Category Archives: Frank Sinatra

Turner Classic Movies Frank Sinatra Birthday Festival

As they do for many artists, Turner Classic Movies will be showing several famous and not so famous Frank Sinatra films on Sinatra’s birthday, December 12. Films to be shown include Come Blow Your Horn, It Happened In Brooklyn and the classic Pal Joey.

Check TCM for the schedule.

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Sinatra Classic ‘Time After Time’

Frank Sinatra joined up again with Nelson Riddle for a collection of Sinatra B-sides and singles. Riddle arranged and conducted all the back up for “This is Sinatra Volume 2”.

The album was released in 1958, similar to “This is Sinatra!” produced in 1956. Seven new songs were recorded toward the end of 1957. They were then added to the album.

You can listen to such songs as “Everybody Loves Somebody,” “I Believe,” “You’ll Always… Read the rest

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Merry Sinatra Family Christmas

Reprise records released a holiday album in 1968 featuring Frank Sinatra and his children: Nancy Sinatra, Tina Sinatra and Frank Sinatra, Jr. Together they sing with a perfect title that says it all – “The Sinatra Family Wish You a Merry Christmas”.

Two long-time Sinatra arrangers, Don Costa and Nelson Riddle, arrange and conduct the tracks with the Jimmy Joyce singers as backing vocals. The album illustrates the diversity and talents of Sinatra’s children. For… Read the rest

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Sinatra and Crosby Sing ’12 Songs of Christmas’

In 1964 Reprise Records brought to the recording studio Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Fred Waring and The Pennsylvanians to create a traditional Christmas album called “12 Songs of Christmas”.

A long list of arrangers and conductors makes for an impressive production with such notables as Roy Ringwald, Dick Reynolds, Jack Halloran, Nelson Riddle, Harry Simeon, Bob Thompson and Harry Betts.

Only five of the twelve tracks consist of vocals by Sinatra with Crosby… Read the rest

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Greatest Christmas Album Ever Made

“A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra” was recorded in the summer of 1957 and was originally released by Capitol Records as the first long-running Christmas album by Frank Sinatra.

Long-time collaborator Gordon Jenkins arranged and conducted what Saxophonist Stan Getz called “the greatest Christmas album anybody’s ever made.”

Together with the Ralph Brewer Singers and a 21 piece orchestra, Jenkins created the ideal wintery wonderland of the holiday spirit, including sleigh bells, angelic… Read the rest

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Nice ‘n’ Easy

“Nice ‘n’ Easy”, released by Capitol, was produced by David Cavanaugh with long-time collaborator Nelson Riddle arranging and conducting the 1960 album with Frank Sinatra. Each song, except for the headline song, is sung as a ballad where Sinatra is backed by sheer romantic sound that had become Nelson Riddle’s trademark.

Cavanaugh was also known as “Big Dave Cavanaugh”. He worked in the studio with Sinatra he was at the very top of his genre.… Read the rest

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Look to Your Heart, From Here to Eternity

“Look to Your Heart” is the third collection album of Frank Sinatra singles and B-sides with long-time collaborator Nelson Riddle. The vocal jazz and classic pop album was released through Capitol in 1959, although it was recorded between 1953 and 1955 when Sinatra’s film and television career was hitting one of its highest points.

He won an Academy Award for From Here to Eternity in 1955. Sinatra new the part of Maggio was… Read the rest

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Sinatra and Riddle Final Album: Strangers in the Night

“Strangers in the Night” was released through Reprise Records in 1966 by Frank Sinatra, continuing his celebration of his come back to the #1 spot at the pop album charts starting in the middle of the 1960s.

It is the last album Sinatra will ever work with long-serving arranger and conductor Nelson Riddle.

Jonathan Schwartz of WNEW wrote this about Nelsen Riddle:

Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong and Nelson Riddle stand, inRead the rest

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Sinatra Returns to His Home Town Live at the Meadowlands

On March 14, 1986 Frank Sinatra returned to his home state New Jersey and performed a concert at Meadowlands. The concert was recorded and in 2009 the live album was released through Concord and produced by Charles Pignone.

From the opening song the audience was firmly established with Sinatra having, as usual, dominated the venue with his presence and voice. He welcomed the fans right away with these words “It seems we stood… Read the rest

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Sinatra Tailored Las Vegas

Reprise Records released the compilation album set in 2006. “Sinatra: Vegas” includes all the live performances by Frank Sinatra recorded in Las Vegas. As a box set the recordings cover just about twenty years at Las Vegas from both the Sands Casino performances and at Caesars Palace performances.

Many accounts of Sinatra in Las Vegas relate to the fact that after Sinatra started performing in Las Vegas, the city changed from casino managers wearing cowboy… Read the rest

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