THE LAST YEARS OF FRANK SINATRA by Mahnuel Muñoz CHAPTER 11 In April 1994, Frank offered a demanding series of eight concerts at Radio City Music Hall, backed by the Count Basie Orchestra and opened by comedian Don Rickles. In…
SOME NICE THINGS I’VE MISSED By Mahnuel Muñoz On August 3, 1974, Frank Sinatra entered the charts with the album “Some nice things I’ve missed”, an album in which the Voice covered pop-rock hits of the time with arrangements by…
THE VOICE BORN IN SILENCE By Manuel Muñoz Sinatra’s first recordings on Columbia Records A baby comes into the world without showing any apparent signs of life. The doctors evict him while they desperately try to save the life of…
SOFTLY AS I LEAVE YOU By Mahnuel Muñoz “Softly As I Leave You” is, more than an album, a compilation of outtakes from other sessions, published in November 1964, in the midst of Beatlemania.Said like that, it may sound unappealing…
CY COLEMAN By Mahnuel Muñoz He was a child prodigy who played piano at such prestigious venues as Steinway Hall, Town Hall and Carnegie Hall before he was ten years old. Cy Coleman was born in New York on June…
MITCH MILLER Mitch Miller was born in Rochester, New York, on July 4, 1911. He took piano lessons but soon switched to the oboe. After graduating in music, he began his career working for the CBS Symphony Orchestra. After recording…
“REPRISE RARITIES” By Mahnuel Muñoz On December 11, 2020, in the midst of the COVID 19 pandemic and on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Reprise label, Frank Sinatra Enterprises and Universal Music began a…
LEO ROBIN By Mahnuel Muñoz Leo Robin was born on April 6, 1900 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He studied at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and at Carnegie Tech’s theater school. After graduating, he worked as an advertising agent,…
GORDON JENKINS By Mahnuel Muñoz On May 12, 1910, Gordon Jenkins, the Master of Orchestral Exuberance, was born. His arrangements may seem anachronistic to many modern ears, but they were an essential part of the popular musical sound of the…
SHE SHOT ME DOWN By Mahnuel Muñoz The New York dawn covers with thick makeup the bruises that delinquency and crime leave on their skin every day. She wears her darkest dress and wears a perfumed collar with the smell…
