Run II" (USA Release: June 29, 1984)

Starring: Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Jamie Farr, Marilu Henner, Telly Savalas, Shirley MacLaine, Susan Anton, Catherine Bach, Jackie Chan, Richard Kiel, Frank Sinatra

Produced by: Albert S. Ruddy

Directed by: Hal Neeham

The original characters from The Cannonball Run (1981) race across the country once more in various cars and trucks. --DVD Release: 1999-06-22

Extras

"Cannonball Run II"

Sinatra's final big-screen appearance was a cameo playing himself in June 1984's Cannonball Run II, requiring only that he fly to Tucson to work roughly four hours; accounts differ on how his involvement came about -- Santopietro notes Sammy Davis Jr. requested it, while producer Albert Ruddy claimed Sinatra himself asked Dean Martin to include him, hoping to recapture some of the old Rat Pack movie fun.

Source: Tom Santopietro, "Sinatra in Hollywood" (2008).

"Cannonball Run II"

Santopietro calls Cannonball Run II, directed by Hal Needham, the single worst movie of Sinatra's career -- a stupid, cynical film that nonetheless wasted top talent, including Shirley MacLaine fresh off her Terms of Endearment Oscar and producer Albert Ruddy, who had gone from The Godfather to a film about a car race won by an orangutan.

Source: Tom Santopietro, "Sinatra in Hollywood" (2008).

"Cannonball Run II"

Despite the film's badness, Santopietro credits Sinatra as the best thing in it, noting he plays himself with self-aware humor -- including the exchange where he tells a fawning Burt Reynolds character "You may call me Frank... Not yet. I'll let you know when you can... Call me Sir."

Source: Tom Santopietro, "Sinatra in Hollywood" (2008).

"Cannonball Run II" / "The Cannonball Run"

Hal Needham: According to director Hal Needham's DVD commentary for the original Cannonball Run, Sinatra showed up early to film his Cannonball Run II cameo and left before the other actors arrived, meaning his interactions in the scene were shot with a double standing in for over-the-shoulder shots; he later returned briefly for a mid-race scene, and donated his entire salary from the film to charity.

Source: Tom Santopietro, "Sinatra in Hollywood" (2008).

"Cannonball Run II"

Warner Bros. delayed the film's U.S. release until six months after it had already opened in Japan.

Source: Tom Santopietro, "Sinatra in Hollywood" (2008).

"Cannonball Run II"

Santopietro grades this an F, calling Frank's brief cameo as himself part of the worst film of his career.

Source: Tom Santopietro, "Sinatra in Hollywood" (2008).

"Cannonball Run II"

Santopietro (Filmography): Cameo appearance. Warner Bros. Pictures. Produced by Albert S. Ruddy, directed by Hal Needham, screenplay by Harvey Miller, Needham and Ruddy. Starred Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise and Dean Martin, with Sinatra appearing as himself.

Source: Tom Santopietro, "Sinatra in Hollywood" (2008).

July 8, 1984

Television

Lady Liberty Special

Network: CBS

Sunday evening

Time: 9:00 PM - 11:00 PM EDT

Walter Cronkite, Beverly Sills, John Denver, Frank Sinatra many more

1. Come Rain Or Come Shine

Note: Ed O'Brien supplied the listing and noted that Sinatra song was taped during the Carnegie Hall engagement June 12, 1984.

July 15, 1984

Concerts

The Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, California

Benefit for AT&T

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

Key Musicians: Joe Parnello (Piano), Don Baldini (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums),Tony Mattola (Guitar)

Other Musicians: Doug Clark, Dana Watson, Jeff Solkens, Andy Gravish (trumpet); Mike Davis, Dave Panichi, George Gesslein (trombone); Mark Lopeman, Oliver Peters, Steve Marcus, Andy Sterman, Keith Bishop (saxophone).

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. The Lady Is A Tramp

3. L. A. Is My Lady

4. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

5. Come Rain Or Come Shine

6. This Is All I Ask

7. Pennies From Heaven

8. My Way

9. New York, New York

10. monologue

11. Luck Be A Lady

12. Teach Me Tonight

13. Here's That Rainy Day

14. Mack The Knife

15. Stormy Weather

16. Here's To The Band

Extras

The Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, California

Benefit for AT&T

ORIGINAL CAPTION: Buddy Rich, Frank Sinatra, Susan Antone and David

Brenner July 15, 1984 at sponsored National Physical Fitness Concert

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July 17, 1984

Concerts

Pacific Amphitheater, Costa Mesa, California

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

Key Musicians: Joe Parnello (Piano), Don Baldini (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums),Tony Mattola (Guitar)

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. L.A. Is My Lady

3. The Lady Is A Tramp

4. The Best Of Everything

5. How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

6. Come Rain Or Come Shine

7. This Is All I Ask

8. Luck Be A Lady

9. Here's To The Band

10. monologue

11. My Way

12. Until The Real Thing Comes Along

13. Here's That Rainy Day

14. Pennies From Heaven

15. New York, New York

Notes: TT 60mins.

Ed O'Brien reports that this was a truly outstanding concert with the Buddy Rich orchestra. Sinatra did superb singing from " L.A. Is My Lady" and really nailed "Here's To The Band.." Sinatra told a wonderful story about "My Way" and how much he detested the song. It was quite a show.

Here are Frank's remarks that evening regarding "My Way."

"I'll tell a story about what happened in The White House.

Occasionally we do state dinners in Washington. Entertainers go in an entertain visiting dignitaries. And recently I did it at The White House with a quartet( June 17th). It was for the president of Sri Lanka( Junius R. Joyewardene) . I never heard of the joint, but I said 'Okay, we'll pen it in for Sunday...... . So we were introduced.

He said to me ' I'm looking forward to the dinner and I'm looking forward to the show. I said ' Thank you, sir. I am delighted to meet you." Later on, Tony Randall -- you know who he is. He's on television a great deal. He came to me and said 'I talked to Sassafras.' --what- ever the guys name is---'He happens to be a fan of yours and his favorite song is "My Way." ' I said, 'Jeez, I hate that song; I HATE THAT SONG!' And Tony Randall --that rat-- went back to the president and told him what I said. Now I was going to do the song for him be- cause somebody else told he liked that song. Can you imagine a dirty rat like Randall ? He went over to him and said 'Frank tells me you like "My Way," but he hates it.' Later on, he (Sri Lanka president), in his response to our president said he was looking forward to the show after dinner, and he was looking forward to hearing me sing "My Way," because I don't like it very much.

Well. I was getting shorter, and shorter, and shorter, through the whole thing. I still can't pronounce his name, but I'll never forget what he said about me."

Scott Henderson:

I've enjoyed the summer and fall 1984 concerts because he was doing a good job of promoting L.A. is My Lady. I was lucky enough to see him in Toronto in September of 1984 and he was still doing tracks from the album. I'm surprised he didn't do Mack The Knife on this date because it would become a staple for him later on.

Extras

Pacific Amphitheater, Costa Mesa, California

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

Key Musicians: Joe Parnello (Piano), Don Baldini (Bass), Irv Cottler

(Drums),Tony Mattola (Guitar)

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July 25, 1984

Concerts

Garden State Arts Center, Holmdel, New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. L. A. Is My Lady

3. The Lady Is A Tramp

4. The Best Of Everything

5. Come Rain Or Come Shine

6. This Is All I Ask

7. Luck Be A Lady

8. monologue

9. Here's To The Band

10. My Way

11. It's All Right With Me

12. Stormy Weather

13. Mack The Knife

14. Until The Real Thing Comes Along

15. Here's That Rainy Day

16. Pennies From Heaven

17. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

18. New York, New York

Notes: 82mins.

Extras

Garden State Arts Center, Holmdel, New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

July 26, 1984

Concerts

Civic Center, Hartford, Connecticut

Thursday evening

Benefit for Ronald Reagan and Republican Party

Sammy Davis Jr

Frank Sinatra

Orchestra conducted by Joe Parnello

Sammy introduces Frank as the "Noblest Roman of them all.."

Frank sans tuxedo. He was at a Reagan rally in the afternoon.

Tux wound up in another car.

1. Fly Me To The Moon dedicating performances in 1984 to Mr Basie, Gordon

Jenkins and Don Costa

2. The Lady Is A Tramp

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. This Is All I Ask

5. Luck Be A Lady

Theme from "You Are There" plays as Frank leaves stage.

Extras

Hoboken, New Jersey

Sinatra makes an appearance with Ronald Reagan at the Saint Ann's Feast

Sinatra's first visit to his hometown since 1947

President Reagan’s Diary Entry for July 26, 1984:

Left at 9:35 A.M. for Austin Texas. Sen. John Tower, former Gov’s. Clements, Connally & Shivers, & V.P. George B. joined me there for outdoor rally before 27,000 people. I believe most were Dems. but they behaved like the most enthusiastic Repubs. I’ve ever seen. Cong. Phil Gramm there also. Back stage Bill Clements gave me a diatribe on how our campaign in Texas was a failure. I believe he’s unhappy about Sen. Tower being Chairman & I believe he thinks Tower is slated to be Sec. of Defense & that’s what Bill wants to be. The rally was a tremendous success. At a hotel later I met with a group of “Texans For Reagan Bush”some Dems. others Repub. Then it was back on the plane & off for Atlanta Ga. There at 5:45 met a meeting of Southern Repub. leaders. Brief speech & up to my room for dinner & bed. Thurs. A.M. departed for the Cumberland Mall where a crowd almost as big as the one in Austin held an outdoor rally in suffocating heat but they were just as enthused as the Texans. In both talks I laid into the D. Convention as not being representative of the rank & file Demos. Then it was on to N.J. In Elizabeth to a large outdoor rally again heavily Democratic I was interrupted by cheers about every line. Then the 20 yr. Dem. Mayor endorsed me for re-election. After that we helicoptered to Hoboken where Frank Sinatra joined us. He was baptized in St. Anne’s Church where they were having the 74th St. Anne Celebration. The crowd was largely female & Italian but they let me know they were for me. In all the appearances in the 2 days there were signs“Women for Reagan”plus E.R.A. signs “Elect Reagan Again.” Then back to the W.H. Only 2 days but it seemed like a week we got so much done.

Civic Center, Hartford, Connecticut

Thursday evening

Benefit for Ronald Reagan and Republican Party

Sammy Davis Jr

Frank Sinatra

Orchestra conducted by Joe Parnello

Sammy introduces Frank as the "Noblest Roman of them all.."

July 28, 1984

Extras

MTV Premiere of music video for "L.A. Is My Lady"

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MTV Premiere of music video for "L.A. Is My Lady"

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July 29, 1984

Extras

Garden State Arts Center, Holmdel, New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. L. A. Is My Lady

3. The Lady Is A Tramp

4. The Best Of Everything

5. Come Rain Or Come Shine

6. This Is All I Ask

7. Luck Be A Lady

8. monologue

9. Here's To The Band

10. My Way

11. It's All Right With Me

12. Stormy Weather

13. Mack The Knife

14. Until The Real Thing Comes Along

15. Here's That Rainy Day

16. Pennies From Heaven

17. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

18. New York, New York

Review 7-29-84

Concert 7-25-84

July 30, 1984

Extras

Cancellation of plan for Sinatra/Minnelli NYC Central Park concert

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Cancellation of plan for Sinatra/Minnelli NYC Central Park concert

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Cancellation of plan for Sinatra/Minnelli NYC Central Park concert

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August 10, 1984

Concerts

Sporting Club, Monte Carlo, Monaco

Prince Rainier Red Cross Gala Benefit

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

Other Performers: Elton John

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. The Lady Is A Tramp

3. L.A. Is My Lady

4. My Way

5. Pennies From Heaven

6. New York, New York

Note: An excellent video exists of Sinatra's performance.

Extras

Sporting Club, Monte Carlo, Monaco

Prince Rainier Red Cross Gala Benefit

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

Other Performers: Elton John

September 2, 1984

Concerts

CNE Stadium, Toronto , Canada

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. The Lady Is A Tramp

3. L.A. Is My Lady

4. Come Rain Or Come Shine

5. This Is All I Ask

6. Mack The Knife

7. Pennies From Heaven

8. Luck Be A Lady

9. My Way

10. Here's To The Band

11. New York , New York

NOTE: Sinatraphile Scott Henderson says he was at this concert. He got soaking wet. It was his first time seeing Sinatra and, though many complained that it was such a short concert, to him it was electrical. He's glad he has a CD of the concert. It brings back great memories.

Ed O'Brien reports that he has reviews of the show and Sinatra was hammered by the critics for cutting the concert so short. At the time, he was doing numbers from his new album "L.A. Is My Lady." He had not learned the lyrics so he was relying on lyric sheets placed on a stand.

The wind and rain prevented him from effectively using that crutch on stage. That was the reason for abbreviating the performance.

Scott Henderson:

Yes, how I remember the September 2nd, 1984 Concert at the CNE. It was pouring rain and there was Sinatra surrounded by thunder and lightning. Talk about dramatic effect. That was 40 years ago and I remember it very fondly as it was my first time seeing Sinatra. I wrote down all of the tracks and have pulled out my recording of the concert anticipation of the anniversary.

Scott: I was working midnights at a gas station in Belleville, Ontario in the summer of 1984. I caught a mid-morning train to Toronto, took a subway up to the concert ticket outlet only to find that sales of tickets had moved up the street to Sam the Record Man.

I ran up there, purchased my ticket, ran out and caught a taxi and made it back to the train station with five minutes to spare to catch another train home.

I caught a few hours sleep when I got home in the late afternoon and then back to work. What a crazy day. It was going to be my first time seeing Sinatra and I wasn't going to miss it for anything.

Extras

CNE Stadium, Toronto, Canada

Performing outdoors in heavy rain, Sinatra cut the show to about 25 minutes before leaving the stage; the soaked crowd of roughly 15,000 booed, though the promoter defended the early exit as a safety precaution given the electrical equipment on stage. Source: Derek Jewell, Frank Sinatra: A Celebration (New York: Applause Books, 1999).

September 13, 1984

Extras

Friar's Club Testimonial Dinner honoring Dean Martin

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Friar's Club Testimonial Dinner honoring Dean Martin

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September 17, 1984

Concerts

Royal Albert Hall, London, England

Monday evening

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

Musicians: Joe Parnello (Piano), Don Baldini (Bass), Irv Cottler

(Drums),Tony Mattola (Guitar)

opening Night

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. The Lady Is A Tramp

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. This Is All I Ask

5. L.A. Is My Lady

6. Here's That Rainy Day

7.. Pennies From Heaven

8. Luck Be A Lady

9. My Way

10. Here's To The Band

11. These Foolish Things Joe Parnello on piano

12. It Never Entered My Mind/In The Wee

Small Hours w/ Tony Mottola ( Tony could not hold back

the tears when Frank sang Lorenz Hart's lyrics )

13. Don't Worry 'Bout Me (Billy May arg.)

14. It's All Right With Me

15. New York, New York

Notes: TT 63mins.

Danville Press 9-19-84

The Guardian

Extras

Royal Albert Hall, London, England

Monday evening

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

Musicians: Joe Parnello (Piano), Don Baldini (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums),Tony Mattola (Guitar) opening Night

This six-show Royal Albert Hall return drew notably harsher treatment from British critics than his 1975 and 1980 visits had, with several attacking his voice and age. Source: Derek Jewell, Frank Sinatra: A Celebration (New York: Applause Books, 1999).

September 18, 1984

Concerts

Royal Albert Hall, London, England

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

Musicians: Joe Parnello (Piano), Don Baldini (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums),Tony Mattola (Guitar)

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. The Lady Is A Tramp

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. This Is All I Ask

5. L.A. Is My Lady

6. Here's That Rainy Day

7. Pennies From Heaven

8. Luck Be A Lady

9. My Way

10. Here's To The Band

11. These Foolish Things

12. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

13. Don't Worry 'Bout Me

14. New York, New York

15. Mack The Knife

Notes: TT 67mins.

Extras

Royal Albert Hall, London, England

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

Musicians: Joe Parnello (Piano), Don Baldini (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums),Tony Mattola (Guitar)

September 19, 1984

Concerts

Royal Albert Hall, London, England (September 17-22)

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

Joe Parnello conductor (Piano), Don Baldini (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums),Tony Mottola (Guitar)

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. The Lady Is A Tramp

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. This Is All I Ask

5. L.A. Is My Lady

6. Here's That Rainy Day

7. Pennies From Heaven

8. monologue

9. Luck Be A Lady

10. My Way

11. Here's To The Band

12. These Foolish Things w. Tony Mottola

13. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

14. Don't Worry 'Bout Me

15. New York, New York

16, Strangers In The Night

17. Mack The Knife

September 20, 1984

Concerts

Royal Albert Hall, London , England (September 17-22)

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

Joe Parnello (Piano), Don Baldini (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums),Tony Mottola (Guitar)

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. The Lady Is A Tramp

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. This Is All I Ask

5. L.A. Is My Lady

6. Here's That Rainy Day

7. Pennies From Heaven

8. monologue

9. Luck Be A Lady

10. My Way

11. Here's To The Band

12. These Foolish Things w. Tony Mottola

13. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

14. Don't Worry 'Bout Me

15. New York, New York

16, Strangers In The Night

17. Mack The Knife

September 21, 1984

Concerts

Royal Albert Hall, London, England (September 17-22)

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

Joe Parnello conductor (Piano), Don Baldini (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums),Tony Mottola (Guitar)

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. The Lady Is A Tramp

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. This Is All I Ask

5. L.A. Is My Lady

6. Here's That Rainy Day

7. Pennies From Heaven

8. monologue

9. Luck Be A Lady

10. My Way

11. Here's To The Band

12. These Foolish Things w. Tony Mottola

13. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

14. Don't Worry 'Bout Me

15. New York, New York

16, Strangers In The Night

17. Mack The Knife

Extras

Royal Albert Hall, London, England (September 17-22)

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

Joe Parnello conductor (Piano), Don Baldini (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums),Tony Mottola (Guitar)

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September 22, 1984

Concerts

Royal Albert Hall, London, England (September 17-22)

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

Joe Parnello (Piano), Don Baldini (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums),Tony Mottola (Guitar) Saturday night

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. The Lady Is A Tramp

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. This Is All I Ask

5. L.A. Is My Lady

6. Here's That Rainy Day

7.. Pennies From Heaven

8. monologue*

9. Luck Be A Lady

10. My Way

11. Here's To The Band

12. These Foolish Things w. Tony Mottola

13. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

14. Don't Worry 'Bout Me

15. New York, New York

16, Strangers In The Night

17. Mack The Knife

* "I would like to take a moment, ladies and gentlemen, to publicly thank all of the wonderful people for coming to see the performances the week we've been here.The greatest reward I have, whenever we perform, is the fact, the audience, they like what we do. We've been fortunate most of the time. Audiences like what we do. I can't say the same for the critics, but they've got their own problems. I believe the editor should never send a boy to do a man's job ( loud applause ).

But that is their choice in life. To be a critic; to criticize people. I've always had the feeling that if critics weren't critics, they'd be snipers ( applause and laughter ) with a high powered rifle on top of a building somewhere."

September 25, 1984

Concerts

Moulin Rouge, Paris, France

Benefit

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Fly Me to the Moon

2. The Lady Is a Tramp

3. Come Rain or Come Shine

4. This Is All I Ask

5. L.A. Is My Lady

6. Here's That Rainy Day

7. Pennies From Heaven

8. Luck Be a Lady

9. My Way

10. Here's to the Band

11. These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)

12. It Never Entered My Mind / In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning

13. Don't Worry 'bout Me

14. Theme From New York, New York

15. Strangers in the Night

16. Mack the Knife

Note: An excellent recording of this concert exists.

Extras

Moulin Rouge, Paris, France

Benefit

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

October 1, 1984

Extras

At the encouragement of President Reagan, Frank performed in Vienna at the Stadthalle for a benefit sponsored by the U.S. embassy for Austrian children's charities. He waived his own fee and covered all expenses for Buddy Rich and the band, and received Austria's highest civilian honor, the Medal of Honor for Science and Art First Class.

Frank Sinatra (quoted): "Frank took Vienna by storm!"

Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

October 2, 1984

Concerts

Stadthalle, Wien, Austria

Benefit

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. The Lady Is A Tramp

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. This Is All I Ask

5. L. A. Is My Lady

6. Pennies From Heaven

7. monologue

8. Luck Be A Lady

9. My Way

10. Here's To The Band

11. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

12. Don't Worry "˜Bout Me

13. New York, New York

14. Strangers In The Night

15. Mack The Knife

Notes: Show also listed as 10/2.

October 12, 1984

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada (12-13)

Friday evening

First show

Orchestra conducted by Joe Parnello

1. L. A. Is My Lady

2. Come Rain Or Come Shine

3. It's All Right With Me

4. Here's That Rainy Day

5. Luck Be A Lady

monologue

6. Pennies From Heaven

7. These Foolish Things w/T. Mottola

8. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

9. New York, New York

10. Don't Worry 'Bout Me

11. Strangers In The Night

12. Mack The Knife

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada (12-13)

Friday evening second show

Orchestra conducted by Joe Parnello

1. L. A. Is My Lady

2. Come Rain Or Come Shine

3. It's All Right With Me

4. Here's That Rainy Day

5. Luck Be A Lady monologue

6. Pennies From Heaven

7. These Foolish Things w/T. Mottola

8. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

9. New York, New York

10. Don't Worry 'Bout Me

11. Strangers In The Night

12. Mack The Knife

October 13, 1984

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. L. A. Is My Lady

2. Come Rain Or Come Shine

3. It's All Right With Me

4. Here's That Rainy Day

5. New York, New York

6. monologue

7. Pennies From Heaven

8. These Foolish Things

9. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

10. Fly Me To The Moon

11. Don't Worry 'Bout Me

12. Strangers In The Night

13. Here's To The Band

14. My Way

15. Luck Be A Lady

Notes: TT 55mins.

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. L. A. Is My Lady

2. Come Rain Or Come Shine

3. It's All Right With Me

4. Here's That Rainy Day

5. New York, New York

6. monologue

7. Pennies From Heaven

8. These Foolish Things

9. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

10. Fly Me To The Moon

11. Don't Worry 'Bout Me

12. Strangers In The Night

13. Here's To The Band

14. My Way

15. Luck Be A Lady

Notes: TT 52mins.

November 2, 1984

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. L. A. Is My Lady

2. Come Rain Or Come Shine

3. It's All Right With Me

4. Here's That Rainy Day

5. New York, New York

6. monologue

7. Pennies From Heaven

8. These Foolish Things

9. medley: It Never Entered My Mind / In The Wee Small Hours Of The

Morning

10. Fly Me To The Moon

11. Don't Worry 'Bout Me

12. Mack The Knife

13. Strangers In The Night

14. Here's To The Band

15. This Is All I Ask

16. Luck Be A Lady

Notes: TT 54mins.

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. L. A. Is My Lady

2. Come Rain Or Come Shine

3. It's All Right With Me

4. Here's That Rainy Day

5. New York, New York

6. monologue

7. Pennies From Heaven

8. These Foolish Things

9. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

10. Fly Me To The Moon

11. Don't Worry 'Bout Me

12. Mack The Knife

13. Strangers In The Night

14. Here's To The Band

15. This Is All I Ask

16. Luck Be A Lady

Notes: TT 57mins.

November 3, 1984

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. L. A. Is My Lady

2. Come Rain Or Come Shine

3. It's All Right With Me

4. Here's That Rainy Day

5. New York, New York

6. monologue

7. Pennies From Heaven

8. These Foolish Things

9. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

10. Fly Me To The Moon

11. Don't Worry 'Bout Me

12. Mack The Knife

13. Strangers In The Night

14. Here's To The Band

15. This Is All I Ask

16. Luck Be A Lady

Notes: TT 55mins.

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

November 8, 1984

Concerts

20th Century Fox, Los Angeles, California

Hollywood Park Horse Breeders Cup Gala Benefit

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

November 14, 1984

Concerts

Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California (14-18) The Buddy Rich Band Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. L. A. Is My Lady

2. It's All Right With Me

3. Don't Worry 'Bout Me

4. Willow Weep For Me

5. New York, New York

6. monologue

7. Luck Be A Lady

8. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning

9. Here's To The Band

10. These Foolish Things

11. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

12. Come Rain Or Come Shine

13. Fly Me To The Moon

14. This Is All I Ask

15. Pennies From Heaven

16. Mack The Knife

Notes: TT 58mins.

Extras

Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California (14-18) The Buddy Rich Band Conducted By: Joe Parnello

Thr Daily Breeze

November 15, 1984

Concerts

Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California (14-18)

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. L. A. Is My Lady

2. It's All Right With Me

3. Don't Worry 'Bout Me

4. Willow Weep For Me

5. New York, New York

6. monologue

7. Luck Be A Lady

8. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning

9. Here's To The Band

10. These Foolish Things

11. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

12. Come Rain Or Come Shine

13. Fly Me To The Moon

14. This Is All I Ask

15. Pennies From Heaven

16. Mack The Knife

Notes: TT 55mins.

November 16, 1984

Concerts

Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California (14-18)

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. L. A. Is My Lady

2. It's All Right With Me

3. Don't Worry 'Bout Me

4. Willow Weep For Me

5. New York, New York

6. monologue

7. Luck Be A Lady

8. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning

9. Here's To The Band

10. These Foolish Things

11. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

12. Come Rain Or Come Shine

13. Fly Me To The Moon

14. Here's That Rainy Day

15. Pennies From Heaven

16. Mack The Knife

Notes: TT 55mins.

November 17, 1984

Concerts

Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California (14-18)

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. L. A. Is My Lady

2. It's All Right With Me

3. Don't Worry 'Bout Me

4. Willow Weep For Me

5. New York, New York

6. monologue

7. Luck Be A Lady

8. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning

9. Here's To The Band

10. These Foolish Things

11. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

12. Come Rain Or Come Shine

13. Fly Me To The Moon

14. Here's That Rainy Day

15. Pennies From Heaven

16. Mack The Knife

Notes: TT 55mins.

Extras

Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California (14-18)

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

November 18, 1984

Concerts

Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California (14-18) Closing Night

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. L. A. Is My Lady

2. It's All Right With Me

3. Don't Worry 'Bout Me

4. Willow Weep For Me

5. New York, New York

6. monologue

7. Luck Be A Lady

8. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning

9. Here's To The Band

10. These Foolish Things

11. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

12. Come Rain Or Come Shine

13. Fly Me To The Moon

14. Here's That Rainy Day

15. Pennies From Heaven

16. Mack The Knife

Notes: TT 55mins.

December 1984

Extras

[Sinatra Miniseries Announced at Chasen's]

In December 1984, Warner Bros. and CBS held a press reception at Chasen's restaurant to announce the Sinatra biographical miniseries, with Frank publicly committing to a warts-and-all account of his life.

Source: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

December 9, 1984

Television

All Star Party For Lucille Ball (NBC)

Host: Frank Sinatra. Many Guest Pay Tribute To Lucille Ball

Taped November 18, 1984

1. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

December 24, 1984

Extras

Peter Lawford died on Christmas Eve 1984 of a heart attack, after a career that included around 50 films and, following his falling-out with Frank, a decline into mostly character roles and personal struggles. (Source: Richard Havers, "Sinatra" (Dorling Kindersley, 2007).)

December 27, 1984

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. L. A. Is My Lady

2. It's All Right With Me

3. Don't Worry 'Bout Me

4. Willow Weep For Me

5. New York, New York

6. monologue

7. Luck Be A Lady

8. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning

9. Here's To The Band

10. It Never Entered My Mind

11. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

12. Come Rain Or Come Shine

13. Fly Me To The Moon

14. Here's That Rainy Day

15. Pennies From Heaven

16. This Is All I Ask

17. Mack The Knife

Notes: TT 63mins.

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. L. A. Is My Lady

2. It's All Right With Me

3. Don't Worry 'Bout Me

4. Willow Weep For Me

5. New York, New York

6. monologue

7. Luck Be A Lady

8. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning

9. These Foolish Things

10. Fly Me To The Moon

11. Come Rain Or Come Shine

12. This Is All I Ask

13. Mack The Knife

Notes: 52mins.

December 28, 1984

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, California (27 - 30)

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. L. A. Is My Lady

2. It's All Right With Me

3. Don't Worry 'Bout Me

4. Willow Weep For Me

5. New York, New York

6. monologue

7. Luck Be A Lady

8. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning

9. Pennies From Heaven

10. These Foolish Things

11. Fly Me To The Moon

12. Come Rain Or Come Shine

13. This Is All I Ask

Notes: 54mins.

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. L. A. Is My Lady

2. It's All Right With Me

3. Don't Worry 'Bout Me

4. Willow Weep For Me

5. New York, New York

6. monologue

7. Luck Be A Lady

8. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning

9. Pennies From Heaven

10. These Foolish Things

11. Fly Me To The Moon

12. Come Rain Or Come Shine

13. This Is All I Ask

Notes: 55mins.

December 29, 1984

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada (27-30)

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1.. L. A. Is My Lady

2. It's All Right With Me

3. Don't Worry "Bout Me

4. Willow Weep For Me

5. New York, New York

6. monologue

7. Here's To The Band

8. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning

9. Pennies From Heaven

10. These Foolish Things

11. Fly Me To The Moon

12. Come Rain Or Come Shine

13. This Is All I Ask

14. Luck Be A Lady

Notes: 52mins.

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada (27-30)

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1.. L. A. Is My Lady

2.. It's All Right With Me

3. Don't Worry "Bout Me

4. Here's That Rainy Day

5. New York, New York

6. monologue

7. Here's To The Band

8. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning

9. Pennies From Heaven

10. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

11. Fly Me To The Moon

12. Come Rain Or Come Shine

13. This Is All I Ask

14. Luck Be A Lady

Notes: 51mins.

December 30, 1984

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada (27-30)

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. L. A. Is My Lady

2. It's All Right With Me

3. Don't Worry 'Bout Me

4. Here's That Rainy Day

5. New York, New York

6. monologue

7. Here's To The Band

8.. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning

9. Pennies From Heaven

10. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

11. Fly Me To The Moon

12. Come Rain Or Come Shine

13. This Is All I Ask

14. Luck Be A Lady

Notes: 54mins.

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada (27-30)

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. L. A. Is My Lady

2. It's All Right With Me

3. Don't Worry 'Bout Me

4. Here's That Rainy Day

5. New York, New York

6. monologue

7. Here's To The Band

8. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning

9. Pennies From Heaven

10. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

11. Fly Me To The Moon

12. Come Rain Or Come Shine

13. This Is All I Ask

14. Luck Be A Lady

Notes: TT 51mins.

January 1985

Extras

[Frank's Abandoned Plan For A Russia Tour]

Nancy Sinatra: Sinatra attempted to arrange a concert tour of Russia around the time of the 1985 presidential inaugural festivities, but the plans ultimately fell through.

Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

[Reconciliation Dinner with Nelson Riddle]

Sinatra and Nelson Riddle had a partial reconciliation at a dinner celebrating President Reagan's re-election, with Sinatra reportedly spending much of the evening with Riddle discussing plans for future albums of songs he had never recorded.

Source: Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra (Rough guide 7.pdf), chapter "The Inner Circle."

[personnel/reconciliation -- critical commentary]

Granata / Rosemary Riddle-Acerra: In January 1985, Nelson Riddle and Sinatra reconciled at a dinner honoring Ronald Reagan; Sinatra mentioned wanting to return to the studio to record songs he'd missed and asked if Riddle would score the album. Riddle, though gravely ill with a liver ailment, accepted enthusiastically, but died that October before the project could happen. Charts marked 'Frank Sinatra' were found on his drafting table the day after his death.

Source: Charles L. Granata, "Sessions with Sinatra: Frank Sinatra and the Art of Recording" (1999/2003), Part IV: The Reprise Years

January 13, 1985

Television

CP Telethon

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. Come Rain Or Come Shine

Notes: 10 min.

January 17, 1985

Radio

Tony Renaud, WMAL Radio, Washington D.C.

Tony Renaud interviews Frank Sinatra

January 18, 1985

Concerts

Vice Presidential Gala, Washington DC

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. L. A. Is My Lady

Notes: 40mins.

Extras

Vice Presidential Gala, Washington DC

The Bash for Bush

By Richard Harrington and Elizabeth Kastor

The Washington Post

January 19, 1985

"In other words . . . I love you."

Last night, Frank Sinatra put a little Hoboken body English into that last line from "Fly Me to the Moon," pointing directly at George and Barbara Bush during the American Showcase Inaugural Gala honoring the vice president at the Convention Center. That sentiment was hardly a surprise to the more than 6,000 "fellow citizens and fun seekers" in attendance who were promised a good time by Sinatra, "regardless of race, creed, party affiliations or seat locations." Of course, as these things go, the vice presidential gala was not the best place to be if you were either a Democrat or a music lover. It wasn't too bad if you were looking for mild political humor, most of it directed at Bush, who seemed to thoroughly enjoy the attention. "I want to thank you for the support you gave me during the last election," said Rich Little as President Reagan. "I wear it all the time." "Reagan" also thanked the vice president for the good job he had been doing. "I have just one question? What is it exactly you do?" Vice presidents have been enduring this sort of thing since John Adams, but last night, at least, No. 2 was finally No. 1. "You're No. 1, sir," Larry Gatlin of the Gatlin Brothers told Bush before trying -- unsuccessfully -- to lead the audience in a chorus of "We're Number One." "And it was a hit!" he chided. The gala was the first of two being produced by Sinatra, with the one tonight honoring President Reagan. Besides Gatlin's country-western singing group, other stars celebrating Bush included singers Pearl Bailey, Lou Rawls, Dean Martin and "Good Morning America's" Kathy Lee Johnson. Yale's Whiffenpoofs proved to be classic gentlemen songsters, with Yalie Bush singing along poignantly to "The Whiffenpoof Song." And the Naval Academy Glee Club also presented a medley of justifiably neglected campaign songs dating back to George Washington. Rich Little ran through his impersonations (better than the material), and Don Rickles ran through some scatter-gun insults whose bite was weaker than his bark. The gala's best comedy was provided by juggler Michael Davis, whose deadpan one-liners ("I'm not a politician. I make an honest living doing little tricks") and remarkable juggling were the highlight of a long evening. He juggled small balls with his mouth and, later, a bowling ball, apple and egg. Terrific. He should give lessons to Stockman. Much less terrific was a performance by Frank Sinatra Jr. that threatened to run into tonight's gala honoring Reagan. A tedious semi-oratorio titled "Over the Land," it imagined Francis Scott Key writing about the American flag in 1985. It's doubtful that Key would have felt a need to include every significant event and location in American history, but Sinatra Jr. did, often stretching for rhymes. The worst was the reference in the Revolutionary War section to "that fateful shot the world heard round." It was hard to tell whether the applause at the end was for the quality of the song, the fact that it was over, or that America is only 209 years old. The other highlight of the show was a scintillating performance by the New York Breakers, a collection of gravity-defying youngsters whose head-spins and breakdances provided some much-needed youth and vitality. Even Sinatra Sr. was hard pressed to elicit the same reaction after his show-ending (but not show-stopping) rendition of "L.A. Is My Lady." "I've never met Don Rickles," Bush said in a brief thank you at the end of the gala, adding slyly, "I'm not sure I need to. I heard the Naval Academy singing those ugly songs about McKinley and Van Buren and I think I had a soft year running against Ferarro this time." Bush and his wife, Barbara, sat in a special box with their family and Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige. They were greeted by Sinatra when they arrived, and television entertainer Merv Griffin was master of ceremonies. When he announced the attendance, Griffin quipped that it was "the same number of people who voted for Mr. Mondale in the last election." As the guests arrived, the first thing you noticed was the fur.

"Oh boy," one woman gasped. "Look at all the minks."

The second thing you noticed was the white plastic bag with the inaugural seal that seemed to hang from every hand. "They love it," said Susi Valenzuela, an inauguration volunteer, as she stuffed a free hospitality bag with free jellybeans, free M&Ms, a free guide book, free programs and a free catalogue that enabled you to send away for more things (which are not free). They did seem to love it, judging from the crowds in front of the hospitality booth. And as the guests rushed to check their furs, secure their plastic bags and decode the floor plan of the Convention Center, their faces gleamed and their wide-open eyes scanned the crowds hungrily, as if the sight of the lights and signs and bands and all the other staring people was something to be acquired and stacked away with the same zest as the complimentary candy. Tickets were priced between $75 and $150, but the event wasn't billed as mandatory black tie. Many guests wore formal attire, but Bush wore a conservative blue suit. Mrs. Bush wore a short sapphire blue double-faced tissue satin dress with long sleeves, jet bugle bead trim and a blue bow belt with jet bead trim. For the women in the mostly Republican crowd, fancy cocktail dresses were the standard. "We just had to do it," said Sandra Cranek. "It's a true experience." Just outside the hall, a group of five Ohioans stood giggling and smiling and taking each other's picture again and again. "This is just the frosting on the cake," said Clarence Smith. "That's how much we think of Reagan." A strange plinking sound arose from the group: the overlapping melodies of several inauguration buttons that flash with small red lights and play the national anthem. "We have 13 grandchildren," said Wilma Drake, opening her bag and showing her loot. "We're taking one back for each of them." Hundreds of humming buttons greeted guests as they entered the center, along with silent buttons with ribbons attached, greeting cards that sang and flashed, banners that didn't do anything, potholders covered with elephants, and 8-by-10 glossies of Ronald and Nancy Reagan and George and Barbara Bush. A few steps further, just past the metal detectors, you could get your official inaugural portrait taken in front of a blue curtain decorated with the inaugural seal. All for $20 per 8-by-10 glossy, a smiling woman holding a portrait and a fur coat explained, with $15 dollars extra for the gold-painted frame, and $5 for shipping and handling. "Say money," the photographer told one couple.

They smiled.

Flash.

Four weeks to delivery.

Every 20 feet, it seemed, there was another band, another man in uniform offering assistance, another bar (mixed drinks $3.50, beer $2.50, soda $1.75). "We just got here from Florida," said the Rev. Jerry Falwell, arriving late and rushing. "Can I help you upstairs, Reverend Falwell?" one of the men in uniform asked. Falwell looked delighted. He was delighted, he said, and ready to celebrate. "The right two men are in," he said. As reporters pulled one way, a nice man in uniform pointed another and Falwell smiled upon everyone. "We just attended the Helms' dinner," he said. "We'll be at the gala tomorrow night and the official swearing-in ceremony. We won't miss much."

January 19, 1985

Television

Ronald Reagan's Second Inaugural Gala

Guests: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Don Rickles.

NOTE: Ed O'Brien writes that there is an exquisite moment in this show.

Sinatra sings "One for My Baby," sitting on the lip of the stage. Mikhail Baryshikov dances center stage and on the other side of the circular stage with Nelson Riddle conducting. It is a simply stunning moment. The last hurrah for two giants of American popular music.

Frank also sang "Fly Me To The Moon."

Extras

Ronald Reagan's Second Inaugural Gala

Guests: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Don Rickles.

Reagan Honored At Inaugural Gala

By Joseph McLellan and Donnie Radcliffe

Washington Post

January 20, 1985

Ronald Reagan was the guest of honor at last night's inaugural gala, but it was producer Frank Sinatra's show.

They did it his way.

Like Sinatra's own nightclub act, the gala was thoroughly professional, tightly organized and full of material that was already familiar. A lot of it was a rerun of the Vice Presidential Salute given at the Convention Center the night before.

The show started with "The Star-Spangled Banner," followed by something more patriotic -- Mac Davis singing about how proud he is to be an American.

Near the end, two hours later, Ray Charles led an enormous chorus in a soulful and soul-stirring performance of "America the Beautiful." What could top that? Only Ronald Reagan himself ending the show reciting, slowly and with feeling, the words of "America": "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing."

It was a fast-moving show, with four cohosts (Sinatra, Mr. T, Tom Selleck and Pearl Bailey) and four acts (Mac Davis, Rich Little, the Beach Boys and juggler-comedian Michael Davis), popping into and out of the spotlight during the first half-hour.

The music got polite applause, which it deserved, even when Sinatra began to lose his voice midway through "One for My Baby" with Mikhail Baryshnikov dancing. But this politically oriented crowd reserved its strongest reactions for patriotic platitudes and political punchlines.

The president's old friend, Jimmy Stewart, got one of the biggest hands of the evening when he described the old Hollywood as "a place where concepts like patriotism and family were extolled."

He followed immediately with a joke that got one of the evening's biggest laughs: "It was also a place where a man could be playing second banana to a chimpanzee on one day and become president of the United States on another day. I'm glad it didn't happen in reverse order."

Mr. T's comment sounded like a black-flavored echo of Stewart's except that it was made first: "The last time I was here, I played Santa Claus at the White House. Where else but in America can a black man from the ghetto play a white man from the North Pole and get away with it?"

When comedian Rich Little came on, the joking became bipartisan. He charmed the predominantly Republican audience with a Jimmy Carter imitation: "I'd like to tell you about my accomplishments as president. Have you got a second?"

But the biggest laughs came during his Reagan imitation, a song called "The Ronnie Reagan Rag." "This is "a little exercise I do every afternoon [pause] before I start work," Little said in Reagan's voice, and the crowd broke up.They also enjoyed hearing the pseudo-Reagan say "I got my cabinet from Central Casting," and his simple answer to questions about Soviet relations: "I don't have any relations in the Soviet Union."

The Beach Boys confined themselves mostly to music, but tickled the formally dressed crowd with their greeting: "It's nice to see all you undesirable elements" -- a reference to a criticism once leveled against the group by then-Interior Secretary James Watt.

Michael Davis juggled such odd combinations as a bowling ball, an egg and an apple (which he also ate), but won over the audience mostly with his verbal comedy. Comparing his job to the president's, he said, "I have to worry about controlling my arms. He has to worry about arms control."

Don Rickles, toning down his nastiness slightly for the occasion, nevertheless managed to insult a fine array of minorities (ranging from blacks through Jews to Japanese) in a fast routine. But he talked more about money than politics and aimed his barbs at Secretary of State George Shultz rather than the president. "It's a great pleasure to fly out here from California and be with you for this kind of money," he said.

Then, to Shultz: "Good evening Secretary Shultz. What are you doing in town? People will think you have nothing to do."

"Frank Sinatra is one of our classiest entertainers. He always was and he still is," said former secretary of state Alexander Haig.

When asked if the show was worth the money, Donald Kendall, former chairman of Pepsico, motioning towards Haig, said, "I don't know. You have to ask him. He invited me." Haig and a party of 15 arrived at the Convention Center via a recreational vehicle that had "Haigmobile" painted on the side.

"A lot of the same crowd here tonight was here four years ago and what struck me is that nobody ages," said Peter Malatesta, a California businessman who is Bob Hope's nephew.

Ron Walker, chairman of the committee that planned the 50th inaugural, said the presidential gala attracted a capacity crowd of 12,000 last night while a similar gala program for Vice President Bush on Thursday drew 7,000.

Like the rest of the evening's entertainers, Rickles was performing without payment, although the 12,000 ticket-buyers had paid prices ranging up to $250. The president referred to this in a tribute to the people of show-biz, before slipping into "My country, 'tis of thee." "How many times have we seen this?" he asked. "People up here on a platform, giving away the only thing they can sell?"

He applauded frequently during the program, perhaps to warm his hands after helping his grandchildren build a snowman at the White House yesterday afternoon. Reporters covering the gala were shipped to the Convention Center in White House vans, running through red lights as though they were taxi drivers recently arrived from the Third World. Before getting into the vans, they caught a glimpse of two snowmen -- one big and one little -- as they were marched past the Rose Garden. The big one (presumably the president's) looked remarkably professional for the work of a Californian.

The evening's entertainment also looked remarkably professional, though some of it also seemed a bit shopworn. Only two classical artists performed. Mezzo-soprano Teresa von Stade (one of Washington's artistic gifts to the world) sang an aria by Meyerbeer. Baryshnikov (one of the few nonnative Americans on the program and almost the only one who uttered not a sound) danced sensitively to Sinatra's song. Other dancers, the New York City Breakers, were among the freshest acts on the program. So was Michael Davis, and Ray Charles was Ray Charles -- that is, magnificent.

There was less freshness and spontaneity in a dialogue between Sinatra and Dean Martin, who seemed surprised to be part of the inauguration. "Did I win?" he asked. "You weren't even running," said Sinatra.

"Then why am I tired?" asked Martin. "Who did win?"

"Mr. Reagan and Mr. Bush. That means four more years of partying."

"Frank, I can't take four more years of partying, but I'll try."

It wasn't exactly old material, but it wasn't exactly new, either. Perhaps that made it a good note on which to ring in the second term of Ronald Reagan.

February 7, 1985

Concerts

Sunrise Musical Theater, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. L. A. Is My Lady

2. It's All Right With Me

3. Don't Worry 'Bout Me

4. New York, New York

5. Luck Be A Lady

6. Here's That Rainy Day

7. Here's To The Band

8. One For My Baby

9. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

10. Come Rain Or Come Shine

11. Pennies From Heaven

12. This Is All I Ask

13. Mack The Knife

14. Strangers In The Night

15. My Way

Notes: TT 60mins.

Ed O'Brien notes:

Frank opened on the 7th( Thursday), was there the next night, then he played a benefit at the Fontainbleau, Miami Beach, on Saturday ( St Jude's Hospital) and then resumed the Sunrise engagement on Sunday and Monday. Opening night at the Sunrise it appeared that he had closed the show with "Mack The Knife," but the response was so great, he came back out and sang "Strangers In The Night" and "My Way."

This engagement featured a fascinating arrangement by Joe Parnello on the Arlen/Mercer classic "One For My Baby."

Song was sung with a quintet and no piano intro. The sidemen making up the little group were Don Baldini on bass, Irv Cottler on drums, Joe Parnello on piano and guitartist Tony Mottola.

Marvelous blues sound really augmented the Sinatra vocal treatment.

