Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada (17-23)
Thursday evening
South Shore Room
Second Show
Orchestra conducted by Bill Miller
1. Where Or When arg. by Billy Byers
2. My Kind Of Town
3. Didn't We
5. Something arg. by Don Costa
6. They Can't Take That Away From Me arg. by D. Costa
7. Ol' Man River monologue
8. Send In The Clown B. Miller on piano
9. My Way
10. I Believe I'm Gonna Love You
11. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
12.. I've Got You Under My Skin
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe , Nevada (17-23)
1. Where or When
2. My Kind of Town
3. Didn't We
4. Something
5. They Can't Take That Away from Me
Monologue
1. Send in the Clowns
2. My Way
3. I Believe I'm Gonna Love You
4. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
5. Ol' Man River
6. I've Got You Under my Skin
NOTE: The long monologue extended this show to 55 minutes, according to Ed O'Brien.
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada (17-23)
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Where or When
2. My Kind of Town
3. Didn't We
4. Something
5. They Can't Take That Away From Me
6. Send in the Clowns
7. My Way
8. I Believe I'm Gonna Love You
9. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
10. Ol' Man River
11. I've Got You Under My Skin
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada (17-23)
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada (17-23)
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada (Closing Night)
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Hollywood
TCA5717 A Baby Just Like You w/Vocal Chorus
(John Denver /Joe Henry)
Cherry Lane Music Publishing Co. Inc. (ASCAP)
Arranged by Don Costa
Conducted by Bill Miller
(2:45) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 17
LP: W54093 I Sing The Songs Vol.2‚ ( Italy )
45: S1342
TCA5718 Christmas Memories w/Vocal Chorus
(Alan Bergman/Marilyn Bergman/Don Costa)
WB Music Corp. (ASCAP)
Arranged by Don Costa
Conducted by Bill Miller
(2:08) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 17
LP: W54093 I Sing The Songs Vol.2
45: S1342
Note: The Orchestral tracks were pre-recorded on October 15, 1975
Ed O'Brien:
Shortly after the recordings were done, Reprise released them on a 45 (RPS1342). There was a picture of Frank's granddaughter, Amanda, on the sleeve. An employee at the record company told me the suits were none too pleased with the extra expense the very attractive sleeve cost. Typical record executives. Recordings were a nice tribute.
Highlights Of A Quarter Century Of Bob Hope
Guests: Frank Sinatra
Hollywood
TCA5717 A Baby Just Like You
TCA5718 Christmas Memories
Reprise 45 (RPS1342). note: The promo copy of this single offered up a blue picture sleeve
Highlights Of A Quarter Century Of Bob Hope
"A Baby Just Like You"
Will Friedwald: 'A Baby Just Like You,' written by John Denver and Joe Henry, is analyzed as ghostwritten autobiography in the 'My Way' tradition, prompted by the May 22, 1974 birth of Sinatra's first grandchild, Angela Jennifer Lambert (Nancy Sinatra's daughter, 'A.J.'). The song has Sinatra singing directly to the baby over children's toy instruments, comparing her to the infant Christ, and closing with 'Merry Christmas, little Angela, Merry Christmas everyone.' Denver had served as Sinatra's opening act at Caesars Palace in September 1967 and the two exchanged guest shots on each other's TV specials.
Source: Will Friedwald, "Sinatra! The Song Is You: A Singer's Art" (2018 revised edition).
Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles
Saturday evening
Friars Dinner For Gene Kelly
M.C. Frank Sinatra
with Shirley Jones, Betty Garrett, Angie Dickenson,
Sid Caesar, Saul Chaplin, Jan Murray, Martin Ritt, Jesse
White, Slappy White, Debby Allen many more
Sinatra has some fun introducing people on dais and at
the VIP tables. He even sings a little bit of "Come Up To
My Place" when introducing Betty Garrett.
Gene Kelly Frank Sinatra Photo Friars honor Kelly
1975
When I saw this photo, the third person looked like a very famous fellow. So I did some searching.
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Hollywood
TCA5717 A Baby Just Like You
TCA5718 Christmas Memories
Reprise 45 (RPS1342). note: The promo copy of this single offered up a blue picture sleeve
Highlights Of A Quarter Century Of Bob Hope
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (10-30 11-6)
First Show
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
OA: The Little Steps, dance act, Pat Henry
1. Where Or When
2. At Long Last Love
3. My Kind Of Town
4. How Deep Is The Ocean?
5. Didn't We?
6. Something
7. They Can't Take That Away From Me
8. monologue
9. Send In The Clowns
10. Ol' Man River
11. I Believe I'm Gonna Love You
12. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
13. I've Got You Under My Skin
Notes: TT 49mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (10-30 - 11-6)
Second Show
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
OA: The Little Steps, dance act, Pat Henry
1. Where Or When
2. At Long Last Love
3. My Kind Of Town
4. How Deep Is The Ocean?
5. Didn't We?
6. Something
7. They Can't Take That Away From Me
8. monologue
9. Ol' Man River
10. I Believe I'm Gonna Love You
11. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
12. I've Got You Under My Skin
Notes: TT 44mins. Ed O'Brien "Frank did 16 shows" durring the engagement.
This engagement ran from 10-30 thru 11-6.
Bill Miller conducted the Nat Brandwynne Orchestra
The Little Steps, dance act, and comedian Pat Henry were the opening acts. Frank did 16 shows.
Ed
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (10-30 11-6)
First Show
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
OA: The Little Steps, dance act, Pat Henry
1. Where Or When
2. At Long Last Love
3. My Kind Of Town
4. How Deep Is The Ocean?
5. Didn't We?
6. Something
7. They Can't Take That Away From Me
8. monologue
9. Send In The Clowns
10. Ol' Man River
11. I Believe I'm Gonna Love You
12. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
13. I've Got You Under My Skin
Notes: TT 49mins.
Independent
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (10-30 - 11-6)
Second Show
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
OA: The Little Steps, dance act, Pat Henry
1. Where Or When
2. At Long Last Love
3. My Kind Of Town
4. How Deep Is The Ocean?
5. Didn't We?
6. Something
7. They Can't Take That Away From Me
8. monologue
9. Ol' Man River
10. I Believe I'm Gonna Love You
11. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
12. I've Got You Under My Skin
note: Sinatra was set to play Caesars
trom 10/30 to 11/5. All the ads
had that schedule until 10-28.
Suddenly, Caesars announced
a change in the engagement.
Frank would only be there four
days, doing two shows a night.
Sammy Davis had been hospitalized
earlier in the month. He had been
smoking too much and was suffering
from severe exhaustion. Still, he agreed
to sub for Frank ftom 11/3 to 11-5. Caesars
was set to end their association with Sammy.
There had been far to many "missed dates."
Sammy's willingness to step in for Sinatra
saved the day. Caesars had him there from
the 27th of November until December 17th.
L.A. Times
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Opening acts: Little Steps and Pat Henry
Two shows: 8 p.m. and 12 a.m.
First Show
1. Where or When
2. At Long Last Love
3. My Kind of Town
4. How Deep is the Ocean
5. Didn't We
6. Something
7. They Can't Take that away from Mr
8. Monologue
9. Just One of Those Things
10. It Never Entered my Mind
11. When Your Lover has Gone
12. I Believe I'm Gonna Love You
13. Don't Worry Г‹ Bout Me
14. I've Got You under my Skin
Second Show
1. Where or When
2. At Long Last Love
3. My Kind of Town
4. This Love of Mine
5. Didn't We
6. Something
7. They Can't Take That away from Me
8. Monologue
9. Ol' Man River
10. I Believe I'm Gonna Love You
11. Send in the Clowns
12. I've Got You under my Skin
[Sinatra introduces 'Strangers in the Night' in Jerusalem]
Frank Sinatra: At a concert in Jerusalem, Sinatra introduced 'Strangers in the Night,' a song he had come to despise, telling the audience, 'Here's a song that I cannot stand. I just cannot stand this song. But what the hell.'
Source: James Kaplan, "Sinatra: The Chairman" (2015)
Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (1-2)
Saturday night
Opening Acts: Little Steps and Pat Henry
Two shows, 8:00 p.m. and 12 a.m.
First Show
1. Where or When
2. At Long Last Love
3. My Kind of Town
4. But Beautiful
5. Didn't We
6. Something
7. The Can't Take that Away from Me
8. Monologue
9. Ol' Man River
10. I Believe I'm Gonna Love You
11. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
12. Send in the Clowns
13. I've Got You Under my Skin
Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (1-2)
Second Show
1. Where or When
2. At Long Last Love
3. My Kind of Town
4. But Beautiful
5. Didn't We
6. Something
7. They Can't Take That Away from Me
8. Monologue
9. Saloon Trilogy: Last Night When We were Young/Violets for your Furs/Here's That Rainy Day
10. I Believe I'm Gonna Love You
11. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
12. I've Got You Under my Skin
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Where Or When
2. At Long Love
3. My Kind Of Town
4. But Beautiful
5. Didn't We?
6. Something
7. They Can't Take That Away From Me
8. I've Got You Under My Skin
9. monologue
10. medley: Just One Of Those Things / It Never Entered My Mind / When
Your Lover Has Gone
11. I Believe I'm Gonna Love You
12. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
13. Send In The Clowns
Notes: TT 51mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Where Or When
2. At Long Love
3. My Kind Of Town
4. But Beautiful
5. Didn't We?
6. Something
7. They Can't Take That Away From Me
8. monologue
9. medley: Just One Of Those Things / It Never Entered My Mind / When
Your Lover Has Gone
10. I Believe I'm Gonna Love You
11. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
12. Send In The Clowns
13. I've Got You Under My Skin
14. monologue
15. I've Got You Under My Skin (reprise)
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (October 30 - November 6) Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Opening Act: The Little Steps, dance act, and
Comedian: Pat Henry
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (October 30 - November 6) Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Opening Act: The Little Steps, dance act, and
Comedian: Pat Henry
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Palladium, London, England (13-20)
Count Basie Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Where Or When
2. At Long Last Love
3. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
4. My Kind Of Town
5. How Deep Is The Ocean?
6. Didn't We?
7. Something
8. monologue
9. Send In The Clowns
10. My Way
11. I Believe I'm Gonna Love You
12. Ol' Man River
13. I've Got You Under My Skin
14. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
15. Pennies From Heaven
16. The Song Is You - w/Sarah Vaughan
17. They Can't Take That Away From Me - w/Sarah Vaughan
18. Let Me Try Again
19. The Lady Is A Champ - w/Sarah Vaughan
FRANK SINATRA -SARAH VAUGHAN-COUNT BASIE-PAT HENRY
London Palladium
The first night of London's most remarkable concert season was a happy affair. Far from being the ecstatic experience at the Royal Albert Hall here earlier this year when Sinatra, reportedly, was so knocked out by his reception that he made arrangements to return and meet the fans who hadn't made it then. But a happy affair, nevertheless. The atmosphere was expectancy rather than excitement. With inspired timing, Sinatra strolled on from among the Count Basie orchestra with no introduction and no build -up, preferring to close the applause for compere Pat Henry than walk into an ovation of his own. He launched into "Where Or When," At Long Last Love," and "My Kind Of Town," the Basie band augmented by Sinatra's rhythm section, Bill Miller conducting. The resonance on the low notes (though he avoided all the high ones he could), the famed phrasing, the vocal impact were all there. His gags were gleefully received. He did "Send In The Clowns" and until that moment not everyone had realized that this much covered number was Sinatra's song. This one, more than any other in the long set, told them Blue Eyes had never been away. Then he did "Ol' Man River" and from then on it was magic. And when he was finally joined by Basie and by Sarah Vaughan, the audience's delight was complete.
Probably the most celebrated "warmup" acts in memory, Basie and Vaughan, together with Sinatra, were dynamite. It was impossible not to share their enjoyment, impossible just to sit and watch, though this was no ordinary London Palladium audience. The review ticket was marked at $85. Sinatra could have been entertaining a crowd of friends. He wasn't fooling himself that his voice is still all there, though the charisma and presence are, even if the presence is a little paunchy. He just got out there and enjoyed himself, proving he can put more into a song than anyone else, even if the tremolo is a little too vibrato, and what the hell if the notes weren't all true? He sang on regardless, sent himself up, got a little tired And only Sinatra could have carried it off.
VAL FALLOON
Billboard
12-6-75
Palladium, London, England (13-20)
Count Basie Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Palladium, London, England (13-20)
Count Basie Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller w/Sarah Vaughan and Count Basie
1. Where Or When
2. At Long Last Love
3. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
4. My Kind Of Town
5. But Beautiful
6. Didn't We?
7. Something
8. Send In The Clowns
9. My Way
10.. I Believe I'm Gonna Love You
11. medley: Last Night When We Were Young / Violets For Your Furs / Here’s That at Rainy Day
12. I've Got ot You Under My Skin
13. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
14. Pennies From Heaven
15. The Song Is You - w/Sarah Vaughan
16. They Can't Take That Away From Me - w/Sarah Vaughan
17. Let Me Try Again
18. The Lady Is A Champ - w/Sarah Vaughan
Ed O'Brien notes:
This was Frank's first appearance at the Palladium since the summer of 1953. He did 10 shows during the eight day engagement.
Count Basie opened the show. Sarah Vaughan did 25 minutes. Pat Henry preceded Frank and Sarah joined Sinatra onstage at the conclusion of his solo stint. A compelling argument could be made that
Sassy was a better singer than Ella in 1975. She still had a phenomenal range, incredibly rich sound and marvelous jazz phrasing. But there medley didn't work as well as the Ella-Frank duets. Sarah sang "Watch What Happens" and Frank did the uptempo chart on
"Let Me Try Again." Half way through the engagement,
Frank dropped the Anka song and replaced it with
"Nice 'N''Easy'. They did duets on
"The Song Is You," They Can't Take That Away From Me" and "The Lady Is A Tramp." Nicely done but it lacked the chemiistry of his work with Ella.
Palladium, London, England (13-20)
First Show
Count Basie Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Where Or When
2. At Long Last Love
3. My Kind Of Town
4. Didn't We?
5. Something
6. Nice 'N' Easy
7. I Believe I'm Gonna Love You
8. My Way
9. I've Got You Under My Skin
10. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
11. Pennies From Heaven
12. The Song Is You - w/Sarah Vaughan
13. They Can't Take That Away From Me - w/Sarah Vaughan
14. Let Me Try Again
15. The Lady Is A Champ - w/Sarah Vaughan
Palladium, London, England (13-20)
Second Show
Count Basie Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Where Or When
2. At Long Last Love
3. My Kind Of Town
4. Didn't We?
5. Something
6. Nice 'N' Easy
7. Send In The Clowns
8. I Believe I'm Gonna Love You
9. My Way
10. medley: Just One Of Those Things / It Never Entered My Mind / When Your Lover Has Gone
11. I've Got You Under My Skin
12. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
13. Pennies From Heaven
14. The Song Is You - w/Sarah Vaughan
15. They Can't Take That Away From Me - w/Sarah Vaughan
16. Let Me Try Again
17. The Lady Is A Champ - w/Sarah Vaughan
Palladium, London, England (13-20)
First Show
Count Basie Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Where Or When
2. At Long Last Love
3. My Kind Of Town
4. Didn't We?
5. Something
6. Nice 'N' Easy
7. monologue
8. Send In The Clowns
9. I Believe I'm Gonna Love You
10. My Way
11. I've Got You Under My Skin
12. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
13. Pennies From Heaven
14. The Song Is You - w/Sarah Vaughan
15. They Can't Take That Away From Me - w/Sarah
16. Let Me Try Again
17. The Lady Is A Champ - w/Sarah Vaughan
Notes: TT 62mins.
Palladium, London, England (13-20)
Second Show
Count Basie Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Where Or When
2. At Long Last Love
3. My Kind Of Town
4. But Beautiful
5. Didn't We?
6. Something
7. monologue
8. Send In The Clowns
9. I Believe I'm Gonna Love You
10. My Way
11. medley: Last Night When We Were Young / Violets For Your Furs / Hereâ s That Rainy ny Day
12. I've Got You Under My Skin
13. Pennies From Heaven
14. The Song Is You - w/Sarah Vaughan
15. They Can't Take That Away From Me - w/Sarah Vaughan
16. Let Me Try Again
17. The Lady Is A Champ - w/Sarah Vaughan
Notes: TT 78mins.
Palladium, London, England (13-20)
Count Basie Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Where Or When
2. At Long Last Love
3. My Kind Of Town
4. How Deep Is The Ocean?
5. Didn't We?
6. Something
7. medley: Just One Of Those Things / It Never Entered My Mind / When Your Lover Has Gone
8. monologue
9. My Way
10. I've Got You Under My Skin
11. Pennies From Heaven
12. The Song Is You - w/Sarah Vaughan
13. They Can't Take That Away From Me - w/Sarah Vaughan
14. Nice 'N' Easy
15. The Lady Is A Champ - w/Sarah Vaughan
Notes: TT 75mins.
Palladium, London, England (13-20)
Count Basie Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
2. At Long Last Love
3. My Kind Of Town
4. But Beautiful
5. Didn't We?
6. Something
7. monologue
8. Send In The Clowns
9. I Believe I'm Gonna Love You 10. My Way
11. I've Got You Under My Skin
12. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
13. Pennies From Heaven
14. The Song Is You - w/Sarah Vaughan
15. They Can't Take That Away From Me - w/Sarah Vaughan
16. Nice 'N' Easy
17. The Lady Is A Champ - w/Sarah Vaughan
Palladium, London, England (13-20)
Count Basie Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
2. At Long Last Love
3. My Kind Of Town
4. But Beautiful
5. Didn't We?
6. Something
7. medley: Just One Of Those Things / It Never Entered My Mind / When Your Lover Has Gone
8. monologue
9. My Way
10. monologue
11. I've Got You Under My Skin
12. Pennies From Heaven
13. The Song Is You - w/Sarah Vaughan
14. They Can't Take That Away From Me - w/Sarah Vaughan
15. Nice 'N' Easy
16. The Lady Is A Champ - w/Sarah Vaughan
Notes: TT 63mins.
Palladium, London, England (13-20)
Count Basie Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Where Or When
2. At Long Last Love
3. My Kind Of Town
4. But Beautiful
5.. How Deep Is The Ocean?
6. Didn't We?
7. My Way
8. medley: Last Night When We Were Young / Violets For Your Furs / Here's That Rainy Day
9. I Believe I'm Gonna Love You
10. Send In The Clowns
11. I've Got You Under My Skin
12. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
13. Pennies From Heaven
14. The Song Is You - w/Sarah Vaughan
15. They Can't Take That Away From Me - w/Sarah Vaughan
16. Nice 'N' Easy
17. The Lady Is A Champ - w/Sarah Vaughan
Notes: TT 47mins.
Palladium, London, England (13-20) Closing Night
Count Basie Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
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Count Basie Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
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Aryamehr Stadium, Teheran, Iran
Key Musicians: Bill Miller (Piano), Al Viola (Guitar), Gene Cherico (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums)
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life( Riddle arg,)
2. At Long Last Love
3. My Kind Of Town
4. But Beautiful
5. Didn't We?
6. Something
7. They Can't Take That Away From Me
8. My Way
9. Nancy
10. That's Life
11. I've Got You Under My Skin
12. Pennies From Heaven
13. Fly Me To The Moon
14. The Lady Is A Tramp\
Aryamehr Stadium, Teheran, Iran
Key Musicians: Bill Miller (Piano), Al Viola (Guitar), Gene Cherico (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums)
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
note: Frank was escorted by the Iranian Boy Scouts as he walked to the center of
the Sports Arena at exactly 6:35 p.m. The capacity crowd of 12,000 gave him a
standing ovation. Frank launched into the opening number but the crowd continued
to buzz throughout the concert. There was simply no let up. Fighting an inferior sound
system and a constant din from the large crowd, Frank marshaled on with his usual
repertoire. and sheer determination. After "Nancy," Frank discarded any notion of
offering more ballads, closing out the show with five consecutive swing numbers,
with the band playing big and loud. As he sang in the round with Spiro Agnew at ring-
side and Bill Miller conducting, one can only wonder what was going through his mind.
The 55 minute concert concluded at 7:20 p.m. and Frank exited the arena surrounded
by the boy scouts. Certainly a most unusual Sinatra concert.
Ed
Michael LaPorte asked:
Any details of this available?
Brian Chearno:
All I can tell you is,
Sinatra did two concerts. November 23 & 24 as benefits for the National Iranian Society for the Welfare of the Blind.
Queen Farah Pahlavi establish national centers that promoted American film, music, literature and art. This might have been how it came about. Sinatra knew the Shah. He was quoted as saying "He was often in the company of the shaw." Also the boys from Chicago were reportedly running casinos in Iran. I've come across no newspaper or articles detailing anything about what went on. Only the dates were mentioned in the press.
In February Sinatra met "secretly" in New York with George H Bush, at the time, head of the CIA. He offered to help with intelligence since he was traveling in various circles around the world. Specifically mentioned were the Shah and Prince Philip. When George Bush was asked about this at a press conference in April 75, he declined to answer.
This is a entry I found from spyweb about someone in attendance. Take it for what it's worth. I can't confirm any of it:
November 28th, 1975
Copyright 2002 - Spyweb.us All rights reserved
The Sinatra Concert
The year was 1975 , the Shah of Iran was at the height of his power and had created great wealth for the upper classes . My father's wealth alone was over fifty million U.S. Dollars .
II shall never forget that evening in November 75 when I was a guest at the Rudaki Opera house to enjoy Frank Sinatra's live concert .. My mission was complete and I was flying back to London the next day.
IThe concert was very private, being performed in front of Empress Farah Pahlavi and selected guests . My father who owned the building next to the Opera house (rented by Rudaki hall for the use of the Performers) had an invitation which he passed on to me .
IThe box on the upper floor that I was sitting in was next to the Royal Gallery and watched very closely by SAVAK agents (the secret police). A gorgeous looking woman sat next to me who looked like a Persian version of Cindy Crawford . "Why are you here alone ?" She asked me with a beautiful smile . " Sinatra is my favorite singer and I would not have missed his show for all the tea in China." I answered . I knew she was a SAVAK agent. The purse that she held on her lap was not typical of a lady's evening purse in terms of size and looked like something heavy was inside it. Her name was "Homeira", and when I told her I was flying back to England the next day, she said she could call me during the month of June(76) as she was planning a trip to London for the purpose of visiting an old friend . I gladly gave her my phone number.
IThe national anthem was played and the Empress entered the Royal Gallery while the crowd rose to their feet. I was stunned by her grace and beauty .. She was the Perfect Queen .
Sinatra was not just a great singer. He was a symbol of American power and wealth , and when I saw him bow in front of the Empress , I realized how great Iran was under the Shah and how the Western world would not have wished to allow that.
The concert ended with my favorite song : " My Way " ..
Rudaki Hall was a modern opera house and concert hall equipped with the very latest theatrical and electrical devices. The hall was named after the blind 10th century Persian poet, Rudaki . The architect was a Persian American, Dr. Eugene Aftandilian, who studied in Iran. By contrast to the Hall's overpowering vertical exterior, its horseshoe theater within had the cozy, white-and-gold, red-plush air of a 19th century european opera house, complete with two tiers of boxes and gallery above.
There were many faces and characters at the Grand Reception, but the most beautiful young lady who stood out from the crowd was "Shahrazad"who was married to a friend of mine by the name of Amdal .
"What are you doing here alone?," Asked Amdal.
"I'm here to see ol' blue eyes . Isn't that why you're here ?" I answered, as we walked up the grand staircase .
Scott Henderson:
I have always been curious about the Iran concert and I remember digging around about it last year. Didn't find a lot but first here's an excerpt from an interview with Bobby Lamb, trombonist, who toured with Sinatra and played the Iran dates:
On November 20, we were back in the London Palladium. This was to be followed by a trip to Iran to play for the Shah at his palace, and one other concert that we didn't know about. By now, Sinatra was using mostly American musicians apart from British musician Vic Ash and myself. A message had been sent to the Iran authorities that visas were required for 56 Americans but it forgot to mention one Irishmanme! We arrived at the airport after our fantastic flight and we were going through immigration and passport control. When they saw my Irish passport they yanked me into a small room. It was very dingy, and bad a bare electric light bulb, a table and chair. Heavy policemen were shouting at me in a language I couldn't understand. Meanwhile the coach, with the orchestra, was waiting outside and couldn't leave with out me. The policemen wouldn't let me go; they thought I was an Irish terrorist looking for arms! Eventually, my road manager, who was a big black guy about 6 foot 6 inches tall, burst into the room and started to pull me out. They screamed and pointed at me and he started screaming and pointing at them. The Shah and the palace were mentioned, and we got on the coach with my passport stamped. Phew!
The gig at the palace was amazing; the room was all set in deep blue and gold, with stars on the ceiling. It was the most sumptuous place I have ever seen. We had a small audience including the Shah and his wife. It was very charming and elegant. The next day was for the second gig which we didn't know much about. We got in the coach and drove for about 20 miles out into the middle of the desert where there was. a huge sports building, with indoor race track and all mod cons, seating about 24,000. A huge stage was built in the middle so that Frank could move around and work all four sides of the hall. The orchestra was in the centre like a boxing ring. It was strange to see such a different culture going wild and showing so much appreciation for the music, and what we were doing.
The full article can be viewed here:
http://www.nationaljazzarchive.co.uk/stories?id=228
Cancelled Engagement
Aryamehr Stadium, Teheran, Iran
Key Musicians: Bill Miller (Piano), Al Viola (Guitar), Gene Cherico (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums)
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. At Long Last Love
2. My Kind Of Town
3. But Beautiful
4. Didn't We?
5. Something
6. They Can't Take That Away From Me
7. My Way
8. Nancy
9. That's Life
10. I've Got You Under My Skin
11. Pennies From Heaven
12. Fly Me To The Moon
13. The Lady Is A Tramp
Aryamehr Stadium, Teheran, Iran
Key Musicians: Bill Miller (Piano), Al Viola (Guitar), Gene Cherico (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums)
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Queen Farah of Persia and Frank Sinatra, Tehran, 1975
note: When I saw the discussion regarding Teheran yesterday, it jogged my memory regarding a review from long ago. I searched for it this morning and here it is. The article originally ran in the English Perfectly Frank Newsletter #135
--Ed
BINYANEY HAOMA Concert Hall, Jerusalem, Israel
"The Jerusalem Foundation" Benefit for Jewish and Arab Children
Key Musicians: Bill Miller (Piano), Al Viola (Guitar), Gene Cherico (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums), NATANYA STRINGS
Orchestra conducted by: Bill Miller
1. overture
2. Where Or When
3. At Long Last
4. They Can't Take That Away From Me
5. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life
6. My Kind Of Town
7. But Beautiful
8. Didn't We
9. Something
10. Nice And Easy
11. monologue
12. My Way
13. Send In The Clowns
14. O'l Man River
15. I've Got You Under My Skin
16. Pennies From Heaven
17. The Lady Is A Tramp
18. Strangers In The Night
19. Fly Me To The Moon
20. chaser "
Notes: TT 63mins.. Concert officially released in Brazil on Trama/Artanis: "Frank Sinatra: The Jerusalem Concert" T000/278-2.
Shemmy Mashiah:
I was at the Cocktail Party with a Sinatra Book I wanted him to sign. I got about 1.0m From him when I Guess Jilly (Did not know him at that time) Very gently pressed a finger to my chest and said very quietly "no Sir" So I didn't get my book signed.
Happy memories exactly 40 years ago.
Shemmy Mashiah:
The concert hall is called "BINYANEY HAOMA" which means in Hebrew 'THE NATION HALL".This was the first concert hall build in ISRAEL. Sinatra gave there a concert on May 1962 as part of the world tour. The Strings are from a city called NATANYA so they are called" the NATANYA STRINGS' Nothing to do with Jerusalem.
The concert released in BRAZIL is a copy of another CD which has the songs you listed. To Look autenthic they added a song not sung in Jerusalem.
Not correct and very strange.
By the way on 30.11.1975 Sinatra gave a second concert almost identical but he opened with a rousing "That's Life"
By By the way I sat behind Barbara Sinatra and his company and after every first note I announced The song and they turned back in appreciation.
Some corrections.
The benefit was for "The Jerusalem Foundation" that was the "BABY" Of Mayor Teddy Kollek (the Jerusalem Mayor) a long time friend of Sinatra since 1948 when he helped Kollek Pass a payment to a Captain of a ship carrying arms for the Newly born Israel. I have heard Teddy Kollek tell the story on the Radio around the 1975 Concerts. Something very strange.
The list of songs for both concerts was the list Brian Gave.
As it appeared on the "MAZAL TOV" Cd
Mazal Tov means in Hebrew "Good Luck" as the Origin of the concert came from Israel. You Have mentioned The official Brazil "Jerusalem Concert" release. In a way it is ajock.
To Look authentic and original they have copied the "Mazal tov" release But Added one song "all by myself".I attended Both concerts>Sinatra Did not sing " all by myself" in Jerusalem.
--Shemmy
--The man who put together the "official" Jerusalem release was a friend of mine. I strongly objected to the inclusion of the Eric Carmen song. He loved Sinatra's version and put it on the disc. It should not have been part of the 11-27 show. I fully under- stand your frustration.
Ed
November 27, 1975 BINYANEY HAOMA Concert Hall, Jerusalem, Israel
About the Picture Sinatra,Jilly and I think Bill Miller On the way to a cocktail party after the concert.
I was at the Cocktail Party with a Sinatra Book I wanted him to sign. I got about 1.0m From him when I Guess Jilly(Did not know him at that time) Very gently pressed a finger to my chest and said very quietly "no Sir" So I didn't get my book signed.
Happy memories exactly 40 years ago.
--shemmy
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Bill Boggs Interview
Bills Boggs Interviews Frank Sinatra. 60 min.
November 29,1975
WNEW-TV
Channel 5
New York City
Friday Evening
9:00 p.m. - 10:p.m.
Bills Boggs Interviews Frank Sinatra.
BINYANEY HAOMA Concert Hall, Jerusalem, Israel
"The Jerusalem Foundation" Benefit for Jewish and Arab Children
Key Musicians: Bill Miller (Piano), Al Viola (Guitar), Gene Cherico (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums), NATANYA STRINGS
Orchestra conducted by: Bill Miller
1. overture
2. That's Life
3. At Long Last
4. They Can't Take That Away From Me
5. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life
6. My Kind Of Town
7. But Beautiful
8. Didn't We
9. Something
10. Nice And Easy
11. monologue
12. My Way
13. Send In The Clowns
14. O'l Man River
15. I've Got You Under My Skin
16. Pennies From Heaven
17. The Lady Is A Tramp
18. Strangers In The Night
19. Fly Me To The Moon
20. chaser "
BINYANEY HAOMA Concert Hall, Jerusalem, Israel
"The Jerusalem Foundation" Benefit for Jewish and Arab Children
Key Musicians: Bill Miller (Piano), Al Viola (Guitar), Gene Cherico (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums), NATANYA STRINGS
Orchestra conducted by: Bill Miller
[The Ugliest Christmas Tree on the Lot]
Nancy Sinatra: According to a Ladies' Home Journal profile, Sinatra made a habit each year of deliberately choosing the ugliest Christmas tree available, out of sympathy for the tree no one else wanted to buy.
Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.
[Jerusalem Medal and Israel Bonds Pledge]
During the same extended London stay that included his Teheran concert, Sinatra and entourage member Spiro Agnew flew to Israel, where Sinatra gave two charity shows for the Jerusalem Foundation, received the Jerusalem Medal, and pledged $250,000 in State of Israel Bonds in memory of a childhood neighbor from Hoboken.
Source: Derek Jewell, Frank Sinatra: A Celebration (New York: Applause Books, 1999).
Interview (unedited - airing)
Taped: September 20, 1975
Network: WNEW CH5
Guests: Sinatra, Robert Merrill
Note: Ed O'Brien provided the following details
WNEW CH 5 TV in N.Y.C. aired an exclusive interview with Sinatra on 11-29-75. Bill Boggs had con- vinced Frank to come on his show. The hour broadcast was the longest TV interview Sinatra had done up to that time. On Monday, 12-1-75, WNEW reran the show and offered an unedited version with Robert Merrill joining for a segment of the interview. The interview had been taped two days after Frank closed at the Uris Theatre on 9-20-75.
[Photograph: Sinatra's busy 60th birthday year tallied at 140 shows. From Richard Havers, "Sinatra" (Dorling Kindersley, 2007), p.329.]
[Photograph: Sinatra's busy 60th birthday year tallied at 140 shows. From Richard Havers, "Sinatra" (Dorling Kindersley, 2007), p.329.]
The culmination of an extremely busy 1975 was Frank's 60th birthday, a year in which he performed 140 shows to over 500,000 people, capped by a sellout New Year's Eve show at Chicago Stadium adding another 17,000. (Source: Richard Havers, "Sinatra" (Dorling Kindersley, 2007).)
Chicago Stadium, Chicago, Illinois
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Chicago
2. At Long Last Love
3. Let Me Try Again
4. Fly Me To The Moon
5. Where Or When
6. How Deep Is The Ocean
7. This Love Of Mine
8. Something
9. They Can't Take That Away From Me
10. My Way
11. monologue
12. Don't Worry 'bout Me
13. If
14. Old Man River
15. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
16. I've Got You Under My Skin
17. Nancy
18. The Lady Is A Tramp
19. That's Life
20. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life
21. Strangers In The Night
22. Too Marvelous For Words
23. Auld Lang Sine
24. My Kind Of Town
Note: A different year and an ebullient Sinatra thrilled
a sell out crowd at the Chicago Stadium. He sang 23
songs, chatted amicably to an adoring crowd and badly
misjudged the midnight hour. The last song before the
clock struck 12 was suppose to be "The Lady Is A Tramp."
The clock said otherwise. Frank needed to fill the time gap
with some more singing and chatter. Fortunately, there were
some gems in the book that were quickly dusted off and
sung superbly. When the New Year came in Frank welcomed
it with "Auld Lang Syne" and a rousing tribute to Chicago with
"My Kind Of Town." A most memorable evening in the cold,
windy city.
--Ed
MAGGIE DALY
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
JANUARY 2, 1976
THE MAGIC MAN: Frank Sinatra was ecstatic after
his New Year's Eve concert in the Chicago Stadium.
He and friends went immediately to the Four Torches
for dinner and sang Christmas carols until dawn.
Hundreds of fans tried to get into the Torches but
were not allowed without reservations. The restaur-
ant hired six extra security men for Sinatra.
The night before the concert, Sinatra was at Eugene's
at the Churchill. Before dinner, Sinatra and his group
went to Mon Petit in the same hotel for a drink. Some
of the people at the bar were startled, some moved
to the other side of the room. Sinatra said, "Please
don't lose your seats. We'll just stand around."
Fans called Eugene's and jammed the phone lines.
Sinatra took a call from one fan.
After dinner, Sinatra went back to Mon Petit to listen
to pianist Norman Wallace, who played Sinatra tunes.
When Norman played "Lonely Town," from "On The
Town," Sinatra told him, "That's one of my songs
that for some reason few people ever play."
Sinatra and Barbara Marx left Chicago from the
Ambassador East late Thursday afternoon to
fly to Palm Springs, where they dined at Ruby
Dunes.
Chicago Stadium, Chicago, Illinois
souvenir badge
[A Family Easter in Palm Springs]
During an Easter visit to Palm Springs, Dolly Sinatra delighted in tucking folded cash into the hands of her great-granddaughters, A.J. and infant Amanda, continuing her habit of giving cash gifts. The holiday felt like a happy, whole family gathering, with Nancy's parents seemingly at ease together.
Source: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).
[Barbara Sinatra On Life With Frank]
In a quote from this period, Barbara Sinatra described her husband as someone who turned every day into Christmas.
Source: The Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra, chapter "I Want to Be a Part of It, 1971-98."
[Friars Club Names Sinatra Top Box Office Draw]
The Friars Club honored Sinatra as the top box office attraction of the century, part of growing recognition from both entertainment colleagues and academic institutions during this period.
Source: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).
[Frank's Wedding Day]
On the day of his wedding, Nancy and her sister Tina brought their father the traditional tokens of good luck -- something borrowed and something blue -- and offered him his old identification bracelet as "something old," which he cheerfully declined to wear.
Source: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).
[Marriage To Barbara Marx]
In 1976 Sinatra married Barbara Marx, his fourth and final marriage.
Source: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).
[Reunion at Lewis's MDA Telethon]
Martin and Lewis reunited in 1976 during Jerry Lewis's annual telethon for the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
Source: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).
[Westchester Photo Resurfaces At Gaming Hearing]
Also raised during the licensing review was a 1976 backstage photograph from the Westchester Premier Theater showing Sinatra with his arms around known mob figures; he claimed he had not known who they were.
Source: The Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra, chapter "I Want to Be a Part of It, 1971-98."
[Last time Consiglio saw Elvis, Providence RI]
Consiglio: Consiglio recalled his last encounter with Elvis Presley at the Providence, Rhode Island Civic Center, not long before Presley's death. Backstage, Elvis gave Consiglio's wife Mary a stuffed hound dog that had been thrown onstage during "Hound Dog," and gave Consiglio one of his black silk ties. Fans later mobbed the Consiglios' car trying to grab the hound dog because Elvis had touched it.
Source: Tony Consiglio (as told to Franz Douskey), "Sinatra and Me: The Very Good Years" (2012)
[NBA-ABA merger]
Consiglio: Consiglio was with O'Brien when the NBA and ABA merged in 1976, the same year The Sporting News named O'Brien Sportsman of the Year. Under O'Brien's leadership the NBA expanded from eighteen to twenty-three teams, absorbing ABA teams like the New York Nets and Indiana Pacers.
Source: Tony Consiglio (as told to Franz Douskey), "Sinatra and Me: The Very Good Years" (2012)
[Sinatra marries Barbara Marx]
Consiglio: Frank Sinatra married Barbara Marx in 1976. Consiglio describes her as devoted to Frank and recalls Frank once ending a dinner instantly the moment she signaled she was ready to leave.
Source: Tony Consiglio (as told to Franz Douskey), "Sinatra and Me: The Very Good Years" (2012)
[controversy]
While performing at the Westchester Premiere Theatre in 1976, Sinatra was photographed backstage with mob figures Carlo Gambino and Jimmy Fratianno, reigniting headlines about his alleged mafia ties; Santopietro argues the photo op benefited the mobsters' image far more than it hurt Sinatra's, since Sinatra was the more famous man in the picture.
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
[personal life]
Sinatra married his fourth and final wife, Barbara Marx, on July 11, 1976. Unlike Ava Gardner or Mia Farrow, Barbara had no acting career of her own and devoted herself to Sinatra's needs, though allies noted she gained increasing influence over him as he aged.
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
[Nicholas Gage's New York Times Investigative Series]
Journalist Nicholas Gage, in a three-part New York Times series, reported that the Justice Department under Robert Kennedy had repeatedly rejected or ignored recommendations for a thorough investigation of Sinatra's relationships with Mafia figures. Sinatra publicly dismissed the report, noting he had already endured five grand jury subpoenas and multiple IRS investigations without result.
Source: George Carpozi Jr., Frank Sinatra: Is This Man Mafia? (New York: Manor Books, 1979).
[studio history -- critical commentary]
Allen Sides: By 1976, Allen Sides had taken over Studio B at United Recording, eventually buying Studio A and the Western Studio as well and renaming the complex 'Ocean Way.' Bill Putnam had become progressively less involved, having survived multiple heart bypasses and a bad fall down a stairway at United that required him to relearn speech, though he recovered fully; he died in the early 1990s.
Source: Charles L. Granata, "Sessions with Sinatra: Frank Sinatra and the Art of Recording" (1999/2003), Part IV: The Reprise Years
[technique/engineering history -- critical commentary]
Jack Mullin: Tape engineer Jack Mullin recalled that editing flexibility on Crosby's radio show led to the invention of the 'laugh track': saved audience laughter from an unusually funny unscripted bit was later spliced into a weaker broadcast at Crosby's request.
Source: Charles L. Granata, "Sessions with Sinatra: Frank Sinatra and the Art of Recording" (1999/2003), Part II: The Columbia Years, 1943-1952
Sinatra's feud with then-Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mike Royko began after Royko wrote a column questioning why Chicago police provided Sinatra free protection despite his own security detail. Sinatra responded with an angry letter calling Royko a "pimp" and threatening to "punch you in the mouth" over Royko's speculation that he wore a toupee. Source: Wikipedia, “Frank Sinatra.”
Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (15-21)
First Show
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Chicago
2. Where Or When
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. But Beautiful
5. Didn't We?
6, How Deep Is The Ocean?
7. They Can't Take That Away From Me
8. My Way
9. monologue
10. Empty Tables
11. If
12. My Kind Of Town
13. I Sing The Songs
Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (15-21)
Second Show
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Chicago
2. Where Or When
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. But Beautiful
5. Didn't We
6.. How Deep Is The Ocean?
7. They Can't Take That Away From Me
8. monologue
9. My Way
10. Empty Tables
11. If
12. My Kind Of Town
13. I Sing The Songs
Notes: TT 46mins.
Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (15-21)
First Show
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
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Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (15-21)
First Show
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Chicago
2. Where Or When
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. But Beautiful
5. Didn't We
6. How Deep Is The Ocean?
7. They Can't Take That Away From Me
8. My Way
9. monologue
10. Empty Tables
11. If
12.. My Kind Of Town
13. Let Me Try Again
14. I Sing The Songs
Notes: TT 49mins.
Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (15-21)
Second Show
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Chicago
2. Where Or When
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. But Beautiful
5. Didn't We
6. How Deep Is The Ocean?
7. They Can't Take That Away From Me
8. My Way
9. monologue
10. Empty Tables
11. If
12. Let Me Try Again
13. I Sing The Songs
14. My Kind Of Town
Notes: TT 43mins.
Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (15-21)
First Show
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Chicago
2. Where Or When
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. But Beautiful
5. Didn't We
6. How Deep Is The Ocean?
7. They Can't Take That Away From Me
8. My Way
9. monologue
10. Empty Tables
11. If
12. Let Me Try Again
13. I Sing The Songs
14. My Kind Of Town
Notes: TT 52mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Second Show
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Surprise Guest: Paul Anka
1. Chicago
2. Where Or When
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. But Beautiful
5. Didn't We
6. How Deep Is The Ocean?
7. They Can't Take That Away From Me
8. My Way - w/Paul Anka
9. monologue
10. Send In The Clowns
11. I Concentrate On You
12. Let Me Try Again
13. I Sing The Songs
14. My Kind Of Town
Notes: TT 45mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (15-21)
O.A. Pat Henry
Nat Brandwynne Orch.
w/ Bill Miller, piano and conducting
Irv Cottler, drums
Gene Cherico, bass
Charlie Turner, trumpet
Al Viola, guitar
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (15-21)
First Show
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Second Show
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Chicago
2. Where Or When
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. But Beautiful
5. Didn't We
6. Here's That Rainy Day
7. They Can't Take That Away From Me
8. My Way
9. monologue
10. Empty Tables
11. If
12. Let Me Try Again
13. I Sing The Songs
14. My Kind Of Town
15. I've Got You Under My Skin
Notes: TT 54mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Partial Set List:
1. Empty Tables -w/ Bill Miller piano only
2. I Sing The Songs
Ed Notes:
On 1-20-76 Reprise taped a segment of
Sinatra's show. Nat Brandwynne and His Orchestra backed Frank and Bill Miller conducted. The songs recorded were "Empty Tables," w/ Miller on piano,
"I Sing The Songs" and "Send In The Clowns,' w/
Miller on piano. Frank wanted to release a live version of the Bruce Johnston song and also a couple of piano only recordings. After hearing the demo tape, Sinatra wasn't satisfied and scheduled a studio session on 2-5-76. All three songs were laid down that night. Later on Reprise in Italy asked permission to issue the Caesars tracks.
Permission was not granted.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (15-21)
First Show
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill
1. Chicago
2. Where Or When
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Didn't We
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. They Can't Take That Away From Me
7. monologue
8. Empty Tables
9. If
10. Let Me Try Again
11. I Sing The Songs
12. My Kind Of Town
13. My Way
Notes: TT 51mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (15-21)
Second Show - Closing Night
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Chicago
2. Where Or When
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. But Beautiful
5. Didn't We
6. Here's That Rainy Day
7. They Can't Take That Away From Me
8. monologue
9. Empty Tables
10. If
11. Let Me Try Again
12. I Sing The Songs
13. My Kind Of Town
14. My Way
Notes: TT 51mins.
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada (23-25)
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada (23-25)
Brian Farnon Orch.
Frank did two shows each night.
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada (23-25)
1. Chicago (That Toddling Town)
2. Where or When
3. The Lady Is a Tramp
4. But Beautiful
5. Didn't We
6. Here's That Rainy Day
7. They Can't Take That Away From Me
8. My Way
9. Send in the Clowns
10. If
11. Let Me Try Again
12. I Write the Songs
13. My Kind of Town
The Spirit Of America (ABC)
Taped August 20, 1975
Note: Frank Sinatra rehearsal footage/out-takes from the Bi-centennial special 45 min.
NOTE: Ed O'Brien points out that there is a video of the taping in front of the Jefferson Memorial. The arrangement for "The House I Live In" is quite interesting. Not sure who did it. At the end of the first take, Sinatra was startled, and O'Brien insists he is not understating, when a military honor guard fired a 21 gun salute. There is one take that is just perfect vocally, but the mike conks out right near the end. Frank's response: "You've got to be kidding me!" He did a few intercuts to complete the singing part of his segment. O'Brien's only reservation is the awful leisure suit Sinatra was wearing. Understandable why they was such a short-lived craze.
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada (23-25)
Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, California
Benefit
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Opening Act: Milton Berle
1. Chicago
2. Where Or When
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. But Beautiful
5. Didn't We
6. Here's That Rainy Day
7. My Way
8. monologue
9. Send In The Clown w/ Bill Miller
10. Let Me Try Again (uptempo)
11. I Sing The Songs
12. My Kind Of Town
Ed O'Brien:
A benefit for the Long Beach Police Widow's Fund. Peter Marshall emceed the Friday night variety show. A capacity crowd was entertained by Pat Henry, Redd Foxx, Milton Berle, Cloris Leachman, George Gobel, Rose Marie, the Sonja Shaw Dancers, Marvin Roy and Frank Sinatra. Tickets were $10.00 each The show netted $115,000. The Widow's Fund had been exhausted due to the recent deaths of three Long Beach policemen.
Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, California
Benefit
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
As a historical note, Whitey was the Budweiser beer distributor for the area and a huge supporter of our officers for decades. When our officers were murdered, and the funds in the Widow's and Orphan's Fund depleted, he made it a personal mission to get the money needed to help our officers and their family members. He initially went on television and rallied the public for donations, and when more was needed, he reached out to Mr. Sinatra. Initially, Frank offered to do a song or two, but Whitey was not satisfied. He told Frank that he needed to do a whole concert, and Frank agreed. Mr. Sinatra brought with him several other celebrities to the concert, and at the time, it was one of the biggest events in the history of Long Beach. Cloris Leachman, was also on the bill that night. The tickets were $10 (Whitey and Mr. Sinatra wanted everybody to be able to attend) and 13,000 packed the arena. Frank called in a lot of markers and all the talent performed for free and Frank paid the band.
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Hollywood
UCA5873 I Sing The Songs (I Write The Song)
(Bruce Johnston)
BMG Songs Inc. (ASCAP)
Arranged by Don Costa
Conducted by Bill Miller
-6 (3:50) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 17
LP: W54093 I Sing The Songs Vol.2 (Italy)
45: S1347
UCA5874 Empty Tables w/Bill Miller on piano
(Johnny Mercer/Jimmy Van Heusen)
WB Music Corp./The Songwriters Guild (ASCAP)
Arranged by Don Costa
Conducted by Bill Miller
-10 (2:48) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 17
CD: 9-26340-2The Reprise Collection
45: S1347
UCA5875 Send In The Clowns w/Bill Miller on piano & Sproken Introduction
(Stephen Sondheim)
Revelation Music Publishing Corp./Rilting Music Inc. (ASCAP) -4 (3:38) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 17
CD: 9-26340-2 The Reprise Collection
45: S1382
NOTE: Sinatra Scholar Ed O'Brien reports that Reprise taped a segment of Frank's Caesars show on January 20th including the songs shown here. He wasn't pleased and decided to do studio recordings. After the session, he told Bill Miller that the piano only accompaniments were a great idea and they would start laying down a couple of songs at the end of the sessions. O'Brien wishes that Frank had been in better voice for the songs with Bill. There are a number of concert performances in which he did far superior vocals on both tunes. In concert, "I Sing the Songs" was a rousing success. Often the singer received a standing ovation in mid-song. Didn't really translate to the studio recording.
[I Sing the Songs -- critical commentary]
Will Friedwald: Sinatra sang 'I Sing the Songs' (originally 'I Write the Songs' by Bruce Johnston) in a leisure suit on The Tonight Show of November 12, 1976, at one point changing the awkward lyric 'special things' to 'pretty things' for better phrasing. Later that same day he recorded 'I Love My Wife.' Manilow, bothered that Sinatra claimed to 'sing the songs' rather than write them, later wrote a rebuttal song, 'I Really Do Write the Songs.'
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)
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
First Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Irv Cottler (drums), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Bill Miller (piano).
Augmented Latin Casino (40 piece) Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Chicago
2. Where Or When
3. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. What's New
6. Didn't We
7. Empty Tables - w/Bill Miller (piano only)
8. Here's That Rainy Day
9. Witchcraft
10. My Way
11. monologue
12. The House I Live In
13. I Sing The Songs
14. Let Me Try Again
15. If
16. Send In The Clown
17. My Kind Of Town
Notes: TT 62mins.
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Second Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Irv Cottler (drums), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Bill Miller (piano).
Augmented Latin Casino (40 piece) Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Chicago
2. Where Or When
3. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. What's New?
6. Didn't We?
7. Empty Tables
8. Here's That Rainy Day
9. Witchcraft
10. My Way
11. monologue
12. I Sing The Songs
13. Let Me Try Again
14. If
15. Send In The Clowns
16. My Kind Of Town
Notes: TT 54mins.
Note: Engagement ran for 2/11 thru 2-17.
It would be Pat Henry's final stint with Frank.
He passed away on 2/18 in his suite at Caesars.
Sinatra was highlighting his new album "She
Shot Me Down." He sang five songs from the album including "Bang Bang," with Tony
Mottola, and "Thanks For The Memory" with
Vinnie on piano. There would be two shows a night except on the 14th and 15th.
Note: Frank opened on 2/13 and was SRO through the entire run, ending on 2/22. He was dark on Monday (16).
Pat Henry was his opening act. "I Sing The Songs" was the real crowd pleaser every night. Frank did two shows every evening. The demand to see him was so great he would return again in May. "Empty Tables" was another highlight every night. The recording, done on 6-22-73, with a full orchestra and a Gordon Jenkins chart, was never heard in a concert setting. Bill Miller was his only backing and the song was sung about 75 times in concert.
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
A photo from Sinata's opening at the Latin Casio on the 13th
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Key Musicans: Al Viola (guitar), Irv Cottler (drums), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Bill Miller (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Note: Sinatra was out ill February 14th and 15th
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Key Musicans: Al Viola (guitar), Irv Cottler (drums), Gene Cherico
(bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Bill Miller (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
The following article from February 16th states that the shows on Saturday February 14th and Sunday February
15th were canceled because Sinatra was ill:
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Key Musicans: Al Viola (guitar), Irv Cottler (drums), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Bill Miller (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Sinatra was off ill February 14th and 15th
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Irv Cottler (drums), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Bill Miller (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
(No Show due to the President's Day holiday)
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
First Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Irv Cottler (drums), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Bill Miller (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. I've Got You Under My Skin
2. Where Or When
3. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. What's New?
6. Didn't We?
7. Empty Tables
8. Here's That Rainy Day
9. Witchcraft
10. My Way
11. monologue
12. I Sing The Songs
13. Let Me Try Again
14. If
15. Send In The Clowns
16. My Kind Of Town
Notes: TT 60mins.
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Second Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Irv Cottler (drums), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Bill Miller (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. I've Got You Under My Skin
2. Where Or When
3. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. What's New
6. Empty Tables w/Bill Miller
7. Here's That Rainy Day
8. Witchcraft
9. My Way monologue
10. I Sing The Songs
11. Let Me Try Again uptempo w/Costa arg.
12. If w/ Al Viola on guitar1
13. Send In The Clowns w/Bill Miller
14. My Kind Of Town
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Irv Cottler (drums), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Bill Miller (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. I've Got You Under My Skin
2. Where Or When
3. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. What's New?
6. Didn't We?
7. Empty Tables
8. Here's That Rainy Day
9. Witchcraft
10. My Way
11. monologue
12. I Sing The Songs
13. Let Me Try Again
14. If
15. Send In The Clowns
16. My Kind Of Town
Notes: TT 60mins.
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Irv Cottler (drums), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Bill Miller (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
First Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Irv Cottler (drums), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Bill Miller (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. I've Got You Under My Skin
2. Where Or When
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. What's New?
5. Didn't We?
6. Witchcraft
7. My Way
8. monologue
9. Empty Tables
10. I Sing The Songs
11. Let Me Try Again
12. If
13. Send In The Clowns
14. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
15. My Kind Of Town
Notes: TT 56mins.
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Second Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Irv Cottler (drums), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Bill Miller (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. I've Got You Under My Skin
2. Where Or When
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. What's New?
5. Didn't We?
6. Empty Tables
7. Witchcraft
8. My Way
9. monologue
10. I Sing The Songs
11. Let Me Try Again
12. If
13. Send In The Clowns
14. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
15. My Kind Of Town
Notes: TT 60mins.
Sid Mark
Station: WWDB
Note: Ed O'Brien reports that Sid Mark interviewed Sinatra during his 1976 Latin Casino engagement and aired it on the 20th.
Television
None
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Two Shows
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Irv Cottler (drums), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Bill Miller (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Notes:
Ed O'Brien
Frank was a guest on Sid Mark's Friday show from Philly. Mark taped the show earlier in the week. Frank did two shows on 2-20-76 at the L.C.(Friday night).
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
First Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Irv Cottler (drums), Gene Cherico
(bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Bill Miller (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. I've Got You Under My Skin
2. Where Or When
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. What's New?
5. Didn't We?
6. Here's That Rainy Day
7. Witchcraft
8. My Way
9. monologue
10. Empty Tables
11. I Sing The Songs
12. Let Me Try Again
13. If
14. Send In The Clowns
15. My Kind Of Town
Notes: TT 55mins..
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Second Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Irv Cottler (drums), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Bill Miller (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. I've Got You Under My Skin
2. Where Or When
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. What's New?
5. Didn't We?
6. Here's That Rainy Day
7. Witchcraft
8. My Way
9. monologue
10. Empty Tables
11. I Sing The Songs
12. Let Me Try Again
13. If
14. My Kind Of Town
Notes: TT 51mins.
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
First Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Irv Cottler (drums), Gene Cherico
(bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Bill Miller (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. I've Got You Under My Skin
2. Where Or When
3. Didn't We?
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5.. Witchcraft
6. My Way
7. monologue
8. Empty Tables
9. I Sing The Songs
10. Let Me Try Again
11. If
12. Send In The Clowns
13. My Kind Of Town
Notes: TT 59mins.
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Second Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Irv Cottler (drums), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Bill Miller (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. I've Got You Under My Skin
2. Where Or When
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. What[s New?
5. Didn't We?
6. Here[s That Rainy Day
7. Witchcraft
8. My Way
9.. monologue
10. Empty Tables
11. I Sing The Songs
12. Let Me Try Again
13. If
14. Send In The Clowns
15. My Kind Of Town
Notes: TT 54mins.
FRIARS CLUB, WALDORF ASTORIA, NEW YORK CITY
Tuesday evening
8 to 11: PM
ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR AWARD
RECIPIENT: FRANK SINATRA
Peter Duchin & Orchestra
Friar Abbot: Buddy Howe
Show Opens with National Anthem
Invocation by Father Bob
Friars Choral Group sing the Friars' Song
Commentator: Howard Cosell
Governor Hugh Carey
Milton Berle
Bob White ( booked Frank at the Paramount as a solo)
Frank Sinatra, Jr. sings "My Favorite Things" and parody of "Bill." George Jessel
William B. Williams
Cosell introduces dignitaries in the audience
Robert Merrill sings "My Way" parody by Sammy Cahn and "Figaro's Aria" from "The Barber Of Seville."
Jan Murray
Spiro Agnew
Second commentator for the evening: Ed McMahon
Sarah Vaughan sings "A Foggy Day" and "Send In The Clowns"
Cary Grant
Pat Henry
John Denver sings "Downtown Toledo"
Mickey Rudin
Don Rickles
Abe Beame
Buddy Howe award presentation
Frank Sinatra excerpt from speech:
"I remain eternally grateful that you are here to help me tie a ribbon, so to speak, around this particular evening in my life.
I will confine the balance of my remarks to a pair of people I met early in life, just across the river, whom I've adored ever since. My mother, bless her, who lives in the desert with me and my father, rest his soul, who is living without me in a place that's even sunnier than Palm Springs will ever be. It wasn't so long ago , as historians viewed it, half-a-century to be exact, that I was on the Jersey side of the river, daydreaming in the fourth grade I might make it as a prizefighter. My father at the time was bringing home about 22 bucks a week -- which wouldn't even cover the salad that you've got here tonight. He was a good man; he was the greatest man I ever knew.
He was a simple man. He was not born in this great country, but he made sure to it that I was born in this country. For that, I thank him as I thank him for every- thing else that has ever happened to me. He was a city fireman, who knew he would never set the whole world on fire. He worried most that his boy would wind up in a reform school like most of the poor, unfortunate kids in our jungle did. Well, thank God, he lived long enough to know I was going to do something in my life.
But not long enough to share your friendship tonight"
Note: Ed O'Brien contributed the above extra.
Politicians Put on Grill as the Friars Roast Sinatra
By Fred Ferretti
Feb. 26, 1976
New York Times
It was Frank Sinatra's Friars Club roast, but Governor Carey and Mayor Beame were the ones who were slightly singed as former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew sat by. watching and grinning.
The Governor was congratulated for being Irish. Mayor Beame was cited for being short. Mr. Carey sang and was booed. Mayor Beame was told not to ask for any more state money. Mr. Sinatra spoke about former President Richard M. Nixon. And Mr: Agnew mentioned loyalty.
The evening, although punctuated with the boisterous, often off- color, totally topical, highly personal humor that characterizes Friars Club roasts, had a decided political cast. a texture that was appreciated as much by the $500- platers in the first row of tables in the Waldorf Astoria Grand Ballroom Tuesday night, as by those in the $200 economy seats.
The dinner, an annual event of the Friars Club, an organization of entertainers, comedians and public figures, was closed to reporters; as it is always. The account of the political byplay that occurred was reconstructed from interviews with some of those who attended the dinner.
Mr. Sinatra. who was introduced by Howard Cosell, the sportscaster. stood up and told the 1,000 paying guests, "I feel like exâ President Nixon, who must have said when he arrived in Peking, â It's nice to be e among friends again. "
The singer, who sat in the front row of the twotiered dais, had Mr. Carey and Mr. Beanie at his right. Mr. Agnew was off to his left, wedged between Milton Berle, the comedian, and Robert Merrill, the Metropolitan Opera baritone.
One of the first comedians to be called upon in the roast was Don Rickles, who looked around, focused on Mr. Carey and told him. "It's good to see you here. You're Irish. We need the Irish." He paused. "For parades."
Following him was another comedian, Pat Henry, who also made a point of looking about. squinting. "I'm looking for Mayor Beame," he said. "You know someone else was looking for Mayor Beame and he was told, â Hey he's here, pacing g up and down nervously underneath the table."
The Whisperers
Mr. Agnew laughed loudly at the discomfort of his fellow politicians, louder still when Mr. Henry looked at Mr. Beame and Mr. Carey whispering to each other and said, "What are you asking him for money for? He came down here from Albany on a bus."
Mr. Agnew, who was introduced by Ed McMahon, the television personality, was brief, and personal. He said that Mr: Sinatra was a fine singer and a talented actor but that he also had "a fierce sense of loyalty he never leet a friend down."
"If he lives to 100 he'll never get back the loyalty he has bestowed," he added.
Mayor Beame presented a plaque of appreciation to Mr. Sinatra on behalf of New York, saying that although Mr. Sinatra is known for a song, "My Kind of Town, Chicago Is," the singer was "a New York kind of guy."
Following the presentation, Mr. Henry introduced Governor Carey, saying it was a "low point" in the evening's festivities to introduce the Governor, who was about to sing. Mr. Carey sang what he called a "Sinatra favorite" a song entitled "This love of Mineâ in a kind of hoarse tenorâ baritone.
He finished to a chorus of boos and hisses.
No "Quid Pro Quo"
Mr. Carey's performance was not "a quid pro quo" for a singing benefit done for him by Mr. Sinatra in October of 1974 during his campaign for Governor, Mr. Carey's former campaign manager, Gerald Cummins, said yesterday. "It wasn't any repayment at all."
He said Mr. Sinatra had done a fund raising benefit at Madison Square Garden for the whole Democratic ticket in 1974, "but there was no 'you did it for me so I'll do it for vole about this. I'm surprised the Governor went. I didn't know he was going.
In addition to the entertainment, those at the roasting were rewarded with a dinner consisting of fish and oysters in a white wine sauce, a Bicentennial filet mignon, and ice cream and coffee.
What, a Friars Club man was asked, was a Bicentennial filet mignon?
"1976 roast beef," he said.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, (Feb 26--March 9)
(2 shows a night)
Dark on March 3
8:00PM Show:
1. I've Got You Under My Skin
2. The Lady Is a Tramp
3. What's New
4. Didn't We
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. Witchcraft
7. My Way
8. I Write the Songs
9. Let Me Try Again
10. Send in the Clowns
11. My Kind of Town
A few days ago I stumbled upon a Variety review of Sinatra at Caesars in March of 1976. The review isn't very favorable, but I'll cover what is worth knowing.
Marquee looked like this:
Patrick Scarnato( aka Henry)
Sam Butera & The Witnesses with Sandy Williams
Sinatra
Nat Brandwynne Orch with Bill Miller conducting
Frank was there from 2-26 thru March 9. He was dark on Wednesdays.
Cover: $30.00 minimum
I would guess this is where he introduced Sedaka's "The Hungry Years." Reviewer did not like Frank's uptempo treatment of "Let Me Try Again." He states it is no longer a pretty song but rather ugly the way it emerges in a new dress. Frank was playing to overflow crowds. The show
Variety reviewed was March 2. Sammy Davis would follow
Frank, opening on 3-11 and playing a one-week stint.
Frank and Co, including Butera, Henry and Williams, would move over to the South Shore Room, Harrah's in Lake Tahoe, for the weekend ( 12-14 -- 2 shows a night) At Caesars, Frank's mike went dead during "My Way." The lyrics were picked up by Paul Anka, who was in the audience; he then joined Frank on stage for a duet of "Our Way." I'll bet the line up of songs was pretty much the same at both Caesars and Harrah's. After closing at Harrah's, Frank flew back to L.A. where he attended a Friars Stag Roast for Pat Henry (16).
Ed
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Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, (Feb 26--March 9)
(2 shows a night)
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, (Feb 26--March 9)
(2 shows a night)
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, (Feb 26--March 9)
(2 shows a night)
Nat Brandwynne Orch with Bill Miller conducting
A few days ago I stumbled upon a Variety review of Sinatra at Caesars in March of 1976.
I don't believe this engagement has ever been documented. The review isn't very favorable, but I'll cover what is worth knowing.
Marquee looked like this:
Patrick Scarnato( aka Henry)
Sam Butera & The Witnesses with Sandy Williams
Sinatra
Nat Brandwynne Orch with Bill Miller conducting
Frank was there from 2-26 thru March 9. He was dark on Wednesdays.
Cover: $30.00 minimum
I would guess this is where he introduced Sedaka's "The Hungry Years." Reviewer did not like Frank's uptempo treatment of "Let Me Try Again." He states it is no longer a pretty song but rather ugly the way it emerges in a new dress. Frank was playing to overflow crowds. The show
Variety reviewed was March 2. Sammy Davis would follow
Frank, opening on 3-11 and playing a one-week stint.
Frank and Co, including Butera, Henry and Williams, would move over to the South Shore Room, Harrah's in Lake Tahoe, for the weekend ( 12-14 -- 2 shows a night) At Caesars, Frank's mike went dead during "My Way." The lyrics were picked up by Paul Anka, who was in the audience; he then joined Frank on stage for a duet of "Our Way." I'll bet the line up of songs was pretty much the same at both Caesars and Harrah's. After closing at Harrah's, Frank flew back to L.A.where he attended a Friars Stag Roast for Pat Henry (16).
Ed
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, (Feb 26--March 9)
(2 shows a night)
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, (Feb 26--March 9)
(2 shows a night)
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, (Feb 26--March 9)
(2 shows a night)
Sinatra was dark March 3
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, (Feb 26--March 9)
(2 shows a night)
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, (Feb 26--March 9)
(2 shows a night)
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, (Feb 26--March 9)
(2 shows a night)
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, (Feb 26--March 9)
(2 shows a night)
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, (Feb 26--March 9)
(2 shows a night)
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, (Feb 26--March 9)
(2 shows a night)
Variety
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, (Feb 26--March 9)
(2 shows a night)
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Brian Farnon Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Opening Act: Sam Butera & The Witnesses - featuring Sandy Williams.
1. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
2. For Once in My Life
3. The Lady Is a Tramp
4. What's New
5. Didn't We
6. Here's That Rainy Day
7. Witchcraft
8. I Write the Songs
9. Send in the Clowns
10. The Hungry Years
11. My Kind of Town
12. I've Got You Under My Skin
13. My Way
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Brian Farnon Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Opening Act: Sam Butera & The Witnesses - featuring Sandy Williams.
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Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
First Show
Brian Farnon Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Opening Act: Sam Butera & The Witnesses - featuring Sandy Williams.
1. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
2. For Once In My Life
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. What's New?
5. Didn't We?
6. Here's That Rainy Day
7. Witchcraft
8. I Sing The Songs
9. monologue
10. Send In The Clowns
11. The Hungry Years
12. My Kind Of Town
13. I've Got You Under My Skin
14. My Way
Notes: TT 55mins.
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Opening Act: Sam Butera & The Witnesses - featuring Sandy Williams.
1. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
2. For Once In My Life
3.. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. What's New?
5. Didn't We?
6. Here's That Rainy Day
7. Witchcraft
8. I Sing The Songs
9. monologue
10. Send In The Clowns
11. The Hungry Years
12. My Kind Of Town
13. I've Got You Under My Skin
14. My Way
Notes: TT 53mins.
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Opening Act: Sam Butera & The Witnesses - featuring Sandy Williams.
1. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
2. For Once in My Life
3. The Lady Is a Tramp
4. What's New
5. Didn't We
6. Here's That Rainy Day
7. Witchcraft
8. I Write the Songs
9. Send in the Clowns
10. The Hungry Years
11. My Kind of Town
12. I've Got You Under My Skin
13. My Way
Eddie Cantor B'nai Brith Lodge, Los Angeles, California
STAG ROAST for Pat Henry
Tuesday evening
$35.00 per seat
Jerry Rosen introduces Billy Daniels who sings The National Anthem
Rosen starts off the evening
John Francis
Jan Murray M.C.
George Jessel tells audience there are three champions in the room: Sugar Ray Robinson,
Milton Berle and the most popular entertainer in the history of show business, Frank Sinatra
Joey Villa
Milton Berle
Sid Gould
John Barbour
Pat McCormick
Fred Travelena
Jackie Vernon
Pat Cooper
Jackie Gayle
Frank Sinatra sings parody of Frank Loesser's "If I Were A Bell" (Sammy Cahn wrote special lyrics)
Redd Foxx
Pat Henry
Ed O'Brien supplied the roast details and added: 150 minutes, NC-17 All The Way
Frank's second granddaughter, Amanda Katherine (daughter of Nancy Sinatra), was born.
Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.
John Denver And Friend (ABC)
Taped February 6-8, 1976
9:00 TO 10:00 P.M.
Sponsored by Timex
Frank Sinatra, Count Basie, Harry James, Nelson Riddle
Sinatra segment:
1. I've Got You Under My Skin
2. All Or Nothing At All w/Harry James Orchestra
3. Medley w/Tommy/Dorsey Orchestra Sinatra & Denver
I'l Never Smile Again/Let's Get Away From It All / Imagination / There Are Such Things
4. Medley w/Frank Sinatra, John Denver, Nelson Riddle & Count
Basie
Saturday Night / Come Fly With Me /Learnin'The Blues /
Witchcraft / Nancy /
A Lovely Way To Spend An Evening /The Tender Trap / Love And Marriage /
High Hopes / All The Way/All Of Me / My Kind Of Town / The Lady Is A Tramp / I Get A Kick Out Of You
5. My Way
note: script reveals the show was taped over three days in early February
Ed
John Denver And Friend (ABC)
Taped February 6-8, 1976
9:00 TO 10:00 P.M.
Sponsored by Timex
Frank Sinatra, Count Basie, Harry James, Nelson Riddle
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York
First Show - Opening Night
Key Musicians: : Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ray Cone (piano)
Tony Cabot Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. For Once In My Life
3. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
4. Where Or When
5. Imagination
6. What's New
7. Didn't We
8. Here's That Rainy Day
9. Witchcraft
10. All By Myself
11. monologue
12. Empty Tables
13. The Hungry Years
14. If - w/Al Viola
15. Send In The Clowns
16. I Sing The Songs
17. My Kind Of Town
18. My Way
Notes: TT 68mins.
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York
Second Show - Opening Night
Key Musicians: : Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ray Cone (piano)
Tony Cabot Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. Where Or When
3. For Once In My Life
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Imagination
6. What's New
7. Didn't We?
8. Witchcraft
9. All By Myself
10. monologue
11. If
12. The Hungry Years
13. I've Got You Under My Skin
14. Empty Tables
15. Send In The Clowns
16. I Sing The Songs
17. My Kind Of Town
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York
First Show - Opening Night
Key Musicians: : Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ray Cone (piano)
Tony Cabot Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
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Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York
Key Musicians: : Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ray Cone (piano)
Tony Cabot Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. For Once In My Life
3. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
4. Where Or When
5. Imagination
6. Whatâ s New
7. Didn't 't We
8. Here's That Rainy Day
9. Witchcraft
10. All By Myself
11. monologue
12. Empty Tables
13. The Hungry Years
14. If w/Al Viola
15. Send In The Clowns
16. I Sing The Songs
17. introductions
18. My Kind Of Town
19. My Way (gap to end)
Notes: TT 66mins.
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York
First Show
Key Musicians: : Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ray Cone (piano)
Tony Cabot Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. For Once in My Life
3. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
4. What's New
5. Didn't We
6. Here's That Rainy Day
7. Witchcraft
8. All By Myself
9. monologue
10. The Hungry Years
11. Send In The Clowns
12. I Sing The Songs
13. My Kind Of Town
14. Nancy
15. introductions
16. My Way
17. chaser "I Sing The Songs"
Notes: TT 58mins.
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York
Second Show
Key Musicians: : Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ray Cone (piano)
Tony Cabot Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. For Once In My Life
3. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
4. What's New
5. Didn't We
6. Here’s That Rainy Day
7. Witchcraft
8. All By Myself
9. monologue
10. The Hungry Years
11. Send In The Clowns
12. I Sing The Songs
13. My Kind Of Town
14. introductions
15. My Way
16. chaser "I Write The Songs"
Notes: TT 56mins.
Ed O'Brien
Back in 1976-77 Sinatra was trying very hard to perform contemporary songs that he felt comfortable doing and offered him a chance to connect with a younger generation. He had Don Costa, Charles Calello, Joe Beck and others writing arrangements that enabled him to do "All By Myself," "Stargazer," "Never Gonna Fall In Love Again,""Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word," "See The Show Again" and others. I think one of his best efforts was Sedaka's "The Hungry Years." Perfect song for Sinatra the mature singer and the lyrics fit him to a tee.
Calello told me Frank had planned to record it. Wish he had.
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York
Sunday
Key Musicians: : Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ray Cone (piano)
Tony Cabot Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. For Once In My Life
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Imagination
5. What's New?
6. Didn't We?
7. Here's That Rainy Day
8. Witchcraft
9. All By Myself
10. monologue
11. If
12. The Hungry Years
13. Send In The Clowns
14. I Sing The Songs
15. My Kind Of Town
16. My Way
Notes: TT 60mins. Only one show on each Sunday of the engagement.
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ray Cone (piano)
Tony Cabot Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. For Once In My Life
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Imagination
5. What's New?
6. Didn't We?
7. Here's That Rainy Day
8. Witchcraft
9. All By Myself
10. monologue
11. If
12. The Hungry Years
13. Send In The Clowns
14. I Sing The Songs
15. My Kind Of Town
16. My Way
Notes: TT 57mins.
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York
Key Musicians: : Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ray Cone (piano)
Tony Cabot Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. For Once In My Life
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. What's New?
5. Didn't We?
6. Here's That Rainy Day
7. Witchcraft
8. All By Myself
9. monologue
10. If
11. The Hungry Years
12. Send In The Clowns
13. I Sing The Songs
14. My Kind Of Town
15. My Way
Notes: TT 60mins.
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York
Key Musicians: : Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ray Cone (piano)
Tony Cabot Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. For Once In My Life
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. What's New?
5. Didn't We?
6. Here's That Rainy Day
7. Witchcraft
8. All By Myself
9. monologue
10. If
11. The Hungry Years
12. Send In The Clowns
13. I Sing The Songs
14. My Kind Of Town
15. My Way
Notes: TT 58mins.
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York
Key Musicians: : Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico
(bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler
(drums), Bill Miller, Ray Cone (piano)
Tony Cabot Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Notes: Check Date
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York
First Show
Key Musicians: : Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles
Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ray Cone (piano)
Tony Cabot Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. Where Or When
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Imagination
5. What's New?
6. Didn't We?
7. Here's That Rainy Day
8. Witchcraft
9. All By Myself
10. monologue
11. If
12. The Hungry Years
13. Send In The Clowns
14. I Sing The Songs
15. My Kind Of Town
16. My Way
Notes: TT 58mins.
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York
Second Show
Key Musicians: : Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ray Cone (piano)
Tony Cabot Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. Where Or When
3. For Once In My Life
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Imagination
6. What's New?
7. Didn't We?
8. Witchcraft
9. I've Got You Under My Skin
10. monologue
11. Empty Tables
12.. If
13. Send In The Clowns
14. I Sing The Songs
15. My Kind Of Town
16. My Way
Notes: TT 58mins.
The Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York
Closing Night
Key Musicians: : Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ray Cone (piano)
Tony Cabot Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. Where Or When
3. For Once In My Life
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Imagination
6. What's New?
7. Didn't We?
8. Witchcraft
9. I've Got You Under My Skin
10. monologue
11. Empty Tables
12. If
13. Send In The Clowns
14. I Sing The Songs
15. My Kind Of Town
16. My Way
Notes: TT 57mins.
After this performance, a group of mobsters -- including Gambino crime family boss Carlo Gambino, Paul Castellano, and Jimmy Fratianno -- comes backstage, reportedly to photograph Gambino with his granddaughter, also named Sinatra. Frank posed for several pictures with the group. Those photos later surfaced as evidence in a 1978 bankruptcy-fraud case tied to the theater's alleged mob financing, and were raised again during Frank's 1981 Nevada gaming-license hearings. Source: J. Randy Taraborrelli, Sinatra: Behind the Legend.
[Sinatra And Barbara Announce Engagement]
Sinatra and Barbara Marx announced that they intended to marry that coming October, publicly signaling the reconciliation of their on-off relationship.
Source: The Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra, chapter "I Want to Be a Part of It, 1971-98."
[That's Entertainment, Part II]
The sequel That's Entertainment, Part II opened in May 1976; Sinatra filmed no new footage for it, yet appeared throughout via archival clips -- effectively taking a curtain call without new work -- while seventy-six-year-old Fred Astaire and sixty-three-year-old Gene Kelly hosted new introductory sequences directed by Kelly himself, with arrangements by Nelson Riddle.
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
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Key Musicians: Al Viola (Guitar), Gene Cherico (Bass), Charles Turner
(Trumpet), Irv Cottler (Drums), Bill Miller (Piano).
Count Basie Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Opening Act: Count Basie Orchestra, Sam Butera & The Witnesses featuring
Sandy Williams,
1. Night And Day
2. For Once In My Life
3. Where Or When
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Imagination
6. What's New?
7. Didn't We?
8. Here's That Rainy Day
9. Witchcraft
10. All By Myself
11. monologue
12. Ol' Man River
13. Empty Tables
14. If
15. Send In The Clowns
16. I Sing The Songs
17. I've Got You Under My Skin
18. My Kind Of Town
19. My Way
Notes: TT 75mins.
Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Ontario
Key Musicians: Al Viola (Guitar), Gene Cherico (Bass), Charles Turner
(Trumpet), Irv Cottler (Drums), Bill Miller (Piano).
Count Basie Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Opening Act: Count Basie Orchestra, Sam Butera & The Witnesses featuring Sandy Williams,
William B. Williams
New York City
WNEW-AM 11:30 On Your Dial
May 3 -7, 1976(Monday -Fri)
Guest: Frank Sinatra 75 minute interview taped at the Premier Theatre before the closing show on Sunday, 4-11-76.
Television
None
Milwaukee Arena, Milwaukee, WI
Key Musicians: Al Viola (Guitar), Gene Cherico (Bass), Charles Turner (Trumpet), Irv Cottler (Drums), Bill Miller (Piano).
Count Basie Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. For Once In My Life
3. Where Or When
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Imagination
6. What's New
7. Didn't We
8. Here's That Rainy Day
9. Witchcraft
10. All By Myself
11. monologue
12. If
13. Send In The Clowns
14. I Sing The Songs
15. My Kind Of Town
16. I've Got You Under My Skin
17. My Way
Notes: TT 51mins.
Milwaukee Arena, Milwaukee, WI
Key Musicians: Al Viola (Guitar), Gene Cherico (Bass), Charles Turner (Trumpet), Irv Cottler (Drums), Bill Miller (Piano).
Count Basie Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
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Grand Ol' Opry, Nashville, Tennessee
Key Musicians: Al Viola (Guitar), Gene Cherico (Bass), Charles Turner
(Trumpet), Irv Cottler (Drums), Bill Miller (Piano).
Count Basie Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. overture
2. Night And Day
3. For Once In My Life
4. Where Or When
5. The Lady Is A Tramp
6. Imagination
7. What's New
8. Didn't We
9. Here's That Rainy Day
10. Witchcraft
11. All By Myself
12. monologue
13. If
14. Send In The Clowns
15. I Sing The Songs
16. My Kind Of Town
17. I've Got You Under My Skin
18. My Way
Notes: TT 70mins.
NOTE: Ed O'Brien includes in his comments parts of a lengthy review of
Sinatra's appearance at the Grand Ol' Opry House by Billboard's Gerry Wood. In part, Wood writes: "In a town where Johnny Cash can stroll downtown without causing too much commotion or Kris Kristofferson can sip a quiet beer on 16th Avenue South , the appearance of Sinatra on the stage of the Opry House was electrifying. His walk onstage drew a standing ovation and the drama fired by the consummate showman never slowed. The concert undoubtedly set a record for the amount of music business executives who showed up snatched up tickets ranging up to $15 to see if Sinatra could live up to his legacy. He did . . . The town was treated to one of the most creative and polished shows it will ever have the pleasure of witnessing. Superb arrangements, orchestration, and showmanship.
A town of songwriters appreciates that Sinatra takes pains to mention the names of every songwriter of every song he sings. A town of uncompromising artists appreciates that he won't compromise enough to throw a Nashville-written song just because he's in town. And a town of creative talent appreciates one of their own. Appropriately, Sinatra closed his show with his powerful version of "My Way" and received a standing ovation, a woman came from the audience to the foot of the stage and offered the king a beautiful crown befitting the monarch of music. To the cheers of the audience, he put it on. He wore it well."
Grand Ol' Opry, Nashville, Tennessee
Key Musicians: Al Viola (Guitar), Gene Cherico (Bass), Charles Turner
(Trumpet), Irv Cottler (Drums), Bill Miller (Piano).
Count Basie Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Ambassador Hotel, Sabre Room, Chicago (Hickory Hills), Illinois First Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (Guitar), Gene Cherico (Bass), Charles Turner (Trumpet), Irv Cottler (Drums), Bill Miller (Piano).
Count Basie Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Opening Act: Count Basie Orchestra, Sam Butera & The Witnesses featuring Sandy Williams,
Opening Comedian: Pat Henry
1. overture
2. Night And Day
3. For Once In My Life
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Imagination
6. What's New
7. Didn't We
8. Here's That Rainy Day
9. Witchcraft
10. My Way
11. All By Myself
12. I Sing The Songs
13. monologue
14. Send In The Clowns
15. My Kind Of Town
16. Chaser "I Write The Songs"
NOTE: The engineer who taped the concert that weekend at the Sabre Room shared with Ed O'Brien the notes he jotted down.
The guy was a musician and a musicologist. He was tough on Frank and critiqued each song. If Frank sang flat or his intonation wavered, there was an entry. When Frank got it right, the log was filled with praise. To be fair, 1976 was not one of Frank's best years, O'Brien emphasizes.
Note: Basie and Co. didn't make sense to me. So I checked it out. Frank introduces his sidemen plus Randy Waldman(piano player), who backed him on Eric Carmen's "All By Myself." Then Frank says "The talented, wonderful musicians from Chicago, who have been with me during this tour." Pat Henry was the O.A.
--Ed
Ambassador Hotel, Sabre Room, Chicago (Hickory Hills), Illinois Second Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (Guitar), Gene Cherico (Bass), Charles Turner (Trumpet), Irv Cottler (Drums), Bill Miller (Piano).
Count Basie Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Opening Act: Count Basie Orchestra, Sam Butera & The Witnesses featuring Sandy Williams,
Opening Comedian: Pat Henry
1. Night and Day
2. For Once in My Life
3. The Lady Is a Tramp
4. Imagination
5. What's New
6. Didn't We
7. Witchcraft
8. My Way
9. All by Myself
10. I Write the Songs
11. Send in the Clowns
12. My Kind of Town
Ambassador Hotel, Sabre Room, Chicago (Hickory Hills), Illinois
Bill and Frank at Sabre Room May 1976
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Ambassador Hotel, Sabre Room, Chicago (Hickory Hills), Illinois First Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (Guitar), Gene Cherico (Bass), Charles Turner (Trumpet), Irv Cottler (Drums), Bill Miller (Piano).
Count Basie Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Opening Act: Count Basie Orchestra, Sam Butera & The Witnesses featuring Sandy Williams,
Opening Comedian: Pat Henry
1. overture
Sam Butera & The Witnesses:
2. My First My Last
3. Just A Gigolo - I Ain't Got Nobody
4. Sandy Williams: Love Will Keep Us Together
5. Mala Femina
6. Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover
7. Sam & Sandy: More
8. Sam & Sandy: When The Saints Go Marching In
Pat Henry:
9. comedy
Frank:
10. Night And Day
11. For Once In My Life
12. The Lady Is A Tramp
13. Imagination
14. Didn't We
15. Here's That Rainy Day
16. Witchcraft
17. My Way
18. monologue
19. All By Myself
20. I Sing The Songs
21. Send In The Clowns
22. My Kind Of Town
23. chaser "I Write The Songs"
Ambassador Hotel, Sabre Room, Chicago (Hickory Hills), Illinois Second Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (Guitar), Gene Cherico (Bass), Charles Turner (Trumpet), Irv Cottler (Drums), Bill Miller (Piano).
Count Basie Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Opening Act: Count Basie Orchestra, Sam Butera & The Witnesses featuring Sandy Williams,
Opening Comedian: Pat Henry
1. walk on intro music
2. Night And Day
3. For once in My Life
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Imagination
6. Didn't We
7. Here's That Rainy Day
8. Witchcraft
9. My Way
10. monologue
11. All By Myself
12. Send in The Clowns
13. My Kind Of Town
14. chaser: "I Write The Songs"
Notes: TT 55mins.
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Ambassador Hotel, Sabre Room, Chicago (Hickory Hills), Illinois
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Ambassador Hotel, Sabre Room, Chicago (Hickory Hills), Illinois First Show
Key Musicans: Al Viola (Guitar), Gene Cherico (Bass), Charles Turner (Trumpet), Irv Cottler (Drums), Bill Miller (Piano).
Count Basie Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Opening Act: Count Basie Orchestra, Sam Butera & The Witnesses featuring Sandy Williams,
1. Night And Day
2. For Once In My Life
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Imagination
5. Didn't We?
6. Witchcraft
7. My Way
8. monologue
9. I Sing The Songs
10. Send In The Clowns
11. My Kind Of Town
Notes: TT 47mins.
Ambassador Hotel, Sabre Room, Chicago (Hickory Hills), Illinois Second Show - Closing Show
Key Musicans: Al Viola (Guitar), Gene Cherico (Bass), Charles Turner (Trumpet), Irv Cottler (Drums), Bill Miller (Piano).
Count Basie Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Opening Act: Count Basie Orchestra, Sam Butera & The Witnesses featuring Sandy Williams,
1. Night And Day
2. For Once in My Life
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Imagination
5. Didn't We
6. Here's That Rainy Day
7. Witchcraft
8. My Way
9. All By Myself
10. I Sing The Songs
11. Send In The Clowns
12. My Kind Of Town
13. chaser: ā I Write The e Songsā ¯
Notes: TT 47mins.
Ambassador Hotel, Sabre Room, Chicago (Hickory Hills), Illinois Full page ad in Billboard, May 22, 1976
A thank you from the Sabre Room -- SRO every show.
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Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Rebel Fund-raising Dinner
Frank Sinatra, Helen Reddy, Sam Butera and the Witnesses, Pat Henry
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Rebel Fund-raising Dinner
Frank Sinatra, Helen Reddy, Sam Butera and the Witnesses, Pat Henry
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
University of Nevada Benefit
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. For Once In My Life
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Imagination
5. Didn't We?
6. Witchcraft
7. My Way
8. monologue
9. All By Myself
10. I've Got You Under My Skin
11. I Sing The Songs
12. If
13. My Kind Of Town
Notes: TT 42mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Opening night
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day (Joe Beck arg.)
2. For Once In My Life
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Imagination ( Riddle arg.)
5. What's New (Costa arg.)
6. Didn't We
7. Witchcraft
8. Send In The Clowns (Bill Miller on piano)
9. My Way
10. monologue
11. All By Myself (Don. Costa arg.)
12. My Kind Of Town
13. I Sing The Songs
Notes: TT 55mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day (Joe Beck arg.)
2. For Once In My Life
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Imagination ( Riddle arg.)
5. What's New (Costa arg.)
6. Didn't We
7. Witchcraft
8. Send In The Clowns (Bill Miller on piano)
9. My Way
10. monologue
11. All By Myself (Don. Costa arg.)
12. My Kind Of Town
13. Nancy
14. I Sing The Songs
Notes: TT 57mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. For Once In My Life
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Imagination
5. What's New?
6. Didn't We?
7. Here's That Rainy Day
8. Witchcraft
9. My Way
10. monologue
11. All By Myself
12. My Kind Of Town
13. I Sing The Songs
Notes: TT 60mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. For Once In My Life
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Imagination
5. What's New?
6. Didn't We?
7. Witchcraft
8. Send In The Clowns
9. My Way
10. monologue
11. All By Myself
12. My Kind Of Town
13. I Sing The Songs
Notes: TT 55mins.
Los Angeles, C.A.
Boomtown S.H.A.R.E Event
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller with Nat Brandwynne Orchestra two shows per night except on 5/22
1. Night And Day
2. For Once In My Life
3. Where Or When
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Imagination
6.. Didn't We?
