CYCLES By Mahnuel Muñoz On December 24, 1968, the LP “Cycles” was released, an album in which Frank Sinatra and arranger Don Costa presented their vision of some pop songs of the moment. It is an album that only reached…
“COME SWING WITH ME”/”SINATRA SWINGS” By Mahnuel Muñoz On August 14, 1961, the swing battle broke out; Two Frank Sinatra LPs reach the North American charts together: “Sinatra Swings”, published by Reprise, the label founded by the singer, and “Come…
A MAN ALONE “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 to a single…
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 day Sinatra lost his voice…to find a new one The day Sinatra lost his voice…. We are at the dawn of the 1950s. Frank is going through a delicate professional and even more precarious personal moment. His relationship with…
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 “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 desolation that it…