Extras

Sunrise Musical Theater, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. L. A. Is My Lady

2. It's All Right With Me

3. Don't Worry 'Bout Me

4. New York, New York

5. Luck Be A Lady

6. Here's That Rainy Day

7. Here's To The Band

8. One For My Baby

9. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

10. Come Rain Or Come Shine

11. Pennies From Heaven

12. This Is All I Ask

13. Mack The Knife

14. Strangers In The Night

15. My Way

February 8, 1985

Concerts

Sunrise Musical Theater, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

Cancelled

Fort Lauderdale News (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) 9 Feb 1985, Sat

February 9, 1985

Concerts

Fontainebleau, Miami Beach, Florida

Miracle Ball benefit for St. Jude's Children's Research Center

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. L. A. Is My Lady

2. It's All Right With Me

3. Don't Worry 'Bout Me

4. New York, New York

5. Here's To The Band

6. One For My Baby

7. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

8. Come Rain Or Come Shine

9. Pennies From Heaven

10. Strangers In The Night

11. Mack The Knife

Note: Apparently a pro-shot video of this concert exists

Extras

Fontainebleau, Miami Beach, Florida

Miracle Ball benefit for St. Jude's Children's Research Center

Miami Beach's annual Miracle Ball drew 2,000 people who...

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. -- Miami Beach's annual Miracle Ball drew 2,000 people who came to hear Frank Sinatra sing and to pay tribute to Genevieve Abraham, sponsor of the 20-year event who was killed Dec. 4 in a tragic triple murder. Entertainer Danny Thomas seriously thought about postponing Saturday night's Miracle Ball after Abraham's death. Then Frank Sinatra called. 'OK, Jake, you got me for the 9th,' said Sinatra, unaware of the slayings. Thomas immediately decided to go ahead with the ball, which benefits St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. Thomas founded the hospital. 'I guess Genevieve went to work right away -- she's already worked a miracle, she got you Sinatra,' Thomas told Abraham's son, Thomas Abraham. The 21st Miracle Ball went on as scheduled Saturday night, drawing 2,300 people -- nearly twice the number it normally attracts. They came to hear Sinatra sing, but more than that, they came to pay tribute to Genevieve Abraham. Abraham's husband, Anthony, an auto dealer and an honorary U.S. consul to Lebanon, was overwhelmed. 'I feel terrible, but I feel wonderful,' said Abraham, fighting back the tears. 'I don't know what to say, except to express my gratitude to the community for this outpouring of love to Mrs. A.' Abraham said more than $400,000 was raised 'for the hospital that was very near and dear to my wife's heart.' Tickets to the ball cost $200 each. Since their inception, the Miracle Balls have raised about $4 million for the Memphis hospital, a 48-bed teaching, research and treatment facility for children's diseases. The bodies of Genevieve Abraham, Sam Josephs, 80, and his wife, Bea, 76, were found Dec. 4 at an apartment complex operated by the Josephs. All had been shot. No suspects have been arrested in the case and police have been unable to determine a motive for the slayings.

HORRIBLE SECRET UNFOLDS IN 12-YEAR-OLD SLAYINGS

PUBLISHED: April 26, 1996 at 4:00 a.m. | UPDATED: July 31, 2021 at 5:16 a.m.

For years, Luis Rodriguez lived a quiet and decent life in south Orange County. His elderly neighbors said they felt blessed by the kindly man who would fix their lawnmowers and perform other chores in the modest mobile-home community on Charlin Parkway. All the while, though, Rodriguez harbored a horrible secret, frozen in time to that night on Dec. 4, 1984, when a Miami socialite and her two elderly friends were executed. On Thursday, the fiberglass craftsman pleaded guilty to taking part in the killings, giving police hope that they finally had unraveled one of Miami’s most sensational murder mysteries. Standing handcuffed in a Miami courtroom and giving “yes” and “no” answers in a soft voice, he pleaded guilty to three counts of second-degree murder and one count of burglary in the shooting deaths of Genevieve Abraham and Sam and Bea Joseph. Luis Rodriguez, 37, sentenced to life in prison, will testify against his co-defendant, Manuel Antonio “Tony” Rodriguez, 40, a career criminal accused of instigating the killings of one of Miami’s most beloved benefactors and her two friends. Tony Rodriguez, not related to Luis, denies taking part in the killing. He faces the death penalty if a jury believes Luis’ story in the trial scheduled for June 3. Genevieve “Gen” Abraham was feeling good. The philanthropist, socialite and wife of one of Miami’s most prominent businessmen left her Coral Gables mansion to deliver some hopeful news to two close friends. Her husband, Anthony Abraham, a wealthy and immensely popular car dealer known for his civic leadership and generosity, had arranged a place at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center for Sam and Bea Joseph’s gravely ill daughter. It was on this mission of mercy 12 years ago that Abraham, 66, met her killers. Knocking on the Josephs’ apartment door, Abraham was greeted by two intruders. She had stumbled onto a robbery gone awry and paid with her life – one bullet fired an inch from her forehead and another behind the ear. Police found her body sitting in a red chair – her string of pearls in her lap, her diamond wedding ring, earrings and watch gone. Nearby, the Josephs lay in their own blood. Missing were a few pieces of their jewelry, some rare coins and a .38-caliber revolver. When the killers fled, they left behind scant clues. For nearly eight years, the case puzzled detectives. Then in 1992, a gravely ill man, determined to cleanse his soul after a surprising recovery, called Metro-Dade police to reveal a family secret. He said he knew the killers.

In the beginning, police never dreamed it would take so long to make an arrest. They were confident that the $50,000 reward offered by Anthony Abraham, now 85, would flush out the killers in what became known simply as the “Abraham murders.” Nevermind that two other people were killed.

Anthony Abraham had considerable clout. It was his wife’s death that made the headlines; it was the Abrahams’ bronze Cadillac, with its Foreign Consul license plate, that spawned intriguing rumors of a political hit. The son of a Lebanese peddler, the Ohio-born Abraham was an honorary consul to Lebanon, an adviser to six U.S presidents. He was an astute and gracious businessman who shared his wealth with his nation, his parents’ native land and orphans around the world. He and his wife of 47 years adopted each of their five children. They supported the opera guild, the ballet and just about every charitable cause in South Florida. They were major benefactors of Miami’s Our Lady of Lebanon Catholic Church and several orphanages in Beirut. They were founding directors of St. Jude Children’s Research Center in Memphis, Tenn., each year drawing talent such as Danny Thomas, Robert Goulet and Frank Sinatra to entertain at their annual fund-raising Miracle Ball. Pressured by the brass, detectives pulled out all the stops to find his wife’s killers. They investigated hundreds of leads and interviewed scores of people. They ruled out a political hit, a blood feud, a band of gypsies out to settle a score. They picked through garbage bins, quizzed cabbies and bus drivers, distributed fliers, reviewed phone bills, tested every .38-caliber and .22-caliber gun impounded. All for naught.

Eventually, the case landed on the desk of Metro-Dade’s cold-case squad. Nothing happened – until the March day in 1992 that Ralph Lopez decided to cleanse his conscience. Lopez, a sickly diabetic, spent 42 days in Orlando’s Sand Lake Hospital in 1991 with a severe and life-threatening case of chickenpox. His lung collapsed, and he grew so ill doctors prepared his family for the worst. Lopez said he felt his surprising recovery was a divine signal that he should tell police what he knew. Meeting detectives at a Miami sub shop, he spun an intricate story involving Luis Rodriguez, to whom Lopez was related by marriage. In the mid-’80s, Lopez said, he was hanging out on Luis’ front porch in Orlando, drinking beer, telling tough-guy stories. Lopez said Luis bragged about the “Anthony Abraham thing.” Luis, he said, recounted how he and Tony went to rob the Josephs but that Tony “went nuts” and killed them. Lopez dismissed the talk as “garbage” – until he was at his sister’s house and Luis’ brother Isidoro showed him jewelry and rare coins wrapped in a towel. Isidoro suspected the items belonged to the victims.

For the first time in years, police knew they had a promising tip. They had never heard of Luis Rodriguez before, but Tony they knew. In 1985, court records show, he had called them twice from jail, fishing for information on the Abraham murders. He also was a tenant in the Josephs’ building. Detectives spent the next 17 months trying to verify Lopez’s tale. They enlisted help from police in Orange and Seminole counties, catching up to Luis Rodriguez’s ex-girfriend, Cathy Sundin, in July 1993. In the early ’80s, she told police, Luis Rodriguez told her he was going to Miami to pull a robbery with Tony so she could quit working as a topless dancer. When Luis returned, Sundin said, he “looked like he had his heart ripped out.” “He told me he was doing this burglary and that these people came home and they saw his face so he shot them,” she said in a sworn statement. “He was crying, saying he couldn't help it. They saw my face.” On Aug. 3, 1993, police decided to talk to Luis Rodriguez and his family members. Detectives fanned out in Miami and Orlando. Several showed up at Fiber Unlimited and invited Luis to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office. At first, Luis Rodriguez denied knowing anything about the murders. Police told him his family members also were being interviewed that day. Then Detective Jarrett Crawford dropped a bombshell: “What if we told you Tony dumped everything on you?” It was a lie, but police said Luis Rodriguez’s demeanor suddenly changed. He leaned back in his chair, let out a heavy sigh and, according to police, said, “Putting me in a cell will never be as bad as living with what I did.” Startled, detectives took a break. “We did not think in our wildest dreams that he would make a statement like this,” Crawford said. “We felt this was someone who would be a stone wall.” After the break, the stone wall crumbled. Luis Rodriguez signed each page of his transcribed confession. As Luis Rodriguez told it, Tony knocked on the Josephs’ door, a gun hidden in the small of his back, tan surgical gloves in his pocket. When Sam Joseph, 80, answered, Tony told the landlord that his wife and child were being held hostage by Luis’ friend. If he didn’t get his rent money back, Tony said, Luis’ friend would kill them. Sam Joseph, 80, let Tony and Luis in. Once inside, things turned ugly. A hysterical Bea Joseph, 77, was punched in the mouth, hard enough to draw blood. Luis searched the master bedroom for valuables. He found Sam Joseph’s .38-caliber gun in a sock drawer and brought it to Tony. About this time, there was an unexpected knock on the door. It was Genevieve Abraham.

Luis said Tony commanded the “very well dressed, very well mannered” visitor to sit down. Then he ordered Luis to “off” her. Luis did, firing one shot. He told police that Tony shot the landlord and his wife. Just before midnight, Genevieve’s sister arrived at the Joseph apartment, distraught that Gen had failed to meet her for dinner. The door was ajar, and she walked in. Amid the horror, a teapot boiled on the stove. The kitchen table was set for two. Christmas lights twinkled on the tree. And scattered on the floor were 10 wrapped boxes of candy Genevieve Abraham had delivered for a charity event.

February 10, 1985

Concerts

Sunrise Musical Theater, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. L.A. Is My Lady

2. It's All Right With Me

3. Don't Worry 'bout Me

4. Theme From New York, New York

5. Luck Be a Lady

6. Here's That Rainy Day

7. Here's to the Band

8. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)

9. I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry

10. Come Rain or Come Shine

11. Pennies From Heaven

12. This Is All I Ask

13. Mack the Knife

14. Strangers in the Night

15. My Way

Extras

Sunrise Musical Theater, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

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February 11, 1985

Concerts

Sunrise Musical Theater, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. L.A. Is My Lady

2. It's All Right With Me

3. Don't Worry 'Bout Me

4. Theme From New York, New York

5. Luck Be a Lady

6. Here's That Rainy Day

7. Here's to the Band

8. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)

9. I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry

10. Come Rain or Come Shine

11. Pennies From Heaven

12. This Is All I Ask

13. Mack the Knife

14. Strangers in the Night

15. My Way

February 14, 1985

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. L.A. Is My Lady

2. It's All Right With Me

3. Someone To Watch Over Me

4. Day In, Day Out

5. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning

6. Mack The Knife

7. monologue

8. One For My Baby

9. My Funny Valentine

10. Something

11. Fly Me To The Moon

12. What's New?

13. Pennies From Heaven

14. Autumn Leaves

15. New York, New York

Notes: TT 63mins.

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. L.A. Is My Lady

2.. It's All Right With Me

3. Something

4. Someone To Watch Over Me

5. Day In, Day Out

6. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning

7. Mack The Knife

8. monologue

9. One For My Baby

10. My Funny Valentine

11. Fly Me To The Moon

12. What's New?

13. Pennies From Heaven

14. Autumn Leaves

15. New York, New York

Notes: TT 62mins,

Ed O'Brien:

Frank's opening act was the juggler Michael Day.

He sang "One For My Baby" with a quartet. The four day stay had Frank singing 16 songs including alternates.

February 15, 1985

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1.. L.A. Is My Lady

2. It's All Right With Me

3. Someone To Watch Over Me

4. Day In, Day Out

5. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning

6. Mack The Knife

7. monologue

8. One For My Baby

9. Something

10. Fly Me To The Moon

11. Come Rain Or Come Shine

12. Pennies From Heaven

13. Autumn Leaves

14. New York, New York

Notes: TT 53mins.

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. L.A. Is My Lady

2. It's All Right With Me

3. Someone To Watch Over Me

4. Day In, Day Out

5. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning

6. Mack The Knife

7. monologue

8. One For My Baby

9. Something

10. Fly Me To The Moon

11. Come Rain Or Come Shine

12. Pennies From Heaven

13. Autumn Leaves

14. New York, New York

Notes: TT 57mins.

February 16, 1985

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. It's All Right With Me

3. Someone To Watch Over Me

4. Day In, Day Out

5. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning

6. Mack The Knife

7. monologue

8. One For My Baby

9. Something

10. L.A.. Is My Lady

11. Come Rain Or Come Shine

12.. Pennies From Heaven

13. Autumn Leaves

14. New York, New York

Notes: TT 57mins.

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. It's All Right With Me

3. Someone To Watch Over Me

4. Day In, Day Out

5. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning

6. Mack The Knife

7. monologue

8. One For My Baby

9. Something

10. L. A. Is My Lady

11. Come Rain Or Come Shine

12. Pennies From Heaven

13. Autumn Leaves

14. New York, New York

Notes: TT 56mins.

February 17, 1985

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. It's All Right With Me

3. Someone To Watch Over Me

4. Day In, Day Out

5. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning

6. Mack The Knife

7. monologue

8. One For My Baby

9. Something

10. L. A. Is My Lady

11. Come Rain Or Come Shine

12. Pennies From Heaven

13. Autumn Leaves

14. New York, New York

Notes: TT 60mins.

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. It's All Right With Me

3. Someone To Watch Over Me

4. Day In, Day Out

5.. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning

6. Mack The Knife

7. monologue

8. One For My Baby

9. Something

10. L. A. Is My Lady

11. Come Rain Or Come Shine

12. Pennies From Heaven

13. These Foolish Things

14. New York, New York

Notes: TT 55mins.

March 15, 1985

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. The Lady Is A Tramp

2. It's All Right With Me

3. Someone To Watch Over Me

4. Fly Me To The Moon

5. Here's That Rainy Day

6. Mack The Knife

7. monologue

8. L. A. Is My Lady

9. All Of Me

10.. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

11. Come Rain Or Come Shine

12. All Or Nothing At All

13. Something

14. Pennies From Heaven

15. Don't Worry 'Bout Me

16. One For My Baby

17. New York, New York

Notes: 61mins.

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. The Lady Is A Tramp

2. It's All Right With Me

3. Someone To Watch Over Me

4.. Fly Me To The Moon

5. Here's That Rainy Day

6. Mack The Knife

7. monologue

8. L. A. Is My Lady

9. All Of Me

10. Come Rain Or Come Shine

11. All Or Nothing At All

12. Something

13. Pennies From Heaven

14. Don't Worry 'Bout Me

15. One For My Baby

16. New York, New York

Notes: TT 63mins.

March 16, 1985

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. The Lady Is A Tramp

2. It's All Right With Me

3. Someone To Watch Over Me

4. Fly Me To The Moon

5. Here's That Rainy Day

6. Mack The Knife

7. monologue

8. L. A. Is My Lady

9. All Of Me

10. Come Rain Or Come Shine

11. All Or Nothing At All

12. Something

13. Pennies From Heaven

14. Don't Worry ‘Bout Me

15. One For My Baby

16. New York, New York

17. My Way

Notes: TT 78mins.

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. The Lady Is A Tramp

2. It's All Right With Me

3. Someone To Watch Over Me

4. Fly Me To The Moon

5. Here's That Rainy Day

6. Mack The Knife

7. monologue

8. L. A. Is My Lady

9. All Of Me

10. Come Rain Or Come Shine

11.. All Or Nothing At All

12. Something

13.. Pennies From Heaven

14. One For My Baby

15. New York, New York

Notes: TT 52mins.

March 26, 1985

Concerts

Summit Arena, Houston, Texas

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. The Lady Is A Tramp

2. It's All Right With Me

3. Here's That Rainy Day

4. Fly Me To The Moon

5. This Is All I Ask

6. Mack The Knife

7. L.A. Is My Lady

8. All Of Me

9. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

10. Come Rain Or Come Shine

11. All Or Nothing At All

12. My Way

13. Pennies From Heaven

14. Don't Worry 'Bout Me

15. Strangers In The Night

16. One For My Baby

17. New York, New York

Notes: 66min.

Note: Sinatra drew 20,000 for this concert.

Prince played at the Summit in January of 85. Despite lower prices he drew a crowd of 17,000.

--Ed

March 27, 1985

Concerts

Summit Arena, Houston, Texas

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

Wednesday evening

1. The Lady Is A Tramp

2. It's All Right With Me

3. Here's That Rainy Day

4. Fly Me To The Moon

5. This Is All I Ask

6. Mack The Knife

7. Monologue

8. L. A. Is My Lady

9. All Of Me

10. Tony Mottola Solo

11. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

12. Come Rain Or Come Shine

13. All Or Nothing At All

14. My Way

15. Pennies From Heaven

16. Don't Worry ‘Bout Me

17. Strangers In The Night

18. One For My Baby

19. New York, New York

Notes: 66mins.

March 28, 1985

Concerts

Kemper Arena, Kansas City, Missouri

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. The Lady Is a Tramp

2. It's All Right With Me

3. Here's That Rainy Day

4. Fly Me to the Moon

5. This Is All I Ask

6. Mack the Knife

7. L.A. Is My Lady

8. All of Me

9. I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry

10. Come Rain or Come Shine

11. All or Nothing at All

12. My Way

13. Pennies From Heaven

14. Don't Worry 'Bout Me

15. Strangers in the Night

16. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)

17. Theme From New York, New York

Extras

Kemper Arena, Kansas City, Missouri

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

April 12, 1985

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Where Or When

2. The Lady Is A Tramp

3. Someone To Watch Over Me

4. Fly Me To The Moon

5. This Is All I Ask

6. Mack The Knife

7. Luck Be A Lady

8. Something

9. All Of Me

10. Come Rain Or Come Shine

11. My Way

12. All Or Nothing At All

13. One For My Baby

14. New York, New York

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Where Or When

2. The Lady Is A Tramp

3. Someone To Watch Over Me

4. Fly Me To The Moon

5. This Is All I Ask

6. Mack The Knife

7. monologue

8. Luck Be A Lady

9. Something

10. All Of Me

11. Come Rain Or Come Shine

12. My Way

13. All Or Nothing At All

14. One For My Baby

15. New York, New York

Notes: TT 74mins.

April 13, 1985

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Where Or When

2. The Lady Is A Tramp

3. Someone To Watch Over Me

4. Fly Me To The Moon

5. This Is All I Ask

6. Pennies From Heaven

7. monologue

8. Luck Be A Lady

9. Something

10. All Of Me

11. Come Rain Or Come Shine

12. My Way

13. All Or Nothing At All

14. One For My Baby

15. New York, New York

Notes: TT 65mins.

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Where Or When

2. The Lady Is A Tramp

3. Someone To Watch Over Me

4. Fly Me To The Moon

5. This Is All I Ask

6. Pennies From Heaven

7. monologue

8. Luck Be A Lady

9. Something

10. All Of Me

11. Come Rain Or Come Shine

12. My Way

13. All Or Nothing At All

14. One For My Baby

15. New York, New York

Notes: TT 64mins.

Extras

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Where Or When

2. The Lady Is A Tramp

3. Someone To Watch Over Me

4. Fly Me To The Moon

5. This Is All I Ask

6. Pennies From Heaven

7. monologue

8. Luck Be A Lady

9. Something

10. All Of Me

11. Come Rain Or Come Shine

12. My Way

13. All Or Nothing At All

14. One For My Baby

15. New York, New York

Notes: TT 65mins.

April 17, 1985

Concerts

Budokan Arena, Tokyo, Japan

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Where Or When

2. Fly Me To The Moon

3. Autumn Leaves

4. The Lady Is A Tramp

5. My Way

6. I've Got You Under My Skin

7. Something

8. I Get A Kick Out Of You

9. Don't Worry 'Bout Me

10. All Or Nothing At All

11. Mack The Knife

12. monologue

13. Luck Be A Lady

14. Concierto de Aranjurez - Tony Mattola solo (guitar)

15. My Funny Valentine w/Tony Mattola

16. L. A. Is My Lady

17. Strangers In The Night

18. Come Rain Or Come Shine

19. Pennies From Heaven

20. One For My Baby

21. New York, New York

Notes: TT 90mins.

Ed Notes:

After the 4./17 concert Frank and Barbara went, via limo, to the Fuji TV studio. The announcers were almost hysterical as they entered the building. The studio staff handed Frank a plethora of flowers. So many, you couldn't see his face. The announcer introduced him as the "greatest entertainer of the 20th Century." In front of a N.Y. skyline, he sang the Kander and Ebb song and then departed. I was told they paid him $42,000 for the 10 minute appearance.

Extras

Budokan Arena, Tokyo, Japan

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

This calendar, or any parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any fashion whatsoever without the prior written permission of the publisher (The Sinatra Archive)

Budokan Arena, Tokyo, Japan

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

This calendar, or any parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any fashion whatsoever without the prior written permission of the publisher (The Sinatra Archive)

April 18, 1985

Concerts

Budokan Arena, Tokyo, Japan

"Sinatra In Japan" Television special

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

Full Set List:

1. Overture

2. Where Or When

3. Fly Me To The Moon

4. Autumn Leaves

5. The Lady Is A Tramp

6. My Way

7. I've Got You Under My Skin

8. Something

9. I Get A Kick Out Of You

10. This Is All I ask

11. My Kind Of Town

12. Someone To Watch Over Me

13. All Or Nothing At All

14.. Here's That Rainy Day

15. Mack The Knife

16. monologue

17. Luck Be A Lady

18. Concierto de Aranjurez - Tony Mattola solo (guitar)

19. My Funny Valentine w/Tony Mattola

20. L.A. Is My Lady

21. Strangers In The Night

22. Come Rain Or Come Shine

23. Pennies From Heaven

24. One For My Baby

25. New York New York

Television Edit "Sinatra In Japan" Broadcast April 26, 1985

1. The Lady Is A Tramp

2. Fly Me To The Moon

3. My Way

4. I've Got You Under My Skin

5. Something

6. I Get A Kick Out Of You

7. My Kind Of Town

8. Someone To Watch Over Me

9. All Or Nothing At All

10. Mack The Knife

11. monologue

12. Luck Be A Lady

13. L. A. Is My Lady

14. Strangers In The Night

15. Come Rain Or Come Shine

16. Pennies From Heaven

17. One For My Baby

18. New York, New York

Notes: Complete concert TT 93mins. TV Edit runs TT 73mins. The show was edited three different ways.

Extras

Budokan Arena, Tokyo, Japan

"Sinatra In Japan" Television special

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

Sinatra At Budokan: A Performance Of Consummate Artistry

Witnessing Sinatra in Tokyo at Budokan Hall was an unforgettable experience, with The Chairman staging a vibrant performance.

Published on April 18, 2024

By Charles Waring

Decades have now elapsed since Frank Sinatra's memorable performance at Budokan Hall in Tokyo. It was the night of Thursday, April 18, 1985, and the legendary Japanese concert venue – which had originally been buuilt for the 1964 Olympic Games to host a judo competition – was packed to the rafters, filled with 14,500 attendees who had come to witness a bona fide legend in concert.

Sinatra had performed in Japan several times before, including a memorable show in Tokyo's Hibachi Park in 1962, and The Chairman Of The Board had appeared at the Budokan, a prestigious venue that had been hosting rock bands since the early 70s, in July 1974.

A performance of consummate artistry

Sinatra's Budokan concert began with a slick and evocative orchestral overture consisting of a medley of the Hoboken singer's best-known tunes. When the three-minute piece finished, Sinatra walked down a red carpet in the center of the hall and ascended to the stage to long and rapturous applause.

Blaring horns then announced one of Sinatra's signature swing tunes, "The Lady Is A Tramp." Originally released by Capitol 27 years earlier, it sounded as lively as the day it was first recorded.

Still very much in a swing mode, Sinatra continued with a luminous version of "Fly Me To The Moon" before slowing the tempo for the anthemic ballad "My Way," which climaxes with a rousing finale. Then it's back to the 50s for the subtler and gently pulsing Cole Porter-written "I've Got You Under My Skin," which finds Sinatra acknowledging the genius of his arranger Nelson Riddle before delivering a performance of consummate vocal artistry.

A tender and moving version of "Something," introduced as "a beautiful love song by George Harrison of The Beatles," highlights Sinatra's prowess as a ballad singer and shows that he could master contemporary rock material. At the end of the song, he dedicates his performance of it to his wife, Barbara, who was in the audience.

Frank's kind of town

Sinatra's Budokan set also includes the then recently recorded "LA Is My Lady," the title track of his 1984 album produced by Quincy Jones, along with a particularly outstanding "My Kind Of Town." A homage to Chicago, Sinatra tweaked the lyrics for his Japanese audience at one point, singing, "Yokohama… is my kind of town."

He then took a trip back to his early days in show business by revisiting "All Or Nothing At All," which he originally recorded with Harry James' orchestra. The Budokan concert also featured stupendous versions of classics such as "Pennies From Heaven," "Come Rain Or Come Shine" ("I like this song almost more than any other song I've sung," he reveals) and "Strangers In The Night," as well as a bass-driven "Mack The Knife," and Sinatra's dynamic Vegas anthem, "Luck Be A Lady." Sinatra showed his vulnerable side, too, with the haunting "One For My Baby," a classic saloon ballad penned by Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen.

"Now we have a brand new song for you," an enthusiastic Sinatra then told his Japanese audience, before launching into the brassy urban swagger of "Theme From New York, New York." Originally written by John Kander and Fred Ebb for Liza Minnelli in Martin Scorsese's 1977 musical, New York, New York, Sinatra made the song his own when he recorded it in 1980 for his album Trilogy: Past Present Future.

A performance to remember, the Budokan concert shows that, in the mid-80s, Sinatra could indeed draw upon an unbeatable past, enjoyed a vibrant present, and still had one hell of a future ahead of him.

April 19, 1985

Concerts

Budokan Arena, Tokyo, Japan

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. The Lady Is A Tramp

2. Fly Me To The Moon

3. Autumn Leaves

4. Where Or When

5. My Way

6. I've Got You Under My Skin

7. Something

8. I Get A Kick Out Of You

9. This Is All I Ask

10. My Kind Of Town

11. Someone To Watch Over Me

12. All Or Nothing At All

13. Mack The Knife

14. Luck Be A Lady

15. My Funny Valentine

16. L.A. Is My Lady

17. Strangers In The Night

18. Come Rain Or Come Shine

19.. Pennies From Heaven

20. One For My Baby

21. New York, New York

Notes: TT 84mins.

Note: This show was taped by Sinatra's people and was used to add fillers on the 4/18 taped by the Japanese. The 4/19 has not been issued.

--Ed

April 22, 1985

Concerts

The Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, Japan

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

Key Musicians: Bobby Scans (Trombone).

1. overture

2. The Lady Is A Tramp

3. Fly Me To The Moon

4. Where Or When

5. Autumn Leaves

6. I've Got You Under My Skin

7. My Kind Of Town

8. Someone To Watch Over Me

9. All Or Nothing At All

10. Something

11. Mack The Knife

12. monologue

13. Luck Be A Lady

14. solo - Tony Mattola

15. My Funny Valentine w/Tony Mattola

16. Stranger In The Night

17. Pennies From Heaven

18. One For My Baby

19. New York, New York

20. L.A. Is My Lady

21. My Way

22. Chaser "You Are There"

Notes: TT 85mins.

Extras

The Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, Japan

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

Key Musicians: Bobby Scans (Trombone).

At $580, Sinatra isn't singing for my supper

By Hal Drake | Stars and Stripes March 11, 1985

Ol' Blue Eyes is back and My Way is having things his way.

Frank Sinatra, a close-to-70 superstar, appears April 22 at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo.

The fare: Frank and a full-course French dinner. The tab: 150,000 yen. At current exchange rates, that comes to a rounded-off $580.

I talked to an old friend, long close to show business here, and she said this was all-tine usury for a first-class pop star, surpassing even the top-heavy tariffs on James Brown, Tom Jones, Lira Minnelli and Marlene Dietrich. "Come Fly With Me ..."

Not at those prices, papa.

They don't pay people in my malnourished trade that kind of cash and even if they did, it would stay stubbornly wedged in my wallet. Oh, I'll allow that I'd walk out pleasantly stuffed, well lilted on fine wine and memorably entertained by an Old Master who performs the way Gene Kelly danced and Sugar Ray Robinson used to box, with vitality and yet almost indolent ease. But after the indigestion and hangover fled, what would I have? My economy-class friends, far from being impressed by that souvenir stub, would treat me like the rube who bought the San Francisco Civic Center. They, like I, would have reflected hard on what all those Georges would have bought. A look into my favorite dream book, the 1985 Exchange Service Catalog, is full of appealing alternatives solid things you can buy and hold. For exactly $580, there is a rolltop desk of heirloom quality, made by the masters of hand-tooled mahogany in the Philippines. Take $10 off that pile and you cover the cost of a German gold necklace by Arthur Bossert 14 karats and 26.5 grams of gold weight. That dinner-show tab would buy two Omega quartz watches, three Dutch wall clocks, four sets of Edinburgh crystal, six European tapestries, seven English crossbows, nine Thai temple lions, 10 quarter-liter beer tankards and a Canon camera body with cash left over for a wide-angle lens. Before this sounds like an out-of-season Christmas carol, I'll stop but not without adding that the final thumbs-down on a night at the Imperial came in a videotape catalog, where I found that a freely spent $580 would buy 12 vintage classics like "Bedtime for Bonzo" and "Gunga Din." Besides, I'd probably order the wrong wine with the Chateaubriand and the penalty for that is no-refund expulsion. Why those Maxim's-sized prices on a few old songs and many encores? Well, seems as how Sinatra wanted an upfront guarantee of $1.5 million, to cover the supper songs and three concerts at the massive Hall of Martial Arts. Top price there is a karate chop to the budget $96 and other seats scale down to a civilized $20. Ok, so I don't expect a big shot of Sinatra's proven caliber to work cheap. BUT A FEW DAYS before Frank, there will be Bruce Springsteen, holding forth at the National Gymnasium in Tokyo. He's a long way from elder-statesman status and easy on his adoring fans top seats $20, lesser ones $11.50. (Tickets went on sale March 3 at 10 a.m. and in two hours four ticket agencies in downtown Tokyo were sold out. But, the sponsors say, the concerts haven't been sold out. Then where are the remaining tickets? They can't say.) I can remember the time Count Basie came to town and saw too many numerals on his playbill, making a basso profundo demand that prices be trimmed so the office-girl and student class could get in. They were.

I gladly parted with $15 to hear great sounds from one of the greats. As for the Imperial, I'll see you outside habitually destitute and culturally deprived.

April 25, 1985

Concerts

Hong Kong Coliseum, Hong Kong

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. The Lady Is a Tramp

2. Fly Me to the Moon

3. Autumn Leaves

4. Where or When

5. My Way

6. I've Got You Under My Skin

7. Something

8. I Get a Kick Out of You

9. This Is All I Ask

10. My Kind of Town

11. Someone to Watch Over Me

12. All or Nothing at All

13. Mack the Knife

14. Luck Be a Lady

15. My Funny Valentine

16. L.A. Is My Lady

17. Strangers in the Night

18. Come Rain or Come Shine

19. Pennies From Heaven

20. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)

21. Theme From New York, New York

April 26, 1985

Television

Budokan Concert, Tokyo, Japan

Taped: 4/18 & 4/19.

1. The Lady Is A Tramp

2. commercials

3. My Way

4. I've Got You Under My Skin

5. Barbara Sinatra introduced to the public**

6. I Get A Kick Out Of You (Including verse, which was edited out in the VHS video)

7. My Kind of Town

8. commercials

9. Mack The Knife

10.My funny Valentine (T.Mottola, guitar only)

11. L.A. Is My Lady

12. commercials

13. Strangers In The Night

14. Pennies From Heaven

15. New York, New York

16. Sinatra thanks Japanese audience (recorded in the studio)

Note: Televised Budokan content supplied by "Where Or When" database's own Dick Schwarz.

May 1985

Extras

[Presidential Medal of Freedom]

Sinatra receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom in Washington, D.C.

Source: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

May 23, 1985

Extras

Hoboken, New Jersey

Thursday morning

Frank Sinatra received an honorary engineering degree from Stevens Institute.

As a child Frank

had hoped to attend Stevens after high school.

White House ceremony

President Reagan bestowed upon the singer from Hoboken the nation's highest civilian honor: The Medal of Freedom.

Frank called it the proudest day of his life.

note: Ed O'Brien contributed the above 3 Extra's

Frank Sinatra, first lady Nancy Reagan, and Chuck Yeager have lunch after the Medal of Freedom ceremony at The White House in Washington, DC on May 23, 1985.

May 24, 1985

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada (May 24-27)

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Where Or When

2. I've Got You Under My Skin

3. It's All Right With Me

4. Autumn Leaves

5. L.A. Is My Lady

6. Someone To Watch Over Me

7. I Get A Kick Out Of You

8. Mack The Knife

9. One For My Baby

10. monologue

11. My Kind Of Town

12. All Or Nothing At All

13. Something

14. Here's To The Band

15. Come Rain Or Come Shine

16. More Than You Know

17. Luck Be A Lady

18. New York, New York

Notes: TT 69mins.

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada (May 24-27) second show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Where Or When

2. I've Got You Under My Skin

3. It's All Right With Me

4. Autumn Leaves

5. L.A. Is My Lady

6.. Someone To Watch Over Me

7. I Get A Kick Out Of You

8. Mack The Knife

9. One For My Baby

10. monologue

11. My Kind Of Town

12. All Or Nothing At All

13. Something

14. Here's To The Band

15. Come Rain Or Come Shine

16. Luck Be A Lady

17. New York, New York

May 25, 1985

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada (May 24-27)

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Where Or When

2. I've Got You Under My Skin

3. It's All Right With Me

4. Autumn Leaves

5. L. A. Is My Lady

6. Someone To Watch Over Me

7. I Get A Kick Out Of You

8. Mack The Knife

9. All Or Nothing At All

10. Something

11. Here's To The Band

12. Come Rain Or Come Shine

13. One For My Baby

14. New York, New York

Notes: TT 58mins.

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada (May 24-27)

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Where Or When

2. I've Got You Under My Skin

3. It's All Right With Me

4. Autumn Leaves

5. L.A. Is My Lady

6. Someone To Watch Over Me

7. I Get A Kick Out Of You

8. Mack The Knife

9. monologue

10. All Or Nothing At All

11. Something

12. Here's To The Band

13. Come Rain Or Come Shine

14. Luck Be A Lady

15. One For My Baby

16. New York, New York

Notes: TT 65mins.

1985

Extras

[A Letter Credits Frank With Helping Save Chrysler And 35,000 Jobs]

Nancy Sinatra: In a 1985 letter, Bill Fine thanked Sinatra for casting a deciding vote, in his capacity connected to Chrysler, that helped keep the automaker running and preserved an estimated 35,000 jobs.

Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

[Advises Nancy to Keep a Diary]

Sometime before completing this book, Frank told Nancy she ought to keep a diary -- advice she noted, with some irony, had come too late to help with this particular book.

Source: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

[Cary Grant Witnesses a Crowd Mobbing Sinatra]

Cary Grant recalled that decades earlier, outside New York's old Astor Hotel, he saw an acquaintance angrily blame a young Sinatra for blocking the sidewalk near the Paramount, when in truth it was fans crowding around him for autographs and photos that caused the obstruction.

Source: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

[Daughter Nancy Publishes Frank Sinatra: My Father]

In the absence of any autobiography from her father, Nancy Sinatra published Frank Sinatra: My Father, an account that would later be updated and expanded.

Source: The Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra, chapter "I Want to Be a Part of It, 1971-98."

[Honorary Degree from Stevens Institute]

Speaking in 1985, Sinatra noted with some amusement that Stevens Institute of Technology -- the engineering school he had once dreamed of attending -- planned to award him an honorary degree that May.

Source: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

[Nancy Sinatra Lambert Signs Off the Book's Epilogue]

Nancy dates and signs the closing section of the biography "Nancy Sinatra Lambert, January 1985," reflecting on her father as her hero and on the bittersweet nature of loving a public figure.

Source: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

[Sam Vaughan Commits Doubleday to the Book]

Doubleday Editor-in-Chief Sam Vaughan took on Nancy's book project years before its 1985 publication, telling her he had "grown up with Frank Sinatra."

Source: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

[Produces Reagan's Second Inaugural Gala]

Sinatra produces and hosts President Reagan's Inaugural Gala and receives an honorary Doctor of Engineering from the Stevens Institute in Hoboken.

Source: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

[Presidential Medal of Freedom]

Frank Sinatra was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.

Source: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

[Sinatra Tells Larry King His Whole Life Is "the Good Old Days"]

In early 1985, radio host and USA Today columnist Larry King asked Sinatra about nostalgia; Sinatra responded that he has no "good old days" memories because his whole life qualifies as such.

Source: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

[Sinatra's Seventieth Birthday]

Nancy notes she completed the book as her father approached his seventieth birthday that December, an occasion that shaped her wish to put his life story into perspective.

Source: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

[Steve Gelman Begins Shaping the Book]

Former Life magazine editor Steve Gelman began organizing Nancy's mountain of scrapbooks, clippings, letters, and photographs into a workable manuscript several years before the book's 1985 publication.

Source: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

[The Washington Post's "Rat Pack" Editorial]

While Sinatra was rehearsing the show for President and Mrs. Reagan's inaugural gala, the Washington Post ran an editorial reviving old rumors, including the story about JFK once staying at Bing Crosby's home. Vice President Bush publicly told reporters to "leave him alone," and Sinatra later told one interviewer that certain journalists simply no longer existed for him.

Source: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

[O'Brien heads Basketball Hall of Fame]

Consiglio: After leaving the NBA commissioner post (having groomed attorney David Stern as his successor), Larry O'Brien served as president of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame from 1985 to 1987.

Source: Tony Consiglio (as told to Franz Douskey), "Sinatra and Me: The Very Good Years" (2012)

[Riddle reflects on the end of his Sinatra partnership]

Nelson Riddle: Not long before his death in 1985, Nelson Riddle told NPR interviewer Robert Windeler that Sinatra wasn't inhibited by particular loyalty and simply moved on to new sounds, just as he had once moved on from Axel Stordahl; Riddle said he was hurt but understood nothing was forever.

Source: James Kaplan, "Sinatra: The Chairman" (2015)

[Death of Nancy's husband Hugh Lambert]

In August 1985, Hugh Lambert, husband of Sinatra's daughter Nancy, died of throat cancer, a family tragedy amid an otherwise honor-filled year.

Source: Richard Havers, "Sinatra" (Dorling Kindersley, 2007).

[Frank tours Japan and Hong Kong]

In April 1985, Sinatra toured Japan, playing the Budokan in Tokyo, and also performed a one-off show in Hong Kong. He followed this with a week-long booking at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas.

Source: Richard Havers, "Sinatra" (Dorling Kindersley, 2007).

[Reagan awards Sinatra the Medal of Freedom]

President Ronald Reagan presented Sinatra with the Medal of Freedom in 1985. Afterward cartoonist Gary Trudeau mocked Sinatra's Mafia associations in his Doonesbury strip, prompting Sinatra's lawyers to send a threatening legal letter that Trudeau later recalled amusedly.

Source: Richard Havers, "Sinatra" (Dorling Kindersley, 2007).

[Death of Nelson Riddle]

Nelson Riddle died at 64, leaving an unfinished chart for Sinatra on his piano.

Source: Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra (Rough guide 7.pdf), chapter "The Inner Circle."

[Sinatra and Strings -- critical commentary]

Frank Sinatra Jr.: Frank Sinatra Jr., commenting for Nancy Sinatra's 1985 biography of her father, recalled the very first Sinatra and Strings session: a huge orchestra assembled, but concertmaster Felix Slatkin was ill (sweating, feeling unwell). Sinatra had everyone paid off and sent home, postponing the whole session to the following night rather than record without his concertmaster.

Source: Charles L. Granata, "Sessions with Sinatra: Frank Sinatra and the Art of Recording" (1999/2003), Part IV: The Reprise Years

May 26, 1985

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada (May 24-27)

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Where Or When

2. I've Got You Under My Skin

3. It's All Right With Me

4. Autumn Leaves

5. L. A. Is My Lady

6.. Someone To Watch Over Me

7. Mack The Knife

8. monologue

9. All Or Nothing At All

10. Something

11.. Here's To The Band

12. Come Rain Or Come Shine

13. Luck Be A Lady

14. One For My Baby

15. New York, New York

Notes: TT 55mins.

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada (May 24-27)

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Where Or When

2. I've Got You Under My Skin

3. It's All Right With Me

4. Autumn Leaves

5. L. A. Is My Lady

6. Someone To Watch Over Me

7. Mack The Knife

8. monologue

9. All Or Nothing At All

10. Something

11. Here's To The Band

12. Come Rain Or Come Shine

13. Luck Be A Lady

14. One For My Baby

15. New York, New York

Notes: TT 58mins.

May 27, 1985

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada (May 24-27)

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Where Or When

2. I've Got You Under My Skin

3. It's All Right With Me

4. Autumn Leaves

5. L.A. Is My Lady

6. Someone To Watch Over Me

7. Mack The Knife

8. monologue

9. All Or Nothing At All

10. Something

11. Here's To The Band

12. Luck Be A Lady

13. One For My Baby

14. New York, New York

Notes: TT 62mins.

May 29, 1985

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Yes Sir, That’s My Baby

2. It’s All Right With Me

3. L.A. Is My Lady

4. Autumn Leaves

5. Change Partners

6. Someone To Watch Over Me

7. All Or Nothing At All

8. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

9. Come Rain Or Come Shine

10. monologue

11. I’ve Got You Under My Skin

12. More Than You Know

13. Where Or When

14. One For My Baby

15. My Kind Of Town

Notes: TT 55mins.

May 30, 1985

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

May 31, 1985

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada (May 24-27)

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

Monday evening

1. Where Or When

2. I've Got You Under My Skin

3. It's All Right With Me

4. Autumn Leaves

5. L.A. Is My Lady

6. Someone To Watch Over Me

7. Mack The Knife monologue

8. All Or Nothing At All

9. Something

10. Here's To The Band

11. Luck Be A Lady

12. One For My Baby

Hugh Lambert, Nancy's husband, died early in the morning after a new tumor was found on his spinal cord. Frank and Tina stayed with the family through his final hours; Frank later held a wake celebrating Hugh's life and, the following Father's Day, personally walked his granddaughters to the cemetery for their first visit since the funeral.

Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

August 30, 1985

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

Key Musicians: Don Baldini (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums), Tony Mattola

(Guitar), Joe Parnello (piano)

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

First Show

1. Yes Sir That's My Baby

2. It's All Right With Me

3. LA Is My Lady

4. Autumn Leaves

5. Change Partners

6. Someone To Watch Over Me

7. All Or Nothing At All

8. medley: The Gal That Got Away - It Never Entered My Mind

9. Here's To The Band

10. monologue

11. Come Rain Or Come Shine

12. I've Got You Under My Skin

13. introductions

14. Tony Mattola: Guitar Solo

15. More Than You Know

16. Where Or When

17. One For My Baby

18. Chaser "You Are There"

Notes: TT 58mins.

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Key Musicians: Don Baldini (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums), Tony Mattola

(Guitar), Joe Parnello (piano)

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Yes Sir, That's My Baby

2. It's All Right With Me

3. L. A. Is My Lady

4. Autumn Leaves

5. Change Partners

6. Someone To Watch Over Me

7. All Or Nothing At All

8. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

9. Here's To The Band

10. monologue

11. Come Rain Or Come Shine

12. I've Got You Under My Skin

13. Where Or When

14. One For My Baby

Notes: TT 57mins

August 31, 1985

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

First Show

Key Musicians: Don Baldini (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums), Tony Mattola

(Guitar), Joe Parnello (piano)

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Yes Sir, That's My Baby

2. It's All Right With Me

3. L. A. Is My Lady

4. Autumn Leaves

5. Change Partners

6. Someone To Watch Over Me

7. All Or Nothing At All

8. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

9. Here's To The Band

10. monologue

11. Come Rain Or Come Shine

12. I've Got You Under My Skin

13. More Than You Know

14. Where Or When

15. One For My Baby

Notes: 56mins.

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Key Musicians: Don Baldini (Bass), Irv Cottler

(Drums), Tony Mattola (Guitar), Joe Parnello (piano)

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Yes Sir, That's My Baby

2. It's All Right With Me

3. L.A. Is My Lady

4. Autumn Leaves

5. Change Partners

6. Someone To Watch Over Me

7. All Or Nothing At All

8. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

9.. Here's To The Band

10. monologue

11. I've Got You Under My Skin

12. Come Rain Or Come Shine

13. Where Or When

14. One For My Baby

Notes: TT 52mins.

