Interview: Rosa Ter Braake: founder of “Frank Sinatra Respectfulposting”, the bigger and better Facebook group about Frank Sinatra. By Mahnuel Muñoz Q: Who is Rosa? A: My maiden name is Rosa Gunsing. I’m a forty-six year old woman from The…
“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…
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 We are at the dawn of the 1950s. Frank is going through a delicate professional and even more precarious personal moment. His relationship with Ava Gardner corrodes him, the continuous…
THE VOICE BEGINS TO SOUND IN LAS VEGAS By Mahnuel Muñoz In September 1951, Frank Sinatra took the stage at the Desert Inn Hotel-Casino, in his first performance in the city of Las Vegas, a relationship marked by music and…
“NONE BUT THE BRAVE” (1965) By Mahnuel Muñoz NONE BUT THE BRAVE (1965) John Dryden (1631-1700) was the poet and playwright who dominated the literary life of Restoration England, to the point that that time became known as the Dryden…
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…
“THE ITALIAN SONGBOOK” By Mahnuel Muñoz On February 9, 1967, an internal memo was issued on Reprise Records in relation to a Frank Sinatra project titled “The Italian Songbook.” After recording “Sinatra & Strings“, Frank had asked arranger Don Costa…
“FRANK SINATRA AND TONY MOTTOLA: LONG SUNDAY OF FRIENDSHIP AND MUSIC” By Mahnuel Muñoz Fifty years before performing memorable duets on stages around the world in the 1980s, Frank Sinatra and Tony Mottola were just a pair of ambitious teenage…