7. Here's That Rainy Day
8. Witchcraft
9. I Concentrate On You (with Al Viola accompanying him on guitar)
10. My Way
11. monologue
12. Send In The Clowns
13. My Kind Of Town
14. I Sing The Songs
Notes: TT 55mins,
Los Angeles, C.A.
Boomtown S.H.A.R.E Event
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
with Nat Brandwynne Orchestra
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Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. For Once In My Life
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Imagination
5. Didn't We?
6. Witchcraft
7. monologue
8. Send In The Clowns
9. My Kind Of Town
10. I Sing The Songs
Notes: TT 51mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. For Once In My Life
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Imagination
5. What's New?
6. Didn't We?
7. Witchcraft
8. My Way
9.. monologue
10. Empty Tables
11. Send In The Clowns
12. My Kind Of Town
13. I Sing The Songs
Notes: TT 53mins.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Sunday afternoon
Frank Sinatra received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the University of Nevada
The University of Nevada granted Frank an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, a notable achievement given he had dropped out of grade school in Hoboken; he called his mother Dolly to tell her the news.
Frank Sinatra (quoted): "Ma, I graduated today."
Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (May 20-25)
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
First Show
1. Night and Day
2. For Once in My Life
3. Where or When
4. The Lady Is a Tramp
5. Imagination
6. Didn't We
7. Here's That Rainy Day
8. Witchcraft
9. My Way
10. Send in the Clowns
11. My Kind of Town
12. I Write the Songs
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (May 20-25)
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Second Show
1. Night and Day
2. For Once in My Life
3. The Lady Is a Tramp
4. Imagination
5. What's New?
6. Didn't We
7. Witchcraft
8. My Way
9. Empty Tables
10. Send in the Clowns
11. My Kind of Town
12. I Write the Songs
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (May 20-25)
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
O.A. Pat Henry midnight show
1. Night And Day (Joe Beck arg)
2. For Once In My Life
3. Where Or When (Billy Byers arg.)
4. The Lady Is A Tramp (Billy Byers arg.)
5. Imagination
6. Didn't We
7. Here's That Rainy Day ( "the daddy of all saloon songs" )
8. Witchcraft
9. I Concentrate On You w/Al Viola on guitar
10. My Way monologue
11. Send In The Clowns w/Bill Miller on piano
12. My Kind Of Town
13. I Sing The Songs
Note: Frank did two shows a night from 5/20 thru 5/24
On the 25th, he flew to Los Angeles and was the star attraction at the annual S.H.A.R.E. Benefit for disabled children. He flew back to Vegas for a midnight closer of five night engagement. Caesars got their wires crossed and sold reservations for a first show on the 25th. Sinatra was less than pleased and mentioned during the monologue that his office had informed Caesars in January of the one show only closing night. He was also furious at a columnists in a Vegas paper. Seems he wrote that Frank was canceling the first show on Tuesday, so he could attend a party at Cher Bono Allman's home.
--Ed
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey (May 27-30)
First Show
Al Cavanaugh Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Opening Act: Sam Butera
Opening Comedian: Pat Henry
1. Night And Day
2. For Once In My Life
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Imagination
5. Didn't We?
6. Witchcraft
7. My Way
8. monologue
9. All By Myself
10. Send In The Clowns
11. My Kind Of Town
12. I Sing The Songs
Notes: TT 53mins.
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey (May 27-30)
Second Show
Al Cavanaugh Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Opening Act: Sam Butera
Opening Comedian: Pat Henry
1. Night And Day
2. For Once In My Life
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Imagination
5. Didn't We?
6. I Concentrate On You
7. My Way
8. monologue
9. All By Myself
10. Send In The Clowns
11. My Kind Of Town
12. I Sing The Songs
Notes: TT 56mns.
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
First Show
Al Cavanaugh Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Opening Act: Sam Butera
1. Night And Day
2. For Once In My Life
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. What's New?
5. Didn't We?
6. Witchcraft
7. My Way
8. monologue
9. All By Myself
10. Send In The Clowns
11. My Kind Of Town
12. Nancy
13. I Sing The Songs
Notes: TT 53mins.
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Second Show
Al Cavanaugh Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Opening Act: Sam Butera
1. Night And Day
2. For Once In My Life
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. What's New?
5. Imagination
6. Witchcraft
7. Nancy
8. My Way
9. monologue
10. I Concentrate On You
11. Send In The Clowns
12. My Kind Of Town
13. Nancy
14. I Sing The Songs
Notes: TT 58mins.
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Opening Act: Sam Butera
1. Night And Day
2. For Once In My Life
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Imagination
5. Didn't We?
6. Witchcraft
7. My Way
8. monologue
9. I Concentrate On You
10. Send In The Clowns
11. My Kind Of Town
12. I Sing The Songs
Notes: TT 50mins.
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Opening Act: Sam Butera
1. Night And Day
2. For Once In My Life
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Imagination
5. Didn't We?
6. Witchcraft
7. My Way
8. monologue
9. I Concentrate On You
10. Send In The Clowns
11. My Kind Of Town
12. I Sing The Songs
Notes: TT 54mins.
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
First Show
Al Cavanaugh Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. For Once In My Life
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Imagination
5. Didn't We?
6. Witchcraft
7. My Way
8. monologue
9. Empty Tables
10. My Kind Of Town
11. Nancy
12. I Sing The Songs
Notes: TT 51mins.
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Second Show - Closing Night
Al Cavanaugh Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. For Once In My Life
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Imagination
5. Didn't We?
6. Witchcraft
7. My Way
8. monologue
9. All By Myself
10. Send In The Clowns
11. My Kind Of Town
12. Nancy
13. I Sing The Songs
Notes: TT 56mins.
Waldorf Astoria, New York City
Fund-raiser for Gov. Hugh Carey
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. For Once In My Life
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Imagination
5. Didn't We?
6. Witchcraft
7. My Way
8. Send In The Clowns
9. I Sing The Songs
Notes: TT 55mins.
Waldorf Astoria, New York City
Fund-raiser for Gov. Hugh Carey
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Sinatra Bussed. New York: Frank Sinatra is about to be kissed by his fiancee, Barbara Marx, after he sang June 1st at Salute to New York honoring Gov. Hugh Carey. Marx is the former wife of Zeppo Marx.
Hollywood
UCA6205 The Best I Ever Had
w/Sam Butera on saxophone
(Daniel Hice/Ruby Hice)
Mandy Music (ASCAP)
Arranged And Conducted by Billy May
-8 (1:56) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 17
LP: W54101 The Singles ( Italy )
UCA6206 Stargazer
w/Sam Butera on saxophone
(Neil Diamond)
Sony Tunes Inc. (ASCAP)
Arranged by Don Costa
Conducted by Bill Miller
-5 (2:57) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 17
LP: K64039 ( England )
LP: W54101 The Singles ( Italy )
45: S1364
UCA6251 Dry Your Eyes
w/Chorus
(Neil Diamond/Robbie Robertson)
Sony Tunes inc./WB Music Corp. (ASCAP)
Arranged By Don Costa
Conducted by Bill Miller
-6 N/R
[Dry Your Eyes / Stargazer -- critical commentary]
Al Viola: Costa arranged 'Dry Your Eyes' (co-written by Robbie Robertson) to keep the militaristic snare-and-march feel and spiritual choir of Diamond's original, treating Sinatra's reverbed voice almost like a preacher's. 'Stargazer,' one of the few new-era songs Sinatra swung rather than covered straight, kept Diamond's hillbilly/Dixieland two-beat feel but swapped in Sam Butera's tenor sax for the original clarinet; on a 1976 concert recording Sinatra can be heard shouting 'Jump on it Sam, get all over that!' and 'Sam Butera! I hear you behind me. Blow, you mother, blow!' Guitarist Al Viola complained that copying rock arrangements verbatim (down to the original drummer's fills) frustrated the band, particularly Cottler.
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)
Palm Springs, California
Benefit for the Marshal's Association of California - Tribute to Eukey Sharon
Key Musicians: Sam Butera (sax), Bill Miller (piano)
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Where Or When (gap at start)
2. I Sing The Songs
3. Here's That Rainy Day
4. One For My Baby
5. I've Got You Under My Skin w/Sam Butera
6. Presentations
Notes: TT 23mins.
NOTE: Sinatra Scholar Ed O'Brien reports that Sinatra was a last minute sub for Bob Hope. The temperature in the auditorium was 117 degrees. Frank sang with a small combo. Interesting to hear "Skin" with such a dramatically different sound. The benefit was for a local sheriff who had recently suffered a stroke. During the award presentation, the sheriff uttered a one word obscenity. It was the extent of his workable vocabulary. That cracked Sinatra up and he wondered how the local TV stations would air it.
The highlight of the evening was Sinatra's moving tribute to Johnny Mercer: "We would like to do something at the risk of making you sad or being maudlin. I'd like to do a song that's similar to what I just did. The man who wrote this song was a dear friend. A marvelous friend, who left us today - yesterday. I'd like to do this lyric for you."
Sinatra then sings "One for My Baby" and then says, "That's for Johnny Mercer."
[Sinatra And Barbara Marry Secretly Ahead Of Schedule]
To throw off the media, who expected an October wedding, Sinatra and Barbara actually married in a private July ceremony that guests believed was merely an engagement party. Frank Jr. claimed a prior singing engagement and skipped the wedding, and Tina and Nancy were hurt to realize their father would never reunite with their mother.
Source: The Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra, chapter "I Want to Be a Part of It, 1971-98."
[personal life]
Sinatra married Barbara Marx, ex-showgirl and former wife of Zeppo Marx, in July 1976.
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)
Days before the wedding, Mickey Rudin wrote to Sidney Korshak confirming he had advised Barbara to obtain independent legal advice on the prenuptial agreement, and that she had done so through Korshak despite his not being licensed in California. Both Korshak and Barbara signed the letter. (Source: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).)
Days before the wedding, Mickey Rudin wrote to Sidney Korshak confirming he had advised Barbara to obtain independent legal advice on the prenuptial agreement, and that she had done so through Korshak despite his not being licensed in California. Both Korshak and Barbara signed the letter. (Source: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).)
July 11, 1976, Frank Sinatra marries Barbara Marx
Frank and Barbara Marx marry in a closely guarded ceremony at Sunnylands, Walter Annenberg's Palm Springs estate, with roughly 120 guests including the Reagans, Spiro Agnew, and Sammy Davis Jr. On the morning of the wedding, attorney Mickey Rudin and Sidney Korshak presented Barbara with a prenuptial agreement to sign; by her account she was told the wedding was off if she refused, and she signed just before the ceremony. A public announcement had named October 10, 1976 as the wedding date as a decoy to throw off the press. Source: J. Randy Taraborrelli, Sinatra: Behind the Legend.
Frank and his fourth bride, the former Barbara Marx, on their wedding day, July 11, 1976, at the home of Walter Annenberg, former U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James’s. Source: photo and caption from J. Randy Taraborrelli, Sinatra: Behind the Legend (mptvimages.com).
Barbara converted to Roman Catholicism before the wedding. "He [Frank] never asked me to change faith for him," she later wrote, "but I could tell he was pleased that I'd consider it." Source: Frank Sinatra Wiki (fandom.com), citing Barbara Sinatra, Lady Blue Eyes: My Life With Frank.
[Barbara's memoir account of the wedding morning and the previous night's welcome party]
In her own memoir, Barbara recalled being woken on her wedding morning by a phone call from Frank -- "Good morning, sweetheart... I can't wait to marry you today" -- and stepping outside into roughly 120-degree desert heat by nine a.m. The night before, Frank had hosted a welcome party for arriving guests at the Ingleside Inn, during which his bodyguard Jilly Rizzo nearly ejected the officiating judge, Walsworth, after mistaking him for a reporter trying to crash the event. Barbara's ex-husband Zeppo Marx told the press he had lost her but wished the couple well, remarking that Frank Sinatra "could never find a better woman."
Source: Barbara Sinatra, Lady Blue Eyes: My Life with Frank Sinatra (New York: Crown Archetype, 2011).
Frank married Barbara Marx at Walter Annenberg's Sunnylands estate in Rancho Mirage before 130 guests, three months ahead of their originally scheduled date. Best man was Freeman Gosden (radio's 'Amos'); Frank gave Barbara a peacock blue Rolls-Royce and she gave him a gray Jaguar. When the judge asked if Barbara would take Frank 'for richer or poorer,' Frank interjected.
Frank Sinatra (quoted): "Richer, richer."
Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.
Longtime lyricist Sammy Cahn, a member of Sinatra's inner circle since the 1940s, was not invited to the wedding. Source: Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra (Rough guide 7.pdf), chapter "The Inner Circle."
[A Summer in La Jolla With Grandma]
Dolly invited Nancy and her children to spend August with her in La Jolla, where she spent her days at the Del Mar racetrack, sharing winnings with her great-granddaughters. Frank and Barbara stopped by after a photo session with John Wayne in Newport Beach, appearing happy together.
Source: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).
[Dolly Sinatra's Premonition in La Jolla]
Nancy Sinatra: While summering with the family in La Jolla, Dolly Sinatra told Nancy she would not be there the following year. When Nancy pressed her, assuming she simply preferred the cooler coastal climate to the desert, Dolly said flatly that she would not be anywhere at all, adding that she was tired and missed her late husband Marty.
Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.
Repeat Airing of 'John Denver and Friend'
[Bizarre "blowing tube" threat over Sinatra's Agnew friendship]
Sinatra's longtime attorney Milton "Mickey" Rudin reported a threatening letter, postmarked Flushing, New York, demanding Sinatra publicly denounce his friendship with former Vice President Spiro Agnew -- by then facing accusations of anti-Israel bias -- by August 15, 1976, or else "a chemically treated prickle will perforate one of his eyes" via an untraceable poisoned dart fired from a hollowed-out camera, binocular, or cigarette holder "in the method of African Bushmen's blowing tubes." Sinatra declined to hold the demanded press conference. A four-month FBI investigation -- including fingerprint analysis, paper-thickness measurements to the ten-thousandth of an inch, and comparison against the Bureau's Anonymous Letter File -- failed to identify the sender, and prosecution was declined that December.
Source: Kuntz and Kuntz, The Sinatra Files, ch. 7.
Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night and Day
2. For Once in My Life
3. Where or When
4. The Lady Is a Tramp
5. Imagination
6. Empty Tables
7. Didn't We
8. Here's That Rainy Day
9. Stargazer
10. My Way
11. My Kind of Town
12. All by Myself
13. I've Got You Under My Skin
14. Send in the Clowns
15. I Write the Songs
Note: Sinatra appeared at the Pacific National Exhibition.
He had last appeared in Vancouver at The Coliseum for two shows on June 9, 1957.
Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
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Cincinnati Enquirer
August 22, 1976
Asbury Park Press
August 22, 1976
August 22, 1947
Hartford Courant
August 22, 1963
Performing Arts Center, Saratoga, New York
Opening act: Pat Henr
Orchestra conducted by Bill Miller
Tuesday evening
1. Night And Day (Joe Beck arg.)
2. For Once In My Life
3. Where Or When
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Imagination (ballad arg. N. Riddle)
6. Didn't We
7. Here's That Rainy Day
8. Stargazer
9. My Way
10. My Kind Of Town
11. monologue
12. Never Gonna Fall In Love Again ( arg. D. Costa never recorded - sang it 31 times)
13. I've Got You Under My Skin
14. Empty Tables w/Bill Miller on piano
15. I Sing The Songs
Notes: TT 66mins.
Performing Arts Center, Saratoga, New York
Opening act: Pat Henry
Orchestra conducted by Bill Miller
Garden State Arts Center, Holmdel, New Jersey
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. For Once In My Life
3. Where Or When
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Imagination
6. Didn't We?
7. Here's That Rainy Day
8. Stargazer - w/Sam Butera
9. My Way
10. My Kind Of Town
11. monologue
12. Never Gonna Fall In Love Again
13. I've Got You Under My Skin
Notes: TT 53mins.
Garden State Arts Center, Holmdel, New Jersey
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Garden State Arts Center, Holmdel, New Jersey
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. For Once In My Life
3. Where Or When
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Imagination
6. Didn't We?
7. Here's That Rainy Day
8. Stargazer - w/Sam Butera
9. My Way
10. My Kind Of Town
11. monologue
12. Never Gonna Fall In Love Again
13. I've Got You Under My Skin
14. Empty Tables
15. I Sing The Songs
Notes: TT 62mins.
Riverfront Coliseum, Cincinnati, Ohio
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day (Joe Beck arg.)
2. For Once In My Life
3. Where Or When (Billy Byers arg.)
4. The Lady Is A Tramp (Billy Byers arg.)
5. Imagination (Nelson Riddle ballad arg.)
6. Didn't We
7. Here's That Rainy Day
8. Stargazer
9. My Kind Of Town
10. monologue
11. Never Gonna Fall In Love Again (Don Costa arg.)
12. I've Got You Under My Skin
13. Empty Tables w/ Bill Miller
14. I Sing The Songs
15. Nancy
16. My Way
Notes: TT 64mins.
Riverfront Coliseum, Cincinnati, Ohio
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
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Sinatra was inducted into the Catholic Sovereign Military Order of Malta, part of a return to the Catholicism of his youth that deepened the following year after his mother Dolly's death in a plane crash; he would die a practicing Catholic with a Catholic burial. Source: Wikipedia, “Frank Sinatra.”
[Reuniting Martin and Lewis After Twenty Years]
Nancy Sinatra: After months of secret planning, Sinatra surprised Jerry Lewis during his own telethon appearance by announcing he had a friend backstage who loved what Lewis did every year, then brought out Dean Martin, who had not spoken to his former partner in more than two decades. Lewis, in tears, could only say "You son of a bitch" as the two embraced before performing a ten-song medley together.
Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.
[Fratianno's Testimony on the Knights of Malta Arrangement]
Fratianno testified that he met Sinatra backstage at the Westchester Premiere Theater and discussed getting Sinatra into the Knights of Malta Catholic charitable order in exchange for Sinatra performing a benefit concert and a $10,000 contribution; Fratianno denied ever actually receiving Sinatra's check.
Source: George Carpozi Jr., Frank Sinatra: Is This Man Mafia? (New York: Manor Books, 1979).
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (September 2-8)
Two shows; same song program for both
1. Stargazer
2. Where or When
3. All I Need is the Girl
4. Embraceable You (N. Riddle arg.)
5. I Get Along Without You very Well
6. Here's that Rainy Day
7. For Once in my Life
8. Monologue
9. It was a Very Good Year
10. Never Gonna Fall in Love Again
11. I Sing the Songs
12. Night and Day
13. This is All I Ask
14. Empty Tables
15. My Way
Ed O'Brien:
Sinatra's engagement at Caesars ran for seven days from 9-2 thru 9/8. Frank appeared on Jerry Lewis' Telethon, 9-6. After singing "Stargazer" and "Never Gonna Fall In Love Again," Frank told Jerry he had a pal who loved the show and wanted to come out and say hello. Jerry was stunned when the pal turned out to be Dean Martin. The men had not spoken in more than 20 years. After the reunion, Frank and Dean did a terrific medley. When Frank was a guest on Carson's Tonight show, 11- 12-76, he kiddingly suggested that a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize was in order. He played three nights at Harrah's in Tahoe, 9/10 thru 12. Tahoe saw Frank share the bill with John Denver. The two men did nine show in three days. The hotel received 42,000 ticket requests for the "September To Remember" dates. Sinatra and Denver both did their own segments and then two medleys. The first was made up of Sinatra hits and then they joined forces for three of Denver's most well known songs. The closing number was "September Song," sung as a duet.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (September 2-10)
Friday night
Two shows; Same song program for both
1. Stargazer
2. Where or When
3. All I Need is the Girl
4. Embraceable You (Nelson Riddle arg.)
5. I Get Along without You very Well
6. Here's that Rainy Day
7. For Once in my Life
8. Monologue
9. It was a very good Year
10. Never Gonna Fall in Love Again
11. I Sing the Songs
12. Night and Day
13. This is All I Ask
14. Empty Tables w/Bill Miller on piano
15. My Way
note: After "Empty Tables, Frank introduces his sideman and then reminds the audience that the MD Telethon will be broadcast on the weekend. He introduces Jerry Lewis, who is in the audience. This was the telethon where
Frank reunited Martin & Lewis.
Ed
Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (September 2-10)
First Show
1. Stargazer
2. Where or When
3. All I Need Is the Girl
4. Embraceable You
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. For Once in My Life
7. It Was a Very Good Year
8. Never Gonna Fall in Love Again
9. I Write the Songs
10. Night and Day
11. This Is All I Ask
12. Empty Tables
13. My Way
Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (September 2-10)
Second Show
1. Stargazer
2. Where or When
3. All I Need is the Girl
4. Embraceable You (Riddle arg.)
5. I Get Along without You Very Well
6. For Once in my Life
7. Monologue
8. Never Gonna Fall in Love Again
9. I Sing the Songs
10. Night and Day
11. This is All I Ask
12. Empty Tables w/Bill Miller on piano
13. My Way
Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (September 2-10)
Sunday evening
Two shows
Orchestra conducted by Bill Miller
Dinner show
1. Stargazer (Sam Butera sax solo)
2. Where Or When ( Billy Byers arg)
3. Embraceable You
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5. For Once In My Life monologue
6. It Was A Very Good Year
7. Never Gonna Fall In Love Again ( D. Costa arg.)
8 I Sing The Songs
9. Night And Day ( J. Beck arg.)
10. This Is All I Ask
11. Empty Tables w/ Bill Miller on piano
12. My Way.
Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (September 2-10)
Midnight Show:
1. Stargazer (Sam Butera sax solo)
2. Where Or When ( Billy Byers arg)
3. All I Need Is The Girl
4. Embraceable You
5 I Get Along Without You Very Well
6. Here's That Rainy Day
7. For Once In My Life monologue
8. It Was A Very Good Year
9. Never Gonna Fall In Love Again ( D. Costa arg.)
10. I Sing The Songs
11. Night And Day ( J. Beck arg.)
12. This Is All I Ask
13. Empty Tables w/ Bill Miller on piano
14. My Way.
Muscular Dystrophy Association Telethon
Hosted by Jerry Lewis
Las Vegas
Frank's first appearance
Bill Miller conducted
1. Star Gazer w/Sam Butera on sax
2. Never Gonna Fall Again
Frank chatted with Jerry, wanted Jerry to meet a friend.
Dean Martin walked out on stage. First time Martin
& Lewis had been together in 20 years( early '50s
Frank was making $10,000 a week, M&L were making that per night). Jerry called Frank an SOB.
Frank & Dean did a medley of songs:
I Can't Give You Anything But Love/Too Marvelous
For Words/Pennies From Heaven/A Foggy Day/
Embraceable You/The Lady Is A Tramp/I've Got
The World On A String/Where Or When/All Of Me/
When You're Smiling
Frank's second appearance
Bill Miller conducted
1. For Once In My Life
2. Embraceable You
3. Night And Day
Note: Details Ed O'Brien
Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (September 2-10)
Orchestra conducted by Bill Miller
O.A. Pat Henry
1. Stargazer
2. Where Or When
3. Embraceable You
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5. For Once In My Life
6. monologue
7. It Was A Very Good Year
8. Never Gonna Fall In Love Again
9. My Way
10. Night And Day
11. This Is All I Ask
12. Empty Tables w/ B. Miller on piano
13. I Sing The Songs
The song selection was the same for both the dinner and midnight shows Dionne Warwicke was in the audience for the first show and Sergio Mendes was in attendance for the second. Both shows ran a little under an hour.
Muscular Dystrophy Association Telethon
Hosted by Jerry Lewis
Frank chatted with Jerry, wanted Jerry to meet a friend.
Dean Martin walked out on stage. First time Martin
& Lewis had been together in 20 years
Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (September 2-10)
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (September 2-8)
Closing Night
Brian Farnon's Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Key Musicians: Bill Miller, Al Viola, Gene Cherico, Irv Cottler
1. Stargazer
2. Where Or When
3. All I Need Is The Girl
4. Embraceable You
5. I Get Along Without You Very Well
6. For Once In My Life monologue
7. It Was A Very Good Year
8. Never Gonna Fall In Love Again
9. I Sing The Songs
10. Night And Day
11. This Is All I Ask
12. Empty Tables w/ Bill Miller on piano
13. My Way
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Stargazer
2. Where or When
3. Embraceable You
4. I Get Along without you very Well
5. For Once in my Life
6. Monologue
7. This is All I Ask
8. Never Gonna Fall in Love Again
9. I Sing the Songs
10. Night and Day
11. Sinatra and Denver Sing Medley of Sinatra Hits: Saturday Night/Five Minutes More/Come Fly with Me/Nice'nâ' Easy/Learnin' the Blues/Strangers in the Night/Witchcraft/ It Was a Very Good Year/Young at Heart/Nancy/ A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening/The Tender Trap/Love and Marriage/High Hopes/All the Way/All of Me
12. Sinatra and Denver Sing Medley of Denver Hits: My Sweet Lady/Leaving on a Jet Plane/Like a Sad Song
13. September Song
Notes: TT 52mins.
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Stargazer
2. Where or When
3. Embraceable You
4. I Get Along without you very well
5. For Once in my Life
6. Monologue
7. This is All I Ask
8. Never Gonna Fall in Love Again
9. Night and Day
10. Sinatra and Denver Sing Medley of Sinatra Hits: Saturday Night/Five Minutes More/Come Fly with Me/Nice'n' Easy/Learnin' the Blues/Strangers in the Night/Witchcraft/ It Was a Very Good Year/Young at Heart/Nancy/ A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening/The Tender Trap/Love and Marriage/High Hopes/All the Way/All of Me
11. Sinatra and Denver Sing Medley of Denver Hits: My Sweet Lady/Leaving on a Jet Plane/Like a Sad Song
12. September Song
Notes: TT 53mins.
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Third Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Stargazer - w/Sam Butera
2. Where Or When
3. Embraceable You
4. For Once In My Life
5. monologue
6. This Is All I Ask
7. Night And Day
8. Sinatra and Denver Sing Medley of Sinatra Hits: Saturday Night/Five Minutes More/Come Fly with Me/Nice'n' Easy/Learnin' the Blues/Strangers in the Night/Witchcraft/ It Was a Very Good Year/Young at Heart/Nancy/ A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening/The Tender Trap/Love and Marriage/High Hopes/All the Way/All of Me
9. Sinatra and Denver Sing Medley of Denver Hits: My Sweet Lady/Leaving on a Jet Plane/Like a Sad Song
10. September Song
Notes: TT 50mins.
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
A September To Remember
John Denver opened at Harrah's on 9-3-76.
He was a single act through 9-9. Sinatra joined him for the weekend 10 to 12. Frank insisted that
John get top billing. Frank stayed on and played solo from the 13th to the 16th.
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San Francisco Examiner
September 15, 1976
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Stargazer
2. Where or When
3. Embraceable You
4. I Get Along without you very Well
5. For Once in my Life
6. Monologue
7. This is All I Ask
8. Never Gonna Fall in Love Again
9. I Sing the Songs
10. Night and Day
11. Sinatra and Denver Sing Medley of Sinatra Hits: Saturday Night/Five Minutes More/Come Fly with Me/Nice'nâ' Easy/Learnin' the Blues/Strangers in the Night/Witchcraft/ It Was a Very Good Year/Young at Heart/Nancy/ A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening/The Tender Trap/Love and Marriage/High Hopes/All the Way/All of Me
12. Sinatra and Denver Sing Medley of Denver Hits: My Sweet Lady/Leaving on a Jet Plane/Like a Sad Song
13. September Song
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller w/John Denver
First Show
1. Stargazer
2. Where Or When
3. Here's That Rainy Day
4. For Once in My Life
5. Monologue
6. This Is All I Ask
7. I Sing The Songs
8. Empty Tables
9. Night And Day
10. Frank & Denver Sing Medley Of Sinatra Hits
Frank & Denver:
11. My Sweet Lady
12. Leaving On A Jet Plane
13. Like A Sad Song
14. September Song
Second Show
1. Stargazer
2. Where or When
3. Here's that Rainy Day
4. For Once in my Life
5. Monologue
6. This is All I Ask
7. I Sing the Songs
8. Sinatra and Denver sing Medley of Sinatra Hits
9. Sinatra and Denver sing Medley of Denver Songs
10. My Sweet Lady
11. Leaving on a Jet Plane
12. Like a Sad Song
13. September Song
Third Show
1. Night and Day
2. Where or When
3. Here's That Rainy Day
4. For Once in my Life
5. Monologue
6. This is All I Ask
7. I Sing the Songs
8. Sinatra and Denver sing medley of Sinatra hits
9. Sinatra and Denver sing medley of Denver hits
10. My Sweet Lady
11. Leaving on a Jet Plane
12. Like A Sad Song
13. September Song
NOTE: Ed O'Brien observes: "Rocky Mountain High teamed with the ultimate Swingin's Lover and it worked remarkably well."ť Harrah's received over 650,000 requests for reservations and 42.000 were accommodated. There were three shows a night on the weekend to SRO crowds. The show was titled "A September to Remember." Sinatra called Denver his "Barbie Doll"ť and.every time Sinatra tried to play down his swingin' image, Denver would say, "Give me a break."ť The audience loved every minute. Sinatra and Denver almost did an album for RCA.
Sinatraphile Ed Spiegel wonders why John Denver was not included in either of the "Duets"ť cds.
Sinatraphile J Daniel wants to know whose idea was if for Denver and Sinatra to perform together. How did it all come about? He knows that Sinatra did some shows with Willie Nelson, too, and, if not mistaken, Sinatra opened some of those shows rather than closing. Sinatraphile Larry Crawford says he has often wondered the same thing.
Ed O'Brien:
Frank never did an engagement with Willie Nelson. He did open for Willie at the G. Nugget in Vegas, 6-23-84. It was Frank's inaugural appearance at Wynn's casino. He cancelled the rest of the engagement due to illness. Frank and Willie never performed together save for the electronic duet in 1993-94. Jerry Weintraub put together the Denver-Sinatra Harrah pairing.
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
FRANK SINATRA - JOHN DENVER
"A SEPTEMBER TO REMEMBER"
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Stargazer - w/Sam Butera
2. Where Or When
3. Here's That Rainy Day
4. For Once In My Life
5. monologue
6. This Is All I Ask
7. I Sing The Songs
8. Empty Tables
9. Night And Day
10. medley w/John Denver: Saturday Night / Come Fly With Me / Learnin'
The Blues / Witchcraft / Young At Heart / Nancy / A Lovely Way To
Spend An Evening / The Tender Trap / Love And Marriage / High
Hopes / All The Way / All Of Me / My Sweet Lady / Like A Sad Song
/ September Song
Notes: TT 54mins.
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Stargazer - w/Sam Butera
2. Where Or When
3. Embraceable You
4. I Get Along Without You Very Well
5. For Once In My Life
6. Monologue
7. This Is All I Ask
8. Never Gonna Fall In Love Again
9. Night And Day
10. medley w/John Denver: Saturday Night / Come Fly With Me / Learnin'
The Blues / Witchcraft / Young At Heart / Nancy / A Lovely Way To Spend An Evening / The Tender Trap / Love And Marriage / High Hopes / All The Way / All Of Me / My Sweet Lady / Like A Sad Song / September Song
Notes: TT 51mins.
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
FRANK SINATRA - JOHN DENVER
"A SEPTEMBER TO REMEMBER"
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
SEPTEMBER 12, 1992
THE NINTH Annual AMERICAN Cinema Awards
Beverly Hills, California
Beverly Hilton Hotel frank Sinatra Receives THE LIFE ACHIEVEMENT award w/ Bob Hope, Anthony Quinn, Joseph Cotton, Gene Autry,
Angie Dickinson, Sid Caesar, Milton Berle, Gene Kelly, Barbara Sinatra, Don Rickles, Robert Wagner, Jill St. John., Arlene Dahl, Eva Gabor, Rhonda Fleming, Whoopi Goldberg, Jane Russell, Ginger Rogers, Alexis Smith, Sidney Poitier, Merv Griffin, Shirley MacLaine, Lily Tomlin, Patrick Swayze, Robert Stack, Kirk Douglas , Ted Danson,
Gregory Peck & Liza Minnelli present Frank Sinatra with the "Distinguished Life Achievement in Film & Music" Award. note: Asked that night to name the favorite of all the films he appeared in through the years, Frank said, "Pal Joey."
Ceremony ran six hours.
Ed
Actress Whoopi Goldberg, Singer/actor Frank Sinatra, singer/actress Liza Minelli and Barbara Sinatra attend the Ninth Annual American Cinema Awards on September 12, 1992 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
FRANK SINATRA - JOHN DENVER
"A SEPTEMBER TO REMEMBER"
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
After Sinatra and Denver played their three day engagement at Harrah's, 9-10 to12-1976, Frank continued from the 13th thru the 16th. Ed
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
After Sinatra and Denver played their three day engagement at Harrah's, 9-10 to12-1976, Frank continued from the 13th thru the 16th. Ed
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
After Sinatra and Denver played their three day engagement at Harrah's, 9-10 to12-1976, Frank continued from the 13th thru the 16th. Ed
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
After Sinatra and Denver played their three day engagement at Harrah's, 9-10 to12-1976, Frank continued from the 13th thru the 16th. Ed
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York
First Show
Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Al Viola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. I Sing The Songs
2. Where Or When
3. Stargazer - w/Sam Butera
4. All I Need Is The Girl
5. Embraceable You
6. My Funny Valentine
7. I Get Along Without You Very Well
8. For Once In My Life
9. monologue
10. Like A Sad Song
11. This Is All I Ask
12. Never Gonna Fall In Love Again
13. Night And Day
14. Empty Tables
15. It Was A Very Good Year
16. All Or Nothing At All
17. I Sing The Songs
Notes: TT 69mins.
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York
Second Show
Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Al Viola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. I Sing The Songs
2. Where Or When
3. Stargazer - w/Sam Butera
4. All I Need Is The Girl
5. Embraceable You
6. My Funny Valentine
7. I Get Along Without You Very Well
8. For Once In My Life
9. monologue
10. Like A Sad Song - w/Al Viola
11. introductions
12. This Is All I Ask
13. Never Gonna Fall In Love Again
14. Night And Day
15. Empty Tables
16. It Was A Very Good Year
17. All Or Nothing At All
18. I Sing The Songs (reprise)
19. Chaser "I Sing The Songs"
Notes: TT 69mins.
Ed O'Brien observes that Sinatra wasn't singing all that well in September of 1976. He had become a marathon performer in concert venues and the wear and tear was really beginning to show. That said, the Premier appearance has some wonderful moments. His decision to sing "Like a Sad Song" with Al Viola on guitar was a master stroke. O'Brien much prefers it to the Ogerman-backed large orchestra studio effort. Denver's song cried out for simple, understated treatment. Bill Miller backing Sinatra on "Empty Tables" is another real highlight
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York
First Show
Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Al Viola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York
First Show
Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Al Viola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. I Sing The Songs
2. Where Or When
3. Stargazer - w/Sam Butera
4. All I Need Is The Girl
5. Embraceable You
6. My Funny Valentine
7. I Get Along Without You Very Well
8. For Once In My Life
9. monologue
10. Like A Sad Song
11. This Is All I Ask
12. Never Gonna Fall In Love Again
13. Night And Day
14. Empty Tables
15. It Was A Very Good Year
16. All Or Nothing At All
Notes: TT 58mins.
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York
Second Show
Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Al Viola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. I Sing the Songs
1. Where or When
2. Stargazer w/Sam Butera, sax
3. All I Need is the Girl
4. Embraceable You
5. My Funny Valentine
6. I Get Along Without You very Well
7. For Once in my Life
8. And the Band Played on w/Bill Miller, piano
9. This is All I Ask
10. Never Gonna' Fall in Love Again
11. Night and Day
NOTE: Thanks to Ed O'Brien for supplying the song program for the Second Show. Sinatraphile Richard W. reports that he saw the second show from September 24, which actually occurred in the wee small hours of September 25. The program was the same as above except "Like a Sad Song" was sung in place of "And the Band Played On." What he especially remembers about the show is that Sinatra started singing the opening song "I Sing the Songs" while he was still behind the curtain. He remembers that it received an unusually loud enthusiastic response. It was a song that worked well in concert. Richard is surprised that Sinatra didn't sing it more often.
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York
Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Al Viola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Where Or When
2. Stargazer - w/Sam Butera
3. All I Need Is The Girl
4. Embraceable You
5. My Funny Valentine
6. I Get Along Without You Very Well
7. For Once In My Life
8. monologue
9. Like A Sad Song
10. This Is All I Ask
11. Never Gonna Fall In Love Again
12. Empty Tables
13. Night And Day
Notes: TT 75mins.
Ed O'Brien reports that before "Empty Tables," Sinatra gave a heartfelt tribute to Johnny Mercer. He shared some wonderful stories with the audience and then did a splendid reading with just Bill Miller on piano.
New York City
UCA6251 Dry Your Eyes
w/Vocal Chorus
(Neil Diamond/Robbie Robertson)
Sony Tunes inc./WB Music Corp. (ASCAP)
Arranged by Don Costa
Conducted by Bill Miller
(3:01) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 17
LP: W54101 The Singles (Italy)
45: S1377
UNY1180 Like A Sad Song
(John Denver)
Cherry Lane Music Publishing Co. Inc. (ASCAP)
Arranged by Clus Ogerman
Conducted by Bill Miller
(4:11) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 17
LP: W54101 The Singles
45: S1377
Note: The Orchestral track for UCA6251 was pre-recorded on June 21,
1976
Sinatra Scholar Ed O'Brien points out that Sinatra was appearing at the Premier Theater in Westchester County, New York , on September 27,
1976. After the show, he was limoed into Manhattan for the above recording session.
Sinatra did a local over dub on the Diamond song and then employed a 40-piece orchestra to record the Denver tune. Earlier in the evening he had sung Denver 's song with just Al Viola backing him with guitar. O'Brien much prefers the latter version. Denver 's tune is perfectly complimented by the wonderful guitar sounds from Al Viola and Sinatra sounds great. The interpretation was so much more effective with a simple, basic sound. Less is more!
Sinatraphile Vance Adair observed that Sinatra was possessed with an almost mythical talent for imbuing otherwise pedestrian lyrics with a sonorous kind of plausibility. Throughout his career, Sinatra rescued many banal phrases from noted songwriters into artful musings on the human condition. But, Adair writes, "Dry You Eyes" was a bridge too far, even for Sinatra. His valiant efforts, though, still intrigue Adair from time to time. Sinatra attempts to fashion a narrative arc to a song that is singularly lacking any kind of emotional substance. It is well worth the listen for that alone, but, he warns, be prepared for technique laid bare.
Here are O'Brien follow-up comments to Adair's observations: In the late summer of 1976, Jonathan Schwartz spent some time with Sinatra out in Palm Springs . One night he told Jonathan about his plan to record a Neil Diamond song. Jonathan asked what the song was about. Jonathan called O'Brien and quoted verbatim Sinatra's response: "I think it's about Jesus." Sinatra wanted to do it because Diamond was big at the time and Sinatra felt you had to stay contemporary. Certainly no other Sinatra recording sounds like it. He recorded four of Diamond's songs but never had much success with them.
Sinatraphile Johnny 1 says he had a copy of the Italian album "The Singles." Were these recordings originally on 45's in the U.S. , he asks. O'Brien responds that all were single releases except "Bonita."
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York
Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Al Viola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. I Sing The Songs
2. Where Or When
3. Stargazer - w/Sam Butera
4. All I Need Is The Girl
5. Embraceable You
6. My Funny Valentine
7. I Get Along Without You Very Well
8. For Once In My Life (track 7)
9. monologue I
10. Like A Sad Song
11. monologue II
12. This Is All I Ask
13. introductions
14. Never Gonna Fall In Love Again
15. Empty Tables
16. It Was A Very Good Year
17. Night And Day
18. chaser "I Sing The Songs"
Notes: TT 77mins..
New York City
UCA6251 Dry Your Eyes w/Vocal Chorus
(Neil Diamond/Robbie Robertson)
Sony Tunes inc./WB Music Corp. (ASCAP)
Arranged by Don Costa
Conducted by Bill Miller
(3:01) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 17
LP: W54101 The Singles (Italy)
45: S1377
UNY1180 Like A Sad Song
(John Denver)
Cherry Lane Music Publishing Co. Inc. (ASCAP)
Arranged by Clus Ogerman
Conducted by Bill Miller
(4:11) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 17
LP: W54101 The Singles
45: S1377
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York
Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Al Viola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. I Sing The Songs
2. Where Or When
3. Stargazer - w/Sam Butera
4. All I Need Is The Girl
5. Embraceable You
6. My Funny Valentine
7. I Get Along Without You Very Well
8. For Once In My Life
9. monologue
10. Empty Tables
11. This Is All I Ask
12. Never Gonna Fall In Love Again
13. It Was A Very Good Year
14. Night And Day
Notes: TT 57mins.
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York
Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Al Viola
(guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. I Sing The Songs
2. Where Or When
3. Stargazer - w/Sam Butera
4. All I Need Is The Girl
5. Embraceable You
6. My Funny Valentine
7. I Get Along Without You Very Well
8. For Once In My Life
9. monologue
10. Empty Tables
11. This Is All I Ask
12. Never Gonna Fall In Love Again
13. It Was A Very Good Year
14. Night And Day
Notes: TT 65mins.
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York
Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Al Viola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York
First Show
Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Al Viola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1.. I Sing The Songs
2.. Where Or When
3. Stargazer - w/Sam Butera
4. All I Need Is The Girl
5. Embraceable You
6. My Funny Valentine
7. I Get Along Without You Very Well
8. For Once In My Life
9. monologue
10. Like A Sad Song
11. This Is All I Ask
12. Never Gonna Fall In Love Again
13. Empty Tables
14. It Was A Very Good Year
15. Night And Day
Notes: TT 65mins.
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York
Second Show
Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Al Viola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. I Sing The Songs
2. Where Or When
3. Stargazer - w/Sam Butera
4. All I Need Is The Girl
5. Embraceable You
6. My Funny Valentine
7. I Get Along Without You Very Well
8. For Once In My Life
9. monologue
10. Like A Sad Song
11. This Is All I Ask
12. Never Gonna Fall In Love Again
13. Empty Tables
14. It Was A Very Good Year
15. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 58mins.
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York
First Show
Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Al Viola (guitar), Charles Turner
(trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. I Sing the Songs
2. Where or When
3. Stargazer
4. Lady is a Tramp
5. Embraceable You
6. My Funny Valentine
7. I Get Along Without Your very Well
8. For Once in my Life
9. Monologue
10. Like a Sad Song w/Al Viola, guitar
11. This is All I Ask
12. Never Gonna Fall in Love Again
13. Empty Tables
14. It was a very good Year
15. Night and Day
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York
Second Show - Closing Show
Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Al Viola (guitar), Charles Turner
(trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. I Sing the Songs
2. Where or When
3. Stargazer
4. The Lady is a Tramp
5. Embraceable You
6. My Funny Valentine
7. I Get Along without you Very Well
8. For Once in My Life
9. Monologue
10. Like a Sad Song w/Al Viola, guitar
11. This is All I Ask
12. Never Gonna Fall in Love Again
13. Empty Tables
14. It was a very good Year
15. Night and Day
16. My Way
Civic Center, Hartford, CT
Time: 8:00 PM
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Opening Act: Sam Butera & The Witnesses
1. I Write the Songs
2. Where or When
3. Stargazer
4. The Lady Is a Tramp
5. Embraceable You
6. My Funny Valentine
7. I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes)
8. For Once in My Life
9. Like a Sad Song
10. This Is All I Ask
11. Never Gonna Fall in Love Again
12. It Was a Very Good Year
13. Night and Day
14. My Way
Civic Center, Hartford, CT
Time: 8:00 PM
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Opening Act: Sam Butera & The Witnesses
Civic Center, Hartford, CT
Time: 8:00 P.M.
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Opening Act: Sam Butera & The Witnesses
1. I Write the Songs
2. Where or When
3. Stargazer
4. The Lady Is a Tramp
5. Embraceable You
6. My Funny Valentine
7. I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes)
8. For Once in My Life
9. Like a Sad Song
10. This Is All I Ask
11. Never Gonna Fall in Love Again
12. It Was a Very Good Year
13. Night and Day
14. My Way
Hartford Courant
Buffalo Memorial Auditorium, Buffalo, New York
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. I Sing The Songs
2. Where Or When
3. Stargazer - w/Sam Butera
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Embraceable You
6. My Funny Valentine
7. I Get Along Without You Very Well
8. For Once In My Life
9. monologue
10. Like A Sad Song
11. This Is All I Ask
12. Never Gonna Fall In Love Again
13. Empty Tables
14. It Was A Very Good Year
15. Night And Day
16. My Way
Notes: TT 69mins
Buffalo Memorial Auditorium, Buffalo, New York
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Civic Arena, Pittsburgh, PA
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. I Write the Songs
2. Where or When
3. Stargazer
4. The Lady Is a Tramp
5. Embraceable You
6. My Funny Valentine
7. I Get Along Without You Very Well
8. For Once in My Life
9. Like a Sad Song
10. This Is All I Ask
11. Never Gonna Fall in Love Again
12. Empty Tables
13. It Was a Very Good Year
14. Night and Day
15. My Way
Civic Arena, Pittsburgh, PA
Providence Civic Center, Providence, Rhode Island
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. I Sing The Songs
2. Where Or When
3. Stargazer - w/Sam Butera (sax)
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Embraceable You
6. My Funny Valentine
7. I Get Along Without You Very Well
8. For Once In My Life
9. monologue
10. Like A Sad Song
11. This Is All I Ask
12. Never Gonna Fall In Love Again
13. Empty Tables
14. It Was A Very Good Year
15. Night And Day
16. My Way
Notes: TT 70mins
In this Oct. 13, 1976 photo, singer Frank Sinatra performs at the Providence Civic Center in Rhode Island to a capacity crowd:
Providence Civic Center, Providence, Rhode Island
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum, New Haven, CT
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. I Write the Songs
2. Where or When
3. Stargazer
4. The Lady Is a Tramp
5. Embraceable You
6. My Funny Valentine
7. Get Along Without You Very Well
8. For Once in My Life
9. Like a Sad Song
10. This Is All I Ask
11. Never Gonna Fall in Love Again
12. Empty Tables
13. It Was a Very Good Year
14 Night and Day
15. My Way
The Forum, Montreal, Quebec
Friday Evening
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. I Sing The Songs
2. Where Or When
3. Stargazer (Sam Butera sax solo)
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Embraceable You
6. My Funny Valentine
7. I Get Along Without You Very Well
8. For Once In My Life monologue
9. Like A Sad Song w/ Al Viola
10. This Is All I Ask
11. Never Gonna Fall In Love Again (D. Costa arg.)
12. Empty Tables or Send In The Clowns w/Bill Miller
13. It Was A Very Good Year
13. Night And Day (J. Beck disco arg.)
14. My Way
Notes: Thanks to Ed O'Brien for posting the setlist.
David Lazarus responded:
I'm a Montrealer and I attended the Montreal concert in 1976 and it was at The Forum, which has since been torn down and turned into a cineplex. I was 22 but already a huge Sinatra fan and I remember him bounding onto the stage and performing exquisitely. Alas, the actual song titles escape me now since the vast majority were from his "concert core" repertoire, but they included one or two of his lamer efforts from the 1970s (the songs, not him).
Ed O'Brien then responded:
Sinatra closed at the Premier Theatre on 10-2-76 and then started a 12 city tour on 10-7. He played
Pittsburgh, Buffalo, New Haven, Montreal, Norfolk and so on.
He had a set program for the tour with only one alternate.
The Forum, Montreal, Quebec
Friday Evening
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
The Gazette (Montreal, Quebec, Quebec, Canada) · 18 Oct 1976
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Onondaga County War Memorial, Syracuse, New York
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. I Sing The Songs
2. Where Or When
3. Stargazer - w/Sam Butera
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Embraceable You
6. My Funny Valentine
7. I Get Along Without You Very Well
8. For One In My Life
9. monologue
10. Like A Sad Song
11. This Is All I Ask
12. Never Gonna Fall In Love Again
13. Send In The Clowns
14. It Was A Very Good Year
15. Night And Day
16. My Way
Notes: TT 68mins.
Onondaga County War Memorial, Syracuse, New York
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Frank Sinatra played at the Onondaga County War Memorial in front of crowd of 9,000 people in downtown Syracuse. The concert had been sold-out for months. The songs Sinatra sang included "Stargazer", "For Once in My Life", "Like a Sad Song", "Send in the Clowns", and he finished with "My Way." He returned to Syracuse to perform in 1978 at the New York State Fair Grandstand, 1980 at the Carrier Dome, and 1994 at the War Memorial.
An article from 2012:
A dream comes true for a woman who adored Frank Sinatra: Live at the War Memorial
Published: Jan. 12, 2012, 3:48 p.m.
Connie Fortino always adored Frank Sinatra. She would play his songs on the record player in her small apartment in Syracuse. She would hum Sinatra tunes under her breath as she worked at the B.G. Sulzle Co. Like many fans, she felt as if his songs were written just for her.
In 1976, Connie learned Sinatra was coming to the Onondaga County War Memorial. Connie's daughter, Linda D'Agostino of Kirkville, said her mother assumed she'd end up with some distant seat, far away from "the big shots" near the stage. Yet Connie had one powerful quality in her favor: She rode the bus, and she loved people . It seemed as if she knew everyone in Syracuse.
That included a woman in the War Memorial ticket booth. "Come back in a few days," the woman told Connie, "and I'll have something for you."
That's how Connie wound up in the front row when 9,000 spectators jammed in to see Sinatra, which may have been the biggest concert crowd ever in the War Memorial.
Sinatra's visit is part of the astounding musical heritage of the War Memorial, now in its 60th year. On Sunday, join Post-Standard columnist Sean Kirst as he explores the legion of entertainers whose concerts have transformed the old arena into one of the most historic musical venues in the nation. And be sure to return to syracuse.com, where you'll be able to contribute memories, photographs and videos of all your favorite shows for hundreds of performers.
Fourteen months ago, Connie died at 93. Until the last years of her life, she often talked about that concert. She would recall being close enough to catch Sinatra's eye.
At those moments, she knew he was singing just for her.
Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena, Binghamton, N.Y.
O.A. Sam Butera & The Witnesses
Pat Henry
1. I Sing The Songs
2. Where Or When
3. Stargazer
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Embraceable You
6. My Funny Valentine
7. I Get Along Without You Very Well
8. For Once In My Life
9. Like A Sad Song w/ Al Viola
10. This Is All I Ask
11. Never Gonna Fall In Love Again
12. Empty Tables w/ Bill Miller
13. It Was A Very Good Year
14. Night And Day
15. My Way
Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena,
Binghamton, N.Y.
O.A. Sam Butera & The Witnesses
Pat Henry
Norfolk, Virginia (cancelled)
Richmond, Virginia (cancelled)
Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee (Cancelled) The Daily News-Journal (Murfreesboro, Tennessee) · 20 Oct 1976:
Jefferson Civic Center, Birmingham, Alabama (Cancelled) The Anniston Star (Anniston, Alabama) · 21 Oct 1976:
The Omni, Atlanta, GA (Cancelled)
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, Georgia) · 23 Oct 1976:
[Rosalind Russell's Last Words to Nancy]
Nancy Sinatra: The last time Nancy saw family friend Rosalind Russell before her death, she asked how Russell was feeling. Russell answered simply that Nancy should never get old, because it's no fun.
Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.
Beverly Hilton, Los Angeles, California
Ed McMahon Stag Friars
Guests On Dais: Red Buttons, Redd Foxx, Don Rickles, Pat McCormick, Norm Crosby, Pat Henry.
1. Ed McMahon (parody) - w/Bill Miller (piano)
2. The Most Beautiful Drunk In The World (parody) - w/Bill Miller (piano)
Notes: TT 86mins.
Note: X-rated all the way.
Hollywood
UCA6590 I Love My Wife
(Cy Coleman/Michael Stewart)
WB Music Corp. (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Nelson Riddle
(3:09) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 17
CD: 9-26340-2 The Reprise Collection
45: S1382
NOTE: Sinatra Scholar Ed O'Brien says that Riddle conducted a 30 piece orchestra which included Sol Gubin on drums, Ralph Grierson on piano, and Mitchell Holder and
Dennis Budimir on guitar.
Mahlon Clark told O'Brien the session was a struggle. Sinatra wasn't in particularly good voice. He did 14 takes on "I Love my Wife" (recording is an intercut of 13 and 14).
UCA6591 Evergreen N/R
Arranged & Conducted by Nelson Riddle
NOTE: O'Brien says there were four takes done for "Evergreen." Two had vocals. When O'Brien asked Riddle about the session he thought "Evergreen" had been issued and "I Love my Wife" still in the vault. He told O'Brien that Sinatra had a lot of trouble with the latter tune. "Evergreen" charts gives a tantalizing hint of what Riddle would have done with Sinatra on the Jobim projects.
The Tonight Show
Frank Guests: An Interview, Don Rickles Makes A Surprise Visit
1. I Sing The Songs
2. Where Or When
Excerpt from Kenneth Tynan's profile of Johnny Carson:
November 12th: After days of spot announcements and years of coaxing by the network, Frank Sinatra makes his debut on the show. Received like visiting royalty, he gives the impression of swaggering even when seated. For once, the host seems uneasy, overawed, too ready to laugh. Don Rickles is hurried on unannounced to dissipate the atmosphere of obsequiousness, which he does by talking to the singer like Mafia subaltern reporting to Godfather; at least this is better than treating him as God. (I get memory flash of cable sent to me by Gore Vidal when he agreed to accept my younger daughter as godchild: "Always a godfather, never a god." For many people in entertainment business, Sinatra is both.) When conversation again falters, Rickles declares to world at large, "I'm a Jew, and he's an Italian, and here" he thrusts at Carson a face contorted with distaste, like diner finding insect in soup "here we have . . . what?" Rickles wraps up interview by saying that he truly admires Sinatra, because "he stimulates excitement, he stimulates our industry, and" fixing Carson with glare of malign relish "he . . . makes . . . you . . . nervous."
The Tonight Show
Frank Guests: An Interview, Don Rickles Makes A Surprise Visit
1. I Sing The Songs
2. Where Or When
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"I Love My Wife"
Several songs for a planned Nelson Riddle album, Here's to the Ladies, were recorded in Burbank in 1976-77, the best being Sinatra's rendition of 'I Love My Wife.' Some other tracks, including 'Stella by Starlight,' had orchestral tracks laid down but never received vocal overdubs.
Source: Charles L. Granata, "Sessions with Sinatra: Frank Sinatra and the Art of Recording" (1999/2003).
"I Love My Wife"
Granata includes 'I Love My Wife' among the fifty recordings he considers essential to understanding Sinatra's artistry (arranged by Nelson Riddle, recorded 1976, Reprise); the song was chosen for its musical/interpretive value rather than commercial popularity.
Source: Charles L. Granata, "Sessions with Sinatra: Frank Sinatra and the Art of Recording" (1999/2003).
Frank and his proud mother, Dolly, on the evening Frank received the coveted Scopus Award from the Hebrew University of Israel in Los Angeles, November 14, 1976. Sadly, Dolly would die in a plane crash less than two months later, en route from Palm Springs to Las Vegas to see her son perform. Source: photo and caption from J. Randy Taraborrelli, Sinatra: Behind the Legend (mptvimages.com).
Frank received the Scopus Award from the American Friends of the Hebrew University for his work supporting Israel; the book recounts that in 1948, while appearing at the Copacabana, he had unknowingly carried a package of money for arms for Israel to a designated pier, a fact confirmed decades later when Menachem Begin thanked him in person.
Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.
Municipal Auditorium, Mobile, AL
1. Chicago (That Toddling Town)
2. I Write the Songs
3. Where or When
4. The Lady Is a Tramp
5. Embraceable You
6. My Funny Valentine
7. I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes)
8. This Is All I Ask
9. For Once in My Life
10. Like a Sad Song
11. The Song Is You
12. It Was a Very Good Year
3. Empty Tables
14. Night and Day
15. Nancy (With the Laughing Face)
16. My Way
Jacksonville Memorial Auditorium, Jacksonville, Florida
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. I Write the Songs
2. Where or When
3. The Lady Is a Tramp
4. Embraceable You
5. My Funny Valentine
6. My Kind of Town
7. This Is All I Ask
8. For Once in My Life
9. Like a Sad Song
10. The Song Is You
11. It Was a Very Good Year
12. Empty Tables
13. Night and Day
14. My Way
Jacksonville Memorial Auditorium, Jacksonville, Florida
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. I Write the Songs
2. Where or When
3. The Lady Is a Tramp
4. Embraceable You
5. My Funny Valentine
6. My Kind of Town
7. This Is All I Ask
8. For Once in My Life
9. Like a Sad Song
10. The Song Is You
11. It Was a Very Good Year
12. Empty Tables
13. Night and Day
14. My Way
Florida times union
note: Reviewer has Frank singing "Chicago" after opening number.
Lakeland Civic Center, Lakeland, Florida
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. I Write the Songs
2. Where or When
3. The Lady Is a Tramp
4. Embraceable You
5. My Funny Valentine
6. My Kind of Town
7. This Is All I Ask
8. For Once in My Life
9. Like a Sad Song
10. The Song Is You
11. It Was a Very Good Year
12. Empty Tables
13. Night and Day
14. My Way
Lakeland Civic Center, Lakeland, Florida
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Jai Alai Fronton, Miami, Florida
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Chicago
2. I Sing The Songs
3. Where Or When
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Embraceable You
6. My Funny Valentine
7. My Kind Of Town
8. For Once In My Life
9. monologue
10. Like A Sad Song
11. The Song Is You
12. It Was A Very Good Year
13. Send In The Clowns
14. Night And Day
15. My Way
Notes: TT 64mins.
Jai Alai Fronton, Miami, Florida
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Scope Arena, Norfolk, Virginia
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. I Sing The Songs
2. Where Or When
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Embraceable You
5. My Funny Valentine
6. My Kind Of Town
7. This Is All I Ask
8. For Once In My Life
9. monologue
10. Like A Sad Song
11. The Song Is You
12. It Was A Very Good Year
13. Empty Tables
14. Night And Day
15. My Way
Notes: Check date. TT 56mins.
Scope Arena, Norfolk, Virginia
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An All Star Tribute To John Wayne
ABC-TV
Friday Evening
8:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Host: Frank Sinatra
Guests: Maureen O'Hara, James Stewart, Lee Marvin, Bob Hope, Glen Campbell, Claire Trevor, Henry Winkler, Ron Howard, Angie Dickinson, Charles Bronson, Johnny Byner, Monty Hall
1. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life arranged & conducted by Nelson Riddle
An All Star Tribute To John Wayne
Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
Sinatra performs at a Dodgers Banquet
Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
Sinatra performs at a Dodgers Banquet
Banquet of the National Association: The Entertainment Steals the Show
The awards banquet of the 75th Winter Meetings offered a first-class entertainment program that overshadowed the honorees. Vin Scully, broadcaster for the Los Angeles Dodgers, served as master of ceremonies for the event, which took place in the grand ballroom of the Hilton. Frank Sinatra sang, actor Cary Grant spoke briefly about his life in Hollywood, and comedian Don Rickles went through his typically edgy routine. But those three were upstaged, according to one report, by Monty Hall, host of the syndicated game show Let’s Make a Deal, who “stole the show” with his version of “The History of Baseball According to the Bible.” 54 The big winner of the gala was Don “Bucky” Buchheister, GM of the Cedar Rapids Giants (San Francisco’s affiliate in the Midwest League). He was honored as the Class A Executive of the Year, co-winner of the National Association Larry MacPhail Promotional Award (sharing it with Jim Paul, owner and GM of the El Paso Diablos in the Double-A Texas League), and Midwest League executive of the year.
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The family gathered for Dolly Sinatra's birthday dinner on Christmas night, since, like her son, she had been born in December. Earlier that summer she had unsettlingly told Nancy she wouldn't be around the following year. Source: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).
[Bing Crosby's Comment On Sinatra's Enduring Popularity]
Shortly before his death in 1977, Bing Crosby was asked in a TV interview why Sinatra's popularity had lasted decade after decade; Crosby answered that Sinatra was the only one of their peers who "consistently gets through to all ages."
Source: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).
[Freedom Medal at Independence Hall]
Sinatra receives the Freedom Medal at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, gives a charity concert for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children at Royal Albert Hall, London, and stars in the TV movie "Contract on Cherry Street."
Source: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).
[Contract On Cherry Street Reprises Cop Role]
Sinatra returned to acting with the TV movie Contract on Cherry Street, reprising the tough, tortured detective persona he had played earlier in his career.
Source: The Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra, chapter "I Want to Be a Part of It, 1971-98."
[The Bobby Marx Adoption Scare]
In spring 1977, Frank's lawyer Mickey Rudin warned Tina that Frank was close to legally adopting Barbara's adult son, Bobby Marx. Nancy and Tina both objected strongly to Frank directly, and their mother ultimately intervened by asking Frank to stop the adoption for the children's sake; he agreed, and announced backstage at a Buckley School benefit that the plan was off.
Source: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).
[With Tommy Lasorda On Dodgers Opening Day]
Sinatra appeared with Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda on Opening Day in 1977.
Source: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).
[Consiglio marries Mary]
Consiglio: Consiglio married Mary in 1977, his first marriage, when he was in his fifties, after years of touring with Sinatra had left little room for settling down.
Source: Tony Consiglio (as told to Franz Douskey), "Sinatra and Me: The Very Good Years" (2012)
[Contract on Cherry Street]
As a tribute to his mother following her death, and grieving through work as always, Sinatra developed the TV movie Contract on Cherry Street, based on one of Dolly's favorite books -- in doing so breaking his career-long vow never to make a movie for television.
This film/context matches multiple dated entries in the chronology; the specific date Santopietro is referring to could not be determined with confidence.
Source: Tom Santopietro, "Sinatra in Hollywood" (2008), Knight-Errant (pt. 2) / That's Life
[Contract on Cherry Street]
Contract on Cherry Street, based on Philip Rosenberg's novel, was directed by William A. Graham with a screenplay by Edward Anhalt; filmed in the summer of 1977, it aired on NBC on November 19, 1977, and drew acceptable ratings. Sinatra played Inspector Frank Hovannes, a NYC cop investigating organized crime's grip on the stolen-car-parts trade.
This film/context matches multiple dated entries in the chronology; the specific date Santopietro is referring to could not be determined with confidence.
Source: Tom Santopietro, "Sinatra in Hollywood" (2008), Knight-Errant (pt. 2) / That's Life
[Contract on Cherry Street]
Judith Crist / John J. O'Connor: Critics were unimpressed: Judith Crist branded the film a "10th rate Kojak," while John J. O'Connor in The New York Times wrote that good performances were "wasted in this curious exercise" given the plot's flaws. Plans to release the film theatrically overseas were shelved.
This film/context matches multiple dated entries in the chronology; the specific date Santopietro is referring to could not be determined with confidence.
Source: Tom Santopietro, "Sinatra in Hollywood" (2008), Knight-Errant (pt. 2) / That's Life
[Contract on Cherry Street]
Santopietro grades this a C, noting it's Frank's only starring television movie and that he's better than the film. Golden Apple Award: Male Star of the Year.
This film/context matches multiple dated entries in the chronology; the specific date Santopietro is referring to could not be determined with confidence.
Source: Tom Santopietro, "Sinatra in Hollywood" (2008), Career Scorecard
[Contract on Cherry Street / The First Deadly Sin]
After his brief 1971 retirement ended, Sinatra took only two more starring roles for the rest of his life: the 1977 TV movie Contract on Cherry Street and his final feature film, The First Deadly Sin (1980).
This film/context matches multiple dated entries in the chronology; the specific date Santopietro is referring to could not be determined with confidence.
Source: Tom Santopietro, "Sinatra in Hollywood" (2008), The Rat Pack (pt. 2)
[Death of Frank's mother Dolly]
Consiglio: Frank's mother, Dolly, died in a plane crash eight years after Marty's 1969 death, i.e. around 1977.
Source: Tony Consiglio (as told to Franz Douskey), "Sinatra and Me: The Very Good Years" (2012)
[Dolly Sinatra dies]
Kaplan: Dolly Sinatra died in 1977. Sinatra had not spoken to his estranged godfather Frank Garrick for nearly five decades after the Jersey Observer incident, not even inviting him to his first wedding or his children's baptisms, but phoned Garrick shortly after Dolly's death asking to visit -- though he initially failed to follow through several times.
Source: James Kaplan, "Frank: The Voice" (2010)
[personal life]
Sinatra's mother, Dolly Sinatra, died in a plane crash on January 6, 1977, while flying from Palm Springs to Las Vegas to see her son perform. Dolly had been both Frank's harshest critic and his biggest supporter throughout his life.
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
[Elvis Presley's posthumous cover of "My Way"]
Elvis Presley's version of 'My Way,' released after his death, reached No. 22 on the US charts in the first posthumous Presley single release.
Source: Richard Havers, "Sinatra" (Dorling Kindersley, 2007).
[Here's To The Ladies Album Abandoned]
An album Sinatra commissioned from Nelson Riddle, a collection of songs with girls' names in the titles called Here's To The Ladies, was scrapped after Sinatra recorded only five of the ten arrangements Riddle had prepared.
Source: Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra (Rough guide 7.pdf), chapter "The Inner Circle."
[The Only Couple on the Floor -- critical commentary]
Will Friedwald: Written by Ventures guitarist John Durrill, 'The Only Couple on the Floor' is a first-class country-and-western piece that Costa arranged into a credible country recording for Sinatra -- Friedwald calls it more hardcore country, and better, than anything on the Cycles album, and notes Sinatra was reportedly considering a full country album collaboration with producer Snuff Garrett around this time.
Source: Will Friedwald, "Sinatra! The Song Is You: A Singer's Art" (2018 revised edition), Ch. 10, "Concert Years" (1973-1994)
[Trilogy: The Future -- genesis of the project, pitched by Jenkins and Sonny Burke around 1977 -- critical commentary]
Frank Sinatra (1984, recalling ~1977): Sinatra recalled in 1984 how Jenkins and producer Sonny Burke pitched the idea for The Future while he was working Vegas: "They said, 'We want to talk to you about a piece of material that Gordon is thinking about.'... I said, 'Boy! That's a lot of music. That's a lot of work.' He said, 'Yeah, I know, but I think I could do it.'" A few months later they returned with a reel-to-reel demo tape that, Sinatra said, 'put me away the first time I heard it. It really knocked me out.' Bruce Jenkins found a letter showing his father had proposed such an extended Sinatra portrait as early as 1959.
Source: Will Friedwald, "Sinatra! The Song Is You: A Singer's Art" (2018 revised edition), Ch. 8, "Gordon Jenkins" (1956-1981)
[Dolly Sinatra dies in plane crash]
Consiglio: Dolly Sinatra, who had moved to Palm Springs to be near Frank after her husband Marty's death, died when a plane carrying her to visit Frank (then performing at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas) crashed into the San Gorgonio Mountains. She had opted to fly rather than take the limousine Frank sent for the long drive. She was buried in Palm Springs, and Marty's remains were later moved from New Jersey to be buried beside her at her request.
Source: Tony Consiglio (as told to Franz Douskey), "Sinatra and Me: The Very Good Years" (2012)
Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
FS opens while his mother's plane is reported missing
Thursday evening
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra conducted by Bill Miller
Key Musicians: Bass: Gene Cherico, Guitar: Al Viola, Trumpet: Charlie Turner, Piano : Bill Miller
First Show
1. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
2. Where Or When
3. But Beautiful ( arg. by Nelson Riddle)
4. My Funny Valentine
5. I Sing The Songs
6. I Love My Wife ( first concert performance)
7. For Once In My Life
8. Like A Sad Song ( full orch. w/Claus Ogerman arg.)
9. My Kind Of Town
10. monologue/intros Tony Orlando, Tommy LaSorda, Louis Jordan and Michael Caine
11. My Way "I hate this goddamn song but majority rules."
12. Night And Day ( Joe Beck arg.)
13. See The Show Again (new song Charlie Calello arg.)
14. It Was A Very Good Year
15. The Lady Is A Tramp
Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Thursday evening
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra conducted by Bill Miller
Key Musicians: Bass: Gene Cherico, Guitar: Al Viola, Trumpet: Charlie Turner, Piano : Bill Miller
Second Show
1. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
2. Where Or When
3. But Beautiful ( arg. by Nelson Riddle)
4. My Funny Valentine
5. I Sing The Songs
6. I Love My Wife
7. For Once In My Life
8. Like A Sad Song ( full orch. w/Claus Ogerman arg.)
9. My Kind Of Town
10. monologue
11. My Way "I hate this goddamn song but majority rules.."
12. Night And Day ( Joe Beck arg.)
13. See The Show Again (new song Charlie Calello arg..)
14. It Was A Very Good Year
15. intros Morton Downey - compares him to Crosby
14. The Lady Is A Tramp
note: Between Shows, Frank was told that Dolly Sinatra's plane was missing. Asked what he wanted to do, Frank opted to do the second show. He never said a word to the audience and was very professional throughout.
Years later he discussed the accident. He called the site of the crash "Mama's mountain" and expressed a fervent desire to blow it up.
Ed
Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
FS opens while his mother's plane is reported missing
Thursday evening
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra conducted by Bill Miller
Key Musicians: Bass: Gene Cherico, Guitar: Al Viola, Trumpet: CharlieTurner, Piano : Bill Miller
First Show
1. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
2. Where Or When
3. But Beautiful ( arg. by Nelson Riddle)
4. My Funny Valentine
5. I Sing The Songs
6. I Love My Wife ( first concert performance)
7. For Once In My Life
8. Like A Sad Song ( full orch. w/Claus Ogerman arg.)
9. My Kind Of Town
10. monologue/intros Tony Orlando, Tommy LaSorda, Louis Jordan andMichael Caine
11. My Way "I hate this goddamn song but majority rules."
12. Night And Day ( Joe Beck arg.)
13. See The Show Again (new song Charlie Calello arg.)
14. It Was A Very Good Year
15. The Lady Is A Tramp
Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Thursday evening
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra conducted by Bill Miller
Key Musicians: Bass: Gene Cherico, Guitar: Al Viola, Trumpet: CharlieTurner, Piano : Bill Miller
Second Show
1. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
2. Where Or When
3. But Beautiful ( arg. by Nelson Riddle)
4. My Funny Valentine
5. I Sing The Songs
6. I Love My Wife
7. For Once In My Life
8. Like A Sad Song ( full orch. w/Claus Ogerman arg.)
9. My Kind Of Town
10. monologue
11. My Way "I hate this goddamn song but majority rules.."
12. Night And Day ( Joe Beck arg.)
13. See The Show Again (new song Charlie Calello arg..)
14. It Was A Very Good Year
15. intros Morton Downey - compares him to Crosby
14. The Lady Is A Tramp note: Between Shows, Frank was told that Dolly Sinatra's plane was missing. Asked what he wanted to do, Frank opted to do the second show. He never said a word to the audience and was very professional throughout. Years later he discussed the accident. He called the site of the crash "Mama's mountain" and expressed a fervent desire to blow it up. Ed
Dolly Sinatra's chartered Learjet, bound for Frank's opening night at Caesars Palace, loses contact with ground control in poor weather over the Coachella Valley. Frank, informed of the missing plane just before showtime, performed his full set to a standing ovation with no hint to the audience of the crisis unfolding; he canceled the rest of the engagement afterward and flew back to Palm Springs. The wreckage, found three days later on San Gorgonio Mountain, showed no survivors. Source: J. Randy Taraborrelli, Sinatra: Behind the Legend.
On the day Frank flew to Las Vegas to open at Caesars Palace, his mother Dolly, who was to join him later, ran an unusual errand retrieving jewelry from his safe to place in her own bank deposit box, then meticulously dressed for her flight—details Nancy Sinatra later recounted in detail as an eerie premonition before the fatal plane crash.
Frank Sinatra (quoted): "If anything happens to me, everything goes to my grandson."
Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.
FS cancels his performances
Dolly Sinatra's plane is missing
Dolly Sinatra's body is discovered
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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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Dolly Sinatra is buried in Palm Springs
Dolly Sinatra's funeral is held at St. Louis Roman Catholic Church in Cathedral City; pallbearers included Dean Martin, Jimmy Van Heusen, Leo Durocher, Danny Thomas, Pat Henry, and Jilly Rizzo. She was buried at Desert Memorial Park beside Marty, whose remains had been exhumed from New Jersey and moved to Palm Springs at her request. Unable to bring themselves to identify Dolly's body after the crash, Mickey Rudin and Jilly both demurred; Barbara ultimately did so herself. Source: J. Randy Taraborrelli, Sinatra: Behind the Legend.
A memorial Mass for Dolly Sinatra was held at the Actors' Chapel of St. Malachy's Church in New York's theater district.
Source: George Carpozi Jr., Frank Sinatra: Is This Man Mafia? (New York: Manor Books, 1979).
Sunrise Musical Theater, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (24-30)
OA: Pat Henry
Sunrise Musical Theater, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (24-30)
OA: Pat Henry
FRANK SINATRA
Sinatra simply appears walking onstage unannounced with no fan- fare. The audience jumps to its feet and from that moment Sinatra proves he's still the king. He never sounded better, never looked better, and was at his most charming Jan. 24. Conductor Bill Miller put the 40- piece Peter Graves orchestra through it paces and for a change the excellent Miami string section was properly miked' In fact the acoustics in the big hall are perhaps the best in the South Florida area. Sinatra began his hour set with the rousing "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown," then quieted the audience with "Where Or When" followed by "But Beautiful" with only strings for accompaniment. He preformed crowd-pleasers "My Kind Of Town,"
"I've Got You Under My Skin," "The Lady Is A Tramp,"
"For Once In My Life" and "Rainy Day." He was generous in giving credit to the various arrangers whose work he used, Gordon Jenkins, Nelson Riddle, Don Costa. Several times in his per- formance, he received standing ovations from the record breaking audience of 3,816. He included classy contemporary tunes in his repertoire like Barry Manilow's "I Write The Songs" and "Why Don't You See The Show Again?" John Denver's "Sometime I Feel Like A Sad Song" and Cy Coleman's "I Love My Wife."
Critics these days may say that Sinatra needs all the help he can get in arrangement, strings, horns to hide a faltering weak voice. His version of Stephen Sondheim's "Send In The Clowns," using only guitarist Al Viola was simply sen- sational. It is obvious that Sinatra will always be a favorite with aud- iences. They all loved him at Sunrise from youngsters in their 20s to senior citizens. It seems he can go on and on --- forever. Sara Lane Billboard
2-12-7
Sunrise Musical Theater, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (24-30)
Sunrise Musical Theater, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (24-30)
Sunrise Musical Theater, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (24-30) Peter Graves orchestra Conducted by Bill Miller
Thursday evening
1 Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
2. Where Or When
3. But Beautiful
4. My Funny Valentine
5. Like A Sad Song
6. I Sing The Songs
7. I Love My Wife
8. monologue
9. Empty Tables w/Bill Miller
10. See The Show Again
11. Night And Day
12. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word ( new song done during this engagement. Charles Calello arranged the Elton John-Bernie Taupin song
13. My Way
14. My Kind Of Town
15. second monologue
16. I've Got You Under My Skin
17. It Was A Very Good Year
18. The Lady Is A Tramp
Sunrise Musical Theater, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (24-30) First Show
Peter Graves Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
2. Where Or When
3. But Beautiful
4. My Funny Valentine
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. I Sing The Songs
7. I Love My Wife
8. For Once In My Life
9. monologue
10. See The Show Again
11. Night And Day
12. My Way
13. My Kind Of Town
14. I've Got You Under My Skin
15. It Was A Very Good Year
16. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 66mins.
Sunrise Musical Theater, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Second Show
Peter Graves Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
2. Where Or When
3. But Beautiful
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5. I Sing The Songs
6. I Love My Wife
7. For Once In My Life
8. monologue
9. Send In The Clowns
10. See The Show Again
11. Night And Day
12. My Way
13. My Kind Of Town
14. monologue
15. I've Got You Under My Skin
16. It Was A Very Good Year
17. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 70mins.
Sunrise Musical Theater, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (24-30) First Show
Peter Graves Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
2. Where Or When
3. But Beautiful
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5. I Sing The Songs
6. I Love My Wife
7. For Once In My Life
8. monologe I
9. My Way
10. My Kind Of Town
11. monologue II
12. I've Got You Under My Skin
13. It Was A Very Good Year
14. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 53mins.
Sunrise Musical Theater, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Second Show
Peter Graves Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
2. Where Or When
3. But Beautiful
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5. I Sing The Songs
6. I Love My Wife
7. For Once In My Life
8. monologue
9. See The Show Again
10. Night And Day
11. My Way
12. My Kind Of Town
13. monologue
14. This Is All I Ask
15. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 53mins.
Sunrise Musical Theater, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (24-30) First Show
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Gordon Jenkins
1. Come Fly With Me
2. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
3. You Will Be My Music
4. I Get A Kick Out Of You
5. medley: Last Night When We Were Young / Violets For Your Furs /
Here's That Rainy Day
6. monologue
7. Let Me Try Again
8. My Kind Of Town
9. Send In The Clowns
10. I've Got You Under My Skin
11. The Summer Knows
12. That's Life
13.. If
14. I've Got The World On A String
15. The House I Live In
Notes: TT 68mins.
Sunrise Musical Theater, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Closing Show
Peter Graves Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
2. Where Or When
3. But Beautiful
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5. My Funny Valentine
6. I Sing The Songs
7. I Love My Wife
8. For Once In My Life
9. monologue
10. Send In The Clowns
11. See The Show Again
12. Night And Day
13. My Way
14. My Kind Of Town
15. I've Got You Under My Skin
16. This Is All I Ask
17. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 76mins.
[Frank cuts an unreleased disco version of an old hit]
Decades later, Frank recorded a disco-style version of 'All or Nothing at All' with musician Joe Beck; it was never officially released except as part of a complete Reprise recordings box set, which the author notes was probably for the best.
Source: Richard Havers, "Sinatra" (Dorling Kindersley, 2007).
New York City
UNY1197 Night And Day
(Cole Porter)
Harms Inc. (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Joe Beck
(2:09) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 17
LP: W54101 The Singles (Italy)
45: S1386
UNY1198 All Or Nothing At All
(Jack Lawrence/Aurthur Altman)
MCA Inc. (ASCAP/ZIMRA)
Arranged & Conducted by Joe Beck
(2:35) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 17
UNY1288 Everybody Ought To Be In Love w/Chorus
(Paul Anka)
Paulanne Music (BMI)
Arranged & Conducted by Charles Calello
(3:19) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 17 45: S1386
Note: The orchestral tracks for UNY1197 & UNY1198 were pre-recorded on February 15, 1977.
NOTE: Ed O'Brien says that Frank couldn't get his throat to open. He has Beck stand at one end of the studio and they shouted back and forth until the vocal cords relaxed. He had a chart ready for a disco of "Full Moon and Empty Arms," but decided not to do it.
Sinatraphile Vance Adair suggests that perhaps Beck and Sinatra should have recorded the warm-up "shouting" session for "Everybody Ought to be in Love." There is a possibility that it may have proved to be more engaging musically than the vacuous Anka ditty.
Ed O'Brien:
Frank sang that god-awful Anka disaster quite often in concert. He would tell the audience what a great song it was. O'Brien doesn't think that many agreed. Sinatra did make it a bit more interesting in concert with some funny rhyme schemes. But it was a waste for a man of so much talent.
Danny Faux:
A real good description, Ed; " A God-awful Anka disaster ". Terrible song. It is hard to understand that Sinatra would tell the audience that song was great. He wanted to promote the record, ok, but he could have not believe what he was saying. A piece of trash if ever was one. I had the 12 inch single and I played the " Night and Day" disco version on my radio show. I thought it was on the verge of the grotesque side, but it was fun, in a wicked way, like an artist demolishing a beloved work of his canon. But this over simplistic, empty ditty, with his vacuous lyrics could make a grown up man cry. Especially when that grown up man ( 30 at the time ) was a life-long Sinatra fan. Do I sound like I hate that song?. Well I do!.
Ed O'Brien:
You must admit the 12 inch single of "Night And Day" has a much more authentic disco sound than the 45 release. I am baffled as to why Sinatra recorded more Paul Anka and John Denver than Ellington. And I should not lump together Denver and Anka. The former was certainly a better craftsman. Frank sang "Everybody . . . ." over 100 times in concert, including a duet with Anka. During the filming of "Contract On Cherry Street, July 77, Frank was set to record "New York, New York" for a single release. As you know, he finally got around to it two summers down the line. I can only speculate why he would opt for the Anka in lieu of the Kander and Ebb: "My Way" is the obvious answer. Frank was hoping lightning would strike again. He was very much a commercial animal and was still seeking, very much against the odds, hit singles. The irony is that when he gave up on that idea, a hit single came his way.
New York City
UNY1197 Night And Day
UNY1198 All Or Nothing At All
UNY1288 Everybody Ought To Be In Love
Photos are from the second session 4 to 7 p.m.
Frank overdubbed the two disco songs. Orchestral
tracks were laid down at A&R Studios in New
York on 10-6-76.
The Anka ditty was done with a 25 piece orchestra from
10 a.m to 1 p.m.
Frank
Barbara
Jilly
Joe Beck
[All or Nothing at All / My Funny Valentine -- critical commentary]
Will Friedwald: In October and November 1994 shows in Chicago and at the Sands, Sinatra was confident enough to joke about his own memory and vision problems, daring the audience to remember the words to 'All or Nothing at All' along with him. Around this time he was also performing Pat Williams's new revision of 'My Funny Valentine,' shorn of its 'How Do You Keep the Music Playing?' interpolation.
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)
[Night and Day -- critical commentary]
Will Friedwald: Sinatra and pianist Vinnie Falcone revived and revised the 1954 To Be Perfectly Frank small-group arrangement, dropping the Latin bongo elements but keeping the jazzy tempo and the mid-song verse.
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. 1, "Night and Day" (Sinatra style overview)
[Night and Day -- critical commentary]
Will Friedwald: In this show, Sinatra brings his five-decade relationship with the song full circle: he recaps the Rustic Cabin story of forgetting the lyrics in front of Cole Porter, then reenacts the flub for the first eight bars to the audience's delight before nailing the remaining forty measures -- which Friedwald calls a full-passion, full-swing performance.
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. 1, "Night and Day" (Sinatra style overview)
[Night and Day / All or Nothing at All -- critical commentary]
Will Friedwald: Sinatra recorded vocal tracks over disco orchestral backings arranger-producer Joe Beck had laid down the previous day. 'All or Nothing at All' was wisely shelved (not released until 1995), but 'Night and Day' was issued as a single -- which Friedwald calls Sinatra's most lamentable exercise in chasing musical fashion. Sinatra reportedly still performed this version live as late as a March 1979 concert in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
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. 1, "Night and Day" (Sinatra style overview)
Royal Albert Hall, London, England
Benefit for the National Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children
Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Al Viola (guita), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. Where Or When
3. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
4. Embraceable You
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. My Funny Valentine
7. I Love My Wife
8. For Once In My Life
9. monologue
10. Send In The Clowns
11. See The Show Again
12. I've Got You Under My Skin
13. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
14. They Can't Take That Away From Me
15. It Was A Very Good Year
16. A Foggy Day w/Al Viola
17. I Sing The Songs
18. My Kind Of Town
19. My Way
20. The Lady Is A Tramp
21. chaser "I Write The Songs"
Notes: TT 77mins.
Royal Albert Hall, London, England
The concert, a benefit for the NSPCC, raised roughly £60,000 toward a proposed National Advisory Centre on Battered Children. Source: Derek Jewell, Frank Sinatra: A Celebration (New York: Applause Books, 1999).
[Royal Albert Hall Benefit Concert]
Sinatra gave a memorable benefit concert at London's Royal Albert Hall for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, with Princess Margaret and Ava Gardner in attendance. His popularity there inspired some British fans to campaign for renaming the venue after him.
Source: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).
Royal Albert Hall, London, England
Time: 7:30
Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Al Viola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. Where Or When
3. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
4. Embraceable You
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. My Funny Valentine
7. I Love My Wife
8. For Once In My Life
9. monologue
10. Send In The Clowns
11. See The Show Again
12. I've Got You Under My Skin
13. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
14. They Can't Take That Away From Me
15. It Was A Very Good Year
16. A Foggy Day
17. I Sing The Songs
18. My Kind Of Town
19. My Way
20. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 77mins.
Royal Albert Hall, London, England
Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Al Viola (guita), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. Where Or When
3. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
4. Embraceable You
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. My Funny Valentine
7. I Love My Wife
8. For Once In My Life
9. monologue
10. Send In The Clowns
11. See The Show Again
12. I've Got You Under My Skin
13. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
14. My Kind Of Town
15. It Was A Very Good Year
16. A Foggy Day
17. I Sing The Songs
18. band introductions
19. My Way
20. The Lady Is A Tramp
21. chaser "I Write The Songs"
Royal Albert Hall, London, England
Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Al Viola (guita), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
American singer, actor and producer Frank Sinatra and American model, showgirl, socialite, and philanthropist Barbara Marx in London, UK, 2nd March 1977.
[image referenced in source but could not be recovered]
Royal Albert Hall, London, England
Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Al Viola (guita), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. Where Or When
3. Bad Bad Leroy Brown
4.. Embraceable You
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. My Funny Valentine
7. I Love My Wife
8. For Once In My Life
9. Send In The Clowns - w/Bill Miller (piano)
10. See The Show Again
11. I've Got You Under My Skin
12. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
13. My Kind Of Town
14. It Was A Very Good Year
15. A Foggy Day - w/Al Viola (guitar)
16. I Sing The Songs
17. My Way
18. The Lady Is A Tramp
Royal Albert Hall, London, England
First Show
Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Al Viola (guita), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. Where or When
3. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
4. Embraceable You
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. For Once In My Life
7. monologue
8. Send in The Clowns
9. See The Show Again
10. I've Got You Under My Skin
11. It Was A Very Good Year
12. My Kind Of Town
13. A Foggy Day w/Al Viola (Guitar)
14. I Sing The Songs
15. My Way
16. band introductions (gap til end)
Notes: TT 57mins. Could be edited.
Royal Albert Hall, London, England
Second Show
Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Al Viola (guita), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1.. Night And Day
2. Where Or When
3. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
4. Embraceable You
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. My Funny Valentine
7. For Once In My Life
8. monologue
9. Send In The Clowns
10. See The Show Again
11. I've Got You Under My Skin
12. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
13. My Kind Of Town
14. It Was A Very Good Year
15. I Sing The Songs
16. My Way
17. The Lady Is A Tramp
1978 Caesars Palace, Las Vegas Nevada (2 - 8)
Opening act: Jackie Gayle
Frank's sidemen: Bill Miller, conductor, Vinnie Falcone, piano, Gene Cherico, bass, Al Viola, guitar,
Charlie Turner, trumpet and Irv Cottler, drums
Royal Albert Hall, London, England
First show
Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Al Viola (guita), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Opening Act: The Fifth Dimension
1. Night And Day
2. Where Or When
3. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
4. Embraceable You
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. For Once In My Life
7. monologue
8. Send In The Clowns
9. See The Show Again
10. I've Got You Under My Skin
11. It Was A Very Good Year
12. My Kind Of Town
13. A Foggy Day
14. I Sing The Songs
15. My Way
16. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 61mins.