September 1, 1985

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

Key Musicans: Don Baldini (Bass), Irv Cottler

(Drums), Tony Mattola (Guitar), Joe Parnello (piano)

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Yes Sir, That's My Baby

2. It's All Right With Me

3. L.A. Is My Lady

4. Autumn Leaves

5. Change Partners

6. Someone To Watch Over Me

7. All Or Nothing At All

8. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

9. Here's To The Band

10. monologue

11. I've Got You Under My Skin

12. Come Rain Or Come Shine

13. Where Or When

14. One For My Baby

Notes: TT 52mins.

September 2, 1985

Television

MDA Telethon

1. L.A. Is My Lady

NOTE: Sinatra Scholar Ed O'Brien points out that

Sinatra's appearance was aired again the following year.

September 5, 1985

Concerts

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. Here's to the Band

12. More Than You Know w/Tony Mottola

13. Mack the Knife

14. It was a very good Year

15. Come Fly with Me

16. One for my Baby

17. New York, New York

Extras

Carnegie Hall, New York City (September 5-14)

Frank played nine sold-out shows at Carnegie Hall; a critic praised his subtle vocal phrasing for turning songs into character studies.

Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

September 6, 1985

Concerts

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

Extras

Carnegie Hall, New York City (September 5-14)

September 7, 1985

Concerts

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

September 8, 1985

Concerts

Carnegie Hall , New York City (September 5-14)

Sunday Evening

Conductor/pianist: Joe Parnello

Bass: Don Baldini

Drums: Irv Cottler

Guitar: Tony Mottola

1. Where Or When B. Byers arg.

2. It's All Right With Me S. Nestico arg.

3. Autumn Leaves

4. L.A. Is My Lady

5. Someone To Watch Over Me D. Costa arg.

6. Change Partners J. Parnello arg.

7. Something N. Riddle arg.

8. All Or Nothing At All N. Riddle uptempo arg 1966

9. Lost In The Stars

10. Gal That Got Away ( "A great thing was hearing Judy when she sang this song.

The song meant a great deal to that little lady and to all of us. She was some kind of talent.") monologue

11. Here's To The Band

12. More Than You Know T. Mottola on guitar

13.. Mack The Knife (standing ovation)

14. It Was A Very Good Year

15. Come Rain Or Come Shine

16. One For My Baby G. Jenkins arg.( "The best saloon song ever written by anybody")

17. I've Got You Under My Skin

( "That's it folks! I can't think of another song to sing just now.")

18. New York, New York

Ed O'Brien:

September 8, 1935 Major Bowes Amateur Hour Hoboken Four sang "Shine."

Fifty years to the day, a sold out house, in the hallowed halls of Carnegie, was thrilled to hear the greatest singer of the century, sing 18 classic American songs, in an 85 minute performance.

Dick Bellach:

I took my wife to one of those concerts; it was the first time she had seen Frank in person. We were sitting in the middle of the orchestra and, at some point she turned to me and whispered, "I get the feeling he's singing just to me." Sinatra had the incredible ability to make everyone in an audience feel he was singing DIRECTLY to them.

September 10, 1985

Concerts

Carnegie Hall, New York City

Key Musicians: Don Baldini (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums), Tony Mattola (Guitar), Joe Parnello (piano)

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

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. The 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

Notes: TT 92mins.

September 12, 1985

Concerts

Carnegie Hall, New York City

Key Musicians: Don Baldini (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums), Tony Mattola

(Guitar), Joe Parnello (piano)

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Where or When

2. It's Alright With Me

3. Autumn Leaves

4. L.A. Is My Lady

5. Someone To Watch Over Me

6. Change Partners

7. Something

8. All Or Nothing At All

9. Lost In The Stars

10. The Gal That Got Away

11. monologue

12. Here's To The Band

13. More Than You Know

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

Notes: TT 84mins.

September 13, 1985

Concerts

Carnegie Hall, New York City

Key Musicians: Don Baldini (Bass), Irv Cottler

(Drums), Tony Mattola (Guitar), Joe Parnello (piano)

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

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

Notes: TT 98mins.

September 14, 1985

Concerts

Carnegie Hall, New York City

Key Musicians: Don Baldini (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums), Tony Mattola (Guitar), Joe Parnello (piano)

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Where Or When

2. It's All Right With Me

3. Autumns Leaves

4. L.A. Is My Lady

5. Someone To Watch Over Me

6. Change Partners

7. Something

8. All Or Nothing At All

9. Lost In The Stars

10. The Gal That Got Away

11. monologue

12. Here's To The Band

13. More Than You Know

14. Mack The Knife

15. It Was A Very Good Year

16. Come Rain Or Come Shine

17. One For My Baby

18. I Get A Kick Out Of You

19. New York, New York

Notes: TT 97mins.

September 15, 1985

Extras

Pipe Night at the Players Club, New York

Frank Sinatra was honored

Pipe Nights began at The Players as a men's cigar evening. By 1936, Pipe Nights had evolved into testimonials

honoring artists for their contributions to the American stage. Past recipients of Pipe Nights include Charlie Chaplin,

John Barrymore, Frank Sinatra, Carol Burnett, Mary Tyler Moore and more.

September 15, 1988 Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, California

Press Conference for The Ultimate Event

Frank Sinatra, Liza Minnelli, Sammy Davis Jr.

This calendar, or any parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any fashion

whatsoever without the prior written permission of the publisher (The

Sinatra Archive)

September 26, 1985

Concerts

Universal Premier Hotel, Los Angeles, California

Just Say No Benefit

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

Notes: Sinatra sang "L.A. Is My Lady"

Extras

Universal Premier Hotel, Los Angeles, California

Just Say No Benefit

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

Notes: Sinatra sang "L.A. Is My Lady"

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whatsoever without the prior written permission of the publisher (The

Sinatra Archive)

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October 6, 1985

Extras

Arranger Nelson Riddle died of liver failure. On the same day Frank Sinatra Jr. attended Riddle's funeral in Westwood, Frank himself was in New York for Yul Brynner's funeral, and Orson Welles also died that day; Frank was reportedly crying on the phone about Welles, whom he considered close as a brother (one of Welles's daughters was Frank's goddaughter).

Frank Sinatra (quoted): "I don't know what I'm going to do without the fat guy."

Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

October 9, 1985

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City New Jersey

Key Musicians: Don Baldini (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums), Tony Mattola (Guitar), Joe Parnello (piano)

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. Where Or When

2. It's All Right With Me

3. Autumns Leaves

4. L. A. Is My Lady

5. Someone To Watch Over Me

6. Change Partners

7. Something

8. All Or Nothing At All

9. Lost In The Stars

10. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

11. monologue

12. Here's To The Band

13. More Than You Know

14. Mack The Knife

15. It Was A Very Good Year

16. You Make Me Feel So Young

17. One For My Baby

Notes: 73mins.

October 10, 1985

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City New Jersey

Key Musicians: Don Baldini (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums), Tony Mattola (Guitar), Joe Parnello (piano)

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

Partial Recording:

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

7. Something

8. All Or Nothing At All

9. Lost In The Stars

10. The Gal That Got Away

11. monologue

12. Tony Mattola: solo

Notes: incomplete TT 43mins.

Extras

FS attends Yul Brynner's funeral, FS jr. attends Nelson Riddle's funeral.

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October 11, 1985

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City New Jersey (9-13)

Orchestra conducted by Joe Parnello

Don Baldini on bass,Irv Cottler on drums, Tony Mottola on guitar,Joe Parnello on piano

Friday evening

First show:

1. All Or Nothing At All Riddle arg. 1966

2. It's All Right With Me

3. Autumn Leaves (terrific vocal)

4. L.A. Is My Lady

5. Someone To Watch Over Me

6. Change Partners Parnello arg. 1982

7. Something Riddle arg. 1974

8. Where Or When Byers arg. 1966

9. Lost In The Stars

9. In The Wee Small Hours

monologue

12. More Than You Know w/ Tony Mottola

12. Mack The Knife

13. It Was A Very Good Year

14. The Best Is Yet To Come

15. One For My Baby

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City New Jersey (9-13)

Orchestra conducted by Joe Parnello

Don Baldini on bass,Irv Cottler on drums, Tony Mottola on guitar,Joe Parnello on piano Friday evening second show:

1. All Or Nothing At All Riddle arg.. 1966

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 Parnello arg. 1982

7. Something Riddle arg. 1974

8. Where Or When Byers arg. 1966

9. Lost In The Stars

9. In The Wee Small Hours monologue

12. More Than You Know w/ Tony Mottola

12. Mack The Knife

13. It Was A Very Good Year

14.. The Best Is Yet To Come

15. One For My Baby program

October 12, 1985

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City New Jersey (9-13)

Orchestra conducted by Joe Parnello

Saturday evening

First show:

1.. All Or Nothing At All (Riddle arg. 1966)

"That song was orchestrated by my friend Nelson Riddle,whom

we dedicate every performance from now to the end of this

year -- or forever -- to his memory." Riddle died 10-8-85

2. It's All Right With Me

3. Autumn Leaves (terrific vocal)

4. L.A. Is My Lady

5. Someone To Watch Over Me

6. Change Partners Parnello arg. 1982

7. Something Riddle arg. 1974

8. Where Or When Byers arg. 1966

9. In The Wee Small Hours ( "Song written by Jule Styne," according

to Frank)

11. The Gal That Got Away ( tribute to Judy )

monologue

12. More Than You Know w/ Tony Mottola

12. Mack The Knife

13. It Was A Very Good Year

14.. The Best Is Yet To Come

15. One For My Baby

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City New Jersey (9-13)

Orchestra conducted by Joe Parnello

Saturday evening second show:

1. All Or Nothing At All Riddle arg. 1966

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 Parnello arg. 1982

7. Something Riddle arg. 1974

8. Where Or When Byers arg. 1966

9. In The Wee Small Hours

11. The Gal That Got Away monologue

12. More Than You Know w/ Tony Mottola

12. Mack The Knife

13. It Was A Very Good Year

14. The Best Is Yet To Come

15. One For My Baby

October 13, 1985

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City New Jersey

Key Musicians: Don Baldini (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums), Tony Mattola (Guitar), Joe Parnello (piano)

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. All or Nothing at All

2. It's All Right With Me

3. L.A. Is My Lady

4. My Heart Stood Still

5. Change Partners

6. Without a Song

7. Moonlight in Vermont

8. Mack the Knife

9. The Man That Got Away

10. The Girl From Ipanema

11. Where or When

12. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

13. Come Rain or Come Shine

14. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)

15. Theme From New York, New York

October 19, 1985

Extras

the event listed below was actually October 19, 1985 and not 1986

October 19, 1986

Washington Hilton, Washington, D.C.

Sinatra receives a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Italian-American Foundation

Frank received a Life Achievement Award at the Washington Hilton, where President Reagan joked in his presentation that he was granting Frank "full amnesty" for having replaced all the Irish tenors in show business.

Frank Sinatra (quoted): "I'm granting you full amnesty, complete forgiveness, for replacing all the Irish tenors in show business."

Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

October 26, 1985

Television

The Prime Of Your Life (WNBC)

Arlene Francis Interviews Frank Sinatra. 15 min.

November 2, 1985

Television

The Prime Of Your Life (WNBC)

Arlene Francis Interviews Frank Sinatra. 15 min.

November 11, 1985

Television

Hour Magazine

Nancy Sinatra Interviews Frank Sinatra

Taped October 22, 1985

November 12, 1985

Television

Hour Magazine

Nancy Sinatra Interviews Frank Sinatra

November 15, 1985

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada (15-16)

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

Friday evening

8:PM

1. All Or Nothing At All

2. It's All Right With Me

3. L.A. Is My Lady

4. My Heart Stood Still

5. Change Partners

6. Without A Song

7. Moonlight In Vermont

8. Mack The Knife monologue

9. The Gal That Got Away

10. The Girl From Ipanema w/ Tony Mottola on guitar

11. Where Or When

12. Bewitched

13. Come Rain Or Come Shine

14. One For My Baby

15. I've Got You Under My Skin

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

12:am

1. All Or Nothing At All

2. It's All Right With Me

3. L.A. Is My Lady

4. My Heart Stood Still

5. Change Partners (Joe Parnello swing chart)

6. Without A Song

7. Moonlight In Vermont

8. Mack The Knife monologue

9. The Gal That Got Away

10. The Girl From Ipanema w/ Tony Mottola on guitar

11. Where Or When

12. Bewitched

13. Come Rain Or Come Shine

14. One For My Baby

15. I've Got You Under My Skin

16. New York, New York

Notes: TT 55mins.

November 16, 1985

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada (15-16)

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

Saturday evening

8:PM

1. All Or Nothing At All

2. It's All Right With Me

3. L.A. Is My Lady

4. My Heart Stood Still

5. Change Partners

6. Without A Song

7. Moonlight In Vermont

8. Mack The Knife

monologue

9. The Gal That Got Away

10. The Girl From Ipanema w/ Tony Mottola on guitar

11. Where Or When

12. Bewitched

13. Come Rain Or Come Shine

14. One For My Baby

15. I've Got You Under My Skin

16. New York, New York

Notes: TT 75mins.

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada (15-16)

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

12:am

1. All Or Nothing At All

2. It's All Right With Me

3. L.A. Is My Lady

4. My Heart Stood Still

5. Change Partners (Joe Parnello swing chart)

6. Without A Song

7. Moonlight In Vermont

8. Mack The Knife monologue

9. The Gal That Got Away

10. The Girl From Ipanema w/ Tony Mottola on guitar

11. Where Or When

12. Bewitched

13. Come Rain Or Come Shine

14. One For My Baby

15. New York, New York

Notes: TT 68min

November 30, 1985

Concerts

Marriott Hotel, Rancho Mirage, California

Barbara Sinatra Children's Center Benefit

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

December 12, 1985

Extras

[Founding of the Barbara Sinatra Children's Center in Palm Springs]

Ground was broken for the Barbara Sinatra Children's Center in Palm Springs on Frank's seventieth birthday. The child-abuse treatment center grew out of a charity project Barbara's tennis friend Barbara Kaplan, wife of a Desert Hospital cardiologist, had urged her to support earlier in the 1980s; after an art auction (with paintings donated by Frank and Tony Bennett, among others) and a benefit concert featuring Frank, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., and Liza Minnelli, Barbara secured land on the Eisenhower Medical Center campus through Walter Annenberg and raised the construction funds herself.

Source: Barbara Sinatra, Lady Blue Eyes: My Life with Frank Sinatra (New York: Crown Archetype, 2011).

Frank Sinatra celebrated his 70th birthday; around this period he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which Nancy Sinatra described as the proudest, highest honor of his life.

Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

December 15, 1985

Extras

A week before Frank's 70th birthday, Chicago Tribune columnist Bob Greene published a personal tribute recalling sneaking into a Sinatra show at the Fontainebleau Hotel's La Ronde Room as a college student. Nancy notes in a footnote that even sympathetic writers like Greene sometimes repeated unproven rumors about her father without qualification.

Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

December 16, 1985

[Photograph: Carnegie Hall reopening performance. From Richard Havers, "Sinatra" (Dorling Kindersley, 2007), p.345.]

[Photograph: Carnegie Hall reopening performance. From Richard Havers, "Sinatra" (Dorling Kindersley, 2007), p.344.]

Extras

Sinatra performed with the Peter Duchin Orchestra at the reopened Carnegie Hall in New York on 16 December 1986, captured in a widely used photo captioned "Carnegie comeback.". (Source: Richard Havers, "Sinatra" (Dorling Kindersley, 2007).)

1986

Extras

[A Drunk Guest Falls Through Frank's Palm Springs Window]

Nancy Sinatra: According to Sinatra's own account, corroborated by pianist Joey Bushkin, a heavily intoxicated woman who came to his Palm Springs house with a friend caused a scene, was told to leave, then pulled away from her escort and fell through a window. Sinatra paid her hospital bills and personally drove her there, contradicting a later tabloid version claiming he had shoved her through the glass and paid her off to stay quiet.

Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

[Frank Buys the Foothill Road House]

To satisfy Barbara's wish for a place in town, Frank sold his Bowmont bachelor pad and, in 1986, bought a house on Foothill Road in Beverly Hills for over six million dollars, roughly double its market value.

Source: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

[Frank Hospitalized for Diverticulitis Surgery]

About two months after the biography's release, Frank cut short a tour and was admitted to Eisenhower Medical Center for emergency diverticulitis surgery. Tina, then thirty-eight, rushed to the hospital but was met with a cold, dismissive greeting from Barbara.

Source: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

[Kitty Kelley's Unauthorized Biography His Way Published]

Journalist Kitty Kelley published the unauthorized 500-page biography His Way, which dredged up every unflattering rumor of Sinatra's career, including an allegation that his mother Dolly had performed illegal abortions. Sinatra's failed lawsuit to block publication, arguing he alone owned rights to his story, only generated more publicity, and the book became a bestseller.

Source: The Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra, chapter "I Want to Be a Part of It, 1971-98."

[The Cake Incident with Housekeeper Yvonne Shen]

At a dinner celebrating the new Foothill house, Tina asked housekeeper Yvonne Shen to save her an extra dessert cake sometime. Tina later learned Barbara had scolded Yvonne for offering, telling her she worked for Barbara and not for Tina, only for Yvonne to reply that she worked for "Mr. S.".

Source: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

[Unauthorized Sinatra Biography Published]

In fall 1986, an unflattering, widely discussed unauthorized biography of Frank was published (Tina does not name the author). After failing to block it legally, Frank publicly ignored the book and ordered his family not to respond to it.

Source: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

[Sidney Zion / Yale lecture recollection]

Frank Sinatra: Speaking at the first Libby Zion Lecture at Yale Law School in 1986, an elderly Sinatra told journalist Sidney Zion a romanticized version of his teenage return home from a brief, unsuccessful stint singing in New York, describing a Christmas Eve reunion full of 'hugging and the make-up' with his parents.

Source: James Kaplan, "Frank: The Voice" (2010)

[Sinatra recalls forgetting lyrics for Cole Porter]

Frank Sinatra: Speaking at Yale Law School in 1986, Sinatra recalled a Sunday evening at the Rustic Cabin when he spotted Cole Porter in the small audience and dedicated 'Night and Day' to him, only to forget the words entirely and repeat the title phrase for fifteen bars.

Source: James Kaplan, "Frank: The Voice" (2010)

[Sinatra's vague account of the Dorsey split]

Sinatra: At a 1986 Yale Law School talk, a 70-year-old Sinatra, pressed by Sidney Zion about the Godfather-style mob-intervention legend, gave a genteel, imprecise account of why and how he left Dorsey, saying he feared Bob Eberly or Perry Como would beat him to going solo.

Source: James Kaplan, "Frank: The Voice" (2010)

[personal life]

Santopietro / Tina Sinatra: Sinatra let Ava Gardner use his properties for the rest of her life; the connection faded after his 1976 marriage to Barbara Marx. After Gardner's 1986 stroke, Sinatra called and told her, 'I love you, baby. It stinks getting old.' When she died in January 1990, his publicists issued a brief statement, but privately, per daughter Tina, Sinatra sat alone through the night barely able to speak.

No corresponding dated entry could be identified in the chronology for this film/context.

Source: Tom Santopietro, "Sinatra in Hollywood" (2008), Knight-Errant (pt. 1)

[Emergency diverticulitis surgery]

While performing at the Golden Nugget in Atlantic City, Sinatra fell ill and was flown to Palm Springs for emergency diverticulitis surgery at Eisenhower Medical Center. After a week's hospital stay he returned to the stage five days later at the sister casino in Las Vegas.

Source: Richard Havers, "Sinatra" (Dorling Kindersley, 2007).

[Slower pace before 70th birthday, holiday in Switzerland]

In the four months leading up to his 70th birthday Sinatra played only about 20 dates, mostly at Carnegie Hall and the Golden Nugget venues, and rang in the following year on holiday in Switzerland rather than his usual Vegas opening.

Source: Richard Havers, "Sinatra" (Dorling Kindersley, 2007).

[Sinatra's 1986 reflection on his rivals among band singers (Bob Eberly, Perry Como) -- critical commentary]

Sinatra: As he said in 1986, "In the open field, you might say, were some awfully good singers with the orchestras. Bob Eberly, with Jimmy Dorsey, was a fabulous vocalist. Mr. Como, with Ted Weems, is still such a wonderful singer."

Source: Will Friedwald, "Sinatra! The Song Is You: A Singer's Art" (2018 revised edition), Ch. 3, "With Tommy Dorsey" (1940-1942)

[reflection -- critical commentary]

Sinatra: In a 1986 talk at Yale with author Sidney Zion, Sinatra recalled leaving Dorsey after nearly three years and building his solo career through stick-to-itiveness and belief that what he was doing was right.

Source: Charles L. Granata, "Sessions with Sinatra: Frank Sinatra and the Art of Recording" (1999/2003), Part II: The Columbia Years, 1943-1952

January 23, 1986

Concerts

Lloyd Noble Center, Norman, Oklahoma

Key Musicians: Don Baldini (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Tony Mottola (guitar), Bill Miller (piano).

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. Without A Song

2. L.A. Is My Lady

3.. Where Or When

4. Come Rain Or Come Shine

5. Change Partners

6. The Gal That Got Away

7. It's Alright With Me

8. Here's To The Band

9. Monologue

10. Malaguena - Tony Mattola Solo

11. The Girl From Ipanema

12. Luck Be A Lady

13. It Was A Very Good Year

14. You Make Me Feel So Young

15. One For My Baby

16. Mack The Knife

17. I've Got You Under My Skin

18. New York , New York

NOTE: Sinatraphile John G. remarks that the Oklahoma concert was such a great concert that it’s a shame it was never released by Reprise. It is a fine example of Sinatra back in the “80”s.

In response, Sinatra Scholar Ed O’Brien recalls that in one of his interviews with Vinnie Falcone, we discussed his return as Sinatra’s conductor/pianist for the Norman concert. Vinnie told Ed that he was shocked at the condition of Sinatra’s charts and spent an entire afternoon tightening up and revamping the music. You hear the results that night.

John G. then asks what exactly was wrong with the charts that they needed tightening up and revamping.

O’Brien answers: “Vinnie told me they were musically lazy. They didn’t challenge Sinatra, nor did they give him the strong backing he required to really drive the swing and sell the ballads.”ť

Extras

Lloyd Noble Center, Norman, Oklahoma

[image referenced in source but could not be recovered]

January 25, 1986

Concerts

The University Of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA

Benefit

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. All or Nothing at All

2. Without a Song

3. L.A. Is My Lady

4. Where or When

5. Come Rain or Come Shine

6. Change Partners

7. The Man That Got Away

8. It's All Right With Me

9. Here's to the Band

10. The Girl From Ipanema

11. Luck Be a Lady

12. It Was a Very Good Year

13. You Make Me Feel So Young

14. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)

15. Mack the Knife

16. I've Got You Under My Skin

17. Theme From New York, New York

Extras

The University Of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA

Benefit

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

The University Of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA

Benefit

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. All or Nothing at All

2. Without a Song

3. L.A. Is My Lady

4. Where or When

5. Come Rain or Come Shine

6. Change Partners

7. The Man That Got Away

8. It's All Right With Me

9. Here's to the Band

10. The Girl From Ipanema

11. Luck Be a Lady

12. It Was a Very Good Year

13. You Make Me Feel So Young

14. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)

15. Mack the Knife

16. I've Got You Under My Skin

17. Theme From New York, New York

February 14, 1986

Television

St. Valentine's Day Special (Tokyo)

Notes: Japanese special of the April 18-19, 1985 concert. Edited but includes "Here's That Rainy Day"

Ed O'Brien adds that the show opens with Frank singing "My Funny Valentine" with Tony Mottola as sole accompaniment on guitar.

February 15, 1986

Concerts

Canyon Country Club, Palm Springs, California

"The Love-In III" Benefit

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. Where Or When

2. Without A Song

3.. L. A. Is My Lady

4.. The Gal That Got Away

5. I've Got You Under My Skin

6. One For My Baby

7. New York, New York

Notes: TT 33mins.

Extras

Canyon Country Club, Palm Springs, California

"The Love-In III" Benefit

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

February 20, 1986

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

Key Musicians: Don Baldini (Bass), Bill Miller (Piano), Irv Cottler (Drums), Tony Mattola (Guitar)

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. Without A Song

2. You're Driving Me Crazy

3. Violets For You Furs

4. L. A. Is My Lady

5. For Once In My Life

6. One For My Baby

7. monologue

8. You Will Be My Music

9. Send In The Clowns

10. April In Paris

11. The Best Is Yet To Come

12. Moonlight In Vermont

13. Mack The Knife

14. I've Got You Under My Skin

15. New York, New York

Notes: TT 80mins

February 21, 1986

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

First Show

Key Musicians: Don Baldini (Bass), Bill Miller (Piano), Irv Cottler

(Drums), Tony Mattola (Guitar)

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. Without A Song

2. You're Driving Me Crazy

3. Violets For Your Furs

4. L.A. Is My Lady

5. I Have Dreamed

6. For Once In My Life

7. Where Or When

8. One For My Baby

9. monologue & Intros

10. Send In The Clowns

11. April In Paris

12. The Best Is Yet To Come

13. Moonlight In Vermont

14. Mack The Knife

15. The Gal That Got Away

16. I've Got You Under My Skin

17. Chaser: "You Are There"

Notes: "Send In The Clowns" is missing from the line recording. TT 80mins.

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Key Musicians: Don Baldini (Bass), Bill Miller (Piano), Irv Cottler (Drums), Tony Mattola (Guitar)

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. Without A Song

2. You're Driving Me Crazy

3. Violets For Your Furs

4. L.A. Is My Lady

5. I Have Dreamed

6. For Once In My Life

7. Where Or When

8. One For My Baby

9. monologue

10. You Will Be My Music

11. Send In The Clowns

12. April In Paris

13. The Best Is Yet To Come

14. Moonlight In Vermont

15. Mack The Knife

16. I've Got You Under My Skin

17. New York, New York

Notes: TT 73mins.

February 22, 1986

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

First Show

Key Musicians: Don Baldini (Bass), Bill Miller (Piano), Irv Cottler

(Drums), Tony Mattola (Guitar)

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. Without A Song

2. Violets For Your Furs

3. L.A. Is My Lady

4. I Have Dreamed

5. For Once In My Life

6. Where Or When

7. One For My Baby

8. monologue

9. You Will Be My Music

10. April In Paris

11. The Best Is Yet To Come

12. Moonlight In Vermont

13. Mack The Knife

Notes: TT 61mins.

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Key Musicians: Don Baldini (Bass), Bill Miller (Piano), Irv Cottler (Drums), Tony Mattola (Guitar)

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

1. Without A Song

2. Violets For Your Furs

3. L.A. Is My Lady

4. I Have Dreamed

5. For Once In My Life

6. Where Or When

7. One For My Baby

8. monologue

9. You Will Be My Music

10. Send In The Clowns

11. April In Paris

12. The Best Is Yet To Come

13. Moonlight In Vermont

14. Mack The Knife

Notes: TT 60mins.

March 3, 1986

Extras

Frank appeared at a tribute to the late Spencer Tracy at New York's Majestic Theater with Katharine Hepburn; the book reproduces a 1967 condolence letter Hepburn had written Frank after Tracy's funeral, thanking him for the trouble he took and for making Tracy happy.

Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

March 6, 1986

Television

Benny Goodman Special (PBS)

March 13, 1986

Radio

William B. Williams, Waldorf, New York City, WNEW

William B. interviews Sinatra live 22 mins.

March 14, 1986

Concerts

Meadowlands, New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

Opening Act: Red Buttons

1. Without A Song

2. Where Or When

3. For Once In My Life

4. Nice 'N' Easy

5. My Heart Stood Still

6. The Best Is Yet To Come

7. Change Partners

8. April In Paris

9. It's All Right With Me

10. It Was A Very Good Year

11. You Make Me Feel So Young

12. The Gal That Got Away

13. monologue

14. New York, New York

15. Come Rain Or Come Shine

16. Bewitched

17. Moonlight In Vermont

18. L.A. Is My Lady

19. I've Got You Under My Skin

20. Someone To Watch Over Me

21. One For My Baby

22. Mack The Knife

Notes: TT 94mins.

The Best is Yet To Come/April In Paris and It's All Right With Me are on the non official CD "The Homecoming Concert" Orchid 12743

Michel

Extras

Meadowlands, New Jersey

Manufacturer : Concord Records

Date First Available : February 6, 2009

Label : Concord Records

ASIN : B001RTCOZ2

Number of discs : 1

Album cover of Frank Sinatra Live at the Meadowlands, a 1986 concert that was released in 2009.

note: "The Best Is Yet To Come," "April In Paris" and "It's All Right With Me" were sung that night,

but were not deemed worthy for inclusion in this CD release. But four songs from the

Main Event release, originally issued in late November of 1974, are included as bonus tracks.

Tis' a mystery.

Frank Sinatra in concert in the 1980's.

The 2009 CD Frank Sinatra Live at the Meadowlands is a recording of Sinatra's concert on March 14, 1986. It's an excellent concert recording from late in Sinatra's career. By this point in his career, Sinatra's voice was not what it once had been. However, on this recording he sounds very good and his phrasing was still immaculate, as always. This isn't just a great concert for late-period Sinatra; it's a great Sinatra concert, regardless of the time period. The set list is an interesting mix, and it only has seven songs in common with Sinatra's 1987 Dallas concert that was just released on this year's Standing Room Only boxed set, which I reviewed here.

Some highlights of the show are the lovely "Where or When," "Nice 'n' Easy," which Sinatra didn't often sing in concert, and the beautiful "My Heart Stood Still," which features Frank holding the last note for about ten seconds. It's a wonderful thing to hear. There's a nice, swinging version of Irving Berlin's "Change Partners." Sinatra never recorded that arrangement, so it's a nice rarity. He recorded a gorgeous bossa nova version in 1967 for the sublime Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim album.

You can hear how Sinatra would always change his phrasing on songs like "It Was a Very Good Year," where his inflections are quite different from the 1965 studio version. On the studio version, he smoothly connects the phrase "for blue-blooded girls, of independent means," but here he sings "of in-de-pen-dent means."

This concert also features a fantastic version of "You Make Me Feel So Young." It's never been my favorite Sinatra song, but his subtle changes in phrasing might make this my favorite version of the song. He just sounds so exuberant singing it; it's very fun to hear.

There are superb versions of the ballads "The Gal that Got Away" and "Come Rain or Come Shine." "Come Rain or Come Shine" has long been one of my favorite Sinatra recordings, with a stirring arrangement by Don Costa.

The swinging side of Sinatra is also well represented by exemplary versions of "Theme from New York, New York," "I've Got You Under My Skin," and Frank's take on "Mack the Knife." I love Bobby Darin's version of "Mack the Knife," but I love Frank's version too. In it, Sinatra credits the singers who have sung the song before him, as he sings, "Old Satchmo-Louis Armstrong, Bobby Darin/they did this song nice, Lady Ella too/they all sang it with so much feeling/that Old Blue Eyes he ain't gonna add nothing new."

Sinatra then sings: "But with this great big band right behind me/swingin' hard, Jack, I know I can't lose." He then name-checks his rhythm section: "We got Don Baldini we got William Miller we got Tony Mottola Irv Cottler bringin' up the rear/all these bad cats are in this band now/they make the greatest sounds/you ever gonna hear." It might sound cheesy, but I really like it, maybe because it's just fun to hear Frank singing about singing.

Sinatra obviously enjoyed "Moonlight in Vermont," as it shows up on other concert recordings of the period. He's no longer able to do the marvelous phrasing device he does on the 1957 recording on Come Fly with Me, where he strings together the phrase "people who meet in this romantic setting are so hypnotized by the lovely evening summer breeze." He elongates the e at the end of "lovely," holds the note, and then connects it to the e at the beginning of "evening." It's a spine-tingling moment. I read an interview with Steve Lawrence, who was saying that he was discussing "Moonlight in Vermont" with Sinatra, and Lawrence pointed out to Sinatra that the song didn't rhyme. For all of his close attention to lyrics, Sinatra hadn't noticed that before.

As in other concerts of this period, Sinatra mentions the songwriter and the arranger before almost every song, and always says what a fantastic song it is. I feel as though in those little moments we get a sense of Sinatra the musician, the artist behind the icon, the singer who is interpreting the lyrics to the best of his considerable talents. I have no doubt that Frank Sinatra was a difficult man at times, and that he had a more than healthy ego; however, what I hear in those little moments is the humble Frank Sinatra, the one who knew that it was through the hard work and great talents of many other people, including songwriters, arrangers, and musicians, that he was able to express himself through song, and to present his amazing talent to the world. In the twenty years since Sinatra left us, his artistic legacy is stronger than ever, and Live at the Meadowlands is a reminder of how great Sinatra was.

Mark My Words

2018

Source: CS 038 -- Concord Records 31331, "Frank Sinatra Live At The Meadowlands" liner booklet (2009 reissue).

The reissue's back-cover credits list Frank Sinatra (vocals) with Bill Miller (piano, conductor), Tony Mottola (guitar), Don Baldini (bass), and Irv Cottler (drums), plus orchestra; Hal Gaba served as executive producer and Charles Pignone as producer, with engineering and mixing by Larry Walsh, audio restoration by Leon J. Smith III, and mastering by Dan Hersch of DigiPrep.

In his producer's note, Charles Pignone recalled the run of show that night: Bill Miller gave the downbeat for the overture at 8:30 p.m. sharp, comedian Red Buttons then worked through a roughly thirty-minute opening routine, and Sinatra took the stage without introduction to a wave of applause that, per Pignone, greeted nearly every song.

Tour and production manager Hank Cattaneo, in his own liner essay, described the logistics behind the Meadowlands date: an advance document running roughly thirty pages that spelled out the crew's staging, sound, lighting, transportation, security, and dressing-room requirements, plus a same-day schedule of a 3:00 p.m. rehearsal with the band followed by a 4:00 p.m. rehearsal with Sinatra himself -- the first tour in years, Cattaneo noted, for which pianist Bill Miller also served as conductor.

Cattaneo also recalled Sinatra's pre-show habits: a meticulous dresser who stayed on his feet once dressed so his tuxedo would not crease, who favored a cherry Life Saver beforehand, and who checked his pocket for a single cigarette and lighter before walking on.

Cattaneo singled out the touring band for praise in his essay, describing drummer Irv Cottler as, in his words, "the best in the business," and noting guitarist Tony Mottola's more than thirty years of session credits (including work with Enoch Light, Perry Como, and Dick Hyman) before he joined Sinatra's touring group following Al Viola's departure, alongside Los Angeles studio bassist Don Baldini.

The reissue booklet is dedicated, in its closing pages, "with love, to Hal Gaba," the executive producer, in tribute to his appreciation of Sinatra's artistry.

March 16, 1986

Concerts

Radio City Music Hall, New York City

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Benefit

Benny Goodman Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

Other Performers: Placido Domingo, Red Buttons, Ella Fitzgerald

1. New York, New York

2. Where Or When

3. My Heart Stood Still

4. Change Partners 5. Bewitched

6. It's All Right With Me

7. One For My Baby

8. Mack The Knife

Notes: TT 55mins.

Extras

Radio City Music Hall, New York City

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Benefit

Benny Goodman Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

Other Performers: Placido Domingo, Red Buttons, Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Fitzgerald is introduced by Frank Sinatra, left, and Placido Domingo at Radio City Music Hall in New York, March 16, 1986

March 20, 1986

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. Nice 'N' Easy

2. For Once In My Life

3. Moonlight In Vermont

4. It's All Right With Me

5. My Heart Stood Still

6. The Best Is Yet To Come

7. Bewitched

8. New York, New York

9. monologue

10. Send In The Clowns

11. L.A. Is My Lady

12. One For My Baby

13. Mack The Knife

14. Where Or When

Notes: TT 64mins.

March 21, 1986

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

First Show

1. Nice 'N' Easy

2. For Once In My Life

3. Moonlight In Vermont

4. It's All Right With Me

5. My Heart Stood Still

6. The Best Is Yet To Come

7. Bewitched

8. Spring Is Here

9. New York, New York

10. L.A. Is My Lady

11. One For My Baby

12. Mack The Knife

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

Surprise Guest: Don Rickles

1. Nice 'N' Easy

2. For Once In My Life

3. Moonlight In Vermont

4. It's All Right With Me

5. My Heart Stood Still

6. The Best Is Yet To Come

7. Bewitched

8. Spring Is Here

9. New York, New York

10. monologue

11. The Girl From Ipanema

12. L.A. Is My Lady

13. Mack The Knife

Notes: Don came on stage for a few moments. TT 61mins.

March 22, 1986

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. Nice 'N' Easy

2. For Once In My Life

3. Moonlight In Vermont

4. It's All Right With Me

5. My Heart Stood Still

6. The Best Is Yet To Come

7. Spring Is Here

8. New York, New York

9. monologue

10. The Girl From Ipanema

11. L.A. Is My Lady

12. Bewitched

13. One For My Baby

14. Mack The Knife

Notes: TT 63mins.

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. Nice 'N' Easy

2. For Once In My Life

3. Moonlight In Vermont

4. monologue

5. It's All Right With Me

6. My Heart Stood Still

7. The Best Is Yet To Come

8. Spring Is Here

10. New York, New York

11. monologue

12. The Girl From Ipanema

13. L.A. Is My Lady

14. Bewitched

15. One For My Baby

16. Mack The Knife

Notes: TT 70mins.

March 23, 1986

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

Sunday evening - Dinner show

Key Musicians: Tony Mottola, Irv Cottler,Don Baldini

1. Nice 'N' Easy

2. For Once In My Life

3. Moonlight In Vermont

4. It's All Right With Me

5. My Heart Stood Still

6. The Best Is Yet To Come

7. New York, New York monologue

8. Instrumental Tony Mottola

9. The Girl From Ipanema w/T. Mottola

10. Where Or When

11. Someone To Watch Over Me

12. L.A. Is My Lady

13. Spring Is Here

14. One For My Baby

15. Mack The Knife

March 27, 1986

Extras

Marriott Hotel, Palm Springs, California

Thursday evening

Dinner party

Thursday afternoon

Luncheon

Frank receives Coachella Valley 1985 Humanitarian Award Broadcast live on Italian TV

Gregory Peck is introduced and emcees the festivities

In attendance: Mary Martin, Dinah Shore, Frank Sinatra Jr,

Tina Sinatra, Betty Ford, Walter Annenberg, Barbara Sinatra and local Palm Springs dignitaries.

Kids 8 to 12 years old from Coachella Valley, billed as the "Kids Who Love To Sing," perform a mini-concert for Frank.

1. High Hopes

2. You Light Up My Life

3. We Want To Be Happy

4. We Just Called To Say We Love You

Band and singing piano player pay tribute to Barbara with "My Kind Of Girl."

Dinah Shore tells the audience how Frank and she met and how many times they had performed together through the years. She lets them know how happy it makes her that Frank married her best friend.Dinah then reads a congratulatory telegram from Senator Pete Wilson.

Walter Annenberg lavishes great praise on Frank. Regales the audience with stories of Frank's humanitarian efforts,.. He then reads a letter from Ron ( a mutual friend who was living at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in the nation's capital).

Greg Peck introduces Frank

He begins his remarks by explaining why he is receiving the 1985 Humanitarian Award a year later ( His schedule did not permit an appearance ). Frank tells the gathering that he first came to the desert in 1943. He stayed at the Lone Palm Hotel. He calls the desert "God's creation." He then says, "I wouldn't live anywhere else in the world. It is hot in the winter and hotter in the summer, which discourages the tourists, so we kids can play by ourselves." He then laments how much it has grown in recent years, adding highways, condos and more congestion. He closes by expressing the hope they can keep it as " cozy as it is right now."

Kids close the festivities with "It's A Small World After All."

Note: Above details of event by Ed O'Brien.

April 3, 1986

Concerts

Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver, British Columbia

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. Where or When

2. Nice 'n' Easy

3. For Once in My Life

4. My Heart Stood Still

5. It's All Right With Me

6. Someone to Watch Over Me

7. The Best Is Yet to Come

8. April in Paris

9. Theme From New York, New York

10. The Girl From Ipanema

11. Change Partners

12. Spring Is Here

13. Come Rain or Come Shine

14. Moonlight in Vermont

15. I've Got You Under My Skin

16. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

17. L.A. Is My Lady

18. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)

19. Mack the Knife

April 4, 1986

Concerts

Tacoma Dome, Tacoma, Washington

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. Where or When

2. Nice 'n' Easy

3. For Once in My Life

4. My Heart Stood Still

5. It's All Right With Me

6. Someone to Watch Over Me

7. The Best Is Yet to Come

8. April in Paris

9. Theme From New York, New York

10. The Girl From Ipanema

11. Change Partners

12. Spring Is Here

13. Come Rain or Come Shine

14. Moonlight in Vermont

15. I've Got You Under My Skin

16. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

17. L.A. Is My Lady

18. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)

19. Mack the Knife

Extras

Tacoma Dome, Tacoma, Washington

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

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Tacoma Dome, Tacoma, Washington

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

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April 6, 1986

Television

Dreesen Street

Guest: Frank Sinatra

note: Tom Dreesen's syndicated show was aired on 4-6-86 in my area and in Detroit ( one A.M.) It was not shown in N.Y.C. or Boston on that date.

Storyline:

Dreesen goes back to his neighborhood in Chicago to reacquaint with old friends and old haunts. Near the end of the show, he walks into Frank's dressing room. Frank is leaning against a piano, rehearsing

"One For My Baby" with Joe Parnello. Tom tells him about going home to Chicago and some of the strange things that happened. Frank shares with him some stories about going back to Hoboken years after he became famous.

As Tom departs, Frank starts singing the Arlen-Mercer song again. Show was a half-hour in length.

Extras

Dressen Street

Guest: Frank Sinatra

April 9, 1986

Concerts

Circle Star Theater, San Carlos, California (April 9-12)

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. Where or When

2. Nice 'n' Easy

3. For Once in My Life

4. My Heart Stood Still

5. It's All Right With Me

6. Someone to Watch Over Me

7. The Best Is Yet to Come

8. April in Paris

9. Theme From New York, New York

10. The Girl From Ipanema

11. Change Partners

12. Spring Is Here

13. Come Rain or Come Shine

14. Moonlight in Vermont

15. I've Got You Under My Skin

16. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

17. L.A. Is My Lady

18. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)

19. Mack the Knife

Extras

Circle Star Theater, San Carlos, California (April 9-12)

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

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Circle Star Theater, San Carlos, California (April 9-12)

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

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April 10, 1986

Concerts

Circle Star Theater, San Carlos, California (9 -12)

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. Where Or When

2. Nice 'N' Easy

3. For Once In My Life

4. Someone To Watch Over Me

5. It's All Right With Me uptempo

6. My Heart Stood Still

7. The Best Is Yet To Come

8. April In Paris

9. New York, New York

10. monologue

11. Girl From Ipanema w/ Tony Mottola

12. Change Partners

13. Come Rain Or Come Shine

14. Spring Is Here

15. Bewitched

16. Moonlight In Vermont

17. I've Got You Under My Skin

18. L.A. Is My Lady

19. One For My Baby

20. Mack The Knife

April 11, 1986

Concerts

Circle Star Theater, San Carlos, California (9 -12)

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

(Wed. thru Sat.)

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. Where Or When

2. Nice 'N' Easy

3. For Once In My Life

4. My Heart Stood Still

5. It's All Right With Me

6. Someone To Watch Over Me

7. The Best Is Yet To Come

8. April In Paris

9. New York, New York

10. monologue

11. The Girl From Ipanema

12. Change Partners

13. Spring Is Here

14. Come Rain Or Come Shine

15. Moonlight In Vermont

16. I've Got You Under My Skin

17. Bewitched

18. L.A. Is My Lady

19. One For My Baby

20. Mack The Knife

Notes: TT 82mins.

April 12, 1986

Concerts

Circle Star Theater, San Carlos, California (9-12)

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

Saturday evening (Wed. thru Sat.)

1. Where Or When

2. For Once In My Life

3. My Heart Stood Still

4. It's All Right With Me

5.. Someone To Watch Over Me

6. The Best Is Yet To Come

7. New York, New York monologue

8. Girl From Ipanema

9. Change Partners

10. Come Rain Or Come Shine

11. Moonlight In Vermont

12. Medley:Chicago/ A Foggy Day/My Way( audience requests Frank has some fun)

13. Fly Me To The Moon

14. I've Got You Under My Skin

15. Bewitched

16. L.A. Is My Lady

17. One For My Baby

18. Mack The Knife

April 14, 1986

Concerts

The Arena, St. Louis, MO

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. Where Or When

2. Nice ‘N' Easy

3. . For Once In My Life

4. My Heart Stood Still

5. It's All Right With Me

6. Someone To Watch Over Me

7.. The Best Is Yet To Come

8. New York, New York

9. monologue

10. The Girl From Ipanema

11. Change Partners

12. Spring Is Here

13. Come Rain Or Come Shine

14. Moonlight In Vermont

15. I've Got You Under My Skin

16. Bewitched

17. L. A. Is My Lady

18. One For My Baby

19. Mack The Knife

Notes: TT 78mins.

Extras

The Arena, St. Louis, MO

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

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Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

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April 15, 1986

Extras

Sinatra At Yale University Interview

Sinatra Answers Question From The Group Note: Private Taping

Ed O'Brien:

A fabulous 65 minutes of Frank answering questions from Sid Zion at Yale Law. The areas covered include his years at MGM, Irving Berlin, his grandmother shocking him into life on 12-12-15, Toots Shor, planned recordings, concerts in South Africa, his film work and many other topics. Zion lost his daughter, Libby, due to mistakes made in an emergency room setting.. The appearance by Frank was part of a Libby Zion Memorial at Yale.

