Sinatra Radio 24h offers you today starting at 10:00 PM (Spanish peninsular time, 5:00 PM in New York) the three BBC radio programs that the British saxophonist, writer and presenter Benny Green dedicated to Frank Sinatra in the early 1970s.…
SINATRA’S FIRST RECORDING By Mahnuel Muñoz James Petrozelli, Patrick Principe, and Fred Tamburro were regulars at the Sinatras’ tavern in Hoboken. They formed a musical group called The Three Flashes. Young Frank Sinatra, eager to become a professional singer, was…
THE TOGETHER AGAIN TOUR (1988) By Mahnuel Muñoz On March 13, 1988, the first concert of the Together Again Tour took place at the Californian Oakland Coliseum, which brought together Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis on tour for…
CYCLES By Mahnuel Muñoz On December 24, 1968, the LP “Cycles” was released, an album in which Frank Sinatra and arranger Don Costa presented their vision of some pop songs of the moment. It is an album that only reached…
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 “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 to a single…
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 The day Sinatra lost his voice…. We are at the dawn of the 1950s. Frank is going through a delicate professional and even more precarious personal moment. His relationship with…
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…
