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…
NELSON RIDDLE On June 1, 1921, the man responsible for the quintessential Sinatra sound was born in Oradell, New Jersey: Nelson Riddle. The son of an amateur musician who inspired his vocation, Nelson learned as a child to play the…
The Capitol Tower By Mahnuel Muñoz On April 6, 1956, the legendary Capitol Records Studios tower was inaugurated, one of the most relevant symbols of Hollywood and North American popular music. The record label that was home to Frank Sinatra…
THE PRIDE AND THE PASSION On July 10, 1957, the film The Pride and The Passion was released. With “The Pride and The Passion“, Hollywood fals definitively and madly in love with Spain as the setting for its great productions.…
“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 When Harry Met Frankie. 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…
BILLY MAY On November 10, 1916, Billy May was born. He was an amazing and vitalist musician whose arrangements Frank would say are like a bucket of ice water in the face. I think he defined it perfectly. Billy is…
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…
NANCY SINATRA Nancy Sinatra was born on June 8, 1940 while her father, Frank Sinatra, was singing with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra; As the daughter of showbiz royalty, Nancy grew up in the spotlight and made her first television appearance…
DON COSTA On June 9, 1925, Don Costa, the versatile arranger who helped launch great artistic careers and was responsible for Sinatra’s most contemporary sound from the late 1960s until Costa’s untimely death in 1983, was born in Boston. Costa…