SINATRA, AT YALE, OUTLINES HIS WAY TO SUCCESS

By DEIRDRE CARMODY

NEW YORK TIMES

April 16, 1986

Frank Sinatra came to Yale University tonight and talked about his life - about Hoboken, N.J., (his hometown), Hollywood and the secrets of his success -''God's will, my stick-to-itiveness, and vocalize - every day for at least 10 to 15 minutes.''

The occasion was the second annual Libby Zion lecture at Yale, given in memory of the 18-year-old daughter of Sidney E. Zion, a lawyer and journalist and his wife, Elsa.

Miss Zion, a freshman at Bennington (Vt.) College, died two years ago in New York Hospital. The lecture, which was established by her family and friends, brings a distinguished figure in the theater, science, literature or law to Yale each year.

Donation of $50,000

The Libby Zion Fellowship at Yale was also awarded today. The $10,000 award went to Christopher Ashley, Maria Mileaf and Anthony Phelan, three seniors who plan to set up a repertory theater in Irvington, N.Y., this summer. Mr. Sinatra announced at a dinner before the appearance at the Yale Law School auditorium that he was donating $50,000 to the fund.

Mr. Sinatra's talk was actually a conversation with Mr. Zion, an old friend. As the two men joked and reminisced before a standing-room-only audience, about 50 pickets marched in the halls outside, chanting: ''Sinatra Plays Sun City. Sun City Means Apartheid.'' The protest was part of a larger demonstraton against Yale's investments in South Africa, in which about 100 students have been arrested in the last two days.

Sun City is a sports and entertainment complex in the nominally independent black homeland of Bophuthatswana in South Africa, where musicians have performed in spite of a cultural boycott.

Mr. Sinatra said he had played there once seven years ago to ''black and white audiences.''

''I am more conscious of black and white, of Jew and gentile, than you would ever dream,'' he said. ''I've been fighting it since I was 9 years old.''

Mostly, however, Mr. Sinatra reminisced. He remembered that when he was very young he had sung in a small roadhouse called the Rustic Cabin in New Jersey, and one day he looked at his audience of five or six patrons and recognized Cole Porter. Mr. Sinatra immediately asked the orchestra to play Mr. Porter's song, ''Night and Day,'' but he was so scared he forgot the words.

''I swear to God I kept singing 'Night and Day' for 15 bars,'' Mr Sinatra recalled ''Years later Cole Porter said to me, 'That was about the worst performance I ever heard.' ''

NEW HAVEN, CT - APRIL 15: Frank Sinatra waves at photographer April 15, 1986 while visiting

Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, where he was being honored.

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April 16, 1986

Concerts

ASU Activity Center, Tempe, AZ

Orchestra conducted by Bill Miller

Benefit for the Arizona Ballet Company

1. Where or When

2. Nice 'n' Easy

3. For Once in My Life

4. My Heart Stood Still

5. It's All Right With Me

6. Someone to Watch Over Me

7. The Best Is Yet to Come

8. Theme From New York, New York

9. The Girl From Ipanema

10. Change Partners

11. Spring Is Here

12. Come Rain or Come Shine

13. Moonlight in Vermont

14. I've Got You Under My Skin

15. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

16. L.A. Is My Lady

17. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)

18. Mack the Knife

April 18, 1986

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

First Show

Key Musicians: Don Baldini (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller

(piano).

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. Where Or When

2.. For Once In My Life

3. The Best Is Yet To Come

4. My Heart Stood Still

5. New York, New York

6. monologue

7. The Girl From Ipanema

8. Nice 'N' Easy

9. Spring Is Here

10. Come Rain Or Come Shine

11. Moonlight In Vermont

12. monologue

13. Change Partners

14. Bewitched

15. I've Got You Under My Skin

16. One For My Baby

17. Mack The Knife

Notes: TT 65mins.

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Key Musicians: Don Baldini (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller (piano).

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. Where Or When

2. For Once In My Life

3. The Best Is Yet To Come

4. My Heart Stood Still

5. New York, New York

6. monologue

7. The Girl From Ipanema

8. Nice 'N' Easy

9. Spring Is Here

10. Come Rain Or Come Shine

11. Moonlight In Vermont

12. Change Partners

13. Bewitched

14. I've Got You Under My Skin

15. One For My Baby

16. Mack The Knife

Notes: TT 68mins.

April 19, 1986

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

First Show

Key Musicians: Don Baldini (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller

(piano).

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. Where Or When

2. For Once In My Life

3. The Best Is Yet To Come

4. My Heart Stood Still

5. New York, New York

6. monologue

7. The Girl From Ipanema

8. Nice 'N' Easy

9. Spring Is Here

10. Come Rain Or Come Shine

11. Moonlight In Vermont

12. Change Partners

13. Bewitched

14. I've Got You Under My Skin

15. One For My Baby

16. Mack The Knife

Notes: TT 71mins.

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Key Musicians: Don Baldini (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller (piano).

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. Where Or When

2. For Once In My Life

3. The Best Is Yet To Come

4. My Heart Stood Still

5. Theme From New York, New York

6. The Girl From Ipanema

7. Nice 'N' Easy

8. Spring Is Here

9. Come Rain Or Come Shine

10. Moonlight In Vermont

11. Change Partners

12. Bewitched

13. I've Got You Under My Skin

14. One For My Baby

15. Mack The Knife

Notes: 84mins.

Extras

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

O.A. Red Buttons

Key Musicians: Don Baldini (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller

(piano).

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

April 30, 1986

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Opening Night

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller w/Liza

Liza:

1. Cabaret (Reprise) & Introduces Sinatra

Frank:

2. The Best Is Yet To Come

3. For Once In My Life

4. Spring Is Here

5. Nice 'N' Easy

6. My Heart Stood Still

7. Come Rain Or Come Shine

8. Monologue

9. April In Paris

10. Witchcraft

11. Moonlight In Vermont

12. That's Life

13. Little Green Apples

14. Mack The Knife

15. Introduces Liza

16. New York medley Frank & Liza: New York New York, A Hell Of A

Town (Frank & Liza) - Manhattan (Liza) - The Sidewalks Of New York (Frank & Liza) - 42nd Street (Liza & Frank) - Broadway Baby (Liza Minnelli) - Autumn In New York (Frank) - I Happen To Like New York (Liza Minnelli) - How About You (Frank & Liza) -New York, New York (Frank & Liza)

Notes: TT 52mins.

Extras

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Opening Night

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller w/Liza

May 1, 1986

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. Where or When

2. For Once in My Life

3. The Best Is Yet to Come

4. That's Life

5. Moonlight in Vermont

6. L.A. Is My Lady

7. My Heart Stood Still

8. It's All Right With Me

9. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)

10. Mack the Knife

11. Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)

12. Medley: New York, New York (On the Town), The Bowery, Forty-Second

Street (with Liza Minnelli)

13. Autumn in New York

14. How About You (with Liza Minnelli)

15. Theme From New York, New York

May 2, 1986

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. Where Or When

2. For Once In My Life

3. Bewitched

4. That's Life

5. monologue

6. Moonlight In Vermont

7. L.A. Is My Lady

8. My Heart Stood Still

9. It's All Right With Me

10. One For My Baby

11. Mack The Knife

12. New York medley Frank & Liza: New York New York, A Hell Of A

Town (Frank & Liza) - Manhattan (Liza) - The Sidewalks Of New

York (Frank & Liza) - 42nd Street (Liza & Frank) - Broadway Baby

(Liza Minnelli) - Autumn In New York (Frank) - I Happen To Like

New York (Liza Minnelli) - How About You (Frank & Liza) -New

York, New York (Frank & Liza)

Notes: 74mins.

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

May 3, 1986

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

First Show

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

Second Show

1. Where or When

2. For Once in My Life

3. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

4. That's Life

5. Moonlight in Vermont

6. L.A. Is My Lady

7. My Heart Stood Still

8. It's All Right With Me

9. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)

10. Mack the Knife

11. Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)

12. Medley : New York, New York (On the Town), The Bowery, Forty-Second Street (with Liza Minnelli)

13. Autumn in New York

14. How About You (with Liza Minnelli)

15. Theme From New York, New York(with Liza Minnelli)

May 4, 1986

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. Where Or When

2.. For Once In My Life

3. Bewitched

4. That's Life

5. Moonlight In Vermont

6. L.A.. Is My Lady

7. My Heart Stood Still

8. It's All Right With Me

9. Mack The Knife

10. New York medley Frank & Liza: New York New York, A Hell Of A

Notes: TT 50mins.

May 8, 1986

Concerts

The Spectrum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Key Musicians: Joe Malin (violin), Don Baldini (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Tony Mottola (guitar), Bill Miller (piano).

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. Where Or When

2. For Once In My Life

3. Bewitched

4. That's Life

5. Moonlight In Vermont

6. L.A. Is My Lady

7. Someone To Watch Over Me

8. Come Rain Or Come Shine

9. My Heart Stood Still

10. New York, New York

11. monologue

12. The Girl From Ipanema

13. Change Partners

14. April In Paris

15. The Best Is Yet To Come

16. Spring Is Here

17. It's Alright With Me

18. One For My Baby

19. Mack The Knife

Notes: TT 80mins.

Extras

The Spectrum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Key Musicians: Joe Malin (violin), Don Baldini (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Tony Mottola (guitar), Bill Miller (piano).

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

Spectrum concert was my first of 17 Sinatra concerts across the country. He was spellbinding that night. Red Buttons was quite funny and did a pretty good Jolson impression. John George

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May 13, 1986

Concerts

Buffalo War Memorial Auditorium, Buffalo, New York

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. Where or When

2. For Once in My Life

3. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

4. That's Life

5. Moonlight in Vermont

6. L.A. Is My Lady

7. Someone to Watch Over Me

8. Come Rain or Come Shine

9. My Heart Stood Still

10. Theme From New York, New York

11. The Girl From Ipanema

12. Change Partners

13. April in Paris

14. The Best Is Yet to Come

15. Spring Is Here

16. It's All Right With Me

17. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)

18. Mack the Knife

May 16, 1986

Concerts

Civic Center, Providence, Rhode Island

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. Where Or When

2. For Once In My Life

3. Bewitched

4. That's Life

5. Moonlight In Vermont

6. L.A. Is My Lady

7. Someone To Watch Over Me

8. Come Rain Or Come Shine

9. My Heart Stood Still

10. New York, New York 11. monologue

12. The Girl From Ipanema

13. Change Partners

14. April In Paris

15. The Best Is Yet To Come

16. Spring Is Here

17. It's All Right With Me

18. One For My Baby

19. Mack The Knife

Notes: TT 80mins.

Extras

Civic Center, Providence, Rhode Island

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

May 17, 1986

Extras

Friars Roast For Roger Moore, Waldorf Astoria, NYC

Saturday evening

William B. Williams introduces Master of Ceremonies

Frank Sinatra - tells audience how thrilled he is that

Willie B. is recovering from a serious health problem.

And he tells them that Willie B. is probably one of the

best friends he has ever had in his life

James Mellon Council General of Great Britain

Angie Dickensen

George Segal and 13th St Band Featuring Larry Rivers

"Matzos and Watermelons," "Yes Sir, That's My Baby,"

(including the verse) "Tiger Rag" and "Bill Bailey."

Frank: "I loath the godamn banjo."

Tells audience Red Buttons is ill. Tells a Boy

George joke courtesy of Mr. Buttons

Cliff Robertson

Frank tells Dino stories

Dean Martin "Thank you, Roger. I didn't

know your grandfather was that great fighter Archie."

Sings parody of "When You're Smiling" 'When You're

Roger."

Frank; Roger has to settle for second most elegant man

in the world"

Cary Grant

Milton Berle

Dick Shawn

Dave Tebbett and William B. Williams

present Roger with Friars emblem and

a watch.

Frank reads telegram from President Reagan

Roger Moore thank you speech "deeply indebted."

Frank closes the proceedings

Note: Ed O'Brien provided the rundown of the above Friar's event.

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May 18, 1986

Television

Solid Gold

Paramount Studios in Los Angeles

Host: Dionne Warwick

Guest: Frank Sinatra

1. Mack The Knife

2. You And Me w/Dionne Warwick

Note: The show was taped April 1, 1986 TT: 60mins

May 22, 1986

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

Key Musicians: Don Baldini (Bass), Bill Miller (Piano), Irv Cottler (Drums), Tony Mattola (Guitar)

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. What Now, My Love?

2. Summer Wind

3. Spring Is Here

4. L.A. Is My Lady

5. My Heart Stood Still

6. It's All Right With Me

7. You Will Be My Music

8. Mack The Knife

9. monologue

10. More Than You Know

11. That's Life

12. Moonlight In Vermont

13. For Once In My Life

14. My Way

15. I've Got You Under My Skin

16. One For My Baby

17. New York, New York

Notes: TT 65mins.

May 23, 1986

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

First Show

Key Musicians: Don Baldini (Bass), Bill Miller (Piano), Irv Cottler (Drums), Tony Mattola (Guitar)

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. LA Is My Lady

2. Where Or When

3. Summer Wind

4. It's All Right With Me

5. My Heart Stood Still

6. I've Got You Under My Skin

7. Someone To Watch Over Me

8. New York, New York

9. monologue

10. Concierto De Aranjuez - Tony Mattola

11. More Than You Know w/Tony Mattola

12. For Once In My Life

13. saloon intro:

14. One For My Baby

15. Moonlight In Vermont

16. Bewitched

17. My Way

18. Mack The Knife

19. chaser: "You Are There"

Notes: TT 71mins. Ed O'Brien writes that this is a very nice show with the highlights being "Summer Wind," "Moonlight in Vermont," and "More Than You Know" with Tony Mottola.

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Key Musicians: Don Baldini (Bass), Bill Miller (Piano), Irv Cottler (Drums), Tony Mattola (Guitar)

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. L.A. Is My Lady

2. Where Or When

3. Summer Wind

4. It's All Right With Me

5. My Heart Stood Still

6. I've Got You Under My Skin

7. New York, New York

8. monologue

9. More Than You Know

10. For Once In My Life

11. Bewitched

12. That's Life

13. One For My Baby

14. My Way

15. Mack The Knife

Notes: TT 66mins.

May 24, 1986

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada (May 22-26)

First Show

Key Musicians: Don Baldini (Bass), Bill Miller (Piano), Irv Cottler (Drums), Tony Mattola (Guitar)

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. L.A. Is My Lady

2. Where Or When

3. Summer Wind

4. It's All Right With Me

5. My Heart Stood Still

6. I've Got You Under My Skin

7. New York, New York

8. monologue

9. More Than You Know

10. For Once In My Life

11. Bewitched

12. That's Life

13. My Way

14. Moonlight In Vermont

15. Mack The Knife

Notes: TT 71mins.

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada (May 22-26)

Second Show

Key Musicians: Don Baldini (Bass), Bill Miller (Piano), Irv Cottler (Drums), Tony Mattola (Guitar)

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. L.A. Is My Lady

2. Where Or When

3. Summer Wind

4. It's All Right With Me

5. My Heart Stood Still

6. I've Got You Under My Skin

7.. New York, New York

8. monologue

9. More Than You Know

10. For Once In My Life

11. Bewitched

12. That's Life

13. My Way

14. One For My Baby

15. Mack The Knife

Notes: TT 68mins.

May 25, 1986

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada (May 22-26)

Key Musicians: Don Baldini (Bass), Bill Miller (Piano), Irv Cottler (Drums), Tony Mattola (Guitar)

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. L.A. Is My Lady

2. Where or When

3. Summer Wind

4. It's All Right With Me

5. My Heart Stood Still

6. I've Got You Under My Skin

7. Theme From New York, New York

8. More Than You Know

9. For Once in My Life

10. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

11. That's Life

12. My Way

13. Moonlight in Vermont

14. Mack the Knife

May 26, 1986

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada (May 22-26)

Key Musicians: Don Baldini (Bass), Bill Miller (Piano), Irv Cottler (Drums), Tony Mattola (Guitar)

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. L. A. Is My Lady

2. Where Or When

3. Summer Wind

4. It's All Right With Me

5. My Heart Stood Still

6. I've Got You Under My Skin

7. New York, New York

8. monologue

9. More Than You Know

10. For Once In My Life

11. Bewitched

12. That's Life

13. My Way

14. Mack The Knife

Notes: TT 52mins.

June 16, 1986

Extras

June 21, 1986

Concerts

Worthington Hotel, Fort Worth, Texas

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

Debutante ball with singing guest Frank Sinatra given by Anne and Jim Sowell for their daughters Windi Phillips and Mary Sowell at the Worthington Hotel, Fort Worth

Extras

Worthington Hotel, Fort Worth, Texas

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

June 22, 1986

Concerts

Pacific Amphitheater, Costa Mesa, California

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. L.A. Is My Lady

2. Where or When

3. Summer Wind (Tribute to Riddle during introduction)

4. It's All Right with Me

5. My Heart Stood Still

6.. For Once in my Life

7. Bewitched

8. Moonlight in Vermont

9. Mack the Knife

Monologue – Sinatra tells a funny story from the Dorsey days involllving Hymie Shertzer, alto sax player. According to Sinatra, Shertzner weighed 116 lbs. He also tells a funny Dino story and pays tribute to him.

10. The Girl from Ipanema w/Tony Mottola, guitar

11. That's Life – dedicated to President Marcos and his wife and all those shoes.

12. Someone to Watch over Me

13. I Get a Kick out of You

14. My Way

Second monologue – more Dino stories

15. Nice "˜N' Easy

16. April in Paris

17. Come Rain or Come Shine

18. One for My Baby

19. New York , New York

Notes: TT 65mins.

June 24, 1986

Extras

Frank Sinatra attends the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith Honoring Walter H. Annenberg at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City

Television executive Thomas S. Murphy, TV journalist Barbara Walters, publisher Walter Annenberg, businessman David Blumberg and singer Frank Sinatra

July 3, 1986

Concerts

Lady Liberty Celebration, Governors Island, New York

--Sinatra performed "The House I Live In"

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Extras

Lady Liberty Celebration, New York, New York

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Lady Liberty Celebration, New York, New York

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July 4, 1986

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City New Jersey

Key Musicians: Irv Cottler (drums), Tony Mattola (guitar), Don Baldini (bass), Bill Miller (piano).

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

Rehearsal:

1. What Now, My Love?

2..Summer Wind

3. Let's Face The Music And Dance

4. My Heart Stood Still

5. For Once In My Life

6. I Wish You Love

7. That's Life

8. April In Paris

9. Maybe This Time

10. What Now, My Love?

Notes: TT 82mins.

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City New Jersey

First Show

Key Musicians: Irv Cottler (drums), Tony Mattola (guitar), Don Baldini (bass), Bill Miller (piano).

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

Listen Now

1. What Now My Love

2. talk

3. L.A. Is My Lady

4. Summer Wind

5. Let's Face The Music And Dance

6. My Heart Stood Still

7. For Once In My Life

8. I Wish You Love

9. Someone To Watch Over Me

10. talk

11. New York, New York

12. monologue & introductions

13. Tony Mattola: guitar solo

14. Send In The Clowns w/Tony Mattola

15. That's Life

16. Bewitched

17. talk

18. It's Alright With Me

19. April In Paris

20.. Mack The Knife

21. chaser "You Are There"

Ed Notes:

During the rehearsal that day, Frank was less than thrilled with "I Wish You Love." Announced to one and all that the song would not be in the act too long. It was dropped after opening night.

Ed.

VANCE ADAIR added:

Yes, I always chuckle at this. It is, admittedly, a very poor rhyme: "chins" and "friends." The remarks, however, are nevertheless a revealing insight into how vigilant FS continued to be about the material that he was singing.

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City New Jersey

Second Show

Key Musicians: Irv Cottler (drums), Tony Mattola (guitar), Don Baldini (bass), Bill Miller (piano).

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. What Now, My Love?

2. L.A. Is My Lady

3. Summer Wind

4. Let's Face The Music And Dance

5. My Heart Stood Still

6. For Once In My Life

7. I Wish You Love

8. Someone To Watch Over Me

9. New York, New York

10. monologue

11. Send In The Clowns

12. That's Life

13. Bewitched

14. My Way

15. It's All Right With Me

16. April In Paris

17. Mack The Knife

Notes: TT 75mins.

Ed O'Brien finds this to be an exciting show. It is nice to hear "Let's Face the Music" and "I Wish You Love." The real highlights were "Summer Wind," "That's Life," and "Clowns."

July 5, 1986

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City New Jersey

Key Musicians: Irv Cottler (drums), Tony Mattola (guitar), Don Baldini (bass), Bill Miller (piano).

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. What Now My Love

2. L.A. Is My Lady

3. Summer Wind

4. Let's Face the Music and Dance

5. My Heart Stood Still

6. For Once in My Life

7. I Wish You Love

8. Someone to Watch Over Me

9. Theme From New York, New York

10. Send in the Clowns

11. That's Life

12. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

13. It's All Right With Me

14. April in Paris

15. Mack the Knife

July 6, 1986

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City New Jersey

First Show

Key Musicians: Irv Cottler (drums), Tony Mattola (guitar), Don

Baldini (bass), Bill Miller (piano).

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. L.A. Is My Lady

2. What Now, My Love?

3. Summer Wind

4. Let's Face The Music And Dance

5. My Heart Stood Still

6. For Once In My Life

7. Someone To Watch Over Me

8. New York, New York

9. monologue

10. Send In The Clowns

11. Bewitched

12. It's All Right With Me

13. One For My Baby

14. Mack The Knife

Notes: TT 73mins.

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City New Jersey

Second Show

Key Musicians: Irv Cottler (drums), Tony Mattola (guitar), Don Baldini (bass), Bill Miller (piano).

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. L.A. Is My Lady

2. What Now My Love

3. Summer Wind

4. Let's Face the Music and Dance

5. My Heart Stood Still

6. For Once in My Life

7. Someone to Watch Over Me

8. Theme From New York, New York

9. Send in the Clowns

10. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

11. It's All Right With Me

12. April in Paris

13. Mack the Knife

July 9, 1986

Concerts

Garden State Arts Center, Holmdel, New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. L.A. Is My Lady

2. What Now My Love

3. The Summer Wind

4. Where Or When

5. Someone To Watch Over Me

6. It's Alright With Me

7. I've Got You Under My Skin

8. Bewitched

9. For Once In My Life

10. Soliloquy

11. monologue

12. Girl From Ipanema

13. New York, New York

14. My Heart Stood Still

15. The Best Is Yet To Come

16. Moonlight In Vermont

17. My Way

18. Mack The Knife

Notes: TT 82mins.

Extras

Garden State Arts Center, Holmdel, New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

July 10, 1986

Concerts

Garden State Arts Center, Holmdel, New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. L.A. Is My Lady

2. What Now, My Love?

3. Summer Wind

4. Where Or When

5. Someone To Watch Over Me

6. It's All Right With Me

7. Ive Got You Under My Skin

8. Bewitched

9. For Once In My Life 10. Soliloquy

11. monologue

12. The Girl From Ipanema

13. New York, New York

14. My Heart Stood Still

15. The Best Is Yet To Come

16. Moonlight In Vermont

17. My Way

18. Mack The Knife

Notes: TT 95mins.

Extras

Garden State Arts Center, Holmdel, New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

July 26, 1986

Concerts

Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. L.A. Is My Lady

2. What Now My Love

3. Summer Wind

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, Bothered and Bewildered

9. For Once in My Life

10. Soliloquy

11. The Girl From Ipanema

12. Theme From 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. My Way

18. Mack the Knife

Extras

Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

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Aloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

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August 12, 1986

Concerts

Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California

Benefit for Mexico's earthquake victims -

Hosted By: Placido Domingo

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. L.A. Is My Lady

2. Summer Wind

3. Where or When

4. I've Got You Under My Skin

5. Theme From New York, New York

6. My Heart Stood Still

7. The Best Is Yet to Come

8. My Way

9. Mack the Knife

MEXICO EARTHQUAKE BENEFIT : DOMINGO & FRIENDS IN CONCERT : Frank Sinatra Could Have Taught the Operatic Stranger in This Pop Paradise a Few Things About the Art of the Microphone

BY MARTIN BERNHEIMER

AUG. 14, 1986 12 AM PT

TIMES MUSIC CRITIC

The gargantuan Universal Amphitheatre was packed Tuesday night. The top ticket cost $100 without champagne buffet, $250 with.

The attraction was a concert that could give eclecticism a bad name. It offered a lot of well-mannered popera, a little high-class opera, a smattering of schlock, no roll.

Blaring microphones distorted the music and assaulted the 12,500 assembled ears. No one seemed to mind. Standing ovations were plentiful.

The cyclorama behind the orchestra on the stage glowed and gleamed like a berserk jukebox. Between the superstar turns, the narrative banter scaled unparalleled hyperbolic heights.

At least the Event (capital E) benefited a good cause: relief for the homeless earthquake victims in Mexico.

This was The Placido Domingo Show. The celebrated tenor, who had suffered personal losses in the Mexican disaster, billed the gala as "Domingo and Friends."ť

The friends included the attentive Jack Elliott and the versatile New American Orchestra; Kirk Douglas, who volunteered some charming words of introduction; a sweet trio of close-harmonizing Latino teenie-boppers called Pandora (or, if one believes Domingo, The Pandoras); Dr. Armand Hammer, who received another humanitarian award for his collection and announced a donation of $100,000 for Mexican hospital reconstruction, and three additional singers.

The additional singers? A dusky baritone named Frank Sinatra. A folksy tenor named John Denver. A pristine soprano named Julie Andrews.

With an assembly like that, it had to be an exciting program, right? Wrong.

It turned out to be a program that ambled, scrambled and rambled--politely but without much direction, focus or climax. Vaudeville lives.

The dashing Domingo's solos included "Granada,"ť of course, plus a zarzuela ditty plus--surprise!--"Quando le sere al placido " from Verdi's "Luisa Miller."ť Although the Universal Amphitheatre is no larger than some of the operatic locales in which he has sung, he insisted on using the overamplification system here. In so doing, he short-circuited critical evaluation.

Suffice it to note that the delivery sounded urgent, the timbre sounded edgy, the range sounded healthy and the phony decibels sounded deafening.

When it came to duetting, Domingo drowned out Denver in the crossover hit "Perhaps Love"ť; drowned out the Pandoras in "Besame mucho"ť; and drowned out Andrews in a medley from "West Side Story."ť

Domingo didn't sing with the enduring and endearing Frank Sinatra. Too bad.

The erstwhile bobby-soxer idol could have taught the operatic stranger in this pop paradise a few things about the art of the microphone.

Sinatra quipped that after hearing one tone from Domingo, he wanted to head for the bar. It would have been an unnecessary and ignoble retreat.

At the respectable age of 71, Sinatra may not command all the vocal substance of yore. But he still commands the style.

He knows how to make the words count, how to give a line rhythmic punch, how to create mood and sustain tension. He may have cracked and lost sync with the orchestra in "My Heart Stood Still,"ť but he made the most of the contrasting geographical sentiment in "L.A. Is My Lady"ť and "New York, New York."ť

Denver and his cohorts also used the mike to advantage in the corn-pone slickness of "Country Roads"ť and a hard-driven Stephen Foster arrangement, "Hard Times."ť

Andrews, the presumed piece de resistance , looked cool, elegant and statuesque in a voluminous silvery skirt that reflected the jukebox glow. She sang "West Side Story"ť excerpts with a pale and pretty sopranino than thinned out at the top.

Her prim Anglo-Saxon interpretation of the Puerto Rican Maria, incidentally, found a somewhat jolting complement in Domingo's heroic, distinctly Hispanic interpretation of the white slum kid Tony. (Jose Carreras did it a little better.)

A spokesman for Operation California, the sponsoring organization, reports that the concert grossed more than $400,000.

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September 5, 1986

Television

Atlantic City, New Jersey

Filmed a Golden Nugget TV commercial w/Steve Wynn

September 6, 1986

Concerts

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

Extras

Riverbend, Cincinnati , Ohio

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Riverbend, Cincinnati , Ohio

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September 7, 1986

Concerts

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

September 10, 1986

Concerts

Chicago Theater, Chicago, Illinois

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. My Kind of Town

2. For Once in my Life

3. I've Got You under my Skin

4. Where or When

5. Bewitched

6. Someone to Watch over Me

7. Fly Me to the Moon

8. One for my Baby

9. Soliloquy

10. The Best is Yet to Come

11. Moonlight in Vermont

12. Summer Me, Winter Me

13. My Heart Stood Still

14. I Won’t Dance

15. My Way

16. Mack the Knife

17. My Kind of Town (Reprise)

Extras

Chicago Theater, Chicago, Illinois

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

September 11, 1986

Concerts

Chicago Theater, Chicago, Illinois

1. My Kind of Town

2. For Once in My Life

3. I've Got You Under My Skin

4. Where or When

5. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

6. What Now My Love

7. Someone to Watch Over Me

8. Fly Me to the Moon

9. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)

10. Mack the Knife

11. Soliloquy

12. The Best Is Yet to Come

13. Moonlight in Vermont

14. Summer Wind

15. My Heart Stood Still

16. My Way

17. Theme From New York, New York

18. My Kind of Town (Reprise)

Extras

Chicago Theater, Chicago, Illinois

SINATRA SINGS CHICAGO`S SONG

Richard Christiansen, Entertainment editor

CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Frank Sinatra and the Chicago Theatre, two great and enduring entertainment institutions, came together Wednesday night as the 70-year-old pop singer returned to his kind of town to reopen the 65-year-old movie palace for its born-again life as a downtown performing arts center.

For its part, the theater welcomed the occasion with the glow of chandeliers, a wide breadth of red carpets and a galaxy of gods and goddesses that floated in murals across the ceiling of the 3,800-seat auditorium. Restored at a cost of about $4 million for the theater itself--just about what it cost to build it originally--the Chicago embraced and dazzled the opening- night black-tie audience with the splendor of its scale and concept.

And for his part, Sinatra brought with him a top-flight show that harkened back to the Chicago in its heyday as a movie-and-vaudeville house. Just like the old days, the variety bill consisted of a big band, the Count Basie Orchestra, with its featured female vocalist, Carmen Bradford; a comedian, the amiable Tom Dreesen, who scored all the right points with his hometown Chicago jokes; a comic juggler, the off-center, on-target Michael Davis; and the supreme headliner himself.

Strolling onto the stage with fingers snapping, he received his first standing ovation of the evening and launched immediately into--of course--''My Kind of Town,'' ending his exuberant love song to Chicago with, ''And I mean it!''

Obviously psyched up for the occasion and enjoying himself in front of about 40 musicians behind him, Sinatra showed that he remains capable of belting out a song with plenty of power and savvy. He had some trouble steering through the rhythms and pitches of a soft ballad, such as ''Someone to Watch Over Me,'' but his vocal instrument can still soar and sock with amazing reserves of energy when he needs it in such standards as ''Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered.''

Paying tribute to the composers and arrangers who had worked with him over the years, Sinatra gleefully ran through a range of songs by the Gershwin brothers, Cole Porter, and Rodgers and Hart, recalling with them the golden age of popular music in America.

In the October of his years, he clearly does not have the finely tuned voice he possessed 40 years ago, when he first played the Chicago. But he now has 50 years of singing in the spotlight behind him, and as ''a saloon singer, and proud of it,'' he has, at his best, such performance expertise and stage charm that he is uniquely overpowering as a singer.

His return to the Chicago is the first of several attractions already planned to keep the theater at 175 N. State St. going in its first few months as a key element in the revival of the North Loop area. It will cost $10 million to restore the theater and an adjoining building to their splendor of decades ago.

For the event, there were klieg lights outside the handsomely cleaned terra-cotta facade, as well as hordes of radio, television and print journalists inside, rushing about trying to capture opinions on whether the theater would survive.

Like most of the audience, Sinatra had his memories of the Chicago, and he shared them amusingly in a little reminiscence, including tales of the cheap old management, before he launched into his barnburner numbers, the ''Soliloquy'' from ''Carousel'' and the inevitable ''My Way.''

Much has changed since Sinatra and the Chicago were young. The Chez Paree, the nightclub where he once sang, is gone; and Fritzel`s, the restaurant that was a few feet north on State Streethas been replaced by a group of fast-food chain restaurants.

But the Chicago and Sinatra, both show business icons, have weathered the good and lean and in-between years well, coming out on top and joining forces for this weekend through Sunday, to remind us of how joyous and special an occasion ''going out'' can be.

There`s still work to be done on the Chicago--the hundreds of light bulbs that form the frame of an arch of triumph on the facade have yet to be installed, for example--and there are adjustments to be made in its organization and operation.

But Wednesday evening, with the theater gleaming in its spectacular rebirth, was not a time for remembering the perils of the past, in which the theater was, incredibly, almost torn down to make way for an office high-rise. Nor was it an occasion to worry about the problems of the future, in which the Chicago will have to book many more shows to attract the audiences that will keep it a vital place of entertainment.

Instead, this opening night was a time to sit back in the comfortable new seats, gaze in awe at the surrounding splendors, listen once again to the strains of the Mighty Wurlitzer before the show, watch a consummate professional and his colleagues entertain, and walk out into the night feeling terrific about Chicago--both the city and the theater.

September 12, 1986

Concerts

Chicago Theater, Chicago, Illinois

1. My Kind of Town

2. I've Got You Under My Skin

3. Where or When

4. For Once in My Life

5. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

6. What Now My Love

7. Someone to Watch Over Me

8. Fly Me to the Moon

9. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)

10. Mack the Knife

11. Soliloquy

12. The Best Is Yet to Come

13. Summer Wind

14. Moonlight in Vermont

15. My Heart Stood Still

16. My Way

17. Theme From New York, New York

18. My Kind of Town (reprise)

September 13, 1986

Concerts

Chicago Theater, Chicago, Illinois

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. My Kind of Town

2. I've Got You under my Skin

3. Where or When

4. For Once in my Life

5. Bewitched

6. What Now my Love

7. Someone to Watch over Me

8. Fly Me to the Moon

9. One for my Baby (during intro Sinatra remembers playing Chez Paree)

10. Mack the Knife

11. Pennies from Heaven

12. The Best is Yet to Come

13. Summer Wind

14. Moonlight in Vermont

15. My Heart Stood Still

16. My Way

17. New York, New York

18. My Kind of Town (Reprise)

Notes: TT 68mins.

September 14, 1986

Concerts

Chicago Theater, Chicago, Illinois (10 -14)

Frank Sinatra with the Count Basie Orchestra

O.A. Carmen Bradford, Micheal Davis, Tom Dressen

Bill Miller conducted a 40 piece orchestra

Here is the list of songs Sinatra sang during the engagement:

1. My Kind Of Town

2. I've Got You Under My Skin

3. Where Or When

4. For Once In My Life

5. Bewitched

6. What Now, My Love?

7. Someone To Watch Over Me

8. Fly Me To The Moon

9. One For My Baby

10. Mack The Knife

11. Soliloquy

12. Pennies From Heaven

13. monologue

14. The Best Is Yet To Come

15. Summer Wind

16. Moonlight In Vermont

17. My Heart Stood Still

18. My Way

19. New York, New York

20. My Kind Of Town(reprise)

note: Ed O'Brien - Sinatra reopened the 65 year old theater, which had undergone a $4 million dollar restoration. The five night SRO stay, in the 3,800 seat auditorium, was highly praised by the Chicago critics.

September 19, 1986

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada (September 19-20) (Cancelled)

Extras

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada (September 19-20) (Cancelled)

September 20, 1986

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas , Nevada (September 19-20) (Cancelled)

September 25, 1986

Radio

Bernabeu Stadium, Madrid, Spain

John Flanagan Orchestra

Bill Miller Conducting

Network: Cadena SER (Spain)

Note: setlist in concert section

Television

none

Concerts

Bernabeu Stadium, Madrid, Spain

Friday Evening

John Flanagan Orchestra

Bill Miller Conducting

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. Without A Song

3. What Now My Love

4. I've Got You Under My Skin

5. Bewitched

6. Where Or When

7. Witchcraft

8. My Heart Stood Still

9. New York, New York monologue

10. Granada

11. Summer Wind

12. Night And Day ( uptempo )

13. I Get A Kick Out Of You

14. Come Rain Or Come Shine

15. L.A. Is My Lady

16. The Girl From Ipanema

17. April In Paris

18. The Lady Is A Tramp

19. For Once In My Life

20. Mack The Knife

21. All The Way

22. Strangers In The Night

23. My Way

Ed O'Brien:

A very memorable evening for Mr. Sinatra. There was no opening act and the ticket prices were very steep. The huge stadium had a crowd of more than 50,000. Sinatra was so moved by the adulation throughout the evening. Near the end of the show tears could be seen streaming down his face. During "All The Way," the huge screen showed a close up of Sinatra crying openly. There were thousands of fans in the stadium that night crying with him. Before "My Way," the audience lighted candles and little stars. Frank choked up even more and then gave the crowd a rousing rendition of his signature song. The audience stood and cheered as Frank ended the show with waves and kisses. There was a fireworks display that lasted 15 minutes and then the huge screen projected in white lettering "Muchias gracias Frank Sinatra."

Brian Chearno:

Danny's question made me go back and check the Spanish news reports. Show wasn't broadcast on Television in Spain. It aired on the largest radio station, Cadena SER. Concert had poor ticket sales. Only 8000 of the 65,000 seats were sold. Organizers gave out 16,000 to bump the numbers up. Bet the 50,000 number came from a Sinatra press release. Huge loss and ticket sales confusion. They were slashing the prices by the end. Spanish TV took a pass, since their was no public interest shown in the show.

Ed O'Brien:

I have a review that contradicts some of the Spanish news reports. The tickets were in demand but not for the hoi polloi. They overpriced the tickets. The review I have is from a guy who was there. So there! He estimated the 50,000. I don't post press releases.The reaction of the audience belies the claim there was no public interest. It was a love in. Frank was visibly shaken by the outpouring of deep affection. The radio broadcast was in stereo. I remember how pleased collectors were that Frank sang "Granada."

Danny Faux:

Hi. I was there and I'm sorry to say that the whole thing was a disaster from the very inception of it. To say that the organization was bad it would be a gross understatement. For a while, I was close to one of the promoters. It would take hours to recall all the details of this big time fiasco. The tickets were way overpriced. Mickey Rudin - who I met - came to Madrid weeks ahead of the concert and was warned that the cost of the tickets were too high. He didn't take heed and gave green light to everything. There was a big political issue also showing its ugly face. All the media controlled by the so- cialist goverment worked overtime against the event. I still have dozen of newspaper clippings that prove that. To top it all, when the desperate promoters decided to slash the prices, the big store chain that was selling the tickets ( El Corte Ingles ), prevented that to happen, and in the morning of the day of the concerts the box offices were closed by the police. They remained closed all day, so people that wanted to buy tickets were turned away!!! I saw Frank coming to a soundcheck at about one in the afternoon. A woman approached him and cried : " Frank!!, they are not selling tickets!!!. Sinatra threw his hand to his head in disbelief.

I was given high priced tickets for free, so I was able to see the show from the very first rows. Barbara Sinatra - who I had met in Las Vegas in early 1980 - was very near to my seat. My guess is that about 30.000 at the most were there. 16.000 tickets were given away per Sinatra's request. But artistically, the show was a triumph. Sinatra proved his giant talent against all odds and all the forces that sabotaged the event. And yes, the reaction of the audience was so emotional that Frank was visibly moved by it. I understand that the reason why Spanish TV didn't aired the show was because they were not allowed to do it. They didn't want to meet the fee to the rights to the broadcast. Next year, in 1987, I was in a very friendly relationship with the main promoter of the event. He was then the owner of a very nice restaurant in the city of Bilbao. He gave me a video of the concert - I appear briefly in it when Frank is singing " My Way "- that later I transferred to dvd. A fantastic concert it was... Frank was in top form that night in Madrid in spite of all the turbulence that had preceded it.

Extras

Bernabeu Stadium, Madrid, Spain

Friday Evening

John Flanagan Orchestra

Bill Miller Conducting

Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid

September 25, 1986

By Mahnuel Muñoz

On December 17, 2019, Arsenio Marcos Rodríguez died at the age of 76 in the Spanish city of Bilbao, whose name, until today, will be unknown to the vast majority, and yet he is a very important figure for all Spanish followers of Frank Sinatra. Born in Sabero, (León) he herded cows during his youth and one day, with more dreams than certainties, he took the train to Bilbao in search of a more prosperous future. He spent a few years working as a transporter with a humble motorcycle and managed to gain a prominent place in the Bilbao business scene while Frank Sinatra’s music sounded like the soundtrack of his upward path. He ran some of the most renowned nightclubs of his time and in 1986 he made some headlines in the Spanish national press when he achieved a dream: for Frank Sinatra to perform in Spain. The chosen date, September 25, 1986, and the place, the legendary Santiago Bernabéu stadium, temple of Real Madrid’s exploits. The concert appears in the annals of Frank Sinatra’s history as one of the most resounding commercial failures. It is said that of the 65,000 tickets that the organization anticipated, only about 11,000 were sold, and that between 16,000 and 18,000 were given away to avoid offering the sad image of a practically empty stadium. Frank Sinatra hung the “No seats” sign at practically all of his concerts around the world. What happened in Madrid? The public authorities and the distraught press put all kinds of obstacles to the organization of the event. The limited publicity was negative, and the willful and enterprising Arsenio, who was disparagingly nicknamed “The Shepherd,” was disqualified as an intruder and inexperience. Xavier Cugat, the legendary Catalan conductor who recorded with Sinatra in the 1940s, was particularly virulent: “They only know how to sell panties and nightgowns,” he snapped, referring to Arsenio and his team. Apparently Cugat’s irritation was due to the fact that he had previously tried unsuccessfully to hire the voice; This story deserves to be told separately, something I will do in the next few days. Ticket prices were very high and the main distribution channel, the El Corte Inglés department store, terminated the contract with the organization the day before the concert, officially due to Arsenio’s proposal to lower the tickets in order to alleviate the economic debacle. Furthermore, that was a Spain that was experiencing the death throes of the Movida Madrileña (for the international members of the group, indicate that it was a countercultural and artistic movement born in Madrid in the second half of the 1970s after the death of the dictator Francisco Franco. It was characterized as an innovative form of verbal and aesthetic expression that was developed in music, film, literature and photography) and Sinatra was perceived as a relic of the past, a representative of American imperialism, a vulgar and rude mobster. ; Nobody thought of doing a study on the acceptance of the singer and adapting the venue, the place and the price of the seats to reality. The concert, on the other hand, presents a communicative and brilliant Frank Sinatra, singing with the support of the London Philharmonic Orchestra in a superb manner his bouquet of great hits and a delicious concession to national folklore with the magnificent “Granada”. Some audio and video recordings that circulate privately attest to this. The Cadena SER radio station covered the concert and tried to give it a decent treatment, with some enthusiastic commentators who did not hide their admiration for the singer, and the finishing touch was the fireworks that illuminated the capital’s sky. On the stadium grass, Arsenio knew that his great dream was going to be his financial ruin, but no one can erase the smile that illuminated his face and his satisfaction at being the one who managed to break Sinatra’s oath not to return. never to our “damned country”.

Oops! A typo. Should read September 25, 1986

> Concerts

> September 26, 1986

> Friday Evening

Bernabeu Stadium

Madrid, Spain

John Flanagan Orchestra

Bill Miller Conducting

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. Without A Song

3. What Now My Love

4. I've Got You Under My Skin

5. Bewitched

6. Where Or When

7. Witchcraft

8. My Heart Stood Still

9. New York, New York monologue

10. Granada

11. Summer Wind

12. Night And Day ( uptempo )

13. I Get A Kick Out Of You

14. Come Rain Or Come Shine

15. L.A. Is My Lady

16. The Girl From Ipanema

17. April In Paris

18. The Lady Is A Tramp

19. For Once In My Life

20. Mack The Knife

21. All The Way

22. Strangers In The Night

23. My Way

note: A very memorable evening for Mr. Sinatra. There was no opening act and the ticket prices were very steep. The huge stadium had a crowd of more than 50,000. Sinatra was so moved by the adulation throughout the evening. Near the end of the show tears could be seen streaming down his face. During "All The Way," the huge screen showed a close up of Sinatra crying openly. There were thousands of fans in the stadium that night crying with him. Before "My Way," the audience lighted candles and little stars. Frank choked up even more and then gave the crowd a rousing rendition of his signature song. The audience stood and cheered as Frank ended the show with waves and kisses. There was a fireworks display that lasted 15 minutes and then the huge screen projected in white lettering

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I thought it wasn't broadcast in Spain, but another country. Can't remember off hand.

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Oops! A typo. Should read September 25, 1986

> Concerts

> September 26, 1986

> Friday Evening

Bernabeu Stadium

Madrid, Spain

John Flanagan Orchestra

Bill Miller Conducting

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. Without A Song

3. What Now My Love

4. I've Got You Under My Skin

5. Bewitched

6. Where Or When

7. Witchcraft

8. My Heart Stood Still

9. New York, New York monologue

10. Granada

11. Summer Wind

12. Night And Day ( uptempo )

13. I Get A Kick Out Of You

14. Come Rain Or Come Shine

15. L.A. Is My Lady

16. The Girl From Ipanema

17. April In Paris

18. The Lady Is A Tramp

19. For Once In My Life

20. Mack The Knife

21. All The Way

22. Strangers In The Night

23. My Way

"Muchias gracias Frank Sinatra."

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September 27, 1986

Television

Milan, Italy

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. Without The Song

3. What Now My Love

4. I've Got You Under My Skin

5. Bewitched

6. Where Or When

7. Witchcraft

8. My Heart Stood Still

9. New York, New York

10. Monologue

11. Night And Day

12. Summer Wind

13. I Get A Kick Out Of You

14. Come Rain Or Come Shine

15. L.A. Is My Lady

16. The Girl From Ipanema

17. April In Paris

18. The Lady Is A Tramp

19. For Once In My Life

20. Mack The Knife

21. All The Way

22. Strangers In The Night

23. My Way

Notes: Complete unedited concert. Aired in Italy on RAI.TV 80 min.

