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 […]
Today Amazon posted a video preview of the almost-released-but-not-quite-here-yet Sinatra Vegas set. The preview contains an excerpt from the DVD performance at Caesar’s Palace in 1978, a full rendition of Lady is a Tramp. I’ve previously seen video of this performance and from what I see on the Amazon page the quality of this […]
One of Sinatra’s more interesting musical experiences over the years was his appearances with jazz legend Red Norvo. Although Sinatra is most remembered standing out in front of a big band, there were several occasions where he appeared with smaller jazz combos. His appearances with Norvo were of this variety. In fact, a recording, Sinatra […]
In just under a month the new Sinatra Vegas 4 CD + 1 DVD package will be released. Today on Amazon I noticed a new photo of the packaging and wanted to post it here. The packaging looks great and, to my pleasure, some of the Sands Hotel flyer artwork I’ve previously posted about is […]
And now for the grandfather of all Sands Hotel advertisements. This one hearkens back to circa 1954 at approximately the time of Sinatra’s first appearance at The Sands Hotel. Previously Sinatra had been appearing at The Desert Inn, and his move to the Sands would have major positive implications for himself, The Sands, and […]
The image reproduced above is from a scan of a beautiful promo flyer sent to Sands Hotel patrons in approximately 1960. They were printed on light cardboard stock, folded in the middle, and addressed on the opposite side (not shown). Over the years I’ve collected a few of these (see my previous posts) and have […]
This might be my very favorite promotional flyer from The Sands Hotel. It is certainly from a very early (circa 1956) appearance by Sinatra at the location he would ultimately put on the map. It was during this period that Frank Sinatra met Bill Miller, his long-time pianist and friend.
This is a very classy piece, […]
From my personal collection comes this scan of an original Sand Hotel mailer from circa 1966. The Sands would periodically send out mailers to high rollers, inviting them to visit the casino and see a show. Obviously, the lucky few got to see Sinatra in-person, with Basie…. Wow! What a show.
With the impending release of […]