Royal Albert Hall, London, England
Second show
Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Al Viola (guita), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Opening Act: The Fifth Dimension
1. Night And Day
2. Where Or When
3. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
4. Embraceable You
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. For Once In My Life
7. monologue
8. Send In The Clowns
9. I've Got You Under My Skin
10. See The Show Again
11. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
12.. My Kind Of Town
13.. It Was A Very Good Year
14. A Foggy Day
15. I Sing The Songs
16. My Way
17. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 65mins.
Interview with Sid Mark
Sunday evening
WWDB
Amsterdam, Concertgebouw
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. Where Or When
3. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
4. Embraceable You
5. My Funny Valentine
6. For Once In My Life
7. monologue
8. Send In The Clowns
9. I've Got You Under My Skin
10. See The Show Again
11. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Wor
12. My Kind Of Town
13. It Was A Very Good Year
14. I Sing The Songs
15. My Way
16. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 63mins.
Amsterdam, Concertgebouw
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Thanks to Michel Macaire for the above photos
Hollywood
VCA6842 Nancy
(Phil Silvers/Jimmy Van Heusen)
Barton Music Corp. (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Nelson Riddle
(2:28) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 17
CD: 9-26340-2The Reprise Collection
VCA6845 Emily
(Johnny Mandel/Johnny Mercer)
EMI Miller Catalog Inc. (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Nelson Riddle
(2:58) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 17
CD: 9-26340-2 The Reprise Collection(Edited)
NOTE: Ed O'Brien points out that orchestral tracks were done at this session for "Elizabeth" and "Stella By Starlight".
Vance Adir added:
I rather like this more wistful, laid back interpretation of the song..
I so would like to have heard a mature reading of 'Stella by Starlight' which (along with 'All The Things You Are) must be one of the most beautiful popular melodies ever written.
Ed responded:
Mahlon Clark was on the 3-9-77 session. He told me the musicians felt that Sinatra did not do justice to the arrangements Riddle wrote for the session.. They were really shocked by the condition of Sinatra's voice. He was set to do all four tunes that night but decided to pass on "Stella" and "Elizabeth." Riddle's charts on both are glorious. Mahlon was amazed when he heard the recordings from "Trilogy" three years after the "Ladies" sessions. The marvelous singing on that project was something Mahlon certainly didn't anticipate. Paul Shure was also on the 77 sessions. He described it as "tough going."
[Nancy / Linda / I Love My Wife / Evergreen -- critical commentary]
After remarrying in July 1976, Sinatra recorded 'Evergreen' and 'I Love My Wife' (the latter from Cy Coleman's show of the same name) with strong matrimonial sentiment. In March 1977 Sinatra and Riddle completed six tracks and recorded orchestral parts for at least four more for a planned themed album of women's names, including a warmer remake of 'Nancy' than the 1963 version, a swinging 'Linda' (adding electric piano), and a Van Heusen-Cahn song for the new Mrs. Sinatra, 'Barbara' (called subpar). Three tracks were later released on The Reprise Collection (1990); the reason the full album, Here's to the Ladies, was shelved remains unknown -- Friedwald calls it 'the best Sinatra album that never was.'
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. 6, "With Nelson Riddle" (1953-1979)
Hollywood
VCA6840 Linda
(Jack Lawrence)
MPL Communications inc. (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Nelson Riddle
(2:43) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 17
VCA6841 Sweet Lorraine
(Mitchell Parish/Cliff Burwell)
EMI Mills Music Inc./Everbright Music Co. (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Nelson Riddle
(2:22) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 17
CD: 9-26340-2The Reprise Collection
VCA6848 Barbara
(Mack David/Jimmy Van Heusen)
Sergeant Music Co./Van Heusen Music Corp./Vancou Music (ASCAP) Arranged & Conducted by Nelson Riddle
(3:13) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 18
Note: The orchestral track for VCA6848 was recorded on March 11, 1977
Sinatraphile Vance Adair asked:
Does anyone know why the 'Ladies' project with Riddle was aborted?
Ed O'Brien responded:
Sinatra was struggling vocally in March of 1977.
The project was originally meant to be a two LP set with 24 songs. Riddle wrote 19 arrangements. Frank wanted a slow tempo on "Sweet Georgia Brown" and Riddle didn't like the idea. He told me that his name would never have been associated with such a concept.. So there were artistic differences at the outset. The songs included "Josephine,"
"Michelle," "Laura," "When Joanna Loved Me," "Tina," "Nina Never Knew," "Stella By Starlight"(marvelous Riddle ballad chart), "Elizabeth"( Riddle gave this a very lovely un-Watertown sound), "I Love My Wife," "Here's To The Ladies," "Ruby,"
"Leonora," "Sweet Georgia Brown," "Linda," "Sweet Lorraine,"
"Nancy," "Emily" and "Barbara."
Mahlon Clark was on both sessions in March when
Frank laid down the five vocals. He was shocked at the condition Sinatra's voice was in at the time. Between takes the musicians expressed strong reservations concerning anymore Sinatra recordings. They also felt that Sinatra did not do justice to the marvelous Riddle charts. Mahlon told me he was shocked at the miracle Sinatra pulled off a few years down the road with "Trilogy." He couldn't believe it was the same singer.
In 1981 Sinatra resurrected the project. He had Costa write a new chart for "Laura" and "When Joanna . . . " received a new treatment from Mr. May. Frank asked Pamela Phillips to write new lyrics for "Barbara." He sang the first two in concert but wasn't comfortable with Phillips' rewrite. There were no studio recordings done and the project faded away.
The 1977 album had a marvelous cover.
Ed Spiegel added:
The "Ladies" project was announced. At one time it was to be a two or three LP album. It was suggested that "I Love My Wife," a fine recording, might lead off the album. He did record five songs for it, all included on the big Rerpise box and then he abandoned it.
As I understand it, some or all were recorded by Sinatra to Riddle arranged tracks that had been laid down earlier. This was not the way Sinatra generally worked. In listening to them, the recordings are not top drawer Sinatra. He sounds better on Ol Blue Eyes four years earlier and on Trilogy two years later.
Ed O'Brien:
Frank recorded five songs for the "Ladies" project. The only one overdubbed was "Barbara." Frank had a 23 piece orchestra backing him on "Linda" and "Sweet Lorraine."
"Linda" / "Sweet Lorraine" / "Barbara"
The March 14, 1977 session (recording 'Linda,' 'Sweet Lorraine,' and 'Barbara,' the latter a new Jimmy Van Heusen/Mack David tribute to Sinatra's wife) marked the last time Frank Sinatra and Nelson Riddle worked together in a recording studio.
Source: Charles L. Granata, "Sessions with Sinatra: Frank Sinatra and the Art of Recording" (1999/2003).
[Sweet Lorraine -- critical commentary]
Granata includes 'Sweet Lorraine' among the fifty recordings he considers essential to understanding Sinatra's artistry (arranged by Sy Oliver, recorded 1946, Columbia); the song was chosen for its musical/interpretive value rather than commercial popularity.
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), Afterword & Appendices A-D
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. Where Or When
3. Embraceable You
4. Here’s That Rainy Day
5. I Sing The Songs
6. I Love My Wife
7. For Once In My Life
8. monologue
9. My Kind Of Town
10. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
11. A Foggy Day
12. See The Show Again
13. My Way
14. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
15. Send In The Clowns
16. The Lady Is A Tramp
17. I’ve Got You Under My Skin
Notes: TT 61mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. Where Or When
3. Embraceable You
4. Here’s That Rainy Day
5. I Sing The Songs
6. I Love My Wife
7. For Once In My Life
8. monologue
9. My Kind Of Town
10. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
11. A Foggy Day
12. See The Show Again
13. My Way
14. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
15. Send In The Clowns
16. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 70mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. Where Or When
3. My Funny Valentine
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5. I Sing The Songs
6. I Love My Wife
7. For Once In My Life
8. monologue
9. My Kind Of Town
10. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
11. It Was A Very Good Year
12. See The Show Again
13. My Way
14. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
15. One For My Baby
16. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 60mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. Where Or When
3. Embraceable You
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5. I Sing The Songs
6. I Love My Wife
7. For Once In My Life
8. monologue
9. My Kind Of Town
10. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
11. A Foggy Day
12. See The Show Again
13. My Way
14. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
15.. Send In The Clowns
16. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 54mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. Where Or When
3. My Funny Valentine
4. Here'ss That Rainy Day
5. See The Show Again
6. I Sing The Songs
7. I Love My Wife
8. For Once In My Life
9. monologue
10. My Kind Of Town
11. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
12. It Was A Very Good Year
13. My Way
14. One For My Baby
15. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 64mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. Where Or When
3. My Funny Valentine
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5. I Sing The Songs
6. I Love My Wife
7. For Once In My Life
8. monologue
9. My Kind Of Town
10. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
11. It Was A Very Good Year
12. See The Show Again
13. My Way
14. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
15. One For My Baby
16. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 60mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. Where Or When
3. My Funny Valentine
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5. I Sing The Songs
6. I Love My Wife
7. For Once In My Life
8. monologue
9. My Kind Of Town
10. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
11. It Was A Very Good Year
12. See The Show Again
13. My Way
14. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
15. Send In The Clowns
16. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 60mins
Caesars Palace , Las Vegas, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. Where Or When
3. My Funny Valentine
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5. I Sing The Songs
6. I Love My Wife
7. For Once In My Life
8. monologue
9. My Kind Of Town
10. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
11. It Was A Very Good Year
12. See The Show Again
13. My Way
14. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
15. Send In The Clowns
16. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 60mins
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. Where Or When
3. My Funny Valentine
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5. I Sing The Songs
6. I Love My Wife
7. For Once In My Life
8. monologue
9. My Kind Of Town
10. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
11. It Was A Very Good Year
12. See The Show Again
13. My Way
14. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
15. One For My Baby
16. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 64mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. Where Or When
3. My Funny Valentine
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5. I Sing The Songs
6. I Love My Wife
7. For Once In My Life
8. monologue
9. My Kind Of Town
10. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
11. It Was A Very Good Year
12. See The Show Again
13. My Way
14. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
15. Send In The Clowns
16. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 58mins,
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. Where Or When
3. My Funny Valentine
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5. I Sing The Songs
6. I Love My Wife
7. For Once In My Life
8. My Kind Of Town
9. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
10. It Was A Very Good Year
11. See The Show Again
12. My Way
13. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
14. One For My Baby
15. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 58mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. Where Or When
3. My Funny Valentine
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5. I Sing The Songs
6. I Love My Wife
7. For Once In My Life
8. monologue
9. My Kind Of Town
10. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
11. It Was A Very Good Year
12. See The Show Again
13. My Way
14. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
15. One For My Baby
16. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 58mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Second Show - Closing Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. Where Or When
3. My Funny Valentine
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5. I Sing The Songs
6. I Love My Wife
7. For Once In My Life
8. monologue
9. My Kind Of Town
10. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
11. It Was A Very Good Year
12. See The Show Again
13. My Way
14. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
15. One For My Baby
16. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 64mins.
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. Where Or When
3. Embraceable You
4. Spring Is Here
5. I Sing The Songs
6. Sweet Lorraine
7. I Love My Wife
8. For Once In My Life
9. monologue
10. My Kind Of Town
11. A Foggy Day
12. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
13. All Or Nothing At All
14. See The Show Again
15. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
16. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: First performance of "Sweet Loraine" with new Nelson Riddle arrangement,EOB . TT 59mins.
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. Where Or When
3. Embraceable You
4. Spring Is Here
5. I Sing The Songs
6. Sweet Lorraine
7. I Love My Wife
8. For Once In My Life
9. monologue
10. My Kind Of Town
11. One For My Baby
12. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
13. All Or Nothing At All
14. See The Show Again
15. My Way
16. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
17. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 60mins.
March 25, 1982 White House , Washington D.C.
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
Rehearsal:
1. The Lady Is A Tramp
2. When You're Smiling
3. I Have But One Heart - w/Perry
4. Santa Lucia
Notes: TT 10mins.
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
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Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
© 1997-2026 The Sinatra Archive
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)
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. Where Or When
3. Embraceable You
4. Spring Is Here
5. I Sing The Songs
6. Sweet Lorraine
7. I Love My Wife
8. For Once In My Life
9. monologue
10. My Kind Of Town
11. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
12. All Or Nothing At All
13. See The Show Again
14. My Way
15. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
16. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 52mins.
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. Where Or When
3. Embraceable You
4. Spring Is Here
5. I Sing The Songs
6. Sweet Lorraine
7. I Love My Wife
8. For Once In My Life
9. monologue
10. My Kind Of Town
11. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
12. All Or Nothing At All
13. See The Show Again
14. My Way
15. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
16. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 60mins.
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1.. Night And Day
2. Where Or When
3. Embraceable You
4. Spring Is Here
5. I Sing The Songs
6. Sweet Lorraine
7. I Love My Wife
8. For Once In My Life
9. monologue
10. My Kind Of Town
11. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
12. All Or Nothing At All
13. See The Show Again
14. My Way
15. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
16. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 60mins.
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. Where Or When
3. Embraceable You
4. Spring Is Here
5. I Sing The Songs
6. Sweet Lorraine
7. I Love My Wife
8. For Once In My Life
9. monologue
10. My Kind Of Town
11. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
12. All Or Nothing At All
13. See The Show Again
14. My Way
15. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
16. One For My Baby
17. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 60mins.
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Ed O'Brien:
Frank was at Harrah's from 3/25 thru 3/31.
He did two shows a night, 14 in all. He introduced
"Sweet Lorraine" from the "Ladies" project. The song was laid down on 3-14 with a 23 piece orchestra and a
Riddle chart. There was a little nepotism at that session: Chris Riddle was on bass-trombone
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Notes:
Ed O'Brien:
You have the note to check dates on both 3/28 and 30.
Frank was there. He played a week with Pat Henry opening for him. The "Ladies" album looked like a done deal. Frank was giving it a big plug and singing "I Love My Wife" and "Sweet Lorraine." Both were set for inclusion on the album.
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada (25 -31)
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Notes: two shows
['Sinatra And Friends' TV Special Airs]
The television special Sinatra and Friends, which included a rehearsal segment with Tony Bennett, aired in April 1977.
Source: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).
Palm Springs, California
Benefit for the Tamarisk Friends of Eisenhower Medical Center
Palm Springs, California
Benefit for the Tamarisk Friends of Eisenhower Medical Center
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Circle Star Theater, San Carlos, California (12-17)
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Circle Star Theater, San Carlos, California (12-17)
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Gene
Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
© 1997-2026 The Sinatra Archive
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)
Circle Star Theater, San Carlos, California (12-17)
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Opening Act: Pat Henry
1. Night And Day
2. Sweet Lorraine
3. Spring Is Here
4. I Sing The Songs
5. Where Or When
6. I Love My Wife
7. For Once In My Life
8. My Kind Of Town
9. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
10. All Or Nothing At All
11. See The Show Again
12. Send In The Clowns
13. My Way
14. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
15. I've Got You Under My Skin
16. Here's That Rainy Day
17. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 70mins.
Circle Star Theater, San Carlos, California (12-17)
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Opening Act: Pat Henry
1. Night And Day
2. Sweet Lorraine
3. Spring Is Here
4. I Sing The Songs
5. Where Or When
6. I Love My Wife
7. For Once In My Life
8. My Kind Of Town
9. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
10. All Or Nothing At All
11. See The Show Again
12. Send In The Clowns
13. My Way
14. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
15. I've Got You Under My Skin
16.. Here's That Rainy Day
17. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 70mins.
Circle Star Theater, San Carlos, California (12-17)
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. Sweet Lorraine
3. My Funny Valentine
4. I Sing The Songs
5. Where Or When
6. I Love My Wife
7. For Once In My Life
8. My Kind Of Town
9. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
10. All Or Nothing At All
11. See The Show Again
12. Send In The Clowns
13. My Way
14. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
15. I've Got You Under My Skin
16. Here's That Rainy Day
17. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 70mins.
Candlestick Park, San Francisco, California
On April 15th, Sinatra came over from San Carlo and threw out the first pitch for the Giants at Candlestick Park.
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Circle Star Theater, San Carlos, California (12-17)
First Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. All Or Nothing At All
2. Sweet Lorraine
3. My Funny Valentine
4. I Sing The Songs
5.. Where Or When
6. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
7. I Love My Wife
8. For Once In My Life
9. monologue
10. My Kind Of Town
11. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
12. Night And Day
13. My Way
14. I've Got You Under My Skin
15. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 63mins.
Circle Star Theater, San Carlos, California (12-17)
Second Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. All Or Nothing At All
2. Sweet Lorraine
3. My Funny Valentine
4. I Sing The Songs
5. Where Or When
6. I Love My Wife
7. For Once In My Life
8. monologue
9. My Kind Of Town
10. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
11. Night And Day
12. My Way
13. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
14. I've Got You Under My Skin
15. The Lady Is A Tramp
Circle Star Theater, San Carlos, California (12-17)
Key Musicans: Al Viola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
O.A.. Pat Henry
1. All Or Nothing At All
2. Sweet Lorraine
3. My Funny Valentine
4. I Sing The Songs
5. Where Or When
6. I Love My Wife
7. For Once In My Life monologue
8. My Kind Of Town
9. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
10. Night And Day
11. My Way
12. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
13. I've Got You Under My Skin
14.. The Lady Is A Tramp
Frank Sinatra & Friends (ABC)
Promo poster For Sinatra And Friends
TV: A Winning ‘Sinatra and Friends’
By John J. O'Connor
New York Times, April 21, 1977
SOMETIMES, especially with music the direct and uncomplicated approach works best. The television camera angles and nervous editing of some pop-music formats have quickly become eye irritants. Ocular massages tend to be mere distractions. The music almost demands to be presented without frills.
An example of the best is being offered tonight at 10 on ABC. “Sinatra and Friends” offers Frank Sinatra and his select company of guests in a remarkably smooth arrangement of pure music. Except for a brief introduction and conclusion, talk is eliminated. The singers simply sing, with the superb support of Nelson Riddle as musical director and on-stage conductor. On a bare multitiered platform, using sliding panels as entrance and exit devices, the production glides with almost magical ease from one number to the next.
Much of course, depends on the star, and Mr. Sinatra is in unusually fine form. He has lost weight, his gray hair is in impeccable crew-cut shape, his spirits are up and his voice is firmer and more flexible than it has been in years. Gone are the hostile or sarcastic wisecracks. Mr. Sinatra is obviously enjoying himself, and the good vibrations are infectious.
The show begins with “Where or When” and Mr. Sinatra moving down a lineup of his friends: Natalie Cole, Robert Merrill, Dean Martin, Loretta Lynn, Tony Bennett, Leslie Uggams and John Denver. The chairman then sings “I've Got You Under My Skin,” acting to the camera with disarming ease, using with calculated skill the orchestra, microphone and its cord as props.
Miss Cole joins him to sing “I Get a Kick Out of You.” She remains to sing her own hit. “I've Got Love on My Mind,” and is followed by Mr. Merrill doing “If I Were a Rich Man.” Messrs, Sinatra and Martin and Merrill then offer “The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York.” And so on, through an imaginative mix of solos and duets.
Mr. Sinatra's ebullience has its effect on the other performers. Everyone seems uncommonly relaxed and attractive. Even Dean Martin comes to life as a performer, exhibiting more physical movement than he has in several seasons on his own NBC show. Tony Bennett's new look of curly hair and oversized glasses might suggest the influence of motorcyle gangs but, fortunately, his voice remains unaffected.
By the time Mr. Sinatra gets to his signature song. “Put Your Dreams Away,” the show is solidly established as a musical winner. Paul W. Keyes is the executive producer: Bill Davis, the director. Marc London is co-producer with Joe Kay as associate producer.
Boston Globe
April 21, 1977
SINATRA & FRIENDS
"All or Nothing at All" Frank and Loretta Lynn
Loretta had no idea when to join Frank in the vocal. The concept of coming in on the beat was not known to her. Frank told Loretta not to worry. He would snap his fingers to signal her and it worked.
Here is the actual moment when it happened:
On Watch What Happens Live, Lynn told Andy Cohen she loved working with Sinatra for television specials like 1977’s Sinatra and Friends. In that show, she sang a rendition of “She’s Got You” to pay tribute to her friend, Patsy Cline. Then, Sinatra joined her on the stage for a duet of his song, “All or Nothing at All.” But she recalled worrying that Rat Pack singer, Dean Martin, would be unable to perform because he wasn't exactly sober. “Frank, we gotta get this show on the road,” Lynn told the legendary singer. When he asked her why, she said, “Dean Martin’s getting drunk.”
It was a somewhat brave move considering Sinatra’s reputation. According to BBC, “Like the best medieval kings, he was also easily irked, prone to temper tantrums over perceived slights and sometimes blackballed previously close friends. He was a man of high standards, fond of telling people off for breaches of etiquette.”Stories about the crooner indicate people around him were sometimes afraid to speak up. But in response to Lynn’s helpful suggestion, Sinatra told her not to worry about Martin, assuring her he would eventually “save the show” that night. And Lynn said he did, three times.
Frank Sinatra & Friends (ABC)
Taped April 6-7, 1977
Location: NBC TV, Studio 4
Network: ABC
Time: 10:00 - 11:00 PM EST
Guests: Tony Bennett, Dean Martin, Natalie Cole, Robert Merrill, Loretta Lynn, John Denver, & Leslie Uggams
1. Where Or When --F.S. & Guests
2. I've Got You Under My Skin --F.S.
3. I Get A Kick Out Of You --F.S. & N. Cole
4. The Oldest Established --F.S. D.Martin & R. Merrill
5. All Or Nothing At All -- F.S. & L. Lynn
6. My Kind Of Town --F.S. & T. Bennett
7. The Lady Is A Tramp --F.S. & L. Uggams
8. September Song --F.S. & J. Denver
9. Night And Day --F.S
10. Everybody Ought To Be In Love --F.S.
11. Put Your Dreams Away -- F.S.
Ed O'Brien:
Show was sponsored by SEARS. I have a promo poster they offered a few weeks before the broadcast. Gene Kelly is listed as guest with a likeness included among the others who were part of the hour special.
Brian Chearno:
Ed's Promo poster added to the extra section below. Also worth noting, the final script was finished on April 1, 1977 and Gene Kelly was still scheduled at that point. Something happened in the five days between then and the taping.
Frank Sinatra & Friends (ABC)
Promo poster For Sinatra And Friends
TV: A Winning 'Sinatra and Friends'
By John J. O'Connor
New York Times, April 21, 1977
SOMETIMES, especially with music the direct and uncomplicated approach works best. The television camera angles and nervous editing of some pop-music formats have quickly become eye irritants. Ocular massages tend to be mere distractions. The music almost demands to be presented without frills.
An example of the best is being offered tonight at 10 on ABC. "Sinatra and Friends" offers Frank Sinatra and his select company of guests in a remarkably smooth arrangement of pure music. Except for a brief introduction and conclusion, talk is eliminated. The singers simply sing, with the superb support of Nelson Riddle as musical director and on-stage conductor. On a bare multitiered platform, using sliding panels as entrance and exit devices, the production glides with almost magical ease from one number to the next.
Much of course, depends on the star, and Mr. Sinatra is in unusually fine form. He has lost weight, his gray hair is in impeccable crew-cut shape, his spirits are up and his voice is firmer and more flexible than it has been in years. Gone are the hostile or sarcastic wisecracks. Mr. Sinatra is obviously enjoying himself, and the good vibrations are infectious.
The show begins with "Where or When" and Mr. Sinatra moving down a lineup of his friends: Natalie Cole, Robert Merrill, Dean Martin, Loretta Lynn, Tony Bennett, Leslie Uggams and John Denver. The chairman then sings "I've Got You Under My Skin," acting to the camera with disarming ease, using with calculated skill the orchestra, microphone and its cord as props.
Miss Cole joins him to sing "I Get a Kick Out of You." She remains to sing her own hit. "I've Got Love on My Mind," and is followed by Mr. Merrill doing "If I Were a Rich Man." Messrs, Sinatra and Martin and Merrill then offer "The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York." And so on, through an imaginative mix of solos and duets.
Mr. Sinatra's ebullience has its effect on the other performers.
Everyone seems uncommonly relaxed and attractive. Even Dean Martin comes to life as a performer, exhibiting more physical movement than he has in several seasons on his own NBC show. Tony Bennett's new look of curly hair and oversized glasses might suggest the influence of motorcyle gangs but, fortunately, his voice remains unaffected.
By the time Mr. Sinatra gets to his signature song. "Put Your Dreams Away," the show is solidly established as a musical winner. Paul W. Keyes is the executive producer: Bill Davis, the director. Marc London is co-producer with Joe Kay as associate producer.
Boston Globe
April 21, 1977
SINATRA & FRIENDS
"All or Nothing at All" Frank and Loretta Lynn
Loretta had no idea when to join Frank in the vocal. The concept of coming in on the beat was not known to her. Frank told Loretta not to worry. He would snap his fingers to signal her and it worked.
Here is the actual moment when it happened:
On Watch What Happens Live, Lynn told Andy Cohen she loved working with Sinatra for television specials like 1977's Sinatra and Friends. In that show, she sang a rendition of "She's Got You" to pay tribute to her friend, Patsy Cline. Then, Sinatra joined her on the stage for a duet of his song, "All or Nothing at All."
But she recalled worrying that Rat Pack singer, Dean Martin, would be unable to perform because he wasn't exactly sober. "Frank, we gotta get this show on the road," Lynn told the legendary singer. When he asked her why, she said, "Dean Martin's getting drunk."
It was a somewhat brave move considering Sinatra's reputation. According to BBC, "Like the best medieval kings, he was also easily irked, prone to temper tantrums over perceived slights and sometimes blackballed previously close friends. He was a man of high standards, fond of telling people off for breaches of etiquette."Stories about the crooner indicate people around him were sometimes afraid to speak up. But in response to Lynn's helpful suggestion, Sinatra told her not to worry about Martin, assuring her he would eventually "save the show" that night. And Lynn said he did, three times.
SINATRA & FRIENDS
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Loretta had no idea when to join Frank in the vocal. The concept of coming in on the beat was not known to her. Frank told Loretta not to worry. He would snap his fingers tosignal her and it worked.Here is the actual moment when it happened:
On Watch What Happens Live, Lynn told Andy Cohen she loved working with Sinatra for television specials like 1977’s Sinatra and Friends. In that show, she sang a rendition of “She’s Got You” to pay tribute to her friend, Patsy Cline. Then, Sinatra joined her on the stage for a duet of his song, “All or Nothing at All.”But she recalled worrying that Rat Pack singer, Dean Martin, would be unable to perform because he wasn’t exactly sober. “Frank, we gotta get this show on the road,” Lynn told the legendary singer. When he asked her why, she said, “Dean Martin’s getting drunk.”It was a somewhat brave move considering Sinatra’s reputation. According to BBC, “Like the best medieval kings, he was also easily irked, prone to temper tantrums over perceived slights and sometimes blackballed previously close friends. He was a man of high standards, fond of telling people off for breaches of etiquette.”Stories about the crooner indicate people around him were sometimes afraid to speak up. But in response to Lynn’s helpful suggestion, Sinatra told her not to worry about Martin, assuring her he would eventually “save the show” that night. And Lynn said he did, three times.
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PAUL ANKA MUSIC MY WAY
Monday evening
ABC-TV
10 -11 P.M.
Sponsored by Dr. Pepper & Kodak Film
Guests: Natalie Cole + a number of unannounced appearances
Ed O'Brien:
Anka opened with "Everybody Ought To Be In Love" followed by a number of his hits. Cole sang a number and did a medley of tunes with Anka.
The closing number was "My Way.' Anka had written a parody which he began to sang. A number of singers then appeared on film to add a few lines including Dean Martin, Bob Hope, Telly Savalas, Wayne Newton, Pearl Bailey and Frank Sinatra.
Circle Star Theater, San Carlos, California (12-17)
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
8 shows
30,000 attended
Frank grossed $200,000
Set List of Songs
Night & Day Joe Beck arg.
Sweet Lorraine Nelson Riddle ( "Ladies" LP)
Spring Is Here
My Funny Valentine
I Sing The Songs
Where Or When B. Byers arg.
I Love My Wife
Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word Charles Calello arg.
All Or Nothing At All Joe Beck arg.
See The Show Again Charles Calello arg.
Send In The Clowns w/Bill Miller on piano
My Way
Everybody Ought To Be In Love Charles Calello arg.
I've Got You Under My Skin
The Lady Is A Tramp Billy Byers arg.
Carnegie Hall, New York City
Benefit for Institute of Sports Medicine and Athletic Trauma
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Other Performers: Robert Merrill, Walter Cronkite
1. Night And Day
2. Where Or When
3. For Once In My Life
4. Spring Is Here
5. My Funny Valentine
6. I Sing The Songs
7. I Love My Wife
8. It Was A Very Good Year
9. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
10. All Or Nothing At All
11. Send In The Clowns
12. The Lady Is A Tramp
13. medley w/Robert Merrill: September Song / Oh, Mr. Merrill
14. The Oldest Established - w/Robert Merrill & Walter Cronkite
Notes: TT 67mins.
Ed O'Brien:
The Carnegie benefit in 77 raised $750,000. Frank sang a parody of "Gallagher And Sheen" with Mr. Merrill and "September Song." While in New York, Frank threw a huge party at the Waldorf. It was spread out over the lobby and two former showrooms.
Carnegie Hall, New York City
Benefit for Institute of Sports Medicine and Athletic Trauma
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Other Performers: Robert Merrill, Walter Cronkite
Frank Sinatra is cheered by adoring lady fans and clicking photographers
UNITED STATES - APRIL 27: Frank Sinatra is cheered by adoring lady fans and clicking photographers as he approaches limousine occupied by his wife, Barbara, outside Carnegie Hall. Sinatra joined Met baritone Robert Merrill in a concert that drew folks like Joe Namath and Jacqueline Onassis, who paid up to $5,000 to benefit Lenox Hill Hospital. After the concert the festivities moved to the Waldorf-Astoria, where the beautiful people topped off a beautiful evening with a super party. (Photo by Bill Stahl Jr./NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)
(Original Caption) Gets a Kick Out of View. New York: With his wife, Barbara (right), Frank Sinatra gets a kick out of the view at a party at New York's Waldorf-Astoria. One entrance was "renamed" as "Frank's Place" in his honor. Another sign hailed "Old Blue Eyes." The celebrity-studded party followed a Carnegie Hall concert at which Sinatra and Robert Merrill performed to raise money for New York's and Athletic Trauma. Notables paid up to $5,000 to attend the concert. (The couple at left is unidentified).
Mrs. Jacqueline Onassis beams at a Waldorf-Astoria party following the Carnegie Hall concert of Frank Sinatra and Robert Merrill for the benefit of New York's Lenox Hill Hospital.
Frank Sinatra Does It His Way And a Crowd of Celebrities Turns Out for the Party By End Nemy
April 29, 1977
Let's put It this way it won't go down in history but it was quite a bash. Taken in any order you want, there were such as Jacqueline Onassis. Frank Sapstra, Robert Merrill, Joe Namath. Walter Cronkite and Governor Carey. not only showing the flag but as active participants as well There also were two worthy causes, which anyone can tell you is twice as good as one worthy cause.
An there were a lot of nice statury touches that spell the difference between success and fizzle that sold for $500 and $5.000 each, the closing of the Waldorf Astoria's Park Avenue entrance to the general public (the only other time this was done was for a birthday party for President John F. Kennedy in 1963), the appearance of Mrs. Onassis in long white gloves, which is bound to herald a whole new white glove era, and the appearance of most of the other women in turnouts that almost justified hairdressers' and designers' prices.
$750,000 Raised
All this was Wednesday night, starting at Carnegie Hall where Mr. Sinatra and Mr. Merrill performed and Walter Cronkite acted as master of ceremonies for the benefit of Lenox Hill Hospital and the Institute of Sports Medicine.
The benefit was considerable, and the more than $750, 000 raised is believed to be some kind of a record. This was garnered from concert tickets that ranged in price from $10 to $250 and from the aforementioned $500 and $5,000 tickets (8OO of these) that entitled the holders to the concert and the Waldorf supper dance that followed. Governor Carey was billed as the host for that, and Anne Ford Uzielli, who had no billing at all, was at his side
The scene outside Carnegie Hall was bedlam as celebrityâ watchers were unable to identify most of the people stepping out of the limousines. This is a hazard faced by the rich who have made their money in fields other than politics, sports, movies and television, so they are written off as "nobodies" by such crowds. There was a drawing for door prizes, marked by one of Mrs. Onassis' rare appearances on stage still in white gloves and occasionally bending down to pick up one of the tickets that didn't want to stay put in the revolving drum. Mr. Sinatra, who sipped at what looked like a glass of wine, took over the hall as though he owned it and. indeed, for the second half of the evening, he did. Some of the younger members of the audience admitted later that their parents hadn't been all wrong in their idols.
After several days of interminable negotiations to allow a brief period to photograph the singer, approval was given on the understanding that the name of the photographer would be submitted in advance, that each photographer would be conducted to his table separately and that no more than a minute or two be allocated to each. And no interviews, hear, and no further pictures of anyone else in the room in which Frank sat. After the logistics, which would have done credit to General Eisenhower and D- Day photographers were led out to await similar ground rules in the next room. There were, you see two rooms for the party the Empire Room renamed Frank's Place and the Hilton Room, renamed Ol' Blue Eyes the celebrities and social types nicely divided between the two. Mr. Sinatra, his wife, Barbara. Joe Namath and friend Jo Ann Miller. Phyllis and Robert Wagner. Pat and Bill Buckley. Carole de Portago, Marilyn and David Evans. Joanne and Fred Winship. Kay Meehan, Ardeshir Zahedi the Iranian Ambassador. Jean and Torn Taller. Claudette Colbert and Edgar and George Brentman were in one.
Across the way were Mrs. Onassis. Governor Carey. Mrs. Stralem. Sheila and John Mosier. Cecile and Ezra Zilkha, Dr. James Nicholas. Jan and Donald Chipman, Anna Mello and husband. Robert Sarnoff, Janice and George Abbott and Howard Cosell.
Both rooms had been transformed into Italian trattorias which according to Miss Kahane, who did a all, was as involved as planning the oft proposed tunnel between Dover and Calais.
It's no job to make something chic. she said. But it was a job to bring this place which is so elegant down to a trattoria. New York Times
April 29, 1977
Waldorf Astoria, New York, NY
I believe these should have been listed for April 27th. The first article mentions the event at the Waldorf Astoria followed a Sinatra-Robert Merrill concert at Carnegie Hall. That concert was on the 27th so the Waldorf Astoria event should have been the same evening. The following article and photo was from the New York Daily News on April 28th suggesting the event was the previous night on the 27th
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Waldorf Astoria, New York, NY
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. All Or Nothing At All
2. Where Or When
3. For Once In My Life
4. Spring Is Here
5. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
6. I Sing The Songs
7. monologue
8. Send In The Clowns
9. I Love My Wife
10. It Was A Very Good Year
11. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
12. Night And Day
13. See The Show Again
14. The Lady Is A Tramp
Note: After the monologue, Frank sang
"I'm In The Mood For Love." A lady in the audience kept requesting it. Frank did a decent version considering he was winging it.
--Ed
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. All Or Nothing At All
2. Where Or When
3. For Once In My Life
4. Spring Is Here
5. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
6. I Sing The Songs
7. monologue
8. Send In The Clowns
9. I Love My Wife
10. It Was A Very Good Year
11. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
12. Night And Day
13. See The Show Again
14. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 54mins.
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. All Or Nothing At All
2. Where Or When
3.. For Once In My Life
4. You Go To My Head
5. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
6. I Sing The Songs
7. monologue
8. Send In The Clowns
9. Sweet Lorraine
10. I Love My Wife
11. It Was A Very Good Year
12. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
13. Night And Day
14. See The Show Again
15. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 59mins.
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. All Or Nothing At All
2. Where Or When
3. For Once In My Life
4. You Go To My Head
5. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
6. I Sing The Songs
7. monologue
8.. Send In The Clowns
9. Sweet Lorraine
10. I Love My Wife
11. It Was A Very Good Year
12. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
13. Night And Day
14. See The Show Again
15. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 53mins.
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. All Or Nothing At All
2. Where Or When
3. For Once In My Life
4. You Go To My Head
5. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
6. I Sing The Songs
7. Send In The Clowns w/Bill Miller, piano
8. Sweet Lorraine
9. I Love My Wife
10. It Was A Very Good Year
11. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
12. Night And Day
13. See The Show Again
14. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 53mins.
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. All Or Nothing At All
2. Where Or When
3. For Once In My Life
4. You Go To My Head
5. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
6. I Sing The Songs
7. monologue
8. Send In The Clowns
9. Sweet Lorraine
10. I Love My Wife
11. It Was A Very Good Year
12. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
13. Night And Day
14. See The Show Again
15. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 52mins.
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. All Or Nothing At All
2. Where Or When
3. For Once In My Life
4. You Go To My Head
5. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
6.. I Sing The Songs
7.. monologue
8. Send In The Clowns
9. Sweet Lorraine
10. I Love My Wife
11. It Was A Very Good Year
12. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
13. Night And Day
14. See The Show Again
15. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 53mins.
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
O.A, Pat Henry
note: According to this ad, Sinatra played 15 shows during this engagement. He was dark on Monday(2nd). He did two shows a night on consecutive weekends and one show on Tues, Wed and Thurs. But an offer than ran in the papers, five
days before he opened, refutes that claim:
May 2nd fell on a Monday.
Philadelphia Daily News
Source: sinatraphiles digest (date extracted from item text; originally routed to appendix for review).
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. All or Nothing at All
2. Where or When
3. For Once in My Life
4. You Go to My Head
5. Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word
6. I Write the Songs
7. Send in the Clowns
8. Sweet Lorraine
9. I Love My Wife
10. It Was a Very Good Year
11. Everybody Ought to Be in Love
12. Night and Day
13. See the Show Again
14. The Lady Is a Tramp
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. All Or Nothing At All
2. Where Or When
3. For Once In My Life
4. You Go To My Head
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
7. I Sing The Songs
8. monologue
9. Send In The Clowns
10. Sweet Lorraine
11. I Love My Wife
12. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
13. Night And Day
14. See The Show Again
15. My Way
16. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 54mins.
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. All Or Nothing At All
2. Where Or When
3. For Once In My Life
4. You Go To My Head
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
7. I Sing The Songs
8. monologue
9. Send In The Clowns
10. Sweet Lorraine
11. I Love My Wife
12. It Was A Very Good Year
13. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
14. Night And Day
15. See The Show Again
16. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 54mins.
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. All Or Nothing At All
2. Where Or When
3. For Once In My Life
4. You Go To My Head
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
7. I Sing The Songs
8. monologue
9. Send In The Clowns
10. Sweet Lorraine
11. I Love My Wife
12. It Was A Very Good Year
13. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
14. Night And Day
15. See The Show Again
16. My Way
17. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 60mins.
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. All Or Nothing At All
2. Where Or When
3. For Once In My Life
4. You Go To My Head
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
7. I Sing The Songs
8. monologue
9. Send In The Clowns
10. Sweet Lorraine
11. I Love My Wife
12. It Was A Very Good Year
13. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
14. Night And Day
15. See The Show Again
16. My Way
17. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 60mins.
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. All Or Nothing At All
2. Where Or When
3. For Once In My Life
4. You Go To My Head
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
7. My Way
8. monologue
9. Send In The Clowns
10. Sweet Lorraine
11. I Love My Wife
12. It Was A Very Good Year
13. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
14. Night And Day
15. See The Show Again
16. I Sing The Songs
17. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 63mins.
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. All Or Nothing At All
2. Where Or When
3. For Once In My Life
4. You Go To My Head
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
7. My Way
8. monologue
9. One For My Baby
10. Sweet Lorraine
11. I Love My Wife
12. It Was A Very Good Year
13. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
14. Night And Day
15. See The Show Again
16. I Sing The Songs
17. The Lady Is A Tramp
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. All Or Nothing At All
2. Where Or When
3. For Once In My Life
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
6. My Way
7. monologue
8. Sweet Lorraine
9. I Love My Wife
10. It Was A Very Good Year
11. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
12. Night And Day
13. See The Show Again
14. I Sing The Songs
15. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 52mins.
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Second Show - Closing Night
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. All Or Nothing At All
2. Where Or When
3. For Once In My Life
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
6. My Way
7. monologue
8. One For My Baby
9. Sweet Lorraine
10. I Love My Wife
11. It Was A Very Good Year
12. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
13. Night And Day
14. See The Show Again
15. I Sing The Songs
16. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 53mins.
As part of an FBI wiretap connected to the Westchester Premiere Theater fraud investigation, agents intercepted a phone call between defendant Gregory DePalma and Sinatra's secretary in which they discussed concert tickets for the Sinatra-Dean Martin shows being resold for $100 each.
Source: George Carpozi Jr., Frank Sinatra: Is This Man Mafia? (New York: Manor Books, 1979), citing FBI wiretap evidence introduced in the Westchester Premiere Theater fraud case.
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller, Ken Lane (Dean).
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ken Lane (piano).
Other Performers: Dean Martin
1. All Or Nothing At All
2. For Once In My Life
3. I Love My Wife
4. Night And Day
5. It Was A Very Good Year
6. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
7. See The Show Again
8. I Sing The Songs
9. medley w/Dean Martin: My Kind Of Town / A Foggy Day / The
Lady Is A Tramp / They Can't Take That Away From Me / When You're Smiling / The Oldest Established (Frank & Dean)
Notes: TT 75mins.
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller, Ken Lane (Dean).
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner
(trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ken Lane (piano).
Other Performers: Dean Martin
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller, Ken Lane (Dean).
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ken Lane (piano).
Other Performers: Dean Martin w/Ken Lane (piano)
Dean:
1. When Your Drinking - Bourbon From Heaven
2. monologue
3. Everybody Love Somebody
4. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
5. Welcome To My World
6. That's Amore
7. Brother Can You Spare A Dime
Frank:
8. All Or Nothing At All
9. For Once In My Life
10. I Love My Wife
11. Night And Day
12. It Was A Very Good Year
13. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
14. See The Show Again
15. I Sing The Songs
Frank & Dean
16. toasts & jokes
17. Medley: I Can't Give You Anything But Love (Dean) - My Kind
Of Town (Frank) - Pennies From Heaven (Dean) - A Foggy Day - Intro to Frank (Frank) - Embraceable You (Dean) - The Lady Is A Tramp (Frank) - Where Or When (Dean) - They Can't Take That Away From Me (Frank) - Oh Marie (Dean) - When You're Smiling (FS & DM)
18. The Oldest Established
19. thanks & introductions
20. The Oldest Established (Reprise)
21. Chaser “I Sing The e Songsâ€
Notes: TT 74mins.
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller, Ken Lane (Dean).
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ken Lane (piano).
Other Performers: Dean Martin w/Ken Lane (piano)
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller, Ken Lane (Dean).
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ken Lane (piano).
Other Performers: Dean Martin
1. All Or Nothing At All
2. For Once In My Life
3. I Love My Wife
4. Night And Day
5. It Was A Very Good Year
6. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
7. See The Show Again
8. I Sing The Songs
9. medley w/Dean Martin: My Kind Of Town / A Foggy Day / The
Lady Is A Tramp / They Canâ t Take That Away From Me / When en You're Smiling
10. The Oldest Established - w/Dean Martin
Notes: TT 50mins.
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller, Ken Lane (Dean).
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner
(trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ken Lane (piano).
Other Performers: Dean Martin
1. All Or Nothing At All
2. For Once In My Life
3. I Love My Wife
4. Night And Day
5. It Was A Very Good Year
6. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
7. See The Show Again
8. My Way
9. medley w/Dean Martin: My Kind Of Town / A Foggy Day / The Lady Is A Tramp
/ They Can't Take That Away From Me / When You're Smiling
10. The Oldest Established - w/Dean Martin
Notes: TT 88mins.
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller, Ken Lane (Dean).
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner
(trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ken Lane (piano).
Other Performers: Dean Martin
1. All Or Nothing At All
2. For Once In My Life
3. I Love My Wife
4. Night And Day
5. It Was A Very Good Year
6. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
7. See The Show Again
8. I Sing The Songs
9. medley w/Dean Martin: My Kind Of Town / A Foggy Day / The
Lady Is A Tramp / They Can't Take That Away From Me / When
You're Smiling
10. The Oldest Established - w/Dean Martin
Notes: TT 86mins.
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller, Ken Lane (Dean).
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico
(bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler
(drums), Bill Miller, Ken Lane (piano).
Other Performers: Dean Martin
1. All Or Nothing At All
2. For Once In My Life
3. I Love My Wife
4. Night And Day
5. It Was A Very Good Year
6. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
7. Here's That Rainy Day
8. My Way
9. medley w/ Dean Martin: My Kind Of Town / A Foggy Day / The
Lady Is A Tramp / They Can't Take That Away From Me / When You're Smiling
10. The Oldest Established - w/Dean Martin
Notes: TT 77mins.
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller, Ken Lane (Dean).
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ken Lane (piano).
Other Performers: Dean Martin
1. All Or Nothing At All
2. For Once In My Life
3. I Love My Wife
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. It Was A Very Good Year
6. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
7. Here's That Rainy Day
8. My Way
9. medley w/Dean Martin: My Kind Of Town / A Foggy Day / Night
And Day / They Can't Take That Away From Me / When You're Smiling
10. The Oldest Established - w/Dean Martin
Notes: TT 55mins.
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller, Ken Lane (Dean).
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico
(bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler
(drums), Bill Miller, Ken Lane (piano).
Other Performers: Dean Martin
1. All Or Nothing At All
2. For Once In My Life
3. I Love My Wife
4. Night And Day
5. It Was A Very Good Year
6. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
7. Here's That Rainy Day
8. My Way
9. medley w/Dean Martin: My Kind Of Town / A Foggy Day / The
Lady Is A Tramp / They Can't Take That Away From Me / When You're Smiling
10. The Oldest Established - w/Dean Martin
Notes: TT 48mins.
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller, Ken Lane (Dean).
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ken Lane (piano).
Other Performers: Dean Martin
1. All Or Nothing At All
2. For Once In My Life
3. I Love My Wife
4. Night And Day
5. It Was A Very Good Year
6. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
7. Here's That Rainy Day
8. The Oldest Established - w/Dean
9. My Way
10. medley w/ Dean Martin: My Kind Of Town / A Foggy Day / The
Lady Is A Tramp / They Can't Take That Away From Me / When
You're Smiling
Notes: TT 57mins.
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller, Ken Lane (Dean).
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ken Lane (piano).
Other Performers: Dean Martin
Dean
1. Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes
2. When You're Drinking
3. Burbon From Heaven
4. monologue
5. Everybody Loves Somebody
6. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
7. Welcome To My World
8. Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?
9. That's Amore
Frank
10. All Or Nothing At All
11. For Once In My Life
12. I Love My Wife
13. Night And Day
14. It Was A Very Good Year
15. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
16. Here's That Rainy Day
17. I Sing The Songs
18. medley w/Dean Martin: My Kind Of Town / A Foggy Day / The
Lady Is A Tramp / They Can't Take That Away From Me / When You're Smiling
19. The Oldest Established - w/Dean Martin
Notes: TT 74mins.
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller, Ken Lane (Dean).
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ken Lane (piano).
Other Performers: Dean Martin
1. All Or Nothing At All
2. For Once In My Life
3. I Love My Wife
4. Night And Day
5. It Was A Very Good Year
6. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
7. Here's That Rainy Day
8. My Way
9. comedy w/Dean
10. medley w/Dean Martin: My Kind Of Town / A Foggy Day / The
Lady Is A Tramp / They Can't Take That Away From Me / When You're Smiling
11. The Oldest Established - w/Dean Martin
Notes: TT 52mins.
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller, Ken Lane (Dean).
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ken Lane (piano).
Other Performers: Dean Martin
Suzy Visits: Ol' Blue Eyes And Ol' Brown Eyes
NBC
Tuesday Evening
10:00 - 11:00 p.m.
Host: Suzy Knickerbocker
Guests: Frank Sinatra, Muhammad Ali
Frank Is Interviewed And Gives Tour Of His Home
NOTE: Sinatra Scholar Ed O'Brien considers this one of the best Sinatra interviews.
Sinatra is relaxed with Suzy and she has the charm to ask him many private questions
without offending. Sinatra is quite candid and they cover a lot of territory.
Ali was interviewed during the second half of the show.
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York (May 17-29)
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller, Ken Lane (Dean).
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ken Lane (piano).
Other Performers: Dean Martin
Opening Act: The Goldiggers
Opening Comedian: Pat Henry
1. All Or Nothing At All
2. For Once In My Life
3. I Love My Wife
4. Night And Day
5. It Was A Very Good Year
6. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
7. One For My Baby
8. I Sing The Songs
9. medley w/Dean Martin: My Kind Of Town / A Foggy Day / The
Lady Is A Tramp / They Can't Take That Away From Me / When You're Smiling
10. The Oldest Established - w/Dean Martin
Notes: TT 57mins.
Suzy Visits: Ol' Blue Eyes And Ol' Brown Eyes
© 1997-2026 The Sinatra Archive
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)
Suzy Visits: Ol' Blue Eyes And Ol' Brown Eyes
© 1997-2026 The Sinatra Archive
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)
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York (May 17-29)
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller, Ken Lane (Dean).
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ken Lane (piano).
Other Performers: Dean Martin
Opening Act: The Goldiggers
Opening Comedian: Pat Henry
Dean:
1. Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes / When You're Drinking
2. monologue
3. Everybody Loves Somebody
4. Welcome To My World
5. That's Amore
Frank:
6. All Or Nothing At All
7. For Once In My Life
8. I Love My Wife
9. Night And Day
10. It Was A Very Good Year
11. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
12. Angel Eyes
13. My Way
Frank & Dean
14. medley w/ Dean Martin: I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
(DM) / My Kind Of Town (FS) / Pennies From Heaven (DM) / A Foggy Day (FS)/ Chicago (DM) / Embraceable You (DM) / The Lady Is A Tramp (FS) / Where Or When (DM) / They Can't Take That Away From Me (FS) / Oh Marie (DM) / When You're Smiling (FS-DM)
15. The Oldest Established - w/Dean Martin
Notes: TT 59mins.
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York (May 17-29)
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller, Ken Lane (Dean).
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ken Lane (piano).
Other Performers: Dean Martin
Opening Act: The Goldiggers
Opening Comedian: Pat Henry
note: Frank and Dean opened at the Premier Theatre on 5-25-77 with a benefit performance
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a benefit performance.
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York (May 17-29)
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Other Performers: Dean Martin, Ken Lane (Dean).
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ken Lane (piano).
Opening Act: The Goldiggers
Opening Comedian: Pat Henry
1. All Or Nothing At All
2. For Once In My Life
3. I Love My Wife
4. Night And Day
5. It Was A Very Good Year
6. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
7. One For My Baby
8. My Way
9. medley w/Dean Martin: My Kind Of Town / A Foggy Day / The Lady Is A Tramp / They Can't Take That Away From Me / When You're Smiling
10. The Oldest Established - w/Dean Martin
Notes: TT 44mins.
Sinatra receives Doctor of Fine Arts Degree from Loyola Marymount University
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York (May 17-29) First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller, Ken Lane (Dean).
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ken Lane (piano).
Other Performers: Dean Martin
Dean:
1. When Your Drinking - Bourbon From Heaven
2. monologue
3. Everybody Loves Somebody
4. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
5. talk
6. Welcome To My World
7. Brother Can You Spare A Dime Town
8. That's Amore
Frank:
9. All Or Nothing At All
10. For Once In My Life
11. I Love My Wife
12. Night And Day
13. It Was A Very Good Year
14. Every Ought To Be In Love
15. Here's That Rainy Day
16.. I Sing The Songs
Frank & Dean:
17. Jokes, Toasts, Willie Mays
18. Medley: I Can't Give You Anything But Love (DM) / My Kind Of
(FS) / Pennies From Heaven (DM) / A Foggy Day (FS) /
Embraceable You (DM) / The Lady Is A Tramp (FS) / Where Or When (DM) / They Can't Take That Away From Me (FS) / Oh Marie (DM) / When You're Smiling (FS,DM)
19. The Oldest Established
20. Thanks & Introductions
21. The Oldest Established (reprise)
22. chaser - I Write The Song
Notes: TT 54mins.
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York (May 17-29) Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller, Ken Lane (Dean).
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ken Lane (piano).
Other Performers: Dean Martin
Dean:
1. Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes / When You're Drinkin'
2. Monologue
3. Everybody Loves Somebody Sometimes
4. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
5. Welcome To My World
6. That's Amore
Frank:
7. All Or Nothing At All
8. For Once In My Life
9. I Love My Wife
10. Night And Day
11. It Was A Very Good Year
12. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
13. See The Show Again
14. I Sing The Songs
Frank & Dean:
15. medley w/Dean Martin: I Can Give You Anything But Love (DM) /
My Kind Of Town (FS) / Pennies From Heaven (DM) / A Foggy Day (FS) / Embraceable You (DM) / The Lady Is A Tramp (FS) / Where Or When (DM) / They Can't Take That Away From Me (FS) / Oh, Marie (DM) / When You're Smiling (FS-DM)
16. The Oldest Established - w/Dean Martin
17. introductions
Notes: TT 50mins.
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller, Ken Lane (Dean).
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ken Lane (piano).
Other Performers: Dean Martin
1. All Or Nothing At All
2. For Once In My Life
3. I Love My Wife
4. Night And Day
5. It Was A Very Good Year
6. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
7. Here's That Rainy Day
8. My Way
9. medley w/Dean Martin: My Kind Of Town / A Foggy Day / The
Lady Is A Tramp / They Can't Take That Away From Me / Oh
Marie / When You're Smiling
10. The Oldest Established - w/Dean Martin
Notes: TT 60mins.
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller, Ken Lane (Dean).
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ken Lane (piano).
Other Performers: Dean Martin
Dean:
1. When You're Drinking / Bourbon From Heaven
2. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
3. Welcome To My World
4. That's Amore
Frank:
5. For Once In My Life
6. I Love My Wife
7. It Was A Very Good Year
8. One For My Baby
9. My Way
10. comedy - Frank & Dean
11. medley w/Dean Martin: I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
(DM) / My Kind Of Town (FS) / Pennies From Heaven (DM) / A Foggy Day (FS) / Embraceable You (DM) / The Lady Is A Tramp (FS) / Where Or When (DM) / They Can't Take That Away From Me (FS) / Oh Marie (DM) / When You're Smiling (FS-DM)
12. The Oldest Established - w/Dean Martin
Notes: TT 56mins.
Westchester Premier Theater, Tarrytown, New York
Closing Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller, Ken Lane (Dean).
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ken Lane (piano).
Other Performers: Dean Martin
1. All Or Nothing At All
2. For Once In My Life
3. I Love My Wife
4. Night And Day
5. It Was A Very Good Year
6. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
7. Send In The Clowns
8. My Way
9. medley w/Dean Martin: My Kind Of Town / A Foggy Day / The
Lady Is A Tramp / They Can"t Take That Away From Me /
10. The Oldest Established - w/Dean Martin
Notes: TT 57mins.
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
First Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ken Lane (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller, Ken Lane (Dean).
Opening Act: Goldiggers
Other Performer: Dean Martin
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Second Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ken Lane (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller, Ken Lane (Dean).
Opening Act: Goldiggers
Other Performer: Dean Martin
1. All Or Nothing At All
2. For Once In My Life
3. I Love My Wife
4. Night And Day
5. It Was A Very Good Year
6. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
7. Here's That Rainy Day
8. My Way
9. medley w/Dean Martin: My Kind Of Town / A Foggy Day / The Lady Is A Tramp / They Can't Take That Away From Me / Oh Marie / When You're Smiling
10. The Oldest Established - w/Dean
11. w/ DM: The Oldest Established (reprise) - w/Dean
Notes: TT 79mins.
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
First Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ken Lane (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller, Ken Lane (Dean).
Opening Act: Goldiggers
Other Performer: Dean Martin
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Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ken Lane (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller, Ken Lane (Dean).
Other Performer: Dean Martin
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
First Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ken Lane (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller, Ken Lane (Dean).
Other Performer: Dean Martin
Dean:
1. When You're Drinking - Bourbon From Heaven
2. Everybody Loves Somebody
3. Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown
4. Welcome To My World
5. Brother Can You Spare A Dime
6. That's Amore
Frank:
7. All Or Nothing At All
8. For Once In My Life
9. I Love My Wife
10. Night And Day
11. It Was A Very Good Year
12. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
13. My Funny Valentine
14. My Way
Frank & Dean:
15. comedy monologue
16. medley
17. The Oldest Established
Notes: TT 83mins.
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Second Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ken Lane (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller, Ken Lane (Dean).
Other Performer: Dean Martin
Dean:
1. When You're Drinking - Bourbon From Heaven
2. Everybody Loves Somebody
3. Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown
4. Welcome To My World
5. Brother Came You Spare A Dime
6. That's Amore
Frank:
7. All Or Nothing At All
8. For Once In My Life
9. I Love My Wife 10. Night And Day
11. It Was A Very Good Year
12. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
13. I Sing The Songs
Frank & Dean:
14. medley: I Can't Give You Anything But Love / My Kind Of Town /
Pennies From Heaven / They Can't Take That Away / A Foggy Day / Embraceable You / The Lady Is A Tramp / Where Or When / Oh Marie / When You're Smiling
15. The Oldest Established
Notes: TT 75 mins.
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
First Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ken Lane (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller, Ken Lane (Dean).
Other Performer: Dean Martin
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Second Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ken Lane (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller, Ken Lane (Dean).
Other Performer: Dean Martin
1. I've Got You Under My Skin
2. For Once In My Life
3. I Love My Wife
4. It Was A Very Good Year
5. My Way
6. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
7. See The Show Again
8. medley w/Dean Martin: My Kind Of Town / A Foggy Day / The Lady Is A Tramp / They Can't Take That Away From Me / When You're Smiling
9. The Oldest Established - w/Dean
Notes: TT 84mins.
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
First Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ken Lane (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller, Ken Lane (Dean).
Other Performer: Dean Martin
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Second Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ken Lane (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller, Ken Lane (Dean).
Other Performer: Dean Martin
1. I've Got You Under My Skin
2. For Once In My Life
3. I Love My Wife
4. Night And Day
5. It Was A Very Good Year
6. My Way
7. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
8. Night And Day
9. Medley w/Dean Martin: My Kind Of Town / Pennies From Heaven /
A Foggy Day / The Lady Is A Tramp / They Can't Take That Away From Me / When You're Smiling
10. The Oldest Established - w/Dean
Notes: TT 86mins
Sabre Room, Hickory Hills, Illinois
First Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ken Lane (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller, Ken Lane (Dean).
Frank:
1. All Or Nothing At All
2. For Once In My Life
3. I Love My Wife
4. Night And Day
5. It Was A Very Good Year
6. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
7. See The Show Again
8. My Way
Frank & Dean:
9. comedy routine
10. medley: I Can't Give You Anything But Love / My Kind Of Town / Pennies From Heaven / A Foggy Day / Embraceable You / The Lady Is A Tramp / Where Or When / They Can't Take That Away From Me / Oh Marie / When You're Smiling
11. The Oldest Established
12. introductions
13. The Oldest Established (Reprise)
14. chaser "I Write The Songs"
Sabre Room, Hickory Hills, Illinois
Second Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ken Lane (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller, Ken Lane (Dean).
1. All Or Nothing At All
2. For Once In My Life
3. I Love My Wife
4. Night And Day
5. It Was A Very Good Year
6. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
7. See The Show Again
8. My Way
Frank & Dean:
9. comedy routine
10. medley: I Can't Give You Anything But Love / My Kind Of Town / Pennies From Heaven / A Foggy Day / Embraceable You / The Lady Is A Tramp / Where Or When / They Can't Take That Away From Me / Oh Marie / When You're Smiling
11. The Oldest Established
12. Introductions
13. The Oldest Established (Reprise)
14. chaser "I Write The Songs"
Note: Engagement ran for four nights ( 6/7 thru 6/10 ) and there were two shows a night. Frank and Dean split $600,000. Before the tour, Frank weighed an all-time high of 179 lbs. He went on a diet and lost 25 lbs before reaching Chicago.
Sabre Room, Hickory Hills, Illinois
Frank Sinatra & Dean Martin
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ken Lane (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller, Ken Lane (Dean).
Sabre Room, Hickory Hills, Illinois
First Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ken Lane (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller, Ken Lane (Dean).
Dean:
1. When You're Drinking - Bourbon From Heaven
2. Everybody Loves Somebody
3. Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown
4. Welcome To My World
5. Brother Came You Spare A Dime
6. That's Amore
Frank:
7. I Got You Under My Skin
8. For Once In My Life
9. I Love My Wife
10. Night And Day
11. It Was A Very Good Year
12. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
13. See The Show Again
14. I Sing The Songs
Frank & Dean:
15. comedy routine
16. medley: I Can't Give You Anything But Love / My Kind Of Town /
Pennies From Heaven / A Foggy Day / Embraceable You / The Lady Is A Tramp / Where Or When / They Can't Take That Away From Me / Oh Marie / When You're Smiling
17. The Oldest Established
18. introductions
19. The Oldest Established (Reprise)
20. chaser "I Write The Songs"
Notes: TT 85mins.
Sabre Room, Hickory Hills, Illinois
Second Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ken Lane (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller, Ken Lane (Dean).
Frank:
1. I've Got You Under My Skin
2. For Once In My Life
3. I Love My Wife
4. Night And Day
5. It Was A Very Good Year
6. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
7. See The Show Again
8. My Way
Frank & Dean:
9. comedy routine
10. medley: I Can't Give You Anything But Love / My Kind Of Town /
Pennies From Heaven / A Foggy Day / Embraceable You / The Lady Is A Tramp / Where Or When / They Can't Take That Away From Me / Oh Marie / When You're Smiling
11. The Oldest Established
12. introductions
13. The Oldest Established (Reprise)
Sabre Room, Hickory Hills, Illinois
Frank and Dean
The above two photos were sent along by John Larrabee with the following note:
Hello to all. I used to be on the forum some years ago. It's good to be back.
Here are a couple of photos of the Sabre Room engagement from my in-laws personal files, with my late father-in-law, Ray Papai, second to right in the sax section.
Sabre Room, Hickory Hills, Illinois
Two Shows
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ken Lane (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller, Ken Lane (Dean).
1. All or Nothing at All
2. For Once in My Life
3. I Love My Wife
4. Night and Day
5. It Was a Very Good Year
6. Everybody Ought to Be in Love
7. See the Show Again
8. I Write the Songs
9. Medley: My Kind of Town, A Foggy Day, The Lady Is a Tramp, They Can't Take That Away From Me, When You're Smiling
10. The Oldest Established (Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York) with Dean Martin
Ed O'Brien:
Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin opened at the Premier Theatre, in Tarrytown, N'Y. on 5-16-77. They would travel from there to the Latin Casino, in Cherry Hill, N.J. and then on to the Sabre Room, in Hickory Hills,
Ill., closing on 6-12-77. The opening acts were the Golddiggers and Pat Henry. In all they would do 41 shows to SRO crowds every night.
Sabre Room, Hickory Hills, Illinois
First Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner
(trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ken Lane (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller, Ken Lane (Dean).
Frank:
1. I've Got You Under My Skin
2. For Once In My Life
3. I Love My Wife
4. Night And Day
5. It Was A Very Good Year
6. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
7. My Way
Frank & Dean:
8. comedy routine
9. medley: I Can't Give You Anything But Love / My Kind Of Town /
Pennies From Heaven / A Foggy Day / Embraceable You / The Lady
Is A Tramp / Where Or When / They Can't Take That Away From Me
/ Oh Marie / When You're Smiling
10. The Oldest Established
11. introductions
12. The Oldest Established (Reprise)
13. chaser "I Write The Song"
Notes: Only closing portion circulates in line form. 80mins.
Sabre Room, Hickory Hills, Illinois
Second Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Bill Miller, Ken Lane (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller, Ken Lane (Dean).
Other Performer: Dean Martin
Dean:
1. When You're Drinking - Bourbon From Heaven
2. monologue
3. Everybody Loves Somebody
4. Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown
5. Welcome To My World
6. Brother Cane You Spare A Dime
7. That's Amore
Frank:
8. I've Got You Under My Skin
9. For Once In My Life
10. I Love My Wife
11. Night And Day
12. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
13. Angel Eyes
14. My Way
Frank & Dean:
15. comedy routine
16. medley: I Can't Give You Anything But Love / My Kind Of Town /
Pennies From Heaven / A Foggy Day / Embraceable You / The Lady Is A Tramp / Where Or When / They Can't Take That Away From Me / Oh Marie / When You're Smiling
17. The Oldest Established
18. introductions
19. The Oldest Established (Reprise)
20. chaser "I Write The Songs"
Notes: TT 72mins.
Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo presented Sinatra with the city's Freedom Medal, though the Philadelphia Inquirer published a critical piece questioning whether Sinatra's record qualified him for the honor.
Source: Michael Freedland, All the Way: A Biography of Frank Sinatra (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997; Orion paperback, 1998).
Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, Forest Hills, New York
Time: 8:00 PM
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler(drums), Bill Miller (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day (disco)
2. Where Or When
3. For Once In My Life
4. Spring Is Here
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. My Funny Valentine
7. I Love My Wife
8. I Sing The Songs
9. My Kind Of Town 10. See The Show Again
11. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
12. My Way
13. I've Got You Under My Skin
14. Send In Clown
15. All Or Nothing At All (disco)
16. It Was A Very Good Year
17. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 59mins.
NOTE: Ed O'Brien says that Sinatra was in New York City in July shooting "Contract on Cherry Street." His only concert work during the shoot was a two-night stop at Forest Hills on a Friday and Saturday. It had been 12 years since his last appearance there and the place obviously agreed with him. It may not have been comparable to his 1965 Forest Hills efforts, but it was damn good. Joe Malin led the orchestra and Sinatra had his usual sidemen. One night the saloon number was "Clowns" and the next it was "One for my Baby." Arguably these are Sinatra's two best concerts of 1977.
Sinatraphile Bob Waldman reports that he attended the Forest Hills concert when Sinatra performed "One for my Baby." What made it even more dramatic was the sound of a Long Island Railroad train passing as he sang.
Waldman adds that because of traffic the concert he attended was performed without an intermission. Milton Berle finished and Sinatra immediately came on stage.
Lo Curto agrees that this was a good concert for the period and points out that a decent audience recording exists. He believes the concert took place around the time of the New York City blackout.
Sinatraphile Richard Warwick writes that it was strange seeing Milton Berle as the warm-up act for Sinatra at this concert. Berle had been a big star in the early days of television but now was reduced to the opening act for Sinatra. But that's the way it was in 1977.
Eddie Gen:
I was also at the July 15th Forest hills concert and I remember that right after Milton Berle, the orchestra had a quick minute to tune up again and Sinatra came right out. I have some photos of that evening. I remember Sinatra looking in good physical shape. He came out to the disco beat of "Night and Day". I also remember a nice rendition of "I Love My Wife" from the Broadway show of the same title. It was a warm NYC summer evening and the atmosphere was exciting. I also saw The Beatles at that same venue in 1964. I am a very fortunate person to have seen these artists live on stage.
Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, Forest Hills, New York
Time: 8:00 PM
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler(drums), Bill Miller (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Tennis Stadium, Forrest Hills, New York
The Joe Malone Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler(drums), Bill Miller (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. Where Or When
3. For Once In My Life
4. Spring Is Here
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. My Funny Valentine
7. I Love My Wife
8. I Sing The Songs
9. monologue
10. My Kind Of Town
11. See The Show Again
12. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
13. My Way
14. One For My Baby
15. I've Got You Under My Skin
16. All Or Nothing At All
17. It Was A Very Good Year
18. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 58mins.
Eddie Gen:
Is it possible that Frank Sinatra had Milton Berle as his opening act at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium on July 16th, 1977? If Milton Berle was the opening act, then I was there, I had great seats and actually shook FS's hand after the show. He walked the foot of the stage and shook hands. It was quite exciting as I was 27 years old. 20 years before that my mother took me to the Paramount to see him. I was 7 years old. She told me to take a good look at him because he will be the greatest entertainer of our lifetime. Mother was so right.
Ed O'Brien:
It was Berle. He begged Sinatra to make him the O.A., when Frank toured. Didn't happen. Uncle Miltie played a few dates and that was it.
Tennis Stadium, Forrest Hills, New York
The Joe Malone Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler(drums), Bill Miller (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Millernote:The Buddy Rich band was set to back Sinatra. At the last minute Rich was unable to appear. Frank's concertmaster, Joe Malin, stepped and put together an orchestra of top N.Y. C. musicians. There was no Joe Malone involved. Ed
Musical Theater, Alpine Valley, Wisconsin
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night and Day
2. Where or When
3. For Once in My Life
4. Spring Is Here
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. My Funny Valentine
7. I Love My Wife
8. I Write the Songs
9. My Kind of Town
10. See the Show Again
11. Everybody Ought to Be in Love
12. My Way
13. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)
14. I've Got You Under My Skin
15. All or Nothing at All
16. It Was a Very Good Year
17. The Lady Is a Tramp
Musical Theater, Alpine Valley, Wisconsin
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Elvis Presley died 49 years ago today.
Sinatra Salutes Elvis With Song
CHICAGO -
Frank Sinatra, playing at the Alpine Valley Music Theatre in Wisconsin,
dedicated a Rodgers and Hart tune to Presley's memory. Sinatra opened
the show with two or three numbers, then quieted the orchestra and announced,
he'd lost a "dear friend and a tremendous asset to the business," then sang the
number in Presley's memory. Sinatra was in flight to Wisconsin when news of the
death was announced. Management people working his engagement also
worked Presley dates and were described as "being in shock," when they learned.
"You could have heard a pin drop" in the giant amphitheatre when Sinatra made
the dedication, says Steve Lord, entertainment manager of the open air venue.
Billboard
August 27, 1977
note: Song Frank sang in tribute to Elvis was "Spring Is Here." I have an interview
with Frank, from 1958, in which he discusses Elvis and his music. Frank told the
interviewer that Elvis would impress him if he stopped singing with a small group
and did a Rodgers & Hart album with a full orchestra.
Ed
Musical Theater, Alpine Valley, Wisconsin
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Opening Act: Milton Berle
1. Night And Day (disco)
2. Where Or When
3. For Once In My Life
4. Spring Is Here
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. My Funny Valentine
7. I Love My Wife
8. I Sing The Songs
9. monologue
10. Send In The Clowns
11. My Kind Of Town
12. See The Show Again
13. Everybody Ought To Be In love
14. My Way
15. Angel Eyes
16. I've Got You Under My Skin
17. All Or Nothing At All
18.. It Was A Very Good Year
19. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 70mins.
Ed O'Brien reports that at the onset of the monologue, Sinatra discussed the death of Elvis Presley:
"At the risk of being sad for two seconds, I drink a toast to a wonderful fellow who left us yesterday. Who did so much for American music. I knew him well. I knew Elvis for maybe 12 years 12 to 14 years and he was . . . We all know that he has done in his career but I knew him as a man. He was a gentle, good man. Good man, fine man. Very gracious. Generous in every sense of the word. Things that people had never even heard about. Helping organizations and children's hospitals. I knew about that with that fellow. He was some kind of cat. I hope that God Is good to him."
Musical Theater, Alpine Valley, Wisconsin
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Opening Act: Milton Berle
Aladdin, Las Vegas, Nevada
University of Nevada Benefit
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Musicians: Ken Lane (Piano)
Other Performers: Dean Martin, Paul Anka
1. Dean Intro to Frank
2. Night And Day
3. For Once In My Life
4. My Funny Valentine
5. All Or nothing At All
6. I Sing The Songs
7. monologue
8. It Was A Very Good Year
9. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
10. My Way
11. The Lady Is A Tramp
12. Frank & Dean comedy
13. Frank & Dean Medley: I Can't Give You Anything But Love Baby
(Dean) / My Kind Of Town (Frank) / Pennies From Heaven (Dean) / A Foggy Day (Frank) / Embraceable You (Dean) / Where or When (Dean) / They Can't Take That Away From Me (Frank) / Oh Marie (Dean) / When You're Smiling (Frank & Dean)
14. Frank & Dean: The Oldest Established
15. presentation to Frank & Dean
16. Paul Anka: Frank & Dino (Love & Marriage parody)
17. Paul Anka: My Way (parody)
18.. chaser: "I Sing The Songs"
Notes: TT 64mins.
Aladdin Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada
Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Paul Anka
Benefit Univ. of Nevada Athletic Fund & Awards Ceremony Orchestra conducted by Don Costa
Dean Martin:
1. When You're Drinkin'/The Gentleman Is A Champ
2. Everybody Loves Somebody
3. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
4. Welcome To My World
5. That's Amore
Frank Sinatra
6. Night and Day (disco)
7. For Once In My Life
8. My Funny Valentine
9. All Or Nothing At All (disco)
10. I Sing The Songs
11. monologue
12. It Was A Very Good Year
13. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
14. My Way
15 . The Lady Is A Tramp
Comedy with Sinatra, Martin & Lewis
Medley w/ Dean Martin: My Kind Of Town / A Foggy Day / Baubles, Bangles And
Beads /
Pennies From Heaven//Marie/They Can't Take That Away From Me / When You're Smiling/
The Oldest Established Established Floating Crap Game
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
First Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Irv Cotter (drums), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Bill Miller (piano).
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. All Or Nothing At All
2. For Once In My Life
3. My Funny Valentine
4. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
5. It Was A Very Good Year
6. My Way
7. monologue
8. I Concentrate On You
9. See The Show Again
10. I Sing The Songs
11. Send In The Clowns
12. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 49mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Second Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Irv Cotter (drums), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Bill Miller (piano).
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. All or Nothing at All
2. For Once in My Life
3. My Funny Valentine
4. Everybody Ought to be in Love
5. My Way
6. Gal That Got Away/Never Entered my Mind
7. Monologue
8. I Concentrate on You w/Guitarist Al Viola
9. See the Show Again
10. I Sing the Songs
11. Everybody Ought to be in Love w/Paul Anka
12. It was a Very Good Year
13. The Lady is a Tramp
Notes: TT 57mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Second Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Irv Cotter (drums), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Bill Miller (piano).
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
First Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Irv Cotter (drums), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Bill Miller (piano).
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1.. All or Nothing at All
2. For Once in my Life
3. My Funny Valentine
4. Everybody Ought to be in Love
5. My Way
6. medley: The Gal that Got Away / It Never Entered my Mind
7. monologue
8. I Concentrate on You w/Al Viola, guitar
9. See the Show Again
10. I Sing the Songs
11. It Was a Very Good Year
12. The Lady is a Tramp
Notes: TT 52mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Second Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Irv Cotter (drums), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Bill Miller (piano).
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. All or Nothing at All
2. For Once in My Life
3. My Funny Valentine
4. Everybody Ought to be in Love
5. My Way
6. medley: The Gal that Got away/ It Never Entered my Mind
7. monologue
8. I Concentrate on You w/Guitarist Al Viola
9. See the Show Again
10. I Sing the Songs
11. It was a Very Good Year
12. The Lady is a Tramp
Notes: TT 49mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
First Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Irv Cotter (drums), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Bill Miller (piano).
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
First Show
1. All or Nothing at All
2. For Once in My Lifre
3. My Funny Valentine
4. Everybody Ought to be in Love
5. My Way
6. Gal that Got Away/Never Entered my Mind
7. Monologue
8. I Concentrate on You w/Al Viola, guitar
9. See the Show Again
10. I Sing the Songs
11. It was a very Good Year
12. The Lady is a Tramp
Notes: TT 47mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Second Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Irv Cotter (drums), Gene Cherico (bass),
Charles Turner (trumpet), Bill Miller (piano).
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. All Or Nothing At All
2. For Once In My Life
3. My Funny Valentine
4. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
5. My Way
6. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
7. See The Show Again
8. I Sing The Songs
9. Monologue
10. I Concentrate On You
11. It Was A Very Good Year
12. Send In The Clowns
13. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 49mins.
Ed O'Brien:
This engagement ran from 8-25 thru 31.
Jackie Gayle opened for Frank. Pat Henry was opening for John Davidson at the Hilton in Vegas.
Frank's regulars backed him plus the 40 piece Nat
Brandwynne Orch. Frank did two shows a night during the seven day engagement.
He made an appearance on the Lewis Telethon, flying into Vegas from Palm Springs ( 9-5 ).
Originally the Caesars engagement called for a second week from Sept. 1-7. Frank decided to cancel and take most of the month off. This wasn't to be. He was asked to play a week at Caesars (9-22-28 two shows a night ). He dropped "Gal/Mind" from his act and added "Ol' Man River," with just Bill Miller backing him on piano for most of the song, and "Quiet
Nights" with Al Viola on guitar. The last three nights were cancelled due to illness ( 26 thru 28 )
Another casualty due to the illness was a benefit at the Ahmanson ( 9-25 ) with DonRickles. Caesars would have been dark that Sunday night.
His next appearance was a benefit at the Beverly Hilton ( 10-1 ) with John Denver. Vinnie Falcone would become his regular piano player later that that month ( 10-21 at Harrah's in Lake Tahoe ).
Frank Rosenthal Show, Las Vegas
Guest: Frank Sinatra, Don Rickles
Notes: 40 mins.
Ed O'Brien identifies Frank Rosenthal as the guy that DeNiro played in "Casino." Sinatra was very serious during the show and Rickles was brutal.
Unfortunately there were technical issues and the Frank Rosenthal Show episode with Sinatra did not appear on August 27th. Here are some articles mentioning what happened. Michel also sent along the photo at the bottom: Scott
Ed,
You are right. I have the 30 minute Rosenthal episode with Rickles and Sinatra. I had a look at it tonight. I believe it is from November 26th, 1977. Rosenthal mentioned the airing of "Contract On Cherry Street" the week before. "Contract On Cherry Street" aired on November 19th, 1977. The Rosenthal show always aired on a Saturday so it would make it November 26th. The photo that Michel sent around showed a slightly smaller set with only Rosenthal and Sinatra and no Don Rickles. Suits were different, too. That would mean that there were three appearance by Sinatra on the Frank Rosenthal Show in
1977. Sinatra was on the initial show on August 27th, 1977 which didn't air until September 7th because of technical difficulties. Then he was on with Muhamed Ali on November 12th and then again on November 26th with Rickles. I looked for any articles or ads for the November 26th show but I haven't come across any.
Scott
>Hi Scott,
> Back in the late 1970s, there was 21 minute video of > Frank and Don Rickles
>from a Frank Rosenthal show at the Stardust. Frank was being very >serious in his discussion
>with Rosenthal and Rickles was being Rickles. Date given at the time >was 11-16-77.
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>>Here's a tv listing for the show the appeared in he Las Vegas >>Review Journal on August 27, 1977:
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>>Michel Macaire pointed out to me that Frank Sinatra taped his >>appearance on the Frank Rosenthal Show on August 27, 1977. We have >>it listed for November 27th, 1977 which is clearly the wrong >>date. Here's the listing that will moved to the August 27th date: >>
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>>1977 Frank Rosenthal Show, Las Vegas
>>Guest: Frank Sinatra, Don Rickles
>>Notes: 40 mins.
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>>Ed O'Brien identifies Frank Rosenthal as the guy that DeNiro played >>in "Casino." Sinatra was very
>>serious during the show and Rickles was brutal.
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>>Unfortunately there were technical issues and the Frank Rosenthal >>Show episode with Sinatra did not appear on August 27th. Here are >>some articles mentioning what happened. Michel also sent along the >>photo at the bottom:
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>>Scott
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Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Irv Cotter (drums), Gene Cherico (bass),
Charles Turner (trumpet), Bill Miller (piano).
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1.. All Or Nothing At All
2. For Once In My Life
3. My Funny Valentine
4. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
5. My Way
6. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
7. monologue
8. I Concentrate On You
9. It Was A Very Good Year
10. Send In The Clowns
11. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 61mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
First Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Irv Cotter (drums), Gene Cherico
(bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Bill Miller (piano).
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. All Or Nothing At All
2. For Once In My Life
3. My Funny Valentine
4. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
5. My Way
6. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
7. monologue
8. I Concentrate On You
9. See The Show Again
10. I Sing The Songs
11. It Was A Very Good Year
12. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 55mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Second Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Irv Cotter
(drums), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Bill Miller (piano). Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Second show
1. All Or Nothing At All (Joe Beck arg.)
2. For Once In My Life
3. My Funny Valentine
4. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
5. My Way
6. Gal That Got Away/Never Entered My Mind
8. monologue
9. I Concentrate On You w/Al Viola on guitar
10. See The Show Again (Charles Calello arg)
11. I Sing The Songs
12. It Was A Very Good Year
13. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 57mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
First Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Irv Cotter (drums), Gene Cherico
(bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Bill Miller (piano).
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. All Or Nothing At All
2. For Once In My Life
3. My Funny Valentine
4. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
5. My Way
6. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
7. monologue
8. Send In The Clowns
9. See The Show Again
10. I Sing The Songs
11. It Was A Very Good Year
12. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 52mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Second Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Irv Cotter (drums), Gene Cherico (bass),
Charles Turner (trumpet), Bill Miller (piano).
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. For Once In My Life
3. My Funny Valentine
4. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
5. My Way
6. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
7. monologue
8. Try A Little Tenderness
9. See The Show Again
10. I Sing The Songs
11. It Was A Very Good Year
12. Send In The Clowns
13. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 52mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
First Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Irv Cotter (drums), Gene Cherico
(bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Bill Miller (piano).
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. All Or Nothing At All
2. For Once In My Life
3. My Funny Valentine
4. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
5. My Way
6. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
7. monologue
8. Try A Little Tenderness
9. See The Show Again
10. I Sing The Songs
11. It Was A Very Good Year
12. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT 51mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Second Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Irv Cotter
(drums), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turner (trumpet), Bill Miller (piano). Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. All Or Nothing At All
2. For Once In My Life
3. My Funny Valentine
4. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
5. My Way
6. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
7. monologue
8. Try A Little Tenderness
9. See The Show Again
10.. I Sing The Songs
11. It Was A Very Good Year
12. The Lady Is A Tramp
Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon
1. All Or Nothing At All
2. It Was A Very Good Year
3. Everybody Ought To Be In Love
The Frank Rosenthal Show, Las Vegas
Guest: Frannk Sinatra
(Taped on August 27th but technical issues prevented it from being aired and due to legal issues, it was not broadcast until September 10. 1977)
The Frank Rosenthal Show, Las Vegas
Guest: Frannk Sinatra
(Taped on August 27th but technical issues prevented it from being aired and due to legal issues, it was not broadcast until September 10. 1977)
["Tell Them the British Are Coming": Sinatra Among the Yankees]
Nancy Sinatra: Arriving at Patsy's Restaurant in New York after the Dodgers lost a World Series game, Sinatra found the upstairs dining room packed with celebrating Yankees and quipped, "Good. Tell them the British are coming." He then needled several players good-naturedly, telling Bucky Dent he'd cost him money but played a great game, and telling Billy Martin he'd done a great job managing "these monkeys" to victory, before picking up the whole team's dinner tab.
Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.
Beverly Hilton, Beverly Hills, California
Reiss-Davis Clinic Benefit
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Ed O'Brien:
The evening was both a benefit and a tribute to
Jane Morgan, wife of Jerry Weintraub, promoter for both Sinatra and John Denver, who also per- formed that evening. Morgan was honored as
"Mother of the Year." Sinatra and Denver performed in front of a sold-out room. The benefit raised almost a half-million. The tickets for the event were expensive -- some going for $1000 each.
Beverly Hilton, Beverly Hills, California
Reiss-Davis Clinic Benefit
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada (21-27)
Two Shows: 12am & 8:15PM
O.A. Jackie Gayle
Bill Miller conducting
Vinnie Falcone on piano
Frank had a set list for this engagement.
1. Night and Day (disco}
2. I Sing The Songs
3. Something
4. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
5. Gal That Got Away/Never Entered My Mind
6. monologue
7. Maybe This Time
8. It Was A Very Good Year
9. Come Fly With Me
10. See The Show Again
11. My Kind Of Town
12. That's Life
13. My Way
note: Frank gave Vinnie a big introduction, telling his audience about his very talented new piano player.
Ed
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Brian Farnon Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Sidemen: Al Viola guitar, Gene Cherico, bass, Irv Cottler, drums, Charlie
Turner, trumpet and Frank's new piano player, Vinnie Falcone.
Orchestra conducted by Bill Miller
O.A. Jackie Gayle
Engagement ran from 10/21 till 10/27. Here is a review of opening night.
Frank did two shows on Friday and Saturday. This was Jackie Gayle's
first time opening for Sinatra. There was suppose to be a set list for
the week, but Frank didn't stay on script. Opening night he sang "Angel
Eyes" and disco versions of "Night and Day" and "All Or Nothing At All."
Oakland Tribune
10-26-77
Chicago Tribune
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada (21-27)
Two shows; identical song selection for both performances.
Sinatra introduces newest member of his small group, Vinnie Falcone
1. Night and Day (Joe Beck arg.)
2. I Sing the Songs
3. Something
4. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
5. Gal that Got Away/Never Entered my Mind
6. Monologue
7. Maybe This Time
8. It was a Very Good Year
9. Come Fly with Me
10. See the Show Again (Charles Callelo arg.)
11. My Kind of Town
12. My Way
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
South Shore Room
Sidemen: Al Viola guitar, Gene Cherico, bass, Irv Cottler, drums, Charlie
Turner, trumpet and Frank's new piano player, Vinnie Falcone.
Orchestra conducted by Bill Miller
O.A. Jackie Gayle
1. Night And Day ( disco version arg. by Joe Beck )
2. I Sing The Songs
3. Something arg. by Don Costa
4. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
5. Gal That Got Away/ Never Entered My Mind monologue
6. Maybe This Time
7. It Was A Very Good Year
8. Come Fly With Me
9. See The Show Again arg. by Charles Calello
10. My Kind Of Town
11. That's Life
12. My Way
Ed O'Brien:
There was a set song selection for the engagement. Frank introduces his new piano player Vinnie Falcone. Bill Miller conducting.
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
South Shore Room
Sidemen: Al Viola guitar, Gene Cherico, bass, Irv Cottler, drums, Charlie
Turner, trumpet and Frank's new piano player, Vinnie Falcone.
Orchestra conducted by Bill Miller
O.A. Jackie Gayle
1. Night And Day ( disco version arg. by Joe Beck )
2. I Sing The Songs
3. Something arg. by Don Costa
4. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
5. Gal That Got Away/ Never Entered My Mind monologue
6. Maybe This Time
7. It Was A Very Good Year
8. Come Fly With Me
9. See The Show Again arg. by Charles Calello
10. My Kind Of Town
11. That's Life
12. My Way
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
South Shore Room
Sidemen: Al Viola guitar, Gene Cherico, bass, Irv Cottler, drums, Charlie
Turner, trumpet and Frank's new piano player, Vinnie Falcone.
Orchestra conducted by Bill Miller
O.A. Jackie Gayle
1. Night And Day ( disco version arg. by Joe Beck )
2. I Sing The Songs
3. Something arg. by Don Costa
4. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
5. Gal That Got Away/ Never Entered My Mind monologue
6. Maybe This Time
7. It Was A Very Good Year
8. Come Fly With Me
9. See The Show Again arg. by Charles Calello
10. My Kind Of Town
11. That's Life
12. My Way
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Sidemen: Al Viola guitar, Gene Cherico, bass, Irv Cottler, drums, Charlie
Turner, trumpet and Frank's new piano player, Vinnie Falcone.