Concerts

Palatrussardi, Milan, Italy

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. overture / Fly Me To The Moon

2. Without A Song

3. What Now, My Love?

4. I've Got You Under My Skin

5. Bewitched

6. Where Or When

7. Witchcraft

8. My Heart Stood Still

9. New York, New York

10. monologue

11. Night And Day

12. Summer Wind

13. I Get A Kick Out Of You

14. Come Rain Or Come Shine

15. L.A. Is My Lady

16. The Girl From Ipanema

17. April In Paris

18. The Lady Is A Tramp

19. For Once In My Life

20. Mack The Knife

21. All The Way

22. Strangers In The Night

23. My Way

Notes: The complete concert aired on Rai uno (Italian Network) television. TT 97mins.

Ed O'Brien says this is a very good show. Lot of good music.

There are a number of highlights. O'Brien favorite is "All the Way," with just piano.

October 12, 1986

Extras

Kitty Kelley's unauthorized biography His Way, which Frank had unsuccessfully sued to block in 1983, debuts at number one on the New York Times bestseller list. Frank was especially devastated by its detailed account of his mother Dolly's history performing illegal abortions in Hoboken; watching Kelley discuss it on television reportedly left him so agitated that his family feared he would need to be hospitalized for an anxiety attack. Source: J. Randy Taraborrelli, Sinatra: Behind the Legend.

October 18, 1986

Concerts

Anatole Hotel, Dallas, Texas

Third Annual Arts Awards Benefit Gala

Extras

Anatole Hotel, Dallas, Texas

Third Annual Arts Awards Benefit Gala

WHEN SINATRA SINGS

DALLAS, TEXAS: In October of 1986, there was a huge event at the Hilton Anatole Hotel (which was then called the Loews Anatole). It was the Princess Grace Foundation, and it would become the biggest event in the history of this hotel. Several days prior to this event, all waiters who were scheduled to be working this function underwent background checks. Though we weren’t told of any specifics, there were a lot of suits walking around and we suspected they were federal agents.

In the afternoon, as we were setting up the banquet tables with wine glasses and silverware, numerous celebrities were rehearsing their presentations for the event later that evening. As I was wiping and placing the dinner knives around the table, Diane Warwick was sound-checking the microphone from different locations in the back of the Pavilion room. Based on her interaction with some of the people around her, I found her lacking presence and color, much like the dress she was wearing. This was disappointing because as a teenager in Holland I often played her LPs on my record player to the extent that my mother asked me if I was in love.

I expected Dianne Warwick to have a rich personality, much like her voice and the lyrics of her songs. But it seemed that the only thing noticeable about her was the very large cross she wore around her neck with Jesus on it. And it looked as if Jesus was in tremendous pain. I didn’t understand why someone would be wearing this, but at this point I had other things to do: I was polishing the wine glasses and placing them right above the dinner knives, for this banquet dinner would entail many different courses, many different wines and many different celebrities.

In sharp contrast to Dianne Warwick was Robert Wagner. He appeared moments later and was rehearsing his lines behind the podium stand and was dressed in his usual debonair style. I was only a few meters away from him when he smiled at me and said “How are you doing?” I was surprised by the instantaneous sincerity with which he said that, and I greeted him back with a smile. He appeared to be very gracious and elegant, much like the character he portrayed in Hart to Hart, and his presence in the room was as strong as it was inspiring.

Strangely enough, many of the Spanish speaking waiters had no idea who Robert Wagner was, though they suspected he was a famous movie star because it was written all over him.

Only hours later the room would be filled with hundreds of people, many of them world famous actors, musicians, politicians, and other media celebrities. Behind the microphone where Robert Wagner had been rehearsing earlier, was an elevated platform with a long table of about 20 seats facing the crowd. In the middle of this row was King Rainier of Monaco, with his wife, Princess Grace; and daughter, Princess Stefanie; and son, Prince Albert, and numerous other family members.

Also sitting on stage was Frank Sinatra. Behind the stage were many large curtains; behind that were many employee exits; and behind that was the very large banquet kitchen, filled with an army of cooks and chefs, fighting for their life to dish-out each course in a timely manner.

And between all these layers were armies of waiters with large oval trays on their shoulders, carrying dinner plates stacked on top of dinner plates, going to-and-fro, much like working ants serving the colonies.

At some point, after the dinner was served, all waiters were ordered out of the Pavilion Room as the show was about to commence. Finally, we were allowed to take a deep breath.

I stood somewhere behind the curtain in the pantry aisle, drinking some coffee from one of my spare porcelain cups, when I saw Frank Sinatra gently walk right by me into the seedy employee restroom, much to the surprise of the hotel’s upper management. My friend and fellow waiter, Mario from New York City, was already taking a leak when he suddenly saw Frank Sinatra standing next to him, doing the same. As he looked over, Sinatra said: “How you’re doing?” The two of them began talking and this was a dream come true for Mario, who was also of Italian heritage and a big Sinatra fan.

When Sinatra exited the restroom he remained in the employee pantry area, talking to some of his people, not bothered by loitering waiters and pantry workers wheeling trays of dirty dishes right by him. Sinatra was relaxed, as he was awaiting his cue to take to the stage.

Once Sinatra took to the stage, his voice, so familiar and so widely recognized, would change the ambiance of the entire room instantaneously. When I heard Sinatra sing, I felt suddenly that I was living in America, the America I had seen in the movies, the America I had come for, the America that was a promise for so many, for so many afar.

Occasionally I peeked through the curtains to see him in action, and came to realize that Sinatra was as comfortable on the stage as he was behind it, and that he could talk to King Rainier just as easily as to a waiter or any man on the street.

Sinatra was a real man in the traditional and honorable sense. He was that man who Kipling wrote about in his “If” poem: "the man who could talk to crowds and keep his virtue, and walk with Kings yet not lose the common touch, and that the Earth was his and everything in it." Sinatra really did have the world on a string, sitting on a rainbow, string around his finger -- as the song goes:

During the presentations and performances, we had a large and decorative coffee and dessert buffet set up outside of the Pavilion Room in the lobby. Among a variety of pastries, it included sliced fruit, Swiss chocolate and after-dinner drinks.

I was wearing a tuxedo with white gloves, busing dirty plates, refilling coffee and accommodating special requests when I noticed a couple of military men, both with crew-cuts, both with many meddles on their chest, and both with a drink in their hand. I thought it was great that they were also in attendance and greeted them with admiration. I offered them coffee but the most senior one told me that he was only interested in “gun-powder and pussy juice.” I found this was a funny thing to say and realized these were men that had real combat experience. I also realized that they were both drunk.

At some point, I entered the Pavilion room again and was waived down by a beautiful, smiling woman. She was Stefanie Powers, asking for a refill of coffee, and I quickly poured her a cup from the pot that I was holding. We exchanged a few pleasantries and she asked me where my accent was from, so I told her I was from Holland. We spoke some more and she asked me if I was allowed to sit down at her table.

But being stupidly professional, I told her that I had to continue working. After I left her table, I looked back at her and she smiled, and I remember thinking that I had just spoken to Mrs. H, and earlier to Mr. H. And both of them were as charming in person as they were on television.

The next day when I returned to work I heard that Frank Sinatra had tipped the manager on duty four bills of $100 for bringing breakfast to his suite at 4 o’clock in the morning. Among some of the people in his suite were Gregory Peck, Jimmy Stewart, Carey Grant and Roger Moore. These kinds of men knew how to party, but they also knew how to be gracious and grateful towards the people serving them -- they were from a better generation.

from:

http://www.promisedyouamerica.com/2017/10/when-sinatra-sings-you-feel-america.html

October 19, 1986

Concerts

McNichols Arena, Denver, Colorado

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. Without A Song

3. What Now My Love

4. For Once In My Life

5. My Heart Stood Still

6. Summer Wind

7. Bewitched

8. I Get A Kick Out Of You

9. Mack The Knife

10. Where Or When

11. Night And Day

12. Someone To Watch Over Me

13. I've Got You Under My Skin

14. One For My Baby

15. New York, New York

Extras

McNichols Arena, Denver, Colorado

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October 23, 1986

Concerts

Beverly Hilton, Los Angeles, California

St. John's Benefit

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. Without a Song

2. For Once in my Life

3. My Heart Stood Still ("Arranged by the wonderful Nelson Riddle")

4. Summer Wind

5. New York , New York

6. Where or When

7. I Get a Kick out of You

8. Someone to Watch over Me

9. I've Got You under My Skin ("most identifiable, I think, arrangement Nelson ever wrote")

10. Night and Day (Riddle arg. 1956)

NOTE: Sinatra Scholar Ed O'Brien provided the song program for this 1986 Benefit. TT 42mins.

October 24, 1986

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

First Show

Key Musicians: Don Baldini (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Tony Mattola (guitar), Bill Miller (piano).

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. What Now, My Love?

3. For Once In My Life

4. My Heart Stood Still

5. Summer Wind

6. Bewitched

7. I Get A Kick Out Of You

8. More Than You Know

9. Mack The Knife

10. monologue

11. I've Got A Crush On You

12. Without A Song

13. Where Or When

14. Night And Day

15. Someone To Watch Over Me

16. I've Got You Under My Skin

17. New York, New York

Notes: TT 68mins.

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Key Musicans: Don Baldini (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Tony Mattola

(guitar), Bill Miller (piano).

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. What Now, My Love?

3. For Once In My Life

4. My Heart Stood Still

5. Summer Wind

6. Bewitched

7. I Get A Kick Out Of You

8. More Than You Know

9. Mack The Knife

10. monologue

11. I've Got A Crush On You

12. Without A Song

13. Where Or When

14. Night And Day

15. Someone To Watch Over Me

16. I've Got You Under My Skin

17. One For My Baby

18. New York, New York

Notes: TT 72mins.

October 25, 1986

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

Saturday evening

Second show

Key Musicians: Don Baldini (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Tony Mattola

(guitar), Bill Miller (piano).

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. What Now My Love

3. For Once In My Life

4. My Heart Stood Still

5. Summer Wind

6. Bewitched

7. I Get A Kick Out Of You

8. More Than You Know

9. Mack The Knife

Monologue

10. I've Got A Crush On You

11. Without A Song

12. Where Or When

13. Night and Day (Riddle 56 chart) tells Rustic Cabin story with Cole

Porter and how the songwriter reminded him of that evening during rehearsals for the songs sung in â High Society.)

14. Someone to Watch over r Me

15. I've Got You Under my Skin

16. One for my Baby

17. New York , New York

NOTE: Ed O'Brien has provided us with the complete song list. When

Sinatra came out on stage for the midnight show, he mentioned the sixth game of the World Series between the Mets and Red Sox. Famous ninth inning error by Boston's first baseman Bill Buckner allowed the Mets to rally and then win the Series the next night.But it wasn't anywhere near as exciting as last night's game between the Rangers and Cardinals. Truly one for the ages.

Sinatraphile Eugene Lo Curto says that Sinatra was in good form this night. Brought down the house with "Mack the Knife" and held the last note in "New York , New York" longer than any version Lo Curto can recall.

I agree, writes Sinatraphile Vance Adair. In fact, in 1986, there was a crop of fine concert performances: the Meadowlands,

"Homecoming," and Oklahoma are ones that spring immediately to mind. Too bad that this return to form was not capitalized upon in the studio.

Ed O'Brien then reports that during one of his interviews with guitarist Al Viola, O'Brien asked Viola if there was anything he wishes Sinatra had done differently in his career. Al quickly responded with how much he wished Sinatra had recorded more during the post-retirement years. He recalled a fabulous concert at the Universal Amphitheatre in July of

1978. He remembered getting a chill up and down his back as Sinatra sang magnificiently throughout the show. As he drove home that night, Viola realized how emphemeral that performance would be. The lucky 6,000 attendees had been thrilled for 70+ minutes, but time would eventually erode the memories from that night. Viola knew recordings were forever and reached a mass audience.

A few stats. O'Brien adds, puts Sinatra's recording output in much better perspective. In 1969, Sinatra did 51 recordings. There were 50 done from 1979 through 1981 and, in next 11 years (1982 to 1992), Sinatra made 31 recordings

Adair then observes that we have lamented so often how there were so many missed opporunities in these years. I cannot understand why he didn't do what Tony Bennett has done an lay down tracks that could have further augmented his legacy posthumously. Bennett has nearly 200 unreleased tracks in the vaults precisely to ensure that the franchise will continue long into the future.

Judging from the comments I have heard from close friends and musical associates, Adair continues, this Sinatra timidity was entirely self-engendered. Apparently, Sinatra held to the belief that (lack of good material not withstanding) he just wasn't robust enough vocally to justify regular studio engagements. As we all know, some of his concert performances well into the 80s reveals a voice that is vital, surprisingly supple and burnished with a darker timbre that could have sung the hell out of a whole new batch of songs.

Many urged and Sinatra declined, Adair summarized.

There is a related technological point here that is perhaps a little prosaic, Adair continued, but I have often pondered what may have happened if he had collaborated with a more dynamic producer around this time. Some of the concert vocals sound so energetic even in their relative unadorned state one can only imagine how they might have sounded with the assistance of a sensitive and imaginative producer.

Sinatraphile J Daniels asks: What about his live performances during this time? Does anyone have any idea how many quality concerts are in the vaults?

Adair replies that there are many concerts from the mid-80s that capture Sinatra in glorious form. Where one can say they are "in the vaults" is something that must be taken up with a Sinatra estate that is now managed by Warner Brothers.

In further answer to Daniels' question, Ed O'Brien say that Sinatra's engineer, Hank Cttaneo, told him that just about everything was recorded. Unfortunately, most of it was done in analog. Hank could only think of a handful of digital tapes done in the 80s.

Bo Kiernan, Sinatra's engineer in the 70s, recorded all the concerts. At Ceasars Palace , he would leave the tapes under the stage. The cleaning lady would find them in the morning and toss them into the garbage. Ouch! There are hundreds and hundreds of tapes available from the 1940s up to the mid 1990s. I know a guy who use to have a tape-of-the- month club. A splendid idea for Warners to consider.

In response to an earlier question by Adair, O'Brien writes that after the session of February 5, 1976, Sinatra had laid down two tracks with just Bill Miller. He told Bill that they would record a couple of tracks at the end of each session from thereon out. Tony Mottola was told virtually the same thing in the early 80s.

Vinnie Falcone, O'Brien continues, described the rehearsal time Sinatra devoted for the

three LP jazz set in 1981. He told me that had Sonny Burke lived the project would have been completed. There were a number of interviews done in the 80s in which Sinatra went into great detail regarding the album projects that were in the works.

Probably the biggest disappointment after the jazz set was his three-LP set with Lena Horne. Quincy Jones was the producer and the recording date were set for March of 1983. Alas and alack, Horne cancelled at the last minute. Rescheduled for June and then September, Horne again found reasons not to appear. Twenty-two years later, Jones told Jonathan Schwartz that the onus for the projectÃ¢ s failure rested completely with th Horne. He fe felt she was too intimidated by the idea of recording with Frank Sinatra.

When Sinatra appeared at Yale on April 15, 1986, Sid Zion asked Sinatra about future album projects. Sinatra promised that an album of great standards missed along the way would be recorded. Billy May told O'Brien that he was asked to write a number of charts for plannned albums. As late as 1988, Sinatra gave Schwartz, during an interview on May 11, 1988, a list of songs he intended to record.

The spirit was willing, O'Brien concludes, but it simply was too far to go.

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

Saturday evening

First show

Key Musicians: Don Baldini (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Tony Mattola

(guitar), Bill Miller (piano).

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. What Now My Love

3. For Once In My Life

4. My Heart Stood Still

5. Summer Wind

6. Bewitched

7. I Get A Kick Out Of You

8. More Than You Know

9. Mack The Knife

Monologue

10. I've Got A Crush On You

11. Without A Song

12. Where Or When

13. All The Way Bill Miller on piano

14. Night and Day (Riddle 56 chart)

15. Someone to Watch over Me

16. I've Got You Under my Skin

17. New York , New York

October 26, 1986

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

Key Musicians: Don Baldini (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Tony Mattola (guitar), Bill Miller (piano).

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. What Now My Love

3. For Once In My Life

4. My Heart Stood Still

5. Summer Wind

6. Bewitched

7. I Get A Kick Out Of You

8. More Than You Know

9. Mack The Knife

10. Without A Song

11. Where Or When

12. Night And Day

13. Someone To Watch Over Me

14. I've Got You Under My Skin

15. One For My Baby

16. New York, New York

October 27, 1986

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

First Show

Key Musicians: Don Baldini (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Tony Mattola (guitar), Bill Miller (piano).

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Key Musicians: Don Baldini (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Tony Mattola (guitar), Bill Miller (piano).

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

October 29, 1986

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

Two Shows

Key Musicians: Don Baldini (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Tony Mattola (guitar), Bill Miller (piano).

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

October 30, 1986

Studio

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 CNY3398, “Mack The Knife”, Sinatra overdubbed his vocal onto the April 16, 1984 recording.

Extras

[Mack the Knife -- critical commentary]

Will Friedwald: After singing 'Mack the Knife' in concert for two and a half years, Sinatra felt he'd improved on the 1984 studio version and recorded a new vocal track over the same orchestral backing (which opens with bassist Major Holley bowing and humming, Slam Stewart-style) in 1986, apparently direct for the CD edition. Friedwald calls the remake a stunning improvement, with a new closing tag ('You better lock your door / and call the law').

This song/context matches multiple dated entries in the chronology; the specific date Friedwald is referring to could not be determined with confidence.

Source: Will Friedwald, "Sinatra! The Song Is You: A Singer's Art" (2018 revised edition), Ch. 10, "Concert Years" (1973-1994)

[The Girls I've Never Kissed / One to a Customer -- critical commentary]

Frank Sinatra: On the same October 1986 date he re-recorded the 'Mack the Knife' vocal, Sinatra also cut Jule Styne's 'One to a Customer' and his only-ever Leiber & Stoller song, 'The Girls I've Never Kissed' -- an end-of-life summation song of regret, the inverse of a victory-lap anthem like 'My Way.' Introducing it in Vegas that December, Sinatra compared it enthusiastically to 'September Song.'

This song/context matches multiple dated entries in the chronology; the specific date Friedwald is referring to could not be determined with confidence.

Source: Will Friedwald, "Sinatra! The Song Is You: A Singer's Art" (2018 revised edition), Ch. 10, "Concert Years" (1973-1994)

October 31, 1986

Extras

The Barbara Sinatra Children's Center at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage held its grand opening, established to give abused children a dedicated therapy facility after Barbara Sinatra found sessions were being held in makeshift spaces like bank and church basements. An initial celebrity art auction aimed for $30,000 and raised $60,000.

Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

November 1986

Extras

[personal life]

Barbara Sinatra: Barbara Sinatra raised $2.3 million to establish the Barbara Sinatra Children's Center for sexually abused children, which opened in November 1986; she stated she wouldn't let her husband visit because "my husband's from a totally different school... he wants to round up all the men and break their legs."

No corresponding dated entry could be identified in the chronology for this film/context.

Source: Tom Santopietro, "Sinatra in Hollywood" (2008), Knight-Errant (pt. 2) / That's Life

November 6, 1986

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Key Musicians: Don Baldini (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Tony Mattola (guitar), Bill Miller (piano).

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. The Summer Wind

3. Without A Song

4. I Get A Kick Out of You

5. My Heart Stood Still

6. Mack The Knife

7. I've Got A Crush On You

8. Luck Be A Lady

9. monologue

10. The Girl I Never Kissed

11. What Now My Love

12. More Than You Know

13. Where Or When

14. Soliloquy

15. For Once In My Life

16. Someone To Watch Over Me

17. New York, New York

Notes: TT 75mins.

November 7, 1986

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

First Show 8:P.M.

Key Musicians: Don Baldini (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Tony Mattola (guitar), Bill Miller (piano).

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. Without A Song

3. I Get A Kick Out Of You

4. My Heart Stood Still

5. Mack The Knife

6. I've Got A Crush On You

7. Where Or When

8. monologue

9. The Girls I Never Kissed

10. What Now My Love

11. More Than You Know

12. Soliloquy

13. For Once In My Life

14. Someone To Watch Over Me

15. New York, New York

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Second Show

Key Musicians: Don Baldini (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Tony Mattola (guitar), Bill Miller (piano).

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. What Now, My Love?

3. I Get A Kick Out Of You

4. My Heart Stood Still

5. Mack The Knife

6. I've Got A Crush On You

7. Where Or When

8. monologue - about Joe E. Lewis

9. The Girls I Never Kissed

10. Without A Song

11. More Than You Know

12. Soliloquy

13. For Once In My Life

14. Someone To Watch Over Me

15. New York, New York

Notes: TT 72mins.

November 8, 1986

Extras

Further performances are curtailed; flying home to Palm Springs

November 9, 1986

Extras

Emergency surgery for diverticulitis at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage Hospital stay until November 16th.

The diverticulitis required removal of a twelve-foot section of intestine in a seven-and-a-half-hour operation and left Frank wearing a colostomy bag for weeks afterward; friends and family largely blamed the stress of the recent publication of Kitty Kelley's biography His Way for triggering the illness. "I was close to buying it," Frank later said of the ordeal. "If I hadn't come back from the trip I was on, I woulda bought it." Source: J. Randy Taraborrelli, Sinatra: Behind the Legend.

Abdominal pain forced Frank to cut short a Golden Nugget performance in Atlantic City; he flew home to Palm Springs for emergency surgery for diverticulitis at Eisenhower Medical Center, and the surgery found everything benign.

Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

November 22, 1986

Extras

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

November 23, 1986

Extras

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

Ed O'Brien:

This engagement was canceled. Sinatra underwent emergency intestinal surgery on 11-9-86. His next appearance was at Carnegie Hall on 12-15.

This calendar, or any parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any fashion

whatsoever without the prior written permission of the publisher (The

Sinatra Archive)

December 12, 1986

Extras

Still recovering from surgery, Frank could not attend a Universal Studios dinner honoring Lew Wasserman's 50th anniversary as MCA chairman, so he videotaped a special performance of a parody song, "The Gentleman Is a Champ," pressed onto 800 gold souvenir seven-inch records for guests -- now a prized Sinatra collectible.

Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

December 14, 1986

Extras

Sinatra performed a sold-out concert at Carnegie Hall in New York on the eve of his 71st birthday.

Source: Jessica Hodge, Sinatra (Chartwell Books, 1998).

December 15, 1986

Television

The Reopening Of Carnegie Hall

Sinatra sings 3 songs. 10 min.

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. Mack The Knife

3. New York New York

Ed O'Brien notes: The Sinatra vocal on "Mack The Knife" was deemed unacceptable and an overdub from the studio recording was done.

FILM

The Man With The Golden Arm (US Film Release: December 15, 1955)

Starring: Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker, Kim Novak, Arnold Stang, and Darren McGavin

(Directed & Produced by Otto Preminger)

Sinatra gives a powerful performance as "Frankie Machine", a skilled card dealer and one-time heroin addict. When he returns home from jail, he struggles to find a new livelihood and to avoid slipping back into addiction. Frankie returns home to his wife Zosh (Eleanor Parker), who is supposedly wheelchair-bound after a car crash some years earlier that was caused by Frankie driving drunk. Zosh is secretly fully recovered, but pretends to be unable to walk in order to keep making Frankie feel guilty so he will stay with her. Frankie thinks he has what it takes to play drums for a big band. While calling to make an appointment, he bumps into an old flame, Molly (Kim Novak) who works in a local strip joint as a hostess and lives in the apartment below Frankie's. Unlike Zosh, Molly encourages his dream of becoming a drummer.

(The film was Public Domain and cheap copies were issued on DVD as early as 2001. A 50th Anniversary edition was released 2005-10-18 and a Remastered version was released 2008-05-13)

[image referenced in source but could not be recovered]

Concerts

Carnegie Hall, NYC

Re-opening Gala

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. Mack The Knife

3. New York New York

Note: Complete Sinatra portion as broadcast.

Extras

Carnegie Hall, NYC

Re-opening Gala

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

Frank Sinatra performs at the re-opening of Carnegie Hall, New York, New York, December 15, 1986

December 27, 1986

Television

Lou Rawls Parade Of Stars

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. All The Way w/Lou

Notes: 8 mins.

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

(Rehearsal)

1. One To A Customer

2. I've Got The World On A String

3. What Now My Love

4. I Get A Kick Out Of You

5. My Heart Stood Still

6. Luck Be A Lady

7. I've Got A Crush On You

8. For Once In My Life

9. Someone To Watch Over Me

10. Maybe This Time

11. I Have Dreamed

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

First Show

Key Musicans: Kenny Harkins (piano), Gary

Scott(sax), Bob Person(alto sax), Bobby Scan (trombone).

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. What Now My Love

3. I Get A Kick Out Of You

4. My Heart Stood Still

5. Luck Be A Lady

6. I've Got A Crush On You

7. Mack The Knife

8. monologue I

9. The Girls I've Never Kissed w/Kenny Harkins (piano)

10. For Once In My Life

11. Someone To Watch Over Me

12. monologue II

13. Maybe This Time

14. I've Got You Under My Skin

15. One To A Customer

16. I Have Dreamed

17. My Way

18. New York, New York

Notes: TT 84mins.

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Key Musicans: Kenny Harkins (piano), Gary

Scott(sax), Bob Person(alto sax), Bobby Scan (trombone).

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. introduction

2. I've Got The World On A String

3. What Now My Love

4. I Get A Kick Out Of You

5. My Heart Stood Still

6. Luck Be A Lady

7. I've Got A Crush On You

8. Mack The Knife

9. monologue I

10. The Girls I've Never Kissed w/Kenny Harkins (piano)

11. For Once In My Life

12. Someone To Watch Over Me

13. monologue II

14. Maybe This Time

15. I've Got You Under My Skin

16. One To A Customer

17. I Have Dreamed

18. talk

19. My Way

20. New York, New York

21. chaser "You Are There"

Extras

Lou Rawls Parade Of Stars

This calendar, or any parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any fashion whatsoever without the prior written permission of the publisher (The Sinatra Archive)

Lou Rawls Parade Of Stars

This calendar, or any parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any fashion whatsoever without the prior written permission of the publisher (The Sinatra Archive)

[image referenced in source but could not be recovered]

December 28, 1986

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

First Show

Key Musicans: Kenny Harkins (piano), Gary Scott(sax), Bob Person(alto sax), Bobby Scan (trombone).

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Key Musicans: Kenny Harkins (piano), Gary

Scott(sax), Bob Person(alto sax), Bobby Scan (trombone).

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. What Now, My Love?

3. I Get A Kick Out Of You

4. My Heart Stood Still

5. Luck Be A Lady

6. I've Got A Crush On You

7. Mack The Knife

8. monologue

9. The Girls I Never Kissed w/Kenny Harkins (piano)

10. For Once In My Life

11. Someone To Watch Over Me

12. I've Got You Under My Skin

13. New York, New York

Notes: TT 73mins.

December 29, 1986

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

First Show

Key Musicans: Kenny Harkins (piano), Gary Scott(sax), Bob Person(alto sax), Bobby Scan (trombone).

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. What Now My Love

3. I Get A Kick Out Of You

4. My Heart Stood Still

5. Luck Be A Lady

6. Someone To Watch Over Me

7. Mack The Knife

8. monologue

9. The Girls I've Never Kissed w/Kenny Harkins (piano)

10. For Once In My Life

11. I've Got You Under my Skin

12. Soliloquy

13. New York, New York

Notes: Show has not been tracked yet. TT 67mins.

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Key Musicans: Kenny Harkins (piano), Gary

Scott(sax), Bob Person(alto sax), Bobby Scan (trombone).

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. What Now, My Love?

3. I Get A Kick Out Of You

4. My Heart Stood Still

5. Luck Be A Lady

6. Someone To Watch Over Me

7. Mack The Knife

8.. monologue

9. The Girls I Never Kissed w/Kenny Harkins (piano)

10, For Once In My Life

11. I've Got You Under My Skin

12. Soliloquy

13. New York, New York

Notes: TT 67mins.

December 30, 1986

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

Key Musicians: Kenny Harkins (piano), Gary

Scott(sax), Bob Person(alto sax), Bobby Scan (trombone).

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

Two Shows: 8 & 11

December 31, 1986

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

Key Musicians: Kenny Harkins (piano), Gary

Scott(sax), Bob Person(alto sax), Bobby Scan (trombone).

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. overture

2. I've Got The World On A String

3. What Now My Love

4. I Get A Kick Out Of You

5. My Heart Stood Still

6. Luck Be A Lady

7. Someone To Watch Over Me

8. Mack The Knife

9. monologue

10. The Girls I've Never Kissed w/Kenny Harkins (piano)

11. For Once In My Life

12. I've Got You Under My Skin

13. Bewitched

14. Introductions

15. New York, New York

16. chaser "You Are There"

1987

Extras

[Frank Ousts Mickey Rudin as Manager]

Immediately after returning from the Italy tour, Frank wrote to Mickey Rudin asking him to step down as manager while remaining his lawyer. Rudin was furious and, before the year was out, resigned as both Frank's manager and attorney, ending their decades-long partnership.

Source: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

[Frank's Faltering Italy Tour and Rudin's Heart Attack]

During summer 1987, Frank struggled through a disappointing tour in Italy while his longtime manager Mickey Rudin recuperated at home from a heart attack. Associates sensed the two old friends, bickering like a married couple, were nearing a professional break.

Source: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

[Dean Martin's Son Dies On Same Mountain As Dolly]

Dean Martin's son Dino was killed when his plane crashed into the same mountain that had taken the life of Dolly Sinatra a decade earlier.

Source: The Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra, chapter "I Want to Be a Part of It, 1971-98."

[Death of Dean Martin's son Dino]

Consiglio: Dean Martin's son Dino, 35, an Air National Guard pilot, was killed when his plane crashed into the same mountain outside Palm Springs that had earlier killed Sinatra's mother. Dean never fully recovered from the loss and afterward would cancel shows if he heard news of any plane crash.

Source: Tony Consiglio (as told to Franz Douskey), "Sinatra and Me: The Very Good Years" (2012)

[Magnum, P.I.]

Santopietro grades this a B, calling it a nice guest-starring role on a popular television series.

No corresponding dated entry could be identified in the chronology for this film/context.

Source: Tom Santopietro, "Sinatra in Hollywood" (2008), Career Scorecard

[casting]

Sinatra, a longtime fan of Magnum, P.I., proposed the guest-starring role himself to star/producer Tom Selleck; billed as "special guest star," he played Detective Sergeant Michael Doheny in the February 23, 1987 episode "Laura" -- his only non-cameo dramatic television series role.

No corresponding dated entry could be identified in the chronology for this film/context.

Source: Tom Santopietro, "Sinatra in Hollywood" (2008), Knight-Errant (pt. 2) / That's Life

[NAACP Life Time Achievement Award sparks controversy]

Sinatra's NAACP Life Time Achievement Award drew objections over his earlier Sun City performance. Sammy Davis Jr gave a tribute speech crediting Sinatra with integrating Las Vegas hotels for black performers and staff back in 1946.

Source: Richard Havers, "Sinatra" (Dorling Kindersley, 2007).

[Sinatra and Sammy at the Greek Theatre]

Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr played shows together at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles in August 1987, shortly before Sinatra launched a hectic run of more than fifty engagements to close out the year.

Source: Richard Havers, "Sinatra" (Dorling Kindersley, 2007).

[Sweden taxes Sinatra over Sun City appearance]

Sinatra had to cancel planned Scandinavian dates after the Swedish government decided to tax him, breaking the usual exemption for foreign performers, as a consequence of his 1981 performance in Bophuthatswana (Sun City).

Source: Richard Havers, "Sinatra" (Dorling Kindersley, 2007).

[Vic Damone's third marriage, to Diahann Carroll]

After a second marriage in the early 1960s to Judy Rawlins, who died in 1973, Vic Damone's third wife was singer and actress Diahann Carroll, whom he married in 1987.

Source: Richard Havers, "Sinatra" (Dorling Kindersley, 2007).

[Sinatra Attends Buddy Rich's Funeral]

Sinatra, who generally avoided funerals, made an exception and attended Buddy Rich's, reflecting how significant the relationship had remained.

Source: Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra (Rough guide 7.pdf), chapter "The Inner Circle."

January 1987

Extras

[No shows, Hawaii trip for Magnum PI cameo]

Sinatra did not perform anywhere during January 1987 but spent five days in Hawaii to appear on Tom Selleck's show Magnum PI, playing a retired police officer tracking his granddaughter's killer.

Source: Richard Havers, "Sinatra" (Dorling Kindersley, 2007).

February 1987

Extras

[Magnum, P.I.]

Santopietro (Filmography): Guest-star appearance on the CBS television series. Produced by Chris Abbott, Chas. Floyd Johnson and Tom Selleck, directed by Alan J. Levi, teleplay for the episode 'Laura' by Abbott, Donald Bellisario and Glen A. Larson. Sinatra guest-starred as Detective Sergeant Michael Doheny opposite Tom Selleck's Magnum and John Hillerman's Higgins.

No corresponding dated entry could be identified in the chronology for this film/context.

Source: Tom Santopietro, "Sinatra in Hollywood" (2008), Filmography

February 21, 1987

Concerts

Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, California

Gene Autry Tribute

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller w/ Dean Martin & Sammy Davis Jr

1. Without A Song

2. My Heart Stood Still

3. Mack The Knife

4. The Oldest Established - Frank, Dean & Sammy

Notes: 17mins.

Extras

Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, California

Gene Autry Tribute

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller w/ Dean Martin & Sammy Davis Jr

1. Without A Song

2. My Heart Stood Still

3. Mack The Knife

4. The Oldest Established - Frank, Dean & Sammy

February 24, 1987

Television

The Morning Program (CBS)

Sinatra & Tom Selleck Interview / 20 min.

February 25, 1987

Television

The Morning Program (CBS)

Sinatra & Tom Selleck Interview / 20 min.

Magnum P.I.

Guest: Frank Sinatra.

Sinatra stars as a retired officer tracking down the killer of his granddaughter Taped January 4-9, 1987

Extras

Magnum P.I.

Guest: Frank Sinatra.

Sinatra stars as a retired officer tracking down the killer of his granddaughter

American Cover

Canadian Cover

March 1, 1987

Extras

Frank's third grandchild, Michael Francis Sinatra, was born to Frank Sinatra Jr. and his longtime partner Pat Fisher, who had decided to have a child together as they grew concerned about time passing.

Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

March 20, 1987

Extras

Dean Martin's son Dean Paul Martin died when his Air Force jet crashed into Mount San Gorgonio -- the same mountain where Dolly Sinatra had died in a plane crash ten years earlier. At the funeral, Nancy and Tina sat near the Martin family and were told by Dean's manager to hold their composure, but broke down during the "Missing Man" flyover; Nancy believes the tragedy changed Dean Martin permanently.

Frank Sinatra (quoted): "I just knew it was the Sinatra girls."

Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

March 28, 1987

Concerts

Grand Canyon Resort Hotel, Palm Springs, California

Benefit for Palm Valley High School

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. Where Or When

3. What Now My Love

4. I Get A Kick Out Of You

5. My Heart Stood Still monologue

6. Spring Is Here

7. For Once In My Life

8. Maybe This Time

9. Someone To Watch Over Me

10. I've Got You Under My Skin

11. Mack The Knife

April 1, 1987

Concerts

Mission Hills, Rancho Mirage, California

15th Annual Dinah Shore Nabisco Gala

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. Where Or When

3. My Heart Stood Still

4. Mack The Knife

April 3, 1987

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

Opening Night

Key Musicians: Lou Levy (piano), Irv Cottler (drums), Garry Scott (sax).

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. At Long Last Love

3. You Will Be My Music

4. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

5. For Once In My Life

6. My Heart Stood Still

7. Soliloquy

8. monologue

9. Spring Is Here

10. There Used To Be A Ballpark

11. Maybe This Time

12. I Get Along Without You Very Well

13. Pennies From Heaven

14. Angel Eyes

15. intro's: Robert Goulet & Jerry Vale

16. Mack The Knife

17. chaser: "You Are There"

Notes: TT 65mins.

Ed O'Brien:

Quite an ambitious program for a man in his 72nd year. I like the mix of the great standards with a sprinkling of the songs he tackled in the post-retirement years.

April 4, 1987

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas , Nevada

First Show

Key Musicians: Lou Levy (piano), Irv Cottler (drums), Garry Scott

(sax).

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. At Long Last Love

3. Witchcraft

4. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

5. For Once In My Life

6. My Heart Stood Still

7. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

8. Soliloquy

9. monologue

10. Spring Is Here

11. What Now, My Love?

12. I Get Along Without You Very Well

13. Pennies From Heaven

14. Angel Eyes

15. Mack The Knife

Notes: TT 62mins.

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas , Nevada

Second Show

Key Musicians: Lou Levy (piano), Irv Cottler (drums), Garry Scott (sax).

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. At Long Last Love

3. Witchcraft

4. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

5. For Once In My Life

6. My Heart Stood Still

7. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

8. Soliloquy

9. monologue

10. Spring Is Here

11. What Now, My Love?

12. I Get Along Without You Very Well

13. Pennies From Heaven

14. Angel Eyes

15. Mack The Knife

Notes: TT 64mins.

April 5, 1987

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas , Nevada (3-6)

First Show

Opening Act: Jan Murray

Key Musicians: Lou Levy (piano), Irv Cottler (drums), Garry Scott

(sax).

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. I've Got the World on a String

2. At Long Last Love

3. Witchcraft

4. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

5. For Once in My Life

6. My Heart Stood Still

7. You Are the Sunshine of My Life

8. Soliloquy

9. What Now My Love?

10. I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes)

11. Pennies From Heaven

12. Angel Eyes

13. Mack the Knife

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas , Nevada (3-6)

Second Show

Opening Act: Jan Murray

Key Musicians: Lou Levy (piano), Irv Cottler (drums), Garry Scott (sax).

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. At Long Last Love

3. Witchcraft

4. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

5. For Once In My Life

6. My Heart Stood Still

7. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

8. Soliloquy

9. monologue

10. What Now, My Love?

11. I Get Along Without You Very Well

12. Pennies From Heaven

13. Angel Eyes

14. Mack The Knife

Notes: TT 64mins.

This engagement ran from April 3 - 6.

Frank did two shows a night.

Jan Murray was his opening act. alternates during the engagement:

You Will Be My Music

Maybe This Time

There Use To Be A Ballpark

--Ed

April 6, 1987

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas , Nevada (3 -6)

Two Shows

Opening Act: Jan Murray

Key Musicians: Lou Levy (piano), Irv Cottler (drums), Garry Scott (sax).

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

First Show:

1. I've Got the World on a String

2. At Long Last Love

3. Witchcraft

4. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

5. For Once in My Life

6. My Heart Stood Still

7. You Are the Sunshine of My Life

8. Soliloquy

9. Maybe This Time

10. I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes)

11. Pennies From Heaven

12. Angel Eyes

13. Mack the Knife

Ed O'Brien:

Caesars Palace was the site for the Marvin Hagler- Sugar Ray Leonard fight for the middle weight championship. Frank did a dinner show at the G.N., caught the fight at around 10: 00 p.m, then did a midnight show back at the G.N.

April 11, 1987

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

Benefit for Barbara Sinatra's Child Center w/Don Rickles.

Bill Miller conducted the Vegas orchestra.

1. At Long Last Love

2. Witchcraft

3. Gal That Got Away/It Never Entered My Mind

4. For Once In My Life

5. My Heart Stood Still

6. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

7. Soliloquy monologue and comedy routine with Rickles

Extras

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

Benefit for Barbara Sinatra's Child Center

w/Don Rickles.

Bill Miller conducted the Vegas orchestra.

1. At Long Last Love

2. Witchcraft

3. Gal That Got Away/It Never Entered My Mind

4. For Once In My Life

5. My Heart Stood Still

6. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

7. Soliloquy

monologue and comedy routine with Rickles

April 18, 1987

Concerts

Desert Springs Marriott, Palm Springs, California

Barbara Sinatra Children's Center Benefit

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

Other Performers: Sammy Davis, jr.

1. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

2. Pennies From Heaven

3. I've Got The World On A String

4. For Once In My Life

5. monologue

6. Mack The Knife

7. My Heart Stood Still

8. Where Or When

9. At Long Last Love

10. What Now, My Love?

11. The Lady Is A Tramp - w/Sammy

Notes: TT 36mins.

Extras

Barbara Sinatra's Children Center & Variety Club

Telethon

Marriott Desert Spring Resort and Spa, Palm Desert, California

Saturday afternoon

1 to 6: P.M.

Co-Hosts: B. Sinatra & Monty Hall

Announcer: Bernie Kopell

Irv Cottler Orchestra conducted by Bill Miller

Lou Levy on piano

Dinah Shore

"Hello"

"I Thought About You" ( done at her first recording session )

Gregory Peck

Paul Burke

Frank Sinatra

"You Are The Sunshine Of My Life"

"Pennies From Heaven"

"I've Got The World On A String"

"For Once In My Life"

Linda Evans

Danny Thomas

Lola Falana

Sammy Davis Jr.

"It Only Takes A Moment"

"Begin The Beguine"

"The Candy Man"

"What Kind Of Fool Am I"

Tom Dressen

Roger Moore

Frank Sinatra

"Mack The Knife"

"My Heart Stood Still"

Rich Little

Telly Savalas

Tom Dressen

Robert Wagner

Frank Sinatra

"Where Or When"

Joan VanArk

Joan Rivers

Wayne Newton

"Back Home Again In Indiana"

"Up A Lazy River"

"If I Can Dream"

President Ford and Betty Ford

Frank Sinatra

"At Long Last Love"

Tom Dressen & Rich Little

Sammy Davis Jr.

"The Birth Of The Blues"

Jerry Lewis

Frank Sinatra

"What Now My Love"

The Lady Is A Tramp" with Sammy Davis ( standing ovation )

Bob Hope

Dolores Hope

"Just The Way You Are"

Ed O'Brien:

Sinatra was in fabulous form throughout his appearances that

afternoon 25 years ago. He looked great in a navy blue sportscast and

light gray pants. The Cottler band gave him a more mellow sound than

the driving arrangements that were standard fare in concert performances.

The Riddle chart was used on "Pennies From Heaven" and

"I've Got The

World On A String" had a modified chart. Lou Levy was excellent on piano

and Frank was having a wonderful time. Sammy and Frank had a lot of fun

singing "Tramp." The audience loved it and gave them a standing ovation.

Contrast this appearance with his Italian tour in June of 1987: there obviously

had to have been a health crisis in the interim. Sinatra was puffy and moved

slowly around the stage in June. The telethon raised almost $300,000 in five

hours.

April 21, 1987

Television

GALA REOPENING OF CARNEGIE HALL

CBS

Tuesday evening

9 - 11 PM

Special taped on 12-16-86

All-Star Salute to Carnegie Restoration.

Sinatra introduced by Walter Cronkite

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. Mack The Knife*

3. New York, New York

Frank told audience what a very special night it was for him.

* segment of recording used from 4-16-84

Note: Ed O'Brien contributed the above listing.

Concerts

Chicago Theater, Chicago, Illinois (21-25)

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

O.A. Jan Murray

Frank did five shows in Chicago in April of 1987.

Here is the opening night song list plus alternates done on other nights.

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. At Long Last Love

3. Witchcraft

4. Gal That Got Away/It Never Entered My Mind

5. For Once In My Life

6. My Heart Stood Still

7.You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

8. Soliloquy monologue

9. Spring Is Here

10. What Now My Love

11. I Get Along Without You Very Well

12. Pennies From Heaven

13. Angel Eyes

14. Mack The Knife

15. Maybe This Time

16. My Kind Of Town alternates: My Way, Summer Wind, Where Or When

Extras

Chicago Theater, Chicago, Illinois (21-25)

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

April 22, 1987

Studio

Chicago, Universal Studios

Wednesday afternoon arranged by Don Costa conducted by Joe Raposo

Winners

Ed O'Brien: master was edited for Holiday Inn nationwide promotion three versions with running times of .15, .30 and .60 seconds.

Scott Herderson:

Are these tracks available anywhere?

Ed O'Brien:

If you mean commercially, I don't think so.

They were played behind Holiday Inn ads back in 1987. I was told Sinatra picked up one million for his efforts. Heck of a good deal for one brief recording session. There are, of course, some collectors who have material like this.

Note: Frank played the Chicago Theatre from April 21 thru 25. He did one show a night. During the engagement he picked up a cool million dollars for singing an abbreviated version of Joe Raposo's "Winners." Frank had recorded the song on 6-21-73 with a Don Costa chart. The same chart was used in 1987. Frank sounds as good if not better than on the original recording.

On 7-3-86, Frank recorded a "My Way" parody at Olmstead Studios, in N.Y.C. for Avon Products. Bill Miller was his sole accompaniment. He was paid a million for that recording. He also did a freebie for Lew Wasserman that afternoon titled "The Gentleman

Is A Champ."

I spoke with a rep at Avon. They have the parody in a temp controlled safe.

--Ed

Concerts

Chicago Theater, Chicago, Illinois (21-25)

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. I've Got the World on a String

2. At Long Last Love

3. Witchcraft

4. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

5. For Once in My Life

6. My Heart Stood Still

7. You Are the Sunshine of My Life

8. Soliloquy

9. Spring Is Here

10. What Now My Love

11. I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes)

12. Pennies From Heaven

13. Angel Eyes

14. Mack the Knife

15. Maybe This Time

16. My Kind of Town

Extras

Chicago, Universal Studios

Wednesday afternoon arranged by Don Costa conducted by Joe Raposo

Winners

SINATRA STRATEGY. Holiday Inns Inc. is starting...

John Hill of the Sentinel staff

THE ORLANDO SENTINEL

June 8, 1987

SINATRA STRATEGY. Holiday Inns Inc. is starting a new national advertising campaign this week centered on Frank Sinatra and his signature song, "Here's to the Winners."

