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Dartblog Specials: Sunday Morning Sinatra
Friday, February 29, 2008
On November 13, 1967, Frank Sinatra hosted the “Man and His Music” television special featuring Ella Fitzgerald and Antonio Carlos Jobim. Here, prelude to your evening’s libations, is a lovely duet between Sinatra and Lady Ella. It features the wonderful…
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross composed the song “Hey There” for the 1954 musical The Pajama Game, about the courtship of Sid, the superintendent of a pajama factory, and Babe, the head of the seamstresses’ complaint committee. (They’re demanding a…
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Very busy this ayem, so in my stead I’ll turn you to Rosemary Clooney and Perry Como, who, in rounds, execute a wonderfully lighthearted duet. Have you ever thought about the reach that music like this had, in its time?…
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Continuing our little diversion into bearers of the American standard other than Frank Sinatra, here we meet an old favorite of this humble page, Dean Martin, and pair him with the magnificent Ella Fitzgerald. The two in tandem comprise something…
Sunday, February 04, 2007
A little variety never hurt anyone. This fine Sunday I thought I might show a performance from two expert crooners who are not Frank Sintra. The clip below, presumably from The Dean Martin Show, shows Dean and Tony Bennett perched…
Sunday, January 28, 2007
When, in “That’s Life,” Frank Sinatra sings of having been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king, well, he was giving an autobiography. Born in New Jersey a pauper, he died in California a…
Monday, January 22, 2007
In trawling for Frank Sinatra performances for yesterday’s Sunday Morning Sinatra, I came across this marvelous little sketch from an episode of The Dean Martin Show. It isn’t quite the sort of thing for a Sunday morning, but still deserves—needs—an…
Sunday, January 21, 2007
On this bright morning’s installment of Sunday Morning Sinatra, “You Make Me Feel So Young,” the Gordon/Myrow tune first given in the 1946 film Three Little Girls In Blue. Sinatra last sang it on the Duets album, fittingly with Charles…
Sunday, January 14, 2007
In the summer of 1965, Frank Sinatra and the rest of the Rat Pack organized a benefit concert in St. Louis for the Dismas House, a halfway home for convicts. A “summit,” they called it. The event itself took place…
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
It was on this day in 1915 that Frank Sinatra was born in Hoboken, New Jersey to Anthony Sinatra, a fireman, and his wife Natalie. For sixty years, in pubs and in palaces, he entertained the entire world: the…
Sunday, December 10, 2006
This bright Sunday, let’s give ‘em all an airing. Below, you’ll find a film of Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and Dean Martin—with a little camero by Johnny Carson. It was recorded on June 20, 1965 at the Kiel Opera…
Sunday, November 19, 2006
It has been a long while since I’ve posted a Sunday Morning Sinatra. Feels like it’s time. Scott Johnson, a one-man Grove Dictionary of American standards, observes that yesterday, November 18, was the anniversary of Johnny Mercer’s birth. Mercer is…
Sunday, October 22, 2006
Frank Sinatra debuted on the silver screen in a 1944 movie called “Higher and Higher.” That film features a wonderful scene in which Sinatra sings the velvety noctune, “I Couldn’t Sleep a Wink Last Night,” by Jimmy McHugh. And here’s…
Saturday, September 30, 2006
I missed the Sunday Morning Sinatra last weekend, and so I offer this one an entire day early. This is a fabulous medley of tunes sung by Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra. Look up ‘entertainment’ in the dictionary. And find…
Sunday, September 17, 2006
Rodgers and Hart wrote “The Most Beautiful Girl in the World” for the 1935 show Billy Rose’s Jumbo, about a ‘bout-to-go-under circus family and their savior of a publicity man. The show itself isn’t terribly well-remembered, though a 1962 film…
Sunday, September 10, 2006
This Sunday’s video is a little longer than usual—six minutes—and you will have to excuse the dim recording, the scattered static, and the imperfect sound quality. But I think this is really something to see: It is a one-camera recording…
Sunday, September 03, 2006
American standards don’t come much more standard than the immortal tunes penned by Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers for the 1936 show Babes in Arms, about a gang of teenagers who put on a musical to save their struggling vaudevillian…
Sunday, August 27, 2006
From 1957 to 1958 there was a television program called “The Frank Sinatra” show. It starred Sinatra, of course, along with arranger and band maestro Nelson Riddle. One episode of the program begins with the closing few bars of “(Love…
Sunday, August 20, 2006
Two weeks ago we saw Frank Sinatra sing the American classic “Ol’ Man River” from a 1946 Richard Whorf film called Till the Clouds Roll By, a tribute to the song’s composer, Jerome Kern. Here is Sinatra doing the very…
Sunday, August 13, 2006
“Cole Porter’s shining hour” is how Frank Sinatra used to introduce this song, written by the famous composer (who was, by the bye, one of the original Whiffenpoofs) in 1936 for Born to Dance. Sinatra started performing it in the…
Sunday, August 06, 2006
In 1946 Richard Whorf directed a film called Till the Clouds Roll By, a musical biopic of the great American popular composer Jerome Kern, who was among the founders of the Broadway musical idiom, and who added more than seven…
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