Orchestra conducted by Bill Miller
O.A. Jackie Gayle
1. Night And Day ( disco version arg. by Joe Beck )
2. I Sing The Songs
3. Something arg. by Don Costa
4. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
5. Gal That Got Away/ Never Entered My Mind monologue
6. Maybe This Time
7. It Was A Very Good Year
8. Come Fly With Me
9. See The Show Again arg. by Charles Calello
10. My Kind Of Town
11. That's Life
12. My Way
1979 Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
[Contract on Cherry Street]
Santopietro (Filmography): TV movie. Artanis/Columbia Television/NBC Television. Produced by Hugh Benson, directed by William A. Graham, teleplay by Edward Anhalt based on the Philip Rosenberg novel. Sinatra played Deputy Inspector Frank Hovannes opposite Martin Balsam and Verna Bloom.
This film/context matches multiple dated entries in the chronology; the specific date Santopietro is referring to could not be determined with confidence.
Source: Tom Santopietro, "Sinatra in Hollywood" (2008), Filmography
[Wrongful-Death Suit Over Dolly Sinatra's Crash]
About ten months after the plane crash that killed his mother, Sinatra filed a wrongful-death suit in federal court in Los Angeles against the charter company and its operator.
Source: George Carpozi Jr., Frank Sinatra: Is This Man Mafia? (New York: Manor Books, 1979).
Laugh-in
Guests: Frank Sinatra, Jilly Rizzo, Robin Williams
Taped September 30, 1977
Frank Appears In Skits
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (3 - 16)
First Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (Guitar), Gene Cherico (Bass), Vincent
Falcone Jr. (Piano), Charles Tunner (Trumpet), Irv Cottler (Drums)
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
OA Jackie Gayle
1. All Or Nothing At All
2. Maybe This Time
3. Something
4. My Funny Valentine
5. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
6. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
7. monologue
8. Ol' Man River
9. Come Fly With Me
10. I Sing The Songs
11. monologue
12. That's Life
13. In The Still Of The Night
14. See The Show Again
15. My Kind Of Town
Notes: TT 58mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (3 - 16)
Second Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (Guitar), Gene Cherico (Bass), Vincent Falcone Jr. (Piano), Charles Tunner (Trumpet), Irv Cottler (Drums)
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
OA Jackie Gayle
1. Night And Day
2. Maybe This Time
3. Something
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. My Funny Valentine
6. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. monologue
9. Ol' Man River
10. Come Fly With Me
11. I Sing The Songs
12. That's Life
13. In The Still Of The Night
14. See The Show Again
15. My Kind Of Town
Notes: TT 70mins.
Ed O'Brien
Three nights were cancelled due to Vegas throat.
Frank sang "Maybe This Time" as a ballad opening night and then uptempo for the rest of the shows. "In The Still Of The Night" was reintroduced with the Mandel chart. Frank mentions during the opening show , on 11/3, that it is a special dinner for the Automotive Warehousers Association. During the second show, Frank introduced from the audience Nancy Sinatra, Pat Henry( working with John Davidson at another hotel on the strip ), Howard Cosell, Henry Silva and the great Sugar Ray Robinson.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (3 - 16)
Key Musicians: Al Viola (Guitar), Gene Cherico (Bass), Vincent Falcone Jr. (Piano), Charles Tunner (Trumpet), Irv Cottler (Drums)
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
OA Jackie Gayle
note: Frank canceled three night during this engagement, including the 16th.
Drew Bundini was Ali's comedy relief in their road act. But he had no
filter and as you can see in the Oakland Tribune column, 11-7-77, the
man didn't know when to stop.
Paul Anka came into Caesars after Frank's stay. He needed someone
to sub for him on 11/ 20 and 21. Anka was scheduled to be part of the
Royal Performance for Queen Elizabeth in London, 11/21. Frank heard
about Paul's problem and volunteered to step in for the two nights.
Ed
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Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (3-16)
First Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (Guitar), Gene Cherico (Bass), Vincent Falcone Jr. (Piano), Charles Tunner (Trumpet), Irv Cottler (Drums)
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Opening Act: Jackie Gayle
1. Night And Day
2. Maybe This Time
3. Something
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
6. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
7. Come Fly With Me
8. I Sing The Songs
9. That's Life
10. In The Still Of The Night
11. See The Show Again
12. My Kind Of Town
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (3-16)
Second Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (Guitar), Gene Cherico (Bass), Vincent Falcone Jr. (Piano), Charles Tunner (Trumpet), Irv Cottler (Drums)
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Opening Act: Jackie Gayle
1. Night And Day
2. Maybe This Time
3. Something
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. My Funny Valentine
6. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. monologue
9. My Way
10. Come Fly With Me
11. I Sing The Songs
12. That's Life
13. In The Still Of The Night
14. Angel Eyes
15. monologue
16. My Kind Of Town
Notes: TT 65mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (3-16)
First Show 8:00 PM
Key Musicians: Al Viola (Guitar), Gene Cherico (Bass), Vincent
Falcone Jr. (Piano), Charles Tunner (Trumpet), Irv Cottler (Drums)
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Opening Act: Jackie Gayle
1. All or Nothing at all (Joe Beck arg.)
2. Maybe This Time
3. Something
4. Someone to Watch over Me
5. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
6. Monologue
7. Gal That Got Away/Never Enter My Mind
8. Come Fly with Me
9. I Sing the Songs
10. That's Life
11. My Way
12. In the Still of the Night
13. The Lady is a Tramp
14. See the Show Again
15. My Kind of Town
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (3-16)
Second Show 12 p.m.
Key Musicians: Al Viola (Guitar), Gene Cherico (Bass), Vincent Falcone Jr. (Piano), Charles Tunner (Trumpet), Irv Cottler (Drums)
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Opening Act: Jackie Gayle
1. All or Nothing at All
2. Maybe This Time
3. Something
4. Someone to Watch Over Me
5. My Funny Valentine
6. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
7. Gal that Got Away/Never Entered my Mind
8. Monologue
9. Come Fly with Me
10. I Sing the Songs
11. That's Life
12. My Way
13. In the Still of the Night
14. The Lady is a Tramp
15. See the Show Again
16. My Kind of Town
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (3-16)
Key Musicians: Al Viola (Guitar), Gene Cherico (Bass), Vincent Falcone Jr. (Piano), Charles Tunner (Trumpet), Irv Cottler (Drums)
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
12:30am Show
1. All or Nothing at All
2. Maybe This Time
3. Something
4. Someone to Watch Over Me
5. My Funny Valentine
6. Don't Worry 'bout Me
7. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. It Was a Very Good Year
9. Come Fly With Me
10. I Write the Songs
11. That's Life
12. In the Still of the Night
13. See the Show Again
14. My Kind of Town
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (3-16)
First Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (Guitar), Gene Cherico (Bass), Vincent Falcone Jr. (Piano), Charles Tunner (Trumpet), Irv Cottler (Drums)
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Opening Comedian: Jackie Gayle
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (3-16)
Second Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (Guitar), Gene Cherico (Bass), Vincent Falcone Jr. (Piano), Charles Tunner (Trumpet), Irv Cottler (Drums)
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Opening Comedian: Jackie Gayle
1. All Or Nothing At All
2. Maybe This Time
3. Something
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. The Lady Is A Tramp
6. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
7. monologue
8. It Was A Very Good Year
9. Come Fly With Me
10. See The Show Again
11. That's Life
12. Angel Eyes
13. My Kind Of Town
Notes: TT 55mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (3-16)
Key Musicians: Al Viola (Guitar), Gene Cherico (Bass), Vincent Falcone Jr. (Piano), Charles Tunner (Trumpet), Irv Cottler (Drums)
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
FRANK SINATRA AT CAESARS PALACE
REVIEW OF NOVEMBER 9, 1977
Frank Sinatra leaves no doubt in his current fortnight at Caesars Palace
that he remains the leading virtuoso in his field of entertainment.
In an another most important area, he is also the most formidable of head-
liners in terms of filling rooms and ultimately the casino with heavy-laden players.
The only other upper magnitude star nicking the Sinatra niche is his oldest friend,
Dean Martin, MGM Grand's leading light both on the marquee and in that resort's
huge gaming mall.
Sinatra sustains his primacy in the field of pop from his meticulous attention
to the essential tenets of putting over a song. Although his vocal equipment lets
him down occasionally, there is no lag in his articulation, phrasing and intense
lyrical projection. He is reviving tunes from earlier books on this date to super-
cede the oversung "My Way" and "Send In The Clowns," but also continues
enough of the typical Sinatra standards to keep old fires burning. Barry Manilow
gets the nod for the new venture with the appealing "See The Show Again."
Sinatra always stays a jump ahead of the competition in his pop pasture by
keeping the charts fresh and vital. He also glowingly credits his Riddles, Costas,
Jenkins and Mandels, becomes a part of their unfolding by the flattering reeds,
horns and rhythm of the Nat Brandwynne Orchestra, conducted by his longtime
collaborator Bill Miller. Sidemen contributing to the blend are Vinnie Falcone,
piano, noteworthy for his ""'One For My Baby" accomp; Al Viola, guitar; Gene
Cherico, bass; Irv Cottler, drums and Charlie Turner, trumpet.
Variety
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (3-16)
Key Musicians: Al Viola (Guitar), Gene Cherico (Bass), Vincent Falcone Jr.
(Piano), Charles Tunner (Trumpet), Irv Cottler (Drums)
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (3-16)
First Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (Guitar), Gene Cherico (Bass), Vincent Falcone Jr. (Piano), Charles Tunner (Trumpet), Irv Cottler (Drums)
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Opening Comedian: Jackie Gayle
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (3-16)
Second Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (Guitar), Gene Cherico (Bass), Vincent Falcone Jr. (Piano), Charles Tunner (Trumpet), Irv Cottler (Drums)
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Opening Comedian: Jackie Gayle
1. All Or Nothing At All
2. Maybe This Time
3.. Something
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. My Funny Valentine
6. Don't Worry 'bout Me
7. The Lady Is A Tramp
8. medley: The Gal That Got Away /It Never Entered My Mind
9. monologue
10. It Was A Very Good Year
11. Come Fly With Me
12. See The Show Again
13. That's Life
14. I Sing The Songs
15. One For My Baby
16. introductions
17. Send In The Clowns
18. My Kind Of Town
The Frank Rosenthal Show from the Starlight Casino
Guests Muhammad Ali & Frank Sinatra
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (3-16)
Key Musicians: Al Viola (Guitar), Gene Cherico (Bass), Vincent Falcone Jr. (Piano), Charles Tunner (Trumpet), Irv Cottler (Drums)
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
The Frank Rosenthal Show:
November 12, 1978 Scopus Awards, Los Angeles, CA
Sinatra presented award to Dinah Shore and Gregory Peck
Frank Sinatra, Barbara Marx, and George Raft attend an event, presented by American Friends of the Hebrew University, in Los Angeles, California, on November 12, 1978.
Veronique Peck, Gregory Peck, Frank Sinatra, Dinah Shore, guest, and Barbara Marx attend an event, presented by American Friends of the Hebrew University, in Los Angeles, California, on November 12, 1978
Cancelled
1979 Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (8-14)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
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Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (3-16)
Key Musicans: Al Viola (Guitar), Gene Cherico (Bass), Vincent Falcone Jr. (Piano), Charles Tunner (Trumpet), Irv Cottler (Drums)
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
The Tonight Show
Sinatra Guests Hosts
Guests: George Burns, Angie Dickinson, Carrol O'Conner, Don Rickles
1. Maybe This Time
2. See The Show Again note: Frank had planned to close the show singing "Satisfy Me One More Time" and "The Lady Is A Tramp." The comedian John Barbour ran over and there wasn't enough time for the songs.
--Ed
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (3-16)
Key Musicians: Al Viola (Guitar), Gene Cherico (Bass), Vincent Falcone Jr. (Piano), Charles Tunner (Trumpet), Irv Cottler (Drums)
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
According to Ed O'Brien the basic program is:
All or Nothing at All
Maybe This Time
Something
Someone to Watch over Me
The Lady is a Tramp
Gal that Got Away/Never Entered My Mind
It was a Very Good Year
Come Fly with Me
See the Show Again
That's Life
Send in the Clowns
My Way
My Kind of Town
The Tonight Show
Sinatra Guests Hosts
Guests: George Burns, Angie Dickinson, Carrol O'Conner, Don Rickles
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Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (3-16)
First Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (Guitar), Gene Cherico (Bass), Vincent
Falcone Jr. (Piano), Charles Tunner (Trumpet), Irv Cottler (Drums)
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Notes: TT 60mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (3-16)
Second Show
Key Musicians: Al Viola (Guitar), Gene Cherico (Bass), Vincent
Falcone Jr. (Piano), Charles Tunner (Trumpet), Irv Cottler (Drums)
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. All Or Nothing At All
2. Maybe This Time
3. Something
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. The Lady Is A Tramp
6. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
7. monologue
8. It Was A Very Good Year
9. Come Fly With Me
10. See The Show Again
11. That's Life
12. Send In The Clowns
13. My Way
14. My Kind Of Town
Notes: TT 56mins.
Ed O'Brien:
When Sinatra opened at Caesars Palace, 1-6-77, Barry
Manilow's song "See The Show Again" was performed for the
first time. Charles Calello wrote the arrangement and it became
a staple of Sinatra's shows throughout the year. He would sing
the song over 100 times on stage but no recording would be
made. Calello told me Frank had plans to record it. It just
never happened. Certainly one of the best, maybe the best,
of the contempoary tunes Sinatra performed in the mid to
late seventies.
CAESARS PALACE, L.V.
LAS VEGAS, AUG. 27
Frank Sinatra, Jackie Gayle,
Nat Brandwynne Orch, produced
by Sidney Gathrid; stage direction,
Edward Lynch $25 minimum
A healthy looking, slimmed down,
fine sounding Frank Sinatra returned
to his Vegas headquarters fresh from
his latest thesping project. NBC-TV'S
"Contract on Cherry Street," shot in
New York. His comedy man is Jackie
Gayle, who leaves stage warm with
extra strong impact in this initial team-
ing.
Sinatra neatly tosses "All Or Nothing
At All," "For Once In My Life,"and "My
Funny Valentine" before excellent demo
of his newest disc Paul Anka's "Everybody
Ought To Be In Love." (At show caught, Anka
joined him onstage for duet of the same."
Highly effective is Sinatra's "I Concentrate
On You," accomped only by guitarist Al
Viola. Sinatra is probably the only cabaret
singer who generously credits the composer
and arranger of every song he offers in a most
satisfying vocal hour. Musicians also get individ-
ual salutes; the Nat Brandwynne Orch. batoned
by Bill Miller, provides rich backing.
Duke
VARIETY
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (3-16)
Key Musicians: Al Viola (Guitar), Gene Cherico (Bass), Vincent Falcone Jr. (Piano), Charles Tunner (Trumpet), Irv Cottler (Drums)
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Notes: two shows
Contract On Cherry Street
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Martin Balsam, Micheal Nouri, Jilly Rizzo
Made For Television Movie
When his partner is gunned down, Frank Hovannes (Sinatra), a detective inspector with the New York police department, wants to lead his organized-crime unit against the mob. Legal and departmental restrictions inhibit him, so Hovannes decides to take the matter into his own hands. Directed by William A. Graham
(1st DVD Release date: 2010-09-21)
Ed O'Brien:
The film was the 14th highest rated show that week. A very nice showing that most certainly benefited from Frank's Tonight appearance as host on 11-14-77.
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Contract On Cherry Street
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Martin Balsam, Micheal Nouri, Jilly Rizzo
Made For Television Movie
When his partner is gunned down, Frank Hovannes (Sinatra), a detective inspector with the New York police department, wants to lead his organized-crime unit against the mob. Legal and departmental restrictions inhibit him, so Hovannes decides to take the matter into his own hands.
Directed by William A. Graham
(1st DVD Release date: 2010-09-21)
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (20-21)
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Notes: substitute for Paul Anka
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (20-21)
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Notes: substitute for Paul Anka
The Frank Rosenthal Show (from the Starlight Casino)
Guests: Frank Sinatra & Don Rickles
The Frank Rosenthal Show (from the Starlight Casino)
Guests: Frank Sinatra & Don Rickles
So, so far, we have three appearances by Sinatra on the Frank Rosenthal Show in 1977:
August 27th, 1977 (Technical issues prevented it from being aired and due to legal issues, it was not broadcast until September 10. 1977)
November 12th, 1977 along with Muhammed Ali. Sinatra appeared as Guest Handicapper
November 26th, 1977 along with Don Rickles.
Riviera Hotel, Palm Springs, CA
Tribute to Retiring Palm Springs Police Chief Robert White Sinatra performed for 25 minutes including “Night and Day” and “Maybe This Time”
Riviera Hotel, Palm Springs, CA
Tribute to Retiring Palm Springs Police Chief Robert White Sinatra performed for 25 minutes including “Night and Day” and “Maybe This Time”
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Hilton Hotel, Washington DC
Hubert Humphrey Benefit
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Hilton Hotel, Washington DC
Hubert Humphrey Benefit
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
The National Tribute to Hubert H. Humphrey
Jilly Rizzo, Frank Sinatra, Barbara Sinatra, and Henry Kissinger (Photo by Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)
Shirley MacLaine, Alan King, Angie Dickinson, and Bella Abzug (Photo by Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)
Angie Dickinson and Guest during The National Tribute to Hubert H. Humphrey at Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington D.C., United States. (Photo by Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (5-10)
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Gene Cherico (bass), Bill Miller (piano), Vincent Falcone, Jr. (piano).
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Notes: Two Shows Each Day.
note: The original plan for Caesars, 12-15 to 12-21, was changed to 12-8 thru
12-11, when Sinatra decided to do just four days. Tom Jones was appearing
at Caesars at the time. He became quite ill and Frank stepped in for the last
six days of the run from 12-5 to 12-10.
Valley News
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (5 - 10)
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Gene Cherico (bass), Bill Miller (piano), Vincent Falcone Jr (piano).
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Notes: Two Shows Each Day.
Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (5 - 10)
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Charles Turner
(trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Gene Cherico
(bass), Bill Miller (piano), Vincent Falcone Jr (piano).
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Notes: Two Shows Each Day.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (5 - 10)
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Gene
Cherico (bass), Bill Miller (piano), Vincent Falcone Jr (piano).
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Notes: Two Shows Each Day.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (5 - 10)
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Gene Cherico (bass), Bill Miller (piano), Vincent Falcone Jr (piano).
Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Partial Set List - Incomplete Taping:
1. I've Got You Under My Skin
2. Maybe This Time
3. Something
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. My Funny Valentine
6. The Lady Is A Tramp
7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. My Way
9. Come Fly With Me
10. See The Show Again
11. That's Life
12. It Was A Very Good Year
13. Send In The Clowns
Notes: TT 90mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (8 - 10)
Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
First show
1. Night And Day
2. Where Or When
3. That's Life
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. Didn't We
6. Something
7. Lover Come Back To Me
8. My Kind Of Town
9. Medley: The Gal That Got Awat - It Never Entered My Mind
10. Maybe This Time
11. Don't Worry 'bout Me
12. The Lady Is A Tramp
note: Frank and Barbara planned to fly in from Palm Springs opening night.
Some unexpected stormy weather held up his private jet and Frank's
first show got off to a very late start. He would miss the 16th due
to illness. Closing night -- the 18th -- Sammy Davis was an unannounced
guest. "The Lady Is A Tramp" was the duet done that night.
note: It was Ervin Drake and he didn't write "Remember.'
Daily News
Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas , Nevada
Second show
1. Night And Day
2. Where Or When
3. That's Life
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. Didn't We
6. Here's That Rainy Day
7. Something
8. Lover Come Back To Me
9. My Kind Of Town
Ed O'Brien noted: Often, when I look at your daily list, the time that has elapsed since first hearing some of these performances, shocks me. The excitement that Frank generated in collecting circles with "Lover Come Back To Me" is still so immediate to me. Vinnie Falcone did a marvelous jazz chart with just a quintet..
It is quite similar to the treatment the Nat Cole Trio gave the the tune back in the forties. He didn't sing it too many times, but it was a huge crowd pleaser. Listening to his first CBS 15 minute show in 1943, you hear a gorgeous ballad treatment of the Hammerstein-Romberg classic, with a Stordahl arrangement.
Frank came a long way in 35 years and the version done 31 years ago this evening is just so different a sound and just as memorable.
Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
First Show
1. Night And Day
2. Where Or When
3. That's Life
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. Lover, Come Back To Me
6. My Kind Of Town
7. Medley: The Gal That Got Away - It Never Entered My Mind
8. monologue
9. Maybe This Time
10. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
11. The Lady Is A Tramp
Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Second Show
1. Night And Day
2. Where Or When
3. That's Life
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. Didn't We?
6. Here's That Rainy Day
7. Something
8. Lover, Come Back To Me
9. My Kind Of Town
10. Medley: The Gal That Got Away - It Never Entered My Mind
11. monologue
12. Maybe This Time
13. Nancy
14. The Lady Is A Tramp
15. You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You
Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
First Show
1. Night And Day
2. Where Or When
3. That's life
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. Didn't We
6. Something
7. Lover Come Back To Me
8. My Kind Of Town
9. medley: The Gal That Got Away - It Never Entered My Mind
10. monologue w/intro
11. Maybe This Time
12. Nancy
13.. The Lady Is A Tramp
14. You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You
15. You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You (Reprise)
Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Second Show
1. Night And Day
2. Where Or When
3. That’s Life
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. Didn’t We?
6. Here’s That Rainy Day
7. Something
8. Lover, Come Back To Me
9. My Kind Of Town
10. Medley: The Gal That Got Away - It Never Entered My Mind
11. monologue
12. The Lady Is A Tramp
13. You’re Nobody ‘Til Somebody Loves You
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (15-18)
First Show
1. Night and Day
2. Where or When
3. Lover Come Back to Me
4. Someone to Watch Over Me
5. Didn't We
6. Something
7. My Kind of Town
8. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
9. Maybe This Time
10. Send in the Clowns
11. The Lady Is a Tramp
12. You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (15-18)
Second Show
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (12-18) first show
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Wednesday evening
Midnight show
Bill Miller (Piano), Doug Sanders, Gene Cherico (Bass), Charles Turner (Trumpet)
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day (J. Beck arg.)
2. Where Or When (B. Byers arg.)
3. Lover Come Back To Me w/ quintet ( V. Falcone arg.)
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. Didn't We
6. Something
7. My Kind Of Town
8. Gal That Got Away/Never Entered My Mind
9. monologue
10. Maybe This Time
11. Send In The Clowns
12. The Lady Is A Tramp w/ Sammy Davis Jr.
13. You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You
Ed O'Brien:
This engagement ran from the 12 thru the 18th.
Sinatra did two shows a night. He was dark on the 15th and missed the 16th due to illness. Al Viola was on guitar, Irv Cottler played drums and Vinnie Falcone, was the pianist.
Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Benefit for Desert Museum Endowment Fund
Sinatra sang for 90 minutes backed by a 37 piece Orchestra
Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Benefit for Desert Museum Endowment Fund
Sinatra sang for 90 minutes backed by a 37 piece Orchestra
Century Plaza, Los Angeles, California
Peter Pitchess Dinner
Century Plaza Hotel
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada substitute for Sammy Davis jr.
1. Night and Day
2. Where or When
3. Didn't We
4. Someone to Watch Over Me
5. Something
6. My Funny Valentine
7. Baubles, Bangles and Beads
8. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
9. My Kind of Town
10. Send in the Clowns
11. Maybe This Time
12. I've Got You Under My Skin
13. My Way
14. America the Beautiful
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Opening night.
1. Night And Day
2. Where Or When
3. Didn't We
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. Something
6. My Funny Valentine
7. Baubles, Bangles And Beads ( w./quintet)
8. Gal That Got Away/It Never Entered My Mind monologue
9. My Kind Of Town
10. Send In The Clowns
11. Maybe This Time
12. I've Got You Under My Skin
13. My Way
14. America The Beautiful
note: After subbing for Sammy on 2/1,
Sinatra opened the next night for a seven day run. He did two shows a night on both
Friday and Saturday. Sunday he came down with a bug and cancelled for two days. Tuesday and Wednesday ( 6 & 7 ), he again did two shows a night to conclude the engagement. There were nine shows in all. The bug was quite persistent and Frank was forced to cancel his appearance at Harrah's, in Lake Tahoe, from 2-24 thru 2-28.
Ed
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Opening night.
1. Night And Day
2. Where Or When
3. Didn't We
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. Something
6. My Funny Valentine
7. Baubles, Bangles And Beads ( w./quintet)
8. Gal That Got Away/It Never Entered My Mind monologue
9. My Kind Of Town
10. Send In The Clowns
11. Maybe This Time
12. I've Got You Under My Skin
13. My Way
14. America The Beautiful
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1.. Where Or When
2. That's Life
3. Didn't We?
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. Something
6. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
7. medley: The Gal That Got Away /It Never Entered My Mind
8. monologue
9. My Kind Of Town
10. Send In The Clowns
11. Maybe This Time
12. I've Got You Under My Skin
13. My Way
14. America, The Beautiful
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (2-8)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
O.A. Jackie Gayle
Bill Miller conducted
Quartet: Vinnie Falcone, piano, Al Viola, guitar, Gene Cherico, bass, Charlie Turner, trumpet
Ed O'Brien:
Frank subbed for Sammy Davis on 2/1 and then opened on 2/2. He did one show that night, two shows on Friday and Saturday ( 3-4), cancelled Sunday and Monday, due to illness( 5-6), finished the week by doing two shows a night on Tuesday and Wednesday( 7-8). Next engagement was scheduled for Harrah's in Lake Tahoe, 2-24-28. Cancelled due to illness. Frank played a week at Caesars, March 2-8. He was set to do one show a night for the week. Demand was so great Frank did two shows on both Friday and Saturday ( 3-4) The Sunrise Theatre in Sunrise, Florida was his next stop. The engagement was set to run from March 13-19. .Monday was opening night and Frank was in form and Tuesday was another good show.. But he just couldn't shake the bug plaguing him for over a month. The rest of the week was rescheduled for April 13-16 with two shows on both the 14 and 15( Friday and Saturday).
Dean Martin Celebrity Roast, Man Of The Hour: Frank Sinatra
Taped: November 12, 1977
Location: The MGM Grand. Las Vegas, Nevada
Tuesday Evening
Time: 9:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m
Host: Dean Martin
Roastee:Frank Sinatra
Guests: Ronald Reagan, Gene Kelly, Don Rickles, George Burns, Don Deluise, Red Foxx, James Stewart, Flip Wilson, Telly Savalas, Johnathan Winters, Jack Klugman, Luanda Pagie, Red Buttons, Milton Berle,Ernest Borgnine, Orson Wells, Rich Little, Peter Falk, Ruth Buzzi, Jilly Rizzo
Produced & Directed By: Greg Garrison
Written By: Harry Crane, Bill Box, Larry Markes, Stan Dreben, Howard Albrecht, Sol Weinstein, Martin A. Ragaway, Arthur Phillips, Mel Chase, Robert L. Mills, Stan Burns, David Axlerod,
1. opening
2. Dean Martin
3. George Burns
4. Ronald Reagan
5. Dom Deluise
6. Peter Falk as Columbo
7. Jimmy Stewart
8. Flip Wilson
9. Ruth Buzzi
10. Milton Berle
11. Charlie Callas
12. Red Foxx
13. Gene Kelly
14. Telly Savalas
15. Lawanda Page
16. Ernest Borgnine
17. Orson Wells
18. Red Buttons
19. Jack Klugman
20. Johnathan Winters
21. Rich LIttle
22. Jilly Rizzo
23. Don Rickles
24. Sinatra intro: Dean Martin
25. Frank Sinatra
26. credits
Notes: 99mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
The Nad Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Key Musicians: Al Viola (Guitar), Vinnie Falcone (piano), Gene Cherico (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums)
1. Where Or When
2. I've Got You Under My Skin
3. Didn't We
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. Something
6. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
7. Medley: The Gal That Got Away - It Never Entered My Mind
8.. monologue
9. My Kind Of Town
10. Send In The Clowns
11. Maybe This Time
12. My Way
13. The Lady Is A Tramp
14. America The Beautiful
Dean Martin Celebrity Roast, Man Of The Hour: Frank
Sinatra
Dean Martin Celebrity Roast, Man Of The Hour: Frank Sinatra
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Dean Martin Celebrity Roast, Man Of The Hour: Frank Sinatra
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Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Early Show
The Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Key Musicians: Al Viola (Guitar), Vinnie Falcone (piano), Gene Cherico (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums)
1. Night And Day
2. I've Got You Under My Skin
3. Didn't We
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. Something
6. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
7. medley: The Gal That Got Away - It Never Entered My Mind
8. monologue
9. My Kind Of Town
10. Send In The Clowns
11. I'll Never Smile Again
12. Maybe This Time
13. One For My Baby
14. My Way
15. America
16. chaser "My Way"
Ed O'Brien notes:
After "Clowns" a member of the audience requested "I'll Never Smile Again." Sinatra complied with great enthusiasm. Bill Miller was the sole backing and Frank did a very nice vocal. Now, through the years, many songs were requested and Frank would usually do the first few lines and that was that. For some inexplicable reason "Lean Baby" was often requested. Anyway, the only two I can recall hearing that were letter perfect were Lowe's great hit and "I'm In The Mood For Love." I can fully understand the former. Frank's first big hit and a song that altered the landscape of pop music back in 1940. The latter is a mystery. He sang it on Perfectly Frank, but it certainly wasn't a song identified with him in anyway. Strange.
[Shelved 'Here's to the Ladies' sessions with Nelson Riddle]
Frank recorded old favorites like 'Nancy,' 'Laura,' and 'Linda' (written about a young Linda Eastman, later Mrs Paul McCartney) for a planned album called Here's to the Ladies. Nelson Riddle recorded backing tracks, but Frank lost interest and the project was shelved, marking the last time the two worked together in a studio.
Source: Richard Havers, "Sinatra" (Dorling Kindersley, 2007).
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (2 - 8)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, Jr.
Key Musicians: Al Viola (Guitar), Vincent Falcone, Jr. (Piano), Gene Cherico (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums)
1. All Of Me
2. For Once In My Life
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Didn't We
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. Something
7. Baubles, Bangles & Beads w/quintet
8. Gal That Got Away/Never Entered My Mind monologue
9. My Kind Of Town
10. Send In The Clowns
11. Maybe This Time
12. My Way
13. America The Beautiful
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (2 - 8)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, Jr.
Key Musicians: Al Viola (Guitar), Vincent Falcone, Jr. (Piano), Gene Cherico (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums)
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas Nevada (2 - 8)
Opening act: Jackie Gayle
Frank's sidemen: Bill Miller, conductor, Vinnie Falcone, piano, Gene Cherico, bass, Al Viola, guitar,
Charlie Turner, trumpet and Irv Cottler, drums
Friday night both shows
1. All Of Me
2. For Once In My Life
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Didn't We
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. Something
7. Baubles, Bangles And Beads w/quintet
8. The Gal That Got Away/It Never Entered My Mind monologue
9. My Kind Of Town
10. Send In The Clowns
11. Maybe This Time
12. My Way
13. America The Beautiful
Ed O'Brien notes: one show a night was the original plan. Demand was so great Caesars added a second show on 3/3 and 3/4( dark on 3/5..) Same program on Saturday except Frank dropped "Baubles, Bangles & Beads."
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (2-8)
Opening act: Jackie Gayle
Frank's sidemen: Bill Miller, conductor, Vinnie Falcone, piano, Gene Cherico, bass, Al Viola, guitar,
Charlie Turner, trumpet and Irv Cottler, drums
1. All of Me
2. For Once in My Life
3. The Lady Is a Tramp
4. Didn't We
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. Something
7. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. My Kind of Town
9. Send in the Clowns
10. Maybe This Time
11. My Way
12. America the Beautiful
Ed notes:
March 2 to 8 one show a night was the original plan. Demand was so great Caesars added a second
show on 3/3 and 3/4( dark on 3/5 )
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (2 - 8)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, Jr.
Key Musicians: Al Viola (Guitar), Vincent Falcone, Jr. (Piano), Gene Cherico (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums)
1. All Of Me
2. For Once In My Life
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Didn't We
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. Something
7. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
8. The Gal That Got Away -
It Never Entered My Mind
9. monologue
10. My Kind Of Town
11. Send In The Clowns
12. Short Story/Talk
13. Maybe This Time
14. My Way
15. America
16. Chaser "My Way"
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (2-8)
Opening act: Jackie Gayle
Frank's sidemen: Bill Miller, conductor, Vinnie Falcone, piano, Gene Cherico, bass, Al Viola, guitar,
Charlie Turner, trumpet and Irv Cottler, drums
Ed notes:
March 2 to 8 one show a night was the original plan. Demand was so great Caesars added a second show on 3/3 and 3/4( dark on 3/5 )
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (2-8)
Closing Night
Opening act: Jackie Gayle
Frank's sidemen: Bill Miller, conductor, Vinnie Falcone, piano, Gene Cherico, bass, Al Viola, guitar,
Charlie Turner, trumpet and Irv Cottler, drums
"An American In Pasadena," Ambassador Auditorium, Pasadena, California
Guest: Frank Sinatra
Taped February 15, 1978
This was a Gene Kelly special
Broadcast on CBS , Wednesday evening, 2-15-78.
Kelly's guests were Cyd Charisse, Liza Minnelli,
Kathryn Grayson, Janet Leigh, Lucille Ball, Esther
Williams and Frank Sinatra. Gene's leading ladies and the guy with the sailor suit.
Gene and Frank did a comedy bit and sang a parody of "I Could Write A Book." Liza subbed for her mother and Cyd did a terrific dance number with Gene.
He also sang a number of songs including "The Hat
My Father Wore Upon St. Patrick's Day."
Ed O'Brien added even more information last year:
Happened upon a little more information
Show was broadcast on NBC from 9 to 10:pm,
Monday night, 3-13-78. The taping was done in late December of 77. The show finished #31 in the Nielsen ratings for the week. There were
66 shows on the three networks for the seven day period.
Here is an excerpt from a wire service review:
The Kelly-Sinatra segment had show- stopping potential, like the song and dance routine they did together on the "Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back" special in 1973; but it was not to be this time..
This spot found neither Kelly or Sinatra in top form.
Maybe it was the material: a parody of "I Could
Write A Book," which lacked both sentiment and style. At any rate, the audience seemed to appreciate Sinatra's appearance: he left the stage to one of the few standing ovations of the night.
Sunrise Musical Theater, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (March 13 & 14)
Key Musicians: Al Viola(guitar) , Irv Cottler(drums),Gene Cherico(bass) , Charlie Turner( trumpet) Vinnie Falcone(piano)
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Jackie Gayle opened for Frank song list from March 13/14
1. All Of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4.Didn't We
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. Something
7. Baubles, Bangles & Beads(w/quintet)
8. Gal That Got Away/Never Entered My Mind monologue
9. My Kind Of Town
10. Angel Eyes w/ V. Falcone
11. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
12. My Way
13. America The Beautiful
Ed O'Brien provided the setlist above and added:
Frank was set to play the Sunrise March 13-19.
He played the first two nights and then had to cancel due to a flu bug. He missed the Wednesday and
Thursday shows(15/16) but was set to return on
Friday. Unfortunately the bug was more determined than Frank and the shows were rescheduled for
April 13 thru 16.
Ed Spiegel:
I attended that Sunrise Theater concert. Was visiting a former girlfriend who lived in West Palm. She met me at the airport and we went right to the theatre. Don't remember if it was the first night or the second night. I do remember that we had no problem getting good seats. He sounded fine. Did not know about the cancellations that followed.
"An American In Pasadena," Ambassador Auditorium, Pasadena, California
Sunrise Musical Theater, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (March 13 & 14)
Key Musicians: Al Viola(guitar) , Irv Cottler(drums),Gene Cherico(bass) , Charlie Turner( trumpet) Vinnie Falcone(piano)
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Jackie Gayle opened for Frank
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Sunrise Musical Theater, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Key Musicians: Al Viola(guitar) , Irv Cottler(drums),Gene Cherico(bass) , Charlie Turner( trumpet) Vinnie Falcone(piano)
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Jackie Gayle opened for Frank song list from March 13/14
Note: Frank was set to play the Sunrise March 13-19.
He played the first two nights and then had to cancel due to a flu bug. He missed the Wednesday and
Thursday shows(15/16) but was set to return on
Friday. Unfortunately the bug was more determined than Frank and the shows were rescheduled for
April 13 thru 16. --ED
Sunrise Musical Theater, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Fort Lauderdale News (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) · 14 Mar 1978
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Sunrise Musical Theater, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Key Musicians: Al Viola(guitar) , Irv Cottler(drums),Gene Cherico(bass) , Charlie Turner( trumpet) Vinnie Falcone(piano)
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Jackie Gayle opened for Frank song list from March 13/14
Note: Frank was set to play the Sunrise March 13-19.
He played the first two nights and then had to cancel due to a flu bug. He missed the Wednesday and
Thursday shows(15/16) but was set to return on
Friday. Unfortunately the bug was more determined than Frank and the shows were rescheduled for
April 13 thru 16. --ED
A TRIBUTE TO MR. TELEVISION: MILTON BERLE
Sunday evening
NBC
9 - 10:PM
Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Joey Bishop, George Carlin, Johnny Carson, Angie Dickinson, Kirk Douglas, Gabriel Kaplan, Gene Kelly, Kermit The Frog, Donny and Marie Osmond, Gregory Peck, Carl Reiner, Don Rickles, Marlo Thomas, Flip Wilson, Frank Sinatra
Ed O'Brien:
Sinatra Segment includes brief comedy bit with Milton from 9-29-53 Berle show plus, from the same show, Frank and Uncle Miltie singing a parody of "This Can't Be Love”. Frank then pays a warm tribute to the comedian with
"Send In The Clowns" playing in the back- ground: Television didn't make Milton Berle; television was made by Milton Berle."
Waldorf Astoria, New York City
Benefit: Dinner for Hugh Carey
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. All Of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. Didn't We
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. Something
6. My Funny Valentine
7. The Lady Is A Tramp
8. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
9. monologue
10. Send In The Clowns
11. May Way
12. America
Waldorf Astoria, New York City
Benefit: Dinner for Hugh Carey
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Putting their talents to use for the big city, soccer superstar Pele (L) and Frank Sinatra greet each other at the $1,000-a-plate dinner held here April 2, 1978 to raise funds for New York Governor Hugh Carey's campaign deficit. Guests contributed $800,000 to hear Ol' Blue Eyes do the singing, and that ended the debts from the governor's last campaign.
Frank Sinatra, New York Governor Hugh Carey, and soccer star Pele
Frank led a large celebrity delegation ('the Sinatra Caravan') on a trip to Israel, described by Tina Sinatra as tightly controlled due to security concerns. During a helicopter flight over Bethlehem, Tina was overwhelmed emotionally thinking about the young fighter pilots and the war; Frank comforted her, remarking on how young pilots were the ones sent to fight and die.
Frank Sinatra (quoted): "It's not easy seeing babies fight. Babies are always the ones who fight—and the ones to die."
Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.
In Jerusalem, Frank dedicated the Frank Sinatra International Student Center at Hebrew University on Mount Scopus, visited a youth house he had built in Nazareth, and met with Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Jerusalem mayor Teddy Kollek.
Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.
Sunrise Musical Theater, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (13-16)
1. All of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. The Lady Is a Tramp
4. Didn't We
5. Someone to Watch Over Me
6. I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes)
7. Something
8. Baubles, Bangles and Beads
9. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
10. My Kind of Town
11. Send in the Clowns
12. My Way
13. America the Beautiful
Sunrise Musical Theater, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (13-16)
1. All Of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Didn't We?
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. Something
7. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
8. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
9. monologue
10.. My Kind Of Town
11. Send In The Clowns
12. My Way
13. America, The Beautiful
Sunrise Musical Theater, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (13-16) First Show
1. All Of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Spring Is Here
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. Something
7. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
8. medley: The Gal That Got Away /
9. It Never Entered My Mind
10. monologue
11. My Kind Of Town
12. Nancy
13. My Way
14. America, The Beautiful
Sunrise Musical Theater, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (13-16) Second Show
1. All Of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Didn't We?
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. Something
7. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
8. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
9. monologue
10. My Kind Of Town
11. Send In The Clowns
12. One For My Baby
13. Don't Worry â Bout Me
14. My Way
15. America, The e Beautiful
Sunrise Musical Theater, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (13-16)
1. All Of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4.. Didn't We?
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. Something
7. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
8. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
9. monologue
10. My Kind Of Town
11. Send In The Clowns
12. My Way
13. America, The Beautiful
Circle Star Theater, San Carlos, California (April 25-30) First Show
Tuesday evening
O.A. Marlene Ricci
Jackie Gayle
Bill Miller conductor
Al Viola, guitar
Irv Cottler, drums
Vinnie Falcone, piano
Gene Cherico, bass
Charlie Turner, trumpet
1. All Of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Didn't We
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. Something
7. My Funny Valentine
8. Baubles, Bangles And Beads ( jazz quintet )
9. Gal That Got Away/It Never Entered My Mind monologue
10.. My Kind Of Town
11. Nancy ( piano only )
12. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
13. My Way
14. America The Beautiful
Ed O'Brien: alternate songs during the engagement: Spring Is Here
I Get Along Without You Very Well, Send In The Clowns,
Angel Eyes and I've Got You Under My Skin..
Frank did nine shows during the engagement. Vinnie Falcone was on piano for most of the songs. Bill Miller was the sole accompaniment on "Nancy" and "Send In The Clowns."
Approximately 35,000 saw Frank Frank during the engagement.
Barbara caught four of the shows. Tina attended one show.
Circle Star Theater, San Carlos, California (April 25-30)
April 28, 1981 Metromedia Party for Los Angeles
Bicentennial
Tom Bradley (C) and Frank Sinatra (R) attend a party, hosted by John Kluge of Metromedia, in Los Angeles, California, on April 25, 1981.
Frank Sinatra (L) attends a party, hosted by John Kluge of Metromedia, in Los Angeles, California, on April 25, 1981
Circle Star Theater, San Carlos, California (April 25-30)
First Show:
1. All of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. The Lady Is a Tramp
4. Didn't We
5. Someone to Watch Over Me
6. Something
7. Baubles, Bangles and Beads
8. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
9. My Kind of Town
10. Send in the Clowns
11. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
12. My Way
13. America the Beautiful
Circle Star Theater, San Carlos, California (April 25-30) Second Show:
1. All of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. The Lady Is a Tramp
4. Didn't We
5. Someone to Watch Over Me
6. Something
7. Baubles, Bangles and Beads
8. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
9. My Kind of Town
10. Nancy
11. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
12. My Way
13. America the Beautiful
Circle Star Theater, San Carlos, California (April 25-30)
1. All of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. The Lady Is a Tramp
4. Didn't We
5. Someone to Watch Over Me
6. Something
7. Baubles, Bangles and Beads
8. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
9. My Kind of Town
10. Nancy (With the Laughing Face)
11. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
12. My Way
13. America the Beautiful
Circle Star Theater, San Carlos, California (25-30)
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
First Show:
1. All of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. The Lady Is a Tramp
4. Didn't We
5. Someone to Watch Over Me
6. Something
7. Baubles, Bangles and Beads
8. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
9. My Kind of Town
10. Send in the Clowns
11. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
12. My Way
13. America the Beautiful
Circle Star Theater, San Carlos, California (25-30)
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Second Show:
1. All of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. The Lady Is a Tramp
4. Didn't We
5. Someone to Watch Over Me
6. Something
7. Baubles, Bangles and Beads
8. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
9. My Kind of Town
10. Nancy
11. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
12. My Way
13. America the Beautiful
Circle Star Theater, San Carlos, California (25-30)
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. All Of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Didn't We?
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. Something
7. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
8. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
9. monologue
10. My Kind Of Town
11. Nancy
12. I've Got You Under My Skin
13. My Way
14. America
Circle Star Theater, San Carlos, California (25-30)
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. All Of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Didn't We?
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. Something
7. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
8. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
9. monologue
10. My Kind Of Town
11. Send In The Clowns
12. I've Got You Under My Skin
13. My Way
14. America
Circle Star Theater, San Carlos, California (April 25-30)
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Aladdin Theatre For The Performing Arts, Las Vegas, Nevada
Benefit: University Athletic Fund-Raising Thank You Party
Time: 8:00
Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. All Of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Didn't We?
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. I Get Along Without You Very Well
7. Something
8. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
9. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
10. monologue
11. My Kind Of Town
12. Send In The Clowns
13. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
14. My Way
15. America
Aladdin Theatre For The Performing Arts, Las Vegas, Nevada
Benefit: University Athletic Fund-Raising Thank You Party
Time: 8:00
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted by Bill Miller
1. All of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. The Lady Is a Tramp
4. Didn't We
5. Someone to Watch Over Me
6. I Get Along Without You Very Well
7. Something
8. Baubles, Bangles and Beads
9. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
10. Monologue
11. My Kind of Town
12. Send In the Clowns
13. Don't Worry 'bout Me
14. My Way
15. America the Beautiful
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted by Bill Miller
1. All of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. The Lady Is a Tramp
4. Didn't We
5. Someone to Watch Over Me
6. Something
7. Baubles, Bangles and Beads
8. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
9. Monologue
10. My Kind of Town
11. Send In the Clowns
12. Don't Worry 'bout Me
13. My Way
14. America the Beautiful
Note: Major Tom Bradley, Orson Welles, and Gene Barry were in the audience
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
1. All Of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Didn't We
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. Something
7. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
8. medley: The Gal That Got Away - It Never Entered My Mind
9. My Kind Of Town
10. Send In The Clowns
11. Don't Worry 'bout Me
12. My Way
13. America
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
1. All of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. The Lady Is a Tramp
4. Didn't We
5. Someone to Watch Over Me
6. Something
7. Baubles, Bangles and Beads
8. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
9. My Kind of Town
10. Send in the Clowns
11. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
12. My Way
13. America the Beautiful
Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
1. All of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. The Lady Is a Tramp
4. Didn't We
5. Someone to Watch Over Me
6. Something
7. Baubles, Bangles and Beads
8. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
9. My Kind of Town
10. Send in the Clowns
11. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
12. My Way
13. America the Beautiful
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. All Of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Didn't We?
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. Spring Is Here
7. Something
8. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
9. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
10. monologue
11. My Kind Of Town
12. Send In The Clowns
13. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
14. My Way
15. America, The Beautiful
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
1. All Of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. The Lady Is A Tramp Billy Byers arg.
4. Didn't We?
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. Spring Is Here
7. Something
8. Baubles, Bangles And Beads w/quintet
9.Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind monologue
10.My Kind Of Town
11.Send In The Clowns
12.Don't Worry 'Bout Me
13. My Way
14. America, The Beautiful
Ed O'Brien:
Frank opened on 5/3. He did one show a night at
10:00 except for Friday and Saturday:
Two shows at 9:00 and 12:30.
In all, there were nine performances. Marlene Ricci, Jackie Gayle opened for him.
There was a 40-piece orchestra plus Al Viola, guitar,
Vinnie Falcone, piano, Gene Cherico, bass, Irv Cottler, drums and Charlie Turner, trumpet.
Bill Miller conducted
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. All Of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. Didn't We?
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. Something
6. Spring Is Here
7. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
8. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
9. monologue
10. My Kind Of Town
11. Nancy
12. Don't Worry ;Bout Me
13. My Way
14. America
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. All Of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. Didn't We?
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. Something
6. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. monologue
9. My Kind Of Town
10. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
11. My Way
12. America, The Beautiful
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
First Show
1. All Of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. Didn't We?
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. Something
6. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. monologue
9. My Kind Of Town
10. Nancy
11. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
12. My Way
13. America
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Second Show
1. All Of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. Didn't We?
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. Something
6. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. monologue
9. My Kind Of Town
10. Nancy
11. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
12. My Way
13. America
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
First Show
1. All Of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. Didn't We?
4. My Funny Valentine
5. Something
6. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. monologue
9. My Kind Of Town
10. Nancy
11. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
12. My Way
13. America
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Second Show
1. All Of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. Didn't We?
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. Something
6. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
7. Lonely Town
8. monologue
9. My Kind Of Town
10. Send In The Clowns
11. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
12. My Way
13. America, The Beautiful
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
First Show
1. All Of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. Didn't We?
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. Something
6. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. monologue
9. Remember
10. My Kind Of Town
11. Don't Worry ā Bout Me
12. My Way
13. . America
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Second Show
1. All Of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. Didn't We?
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. Something
6. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
7. Lonely Town
8. monologue
9. My Kind Of Town
10. Nancy
11. My Way
12. America
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. All Of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. Didn't We?
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. Something
6. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. monologue
9. My Kind Of Town
10. Nancy
11. Don't Worry "˜Bout Me
12. My Way
13. America
Harrah's, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. All Of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. Didn't We?
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. Something
6. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. monologue
9. My Kind Of Town
10. Don't Worry "˜Bout Me
11. My Way
12. America
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. All Of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Didn't We?
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. Something
7. Lover Come Back To Me
8. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
9. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
10. monologue
11. Lonely Town
12. My Kind Of Town
13. Nancy
14. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
15. My Way
16. America
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey (May 23-29)
1. All Of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Didn't We?
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. Something
7. Lover Come Back To Me
8. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
9. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
10, monologue
11. Lonely Town
12. My Kind Of Town
13. Send In The Clowns
14. My Way
15. America, The Beautiful
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey (May 23-29)
1. All Of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Didn't We?
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. Something
7. Lover Come Back To Me
8. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
9. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
10. monologue
11. Lonely Town
12. My Kind Of Town
13. Nancy
14. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
15. My Way
16. America
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey (May 23-29)
Philadelphia Inquirer May 25, 1978
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Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey (May 23-29)
Philadelphia Inquirer May 25, 1978
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Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey (May 23-29)
First Show
1. All Of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. Someone To Watch Over Me
4. Something
5.. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
6. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered my Mind
7. monologue
8. Remember
9. My Kind Of Town
10. monologue
11. Nancy
12. Don't Worry ‘bout Me
13. My Way
14. America
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey (May 23-29)
Second Show
1. All Of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Didn't We?
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. Something
7. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
8. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
9. monologue
10. Remember
11. My Kind Of Town
12. Send In The Clowns
13. Lonely Town
14. My Way
15. America
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey (May 23-29)
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
First Show
1. All Of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. Someone To Watch Over Me
4. Something
5. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
6. Angel Eyes
7. monologue
8. Remember
9. My Kind Of Town
10. Lonely Town
11. My Way
12. America
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey (May 23-29)
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Second Show
1. All Of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. Spring Is Here
6. Something
7. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
8.. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
9. monologue
10. Remember
11. My Kind Of Town
12. Send In The Clowns
13. Lonely Town
14. My Way
15. America
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
First Show
1. All Of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. Someone To Watch Over Me
4. Something
5. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
6. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
7. monologue
8. Remember
9. My Kind Of Town
10. Nancy
11. Lonely Town
12. My Way
13. America
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Second Show
1. All Of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. I Get Along Without You Very Well
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. Spring Is Here
7. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
8. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
9. monologue
10. My Kind Of Town
11. Send In The Clowns
12. Lonely Town
13. My Way
14. America
Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Closing show
1. All Of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Didn’t We?
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. Something
7. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
8. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
9. monologue
10. Remember
11. My Kind Of Town
12. Send In The Clowns
13. Don’t Worry â Bout t Me
14. Lonely Town
15. My Way
16. America
Sinatra filed a $1 million lawsuit against a land developer for using his name without permission in the "Frank Sinatra Drive Center" development in West Los Angeles. Source: Wikipedia, “Frank Sinatra.”
[A Chinook Flight Over Bethlehem]
Nancy Sinatra: Tina Sinatra recalled flying back to Jerusalem with her father in a military Chinook helicopter during a tense trip to Israel, when the young pilot mentioned they were passing over Bethlehem. Overwhelmed by the thought of the young Israeli fighter pilots she had just met, all far from home and frightened, she broke down crying; her father simply said the place would do that to a person, and later added that it wasn't easy seeing "babies" go to war, since they were always the ones who fought and died.
Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.
[Annulment Clears Way For Catholic Remarriage]
At Barbara's urging, Sinatra sought and was granted a Catholic annulment of his marriage to first wife Nancy (his other two marriages, not being Catholic ceremonies, were irrelevant to the process). Sinatra and Barbara then remarried in a Catholic ceremony that same year, initially kept quiet from the press.
Source: The Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra, chapter "I Want to Be a Part of It, 1971-98."
[Frank and Barbara's Church Wedding in New York]
After Father Tom Rooney helped secure an annulment of Frank's 1939 marriage to Nancy Sr. under the Catholic Church's liberalized 1970s standards, Frank and Barbara had a church wedding in New York in 1978, to which none of the Sinatra children were invited.
Source: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).
[Dedication of the Frank Sinatra International Student Center, Jerusalem]
The Frank Sinatra International Student Center is dedicated on the Mount Scopus campus of Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Source: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).
[Sinatra's marriage to Nancy Sr annulled by the Catholic Church]
Following Dolly's death, Frank grew closer to his Catholic faith and pursued having his marriage to first wife Nancy annulled so he and Barbara could marry in the church. He received the annulment in 1978, which reportedly caused significant upset within the family.
Source: Richard Havers, "Sinatra" (Dorling Kindersley, 2007).
[The Sex Pistols' punk cover of "My Way"]
The Sex Pistols recorded their own version of 'My Way,' which reached No. 7 on the British singles chart.
Source: Richard Havers, "Sinatra" (Dorling Kindersley, 2007).
[Fratianno's Cleveland Indictment and the Gambino Photograph]
Aladena "Jimmy the Weasel" Fratianno, indicted in Cleveland for an unrelated murder, agreed to cooperate with prosecutors and turned over a backstage photograph of himself, Sinatra, Carlo Gambino, and other organized-crime figures as evidence in the Westchester Premiere Theater fraud case.
Source: George Carpozi Jr., Frank Sinatra: Is This Man Mafia? (New York: Manor Books, 1979).
[Westchester Premiere Theater Trial Outcome]
The first Westchester Premiere Theater fraud trial ended in a hung jury; a second trial later brought convictions against most of the defendants, though Sinatra himself was never charged.
Source: George Carpozi Jr., Frank Sinatra: Is This Man Mafia? (New York: Manor Books, 1979).
[Lauren Bacall's Autobiography By Myself]
Lauren Bacall published her autobiography By Myself, in which she wrote candidly and painfully about the end of her relationship with Sinatra.
Source: Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra (Rough guide 7.pdf), chapter "The Inner Circle."
[Falcone's first conducting test session for Sinatra -- critical commentary]
Vincent Falcone: In July 1978, Costa called Falcone to Burbank to conduct a Sinatra recording session with a fifty-piece orchestra of L.A. studio musicians who didn't know him; when the air conditioning broke down mid-session Falcone was already sweating so badly from nerves he didn't notice. Sinatra later revealed the entire session had been staged as a test: 'the whole recording session was bogus; he just set it up to test me out. The Old Man decided that he wanted to see what I could do.'
Source: Will Friedwald, "Sinatra! The Song Is You: A Singer's Art" (2018 revised edition), Ch. 10, "Concert Years" (1973-1994)
[New York, New York -- critical commentary]
Frank Military / Vincent Falcone: Frank Military, longtime Barton Music employee, brought Kander & Ebb's 'New York, New York' to Sinatra's attention, later recalling he kept calling secretary Dorothy Uhlemann to check whether Sinatra had listened to it: 'It's on the turntable. He's getting to it... now it's probably the most popular thing he's ever done.' Sinatra began performing it in concert in October 1978, initially as part of a Costa-arranged New York-songs overture medley for a Radio City engagement. Falcone recalled Sinatra saying 'Man, this thing is getting big. We have to take it out of the overture,' after which Falcone wrote a new ending and the song was moved deeper into the show (with 'My Way' still closing). Sinatra deliberately delayed recording it, believing 'he develops the song' on stage before committing to a fixed arrangement.
Source: Will Friedwald, "Sinatra! The Song Is You: A Singer's Art" (2018 revised edition), Ch. 10, "Concert Years" (1973-1994)
[New York, New York -- critical commentary]
Vinnie Falcone: 'Theme from New York, New York' was first sung live by Sinatra at his Radio City Music Hall opening in fall 1978, initially as part of a Don Costa-arranged New York-songs overture ('Autumn in New York,' 'Sidewalks of New York,' etc.). Over roughly a year of live performances, Falcone recalls, the song grew in stature and eventually replaced 'My Way' as Sinatra's closing number, with the arrangement -- including its slower ending tempo -- evolving considerably before it was ever formally recorded.
Source: Charles L. Granata, "Sessions with Sinatra: Frank Sinatra and the Art of Recording" (1999/2003), Part IV: The Reprise Years
[personnel -- critical commentary]
Vinnie Falcone: Vinnie Falcone, Sinatra's touring pianist since 1976 (replacing longtime pianist Bill Miller), recalled Don Costa calling him to conduct a Sinatra session on July 17, 1978 in Burbank -- a session Sinatra later admitted he'd set up specifically to test Falcone under pressure, deliberately staying cold toward him throughout, with a large orchestra including concertmaster Gerald Vinci watching him conduct for the first time.
Source: Charles L. Granata, "Sessions with Sinatra: Frank Sinatra and the Art of Recording" (1999/2003), Part IV: The Reprise Years
Crack In Time
ABC-TV
Sunday evening
10 TO 11 PM
Ed O'Brien notes:
Ten year retrospective on the tumultuous events of the late sixties. F.S. accepting Cliff Robertson's Best Actor Oscar on 4-14-69
Coliseum, Richfield, Ohio
1. All of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. The Lady Is a Tramp
4. Didn't We
5. Someone to Watch Over Me
6. My Funny Valentine
7. Something
8. Baubles, Bangles and Beads
9. Lonely Town
10. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
11. You and Me (We Wanted It All)
12. My Kind of Town
13. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
14. My Way
15. America the Beautiful
Coliseum, Richfield, Ohio
Wings Stadium, Kalamazoo, Michigan
1. All Of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Didn't We?
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. My Funny Valentine
7. Remember
8. Something
9. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
10. Lonely Town
11. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
12. monologue
13. You And Me
14. My Kind Of Town
15. Don't Worry ‘Bout Me
16. My y Way
17. America
Wings Stadium, Kalamazoo, Michigan
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River Front Coliseum, Cincinnati, Ohio
Saturday evening
Conductor: Bill Miller
Vinnie Falcone, piano, Gene Cherico bass, Al Viola, guitar, Irv Cottler, drums 1.. All Of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Didn't We
5. Someone To Watch Over Me ( Don Costa arg.)
6. My Funny Valentine
7. Something ( Don Costa arg.)
8. Baubles, Bangles & Beads ( Vinnie Falcone quintet arg.)
9. Lonely Town ( Riddle/Jenkins co-arranged )
10.The Gal That Got Away/It Never Entered My Mind monologue
11.You And Me
12.My Kind Of Town
13.Don't Worry 'Bout Me
14 My Way
15.America The Beautiful
Ed O'Brien:
This was part of a six city tour that got underway on June 15 in Cleveland, Ohio. Frank played to large crowds in coliseums and stadiums. "You And Me," with a Don Costa chart, was introduced.. The song was much more of a quiet ballad in June of 1978. It gradually evolved into a declaration of anger and despair. The first recording made in July of 78 lacked the intensity of the August 79 effort. After Sinatra discovered the deeper meanings within the song, he told Vinnie that from then on every new song would be sung on stage for at least six months before any recording was attempted.
Frank Sinatra's voice played the Riverfront Coliseum Saturday night to a sell-out crowd of 17,400 plus. Whether that speck, which rumor said was dressed in a tuxedo, down on the arena floor was Sinatra's body is anybody's guess. Riverfront Coliseum just isn't the place for expressive, personable performers whom we want to see for their manner and style. Apparently there were some foul-ups in air travel. The orchestra arrived so late they didn't have time to dress for the concert. And Sinatra had to land at an alternate airport. He looked plain tired.
Cincinnati Post
June 19, 1978
Mona Lisa moves many viewers to tears. Such is the power of a magnificent work of art. Alas, everyone cannot readily behold the da Vinci masterpiece . . . it hangs in the Louvre in Paris. But do not to fret. A simple solution exists. Don't go abroad. Equally moving works can be seen and heard home. Take, for example, Frank Sinatra.
Cincinnati Enquirer
June 19, 1978
River Front Coliseum, Cincinnati, Ohio
Saturday evening
Conductor: Bill Miller
Vinnie Falcone, piano, Gene Cherico bass, Al Viola, guitar, Irv Cottler, drums
Photos by John Brady
Pals Frank and Dean in the late 1970s. Source: photo and caption from J. Randy Taraborrelli, Sinatra: Behind the Legend (mptvimages.com).
Capitol Center, Landover, Maryland
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. All Of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Didn't We?
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. My Funny Valentine
7. Something
8.. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
9. Lonely Town
10. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
11. monologue
12. You And Me
13. My Kind Of Town
14. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
15. My Way
16. America
NOTE: Sinatraphile Craig Poff writes that he attended this concert. (Actually, he says, it was in Landover, Maryland .)
He says that "he knew my Sinatra" by that point in time and to avoid parking hassles, we did not arrive until about 40 minutes into the scheduled start time, as I knew the Comic would go on first and then an intermission. Maybe that was the one where some Urban hip-hop dancers (a "Bring in the Noise" type act) was the warm-up, although he can't be sure, because he skipped the warm-up.
Interestingly, he adds, the Rolling Stones had just appeared at the Capital Centre about a week earlier: it was amazing, as we chatted in the crowd, how many people had attended BOTH concerts!
Capitol Center, Landover, Maryland
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
Civic Center, Huntington, West Virginia (Postponed to June 22)
Civic Center, Huntington, West Virginia
(Make up performance from March 21st)
Civic Center, Huntington, West Virginia
(Make up performance from March 21st)
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Hulman Center, Terre Haute, Indiana
1. All Of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Didn't We?
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. I Get Along Without You Very Well
7. Something
8. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
9. Lonely Town
10. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
11. monologue
12. You And Me
13. My Kind Of Town
14. Remember
15. Don't Worry ' Bout Me
16. My Way
17. I Get A Kick Out Of You
18. It Was A Very Good Year
19. I've Got You Under My Skin
20. America
Hulman Center, Terre Haute, Indiana
note: Through the years the Center was always referred to as the Hillman in any mention of Frank's appearance. As you can see it is actually Hulman
Frank Sinatra and his close friend Jilly Rizzo were photographed dressed up for the wedding of Princess Caroline of Monaco. Source: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).
Hollywood
WCA8129 That's What God Looks Like To Me (N/R)
(Lois Irwin/Lan O'Kun)
Lan O'Kun Ink, Inc./WB Music Corp. (ASCAP)
Arranged by Don Costa
Conducted by Vincent Falcone, Jr.
WCA8130 Remember (N/R)
Arranged by Don Costa
Conducted by Vincent Falcone, Jr.
WCA8131 You And Me (N/R)
(Carole Bayer Sager/Peter Allen)
Begonia Melodies/Irving Music, inc./Woolnough Music Inc. (BMI) Arranged by Don Costa
Conducted by Vincent Falcone, Jr.
NOTE: Ed O'Brien points out that this is a lost session conducted by Vinnie Falcone. Falcone told O'Brien that Sinatra was testing him. Sinatra wanted to see if Vinnie could handle the pressure. Nelson Riddle's son Chris played bass trombone on the session. After it was over, he came up to Vinnie and told him everyone in the band felt for him and not to worry because he did a good job. Vinnie told O'Brien that Sinatra did a fine job.
Jim White calls attention to the 2005 book by Vinnie Falcone and Bob Popyk entitled FRANKLY JUST BETWEEN US: MY LIFE CONDUCTING FRANK SINATRA'S MUSIC in which the authors expand, most interestingly, on Vinnie's experiences with Frank Sinatra, the man and his music. It is published by the Hal-Leonard Corporation with the ISBN 0-634-09498- X
After posting the Reprise work sheet to the list, I noticed in the upper right hand corner a printed comment that reminded me of the session sheet of 3-12-75. Same commentary indicating that no recordings had been done. Could it be that Frank never recorded "Remember ?" I contacted Lee Hershberg and he agreed with my assumption. Years ago musicians on the session told me the date was not for recording per se. Essentially, Frank was testing Vinnie Falcone's ability to conduct in a recording studio. I asked Vinnie and he thought the recordings had been done. But the session sheet tells a different story. When the "Suitcase" was being put together in 1995, the producer contacted me and asked if I would help them find the Elton John-Bernie Taupin song. I called Don Costa's brother and uncle. They directed me to Don's ex-wife, who was living on a farm in Vermont. She told me Don had given her all of his tapes, discs, arrangements, etc. She had them stored in her barn. Promised to do a complete search for me. She found nothing. There was nothing at Reprise or Sinatra Enterprises. I have hundreds of recordings sheets and simply missed what is now very obvious: the song was not recorded. There are line recordings from concerts that year, so, all is not lost.
--Ed (2021)
Hollywood
WCA8129 That's What God Looks Like To Me (N/R)
(Lois Irwin/Lan O'Kun)
Lan O'Kun Ink, Inc./WB Music Corp. (ASCAP)
Arranged by Don Costa
Conducted by Vincent Falcone, Jr.
WCA8130 Remember (N/R)
Arranged by Don Costa
Conducted by Vincent Falcone, Jr.
WCA8131 You And Me (N/R)
(Carole Bayer Sager/Peter Allen)
Begonia Melodies/Irving Music, inc./Woolnough Music Inc. (BMI) Arranged by Don Costa
Conducted by Vincent Falcone, Jr'
Conducted by Vincent Falcone, Jr'
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Harrah's, Reno, Nevada (July 24-26)
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
O.A. Marlene Ricci
Jackie Gayle
1. Night And Day Joe Beck arg.
2. At Long Last Love
3. All Of Me
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Didn't We
6. Someone To Watch Over Me
7. My Funny Valentine
8. Something
9. Baubles, Bangles and Beads
10. Gal That Got Away/It Never Entered My Mind
11. monologue
12. You And Me
13. My Kind Of Town
14. One For My Baby
15. Remember
16. Maybe This Time
17. My Way
18. America The Beautiful
Ed O'Brien:
This short engagement, running from Monday to Wednesday, was a last minute addition to Sinatra's schedule. The set list of songs varied some during the three nights and six shows. Tony Bennett was playing the South Shore Room at Harrah's ( main room ). He joined Frank for a duet on closing night ( 26 ). I understand the song was "My Kind Of Town." Sinatra was a very busy fellow in the spring/summer of 1978. He did numerous one-nighters, nightclubs on both the east and west coast plus he would open a 10 day engagement at the Universal Amphitheater following the Lake Tahoe performances. His L.A. appearance would be his first in the City of Angels -- outside of benefits -- in 27 years. A few years ago I posted a review of his 1952 L.A. appearance at the Coconut Grove. That was his only previous engagement in L.A. , not counting the Palladium gigs with Dorsey.
Harrah's, Reno, Nevada (July 24-26)
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
O.A. Marlene Ricci
Jackie Gayle
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Harrah's, Reno, Nevada (July 24-26)
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night and Day
2. At Long Last Love
3. All of Me
4. The Lady Is a Tramp
5. Didn't We
6. Someone to Watch Over Me
7. Something
8. Baubles, Bangles and Beads
9. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
10. You and Me (We Wanted It All)
11. Lonely Town
12. The Oldest Established (Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York)
13. My Kind of Town
14. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)
15. Remember
16. Maybe This Time
17. My Way
18. America the Beautiful
Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California
Opening Night (10 day engagement)
Opening Act: Sarah Vaughn
Time 9:30 P.M. (Sinatra)
1. Night and Day (Disco)
2. At Long Last Love
3. All of Me
4. The Lady is a Tramp
5. Didn't We
6. Someone to Watch Over Me
7. Something
8. Baubles, Bangles, and Beads w/quintet
9. The Gal that Got Away / It Never Entered my Mind
10. You and Me
11. Lonely Town
12. Oldest Established , , ,
13. My Kind of Town
14. One for My Baby
15. Remember
16. Maybe This Time
17. My Way
18. America The Beautiful
Sinatra Gig May Affect Bookings
LOS ANGELES -MCA's booking of Frank Sinatra into its 5,300 seat outdoor Universal Amphitheatre is being observed by talent managers and booking agents as a good omen for more bookings of veteran, non -rock performers.
With a few exceptions, this market's summertime fare is dominated by the contemporary rock and soul attractions with an occasional Perry
Como making an appearance at the
Greek Theatre across town.
In fact the Amphitheatre, in its battles to become the leading outdoor summer venue, has emphasized contemporary youthful acts and has eschewed the MOR, older performers, so Sinatra is a crack in this wall. Tradesters hope the booking may lead to other Las Vegas type acts who have no home in L.A. finding their place under the stars.
Sinatra and his opening act, Sarah
Vaughan, pulled in people who never go to the Universal City located Amphitheatre. Sinatra's magnetism in his show business hometown resulted in all 10 of his shows selling out, with opening night Monday (31), attracting the kind of front row crowd which generally hangs around the Beverly
Hills Hotel's Polo Lounge more than it goes up the hill to the Amphitheatre from MCA's Universal movie studio soundstages where it is more at home.
Among these notables coming out to pay tribute to their long-time friend were John Wayne, Gregory
Peck, Henry Fonda and Glenn Ford from the movie industry plus Ronald Reagan, the former movie star, former California governor, and tv's
Johnny Carson.
Both Warner Bros. Records and
WEA were equally represented with
Sinatra making reference to a new recording he is working on and offering two works from this projected LP during his set.
The Amphitheatre engagement marks his first commercial concert booking since 1952 when he last played the Cocoanut Grove. In the last two decades Sinatra has performed at charity concerts, with his 10 -show stand here part of a current domestic tour.
In essence, what one sees at a Sinatra concert is a glorification of his nightclub act, a fun experience for the entertainer in which he totally gives of himself with emotion, drama, theatrics and classy showmanship. Sinatra wisely credits the songwriters and arrangers who provide him with the wherewithal for his instrument-a voice which one acknowledges will never sound like it did at its zenith years in the 1960s.
But Sinatra's charisma as a cornpleat entertainer and his connection to his adult audience as a reminder of their own lives, produces a solid, lasting soldering between performer and audience.
This engagement is no exception.
Sinatra's 75- minute turn was standard repertoire designed to maintain his link to his audience with only the two new works plus one left field tune among the 18 offered.
The two new works were "You
And Me" by Carol Sager and Peter
Allen and "Remember" by Elton
John. The odd tune was "America
The Beautiful," the patriotic tune which fit in snuggly with all the ever- greens by such masters as Cole Porter, the Gershwins, Rodgers and
Hart, Harold Arlen, Frank Loesser,
Comden and Green, Leonard Bernstein, Johnny Mercer, Kander and Ebb. Sinatra remains on safe ground emphasizing tunes he's been doing for years from "Funny Valentine" to "My Kind Of Town."
And the music of these song spinners is made glorious for the supporting 38 -piece orchestra conducted by Bill Miller and the arranging pens of Don Costa, Nelson Riddle and Gordon Jenkins. Sinatra's embracing new composers has him singing single works by George Harrison ( "Something ") and Jimmy Webb ( "Didn't We
Girl "). The fact that Sarah Vaughan, in her 35- minute set, sang "Send In The
Clowns" among her own eight offerings, probably meant that Sinatra avoided offering his own brilliant interpretation.
There is much more fire and guts in Sinatra's voice than in previous seasons. His program includes plenty of challenging tunes to test his voice, which can be glidingly soft on the ballads and raspy and testy on the straining, driving tempos. There is a jauntiness, an assertive air which Sinatra exudes in his jump tunes which adds a kick to his act.
He snaps his fingers during "Something" to accent the line "ain't gonna leave her now. " He sways his shoulders in a sensuous way during "At Long Last Love." He contorts his face with intensity on "All Of Me."
The contrast in singing styles between Vaughan the veteran jazz queen and Sinatra the omnipotent pop tune interpreter is striking.
Whereas Vaughan extends her lyrics, adding new lines to embrace established ones, like her adding a decisive series of "I feel you /I feel you/ yeah, yeah/ I'm feelin', I'm feelin' okay" to "Feelings," Sinatra hews to the creators' own directives. His strength comes in getting into the gutsy meaning of a love song, the frustration of a destroyed soul.
Changing moods are part of the menu. A "saloon medley" offers evergreens "The Gal That Got Away" and "It Never Entered My Mind." A film medley allows Sinatra to recall tunes he's embraced for the big screen. Onstage, Sinatra is a gracious host for this celebration of the good things in life. "Maybe This Time" with its somber optimism was his best effort in meeting the vocal demands of a high energy tune, followed next by "My Way" which stretches the boundaries from gentleness to surging dynamic intensity. Sinatra's music embodies all the aspirations for the good life, interpreted thusly in the new "You And
Me:" "We wanted it all /passion without pain /sunshine without rainy days."
Billboard
August 12, 1978
Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California
Opening Night (10 day engagement)
Opening Act: Sarah Vaughn
Vinnie Falcone on piano
Bill Miller conducting
A 10 show engagement 7/31 to 8/10 dark on the 7th.
note: Charles Calello was set to arrange and conduct the project. He told me Frank just couldn't bring himself to record the material. Some of them would go on to become hits for other artists.
Ed
Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California w/Sarah Vaughan
1. Night And Day
2. At Long Last Love
3. All Of Me
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Didn't We?
6. Someone To Watch Over Me
7. Something
8. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
9. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
10. monologue
11. You And Me
12. Lonely Town
13. The Oldest Established
14. My Kind Of Town
15. One For My Baby
16. Remember
17. Maybe This Time
18. My Way
19. America
Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California
Opening Night (10 day engagement)
Opening Act: Sarah Vaughn
Vinnie Falcone on piano
Bill Miller conducting
A 10 show engagement 7/31 to 8/10 dark on the 7th.
Billboard
Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California (7/31 to 8/10 dark on the 7th.)
1. Night And Day (Disco)
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Didn't We
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. Something
7. Bubble, Bangles And Beads
8. medley: The Gal That Got Away - It Never Entered My Mind
9. You And Me
10. Lonely Town
11. The Oldest Established
12. My Kind Of Town
13. One For My Baby
14. Remember
15, Maybe This Time
16. My Way
17. America the Beautiful
NOTE: Sinatra Scholar Ed O'Brien supplied us with the titles of the last four numbers from this show. We are grateful.
New York State Fair, Syracuse, New York
Opening Act: Jackie Gayle
The generation that came of age during the era of the big bands had a long love affair with the man and his music. This column is
a wonderful tribute to what he meant to so, so many - year in and year out - for most of their lives.
All Articles Are From The Syracuse-Herald
August 27 and 28, 1978
Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California (7/31 to 8/10 dark on the 7th)
1. Night and Day
2. At Long Last Love
3. All of Me
4. The Lady is a Tramp
5. Didn't We
6. Someone to Watch over Me
7. Something
8. My Funny Valentine
9. Baubles, Bangles, and Beads
10. The Gal that Got Away
11. It Never Entered my Mind
12. Monologue
13. You and Me
14. Lonely Town
15. The Oldest Established . . .
16. My Kind of Town
17. One for My Baby
18. Remember
19. Maybe This Time
20. America the Beautiful
NOTE: Ed O'Brien gets our thanks for supplying the song program.
Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California
1. Night and Day
2. At Long Last Love
3. All of Me
4. The Lady is a Tramp
5. Didn't We
6. Someone to Watch over Me
7. Something
8. My Funny Valentine
9. Baubles, Bangles and Beads
10. Gal That Got Away
11. It Never Entered my Mind
12. Monologue
13. You and Me
14. Lonely Town
15. The Oldest Established . . .
16. My Kind of Town
17. One for my Baby
18. Remember
19. Maybe This Time
20. My Way
21. America, the Beautiful
NOTE: Again, we thank Ed O'Brien for supplying this song program.
Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California
1. Night and Day
2. At Long Last Love
3. All of Me
4. The Lady is a Tramp
5. Didn't We
6. Someone to Watch Over Me
7. Something
8. Baubles. Bangles and Beads
9. The Gal that Got Away - It Never Entered my Mind
10 monologue
11. You and Me
12. Lonely Town
13. The Oldest Established Floating Crap Game
14. My Kind of Town
15. Angel Eyes
16. Remember
17. Maybe This Time
18. America the Beautiful
Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California
I want to nip this one in the bud. There never was a single planned for "You and Me/Remember.' The 7-17-78 session was never mastered. I put up the sheet on our list showing it was not. I have an interview with Don Costa in which he tells of Frank's refusal to record "Maybe This Time." Costa was very proud of the arrangement and wanted it preserved with the Sinatra vocal. Vinnie told me that many people urged Frank to make a recording, But he adamantly refused. He felt that Tony's could not be equalled or topped. Don't forget the only single record Frank ever had pulled, after a release, was "I Left My Heart in S.F." Vinnie told me the man was in awe of Mr. Bennett's singing. --Ed
Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California
1. Night and Day
2. At Long Last Love
3. All of Me
4. The Lady is a Tramp
5. Didn't We
6. Someone to Watch Over Me
7. Something
8. My Funny Valentine
9. Baubles, Bangles and Beads
10. The Gal that Got Away
11. It Never Entered My Mind
12. Monologue
13. You and Me
14. Lonely Town
15. The Oldest Established . . .
16. My Kind of Town
17. One for my Baby
18. Remember
19. Maybe This Time
20. My Way
21. America the Beautiful
Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California
1. Night And Day
2. At Long Last Love
3. All Of Me
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Didn't We?
6. Someone To Watch Over Me
7. Something
8. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
9. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
10. monologue
11. You And Me
12. Lonely Town
13. The Oldest Established
14. My Kind Of Town
15. One For My Baby
16. Remember
17. Maybe This Time
18. My Way
19. America, The Beautiful
SINATRA & FRIENDS ABC-TV 9 P.M. TO 10 P.M EDT (Reairing)
Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California (July 31 - August 10)
Note: dark on Monday 8/7.
1. Night and Day
2. At Long Last Love
3. All of Me
4. The Lady Is a Tramp
5. Didn't We
6. Someone to Watch Over Me
7. Something
8. Baubles, Bangles and Beads
9. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
10. You and Me (We Wanted It All)
11. Lonely Town
12. The Oldest Established (Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York)
13. My Kind of Town
14. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)
15. Remember
16. Maybe This Time
17. My Way
18. America the Beautiful
SINATRA & FRIENDS ABC-TV 9 P.M. TO 10 P.M
EDT (Reairing)
New York State Fair, Syracuse, New York
Opening Act: Jackie Gayle
1. Night and Day
2. At Long Last Love
3. All of Me
4. The Lady is a Tramp
5. Didn't We
6. Someone to Watch over Me
7. Something
8. My Funny Valentine
9. Baubles, Bangles and Beads
10. Gal that Got Way/Never Entered my Mind
11. monologue - Sinatra introduced the Governor of New York, Hugh Carey
12. You and Me
13. The Oldest Established Floating Crap Game
14. Lonely Town
15. My Kind of Town
16. Send in the Clowns
17. Remember
18. Maybe This Time
19. My Way
20. America the Beautiful
New York State Fair, Syracuse, New York
Opening Act: Jackie Gayle
Audio issues threaten Frank Sinatra State Fair concert in 1978 By Johnathan Croyle
Frank Sinatra in 1976. (Dick Blume / The Post-Standard)
"The substance of this year's fair is exceptional," said New York State Fair director Thomas Young a few days before the 1978 extravaganza began. While State Fair directors have annually made such a boast, the Fair in 1978 was stacked with top-notch entertainment. Demolition derbies would be held twice, there would be a rodeo, stock car races, the Joie Chitwood Thrill Show and a tractor-pulling competition, considered in 1978 to be America's fastest growing motorsport. Concerts included Pat Boone with his daughter Debby, the Osmonds, Seals & Croft and Kenny Rogers, Dottie West and the Oak Ridge Boys. But the biggest attraction was "Old Blue Eyes" himself, Frank Sinatra. Making what was believed to be his first appearance ever at a state fair, Sinatra's appearance on the grandstand stage on Aug. 27, 1978 "soothed the crowd" and saved Fair officials some major embarrassment. Sinatra was paid $90,000 for his 75-minute performance but Young was quick to say that the State Fair would easily make the money back. Most of the tickets, which cost between $6-$12, sold out quickly. For Sinatra, then 62 years old, it would be his second-ever appearance in Syracuse. He had performed at the Onondaga County War Memorial in October 1976. The evening began disastrously.
The crowd of more than 14,000 people could not hear the opening acts. Nearly no one in the arriving crowd could understand anything sung by Marlene Ricci and comedian Jackie Gayle's performance was interrupted continuously by the increasingly angered crowd. "We can't hear!" parts of the grandstand chanted during the opening acts. "I feel like I'm doing a one-nighter in Helen Keller's house," Gayle ad-libbed at one point. During a 20-minute intermission before Sinatra took the stage, Post-Standard reviewer Bill Steinberg said, "tensions mounted." Angry music fans stormed out, looking to demanding a refund, only to find that the ticket offices had already closed. As sound technicians worked feverishly on the sound system, State Police were seen huddling, discussing what they should do should things turn ugly. "Their concern evaporated," Steinberg wrote, as soon as "Francis Albert Sinatra strolled through the orchestra to the front of the stage" and began singing "Night and Day." To the relief of Fair officials and police, Sinatra's "still-magnificent voice" carried to all parts of the grandstand. "His face appeared ruddy and his hairline receded," Steinberg wrote in his review, "but he still has The Voice, and that is what the people came to hear." He performed 20 songs, accompanied by a 40-piece backup orchestra, including Syracuse-native Vincent Falcone on piano, including covers of songs from artists spanning the generations from Cole Porter to Elton John. The audience, described as mainly middle-aged, particularly favored "Chicago (It's My Kind of Town)," "Everybody Loves a Winner," and "My Way," which had the one audience member screaming, "We love you Frankie," when it was over. He left the stage to a standing ovation after performing "America the Beautiful." The audio issues from early in the evening were mostly forgotten. They were blamed on a stiff breeze and the "unexpected absorbency" of the audience.
CNY VINTAGE
Audio issues threaten Frank Sinatra State Fair concert in 1978
Published: Sep. 03, 2018, 12:00 p.m.
Johnathan Croyle | jcroyle@syracuse.com "The substance of this year's fair is exceptional," said New York State Fair director Thomas Young a few days before the 1978 extravaganza began.
While State Fair directors have annually made such a boast, the Fair in 1978 was stacked with top-notch entertainment.
Demolition derbies would be held twice, there would be a rodeo, stock car races, the Joie Chitwood Thrill Show and a tractor-pulling competition, considered in 1978 to be America's fastest growing motorsport.
Concerts included Pat Boone with his daughter Debby, the Osmonds, Seals & Croft and Kenny Rogers, Dottie West and the Oak Ridge Boys.
But the biggest attraction was "Old Blue Eyes" himself, Frank Sinatra.
Making what was believed to be his first appearance ever at a state fair, Sinatra's appearance on the grandstand stage on Aug. 27, 1978 "soothed the crowd" and saved Fair officials some major embarrassment.
Sinatra was paid $90,000 for his 75-minute performance but Young was quick to say that the State Fair would easily make the money back.
Most of the tickets, which cost between $6-$12, sold out quickly.
For Sinatra, then 62 years old, it would be his second-ever appearance in Syracuse. He had performed at the Onondaga County War Memorial in October 1976.
The evening began disastrously.
The crowd of more than 14,000 people could not hear the opening acts.
Nearly no one in the arriving crowd could understand anything sung by Marlene Ricci and comedian Jackie Gayle's performance was interrupted continuously by the increasingly angered crowd.
"We can't hear!" parts of the grandstand chanted during the opening acts.
"I feel like I'm doing a one-nighter in Helen Keller's house," Gayle ad-libbed at one point.
During a 20-minute intermission before Sinatra took the stage, Post-Standard reviewer Bill Steinberg said, "tensions mounted."
Angry music fans stormed out, looking to demanding a refund, only to find that the ticket offices had already closed.
As sound technicians worked feverishly on the sound system, State Police were seen huddling, discussing what they should do should things turn ugly.
"Their concern evaporated," Steinberg wrote, as soon as "Francis Albert Sinatra strolled through the orchestra to the front of the stage" and began singing "Night and Day."
To the relief of Fair officials and police, Sinatra's "still-magnificent voice" carried to all parts of the grandstand.
"His face appeared ruddy and his hairline receded," Steinberg wrote in his review, "but he still has The Voice, and that is what the people came to hear."
He performed 20 songs, accompanied by a 40-piece backup orchestra, including Syracuse-native Vincent Falcone on piano, including covers of songs from artists spanning the generations from Cole Porter to Elton John.
The audience, described as mainly middle-aged, particularly favored "Chicago (It's My Kind of Town)," "Everybody Loves a Winner," and "My Way," which had the one audience member screaming, "We love you Frankie," when it was over.
He left the stage to a standing ovation after performing "America the Beautiful."
The audio issues from early in the evening were mostly forgotten. They were blamed on a stiff breeze and the "unexpected absorbency" of the audience.
This feature is a part of CNY Nostalgia, a section on syracuse.com.
--Fair officials estimated that Frank drew an estimated 73,000 people to the fair grounds that night.
Ed
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The Performing Arts Center, Saratoga, New York
1. Night and Day
2. At Long Last Love
3. All of Me
4. The Lady is a Tramp
5. Didn't We
6. Here's That Rainy Day (A great moment in the show!)
7. Something
8. My Funny Valentine
9. Baubles, Bangles and Beads
10. Gal That Got Away/Never Entered my Mind
Monologue
11. You and Me (More a love song than the angry statement it would become!)
12. Oldest Established Floating Crap Game (A terrific vocal!)
13. Lonely Town (Great intro by Arthur Freed)
14. My Kind of Town
15. Send in the Clowns
16. Remember (A big audience favorite!)
17. Maybe This Time (Really outstanding! )
18. My Way
19. Americathe Beautiful
NOTE: Ed O'Brien supplied us with this program information. He attended this concert and it was a superb performance by Sinatra.
He was singing so much better than his previous performances in Saratoga Springs.
I remember what a lovely August night it was at Saratoga.
I took my 7-year old daughter with me. The opening act was Marlene Ricci. She was a screamer. I asked my daughter if she would like an ice cream cone. We escaped the cacophonous sounds and walked around the beautiful performing arts center. Jackie Gayle was Frank's comedian in 77-78 and he was very funny. Then Sinatra. He looked great and was in splendid form throughout the 20 song program. His comments on Arthur Freed were both angry and hilarious. "You and Me" was so different from what it would become over the next 12 months. A quiet, wistful ballad. "Remember" wasn't in the act all that long, but Frank gave it everything he had. The audience loved it. My daughter fell asleep during "Send In The Clowns" and not even a sen- sational "Maybe This Time" was able to rouse her. My daughter will be 50 years old in October. Frank and that wonderful night of glorious music was a long, long time ago.
--Ed
The Performing Arts Center, Saratoga, New York
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INTERVIEW WITH SHIRLEY EDER
AUGUST 28, 1987
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Pine Knob Theater, Clarkston, Michigan
1. Night and Day
2. At Long Last Love
3. All of Me
4. The Lady is a Tramp
5. Didn't We
6. Here's That Rainy Day
7. Something
8. Baubles, Bangles, and Beads
9. Gal that got Away/Never Entered My Mind
Monologue
10. That's What God Looks Like To Me
11. You And Me
12. Oldest Established Floating Crap Game
13. Lonely Town
14. My Kind of Town
15. Send in the Clowns
16. Remember
17. Maybe This Time
18. My Way
19. America The Beautiful
Pine Knob Theater, Clarkston, Michigan
Pine Knob Theater, Clarkston, Michigan
1. Night And Day
2. At Long Last Love
3. All Of Me
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Didn't We
6. Here's That Rainy Day
7. Something
8. Baubles Bangles And Beads
9. medley: The Gal That Got Away - It Never Entered My Mind
10. That's What God Looks Like To Me
11. You And Me
12. The Oldest Established
13. Lonely Town
14. Angel Eyes
15. Remember
16. Maybe This Time
17. My Way
18. America
Garden State Arts Center, Holmdel, NJ
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. At Long Last Love
3. All Of Me
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Didn't We?
