FRANK SINATRA ARGENTINE STORIES
Frank Sinatra Argentine Stories. On August 6, 1981, Frank Sinatra arrived in Argentina to give five fabulous concerts, three of them at the Sheraton Hotel in Buenos Aires and the last two at the legendary Luna Park. The country was dazzled by a unique performer, in a true state of grace at sixty-five years old.
It was the famous Argentine singer Palito Ortega who was mainly responsible for making La Voz sound live in Argentina.
“I remember it as something memorable.” – says journalist Nora Lafón – “Seeing it live was something incredible and I lived it like a dream. He sang in an incredible way. The live is essential since one can fall in love or be disillusioned with the artist.”
He also told an interesting anecdote. The singer had asked the hotel not to put any calls through to him except if it was Ava Gardner. “In a change of telephone operator, they did not pass the information and he just called. The next day he found out and a scandal broke out.”
There is an urban legend in Argentina, which is so beautiful, it should be true.
It is said that in 1934 Frank and his girlfriend Nancy attended a Carlos Gardel concert in New York. At the end of the show Sinatra and Nancy came over to greet Gardel and he recommended Frank to enter a talent contest that was being held in the city. That contest was the legendary “Major Bowes Amateur Hour“, the radio program that is the first sound document in the history of Frank Sinatra…
Almost half a century later, before his Argentine concerts, Frank, incognito, wanted to visit the place where Café O’Rondeman had been located, where Carlos Gardel was born as a tango star.
In the Abasto area, on the corner of Aguero and Humahuaca, in front of an empty lot where some old foundations remained, Frank took out of his coat pocket the old ticket for Gardel’s concert in New York in 1934. He kissed it, He buried it and muttered the lyrics of a tango and then, out loud, added “Thank you for teaching me how to live, Mr. Gardel!“
Article written by Mahnuel Muñoz. https://www.facebook.com/mahnuelmunozoficial
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