A MAN ALONE By Mahnuel Muñoz “A Man Alone” is a 1969 beautiful album in which Frank performs songs by the poet and musician Rod McKuen. It is the only album – not counting compilations – in Sinatra’s discography dedicated…
What is the Great American Songbook? By Mahnuel Muñoz The Great American Songbook is the most important set of popular songs and jazz standards in North America, developed primarily between the 1920s and 1950s, and whose main destinations were cinema…
THE CAPITOL SINGLES By Mahnuel Muñoz On September 3, 1996, the extraordinary box set “The Complete Capitol Singles” goes on sale. Before Frank began recording his legendary and beloved Capitol-era LPs, he dedicated himself to creating singles. The work began…
Songs For Young Lovers By Mahnuel Muñoz On February 27, 1954, the album “Songs For Young Lovers” entered the North American charts of Billboard magazine. Is an exquisite miniature of eight songs and less than twenty minutes long that constitutes…
SINATRA AND COMPANY By Mahnuel Muñoz Frank Sinatra began the 1970s as a tired and adrift voice, searching for that new song to rekindle the flame that for thirty years had been able to heat the Paramount Theatre, the Hollywood…
“SINATRA” TV SPECIAL (1969) By Mahnuel Muñoz On November 5, 1969, the television special “Sinatra” was broadcast, with which the singer closed the cycle of musical programs that he had starred in annually since 1965.The show is directed by Tim…
SINATRA SINGS FOR ONLY THE LONELY By Mahnuel Muñoz “Sinatra Sings For Only the lonely” is more than a record, a world. A world created in just four days between May and June 1958. A world so beautiful in its…
SINATRA AT THE SANDS By Mahnuel Muñoz On october 16, 1966, the album “Sinatra At The Sands” reached number nine on the Billboard magazine charts, one of the best live musical testimonies in history, regardless of the genre we are…
SWING EASY By Mahnuel Muñoz On september 4, 1954 the Billboard charts receive the LP “Swing Easy“, Frank Sinatra’s second album on Capitol Records and first entirely arranged by Nelson Riddle. The album shows us a safe, confident and happy…
NELSON RIDDLE On June 1, 1921, the man responsible for the quintessential Sinatra sound was born in Oradell, New Jersey: Nelson Riddle. The son of an amateur musician who inspired his vocation, Nelson learned as a child to play the…