6. Here's That Rainy Day
7. Something
8. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
9. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
10. monologue
11. That's What God Looks Like To Me
12. You And Me
13. The Oldest Established
14. Lonely Town
15. My Kind Of Town
16. Angel Eyes
17. Remember
18. Maybe This Time
19. My Way
20 America, The Beautiful
Garden State Arts Center, Holmdel, New Jersey
1. Night And Day (J. Beck arg.)
2.. At Long Last Love (N. Hefti arg.)
3. All Of Me
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Didn't We
6. Someone To Watch Over Me
7. Something
8. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
9. Gal That Got Away/Never Entered My Mind monologue
10. That's What God Looks Like To Me
11. You And Me
12. The Oldest Established Floating Crap Game
13. Lonely Town
14. My Kind Of Town
15. Remember
16. Maybe This Time
17. My Way
18. America The Beautiful
Jai Alai Center , Hartford , CT
Monday evening
1. Night and Day
2. At Long Last Love
3. All of Me
4. The Lady is a Tramp
5. Didn't We
6. Someone to Watch Over Me
7. Something
8. Baubles, Bangles and Beads
9. Gal that Got Away/Never Entered my Mind
10. Monologue
11. That's What God Looks Like to Me
12. You and Me
13. Oldest Established Floating Crap Game
14. Lonely Town
15. My Kind of Town
16. Remember
17. Maybe This Time (Don Costa arg.)
18. My Way
19. America the Beautiful
Jai Alai Center , Hartford , CT
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Jai Alai Fronton, Hartford, CT (September 4-6)
1. Night and Day
2. At Long Last Love
3. All of Me
4. The Lady Is a Tramp
5. Didn't We
6. Someone to Watch Over Me
7. Something
8. Baubles, Bangles and Beads
9. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
10. That's What God Looks Like to Me
11. You and Me (We Wanted It All)
12. The Oldest Established (Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York)
13. Lonely Town
14. My Kind of Town
15. (Love Is) The Tender Trap
16. Remember
17. Maybe This Time
18. My Way
19. America the Beautiful
Jai Alai Fronton, Hartford, CT (September 4-6)
We drove up from NJ to Hartford on Tuesday, 9/5/78; the day after Labor Day. Attached is a ticket stub and photos from Sept 5, 1978 at the Hartford Jai Alai Fronton. --Santo LoRicco
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September 5, 1978 Anthony’s Pier 4 Restaurant, Boston, MA
Frank Sinatra (C) joins Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, Kathleen Sullivan Alioto (L) and her husband former Sanfransico Mayor Joseph Alioto (R) at a press conference prior to a fund raising reception, September 5, 1978. Sinatra was a guest of honor at the $250 dollars per-person reception.
On Sept. 5, 1978, Sinatra held a press conference in a seafood restaurant owned by an Albanian, Anthony’s Pier 4 in Boston. Sinatra endorsed Kathleen Sullivan Alioto for U.S. Senate from Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Billy Sullivan, owner of the New England Patriots, and wife of San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto. His endorsement didn’t help. Paul Tsongas won the nomination and the Senate seat.
Jai Alai Fronton, Hartford, CT (September 4-6)
1. Night and Day
2. At Long Last Love
3. All of Me
4. The Lady Is a Tramp
5. Didn't We
6. Someone to Watch Over Me
7. Something
8. Baubles, Bangles and Beads
9. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
10. That's What God Looks Like to Me
11. You and Me (We Wanted It All)
12. The Oldest Established (Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York)
13. Lonely Town
14. My Kind of Town
15. Remember
16. Maybe This Time
17. My Way
18. America the Beautiful
Royal Festival Hall, London, England
1. Night and Day
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady is a Tramp
4. Didn't We
5. Someone to Watch over Me
6. Something
7.. Baubles, Bangles and Beads
8. Gal that Got Away/Never Entered my Mind
9. Monologue
10. That's What God Looks Like to Me
11. I Hadn't Anyone til You
12. You and Me
13. The Oldest Established Floating Crap Game
14. Lonely Town
15. My Kind of Town
16. My Way
17. Remember
18. Maybe This Time
19. Angel Eyes
NOTE: Sinatra had developed a Spartan-like approach to his singing in the fall of 1978, Ed O'Brien points out. He was lean and trim, exercised every day, cut back on his drinking and smoking, devoted hours to rehearsing his act and offered an exciting programs of standards and quality contemporary pop songs. All this would result in a tremendous renaissance for this great artist as he neared the age of 60. London revealed just how gloriously he was singing and was a harbinger for the great concert performances that would follow over the next decade.
Royal Festival Hall, London, England
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Royal Festival Hall, London, England show was omitted from today's entries
September 12, 1978
Conductor: Bill Miller
Piano: Vincent Falcone Jr.
O.A. Guys 'N' Dolls group, Lennie Bennett & Jerry Steven
1. Night and Day
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady is a Tramp
4. Didn't We
5. Someone to Watch over Me
6. Something
7.. Baubles, Bangles and Beads
8. Gal that Got Away/Never Entered my Mind
9. Monologue
10. That's What God Looks Like to Me
11. I Hadn't Anyone Til You
12. You and Me
13. The Oldest Established Floating Crap Game
14. Lonely Town
15. My Kind of Town
16. Remember
17. Maybe This Time
18. My Way
The Observer
Royal Festival Hall, London, England
Conductor: Bill Miller
Piano: Vincent Falcone Jr.
O.A. Guys 'N' Dolls group, Lennie Bennett & Jerry Steven
American singer and actor Frank Sinatra and a fan at the Royal Festival Hall, London, UK, 12th September 1978.
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SEPTEMBER 12, 1992
THE NINTH Annual AMERICAN Cinema Awards
Beverly Hills, California
Beverly Hilton Hotel frank Sinatra Receives THE LIFE ACHIEVEMENT award w/ Bob Hope, Anthony Quinn, Joseph Cotton, Gene Autry,
Angie Dickinson, Sid Caesar, Milton Berle, Gene Kelly, Barbara Sinatra, Don Rickles, Robert Wagner, Jill St. John., Arlene Dahl, Eva Gabor, Rhonda Fleming, Whoopi Goldberg, Jane Russell, Ginger Rogers, Alexis Smith, Sidney Poitier, Merv Griffin, Shirley MacLaine, Lily Tomlin, Patrick Swayze, Robert Stack, Kirk Douglas , Ted Danson,
Gregory Peck & Liza Minnelli present Frank Sinatra with the "Distinguished Life Achievement in Film & Music" Award.
note: Asked that night to name the favorite of all the films he appeared in through the years, Frank said, "Pal Joey."
Ceremony ran six hours.
Ed
Actress Whoopi Goldberg, Singer/actor Frank Sinatra, singer/actress Liza Minelli and Barbara Sinatra attend the Ninth Annual American Cinema Awards on September 12, 1992 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.
Royal Festival Hall, London, England
Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller
1. Night And Day
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Something
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. My Funny Valentine
7. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
8. Medley: The Gal That Got Away - It Never Entered My Mind
9. That's What God Looks Like
10. I Hadn't Anyone Till You
11. You And Me
12. The Oldest Established
13. All The Way w/Bill Miller, piano
14. My Kind Of Town
15. Remember
16. Maybe This Time
17. My Way
Royal Festival Hall, London, England
1. Night And Day (Gap into)
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Didn't We
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. Something
7. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
8. Medley: The Gal That Got Away - It Never Entered My Mind
9. monologue
10. That's What God Looks Like To Me
11. I Hadn't Anyone Till You
12. You And Me
13. My Kind Of Town
14. Remember
15. introductions
16. Maybe This Time
17. My Way
18. chaser "My Way"
Royal Festival Hall, London, England
1. Night And Day
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Something
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. My Funny Valentine
7. Baubles Bangles And Beads
8. Medley The Gal That Got Away - It Never Entered My Mind
9. Monologue
10. That's What God Looks Like To Me
11. I Hadn't Anyone Till You
12. You And Me
13. The Oldest Established
14. All The Way
15. My Kind Of Town
16. Remember
17. Maybe This Time
18. My Way
Royal Festival Hall, London, England
First Show
1. Night And Day
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Something
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. My Funny Valentine
7. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
8. Medley: The Gal That Got Away - It Never Entered My Mind
9. That's What God Looks Like To Me
10. I Hadn't Anyone Till You
11. You And Me
12. The Oldest Established
13. All The Way
14. My Kind Of Town
15. Remember
16. My Way
17. chaser "My Way"
Royal Festival Hall, London, England
Second Show
1. Night And Day
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Something
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. My Funny Valentine
7. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
8. Medley: The Gal That Got Away - It Never Entered My Mind
9. monologue
10. That's What God Looks Like To Me
11. I Hadn't Anyone Till You
12. You And Me
13. The Oldest Established
14. All The Way
15. My Kind Of Town
16. Remember
17. band introductions
18. Maybe This Time
19. My Way
20. chaser "My Way"
[Photograph: Sinatra records definitive 'New York, New York' vocal for Trilogy. From Richard Havers, "Sinatra" (Dorling Kindersley, 2007), p.333.]
An earlier August recording of 'New York, New York' wasn't right, so Frank re-recorded it in Hollywood; this version became the one used on Trilogy and his eventual signature closing number. The song, from Scorsese's flopped 1977 film, had already become New York City's unofficial anthem. (Source: Richard Havers, "Sinatra" (Dorling Kindersley, 2007).)
Waldorf Astoria, New York City
Mercy Hospital benefit
New York, New York
At Long Last Love
Lady is a Tramp
Someone to Watch Over Me
My Funny Valentine
Baubles, Bangles and Beads
That's What God Looks Like to Me
Autumn in New York
Maybe This Time
My Way
America the Beautiful
NOTE: Ed O'Brien observes that Sinatra walked out on stage 31 years ago this evening. Vinnie Falcone did a vamp of Costa's arrangement of a Kander and Ebb song and Sinatra sang "Start speading the news" and the "New York , New York" era began in earnest..
His early concert versions were laidback and had more of a soft melodic line. It was an instant winner with audiences throughout the world.. Initially, Sinatra was reluctant to record it. He felt it was Liza Minelli's song. The response from concertgoers finally changed his mind. Often he would introduce the song by saying "Here is a song introduced by Liza Minelli and stolen by me." One of the great Sinatra signature songs, he would close hundreds and hundreds of shows with it over the next 16 years.
Sinatraphile Vance Adair adds "Ed is absolutely right. There is little indication here that the Kander and Ebb anthem is going to provide Sinatra with his final and perhaps most memorable theme tune. He is both hesitant and sounds slightly perplexed in these very early performances.‚ Neverrthelesss, from its debut in 1978 to it swansong (at least partially) in 1995. I have never heard a bad performance of this tune."
Radio City Music Hall, New York City (14-22)
Saturday
Vinnie Falcone conducted a 50 piece orchestra
Key Musicians: Joe Malin (concertmaster), Irv Cottler (drums), Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass)
OA: Fifth Dimension
OA: Jackie Gayle
Gate: $ 1 million
1. New York, New York
2. Night and Day
3. At Long Last Love
4. The Lady is a Tramp
5.. Someone to Watch over Me
6. Here's That Rainy Day
7. My Funny Valentine
8. Baubles, Bangles and Beads
9. The Gal that Got Away
10. It Never Entered my Mind
11. That's What God Looks Like to Me
12. Maybe This Time
13. Autumn in New York (light years removed from October 13, 1974!)
14. You and Me
15. The Tender Trap
16. Lonely Town
17. The Oldest Established Permanent Crap Game in New York
18. Remember
19. My Way
20. America the Beautiful
Radio City Music Hall, New York City (14-22)
Saturday
Vinnie Falcone conducted a 50 piece orchestra
Key Musicians: Joe Malin (concertmaster), Irv Cottler (drums), Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass)
BELL TELLS by
Arthur Bell
On October 14, Frank Sinatra opens a one week stint at Radio City Music Hall. If his closing per- formance at London's Royal Festival Hall is an indication of what's to happen here, I recommend that you push, shove, kick, bribe bamboozle, black- mail:: Do anything short of murder to get tickets.
Sinatra in London was better than any popular entertainer I have ever seen on a concert stage.
Age has not only mellowed; it has made his voice more persuasive, his persona more accept- able, the truth of the trivial lyrics he sings more profound. Gone are the frills. He just strolled on, without fanfare, and went into an up-tempo version of "Night and Day," followed by "At Long Last Love" and "The Lady Is A Tramp." It was wonderful to see him relatively slender, wearing a bow tie, feet far apart, swaying, tilting ever so slightly toward the percussion section, caressing the microphone the way he used to when he sang to Shelley Winters in "Meet Danny Wilson."
And how he sang ! On "My Funny Valentine," he crooned the word "unphotographable" so that his voice sounded like a bass fiddle. On "It Never Entered My Mind," he told of ordering orange juice for one, and I was certain he was sighing the saddest lyric ever written. Tasteful. Masterful.
Thrilling. I can't wait to see him again. Whatever his per- sonal vendettas, his moods, his temperament, I salute
Frank Sinatra as an artist. The young can learn from him.
Village Voice
October 9, 1978
Sinatra At Radio City Music Hall
Radio City Music Hall obviously will enjoy its most prosperous eight-day period ever with Frank Sinatra drawing absolute capacity. The engagement has been transformed into an event because of the clamor to get in, the presence of top theatrical figures in the audience, but mostly by the Chairman of the Board himself.
Sinatra continues to be the consummate entertainer with each engagement. He revels in his craft and his ability to communicate. On stage, he seems to like people and reaches out to them. He has a maturity and an innate love for the songs he works with. Most have been with him for years, but there are also new tunes that he periodically introduces. His sense and appreciation of good musician- ship is always evident. Sinatra dwells largely in the realm of standards that are virtually classics, often because he made them that.
The audience seems to be the same that came up with him from his days at the Paramount, even during the time he was the vocalist with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. He seems never to have dropped a song nor an admirer since those days.
He reprises many of the popular tunes during his long career. There were some notables omitted, but generally, he provides a most pleasing musical portrait of his life and times. At one point, he was ready to relax and chat, but calls from the audience were too much to indulge in such a session.
His orchestra, under the direction of Vincent Falcone, is of philharmonic proportions. It is also impressive musically, and shows careful rehearsal. The acts that came with Sinatra also get the benefit of this huge corp of tootlers, and the crew entire works behind his accompanying talent..
Variety
10-18-78
IN REVIEW:
SINATRA EXCELLENT IN RADIO CITY DEBUT
NEW YORK
Frank Sinatra was back in town to give the
Big Apple a special Autumn luster on Saturday night. Outside Radio City Music Hall, the season's first chilly breezes blew; inside, it was all romantic warmth.
How appropriate that Sinatra should appear at the
Music Hall! Both he and it are national monuments of a sort-with special meaning for New Yorkers. And both appear to have a new lease on life after a period of endangerment.
Sinatra, his voice strong and rich and pure, sounded better than he had in years. Gone were the cracklings and hesitancies of recent vintage (especially noticeable in his Madison Square Garden concert of 1974), and the singer was plainly basking in his renewed self-confidence.
This was the opening night of a 10-performance engage- ment for Sinatra at the Music Hall, produced by Lee Gruber and Shelly Gross. If you haven't got tickets-or perhaps a well-connected relative -you're out of luck. The engage- ment is completely sold-out.
The capacity first night crowd of 6,000 was, politely enthusiastic (with the exception of a few vocal souls in the balcony, whom Sinatra swiftly subdued), but the general atmosphere was one of reverent appreciation.
If there were any erstwhile bobbysoxers in this audience- and there surely must have been- their adolescent hysteria had long since yielded to grownup reserve. ( In this audience were Gov. Hugh Carey and actor Gregory Peck, along with a number of New York firemen to whom Sinatra had given free tickets.)
For his part, the 60 year old Sinatra, his gray hair fashionably close-cropped, approached his task with good humor but also with consummate professional seriousness- making sure, for instance, to note the name of every composer, lyricist and arranger for all numbers.
He sang 20 songs in all, ranging from such standards in his repertoire as "The Lady Is A Tramp" to a new tune by Elton John, simply entitled "Remember." Sinatra started the program, quite appropriately with the John
Kander-Fred Ebb song "New York, New York," which
Liza Minnelli sang in the movie of the same name.
Indeed Sinatra seemed at his best with the relatively new Kander-Ebb material, which always lends itself to bravura performance by charismatic performers.
The other Kander-Ebb song that Sinatra sang magnificently was "Maybe This Time," from "Cabaret"
(also originated by Liza).
A nod to Cole Porter came early in the program with "Night and Day" and "At Long Last Love," both Sinatra specialities of course, and later he performed a medley of songs from three films which had played in Radio City, and in which he had starred-"The Tender Trap,"
"On the Town" and "Guys and Dolls."
--Jaques leSourd
Journal News
Monday
October 16, 1978
Ed O'Brien:
Due to a newspaper strike in the city, there were no major reviews in New York of Sinatra's triumphant 10 day engagement.The attendance for the 10 shows topped 62,000. Sinatra had 4,000 seats set aside for the New York City firemen in memory of his father. Tickets were spread out over the 10 performances, all in the third mezzanine. Frank asked the firemen to attend the shows in their uniforms.
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SPECIAL DISCUSSION – THE AUTUMNAL SINATRA
On October 14, 2008, Sinatraphile Vance Adair introduced a discussion of the Autmnal Sinatra: As we know, autumn is a season that is closely associated with Frank Sinatra – and not only on account of its wistful evocations in some of his most famous songs (and, of course, in the landmark album with Gordon Jenkins). Long before he became unequivocally "old," Sinatra was able to conjure up a mood in his ballads that evinced a bittersweet and wry intelligence.
Autumn is the age of ambivalence, a poetic sage once said. For me, Adair writes, it is this nuanced calibration of profits and loss, of dreams squandered and loves won that informs the subtleties of Sinatra's ballad singing (even when the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness is nowhere explicitly to be found in the lyrics.)
It is the timbre of the voice, however, that makes me think of Sinatra was the quintessential sound of autumn; a voice that is burnished, crisp and vibrant with the hues of a life that was lived perhaps not wisely but too well.
It would be great to know what connections Sinatraphiles make between Sinatra and this time of year, Adair observes. To get things started, I have posted below a concert review by the redoubtable Stephen Holden of the New York Times. And it is Sinatra in autumn – in every conventional sense.
September 1987: Frank Sinatra was in high spirits at Carnegie Hall on Thursday evening:
"I'm healthy, I'm happy, I'm in love, and that's how I feel," he announced while introducing "I've Got the World on a String," the final song of his concert. The singer than tore into the Ted Koehler-Harold Arlen standard, turning into an almost saveagely gleeful affirmation of what it must feel like to be an aging lion three months shy of 72 and in fine fettle.
"The most remarkable thing about Mr. Sinatra in the autumn of his years is the emotional volatility he continues to project onto whatever songs he touches. Unlike the vast majority of seasoned pop singers, Mr. Sinatra doesn't try to hold onto an image of his younger self. He may have performed the same song hundreds of times before, but his current interpretation springs directly out of the moment and situation at hand.
"At Thursday's show – the first performance of aan eight-night engagement – the emphasis was more on moody, upbeat rreflections than on swinging exuberance. After opening with a ruminative, slow-paced "My Heart Stood Still," Mr. Sinatra made a joking remark about his age. Referring to 78-year-old Lionel Hamptron, who performed a short opening set, he said , "Between the two of us, we're older than one of the sphinxes."
"Over the course of the evening, the singer worked his way through a selection of well-chosen standards, sprinkled with modern pop ballads by David Gates, Joe Raposo, and others. One was repeated reminded that the kind of pop music Mr. Sinatra represents is a rapidly vanishing species. Also dead are not only most of the great songwriters, but also the three principal orchestra arrangers of the evening's program, Nelson Riddle, Gordon Jenkins, and Don Costa. And William B. Williams, the local disk jockey and friend of the singer whom he remembered in words that brought tears to his eyes as he spoke them, has died as well.
"Mr. Sinatra, however, goes on.. And in 1987 he is not afraid to let the cracks and crevices in his voice express toughness, fatigue, and hesitancy when those feelings and attitudes fit into an interpretive concept.
"The singer brought interesting new resonances to much that was very familiar. "Where or When" was light and sexy. "What Now My Love" and " Lonely Town " became sepulchrally dark meditations on solitude. "My Heart Stood Still" and "I Have Dreamed" were shaped into proud assertions of marital devotion. For "Mack the Knife," the singer became a tough guy cutup. The little known Jerry Leiber-Mike Stoller ballad, "The Girls of Summer," was delivered as a wrenching acknowledgement of youthful longings. "The Gal that Got Away" and "It Never Entered My Mind" were skillfully combined in a medley in which they extended and commented on one another. The evening's most amusing moment came with the singer's introduction of " New York , New York " as "the national anthem."
"The concert's dramatic tour de force was Mr. Sinatra's rendition of Billy Bigelow's "Soliloquy" from "Carousel" with bits of dialogue and gesture. In an interpretation that fearlessly touched extremes of toughness and tenderness, the singer, the character, and the song seemed to become indivisible."
Ed O'Brien responded to Adair's observations and Holden's review by pointing out that Sinatra did his best autumnal work with his close friend Gordon Jenkins. The poet Paul Verlaine wrote "The long sobs of the violins of autumn pierce my heart." Jenkins' charts for Sinatra certainly did. He responded to the bittersweet sounds of weeping strings and conveyed the beauty and great sadness inherent to the season.
"Where Are You" is the most autumnal of all Sinatra's efforts to capture both the splendor of the season and the underlying somber note that it brings. Are there any songs more quintessentially autumnal than " Lonely Town ," "I Think of You," "There's No You," "The Night We Called it a Day," "I Cover the Waterfront," "Maybe You'll Be There," and "Where is the One." The cold, windy autumn night is palpable in every phrase sung by Sinatra.
"September of My Years" conjures up for O'Brien the vest-wearing middle-aged Sinatra finding affirmation in song after song. Here the singer is almost defiant in the face of the inexorable march of time that autumn so marvelously represents metaphorically in these September ruminations. "A Long Night" has the desolation of late autumn when the sky is gray and the trees stand barren in the fields.
But if I had to pick one song that most represents for me Sinatra in autumn, it would be his 1974 recording of "Just As Though You Were Here." I see this lonely man in his apartment and then the October walk in the park. He speaks of fragile dreams and how distant and time leave such doubt in his heart. It is just do autumnal.
"Autumn in New York " was sung by Sinatra in a most romantic way. I like it a great deal, but have come through the years to also greatly admire the much darker interpretation Billie Holiday brought to the song.
Finally, we come to Sinatra's recording of "Indian Summer." Has any poet ever captured the ephemeral nature of life better than Al Dubin when he wrote "fading away, ending too soon." Sinatra's reading of his lyrics captures the essence of all that autumn represents. I fervently wish that Sinatra had recorded "Early Autumn." I would dearly love to hear to hear Sinatra evoking the marvelous visual imagery Johnny Mercer created with his memories of autumn.
Jonathan Schwartz told me many years ago a marvelous story of Sinatra on an autumn night in 1952, O'Brien says. This lonely little guy was walking down a New York avenue , wearing a top coat and hat, hands in his pockets, at the nadir of his life and career. A very famous songwriter saw Sinatra coming up the street and crossed the avenue to avoid him. Sinatra never forgot that moment. Perhaps he sang of it in the loneliness of a recording studio when autumn leaves began to fall.
Adair commended O'Brien for his excellent post, adding that autumn provided such a rich strain of imagery in countless Sinatra songs. Jenkinsonian strings were the backgrop on so many occasions and never as effectively as on "September of My Years." If ever there was a perfect marriage of theme, singer, and arranger, then this was it.
As I have said before, Adair continues, "Indian Summer" is a recording that always moves me – particularly since the timbre of tthe voice had darkened noticeably by that time. It is not done in the conventional ballad style and it is all the more affecting for it (so often when he sang of summer it was of a summer in retreat: "The Summer Knows" and the deceptively jaunty "Summer Wind" spring to mind).
I would also nominate "Just as Though You Were Here" as a wonderful example of the singer in autumn, Adair writes. I am tempted to also add "My Shining Hour" from 1979. Everytime I listen to this song I marvel at the tenderness and longing Sinatra brings to the song which is, perhaps surprisingly, essentially about loneliness.
O'Brien asks Adair if he had heard the recording of "My Shining Hour" in July of 1979. The difference between that effort and the redo in September is remarkable. The latter required eight takes – a tone higher than July – and it is, in my opiniinion, the finest recording on "The Past." Billy May agreed with me on that one. Sinatra never sang it in concert for some reason.
Adair says that he has never heard the July version of the song. It is certainly my favorite from "The Past" – an entire rrecord that can hold its own with many of Sinatra's finest albums. Too bad we didn't get a full ballad collaboration with May –“ "Come Cry with Me" would have been a perfect title.
O'Brien says that he'll never forget asking Billy May why he never did a ballad album with Sinatra. There was a long pause and then May said, "You would have to ask Frank." Indeed.
Kenny Lucas:
After serving 4 years in the Military, stationed in Germany from 1977-1980, I returned to N.Y. in 1980. I went to Carnegie Hall every year during the decade of the 80's, that FS appeared, and, usually for 2 or 3 performances, I look back on those years of seeing Frank to me, at the top of his game.
Ed O'Brien:
I share your sentiments. He was beyond splendid. The musicians who worked with him were in awe of his presence and command on a stage. I have many, many reviews from that time and almost everyone is a rave. Critics could not find enough superlatives to celebrate his artistry. A Truly remarkable time.
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Radio City Music Hall, New York City
1. New York, New York
2. Night And Day
3. At Long Last Love
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. Here's That Rainy Day
7. My Funny Valentine
8. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
9. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
10. monologue
11. That's What God Looks Like To Me
12. Maybe This Time
12. Autumn In New York
13. You And Me
14. The Tender Trap
15. Lonely Town
16. The Oldest Established
17. Remember
18. My Way
19.America, The Beautiful
Radio City Music Hall, New York City
1. New York, New York
2. Night And Day
3. At Long Last Love
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. Here's That Rainy Day
7. My Funny Valentine
8. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
9. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
10. monologue
11. That's What God Looks Like To Me
12. Maybe This Time
13. Autumn In New York
14. You And Me
15. The Tender Trap
16. Lonely Town
17. The Oldest Established
18. Remember
19. My Way
20.America, The Beautiful
Radio City Music Hall, New York City (14-22)
1. New York , New York
2. Night And Day
3. At Long Last Love
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. Here's That Rainy Day
7. My Funny Valentine
8. Baubles, Bangles And Beads
9. Medley: The Gal That Got Away - It Never Entered My Mind
10. monologue
11. That's What God Looks Like To Me
12. Maybe This Time
13. Autumn In New York
14. You And Me
15. The Tender Trap
16. Lonely Town
17. The Oldest Established
18, Remember
19. My Way
20. America The Beautiful
21. chaser "I Love New York "
Notes: Audience Tape.
Radio City Music Hall , New York City (14-22)
1. New York , New York
2. Night and Day (Joe Beck arr.)
3. At Long Last Love
4. The Lady is a Tramp
5. Someone to Watch over Me
6. Here's that Rainy Day
7. My Funny Valentine
8. Baubles, Bangles and Beads w/quintet
9. The Gal that Got Away
10.It Never Entered my Mind
11.That's What God Looks Like to Me
12.Maybe This Time (Highlight of every performances from the 10 at RCMH) 13.Autumn in New York (Great reading)
14.You and Me
15.The Tender Trap
16.Lonely Town (Stunning)
17.The Oldest Established Crap Game
18. Remember
19. My Way
20. America the Beautiful
Radio City Music Hall, New York City (14-22)
1. New York, New York
2. Night and Day (Joe Beck arr.)
3. At Long Last Love
4. The Lady is a Tramp
5. Someone to Watch over Me
6. Here's that Rainy Day
7. My Funny Valentine
8. Baubles, Bangles and Beads w/quintet
9. The Gal that Got Away
10. It Never Entered my Mind
11. Monologue
12. That's What God Looks Like to Me
13. Maybe This Time
14. Autumn in New York
15. You and Me
16. The Tender Trap
17. Lonely Town
18. The Oldest Established Permanet Floating Crap Game . . .
19. Remember
20. My Way
21. America the Beautiful
Radio City Music Hall, New York City (14-22)
Two shows with identical song program.
1. New York, New York
2. Night and Day (Joe Beck arrg.)
3. At Long Last Love
4. The Lady is a Tramp
5. Someone to Watch over Me
6. My Funny Valentine
7. The Gal that Got Away
8. It Never Entered my Mind
9. Monologue
10. That's What Got Looks like to Me
11. Maybe This Time
12. Autumn in New York
13. You and Me
14. The Tender Trap
15. The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game . . .
16. Remember
17. My Way
18. America the Beautiful
NOTE: Sinatra Scholar Ed O'Brien sent the above setlist.
Radio City Music Hall, New York City (14-22)
Two shows, identical song selection both performances
1. New York, New York
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady is a Tramp
4. Someone to Watch over Me
5. Here's that Rainy Day
6. My Funny Valentine
7. The Gal that Got AwaY
8. It Never Entered my Mind
9. Monologue
10. That's What Got Looks Like to Me
11. Maybe This Time
12. You and Me
13. The Tender Trap
14. The Oldest Established Permannt Floating Crap Game . . .
15. Remember
16. My Way
17. America the Beautiful
Radio City Music Hall , New York City (14-22)
Sunday evening closing night of a spectacular, triumphant engagement
1. New York, New York
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady is a Tramp
4. Someone to Watch over Me
5. Here's that Rainy Day
6. My Funny Valentine
7. The Gal that Got Away
8. It Never Entered my Mind
9. Monologue
10. That's What God Looks Like to Me
11. Maybe This Time (a highlight)
12. Autumn in New York
13. You and Me
14. The Tender Trap
15. Lonely Town
16. The Oldest Established Permanent Crap Game . . .
17. Remember
18. My Way
19. America the Beautiful
Civic Center, Providence, Rhode Island
Thursday Evening
1. New York , New York
2. Night and Day
3. At Long Last Love
4. The Lady is a Tramp
5. Someone to Watch over Me
6. Here's That Rainy Day
7. My Funny Valentine
8. The Gal that Got Away
9. It Never Entered my Mind
10. monologue
11. That's What God Looks Like to Me
12. Maybe This Time
13. You and Me
14. The Tender Trap
15. Lonely Town
16. The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game . . .
17. Remember
18. My Way
19. America the Beautiful
Civic Center, Providence, Rhode Island
Carl Rasmussen sent along the following information and photo about Sinatra in Providence, RI October 26, 1978
Frank Sinatra In Providence In 1978 PROVIDENCE, RI - OCTOBER 26: Frank Sinatra performs at the Providence Civic Center in Providence, RI on Oct. 26, 1978. (Photo by Rachel Ritchie/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
Boston Globe
Centennial Hall, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio
1. Theme From New York, New York
2. Night and Day
3. At Long Last Love
4. The Lady Is a Tramp
5 Someone to Watch Over Me
6. Here's That Rainy Day
7. My Funny Valentine
8. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
9. That's What God Looks Like to Me
10. Maybe This Time
11. You and Me (We Wanted It All)
12. (Love Is) The Tender Trap
13. All the Way
14. The Oldest Established (Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York)
15. Remember
16. My Way
17. America the Beautiful
The Blade
Centennial Hall, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio
Convention Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Medical Center Benefit
1. New York, New York
2. Night And Day
3. At Long Last Love
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. Here's That Rainy Day
7. My Funny Valentine
8. Medley The Gal That Got Away - It Never Entered My Mind
9. Monologue
10. That's What God Look Like To Me
11. Maybe This Time
12. You And Me
13. The Tender Trap
14. All The Way
15. The Oldest Established
16. Remember
17. My Way
18. America
(AP) Atlantic City, October 29 - - Frank Sinatra donated his performing talents ( and fee ) to the Atlantic City Medical Center with a Sunday evening performance also featuring Marlene Ricci and Jackie Gayle. With tickets ranging in price from $25 to $500, the evening proved to be such a success that a new wing of the center will be named in honor of Mr. Sinatra.
Ed
Convention Hall, Atlantic City,
New Jersey
Medical Center Benefit
All coverage from Press of Atlantic City
Stadium, Chicago, Illinois
Final concert of four city tour
1. Night and Day (Beck arg.)
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady is a Tramp
4. Someone to Watch over Me
5. Here's that Rainy Day
6. My Funny Valentine
7. Gal that Got Away/Never Entered my Mind
8. Monologue
9. That's What God Looks Like to Me
10. Maybe This Time
11. My Way
12. You and Me
13. The Tender Trap
14. Oldest Established Floating Crap Game
15. Remember
16. My Kind of Town
17. America the Beautiful
Stadium, Chicago, Illinois
Final concert of four city tour
Waldorf-Astoria, New York City
Hugh Carey Rally
Governor Hugh Carey Fund Raiser
1. New York, New York
2. At Long Last Love
3. Here's That Rainy Day
4. You and Me
5. Lover Come Back to Me (uptempo with quintet)
6. Autumn in New York
7. Remember
8. It Was a Very Good Year
9. Night and Day (Joe Beck arg.)
Frank and Hugh at the Waldorf
Cinderella At The Palace
1. All Of Me
2. Maybe This Time
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Didn't We
Notes: This is from the concert taped on May 5, 1978. Four songs were used and a slightly different camera edit
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Tribute to Joe Louis
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Tribute to Joe Louis
Joe Louis: A Winner By Unanimous Decisions
By Jacqueline Trescott
The Washington Post
November 11, 1978:
For six minutes the lights in Caesar's Palace were dimmed and there, in all his glory, at the height of his power, Joe Louis danced onto the screen in the final seconds of that historic heavyweight championship bout with Max Schmeling. As Schmeling went down, the star-studded audience at Caesar's Palace Thursday night cheered the way those millions who were glued to their radios cheered that June evening in 1938.
The lights went up and they played the theme of that celluloid contender - Rocky.
Then Frank Sinatra wheeled Joe Louis, 64, onto the stage in front of those 2,000 people.
A sportswriter once said that one thing you would never want to see is Joe Louis, hero to two generations of Americans, in a wheelchair.
The crowd seemed to feel that, too. The applause was slow and steady as if in recognition of man's vulnerability.
The photographers crowded up to the stage; Sinatra wiped Louis' mouth and gave him a gentle pinch on the cheek. Throughout the evening Sinatra would whisper into Louis' ear - repeating jokes, remarks - and Louis, who had heart surgery earlier this year, would occasionally respond. But when Sinatra raised Louis' arm in victorious style, the champion gave a small smile and this time the cheer from the crowd was one of triumph.
Joe Louis has been honored before. But not this way. Sinatra, a friend of 35 years and a benefactor, had sent out the word: "Let's do it for Joe now." What resulted was one of the largest gatherings ever of sports, movie and media personalities for a private affair.
The names: Muhammad Ali, Ernie Banks, Tony Bennett, Milton Berle, Rod Carew, Billy Conn, Alice Cooper, Howard Cosell, Mike Douglas, Lee Elder, Cary Grant, Roosevelt Grier, Valerie Harper, Jesse Jackson, Deacon Jones, Gene Kelly. Jack Klugman, Roger Maris, Dean Martin, Joe Namath, Ryan O'Neal, Gregory Peck, Robert Redford, Jim Rice, Sugar Ray Robinson, Telly Savalas, Leon Spinks, Connie Stevens, John Voight, etc.
And Max Schmeling.
Ben Rogers, a Beaumont, Tex., investment banker and longtime Joe Louis friend, had first dreamed up the idea. "Joe had been sick; how long he would live no one knows. We wanted to do this soon." Roger said. (Rogers and his family had, earlier this year, set up a nonprofit foundation in Louis' name to help young athletes, with Martha Malone Louis, the fighter's wife, as the foundation's only paid member.)
Rogers approached Sinatra about something for Louis and the singer did the rest. The drinks and dinner, said Rogers, were on Caesar's Palace where Louis had been chief greeter since 1970.
A Beverly Hills decorating firm covered the ballroom with brown silk-screens and overhead banners, blow-ups of Louis during his 12 years as world heavyweight champion, and mammoth bronze-colored boxing gloves.
Said Red Buttons: "Sinatra has a heart as soft as jello. This is his idea."
But of course that was in private. Later, during his part of the show, Buttons would quip: "Sinatra, he's got a heart - he once took Ray Charles to a Marcel Marceau concert."
Other luminaries had their own memories of "the Brown Bomber." Joe DiMaggio, the "Yankee Clipper," stood in the midst of an admiring mob at Caesar's Palace and recalled old visits in San Franciso with Louis: All I can say is that he was a great man to me in my youth and now."
Footballes Deacon Jones, who grew up in a small town in Florida, said: "My mother has three heroes, Joe Louis, Jackie Robinson, and then me." Twelve years ago Jones met his idol, Louis, and they played golf together says Jones: "I learned from him that I could work in a violent field and not have that affect my personality."
Cary Grant never met Louis before Thursday night but had been inspired by him: "He did everything with grace and ease, he made you think you could do it."
Rock Star and sometime wild man Alice Cooper was there because Louis is a legend. "I'm probably the most nationalistic person in my group. I go to Europe and I talk about pizza until the middle of the night and I talk about legends," "The legends are here, Louis, Berle and Sinatra, said Cooper, looking around a ballroom brimming with personalities." When I am at the age, I want to be a legend."
Around the celebrities, the cameras swirled. Muhammad Ali was saying: "In a room like this, I am not the greatest. Louis is." Sugar Ray Robinson, who had carried Louis' bags to the gym as a kid, was talking about Louis' "fast hands."
Before his latest illness, Louis had been out on the promotion circuit, making appearances with boxing promoter, Don King.
He also made an episode of the television show "Quincy," with Jack Klugman, who said Thursday night: "This guy has been through it all, poverty, riches, the loss of it, honor. When he did the show, he had to wait three and a half hours for his walk-on. I apologized and he said 'Never mind. It's okay." There are some twerps out here, lesser men, who scream if they wait 15 minutes."
Klugman looked around the banquet room at his show biz colleagues. "Why are we here?" he mused. "It's an era, my era. And a lot of it is going away. Louis to me represented a lot of my friendships. When we were finished listening to his fight in South Philly, we would go on and talk for hours. I guess I'm holding on."
Having the Louis tribute the night before the Larry Holmes heavyweight championship bout here and the night before Sinatra's opening as well, guartanteed the stellar crowd.
Among the first celebrities to arrive at the casino were the boxers, including some who had been demolished in the ring by the Louis kayo. Billy Conn, of whom Louis once said, "He can run, but he can't hide." Also "Two-Ton" Tony Galento - on crutches, but moving fast.
Schmeling, whose famous fights with Louis left a warm friendship in their wake, said he had flown from Germany for a Louis birthday party some seven years ago and had managed to see the champ about once a year. "And what we talk about," said Schemling, "is everything including how good a fighter Joe was and how wonderful a man he still is."
Dick Young, a sportswriter for the New York Daily News, was interviewing people on their most exciting sports events. He thrust his microphone at Cary Grant. "Oh, the Yankee games, yes, including the one where I was showered with champagne in the locker room," said Grant politely. "But all the Sugar Ray Robinson fights, too. He had it all." Just then Milton Berle screamed, "Archie, Archie," and grabbed for Grant's elbow. Grant turned around and said, "Please, Milton, I'm going deaf as it is."
The formalities went on at length - in no small part because Howard Cosell, assigned the task of introducing the scores of athletes in the audience did so with prolonged anecdotes about each one.
Louis, who sat between his wife and Sinatra, occassionally folded his hands in his lap, but his motions were slow and his expression neutral.
But the performances - skits from Berle, Buttons and Redd Foxx; songs from Tom Jones and Wayne Newton - were enthusiasuically received by the audience.
At the show's opening Jesse Jackson spoke about authentic heroes and a "second-class citizen who is a first-class man." Robert Merrill sang "America the Beautiful" and was robustly joined by Leon Spinks, Cosell, Sinatra ad Clifford Alexander, Secretary of the Army.
After the formal presentations there followed some 90 minutes of vigorous "tablehopping." You could start at Walter Matthau, then go do Angle Dickinson, then to Jerry Vale to Mike Connors to Doug Sanders (the golf pro whose luggage - and tuxedo - didn't make the party until 11).
Circling the crowd was a close friend of Louis' for the last 40 years, Billy Rowe. "When I first met Joe years ago he said 'I was the only man in New York City that didn't ask him for something,'" said Rowe, a newspaper columnist who once had a public relations firm with Louis.
"My best memory of Joe? The greatest thing he ever did was when I returned from the South Pacific. I had been covering the war for the Pittsburgh Courier. And when we got into San Francisco, Joe was standing there waiting. I don't know how he knew the schedule but he was there."
Joe Louis: A Winner By Unanimous Decisions
By Jacqueline Trescott
The Washington Post
November 11, 1978:
Frank Sinatra loved Joe Lewis. He considered him the greatest of all the heavyweight champions. Joe was champ for 12 years and successfully defended his title 25 times. His penultimate defense was against
Jersey Joe Walcott. Joe did not have a good night.
He knew Walcott had won and left the ring before the decision was announced. To his utter disbelief, he was declared the winner. Embarrassed by the injustice, Joe went to Walcott's dressing room and promised him an immediate rematch. In his 25th defense of the title, he knocked out Jersey Joe in the 11th round and then announced his retirement.
But a greater injustice was then thrust upon him, his manager and handlers had robbed him blind. He was broke. Forced to continue fighting, he was matched with the fierce young fighter Rocky
Marciano, who gave Joe a horrible beating, knocking him right out of the ring. Joe suffered severe damage and was never the same again. In later years, as his health continued to deteriorate, Sinatra stepped in
.Here is an excerpt from an article by Michael
Beschloss:
When Louis suffered cardiovascular problems, some of which ultimately damaged his speech and his ability to walk, Frank Sinatra, his friend since the 1940s, called Martha(Joe's wife) and told her â not to worry about the e costâ of his medical care; he insisted that the Champ â have the best.â Sinatra had Louis flown in his personal jet to Houston, where he was operated on by the renowned cardiac surgeon Michael DeBakey.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (9-15)
First Show
1. New York, New York
2. Maybe This Time
3. Night And Day
4. At Long Last Love
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. Here's That Rainy Day
7. Remember
8. Medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
9. That's What God Looks Like To Me
10. The Tender Trap
11. All The Way
12. The Oldest Established
13. You And Me
14. My Kind Of Town
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (9-15)
Second Show
1. New York, New York
2. Maybe This Time
3. Night And Day
4. At Long Last Love
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. Here's That Rainy Day
7. Remember
8. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
9. monologue
10. That's What God Looks Like
11. The Tender Trap
12. All The Way
13. The Oldest Established
14. My Kind Of Town
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (10-15)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, Jr.
First Show
1. New York, New York
2. Maybe This Time
3. Night And Day
4. At Long Last Love
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. Here's That Rainy Day
7. Remember
8. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
9. monologue
10. That's What God Looks Like
11. The Tender Trap
12.. All The Way
13. The Oldest Established
14. You And Me
15. My Kind Of Town
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (10-15)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, Jr.
Second Show
1. New York, New York
2. Maybe This Time
3. Night And Day
4. At Long Last Love
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. Here's That Rainy Day
7. Remember
8. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
9. monologue
10. That's What God Looks Like
11. The Tender Trap
12. All The Way
13. The Oldest Established
14. You And Me
15. My Kind Of Town
16. My Way
Ed O'Brien:
The official opening celebrating Frank's 10th anniversary at Caesars was on the 10th. Frank did two shows a night from the 10th thru the 12th and then one show the 13th thru the 15th. There was a dinner on the 9th with Joe Louis the honored guest. Frank performed and a considerable amount of money was raised for the Youth Fund, named after the evening's honoree.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (10-15)
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (9-15)
1. New York, New York
2. Maybe This Time
3. Night And Day
4. At Long Last Love
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. Here's That Rainy Day
7. Remember
8. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
9. monologue
10. That's What God Looks Like
11. The Tender Trap
12. All The Way
13. The Oldest Established
14. You And Me
15. My Kind Of Town
16. My Way
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (10-15)
1. New York, New York
2. Maybe This Time
3. Night And Day
4. At Long Last Love
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. Here's That Rainy Day
7. Remember
8. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
9. monologue
10. That's What God Looks Like
11. The Tender Trap
12. All The Way
13. The Oldest Established
14. You And Me
15. My Kind Of Town
16. My Way
A backstage photograph of Sinatra with Mafia boss Carlo Gambino, hitman Aladena "Jimmy the Weasel" Fratianno, and other organized-crime figures, taken during Sinatra's April 1976 benefit concerts at the Westchester Premiere Theater, was formally introduced as evidence in the theater's fraud trial in Manhattan federal court. Sinatra himself was never charged in the case.
Source: George Carpozi Jr., Frank Sinatra: Is This Man Mafia? (New York: Manor Books, 1979), citing federal trial records.
Danny Thomas Special "Young And Foolish"
Friday evening
Network: CBS
Time: 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM EST
Guests: Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, Marlo Thomas, Phil Donahue
Directed by Buddy Bregman
Music by Ray Charles
Ed O'Brien supplied the above TV listing and added the following: Frank appeared late in the hour. Dressed in a very attractive gray suit, he gave an award to Thomas and there was some banter back and forth.
Buddy Bregman gave me a rundown of how the Sinatra segment was shot. Funniest bit was the security guard on the set. He didn't recognize Sinatra and demanded an I.D. There were some very tense moments. Frank appeared as a favor to Danny.
Film
On The Town (US Film Release: December 8, 1949)
Starring: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Jules Munshin, Ann Miller, Betty Garrett, Vera-Ellen, and Alice Pearce
(Directed by Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen)
(Produced by Arthur Freed & Roger Edens)
Sinatra plays "Chip", one of three sailors on a day of shore leave in New York City looking for fun and romance before their twenty-four hours are up. Gene Kelly and Jules Munshin portray the other two sailors. (1st DVD Release date: 2000-05-22- Blu-Ray released 2015-05-05)
On The Town" opened at Radio City Music Hall on 12-8-49. The first showing took place at 10:30 A.M. An estimated crowd of 10,000, had stood in line for hours, to get tickets to see this exclusive New York City showing, of the movie adaptation of a beloved Broadway musical. The famed movie house set all-time records for attendance during the films four-week run. The nationwide release took place on 12-30-49. The critics loved it and millions flocked to see it. At the time only "Meet Me In St. Louis" was a more successful musical for MGM. The cost to make the film was $2,133,000. The final gross was $4,500,000.. "On The Town" was the first musical to be shot on location. The New York City scenes were shot over a period of nine days with the actors involved for five. Only four songs would be retained from the Broadway play. Rogar Edens wrote six songs especially for the MGM production. Frank Sinatra did not want to be in the film. He did not want to be in a sailor suit again and told the executives at the studio. They felt he was perfect for the role of Chip. The offered him top billing and the chance to sing "Lonely Town" in the film. Roger Edens wrote a verse for the song (same one Frank recorded at Capitol in 1957). Frank had a change of heart. The pre-recording of the song was done. As the 47 day production proceeded, it became obvious that Arthur Freed did not like the work of Leonard Bernstein. He eliminated the wonderful "Some Other Time" from the film and then, ironically, cut "Lonely Town," because Frank no longer had top billing and a romantic love song did not fit the character of Chip, according to Freed. Sinatra was furious. Almost 30 years later, Frank would recall that moment during a concert in Saratoga, N.Y. He told of the song being deleted, went after Freed and put a period at the end by walking to the lip of the stage, stomping his foot and yelling, "Can you hear me, Arthur?" Frank would then sing an exquisite version of the song.
"On The Town" is one of Frank's best films. A four-star movie all the way. But one that was not what he had hoped for at the time. The critics saved their plaudits for Gene Kelly, who co-directed and also had the more substantial role in the film. In the spring of 1949, Frank weighed 118 lbs. Padding had to be used during the shoot to create a respectable posterior for him. He was not amused by the jokes from his fellow actors at the time. "On The Town" is ranked in the Top 20 AFI Greatest Film Musicals and in 2018 the National Film Registry added it to the most treasured films that deserve to be preserved for all time.
The Gene Kelly Laser Disc Collection offers some of the audio sessions from the pre-recordings. Ed
Sunrise Musical Theater, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida (29-31) The Peter Graves Orchestra conducted By:Vincent Falcone, Jr.
1. New York, New York
2. Night And Day
3. At Long Last Love
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. This Is All I Ask
6. There's Something About You
7. medley: Last Night When We Were Young /
Violets For Your Furs / Here's That Rainy Day
8. monologue
9. Remember
10. Where Or When
11. It Was A Very Good Year
12. I've Got The World On A String
13. You And Me
14. My Kind Of Town
15. My Way
16. America The Beautiful
Sunrise Musical Theater, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida (29-31)
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This calendar, or any parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any fashion
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Sunrise Musical Theater, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida (29-31) First Show
The Peter Graves Orchestra conducted By: Vincent Falcone, Jr.
1. New York, New York
2. Night And Day
3. At Long Last Love
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. This Is All I Ask
6. There's Something About You
7. medley: Last Night When We Were Young / Violets For Your Furs / Here's That Rainy Day
8. monologue
9.. Remember
10. Where Or When
11. It Was A Very Good Year
12. I've Got The World On A String
13. You And Me
14. My Kind Of Town
15. My Way
16. America
Sunrise Musical Theater, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida (29-31) Second Show
The Peter Graves Orchestra conducted By: Vincent Falcone, Jr.
1. New York, New York
2. At Long Last Love
3. Someone To Watch Over Me
4.. This Is All I Ask
5. There's Something About You
6. medley: Last Night When We Were Young /
Violets For Your Furs / Here's That Rainy Day
7. Remember
8. Where Or When
9. monologue
10. It Was A Very Good Year
11. I've Got The World On A String
12. You And Me
13. My Kind Of Town
14. My Way
15. America
Sunrise Musical Theater, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida (29-31)
First Show
The Peter Graves Orchestra conducted By: Vincent Falcone, Jr.
Sunday evening
Time: 8:00 PM
1. Night And Day
2. At Long Last Love
3. Someone To Watch Over Me
4. This Is All I Ask
5. There's Something About You
6. Here's That Rainy Day
7. Remember
8. Where Or When
9. It Was A Very Good Year
10. I've Got The World On A String
monologue
11. You And Me
12. My Kind Of Town
13. My Way
14. America The Beautiful
Sunrise Musical Theater, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida (29-31) Second Show
The Peter Graves Orchestra conducted By: Vincent Falcone, Jr.
Time: 12:00 AM
1. New York, New York
2. Night And Day
3. At Long Last Love
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. There's Something About You
6. Maybe This Time
7. Remember
8. The Lady Is A Tramp
9. Where Or When
10. It Was A Very Good Year
11. I've Got The World On A String monologue
12. You And Me
13. My Kind Of Town
14. My Way
Sunrise Musical Theater, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida (29-31)
[Death of Hank Sanicola]
Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra: Longtime manager and confidant Hank Sanicola -- whom Sinatra once called one of "the five most important people in my life," crediting him with keeping him from giving up in the lean years -- died in 1979; Sinatra, unable to bring himself to go inside the church, was driven by Jimmy Van Heusen in a car that circled the building for the duration of the funeral.
Source: Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra (Rough guide 8.pdf), chapter "The Inner Circle."
[Cracks Appear in Frank and Barbara's Marriage]
By 1979, household staff observed the couple fighting roughly once a week and sleeping in separate bedrooms, signaling deepening trouble beyond Frank's chronic sleep problems.
Source: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).
[First of Five Sloan-Kettering Benefit Concerts]
Sinatra produces the first of five annual benefit concerts (continuing through 1984) at the Metropolitan Opera House for Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; across the series he raises more than $9 million for what becomes known as the Frank Sinatra Fund, ensuring cancer patients are never turned away for lack of money.
Source: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).
[Release of Trilogy]
Sinatra's first new album in five years, Trilogy, was released and was praised as "historic" by critic Leonard Feather.
Source: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).
[Recording The Future With Gordon Jenkins]
Sinatra and Gordon Jenkins worked together during a 1979 session on "The Future," the most experimental portion of the Trilogy album, which was ultimately released in 1980.
Source: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).
[Sonny Burke Pitches The Trilogy Project]
In 1979 longtime producer Sonny Burke persuaded Sinatra to undertake the ambitious three-record concept album Trilogy, built around the ideas of past, present, and future.
Source: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).
[The Family Previews Trilogy in Palm Springs]
That Christmas the family gathered in Palm Springs to hear the Trilogy rough tapes; four-year-old grandchild A.J. and nearly-three-year-old Amanda snuggled with their "Pop-Pop" while Frankie, Tina, and Nancy paced the Great Hall, moved to tears and laughter by the music.
Source: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).
[Trilogy Recording Sessions With Three Arrangers]
During the 1979 sessions for Trilogy, Sinatra worked with three different arrangers on the three records: Billy May on "The Past," Don Costa on "The Present," and Gordon Jenkins on "The Future," so each disc would have its own distinct sound.
Source: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).
[Frank's Trilogy sessions revive Gordon Jenkins' late career]
After a quiet 1970s that included only a standards album with Harry Nilsson, half of it drawn from Frank's own repertoire, Gordon Jenkins' career was reinvigorated by his work on Frank's 1979 Trilogy album and 1981's She Shot Me Down.
Source: Richard Havers, "Sinatra" (Dorling Kindersley, 2007).
[New York, New York -- critical commentary]
Vincent Falcone: Sinatra first recorded 'New York, New York' in New York in August 1979 with most of The Present, but felt his live performance of the song had improved so much that he re-recorded it that September in Hollywood on the same date as some of the Billy May Past sessions, with Falcone conducting and Pete Jolly on piano. Falcone: 'The Old Man didn't like the way it came off in New York... So he said, "The hell with it. I want to do it over again."'
Source: Will Friedwald, "Sinatra! The Song Is You: A Singer's Art" (2018 revised edition), Ch. 10, "Concert Years" (1973-1994)
[Trilogy: The Future -- rehearsal and recording logistics, Shrine Auditorium -- critical commentary]
Frank Sinatra; Vincent Falcone: Sinatra said he worked on The Future 'for many months before we did it because I wanted to be sure it was all right... It was all brand new.' Conductor Vincent Falcone described extensive private rehearsal sessions at Sinatra's Beverly Hills home: 'I had to teach him all of that material because it was all original.' The full-scale recording required a nearly hundred-person chorus (hired by contractor Marlene VerPlanck) too large for any LA studio, forcing engineer Lee Herschberg and producer Sonny Burke to set up a remote recording rig at the Shrine Auditorium. Falcone recalled acting as an enforcer backstage: 'I used to go to him after several takes and tell him, "You'd better do that over again"... I would do things that other people were afraid to do.'
Source: Will Friedwald, "Sinatra! The Song Is You: A Singer's Art" (2018 revised edition), Ch. 8, "Gordon Jenkins" (1956-1981)
[Trilogy: The Past -- recording sessions and September overhaul -- critical commentary]
Billy May: Sinatra and May recorded nine of the ten songs (all but 'All of You') over three sessions in July 1979. By September Sinatra felt his voice had improved and could sing higher, prompting May to raise keys, revise arrangements, add or remove verses on several tracks ('They All Laughed,' 'My Shining Hour'), while others ('It Had to Be You,' 'Craziest Dream') were kept unaltered from July and some were straight retakes with the same charts ('More Than You Know'). May summarized: 'It was a pretty complete overhaul.'
Source: Will Friedwald, "Sinatra! The Song Is You: A Singer's Art" (2018 revised edition), Ch. 7, "With Billy May" (1953-1979)
[reception -- critical commentary]
Vinnie Falcone: The Future, Gordon Jenkins's extended orchestral suite for Trilogy, was misunderstood by critics and the public and remains among the least remembered Sinatra recordings, despite Sinatra himself being deeply engaged by the concept. Vinnie Falcone says Jenkins never fully got over the criticism.
Source: Charles L. Granata, "Sessions with Sinatra: Frank Sinatra and the Art of Recording" (1999/2003), Part IV: The Reprise Years
[recording session -- critical commentary]
Trilogy, Sinatra's ambitious three-record set produced in 1979, was the final album he made with longtime producer Sonny Burke.
Source: Charles L. Granata, "Sessions with Sinatra: Frank Sinatra and the Art of Recording" (1999/2003), Part IV: The Reprise Years
[technique/engineering -- critical commentary]
Granata frames Duets as the culmination of Sinatra's embrace of digital recording technology, an evolution he traces back to the experimental digital recording of "The Future" for the Trilogy album in 1979.
Source: Charles L. Granata, "Sessions with Sinatra: Frank Sinatra and the Art of Recording" (1999/2003), Part V: Capitol Revisited
Sunrise Musical Theater, Miami, Florida (1-7)
Sinatra was dark on January 1st and 2nd.
Sunrise Musical Theater, Miami, Florida (1-7)
Sinatra was dark January 1st and 2nd
Sunrise Musical Theater, Miami, Florida (1-7)
1. Theme From New York, New York
2. Night and Day
3. At Long Last Love
4. Someone to Watch Over Me
5. There's Something About You
6. Maybe This Time
7. Remember
8. The Lady Is a Tramp
9. Where or When
10. It Was a Very Good Year
11. I've Got the World on a String
12. You and Me (We Wanted It All)
13. My Kind of Town
14. My Way
Sunrise Musical Theater, Miami, Florida (1-7)
Thursday evening
1. New York, New York
2. Night And Day (Beck chart from 77)
3. At Long Last Love
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. There Is Something About You
6. Maybe This Time
7. Remember
8. The Lady Is A Tramp
9. Where Or When
10. It Was A Very Good Year
11. I've Got The World On A String
12. monologue
13. You And Me
14. My Kind Of Town
15. My Way
Sunrise Musical Theater, Miami, Florida (1-7)
1. Theme From New York, New York
2. Night and Day
3. At Long Last Love
4. Someone to Watch Over Me
5. There's Something About You
6. Last Night When We Were Young / Violets for
Your Furs / Here's That Rainy Day
7. Remember
8. The Lady Is a Tramp
9. Where or When
10. It Was a Very Good Year
11. I've Got the World on a String
12. You and Me (We Wanted It All)
13. My Kind of Town
14. My Way
15. America the Beautiful
Sunrise Musical Theater, Miami, Florida (1-7)
1. Theme From New York, New York
2. Night and Day
3. At Long Last Love
4. Someone to Watch Over Me
5. There's Something About You
6. Maybe This Time
7. Remember
8. The Lady Is a Tramp
9. Where or When
10. It Was a Very Good Year
11. I've Got the World on a String
12. You and Me (We Wanted It All)
13. My Kind of Town
14. My Way
Sunrise Musical Theater, Miami , Florida (Dec. 29 - Jan.
7)
1. Theme From New York, New York
2. Night and Day
3. At Long Last Love
4. Someone to Watch Over Me
5. There's Something About You
6. Here’s That Rainy Day
7. Remember
8. The Lady Is a Tramp
9. Where or When
10. It Was a Very Good Year
11. I've Got the World on a String
12. You and Me (We Wanted It All)
13. My Kind of Town
14. My Way
Ed O'Brien:
Engagement ran from 12/29 thru 1/7.
Jackie Gayle was the O.A.
Vinnie Falcone conducted the Peter Graves Orchestra
Frank did two shows on 12/29/30/31. He was dark on 1/1
and 1/2. He did one show on 1/3 & 1/4. Two shows were
done on 1/5 & 1/6. Closing night, 1/7, one show was offered.
After a fourteen-week trial and seven days of jury deliberation, the federal case alleging bankruptcy fraud and skimming at the Mafia-linked Westchester Premier Theater in Tarrytown, New York — where Sinatra had performed multiple engagements between 1976 and 1977 — ended in a mistrial after the jury deadlocked. Sinatra himself was never charged, though a federal prosecutor later alleged in 1980 appellate filings, without result, that Sinatra, his attorney Mickey Rudin, and Jilly Rizzo had been involved in the skimming. 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).
Monday evening
Warner Brothers Studio
Vincent Falcone conducting
There's Something About You - n/r (Carole Bayer Sager, Marvin Hamlisch ) Arrangement by Don Costa
N/R
Arie Crown Theater, Chicago, Illinois
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Chicago (That Toddling Town)
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is a Tramp
4. Someone to Watch Over Me
5. This Is All I Ask
6. There's Something About You
7. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. Where or When
9. It Was a Very Good Year
10. I've Got the World on a String
11. You and Me (We Wanted It All)
12. My Way
13. My Kind of Town
Arie Crown Theater, Chicago, Illinois
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Chicago (That Toddling Town)
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is a Tramp
4. Someone to Watch Over Me
5. This Is All I Ask
6. There's Something About You
7. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. Where or When
9. It Was a Very Good Year
10. I've Got the World on a String
11. You and Me (We Wanted It All)
12. My Way
13. My Kind of Town
Arie Crown Theater, Chicago, Illinois
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
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Arie Crown Theater, Chicago, Illinois
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
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Arie Crown Theater, Chicago, Illinois
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Chicago (That Toddling Town)
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is a Tramp
4. This Is All I Ask
5. There's Something About You
6. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
7. Where or When
8. It Was a Very Good Year
9. I've Got the World on a String
10. You and Me (We Wanted It All)
11. My Way
12. My Kind of Town
note: Imagine basking in the sun down in Barbados and then hopping on a plane and flying to Chicago in mid-February, That is exactly what Frank did in order to sing at the Arie Crown Theater for six days, Hello, Lake Michigan. Sinatra opened on 2/13 with a single show at 8: P.M. He would do single shows on the 14rh and 15th. The weekend would feature two shows on both the 16th and 17th at 7 and 10:30 P.M. Closing night(18), Frank would do a single that got underway at 7:P.M. The Arie would see a record gross of $600,000. The most ever in one week for an entertainer or a play. Frank's cut would be $450,000.
Alternates during the engagement:
Night and Day
Someone To Watch Over Me
You Make Me Feel So Young
My Funny Valentine
Remember ( song would be performed once after Chicago,, at a benefit on 4-9-79, and then dropped from the act ) --ED
Arie Crown Theater, Chicago, Illinois
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Arie Crown Theater, Chicago, Illinois
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Chicago
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. This Is All I Ask
5. There's Something About You
6. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
7. monologue
8. Where Or When
9. It Was A Very Good Year
10. I've Got The World On A String
11. You And Me
12. My Way
13. My Kind Of Town
Notes: TT 57mins.
Ed O'Brien:
Frank told his audiences in February and March that "There's Something About You" had been recorded. He promised a new album by late spring. Alternates: Night And Day( disco), Someone To Watch Over Me, My Funny Valentine, Remember and You Make Me Feel So Young. Engagement ran from the 13th thru the 18th. Frank opened on Tuesday and did one show a night thru Thursday and two shows a night Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Arie Crown Theater, Chicago, Illinois
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Night And Day
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. This Is All I Ask
6. There's Something About You
7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. monologue
9. Where Or When
10. It Was A Very Good Year
11. I've Got The World On A String
12. You And Me
13. My Kind Of Town
14. America, The Beautiful
Notes: TT 60mins.
Arie Crown Theater, Chicago, Illinois
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Chicago
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. This Is All I Ask
5. There's Something About You
6. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
7. Where Or When
8. It Was A Very Good Year
9. I've Got The World On A String
10. You And Me
11. My Way
12. My Kind Of Town
Notes: TT 60mins.
Arie Crown Theater, Chicago, Illinois
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Night And Day (disco)
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. This Is All I Ask
6. There's Something About You
7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. monologue
9. It Was A Very Good Year
10. I've Got The World On A String
11. You And Me
12. My Way
13. My Kind Of Town
Notes: TT 55mins.
Arie Crown Theater, Chicago, Illinois
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Night And Day
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. This Is All I Ask
6. There's Something About You
7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. monologue
9. Where Or When
10. It Was A Very Good Year
11. I've Got The World On A String
12. You And Me
13. My Way
14. My Kind Of Town
Notes: TT 56mins.
Arie Crown Theater, Chicago, Illinois
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Night And Day (disco)
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. This Is All I Ask
6. There's Something About You
7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. monologue
9. It Was A Very Good Year
10. I've Got The World On A String
11. You And Me
12. My Way
13. My Kind Of Town
Notes: TT 55mins.
Chicago Tribune
Arie Crown Theater, Chicago, Illinois
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Night And Day
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4.. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. This Is All I Ask
6. There's Something About You
7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. monologue
9. Where Or When
10. It Was A Very Good Year
11. I've Got The World On A String
12. You And Me
13. My Way
14. My Kind Of Town
Notes: TT 66mins.
Note; This was a last minute engagement.
Frank opened on the 13th and closed on the 18th. There were eight shows in all.
Alternates: Chicago, Remember, My
Funny Valentine and You Make Me
Feel So Young
--Ed
Arie Crown Theater, Chicago, Illinois
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Night And Day (disco)
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. This Is All I Ask
6. There's Something About You
7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. monologue
9. Where Or When
10. It Was A Very Good Year
11. I've Got The World On A String
12. You And Me
13. My Kind Of Town
14. America The Beautiful
Valley Forge Music Fair, Devon, Pennsylvania
Opening Night
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. overture
2. New York, New York
3. Night And Day
4. At Long Last Love
5. The Lady Is A Tramp
6. Someone To Watch Over Me
7. This Is All I Ask
8. There's Something About You
9.. All I Need Is The Girl
10. Send In The Clowns 11. I Have Dreamed
12. monologue
13. I've Got The World On A String
14. It Was A Very Good Year
15. You And Me
16. Where Or When
17. My Way
18. That's Life
19 America The Beautiful
Notes: TT 67mins.
Valley Forge Music Fair, Devon, Pennsylvania
Opening Night
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
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Valley Forge Music Fair, Devon, Pennsylvania
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. New York, New York
2. Night And Day
3. At Long Last Love
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. This Is All I Ask
7. There's Something About You
8. All I Need Is The Girl
9. Send In The Clowns
10. I Have Dreamed
11. monologue
12. I've Got The World On A String
13. It Was A Very Good Year
14. You And Me
15. Where Or When
16. My Way
17. That's Life
18. America, The Beautiful
Notes: TT 71mins.
Valley Forge Music Fair, Devon, Pennsylvania
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. New York, New York
2. Night And Day
3. At Long Last Love
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. This Is All I Ask
7. There's Something About You
8. All I Need Is The Girl
9. Send In The Clowns
10. I Have Dreamed
11. monologue
12. I've Got The World On A String
13. It Was A Very Good Year
14. You And Me
15. Where Or When
16. My Way
17. That's Life
18. America, The Beautiful
Notes: TT 71mins.
note: Tommy LaSorda was the manager of the L.A. Dodgers for many years. Ed
Valley Forge Music Fair, Devon, Pennsylvania
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
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Valley Forge Music Fair, Pennsylvania (5-11)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr
1. New York, New York
2. Night And Day ( Beck arg from 1977)
3. At Long Last Love
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. This Is All I Ask
7. There's Something About You
8. All I Need Is The Girl
9. Send In The Clowns w/ Al Viola
10. I Have Dreamed
11. monologue
12. I've Got The World On A String
13. It Was A Very Good Year
14. second monologue
15. You And Me
16. Where Or When
17. My Way
18. That's Life
Valley Forge Music Fair, Pennsylvania
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. New York, New York
2. Night And Day
3. At Long Last Love
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. This Is All I Ask
7. There's Something About You
8. All I Need Is The Girl
9. Send In The Clowns
10. I Have Dreamed
11. monologue
12. I've Got The World On A String
13.. It Was A Very Good Year
14. You And Me
15. Where Or When
16. My Way
17. That's Life
18. America, The Beautiful
Notes: TT 74mins.
Valley Forge Music Fair, Devon, Pennsylvania
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. New York, New York
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. This Is All I Ask
6. Theres Something About You
7. All I Need Is The Girl
8. Send In The Clowns
9. I Have Dreamed
10. monologue
11. I've Got The World On A String
12. It Was A Very Good Year
13. You And Me
14. Where Or When
15. My Way
16. That's Life
17. America, The Beautiful
Notes: TT 68mins.
Valley Forge Music Fair, Devon, Pennsylvania
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. New York, New York
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. This Is All I Ask
6. There's Something About You
7. All I Need Is The Girl
8. Send In The Clowns
9. I Have Dreamed
10. monologue
11. I've Got The World On A String
12. It Was A Very Good Year
13. You And Me
14. Where Or When
15. My Way
16. America, The Beautiful
Notes: TT 61mins..
Ed Notes:
A very interesting engagement. Before singing "There's Something About You," Sinatra would tell the audience that he had just recorded two songs for an album being put together. Then he would sing the Carole Bayer Sager/ Marvin Hamlisch tune (There would be more than 50 performances of this song in clubs). "You And Me" would be sung near the end of the show.
During the monologue on 3-7-79, Sinatra was reminiscing about all the clubs, arenas, convention centres that he had played in the Philly area through the years. Someone shouted "remember Pottstown." Frank immediately picked up on it and told the audience that was during the Dorsey years. What occurred next is , in my opinion, a truly remarkable moment. Frank suddenly recalled an incident back then that was extraordinary. One that he vividly remembered and treasured.
One of the most touching moments I've ever experienced in my lifetime, in my career, so warm, so marvellous what I saw happen. We played a lot of the little coal mining towns.
I remember one night -- apparently the coal miners - - the shift ended at midnight. We were playing the ballroom, one of the ballrooms, wherever it was. I don't remember the exact town. It's not important. I saw a couple of the guys come in and stand in front of the bandstand, which a lot of kids use to do.. They would just kind of hang on to each other and sway. A couple of the guys came out of the line with the white marks when they took their glasses off. They had the hats on with the lights and their lunch pails.. And just stood there and looked at us like they had never heard the sound of music before and never seen an orchestra before.
These guys were like 25-26 years old. The most touching moment I can ever remember playing in this particular area. I was so moved by the fact they came in, paid 50 cents just to stand there -- about 12 minutes after midnight -- to listen to the music and see us. Apparently they had never had the chance to come and see an orchestra. It is something I shall never, never forget, because, to have somebody want to hear something that badly, to come right out of the bottom of the Earth, absolutely blackened with coal dust and just the white marks in their glasses. Don't you think it is pretty exciting they did that?
note: Barbara was in attendance. It was her birthday. After singing "Where Or When,"
Frank sang "Happy Birthday" to her.
Ed
Valley Forge Music Fair,Devon, Pennsylvania
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. New York, New York
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. This Is All I Ask
6. There's Something About You
7. All I Need Is The Girl
8. Send In The Clowns
9. I Have Dreamed
10. monologue
11. I've Got The World On A String
12.. It Was A Very Good Year
13. You And Me
14. Where Or When
15. Barbara
16. My Way
17. America, The Beautiful
Notes: TT 63mins.
note: During the monologue, Frank mentions the notice he received from a local paper. He really liked the review from Stanley Ettinger that I posted last week. The review mentioned how the singer was always aware that he was singing in the round and made sure that no one was left out.
Frank sang "The Gal Who Got Away/It Never Entered My Mind" after the monologue. Barbara was in the audience and Frank sang "Happy Birthday" to her and the audience joined in with the singing. Frank then asked her to please stand. --Ed
Valley Forge Music Fair, Devon, Pennsylvania
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. New York, New York
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5. This Is All I Ask
6. There's Something About You
7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. monologue
9. I've Got The World On A String
10. It Was A Very Good Year
11. You And Me
12. Where Or When
13. My Way
14. America, The Beautiful
Notes: TT 62mins.
Vance Adair:
I note that NY,NY still is the opening number - even well into 1979. If I recall correctly, the song was officially inaugurated into the repertoire the previous October at the Waldorf Astoria. Does anyone know the date of the concert performance when NY,NY first became a finale/closer?
Ed responded:
Very easy to answer. Saratoga Performing Arts Center,
6-22-79. I was in the fifth row. Half-way through the Kander-Ebb song the entire audience was on its collective feet.. His singing that night was magnificent. . Best I ever saw and heard.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. New York, New York
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. This Is All I Ask
6. There's Something About You
7. All I Need Is The Girl
8. Send In The Clowns
9. I Have Dreamed
10. monologue
11. I've Got The World On A String
12. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
13. That's Life
14. You And Me
15. Where Or When
16. My Way
Notes: TT 70mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. New York, New York
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. This Is All I Ask
6. There's Something About You
7. All I Need Is The Girl
8. You And Me
9. Send In The Clowns
10. I Have Dreamed
11. monologue
12. That's Life
13. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
14. I've Got The World On A String
15. You And Me
16. My Way
Notes: TT 75mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. New York, New York
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4.. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. This Is All I Ask
6. There's Something About You
7. All I Need Is The Girl
8. Send In The Clowns
9. I Have Dreamed
10. monologue
11. That's Life
12. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
13. I've Got The World On A String
14. You And Me
15. Where Or When
16. My Way
Notes: TT 75mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
St Patrick's Day
Saturday evening
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr..
Al Viola, guitar, Charlie Turner, trumpet ( F.S. intros him as the greatest he has ever heard )Gene Cherico, bass, Irv Cottler, drums O.A. Pat Henry ( F.S. calls him Patrick O'Henry )
1. New York, New York
2. At Long Last Love ( Is it the Daniels that feeling . . . )
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5. This Is All I Ask
6. There’s Something About You
7. All I Need Is The Girl
8.. Send In The Clowns w/Al Viola
9. I Have Dreamed
10. monologue
11. That’s Life
12. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
13. I’ve Got The World On A String
14. You And Me
15. Where Or When
16. Second monologue
Notes: TT 85mins.
Ed O'Brien: I have corrected the song list.
Frank was in fine form on St. Paddy's Day, 35 years ago tonight.
He told a number of stories including a few revealing anecdotes about Sammy Davis: The previous day Sammy called and tried to convince him that they should buy the for sale Aladdin Hotel. Frank then shared a real insight into Sammy concerning a night at the Copa in N.Y.C. Laurence Olivier was in attendance and so was Sinatra.. Sammy was talking jive when he noticed the great English actor. Sammy invited him up on stage and for 20 minutes he spoke to Larry with a perfect English accent. "Francis Albert Sinatra" was introduced with that impeccable English accent. After Olivier left the stage, Sammy went back to jive talking. Frank told the Caesars crowd "There ain't no Sammy Davis." Then he explained why Sammy was the world's greatest entertainer.
Before singing "There's Something About You," he told the audience he had recorded the song and hoped it would be out soon. Then he said, "I'm in no hurry to record. What the hell difference does it make ?" The assembled group let him know it made a huge difference to them. Frank then assured them an album would be out soon, and added that it was almost finished. By mid-March he knew Carol Bayer Sager was the lyricist. After singing the song, he offered up the following:"I think when the people who wrote the song, hear the record, they ain't goin' recognize it. Because when I recognized it the first time, it was a rock song. We threw the rocks out the window and made it properly."
Frank has very kind words for Ethel Merman and Stephen Sondheim. Told the audience that "You And Me" has a chance to be a number one song. Praised Anwar Sadat for his vision and great courage. Lauded Carter for handling the mideast talks competently. Then he had a lot of fun discussing Jimmy's family including Brother Billy and Lillian Carter. Frank wished everyone a Happy St. Patrick's Day and let them know it is a wonderful holiday. He was going to do "My Way," to conclude the show, but the Sammy stories were long, and he had been onstage for almost 85 minutes.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Two Shows (same songs, order)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Comedian: Pat Henry
Opening Act: Marlene Ricci
1. New York, New York
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. This Is All I Ask
6. There's Something About You
7. All I Need Is The Girl
8. Send In The Clowns
9. I Have Dreamed
10. monologue
11. That's Life
12. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
13. I've Got The World On A String
14. You And Me
15. Where Or When
16. My Way
Notes: TT 72mins.
Ed O'Brien:
He are some Frank comments from that evening:
Before singing "There's Something About You."
"We something that is comparatively new in our book.
We've recorded it and plan to put it in an album. If we ever get as far as the record studio and finish it."
"The song was written by Carole Bayer Sager and
Marvin Hamlisch. He's the cat who won all the awards for using Scott Joplin's music. I could never figure that out. I could never figure out how the hell that happened.
Well, I guess you have to have connections."
Before "My Way."
Of course, there comes a moment in every man's life where he performs; where you bear a cross, and this is my cross" Sings to the tune of "This Is My Song,"
"This Is My Cross."
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (March 15-21)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Two Shows
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Waldorf Astoria, New York City
Dinner for Hugh Carey
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. You Make Me Feel So Young
2. That's Life
3. This Is All I Ask
4. Remember (last concert performance)
5. All I Need Is The Girl
6. I Have Dreamed
7. New York, New York
8. Here's To The Winner( special lyrics)
9.. Happy Birthday (sung to the governor)
10. monologue
11. You And Me
12.. My Kind Of Town
13. My Way
Notes: TT 68mins
Ed notes:
Sinatra had a real fondness for Hugh Carey.
He readily agreed to perform at Carey's birthday party and even did some special requests for the governor and a very interesting parody.
Waldorf Astoria, New York City
Dinner for Hugh Carey
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
56TH ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS - Airdate: April 9, 1984
Frank Sinatra presented the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to M. J. Frankovich
M. J. FRANKOVICH:
Thank you, Frank. This is a great honor for me, and to receive it from Frank Sinatra makes it a little more special. And I'm deeply appreciative to the Motion Picture Academy and its Board of Governors for choosing me to join such illustrious company as Frank Sinatra and the other past winners of the Jean Hersholt Award. Each of them has been a beacon to the rest of us in the motion picture industry and we have all gained in stature through their generosity, their caring, and their concern.
As I stand here tonight, I can't help but think that I lived and was brought up just a couple of blocks from here. I sold newspapers down the street on the corner of First and Broadway. I also think of all the people in our profession who I have learned from and who have helped me along the way. There was Doug Fairbanks, Sr. who gave me my first job in the motion pictures. And I was nine years old and I played a choirboy in a picture called "Rosita." Doug Fairbanks was a man who cared about kids and I liked him for that. I learned even more about caring and loving children from Joe E. Brown who was like a second father to me.
I owe a lot to my dear friend Leo Jaffe who brought me into the Columbia Pictures and who showed me that even when running a big company there was always enough time to help someone who needed help. And for my years in England I shall always remember the shining example from Lord Louis Mountbatten. I saw how much he loved children. I saw it first in India, in China, and during World War II. I saw it afterwards in the East End of London. And I learned what it meant to be gracious and to be compassionate from a beautiful actress, a beautiful star, and my leading lady for forty-four years, Binnie Barnes.
I would like to share this award with each of these people who I've spoken about who meant so much to me with all of you in the entertainment industry, especially the men and women of the Variety Clubs International, the greatest children's charity in the world. Thank you. Thank you very much.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (12-15) Sy Oliver Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. New York, New York
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. This Is All I Ask
7. There's Something About You
8. All I Need Is The Girl
9. Send In The Clowns
10. I Have Dreamed
11. monologue
12. I've Got The World On A String
13. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
14. My Kind Of Town
15. You And Me
16. Where Or When
17. My Way
Notes: TT 82mins.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (12-15) Sy Oliver Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. New York, New York
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. This Is All I Ask
7. There's Something About You
8. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
9. monologue
10. All I Need Is The Girl
11. Send In The Clowns
12. I Have Dreamed
13. I've Got The World On A String
14. You And Me
15. My Kind Of Town
16. Where Or When
17. My Way
Notes: TT 78mins.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (12-15) Sy Oliver Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. New York, New York
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. This Is All I Ask
7. There's Something About You
8. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
9. monologue
10. All I Need Is The Girl
11. Send In The Clowns
12. I Have Dreamed
13. I've Got The World On A String
14. You And Me
15. My Kind Of Town
16. Where Or When
17. My Way
Notes: TT 78mins.
Sinatra was backed by Si Zentner and Orch. Thirty-eight piece ensemble,
including a few of Frank's regular musicians.
Michael Davis was Frank's opening act in 1985.
Frank told the audience that Davis was "off the
wall, but very funny."
"One For My Baby" offered a Joe Parnello arg.,
done with a small group. Nice.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (12-15) Sy Oliver Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Boardwalk Regency Hotel took out a half-page ad welcoming Frank to Atlantic City. His first engagement in their city, in 15 years.
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Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (12-15) First Show
Sy Oliver Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (12-15) Second Show
Sy Oliver Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. New York, New York
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. This Is All I Ask
7. There's Something About You
8. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
9. monologue
10. All I Need Is The Girl
11. Send In The Clowns
12. I Have Dreamed
13. I've Got The World On A String
14. You And Me
15. My Kind Of Town
16.. Where Or When
17. My Way
Notes: TT 68mins.
Ed O'Brien:
Marlene Ricci and Pat Henry were the opening acts. Frank did seven shows during the four day stint. Sinatra introduced his new bass player, Bob Badgerly; he replaced Gene Cherico. Frank would be back the following weekend( 20-22 Fri. to Sun)
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (12-15) Sy Oliver Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. New York, New York
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. This Is All I Ask
6. There's Something About You
7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. Monologue
9. All I Need Is The Girl
10. Send In The Clowns
11. I Have Dreamed
12.. I've Got The World On A String
13. You And Me
14. My Kind Of Town
15. Monologue
16. Me And My Shadow with Sammy Davis Jr.
17. My Way
Notes: TT 68mins.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (12-15) Sy Oliver Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Frank Sinatra, along with his wife Barbara, wave to hundreds of people who blocked streets trying to see the great entertainer on April 15, 1979 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. This all after dedication to Frank Sinatra, in the form of a hospital wing, at the Atlantic City Medical Center. Frank gave a benefit concert about six months ago here to raise money for the hospital.
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Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (20-22) Sy Oliver Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. New York, New York
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5.. This Is All I Ask
6. There’s Something About You
7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. monologue
9. All I Need Is The Girl
10. Send In The Clowns
11. I Have Dreamed
12. I've Got The World On A String
13. You And Me
14. My Kind Of Town
15. My Way
Notes: TT 50mins.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (20-22) First Show
Sy Oliver Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (20-22) Second Show
Sy Oliver Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. New York, New York
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. This Is All I Ask
6. There's Something About You
7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. monologue
9. All I Need Is The Girl
10. Send In The Clowns
11. I Have Dreamed
12. I've Got The World On A String
13. You And Me
14. My Kind Of Town
15. My Way
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (20-22) First Show
Sy Oliver Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Other Performers: Sammy Davis, jr., Frank Sinatra, Jr.
1. New York, New York
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. This Is All I Ask
6. There's Something About You
7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. monologue
9. All I Need Is The Girl
10. Send In The Clowns
11. I Have Dreamed
12. I've Got The World On A String
13. You And Me
14. My Kind Of Town
15. My Way
Notes: TT 72mins.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (20-22) Second Show - Closing Night
Sy Oliver Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Other Performers: Sammy Davis, jr., Frank Sinatra, Jr.
1. New York, New York
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. This Is All I Ask
6. There's Something About You
7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. monologue
9. All I Need Is The Girl
10. Send In The Clowns
11. I Have Dreamed
12. I've Got The World On A String
13. You And Me
14. My Kind Of Town
15. band introductions
16. My Way
17. chaser "My Way"
Notes: TT 77mins.
Circle Star Theater, San Carlos, California
Benefit
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. New York, New York
2.. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5. This Is All I Ask
6. There's Something About You
7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. monologue
9. All I Need Is The Girl
10. Send In The Clowns
11. I Have Dreamed
12. I've Got The World On A String
13. You And Me
14. My Kind Of Town
15. My Way
16. America
Notes: TT 71mins. note: Frank's opening night was a benefit sponsored by the Pacific Medical Center for the Children's Cancer Program.. Tickets were priced from $30 to $50. At 5:p.m. that night Frank was not sold out. Tickets for the rest of the engagement were $15.00. Frank would do five shows from 5/3 thru 5/6. He did two shows on Saturday ( 5/5 ).
Ed
Circle Star Theater, San Carlos, California
Benefit
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. New York, New York
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5. This Is All I Ask
6. There's Something About You
7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. monologue
9. All I Need Is The Girl
10. Send In The Clowns
11. I Have Dreamed
12. I've Got The World On A String
13. You And Me
14. My Kind Of Town
15. My Way
Notes: TT 62mins.
Circle Star Theater, San Carlos, California
Benefit
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
San Francisco Examiner
5-4-79
War Memorial Opera House
San Francisco, California
May 4, 1979
George Moscone Fund Family Gala
note: Frank had been asked to appear when Pavarotti canceled. He was uncertain of the time and passed.
Told that President Carter was attending, Frank changed his mind.
Show got under way at 6 P.M., allowing him time to perform and then get to the
Circle Star with time to spare.
At the Opera House, Frank told President
Carter that he needed to get control of the price of oil or Air Force One would become a glider. He would tell that story in concert in the months that followed.
Ed
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Circle Star Theater, San Carlos, California
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. New York, New York
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5. This Is All I Ask
6. There's Something About You
7. medley: The Gal That Got Away - It Never Entered My Mind
8. monologue
9. All I Need Is The Girl
10. Send In The Clowns
11. I Have Dreamed
12. I've Got The World On A String
13. You And Me
14. My Kind Of Town
15. My Way
Notes: TT 70mins.
Circle Star Theater, San Carlos, California
Closing Night
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Theme From New York, New York
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is a Tramp
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5. This Is All I Ask
6. There's Something About You
7. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. All I Need Is the Girl
9. Send in the Clowns
10. I Have Dreamed
11. I've Got the World on a String
12. You and Me (We Wanted It All)
13. My Kind of Town
14. My Way
Notes: TT 70mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. New York, New York
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5. This Is All I Ask
6. The Best Is Yet To Come
7. You Make Me Feel So Young
8. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
9. monologue
10. The Tender Trap
11. Young At Heart w/Al Viola
12. I've Got The World On A String
13. Bewitched
14. You And Me
15. My Kind Of Town
16. My Way
Former President Richard Nixon wrote to China's Minister of Culture, Huang Zhen, urging support for a proposed Sinatra concert tour in China. Source: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Theme From New York, New York
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is a Tramp
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5. This Is All I Ask
6. The Best Is Yet to Come
7. You Make Me Feel So Young
8. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
9. (Love Is) The Tender Trap
10. Young at Heart
11. I've Got the World on a String
12. You and Me (We Wanted It All)
13. My Kind of Town
14. My Way
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Opening Acts: Marlene Ricci & Pat Henry
1. New York, New York
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5. This Is All I Ask
6. The Best Is Yet To Come
7. You Make Me Feel So Young
8. Gal That Got Away/It Never Entered My Mind monologue
9. My Kind Of Town
10. All The Way w/ V. Falcone on piano
11. Bewitched
12. I've Got The World On A String
13. You And Me
14. My Way
Ed O'Brien:
Opening night (10), Frank sang "The Tender Trap" and did "Young At Heart" with Al Viola on guitar.
They were dropped after that show.
