“I’LL NEVER SMILE AGAIN”Frank Sinatra’s first number 1 and the origins of the charts. By Mahnuel Muñoz HISTORIC CONTEXT In 1940 in the United States he danced and hugged to the sounds of the orchestras of Glenn Miller and Artie…
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…
FRANK AND THE PRESIDENT’S INAUGURAL GALAS. By Mahnuel Muñoz Frank always liked politics. His mother was an active Democrat, and Sinatra grew up surrounded by a progressive ideological environment that led him, when he was already famous, to support his…
RICHARD RODGERS By Mahnuel Muñoz Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) was the most successful composer of the Great American Songbook. Over the course of a 60-year career, he wrote the scores for 42 musicals performed on Broadway or in the West End,…
One For My Baby: The Quintessential Saloon Song On August 11, 1947, Frank Sinatra recorded his first version of “One For My Baby (And One More For the Road),” the composition by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer that was born…
THE LAST YEARS OF FRANK SINATRA By Mahnuel Muñoz EPISODE 6 “One wonders what Sinatra is thinking in his last concerts when he declaims the famous lyrics of “My Way”: ‘And now the end is approaching and I face the…
Sinatra’s vocal technique By Mahnuel Muñoz Since he first felt the desire to sing, Frank Sinatra opted for virtuosity when it came to modeling his style and getting the most out of the instrument. Like all young vocalists of his…
“Operación Sinatra” E-Book (Diego Mancusi and Sebastián Grandi, Editorial Aguilar, 2018) By Mahnuel Muñoz Journalists Diego Mancusi and Sebastián Grandi invite us to participate in the epic of Frank Sinatra’s arrival in Argentina in 1981, to give a series of…
