Here’s a rarity you don’t often see. This is a first-edition release of the commemorative A Man and His Music on Reprise. While it often turns up in online auctions, what makes this copy so special is that the first edition was autographed by none other than Sinatra himself. The opening bid on this one […]
Time Magazine released their list of the 100 greatest albums of all-time. Not surprisingly, Sinatra’s in there with Songs for Swingin’ Lovers and In The Wee Small Hours. I could think of a few more that should be on that list, including Where are You? and Frank Sinatra Sings For Only The Lonely. But perhaps […]
Today’s Press of Atlantic City has an article about the closing of The Sands Hotel and Casino in NJ. It seems that one by one all the reminders of Sinatra, no matter how small, are passing into history. The Sands was the home of Sinatra’s final public gigs in the US in 1994.
Edward R. Murrow’s Person to Person is probably the great-grandfather of all television interview shows. If you’re over a certain age you’re well familiar with this program. (If you’re not, see Good Night and Good Luck for an outstanding primer on Murrow. ) Over the years Murrow interviewed many famous personalities, including Marilyn Monroe, JFK, […]
Today was release day for “Sinatra: Vegas” and what a day - the new boxed set immediately landed at #34 on Amazon Music’s top seller list. Not bad for a singer who passed away 8 years ago and whose best recordings were considered to have been made over 40 years ago!
Several publications had reviews of […]
Like many people, I grew up believing that all I needed to know about Bobby Darin was ‘Splish Splash’. Even after I’d been a Frank Sinatra fan for many years I still had no idea of the quality of Bobby Darin’s big band work. It took some serious prodding by a good friend to finally […]
Not including my review of the new Vegas boxed set, over the past month I’ve written several posts about Sinatra’s history in Las Vegas, including some nice samples of memorabilia. To see them, just visit our Sands Hotel category and click on the titles to the individual posts you want to see.
Little more than a decade ago, if you wanted to purchase a live Frank Sinatra album you had few choices. The first of these is, of course, the venerable Sinatra at The Sands, which needs no introduction. The second was The Main Event, an abridged version of Sinatra’s triumphant return to public performance at New […]
The Sands Copa Room, the legendary venue in which Frank Sinatra and many other great artists performed, is officially closing. No, not THAT Copa Room - the original in Las Vegas fell to the wrecking ball a decade ago - but rather the one in the Sands Hotel in NJ, where Sinatra performed his last […]
My copy of Sinatra: Vegas (Box Set, 4CD/1DVD) is due in today’s mail. I will be posting a review of this much anticipated release later today. Stay tuned.
UPDATE: Here’s the review.