This was the song selection for the rest of the shows.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Opening Acts: Marlene Ricci & Pat Henry
1. New York, New York
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5. This Is All I Ask
6. The Best Is Yet To Come
7. You Make Me Feel So Young
8. Gal That Got Away/It Never Entered My Mind monologue
9. My Kind Of Town
10. All The Way w/ V. Falcone on piano
11. Bewitched
12. I've Got The World On A String
13. You And Me
14. My Way
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. New York, New York
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5. This Is All I Ask
6. The Best Is Yet To Come
7. You Make Me Feel So Young
8. Gal That Got Away/It Never Entered My Mind monologue
9. My Kind Of Town
10. All The Way w/ V. Falcone on piano
11. Bewitched
12. I've Got The World On A String
13. You And Me
14. My Way
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. New York, New York
2. The Lady Is A Tramp
3. Here's That Rainy Day
4. This Is All I Ask
5. The Best Is Yet To Come
6. You Make Me Feel So Young
7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. monologue
9. The Tender Trap
10. Young At Heart
11. Bewitched
12. You And Me
13. My Kind Of Town
14. My Way
Notes: TT 60mins.
Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Theme From New York, New York
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is a Tramp
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5. This Is All I Ask
6. The Best Is Yet to Come
7. You Make Me Feel So Young
8. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
9. (Love Is) The Tender Trap
10. Young at Heart
11. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
12. You and Me (We Wanted It All)
13. My Kind of Town
14. My Way
Aladdin Theater For The Performing Arts, Las Vegas, Nevada
Benefit: University Athletic Fund-Raising Thank You Party
Time: 8:30 PM
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. New York, New York
2. You Make Me Feel So Young
3. Here's That Rainy Day
4. This Is All I Ask
5. The Lady Is A Tramp
6. monologue
Notes: TT 22mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (May 31-June 6)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Theme From New York, New York
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is a Tramp
4. Someone to Watch Over Me
5. This Is All I Ask
6. The Best Is Yet to Come
7. I Can't Get Started
8. You Make Me Feel So Young
9. Last Night When We Were Young / Violets for Your Furs / Here's That Rainy Day
10. My Kind of Town
11. All the Way
12. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
13. I've Got the World on a String
14. My Way
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Theme From New York, New York
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is a Tramp
4. Someone to Watch Over Me
5. This Is All I Ask
6. The Best Is Yet to Come
7. I Can't Get Started
8. You Make Me Feel So Young
9. Last Night When We Were Young / Violets for Your Furs / Here's That Rainy Day
10. My Kind of Town
11. All the Way
12. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
13. I've Got the World on a String
14. My Way
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. New York, New York
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. This Is All I Ask
6. The Best Is Yet To Come
7. I Can't Get Started
8. You Make Me Feel So Young
9. saloon medley: Last Night When We Were Young / Violets For Your Furs / Here's That Rainy Day
10. monologue
11. My Kind Of Town
12. All The Way
13. Bewitched
14. I've Got The World On A String
15. My Way
Notes: TT 74mins.
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. overture
2. New York, New York
3. At Long Last Love
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. This Is All I Ask
7. The Best Is Yet To Come
8. I Can't Get Started With You
9. You Make Me Feel So Young
10. saloon medley: Last Night When We Were Young - Violets For Your Furs - Here's That Rainy Day
11. monologue
12. My Kind Of Town
13. All The Way
14. Bewitched
15. I've Got The World On A String
16. My Way
Notes: TT 69mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Two Shows
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Hilton Hotel, Denver, Colorado
Juvenile Diabetes Foundation benefit
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Theme From New York, New York
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is a Tramp
4. Someone to Watch Over Me
5. This Is All I Ask
6. The Best Is Yet to Come
7. I Can't Get Started
8. My Kind of Town
9. All the Way
10. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
11. I've Got the World on a String
12. My Way
Ed O'Brien:
Frank appearance at this benefit raised more than half-a-million dollars for the Juvenile Diabetes Association.
Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California (11-17)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Theme From New York, New York
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is a Tramp
4. Spring Is Here
5. This Is All I Ask
6. The Best Is Yet to Come
7. I Can't Get Started
8. I've Got the World on a String
9. Medley: Last Night When We Were Young / Violets for Your Furs / Here's That Rainy Day
10. My Kind of Town
11. All the Way
12. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
13. I've Got You Under My Skin
14. You Make Me Feel So Young
15. My Way
note: During his monologue on opening night, Frank asked the audience to pray that John Wayne recover from his serious illness. Frank and The Duke had become close friends in recent years and he had not been told that Wayne had died at 5:30 that afternoon.
Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California (11-17)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
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Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California (11-17)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vencent Falcone,jr.
Opening Acts: Marlene Ricci, Pat Henry
1. New York, New York
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Spring Is Here
5. This Is All I Ask
6. The Best Is Yet To Come
7. I Can't Get Started
8. I've Got The World On A String
9. saloon medley: Last Night When We Were Young / Violets For Your Furs / Here's That Rainy Day
10. monologue
11. My Kind Of Town
12. All The Way
13. Bewitched
14. I've Got You Under My Skin
15. You Make Me Feel So Young
16. My Way
Notes: TT 74mins.
Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California (11-17)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vencent Falcone,jr.
Opening Acts: Marlene Ricci, Pat Henry
1. New York, New York
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. This Is All I Ask
6. The Best Is Yet To Come
7.. I Can't Get Started
8. I've Got The World On A String
9. The Gal Got Away/It Never Entered My Mind monologue
10. My Kind Of Town
11. All The Way
12. Bewitched
13. I've Got You Under My Skin
14. You Make Me Feel So Young
15. My Way
Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California (11-17)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vencent Falcone,jr.
Opening Acts: Marlene Ricci, Pat Henry
1. New York, New York
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. This Is All I Ask
6. The Best Is Yet To Come
7. I Can't Get Started
8. I've Got The World On A String
9. The Gal Got Away/It Never Entered My Mind monologue
10. My Kind Of Town
11. All The Way
12. Bewitched
13. I've Got You Under My Skin
14. You Make Me Feel So Young
15. Night And Day
Note:
Universal Amphitheater
Los Angeles, California
Frank Sinatra's 40th Anniversary
In Show Business Celebration
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Nancy Sinatra: Frank's introduction
2. New York, New York
3. At Long Last Love
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. This Is All I Ask
7. The Best Is Yet To Come
8. I Can't Get Started
9. You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You
10. Billy May intro (in audience) and saloon intro
11. medley: The Gal That Got Away - It Never Entered My Mind
12. monologue and Harry James intro
13. All Or Nothing At All w/Harry James
14. Embraceable You w/Harry James
15. My Kind Of Town
16. All The Way
17. I've Got You Under My Skin
18. It Was A Very Good Year
19. I've Got The World On A String
20. band introductions
21. My Way
22. Frank Jr. & Nancy: talk
23. Frank Jr. & Nancy: Happy Anniversary
24. Franks Final Thanks
25. chaser "My Way"
Our thanks to Guy Steele for correcting this date mistake.
Universal Amphitheater
Los Angeles, California
Frank Sinatra's 40th Anniversary
In Show Business Celebration
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California (11-17)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vencent Falcone,jr.
Opening Acts: Marlene Ricci, Pat Henry
1. New York, New York
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. This Is All I Ask
6. The Best Is Yet To Come
7. I Can't Get Started
8. I've Got The World On A String
9. saloon medley: Last Night When We Were Young / Violets For Your Furs / Here's That Rainy Day
10. monologue
11. My Kind Of Town
12. All The Way
13. Bewitched
14. I've Got You Under My Skin
15. You Make Me Feel So Young
16. Night And Day
Notes: TT 70mins.
Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California (11-17)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone,jr.
Opening Acts: Marlene Ricci, Pat Henry
Century Plaza, Los Angeles
Parasol Ball
Frank Sinatra, Dinah Shore, Danny Thomas
Sinatra songs:
I've Got The World On A String
Don't Worry 'bout Me
Fly Me To The Moon
This Is All I Ask
Lady Day
Angel Eyes
My Way
Century Plaza, Los Angeles
Parasol Ball
Frank Sinatra, Dinah Shore, Danny Thomas
Sinatra songs:
I've Got The World On A String
Don't Worry 'bout Me
Fly Me To The Moon
This Is All I Ask
Lady Day
Angel Eyes
My Way
Performing Arts Center, Saratoga, New York
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. This Is All I Ask
6. The Best is Yet To Come
7. I Can't Get Started
8. You Make Me Feel So Young
9. Last Night When We Were Young
10. Violets For Your Furs
11. Here's That Rainy Day
12. My Kind Of Town
13. All The Way
14. Bewitched
15. I've Got You Under My Skin
16. It Was A Very Good Year
17. New York , New York
Ed O'Brien notes:
What a glorious summer night! Sinatra was in splendid form from the outset. He used a music stand to read the lyrics on "Best Is Yet To Come" and "I Can't Get Started." Sitting on a stool, he gave great attention to both tunes. The "Saloon Trilogy" was the best I have ever heard.. He followed that up by doing three tunes from Sinatra films. "You Make Me Feel So Young" was a personal statement to the audience. But the absolute highlight was "New York, New York." He had never closed a show before with the Kander-Ebb tune. From the first note, it was apparent to all of us in attendance that Mr. Sinatra had an exciting new signature song that would obviously closed many performances in the years to come. The entire evening was an extraordinarily informed level of singing.
Performing Arts Center, Saratoga, New York
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
DIGNITY CARRIES SINATRA
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Canceled
1987 Como, Italy
Frank came down with a case of laryngitis after singing in the rain at Verona, 6-20
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Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New York
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. This Is All I Ask
6. The Best Is Yet To Come
7. I Can't Get Started
8. You Make Me Feel So Young
9. saloon medley: Here's That Rainy Day / Violets For Your Furs / Last Night When We Were Young
10. monologue
11. My Kind Of Town
12. All The Way
13. Bewitched
14. I've Got You Under My Skin
15. It Was A Very Good Year
16. New York, New York
Notes: TT 64mins.
Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New York
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
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Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New York
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
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Garden State Arts Center, Holmdel, New Jersey
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. This Is All I Ask
6. The Best Is Yet To Come
7. I Can't Get Started
8. You Make Me Feel So Young
9. saloon medley: Last Night When We Were Young - Violets For Your Furs - Here's That Rainy Day
10. My Kind Of Town
11. All The Way
12. Bewitched
13. I've Got You Under My Skin
14. It Was A Very Good Year
15. New York, New York
Notes: TT 76mins.
Garden State Arts Center, Holmdel, New Jersey
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
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Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
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Sinatra Archive)
Garden State Arts Center, Holmdel, New Jersey
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. This Is All I Ask
6. The Best Is Yet To Come
7. I Can't Get Started
8. You Make Me Feel So Young
9. saloon medley: Last Night When We Were Young / Violets For Your Furs / Here's That Rainy Day
10. monologue
11. My Kind Of Town
12. All The Way
13. Bewitched
14. I've Got You Under My Skin
15. It Was A Very Good Year
16. New York, New York
Notes: TT 77mins.
[The Earlier Takes Frank Decided to Redo]
Frank and Billy May had actually completed usable takes for Trilogy's first record two months earlier, in July, but after repeatedly listening to cassettes of those sessions Frank decided he could do better and went back to rerecord several songs in September.
Source: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).
Pine Knob Theater, Clarkston, Michigan
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. This Is All I Ask
6. The Best Is Yet To Come
7. I Can't Get Started With You
8. You Make Me Feel So Young
9. saloon medley: Last Night When We Were Young / Violets For Your Furs / Here's That Rainy Day
10. monologue
11. My Kind Of Town
12. All The Way
13. Bewitched
14. I've Got You Under My Skin
15. It Was A Very Good Year
16. New York, New York
Notes: TT 67mins.
Pine Knob Theater, Clarkston, Michigan
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr
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July 2-3, 1986 Statue Of Liberty at Governors Island
NOTE: Sinatra Scholar Ed O'Brien points out that Sinatra rehearsed on July 2 and 3, but his performance on the ABC-TV show was live. Elizabeth Taylor introduced him and he sang "The House I Live In." He was originally scheduled to sing "Lady," written especially for the ceremony, but he opted instead for an old chestnut more familiar to him.
Pine Knob Theater, Clarkston, Michigan
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. At Long Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. This Is All I Ask
6. The Best Is Yet To Come
7. I Can't Get Started With You
8. You Make Me Feel So Young
9. saloon medley: Last Night When We Were Young / Violets For Your Furs / Here's That Rainy Day
10. monologue
11. My Kind Of Town
12. All The Way
13. Bewitched
14. I've Got You Under My Skin
15. It Was A Very Good Year
16. New York, New York
Notes: TT 65mins.
Ed O'Brien notes:
A friend of mine saw this show and made a great tape of it. He was absolutely blown away when Frank sat down in front of the music stand and sang "The Best Is Yet To Come" and "I Can't Get Started."Vinnie got him to do some challenging work back then with some exciting harmonics. It was a great time to be a Sinatra fan.
Los Angeles
XCA9299 Street Of Dreams (N/R)
(Sam M. Lewis/Victor Young)
EMI Miller Catalog Inc. (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Billy May
XCA9302 More Than You Know (N/R)
w/Chorus
(Billy Rose/Edward Eliscu/Vincent Youmans)
Anne-Rachel Music Corp./WB Music Corp./The Songwriters Guild (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Billy May
XCA9300 My Shining Hour (N/R)
w/Chorus
(Johnny Mercer/Harold Arlen)
MPL Communications inc. (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Billy May
NOTE: Sinatra Scholar Ed O'Brien reports that Billy May thought this session was very well done but Sinatra sang so well at the August sessions in New York City that he decided to re-do seven of the tunes from July. May told O'Brien that Sinatra had him rewrite the charts and he raised them a full tone. O'Brien very much likes the "Street of Dreams" from July. It may be better than the released track from September, but "My Shining Hour" isn't close to the September remake, O'Brien observes.
Los Angeles
XCA9295 But Not For Me (N/R)
w/Chorus
(George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin)
WB Music Corp. (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Billy May
XCA9296 I Had The Craziest Dream
w/Chorus
(Mack Gordon/Harry Warren )
Bergman, Vocco & Conn inc. (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Billy May
(3:15) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 18
LP: 3FS2300 Trilogy
CD: 2300-2 Trilogy
XCA9303 They All Laughed (N/R)
(George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin)
Chappell & Co. inc./Gershwin Publishing Corp. (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Billy May
XCA9294 The Song Is You (N/R)
(Oscar hammerstein II/Jerome Kern)
Poly-Gram International Publishing Co. inc. (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Billy May
NOTE: Ed O'Brien writes that the first time he heard these tracks, just a few months after the release of "Trilogy," he was surprised that Sinatra hit the high note on "The Song is You" twice. He only went for it once on the released recordings from September. Basically, the three unissued (N/R) songs from this session were simply raised to a higher level at the September dates.
Origins of "Trilogy: Past, Present and Future"
By 1979 Sinatra had not recorded a studio album in five years. Producer Sonny Burke and arranger Gordon Jenkins pressed him on why, and Sinatra reportedly said no one was writing songs for him anymore. Jenkins played Sinatra a home demo -- six singers and a synthesizer -- of a long-cherished idea: a musical portrait of Sinatra's own life. Jenkins had first proposed the concept in a 1959 letter to Sinatra, describing a piece called "The Sinatra Story" that would run about thirty minutes.
The demo persuaded Sinatra to return to the studio, and Burke expanded Jenkins's idea into a three-record concept: a first disc of pre-rock standards in new Billy May arrangements ("The Past"), a second disc of contemporary songs from the rock era in Don Costa arrangements ("The Present"), and a Jenkins-arranged finale looking ahead to the singer's own mortality ("The Future"). Sinatra worked out the plan for "The Past" over a long planning weekend in Palm Springs with May, Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen, Sinatra aide Irving "Sarge" Weiss, and Jenkins.
Source: Karina Longworth, "You Must Remember This" podcast, "Frank Sinatra's Trilogy: Past, Present and Future" episode.
[But Not for Me -- critical commentary]
Sinatra / Friedwald: Sinatra would follow I Remember Tommy with two subsequent tributes: the Man and His Music album version of "I’ll Never Smile Again" (unaccountably left off I Remember Tommy) and, for the 1979 Trilogy, the Gershwin standard "But Not for Me," stunningly reimagined by Sinatra and Billy May as a Sentimentalist number in the "Never Smile Again" format; Sinatra herewith called upon trombonist Dick Nash (as he had in 1961) to do, as Sinatra put it, "his Tommy Dorsey shit."
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. 3, "With Tommy Dorsey" (1940-1942)
Los Angeles
XCA9297 It Had To Be You
(Gus Kahn/Isham Jones)
The Songwriters Guild (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Billy May
(3:54) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 18
CD: 2300-2 Trilogy
LP: 3FS2300 Trilogy
XCA 9301 Surrey With The Fringe On Top* ( rehearsal take)
* Cole Porter's "All Of You" replaced "Surrey" assigned same master #
( Richard Rodgers -- Oscar Hammerstein II)
From the musical "Oklahoma" 1943
Initial Release: Ultimate Sinatra 100 4CD Deluxe
Centennial Set - Capitol Records – B0022436-02
XCA9298 Let's Face The Music And Dance (N/R)
(Irving Berlin)
Williamson Music Co. (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Billy May
NOTE: Ed O'Brien says that the re-do in September of this Berlin classic raises the vocal a few more notches. Only real difference.
Radio
NONE
Television
NONE
["I've Been Ready Since I Was Twelve"]
Recording Trilogy's second record in a New York studio with Don Costa, Frank answered producer Sonny Burke's "Ready, Frank?" by saying he'd been ready since he was twelve. At the end of the third night, the fifty-piece orchestra and sixteen singers gave him a prolonged standing ovation, moving him more deeply than any fan applause.
Source: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).
New York City
XNY2099 You And Me
(Carole Bayer Sager/Peter Allen)
Begonia Melodies/Irving Music, inc./Woolnough Music Inc. (BMI) Arranged & Conducted by Don Costa
(4:09) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 18
CD: 2300-2 Trilogy
LP: 3FS2300 Trilogy
45: RPS4917
XNY2103 New York, New York N/R w/Vinnie Falcone on piano
(Fred Ebb/John Kander)
EMI Unart Catalog Inc. (BMI)
Arranged & Conducted by Don Costa
XNY2104 Summer Me, Winter Me
(Marilyn Bergman/Alan Bergman/Michel Legrand)
WB Music Corp. (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Don Costa
(4:04) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 18
CD: 2300-2 Trilogy
LP: 3FS2300 Trilogy
XNY2102 MacArthur Park
(Jimmy Webb)
Poly-Gram International Publishing Co. Inc. (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Don Costa
(2:47) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 18
CD: 2300-2 Trilogy
LP: 3FS2300 Trilogy
NOTE: Ed O'Brien says a 58 piece orchestra was used for this session. Sinatra re-recorded ”You and Me” with a lot more anger. A quiet ballad became a definitive statement of rueful disquietude.
" New York , New York "ť is an outstanding recording from this session. Vinnie Falcone plays the great Costa vamp and Sinatra hits at least a triple. But Frank Laico and Vinnie Falcone told O'Brien that after listening to the tape, Sinatra wasn't satisfied. He wanted a bigger ending and on September 19,1979 it was re-done in Hollywood . The August effort deserves a release. "Summer Me, Winter Me"ť is a gorgeous recording. Sinatra saw to it that William B. Williams of WNEW radio had a demonstration disc to play the following morning. "MacArthur Park"ť saw Sinatra eschew the green icing on the cake out in the rain and just concentrate on the two middle choruses of the song.
"MacArthur Park"
Will Friedwald: Jimmy Webb's seven-minute art-rock epic 'MacArthur Park' (a hit for nonsinging actor Richard Harris in 1968, reportedly composed on Buddy Greco's piano) is analyzed by Friedwald as a psychedelic answer to Strayhorn's 'Lush Life,' with Sinatra -- following Tony Bennett's 1969 example of trimming it -- excerpting only the autobiographically resonant lines ('I will win the worship in their eyes / and I will lose it') rather than tackling the full narrative.
Source: Will Friedwald, "Sinatra! The Song Is You: A Singer's Art" (2018 revised edition).
"New York, New York"
Vinnie Falcone: 'New York, New York' was first recorded at the August 1979 sessions for The Present at Columbia's 30th Street Studio, but Sinatra felt he hadn't nailed it and had it re-recorded about a month later in Los Angeles.
Source: Charles L. Granata, "Sessions with Sinatra: Frank Sinatra and the Art of Recording" (1999/2003).
[Summer Me, Winter Me -- critical commentary]
Granata includes 'Summer Me, Winter Me' among the fifty recordings he considers essential to understanding Sinatra's artistry (arranged by Don Costa, recorded 1981, Reprise); the song was chosen for its musical/interpretive value rather than commercial popularity.
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), Afterword & Appendices A-D
New York City
XNY2106 For The Good Time w/Eileen Farrell & Vocal Chorus
(Kris Kristofferson)
Careers BMG Music (BMI)
Arranged & Conducted by Don Costa
(4:43) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 18
CD: 2300-2 Trilogy
LP: 3FS2300 Trilogy
XNY2101 That's What God Looks Like To Me
(Lois Irwin/Lan O'Kun)
Lan O'Kun Ink, Inc./WB Music Corp. (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Don Costa
(2:57) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 18
CD: 2300-2 Trilogy
LP: 3FS2300 Trilogy
45: 7-29903
45: RPS49233
XNY2107 Love Me Tender
(Elvis Presley/Vera Matson)
R & H Music (BMI)
Arranged & Conducted by Don Costa
(3:35) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 18
CD: 2300-2 Trilogy
LP: 3FS2300 Trilogy
NOTE: Sinatra Scholar Ed O'Brien reports that this session was done at Columbia Studios in New York City from 8 to 11 p.m. Sonny Burke produced and Frank Laico was the engineer..
Laico told O'Brien that Sinatra was in excellent form. He was surprised that there was a 48 piece orchestra. That group included the guitarist Vinny Bell who created many of the sounds that dominate the background on the "Watertown" album.
Sinatra also had a choral group of 16 including the marvelous Marlen VanPlanck. Billy May attended the session. He mentioned to Sinatra that some people had reservations about him singing "That's What God Looks Like to Me." Sinatra uttered some expletives and told Billy that he liked it and wanted to record it. Case closed.
O'Brien says he much prefers the small group concert version on "For the Good Times." The song doesn't need the 101 strings sound and Eileen Farrell.
Kenny Lucas:
To me this session has the least interesting songs on " Trilogy " " That's What God Looks Like " is terrible
" Love Me Tender " he should have used the Nelson Riddle up- tempo arrangement from 1960 "For The Good Times " Dreadful arrangement,
Ed O'Brien:
Billy May was dumbfounded regarding Frank's insistence that "That's What God Looks Like To Me". be on the album. He tried to talk Frank out of it. Billy saw Frank sing it in concert. He immediately realized it was not a Sinatra song. Vinnie Falcone told me Frank ran down the Beatles "In My Life" and two of Bob Dylan's songs, "Girl From The North Country" and "Forever Young." All three are eminently superior to what was done at the 8-21-79 session. The musicians I spoke to, from the session, couldn't understand why Frank used a 48 piece orchestra, a choral group of 16, plus Eileen Farrell on "For The Good Times." His vocal sound was so superb in the summer/fall of 79. The vast sound around him was really overkill.
New York City
XNY2109 Isn't She Lovely? w/Chorus
(Stevie Wonder)
Black Bull Music, inc./Jobete Music Co. Inc. (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Don Costa
(2:03) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 18
XNY2100 Just The Way You Are
(Billy Joel)
Impulsive Music (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Don Costa
(3:26) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 18
CD: 2300-2 Trilogy
LP: 3FS2300 Trilogy
XNY2105 Song Sung Blue w/Chorus
(Neil Diamond)
Sony Tunes Inc. (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Don Costa
(2:44) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 18
CD: 2300-2 Trilogy
LP: 3FS2300 Trilogy
NOTE: Ed O'Brien points out that the Stevie Wonder song was not issued on the "Trilogy" set. Sinatra felt it was too personal a statement for another singer to be associated with on a record.
The initial concept for the Billy Joel song was an attempt to capture his sound in the recording. Don Costa didn't agree with the idea and eventually convinced Sinatra to give it the Sinatra "treatment." O'Brien asks if anyone can tell him why Sinatra recorded "Song Sung Blue." There has to be hundreds of better songs from the 60s and 70s!
William B. Williams, WNEW Radio, New York City
William B. intervies Sinatra 6 mins.
NOTE: Ed O'Brien reports that Sinatra discussed "Trilogy" and Sinatra's upcoming dates at Resorts International.
Television
NONE
[Rerecording Trilogy's "The Past" in the Heat]
Amid brush fires and near-90-degree heat on Sunset Boulevard, Frank rerecorded material for Trilogy's first record with Billy May, declaring of "My Shining Hour" that he'd been wanting to record it for thirty-five years.
Source: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).
[Open-Air Concert at the Pyramids, Egypt]
As part of a three-day charity gala, Sinatra gave an open-air concert in Egypt with the Pyramids as a backdrop, performing for roughly a thousand guests seated on Persian carpets; the event raised about $500,000 for charity.
Source: Derek Jewell, Frank Sinatra: A Celebration (New York: Applause Books, 1999).
[Just the Way You Are / Song Sung Blue / Isn't She Lovely -- critical commentary]
Vincent Falcone / Sid Cooper: These three bouncier Present tracks were all taped in New York on August 22, 1979. Falcone: 'I couldn't stand "Song Sung Blue" at the time, and I still hate it! The only thing that made it worthwhile was Don's chart.' On Billy Joel's 'Just the Way You Are,' Falcone demonstrated to Sinatra how it could work as a swing number, prompting Sinatra to have Costa scrap his half-finished medium-slow chart and start over as a Basie-style dance track -- Costa 'got a little angry with me because I caused him to have to redo the whole thing.' Sax section member Sid Cooper called the resulting chart 'a wonderful arrangement... one of the few times that we could swing a little bit.'
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)
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (September 3-9)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, Jr.
Key Musicians: Irv Cottler, Charles Turner, Gene Cherico, Al Viola, Joe
Malin
O.A. Pat Henry
Song List:
1. The Song Is You
2. Street Of Dream
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
3. Yesterday
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5. Something
6. The Best Is Yet To Come
7. I Can't Get Started
8. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
9. Gal That Got Away/It Never Entered My Mind monologue
10. My Kind Of Town
11. All The Way
12. Bewitched
13. I've Got You Under My Skin
14. You And Me
15. New York, New York
Ed O'Brien:
Frank was beginning to introduce the songs from the "Trilogy" project. He did three opening night and would also sing, later on in the engagement, "More Than You Know."
Here is an interesting review from the Atlantic City Press The Grand Canyon never disappoints. One cannot walk to the edge, stare into the vast golden-purple vale and shrug: "This is it? This is the Grand Canyon?" It overwhelms, majestic enough to silence the most doubting of Thomases.
Frank Sinatra, like the canyon or Mount Rushmore or Old Faithful, defies analysis. One accepts the way time has treated his voice as easily as one accepts the erosion of Rushmore. And if Old Faithful misses a beat as it sends forth it shining glory, who complains?
To see Sinatra perform is to see Sinatra. Not just to hear, but to see: the swirling cigarette smoke, the snifter leaving rings on the shining piano, the seamed face suddenly reflective and gentle in mid-lyric, the joyful stride across the stage as he snatches the melody from the orchestra at the last instant. Like Merlin reborn in tuxedo and patent leather shoes, Sinatra casts his spell over an audience already waiting open-mouthed to be hypnotized.
Lawrence Toppman
September 1979
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (September 3-9)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, Jr.
Key Musicians: Irv Cottler, Charles Turner, Gene Cherico, Al Viola, Joe
Malin
O.A. Pat Henry
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (September 3-9)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, Jr.
Key Musicians: Irv Cottler, Charles Turner, Gene Cherico, Al Viola, Joe
Malin
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (September 3-9)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, Jr.
Key Musicians: Irv Cottler, Charles Turner, Gene Cherico, Al Viola, Joe Malin
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. Street Of Dreams
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Yesterday
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. Something
7. I Can't Get Started With You
8. More Than You Know
9. The Best Is Yet To Come
10. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
11. The Gal That Got Away - It Never Entered My Mind
12. monologue
13. My Kind Of Town
14. All The Way
15. Bewitched
16. I've Got You Under My Skin
17. You And Me
18. New York, New York
NOTE: Ed O'Brien writes that this was a great engagement. Sinatra was in fine form and, as you can see from the program, it was all A+ material
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (September 3-9)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, Jr.
Key Musicians: Irv Cottler, Charles Turner, Gene Cherico, Al Viola, Joe Malin
Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, Jr.
Friday evening
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. Street Of Dreams
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Yesterday
5. Something
6. The Best Is Yet To Come
7. I Can't Get Started (V. Falcone arg.)
8. Don't Worry 'Bout Me (B. May arg.)
9. Gal That Got Away/It Never Entered My Mind
10. monologue
11. Sinatra offered three songs from film musicals he starred in through the years.
12. My Kind Of Town
13. All The Way
14. Bewitched
15. I've Got You Under My Skin
16. You And Me
17. New York, New York
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (September 3-9)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, Jr.
Key Musicians: Irv Cottler, Charles Turner, Gene Cherico, Al Viola, Joe Malin
Friday evening
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. Street Of Dreams
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Yesterday
5. Something
6. The Best Is Yet To Come
7. I Can't Get Started (V. Falcone arg.)
8. Don't Worry 'Bout Me (B. May arg.)
9. Gal That Got Away/It Never Entered My Mind
10. monologue
11. Sinatra offered three songs from film musicals he starred in through the years.
12. My Kind Of Town
13. All The Way
14. Bewitched
15. I've Got You Under My Skin
16. You And Me
17. New York, New York
Sid Mark, WYNY Radio, New York
Sid interviews Sinatra at Resorts International in Atlantic City. This was broadcast on September 15, 1979 16 mins.
Resorts International, Atlantic City , New Jersey (September 3-9)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, Jr.
Key Musicians: Irv Cottler, Charles Turner, Gene Cherico, Al Viola, Joe Malin
1. I've Got The World On a String
2. Street Of Dreams
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Yesterday
5. Something
6. The Best Is Yet To Come
7. I Can't Get Started
8. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
9. Medley The Gal That Got Away -
It Never Entered My Mind
10. Monologue #1
11. My Kind Of Town
12. All The Way
13. Bewitched
14. I've Got You Under My Skin
15. Monologue #2
16. You And Me
17. New York , New York
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Key Musicians: Irv Cottler (drums), Charles Turner (trumpet), Gene Cherico (bass), Al Viola (guitar), Joe Malin (concert master)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. Street Of Dreams
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Yesterday
5. Something
6. The Best Is Yet To Come
7. I Can't Get Started
8. Don't Worry 'bout Me
9. medley: The Gal The Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
10. monologue
11. My Kind Of Town
12. All The Way
13. Bewitched
14. I've Got You Under My Skin
15. intro's
16. You And Me
17. New York, New York
18. chaser: "My Way"
Notes: TT 60mins.
Sid Mark, WYNY Radio, New York
Sid interviews Sinatra at Resorts International in Atlantic City . This was taped on September 8, 1979 16 mins.
Los Angeles
XCA9301 All Of You
(Cole Porter)
Chappell & Co. Inc. (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Billy May
-12 (1:42) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 18
CD: 2300-2 Trilogy
LP: 3FS2300 Trilogy
XCA9300 My Shining Hour
w/Chorus
(Johnny Mercer/Harold Arlen)
MPL Communications inc. (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Billy May
(3:23) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 18
CD: 9-26340-2 The Reprise Collection
CD: 2300-2 Trilogy
LP: 3FS2300 Trilogy
XCA9302 More Than You Know
w/Chorus
(Billy Rose/Edward Eliscu/Vincent Youmans)
Anne-Rachel Music Corp./WB Music Corp./The Songwriters Guild (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Billy May
(3:24) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 18
CD: 9-26340-2The Reprise Collection
CD: 2300-2 Trilogy
LP: 3FS2300 Trilogy
NOTE: Ed O'Brien says that at the July session for
"Trilogy," Sinatra down " Surrey with the Fringe on
Top" with a swinging Billy May arrangement. He told May it had "too many words." When he re-did "The
Past" in September, the substitute for " Surrey " was Cole Porter's "All of You." Sinatra did 12 takes and it was a flawless recording, but he never sang it in concert.
O'Brien told May that he thought "My Shining Hour" was the best recording on Trilogy's "The Past" portion. May seconded O'Brien's opinion. Sinatra did four takes. The July effort was much inferior. Sinatra knew he could do much better and did. Unfortunately, he never sang the tune onstage, but he did sing seven of the ten songs in concert settings.
When Sinatra realized that he had never recorded "More Than You Know," he was shocked. In the 1940s he had performed the song on radio but never got to record it. Well, the recording he made was worth the wait. His reading of the verse is exquisite and May gave him a beautiful arrangement. "The Past" is a fine production.
VANCE ADAIR added:
The Billy May record on 'Trilogy' is superb. The arrangements are beautifully conceived and Sinatra delivers top drawer performances throughout. 'My Shining Hour' is certainly a highlight. The tenderness of FS's interpretation of the song never fails to move me.
Ed then responded:
The difference between the unissued July recording and the released September effort is amazing. Sinatra's
effort on the verse from July is perfunctory. The reading done on his re-recording is simply exquisite. The July
attempt was done in four takes and the September in eight.
Billy May told me how sorry he was that Sinatra and Riddle had become so estranged. He wasn't surprised that
Riddle turned down the opportunity to arrange the album. He also told me that he was simply thrilled with the chance
to do it. Billy felt it was the second best of the albums done with F.S. His top choice was "Swing Along With Me." I would
opt for "Come Dance" and then "Come Fly." Actually all of the Sinatra-May are great fun to hear, even the indifferent "Come
Swing . . . "
Los Angeles
B
XCA9294 The Song Is You
(Oscar hammerstein II/Jerome Kern)
Poly-Gram International Publishing Co. inc. (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Billy May
(2:40) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 18
CD: 9-26340-2The Reprise Collection
CD: 2300-2 Trilogy
LP: 3FS2300 Trilogy
XCA9295 But Not For Me
w/Chorus
(George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin)
WB Music Corp. (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Billy May
(3:51) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 18
CD: 2300-2 Trilogy
LP: 3FS2300 Trilogy
XCA9299 Street Of Dreams
(Sam M. Lewis/Victor Young)
EMI Miller Catalog Inc. (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Billy May
(3:32) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 18
CD: 2300-2 Trilogy
LP: 3FS2300 Trilogy
XCA9303 They All Laughed
(George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin)
Chappell & Co. inc./Gershwin Publishing Corp. (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Billy May
(2:50) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 18
CD: 2300-2 Trilogy
LP: 3FS2300 Trilogy
NOTE: Ed O'Brien says these four recordings were re-done from the July sessions. "The Song is You" is a tone higher, but Sinatra only goes for the high note on "sing" once. He went for it twice at the July sessions.
"But Not for Me" has the verse in the middle of the song. When Sinatra did it in concert, the verse started the song and he dropped the second chorus.
O'Brien thinks the July effort on "Street of Dreams" is better and he doesn't see a lot of difference between "They All Laughed" of July and that of September except the latter is done in a higher register.
Los Angeles
XCA9298 Let's Face The Music And Dance
(Irving Berlin)
Williamson Music Co. (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Billy May
(2:50) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 18
CD: 2300-2 Trilogy
LP: 3FS2300 Trilogy
XNY2103 Theme From New York, New York
w/Pete Jolly on piano
(Fred Ebb/John Kander)
EMI Unart Catalog Inc. (BMI)
Arranged by Don Costa
Conducted by Vencent Falcone, Jr.
(3:26) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 18
CD: 9-26340-2 The Reprise Collection
CD: 2300-2 Trilogy
LP: 3FS2300 Trilogy
45: RPS49233
note: There were six takes for "New York, New York."
Ed
The unissued recording, 8-20-79, featured Vinnie Falcone on piano. Frank asked Vinnie to conduct the 9-19-79 session,
so Pete Jolly is the pianist. Vinnie so wished Reprise would issue the earlier attempt.
Ed
"Theme from New York, New York" began as a modest hit for Liza Minnelli from the Martin Scorsese film of the same name. Frank began performing it in concert in 1978 as an opener at Radio City Music Hall, gradually reworking it into a bigger, brassier showstopper before recording this definitive Don Costa arrangement, which would become his signature closing number for the rest of his career. Source: J. Randy Taraborrelli, Sinatra: Behind the Legend.
Frank and Barbara dined with Egyptian President and Mrs. Anwar Sadat in Cairo, where he performed at the foot of the pyramids in Giza for a charity favored by Mrs. Sadat, raising over half a million dollars for an orphan hospital; Sadat sent a telegram calling it unforgettable.
Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.
"Sinatra In Egypt," Pyramids, Cairo, Egypt
Faith and Hope Rehabilitation Center Benefit
Orchestra conducted by: Vinnie Falcone
Key Musicians: Al Viola, Gene Cherico, Irv Cottler
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. overture
2. The Song Is You
3. Where Or When
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. Something
7. My Kind Of Town
8. All The Way
9. Bewitched
10. I've Got You Under My Skin
11. Medley The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
12. monologue
13. Try A Little Tenderness w/ Al Viola (guitar)
14. Strangers In The Night w/Quintet
15. Street of Dreams
16. April In Paris
17. New York, New York
18. My Way
Notes: TT 83 min.
Ed O'Brien says that "Strangers in the Night" was done with a quintet. Vinnie Falcone told O'Brien the reason was simple.
They had forgotten the music. Sinatra had Vinnie do a quick chart with the small group sound. When Sinatra finished the song, he said "Interesting"
ABC wouldn't pay the price to televise the event. Wish they had. It would really be something watching Sinatra sing in front of all those "colossal wreck(s), boundless and bare" with "the lone and level sands stretch(ing) far away." {Thanks, Percy Bysshe Shelley!)
"Sinatra In Egypt," Pyramids, Cairo, Egypt
Rehearsal afternoon of 9-27-79
Interview with Thomas Hoving for ABC 20/20 broadcast. Entire interview is in circulation among collectors
The Pyramids benefit -- billed as “Sinatra In Egypt” -- was a benefit for the Faith and Hope Rehabilitation Center; Wikipedia specifies it raised more than $500,000 for charities associated with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's wife. Source: Wikipedia, “Frank Sinatra.”
20/20 Segment
Sinatra In Egypt. Unedited Interview, Rehearsal & Preparing
Ed O'Brien points out that 20/20 carried a segment of the extensive interview with Thomas Hoving.
Orchestra Hall, Chicago, Illinois
Benefit
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Sammy Davis Jr. was set to share the bill with
Frank in Chicago. A heavy fog at the New York airport
stopped the planned takeoff. Sammy did the benefit
minus "The Leader."
Around the same time,
Sammy had the following
comments on Frank during an interview:
"There are no more Sinatras. He is one of a kind. He is just
the best there is. And when he is gone there won't be another
one.. Don't tell me about the John Davidsons . . . . Good, bad
or indifferent, enjoy him. Even on a so-so night, you can learn
from him. There's never been another performer who could phrase
a note like him, who could do what he does with a microphone.
And when he's cookin', look out. He is simply the best there is.
There is no other way to say it."
Ed
Sinatra served as Grand Marshal of the Columbus Day Parade
Before serving as Grand Marshall of the Columbus Day Parade, Sinatra attends a special mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City, NY.
Man directly in front of Frank was Mario Cuomo.
He was the lieutenant governor of New York at the time. He would go on to be the governor for three terms. Mario was a great admirer of Tony Bennett.
Frank is photographed receiving Communion at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York, inadvertently revealing to his family that his 1939 marriage to first wife Nancy had been secretly annulled by the Catholic Church at his request and that he had since remarried Barbara twice more, in Palm Beach and at St. Patrick's, without inviting his children to either ceremony. Nancy and Tina were, by multiple accounts, deeply hurt by the deception. Source: J. Randy Taraborrelli, Sinatra: Behind the Legend.
Waldorf Astoria , New York City
World Mercy Benefit
1. New York, New York
1. Something
2. The Best is Yet to Come
3. I Can't Get Started
4. It was a Very Good Year
5. Street of Dreams
6. Bewitched
7. The Lady is a Tramp
8.. My Way
Ed O'Brien:
We have here the first anniversary, well almost, of Frank's performance of Kander & Ebb's "New York, New York." He would perform the song as the opening number until his Saratoga concert of 6-22-79. That evening he electrified a crowd of 7,000 plus by closing his performance with a dynamite rendition of the song. From October 13, 1978 until the summer of 1979, the tune would evolve until Frank's version became a series of defiant declarative sentences. It is interesting that a year after introducing the song Frank would once again use it as his opening number. This was very unusual because it had become the final number of almost every concert after Saratoga. I wonder if he checked the calendar.
Waldorf Astoria , New York City
World Mercy Benefit
Thanks to Carl Rasmussen for supplying the image below:
Frank Sinatra belts out "The Lady is a Tramp" and Geraldine UNITED STATES - OCTOBER 12: Frank Sinatra belts out "The Lady is a Tramp" and Geraldine (better known as comedian Flip Wilson) refuses to let a feather boa constrict her on stage at the Waldorf-Astoria. Sinatra was being honored at the bash at which he received the World Mercy Fund's Award for his humanitarian efforts on behalf of the fund's programs to aid the needy in West Africa. (Photo by Hy Simon/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)
Veterans Memorial Coliseum, New Haven, Conn.
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. The Song Is You
2. Just The Way You Are
3. I've Got The World On A String
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Yesterday
6. Something
7. I've Got You Under My Skin
8. The Best Is Yet To Come
9. I Can't Get Started
10. monologue
11. My Kind Of Town
12. All The Way
13. Bewitched
14. You And Me
15. Street Of Dreams
16. It Was A Very Good Year
17. New York, New York
Notes: TT 66mins.
Civic Center, Providence, Rhode Island
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. The Song Is You
2. Just The Way You Are
3. I've Got The World On A String
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Yesterday
6. Something
7. I've Got You Under My Skin
8. The Best Is Yet To Come
9. I Can't Get Started
10. monologue
11 My Kind Of Town
12. All The Way
13. Bewitched
14. You And Me
15. Street Of Dreams
16. It Was A Very Good Year
17. New York, New York
Notes: TT 70mins.
Cumberland Civic Center, Portland, Maine
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. The Song Is You
2. Just The Way You Are
3. I've Got The World On A String
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Yesterday
6. Something
7. I've Got You Under My Skin
8. The Best Is Yet To Come
9. I Can't Get Started
10. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
11. monologue
12. My Kind Of Town
13. All The Way
14. Bewitched
15. You And Me
16. Street Of Dreams
17. New York, New York
Cumberland Civic Center, Portland, Maine
Longview News-Journal (Longview, Texas) · 17 Oct 1979
Frank Sinatra performs at the Cumberland County Civic Center, on Oct. 15, 1979. Photos by Gordon Chibroski/Staff Photographer Thanks to Carl Rasmussen for the above photos
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The Forum, Montreal
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Tuesday evening
1. The Song Is You
2. Just The Way You Are
3.. I've Got The World On A String
4.The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Yesterday
6. Something
7. I've Got You Under My Skin
8. The Best Is Ywt To Come
9. I Can't Get Started
10. Gal That Got Away/Never Entered My Mind monologue
11. My Kind Of Town
12. All The Way
13. Bewitched
14. You And Me
15. Street Of Deams
16. New York, New York
October 17, 1979 The Forum, Montreal, Quebec
note: Frank wanted to be in and out of Montreal. But the weather got in his
way. Original plan had him traveling to and fro from Dorval to The Forum
via copter. The uncertain forecast convinced him to switch to limo travel.
Ed
Buffalo Memorial Auditorium, Buffalo, New York
1. The Song Is You
2. Just The Way You Are
3. I've Got The World On A String
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Yesterday
6. Something
7. I've Got You Under My Skin
8. The Best Is Yet To Come
9. I Can't Get Started
10. Medley: The Gal That Got Away - It Never Entered My Mind
11. Monologue
12. My Kind Of Town
13. All The Way
14. Bewitched
15. You And Me
16. Street Of Dreams
17. It Was A Very Good Year
18. New York, New York
TT 81 min.
Broome County Arena, Binghampton, New York
Saturday evening
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. The Song Is You
2. Just The Way You Are
3. I've Got The World On A String
4.The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Yesterday
6. Something
7. I've Got You Under My Skin
8. The Best Is Ywt To Come
9. I Can't Get Started
10. Gal That Got Away/Never Entered My Mind monologue
11. My Kind Of Town
12. All The Way
13. Bewitched
14. You And Me
15. Street Of Deams
16. It Was A Very Good Year
17. New York, New York
Notes: TT 83mins.
Broome County Arena, Binghampton, New York
Saturday evening
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
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***Cancelled
1989 Bally's Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada (19-22)
Orchestra Conducted By: Frank Sinatra, Jr.
Frank's Bally engagement was from October 19 thru the 22.
Three of the Vegas resorts, including Bally's and Caesars, were struck by musicians in a dispute over guaranteed pay and the use of taped music. On Monday (16), Sinatra issued a statement supporting the musicians and announced he would not cross the picket lines if the strike was not settled by Thursday (19). It was not and Sinatra cancelled. Former President Ronald Reagan refused to honor the musicians request and gave a speech to car-rental executives on the 18th at Caesars. Frank's appearance was rescheduled for November 16-19. The strike continued and Frank was a no-show. But he did announce in late November that his two scheduled appearances in December ( 4-9 and 26-31) would take place. In his released statement, Frank said, "The holiday season is here and it's time for everyone to get back to work." Strike was not settled and Frank canceled the early December dates. In another statement, he gave this explanation: "A settlement of the strike is near and I don't want to interfere in the negotiations." Bally's retaliated by cancelling the scheduled engagement closing out the old year. Then they fired him.
Bally's quickly realized they had overreacted and Frank, with the strike settled, opened at Bally's on March 8 for a four day engagement. Ed
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Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (21-27)
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (October 23 to 25)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Tuesday evening
1. The Song Is You
2. Just The Way You Are
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Yesterday
5. Something
6. I've Got You Under My Skin monologue
7. Young At Heart Al Viola on guitar
8. For The Good Times w/quintet
9. I Can't Get Started
10. You And Me
11. Street Of Dreams
12. It Was A Very Good Year
13. April In Paris
14. A Foggy Day
15. New York, New York
Note: TT 62mins.
Ed O'Brien:
"Trilogy" would not be issued until late March of 1980, but here we have Frank doing seven of the songs from the set. He also closed the show with three tunes that were tributes to great cities in world. His recordings of those tunes were all definitive.
October 23 to 25
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
O.A. Pat Henry
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Tuesday evening
1. The Song Is You
2. Just The Way You Are
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Yesterday
5. Something
6. I've Got You Under My Skin monologue
7. Young At Heart Al Viola on guitar
8. For The Good Times w/quintet
9. I Can't Get Started
10. You And Me
11. Street Of Dreams
12. It Was A Very Good Year
13. April In Paris
14. A Foggy Day
15. New York, New York
Atlantic City Press
October 25, 1979
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (October 23 to 25)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (23-25) First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. The Song Is You
2. Just the Way You Are
3. The Lady Is a Tramp
4. Yesterday
5. Something
6. I've Got You Under My Skin
7. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. For the Good Times
9. I Can't Get Started
10. You and Me (We Wanted It All)
11. Street of Dreams
12. It Was a Very Good Year
13. April in Paris
14. A Foggy Day
15. Theme From New York, New York
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Second Show
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. The Song Is You
2. Just the Way You Are
3. The Lady Is a Tramp
4. Yesterday
5. Something
6. I've Got You Under My Skin
7. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. For the Good Times
9. I Can't Get Started
10. You and Me (We Wanted It All)
11. Street of Dreams
12. It Was a Very Good Year
13. April in Paris
14. A Foggy Day
15. Theme From New York, New York
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
7:30pm Show
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
11:00pm Show
Metropolitan Opera House, New York City w/Robert Merrill, Shireley Verrett, Beverly Sills, Itzhak Perlman Sloan Kettering Benefit
Soprano Beverly Sills, General Manager of the New York City Opera, insisted the Sinatra close the star-studded show and, reluctantly, he did.
1. The Song is You
2. At Long Last Love (Riddle arg. 1956)
3. The Lady is a Tramp
4. Someone to Watch Over Me
5. Here's that Rainy Day
6. Something
7. I Can't Get Started
8. I've Got You Under my Skin
9. Gal that Got Away/Never Entered my Mind
Lawrence Rockefeller lauds Sinatra, presents plaque "Frank Sinatra, M.D." plus stethoscope and I.D. blessed by the Pope. Sinatra makes a few remarks including "Ol' Blue Eyes has finally made it to the Met."
10. It Was a Very Good Year ("More than a song. It's a happening")
11. New York , New York (standing ovation)
12. Guys and Dolls - Sinatra, Merrill, and Sills
13. Guys and Dolls - (Reprise, same as above, standing ovation)
14. Guys and Dolls - second reprise
NOTE: Sinatra Scholar Ed O'Brien points out that this was Sinatra's one and only experience at this hallowed hall. Here is an excerpt from his extensive conversation with Vinnie Falcone regarding that evening:
"We did a benefit at the Metropolitan Opera. In the wings, I told him how nervous I was. He told me that he was, too. Then he said: "Your nervousness, that's your problem." (Laughs.) That was him. You had to defend yourself and maintain your stature. He was your best friend if you did."
note: I should have added Frank's follow up. After telling Vinnie that it was "his problem," Frank looked at him and said, "You'll figure it out." There were more than 4,000 concert goers in attendance that evening." Ed
Sinatraphile Jim White says there are more details on this performance on Pages 102 and 103 in Falcone and Bob Popyk's book, FRANKLY JUST BETWEEN US: MY LIFE CONDUCTING FRANK SINATRA'S MUSIC published in 2005 by Hal-Leonard Corporation. The book is still available and he highly recommends it. ISBN 0-634-09498- X. Unfortunately, the book does not have an index..
Metropolitan Opera House, New York City w/Robert Merrill, Shireley Verrett, Beverly Sills, Itzhak Perlman Sloan Kettering Benefit
Frank Sinatra and Itzhak Perlman
October 9, 2020:
Barbara Davis, L.A.'s Grand Dame of Philanthropy, Turns 90: "I Have to Wish for Peace and Love" Remembering Frank at The Metropolitan Opera, 10-29-79
Do you have a most memorable benefit night?
Probably [the first ball], when "Uncle Frank" [Frank Sinatra] performed. We used to go to Palm Springs a lot, and one day, we were on the 13th [golf] fairway, and Frank was on the 10th. Somehow we all became best friends, and he became "Uncle Frank." That Friday night, we went to dinner, and he said to Dana, "I'm so sorry that you got this illness, but you know what? I'm going to put together a big event and I'm going to sing and we're going to raise a lot of money." She said, "Uncle Frank, who would pay anything to hear you sing?" She had no idea what Uncle Frank did. Uncle Frank came and sang that first year, and it was just great.
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[Burying Ruby by Sundown]
Nancy Sinatra: When his close friend, restaurateur Irwin "Ruby" Rubinstein, died over a holiday weekend, Sinatra called the cemetery and was told the gravediggers were off until the following Tuesday. Furious, he lectured the cemetery manager about the Jewish tradition of burial by sundown the day after death, offered to pay any amount of overtime, and, when the man wouldn't budge, joked to Frank Jr. that he'd go punch him in the nose. In his eulogy, Sinatra called Rubinstein "a warm feast in a cold forest."
Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.
Boston Music Hall, Boston, Mass
Friday evening
Fund raiser for Ronald Reagan
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Other Performers: Dean Martin
Martin opened the entertainment portion of the evening
1. The Song Is You
2. At Last Love
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Someone To Watch Over Me
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. I Can't Get Started
7. I've Got You Under My Skin monologue
8. Gal That Got Away/Never Entered My Mind
9. It Was A Very Good Year (loud noise during the song
Frank joked that one of the girls in the song had just fallen down)
10. New York, New York
Dean joined Frank on stage. He responded in song to
Frank's queries regarding famous politicians of the time.
Sinatra was a great straight man and the political parodies Martin sang were a riot.
The two men closed the show with a medley of songs.
Notes: TT 67mins.
Ed also noted:
Press conference preceding concert
Reagan, Sinatra, Dean Martin answered questions posed by the Boston press. The future president could not stop laughing at Martin's responses
Sinatra was wary and rather sharp when answering a question. Barbara was with Frank and Nancy Reagan was also in attendance. There was no TV broadcast. The local Boston stations showed brief excerpts. The press conference and concert were taped.
Boston Music Hall, Boston, Mass
Friday evening
Fund raiser for Ronald Reagan
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (8-14)
Opening Night
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. The Song Is You
2. Just The Way You Are
3. I've Got You Under My Skin
4. Yesterday
5. I've Got The World On A String
6. Young At Heart
7. For The Good Times
8. I Can't Get Started
9. monologue
10. You And Me
11. Street Of Dreams
12. It Was A Very Good Year
13. April In Paris
14. A Foggy Day
15. New York, New York
Notes: TT 62mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (8-14)
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. The Song Is You
2. Just The Way You Are
3. I've Got You Under My Skin
4. Something
5. I've Got The World On A String
6. Young At Heart
7. For The Good Times
8. I Can't Get Started
9. monologue
10. You And Me
11. Street Of Dreams
12. April In Paris
13. A Foggy Day
14. New York, New York
Notes: TT 57mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (8-14)
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. The Song Is You
2. Just The Way You Are
3. I've Got You Under My Skin
4. Something
5. I've Got The World On A String
6. Young At Heart
7. For The Good Times
8. I Can't Get Started
9. monologue
10. You And Me
11. Street Of Dreams
12. It Was A Very Good Year
13. April In Paris
14. A Foggy Day
15. New York, New York
Notes: TT 60mins.
Hilton Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas Boys Club Benefit
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. New York, New York
Hilton Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas Boys Club Benefit
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. New York, New York
note: Frank opened Thursday night(8) and did two shows
on Friday. Between shows that night, he rushed over to
the Hilton and did the Boys Club Benefit. I was
told he did five songs.
--Ed
Carl R. supplied the following:
On November 9, 1979, Hilton hosted Frank Sinatra's benefit dinner for the St. Jude Children's Ranch in Boulder City, Nevada. This benefit was attended by 1,600 people who contributed more than $108,000 and saw such stars as Tony Bennett, Joan Rivers, Jerry Lewis, Fred Travalena, Sylvester Stallone, Susan Anton, Rich Little, Freddie Roman, Liberace, Marlene Ricci, Pat Henry, Jackie Gayle, Robert Goulet, Wayne Newton, and Dave Barry. Ed McMahon was the Master of Ceremonies. Sinatra sang I Can't Get Started, A Foggy Day, and Young At Heart.
Before he left the stage, Sinatra told the $50 and $100-a-plate gathering, "You'll always be young at heart because of what you are doing here tonight."
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (8-14)
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. The Song Is You
2. Just The Way You Are
3. I've Got You Under My Skin
4. Something
5. I've Got The World On A String
6. monologue
7. September Song
8. Young At Heart
9. For The Good Times
10. I Can't Get Started
11. You And Me
12. Street Of Dreams
13. It Was A Very Good Year
14. My Kind Of Town
15. A Foggy Day
16. New York, New York
Notes: TT 62mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (8-14)
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. The Song Is You
2. Just The Way You Are
3. I've Got You Under My Skin
4. Something
5. I've Got The World On A String
6. monologue
7. It Had To Be You
8. Young At Heart
9. For The Good Times
10. You And Me
11. Street Of Dreams
12. It Was A Very Good Year
13. My Kind Of Town
14. A Foggy Day
15. New York, New York
Notes: TT 59mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (8-14)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Ed O'Brien:
Frank opened this engagement with a midnight show on Thursday (8th -- technically it was the 9th), Friday, he did a dinner show, a benefit at the Hilton for the Las Vegas Boys Club and then back to Caesars for a midnight show. Saturday he did two shows at Caesars. Sunday, Frank flew back to Los Angeles and presented the Scopus Award at 8 o'clock and then did a midnight show at Caesars. He cancelled the Monday show ( 12) and closed out the engagement with single shows on Tuesday and Wednesday. His opening acts were Marlene Ricci and Pat Henry.
Century Plaza, Los Angeles, CA
Sinatra was Master of Ceremonies for the 10 Annual Scopus Award
corrected cancellation date
Cancelled
Century Plaza, Los Angeles, CA
Sinatra was Master of Ceremonies for the 10 Annual Scopus Award
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corrected cancellation date
Cancelled
1981 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."
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (8-14)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. Just The Way You Are
3. I've Got You Under My Skin
4. Something
5. The Song Is You
6. monologue
7. Young At Heart
8. I Can't Get Started
9. For The Good Times
10. You And Me
11. Street Of Dreams
12. It Was A Very Good Year
13. Try A Little Tenderness
14. My Kind Of Town
15. A Foggy Day
16. New York, New York
Notes: TT 71mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (9-15)
Closing Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. Just The Way You Are
3. I've Got You Under My Skin
4. Something
5. The Song Is You
6. Young At Heart
7. I Can't Get Started
8. Summer Me, Winter Me
9. You And Me
10. Street Of Dreams
11. It Was A Very Good Year
12. monologue
13. My Kind Of Town
14. A Foggy Day
15. New York, New York
Notes: TT 69mins.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Opening Night
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turnner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Vinnie Falcone, jr. (piano)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. Just The Way You Are
3. I've Got You Under My Skin
4. I've Got You Under My Skin (Reprise)
5. Something
6. They All Laughed
7. saloon intro:
8. saloon medley: Last Night When We Were Young / Violets For Your Furs / Here's That Rainy Day
9. monologue
10. It Had To Be You
11. Summer Me, Winter Me
12. I Can't Get Started
13. Street Of Dreams
14. It Was A Very Good Year
15. intros:
16. My Kind Of Town
17. A Foggy Day
18. New York, New York
19. introduction: Burt Lancaster
20. My Way
21. chaser "My Way"
Notes: TT 71mins.
Author Ed O'Brien calls this a "great engagement." Sinatra had two-thirds of "Trilogy" in the can and he introduced a number of the songs during this stint at Resorts. Burt Lancaster was filming Louie Malle's "Atlantic City" and attended two shows. Frank was most generous with this fine actor during audience introductions. He did some of the "Trilogy" recordings with a much smaller sound plus a terrific "city segment" including the song destined to replace "My Way" as his signature tune. He told some great stories and sang like an angel.
Vance Adair added:
FS turned in some terrific performances at Resorts in 1979. The well known December engagements find him in a very relaxed and agreeable disposition. And the singing is superb.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turnner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Vinnie Falcone, jr. (piano)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. Just The Way You Are
3. I've Got You Under My Skin
4. I've Got You Under My Skin (Reprise)
5. Something
6. The Song Is You
7. It Had To Be You
8. Summer Me, Winter Me
9. I Can't Get Started
10. intros & monologue
11. saloon Intro:
12. saloon medley: Last Night When We Were Young / Violets For Your Furs - Here's That Rainy Day
13. Street Of Dreams
14. talk: 40 Years In Show Business, Quote
15. It Was A Very Good Year
16. talk: Dolly stories, joke
17. My Kind Of Town
18. A Foggy Day
19. New York, New York
20. chaser "My Way"
Notes: monologue included Atlantic City, Gambling Talk, Toast. All tracks included in recording. TT 72mins.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turnner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Vinnie Falcone, jr. (piano)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
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Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turnner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Vinnie Falcone, jr. (piano)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. Just The Way You Are
3. I've Got You Under My Skin
4. I've Got You Under My Skin (reprise)
5. Something
6. The Song Is You
7. saloon intro
8. saloon medley: Last Night When We Were Young / Violets For Your Furs - Here's That Rainy Day
9. monologue
10. It Had To Be You
11. Summer Me, Winter Me
12. I Can't Get Started
13. band introductions & talk
14. Street Of Dreams
15. talk: 40th Anniversary in showbiz
16. It Was A Very Good Year
17. My Kind Of Town
18. A Foggy Day
19. New York, New York
20. chaser "My Way"
Notes: TT 73mins.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Thanksgiving
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turnner
(trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Vinnie Falcone, jr. (piano)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. overture
2. I've Got The World On A String
3. Just The Way You Are
4. I've Got You Under My Skin
5. Something
6. The Song Is You
7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. monologue
9. It Had To Be You
10. Summer Me, Winter Me
11. I Can't Get Started
12. band introductions & talk
13. Street Of Dreams
14. It Was A Very Good Year
15. My Kind Of Town
16. A Foggy Day
17. New York, New York
18. chaser "My Way"
Notes: TT 70mins.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turnner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Vinnie Falcone, jr. (piano)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. Just The Way You Are
3. I've Got You Under My Skin
4. Something
5. The Song Is You
6. Medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
7. monologue
8. It Had To Be You
9. Summer Me, Winter Me 10. I Can't Get Started
11. band introductions
12. Street Of Dreams
13. talk
14. It Was A Very Good Year
15. My Kind Of Town
16. A Foggy Day
17. New York, New York
18. chaser "My Way"
Notes: TT 62mins.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turnner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Vinnie Falcone, jr. (piano)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. The Song Is You
2. Just The Way You Are
3. I've Got You Under My Skin
4.. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. Something
7. I've Got The World On A String
8. saloon intro
9. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
10. monologue (gap)
11. But Not For Me
12. Summer Me, Winter Me
13. I Can't Get Started
14. 40th anniversary talk
15. It Was A Very Good Year
16. Street of Dreams
17. talk
18. You And Me
19. Burt Lancaster (in audience) introduction
20. April In Paris
21. A Foggy Day
22. New York, New York
23. chaser "My Way"
Notes: TT 75mins.
Ed O'Brien points out that Sinatra introduced the four musicians who played behind him at the Rustic Cabin. He told the audience that the last time he had seen these men was in 1939. Frank was at the top of his game during this engagement. Nowhere is it more apparent than when he sang "But Not for Me," "Summer Me, Winter Me," and "I Can't Get Started" on that Saturday evening, so long ago now.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Charles Turnner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Vinnie Falcone, jr. (piano)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. Just The Way You Are
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4.. Something
5. I've Got You Under My Skin
6.. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
7. monologue
8. It Had To Be You
9. For The Good Times
10. I Can't Get Started (short gap)
11. Street Of Dreams
12. It Was A Very Good Year
13. My Kind Of Town
14. A Foggy Day
15. New York, New York
16. chaser "My Way"
Notes: Track 16 is included on 15. TT 61mins.
Los Angeles
XNY2108 Something
(George Harrison)
Zero Productions (BMI)
Arranged by Nelson Riddle
Conducted by Vencent Falcone, Jr.
-5 (4:43) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 18
CD: 9-26340-2The Reprise Collection
CD: 2300-2 Trilogy
LP: 3FS2300 Trilogy
Nelson Riddle's arrangement of "Something" for Frank Sinatra was a sweeping, dramatic, and sophisticated rendition, recorded for Sinatra's 1979 Trilogy album, showcasing Riddle's legendary ability to create lush, modern orchestrations that perfectly complemented Sinatra's vocals, even years after their classic Capitol Records era. It's considered one of Riddle's most powerful arrangements, proving their creative partnership remained strong.
"Something"
George Harrison's "Something" was one of the few rock-era songs Sinatra genuinely admired, and its inclusion on "The Present" is often noted for an ironic biographical echo: the Beatles wrote much of the material later gathered on "The White Album," including an early version of "Something," during their 1968 stay in India studying with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -- the same trip on which Mia Farrow, then recently divorced from Sinatra, had gone to study with the group. Commentators have called the connection almost certainly coincidental, but have noted the added resonance of Sinatra singing a song about not leaving a lover, given his own history of departures and being left.
Source: Karina Longworth, "You Must Remember This" podcast, "Frank Sinatra's Trilogy: Past, Present and Future" episode.
[Something -- critical commentary]
By the end of 1977 Sinatra was planning Trilogy, with only one arrangement ultimately by Riddle: George Harrison's 'Something.' Sinatra originally wanted Riddle for the 'Past' section, but by the time recording began the two men's relationship had deteriorated too far, and Billy May got the 'Past' instead. Friedwald argues Riddle's treatments of contemporary songs (as on Strangers in the Night, and 'Something' itself) outclass Don Costa's, and calls 'Something' 'quite possibly the single greatest track on all of the epic Trilogy project' (discussed further in chapter ten).
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. 6, "With Nelson Riddle" (1953-1979)
[Something -- critical commentary]
Frank Sinatra: Friedwald contrasts George Harrison's monodynamic, deliberately spare vocal (Harrison visited a Sinatra session circa 1968) with Sinatra's wide-ranging dynamic reading of 'Something.' Sinatra sometimes misattributed the song to Lennon-McCartney in concert and substituted 'Jack' for 'now' in the lyric, but also declared it 'the greatest love song of the last fifty to a hundred years.' At a September 27, 1979 concert in Egypt (released on World on a String), Sinatra pointed out in his intro that the song 'never once says "I love you."'
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)
All Star Salute To Ingrid Bergman
Sunday Evening
CBS-TV
10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
Guest: Frank Sinatra, Cary Grant, Helen Hayes, James Stewart, Richard Widmark, Joseph Cotton, Jack Albertson, Victor Borge, Peter Falk, Signe Hasso, Monty Hall, Paul Henreid, Goldie Hawn
Orchestra Conducted by Nelson Riddle
Special Appearance: Teddy Wilson, in lieu of Dooley.- piano accompaniment for Mr. Sinatra
Ed O'Brien:
Sinatra was in New York when he learned of the All-Star Salute to Bergman. He contacted the producer and asked for the opport- unity to be part of the tribute. The show was taped on 11-18 and Frank flew from New York, taped it, flew back and opened on 11-19 at Resorts International in Atlantic City.
The Sinatra segment is pure magic. Bergman is sitting at a table, on on the original "Casablanca" set, Teddy Wilson is playing the piano. He asks her to hum "As Time Goes By." Ingrid isn't sure she can do it but tells Teddy she will try. A door directly behind the table opens and out walks Frank, mike in hand. Ingrid turns and is in total shock. She jumps up and touches Frank's cheek. He begins to sing the classic song from "Casablanca" with Wilson backing him with his piano work. After the first chorus, Frank stops and a waiter(original from the film) brings him a drink . Frank raises the glass to Ingrid and gives the following toast: "As the man said, here's looking at you kid." At the conclusion of the song, Cary Grant comes through the same door and the three of them step down into a room filled with celebrities.
Here is Ingrid's memory of that evening from her autobiography: "Teddy Wilson is sitting at the piano in Dooley Wilson's place-- Dooley died some time ago -- and he smiles and asks me to hum "As Time Goes By." I start to hum and I hear a voice behind me take up the song. It's Frank Sinatra. When he finishes I give him a kiss, and I learn afterwards that despite the fact that Frank and I have never worked together and hardly know each other, out of the blue he rang Mike Frankovich, who with Paul Keyes put the whole show together, and said, "I want to be part of Ingrid's tribute because I've always wanted to sing "As Time Goes By" to her. Although Frank is opening in Atlantic City the next night, he's flown three thousand miles to attend our show, sing one song, and fly straight back again. I was very touched by his generous gesture."
Ingrid Bergman: My Story Copyright 1980
All Star Salute To Ingrid Bergman
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CANCELLED
1987 Kennedy Center Honors Perry Como
Note: This show is incorrectly listed as a Sinatra performance in Nancy
Sinatra's Book: Sinatra An American Legend.
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Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
"The First 40 Years" Celebration
Orchestra Conducted By: Don Costa
1. New York, New York
2. It Was A Very Good Year
3. The Best Is Yet To Come
4. monologue
5. I've Got You Under My Skin
6. I've Got The World On A String
Notes: TT 90mins. FS receives the ASCAP Pied Piper Award
Beyond the ASCAP Pied Piper Award, Wikipedia notes Sinatra was also given the Grammy Trustees Award at this "First 40 Years" Caesars Palace celebration marking 40 years in show business and his 64th birthday, and that former President Gerald Ford separately awarded him the International Man of the Year Award that year. Source: Wikipedia, “Frank Sinatra.”
Frank celebrated 40 years in show business on his 64th birthday with a large televised celebration at Caesars Palace, attended by roughly 1,000 guests including Cary Grant, Lucille Ball, Orson Welles, and Dean Martin, with congratulatory telegrams read from Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin.
Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.
Los Angeles
XCA9306 The Future
w Orchestra & Vocal Chorus
Alto solo by Beverly Jenkins
(Gordon Jenkins)
WB Music Corp. (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Gordon Jenkins
(4:09) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 19
CD: 2300-2 Trilogy
LP: 3FS2300 Trilogy
XCA9307 The Future (Continued) I've Been There!
w Orchestra & Vocal Chorus
(Gordon Jenkins)
WB Music Corp. (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Gordon Jenkins
(3:33) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 19
CD: 2300-2 Trilogy
LP: 3FS2300 Trilogy
45: RPS49517
XCA9308 The Future (Conclusion) Song Without Words
w Orchestra & Vocal Chorus
Soprano solo by Loulie Jean Norman/Alto solo by Beverly Jenkins
(Gordon Jenkins)
WB Music Corp. (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Gordon Jenkins
(6:05) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 19
CD: 2300-2 Trilogy
LP: 3FS2300 Trilogy
Note: I have been meaning to correct this information for quite some time but keep forgetting to do so.
Frank was backed by a symphonic orchestra but it 'was not the L.A. Symphony. Vinnie Falcone told
me the L.A. was booked a number of times but Frank had a very difficult time learning the songs
and kept canceling. When he was ready the L.A.Symphony was not available. Sonny Burke and
others cobbled together the best musicians playing in L.A. for the album. Well over a hundred were
employed plus 36 singers made up the chorus.
--Ed
Recording "The Future"
Gordon Jenkins, who had arranged Sinatra's "Where Are You?" (1957) and won a Grammy for "It Was a Very Good Year" (1966), hired more than 100 musicians for the two-day session, including roughly 50 singers, a full string section, four bassoons, and a single guitar. No conventional Los Angeles recording studio could hold an ensemble that size, so the session was held at the Shrine Auditorium, recorded live -- meaning the smallest shift of an audience seat in the venue's bleachers risked spoiling a take.
Around this period Jenkins was beginning to show early symptoms of ALS, the illness that would kill him in 1984; "The Future" would be his last large-scale collaboration with Sinatra. Pianist Vincent Falcone had spent weeks rehearsing the unfamiliar material with Sinatra at his Beverly Hills home beforehand.
Critical reaction on release was sharply divided. Billboard and the Los Angeles Times both praised the record, and Sinatra said that when he visited a dying Henry Miller in the hospital, Miller had a tape of "The Future" playing on a loop by his bed. But many Sinatra critics and admirers were unsparing: Pete Hamill, author of "Why Sinatra Matters," called it "an astonishing lapse in taste," and Will Friedwald, in "Sinatra! The Song Is You," called it "the most spectacular disaster of his recording career." WNEW radio host Jonathan Schwartz criticized the record on air as a "narcissistic mess" not long after its release; Sinatra complained to station owner John Kluge, and Schwartz was taken off the air as a result. The full three-disc "Trilogy" nonetheless went gold within weeks of release -- unusual for a triple album -- and earned six Grammy nominations, though it lost in the major categories to Christopher Cross and to Kenny Loggins's "This Is It."
Source: Karina Longworth, "You Must Remember This" podcast, "Frank Sinatra's Trilogy: Past, Present and Future" episode.
Hollywood
XCA9309 Finale: Before The Music Ends w Orchestra & Vocal Chorus
(Gordon Jenkins)
WB Music Corp. (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Gordon Jenkins
(9:59) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 19
CD: 2300-2 Trilogy
LP: 3FS2300 Trilogy
XCA9304 What Time Does The Next Miracle Leave? w Orchestra & Vocal Chorus
Soprano solo by Diana Lee/Naration by Jerry Whitman
(Gordon Jenkins)
WB Music Corp. (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Gordon Jenkins
(10:41) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 19
CD: 2300-2 Trilogy
LP: 3FS2300 Trilogy
XCA9305 World War None! w Orchestra & Vocal Chorus
(Gordon Jenkins)
WB Music Corp. (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Gordon Jenkins
(4:35) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 19
CD: 2300-2 Trilogy
LP: 3FS2300 Trilogy
Ed O'Brien:
"The Future" from "Trilogy" is, without question, the most controversial album of Sinatra's recording career. Gordon Jenkins worked on the concept in the winter and spring of 1979, finally presenting his Sinatra biography in music to the singer in early May of that year. Vinnie Falcone told me it took Sinatra seven months to learn the material for the project. The album was recorded at the Shrine Auditorium, in Los Angeles, with154 musicians on the stage. The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and Frank's sidemen accounted for 103, the choral group made up an additional 49 participants, plus the vocal director and Gordon Jenkins conducting. There was an afternoon and evening session on the 17th of December and one afternoon session the following day. Obviously, the logistics required for this album were terribly demanding on all who were involved. .
I did an extensive interview with Lee Herschberg, the engineer on both dates. Lee told me it was the most difficult project he ever did as a recording engineer. The huge orchestra surrounding Frank overwhelmed his mike, and the bleeding into the vocal, from this large contingent of musicians, was extremely difficult to control. Lee told me the audio fidelity of the final masters was something he was very proud to be associated with back then.
"What Time Does the Next Miracle Leave?"
Friedwald describes the opening section as Jenkins's overreach on full display: after an orchestra-tuning sound effect, Sinatra introduces himself by full name ('My name is Francis Albert...'), answered by a choir chanting 'Francis Albert Sinatra.' The number becomes a whimsical guided tour of the solar system styled like train announcements (Venus, Jupiter/Saturn as farmland, Pluto as 'Hades' prison planet), interweaving Sinatra's personal mythology -- e.g., being met on Uranus by a welcoming committee with cheese pizza and vino.
Source: Will Friedwald, "Sinatra! The Song Is You: A Singer's Art" (2018 revised edition).
"Before the Music Ends"
Loulie Jean Norman: The closing "Before the Music Ends" is a Rodgers-and-Hammerstein-influenced musical soliloquy that plays more like one of Sinatra's rambling Vegas monologues set to music, name-checking Dean Martin, 'Sarge' (Irving Weiss), 'Chester' (Jimmy Van Heusen), 'Lefty' (Jenkins), plus Schubert, Beethoven, Verdi, and Puccini. Loulie Jean Norman said: "Frank sort of liked that type of thing because he felt it gave him a wider scope, but I couldn't make heads or tails of it."
Source: Will Friedwald, "Sinatra! The Song Is You: A Singer's Art" (2018 revised edition).
Album Release and Legacy
"Trilogy" was Gordon Jenkins's last large-scale collaboration with Sinatra; he had first pitched the idea for "The Future" in a 1959 letter, and would be diagnosed with ALS not long after these sessions, dying in 1984. Karina Longworth (Longworth, "You Must Remember This" podcast) has argued that despite its poor critical standing among Sinatra scholars, "The Future" remains historically significant as an unusually personal, autobiographical framing device -- Sinatra introduces himself by name at the album's opening as though to a stranger -- and as one of the largest and most logistically ambitious sessions of his recording career.
Source: Karina Longworth, "You Must Remember This" podcast, "Frank Sinatra's Trilogy: Past, Present and Future" episode.
Liner Notes: TRILOGY: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
Trilogy is the most audacious project of Sinatra's recording career -- a three-record set built on the premise that a single artist's musical identity could be organized into past, present, and future, each disc entrusted to a different arranger and a different idea of what Sinatra's voice could still do. Billy May takes the past, a set of pre-rock standards in his familiar brash, swinging idiom; Don Costa takes the present, contemporary songs of the rock era reimagined for Sinatra's phrasing; Gordon Jenkins takes the future, an original suite imagining life, memory, and mortality on a scale no popular record had previously attempted.
The album's centerpiece is unquestionably "The Future," Jenkins's sprawling, symphonic meditation recorded live at the Shrine Auditorium with an ensemble of more than a hundred musicians -- an ambition matched by very few records in any genre, let alone a pop album released by a sixty-three-year-old singer five years removed from the studio. Critics were sharply divided on its merits, but few disputed its scale or its sincerity.
Taken as a whole, Trilogy became a commercial triumph, going gold within weeks and earning six Grammy nominations, proof that audiences were more than willing to follow Sinatra into territory this strange and personal. It stands as his last truly major studio statement -- an artist in his sixties still willing to gamble everything on an idea nobody had tried before.
Written by Claude (Anthropic), commissioned for this chronology, 2026.
It Was A Very Good Year Sid Mark Show
Frank Sinatra as guest
3 hours.
Extensive interview.
[The First Deadly Sin Marks Final Starring Role]
Sinatra starred in the film The First Deadly Sin, again playing a cop, which proved to be his last starring film role.
Source: The Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra, chapter "I Want to Be a Part of It, 1971-98."
[The Ol' Blue Eyes vs. Ol' Red Eyes 3 A.M. Ballgame]
Nancy Sinatra: During one of their Atlantic City engagements, Sinatra and Dean Martin organized an impromptu baseball game at three in the morning between two teams of friends wearing sweatshirts reading "Ol' Blue Eyes" and "Ol' Red Eyes." Martin later quipped that the game had to be called on account of light.
Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.
[Trilogy Album Yields New York Anthem]
After years of rumored studio comebacks, Sinatra released the ambitious triple album Trilogy, divided into Past, Present and Future sections. Although many reviewers questioned the format, the Present disc produced 'Theme From New York, New York,' which became a signature closing number he performed at nearly every concert thereafter.
Source: The Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra, chapter "I Want to Be a Part of It, 1971-98."
[Sinatra's massive 1980 Rio concert]
Kaplan: Kaplan notes that Sinatra could command an audience of any size -- in Rio de Janeiro in 1980 he would sing for 175,000 people in a soccer stadium -- even as the intimacy of his Copa Room days receded into the past.
Source: James Kaplan, "Sinatra: The Chairman" (2015)
[Sinatra's early-1980s 'hot band' concept -- dropping strings for a jazz-combo sound -- critical commentary]
Frank Sinatra: Sinatra explained his shift toward a leaner jazz-band sound: 'When I left Tommy, we went with the full [string] orchestra at all times, and now I'm thinking of going the other way, going with a good jazz band, a Basie-type band and stay with that for a while... if something soft has to be done, we would use a rhythm section, just a piano, drums, guitar, and bass.' He told deejay Sid Mark, 'The people [in the audience] are excited by the sound. I can see their faces from the stage... It really pushes you along when you are up there on a stage and the band is blowing away behind you.'
Source: Will Friedwald, "Sinatra! The Song Is You: A Singer's Art" (2018 revised edition), Ch. 10, "Concert Years" (1973-1994)
[Trilogy -- critical commentary]
Granata's discography entry: Trilogy, arranged by Billy May, Don Costa, and Gordon Jenkins, released March 1980.
Source: Charles L. Granata, "Sessions with Sinatra: Frank Sinatra and the Art of Recording" (1999/2003), Afterword & Appendices A-D
Rose Parade
Ed O'Brien:
Frank was the Grand Marshall at the Tournament of
Roses Parade in Pasadena, California on 1-1-80. Parade ran for 2 1/2 hours.
Rose Parade
Frank was the Grand Marshall at the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California on 1-1-80. P
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THE FIRST FORTY YEARS
Thursday evening
9 -11:pm EST
NBC
Taped at Caesars Palace on 12-12-79
Running time of final edit 78 mins.
Produced by Paul Keyes
Co-Producer Marc London
Directed by Jack Donohue & Hugh Lambert
Music Director Don Costa
Conducted by Don Costa
Sinatra is introduced. Joins Barbara at table
Glenn Ford
1. Ciribiribin Harry James
2. Two O'Clock Jump Harry James
Red Skelton comedy routine
Sinatra receives a call from James Cagney
Lucille Ball
Nancy Sinatra & Frank Sinatra Jr.
Charlie Callas stand-up routine
Gene Kelly
3. Robert Merrill Sings the Titles of all Sinatra's Film to the tune
Holiday For Strings
Rich Little impressions funny bit with Cary Grant
4. Tony Bennett Medley: New York, New York( from "On The Town))
My Kind Of Town/I Left My Heart In San FranciscO
William B. Williams
Pat Henry stand-up routine
5. The Lady Is A Tramp Sammy Davis Jr.
Milton Berle
6. My Way (parody) Paul Anka
Don Rickles
Dean Martin introduces Jule Styne and then Berle joins them on stage Frank is presented with two awards
7. New York, New York Frank Sinatra
8. It Was A Very Good Year Frank Sinatra
9.. The Best Is Yet To Come Frank Sinatra
10. I've Got You Under My Skin Frank Sinatra
11. I've Got The World On A String Frank Sinatra
Tina Sinatra introduces Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen on twin pianos Cary Grant joins her onstage Everyone sings "Happy Birthday" to Frank
Put Your Dreams Away played as show ends..
Friends of Frank in the audience:
Robert Mitchum
Darrin McGavin
Shirley MacLaine
Jack Klugman
Joe Louis
Tommy LaSorda
Andy Williams
Red Buttons
Peter Falk
Sammy Fain
Quincy Jones
Note: the best of all the Sinatra tribute shows. Some great entertainment and then Sinatra wows the audience with a brilliant performance.
Ed O'Brien asked Scott Sayers about the taping of the show. Below is his reply:
Julie and I went to Las Vegas for the taping of the "First 40 Years" special....just to be there during all of the excitement. We were not on the official guest list, but Dorothy Uhlemann and Susan Reynolds said they would try to get us in at the last minute.
After a couple of days of celebrity watching and having a great time, the night of the show arrived. At Susan's instructions we were waiting close-by at the bar next to the showroom as we watched the luminaries file in....the guest list was amazing.
About 5 minutes before the taping was to begin, when everyone was seated, Susan moved us up the main stairway leading into the showroom and disappeared to find us a couple of seats. The hallway lights had been dimmed to low light and the curtain into the showroom closed.
A few more minutes went by and we wondered if we were actually going to get in....then we heard the showroom go quiet.
Julie nudged me and nodded her head down a couple of stairs and over to our right. There was Sinatra, literally 20 ft. from us, leaning up against the wall, with three fingers on a half-smoked cigarette, taking a draw, deep in thought. He looked up, and nodded at us, then looked back down again in thought.
That image is one I'll never forget.....he looked so cool and calm, and obviously deep in thought about what had brought him from 1939 to that night at Caesars. Can you imagine the memories.... the ups and downs....the people he'd known?
In an instant, Susan signalled us through the curtain, put us in a booth in the back of the room, and a minute later the band struck up and Sinatra walked through the curtain with a smile on his face. As you know the tributes that night were heartfelt and his performance amazing.
Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (3-9)
THE FIRST FORTY YEARS
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THE FIRST FORTY YEARS
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Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (3-9)
Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (3-9)
1. The Song Is You
2. The Best Is Yet to Come
3. At Long Last Love
4. The Lady Is a Tramp
5. Something
6. I've Been There
7. It Had to Be You
8. Summer Me, Winter Me
9. Street of Dreams
10. Send in the Clowns
11. My Way
12. I've Got You Under My Skin
13. My Kind of Town
14. Theme From New York, New York
Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (3-9)
Frank Sinatra
Caesars Palace, Las
Vegas 1-5-80
The venerable crooner celebrated his 40th year in show business by reliving his musical past and
introducing his recorded future during his stay here. For a $35 a person show charge in the Circus
Maximus room, the Sinatra buff got to see the 64- year -old charismatic lyric interpreter in fine
form, enthused with the music he sings today and charged up over the February release of his first
three- record set on Reprise called "Trilogy" for which he spent a good amount of the one - hour set
plugging and performing three tunes from the upcoming retrospective project. The "Trilogy" works were
the most interesting of the program, with Vinny Falcone leading the 38 -piece Caesars Palace orchestra
in the appropriately shaded charts by Gordon Jenkins, Billy May and Don Costa, three of Sinatra's key
orchestral arrangers.
Working with a music stand, Sinatra limited his physical movements to dig into the lyric of a new Gordon
Jenkins composition, "I've Been There," an excerpt from a 36- minute operatta, as Sinatra called it, by Jenkins.
The second ballad from the LP, "It Had To Be You," is a tune Sinatra said he had never recorded in his career.
His soft, yet persuasive reading made the tune a very personal statement. Personal statements were the corner-
stone of Sinatra's tunes as his smooth phrasing, his control over dynamics and his solid sensitivity with a lyric's
delicate intrusions, all melded together. "Summer Me, Winter Me," a Johnny Mathis evergreen, has now entered
Sinatra's repertoire and he should add this tune to such other powerhouses he does like "Send In The Clowns,"
since the song's human qualities are what enable him to inject such pathos. It was the third work from the LP and
again another tune never recorded by Sinatra. The tunes that have been recorded and have been done for years
in- person which were reprieved in the Jan. 5 show under review included: "I Hear Music When I Look At You" (the
opener), "The Best Is Yet To Come" (with a slow, extracting jazzy feeling in which he forgot the lyrics, commented
"where the hell is it " regained his position only to fumble a second time, but maintained his cool, kept a warm smile
on his face and asserted his positive control over the situation, a swagger of his head a sway of his shoulders all
showing the audience he was in command), "Long Lost Love," and "The Lady Is A Tramp." When Sinatra rides with
the jump tunes like "Tramp" there remains the strained quality in his voice which has been with him since he came
out of retirement six or so years ago. When he croons a ballad, his voice is just superb and when he works with a tune
which allows him both relaxed and dynamic passages like "Something," it is the best of vocal worlds. Sinatra's key
sidemen led by pianist Falcone, included guitarist Al Viola, trumpeter Charley Turner, bassist Gene Cherico and drummer I
Irv Cottler. Closing the program were the welcome "My Way,"
"I've Got You Under My Skin" and "New York, New
York,"
which he had stumbled over several nights earlier on his NBC -TV birthday special. For this gambling crowd he did it perfectly.
Seeing this show business legend perform as this reviewer had done on many occasions -is like being witness to a personal
experience between artist and public. There is much love in the room when Francis Albert performs. Happy Anniversary
40th anniversary..
ELIOT TIEGEL
Billboard
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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Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (3-9)
Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas , Nevada (3-9)
Monday evening
Opening act Marlene Ricci
Orchestra conducted by Vincent Falcone
1. The Song Is You
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. At Long Last Love
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Something
6. I've Been There
7. It Had To Be You
8. Summer Me, Winter Me
9. monologue
10. Street Of Dreams
11.Saloon Trilogy: Last Night When We Were Young /
Violets For Your Furs / Here's That Rainy Day
12. My Way
13. I've Got You Under My Skin
14. My Kind Of Town
15. New York, New York
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (3-9)
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (3-9)
O.A. Marlene Ricci
Orchestra conducted by Vinnie Falcone
"CP Telethon Jan 10th Taping"
1. Introduction By Paul Anka
2. But Not For Me
3. The Best Is Yet To Come
Note: aired Jan 12-13th.
Ed O'Brien:
Frank sang the verse to "But Not For Me" at the front end of the song, unlike the recording, which had the verse sandwiched between the two choruses.
Weekend With The Stars
CP Telethon
1. Introduction By Paul Anka
2. But Not For Me
3. The Best Is Yet To Come
Notes: 8 mins. Program taped January 10, 1980 but aired Jan 12-13th. Ed O'Brien says that "But Not for Me" is done with a small group.
Sinatra opens with the verse and does just the first chorus. Quite different from the 1979 studio track with Billy May. Ed O'Brien
C. P. Telethon was renamed "Weekend With The Stars" for the 1980 telecast on 1/12 &13. Dennis James was the host in N.Y.C., John Ritter in L.A. and Paul Anka in L.V.. Frank was playing at Caesars from the 3rd to the 9th of the month. When he heard about the telethon he called Anka ( 1/5) and offered his services. The show was being broadcast from the Hilton Hotel and they were not setup yet. Frank stayed over an extra day in Vegas and taped his segment at the Hilton on 1/10. He brought his quartet of Vinnie, Al, Gene and Irv. His segment was aired just once on 1/13. Telethon ran for 22 hours. When Anka introduced Frank's taped appearance he talked right into the beginning of the song.
