“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…
The Neguri Jazz Band will offer a tribute concert to Frank Sinatra on March 16, 2024 at 9:00 p.m. in the legendary Sala Galileo Galilei in Madrid. It will be a magnificent recital, with a wonderful team of artists led…
Biography 1915-1934 By Mahnuel Muñoz Francis Albert Sinatra was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, on December 12, 1915. He was the only child of the Italian-born couple Antonino Martino “Marty” Sinatra and Natalina “Dolly” Garavente. His arrival into the world…
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…
The Judy Garland Show (1962) By Mahnuel Muñoz This historic show aired on CBS on February 25, 1962, and was a kind of reconciliation between the network and Judy Garland after a long and bitter legal dispute over breaches of…
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…
Frank Sinatra Chronology…. 1915- On December 12, Francis Albert Sinatra is born, the only child of the marriage formed by Antonino Martino Sinatra and Natalina Garavente in Hoboken, New Jersey. 1935- As part of the group The Hoboken Four, he…
THE WORLD WE KNEW By Mahnuel Muñoz On September 16, 1967, the album “The World We Knew” entered the United States charts, a new attempt by Frank Sinatra to refresh his sound, a desire especially accentuated during the second half…
“Here’s To The Ladies” By Mahnuel Muñoz In March 1977 Frank Sinatra and Nelson Riddle reunited to record an album that would have been called “Here’s To The Ladies“, a thematic album composed of songs named after women.At a time…
“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 “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 desolation that it…