Sinatra will not appear in any of the 15-, 30- or 60-second spots. Instead, he sings a new arrangement of "Here's to the Winners" to accompany them.

The campaign will feature selected types of business and vacation guests at Holiday Inns who have achieved significant personal or professional goals. The campaign slogan is "If you're a winner, we're on your way."

The commericals will feature an older couple reaffirming the romance in their relationship, a business woman after a successful day, a father teaching his son to swim, a traveling salesman going through bad weather, and a newlywed couple.

Holiday Inn has 136 hotels in Florida.

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April 23, 1987

Concerts

Chicago Theater, Chicago, Illinois (21-25)

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. I've Got the World on a String

2. At Long Last Love

3. Witchcraft

4. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

5. For Once in My Life

6. My Heart Stood Still

7. You Are the Sunshine of My Life

8. Soliloquy

9. Spring Is Here

10. What Now My Love

11. I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes)

12. Pennies From Heaven

13. Angel Eyes

14. Mack the Knife

15. Maybe This Time

16. My Kind of Town

April 24, 1987

Concerts

Chicago Theater, Chicago, Illinois (21-25)

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. At Long Last Love

3. Witchcraft

4. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

5. For Once In My Life

6. My Heart Stood Still

7. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

8. Soliloquy

9. monologue

10. Spring Is Here

11. What Now, My Love?

12. I Get Along Without You Very Well

13. Pennies From Heaven

14. Angel Eyes

15. Mack The Knife

16. Maybe This Time

17. My Kind Of Town

Notes: TT 75mins.

April 25, 1987

Concerts

Chicago Theater, Chicago, Illinois (21-25)

Closing Night

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. Where Or When

2. At Long Last Love

3. Witchcraft

4. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

5. For Once In My Life

6. My Heart Stood Still

7. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

8. Soliloquy

9. monologue

10. My Way

11. Spring Is Here

12. What Now, My Love?

13. I Get Along Without You Very Well

14. Pennies From Heaven

15. Angel Eyes

16. Mack The Knife

17. Summer Wind

18. My Kind Of Town

Notes: TT 73mins.

April 26, 1987

Concerts

Boston Symphony Hall Benefit, Boston, Mass.

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1.. Where Or When

2. At Long Last Love

3. Witchcraft

4. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

5. For Once In My Life

6. My Heart Stood Still

7. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

8. Soliloquy

9. monologue

10. Spring Is Here

11. What Now My Love

12. I Get Along Without You Very Well

13. Pennies From Heaven

14. Angel Eyes

15. Mack The Knife

16. The Summer Wind

17. My Way

Notes: TT 73mins.

Extras

Boston Symphony Hall Benefit, Boston, Mass.

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

A REVIEW FROM B. HERALD 4-27-87

April 29, 1987

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey (April 29-May 3)

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

Wednesday evening

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. Witchcraft

3. What Now My Love

4. Summer Wind

5. My Heart Stood Still

6. Just The Way You Are

7. Gal That Got Away/Never Entered My Mind

Monologue

8. Soliloquy

9. For Once In My Life

10. Spring Is Here

11. Angel Eyes

12. Mack The Knife

Ed O'Brien: Eight shows. alternates during engagement Where Or When, Something,

This Love Of Mine, My Way, Maybe This Time

It seems really odd that during this engagment in 1987 that Sinatra was not performing "New York, New York". I'm sure attendees might have been disappointed that the crowd-pleaser was not performed. --Scott

--Did not do it that entire engagement. Closed on the 3rd and played the Meadowlands on the 5th, closing with "N.Y.,N.Y". But in late May, in Vegas at the G.N, Frank closed the first show with the Kander & Ebb song and then dropped it for the rest of the engagement. He closed two shows with "Soliloquy" and one with "My Heart Stood Still." I think he just wanted a respite from a song he had been singing for almost 10 years. At least he liked the song. He tried to retire "My Way" and couldn't and he hated singing "Strangers." But his audience demanded the songs esp. "My Way." Ed

April 30, 1987

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. I've Got the World on a String

2. Witchcraft

3. What Now My Love

4. Summer Wind

5. My Heart Stood Still

6. Just the Way You Are

7. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

8. For Once in My Life

9. Spring Is Here

10. Maybe This Time

11. Angel Eyes

12. Mack the Knife

May 1987

Extras

[Sweden Cancels A Sinatra Tour Over His 1981 South Africa Concerts]

Nancy Sinatra: Sinatra called off his first Scandinavian tour in 35 years after Sweden's government said it would tax him for having performed in Bophuthatswana, South Africa, even though foreign entertainers were not normally taxed there. He viewed the decision as bureaucratic overreach and refused to perform where he felt visitors were treated with disrespect for exercising their legal rights.

Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

May 1, 1987

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. Witchcraft

3. What Now, My Love?

4. Summer Wind

5. My Heart Stood Still

6. Just The Way You Are

7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

8. monologue

9. For Once In My Life

10. Spring Is Here

11. Maybe This Time

12. Angel Eyes

13. Mack The Knife

Notes: TT 53mins.

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. Witchcraft

3. What Now, My Love?

4. Summer Wind

5. My Heart Stood Still

6. Just The Way You Are

7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

8. monologue

9. Soliloquy

10. For Once In My Life

11. My Way

12. Maybe This Time

13. Mack The Knife

Notes: TT 57mins.

May 2, 1987

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. Where Or When

2. Witchcraft

3. What Now, My Love?

4. Summer Wind

5. My Heart Stood Still

6. Just The Way You Are

7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

8. monologue

9. For Once In My Life

10. Spring Is Here

11. Maybe This Time

12. Angel Eyes

13. Mack The Knife

Notes: TT 53mins.

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City

Saturday evening second show

Orchestra conducted by Bill Miller

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. Witchcraft

3. What Now My Love

4. Summer Wind

5. My Heart Stood Still

6. Just The Way You Are

7. Gal That Got Away/ It Never Entered My Mind monologue

8. Soliloquy

9. For Once In My Life

10. Spring Is Here

11. Maybe This Time

12. Angel Eyes introduces band

13. Mack The Knife

May 3, 1987

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Closing Night

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. Where or When

2. Witchcraft

3. What Now My Love

4. Summer Wind

5. My Heart Stood Still

6. Just the Way You Are

7. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

8. For Once in My Life

9. Spring Is Here

10. Maybe This Time

11. Angel Eyes

12. Mack the Knife

May 5, 1987

Concerts

Meadowlands, East Rutherford, New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. Witchcraft

3. What Now My Love

4. Summer Wind

5. My Heart Stood Still

6. Just The Way You Are

7. medley: The Gal That Got Away - It Never Entered My Mind

8. For Once In My Life

9. Spring Is Here

10. Soliloquy

11. Monologue

12. This Love Of Mine w/Piano

13. Maybe This Time

14. My Way

15. Where Or When

16. Something

17. Mack The Knife

18. Angel Eyes

19. New York, New York

Notes: TT 77mins.

Vinnie stopped in to visit Frank at the Golden Nugget in July 86. Frank was looking for something that would electrify the audience. Vinnie mentioned "Soliloquy" but with the caveat that it was a hard song to learn. That did it. Mr. Sinatra assured him it would be in the act post haste. Five days later, at the Garden State Arts Center, Frank sang it. He would do it close to 250 times from 1986 thru 1993

--Ed

Extras

Meadowlands, East Rutherford, New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

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Meadowlands, East Rutherford, New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

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May 8, 1987

Concerts

Capital Centre, Landover, Maryland

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. Witchcraft

3. Where Or When

4. The Summer Wind

5. My Heart Stood Still

6. Just The Way You Are

7. Medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

8. For Once In My Life

9. Spring Is Here

10. Soliloquy

11. monologue

12. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

13. Maybe This Time

14. My Way

15. Something

16. Angel Eyes

17. Mack The Knife

18. New York, New York

Notes: TT 73mins.

Extras

Capital Centre, Landover, Maryland

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

May 9, 1987

Concerts

Sun Dome, Tampa, Florida

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. I've Got the World on a String

2. Witchcraft

3. Where or When

4. Summer Wind

5. My Heart Stood Still

6. Just the Way You Are

7. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

8. For Once in My Life

9. Spring Is Here

10. Soliloquy

11. You Are the Sunshine of My Life

12. Maybe This Time

13. My Way

14. Something

15. Angel Eyes

16. Mack the Knife

17. Theme From New York, New York

Extras

Sun Dome, Tampa, Florida

May 14, 1987

Extras

Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, California

Frank Sinatra accepted a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP

Sinatra Given L.A. NAACP Award Despite Rights Protest

By LEONARD GREENWOOD and JEANNINE STEIN

Los Angeles Times, May 15, 1987

Despite protests from civil rights leaders--and from a line of pickets outside the Century Plaza--entertainer Frank Sinatra accepted a controversial Lifetime Achievement Award from the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP on Thursday night.

Appearing late in the banquet program, and speaking from a dais shared with his daughter, Tina, and actor Gregory Peck, the singer called South African Prime Minister Pieter W. Botha “a bum,” but denied that he had any need to clarify his position on apartheid.

“Those of you who know me,” he said, “feel pretty secure about the way I think, the way I am. As far as anyone else is concerned, if my lifetime--more than half a century lived in the spotlight of public life--if those 50-plus years are not enough to show my covenant on the issue of civil rights, I am not going to waste my time . . . defending the obvious or itemizing a laundry list of my deeds to benefit the brotherhood of man.

“Even saying this much embarrasses me.”

Condemning South African racial policies, Sinatra, 71, also voiced criticism of his critics: “As for South Africa and the victims of its police state brutality and discrimination,” he said, “I condemn that--but I also condemn those who in the name of fighting apartheid seek to divide not only blacks and whites but the blacks themselves.”

Criticism of Sinatra, and of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People’s Los Angeles chapter for honoring him, centered on the singer’s 1981 concert in Sun City, South Africa, which detractors said indicated sympathy for that nation’s apartheid racial policies.

Also honored at the banquet were Vivian McDonald, who received the Volunteer of the Year award; attorney Joseph Duff, receiving the Judge Thomas L. Griffith award; Maudine Clark and Alice Harris, who received the Community Service award, and Dave Robinson, accepting the John T. McDonald III Corporate Award for the Xerox Corp.

Outside the hotel about 30 demonstrators marched quietly carrying signs with such messages as “Support the Struggle--Boycott This Show” and “Sinatra: Apartheid Activist” and “NAACP Honors Botha’s Ambassador.”

Even before the demonstration, there had been expressions of outrage both inside and outside the black community.

Dr. Benjamin Hooks, the NAACP’s national executive director, publicly distanced himself.

“The award is being presented in the name of the Los Angeles branch--not the national NAACP,” Hooks said.

National NAACP spokeswoman Sandra Adams offered further explanation. “We’re not always in total agreement with each (NAACP) branch,” she said. “Branches have the freedom to honor whom they want.”

Two black leaders who had also been scheduled to receive awards at the banquet withdrew from the event when they heard that Sinatra would be honored.

Assemblywoman Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles) said she had refused an award recognizing her support of U.S. divestment in South Africa because she would not share a stage with Sinatra. And Danny Bakewell of Cranston Securities, the first black man to head a Wall Street investment banking firm, wrote the chapter that “to honor Frank Sinatra is to dishonor the black community . . . I must reject acceptance of your award on the same platform with Frank Sinatra.”

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May 14, 1988

Saturday evening

N.Y.C. musicians under the direction of Irv Cottler

Exactly ten years before his passing, Frank Sinatra was at the Waldorf Astoria paying tribute to his wife at a Friars Dinner

Anna Moffo opened the proceeding by singing the National Anthem.

( You can hear Sinatra say "That's some singer."Later he can be heard saying, "That's some reed, babe.")

Annual Friars Club awards were presented to Abe Beame ( former mayor of N.Y.C and David Jonas.

Roger Moore introduces the people on the dais: Marvin Scott, Abe Beame, Kitty Carisle Hart, Arlene Francis,Joanna Carson, Leo Jaffe, Judy Green, Barbara's parents, Phyllis and Robert Wagner, Robert Marx, Anna Moffo, ,Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn, Dina Merrill, Cheryl Tiegs, Ivana and Donald Trump, Barbara Rickles, Altovise Davis, Veronique Peck, Mrs. Nancy Kissinger, David Tebbett, Jackie Green.

Abbot of New York Friars Club, Frank Sinatra, is introduced He introduces master of ceremonies Lee Iacocca

He announces turnout is the biggest in Friars history

John Shields works with Barbara at Palm Springs Children's Center

Tom Dressen comedy routine and tribute

Alan King funny commentary

Gregory Peck heartfelt tribute

Dinah Shore sings "Georgia On My Mind"

Jerry Lewis comedy/tribute

Don Rickles the usual

Dionne Warwicke sings "That's What Friends Are For."

Roger Moore calls Barbara a remarkable woman

Dr. Henry Kissinger good speech about Frank, Barbara and others Sammy Davis, Jr. " You're Nobody Til' Somebody Loves You"

Frank Sinatra with accompaniment by Bill Miller parody of "But Beautiful."

Barbara Sinatra thank you speech

Lee Iacocca closing remarks

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May 22, 1987

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas , Nevada

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. Just The Way You Are

2. Witchcraft

3. Summer Wind

4. Maybe This Time

5. Bewitched

6. Street Of Dreams

7. When Joanna Loved Me

8. Please Be Kind

9. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

10. monologue

11. The Girls I Never Kissed

12. For Once In My Life

13. Something

14. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

15. My Way

16. I've Got The World On A String

17. My Heart Stood Still

18. New York, New York

Notes: TT 63mins.

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas , Nevada

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. Just the Way You Are

2. Witchcraft

3. Summer Wind

4. Maybe This Time

5. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

6. Street of Dreams

7. When Joanna Loved Me

8. Please Be Kind

9. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

10. The Girls I Never Kissed

11. For Once in My Life

12. Something

13. You Are the Sunshine of My Life

14. My Way

15. Mack the Knife

Afternoon Rehearsal:

1987 Golden Nugget, Las Vegas , Nevada

Bill Miller conducting

1. Just The Way You Are

2. Witchcraft

3. Summer Wind

4. Maybe This Time

5. Bewitched

6. Something

7. What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life

8. Street Of Dreams

9. When Joanna Loved Me B. May arg.

10. How Do You Keep The Music Playing

F.S. did not perform "Rest Of Your Life" or "Music Playing."

May 23, 1987

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. Just The Way You Are

2. Witchcraft

3. Summer Wind

4. Maybe This Time

5. Bewitched

6. Street Of Dreams

7. When Joanna Loved Me

8. Please Be Kind

9. monologue

10. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

11. The Girls I Never Kissed

12. For Once In My Life

13. Something

14. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

15. Soliloquy

Notes: TT 62mins.

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. Just The Way You Are

2. Witchcraft

3. Summer Wind

4. Maybe This Time

5. Bewitched

6. Street Of Dreams

7. When Joanna Loved Me

8. Please Be Kind

9. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

10. monologue

11. The Girls I Never Kissed

12. For Once In My Life

13. Something

14. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

15. I've Got The World On A String

16. My Way

17. Soliloquy

Notes: TT 70mins.

May 24, 1987

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas , Nevada (May 22-24)

Closing Night - First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. Just the Way You Are

2. Witchcraft

3. Summer Wind

4. Maybe This Time

5. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

6. Street of Dreams

7. When Joanna Loved Me

8. Please Be Kind

9. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

10. For Once in My Life

11. Something

12. You Are the Sunshine of My Life

13. My Way

14. I've Got the World on a String

15. Theme From New York, New York

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas , Nevada (May 22-24)

Closing Night - Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. Just The Way You Are

2. Witchcraft

3. Summer Wind

4. Maybe This Time

5. Bewitched

6. Street Of Dreams

7. I Get Along Without You Very Well

8. Please Be Kind

9. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

10. monologue

11. For Once In My Life

12. Something

13. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

14. My Way

15. I've Got The World On A String

16. My Heart Stood Still

17. Mack The Knife

Notes: TT 60mins.

Ed O'Brien:

Frank's final engagement at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas.

During the weekend stay Frank rehearsed "What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life" and "How Do You Keep The Music Playing." He opted not to sing them during the six shows performed over the three day period. Jan Murray was his opening act. At the closing show he forgot who wrote "I Get Along Without You Very Well." Told it was Hoagy Carmichael, Frank lauded the great verse of "Stardust" and dismissed the chorus as real loser.

June 2, 1987

Television

Hollywood, California

Frank & Willie Nelson taped a Nasa PSA at the Las Palmas Theatre

June 13, 1987

Concerts

Stadio Comunale della Favorita, Palermo, Italy

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. Fly Me to the Moon

2. Just the Way You Are

3. At Long Last Love

4. Summer Wind

5. My Kind of Town

6. Something

7. Pennies From Heaven

8. For Once in My Life

9. All the Way

10. Where or When

11. You Are the Sunshine of My Life

12. My Way

13. Witchcraft

14. My Heart Stood Still

15. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

16. Theme From New York, New York

17. Strangers in the Night

18. I've Got the World on a String

19. Mack the Knife

20. The Lady Is a Tramp

June 16, 1987

Concerts

Teatro Petruzelli, Bari, Italy

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. overture

2. Fly Me To The Moon

3. Just The Way You Are

4. At Long Last Love

5. Summer Wind

6. My Kind Of Town

7. Something

8. Pennies From Heaven

9.. For Once In My Life

10. All The Way

11. Where Or When

12. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

13. My Way

14. Witchcraft

15. My Heart Stood Still

16. Bewitched

17. New York, New York

18. Strangers In The Night

19. I've Got The World On A String

20. Mack The Knife

21. The Lady Is A Tramp

Notes: The complete concert circulates on Video & Audio Tape. TT 73mins.

June 17, 1987

Concerts

Palazzo di Sport, Rome, Italy

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. overture

2. Fly Me To The Moon

3. Just The Way You Are

4. At Long Last Love

5. Summer Wind

6. My Kind Of Town

7. Something

8. Pennies From Heaven

9. For Once In My Life

10. All The Way

11. Where Or When

12. April In Paris

13. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

14. My Way

15. Monologue

16. Witchcraft

17. My Heart Stood Still

18. Bewitched

19. New York, New York

20. I've Got The World On A String

21. Mack The Knife

22. The Lady Is A Tramp

Notes: TT 75mins.

Extras

Palazzo di Sport, Rome, Italy

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

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June 20, 1987

Concerts

L'Arena, Verona, Italy

Open-Air "In The Rain"

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. Just The Way You Are

3. At Long Last Love

4. Summer Wind

5. My Kind Of Town

6. Pennies From Heaven

7. For Once In My Life

8. Where Or When

9. April In Paris

10. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

11. My Way

12. My Heart Stood Still

13. New York New York

14. Strangers In The Night

15. I've Got The World On A String

16. Mack The Knife

17. The Lady Is A Tramp

NOTE: Ed O'Brien says Sinatra may not have sung "Singin' in the Rain" that night, but he sure did sing in the rain, and he got soaked! It took Sinatra a minute to recognize the tune and he broke into a big laugh and told Bill Miller it was the perfect song. Had to be seen to be believed!

FS was given the option of cancelling. He would not hear of it and even ignored advice to stay under the stage canopy. When he left the stage he was soaked through. What a trouper!

Extras

L'Arena, Verona, Italy

Open-Air "In The Rain"

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

While Frank and Barbara vacationed in Europe in June 1987, Tina celebrated her thirty-ninth birthday with friends at the Compound in Palm Springs, with David Niven Jr. selecting wine and the butler serving caviar meant for the Sinatras. (Source: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).)

June 22, 1987

Extras

Como, Italy

Frank came down with a case of laryngitis after singing in the rain at Verona, 6-20

June 24, 1987

Concerts

Palazzo di Sport, Genoa, Italy

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. Just The Way You Are

3. At Long Last Love

4. Summer Wind

5. My Kind Of Town

6. Something

7. Pennies From Heaven

8. For Once In My Life

9. All The Way w/Bill Miller (piano)

10. Where Or When 11. April In Paris

12. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

13. Mack The Knife

14. Witchcraft

15. My Heart Stood Still

16. Bewitched

17. New York New York

18. Strangers In The Night

19. I've Got The World On A String

20. My Way

Notes: Complete concert on Video Tape. TT 73mins.

June 26, 1987

Concerts

Covo di Nord-Est, Santa Margherita, Italy

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. Fly Me To The Moon

2. Just The Way You Are

3. At Long Last Love

4. Summer Wind

5. My Kind Of Town

6. Something

7. Pennies From Heaven

8. For Once In My Life

9. All The Way

10. Where Or When

11. April In Paris

12. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

13. Mack The Knife

14. Witchcraft

15. My Heart Stood Still

16. Bewitched

17. New York, New York

18. Strangers In The Night

19. I've Got The World On A String

20. My Way

21. The Lady Is A Tramp

Notes: TT 73mins.

August 19, 1987

Concerts

Pacific Amphitheater, Costa Mesa, California

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

Frank Sinatra & Sammy Davis Jr.

Wednesday evening

Sammy:

On A Clear Day

Begin The Beguine

The Girl From Ipanema

Candy Man

Porgy & Bess medley

Mr Bojangles

Frank:

I've Got The World On A String

For Once In My Life

Summer Wind

What Now My Love

Something

Maybe This Time

Gal That Got Away/ It Never Entered My Mind monologue

Soliloquy

You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

My Way

Mack The Knife

New York, New York

Frank & Sammy

Guys & Dolls Medley: Fugue For Tinhorns/Guys & Dolls/

Sit Down Your Rockin' The Boat/Luck Be A Lady/ Oldest

Established Permanent Floating Crap Game

Extras

Pacific Amphitheater, Costa Mesa, California

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

Frank Sinatra & Sammy Davis Jr.

August 20, 1987

Concerts

Greek Theater, Los Angeles, California

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller w/Sammy Davis Jr.

1. I've Got the World on a String

1. For Once in my Life

2. Summer Wind

3. What Now my Love

4. Something

5. Maybe This Time

6. Gal That Got Away/Never Entered my Mind

7. Soliloquy Sinatra tells audience he saw "Carousel"ť three straight nights back in 1945 and, when he walked out the third night, he knew every word of "Soliloquy."

8. You are the Sunshine of my Life

9. My Way

10. Mack the Knife

11. My Heart Stood Still

12. New York, New York

13. Medley from “Guys and Dolls”ť with Sammy Daviis. Fugue for Tinhorns/Guys and Dolls/Luck be a Lady/Oldest Established Crap Game in New York

NOTE: We are grateful to Ed O'Brien for the details of this song program.

Notes: TT 73mins.

Ed O'Brien:

Frank and Sammy's three nights at the Greek ( 20-22 ) were complete sell outs.

The megastar of the '80s, Michael Jackson, escorted Sophia Loren to the opening night performance. Jackson told the Chairman of the Board how much he admired him. Sinatra wished Jackson well on his upcoming world tour. Frank and Sophia remembered old times, when they co-starred in "The Pride And The Passion" with Cary Grant.

Before the second concert ( 21 ), mini-flower stands lined the road to the theater, after word got around that fans around the country were rushing the stage, at end of each show, and giving Ol' Blue Eyes bouquets. He especially favored roses.

Extras

Greek Theater, Los Angeles, California

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller w/Sammy Davis Jr.

August 21, 1987

Concerts

Greek Theater, Los Angeles, California

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller w/Sammy Davis Jr..

1. I.ve Got the World on a String

2. For Once in my Life

3. Summer Wind

4. What Now My Love

5. My Heart Stood Still

6. Maybe This Time

7. medley The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

8. monologue

9. Soliloquy

10. Just the Way You Are

11. Something

12. Where or When

13. Bewitched

14. New York, New York

15. The Lady Is A Tramp w/Sammy Davis, Jr.

16. medley w/Sammy: Fugue for Tinhorns / Guys and Dolls / Sit Down, You're Rockin' The Boat / Luck be a Lady/ The Oldest Established Floating Crap Game

Notes: TT 77mins.

August 22, 1987

Concerts

Greek Theater, Los Angeles, California

Closing Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller w/Sammy Davis Jr.

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. For Once In My Life

3. Summer Wind

4. What Now My Love

5. My Heart Stood Still

6. Maybe This Time

7. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

8. monologue

9. Soliloquy

10. Just the Way you Are

11. Something

12. Where or When

13. Bewitched

14. New York , New York

15. The Lady is a Tramp/Sammy Davis, Jr.

16. Guys and Dolls Medley w/Sammy Davis , Jr.

Notes: TT 65mins.

August 26, 1987

Concerts

Riverbend Music Center Arena, Cincinnati, Ohio

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. I've Got the World on a String

2. For Once in My Life

3. Summer Wind

4. What Now My Love

5. My Heart Stood Still

6. Maybe This Time

7. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

8. That's Life

9. Soliloquy

10. Just the Way You Are

11. My Way

12. Mack the Knife

13. Where or When

14. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

15. Theme From New York, New York

16. The Lady Is a Tramp

Extras

Riverbend Music Center Arena, Cincinnati, Ohio

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

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Riverbend Music Center Arena, Cincinnati, Ohio

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

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August 28, 1987

Concerts

Garden State Arts Center, Holmdel, New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. I've Got the World on a String

2.. For Once in My Life

3. Summer Wind

4. What Now My Love

5. My Heart Stood Still - "Nelson Riddle had wonderful nuances and color that he used when he orchestrated. I worked with... I want to take a second to talk about this.. I worked with maybe the best in our nation in the history of popular music. And he actually stands just a little bit above the other guys. He had some kind of magic about his writing."

6. Maybe This Time

7. Gal That Got Away/Never Entered my Mind

8. Monologue

9. That's Life

10. Soliloquy - "In a sense, an operatic piece."

11. Just the Way You Are

12. My Way (tells how Anka called and sang the song to him over phone)

13. Mack the Knife

14. Where or When

15. Bewitched

16. New York, New York "Song written by Fred Ebb and John Kander, introduced by Liza Minelli, and stolen by me."

17. The Lady is a Tramp

Notes: Ed O'Brien supplied the above set list. TT 87mins.

August 29, 1987

Concerts

Garden State Arts Center, Holmdel, New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. For Once In My Life

3. Summer Wind

4. What Now, My Love?

5. Maybe This Time

6. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

7. monologue

8. That's Life

9. Soliloquy

10. Just The Way You Are

11. My Way

12. Mack The Knife

13. Where Or When

14. Bewitched

15. New York, New York

16. The Lady Is A Tramp

Notes: TT 83mins.

Extras

Garden State Arts Center, Holmdel, New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

August 31, 1987

Concerts

Pine Knob Theater, Clarkston, Michigan

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. For Once In My Life

3. Summer Wind

4. What Now, My Love?

5. My Heart Stood Still

6. Maybe This Time

7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

8.. monologue

9. Soliloquy

10. Just The Way You Are

11. My Way

12. Mack The Knife

13. Where Or When

14. Bewitched

15. New York, New York

16. The Lady Is A Tramp

Notes: TT 70mins.

September 3, 1987

Concerts

Bally's Grand, Atlantic City , New Jersey (September 3-6) Opening Night

1. Where Or When

2. May Be This Time

3. For Once In My Life

4. My Heart Stood Still

5. The Summer Wind

6. Soliloquy

7. Monologue

8. What's New

9. You Are The Sunshine of My Life

10. Here's That Rainy Day

11. What Now My Love

12. You Will Be My Music

13. Just The Way You Are

14. The Girls I Never Kissed

15. If

16. I've Got The World On A String

17. The Lady Is A Tramp

18. More Than You Know

19. New York , New York

Extras

Bally's Grand, Atlantic City , New Jersey (September 3-6) Opening Night

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Bally's Grand, Atlantic City , New Jersey (September 3-6) Opening Night

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September 4, 1987

Concerts

Golden Nugget, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Friday evening

1. Where or When

2. Maybe This Time

3. For Once in my Life

4. My Heart Stood Still ("really a beautiful song by Rodgers & Hart")

5. Summer Wind

6. Gal That Got Away/Never Entered my Mind

7. Monologue w/guest Morty Storm

8. What's New

9. You Are the Sunshine of my Life

10. Here's that Rainy Day

11. What Now my Love

12. You Will be my Music

13. Just the Way You Are

14. The Girls I Never Kiss w/Bill Miller on piano

15. If

16. I've Got the World on a String

17. The Lady is a Tramp

18. More than You Know

19. New York, New York

September 5, 1987

Concerts

Bally's Grand, Atlantic City, New Jersey (September 3-6) Two Shows

September 10, 1987

Concerts

Carnegie Hall, New York City

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. My Heart Stood Still Riddle chart from "Concert Sinatra"

2. Where Or When

3. What Now My Love

4. Maybe This Time

5. I Have Dreamed

6. For Once In My Life

7. If

8. You Will Be My Music

9. Bewitched

10. Mack The Knife monologue

11. Soliloquy

12. The Girls I Never Kissed with Bill Miller on piano

13. Gal That Got Away/Never Entered My Mind

14. The Lady Is A Tramp

15. What's New

16. Lonely Town F.S. credited Riddle as co-arranger

17. New York, New York

18. Summer Wind

19. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

20. I've Got The World On A String

Ed O'Brien:

Frank opened on September 10 and played for three consecutive nights.. Carnegie was dark on the 13th and 14th. Frank came back for three more nights on the 15th thru the 17th. A bout of laryngitis forced him to cancel the final two nights of the engagement ( 18 -19 ). This was most unfortunate. The last two nights were scheduled to be videotaped and released commercially. In all there were six performances. Opening night 21 songs were performed. An ambitious effort for a singer in his 72nd year.

Extras

Carnegie Hall, New York City

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

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Carnegie Hall, New York City

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

Carnegie Hall, New York City

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

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September 11, 1987

Concerts

Carnegie Hall, New York City

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. My Heart Stood Still

2. Where or When

3. What Now my Love

4. Maybe This Time

5. I Have Dreamed (Tremendous ovation)

6. For Once in my Life

7. If

8. You Will Be my Music

9. Betwitched

10. Mack the Knife

11. Monologue (talked about having introduced Rocky Graziano)

12. You Are the Sunshine of my Life

13. The Girls I Never Kisssed w/Bill Miller on piano

14. Gal That Got Away/Never Entered my Mind

15. Lady is a Tramp

16. What's New

17. Lonely Town(credits Riddle)

18. New York , New York (calls the song â The National Anthemâ ť

19. 19. Summer Wind

20. I've Got the World on a String

NOTE: Ed O'Brien, who provided the above song program, says that Sinatra got a standing ovation when he walked out on stage.

He smiled and said, "Goodnight."ť He then opened his engagement with a ballad, "My Heart Stood Still."

Extras

Carnegie Hall, New York City

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

Singer Frank Sinatra, right, and Lionel Hampton take curtain call following their performances at Carnegie Hall in New York, September 11, 1987. Hampton and his orchestra opened the show for Sinatra, returning to Carnegie for his sixth engagement.

September 12, 1987

Concerts

Carnegie Hall, New York City

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. My Heart Stood Still

2. Where Or When

3. What Now, My Love?

4. Maybe This Time

5. I Have Dreamed

6. For Once In My Life

7. If

8. You Will Be My My Music

9. Bewitched

10. Mack The Knife

11. monologue

12. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

13. The Girls I Never Kissed

14. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

15. The Lady Is A Tramp

16. What's New?

17. Lonely Town

18. New York, New York

Notes: TT 82mins.

September 15, 1987

Concerts

Carnegie Hall, New York City

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. My Heart Stood Still

2. Where Or When

3. What Now My Love

4. Maybe This Time

5. I Have Dreamed

6. For Once In My Life

7. If

8. You Will Be My Music

9. Bewitched

10. Mack The Knife

11. monologue

12. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

13. The Girls I Never Kissed

14. Soliloquy

15. The Lady Is A Tramp

16. What's New

17. A Lonely Town

18. New York, New York

Notes: TT 90mins.

September 16, 1987

Concerts

Carnegie Hall, New York City

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. Where Or When

2. What Now, My Love?

3. I Have Dreamed

4. Maybe This Time

5. My Heart Stood Still

6. For Once In My Life

7. If

8. You Will Be My My Music

9. Mack The Knife

10. monologue

11. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

12. The Girls I Never Kissed

13. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

14. The Lady Is A Tramp

15. What's New?

16. Lonely Town

17. New York, New York

Notes: TT 66mins.

September 17, 1987

Concerts

Carnegie Hall, New York City (10-17)

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. What Now, My Love?

3. Maybe This Time

4. If

5. For Once In My Life

6. I Have Dreamed

7.. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

8. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

9. monologue

10. You Will Be My My Music

11. Where Or When

12. Bewitched

13. Mack The Knife

14. My Heart Stood Still

15. Summer Wind

16. Lonely Town

17. New York, New York

18. What's New?

19. The Lady Is A Tramp

Notes: TT 81mins.

Ed O'Brien:

Frank opened on 9-10 and played through the 12th. Carnegie was dark on the 13th and 14th. Frank then performed shows from 9-15 thru 9-17. He cancelled the final two nights due to laryngitis.

September 19, 1987

Extras

Carnegie Hall, New York (cancelled)

Sinatra had laryngitis. He cancelled September 18th & 19th shows.

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whatsoever without the prior written permission of the publisher (The

Sinatra Archive)

October 8, 1987

Television

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

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.

Extras

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.

ATLANTIC CITY, NJ - OCTOBER 8: Frank Sinatra, Jerry Lewis and Sammy Davis Jr. perform on October 8, 1987 at the Golden Nugget in Atlantic City, New Jersey

October 14, 1987

Concerts

Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New York

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

2. What Now My Love

3. My Heart Stood Still

4. Moonlight In Vermont

5. Summer Wind

6. You Will Be My Music

7. More Than You Know

8. Mack The Knife

9. What's New

10. Bewitched

11. Angel Eyes

12. If

13. When Joanna Loved Me

14. For Once In My Life

15. Lonely Town

16. New York, New York

17. Where Or When

18. Maybe This Time

19. September Of My Years

20. The Lady Is A Tramp

Notes: TT 78mins.

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October 16, 1987

Concerts

Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, Conn.

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. You Are the Sunshine of my Life

1. What now my Love

2. My Heart Stood Still

3. Moonlight in Vermont

4. Summer Wind

5. You Will be my Music "written by my dear friend Joe Raposo"

6. More Than You Know "written before any of us were around"

7. Mack the Knife

8. What's New

9. Bewitched "Nelson's wonderful orchestration. Thank God for that man. It's a shame that he left us, but he wrote some pretty orchestrations."

10. Monologue "Tells audience he is a train buff. Sings one line of "I Thought About You."

11. Angel Eyes

12. If

13. For Once in my Life

14. Lonely Town

15. New York , New York "This is the National Anthem."

16. Where or When

17. Maybe This Time

18. September of my Years

19. All the Way "concertgoer yells for the song. Sinatra responds, "Oh. Let's do All the Way. We will fake it for you with the piano because we didn't bring the music." Other audience members start yelling for other songs including "Leroy Brown." Sinatra does a letter perfect reading of the Cahn-Van Heusen tune.

20. The Lady is a Tramp

Notes: TT 64mins.

Extras

Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, Conn.

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October 17, 1987

Concerts

Centrum, Worcester, Mass.

Saturday evening

1. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

2. What Now My Love

3. My Heart Stood Still

4. Moonlight In Vermont

5. Summer Wind

6. You Will Be My Music

7. More Than You Know ( full orchestra)

8. Mack The Knife

9. What's New arg. by N. Riddle

10. Bewitched monologue Fifth anniversary at Centrum

11. Angel Eyes

12. If ( "one of the best love songs ever written")

13. When Joanna Loved Me arg. by Billy May

14. For Once In My Life

15. Lonely Town arg. by G.Jenkins & N. Riddle

16. New York, New York ( audience joins in singing, whistling and clapping)

17. Where Or When arg. by Bill Byers ( Frank tells audience it was arg. by Buck Jones)

18. Maybe This Time

19. The September Of My Years

20. The Lady Is A Tramp

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE:

SINATRA TUGS HEARTSTRINGS AT CENTRUM'S 5TH

MUSIC REVIEW

BY PETER LANDSDOWNE

How would you like Frank Sinatra on hand to help you celebrate your fifth birthday?

That was exactly the case last night as The Chairman of the Board took command of the Centrum and put the finishing touches on the facility's Fifth Anniversary Gala Ol' Blue Eyes, you will recall, opened the Centrum on

September 2, 1982. He returned a little more than a year later to mark the first anniversary of the arena. A May 1986 appearance was canceled because Sinatra wanted to lighten his performance schedule.

The singer more than made up for that missed date last night.

"I'm well, I'm healthy, I'm happy, and I'm in love," Sinatra told the sell-out crowd of 13,400 halfway through the concert, a 75-minute set of 20 classic tunes from the American song book.

The singer, who turns 72 on Dec. 12, was in rare form and sounded almost completely recovered from the laryngitis that caused him to cancel the final night of a two-week Carnegie Hall stint two weeks ago.

Best known for performing songs by the likes of Rodgers and Hart, George Gershwin, Johnny Mercer and Cole Porter, Sinatra is evidently expanding his repertoire. He has added Stevie Wonder's "You Are The Sunshine Of My Life" and "For Once In My Life" to his set list.

The former started off the performance. The crowd was on its feet even before Sinatra reached the stage, and cries of "Frankie! Frankie!" drowned out the first few bars of the tune, which the singer turned into a big band swinger. He intoned "light my fire" three times to end the song. Sinatra a Jim Morrison fan? No, there weren't any Doors tunes in the concert, but the singer did belt out Wonder's "For Once In My Life," which featured a shouting chart by Don Costa.

Sinatra also essayed David Gates' "If," a hit for the group Bread. In Sinatra's hands - and voice - the sappy tune became a tender and heartfelt love song. The singer held on to the last note in an impressive display of his breath control.

Sinatra struggled briefly, however, on some of the ballads, particularly on songs that required him to dip into his lower register on soft passages. His voice occasionally creaked and groaned, but Sinatra more than made up for these minor flaws on the uptempo material.

He was flawless, for example, on "Mack The Knife." The

Frank Foster arrangement had Sinatra changing keys on every chorus in order to build intensity. The singer was swinging re- lentlessly by the end of the song and paid tribute to Louis Armstrong, Bobby Darin and Ella Fitzgerald, who also sang superb renditions of the tune, in a semi-improvised final chorus.

Sinatra's performance was notable for the juxtaposition of the songs. He followed a jaunty "What Now My Love," for example, with the tender "My Heart Stood Still," and capped off an exquisitely rendered version of "Moonlight In Vermont" with a constantly escalating "Summer Wind."

The best song of the 20 in Sinatra's performance? "New York, New York" got the most applause, and the singer also was near his peak on tunes like "More Than You Know," "What's New" and "The Lady Is A Tramp."

For my money, though, the topper was Matt Dennis' "Angel Eyes," a bona fide saloon song. Sinatra took on the persona of a down-and-out boozer who has just lost his lady love and is looking for her in the bottom of a shot glass. Nobody, but nobody, can even come close to Sinatra's definitive interpretation of this song.

What's Sinatra's secret? Perhaps Nancy Sinatra said it best in "My Father,' her biography of her dad. "The music of Frank Sinatra sings our joys, our sorrows and our silences," she wrote. "His voice goes on filling our hearts as well as our ears and is likely to go on doing so for a long time."

The Centrum is five, Sinatra is almost 72. Let's hope that this certifiable living legend is on hand to celebrate many more anniversaries at the arena.

SUNDAY TELEGRAM

Worcester, Mass.

October 18, 1987

Concerts

Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada

Las Vegas An All Star 75th Anniversary Celebration

Proceeds went to the United Way

Note: Sinatra cancelled at the last minute. There was a taped version of the Celebration and supposedly Sinatra filmed a segment to be included in the show where he spoke about Las Vegas and then introduced Ray Charles.

Extras

Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada

Las Vegas An All Star 75th Anniversary Celebration

Proceeds went to the United Way

October 24, 1987

Concerts

"Come Swing With Me" - Reunion Area, Dallas, Texas

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

Full Set List:

1. overture

2. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

3. What Now My Love

4. My Heart Stood Still

5. Moonlight In Vermont

6. Summer Wind

7. You Will Be My Music

8. More Than You Know

9. Mack The Knife

10. What's New

11. Bewitched

12. monologue

13. Angel Eyes

14. If

15. When Joanna Loved Me

16. For Once In My Life

17. Lonely Town

18. New York, New York

19. Where Or When

20. My Way

21. Maybe This Time

22. Lady Is A Tramp

Notes: Complete concert circulates on Stereo Audio Tape. An edited radio transcription was made of this concert a played on a special broadcast. "You Are The Sunshine Of My Life", "What Now My Love", "My Heart Stood Still", "What New", "You Will Be My Music", "Angel Eyes", "For Once In My Life", "New York, New York", "Where Or When", & "Maybe This Time." All appear on the Sinatra 80th-Live In Concert

October 29, 1987

Concerts

Bally's Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada (October 29-November 4)

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller w/ Dean & Sammy

1. You Are the Sunshine of my Life

2. What Now My Love

3. My Heart Stood Still

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 - Comedy skit with Dean and Sammy

11. Where or When

12. Maybe This Time

13. Bewitched

14. Angel Eyes ("sad but quite beautiful")

15. The Lady is a Tramp

16. If

17. New York , New York

Notes: TT 54mins.

Extras

Bally's Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada (October

29-November 4)

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

w/ Dean & Sammy

note: Problem here with how many nights Frank performed.

He was in for a week, but article has just five nights.

Frank could have been dark on Monday (11/2 ) and

missed one more that week. I do know that all of the

October dates were done ( 4 ).

October 30, 1987

Concerts

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.

October 31, 1987

Concerts

Bally's Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada

Saturday evening

Two shows (same numbers performed at second show)

1. You Are the Sunshine of my Life

2. What Now my Love

3. Moonlight in Vermont

4. Summer Wind

5. For Once in my Life

6. Lonely Town

7. Mack the Knife

8. Monologue - regales audience with Dino escapades

9. Where or When

10. Maybe This Time

11. Angel Eyes

12. The Lady is a Tramp

13. If

14. New York , New York

Notes: TT 45mins.

November 1, 1987

Concerts

Bally's Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada (October 29-November 4) w/ Dean & Sammy

1. You Are the Sunshine of My Life

2. What Now My Love

3. Moonlight in Vermont

4. Summer Wind

5. You Will Be My Music

6. For Once in My Life

7. Lonely Town

8. Mack the Knife

9. Where or When

10. Maybe This Time

11. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

12. Angel Eyes

13. The Lady Is a Tramp

14. If

15. Theme From New York, New York

16. My Way

November 2, 1987

Concerts

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. Moonlight in Vermont

4. Summer Wind

5. You Will Be My Music

6. For Once in My Life

7. Lonely Town

8. Mack the Knife

9. Where or When

10. Maybe This Time

11. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

12. Angel Eyes

13. The Lady Is a Tramp

14. If

15. Theme From New York, New York

November 3, 1987

Concerts

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. Moonlight in Vermont

4. Summer Wind

5. You Will Be My Music

6. For Once in My Life

7. Lonely Town

8. Mack the Knife

9. Where or When

10. Maybe This Time

11. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

12. Angel Eyes

13. The Lady Is a Tramp

14. If

15. Theme From New York, New York

November 4, 1987

Concerts

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. Moonlight in Vermont

4. Summer Wind

5. You Will Be My Music

6. For Once in My Life

7. Lonely Town

8. Mack the Knife

9. Where or When

10. Maybe This Time

11. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

12. Angel Eyes

13. The Lady Is a Tramp

14. If

15. Theme From New York, New York

November 10, 1987

Concerts

University of Notre Dame Arena, South Bend, Indiana

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. You Are the Sunshine of my Life

2. What Now my Love

3. Moonlight in Vermont

4. Summer Wind

5. My Heart Stood Still

6. For Once in my Life

7. Lonely Town

8. Mack the Knife

9. monologue

10. Where or When

11. Maybe this Time

12. Bewitched

13. Angel Eyes

14. The Lady is a Tramp

15. If

16. New York, New York

17. Strangers in the Night

18. I've Got the World on a String

19. My Way

Notes: TT 70mins.

Extras

University of Notre Dame Arena, South Bend, Indiana

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

November 11, 1987

Concerts

University of Dayton Arena, Dayton, Ohio

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. You Are the Sunshine of My Life

2. What Now My Love

3. Moonlight in Vermont

4. Summer Wind

5. My Heart Stood Still

6. For Once in My Life

7. Lonely Town

8. Mack the Knife

9. Where or When

10. Maybe This Time

11. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

12. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)

13. The Lady Is a Tramp

14. If

15. Theme From New York, New York

16. Strangers in the Night

17. I've Got the World on a String

18. My Way

Extras

University of Dayton Arena, Dayton, Ohio

Dayton Daily News (Dayton, Ohio) · 12 Nov 1987:

November 12, 1987

Extras

Chicago Theater, Chicago, Illinois

Dean Martin Concert

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. The Lady Is A Tramp

Note: Sinatra makes a surprise appearance, sings "Lady is a Tramp."

November 13, 1987

Concerts

Louisville Gardens, Louisville, KY

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

2. What Now, My Love?

3. Summer Wind

4. My Heart Stood Still

5. For Once In My Life

6. Mack The Knife

7. monologue

8. Where Or When

9. Maybe This Time

10. Bewitched

11. One For My Baby

12. The Lady Is A Tramp

13. If

14. New York, New York

15. I've Got The World On A String

16. My Way

Notes: There were two shows above set list is one of the two.

Extras

Louisville Gardens, Louisville, KY

November 29, 1987

Television

Juvenile Diabetes Telethon

Location: Sheraton Hotel, Los Angeles, CA

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. Where Or When Billy Byers arg.

