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…
“THE PRIDE AND THE PASSION“ By Mahnuel Muñoz On July 10, 1957, the film “The Pride and The Passion” was released. With “The Pride and The Passion“, Hollywood falls definitively and madly in love with Spain as the setting for…
“Searching for perfection in the midst of chaos” By Mahnuel Muñoz In the late 1940s, Frank Sinatra’s career was going through a severe crisis due to changes in popular taste and the artist’s erratic behavior in his personal life.However, his…
When Harry Met Frankie By Mahnuel Muñoz On July 13, 1939, Frank Sinatra’s first professional recordings took place, together with the Harry James orchestra. There are many stories about how Frank and Harry met, but everything indicates that it happened…
The Sounds Of Silence When Billy Joel stopped the world for Sinatra By Mahnuel Muñoz On March 1, 1994, Frank Sinatra received a Grammy Legend Award, celebrating his long and illustrious professional career. The person in charge of presenting the…
Paul Keyes on Meeting Frank Sinatra By Mahnuel Muñoz In the spring of 1941, after a concert in Portland, Frank and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra were enjoying dinner when a seventeen-year-old boy named Paul Keyes approached Dorsey’s table with an…
Frank Sinatra. The last concert. By Mahnuel Muñoz On February 25, 1995, Frank Sinatra took the stage at the Marriott Hotel in Palm Springs to give a brief private concert before his small audience of just over a thousand lucky…
MY WAY By Mahnuel Muñoz The spring of 1969 welcomes an autumn-leaf-wearing Sinatra.Today we know that he will still give another quarter of a century of music and images without equal, but in those days, when he sings in “My…
