I REMEMBER TOMMY By Mahnuel Muñoz In the early 1960s, Frank Sinatra created Reprise, his own record label, with the aim of having greater creative control over his works and offering these conditions to artists who signed a contract with…
COME DANCE WITH ME By Mahnuel Muñoz On December 9, 1958, the recording of the album “Come Dance With Me” began, one of the essential works to understand Frank Sinatra and the swing genre. From its cover, a seductive Frank…
SINATRA & STRINGS By Mahnuel Muñoz On November 22, 1961, Frank completed the recording of the LP “Sinatra & Strings”, the first and, for me, the best of the many albums with Don Costa, then a young and talented arranger…
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 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…
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…