2. I've Got The World On A String

Concerts

Universal Sheraton Hotel, Hollywood, California

Juvenile Diabetes Foundation Telethon

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. Where Or When

2. I've Got The World On A String

Notes: TT 9mins.

December 1987

Extras

[Announcing The 'Together Again' Tour]

In December 1987 Martin, Sinatra, and Davis Jr. announced they would tour together in concert for the first time.

Source: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

[Together Again Tour Announced]

Hoping to distract a heartbroken Dean Martin, Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. persuaded him to join them for a reunion tour, announced as the 'Together Again Tour.' At the press conference, Martin joked about calling the whole thing off, a line that turned out to be less than a joke.

Source: The Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra, chapter "I Want to Be a Part of It, 1971-98."

December 1, 1987

Extras

Chasen's in Hollywood

Tuesday afternoon

Press Conference for upcoming Rat Pack Tour

Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr.

Sinatra's P.R.,Susan Reynolds, introduced the threesome. There was a large map of the United States directly behind them, showing the 29 cities that the tour would cover.

Frank, Dean and Sammy answered questions from the press. They explained the concept of the tour and why they were doing it. Martin stole the show with hilarious ad-libs. They also mentioned a second phase of the tour planned for late summer into the fall. Press conference ran for 45 minutes.

Tour was very brief. The Together Again trio opened on 3-13-88 in Oakland, moved on to

Vancouver (15), Seattle (16) and then Chicago

(18,19,20). Dean then headed back to California.

They had done six shows, Sammy and Frank would continue with the dates and eventually Liza Minnelli would join them. Tour would be renamed "The Ultimate

Event."

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December 2, 1987

Concerts

Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, California

Armand Hammer Gala

Frank performed at the Century Plaza Hotel at a dinner honoring industrialist Armand Hammer. Hammer thanked Frank in a letter dated December 3, 1987: "You made the evening sparkle and you assured that all of the guests left with the inspiration of Frank Sinatra's commitment to a great cause."

December 4, 1987

Extras

Meadowlands, New Jersey (4 - 6)

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

Notes: Cancelled

Ed O'Brien noted:

Frank and Liza were set to play the Meadowlands

on December 4 & 5. The first show was a Friday night. For

some reason the music did not arrive from Los Angeles.

Friday's show was cancelled and the tickets were honored

the next night. Because both nights were SRO, the Saturday

was rescheduled for Sunday evening. Sinatra was set to

perform at the Kennedy Center on 12/6. Perry Como

was inducted. Frank was going to sing a tribute to

Perry. He would have done a medley of Mr C's hits.

Tony Mottola told me Perry was very disappointed

that Frank was forced to cancel.

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December 5, 1987

Concerts

Meadowlands, East Rutherford , New Jersey (5-6)

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

Other Performers: Liza Minnelli

Liza (Partial):

1. Liza

2. The World Goes 'Round

3. Cabaret

Frank:

4. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

5. Where Or When

6. Come Fly With Me

7. For Once In My Life

8. Summer Wind

9. September Of My Years

10. You Make Me Feel So Young

11. You Will Be My Music

12. monologue

13. Soliloquy

14. One For My Baby

15. All Of Me

16. Lonely Town

17. introductions

18. Mack The Knife

Frank & Liza:

19. medley w/Liza Minnelli: New York New York, A Hell Of A Town

(Frank & Liza) / Manhattan (Frank & Liza) / East Side, West Side (Frank & Liza) / The Bowery (Frank & Liza) / 42nd Street (Liza) / Broadway Baby (Liza) / Autumn In New York (Frank) / I Happen To Like New York (Gap)

Notes: TT 70mins.

Ed O'Brien notes that on this date Sinatra started crediting Nelson Riddle with having co-arranged "Lonely Town" with Gordon Jenkins.

Extras

Meadowlands, East Rutherford , New Jersey (5-6)

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December 6, 1987

Concerts

Meadowlands, East Rutherford, New Jersey (4 - 6)

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

Other Performers: Liza Minnelli

1. You Are The Sunshine of My Life

2. Where or When

3. Come Fly With Me

4. For once In My Life

5. Summer Wind

6. September Of My Years

7. You Make Me Feel So Young

8. You Will Be My Music

9. monologue w/Happy Birthday

10. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

11. One For My Baby

12. All Of Me

13. Lonely Town

14. My Way

15. Mack The Knife

16. medley w/Liza Minnelli: New York New York, A Hell Of A Town

(Frank & Liza) / Manhattan (Liza) / East Side, West Side (Frank & Liza) / 42nd Street (Frank & Liza) / Broadway Baby (Liza)/ Autumn In New York (Frank) / I Happen To Like New York (Liza) / How About You (Frank & Liza) / New York, New York (Frank & Liza)

Notes: TT 76mins.

December 11, 1987

Concerts

Bally's Grand, Atlantic City, New Jersey (11 -13)

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller w/Liza Minnelli

Early Show

1. You Are the Sunshine of My Life

2. Where or When

3. Come Fly With Me

4. For Once in My Life

5. Summer Wind

6. The September of My Years

7. You Make Me Feel So Young

8. You Will Be My Music

9. Soliloquy

10. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)

11. All of Me

12. Lonely Town

13. My Way

14. Mack the Knife

15. Medley: New York, New York (On the Town), East Side, West Side, The Bowery, Forty-Second Street (all with Liza Minnelli)

16. Autumn in New York

17. How About You (with Liza Minnelli)

18. Theme From New York, New York (with Liza Minnelli)

Bally's Grand, Atlantic City, New Jersey (11 -13)

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller w/Liza Minnelli

Late Show

1. You Make Me Feel So Young

2. All Of Me

3. Summer Wind

4. If

5. You'd Be So Easy To Love

6. What's New

7. Mack the Knife

8. You Will Be My Music

9. Here's That Rainy Day

10. You Are The Sunshine of My Life

11. Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars

12. The September Of My Years

13. You're Driving Me Crazy!

14. My Way

15. Liza (All The Clouds'll Roll Away)

16. New York, New York (On the Town), East Side, West Side, The Bowery, Forty-Second Street (all with Liza Minnelli) (with Liza Minnelli)

17. Autumn in New York

18. How About You (with Liza Minnelli)

19. Theme From New York, New York (with Liza Minnelli)

This is the first show that evening. After Liza did her act, you hear Frank, from behind a scrim, sing the first four lines of "I Sing The Songs." Liza reappears and introduces him: "Ladies and Gentlemen, my favorite person, my uncle, the one and only Frank." Then the curtain opens and Sinatra walks out. Ed

December 12, 1987

Concerts

Bally's Grand, Atlantic City, New Jersey (11 -13)

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

w/Liza Minnelli

Second Show

1. You Are the Sunshine of My Life

2. Where or When

3. Come Fly With Me

4. For Once in My Life

5. Summer Wind

6. The September of My Years

7. You Make Me Feel So Young

8. You Will Be My Music

9. The Gal That Got Away/It Never Entered My Mind

10. Angel Eyes

11. All of Me

12. Lonely Town

13. My Way

14. Mack the Knife

15. Medley : New York, New York (On the Town), East Side, West Side, The Bowery, Forty-Second Street (all with Liza Minnelli)

16. Autumn in New York

17. How About You (with Liza Minnelli)

18. Theme From New York, New York (with Liza Minnelli)

December 13, 1987

Concerts

Bally's Grand, Atlantic City, New Jersey (11 -13)

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller w/Liza Minnelli

1. You Are the Sunshine of My Life

2. Where or When

3. Come Fly With Me

4. For Once in My Life

5. Summer Wind

6. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

7. You Make Me Feel So Young

8. You Will Be My Music

9. Soliloquy

10. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)

11. All of Me

12. Lonely Town

13. My Way

14. Mack the Knife

15. Medley : New York, New York (On the Town), East Side, West

Side, The Bowery, Forty-Second Street (all with Liza Minnelli)

16. Autumn in New York

17. How About You (with Liza Minnelli)

18. Theme From New York, New York (with Liza Minnelli)

December 26, 1987

Concerts

Bally's Grand, Las Vegas , Nevada (26 - 31)

1. Come Fly With Me

2. You Make Me Feel So Young

3. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

4. Maybe This Time

5. Bewitched

6. Summer Wind

7. For Once In My Life

8. One For My Baby

9. monologue

10. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

11. The More I See You

12. All The Way

13. Easy To Love

14. Barbara

15. All Of Me

16. What's New

17. Where Or When

18. If

19. Mack The Knife

20. The Lady Is A Tramp

21. My Way

22. New York , New York

Ed OBrien says this was an interesting show. Billy May did a swinging chart for "The More I See You." Sinatra opened the show with "I Sing The Songs." He only did a few lines with Miller backing him on piano. Frank then informed the audience that he was Trini Lopez before segueing into "Come Fly With Me." He promotes the upcoming tour with Dean and Sammy. "All The Way" is sung with just Bill Miller on the piano and Frank mentioned how lucky he was to get that song. "Easy to Love" is sung with the Johnny Mandel chart of December 1960. "All of Me" is a real highlight. A good engagement as 1987 came to a close.

December 27, 1987

Concerts

Bally's Grand, Las Vegas , Nevada (26 - 31)

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. Come Fly With Me

2. You Make Me Feel So Young

3. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

4. Maybe This Time

5. Bewitched

6. Summer Wind

7. For Once In My Life

8. monologue

9. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

10. The More I See You

11. All Of Me

12. One For My Baby

13. If

14. Mack The Knife

15. The Lady Is A Tramp

16. My Way

17. New York, New York

Notes: TT 68mins.

December 28, 1987

Concerts

Bally's Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada (26 - 31)

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. Come Fly With Me

2. You Make Me Feel So Young

3. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

4. Maybe This Time

5. Bewitched

6. Summer Wind

7. For Once In My Life

8. monologue

9. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

10. The More I See You

11. All Of Me

12. One For My Baby

13. If

14. Mack The Knife

15. The Lady Is A Tramp

16. My Way

17. New York, New York

Notes: TT 54mins.

December 29, 1987

Concerts

Bally's Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada (26-31)

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

(Note Sinatra was dark Tuesday December 29th)

December 30, 1987

Concerts

Bally's Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada (26-31)

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. Come Fly With Me

2. You Make Me Feel So Young

3. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

4. Maybe This Time

5. Bewitched

6. Summer Wind

7. For Once In My Life

8. monologue

9.. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

10. The More I See You

11. All Of Me

12. One For My Baby

13. If

14. Mack The Knife

15. The Lady Is A Tramp

16. My Way

17. New York, New York

Notes: "The More I See You" appear on the CD: See The Show Again. TT 60mins.

Bally's Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada (26-31)

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

December 31, 1987

Concerts

Bally's Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada (26-31)

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. I Sing The Songs

2. Where Or When

3. Summer Wind

4. All Of Me

5. If

6. Maybe This Time

7. For Once In My Life

8. You Make Me Feel So Young

9. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

10. What's New?

11. Mack The Knife

12. The Lady Is A Tramp

13. My Way

14. Bewitched

15. Come Fly With Me

16. You'd Be So Easy To Love

17.. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

18. monologue

19. New York, New York

Notes: TT 62mins.

1988

Extras

[Frank Rothman Warns of Trouble Ahead]

By fall 1988, attorney Frank Rothman, who had briefly advised Frank after Rudin's exit, resigned when he realized Frank would not heed his counsel. Before leaving, he told Sonny Golden to keep watch, fearing trouble was brewing.

Source: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

[Michelob Beer Commercial With Frank Jr.]

Sinatra filmed a 1988 Michelob beer commercial backstage with his son Frank Jr., built around the song "The Way You Look Tonight."

Source: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

[Sheffield and Somerset Trust Established]

Around early 1988, Bob Finkelstein helped Frank formalize the estate plan first discussed years earlier: he gifted his Capitol royalties to his children, sold them his interest in Bristol Inc. (which held his Reprise masters), and created Sheffield, a company to manage his name and likeness, with Sonny Golden, Bob Finkelstein, and Tina as its board. He also placed assets into an irrevocable trust called Somerset, naming his three children as ultimate beneficiaries.

Source: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

[Signs of Depression and Overmedication]

By 1988, Frank's phone calls to Tina had grown sparse and he sounded listless. Vine alerted Nancy to a growing collection of pills, and Nancy's research turned up a sedating antidepressant, Elavil, among several other medications, raising the sisters' alarm about inadequate medical monitoring.

Source: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

[With Peggy Lee]

A 1988 photograph shows Sinatra with singer Peggy Lee.

Source: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

[Dean Martin quits the Rat Pack reunion tour]

Consiglio: About six months after his son Dino's death, a heavily intoxicated Dean Martin performed poorly during the Frank-Sammy-Dean reunion tour (likely in Minneapolis or Chicago). Sinatra pulled him aside and told him to go home rather than keep performing that way; Dean left the tour, which was then renamed 'The Ultimate Event' and continued with Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr., with Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme mentioned as possible replacements.

Source: Tony Consiglio (as told to Franz Douskey), "Sinatra and Me: The Very Good Years" (2012)

[Sammy Davis Jr tours with Frank and Dean in 'The Ultimate Event']

Toward the end of the 1980s, when his earning power had narrowed mostly to cabaret and casinos, Sammy Davis Jr toured with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin in a show billed as "The Ultimate Event." When Martin pulled out, Liza Minnelli took his place.

Source: Richard Havers, "Sinatra" (Dorling Kindersley, 2007).

["The Ultimate Event" world tour with Liza Minnelli]

With Dean Martin gone, Liza Minnelli, whom Sinatra had known since her birth and who called him "Uncle Frank," joined Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr for what became "The Ultimate Event," a world tour running from 1988 into spring 1989.

Source: Richard Havers, "Sinatra" (Dorling Kindersley, 2007).

January 1, 1988

Concerts

Bally's Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada (12-26-87 thru 1-2-88) Bill Miller conducted

1. I Sing The Songs

2. Come Fly With Me

3. You Make Me Feel So Young

4. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

5. Maybe This Time

6. Bewitched

7.. Summer Wind

8. For Once In My Life

9. One For My Baby

10. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

11. The More I See You Bill Rogers arg.

12. All The Way

13. Easy To Love

14. Barbara

15. All Of Me

16. What's New

17. Where Or When

18. If

19. Mack The Knife

20. The Lady Is A Tramp

21. My Way

22. New York, New York

January 2, 1988

Radio

Bally's Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada (1-2)

1. Where or When

2. Summer Wind

3. All of Me

4. If

5. Maybe This Time

6. For Once in My Life

7. You Make Me Feel So Young

8. You Are the Sunshine of My Life

9. What's New

10. Come Fly With Me

11. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

12. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

13. Mack the Knife

14. The Lady Is a Tramp

15. My Way

16. Theme From New York, New York

January 9, 1988

Television

Sanctuary Cove , Australia

1. All Of Me

2. You Make Me Feel So Young

3. For Once In My Life

4. Summer Wind

5. Maybe This Time

6. If

7. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

8. What's New

9. Come Fly With Me

10. The Gal That Got Away - It Never Entered My Mind

11. Easy To Love

12. Bewitched

13. Mack The Knife

14. The Lady Is A Tramp

15. My Way

16. New York , New York

Note: Australian TV special. Peter Allen opened the show

Ed O'Brien:

The press conference was a love-in. Frank went out of his way to be very cordial and there was a group photo taken of all the Australian reporters with Sinatra.Clive James interviewed Sinatra separately and it was very interesting. The concert at Sanctuary Cove earned Frank a million dollars for less than 60 minutes of work. Of course there was 28 hours of flying to and fro from L.A. to Down Under. He did a very nice job on "Easy To Love," with the Mandel chart.

Frank Sinatra Australian Press Conference

15 min.

Concerts

Sanctuary Cove, Australia

1. All Of Me

2. You Make Me Feel So Young

3. For Once In My Life

4. Summer Wind

5. Maybe This Time

6. If

7. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

8. What's New

9. Come Fly With Me

10. The Gal That Got Away - It Never Entered My Mind

11. Easy To Love

12. Bewitched

13. Mack The Knife

14. The Lady Is A Tramp

15. My Way

16. New York , New York

Extras

Sanctuary Cove , Australia

Sanctuary Cove, Australia

Sinatra with Australian Press

[image referenced in source but could not be recovered]

Sanctuary Cove , Australia

This calendar, or any parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any fashion

whatsoever without the prior written permission of the publisher (The

Sinatra Archive)

Sanctuary Cove , Australia

This calendar, or any parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any fashion

whatsoever without the prior written permission of the publisher (The

Sinatra Archive)

January 18, 1988

Studio

Hollywood

Leave It All To Me

Arranged & Conducted by Torrie Zito

Alan & Marilyn Bergman were also involved in the writing of this song..

First Release: CD & LP: "Sinatra Sings Alan &

Marilyn Bergman"

Capitol B0030940-02

October 11, 2019

Note: The released version is edited. The complete recording runs

3:50.

It was not something he ever wanted released.

--Ed

Ed notes:

The song was written by Paul Anka. An orchestral track

of the Torrie Zito arrangement was laid down 9-29-87.

Sinatra did a vocal overdub on 1-18-88.. He took a tape

home of the master. A few days later he called Terry

Woodson and asked why was he recording such s--t.

(Terry told me this in a conversation we had in 1991.)

Sinatra told Terry he wanted the song scrapped.

At the same session, Frank tried to record "The

Girls I've Never Kissed" with just Bill Miller backing

him on piano. There were 2 takes done.

A few weeks after the session, Anka appeared

on the Tonight Show, told Carson about the F.S.

recording, and predicted it would be a huge hit.

I've always felt that it sounds like something you

would hear a barker doing on the midway at a

carnival.

Vance Adair:

There is absolutely no musical structure to this song. We have the fairground riff and...well.... .that's what is repeated ad nauseum

until the end. Even worse, for a singer like FS, is the fact that there is no narrative arc - just some cliches about 'life being a fairground'' clustered around a decidedly underwhelming tune.

And to think of the songs that he could have been laying down at the time.......

Scott Henderson:

Well put Vance. It was my listening selection for today (I'd heard the

Suspense and Martin & Lewis ones recently). Sometimes it's good to hear a

song that doesn't work. Makes you appreciate the good ones that much better.

The Girls I Never Kissed N/R

w/Bill Miller on piano

(Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller)

Jerry Leiber Music/Mike Stoller Music (ASCAP)

Arranged & Conducted by Torrie Zito

Note: "Leave It All To Me" orchestral track was recorded on

September 29, 1987

Extras

"Leave It All to Me"

Will Friedwald: Taped in January 1988, 'Leave It All to Me' is described as a surreal, psychedelic carnival-themed piece echoing Jacques Brel's 'Carousel,' Jerry Herman's Dear World, Kurt Weill, Kander & Ebb, and the Beatles' 'Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!' Friedwald finds Sinatra sounds great but the song, lacking a proper ending, was clearly abandoned as unfinished by Anka (who later repurposed the melody as an Atlantic City radio jingle).

Source: Will Friedwald, "Sinatra! The Song Is You: A Singer's Art" (2018 revised edition).

January 29, 1988

Concerts

Sports Arena, San Diego, California (29-30)

Friday and Saturday

Frank and Liza Minnelli with Jr. conducting for his father.

Benefit for the Aztec Athletic Foundation

1. Where Or When

2. All Of Me

3. You Make Me Feel So Young

4. For Once In My Life

5. Summer Wind

6. Maybe This Time

7. If

8. You Will Be My Music

9. Come Fly With Me

10. One For My Baby

11. Mack The Knife

12. The Lady Is A Tramp

13. My Way

14. Medley of New York Songs w/ Liza

Extras

Sports Arena, San Diego, California (29-30)

Friday and Saturday

Frank and Liza Minnelli with Jr. conducting for his father.

Benefit for the Aztec Athletic Foundation

[image referenced in source but could not be recovered]

January 30, 1988

Concerts

Sports Arena, San Diego, California (29-30) with Liza Minnelli

Benefit for the Aztec Athletic Foundation

1. Where or When

2. All of Me

3. You Make Me Feel So Young

4. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

5. For Once in My Life

6. Summer Wind

7. Maybe This Time

8. If

9. You Will Be My Music

10. Come Fly With Me

11. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)

12. Mack the Knife

13. The Lady Is a Tramp

14. My Way

15. Medley with Liza: New York, New York (On the Town), East Side, West Side, The Bowery, Forty-Second Street

16. Autumn in New York

17. How About You (with Liza Minnelli)

18. Theme From New York, New York

Extras

Sports Arena, San Diego, California (29-30) with Liza Minnelli

From the Archives: Liza, Frank and Super Bowl XXII together in San Diego in ‘88

By Merrie Monteagudo

Jan. 29, 2023 4:50 AM PT

Thirty-five years ago, two legends, Frank Sinatra and Liza Minnelli appeared together in a pair of concerts at the Sports Arena, which is now Pechanga Arena. The shows on Jan. 29 and 30, 1988, were held during Super Bowl week to benefit San Diego State athletics and set a Sports Arena box office record for a two-day gross. Super Bowl XXII was played on Jan. 31, 1988 at then-Jack Murphy Stadium in Mission Valley. From The San Diego Union, Saturday, Jan. 30, 1988:

Liza and Frank were worth it all

By Divina Infusino, Arts Writer

French champagne at $4.25 per glass. Fur coats, red carpets and ushers in tuxedos. Hard to believe, but such was the scene at the Sports Arena last night when the proverbial pumpkin of San Diego venues turned into an elegant carriage as it hosted the first of two concerts by entertainment royalty, Frank Sinatra and Liza Minnelli. The Aztec Athletic Foundation brought the show as a fittingly high-toned benefit event for all the high-toned visitors in town for the Super Bowl. And they showed up to help fill nearly every seat Friday. Just watching the parade of Bergdorff Goodman and Neiman-Marcus’ finest was almost worth the $35 and $50 ticket prices. But this wasn’t just an excuse for a cocktail party for about 13,000 or so. This was a show, staged in the round, worth seeing. True, both Sinatra, now 72, and Minnelli, the ever-jubilant Broadway and film performer, had their weaknesses. But together, they filled in each other’s gaps to create a memorable evening. Minnelli arrived first, her radiant personality matched only by the dazzle of her sequined outfit. Her non-stop joie de vivre is a large part of her special charm, and she played on it heavily. Whether she was chatting to the audience between songs or belting out a song like “Old Friends,” or something from “Cabaret,” her energy was bubbling just beneath the surface, ready to burst when she gave the word. Her ability to control her energy determined her approach with a song, which was almost always the same. Begin big and get bigger to that walloping emotional finish. Minnelli was great for showmanship, and the sheer joy of seeing someone giving it all they had. Subtlety, however, is not her strong suit. But it is for Sinatra let’s say it right away. Yes, the Voice cracks, it falters, it no longer has the breath control it once did. It can no longer dip into its lower range with the grace of former times. Yet where Minnelli and most singers, for that matter determine a song by style, Sinatra shapes it by meaning. That’s why when he sang “The Lady Is a Tramp,” the lady came to life. That’s why we could feel “The Summer Wind.” That’s he could lead the audience through a range of emotions. Others may have a better voice. But no one yet can sing like Sinatra. He was aided, of course, by a wonderful arrangements, a 38-piece orchestra and built-in anticipation for the show’s climax: Minnelli and Sinatra together on “New York, New York.” During that great moment, when they harmonized on the final chorus, who could help but smile?

February 11, 1988

Concerts

Bally's Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. For Once In My Life

2. Where Or When

3. Maybe This Time

4. The September Of My Years

5. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

6. Moonlight In Vermont

7. The Girls I Never Kissed

8. Mack The Knife

9. monologue

10. Soliloquy

11. Goody, Goody

12. Here's That Rainy Day

13. New York, New York

14. Barbara

15. In The Still Of The Night

16. Love Is Just Around The Corner

17. My Way

18. One For My Baby

19. Something

Notes: TT 95mins.

Bally's Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. For Once In My Life

2. Where Or When

3. Maybe This Time

4. Bewitched

5. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

6. Moonlight In Vermont

7. The Girls I've Never Kissed

8. Mack The Knife

9. monologue

10. Here's That Rainy Day

11. New York, New York

12. My Way

13. More Than You Know

14. One For My Baby

February 12, 1988

Concerts

Bally's Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. For Once In My Life

2. Where Or When

3. Maybe This Time

4. The September Of My Years

5. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

6. Moonlight In Vermont

7. The Girls I Never Kissed

8. Mack The Knife

9. monologue

10. Soliloquy

11. Goody, Goody

12. Here's That Rainy Day

13. New York, New York

14. Barbara

15. In The Still Of The Night

16. My Way

17. One For My Baby

Notes: TT 81mins

Bally's Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

February 13, 1988

Concerts

Bally's Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. For Once In My Life

2. Where Or When

3. Maybe This Time

4. Bewitched

5. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

6. Moonlight In Vermont

7.. The Girls I Never Kissed

8. Mack The Knife

9. monologue

10. New York, New York

11. My Way

12. More Than You Know

13. One For My Baby

Notes: Frank opened on Thursday (11) and played through the 17th. He did two shows Thursday thru Saturday

A few of the songs were a real surprise including

"Love Is Just Around The Corner" and "Goody

Goody." Frank also did "The Girls I've Never

Kissed" with a modified chart of Billy May's 1986 arrangement.

Bally's Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1.. Overture

2. For Once In My Life

3. Where Or When

4. Maybe This Time

5. Bewitched

6. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

7. Moonlight In Vermont

8. The Girls I've Never Kissed

9. Mack The Knife

10. monologue

11. Here's That Rainy Day

12. New York, New York

13. My Way

14. More Than You Know

15. One For My Baby

16. Chaser "New York, New York"

Notes: TT 60mins.

February 14, 1988

Concerts

Bally's Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. For Once In My Life

2. Where Or When

3. Maybe This Time

4. You Will Be My Music

5. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

6. Moonlight In Vermont

7. The Girls I Never Kissed

8. Mack The Knife

9. monologue

10. Goody, Goody

11. What's New?

12. New York, New York

13. Barbara

14. In The Still Of The Night

15. My Way

16. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

17. One For My Baby

Notes: TT 70mins.

February 15, 1988

Concerts

Bally's Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

February 16, 1988

Concerts

Bally's Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

February 17, 1988

Concerts

Bally's Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

March 1988

Extras

[Martin Quits Reunion Tour, Minnelli Steps In]

When the reunion shows finally began, it was clear Martin's heart was not in it; he lasted only a little over a week before dropping out. Liza Minnelli took his place, and the retitled tour, 'The Ultimate Event,' became a major success.

Source: The Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra, chapter "I Want to Be a Part of It, 1971-98."

[Rehearsing For 'Together Again' At Sammy Davis Jr.'s House]

Dean Martin, Sinatra, and Sammy Davis Jr. rehearsed at Davis's Beverly Hills home in March 1988 to prepare for their planned "Together Again" concert tour.

Source: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

[The Rat Pack "Reunion Tour" Launches]

About a year after his son's death, Frank persuaded Dean Martin into a twenty-stop reunion tour with Sammy Davis Jr., which kicked off in March 1988. Dean dropped out after the first leg, and Liza Minnelli stepped in as his replacement.

Source: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

[Martin checks into Cedars-Sinai, cites old kidney problem]

Dean Martin chartered a plane to Los Angeles and checked into Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, with a recurrence of an old kidney problem announced as the reason for leaving the tour. It became clear he had no intention of returning, and Sinatra and Sammy carried on as a duo before Liza Minnelli was brought in.

Source: Richard Havers, "Sinatra" (Dorling Kindersley, 2007).

March 8, 1988

Extras

Frank and Barbara signed an "Agreement to Rescind Pre-Marital Agreement," dated March 8, 1988, which effectively voided the 1976 prenup and made Frank's marital-era earnings community property, entitling Barbara to half. Tina later learned the document was witnessed by staff and actually delivered to Frank two days later, on Barbara's birthday. (Source: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).)

March 8, 1988

Extras

March 9, 1988

[Photograph: Rat Pack reunion planning at Sammy's house. From Richard Havers, "Sinatra" (Dorling Kindersley, 2007), p.346.]

Extras

Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, and Sinatra met at Sammy's Beverly Hills house on 9 March 1988 shortly before their proposed 29-city reunion tour, pictured together as "the Summit's in session.". (Source: Richard Havers, "Sinatra" (Dorling Kindersley, 2007).)

March 13, 1988

Concerts

Oakland Coliseum, California

The "TOGETHER AGAIN" Tour (opening)

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

Other Performers: Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, jr.

Dean:

1. When You're Drinking / Bourbon From Heaven

2. Everybody Loves Somebody

3. Where Or When

4. Welcome To My World

5. Here Comes My Baby Back Again

6.. Little Ol' Winemaker Me

7. That's Amore

Sammy:

8. Here I'll Stay

9. monologue

10. Another Spring

11. I've Gotta Be Me

12. Medley: Sam & Drums

13. The Candy Man

14. What Kind Of Fool Am I

15. Mr. Bojangles

Frank:

16. I've Got The World On A String

17. What Now My Love

18. Maybe This Time

19. For Once In My Life

20. This Is All I Ask

21. Mack The Knife

22. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

23. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

24. New York, Now York

Frank, Dean & Sammy:

25. comedy

26. medley: Side By Side / I've Heard That Song Before / All Or Nothing

At All / Memories Are Made Of This / Something's Gotta Give / Love And Marriage / Volare / That Old Black Magic / Witchcraft / Bye Bye Blackbird / I Got Plenty O'Nuttin' / Come Fly With Me / Gonna Build A Mountain / Oh, Marie / Hava Negilah / All Of Me / You'r Nobody Till Somebody Love You

27. The Oldest Established

Notes: Sinatra portion 54mins.

Extras

Oakland Coliseum, California

The "TOGETHER AGAIN" Tour (opening)

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

Other Performers: Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, jr.

Frank, Sammy and Dean Open 29-City 'Rat Pack' Reunion Tour

THOMAS MURPHY

March 14, 1988

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) _ The rat pack is back.

Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr. and Dean Martin, reunited for a 29-city, 40- show tour Sunday night, brought their unique blend of fun times and good tunes to the old fans who loved 'em way back when and young fans who'd never had the chance.

”How long have I been on?” deadpanned Martin after walking absent- mindedly onto stage holding a cigarette and a glass of bourbon at the start of the sold-out concert.

He then sang ”When You're Smiling,” changing the last word to do drinking. To rousing applause and a few shouts of ”louder,” he then sang ”Bourbon From Heaven.”

Davis, flashing his trademark gold jewelry hanging in chains down his chest, was given a standing ovation for ”I've Got to Be Me,” his signature song.

Davis drew applause when he mentioned he'd been in show business 59 years and had been sober for three years.

The crowd applauded enthusiastically when he performed songs such as ”Candy Man” and ”What Kind of Fool am I?”

Sinatra was the real crowd pleaser, drawing huge ovations from the packed house when he belted out such favorites as ”For Once In My Life,” "Mack the Knife,” ”You Are the Sunshine of My Life,and ”New York, New York.”

Davis and Martin rejoined Sinatra for the closing finale, which featured a lot of kidding along with medleys of pop favorites from the last four decades.

”As far as we're concerned,” said Davis to Sinatra, ”an and I can say this for both of us, you're still the chairman of the board.”

Martin added, ”Yeah, you're still the chairman, we're still bored.”

The tour's opening show at the sold-out Oakland Coliseum also marked the 48th anniversary of Sinatra's first stage show: a 1940 appearance at New York's Paramount Theatre with big band leader Tommy Dorsey.

”The three of us, we love each other, and we have more fun than the audience,” Martin said when the tour was announced in January.

”We’re going to cities where none of those people have ever, never, seen anything like us.”

The 70-year-old joker vowed to get the audience laughing ”and then they will continue laughing while these guys sing.”

Davis and Sinatra, age 62 and 72 respectively, first appeared with Martin at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas in January 1960. They made frequent guest appearances in each others' shows and made a number of films together, including such box office hits as ”Ocean's Eleven,” “Sergeants Three,” and ”Robin and the Seven Hoods.”

Alameda County Supervisor Charles Santana and his wife, Doris, were among the 14,500 fans at the concert, many of whom decked themselves out in evening and cocktail dresses and sports coats and suits. They said they have been fans of Sinatra since the late 40s.

Mrs. Santana said she was so devoted to her idol that ”my mother always said I was the one who made him famous.”

"I've seen Frank Sinatra before, and I grew up listening to his music,” said Lydia Cox, 26, of Oakland. Her 35-year-old brother, Charles, said he came to watch the fun.

”This is a once-in-a-lifetime thing,” he said. ”If I didn't see them now I'd never get another chance.”

The trio picked up the ”rat pack” moniker after actor Humphrey Bogart used that label for a large group of entertainers that lived in the same area of Beverly Hills.

For the last two decades, they've performed mainly in the glitzy showrooms of Atlantic City and Las Vegas. Sinatra has joked that the troupers wanted to go on tour so that ”people could see how bad we are.”an>

The idea of touring surfaced when the three longtime friends gathered at Sinatra's house. It became possible because all three are under contract to Bally Corp.

The shows, with top tickets going for $40, will be backed up by a 35-piece orchestra. Home Box Office plans to broadcast a special on the show later.

Davis, Martin and Sinatra are among a growing number of aging superstars whose careers only seem stronger with age.

Comics Danny Thomas, Milton Berle and Sid Caeser recently appeared in a made-for-television movie, ”Side By Side.” Rodney Dangerfield, Mort Sahl al and Jackie Mason have all found themselves under contract for one-man shows.

And then there's George Burns, 92, who has a new movie coming out in April. He's booked to play the London Palladium when he turns 100.

In a recent interview for USA Weekend, Burns offered a few kind words for the rat pack: ”I'm sure those three kids will make it. I think Sinatra hhas potential. He just has to build some confidence. All three will be big stars if they keep working at it.”

The "Together Again” tour continues in Vancouver, B.C., on Tuesday, SSeattle on Wednesday, and Chicago on Friday and Saturday.

MUSIC

Reunited Rat Pack--They've Got the World on a String

BY DENNIS MCDOUGAL

MARCH 15, 1988 12 AM PT

LOS ANGELES TIMES STAFF WRITER

OAKLAND - Frank Sinatra had just finished belting "What Now My Love" to the 14,500 paying customers packing the Oakland Coliseum Arena on Sunday night when a middle-aged fan approached the stage with a bouquet of purple flowers.

"Thank you," said the 72-year-old legend, kneeling down to offer the woman his yellow pocket kerchief in exchange for the bouquet. She clutched it to her bosom and moaned audibly.

And while the woman was still swooning, two more fans planted two fifths of bourbon at the singer's feet.

"Jack Daniel's, I hope," Sinatra muttered appreciatively before launching into an upbeat rendition of "Mack the Knife."

And so it went throughout much of the opening concert of the 29-city, 40-concert tour of Sinatra and his two compadres, Sammy Davis Jr. and Dean Martin: Romance and booze. Booze and romance.

The collective libido of the three original Rat Packers has mellowed with age. This "Together Again" tour, which will touch down July 7-10 at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, is already being touted as their last. But they demonstrated resoundingly for 2 hours and 10 minutes Sunday night that their defiant lust for life has not totally faded with the years.

Three months after having a hip replaced, Davis was dancing to "The Girl From Ipanema" and offering up a Michael Jackson impression during his "Mister Bojangles" solo.

Less than a year after intestinal surgery, Sinatra brought the crowd to its feet repeatedly with such standards as "The Gal That Got Away," "I've Got the World on a String" and "Maybe This Time."

When he introduced "New York, New York" as "the national anthem," graying women and their balding spouses were flailing their arms as though it were 1940 all over again, shouting "Frankie! Frankie!"

Of the trio, only Martin showed any detectable loss of vitality. During his opening half-hour solo turn, a surly segment of the crowd near the top of the stands shouted, "We can't hear you!" as Martin limped through "Everybody Loves Somebody." His venerable "happy drunk" persona fell flat with the audience when he actually did seem to forget the words to "Where or When" and "Welcome to My World."

"Every time you drink it rains bourbon from heaven," he warbled to the strains of "Pennies From Heaven." Then, tossing a lit cigarette butt into the crowd that had paid $40 apiece to see the show, he fell back into a makeshift refrain from "Everybody Loves Somebody":

"If I had you in my shower. . . ."

The stiff, 70-year-old crooner did take the opportunity to win back the audience with "That's Amore."

For his half-hour solo turn, Davis departed from the de rigeur tuxedo and bow tie worn by everyone from the ushers to the 35-piece Billy May Orchestra. The singer-dancer appeared in a black silk shirt with a white hibiscus print and later draped himself with chains and jewelry sitting atop the upright Baldwin at stage left.

"I had this shirt made from one of Tom Selleck's sleeves," quipped the 62-year-old Davis.

Like Martin, Davis sipped repeatedly from a plastic cocktail glass that he carried on stage with him, but carefully pointed out after a gutsy rendering of "I'm Not Going" that the glass contained nothing more potent than strawberry soda pop.

"I've had three years of sobriety," he boasted to the cheering crowd.

Sinatra is heavier and slower than he was 50 years ago when he debuted in Oakland with the Harry James Orchestra, but he left no doubt that he is still very much a ladies' man. With 10 violins carrying him through the chorus, the head of the clan pleaded the loving lyrics to "This Is All I Ask":

"Beautiful girls walk a little slower when you walk by me, sunsets stay a little longer. . . ."

Martin and Davis joined Sinatra on stage for the final 20 minutes, offering their buddy a woolen shawl for his shoulders and a "golden age" cocktail to drink.

"It's made out of Geritol and prune juice," said Martin. "It gets you going and keeps you going."

The medley of hits the three stumbled through gave the arena the air of a true Vegas lounge act.

Martin continuously checked his watch to see how much longer they had to remain on stage while Davis boogied around singing "Hava Nagila." Sinatra, showing the immense patience of an older brother, pulled the final moments together by coaxing his pals into a lusty tribute to "the oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York.

UPI ARCHIVES MARCH 14, 1988

'Rat Pack' reunites for nostalgic tour

By JOHN M. LEIGHTY

OAKLAND, Calif. -- 'Rat Pack' cronies Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and Dean Martin kicked off a nostalgic 29-city reunion concert tour in characteristic style -- crooning and clowning.

Sinatra, 72, Martin, 70, and Davis, 62, the hottest, wildest bunch in show business in their heydey, each received standing ovations as they took the stage Sunday night in the debut of their 'Together Again National Concert Tour

An adoring sold-out Oakland Coliseum Arena crowd of 15,000 is expected to be followed by other packed houses along their 40-performance tour that will reportedly net $500,000 a night. They open next in Vancouver B.C., March 15.

Tickets went for $30 and $40. Souvenir programs sold briskly at $10 each.

The three veteran performers -- backed by a 35-piece orchestra - sang their favorite songs separately, then took the stage together for a well-received finale of jokes, good-natured ribbing and medleys.

The three first appeared together 28 years ago at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas.

When Martin and Davis joined Sinatra for the close of the 2 -hour show, Davis told Sinatra he brought him a 'Golden Age Cocktail' made of Geritol and prune juice. 'It gets you going and keeps you going,' the 'youngster' of the trio said.

Davis also told Sinatra, 'You're still chairman of the board,' a reference to Sinatra's leadership in their old 'Hollywood Rat Pack,' a loosely organized group that included Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lawford, Shirley MacLaine, Joey Bishop, Tony Curtis and Sammy Cahn.

'I'm still chairman and we're still bored,' Sinatra joked.

Their fans, bedecked in gold chains and a smattering of minks and diamonds, would have none of that.

'The songs they played 20 years ago are still good now,' said Millie Jasmin of Alameda, who laughingly gave her age as 39. 'I know I get chills. I may even cry.'

Martin opened the show and did most of the clowning around, heavy with booze gags.

As he climbed onstage with a slow, tipsy motion, took a sip from his cocktail glass, he looked at the audience and in a slurred tone asked: 'How long have I been on?'

The joke brought down the house.

He then sang a series of spoofs like 'When You're Drinking' and 'Bourbon from Heaven.'

But people began yelling 'louder, louder' after Martin's song selections turned serious and his voice could not carry to the top of the Coliseum.

Davis said he hadn't been so nervous in 54 years of show business but provided some of the show's strongest singing with tunes like, 'I've Gotta Be Me' and doing a few dance steps, although he limped slightly.

Sinatra sang 10 tunes starting with 'Got the World on a String,' and ending with what he called his national anthem, 'New York, New York.' In between, the crooner known as Ol' Blue Eyes sang romantic oldies and belted out an enthusiastic 'Mack the Knife' to loud applause.

The tour also goes to Seattle, Chicago, Minneapolis, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and several other stops before playing New York's Radio City Music Hall May 6-9. The tour plays Los Angeles July 7-10 before taking a break. It cranks up again Sept. 17 in Houston before going east to play in 11 more cities.

Backstage after this opening show, Frank confronted Dean Martin for flicking a lit cigarette into the audience during his act, the first sign of friction on the tour; Dean, still grieving the recent death of his son Dean Paul, had been reluctant to join the reunion in the first place. Source: J. Randy Taraborrelli, Sinatra: Behind the Legend.

March 15, 1988

Concerts

Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver, BC

The "TOGETHER AGAIN" Tour

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

Other Performers: Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, jr.

Dean:

2. When You're Drinking / Bourbon From Heaven

3. Everybody Loves Somebody

4. Where Or When

5. Welcome To My World

6. Here Comes My Baby Back Again

7. That Little Ol' Wine Maker

8. That's Amore

Sammy:

9. Here I'll Stay

10. Another Spring

12. I've Gotta Be Me

13. Medley Sam & Drums

14. The Candy Man

15. What Kind Of Fool Am I

16. Mr. Bojangles

Frank:

17. I've Got The World On A String

18. What Now My Love

19. Maybe This Time

20. For Once In My Life

21. This Is All I Ask

22. Mack The Knife

23. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

24. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

25. New York, New York

Frank, Dean & Sammy:

26. comedy

27. medley: Side By Side / I've Heard That Song Before / All Or Nothing

At All / Memories Are Made Of This / Something's Gotta Give / Love And Marriage / Volare - Old Black Magic / Witchcraft / Bye Bye Blackbird / I've Got Plenty O' Nutin' / Come Fly With Me / Gonna Build A Mountain / Oh Marie / All Of Me / You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You

28. The Oldest Established two plus hours

Ed O'Brien note:

Ray Charles, who backed Frank as part of the Bobby Tucker Singers in 1943, arranged the "Side By Side" medley with the aid of his son. He remembered the rehearsals in L.A. and how much work went into getting it right.

The Rat Pack tour was an ambition project. The first leg of the tour encompassed many major cities in the spring of 88; the second leg was even more ambition covering a number of large and smaller venues in the late summer and early fall of 88. But it was not to be. After playing six shows (Oakland, Seattle, Vancouver, Chicago-3 performances) , Dean headed back to L.A. and checked into a hospital. The official story was kidney problems, but a few months later Sammy would tell an interviewer that Dean wasn't prepared for the huge crowds and decided to drop out. Sammy and Frank continued the tour, and Liza joined them later on.

Extras

Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver, BC

The "TOGETHER AGAIN" Tour

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

Other Performers: Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, jr.

Times Colonist (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada) - Thu, Mar 17, 1988

The Vancouver Sun (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) · Wed, Mar 16, 1988

Calgary Herald (Calgary, Alberta, Canada)· Thu, Mar 17, 1988

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March 16, 1988

Concerts

Seattle Center Coliseum, Seattle, Washington

The "TOGETHER AGAIN" Tour

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller w/Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, jr.

1. overture

Dean:

2. When You're Drinking / Bourbon From Heaven

3. Everybody Loves Somebody

4. Where Or When

5. Welcome To My World

6. Here Comes My Baby Back Again

7. That Little Ol' Wine Maker

8. That's Amore

Sammy:

9. Here I'll Stay

10. Another Spring

12. I've Gotta Be Me

13. Medley Sam & Drums

14. The Candy Man

15. What Kind Of Fool Am I

16. Mr. Bojangles

Frank:

17. I've Got The World On A String

18. What Now My Love

19. Maybe This Time

20. For Once In My Life

21. This Is All I Ask

22. Mack The Knife

23. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

24. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

25. New York, New York

Frank, Dean & Sammy:

26. comedy

27. medley: Side By Side / I've Heard That Song Before / All Or Nothing

28. The Oldest Established

Notes: TT 126mins.

Extras

Seattle Center Coliseum, Seattle, Washington

The "TOGETHER AGAIN" Tour

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

w/Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, jr.

March 18, 1988

Concerts

Chicago Theater, Chicago, Illinois

The "TOGETHER AGAIN" Tour

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

Other Performers: Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, jr.

1. My Kind Of Town

2. I've Got The World On A String

3. What Now, My Love?

4. Bewitched

5. Maybe This Time

6.. For Once In My Life

7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

8. Mack The Knife

9. medley w/Dean & Sammy: Side By Side / I've Heard That Song

Before / All Or Nothing At All / Love And Marriage / Volare / Witchcraft / Bye, Bye Blackbird / Come Fly With Me / Oh Marie / All Of Me / You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You

10. The Oldest Established - w/Dean & Sammy

Notes: Sinatra portion TT 50mins.

Extras

Chicago Theater, Chicago, Illinois

The "TOGETHER AGAIN" Tour

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

Other Performers: Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, jr.

In 1988 the Rat Pack reunited for a sellout national tour, reaching Chicago on March 18 and playing three weekend performances in the same theater where Oceanâ s s Eleven had opened in 1960. Conceding little to the passage of 25 years, the threesome of Frank, Dean, and Sammy posed a glamorous reminder of the vanishing show business of cocktails and tuxedos. â Show biz,â a spellbound Rick ick Kogan wrote, â in all its freewheeling g glory.â It would never be seen again. Dean Martin was hospitalized the next day and never returned to the tour. The Rat Pack came to an end in Chicago.

Photos from the three nights in Chicago:

March 19, 1988

Concerts

Chicago Theater, Chicago, Illinois

The "TOGETHER AGAIN" Tour

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

Other Performers: Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, jr.