Weekend With The Stars
CP Telethon
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January 13, 1991 Century Plaza Hotel in Century City, California 21st Annual Scopus Award Gala
Sinatra is in attendance while Quincy Jones receives Award
Beverly Hills, CA Tribute Dinner Honoring Simon Wiesenthal
Rio Palace, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Orchestra conducted by: Vincent Falcone Jr
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Irv Cottler (drums), Gene Cherico (bass), Charlie Turner (trumpet)
1. The Coffee Song
2. I've Got The World On A String
3. At Long Last Love
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6.. The Best Is Yet To Come
7. Bewitched
8.. Where Or When
9. My Way
10. Strangers In The Night
11. Let Me Try Again
12. I've Got You Under My Skin
13.. It Never Entered My Mind
14. Something
15. Quiet Nights w/Al Viola
16. My Kind Of Town
17. April In Paris
18. New York, New York
Ed O'Brien noted:
Vinnie Falcone gave me a great deal of information about Frank's Rio tour 29 years ago. The nightclub performances were a prelude to the famous Maracana Stadium on 1-26 in front of 175,000 screaming fans.
Rio Palace, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Rio Palace, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (22-25)
Tuesday evening
$500.00 Cover Charge
Fifty-five piece orchestra under the direction of Vincent Falcone, Jr with Al Viola on guitar, Gene Cherico on bass, Irv Cottler on drums
1. The Coffee Song J. Mandel arg.
2. I've Got The World On A String
3. At Long Last Love
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. The Best Is Yet To Come
7. Bewitched
8. Where Or When B. Byers arg.
9. My Way monologue
10. Strangers In The Night
11. Let Me Try Again ballad version w/ D. Costa arg.
12. I've Got You Under My Skin
13. It Never Entered My Mind w/ Al Viola
14. Something
15. Quiet Nights
16. My Kind Of Town
17. April In Paris
18. New York, New York
Rio Palace, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (22-25)
1. The Coffee Song
2. I've Got the World on a String
3. At Long Last Love
4. The Lady Is a Tramp
5. Someone to Watch Over Me
6. The Best Is Yet to Come
7. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
8. Where or When
9. My Way
10. Strangers in the Night
11. Let Me Try Again
12. I've Got You Under My Skin
13. The Song Is You
14. Something
15. Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars
16. My Kind of Town
17. April in Paris
18. Theme From New York, New York
Rio Palace, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (22-25)
Orchestra conducted by: Vincent Falcone Jr
Key Musicians: Al Viola (guitar), Irv Cottler (drums), Gene Cherico (bass), Charlie Turner (trumpet)
1. The Coffee Song
2. I've Got The World On A String
3. At Long Last Love
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. The Best Is Yet To Come
7. Bewitched
8. Where Or When
9. My Way
10. monologue
11. Strangers In The Night
12. Let Me Try Again
13. I've Got You Under My Skin
14. It Never Entered My Mind
15. Something
16. Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars
17. My Kind Of Town
18. April In Paris
19. New York, New York
Notes: TT: 76mins.
Rio Palace, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (22-25)
Singer Frank Sinatra and publicist Roberto Medina at dinner at Rio Palace Hotel
Rio de Janeiro wins dinner to remember Frank Sinatra's visit to the city || Credits: Disclosure
Exactly 40 years after the presentation of Frank Sinatra at the then Rio Palace, the iconic building at Posto 6 in Copacabana hosts the first dinner in the series “Dinner at the Fairmont” with a tribute to the American singer with an unmistakable voice and eyes. This Wednesday, the Fairmont Copacabana reproduces one of the most emblematic dinners of the early 1980s in Rio, with a menu by chef Jérôme Dardillac inspired by the high gastronomy of Rio de Janeiro at the time. Accompanying by an orchestra with 15 musicians, singer Daniel Boaventura will be responsible for remembering the set list - started with the classic “My Way” - that delighted those who watched Sinatra's debut in the city, days before the famous show for 175 thousand people in Maracanã. The event also honors Roberto Medina, responsible for the arrival of Frank Sinatra in Brazil. The tribute opens the “Dinner at the Fairmont” project, which sets up, throughout the year, other themed dinners around personalities from the most diverse areas.
Sinatra In Concert, Maracana Stadium, Brazil
1. The Coffee Song
2. I've Got The World On A String
3. At Long Last Love
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. Something
7. The Best Is Yet To Come
8. Bewitched
9. Where Or When
10. My Way
11. Strangers In The Night
12. Let Me Try Again
13. I've Got You Under My Skin
14. The Song Is You
15. Quiet Nights On Quiet Stars
16. My Kind Of Town
17. April In Paris
18.. New York, New York
Notes: Globo TV special. Unedited. 75 mins.
Maracana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Open-Air)
Orchestra Conducted By : Vincent Falcone jr.
1.The Coffee Song
2. I've Got The World On A String
3. At Long Last Love
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. Something
7. The Best Is Yet To Come
8. Bewitched
9. Where Or When
10. My Way
11. Strangers In The Night
12. Let Me Try Again
13. I've Got You Under my Skin
14. The Song Is You
15.Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars
16.. My Kind Of Town
17.. April In Paris
18. New York , New York
TT 75 min.
NOTE: Sinatra Scholar Ed O'Brien reports that Frank played to an audience of approximately 175,000. The stage looked like a wheel with spokes. Frank ran from spoke to spoke throughout the program. Quite amazing for a guy in his 65th year. Vinnie Falcone told O'Brien that it rained and rained and then rained some more. The producer wanted to cancel but Sinatra insisted they wait another half-hour. Suddenly the rain let up and not a drop feel during the 75 minute concert. About one minute after Frank left the stage, the skies opened and it poured buckets for hours. And you thought all those stories about Frank weren't true!!!!
Scott Henderson:
I watched the 1980 Maracana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Open-Air) concert yesterday. I did not realize how many people were there until they pulled back at the end of the concert and you could see that the shots of the crowds that you were seeing were only those in the inner circle and not the stadium seating itself. When I saw that, I said "whoa!" I loved the concert but was surprised that Sinatra forgot the words to a few songs like My Way and Strangers In The Night. Best moments other than the singing was the crazed fan who got on the stage and hugged and kissed Sinatra, his snide comments about the press, and gold microphones.
Maracana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Open-Air)
Thanks to Carl R for the following:
42 years ago Sinatra conquered Maracaná
A very representative photograph of Frank Sinatra's visit to Rio de Janeiro and Maracana , the cathedral of football. Upon arrival, Pele received it . (1980)
Only 35 years ago but since this 21st century we can hardly imagine it. It is necessary to travel to the past, just to a day like today, but at the beginning of the eighties. On January 26, 1980, Frank Sinatra offered the concert with the greatest audience of his career and it was in the magnificent Maracana stadium where he congregated 170,000 people who were amazed at the recital offered by the singer, breaking the record for the most massive concert held In an outdoor stadium. He was as he had never been seen before, always joking with the public and constantly interacting. "He jumped" to the stage and ran from side to side, exultant, greeting the attendees, in a way much closer to what he used to. ż Frank SinatraDid he honor football and emulate players by jumping to the pitch? Probably the answer is in the country of Brazil itself. Frank Sinatra seemed to capture the essence of his people and get them before offering a concert. And not only in the attitude. Also in his repertoire. The singer opened the show in a fast and forceful way, with a song especially dedicated to Brazil , with the theme The coffee song (They've got an awful lot of coffee in Brazil) that he himself premiered in 1946, a song that he did not use never offer live, a rarity, a gift for the public of Rio de Janeiro . Continued with I've got the world on a string , At long last loveand The lady is a tramp (who sings holding a bouquet of flowers thrown by the public). The first ballad was Someone to watch over me ( Frank sings it, coming down from the stage, in a hallway prepared for this purpose and it seems that he is playing it among the audience) followed by Something and The best is yet to come . Another surprise to continue the show, singing the song included in the soundtrack of Pal Joey , Bewitched . Then he attacked the magnificent Where or when and My way arrived . During the course of the "flagship" of Sinatra, as we can see in the video, a spontaneous one went on stage to hug him and he managed to push himself apart, moments in which he remembered his past as a boxer. In the end, everything was in anecdote although, as guitarist Al Viola recalls , they came to fear for Sinatra's integrity . After a speach , he returned to his repertoire with Strangers in the night , Let me try again , I've got you under my skin and The song is you (the same version, with the same arrangement he used in the Trilogy album ). In the bises, we return to the concession for the Brazilian public. It started with the wonderfulCorcovado (Quiet nights of quiet stars) composition of Antonio Carlos Jobim that he published received in a delirious way (the solo part of a soft trombone is remarkable). He continued with a plethoric My kind of town (with a beautiful piano introduction accompanying Sinatra ), the ballad April in Paris (also not very live live), to end with New York, New York. Really Sinatra's mood during the concert is very conditioned by the audience's multitude and this is noticeable with a plethoric performance, with the singer who, at times, seems overwhelmed by enthusiasm and emotion, but this gives a fresh and improvised look to each song. Let's enjoy the full concert: January 26, 1980. Rio de Janeiro. Maracană
Sinatra was a milestone in Brazil . Thanks to Globo TV we have been able to enjoy the complete concert, a recital that made history.
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Sinatra delivered to Maracana or vice versa ...
An audience of 175,000 people—the largest paying crowd ever assembled for a solo performer, per the Guinness Book of World Records—gathered at Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro to hear Frank sing. He recalled the rain stopping the instant he reached the first microphone, and losing the lyrics to 'Strangers in the Night' mid-song only to have the whole stadium sing it back to him in English.
Frank Sinatra (quoted): "The whole stadium started to sing it for me—in English."
Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.
Sinatra was honored in the television special Sinatra: The First Forty Years, which presented him as an elder statesman of American show business.
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.
Performing Arts Center, Santa Clara University, San Jose, California
Orchestra conducted by: Vincent Falcone Jr
1.The Song Is You
2.Street Of Dreams
3.The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Someone To watch Over Me
5. Something
6. Summer Me, Winter Me
7.The Best Is Yet To Come
8. medley: It Never Entered My Mind - The Gal That Got Away
9. monologue
10. My Kind Of Town
11. April In Paris
12. New York, New York
Ed O'Brien:
Just before Frank headlined the Santa Clara Golden Theater Benefit Performance, the trustees at the university established a Frank Sinatra Chair in Music and Theater Arts. They were thanking a dear friend and supporter of the school. He had been doing benefits and working with them since 1947.
The Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California
Ronald Reagan fund raiser
Orchestra conducted by: Vincent Falcone Jr w/Dean Martin
Sinatra and Martin sang "Happy Birthday" to Ronald Reagan
The Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California
Ronald Reagan fund raiser
Orchestra conducted by: Vincent Falcone Jr w/Dean Martin
Sinatra and Martin sang "Happy Birthday" to Ronald Reagan
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Canyon Country Club, Palm Springs, California
Desert Hospital benefit
FRANK: HIS FRIENDS AND HIS FOOD
Frank Sinatra cooked a special dinner for 1,000 at the Canyon Hotel Convention Center in Palm
Spring: A traditional Italian dinner. The going price was $1,500 a plate. The invited guests thought it was worth every penny. An added delight was the entertain- ment offered by Mr. Sinatra, Dean Martin, John Denver,
Debby Boone and Rich Little. The benefit's proceeds went to the Desert Hospital.
Canyon Country Club, Palm Springs, California
Barbara, Rich Little, Frank
Hilton Hotel, N.Y.C.
SONGWRITER'S HALL OF FAME
Monday evening
Sinatra receives the first Johnny Mercer Award
for his "Lifetime Romance With The American Songwriter."
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Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vinnie Falcone
Tony Mattola (Guitar), Charles Tunner (Trumpet), Gene Cherico (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums), Joe Malin (Violin), Vinnie Falcone (Piano)
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Song Is You
3. My Kind Of Town
4. Something
5. You And Me
6. As Time Goes By
7. I've Got You Under My Skin
8. Saloon Medley: Last Night When We
Where Young - Violets For Your Furs - Here's That Rainy Day
9. monologue (First Deadly Sin) 10. Send In The Clowns w/Tony Mattola
10. Strangers In The Night
11. I've Been There
12. Street Of Dreams
13. New York, New York
14.. Summer Me, Winter Me
15. The Best Is Yet To Come
16. I Sing The Songs
17. The Lady Is A Tramp
18. chaser: My Way
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vinnie Falcone
Tony Mattola (Guitar), Charles Tunner (Trumpet), Gene Cherico (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums), Joe Malin (Violin), Vinnie Falcone (Piano)
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Song Is You
3. My Kind Of Town
4. Something
5. You And Me
6. As Time Goes By
7. I've Got You Under My Skin
8. medley: Last Night When We Were Young /
Violets For Your Furs / Here's That Rainy Day
9. monologue
10. Send In The Clowns
11. Strangers In The Night
12. I've Been There
13. Street Of Dreams
14. New York, New York
15. Summer Me, Winter Me
16. The Best Is Yet To Come
17. My Way
18. The Lady Is A Tramp
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vinnie Falcone
Tony Mattola (Guitar), Charles Tunner (Trumpet), Gene Cherico (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums), Joe Malin (Violin), Vinnie Falcone (Piano)
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Song Is You
3. My Kind Of Town
4. Something
5. You And Me
6. As Time Goes By
7. I've Got You Under My Skin
8. medley: Last Night When We Were Young / Violets For Your Furs / Here's
That Rainy Day
9. monologue
10. Send In The Clowns
11. Strangers In The Night
12. I've Been There!
13. Street Of Dreams
14. New York, New York
15. Summer Me, Winter Me
16. My Way
17. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT: 77mins
Resorts International, 500 Lounge, Atlantic City, New
Jersey
Surprise visit. One song with Sam Butera
1. You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You
Notes: Sinatra joins Sam Butera for a song in the lounge. TT:
3mins
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vinnie Falcone
Tony Mattola (Guitar), Charles Tunner (Trumpet), Gene Cherico (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums), Joe Malin (Violin), Vinnie Falcone (Piano)
1. The Song Is You
2.. My Kind Of Town
3. Something
4. You And Me
5. As Time Goes By
6. I've Got You Under My Skin
7. medley: The Gal That Got Away /
It Never Entered My Mind
8. monologue
9. Send In The Clowns
10. I've Been There!
11. Street Of Dreams
12. New York, New York
13. Summer Me, Winter Me
14. The Best Is Yet To Come
15. My Way
16. monologue
17. The Lady Is A Tramp
Notes: TT: 75mins
After a failed 1970s comeback attempt, Dick Haymes was diagnosed with cancer and died in Los Angeles in March 1980. (Source: Richard Havers, "Sinatra" (Dorling Kindersley, 2007).)
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Orchestra Conducted By: Vinnie Falcone
Tony Mattola (Guitar), Charles Tunner (Trumpet), Gene Cherico (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums), Joe Malin (Violin), Vinnie Falcone (Piano)
1. I've Got the World on a String
2. The Song Is You
3. My Kind of Town
4. Something
5. You and Me (We Wanted It All)
6. As Time Goes By
7. I've Got You Under My Skin
8. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
9. Send in the Clowns
10. Strangers in the Night
11. I've Been There!
12. Street of Dreams
13. Theme From New York, New York
14. Summer Me, Winter Me
15. The Best Is Yet to Come
16. My Way
17. The Lady Is a Tramp
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Orchestra Conducted By: Vinnie Falcone O.A. Pat Henry
Tony Mattola (Guitar), Charles Tunner (Trumpet), Gene Cherico (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums), Joe Malin (Violin), Vinnie Falcone (Piano)
Fight was Saturday, 3-28-80
[Pete Hamill's Late-Night Drive With Sinatra]
Nancy Sinatra: Journalist Pete Hamill recalled a rainy night, years before he profiled Sinatra for New York magazine, when after dropping off a date the two of them simply drove around empty Manhattan streets for more than an hour. Sinatra reminisced about how the city had changed, joking that Babe Ruth no longer played for the Yankees and the old Paramount Theater was now an office building, then reflected that he went to too many funerals these days and admitted he no longer understood women any better than Hamill did.
Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (11-15)
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vinnie Falcone
1. I've Got You Under My Skin
2. The Song Is You
3. At Long Last Love
4. You And Me
5. Strangers In The Night
6. Street Of Dreams
7. It Had To Be You
8. The Best Is Yet To Come
9. Willow Weep For Me
10. monologue
11. Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars
12. The Lady Is A Tramp
13. Summer Me, Winter Me
14. I've Got The World On A String
15. My Way
16. New York, New York
Notes: TT: 70mins
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (11-15) Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vinnie Falcone
1. I've Got You Under My Skin
2. The Song Is You
3. At Long Last Love
4. You And Me
5. Strangers In The Night
6. Street Of Dreams
7. It Had To Be You
8. The Best Is Yet To Come
9. Willow Weep For Me
10. monologue
11. Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars
12. The Lady Is A Tramp
13. Summer Me, Winter Me
14. I've Got The World On A String
15. It's All Right With Me
16. My Way
17. New York, New York
Notes: TT: 73mins.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (11-15)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vinnie Falcone
A review of Friday April 11, 1980:
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Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (11-13) First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vinnie Falcone
1. I've Got You Under My Skin
2. The Song Is You
3. At Long Last Love
4. You And Me
5. Strangers In The Night
6. Street Of Dreams
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. monologue
11. Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars
12. The Lady Is A Tramp
13. Summer Me, Winter Me
14. I've Got The World On A String
15. It's All Right With Me
16. My Way
17. New York, New York
Notes: TT: 70mins.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (11-15) Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vinnie Falcone
1. I've Got You Under My Skin
2. The Song Is You
3. At Long Last Love
4. You And Me
5. Strangers In The Night
6. Street Of Dreams
7. It Had To Be You
8. The Best Is Yet To Come
9. Willow Weep For Me
10. monologue
11. The Lady Is A Tramp
12. Summer Me, Winter Me
13. I've Got The World On A String
14. My Kind Of Town
15. My Way
16. New York, New York
Notes: TT: 64mins.
Ed O'Brien:
Frank was at Resorts from April 11-13. He did two shows a night on Friday and Saturday(11-12) Pat Henry opened. In his previous engagement at Resorts, March 28-30, Frank caught Sam Butera & The Witnesses in the lounge after the late show on Saturday(29). He surprised everyone by jumping up on the stage and singing "You're Nobody Til' Somebody Loves You" with Butera's little group. Well, Frank repeated that performance after the late show on Friday( 11) -- same song, same stunned audience. Howard Cosell and Skinny D'Amato were in the audience for the second show on Friday. Frank was doing the weekend appearances while he was filming "The First Deadly Sin" during the week in N.Y.C. His singing was simply glorious every show.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (11-13)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vinnie Falcone
1. I've Got You Under My Skin
2. The Song Is You
3. At Long Last Love
4. You And Me
5. Strangers In The Night
6. Street Of Dreams
7. It Had To Be You
8. The Best Is Yet To Come
9. Willow Weep For Me
10. monologue
11. The Lady Is A Tramp
12. Summer Me, Winter Me
13. I've Got The World On A String
14. It's All Right With Me
15. My Way
16. New York, New York
Notes: TT: 63mins.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (11-13)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vinnie Falcone
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[FBI "psycholinguistics" analysis of an Atlantic City threat letter]
A crudely handwritten, unsigned letter mailed to Sinatra's Atlantic City hotel promoter threatened to "shoot all Sinatra's guts out," prompting a three-month FBI investigation including a formal psycholinguistic profile by consultant Murray Miron, who concluded the writer was likely a foreign-born Caucasian male in his late forties or fifties of possible Italian origin, unemployed or low-income, and -- based on the letter's passive, "sour grapes" phrasing -- posed no actual danger. Telephone traces, fingerprint analysis, and a laboratory document examination all came up empty; prosecutors declined the case that August. Sinatra's May 31-June 1, 1980 shows were separately canceled, coincidentally, due to laryngitis.
Source: Kuntz and Kuntz, The Sinatra Files, ch. 8.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Orchestra Conducted By: Vinnie Falcone
1. All Of Me
2. I've Been There!
3. I've Got You Under My Skin
4. Let Me Try Again
5. The Lady Is A Tramp
6. Summer Me, Winter Me
7. I've Got A Crush On You
8. The Best Is Yet To Come
9. You And Me
10. monologue
11. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
12. Street Of Dreams
13. My Way
14. The Song Is You
15. April In Paris
16. A Foggy Day
17. New York, New York
Notes: TT 64mins.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (May 23-26)
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vinnie Falcone
1. I Sing The Songs
2. The Song Is You
3. I've Been There!
4. I've Got You Under My Skin
5. Strangers In The Night
6. Summer Me, Winter Me
7. The Best Is Yet To Come
8. You And Me
9. monologue
10. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
11. Street Of Dreams
12. My Way
13. April In Paris
14. A Foggy Day
15. New York, New York
Notes: TT 62mins.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (May 23-26) Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vinnie Falcone
1. I Sing The Songs
2. The Song Is You
3. I've Been There!
4. I've Got You Under My Skin
5. Strangers In The Night
6. The Lady Is A Tramp
7. Summer Me, Winter Me
8. More Than You Know
9. I've Got A Crush On You
10. The Best Is Yet To Come
11. You And Me
12. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
13. Street Of Dreams
14. My Way
15. April In Paris
16. A Foggy Day
17.. New York, New York
Notes: TT 60mins.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (May 23-26) First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vinnie Falcone
1. The Song Is You
2. I've Been There!
3. I've Got You Under My Skin
4. Strangers In The Night
5. The Lady Is A Tramp
6. Summer Me, Winter Me
7. More Than You Know
8. The Best Is Yet To Come
9. You And Me
10. monologue
11. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
12. Street Of Dreams
13. My Way
14. A Foggy Day
15. New York, New York
Notes: TT 53mins.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, Â New Jersey (MMay 23-26) Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vinnie Falcone
1. The Song Is You
2. I've Been There!
3. I've Got You Under My Skin
4. Strangers In The Night
5. The Lady Is A Tramp
6. Summer Me, Winter Me
7. More Than You Know
8. The Best Is Yet To Come
9. You And Me
10. monologue
11. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
12. Street Of Dreams
13. All Of Me
14. My Way
15. A Foggy Day
16. New York, New York
Notes: TT 69mins.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (May 23-26)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vinnie Falcone
Carnegie Hall, New York City
Benefit for the Police Athletic League
Orchestra Conducted By: Vinnie Falcone
Key Musicians: Tony Mottola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Charles Turner (trumpet), Vincent Falcone Jr (piano)
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. At Long Last Love
4. Something
5. I've Got You Under My Skin
6. Summer Me, Winter Me
7. Street Of Dreams
8. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
9. monologue
10. I've Been There!
11. I Can't Get Started
12. I've Got A Crush On You
13. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
14. Bosa Nova For C - Sinatra Conducts
15. You And Me
16. The Song Is You
17. My Way
18. New York, New York
Notes: TT 89mins.
Carnegie Hall, New York City
Benefit for the Police Athletic League
Orchestra Conducted By: Vinnie Falcone
Key Musicians: Tony Mottola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler
(drums), Charles Turner (trumpet), Vincent Falcone Jr (piano)
Frank Sinatra, arm-in-arm with his wife, Barbara, arrives at New York's Le Club Restaurant for a private party, Friday, June 13, 1980 in New York following his opening night performance at the Carnegie Hall to benefit police athletic league.
Carnegie Hall, New York City
Orchestra Conducted By: Vinnie Falcone
Key Musicians: Tony Mottola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Charles Turner (trumpet), Vincent Falcone Jr (piano)
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. At Long Last Love
5. Something
6. I've Got You Under My Skin
7. Summer Me, Winter Me
8. Bosa Nova For C - Sinatra Conducts
9. Street Of Dreams
10. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
11. monologue
12. I've Been There!
13. It Had To Be You
14. I've Got A Crush On You
15. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
16. You And Me
17. The Song Is You
18. My Way
19. New York, New York
Notes: TT 84mins.
Carnegie Hall, New York City
Orchestra Conducted By: Vinnie Falcone
Key Musicians: Tony Mottola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler
(drums), Charles Turner (trumpet), Vincent Falcone Jr (piano)
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. At Long Last Love
5. When Your Lover Has Gone
6. Something
7. I've Got You Under My Skin
8. Summer Me, Winter Me
9. Street Of Dreams
10. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
11. monologue
12. I've Been There!
13. I Can't Get Started
14. Send In The Clowns
15. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
16. Bosa Nova For C - Sinatra Conducts
17. You And Me
18. The Song Is You
19. My Way
20. New York, New York
Notes: TT 92mins.
Carnegie Hall, New York City
Orchestra Conducted By: Vinnie Falcone
Key Musicians: Tony Mottola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Charles Turner (trumpet), Vincent Falcone Jr (piano)
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. When Your Lover Has Gone
5. This Is All I Ask
6. I've Got You Under My Skin
7. Summer Me, Winter Me
8. Street Of Dreams
9. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
10. monologue
11. I've Been There!
12. I Can't Get Started
13. Send In The Clowns
14. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
15. Bosa Nova For C - Sinatra Conducts
16. You And Me
17. The Song Is You
18. April In Paris
19. My Way
Notes: TT 85mins.
Carnegie Hall, New York City (13-26)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vinnie Falcone
Key Musicians: Tony Mottola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Charles Turner (trumpet), Vincent Falcone Jr (piano)
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. At Long Last Love
4.. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. When Your Lover Has Gone
6. Something
7. I've Got You Under My Skin
8. Summer Me, Winter Me
9. Street Of Dreams
10. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
11. monologue
12. I Can't Get Started
13. Send In The Clowns
14. Come Fly With Me
15. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
16. Bosa Nova For C - Sinatra Conducts
17. You And Me
18. The Song Is You
19. New York, New York
Notes: TT 81mins. Dark on the 17th and 23rd. Fix listing next edition.
Carnegie Hall, New York City (13-26)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vinnie Falcone
Key Musicians: Tony Mottola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Charles Turner (trumpet), Vincent Falcone Jr (piano)
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. When Your Lover Has Gone
5. Something
6. I've Got You Under My Skin
7. Summer Me, Winter Me
8. Street Of Dreams
9. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
10. monologue
11. It Had To Be You
12. Send In The Clowns
13. Come Fly With Me
14. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
15. Bosa Nova For C - Sinatra Conducts
16. You And Me
17. The Song Is You
18. New York, New York
Notes: TT 79mins.
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Carnegie Hall, New York City (13-26)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vinnie Falcone
Key Musicians: Tony Mottola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Charles Turner (trumpet),
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Carnegie Hall, New York City
Orchestra Conducted By: Vinnie Falcone
Key Musicians: Tony Mottola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Charles Turner (trumpet), Vincent Falcone Jr (piano)
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. When Your Lover Has Gone
5. Something
6. I've Got You Under My Skin
7. Summer Me, Winter Me
8. Street Of Dreams
9. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
10. monologue
11. But Not For Me
12. Don't Worry 'Bout Me - Solo By Charles Turner
13. Send in The Clowns
14. Come Fly With Me
15. Willow Weep For Me
16. Bosa Nova For C - Sinatra Conducts
17. You And Me
18. The Song Is You
19. New York, New York
TT 83 min.
VANCE ADAIR noted:
Falcone did a wonderful job on these dates. In particular, the notoriously tricky chart for 'Summer Me, Winter Me' works extremely well. The FS vocal is superb and the arrangement is a welcome return to form by Don Costa.
Ed O'Brien added:
I asked Vinnie what it was like playing this sold-out engagement at Carnegie. He remembered it being stressful but also a tremendous time in his life. Here was this guy from Syracuse, N.Y., standing on the stage of this hallowed hall, conducting for Frank Sinatra. The most amazing moment every night was when Frank took over the baton and conducted "Bossa Nova For C" -- Vinnie's piece written as a tribute to his wife, Connie. Here is Frank waving the baton and Vinnie playing the piano. What musician could ask for anything more ?
Brian adds:
"Bossa Nova For C" imagine being embarrassed when Vincent Falcone, Jr. visited the old Archive site and saw his tribute to his wife listed as "Bossa Nova in C!" He corrected me on that and wanted to be listed as "Vincent Falcone, Jr." Funny, I still see people listing this song with the wrong title, even after we corrected it years ago.
Larry Crawford added:
I consider this to be Sinatra's most successful post retirement concert, these shows at Carnegie Hall, do list members agree?
Ed then added:
From mid 78 thru 1984, Sinatra had many astonishing triumphs throughout the world. He had become the ultimate concert performer. His attention to detail, song selection and interpretation was an incredible artistic experience for anyone who had the opportunity to see him. Carnegie is certainly one of his great engagements, but Carnegie is 81 and 82 are also marvelous. His concerts at Radio City, the South America tours, Maracana, Sao Paulo, Dominician, plus stunning nightclub efforts at Resorts, Caesars, Sunrise are also unforgettable. There were so many great performances it is tough to say one is the absolute best.
VANCE ADAIR added:
Yes - great performances throughout this engagement. Along with Ed, though, I would have to say that the Falcone years are an embarrassment of riches insofar as great FS concerts are concerned. I would be hard pushed to nominate one concert as the best. However, I do think that the change in repertoire (for example, the Gershwin medleys), the experimentation (quintet work) and innovation (stringless bands) combined to produce concert performances of often magisterial beauty. Enormous credit must go to Falcone here. I suspect he was unaware at the time that he was presiding over such a fecund period in fashioning FS (again) as the world's preeminent concert performer. There is a magical synergy at work between FS and Falcone throughout this period that is arrestingly audible in the performances. It was one of the great FS partnerships that, in different ways, ranks alongside the work done with Riddle and Miller. They were very good years indeed.
Kenny Lucus:
I also attended the 1980 Carnegie Hall Concerts on 2 different nights, I remember the shows vividly.. I also remember that I met Tony Bennett sitting in the audience
Carnegie Hall, New York City
Orchestra Conducted By: Vinnie Falcone
Key Musicians: Tony Mottola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Charles Turner (trumpet), Vincent Falcone Jr (piano)
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. When Your Lover Has Gone
5. Something
6. I've Got You Under My Skin
7. Summer Me, Winter Me
8. Street Of Dreams
9. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
10. monologue
11. I Can't Get Started
12. Send In The Clowns
13. Come Fly With Me
14. Willow Weep For Me
15. Bosa Nova For C - Sinatra Conducts
16. You And Me
17. The Song Is You
18. New York, New York
Notes: TT 81mins.
Carnegie Hall, New York City
Orchestra Conducted By: Vinnie Falcone
Key Musicians: Tony Mottola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Charles Turner (trumpet), Vincent Falcone Jr (piano)
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. When Your Lover Has Gone
5. This Is All I Ask
6. I've Got You Under My Skin
7. Summer Me, Winter Me
8. Street Of Dreams
9. The Song Is You
10. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
11. monologue
12. I Can't Get Started
13. Send In The Clowns
14. Come Fly With Me
15. Willow Weep For Me
16. Bosa Nova For C - Sinatra Conducts
17. You And Me
18. New York, New York
Notes: TT 82mins.
Carnegie Hall, New York City
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, Jr.
Key Musicians: Tony Mottola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Charles Turner (trumpet), Vincent Falcone Jr (piano)
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. When Your Lover Has Gone
5. This Is All I Ask
6. I've Got You Under My Skin
7. Summer Me, Winter Me
8. Street Of Dreams
9. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
10. monologue
11. I Can't Get Started
12. Send In The Clowns
13. Come Fly With Me
14. Willow Weep For Me
15. Bosa Nova For C - Sinatra Conducts
16. You And Me
17. The Song Is You
18. New York, New York
Notes: TT 87mins.
Carnegie Hall, New York City
Orchestra Conducted By: Vinnie Falcone
Key Musicians: Tony Mottola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Charles Turner (trumpet), Vincent Falcone Jr (piano)
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. When Your Lover Has Gone
5. This Is All I Ask
6. I've Got You Under My Skin
7. Summer Me, Winter Me
8. Street Of Dreams
9. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
10. monologue
11. I Can't Get Started
12. Don't Worry 'Bout Me - Charles Turner Solo
13. Send In The Clowns - Frank & Tony Mattola
14. Come Fly With Me
14. I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
15. Bosa Nova For C - Frank Conducts
16. You And Me
17. The Song Is You
18. New York, New York
Notes: Ed O'Brien "Without question one of the most prized videos among collectors. Sinatra is fabulous, the song selection is A-one and the audience has come to be entertained and to pay homage. William B. Williams and Sylvia Syms are in attendance and Frank gives both of them terrific introductions.. His singing on "I Can't Get Started," "Summer Me, Winter Me," "When Your Lover Has Gone," "Gal/Mind," "Clowns" and most especially "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry" is simply stupendous. TT 83mins.
Carnegie Hall, New York City
Orchestra Conducted By: Vinnie Falcone
Key Musicians: Tony Mottola (guitar), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Charles Turner (trumpet), Vincent Falcone Jr (piano)
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. When Your Lover Has Gone
5. This Is All I Ask
6. I've Got You Under My Skin
7. Summer Me, Winter Me
8. Street Of Dreams
9. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
10. monologue
11. It Had To Be You
12. Send In The Clowns
13. Come Fly With Me
14. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
15. Bosa Nova For C - Sinatra Conducts
16. You And Me
17. The Song Is You
18. New York, New York
Notes: TT 78mins.
[On Stage At The Universal Amphitheater]
Sinatra performed at the Universal Amphitheater in Los Angeles in July 1980.
Source: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).
Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California
Opening Night with Sergio Mendes
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone Jr
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. When Your Lover Has Gone
5. This Is All I Ask
6. I've Got You Under My Skin
7. Summer Me, Winter Me
8. Street Of Dreams
9. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
10. monologue
11. I've Been There!
12. It Had To Be You
13. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
14. Bosa Nova For C - Sinatra Conducts
15. You And Me
16. The Song Is You
17. April In Paris
18. A Foggy Day
19. New York, New York
Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California with Sergio Mendes
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, Jr.
note: Sinatra was set to be the closing act on 7-6-86.
After his concert segment all the performers would have joined him onstage. Frank would have asked the people in attendance to please stand as he started to sing Irving Berlin's "God Bless
America" And then everyone in the Meadowlands would have joined him in song.
Ed
Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California
Opening Night with Sergio Mendes
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone Jr
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. When Your Lover Has Gone
5. This Is All I Ask
6. I've Got You Under My Skin
7. Summer Me, Winter Me
8. Street Of Dreams
9. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
10. monologue
11. I've Been There!
12. It Had To Be You
13. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
14. Bosa Nova For C - Sinatra Conducts
15. You And Me
16. The Song Is You
17. April In Paris
18. A Foggy Day
19. New York, New York
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Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California with Sergio Mendes
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, Jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. When Your Lover Has Gone
5. This Is All I Ask
6. I've Got You Under My Skin
7. Summer Me, Winter Me
8. Street Of Dreams
9. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
10. monologue
11. It Had To Be You
12. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
13. Bosa Nova For C - Sinatra Conducts
14. You And Me
15. The Song Is You
16. April In Paris
17. A Foggy Day
18. New York, New York
Notes: TT 70mins.
Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California with Sergio Mendes
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, Jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. When Your Lover Has Gone
5. This Is All I Ask
6. I've Got You Under My Skin
7. Summer Me, Winter Me
8. Street Of Dreams
9. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
10. monologue
11. But Not For Me
12. Willow Weep For Me
13. Bosa Nova For C - Sinatra Conducts
14. You And Me
15. The Song Is You
16. April In Paris
17. A Foggy Day
18. New York, New York
Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, CA with Sergio Mendes
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, Jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. When Your Lover Has Gone
5. This Is All I Ask
6. I've Got You Under My Skin
7. Summer Me, Winter Me
8. Please Be Kind
9. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
10. monologue
11. I Can't Get Started
12. At Long Last Love
13. Bosa Nova For C - Sinatra Conducts
14. You And Me
15. The Song Is You
16. April In Paris
17. A Foggy Day
18. New York, New York
Notes: TT 74mins
Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, CA with Sergio Mendes
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, Jr.
Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California with Sergio Mendes
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, Jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. When Your Lover Has Gone
5. This Is All I Ask
6. I've Got You Under My Skin
7. Summer Me, Winter Me
8. Please Be Kind
9. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
10. monologue
11. I Can't Get Started
12. At Long Last Love
13. Bosa Nova For C - Sinatra Conducts
14. You And Me
15. The Song Is You
16. A Foggy Day
17. New York, New York
Notes: TT 70mins
NOTE: Ed O'Brien appends a report from the Los Angeles Herald Examiner of July 5, 1980, headlined SINATRA REINVENTS SINATRA. Here it is:
"Like all veteran masters of form, Frank Sinatra knows that at his stage of the game, small gestures can mean a lot more than big ones. Over the past few years, Sinatra has staged a comeback so thorough and revelatory that "comeback" isn't even the proper word; "reinvention" is more like it. That is, Sinatra has reinvented himself as a singer and performer. He's made fresh challenges for himself by a scholarly selection of classic American pop songs, and thought out ways to make aging pipes do more subtle work than young ones. He's done it throughout the new three-record set "Trilogy" and he did it impeccably at the Universal Amphitheatre on Thursday, July 3.
On this first of six nights of Sinatra at the Amphitheatre, an ocean of an orchestra was sending out its first ripples as the singer strode purposefully on stage wearing a simple black tux and a complex expression on his face: determined, cool and out for a tussle. Picking up a gold microphone from a nearby stool, Sinatra slammed into "I've Got the World on a String." Tossing out phrases like jabs to wake us up after being lulled by the soothing somnolence of Brasil 88's pop, samba opening act.
By the second song, Sinatra had scored a clear triumph: a version of "The Best is Yet to Come" that managed to make the title sentiment sound ominous, a playful warning that the best might also be the least expected. On this one, Sinatra started softly, accompanied only by a soft piano, and steadily, implacably raised the volume and intensity until he was yanking off the ends of notes with crisp, precise pulls. It all happened quickly, he's given us a display of power and control so early on , that there was a silence when the song concluded abruptly, as if the audience had to collect its thoughts before applauding and cheering.
The greatest pleasure on Thursday, however, was in hearing and watching Sinatra subvert the adulation of his audience. Instead of playing up to the nostalgia buffs or turning his act into a procession of self-anointing melodrama, Sinatra mixed it up.
This evening, for example, he rescued a decent Gordon Jenkins ballad from the third record of "Trioloy," disinterred "Guess I'll Hang my Tears out to Dry," and, late in the evening, conducted the orchesra in a clever bossa nova.
None of these three choices allowed for an easy automatic response from his fans. Sinatra wants nothing less than to challenge the diehards, as does his constantly understated phrasing, in which a slight, new emphasis in a familiar song can yield an entirely novel interpretation.
All was not scholarship and strategy, of course: there were jokes and talk as well. Plus one startling, moving tribute: After toasting the Fourth of July and expressing concern for the Americans held in Iran , Sinatra raised his glass to the recovery of Richard Pryor, and the air became electric, a musical genius saluted a comic genius.
The evening built to the final song, a rendition of "New York , New York" in which mean streets were suggested through a slashing delivery of verses and big, booming choruses. It brought home the final proof of Sinatra's latter day mastery. "Natural" singers like Sinatra, that is, those who make singing sound like a logical extension of breathing, frequently shy away from analyzing their own work "intellectually." Yet that is precisely the enormous reward of a Frank Sinatra concert these days. We're permitted to hear him think songs through, deciding how long to hold this note with maximum effect, and precisely where to let a rough edge appear in his translucent bel canto to signal an emotional climax, Sinatra makes us think as well: part of the reason his current concerts make familiar pop music sound brand-new is that almost no one else around demands just as much attention from his audience as he gives to his work.
Sinatraphile Eugene Lo Curto calls this "a spectacular review of the 1980 Sinatra." Sinatraphile Jim White vociferously agrees and thanks Ed O'Brien for his thoughtfulness in sending it to all Sinatraphiles.
Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California with Sergio Mendes
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, Jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. When Your Lover Has Gone
5. This Is All I Ask
6. I've Got You Under My Skin
7. Summer Me, Winter Me
8. Please Be Kind
9. monologue
10. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
11. It Had To Be You
12. At Long Last Love
13. Bosa Nova For C - Sinatra Conducts
14. You And Me
15. The Song Is You
16. New York, New York
Notes: TT 70mins.
Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, California
Friday evening
St. Jude Children Research Center Benefit
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, Jr.
Danny Thomas intro
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. When Your Lover Has Gone
5. I've Got You Under My Skin
6. Summer Me, Winter Me
7. Street Of Dreams
8. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry T. Mottola on guitar
9. At Long Last Love (Hefti arg.)
10. You And Me
11. The Song Is You
12. New York, New York
Notes: TT 81mins.
Republican National Convention
Networks: All
Ed O'Brien:
Sinatra attended the Republican National Convention on this day in 1980. He was interviewed by all three networks.
He sat alone in an upper tier listening to the many speeches.
Cronkite had a nice little exchange with him.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, Jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. When Your Lover Has Gone
5. Please Be Kind
6. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
7. monologue
8. More Than You Know
9. The Very Thought Of You - solo by Charles Turner
10. I've Got You Under My Skin
11. As Time Goes By
12. Bosa Nova For C - Sinatra Conducts
13. Granada
14. Summer Me, Winter Me
15. The Song Is You
16. You And Me
17. New York, New York
Notes: TT 66mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, Jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. When Your Lover Has Gone
5. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
6. Please Be Kind
7. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
8. monologue
9. More Than You Know
10. I've Got You Under My Skin
11. As Time Goes By
12. Bosa Nova For C - Sinatra Conducts
13. Street Of Dreams
14. Summer Me, Winter Me
15. The Song Is You
16. You And Me
17. New York, New York
Notes: TT 82mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, Jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. When Your Lover Has Gone
5. Please Be Kind
6. Guess I'll Have To Hang My Tears Out To Dry
7. More Than You Know
8. I've Got You Under My Skin
9. As Time Goes By
10. Bosa Nova For C - Sinatra Conducts
11. Granada
12. Summer Me, Winter Me
13. The Song Is You
14. You And Me
15. New York, New York
Notes: TT 82mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, Jr.
Saturday evening
First show
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. When Your Lover Has Gone
5. Please Be Kind
6. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
7. monologue
8. More Than You Know
9. I've Got You Under My Skin
10. Street Of Dreams
11. Summer Me, Winter Me
12. The Song Is You
13. You And Me
14. New York, New York
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, Jr.
Second show
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. When Your Lover Has Gone
5. In The Wee Small Hours
6. Please Be Kind
7. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
8. monologue
9. More Than You Know
10. I've Got You Under My Skin
11. Street Of Dreams
12. Summer Me, Winter Me
13. The Song Is You
14. You And Me
15. New York, New York alternates sung during the engagement: Granada, As Time Goes By, Send In The Clowns, This All I Ask, It Had To Be You
Ed O'Brien:
Frank did nine shows during the seven day engagement.
He had them sitting in the aisles. The demand was greater than ever to see Sinatra on the Vegas strip. Seven of the songs sung during the week were from "Trilogy." Celebrities who caught his act included Jerry Lewis and Robert Culp.
A Vegas paper cited Sinatra as the only act that sold out every night.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, Jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. When Your Lover Has Gone
5. This Is All I Ask
6. I've Got You Under My Skin
7. Summer Me, Winter Me
8. Street Of Dreams
9. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
10. monologue
11. It Had To Be You
12. Send In The Clowns
13. Come Fly With Me
14. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
15. Bosa Nova For C - Sinatra Conducts
16. You And Me
17. The Song Is You
18. New York, New York
Notes: TT 76mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, Jr.
Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, Jr.
Salle des Étoiles Sporting Club, Monte-Carlo, Monaco
Princess Grace Red Cross Gala Benefit
Presenter: Roger Moore
Salle des Étoiles Sporting Club, Monte-Carlo, Monaco
Princess Grace Red Cross Gala Benefit
Presenter: Roger Moore
Monaco, August 8, 1980. From left to right: Luisa Mattioli, the wife of Roger Moore, Gregory Peck and his wife Veronique Passani, Roger Moore, Princess Caroline, Princess Grace and her son, Prince Albert, Barbara Sinatra, Prince Rainier and Frank Sinatra attend the Red Cross Ball.
Earth News Interview (Aired Date)
Earth News Interviews Sinatra 42 mins.
NOTE: Ed O'Brien says that during this interview Sinatra discussed his friendship with The King, Elvis Presley.
He told the interviewer that Elvis was the only friend he ever had in the rock world. He tried to convince Elvis to get the equivalent of Cahn and Van Heusen for signature songs. Sinatra felt that Presley lacked hits that had staying power through the years. Elvis rejected the advice.
Television
NONE
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
First Show
w/Dean Marin
Orchestra Conducted By: Vinnie Falcone, Jr.
Dean:
1. medley: When Your Drinking - The Gentleman Is A Tramp
2. Everybody Loves Somebody
3. Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown
4. Welcome To My World
5. Little Green Apples
6. That's Amore.
Frank:
7. I've Got The World On A String
8. The Best Is Yet To Come
9. At Long Last Love
10.. When Your Lover Has Gone
11. I've Got You Under My Skin
12. I Guess I'll Hang My Tears out To Dry
13. The Song Is You
14. April In Paris
15. A Foggy Day
16. New York, New York
17. comedy
18. comedic parodies
19. comedy
20. medley: I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby- DM / Pennies
From Heaven - DM / Strangers In The Night - FS / I Can't Get
Started - FS / Embraceable You - DM / I Don't Care If The Sun
Doesn't Shine - DM / It's All Right With Me - FS / Where Or When -
DM / All Of Me - FS / Oh Marie - Both / Blue Skies - FS / When
You're Smiling - Both
Notes: Dean Martin Performed with Sinatra till 8/26. TT 87mins.
note: Sammy joined Dean and Frank during the second show 8/24 -opening night
Asbury Park Press
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Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Late Show
w/Dean Marin
Orchestra Conducted By: Vinnie Falcone
Frank Sinatra Portion:
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. When Your Lover Has Gone
5. I've Got You Under My Skin
6. Summer Me, Winter Me
7. The Song Is You
8. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
9. April In Paris
10. A Foggy Day
11. New York, New York
Frank & Dean:
12. comedy
13. comedic parodies
14. comedy
15. medley: I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby- DM / Pennies
From Heaven - DM / Strangers In The Night - FS / I Can't Get
Started - FS / Embraceable You - DM / I Don't Care If The Sun
Doesn't Shine - DM / It's All Right With Me - FS / Where Or When -
DM / All Of Me - FS / Oh Marie - Both / Blue Skies - FS / When
You're Smiling - Both
Notes: TT 84mins.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
8-24 to 8-26
w/Dean Martin two shows a night
8-27 -28 Sinatra with Pat Henry opening - two shows a night
8/29 to 8.31 -one show a night
Orchestra Conducted By: Vinnie Falcone, Jr.
Philadelphia Daily News
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Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
First Show w/Dean Marin
Orchestra Conducted By: Vinnie Falcone, Jr.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
First Show w/Dean Marin
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, Jr..
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. At Long Last Love
4. I've Got You Under My Skin
5. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
6. The Song Is You
7. My Kind Of Town
8. New York, New York
9. Frank & Dean comedy
9. Frank & Dean comedic parodies
10. Frank & Dean comedy
11. medley: I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby- DM / Pennies
From Heaven - DM / Strangers In The Night - FS / I Can't Get Started - FS / Embraceable You - DM / I Don't Care If The Sun Doesn't Shine - DM / It's All Right With Me - FS / Where Or When - DM / All Of Me - FS / Oh Marie - Both / Blue Skies - FS / When You're Smiling - Both
Notes: TT 61mins
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Second Show w/Dean Marin
Orchestra Conducted By: Vinnie Falcone
Ed O'Brien:
Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin got a real surprise during their late show Monday night (August 25) at Resorts International in Atlantic City -- an onstage visit by old pal Sammy Davis Jr, who opened August 26 at Caesars Boardwalk Regency, also in Atlantic City.
After they got over their surprise, Sinatra and Martin settled down with Davis at doing what they do best --- giving the audience a night to remember. The three did 20 minutes of jokes, reminiscences, and song, including a roof-raising rendition of "Birth Of The Blues" that left the crowd yelling for more.
After the show, Sinatra and Martin, and their respective teams, headed for a local ballpark for a friendly game of baseball: Ol' Blue Eyes team against Ol' Red Eyes.
Five thousand fans attended the game (which began at 3:00AM. It was a seven-inning game with the final score 18-18. Jilly Rizzo and Sammy Davis were the home-plate umpires giving them a combined vision of 20-20.
The money raised from those who attended the game was donated to the Rehabilitation Center for the Blind in Atlantic City.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
8-24 to 8-26
w/Dean Martin two shows a night
8-27 -28 Sinatra with Pat Henry opening - two shows a night
8/29 to 8.31 -one show a night
Orchestra Conducted By: Vinnie Falcone, Jr.
Press Of Atlantic City
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Philadelphia Inquirer
August 24 -August 30 2 Shows A Night
Vinnie Falcone Conducting
O.A. Pia Zadora Pat Henry
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Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey w/Dean Marin
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, Jr.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, Jr.
1. You Make Me Feel So Young
2. The Best Is Yet to Come
3. The Lady Is a Tramp
4. In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
5. When Your Lover Has Gone
6. I've Got You Under My Skin
7. Summer Me, Winter Me
8. Street of Dreams
9. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry
10. Monologue (after Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry.
11. It Had to Be You
12. Send in the Clowns
13. The Song Is You
14. As Time Goes By
15. Bossa Nova (Frank Conducts.
16. My Kind of Town
17. A Foggy Day
18. New York, New York
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, Jr.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, Jr.
1 You Make Me Feel So Young
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. When Your Lover Has Gone
4. I've Got You Under My Skin
5. Summer Me, Winter Me
6. It Had To Be You
7. The Lady Is A Tramp
8. Guess I'lll Hang My Tears Out To Dry monologue
9. As Time Goes By w/Tony Mottola on guitar
10. The Song Is You
11. A Foggy Day
12. New York, New York
Notes: TT 63mins.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, Jr.
1. You Make Me Feel So Young
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. When Your Lover Has Gone
4. I've Got You Under My Skin
5. Summer Me, Winter Me
6. It Had To Be You
7. The Lady Is A Tramp
8. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
9. monologue
10. As Time Goes By
11. Bosa Nova For C - Sinatra Conducts
12. The Song Is You
13. My Kind Of Town
14. New York, New York
Notes: TT 68mins.
MDA Telethon
1. My Kind Of Town
2. You And Me
3. New York, New York
Notes: 15 min.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, Jr.
1. You Make Me Feel So Young
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. When Your Lover Has Gone
4. I've Got You Under My Skin
5. Summer Me, Winter Me
6. It Had To Be You
7. The Lady Is A Tramp
8. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
9. monologue
10. As Time Goes By w/Tony Mottola on guitar
11. Bosa Nova For C - Sinatra Conducts
12. The Song Is You
13. My Kind Of Town
14. You And Me
15. New York, New York
Notes: Final three songs, "My Kind Of Town", "You
And Me" & "New York, New York" used on a segment of the MDA Telethon. Portion used runs 18mins. TT 64mins.
[Concerts At London's Royal Albert Hall]
Sinatra played a series of concerts at London's Royal Albert Hall in September 1980.
Source: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).
Royal Festival Hall, London, England (September 8-20)
Orchestra Conducted by: Vinnie Falcone
Tony Mattola (Guitar), Charles Turner (Trumpet), Gene Cherico (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums)
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Song Is You
4. When Your Lover Has Gone
5. (In The) Wee Small Hours
6. The Lady Is A Tramp
7. I've Got A Crush On You w/Tony Mattola
8. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
9. Monologue & Toast To The Queen
10. Let's Fall in Love - Let's Do It (Parody)
11. Strangers In The Night
12. I Can't Get Started
13. Don't Worry 'Bout Me - Charles Turner Solo
14. Summer Me, Winter Me
15. Street Of Dreams
16. As Time Goes By
17. Bosa Nova For C - Sinatra Conducts
18. I've Got You Under My Skin
NOTE: Ed O'Brien reports that he has an interview with Sammy Cahn in which Cahn tells how the above parody of "Let's Fall in Love" " Let's Do It" came to be.
Sinatra called Cahn from London and told Sammy he wanted to do a sophisticated send-up at the Albert Hall. Cahn did his usual clever parody and sent it out to Sinatra just a few minutes before the opening night show. Sinatra put it in his pocket and walked out on stage. Halfway through the show, he took it out of his pocket and did a fine reading of a rather complicated song. His only flub was in mispronouncing Telly Savala's name. Cahn was simply in awe of the pure musicianship and total confidence Sinatra displayed.
Royal Festival Hall, London , England (September 8-20)
Orchestra Conducted by: Vinnie Falcone
Tony Mattola (Guitar), Charles Turner (Trumpet), Gene Cherico (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums)
Royal Festival Hall, London, England
Orchestra Conducted By: Vinnie Falcone
Tony Mattola (Guitar), Charles Turner (Trumpet), Gene Cherico (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums), Vincent Falcone Jr (piano).
1. You Make Me Feel So Young
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Song Is You
4. When Your Lover Has Gone
5. The Lady Is A Tramp
6.. Send In The Clowns
7. At Long Last Love
8. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
9. monologue
10. Strangers In The Night
11. More Than You Know
12. Summer Me, Winter Me
13. As Time Goes By
14. Bosa Nova For C - Sinatra Conducts
15. I've Got You Under My Skin
16. You And Me
17. My Kind Of Town
18. New York, New York
Notes: TT 84mins.
Royal Albert Hall, London, England (September 8-20)
Royal Festival Hall, London, England
Orchestra Conducted By: Vinnie Falcone
Tony Mattola (Guitar), Charles Turner (Trumpet), Gene Cherico (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums), Vincent Falcone Jr (piano).
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Song Is You
4. When Your Lover Has Gone
5. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
6. The Lady Is A Tramp
7. Send In The Clowns
8. Willow Weep For Me
9. monologue
10. Strangers In The Night
11. I Can't Get Started
12. Summer Me, Winter Me
13. Street Of Dreams
14. As Time Goes By w/ Tony Mottola on guitar
15. Bosa Nova For C - Sinatra Conducts
16. I've Got You Under My Skin
17. You And Me
18. My Kind Of Town
19. A Foggy Day
20. New York, New York
Notes: TT 84mins.
Royal Festival Hall, London, England
Orchestra Conducted By: Vinnie Falcone
Tony Mattola (Guitar), Charles Turner (Trumpet), Gene Cherico (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums), Vincent Falcone Jr (piano).
1. You Make Me Feel So Young
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Song Is You
4. When Your Lover Has Gone
5. The Lady Is A Tramp
6. Send In The Clowns
7. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
8. monologue
9. Strangers In The Nigh
10. I Can't Get Started
11. Summer Me, Winter Me
12. Street Of Dreams
13. As Time Goes By
14. Bosa Nova For C - Sinatra Conducts
15. I've Got You Under My Skin
16. You And Me
17. My Kind Of Town
18. A Foggy Day
19. New York, New York
Notes: TT 84mins.
Royal Festival Hall, London, England
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By : Vincent Falcone jr.
Tony Mattola (Guitar), Charles Turner (Trumpet), Gene Cherico (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums)
1. You Make Me Feel So Young
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Song Is You
4. When Your Lover Has Gone
5. The Lady Is A Tramp
6. Send In The Clowns - w/Tony Mattola
7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. monologue
9. Happy Birthday - Happy Birthday was to Cladette Colbert who was
87 and Frank said she was 90
10. Strangers In The Night
11. More Than You Know
12. The Very Thought Of You - Charles Turner solo
13. Summer Me, Winter Me
14. Street Of Dreams
15. As Time Goes By - w/Vincent Falcone jr., piano
16. Bossa Nova For C - Sinatra conducts
17. I've Got You Under My Skin
18. My Kind Of Town
19. A Foggy Day
20. New York, New York
Royal Festival Hall, London, England
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vinnie Falcone
Tony Mattola (Guitar), Charles Turner (Trumpet),
Gene Cherico (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums), Vincent Falcone Jr (piano).
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Song Is You
4. When Your Lover Has Gone
5. The Lady Is A Tramp
6. Send In The Clowns
7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. A Foggy Day
9. monologue
10. Strangers In The Night
11. More Than You Know
12. The Very Thought Of You - Charles Turner Solo
13. Summer Me, Winter Me
14. Street Of Dreams
15. As Time Goes By
16. I've Got You Under My Skin
17. My Kind Of Town
19. New York, New York
Notes: There were no shows on the 14th & 15th. TT 74mins.
Royal Albert Hall, London, England
Opening Night
Orchestra Conducted By: Vinnie Falcone
Tony Mattola (Guitar), Charles Turner (Trumpet), Gene Cherico (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums), Vincent Falcone Jr (piano).
1. You Make Me Feel So Young
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Song Is You
4. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. The Lady Is A Tramp
7. Send In The Clowns
8. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
9. monologue
10. Strangers In The Night
11. More Than You Know
12. Summer Me, Winter Me
13. Street Of Dreams
14. As Time Goes By
15. Bossa Nova For C - Sinatra Conducts
16. I've Got You Under My Skin
17. You And Me
18. My Kind Of Town
19. A Foggy Day
20. New York, New York
Notes: TT 83mins.
Royal Festival Hall, London, England
Orchestra Conducted By: Vinnie Falcone
Tony Mattola (Guitar), Charles Turner (Trumpet),
Gene Cherico (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums), Vincent Falcone Jr (piano).
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Song Is You
4. When Your Lover Has Gone
5. The Lady Is A Tramp
6. Send In The Clowns
7. At Long Last Love
8. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
9. monologue
10. Strangers In The Night
11. More Than You Know
12. Summer Me, Winter Me
13. Street Of Dreams
14. As Time Goes By
15. Bosa Nova For C - Sinatra Conducts
16. I've Got You Under My Skin
17. My Kind Of Town
18. A Foggy Day
19. New York, New York
Notes: TT 78mins.
Royal Festival Hall, London, England
Orchestra Conducted By: Vinnie Falcone
Tony Mattola (Guitar), Charles Turner (Trumpet), Gene Cherico (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums), Vincent Falcone Jr (piano).
1. You Make Me Feel So Young
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Song Is You
4. When Your Lover Has Gone
5. The Lady Is A Tramp
6. Send In The Clowns
7. At Long Last Love
8. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
9. monologue
10. Strangers In The Night
11. More Than You Know
12. Summer Me, Winter Me
13. As Time Goes By w/ Tony Mottola on guitar
14. I've Got You Under My Skin
15. You And Me
16. My Kind Of Town
17. A Foggy Day
18. New York, New York
Notes: TT 85mins.
Royal Albert Hall, London, England (September 8-20)
Tony Mottola (Guitar), Charles Turner (Trumpet), Gene Cherico (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums), Vincent Falcone conductor (piano).
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Song Is You
4. When Your Lover Has Gone
5. The Lady Is A Tramp
6. Send In The Clowns
7. At Long Last Love
8. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
9. monologue
10. Strangers In The Night
11. More Than You Know
12. Summer Me, Winter Me
13. As Time Goes By w/ Tony Mottola on guitar
14.Bossa Nova in the Key of C composition by V. Falcone Sinatra conducts.
15. I've Got You Under My Skin
16. My Kind Of Town
17. A Foggy Day
18. New York, New York
Royal Albert Hall, London, England ( September 8-20 )
First show
Tony Mottola (Guitar), Charles Turner (Trumpet), Gene Cherico (Bass),
Irv Cottler (Drums), Vincent Falcone conductor (piano).
1. You Make Me Feel So Young
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Song Is You
4. Summer Me, Winter Me
5. In The Wee Small Hours
6. The Lady Is A Tramp
7. Send In The Clowns
8. At Long Last Love
9. The Gal That Got Away/It Never Entered My Mind
10. monologue
11. Strangers In The Night
12. But Not For Me
13. As Time Goes By w/ Tony Mottola on guitar
14.Bossa Nova in the Key of C composition by V. Falcone Sinatra conducts.
15. I've Got You Under My Skin
16. My Kind Of Town
17. A Foggy Day
18. New York, New York
Royal Albert Hall, London, England (September 8-20)
Second show
Tony Mottola (Guitar), Charles Turner (Trumpet), Gene Cherico (Bass), Irv Cottler (Drums), Vincent Falcone conductor (piano).
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Song Is You
4. When Your Lover Has Gone
5. The Lady Is A Tramp
6. Send In The Clowns
7. At Long Last Love
8. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
9. monologue
10. Strangers In The Night
11. More Than You Know
12. Summer Me, Winter Me
13. As Time Goes By w/ Tony Mottola on guitar
14.Bossa Nova in the Key of C composition by V. Falcone Sinatra conducts.
15. I've Got You Under My Skin
16. My Kind Of Town
17. A Foggy Day
18. New York, New York
The Waldorf-Astoria, New York City
World Mercy Benefit
Orchestra Conducted by: Vincent Falcone Jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. When Your Lover Has Gone
4. Strangers In The Night
5. It Had To Be You
6. You And Me
7. As Time Goes By
8. New York, New York
Notes: TT 28mins.
The Waldorf-Astoria, New York City
World Mercy Benefit
Orchestra Conducted by: Vincent Falcone Jr.
Frank Sinatra and Barbara Sinatra attend World Mercy Fund Benefit Gala on September 26, 1980 at the Waldorf Hotel in New York City.
Prelude To Victory, Waldorf Astoria
Reagan fund raiser
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Pat Boone, Michael Landon, Charlton Heston
1. I've Got the World on a String
2. The Best is Yet to Come
3. You and Me
4. I've Got You Under my Skin
5. New York, New York (Tells audience that N.Y. will go for Ronald Reagan. Then introduces Nancy Reagan, who then introduces the candidate.
Sinatra Scholar Ed O'Brien says that this fund-raiser was broadcast closed-circuit to 19 hotels around the country. Dean Martin was the emcee at the International Ballroom in Beverly Hills . Martin sang "Where or When" and did a very funny monologue. Dean introduced Norm Crosby, Charlton Heston, Michael Landon, Gerald Ford, and Pat Boone. The latter sang "Maybe This Time." Dean then introduced Sinatra via satellite from the Waldorf Astoria in New York City . Sinatra took a couple of good natured jabs at Dean and then said to his conductor, Vinnie Falcone, "You may proceed."
Sinatraphile Johnny Li says he has this program on video and Sinatra looked and sounded great!
The Waldorf-Astoria, New York City
"A Prelude To Victory" Reagan Benefit
Orchestra Conducted by: Vincent Falcone Jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. You And Me
4. I've Got You Under My Skin
5. New York, New York
The Waldorf-Astoria, New York City
"A Prelude To Victory" Reagan Benefit
Orchestra Conducted by: Vincent Falcone Jr.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Key Musicians: Vincent Falcone Jr. - piano, Charles Turnner - trumpet, Gene Cherico - bass, Irv Cottler - drums.
Orchestra Conducted by: Vincent Falcone Jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Song Is You
4. When Your Lover Has Gone
5. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
6. The Lady Is A Tramp
7. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
8. Strangers In The Night
9. But Not For Me
10. Don't Worry 'Bout Me - Charles Turner solo
11. Summer Me, Winter Me
12. Street Of Dreams
13. As Time Goes By
14. Bosa Nova For C - Sinatra Conducts
15. I've Got You Under My Skin
16. You And Me
17. My Kind Of Town
18. New York, New York
Notes: TT 68mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Key Musicians: Vincent Falcone Jr. - piano, Charles Turnner - trumpet, Gene Cherico - bass, Irv Cottler - drums.
Orchestra Conducted by: Vincent Falcone Jr.
1. You Make Me Feel So Young
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. All Of Me
4. When Your Lover Has Gone
5. The Lady Is A Tramp
6. monologue
7. Willow Weep For Me
8. monologue
9. It Had To Be You
10. Summer Me, Winter Me
11. Street Of Dreams
12. As Time Goes By - w/Tony Mattola
13. Bosa Nova For C - Sinatra Conducts
14. I've Got You Under My Skin
15. New York, New York
16. My Kind Of Town
Ed O'Brien transcribed Sinatra's comments before "As Time Goes By"- "Now, I'd like to sing one of my favorite songs of all time. Of all the songs I've done, I have 25 of them. But this one is always the one I like to sing. This and another one I sang years ago called "They're Digging up Father's Grave to Build a Sewer." Lovely English madri-gal. If I did it here, this would be an open parking lot like the other joint next door." TT 60mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Key Musicians: Vincent Falcone Jr. - piano, Charles Turnner - trumpet, Gene Cherico - bass, Irv Cottler - drums.
Orchestra Conducted by: Vincent Falcone Jr.
1. I've Got the World on a String
2. The Best Is Yet to Come
3. The Song Is You
4. When Your Lover Has Gone
5. In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
6. The Lady Is a Tramp
7. I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry
8. Strangers in the Night
9. I Can't Get Started
10. Summer Me, Winter Me
11. Street of Dreams
12. As Time Goes By
13. I've Got You Under My Skin
14. You and Me (We Wanted It All)
15. My Kind of Town
16. Theme From New York, New York
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Key Musicians: Vincent Falcone Jr. - piano, Charles Turnner - trumpet, Gene Cherico - bass, Irv Cottler - drums.
Orchestra Conducted by: Vincent Falcone Jr.
1. I've Got the World on a String
2. The Best Is Yet to Come
3. The Song Is You
4. When Your Lover Has Gone
5. In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
6. The Lady Is a Tramp
7. I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry
8. Strangers in the Night
9. More Than You Know
10. Summer Me, Winter Me
11. Street of Dreams
12. As Time Goes By
13. I've Got You Under My Skin
14. You and Me (We Wanted It All)
15. My Kind of Town
16. Theme From New York, New York
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (October 3-8)
Key Musicians: Vincent Falcone Jr. - piano, Charles Turnner - trumpet, Gene Cherico - bass, Irv Cottler - drums.
Orchestra Conducted by: Vincent Falcone Jr.
Pat Henry opening act
There were two-shows on 10/3 & 10/4.
Muhammad Ali vs Larry Holmes was the main attraction at Caesars on 10/2. Frank was at ringside for that sad affair.
Ed
Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (3-8) closing night Wednesday
Key Musicians: Vincent Falcone Jr. - piano, Charles Turnner - trumpet, Gene Cherico - bass, Irv Cottler - drums.
Orchestra Conducted by: Vincent Falcone Jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. When Your Lover Has Gone
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. talk
6. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
7. monologue
8. Summer Me, Winter Me
9. Street Of Dreams
10. As Time Goes By
11. Bosa Nova For "C" (Instumental - Sinatra Conducts)
12. I've Got You Under My Skin
13. introductions
14. You And Me
15. My Kind Of Town
16. New York, New York
17. chaser: "My Way"
Notes: TT 61mins.
Syracuse Carrier Dome, New York
Reagan Benefit
Wednesday evening
Conducted by Vinnie Falcone
O.A. Wayne Newton
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Song Is You
4. When Your Lover Has Gone
5. The Lady Is A Tramp monologue
6. Street Of Dreams
7. You And Me
8. My Kind Of Town
9. New York, New York
Syracuse Carrier Dome, New York
Reagan Benefit
Wednesday evening
Conducted by Vinnie Falcone
"The First Deadly Sin" (World Premier, New York, October 23, 1980)
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Faye Dunaway, James Whitmore, David Dukes, Brenda Vaccaro, Martin Gabel, Anthony Zerbe,
Produced by: Frank Sinatra, Elliott Kastner, George Pappas, Mark Shanker
Directed by: Brian G. Hutton
A serial killer is stalking New York. Inspector Edward X. Delaney (Sinatra) is an NYPD detective, nearing retirement, who is trying to put together the pieces of the case. Meanwhile, Delaney receives news that his wife Barbara (Dunaway) is recovering from emergency surgery. Barbara's surgeon, explains that complications from her kidney stones forced him to remove the organ. Over the course of the film, Barbara's condition worsens. With the help of a museum curator (Gabel), the coroner (Whitmore), and a victim's widow (Vaccao), Delaney eventually tracks down and finishes off the killer (Dukes). --DVD Release: 1999-05-25
Note: The world premiere took place on 10-23-80, Thursday, at Loews
State Theater, Broadway and 45th St, N.Y.C. The showing was a benefit for Cabrini Medical Hospice in the city. Frank and Barbara Sinatra attended the opening. The next day the film opened all over the city. The L.A and Chicago openings would be in late October (29).. The film had an alternate ending shot for the TV airing. David Bowie was offered the role of the psychotic killer. He was interested but wanted a better script. David Dukes would eventually take the role. Sinatra was an executive producer. Filming commenced on 5-10-80 and took 10 weeks to complete. Critical response was very mixed but Sinatra was lauded for his world-weary performance. He was discouraged by the critical reception to the film. It would be his last feature role in a movie.
--Ed
[The Cinematic Legacy of Frank Sinatra — The First Deadly Sin (1980)]
David Wills's 2015 photo history The Cinematic Legacy of Frank Sinatra devotes a section to The First Deadly Sin (1980), illustrated with 2 behind-the-scenes and publicity photographs (posters, lobby cards, and on-set/on-location shots) filed here.
“… Sinatra plays this role close to his chest, and looks and acts very touchingly like a tired old cop on the threshold of retirement. We can sympathize with him, and that's partly because he resists any temptation to give us a reprise of those wisecracking wise-asses he played in the 1960s. This is a new performance, built from the ground up.” —Roger Ebert
Source: David Wills, The Cinematic Legacy of Frank Sinatra (St. Martin's Press, 2015), pp. 274–275.
As Edward Delaney, The First Deadly Sin, 1980. / “… Sinatra plays this role close to his chest, and / looks and acts very touchingly like a tired old / cop on the threshold of retirement. We can / sympathize with him, and that's partly because / he resists any temptation to give us a reprise of / th (Photo: The Cinematic Legacy of Frank Sinatra, David Wills, 2015.)
One sheet poster, The First Deadly Sin. (Photo: The Cinematic Legacy of Frank Sinatra, David Wills, 2015.)
"The First Deadly Sin" (USA General Release October 3, 1980)
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Faye Dunaway, James Whitmore, David Dukes, Brenda Vaccaro, Martin Gabel, Anthony Zerbe,
The First Deadly Sin
Roger Ebert, October 30, 1980
Who would have thought, in all honesty, that Frank Sinatra had this performance still left in him? Ten years after his last film, the dismal "Dirty Dingus Magee," and longer than that since the schlock of "Tony Rome" and "Lady in Cement," here he is again with a quiet, poignant, and very effective performance as the centerpiece of "The First Deadly Sin." The movie is one of the season's pleasant surprises.
Sinatra plays Ed Delaney, a New York police detective with only a few weeks until his retirement. He goes out to investigate a routine mugging and discovers that the victim has been killed by a strange weapon: The impact on the skull is like nothing he's seen before. He stumbles over a couple of related cases, and begins to suspect that the same madman is responsible for them all. Delaney's boss would basically just like him to forget about it and retire, but some small core of stubbornness won't let Delaney let go. Advertisement
At the same time, things are not going well in his private life. His wife (Faye Dunaway) has had a kidney removed and is in the hospital, critically ill. Delaney is living a bachelor's existence in their town house-which probably reflects her taste in the antiques and plants that stand ready as a backdrop to his retirement. He is a quiet man, firm but not demonstrative, and even his determination to follow through on the murder case isn't heroic, it's just dogged.
The movie surrounds Sinatra with a gallery of good character actors in good roles: There's the raspy coroner (James Whitmore) and the oily doorman (Joe Spinell) and the little old curator of antiquities (George Coe) who improbably figures out what was probably used as the murder weapon.
There's a less satisfactory treatment of the killer (David Dukes), who is never really established as a personality, and exists only as a shadowy, frightening cipher. The movie's never consistent in the way it shows us the killer. We're apparently omniscient at times, and can watch the killer alone in his coldly efficient High Tech apartment. But at other times we're deliberately kept ignorant of his plans and movements. The movie wants to have things both ways, but thrillers are more effective when they establish rules and play by them.
Still, the failure to develop the killer isn't really crucial to the movie; we know enough about him, and can guess enough more from other movies and pop psychology, to fill in his blanks. What definitely doesn't work in this movie is the entire character of Delaney's wife, as played by Dunaway. The movie opens with Delaney called off a case to go to her bedside, where the emergency operation was just performed - and then, all during the rest of the film, the police action alternates with visits to the bedside. Advertisement
Dunaway's role has to be the longest -running deathbed scene I can remember. All we know for sure is that she'll look worse every time Sinatra goes to the hospital. After a few brave and cheerful remarks at the outset, she has hardly any dialogue, and so we don't learn much about their relationship.
The fact that she is dying is intended, of course, as counterpoint to the professional pressures bearing down on the detective. But (and here the movie miscalculates) we don't need to see her dying to feel those pressures. It might have been more effective to let her die offscreen, and to let us imagine her suffering while identifying with his grief.
The handling of the wife's character could have been fatal to the movie, but it's not. That's due to Sinatra, who plays this role close to his chest, and who looks and acts very touchingly like a tired old cop on the threshold of retirement. We can empathize with him, and that's partly because he resists any temptation to give us a reprise of those wisecracking wiseasses he played in the 1960s. This is a new performance, built from the ground up.
Frank Sinatra during Premiere of "The First Deadly Sin" - October 23, 1980 at Loews Theater in New York City, New York,
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"The First Deadly Sin"
Sinatra's final feature film, The First Deadly Sin (1980), is an unremittingly grim story, but Santopietro considers Sinatra's performance a sensational, fitting swan song to his starring feature career.
Source: Tom Santopietro, "Sinatra in Hollywood" (2008).
"The First Deadly Sin"
The film had a screenplay by Mann Rubin, cinematography by Jack Priestly, a score by longtime Sinatra arranger Gordon Jenkins, and was directed by Brian G. Hutton; it was filmed on location in Manhattan in the spring of 1980, capturing the beaten-down New York City of that era.
Source: Tom Santopietro, "Sinatra in Hollywood" (2008).
"The First Deadly Sin"
Sinatra's scenes with Faye Dunaway, playing Delaney's dying wife, are among the most affecting of his career; Santopietro notes that Delaney's onscreen return to church resonated with Sinatra's own life, as he reportedly began attending the Catholic Church of his youth more frequently after marrying Barbara.
Source: Tom Santopietro, "Sinatra in Hollywood" (2008).
"The First Deadly Sin"
In a confrontation with a doctor (George Coe) he believes is indifferent to his dying wife, Sinatra's Delaney curses onscreen for the first time in his feature film career, using words like "bullshit" and "goddamned."
Source: Tom Santopietro, "Sinatra in Hollywood" (2008).
"The First Deadly Sin"
The film's standout suspense sequence -- a nearly wordless stretch where Delaney tracks killer Daniel Blank through scaffold-covered buildings, scored by Gordon Jenkins -- is staged by director Hutton in a manner recalling Hitchcock's famous silent sequence in 1936's The Man Who Knew Too Much.
Source: Tom Santopietro, "Sinatra in Hollywood" (2008).
"The First Deadly Sin"
Delaney kills the psychopathic killer Daniel Blank (David Dukes) in cold blood and immediately turns in his badge; the film closes with a voiceover of Delaney reading a children's book to his wife even after her death, a scene Santopietro calls one of the finest of Sinatra's career, matching the emotional vulnerability of his best singing.
Source: Tom Santopietro, "Sinatra in Hollywood" (2008).
"The First Deadly Sin"
Variety (Cart.): Variety's critic ("Cart.") called it the first Sinatra performance in some time that he "appears to have taken with complete seriousness," praising him as "serious, direct and not at all the wise guy."
Source: Tom Santopietro, "Sinatra in Hollywood" (2008).
"The First Deadly Sin"
The film's bleak, unresolved ending contributed to its box-office failure; Santopietro suggests its rejection deepened Sinatra's disillusionment with contemporary Hollywood, which by then favored slam-bang action films aimed at teenage audiences over smaller, character-driven adult dramas.
Source: Tom Santopietro, "Sinatra in Hollywood" (2008).
"The First Deadly Sin"
Santopietro grades this a B, calling it bleak and not entirely successful, but Frank is better than ever in what would be his last starring role.
Source: Tom Santopietro, "Sinatra in Hollywood" (2008).
"The First Deadly Sin"
Santopietro (Filmography): Artanis-Cinema 7/First Deadly Sin Company/Filmways. Produced by George Pappas and Mark Shanker, directed by Brian G. Hutton, screenplay by Mann Rubin based on the Lawrence Sanders novel. Sinatra played detective Edward Delaney opposite Faye Dunaway and David Dukes.
Source: Tom Santopietro, "Sinatra in Hollywood" (2008).
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone Jr.
Notes: Date needs researched
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone Jr.
Notes: Date needs researched
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone Jr.
Notes: Date needs researched
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone Jr.
Notes: Date needs researched
Cher was at Caesars from 11/6 thru 11/12.
She was fined $100.00 for singing too loudly
on opening night.
I also found a review from 11/9 commenting on the outfits she was wearing
and stating that she would close on 11/12.
Frank did a benefit at the Aladdin on 11/13 for UNLV and St Jude's on 11/14.
Ed
Aladdin Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada
Benefit For University Of Nevada
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Song Is You
3. The Best Is Yet To Come
4. When Your Lover Has Gone
5. In The Wee Small Hours
6. Street Of Dreams
7. New York, New York
Notes: Also listed as 11/30. 28mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
St.Jude's Ranch benefit
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone Jr.
1. All Of Me
2. As Time Goes By
3. I Get A Kick Out Of You
Aladdin Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Song Is You
3. The Best Is Yet To Come
4. When Your Lover Has Gone
5. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
6. Street Of Dreams
The Riviera, Las Vegas, Nevada (8 - 10)
Substitute for ailing Liza Minnelli
Orchestra conducted by Vincent Falcone Jr
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Song Is You
4. When Your Lover Has Gone
5. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
6. The Lady Is A Tramp
7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. monologue
9. I Can't Get Started
10. Summer Me, Winter Me
11. Street Of Dreams
12. As Time Goes By
13. I've Got You Under My Skin
14. You And Me
15. New York, New York
Notes: Sinatra filled in for Minnelli 12/8 - 12/10. TT: 66mins.
The Riviera, Las Vegas, Nevada (8 - 10)
Substitute for ailing Liza Minnelli
Orchestra conducted by Vincent Falcone Jr
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Song Is You
4. When Your Lover Has Gone
5. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
6. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
7. monologue
8. I Can't Get Started
9. Summer Me, Winter Me
10. Street Of Dreams
11. As Time Goes By
12. Bosa Nova For C - Sinatra Conducts
13. I've Got You Under My Skin
14. My Kind Of Town
15. New York, New York
Notes: TT: 66mins.
The Riviera, Las Vegas, Nevada (8 - 10)
Substitute for ailing Liza Minnelli
Orchestra conducted by Vincent Falcone Jr
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Song Is You
4. When Your Lover Has Gone
5. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
6. The Lady Is A Tramp
7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. monologue
9. I Can't Get Started
10. Summer Me, Winter Me
11. Street Of Dreams
12. As Time Goes By
13. I've Got You Under My Skin
14. My Kind Of Town
15. New York, New York
Notes: TT: 66mins.
The Tonight Show
Frank Makes A Surprise Visit
[image referenced in source but could not be recovered]
Most Joyful Mystery
"World Mercy Fund"
Guests: Frank Sinatra, Barnard Hughes. Father Tom Rooney
Sinatra portion taped October 8, 1980.
Note: Syndicated special. Shown also 81'-84'
Sinatra Scholar Ed O'Brien points out that "Most Joyful Mystery" was done for World Mercy Fund.
Vinnie Falcone told O'Brien that Frank taped "The First Noel" at Caesars Palace in the wee small hours
after the second show. Sinatra did just one run through.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (27 - 31)
Orchestra conducted by: Vincent Falcone Jr
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Song Is You
3. The Best Is Yet To Come
4. But Beautiful
5. When Your Lover Has Gone
6. The Lady Is A Tramp
7. medley: Last Night When We Were Young /
Violets For Your Furs / Here's That Rainy Day
8. monologue
9. I Get A Kick Out Of You
10. Don't Worry 'Bout Me - solo by Charles Turner
11. For Once In My Life
12. September Song
13. I've Got You Under My Skin
14. As Time Goes By
15. Bosa Nova For C - Sinatra Conducts
16. Summer Me, Winter Me
17. New York, New York
Notes: TT: 62mins.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (27 - 31)
Orchestra conducted by: Vincent Falcone Jr
1. I;ve Got The World On A String
2. The Song Is You
3. The Best Is Yet To Come
4. But Beautiful
5. When Your Lover Has Gone
6. The Lady Is A Tramp
7. medley: Last Night When We Were Young /
Violets For Your Furs / Here's That Rainy Day
8. monologue
9. I Get A Kick Out Of You
10. For Once In My Life
11. September Song
12. I've Got You Under My Skin
13. As Time Goes By
14. Summer Me, Winter Me
15. New York, New York
Notes: TT: 70mins.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (27-31)
Orchestra conducted by: Vincent Falcone Jr
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Song Is You
3. The Best Is Yet To Come
4. But Beautiful
5. When Your Lover Has Gone
6. The Lady Is A Tramp
7. medley: Last Night When We Were Young /
Violets For Your Furs / Here's That Rainy Day
8. monologue
9.. I Get A Kick Out Of You
10. Street Of Dreams
11. September Song
12. I've Got You Under My Skin
13. As Time Goes By
14. Summer Me, Winter Me
15. New York, New York
Notes: TT: 68mins.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (27-31)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone Jr
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Song Is You
3. The Best Is Yet To Come
4. But Beautiful
5. When Your Lover Has Gone
6. The Lady Is A Tramp
7. medley: Last Night When We Were Young /
Violets For Your Furs / Here's That Rainy Day
8. monologue
9.. I Get A Kick Out Of You
10. Street Of Dreams
11. September Song
12. I've Got You Under My Skin
13. As Time Goes By
14. Bosa Nova For C - Sinatra Conducts
15. Summer Me, Winter Me
16. New York, New York
Notes: TT: 68mins.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (27-31)
Orchestra conducted by: Vincent Falcone Jr
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Song Is You
3. When Your Lover Has Gone
4. The Best Is Yet To Come
5. The Lady Is A Tramp
6. I Get A Kick Out Of You
7. Street Of Dreams
8. Pennies From Heaven
9. You And Me
10. Here's That Rainy Day
11. Please Be Kind
12. Angel Eyes
13. monologue
14. Luck Be A Lady
15. Send In The Clowns
16. Where Or When
17. I've Got You Under My Skin
18. As Time Goes By
19. Summer Me, Winter Me
20. New York, New York
[She Shot Me Down Impresses Critics, Not Fans]
Sinatra's 1981 album She Shot Me Down, a set of dark torch songs suited to his weathered voice, was praised by some critics as his best work in nearly fifteen years, but it sold poorly, and he largely lost interest in recording for several years afterward.
Source: The Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra, chapter "I Want to Be a Part of It, 1971-98."
[Sinatra Wins His Nevada Gaming License]
Applying for a Nevada gaming license, Sinatra used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain his own FBI files, which he turned over to the state after the Bureau itself had long refused to release them. The files showed decades of investigation but no evidence of Mafia membership or business ties, and he was granted the license.
Source: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).
[Sinatra's Tribute to Anwar Sadat]
Following President Anwar Sadat's assassination, Sinatra wrote a tribute calling him the loss of a man of the desert who had stood tall in the sand, extending sympathy to Sadat's widow.
Source: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).
[Staging Reagan's Inaugural Gala]
Sinatra took on the serious work of staging the Inaugural Gala for President Ronald Reagan.
Source: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).
[The FBI's "Communist" File on Sinatra]
Nancy Sinatra: When Sinatra used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain his own FBI files during his 1981 gaming-license fight, they revealed that early agents had labeled him a Communist decades earlier simply because he had once appeared at a rally with Eleanor Roosevelt and had recorded the song "The House I Live In."
Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.
[Background on Sinatra's gaming license hearing testimony]
Ed Walters: Walters explains the context behind Sinatra's 1981 Nevada gaming license hearing (referenced in Tina Sinatra's 60 Minutes comments about her father lying under oath): Sinatra was seeking to clear his licensing status after losing an earlier one due to foolish behaviour, and the hearing, with questioner Richard Bunker, was staged in advance with rehearsed, agreed-upon answers to satisfy public and press scrutiny -- Walters says Sinatra stuck to the script except in two questions and briefly at the end.
Source: Ed Walters, pit boss reminiscences (compiled by Kraus, Sinatra mailing list)
[Sinatra's 1981 gaming license hearing was scripted]
Ed Walters: Walters says Sinatra's 1981 Nevada gaming license hearing, in which he was questioned by Richard Bunker, was essentially staged in advance with agreed-upon questions and answers to publicly show Sinatra being 'grilled' like anyone else, after the outside press alleged Nevada would give him an easy pass. Sinatra largely stuck to the script, deviating only on two questions and some closing remarks.
Source: Ed Walters, pit boss reminiscences (compiled by Kraus, Sinatra mailing list)
[production]
Proud Republican Sinatra produced and directed the inaugural gala for newly elected President Ronald Reagan in 1981.
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
[She Shot Me Down -- critical commentary]
Granata's discography entry: She Shot Me Down, arranged by Gordon Jenkins and Nelson Riddle, released November 1981.
Source: Charles L. Granata, "Sessions with Sinatra: Frank Sinatra and the Art of Recording" (1999/2003), Afterword & Appendices A-D
[She Shot Me Down (1981) -- conceived as a farewell 'last stand' for the ailing Jenkins -- critical commentary]
Vincent Falcone; Sid Cooper: Vincent Falcone: "Gordon was getting old and sick, and Frank wanted to do one last album with him before he died... He wanted it to be Gordy's last stand, if you will. And I think a lot of that came from the fact that Gordon received such criticism for the Trilogy album." The album was taped in New York with Sinatra's touring band. Lead alto player Sid Cooper recalled Jenkins being impressed with the unfamiliar reed section on the first take, quietly instructing contractor Joe Malin, 'Whatever we do in this album, give Sid Cooper double scale.'
Source: Will Friedwald, "Sinatra! The Song Is You: A Singer's Art" (2018 revised edition), Ch. 8, "Gordon Jenkins" (1956-1981)
[Sinatra Produces Reagan's Inaugural Gala]
Sinatra produced and directed the inaugural gala for newly elected President Ronald Reagan, kicking off a period through the 1980s and early 1990s of sold-out tours, benefits, and official honors.
Source: The Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra, chapter "I Want to Be a Part of It, 1971-98."
[Frank sings 'Nancy' to Nancy Reagan decades later]
Sidebar note: Frank kept performing 'Nancy (with the Laughing Face)' in concert for decades, including at Reagan's 1981 inaugural gala, where he sang it with adapted lyrics for First Lady Nancy Reagan.
Source: Richard Havers, "Sinatra" (Dorling Kindersley, 2007).
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Radio City Music Hall, New York City
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center benefit w/Count Basie
Orchestra Conducted by: Vincent Falcone Jr.
Saturday evening
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Lady Is A Tramp
4. Summer Me, Winter Me
5.. I Get A Kick Out Of You
6. Street Of Dreams
7. September Song
8. Pennies From Heaven
9. As Time Goes By? w/Tony Mottola
10. Don't Worry 'Bout Me
11. Angel Eyes
12. New York, New York
Ed O'Brien:
Frank's last concert with the Count Basie band was a memorable one. It featured the unveiling of the new
Sinatra sound. Gone was the string section. Frank would sing with a "hot band" for a number of months.
It was an exciting new sound orchestrated by Vinnie
Falcone.
The ticket prices for the benefit ranged from $25.00 up to $10,000. The latter included a reception following the show at the Rainbow Room with Mr. Sinatra in attendance.