Dean:

1. When You're Drinkin' / Bourbon From Heaven

2. Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime

3. Where Or When

4. Welcome To My World

5. Here Come' My Baby Back Again

6. Little Old Wine Drinker Me

7. That's Amore

Sammy:

8. Here I'll Stay

9. Another Spring

10. Chicago

11. I Gotta Be Me

12.. Bad

13. medley: Talk To The Animals / Candy Man / Once In A Lifetime / What Kind Of A Fool Am I

14. Mr. Bojangles

Frank:

15. My Kind Of Town

16. I've Got The World On A String

17. What Now, My Love?

18. Mack The Knife

19. Maybe This Time

20. For Once In My Life

21. Medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

22. New York, New York

23. One For My Baby

Frank, Dean & Sammy:

24. comedy

25. medley: Side By Side / I've Heard That Song Before / All Or Nothing

At All / Memories Are Made Of This / Somethin's Gotta Give / Love And Marriage / Volare / That Old Black Magic / Witchcraft / Bye, Bye Blackbird / I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' / Come Fly With Me / Gonna Build A Mountain / Hava Negilah / Oh Marie / All Of Me / You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You

26. The Oldest Established

Notes: TT 117mins.

Extras

Chicago Theater, Chicago, Illinois

The "TOGETHER AGAIN" Tour

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

Other Performers: Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, jr.

Singers Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis, Jr. perform at the Chicago theater on March 19, 1989 in Chicago, Illinois

March 20, 1988

Concerts

Chicago Theater, Chicago, Illinois

The "TOGETHER AGAIN" Tour

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

Other Performers: Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, jr.

1. My Kind Of Town

2. I've Got The World On A String

3. What Now, My Love?

4. Mack The Knife

5. monologue

6. Maybe This Time

7. For Once In My Life

8. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

9. New York, New York

10. medley w/Dean & Sammy: Side By Side / I've Heard That Song

Before / All Or Nothing At All / Somethin's Gotta Give / Love And Marriage / Witchcraft / Bye, Bye Blackbird / Come Fly With Me / Oh Marie / All Of Me / You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You /

11. The Oldest Established - w/Dean & Sammy

Notes: Sinatra portion TT 51mins.

March 22, 1988

Concerts

Met Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota w/Sammy

First Concert After Dean Martin Dropped Out Of Tour

Orchestra conducted by Morty Stevens (Sammy) and Frank Sinatra jr. (Frank) Sammy:

1. Here I'll Stay

2. Begin The Beguine

3. monologue

4. Tomorrow Is Another Day

5. Satin Doll

6. Medley: Talk To The Animals -

The Candyman - Just Once In A Lifetime

- What Kind Of Fool Am I

7. Mr. Bojangles

Frank:

8. I've Got The World On A String

9. What Now My Love

10. Maybe This Time 11. For Once In My Life

12. Bewitched

13. Where Or When

14. The September Of My Years

15. Mack The Knife

16. New York, New York

Frank & Sammy:

17. monologue

18. Medley: Side By Side - I've Heard That Song Before - All Or

Nothing At All - Memories Are Made Of This - Something's Gotta Give - Love Or Marriage - Volare - That Old Black Magic - Witchcraft - Bye Bye Blackbird - I Got Plenty O' Nothing - Come Fly With My - Gonna Build A Mountain - Oh, Marie - Hava Negilah - All Of Me - You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You

19. The Oldest Established

Notes: "The Oldest Established" is missing on the circulating concert.

Dave Paulson noted:

This was the first time we saw Frank and it was very exciting.

Minneapolitan Eddie Albert was there, sitting ringside. He was introduced at the beginning and stood up and waved at everyone.

Everyone already knew he was there. His brilliant head of white hair may just as well have been a spotlight.

Sammy and Frank sounded good and it's nice to have the "North Country" cd. We were disappointed Dean had dropped out. My then future mother-in-law told us that a few hours before the show, so we were prepared. The medley meant for three seemed a bit awkward at times, but maybe it was intentional. The two singers may have been 'looking' for Dean. We have the glossy program, photos we took, and a few other souvenirs from the show.

Extras

Met Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota

w/Sammy

First Concert After Dean Martin Dropped Out Of Tour

Orchestra conducted by Morty Stevens (Sammy) and Frank Sinatra jr. (Frank)

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Dean Martin had quit the tour days earlier in Chicago after Frank complained about his performance, flying home and checking into Cedars-Sinai; Sammy Davis Jr. told this crowd, in a slip of the hospital's name, that they'd "just got through talking to Cedars-Cyanide in Beverly Hills" and that Martin was improving. The tour continued as a duo before Liza Minnelli joined the following month and it was renamed "The Ultimate Event." Source: J. Randy Taraborrelli, Sinatra: Behind the Legend.

March 25, 1988

Concerts

Joe Louis Arena, Detroit, Michigan

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller w/Sammy Davis, jr.

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. What Now, My Love?

3. Maybe This Time

4. For Once In My Life

5. Bewitched

6. Where Or When

7. The September Of My Years

8. Mack The Knife

9. One For My Baby

10. This Is All I Ask

11. My Way

12. New York, New York

13. Medley w/ Sammy Davis Jr: Side By Side /I've Heard That Song Before /

All Or Nothing At All / Love And Marriage / Volare / Witchcraft / Come Fly With Me / Oh Marie / All Of Me / You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You / The Oldest Established

Extras

Joe Louis Arena, Detroit, Michigan

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller w/Sammy Davis, jr.

March 26, 1988

Concerts

Civic Arena, Pittsburgh, Penn.

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller w/Sammy Davis, jr.

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. What Now, My Love?

3. Maybe This Time

4. For Once In My Life

5. Bewitched

6. Where Or When

7. The September Of My Years

8. Mack The Knife

9. This Is All I Ask

10. My Kind Of Town

11. My Way

12. Soliloquy

13. New York, New York

14. medley w/Sammy

15. The Oldest Established w/Sammy

Extras

Civic Arena, Pittsburgh, Penn.

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller w/Sammy Davis, jr.

March 28, 1988

Concerts

Richfield Coliseum, Cleveland, Ohio

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

w/Sammy Davis, jr.

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. What Now, My Love?

3. Maybe This Time

4. For Once In My Life

5. Bewitched

6. Where Or When

7. The September Of My Years

8. Mack The Knife

9. This Is All I Ask

10. My Kind Of Town

11. My Way

12. New York, New York

13. medley w/Sammy

14. The Oldest Established w/Sammy

Extras

Richfield Coliseum, Cleveland, Ohio

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller w/Sammy Davis, jr.

March 29, 1988

Concerts

Riverfront Arena, Cincinnati, Ohio

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

w/Sammy Davis, jr.

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. What Now, My Love?

3. Maybe This Time

4. For Once In My Life

5. Bewitched

6. Where Or When

7. The September Of My Years

8. Mack The Knife

9. This Is All I Ask

10. My Kind Of Town

11. My Way

12. New York, New York

13. medley w/Sammy Davis Jr: Side By Side / I've Heard That Song Before

/All Or Nothing At All / Memories Are Made Of This / Somethin Gotta Give / Love And Marriage / Witchcraft / Bye, Bye Blackbird / Come Fly With Me / Oh Marie / All Of Me / You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You /

14. The Oldest Established

Extras

Riverfront Arena, Cincinnati, Ohio

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

w/Sammy Davis, jr.

March 31, 1988

Concerts

Capitol Center, Landover, Maryland

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller w/Sammy Davis, jr.

Frank:

1. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

2. What Now My Love

3. My Kind Of Town

4. You Will Be My Music

5. For Once In My Life

6. Lonely Town

7. Mack The Knife

8. Monologue

9. Medley The Gal That Got Away - It Never Entered My Mind

10. Where Or When 11. New York, New York

12. My Way

13. One For My Baby

Frank & Sammy:

14. Medley: Side By Side - I've Heard That Song Before - All Or

Nothing At All - Memories Are Made Of This - Something's Gotta Give - Love And Marriage - That Old Black Magic - Witchcraft - Bye Bye Blackbird - Plenty O' Nuthin' - Come Fly With Me - Gonna Build A Mountain - Oh Marie - Hava Nagela - All Of Me - You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You

16. The Oldest Established

TT 65 min.

Extras

Capital Center, Landover, Maryland

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller w/Sammy Davis, jr.

SINATRA AND DAVIS FADED GLORIES

By Richard HarringtonApril 1, 1988

The prevailing sentiment at last night's sold-out Frank Sinatra-Sammy Davis Jr. concert at Capital Centre was "thanks for the memories." Unfortunately, those memories proved far more resonant than the performances, Sinatra's in particular. Originally, this was a whistle stop on the Rat Pack Reunion tour teaming Sinatra, Davis and Dean Martin for the first time in many, many years, but Martin's hospitalization after kidney problems forced him off the road (though he remains on the souvenir T-shirts and in the souvenir programs). Martin was probably the weakest link musically, but the fabled camaraderie might have elevated the concert to something special. He was missed more than anyone would have thought. Since the Rat Duo would have been an inelegant concept, the concert resorted to a familiar format, Davis opening for Sinatra, with only a brief collaboration at night's end, in which Sinatra and Davis offered a medley of two dozen chestnuts of American popular song without ennobling a single one, and only hinting at the cozy congeniality the audience expected. It was as ragged and sloppy as if Martin had been there, but was more reminiscent of a late-night encounter between two lounge singers. This may seem too harsh a judgment, but those tricks of cultural memory that so often let fans hear what they want to hear eventually lose their power. Which means that, for all the wonderful and astounding singing that Frank Sinatra has done over such a long period of time, it's painful to listen to him now, and almost as painful to watch him. It's a little like watching George Foreman fight. Sinatra's once-deft phrasing is stolid, his range increasingly narrow, the timbre of his voice lacking in suppleness and effectiveness. This is to be expected from a 72-year-old singer whose best days are far behind him, but even in the recent past, Sinatra has compensated with his ability to explore emotional nuances. Unfortunately, such nuances were evident in only a handful of songs last night: the smoky midnight confession of "One for My Baby and One More for the Road"; "For Once in My Life," on which he reached for something deeper than mere notes; "A Lonely Town," in which he conveyed genuine sorrow. But all too often Sinatra stumbled through his material, relying (and clumsily, at that) on the monitors that surrounded the stage to cue him to lyrics. Once upon a time, Sinatra used to inhabit a song; now, he seems content just to visit. He may still represent the grand tradition, but it's too much by proxy.

Stevie Wonder's "You Are the Sunshine of My Life," Sinatra's weak stab at contemporary pop, went by quickly, mercifully. Celebrations of his kinds of towns, Chicago and New York, were delivered with unconvincing bravado (including one chorus in which he referred to himself as "head of the heap"). "My Way" built to the expected emotional crescendo, but never suggested its most touching quality, that of autobiography.

Sinatra seemed most confident and secure with those songs in which he could belt out the lyrics and the orchestra could kick up a little dust to cover his shortcuts. For the most part, he stayed true to his school -- Arlen, Porter, Mercer, Gershwin et al. -- but their songs are no longer distinguished by Sinatra's interpretations. You may hear differently from the full house who paid $40 apiece to see this show (the $685,000 gross is a Capital Centre record for a single show), but one has to believe they're letting Sinatra's glorious past absolve his present. Sinatra's toast to the audience -- "May you all live to be 400 years old and the last voice you hear is mine" -- holds weight only in that context. In his opening segment, Davis proved to be in good voice and spirits, offering a jaunt down his memory lane: the maudlin "What Kind of Fool Am I," the soft martial cadence of "I Gotta Be Me" (his "My Way"), the low-calorie "Candy Man," an ebullient "Birth of the Blues" and the poignant "Mr. Bojangles," with its own sweet edge of autobiography. He's been in show business for 59 of his 62 years, but Davis still seems to be enjoying himself immensely, with a winning snap from his fingers and from his voice. At night's end, when Davis and Sinatra turned to "Guys and Dolls" and its joyful celebration of "the oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York," it was most evident that Martin was sorely missed. Folks dressed in everything from black tie to blue jeans (more of the former, of course) had obviously expected a concurrent celebration of that old established permanent floating crap game known as the Rat Pack, its attendant attitude and accomplishments. Last night, even that ghostly presence couldn't save the performance.

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April 2, 1988

Concerts

Civic Center, Providence, Rhode Island

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller w/Sammy Davis, jr.

1. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

2. What Now My Love

3. My Kind Of Town

4. You Will Be My Music

5. For Once In My Life

6. Lonely Town

7. Mack The Knife

8. Soliloquy

9. Where Or When

10. New York, New York

11. My Way

12. One For My Baby

13. Frank & Sammy Medley: Side By Side / I've Heard That Song Before /

All Or Nothing At All / Memories Are Made Of This / Somethin's Gotta Give / Love And Marriage / That Old Black Magic / Witchcraft / Bye Bye Blackbird / Come Fly With Me / Oh Marie / All Of Me / You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You / The Oldest Established

April 6, 1988

Concerts

Radio City Music Hall, New York City (April 6-10)

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller w/Sammy Davis, jr.

1. In The Still Of The Night

2. Maybe This Time

3. For Once In My Life

4. What Now, My Love?

5. Soliloquy

6. The September Of My Years

7. Mack The Knife

8. Monologue

9. My Way

10. New York, New York

11. One For My Baby

12. medley w/Sammy: Fugue For Tinhorns / Guys And Dolls / Sit Down,

You're Rockin' The Boat / Luck Be A Lady / The Oldest Established

Note: Frank and Sammy opened on Wednesday(6) and were there for five nights.

Peggy Lee joined them for the closing night performance(10) --Ed

Extras

Radio City Music Hall, New York City (April 6-10)

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller w/Sammy Davis, jr.

April 7, 1988

Concerts

Radio City Music Hall, New York City

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller w/Sammy Davis, jr.

1, In The Still Of The Night

2. Maybe This Time

3. For Once In My Life

4. What Now, My Love?

5. Soliloquy

6. The September Of My Years

7. Mack The Knife

8. My Way

9. New York, New York

10. medley w/Sammy: Fugue For Tinhorns / Guys And Dolls / Sit Down, You re re Rockin The Boat / Luck Be A Lady / The Oldest st Established

Notes: Sinatra portion TT 60mins

Thanks to Fred W for updated listing.

Extras

Radio City Music Hall, New York City

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

w/Sammy Davis, jr.

Sammy Davis Jr. and Frank Sinatra perform together at Radio City Music Hall on April 7, 1988.

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April 8, 1988

Concerts

Radio City Music Hall, New York City

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller w/Sammy Davis, jr.

1. In The Still Of The Night

2. Maybe This Time

3. For Once In My Life

4. What Now, My Love?

5. Soliloquy

6. The September Of My Years

7. Mack The Knife

8. My Way

9. One For My Baby

10. medley w/Sammy

Notes: Sinatra portion TT 66mins.

April 9, 1988

Concerts

Radio City Music Hall, New York City (April 6-10)

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller w/Sammy Davis, jr.

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. Maybe This Time

3. For Once In My Life

4. What Now, My Love?

5. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

6. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

7. The September Of My Years

8. Mack The Knife

9. My Way

10. New York, New York

11. One For My Baby

12. medley w/Sammy

Notes: TT 107mins.

April 10, 1988

Concerts

Radio City Music Hall, New York City

Benefit

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller w/Sammy Davis, jr.

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. Maybe This Time

3. For Once In My Life

4. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

5. Mack The Knife

6. My Way

7. New York, New York

8. medley w/Sammy

Notes: Sinatra portion TT 46mins.

Peggy Lee joined Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. in their Radio City Music Hall finale, April 10, to make a joyous affection-laden recital even more joyful.

Lee added luster to the event with her well-defined and deeply grooved catalog, which included most of her epics such as "Fever" and "Is That All There Is."

Lee, who has been ailing and now walks with a sequined cane, worked from a variation of a pilot's chair which allowed her to swing in all directions for better audience contact.

Although she didn't participate in the byplay normal for the top of the ticket participants, there is a basic humor and warmth to her natural style of presentation. She, no less, was a hit, and it's based on ability to sing rather than sym- pathy for her physical condition.

The N.Y. finale had some special filigree to make the event even more memorable. The night was a benefit for Memorable Sloan-Kettering Hospital. The show was preceded by three cocktail parties, one each by the Paine Webber brokerage, Warner Communications and Chemical Bank.

Capper of the evening was dinner at the Rainbow Room, which was oversubscribed by buyers of $1,000 tickets, resulting in a crush of patronage.

However, the glad tidings was the history of the relationship between Sinatra and the hospital. Sinatra has spearheaded seven yearly benefits for Sloan-Kettering, which resulted in $14,000,000 to aid the ailing.

Jose

Variety

April 13, 1988

Extras

Radio City Music Hall, New York City

Benefit

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

w/Sammy Davis, jr.

Frank Sinatra is bright-eyed and bushy-tailed backstage at Radio City Music Hall as he welcomes

Peggy Lee and Sammy Davis Jr. for Sinatra VII, Ol' Blue Eyes' benefit for Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

April 10, 1988 -- Carl

This calendar, or any parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any fashion

whatsoever without the prior written permission of the publisher (The

Sinatra Archive)

April 19, 1988

Concerts

McCallum Theatre, Palm Springs, California

Tuesday evening

Jazz Among Friends

Barbara Sinatra Benefit for Abused Children

Roger Moore M.C.

33 piece orchestra

Frank Sinatra Jr made his debut as conductor for his father

1. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

2. I've Got The World On A String

3. Soliloquy

4. One For My Baby *

5. New York, New York

6. The Oldest Established Floating Crap Game In New York w/ Sammy Davis Jr.

Roger Moore closing remarks.

* "There have been saloon songs and there have

'been saloon songs . . . this particular song is truly

THE saloon song.

Note: Ed O'Brien supplied the above concert listing.

April 28, 1988

Concerts

Bally's Grand, Reno, Nevada

Orchestra Conducted By: Frank Sinatra, jr.

1. I've Got the World on a String

2. In the Still of the Night

3. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

4. Where or When

5. You Are the Sunshine of My Life

6. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

7. For Once in My Life

8. This Is All I Ask

9. Soliloquy

10. Barbara

11. Mack the Knife

12. What's New

13. Luck Be a Lady

14. My Way

15. The September of My Years

16. You Will Be My Music

17. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)

18. I've Got You Under My Skin

19. Strangers in the Night

20. Theme From New York, New York

Extras

Opening his solo act here a little more than a month after leaving the Together Again Tour, Dean Martin joked to the crowd, "Frank sent me a kidney, but I don't know whose it was" -- a reference to the kidney ailment his publicist had cited as the reason for his departure. Source: J. Randy Taraborrelli, Sinatra: Behind the Legend.

April 29, 1988

Concerts

Bally's Grand, Reno, Nevada

Orchestra Conducted By: Frank Sinatra, jr.

1. For Once In My Life

2. Without A Song

3. I've Got The World On A String

4. Summer Wind

5. Where Or When

6. My Way

7. Mack The Knife

8. monologue

9. Soliloquy

10. Luck Be A Lady

11. My Heart Stood Still

12. This Is All I Ask

13. One For My Baby

14. Strangers In The Night

15. I've Got You Under My Skin

16. New York, New York

Notes: TT 71mins.

April 30, 1988

Concerts

Bally's Grand, Reno, Nevada

Saturday night

Dinner show

Orchestra Conducted By: Frank Sinatra, jr.

1. Overture

2. I've Got The World On A String

3. In The Still Of The Night

4. What's New

5. Where Or When

6. Medley: The Gal That Got Away - It Never Entered My Mind

7. For Once In My Life

8. Soliloquy

monologue

9. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

10.. My Way

11. Mack The Knife

12. You Will Be My Music

13. September Of My Years

14. Luck Be A Lady

15.. One For My Baby

16 Strangers In The Night.

16. chaser "New York, New York"

Notes: Midnight show Frank dropped "What's New" and

"September

Of My Years." He added "I've Got You Under My Skin," after "One

For My Baby."

Bally's Grand, Reno, Nevada

Saturday night

Midnight Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Frank Sinatra, jr.

1. Overture

2. I've Got The World On A String

3. In The Still Of The Night

4. Where Or When

5. Medley: The Gal That Got Away - It Never Entered My Mind

6. For Once In My Life

7. Soliloquy

8. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

9. My Way

10. Mack The Knife

11. You Will Be My Music

12. Luck Be A Lady

13. One For My Baby

14. I've Got You Under My Skin

15 Strangers In The Night.

16. chaser "New York, New York"

May 1, 1988

Concerts

Bally's Grand, Reno, Nevada

Orchestra Conducted By: Frank Sinatra, jr.

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. In The Still Of The Night

3. Where Or When

4. Gal That Got Away/ It Never Entered My Mind

5. For Once In My Life

6. Soliloquy

7. monologue

8. Barbara

9. Mack The Knife

10. What's New

11. Luck Be A Lady

12. My Way

13. You Will Be My Music

14. One For My Baby

15. I've Got You Under My Skin

16. Strangers In The Night

17. New York, New York

May 4, 1988

Concerts

Atlantic City, Bally's Grand (4-8) opening night five day engagement

Frank Sinatra Jr. conducting

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. All Or Nothing At All ( Riddle 66)

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. Luck Be A Lady

5. Summer Wind

6. For Once In My Life

7. Spring Is Here

8. Soliloquy

9. monologue

10. This Is All I Ask

11. Just One Of Those Things ( Bill Rogers arg.)

12. My Way

13. Mack The Knife

14. One For My Baby w/ Bill Miller

15. Strangers In The Night

16. I've Got You Under My Skin

17. New York, New York

Ed O'Brien:

This engagement featured long shows by Frank. A couple of them he was on stage more than 90 minutes.. "Just One Of Those Things" was a real highlight. "Summer Wind" had become a real showstopper. It excited the crowd as much, if not more than "Mack," "NY, NY" and "My Way.' The famous Riddle chart had been souped up a bit. Frank roared through it night after night.

John K. George, SFC (Ret):

Who is Bill Rogers?

Ed O'Brien:

He was Frank Jr's arranger. He arranged two tracks for the Sinatra digital album. First session, 6-6-88. Frank managed to get through one song, "My Foolish Heart." and did an off-mike reading of "Cry Me A River." Billy May was the arranger on both. The other two songs set to be recorded that night, "If Ever I Would Leave You" and "Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise," were done by Rogers. Orchestral tracks and vocals by Jr. were laid down. Rogers also arranged Sinatra songs done onstage. He passed away in May 2005.

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May 5, 1988

Concerts

Bally's Grand, Atlantic City

May 6, 1988

Concerts

Atlantic City, Bally's Grand

First show

1. Overture Tribute to the Big Band Era conceived and arranged by Billy May conducted by Bill Miller

2. Where Or When

3. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

4. Happy Birthday ( Jilly Rizzo' 71 years old)

5. In The Still Of The Night

6. I Get A Kick Out Of You

7. My Way

8. Luck Be A Lady

9. For Once In My Life

10. Mack The Knife monologue

11. Soliloquy

12. This Is All I Ask

13. Come Rain Or Come Shine

14. Spring Is Here

15. I've Got You Under My Skin

16. One For My Baby

17. Summer Wind

18. Strangers In The Night

19. New York, New York

Atlantic City, Bally's Grand

Second show

1. Overture

"Isn't that a nice overture Billy May wrote? Great!"

2. Where Or When

3. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

4. In The Still Of The Night

5. I Get A Kick Out Of You

6. My Way

7. Luck Be A Lady

8. For Once In My Life

9. Mack The Knife monologue (Tells audience he will appear at

Carnegie Hall tribute to Irving Berlin on 5-11-88.

Sings a few lines from "Oh, How I Hate To Get Up

In The Morning.")

10. Soliloquy

11. This Is All I Ask

12. Come Rain Or Come Shine

13. Spring Is Here

14. I've Got You Under My Skin

15. One For My Baby

May 7, 1988

Concerts

Atlantic City, Bally's Grand

Saturday evening

Overture conceived and arranged by Billy May was played before Sinatra's appearance at both shows

Bill Miller conducted

First show

1 I've Got The World On A String

2. All Or Nothing At All

3. Luck Be A Lady

4. Spring Is Here

5. Come Rain Or Come Shine

" one of the great songs ever" monologue Numerous stories about Dean

6. Soliloquy

7. Just One Of Those Things

8. Lonely Town

"Orchestrated by both Gordon Jenkins & Nelson Riddle."

9. My Way

10. Mack The Knife

11. Happy Birthday sung to a 96 year old grandma

F.S. wishes her a Happy Mother's Day

12. Strangers In The Night "written by Tom Mix"

13. One For My Baby

Atlantic City, Bally's Grand

Saturday evening

Overture conceived and arranged by Billy May was played before Sinatra's appearance at both shows

Bill Miller conducted

Second Show

1. I've Got the World on a String

2. All or Nothing at All

3. Luck Be a Lady

4. Spring is Here

5. Come Rain or Come Shine

6. Soliloquy

7. Just One of those Thing

8. Lonely Town

9. My Way

10. Mack the Knife

11. Strangers in the Night

12. One for My Baby

13. I've Got You Under My Skin

14. Summer Wind

15. New York, New York

May 8, 1988

Concerts

Atlantic City, Bally's Grand

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

Orchestra conducted by Bill Miller

Overture conceived and arranged by Billy May

First show

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. All Or Nothing At All

3. Luck Be A Lady

4. Spring Is Here

5. Come Rain Or Come Shine monologue

6. Soliloquy

7. Lonely Town

8. My Way

9. Mack The Knife

10. One For My Baby

11. Strangers In The Night

12. Summer Wind rejects parody suggested by Bill Miller

13. New York, New York

Atlantic City, Bally's Grand

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

Orchestra conducted by Bill Miller

Overture conceived and arranged by Billy May

Second show

Frank tells audience that Jilly's birthday party has left him with a huge hangover. Vows never to attend another birthday party for his friend

1 I've Got The World On A String asks audience if they ever heard of Morty Storm

2. All Or Nothing At All

3. Luck Be A Lady

4. Spring Is Here

5. Come Rain Or Come Shine monologue

6. Soliloquy

7. Lonely Town

8. My Way tells Dino stories audience asks for a Mother's Day song

Frank asks Bill what they can do. He then sings a very creditable version of his Capitol recording:

9. I Love You w/Bill Miller

10. Mack The Knife

11. Strangers In The Night

12. One For My Baby

13. I've Got You Under My Skin

14. Summer Wind

15. New York, New York

May 11, 1988

Radio

New York City

WNEW-AM

Wednesday afternoon

Jonathan Schwartz Show

Interview with Frank Sinatra

Ed O'Brien notes:

They discuss Frank's appearance that evening at the Irving Berlin 100th Birthday Gala; his planned digital album produced and directed by Frank, Jr.; the songs planned for the project, his health; the "Lush Life" session from 1958; his opinion of Mr. Berlin as a songwriter.

Television

None

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May 13, 1988

Television

Larry King Live

Guest: Frank Sinatra. 60 min.

NOTE: Ed O'Brien thinks that Larry King did a terrible job here. He wasn't prepared and made numerous mistakes during the hour. Sinatra was somewhat confused with a few facts and King was clueless. A few years after Sinatra's appearance, King wrote an article about his great interviews and included that one. He mentioned that before the show he had chatted with Frank in the green room. According to King, Frank told him that he had been singing the Irving Berlin song "Remember" in concert for years and had only recently recognized the tremendous underlying anger in the song. Sounds good, O'Brien allows, but points that Sinatra never did the song in concert.

May 26, 1988

Concerts

Bally's Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada (26-31)

Orchestra Conducted By: Frank Sinatra, jr.

Ed O'Brien:

I did a little research on this engagement. Original schedule was for a week, May 26 thru June 1. When he came in it was scaled back to the 26th thru the 31st. Here is the complete list of songs for the engagement: 1, I've Got The World On A String

2, Witchcraft

3. For Once In My Life

4.. The September Of My Years

5. Summer Wind

6. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

7. monologue

8. Luck Be A Lady

9. My Heart Stood Still

10. Mack The Knife

11. My Way

12. One For My Baby

13. Strangers In The Night

14. I've Got You Under My Skin

15. New York, New York alternates: Where Or When, Without A Song, In The Still Of The Night

Extras

Filming of Michelob commercial (26-27)

Location: Bally's Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada

Ed O'Brien:

The Michelob spots were filmed in the late afternoon of May 26 and 27. Frank wasn't thrilled with the idea and it took a great deal of persuading to get him to lip synch to his great Reprise recording. The ad men came up with Frank as the perfect performer to lure older consumers back to the lite Anheuser - Busch brew.

A recording of Frank singing "Just the Way You Look Tonight" was used in a Michelob beer commercial, a notable choice since the brand had previously used young rock stars like Eric Clapton and Phil Collins; Anheuser-Busch said they wanted his timeless appeal for a campaign about "the night."

Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

May 27, 1988

Television

Irving Berlin 100th Birthday (CBS)

Taped May 11, 1988

1. Always

2. When I Lost You

Notes: Sinatra also appears at the closing of the show. 120 min.

Ed O'Brien loves the chart Torrie Zito wrote for Sinatra. The gravel sound, so much a part of the '88 Sinatra, adds a great deal of pathos to Berlin's marvelous songs.

Concerts

Bally's Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada

Orchestra Conducted By: Frank Sinatra, jr.

1, I've Got The World On A String

2, Witchcraft

3. For Once In My Life

4. The September Of My Years

5. Summer Wind

6. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

7. monologue

8. Luck Be A Lady

9. My Heart Stood Still

10. Mack The Knife

11. My Way

12. One For My Baby

13. Strangers In The Night

14. I've Got You Under My Skin

15. New York, New York

Notes: TT 65mins.

Extras

TV review

Irving Berlin, Absent, Is Much the Star of Carnegie Tribute By STEPHEN HOLDEN

Gathered from the four corners of show business, more than two dozen stellar performers assembled at Carnegie Hall last night to salute Irving Berlin on his 100th birthday. From Frank Sinatra to Willie Nelson, from Ray Charles to Marilyn Horne, they represented an array of American musical styles as rich and varied as the songs of the man they were honoring - songs that have become so embedded in the texture of American life that they seem inextricably woven into the country's history. ''What makes an Irving Berlin song special?'' Frank Sinatra said in a telephone interview the other day. ''The answer is quite simple: Irving Berlin. And that's 'not for just an hour, not for just a day, not for just a year, but always.' In a world where many make sausages, Irving made beauty.'' At last night's concert, Mr. Sinatra sang ''Always'' and another classic Berlin waltz, ''When I Lost You,'' with a hard-edged declarative eloquence, carefully rounding out each syllable. It was one of many strong, individualistic performances on a roster of distinctive voices that ranged from the low-key country twang of Willie Nelson singing ''Blue Skies'' to Ray Charles's quiet, almost tearful ''How Deep Is the Ocean,'' which he ended in plaintive, quavering falsetto. Rosemary Clooney, an old friend of the Berlin family, called the words of ''Always'' ''just about the strongest statement you can make in a lyric.'' Miss Clooney sang ''Count Your Blessings (Instead of Sheep)'' and ''White Christmas.'' Concert Taped for TV Mr. Berlin and his wife, Ellen, did not attend the concert, which was taped by CBS for a television broadcast on May 27. Originally, the composer was to have watched the show in his Manhattan apartment through an electronic transmission from Carnegie Hall, but a few days ago he vetoed the plan. Instead, he will watch the show with the rest of the country when it is shown two weeks from now. Last evening's salute, which will benefit the American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers and Carnegie Hall, was the only public celebration officially recognized by Mr. Berlin, who exercised a strong guiding hand over the proceedings. Along with Victor Herbert and John Philip Sousa, he was one of the founders in 1914 of Ascap, the organization established to protect the copyrighted material of writers and publishers. Plans for last night's gala were set in motion last fall when the reclusive composer, who has maintained a professional silence since the early 1960's, granted Ascap permission to stage the celebration. Morton Gould, who became the president of Ascap nearly three years ago, said that when he approached the composer last year with the idea of a 100th-birthday celebration, Mr. Berlin's response was, ''What's the hurry?'' Last fall, the composer finally assented to the idea and sent Mr. Gould a letter saying he would like Ascap and Carnegie Hall to do a birthday concert as a joint venture. Mr. Berlin also submitted a list of performers. Among those on his original list were Mr. Sinatra, Miss Clooney, Tony Bennett, Mr. Bernstein and Shirley MacLaine. Don Mischer, the producer of the Tony Awards and the Kennedy Center Honors ceremonies, was chosen as the executive producer of the event and given a relatively free hand. Ribbons and Bows For the gala, the stage at Carnegie Hall was decorated with giant gold and silver piano keys arranged in ribbons and bows. The show began with a peppy ''Let Me Sing and I'm Happy'' from Ms. MacLaine, and took on a statesmanlike tone when Walter Cronkite took the stage and spoke of the composer's legacy to the nation. ''Irving Berlin helped write the story of this country by capturing the best of who we are and the dreams that shape our lives,'' Mr. Cronkite said. ''Since 1906, Irving Berlin has written over 1,500 songs, and it is there we find our history, our holidays, our homes and our hearts.'' Mr. Berlin's output has been so enormous and varied that Mr. Mischer and his team divided the evening into segments devoted to Americana, swing, Broadway and Hollywood. The swing segment brought together Joe Williams, Diane Schuur and Billy Eckstine. Maryann Plunkett, Barry Bostwick and Bea Arthur performed the theater songs, with Miss Arthur singing tunes associated with Ethel Merman. Natalie Cole and Madeline Kahn also sang. Maureen McGovern, Jerry Orbach, Michael Feinstein, and Nell Carter -four singers as different from each other as one could imagine - offered Berlin gems. Miss Carter, swathed in a purple boa, sang a sassy ''Alexander's Ragtime Band.'' Can't Read Music When the song that launched Mr. Berlin's career in 1909 was over, the battered old upright piano on which it was composed was wheeled onto the stage, and Isaac Stern, the president of Carnegie Hall, reflected on the fact that Mr. Berlin had never taken a music lesson and could not read or write music. ''He played only the black keys,'' Mr Stern said. But, he added, ''Talent is what a man possesses, and genius is what possesses a man, and Irving Berlin is a genius.'' Later in the evening, Garrison Keillor evoked the songwriter's intuitive genius. ''He took our American talk and made it into poetry - not fancy, not highbrow, but simple and graceful,'' Mr. Keillor said. And to demonstrate, he recited the words of ''All Alone,'' which he called ''a poem of 81 words without one unnecessary one.'' The evening's most amusing moment came when Leonard Bernstein made what he called his ''Carnegie Hall singing debut,'' playing the piano and growling out the early Berlin song ''Russian Lullaby.'' He then sang his own whimsical modernist variation on it, ''My Twelve-Tone Lullaby,'' punctuating the phrases with apologies to Mr. Berlin. Tapping and Strutting In a relatively serious evening, the closest thing to a show-stopper was a segment with Tommy Tune. Attired in white tie and tails and backed by a chorus of eight male dancers, Mr. Tune tapped and strutted through a razzle-dazzle performance of ''Puttin' On the Ritz.'' As the evening drew to a close, music gave way to pageantry. Walter Cronkite introduced the members of the U.S. Army Chorus, who paraded down the aisles singing ''This Is the Army.'' They were followed by troops of Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts singing ''This Is a Great Country,'' from Mr.. Berlin's last Broadway show, ''Mr. President.'' Finally, Marilyn Horne sang ''God Bless America,'' the country's unofficial national anthem, with troops and scouts joining in. Miss MacLaine then returned to deliver a final message.

''How does one sing 'Happy Birthday' to Irving Berlin?'' she asked. ''It's one of the few songs he didn't write.'' Her question was answered with a rousing full-cast rendition of Mr. Berlin's other unofficial anthem, ''There's No Business Like Show Business."

May 28, 1988

Concerts

Bally's Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada (26-31)

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Frank Sinatra, jr.

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. Witchcraft

3. For Once In My Life

4. The September Of My Years

5. Summer Wind

6. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

7. monologue

8. Luck Be A Lady

9. My Heart Stood Still

10. Mack The Knife

11. My Way

12. One For My Baby

13. Strangers In The Night

14. I've Got You Under My Skin

15. New York, New York

Notes: TT 60mins.

Bally's Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada

Second Show

May 29, 1988

Concerts

Bally's Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada (26-31)

Orchestra Conducted By: Frank Sinatra, jr.

1. I’ve Got The World On A String

2. Witchcraft

3. For Once In My Life

4. The September Of My Years

5. Summer Wind

6. Where Or When

7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

8. monologue

9. Without A Song

10. Luck Be A Lady

11. My Heart Stood Still

12. Mack The Knife

13. My Way

14. In The Still Of The Night

15. One For My Baby

16. Strangers In The Night

17. I’ve Got You Under My Skin

18. New York, New York

Notes: TT 73mins.

May 30, 1988

Concerts

Bally's Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada (26-31)

Orchestra Conducted By: Frank Sinatra, jr.

June 6, 1988

Studio

Hollywood

BB002635 My Foolish Heart

w/Jack Sheldon trumpet solo

(Ned Washington/Victor Young)

Anne-Rachel Music Corp./Catharine Hinen (ASCAP)

Arranged & Conducted by Billy May

-18 (2:46) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 20

Ed O'Brien:

Sinatra was also set to record in order:

Cry Me A River (Billy May arg)

If Ever I Would Leave You(Bill Rogers arg.)

Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise(Bill Rogers arg.)

Masquerade Is Over (Billy May arg.)

Easy Living (Bill Rogers arg.)

The digital album project that only produced one recording.

Last week I happened to stumble upon the tunes planned

for this ambitious project. As you can see six songs were

set to be recorded on 6-6-88. Four had orchestral tracks

laid down. Frank was in the studio for 100 minutes.

Here are the additional tunes planned for the album:

1. Penthouse Serenade

2. When The Sun Comes Out

3. Isn't It Romantic

4. Midnight Sun

5. I'm Old Fashioned

6. Sophisticated Lady

7. That Face

8. Ain't Misbehavin'

9. Solitude

10. Don't Get Around Much Anymore

11. Lush Life ( Frank told Jonathan Schwartz, during an interview on 5-11-88,

that he didn't know the song well enough on the famous 5-29-58 session.

He wanted another shot at it.

NOTE: Sinatraphile Vance Adair calls this a fine arrangement. The Sinatra vocal is good, he says, but he wishes that Sinatra had come back to it on a day when his voice was sounding a little more vigorous. (There were many of those days for him between 1988 and 1990.) The song was a part of the "2/4 polite jazz" project that Sinatra enthused about to Clive James on the 1988 documentary. It was comprised of many fine arrangements that would have been a more worthy swansong to his remarkable career than the "Duets" projects proved to be. Frank Jr.sneaked some of the other tunes onto a recent album. Every time I hear it, I marvel at the prospect of what his dad might have done with them, Adair laments.

Later, Sinatra Scholar Ed O'Brien commented: Billy May wrote a wonderful chart for "My Foolish Heart" with a dynamite trumpet solo for Jack Sheldon. Jr. had assembled a 35-piece orchestra for that session, but Sinatra found the chart difficult and, for the first 14 takes, he kept coming in while Sheldon was playing.

"There were 18 takes in all. The released recording is made up of intercuts. An alternate was also mastered and later on Jr. did an electronic duet with his father's recording. Billy May also wrote a marvelous chart for "If Ever I Would Leave You." Jr. did a recording that just makes one wish that Sinatra had laid it down. The session was digitally recorded.

Source: CS 050 -- Getzel #1, "Sinatra Unreleased" liner notes, which include an informal, previously unreleased run-through of "Cry Me A River" from this date -- not recorded by the studio itself, the notes say, but preserved on a portable recorder taping the session.

Extras

[My Foolish Heart / Cry Me a River -- critical commentary]

Will Friedwald: In June 1988 Sinatra attempted two Billy May charts on standards; 'My Foolish Heart' was later deemed releasable and appeared on the Complete Reprise Studio Recordings box, while 'Cry Me a River' -- described as an even better idea for a Sinatra/May pairing, swinging harder than most of L.A. Is My Lady -- was never completed to an issuable take, though a surreptitious rehearsal recording without vocal mic survives.

This song/context matches multiple dated entries in the chronology; the specific date Friedwald is referring to could not be determined with confidence.

Source: Will Friedwald, "Sinatra! The Song Is You: A Singer's Art" (2018 revised edition), Ch. 10, "Concert Years" (1973-1994)

June 26, 1988

Concerts

Bally's Grandstand, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Frank Sinatra, jr.

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. Witchcraft

3. For Once In My Life

4. The September Of My Years

5. The Summer Wind

6. Medley The Gal That Got Away - It Never Entered My Mind

7. Luck Be A Lady

8. My Heart Stood Still

9. monologue

10. Mack The Knife

11. My Way

12. One For My Baby

13. Strangers In The Night

14. I've Got You Under My Skin

15. New York, New York

Notes: TT 63mins.

Extras

Bally's Grandstand, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Frank Sinatra, jr.

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. Witchcraft

3. For Once In My Life

4. The September Of My Years

5. The Summer Wind

6. Medley The Gal That Got Away - It Never Entered My Mind

7. Luck Be A Lady

8. My Heart Stood Still

9. monologue

10. Mack The Knife

11. My Way

12. One For My Baby

13. Strangers In The Night

14. I've Got You Under My Skin

15. New York, New York

Notes: TT 63mins.

Morning Call

note: Sinatra was part of the Inaugural Gala for the Grandstand, 10-8-87,

w/ Jerry Lewis, Sammy Davis and Frankie Randall. They sang "Oldest

Established Floating Crap Game" and "Here's To The Band"( There

is a video in circulation ).Bally's decided to promote the Grandstand

with a series of summer concerts, beginning with Sinatra. Tony Bennett

appeared on 7/2 with Peter Nero conducting the Philadelphia Pops. The

Beach Boys, Johnny Mathis, Vic Damone & Diahann Carroll would also

appear at later dates that summer.

The reviewer lists the entire Sinatra song list that was performed that

evening.

July 6, 1988

Concerts

Bally's Grand, Reno, Nevada (6-10)

1. For Once in my Life

2. Without a Song

3. I've Got the World on a String

4. Summer Wind

5. Witchcraft

6. Mack the Knife

7. monologue

8. My Way

9. The Gal That Got Away - It Never Entered my Mind

10. My Heart Stood Still

11. One for My Baby

12. Strangers in the Night

13. I've Got You Under my Skin

14. New York, New York

Extras

Bally's Grand, Reno, Nevada (6-10)

July 7, 1988

Concerts

Bally's Grand, Reno, Nevada

Orchestra Conducted By: Frank Sinatra, jr.

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. In The Still Of The Night

3. Bewitched

4. What's New?

5. Where Or When

6. medley: The Gal That Got Away - It Never Entered My Mind

7. For Once In My Life

8. This Is All I Ask

9. Soliloquy

10. monologue

11. Barbara

12. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

13. My Way

14. Mack The Knife

15. The September Of My Years

16. Luck Be A Lady

17. One For My Baby

18. I've Got You Under My Skin

19. Strangers In The Night

20. New York, New York

Notes: TT 93mins.

July 8, 1988

Concerts

Bally's Grand, Reno, Nevada

Orchestra Conducted By: Frank Sinatra, jr.

1. For Once In My Life

2. Without A Song

3. I've Got The World On A String

4. Summer Wind

5. Where Or When

6. My Way

7. Mack The Knife

8. monologue

9. Soliloquy

10. Luck Be A Lady

11. My Heart Stood Still

12. This Is All I Ask

13. One For My Baby

14. Strangers In The Night

15. I've Got You Under My Skin

16. New York, New York

Notes: TT 70mins.

July 9, 1988

Concerts

Bally's Grand, Reno, Nevada

First Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Frank Sinatra, jr.

1. For Once In My Life

2. Without A Song

3. I've Got The World On A String

4. Summer Wind

5. Where Or When

6. My Way

7. Mack The Knife

8. monologue

9. Soliloquy

10. Luck Be A Lady

11. My Heart Stood Still

12. The September Of My Years

13. One For My Baby

14. Strangers In The Night

15. I've Got You Under My Skin

16. New York, New York

Notes: TT 64mins.

Bally's Grand, Reno, Nevada

Second Show

Orchestra Conducted By: Frank Sinatra, jr.

1. For Once In My Life

2. Without A Song

3. I've Got The World On A String

4. Summer Wind

5. Where Or When

6. My Way

7. Mack The Knife

8. monologue

9. Soliloquy

10. Luck Be A Lady

11. My Heart Stood Still

12. The September Of My Years

13. One For My Baby

14. Strangers In The Night

15. I've Got You Under My Skin

16. New York, New York

Notes: TT 64mins.

July 10, 1988

Concerts

Bally's Grand, Reno, Nevada

Orchestra Conducted By: Frank Sinatra, jr.

August 19, 1988

Concerts

Charlotte Coliseum, Charlotte, North Carolina

Benefit

Orchestra Conducted By: Frank Sinatra, jr.

Also: Liza Minneli

1.I've Got The World On A String

2. Witchcraft

3. For Once In My Life

4. The September Of My Years

5. The Summer Wind

6. Where Or When

7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind

8. presentations

9. Without A Song

10. Luck Be A Lady

11. Someone To Watch Over Me

12. Mack The Knife

13. My Way

14. In The Still Of The Night

15. One For My Baby

16. Strangers In The Night

17. I've Got You Under My Skin

18. New York, New York

Notes: TT 80mins.

SFC John K. George:

I attended the benefit concert in Charlotte. I was stationed at Fort Bragg, NC, and drove the two hours into Charlotte. I missed the opening act Tony Renaud. Sinatra was in great form, he looked good, and sounded great, and it was a great mix of music.

Larry Crawford

I also attended the Charlotte NC show, it was the only time I ever saw FS in concert. It was a great show.

Extras

Charlotte Coliseum, Charlotte, North Carolina

Benefit

Orchestra Conducted By: Frank Sinatra, jr.

Also: Liza Minneli

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