A $1,000 ticket with a supplemental charge of $250.00 also got you in to the Rainbow Room. A straight $250.00 ticket enabled one to attend a reception preceding the performance at Radio City. Ed
Radio City Music Hall, New York City
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center benefit
Radio City Music Hall, New York City
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center benefit
Frank Sinatra, left, stands with Count Basie backstage at Radio City Music Hall before Sinatra's benefit concert for Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, Jan. 10, 1981. Proceeds of the concert will help establish the Frank Sinatra Fund, which will pay the cost of treating outpatients whose medical insurance coverage is inadequate or has been exhausted. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm)
Ronald Reagan's Inaugural Gala
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, Ethel Merman, Rich Little, Ben Vereen ,
Johnny Carson
1. My Kind Of Town
2. Nancy (With The Reagan Face)
3. New York , New York
4. America The Beautiful
Ronald Reagan's Inaugural Gala
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, Ethel Merman, Rich Little, Ben Vereen ,
Johnny Carson
Frank produced President Reagan's Inaugural Gala at the Capitol Center, inviting families of the Iran hostages to the rehearsal; the hostages were released the next day. Reagan later wrote to Frank that the gala had felt like real magic to him and Nancy Reagan.
Frank Sinatra (quoted): "I still feel the magic of the 'Gala.'"
Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (January 29-February 4)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
2. Pennies From Heaven
3. You And Me
4. The Best Is Yet To Come
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. In The Still Of The Night
7. Please Be Kind
8. Angel Eyes
9. monologue
10. Luck Be A Lady
11. Send In The Clowns
12. I Get A Kick Out Of You
13. Where Or When
14. I've Got You Under My Skin
15. As Time Goes By
16. Summer Me, Winter Me
17. New York, New York
Notes: TT 70mins.
Note: Frank played Caesars for a week.(1/29 TO 2/4 Opening night, 1/29, Frank was a little uncertain because
Vinnie Falcone had introduced a brand new concept with a "hot band." Frank sang the swing numbers with an exciting brass sound and the ballads with a small combo backing. Certain members of the band were featured on different numbers throughout the show. Vinnie told me that Frank loved to catch some of the great jazz bands on the strip. Vinnie would go with him and often Frank ask "Why don't we sound like that?" Vinnie made a number of suggestions and Frank was most receptive.I was told that the second night(Friday), first show, Frank absolutely thrilled the audience with his vocals. Here is the song list from opening night: --Ed
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (January 29-February 4) Friday evening
1. Fly Me To The Moon
2. Pennies From Heaven
3. You And Me
4. The Best Is Yet To Come
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. In The Still Of The Night
7. Please Be Kind
8. Angel Eyes
9. monologue
10. Luck Be A Lady
11. Send In The Clowns
12. I Get A Kick Out Of You
13. I've Got You Under My Skin
14. As Time Goes By w/ Tony Mottola
15. Summer Me, Winter Me
16. New York, New York
Ed O'Brien noted (hotband):
Vinnie Falcone told me Frank wanted a jazzier sound. Between shows in Vegas, F.S. and V.F. would catch the new jazz sounds of bands up and down The Strip. The hot band concept gave him a new, exciting sound. "You And Me" relied more on a strong guitar backing. "Here's That Rainy Day" sounded great and most of the ballads simply received a more basic treatment and it worked.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (January 29-February 4)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Fly Me To The Moon
2. Pennies From Heaven
3. You And Me
4. The Best Is Yet To Come
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. In The Still Of The Night
7. Please Be Kind
8. Angel Eyes
9. monologue
10. Luck Be A Lady
11. Send In The Clowns
12. I Get A Kick Out Of You
13. Where Or When
14. I've Got You Under My Skin
15. As Time Goes By
16. Summer Me, Winter Me
17. New York, New York
Notes: TT 70mins.
[legal/political]
Frank Sinatra / licensing commission: In February 1981 Sinatra applied for a Nevada gaming license, submitting a letter of support from President-elect Reagan calling him 'an honorable person -- completely honest and loyal.' Sinatra again denied ever inviting or hosting mob figure Sam Giancana at Cal-Neva. The licensing commission voted 4-1 to grant Sinatra a 'key employee license,' praising his charity work and criticizing press coverage of alleged organized-crime ties.
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)
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (January 29-February 4)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Fly Me To The Moon
2. Pennies From Heaven
3. You And Me
4. The Best Is Yet To Come
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. In The Still Of The Night
7. Please Be Kind
8. Angel Eyes
9. monologue
10. Luck Be A Lady
11. Send In The Clowns
12. I Get A Kick Out Of You
13. Where Or When
14. I've Got You Under My Skin
15. As Time Goes By
16. Summer Me, Winter Me
17. New York, New York
Notes: TT 66mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (January 29-February 4)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr..
Monday evening
Hot Band no strings one show that evening
1. Fly Me To The Moon
2. Pennies From Heaven
3. You And Me
4. The Best Is Yet To Come
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. Please Be Kind
7. Angel Eyes Riddle arg. from 1958
8. monologue
9. Luck Be A Lady
10. Send In The Clowns w/ Tony Mottola
11. I Get A Kick Out Of You w/ Quartet arg. by V. Falcone
12. Where Or When
13.Don't Worry 'Bout Me Charlie Turner only
14. I've Got You Under My Skin " one of my favorite songs of all time"
"Here is a song from one of the greatest pictures of all time, "Dirty Dingus Magee. And I thought "The Kissing Bandit" was bad"
15. As Time Goes By w/ V. Falcone
"I'd like to take a second, if you will forgive me, to discuss champions We've known many, many champions in every walk of life: Wilt Chambelain, Man o' War, at the racetrack. All kinds of wonderful athletes, students and scientists. In the room this evening, we have the champion of all champions. He is a dear friend and he is a wonderful, wonderful man. Always has been. The former heavyweight champion of all the world, Mr. Joe Louis ( standing ovation). Get up champ! I love ya'. He is some human being. A sensational human being. A wonderful, wonderful creature."
16. High Time composition composed and played by V. Falcone
17. Summer Me, Winter Me
18. New York, New York
Notes on above concert By Ed O'Brien.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (January 29-February 4)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Fly Me To The Moon
2. Pennies From Heaven
3. You And Me
4. The Best Is Yet To Come
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. Please Be Kind
7. Angel Eyes
8. monologue
9. Luck Be A Lady
10. Send In The Clowns
11. I Get A Kick Out Of You
12. Where Or When
13. I've Got You Under My Skin
14. Summer Me, Winter Me
15. New York, New York
Notes: TT 75mins.
Ed O'Brien:
Frank did two shows that Tuesday night 30 years ago.
The song selection was the same for both shows. During the monologue of the second show, he shared this unforgettable lyric with us: "Who is going to bite you, baby, when your daddy's teeth are all gone?" Now, they ain't writin' songs like that anymore. Actually, I think they are. The lyricist was way ahead of his time.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (January 29-February 4)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Sinatra Testifies Before Nevada Gaming Commission
Sinatra Was Asked Almost 2 Hours Of Questions.
Ed O'Brien noted:
CNN televised the entire hearing including testimony from Kirk Douglas, Gregory Peck and all of the question/answer segments with Sinatra.
Testifying before the Nevada Gaming Control Board in pursuit of a license he'd surrendered in 1963, Frank denies under oath ever having invited Sam Giancana to the Cal-Neva Lodge or having any business relationship with him, testimony that directly conflicted with Phyllis McGuire's earlier account. He grew visibly agitated when pressed about the 1967 Carl Cohen incident at the Sands, calling it "a personal incident" he'd rather not discuss, and no one on the committee pursued the matter further. Character witnesses including Gregory Peck, Kirk Douglas, and Bob Hope submitted sworn affidavits on his behalf. Source: J. Randy Taraborrelli, Sinatra: Behind the Legend.
Caesars Tahoe, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Key Musicians: Vincent Falcone Jr. (piano), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Tony Mattola (guitar), Charles Tunner (trumpet), Bobby Sann (trombone)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. I've Got The World On String
2. Pennies From Heaven
3. You And Me
4. The Best Is Yet To Come
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. Fly Me To The Moon
7. story: "Moon Shot"
8. saloon intro
9. Angel Eyes
10. monologue
11. luck intro
12. Luck Be A Lady
13. Tony Mattola intro
14. Send In The Clowns w/Tony Mattola
15. I Get A Kick Out Of You w/small jazz combo
16. band introductions
17. Where Or When
18. intro Charles Tunner
19. Don't Worry 'bout Me - Charles Tuner solo (trumpet)
20. I've Got You Under My Skin
21. I've Got You Under My Skin (reprise)
22. As Time Goes By
23. intro Vincent Falcone Jr.
24. High Time -Instrumental
25. Summer Me, Winter Me
26. New York, New York
27. chaser "My Way"
note:
Frank's first engagement at the new casino ran from 2/12 thru 2/18. The song list you put up is correct. Frank did not sing "Please Be Kind" on the 16th and the song order is not the same. The closing night show is also different. The opening act was Pat Henry. Frank had Vinnie write a lot of new hot band charts for Vegas and Tahoe in February. Vinnie was the sole support on a few numbers and Tony Mottola did the same on a few songs with Frank. I found "These Foolish Things" to be a great addition. That marvelous song would go in and out of the act until February 1985.. --Ed
Caesars Tahoe, Lake Tahoe, Nevada ( 12 to 18 )
O.A. Pat Henry
Key Musicians: Vincent Falcone Jr. (piano), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Tony Mattola (guitar), Charles Tunner (trumpet), Bobby Sann (trombone)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
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San Francisco Chronicle
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Caesars Palace, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Key Musicians: Vincent Falcone Jr. (piano), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Tony Mattola (guitar), Charles Tunner (trumpet), Bobby Sann (trombone)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. Pennies From Heaven
3. You And Me
4. The Best Is Yet To Come
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. Fly Me To The Moon
7. Angel Eyes
8. monologue
9. Luck Be A Lady
10. Send In The Clowns
11. I Get A Kick Out Of You
12. These Foolish Things
13. Where Or When
14. I've Got You Under My Skin
15. As Time Goes By
16. Summer Me, Winter Me
17. New York, New York
Notes: TT 78mins.
Caesars Palace, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Key Musicians: Vincent Falcone Jr. (piano), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Tony Mattola (guitar), Charles Tunner (trumpet), Bobby Sann (trombone)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. Pennies From Heaven
3. You And Me
4. The Best Is Yet To Come
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. In The Still Of The Night
7. Fly Me To The Moon
8. Angel Eye
9. monologue
10. Luck Be A Lady
11. My Funny Valentine
12. I Get A Kick Out Of You
13. These Foolish Things
14. Where Or When
15. I've Got You Under My Skin
16. As Time Goes By
17. Summer Me, Winter Me
18.. New York, New York
Notes: TT 81mins.
Caesars Palace, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Key Musicians: Vincent Falcone Jr. (piano), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv
Cottler (drums), Tony Mattola (guitar), Charles Tunner (trumpet), Bobby Sann (trombone)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. Pennies From Heaven
3. You And Me
4. The Best Is Yet To Come
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. In The Still Of The Night
7. Fly Me To The Moon
8. Angel Eye
9. monologue
10. Luck Be A Lady
11. My Funny Valentine
12. I Get A Kick Out Of You
13. These Foolish Things
14. Where Or When
15. I've Got You Under My Skin
16. As Time Goes By
17. Summer Me, Winter Me
18.. New York, New York
Notes: TT 81mins.
Caesars, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Key Musicians: Vincent Falcone Jr. (piano), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Tony Mattola (guitar), Charles Tunner (trumpet), Bobby Sann (trombone)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. Pennies From Heaven
3. You And Me
4. The Best Is Yet To Come
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. Fly Me To The Moon
7. Angel Eyes
8. monologue
9. Luck Be A Lady
10. Send In The Clowns
11. I Get A Kick Out Of You
12. These Foolish Things
13. Where Or When
14. I've Got You Under My Skin
15. As Time Goes By
16. Summer Me, Winter Me
17. New York, New York
Notes: TT 78mins.
Caesars Palace, Lake Tahoe , Nevada
Key Musicians: Vincent Falcone Jr. (piano), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Tony Mattola (guitar), Charles Tunner (trumpet), Bobby Sann (trombone)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2.. Pennies From Heaven
3. You And Me
4. The Best Is Yet To Come
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. Fly Me To The Moon
7. Angel Eyes
8. monologue
9. Luck Be A Lady
10. Send In The Clowns
11. I Get A Kick Out Of You
12. These Foolish Things
13. Where Or When
14. I've Got You Under My Skin
15. As Time Goes By
16. Summer Me, Winter Me
17. New York, New York
Notes: TT 80mins.
Caesars Tahoe, Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Key Musicians: Vincent Falcone Jr. (piano), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Tony Mattola (guitar), Charles Tunner (trumpet), Bobby Sann (trombone)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Caesars, Lake Tahoe , Nevada
Key Musicians: Vincent Falcone Jr. (piano), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Tony Mattola (guitar), Charles Tunner (trumpet), Bobby Sann (trombone)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. Pennies From Heaven
3. You And Me
4. The Best Is Yet To Come
5. Here's That Rainy Day
6. Fly Me To The Moon
7. Angel Eyes
8. Luck Be A Lady
9. Send In The Clowns
10. I Get A Kick Out Of You
11. Where Or When
12. I've Got You Under My Skin
13. As Time Goes By
14. Summer Me, Winter Me
15. New York, New York
Notes: TT 61mins.
Sinatra Testifies Before Nevada Gaming Commission
Second Day of Questioning. 60 min.
After roughly ninety minutes of further questioning before the Nevada Gaming Control Commission, Frank is granted his gaming license without the six-month limitation the board had initially recommended -- though he would never actually use it. "I think I achieved what I set out to achieve," he told a family member afterward. "There's nothing else I can do to clear my name." Source: J. Randy Taraborrelli, Sinatra: Behind the Legend.
Civic Center, Atlanta, Georgia
Benefit for murdered children.
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Other Performers: Sammy Davis, jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. Fly Me To The Moon
3.The Best Is Yet To Come
4.The Lady Is A Tramp
5. As Time Goes By w/ Tony Mottola
6 You And Me
7. I've Got You Under My Skin
8. Angel Eyes
9. New York, New York
Ed O'Brien:
The benefit concert raised $200,000 to help pay for the investigation into the slaying of 20 black children in Atlanta. A sell-out crowd of 4,600 paid $25 to $100 each to attend. Burt Reynolds, Roberta Flack, Dizzy Gillespie were among the well-known celebrities at the concert.
Civic Center, Atlanta, Georgia
Benefit for murdered children.
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Other Performers: Sammy Davis, jr.
Frank Sinatra, First Lady of Georgia Valerie Jackson and Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson backstage during the Atlanta Missing and Murdered Child Benefit at Civic Center in Atlanta, Ga. on March 10, 1981
Hosts Burt Reynolds, Sammy Davis Jr., and Frank Sinatra at the Atlanta Missing and Murdered Children benefit event at the Civic Center in Atlanta, Ga. on March 10, 1981.
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Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. Pennies From Heaven
3. The Best Is Yet To Come
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5. Come Rain Or Come Shine
6. 'S Wonderful
7. Angel Eyes
8. monologue
9. Luck Be A Lady
10. September Song
11. I Get A Kick Out Of You
12. I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good
13. Don't Worry 'Bout Me - Charles Tunner solo (trumpet)
14. Fly Me To The Moon
15. As Time Goes By
16. High Times - Orchestral Instrumental
17. You And Me
18. New York, New York
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
1. I've Got the World on a String
2. Pennies From Heaven
3. The Best Is Yet to Come
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5. Come Rain or Come Shine
6. 'S Wonderful
7. Angel Eyes
8. Luck Be a Lady
9. September Song
10. I Get a Kick Out of You
11. I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)
12. Fly Me to the Moon
13. As Time Goes By
14. You and Me (We Wanted It All)
15. Theme From New York, New York
Ed O'Brien:
Caesars Palace threw a gala shindig on the 13th and 14th of March. Billed as an Inaugural Gala for the 1981 season, Caesars also honored Brigadier General Harry Wald, ARNG-NV, who had recently been elected President of Caesars Palace. Frank Sinatra and Clifford Perlman co-hosted the precedings.
A special Sinatra concert at the Colusseum Complex at Caesars was pre- sented at 8:pm, Friday the 13th. Celebrities in attendance included Cary Grant, Andy Williams, Wayne Newton, Joan Rivers, Ann Margaret, Alan King, Steve & Eydie, Muhammed Ali and Joe Louis.
Saturday evening was the Military Gala Ball, honoring the 33 year career of Wald The United States Air Force Military Band performed. Frank Sinatra delivered the keynote address. Alan King was master of ceremonies. Newton, Williams, Rivers and Red Buttons performed.
Sinatra was at Caesars from the 12 to 18 of the month.
Pat Henry was the opening act and Vinnie Falcone conducted.
Frank did two shows each night except on the already noted weekend gala.
Set list of songs:
I've Got The World On A String
Pennies From Heaven ( Hefti arg)
The Best Is Yet To Come
Here's That Rainy Day
Come Rain Or Come Shine
S'Wonderful ( V. Falcone arg.)
Angel Eyes
Luck Be A Lady
September Song w/ T. Mottola
Send In The Clowns w/ T. Mottola
I Get A Kick Out Of You w/quintet ( V. Falcone chart) I've Got It Bad And That Ain't Good ( D. Costa arg.) Fly Me To The Moon
As Time Goes By ( V. Falcone arranged and played piano) You And Me
New York, New York
Note: certainly the apex of the Sinatra-Falcone years was during the early months of 1981. Frank was singing with a "hot band," Vinnie had written some exciting and challenging charts, and Frank was singing at an extraordinarily high level -- often with a small combo or just a piano or guitar.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
1. I've Got the World on a String
2. Pennies From Heaven
3. The Best Is Yet to Come
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5. Come Rain or Come Shine
6. 'S Wonderful
7. Angel Eyes
8. Luck Be a Lady
9. Send in the Clowns
10. September Song
11. I Get a Kick Out of You
12. I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)
13. Fly Me to the Moon
14. As Time Goes By
15. You and Me (We Wanted It All)
16. Theme From New York, New York
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. Pennies From Heaven
3. The Best Is Yet To Come
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5. Come Rain Or Come Shine
6. 'S Wonderful
7. Angel Eyes
8.. monologue
9. Luck Be A Lady
10. Send In The Clowns
11.. September Song
12. I Get A Kick Out Of You
13. I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good
14. Fly Me To The Moon
15. As Time Goes By
16. You And Me
17. New York, New York
Notes: TT 70mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Ed O'Brien:
A hirsute Frank at Caesars in March 1981
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. Pennies From Heaven
3. The Best Is Yet To Come
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5.. Come Rain Or Come Shine
6. 'S Wonderful
7.. Angel Eyes
8. monologue
9. Luck Be A Lady
10. Send In The Clowns
11. I Get A Kick Out Of You
12. Street Of Dreams
13. Fly Me To The Moon
14. As Time Goes By
15. Please Be Kind
16. You And Me
17. New York, New York
Notes: TT 63mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. I’ve Got The World On A String
2. Pennies From Heaven
3. The Best Is Yet To Come
4. Here’s That Rainy Day
5. Come Rain Or Come Shine
6. 'S Wonderful
7. Angel Eyes
8. monologue
9. September Song
10. Luck Be A Lady
11. I Get A Kick Out Of You
12. Street Of Dreams
13. Fly Me To The Moon
14. As Time Goes By
15. You And Me
16. New York, New York
Notes: TT 67mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1.. I've Got The World On A String
2. Pennies From Heaven
3. The Best Is Yet To Come
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5. Come Rain Or Come Shine
6. 'S Wonderful
7. Angel Eyes
8. monologue
9. Luck Be A Lady
10. Send In The Clowns
11. I Get A Kick Out Of You
12. Fly Me To The Moon
13. As Time Goes By
14. You And Me
15. New York, New York
Notes: TT 65mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. Pennies From Heaven
3. The Best Is Yet To Come
4. Here's That Rainy Day
5. Come Rain Or Come Shine
6. 'S Wonderful
7. Angel Eyes
8. monologue
9. Luck Be A Lady
10. Send In The Clowns
11. I Get A Kick Out Of You
12.. Fly Me To The Moon
13. As Time Goes By
14. You And Me
15. New York, New York
Notes: TT 65mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Night And Day
2. All I Need Is The Girl
3. When Joanna Loved Me
4. Come Rain Or Come Shine
5. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
6. monologue
7. Luck Be A Lady
8. I Get A Kick Out Of You
9. These Foolish Things
10. Pennies From Heaven
11. S Wonderful
12. Bewitched
13. New York, New York
Notes: TT 66mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Night And Day
2. All I Need Is The Girl
3. Laura
4. Come Rain Or Come Shine
5. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
6. monologue
7. Luck Be A Lady
8. I Get A Kick Out Of You
9. These Foolish Things
10. Pennies From Heaven
11. 'S Wonderful
12. Bewitched
13. New York, New York
Notes: TT 58mins.
Ed O'Brien:
At this engagement Sinatra introduced a very interesting new arrangement for "Bewitched." Written by Don Costa, the chart has a much more subdued orchestral backing and a lot less strings than the famous Riddle effort.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (March 26-April 1) (Camceled)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Ed O'Brien:
The last three days of this engagement were canceled due to the Reagan assassination attempt in Washington, D.C.
Source: sinatraphiles digest (date extracted from item text; originally routed to appendix for review).
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. All I Need Is The Girl
3. 'S Wonderful
4. When Joanna Loved Me
5. Come Rain Or Come Shine
6. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
7. monologue
8. Luck Be A Lady
9. I've Got A Crush On You
10. I Get A Kick Out Of You
11. The Best Is Yet To Come
12. These Foolish Things
13. Pennies From Heaven
14. Street Of Dreams
15. Summer Me, Winter Me
16. New York, New York
Notes: TT 77mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. All I Need Is The Girl
3. 'S Wonderful
4. When Joanna Loved Me
5. Come Rain Or Come Shine
6. Angel Eyes
7. monologue
8.. Luck Be A Lady
9. Send In The Clowns
10. I Get A Kick Out Of You
11. The Best Is Yet To Come
12. These Foolish Things
13. Pennies From Heaven
14. Street Of Dreams
15. Bewitched
16. New York, New York
Notes: TT 73mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Night And Day
2. All I Need Is The Girl
3. 'S Wonderful
4. Laura
5. Come Rain Or Come Shine
6. Angel Eyes
7. monologue
8. Luck Be A Lady
9. I Get A Kick Out Of You
10. These Foolish Things
11. Pennies From Heaven
12.. Fly Me To The Moon
13. Summer Me, Winter Me
14. Bewitched
15. New York, New York
Notes: TT 67mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Night And Day
2. All I Need Is The Girl
3. 'S Wonderful
4. When Joanna Loved Me
5. Come Rain Or Come Shine
6. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
7. monologue
8. Luck Be A Lady
9. I've Got A Crush On You
10. I Get A Kick Out Of You
11. The Best Is Yet To Come
12. These Foolish Things
13. Pennies From Heaven
14. Fly Me To The Moon
15. Bewitched
16. New York, New York
Notes: TT 67mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. All I Need Is The Girl
3. 'S Wonderful
4. When Joanna Loved Me
5. Come Rain Or Come Shine
6. Fly Me To The Moon
7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. monologue
9. Luck Be A Lady
10. I Get A Kick Out Of You
11. The Best Is Yet To Come
12. These Foolish Things
13. Pennies From Heaven
14. I've Got You Under My Skin
15. Bewitched
16. New York, New York
Notes: TT 65mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (March 26-April 1) (Canceled)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr. O.A. Pat Henry
Frank opened at Caesars on 3-12-81 for a week, closing on 3-18 and Ann Margaret replaced him from
3-19 to 3-25. Frank returned on 3-26, planning to be there through 4-1 with Diana Ross following him for a week run. The shooting of President Reagan shocked
Frank. His last show was on 3-29. He flew to Washington on the evening of 3-31.
3-14-81 note: Two day gala on 3-13 and 14.
Here are some photos from the engagement:
When President Reagan was shot, Frank was performing an engagement (likely in Las Vegas); Nancy Reagan recalled that rather than calling to ask if he was needed, Frank simply shut down his show and came to Washington to offer support, which she said meant a great deal to her.
Frank Sinatra (quoted): "Frank never called to say, 'Do you want me to come?' He just came."
Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.
Hollywood
ZCA1030 Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) (3:23)
(Sonny Bono)
Cotillion Music/Chris Marc Music (BMI)
Arranged & Conducted by Gordon Jenkins
LP: Reprise FS2305
CD: The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings,
Reprise 46013-2
ZCA1031 Everything Happens To Me (4:10)
(Tom Adair/Matt Dennis)
Music Sales Corp. (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Gordon Jenkins
CD: The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings,
Reprise 46013-2
CD: Everything Happens To Me Reprise 09362-46116-2
ZCA1032 The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind (Medley) (5:49)
(Harold Arlen/Ira Gershwin)
MPL Communications Inc./New World Music Co. Ltd.
(Richard Rodgers/Lorenz hart)
Chappell & Co. Inc.. (ASCAP)
Arranged by Nelson Riddle
Conducted by Vencent Falcone, Jr.
LP: Reprise FS2305
CD: The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings,
Reprise 46013-2
Note: The Gal That Got Away uses the 1954 Riddle arrangement. Slowed down and a piano solo added for It Never Entered My Mind
Ed O'Brien:
Vinnie told me Frank wasn't all the crazy over the new lyrics Tom Adair wrote for "Everything Happens To Me"
in 1973. The song was pulled from "She Shot Me Down" at the eleventh hour. I have always felt he made a
mistake. The song fits the theme of the album much better than some of the selections that were included.
Another note: Vinnie told me the two songs were recorded separately.
Vinnie conducted the orchestra for "Gal
That Got Away." Then after a short break, he sat down at the piano and backed Frank on "It Never Entered My
Mind." I have Frank discussing the great Rodgers & Hart song.
First time he heard it was a thrill for him. He
could not wait to record it. And he did at Columbia, Capitol and Reprise. I think the most moving version we
have is Blackpool in July 1953. Frank's marriage to Ava was crumbling and you can hear the pain in his
voice throughout the song.
Ed
.
Hollywood
ZCA1030 Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) (3:23)
ZCA1031 Everything Happens To Me (4:10)
ZCA1032 The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind (Medley) (5:49)
"Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)"
Friedwald traces the song's odd path from Sonny Bono (writing for Cher's 'ghastly' original recording) through Nancy Sinatra's 1966 album How Does That Grab You? (also performed on the 1966 TV special A Man and His Music Part II) to Sinatra's own recording -- first cut with a Jenkins chart in 1973 amid the Ol' Blue Eyes sessions (unreleased until the Complete Reprise box) and then rerecorded for the 1981 album. He calls the finished Sinatra-Jenkins version 'like "It Was a Very Good Year" to the Nth power,' turning a thin children's-game lyric into Wagnerian high drama, with an accompaniment evoking Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor.
Source: Will Friedwald, "Sinatra! The Song Is You: A Singer's Art" (2018 revised edition).
At the funeral of boxing great Joe Louis, Frank delivered the eulogy and served as a pallbearer.
Source: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.
Caesars Palace Pavilion, Las Vegas, Nevada
Friday
The Funeral of Joe Louis
Attendance 3,000
Ed O'Brien:
Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Max Schmeling, Jesse Jackson, Muhammad Ali all delivered eulogies to the man many considered the greatest heavy- weight champion of them all. Sinatra choked up as he spoke of his love for the Brown Bomber. Louis was champion for 12 years. His never was defeated while champion, having fought 25 times with the title at stake. Sinatra and Schmeling helped Louis financially in his later years.
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April 17-22, 1985 Fuji TV Sinatra Japan Tour
Fuji TV Coverage of Sinatra's Tour Of Japan. 90 min.
Sunrise Musical Theater, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (April 29 - May 3)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1.. I've Got The World On A String
2. All I Need Is The Girl
3. 'S Wonderful
4. The Best Is Yet To Come
5. When Joanna Loved Me
6. Come Rain Or Come Shine
7. Angel Eyes
8. monologue
9. Luck Be A Lady
10. September Song
11. I Get A Kick Out Of You
12. Pennies From Heaven
13. These Foolish Things
14. Summer Me, Winter Me
15. New York, New York
Notes: TT 64mins.
Sunrise Musical Theater, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (April 29 - May 3)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Sunrise Musical Theater, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (April 29 - May 3)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
2. Fly Me To The Moon
3. 'S Wonderful
4. You And Me
5. The Best Is Yet To Come
6. Laura
7. Come Rain Or Come Shine
8. Angel Eyes
9. monologue
10. Luck Be A Lady
11. September Song
12. I Get A Kick Out Of You
13. Pennies From Heaven
14. These Foolish Things
15. Bewitched
16. New York, New York
Notes: TT 60mins.
Sunrise Musical Theater, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (April 29 - May 3)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
2. Fly Me To The Moon
3. 'S Wonderful
4. You And Me
5. The Best Is Yet To Come
6. Laura
7. Come Rain Or Come Shine
8. Angel Eyes 9. monologue
10. Luck Be A Lady
11. September Song
12. I Get A Kick Out Of You
13. Pennies From Heaven
14. These Foolish Things
15. Bewitched
16. New York, New York
Notes: TT 63mins.
Sunrise Musical Theater, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (April 29 - May 3)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. Fly Me To The Moon
3. S'Wonderful
4. You And Me
5. The Best Is Yet To Come
6. Laura
7. Come Rain Or Come Shine
8. I Loved Her
9. Pennies From Heaven
10. Luck Be A Lady
11. Send In The Clowns
12. I Get A Kick Out Of You
13. These Foolish Thing
14. Summer Me, Winter Me
15. New York, New York
Notes: TT 80mins.
NOTE: In response to an inquiry from Sinatraphile J. Boskell, Ed O'Brien points out that Sinatra sang "SWonderful a number of times in concert through the years including a very memorable one on the "Perfectly Frank" radio show. Vinnie Falcone did the arrangement in this concert. O'Brien was told that Riddle wrote the chart used by Ella Fitzgerald in the Gershwin Songbook for Sinatra. Sinatra was going to record the song on the planned three LP jazz set in 1981. A great one that got away!
Larry Crawford:
Oh my - I wish there had been a 3 lp Jazz set done in 1981 , who was the planned arranger and any songs that were planned ?
Ed O'Brien:
The concept was for Frank to sit down with five or six musicians and just jam for a few hours each session. Frank would have been sitting in the middle with the sidemen surrounding him. The best of what ever was done would have shown up on the records. Vinnie Falcone had already picked out the musicians. The charts would have been very simple. Some would have been done by Vinnie. Billy May was contacted. Vinnie still has, the last I knew, the lead sheets of the songs rehearsed. They included "Ain't Misbehavin'," "Don't Get Around Much Anymore," "Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me," "You Took Advantage Of Me," "S'Wonderful." The death of Sonny Burke was the death knell for the project. Vinnie told me Reprise was rather indifferent from the start.
The Sunrise Musical Theater, Fort Lauderdale, FLorida (April 29 - May 3)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. Fly Me To The Moon
3. S Wonderful
4. You And Me
5. The Best Is Yet To Come
6. Laura
7. Come Rain Or Come Shine
8. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
9. monologue
10. Luck Be A Lady
11. Send In The Clowns
12. Pennies From Heaven
13. I Get A Kick Out Of You
14. These Foolish Things
15. Summer Me, Winter Me
16. New York, New York
Notes: TT 81mins.
The Congressional Club, Washington DC
Honoring Mrs. Nancy Reagan
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Ed O'Brien:
A little more than a month had elapsed since the attempted assassination of President Reagan, when The Congressional Club in Washington, D.C., located at 2001 New Hampshire Ave, NW, honored Nancy Reagan with a luncheon. Frank Sinatra was a surprise guest. He sang eight songs for The First Lady.
The Congressional Club, Washington DC
Honoring Mrs. Nancy Reagan
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Blue-eyed Surprise Sinatra Sings for Nancy Reagan &
By Nina Hyde
Washington Post, May 8, 1981
"I haven't sung this early since I was a choirboy," said Frank Sinatra as he hopped onto the Regency ballroom stage at the Shoreham hotel yesterday shortly after 1:30 Sinatra was the surprise entertainment for the annual Congressional Club luncheon honoring the first lady.
Hardly a patent-shod foot was still as Sinatra sang for more than a half hour, directing many of the songs to the head table where Reagan smiled and nodded her head to the music. As he finished "New York, New York," she passed her black handbag to Peter McCoy, her chief of staff, slipped off the dais and headed to the stage to greet the performer. After one false start when the song wasn't over, she racedup and threw her arms around him.
"I don't know who is responsible but I can't thank you enough," she said to the audience. "And Frank, I can't thank you enough," Mrs Reagan said.
It may have been early for Sinatra, but present and former congressional wives and their guests started to gather almost an hour before the doors opened for the sellout benefit billed as "Nancy Reagan's Day . . . A day of brightness and joy dedicated to our First Lady . . ."
Once most of the 1,300 guests were seated, special guests -- including former club presidents, Supreme Court justices' wives, Cabinet members' wives, Barbara Bush and Nancy Reagan -- walked the length of the room on a huge replica of the Golden Gate Bridge that almost touched the crystal chandeliers. As the Marine band played, red-jacketed Marines escorted everyone across the wood-and-rope structure to the head table. Roses of mixed colors in trellis baskets were used as table centerpieces and flower-filled blue window boxes with satin streamers edged the front of the dias.
Barbara Sinatra, who ducked behind her table's centerpiece to keep out of view of the first lady until the singer was introduced, said she and her husband hadn't seen Mrs. Reagan since "that unfortunate time" of the assassination attempt when they flew to Washington that very afternoon to be with her. Sinatra's guest appearance yesterday had been plotted months ago with Norma Lagomarsino, wife of Rep. Robert Lagomarsino (R-Calif.) and current president of the club.
Sinatra was introduced as a "gift" to Mrs. Reagan. "I've been called a lot of things," he told the audience, "but never a gift."
Entertainment is always a surprise for this luncheon; in recent years Minnie Pearl, Bob Hope and Robert Merrill have performed. But if club members had trouble remembering who showed up when, they had little trouble remembering the time a first lady didn't show up. It was Jacqueline Kennedy who excuses herself two weeks before the luncheon, according to Jerry Miller, whose husband, now a judge, was a senator from Iowa at the time. The club president complained to Presidnet Kennedy and he came in his wife's stead, soothing the women, recalled Miller, by saying something like "Many of you who are mothers will understand . . ." He was referring to Mrs. Kennedy's being pregnant at the time. The club members also haven't forgotten that later the same day Mrs. Kennedy took a plane to New York for the ballet.
Yesterday's guests were rewarded for their attendance, which benefited the local Florence Crittenton Home, Hospice Care and Big Sisters, with navy fabric shopping bags stenciled with "Nancy Reagan's Day" and stuffed with loot. Included were jelly beans, Godiva chocolates, soaps and perfumes, an umbrella and marmalade. The bags were tied by a yellow scarf to the back of each chair, ready for the guests before they sat down to the luncheon of California gazpacho supreme, Rodeo Drive breast of chicken salad and desert ranch mousse.
The club's gift to Nancy Reagan was a framed needlepoint tapestry of the White House with a background and frame in "Nancy Reagan red."
"I'm getting my sea legs back," said Mrs. Reagan, active publicly again, "and I'm glad to be getting them with you."
"Do you want to go on the road with the act?" quipped Sinatra after he sang, and took Mrs. Reagan's hand, leading her back across the Golden Gate Bridge and out of the rooms.
Valley Forge Music Fair, Devon, Pennsylvania
Opening Night
Key Musicians: Tony Mattola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
2. Fly Me To The Moon
3. 'S Wonderful
4. The Best Is Yet To Come
5. When Joanna Loved Me
6. Come Rain Or Come Shine
7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. monologue
9. Luck Be A Lady
10. A Day In The Life Of A Fool - Tony Mattola solo (guitar)
11. September Song - w/Tony Mattola
12. The Very Thought Of You - Charles Turner solo (guitar)
13. I Loved Her
14. Pennies From Heaven
15. introductions
15. High Tide - Instrumental
16. These Foolish Things
17. I Get A Kick Out Of You
18. Bewitched
19. New York, New York
Valley Forge Music Fair, Devon, Pennsylvania
Opening Night
Key Musicians: Tony Mattola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
MOMENT TO REMEMBER AT VALLEY FORGE MUSIC FAIR
Frank Sinatra with Pat Henry at the Valley Forge Music Fair, Devon Through May 14.
A vision of mature elegance in his black silk tuxedo with a crimson handkerchief flaring smartly from the breast pocket, Frank Sinatra re- turned to the round stage of the Valley Forge Music Fair Friday night, mastering a capacity audience with that blend of supremely confident showmanship and ageless musicianship that only seems to improve as the years wear on.
With his wife Barbara seated prominently in one of the theater's front rows, Sinatra was in easy, authoritative voice, kicking off with such standards as "The Most Beautiful Girl In The World," "Fly Me To The Moon," "The Best Is Yet To Come" and "Come Rain Or Come Shine."
Indeed, having pared down his accompaniment from a string-heavy orchestra to a tight horn-dominated ensemble, Sinatra seems to have returned to the sort of brassy, big-band sound of his earlier days. Such was the ovation-stirring energy of the big numbers, but the quieter moments seemed even more resonant. Lighting a cigarette with classic savior faire in advance of his saloon-song medley of such blue laments as "The Gal That Got Away," Sinatra established a salty intimacy with his audience.
In a free-wheeling chat that preceded a rousing version of "Luck Be A Lady," Sinatra made a playful reference to "my team," the Los Angeles Dodgers, beating the Phillies the night before.
From there Sinatra shared the spotlight with guitarist Tony Mottola, on a whispery version of "September Song." He then introduced a new Gordon Jenkins composition "I Loved Her," which will be featured on Sinatra's album in progress - - a saloon song collection called "She Shot Me Down" - - and climaxed his 75-minute performance with a powerhouse version of his current signature tune, "( Theme From ) New York, New York."
Matt Damisker
Bulletin Staff
May 10, 1981
Note: Sinatra did seven shows from May 8 to 14. He sang to a full-house every night.The hot-band concept gave Frank an exciting new sound. The song selection was top drawer and Vinnie Falcone did an outstanding job conducting. Gone were the mediocre pop tunes that Frank had reluctantly embraced a few years earlier.
Ed
Valley Forge Music Fair, Devon, Pennsylvania
Key Musicians: Tony Mattola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
2. Fly Me To The Moon
3. '˜S Wonderful
4. The Best Is Yet To Come
5. When Joanna Loved Me
6. Come Rain Or Come Shine
7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. monologue
9. Luck Be A Lady
10. I Loved Her
11. I Get A Kick Out Of You
12. These Foolish Things
13. Pennies From Heaven
14. Summer Me, Winter Me
15. New York, New York
Notes: TT 65mins.
Valley Forge Music Fair, Devon, Pennsylvania
Key Musicians: Tony Mattola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Vincent
Falcone, jr. (piano)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
2. Fly Me To The Moon
3. 'S Wonderful
4. The Best Is Yet To Come
5. When Joanna Loved Me
6. Come Rain Or Come Shine
7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. monologue
9. Luck Be A Lady
10. I Loved Her
11. I Get A Kick Out Of You
12. These Foolish Things
13. Pennies From Heaven
14. Summer Me, Winter Me
15. New York, New York
Notes: TT 70mins.
Valley Forge Music Fair, Devon, Pennsylvania
Key Musicians: Tony Mattola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. Fly Me To The Moon
3. S'Wonderful
4. The Best Is Yet To Come
5. When Joanna Loved Me
6. Come Rain Or Come Shine
7. Angel Eyes
8. monologue
9. Luck Be A Lady
10. Tony Mattola solo
11. Send In The Clowns
12. Charles Turner solo
13. Here's That Rainy Day
14. I Get A Kick Out Of You
15. Vincent Falcone, jr. instumental
16. These Foolish Things
17. Pennies From Heaven
18. You And Me
19. Bewitched
20. New York, New York
Notes: TT 73mins.
Valley Forge Music Fair, Devon, Pennsylvania
Key Musicians: Tony Mattola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. Fly Me To The Moon
3. I've Got You Under My Skin
4. The Best Is Yet To Come
5. Laura - Costa chart
6. Come Rain Or Come Shine
7. Angel Eyes
8. monologue
9. Luck Be A Lady
10. Yesterday - Tony Mottola solo
10. September Song w/Tony Mattola
11. Don't Worry 'Bout Me - Charles Turner solo
12. Here's That Rainy Day
13. I Get A Kick Out Of You
14. Hi-Time - Vinnie Falcone instrumental
15. These Foolish Things w/small combo
16. Pennies From Heaven
17. You And Me
18. New York, New York
Note: Thanks to Ed O'Brien for this new listing.
Valley Forge Music Fair, Devon, Pennsylvania
Key Musicians: Tony Mattola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Valley Forge Music Fair, Devon, Pennsylvania
Closing Night
Key Musicians: Tony Mattola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. Fly Me To The Moon
3. I've Got You Under My Skin
4. The Best Is Yet To Come
5. When Joanna Loved Me
6. Come Rain Or Come Shine
7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. monologue
9. Luck Be A Lady
10. Tony Mattola solo (guitar)
11. September Song
12. Don't Worry 'Bout Me - Charles Turner solo (trumpet)
13. I Get A Kick Out Of You
14.. Here's That Rainy Day
15. Hi-Time - Instrumental
16. These Foolish Things
17. Pennies From Heaven
18. You And Me
19. New York, New York
Notes: TT 76mins.
The Century Plaza, Los Angeles, California
NBC Affiliates Meeting
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. Fly Me To The The Moon
3. The Best Is Yet To Come
4. Come Rain Or Come Shine
5. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
6. monologue
7. Luck Be A Lady
8. These Foolish Things
9. Pennies From Heaven
10. Chicago
11. New York, New York
Notes: TT 44mins.
The Century Plaza, Los Angeles, California
NBC Affiliates Meeting
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. Fly Me To The Moon
3. The Best Is Yet To Come
4. When Joanna Loved Me
5. Come Rain Or Come Shine
6. I Get A Kick Out Of You
7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. monologue
9. Luck Be A Lady
10. Blues In The Night
11. I Loved Her
12. Pennies From Heaven
13. You And Me
14. New York, New York
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Atlantic City, New Jersey
Thursday evening
Dinner for Skinny D'Amato
Frank was playing at Resorts International.
Between shows he attended the dinner for the former owner of the 500 Club.
Frank sat at a table with Skinny, Jerry Lewis,
Pat Henry and others.
Note: There is a video in circulation of this testimonial. When Frank was down and out,
Skinny was there for him. Frank never forgot Skinny's kindness and friendship. --Ed
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. When Joanna Loved Me (B. May arg.)
4. Come Rain Or Come Shine
5. Angel Eyes
6. monologue
7. Luck Be A Lady
8. I Loved Her
9. Fly Me To The Moon
10. You And Me
11. Pennies From Heaven (Hefti chart)
12. Summer Me, Winter Me
13. New York, New York
Notes: TT 61mins.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. When Joanna Loved Me (B. May arg.)
4. Come Rain Or Come Shine
5. Angel Eyes
6. monologue
7. Luck Be A Lady
8. I Loved Her
9. You And Me
10. Fly Me To The Moo
11. Summer Me, Winter Me
12. New York, New York
Notes: TT 56mins.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. Laura
4. Come Rain Or Come Shine
5. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
6. monologue
7. Luck Be A Lady
8. Here's That Rainy Day
9. Fly Me To The Moon
10. You And Me
11. Pennies From Heaven
12. Bewitched
13. New York, New York
Notes: TT 60mins.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
O.A. Pat Henry
1. The Song Is You
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3.. Laura
4. Come Rain Or Come Shine
5. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
6. Bewitched monologue
7. Luck Be A Lady
8. Here's That Rainy Day
9. Fly Me To The Moon
10. You And Me
11. Pennies From Heaven
12. New York, New York
Notes: TT 61mins.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (May 20-25)
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. Laura
4. Come Rain Or Come Shine
5. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
6. monologue
7. Luck Be A Lady
8. Here's That Rainy Day
9. Fly Me To The Moon
10. You And Me
11. Pennies From Heaven
12. Summer Me, Winter Me
13. New York, New York
Notes: TT 63mins.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (May 20-25) Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. The Song Is You
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. When Joanna Loved Me
4. Come Rain Or Come Shine
5. Angel Eyes
6. monologue
7. Luck Be A Lady
8. Here's That Rainy Day
9. Fly Me To The Moon
10. As Time Goes By
11. You And Me
12. Pennies From Heaven
13. New York, New York
Notes: TT 62mins.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (May 20-25)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. The Song Is You
2. Fly Me To The Moon
3. The Best Is Yet To Come
4. Come Rain Or Come Shine
5. I Get A Kick Out Of You
6. Angel Eyes
7. monologue
8. Embraceable You
9. Luck Be A Lady
10. All The Way
11. September Song
12. Pennies From Heaven
13. You And Me
14. New York, New York
Notes: TT 59mins.
Metropolitan Center, Boston, Mass.
Greater Boston Association Of Retarded Citizens Benefit Key Musicians : Tony Mattola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Bob Alexander, Vincent Falcone,jr. Piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Fly Me To The Moon
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Song Is You
4. Come Rain Or Come Shine
5. When Joanna Loved Me
6. I Get A Kick Out Of You w/Quintet
7. Medley: The Gal That Got Away - It Never Entered My Mind
8. Luck Be A Lady
9. These Foolish Things w/Tony Mottola
10. I've Got You Under My Skin
11. You And Me
12. High Time - Instrumental
13. As Time Goes By w/Vinnie Falcone (piano)
14. Pennies From Heaven
15. Summer Me, Winter Me
16. New York, New York
Notes: TT 80mins.
Ed O'Brien points out that Sinatra would do "These Foolish Things" with just Tony Mottola on guitar or Vinnie Falcone on piano. Did the same thing with "As Times Goes By."
Here is what Tony told O'Brien about an evening during this Boston engagement: "I remember doing "˜These Foolish Things' up in Boston . He called me out, we did the introductions, he starts to sing, gets through the first 16 bars, I hit the chord to go into the release and he draws a blank. He looks at me and says, "˜What's the next word?' I look at him and said, "I don't know but the next chord is C sharp minor seventh.' It cracked everybody up. Then somebody in the audience yelled out, "You came, you saw" and Frank picked it up and we continued."
During this Boston engagement, talk of a Sinatra/George Shearing album started, with George Mayer's report in the June 11, 1981 edition of the BOSTON HERALD carrying the following:
"Sinatra, Shearing ready another blockbuster. What could possibly turn out to be a smash record album for both parties concerned had its "˜birth' last Thursday night (June 4, 1981) at a table in the far corner of the Café Plaza in the Copley Plaza Hotel. Late that afternoon, Frank Sinatra's secretary had invited my wife and me to join the Sinatras and the George Shearings for dinner after the show at the Met Center , and promptly at 10:30 p.m., the six of us, with Jilly Rizzo and Sinatra's two secretaries sat down to dinner. Never have I seen Sinatra so relaxed, and never was Shearing in better spirits.
"Naturally, the talk immediately turned to music, and Shearing told Frank how it had always been his ambition to record an album with him, capturing not only the Shearing sound, but more important Sinatra's love affair with a ballad. "˜Don't talk about, let's do it," ' came from Frank. "˜You write down 20 titles. I'll do the same, and when we meet in Vegas next week, we'll sit down and pick out 12 songs and take it from there.' And that's exactly what they're going to do, with Sinatra choosing a studio in Los Angeles ,and scheduling the sessions for the immediate future. Who know? From dinner chit-chat, both could stike "˜Platinum.'" :
Metropolitan Center, Boston, Mass.
Greater Boston Association Of Retarded Citizens Benefit Key Musicians : Tony Mattola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Bob Alexander, Vincent Falcone,jr. Piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Boston Globe
6-3-81
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Metropolitan Center, Boston, Mass.
Key Musicians: Tony Mattola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Bob Alexander, Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. Fly Me To The Moon
3. The Best Is Yet To Come
4. The Song Is You
5. Come Rain Or Come Shine
6. When Joanna Loved Me
7. I Get A Kick Out Of You
8. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
9. monologue
10. Luck Be A Lady
11. These Foolish Things
12. I've Got You Under My Skin
13. You And Me
14. Pennies From Heaven
15 Summer Me, Winter Me
16. New York, New York
Notes: TT 70mins.
Metropolitan Center, Boston, Mass.
Key Musicians: Tony Mattola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Bob Alexander, Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Metropolitan Center, Boston, Mass.
Key Musicans: Tony Mattola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Bob Alexander, Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Partial Set List - Recording Incomplete:
1. Laura
2. Angel Eyes
3. I Get A Kick Out Of You
4. Monologue
5. Luck Be A Lady
6. These Foolish Things
7. I've Got You Under My Skin8. You And Me
9. Pennies From Heaven
10. Summer Me, Winter Me
11. New York, New York
Notes: TT 69mins.
Metropolitan Center, Boston, Mass.
Key Musicians: Tony Mattola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Bob Alexander, Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Fly Me To The Moon
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. Come Rain Or Come Shine
4. When Joanna Loved Me
5. I Get A Kick Out Of You
6. Angel Eyes
7. monologue
8. Luck Be A Lady
9. These Foolish Things
10. I've Got You Under My Skin
11. You And Me
12. Pennies From Heaven
13. Summer Me, Winter Me
14. New York, New York
Notes: TT 67mins.
Metropolitan Center, Boston, Mass.
Jimmy Fund Benefit
Key Musicians: Tony Mattola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Bob Alexander, Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Fly Me To The Moon
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Song Is You
4. Come Rain Or Come Shine
5. When Joanna Loved Me
6. I Get A Kick Out Of You
7. Angel Eyes
8. monologue
9. The Lady Is A Tramp
10. These Foolish Things
11. I've Got You Under My Skin
12. You And Me
13. Pennies From Heaven
14. Summer Me, Winter Me
15. New York, New York
Notes: TT 81mins.
Metropolitan Center, Boston, Mass.
Jimmy Fund Benefit
Key Musicians: Tony Mattola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Bob Alexander, Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Ted Williams was very involved with the Jimmy Fund. He raised millions of dollars and paid hundreds of visits to the hospital
to comfort sick and dying children. His visits always came with the proviso that the press was never to know that he was there.
Sinatra's benefit performance was something Ted admired greatly. The two men shared a mutual admiration society. Sinatra was
in awe of The Splendid Splinter and Williams loved listening to Frankie's recordings.
In 1981, Frank Sinatra performed a sold-out Boston concert that raised $110,000 for the Jimmy Fund. Afterward, he was given a unique souvenir by two Jimmy Fund Clinic patients: a piece of Fenway Park's Green Monster. The Boston Red Sox had resurfaced the ballpark's 37-foot-high left-field fence a few years before, and pieces of the old wall were sold to fans making contributions to the Jimmy Fund.
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Metropolitan Center, Boston, Mass.
Key Musicians: Tony Mattola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Bob Alexander, Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Fly Me To The Moon
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Song Is You
4. Come Rain Or Come Shine
5. When Joanna Loved Me
6. I Get A Kick Out Of You
7. Angel Eyes
8. monologue
9. Luck Be A Lady
10. Tony Mattola solo (guitar)
11. These Foolish Things w/Tony Mattola
12. I've Got You Under My Skin
13. intro's
14. You And Me
15. Pennies From Heaven
16. Summer Me, Winter Me
17. New York, New York
Notes: TT 69mins.
Aladdin Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada
University of Nevada benefit
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Other Performers: Sammy Davis, jr.
1. Fly Me To The Moon
2. Come Rain Or Come Shine
3. When Joanna Loved Me
4. I Get A Kick Out Of You
5. Luck Be A Lady
6. The Birth Of The Blues - w/Sammy
Notes: TT 27mins.
Aladdin Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada
University of Nevada benefit
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Other Performers: Sammy Davis, jr.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Fly Me To The Moon
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. When Joanna Loved Me
4. I Get A Kick Out Of You
5. Come Rain Or Come Shine
6. Street Of Dreams
7. I Loved Her
8. monologue
9. Luck Be A Lady
10. Bewitched
11. Little Girl Blue
12. Pennies From Heaven
13. You And Me
14. New York, New York
Notes: TT 64mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Fly Me To The Moon
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. When Joanna Loved Me
4. I Get A Kick Out Of You
5. Come Rain Or Come Shine
6. Street Of Dreams
7. I Loved Her
8. monologue
9. Luck Be A Lady
10. Bewitched
11. Pennies From Heaven
12. You And Me
13.. New York, New York
Notes: TT 62mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Fly Me To The Moon
2.. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. When Joanna Loved Me
4. I Get A Kick Out Of You
5. Come Rain Or Come Shine
6. Street Of Dreams
7. Angel Eyes
8. monologue
9. Luck Be A Lady
10. Summer Me, Winter Me
11. Pennies From Heaven
12. You And Me
13. New York, New York
Notes: TT 58mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Second Show
Friday evening
1. Fly Me To The Moon
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. When Joanna Loved Me (Billy May arg.)
4. I Get A Kick Out Of You
5. Come Rain Or Come Shine
6. Street Of Dreams
7. Angel Eyes monologue
8. Luck Be A Lady
9. Summer Me, Winter Me
10. Pennie From Heaven( Gary Scott tenor sax solo)
11. You And Me
12. New York, New York
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Fly Me To The Moon
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. When Joanna Loved Me
4. I Get A Kick Out Of You
5. Come Rain Or Come Shine
6. Street Of Dreams
7. I Loved Her
8. monologue
9. Luck Be A Lady
10. Little Girl Blue
11. Summer Me, Winter Me
12. Pennies From Heaven
13. You And Me
14. New York, New York
Notes: TT 64mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Fly Me To The Moon
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. When Joanna Loved Me
4. I Get A Kick Out Of You
5. Come Rain Or Come Shine
6. Street Of Dreams
7. I Loved Her
8. monologue
9. Luck Be A Lady
10. The Foolish Things
11. Summer Me, Winter Me
12. Pennies From Heaven
13. You And Me
14. New York, New York
Notes: TT 62mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Fly Me To The Moon
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. When Joanna Loved Me
4. I Get A Kick Out Of You
5. Come Rain Or Come Shine
6. Street Of Dreams
7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. monologue
9. Luck Be A Lady
10. Summer Me, Winter Me
11. Pennies From Heaven
12. You And Me
13. New York, New York
Notes: TT 52mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Fly Me To The Moon
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. When Joanna Loved Me
4. I Get A Kick Out Of You
5. Come Rain Or Come Shine
6. Street Of Dreams
7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. monologue
9. Luck Be A Lady
10. These Foolish Things
11. Summer Me, Winter Me
12. Pennies From Heaven
13.. You And Me
14. New York, New York
Notes: TT 65mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Fly Me To The Moon
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. When Joanna Loved Me
4. I Get A Kick Out Of You
5. Come Rain Or Come Shine
6. Street Of Dreams
7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. monologue
9. Luck Be A Lady
10. These Foolish Things
11. Summer Me, Winter Me
12. Pennies From Heaven
13. You And Me
14. New York, New York
Notes: TT 63mins.
Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (11-17)
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Ed O'Brien:
This engagement included some make up shows from the March 26-April 1. Frank cancelled after
President Reagan was shot (30). He did one show opening night (11) and one closing night(17)
The five days sandwiched between had two shows each evening. Frank sang "Blues In The Night," with a Costa chart, closing night.
Masonic Auditorium, San Francisco, California
Benefit for Mental Health and Child Abuse Foundation
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Rich Little Opened.
1. Fly Me To The Moon
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. When Joanna Loved Me
4. I Get A Kick Out Of You
5. Come Rain Or Come Shine
6. Street Of Dreams
7. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
8. monologue
9. Luck Be A Lady
10. Summer Me, Winter Me
11. I've Got You Under My Skin
12. These Foolish Things
13. Pennies From Heaven
14. You And Me
15. New York, New York
Notes: TT 66mins.
Masonic Auditorium, San Francisco, California
Benefit for Mental Health and Child Abuse Foundation
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New York City
ZNY2619 Thanks For The Memory
(Leo Robin/Ralph Rainger)
Paramount Music Corp. (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Gordon Jenkins
(4:25) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 19
CD: 2305-2 She Shot Me Down
LP: FS2305 She Shot Me Down
ZNY2620 I Loved Her
(Gordon Jenkins)
EMI Robbins Catalog Inc. (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Gordon Jenkins
(4:04) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 19
CD: 2305-2 She Shot Me Down
LP: FS2305 She Shot Me Down
ZNY2621 A Long Night
(Alec Wilder/Loonis McGlohon)
Ludlow Music Inc./Saloon Songs Inc. (BMI)
Arranged & Conducted by Gordon Jenkins
(3:43) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 19
CD: 2305-2 She Shot Me Down
CD: 9-26340-2The Reprise Collection
LP: FS2305 She Shot Me Down
Daily Record
New York City
ZNY2619 Thanks For The Memory
ZNY2620 I Loved Her
ZNY2621 A Long Night
[A Long Night -- critical commentary]
Granata includes 'A Long Night' among the fifty recordings he considers essential to understanding Sinatra's artistry (arranged by Gordon Jenkins, recorded 1981, Reprise); the song was chosen for its musical/interpretive value rather than commercial popularity.
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), Afterword & Appendices A-D
[I've Been There / A Long Night -- critical commentary]
Tony Monte: Pianist Tony Monte recounts that songwriter Alec Wilder wrote 'I've Been There' (circa 1980) for baritone Johnny Hartman, who refused to sing it as a 'victim song' about being down and out. Wilder rewrote the lyric twice more; Hartman still declined. Wilder eventually retitled it 'A Long Night,' altered some words, and gave it to Sinatra, who recorded it for She Shot Me Down (1981). Friedwald uses the anecdote to argue no song was too dark or nihilistic for Sinatra to take on.
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. 1, "Night and Day" (Sinatra style overview)
New York City
Day Session
ZNY2623 Say Hello
(Sammy Cahn/Richard Behrke)
Elliot Music Co. Inc./WB Music Corp. (ASCAP)
Arranged by Don Costa
Conducted by Vincent Falcone, Jr.
(2:24) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 19 45: RPS49827
NOTE: Sinatra Scholar Ed O'Brien observes that "Say Hello" was an attempt at another "New York , New York." Musicians who were on that date told O'Brien that it was quite obvious the song wasn't going to give Sinatra what he wanted. He did open his Carnegie Hall appearance with it and always gave it everything he had. 45: RPS49827
note: As you can see on the label, Frank Laico was the engineer on the session in N.Y.C. Frank offered me a comparison between his work with Sinatra and Barbra Streisand. Frank was also the engineer for the ""Watertown" sessions in July 69. He recalled how Frank attempted to record but just didn't feel comfortable enough with the sounds Vinny Bell had created for the project.
Eventually, it was decided that vocal overdubs would be done out in L.A.
Ed
Night Session
ZNY2622 South - To A Warmer Place
(Alec Wilder/Loonis McGlohon)
Ludlow Music, Inc./Saloon Songs Inc. (BMI)
Arranged & Conducted by Gordon Jenkins
(3:44) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 19
CD: 2305-2 She Shot me Down
LP: FS2305 She Shot Me Down
NOTE: Nick Perito wrote "You're Free" for Sinatra. Gordon Jenkins arranged it and it was set to be recorded after "South-To a Warmer Place." Sinatra had done a run-through and Take 1 was about to start when Lee Iacocca waltzed into the studio. He invited Sinara to dinner and the song was put aside forever. Perito gave OBrien the sheet music and he says it is not a bad song.
William B. Williams, WNEW Radio, New York City
Sinatra calls William B. from Bophuthatswana, Africa 7 mins.
Sinatra In Africa CNN Special
Interview and segments of the following songs:
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. New York, New York
3. Pennies From Heaven
4. My Way
5. Send In The Clown
Notes: 21 min.
Sun City, Bophutatswana, Africa (July 24 - August 2)
Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Al Klink (tenor sax), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Tony Mottola (guitar), Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Fly Me to the Moon
2. The Best Is Yet to Come
3. When Joanna Loved Me
4. Come Rain or Come Shine
5. I've Got You Under My Skin
6. Strangers in the Night
7. The Lady Is a Tramp
8. Theme From New York, New York
9. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
10. I Get a Kick Out of You
11. Luck Be a Lady
12. These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)
13. My Kind of Town
14. You and Me (We Wanted It All)
15. Summer Me, Winter Me
16. Pennies From Heaven
17. My Way
program for sun city shows
Wikipedia adds that Sinatra's 10-day, $2 million Sun City engagement broke the international cultural boycott of apartheid-era South Africa, and that Bophuthatswana president Lucas Mangope awarded Sinatra the territory's highest honor, the Order of the Leopard, making him an honorary tribal chief. Source: Wikipedia, “Frank Sinatra.”
Sun City, Bophutatswana, Africa (July 24 - August 2)
Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Al Klink (tenor sax), Charles Turner
(trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Tony Mottola (guitar), Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Fly Me to the Moon
2. The Best Is Yet to Come
3. When Joanna Loved Me
4. Come Rain or Come Shine
5. I've Got You Under My Skin
6. Strangers in the Night
7. The Lady Is a Tramp
8. Theme From New York, New York
9. Angel Eyes
10. I Get a Kick Out of You
11. Luck Be a Lady
12. These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)
13. My Kind of Town
14. As Time Goes By
15. Pennies From Heaven
16. My Way
Sun City, Bophutatswana, Africa (July 24 - August 2)
Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Al Klink (tenor sax), Charles Turner
(trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Tony Mottola (guitar), Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Fly Me to the Moon
2. The Song Is You
3. The Best Is Yet to Come
4. Come Rain or Come Shine
5. I've Got You Under My Skin
6. Strangers in the Night
7. The Lady Is a Tramp
8. Theme From New York, New York
9. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
10. I Get a Kick Out of You
11. Luck Be a Lady
12. These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)
13. My Kind of Town
14. Summer Me, Winter Me
15. Pennies From Heaven
16. My Way
Sun City, Bophutatswana, Africa (July 24 - August 2)
Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Al Klink (tenor sax), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Tony Mottola (guitar), Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Sun City, Bophutatswana, Africa (July 24 - August 2)
Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Al Klink
(tenor sax), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv
Cottler (drums), Tony Mottola (guitar), Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Sun City, Bophutatswana, Africa (July 24 - August 2)
Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Al Klink (tenor sax), Charles
Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Tony Mottola (guitar), Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Sun City, Bophutatswana, Africa (July 24 - August 2)
Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Al Klink (tenor sax), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Tony Mottola (guitar), Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
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Sun City, Bophutatswana, Africa (July 24 - August 2)
Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Al Klink (tenor sax), Charles Turner
(trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Tony Mottola (guitar), Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. overture
2. Fly Me To The Moon
3. The Best Is Yet To Come
4. When Joanna Loved Me
5. Come Rain Or Come Shine
6. I've Got You Under My Skin
7. Strangers In The Night
8. The Lady Is A Tramp
9. New York, New York
10. monologue
11. Angel Eyes
12.. I Get A Kick Out Of You
13. Luck Be A Lady
14. These Foolish Things
15. My Kind Of Town
16. You And Me (Forgets The Words And Stops)
17. Summer Me, Winter Me
18. Pennies From Heaven
19. My Way
Notes: TT 75mins.
Sun City, Bophutatswana, Africa (July 24 - August 2)
Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Al Klink (tenor sax), Charles Turner
(trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Tony Mottola (guitar), Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Fly Me to the Moon
2. The Best Is Yet to Come
3. When Joanna Loved Me
4. Come Rain or Come Shine
5. I've Got You Under My Skin
6. Strangers in the Night
7. The Lady Is a Tramp
8. Theme From New York, New York
9. Angel Eyes
10. I Get a Kick Out of You
11. Luck Be a Lady
12. These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)
13. My Kind of Town
14. Summer Me, Winter Me
15. Pennies From Heaven
16. My Way
Sun City, Bophutatswana, Africa (July 24 - August 2)
Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Al Klink (tenor sax), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv Cottler (drums), Tony Mottola (guitar), Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Houston Chronicle
note: Frank would play Japan but not until April 1985
Houston Chronicle
Houston Chronicle
AP
The Toronto Star
note: Found a number of articles on Frank's trip to Africa. The number of shows performed were either 8, or 9, or 10, depending on what paper you read. Ed
Sun City, Bophutatswana, Africa (July 24 - August 2)
Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Al Klink
(tenor sax), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv
Cottler (drums), Tony Mottola (guitar), Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Sun City, Bophutatswana, Africa (July 24 - August 2)
Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Al Klink
(tenor sax), Charles Turner (trumpet), Irv
Cottler (drums), Tony Mottola (guitar), Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Sheraton Hotel, Buenos Aires, Argentina (5-8)
Key Musicians: Charlie Turner (trumpet), Robert
Alexander (trombone), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv
Cottler (drums), Al Clinton (tenor sax), Tony
Mottola (guitar), Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Sheraton Hotel, Buenos Aires, Argentina (5-8)
Key Musicians: Charlie Turner (trumpet), Robert Alexander (trombone), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Al Clinton (tenor sax), Tony Mottola (guitar), Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Sinatra at the Hotel Sheraton August 5, 1981
Sheraton Hotel, Buenos Aires, Argentina (5-8)
Key Musicians: Charlie Turner (trumpet), Robert
Alexander (trombone), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv
Cottler (drums), Al Clinton (tenor sax), Tony
Mottola (guitar), Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Sheraton Hotel, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Key Musicians: Charlie Turner (trumpet), Robert
Alexander (trombone), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv
Cottler (drums), Al Clinton (tenor sax), Tony
Mottola (guitar), Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
NOTE: Ed O'Brien says this is a terrific performance from this engagement. Sinatra sang
"These Foolish Things" with just Vinnie Falcone on piano, "As Time Goes By," with Tony Mottola on guitar, a powerful "Pennies from Heaven" with a memorable Al Klink solo on sax.
Falcone told O'Brien that Sinatra received the score of Sondheim's "Merrily We Roll Along" during this tour. He ran down "Not a Day Goes By" and "Good Thing Going." Rejected the former and fell in love with the latter. Rehearsed it every day with Falcone. It was recorded on August 19th in NYC.
Falcone tried to convince Sinatra to go sightseeing while in Buenos Aires, but Sinatra wouldn't listen. He told Vinnie he would be mobbed. Stayed in hotel room and did the NEW YORK
TIMES crossword puzzle. Vinnie was convinced
Sinatra could have moved around the city without much hassle. Sinatra joked about all the tours that Vinnie took during their stay.
Sheraton Hotel, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Time: 21:00 (9:00 PM)
Key Musicians: Charlie Turner (trumpet), Robert Alexander (trombone), Gene
Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Al Clinton (tenor sax), Tony Mottola (guitar), Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Sheraton Hotel, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Time: 21:00 (9:00 PM)
Key Musicians: Charlie Turner (trumpet), Robert Alexander (trombone),
Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Al Clinton (tenor sax), Tony Mottola (guitar), Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
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Luna Park Stadium, Buenos Aires, Argentina (9-10)
Key Musicans: Charlie Turner (trumpet), Robert
Alexander (trombone), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv
Cottler (drums), Al Clinton (tenor sax), Tony
Mottola (guitar), Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Fly Me To The Moon
2. The Song Is You
3. The Best Is Yet To Come
4. Come Rain Or Come Shine
5. I've Got You Under My Skin
6. Strangers In The Night
7. The Lady Is A Tramp
8. Monologue
9. My Kind Of Town
10. I Get A Kick Out Of You
11. I've Got The World On A String
12. These Foolish Things Vinnie Falcone on piano
13. As Time Goes By Tony Mottola guitar
14. New York, New York
15. Pennies From Heaven Al Klink sax solo
16. My Way
Luna Park Stadium, Buenos Aires, Argentina (9-10)
Key Musicans: Charlie Turner (trumpet), Robert Alexander (trombone),
Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Al Clinton (tenor sax), Tony Mottola (guitar), Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
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Luna Park Stadium, Buenos Aires , Argentina
1. Fly Me To The Moon
2. The Song Is You
3. The Best is Yet To Come
4. Come Rain Or Come Shine
5. I've Got You Under My Skin
6. Strangers In The Night
7. The Lady Is A Tramp
8. My Kind Of Town
9. I Get A Kick Out Of You
10. I've Got The World On A String
11. These Foolish Things
12. As Time Goes By
13. New York , New York
14. Pennies From Heaven
15. My Way
Notes: Unedited. 100 min.
Sinatra Scholar Ed O'Brien observes that this might be the best example of just how great
Sinatra was as a concert performer in the late 70's and early 80's. This concert was in the round and Don Costa opened the show conducting the orchestra. They played a long Beatles medley and then a Sinatra medley.
Costa wrote both of them. Sinatra was superb from the get-go. He looked great, sang splendidly, and did a terrific program.
Luna Park Stadium, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Key Musicians: Charlie Turner (trumpet), Robert
Alexander (trombone), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv
Cottler (drums), Al Clinton (tenor sax), Tony
Mottola (guitar), Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Fly Me To The Me
2. The Song Is You
3. The Best Is Yet To Come
4. Come Rain Or Come Shine
5. I've Got You Under My Skin
6. Strangers In The Night
7. The Lady Is A Tramp
8. My Kind Of Town
9. I Get A Kick Out Of You
10. I've Got The World On A String
11. These Foolish Things
12. As Time Goes By
13. New York, New York
14. Pennies From Heaven
15. My Way
Notes: TT 66mins.
Luna Park Stadium, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Key Musicians: Charlie Turner (trumpet), Robert Alexander (trombone), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Al Clinton (tenor sax), Tony Mottola (guitar), Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Maksoud Plaza Hotel, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Key Musicians: Charlie Turner (trumpet), Robert Alexander (trombone), Gene
Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Al Clinton (tenor sax), Tony Mottola (guitar), Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Fly Me To The Moon
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. When Joanna Loved Me
4. Come Rain Or Come Shine
5. I've Got You Under My Skin
6. Strangers In The Night
7. The Lady Is A Tramp
8. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It never Entered My Mind
9. monologue
10. I Get A Kick Out Of You
11. These Foolish Things
12. My Kind Of Town
13. Chorinho - Tony Mattola solo (guitar)
14. As Time Goes By w/Tony Mattola
15. I've Got The World On A String
16. Sweet And Lovely - Charles Turner solo (trumpet)
17. New York, New York
18. Pennies From Heaven
19. My Way
NOTE: Ed O'Brien points out that this was Sinatra in a nightclub setting in the summer of 1981. A decent seat cost hundreds of dollars. We have "Joanna" with the May arrangement, "These Foolish Things" with Vinnie Falcone on piano, and "As Time Goes By" with Tony Mottola on guitar. A marvelous song selection and Sinatra was in great form. The closer, "My Way," brought tears to the eyes of the women in the audience. Sinatra was a remarkable onstage performer at this time in his life.
Maksoud Plaza Hotel, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Key Musicians: Charlie Turner (trumpet), Robert Alexander (trombone), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Al Clinton (tenor sax), Tony Mottola (guitar), Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
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Maksoud Plaza Hotel, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Key Musicians: Charlie Turner (trumpet), Robert Alexander (trombone), Gene
Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Al Clinton (tenor sax), Tony Mottola (guitar), Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Fly Me To The Moon
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. When Joanna Loved Me
4. Come Rain Or Come Shine
5. I've Got You Under My Skin
6. Strangers In The Night
7. The Lady Is A Tramp
8. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It never Entered My Mind
9. monologue
10. I Get A Kick Out Of You
11. These Foolish Things
12. My Kind Of Town
13. Chorinho - Tony Mattola solo (guitar)
14. As Time Goes By w/Tony Mattola
15. I've Got The World On A String
16. Sweet And Lovely - Charles Turner solo (trumpet)
17.. New York, New York
18. Pennies From Heaven
19. introductions
20. My Way
Sao Paolo , Brazil
1. Fly Me To The Moon
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. When Joanna Loved Me
4. Come Rain Or Come Shine
5. My Kind Of Town
6. I've Got You Under My Skin
7. Strangers In The Night
8. The Lady Is A Tramp
9. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
10. I Get A Kick Out Of You
11. As Time Goes By w/Tony Matola
12. I've Got The World On A String
13. These Foolish Things
14. Pennies From Heaven
15. New York , New York
16. My Way
Notes: Globo TV special. Edited. 55 min.
Maksoud Plaza Hotel, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Key Musicians: Charlie Turner (trumpet), Robert Alexander (trombone),
Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Al Clinton (tenor sax), Tony Mottola (guitar), Vincent Falcone, jr. (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Fly Me to the Moon
2. The Best Is Yet to Come
3. When Joanna Loved Me
4. Come Rain or Come Shine
5. I've Got You Under My Skin
6. Strangers in the Night
7. The Lady Is a Tramp
8. The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
9. I Get a Kick Out of You
10. These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)
11. My Kind of Town
12. As Time Goes By
13. I've Got the World on a String
14. Theme From New York, New York
15. Pennies From Heaven
16. My Way
New York City
ZNY2624 Good Thing Going
(Stephen Sondheim)
Revelation Music Publishing Corp./Rilting Music, Inc. (ASCAP) Arranged & Conducted by Don Costa
(3:52) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 19
CD: 2305-2 She Shot Me Down
LP: FS2305 She Shot Me Down
45: RPS49827
NOTE: Ed O'Brien says that Sinatra gives a creditable rendition of this song, but there are several other Sondheim songs he would prefer to have heard Sinatra sing, most notably "Not a Day Goes By."
O'Brien reports that Sinatra briefly toyed with the idea of a Sondheim album. O'Brien says he can hear Sinatra singing "No One is Alone," "Am I Losing My Mind," "Anyone Can Whistle," "I'm Still Here," (with special lyrics by Sondheim), "Not a Day Goes By," "Pretty Lady," "No More," "Not While I'm Around," "Being Alive," & "There Won't Be Trumpets." Sondheim could have reworked the lyrics on a few and Sinatra singing "Somewhere," with a small group would have been the topper.
[Good Thing Going -- critical commentary]
Will Friedwald: Costa wrote the arrangement of 'Good Thing Going' on an airplane returning from a Rio engagement around January 1980. Friedwald notes this is one of only two Sondheim songs Sinatra ever recorded (with 'Send in the Clowns'), and that its deceptively lightweight surface conceals real depth once compared to the darker Jenkins tracks that follow it on the album.
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)
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Fly Me To The Moon
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. When Joanna Loved Me
4. In The Still Of The Night
5. Strangers In The Night
6. Come Rain Or Come Shine
7. My Way
8.. monologue
9. Good Thing Going
10. As Time Goes By
11. Willow Weep For Me
12. The Song Is You
13. These Foolish Things
14. Pennies From Heaven
15. New York, New York
Notes: TT 61mins.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
First Show
Tuesday evening
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Fly Me To The Moon
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. When Joanna Loved Me (Billy May arg.)
4. Strangers In The Night
5. In The Still Of The Night
6. My Way
7. monologue
8.. Good Thing Going
9.. Where Or When
10. Willow Weep For Me
11. The Song Is You
12. These Foolish Things w/T. Mottola
13. Pennies From Heaven
14. New York, New York
Notes: TT 67mins.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Second Show
Midnight show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Fly Me To The Moon
2. Come Rain Or Come Shine
3. Something
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Laura (D. Costa arg.)
6. My Kind Of Town
7. monologue
8. I Loved Her
9. As Time Goes By w/ T. Mottola
10. Blues In The Night ( D. Costa arg..)
11. You And Me
12. New York, New York
Notes: Ed O'Brian - Sinatra only repeated two songs for the second show. TT 53mins.
Exciting time to catch a Sinatra performance.
In July and August, he had continued recordings songs for "She Shot Me Down" and the "Ladies" project was on the front burner again. Vinnie had him trying some exciting new ideas on stage and he was in great form all the time. Sinatra was also rehearsing numbers with Vinnie for the planned three LP jazz set. Endless possibilities abounded that summer and fall.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (24-30)
Ed O'Brien:
Frank opened at Resorts on 8/24 ( Monday ). He did two shows a night throughout the week's engagement that closed on 8/30.. He had just returned from concert performances in South Africa and Brazil. The Resorts audiences heard "Blues In The Night," "Willow Weep For Me," "Little Girl Blue," "When Joanna Loved Me" and from the forth- coming album "She Shot Me Down," Frank sang "Good Thing Going" and "I Loved Her." He did some numbers with a quintet, guitar only and just piano. An exciting time for Frank and a great time to see him in concert.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
First Show
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Fly Me To The Moon
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. When Joanna Loved Me
4. Strangers In The Night
5. My Way
6. monologue
7. Good Thing Going
8. Sweet And Lovely - Charles Turner Solo
9. Where Or When
10. Willow Weep For Me
11. The Song Is You
12. These Foolish Things
13. Pennies From Heaven
14. New York, New York
Notes: TT 58mins.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Fly Me To The Moon
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. Something
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. I Loved Her
6. My Kind Of Town
7. monologue
8. Good Thing Going
9. As Time Goes By
10. Pennies From Heaven
11. I've Got The World On A String
12. Come Rain Or Come Shine
13. New York, New York
Notes: TT 56mins. A Portion of this concert was used on the 9/6/81 MDA Telethon.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Fly Me To The Moon
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. Something
4. Strangers In The Night
5. The Lady Is A Tramp
6. My Way
7. monologue
8. Good Thing Going
9. My Kind Of Town
10. Little Girl Blue
11. I Loved Her
12. The Song Is You
13. As Time Goes By
14. Pennies From Heaven
15. New York, New York
Notes: TT 59mins.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
First Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Fly Me To The Moon
2. Come Rain Or Come Shine
3. Something
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Laura
6. My Kind Of Town
7. monologue
8. I Loved Her
9. As Time Goes By
10. You And Me
11. New York, New York
Notes: TT 55mins.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Second Show
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. I've Got The World On A String
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. Good Thing Going
4. Strangers In The Night
5. The Lady Is A Tramp
6. My Way
7. monologue
8. Something
9. My Kind Of Town
10. As Time Goes By
11. I Loved Her
12.. The Song Is You
13. These Foolish Things
14. Pennies From Heaven
15. New York, New York
Notes: TT 66mins.
Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. You Make Me Feel so Young
2. The Best is Yet to Come
3. When Your Lover Has Gone
4. I've Got You Under My Skin
5. Summer Me, Winter Me
6. It Had to be You
7. The Lady is a Tramp
8. Guess I'll Hang my Tears out to Dry
9. monologue
10. As Time Goes By w/Tony Mottola, guitar
11. The Song is You
12. My Kind of Town
13. New York , New York
Notes: TT 64mins.
[recording session -- critical commentary]
She Shot Me Down, recorded in New York sessions between July and September 1981, is considered by Granata one of the finest Sinatra albums of his late period, comparable in its saloon-song atmosphere to Billie Holiday's 1958 Lady in Satin -- recorded in the same Columbia 30th Street studio, by the same engineer (Frank Laico), 23 years earlier.
Source: Charles L. Granata, "Sessions with Sinatra: Frank Sinatra and the Art of Recording" (1999/2003), Part IV: The Reprise Years
Carnegie Hall , New York City (September 8-20)
1. Say Hello
2. Fly Me to the Moon
3. Come Rain or Come Shine
4. When Joanna Loved Me (Billy May arrangement)
5. Strangers in the Night
6. Something
7. The Lady is a Tramp
8. We had a Good Thing Going
9. The Long Night (Don Costa arrangement)
10. Luck be a Lady
11. Little Girl Blue w/Tony Motrola, guitar
12. My Way
13. In the Still of the Night
14. These Foolish Things w/Vinnie Falcone, piano
15. Pennies from Heaven (Al Klink solo
16. But I Loved Her
17. New York, New York
NOTE: This was a great engagement, according to Ed O'Brien. It was SRO every night.
Sinatra was working on the "She Shot Me Down" album and his singing was remarkable. Musicians that O'Brien interviewed who worked this engagement refer to it as a "recital." O'Btien supplied us with the song program..
Carnegie Hall , New York City (September 8-20)
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Carnegie Hall , New York City (September 8-20)
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Carnegie Hall, New York City
Key Musicians: Tony Mattola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Gene Cherico
(bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Vincent Falcone (piano).
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. When Joanna Loved Me
5. Strangers In The Night
6. Something
7. The Lady Is A Tramp
8. Good Thing Going
9. monologue
10. A Long Night
11. Luck Be A Lady
12. As Time Goes By
13. My Way
14. In The Still Of The Night
15. These Foolish Things
16. Pennies From Heaven
17. I Loved Her
18. New York, New York
Notes: TT 68mins.
New York City
ZNY2634 Monday Morning Quarterback
(Pamela Phillips/Don Costa)
WB Music Corp. (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Gordon Jenkins
(4:37) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 20
CD: 2305-2 She Shot Me Down
LP: FS2305 She Shot Me Down
ZNY2635 Hey Look, No Crying
(Jule Styne/Susan Birkenhead)
Chappell & Co. inc./WB Music Corp. (ASCAP)
Arranged & Conducted by Gordon Jenkins
(5:26) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 20
CD: 2305-2 She Shot Me Down
LP: FS2305 She Shot Me Down
Note: We are now 44 years removed from Sinatra's last album
at Reprise: his final album that explored the great
sorrow that comes with unrequited love.
Here are reviews from 1981:
Arizona Daily Star
Carnegie Hall, New York City
Key Musicans: Tony Mattola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Vincent Falcone (piano).
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. When Joanna Loved Me
5. Strangers In The Night
6. Something
7. The Lady Is A Tramp
8. Good Thing Going
9. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
10. Luck Be A Lady
11. As Time Goes By - w/Tony Mattola
12. My Way
13. In The Still Of The Night
14. These Foolish Things - w/Vincent Falcone jr (piano)
15. Pennies From Heaven
16. I Loved Her
17. New York New York
Notes: TT 89mins.
[Photograph: Sinatra headlines Ottawa hospital benefit as favor to Rich Little. From Richard Havers, "Sinatra" (Dorling Kindersley, 2007), p.341.]
[Photograph: Sinatra headlines Ottawa hospital benefit as favor to Rich Little. From Richard Havers, "Sinatra" (Dorling Kindersley, 2007), p.340.]
[Photograph: Sinatra headlines Ottawa hospital benefit as favor to Rich Little. From Richard Havers, "Sinatra" (Dorling Kindersley, 2007), p.339.]
[Photograph: Sinatra headlines Ottawa hospital benefit as favor to Rich Little. From Richard Havers, "Sinatra" (Dorling Kindersley, 2007), p.339.]
Carnegie Hall, New York City
Key Musicians: Tony Mattola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Gene Cherico
(bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Vincent Falcone (piano).
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. When Joanna Loved Me
5. Strangers In The Night
6. Summer Me, Winter Me
7. The Lady Is A Tramp
8. Good Thing Going
9. Monologue
10. Medley The Gal That Got Away - It Never Entered My Mind
11. Luck Be A Lady
12. Return To Sorrento/Tarantella -Tony Mattola Solo
13. My Way
14. Sweet And Lovely - Charles Turner Solo
15. You And Me
16. Thanks For The Memory
17. Pennies From Heaven
18. I Loved Her
19. New York , New York
Notes: TT 89mins.
As a favor to impressionist Rich Little, Frank agreed months in advance to headline a benefit for Ottawa's Civic Hospital, drawing 20,000-25,000 people including Prime Minister Trudeau. Frank arrived late but insisted Little close the show rather than himself. (Source: Richard Havers, "Sinatra" (Dorling Kindersley, 2007).)
Carnegie Hall, New York City
Key Musicians: Tony Mattola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Gene Cherico
(bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Vincent Falcone (piano).
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. When Joanna Loved Me
5. Strangers In The Night
6. Summer Me, Winter Me
7. The Lady Is A Tramp
8. Good Thing Going
9. monologue
10. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
11. Luck Be A Lady
12. Little Girl Blue
13. My Way
14. You And Me
15. Thanks For The Memory
16. Pennies From Heaven
17. I Loved Her
18. New York, New York
Notes: TT 78mins.
Carnegie Hall, New York City
Key Musicians: Tony Mattola (guitar), Charles
Turner (trumpet), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv
Cottler (drums), Vincent Falcone (piano).
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. When Joanna Loved Me
5. Strangers In The Night
6. Something
7. The Lady Is A Tramp
8. Good Thing Going
9. monologue
10. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
11. Luck Be A Lady
12. As Time Goes By
13. My Way
14. You And Me
15. Thanks For The Memory
16. Pennies From Heaven
17. New York, New York
Notes: 9/14 was a dark. TT 78mins.
Taped Chrysler Commercials
NOTE: Ed O'Brien reports that there are a number of ads done for Chrysler.
Sinatra did some recordings to promote the Chrysler line including "Come Dance with Me," "It's Time for You," and "From This Moment On."
Carnegie Hall, New York City
Key Musicians: Tony Mattola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Vincent Falcone (piano).
Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.
1. Say Hello
2. I've Got The World On A String
3. Fly Me To The Moon
4. Come Rain Or Come Shine
5. When Joanna Loved Me
6. Strangers In The Night
7. Something
8. The Lady Is A Tramp
9. monologue
10. Good Thing Going
11. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
12. Luck Be A Lady
13. As Time Goes By
14. New York, New York
15. Autumn Leaves
Notes: TT 80mins.
Carnegie Hall, New York City
Key Musicians: Tony Mattola (guitar), Charles
Turner (trumpet), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv
Cottler (drums), Vincent Falcone (piano).
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. When Joanna Loved Me
5. Strangers In The Night
6. Something
7. The Lady Is A Tramp
8. Good Thing Going
9. monologue
10. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
11. Luck Be A Lady
12. Thanks For The Memory
13. Pennies From Heaven
14. New York, New York
Notes: TT 77mins.
Carnegie Hall, New York City
Key Musicians: Tony Mattola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Vincent Falcone (piano).
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. When Joanna Loved Me
5. Strangers In The Night
6. Something
7. The Lady Is A Tramp
8. Good Thing Going
9. monologue
10. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
11. Luck Be A Lady
12. Tony Mattola solo
13. As Time Goes By - w/Tony Mattola (guitar)
14. My Way
15. Charles Turner solo
16. Summer Me, Winter Me
17. Thanks For The Memory
18. Pennies From Heaven
19. New York, New York
Notes: TT 82mins.
Carnegie Hall, New York City (September 8-20)
Tony Mottola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Vincent Falcone conductor (piano).
.1.I've Got You Under My Skin
2. Come Fly With Me
3. Come Rain Or Come Shine
4. When Joanna Loved Me
5. Strangers In The Night
6. Something
7. The Lady Is A Tramp
8. Good Thing Going
9. monologue
10. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
11. Luck Be A Lady
12. Tony Mattola solo
13. As Time Goes By - w/Tony Mottola (guitar)
14. My Way
15. Charles Turner solo
16.I Loved Her
17. I Get A Kick Out Of You
18. These Foolish Thing w. V. Falcone
19. Pennies From Heaven
20. New York, New York
Carnegie Hall , New York City (September 8-20)
Tony Mottola (guitar), Charles Turner (trumpet), Gene Cherico (bass), Irv Cottler (drums), Vincent Falcone conductor (piano).
1.I've Got The World On A String
2. Fly Me To The Moon
3. Come Rain Or Come Shine
4. When Joanna Loved Me
5. Strangers In The Night
6. Something
7. The Lady Is A Tramp
8. Good Thing Going
9. monologue
10. medley: The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind
11. Luck Be A Lady
12. Tony Mottola solo
13. As Time Goes By - w/Tony Mottola (guitar)
14. My Way
15. Charles Turner solo
16.I Loved Her
17. I Get A Kick Out Of You
18. These Foolish Thing w. V. Falcone
19. Pennies From Heaven
20. New York, New York