COLE PORTER Can Cole Porter be the greatest songwriter in the Great American Songbook? It is a rhetorical question, big, presumptuous, almost offensive in light of the names that make up the pantheon of American popular song. His arguments: while…
FRANK SINATRA ARGENTINE STORIES Frank Sinatra Argentine Stories. On August 6, 1981, Frank Sinatra arrived in Argentina to give five fabulous concerts, three of them at the Sheraton Hotel in Buenos Aires and the last two at the legendary Luna…
MAY WE ALL TURN ONE HUNDRED YEARS “I hope that you live a hundred years, and that the last voice you hear is mine“. This is Frank Sinatra’s classic toast to his audience during his concerts. I often look into…
THE BULOVA WATCH TIME On October 7, 1950, the first program of the “Frank Sinatra Show” (also known as “Bulova Watch Time“) was broadcast, the first of the television programs starring Frank Sinatra, which continued until 1952. The director of…
Little Boy Blue: Frank Sinatra Junior The love that Frank Sinatra Junior felt for music was genetic, but while his father approached art in an organic and instinctive way, Junior did so with a more intellectual and technical perspective. Although…
SHINE: SINATRA BEFORE SINATRA By Mahnuel Muñoz He said that as a child it crossed his mind to be an engineer, to design and build bridges, tunnels and highways, but history has left testimony to young Frankie’s little interest in…
BOOTLEGS: “SEE THE SHOW AGAIN” By Mahnuel Muñoz I guess it happens to almost all of us in this group: once Sinatra gets under our skin, we want more and more and it never seems to be enough. It is…
SINATRA’S OPEN LETTER TO GEORGE MICHAEL By Mahnuel Muñoz In tribute to George Michael, I share an open letter that Frank Sinatra wrote to him following an article published on September 9, 1990 in which George complained about the pressures…
Frank will make you bald By Mahnuel Muñoz This story was published a few years ago in the in the british “Metro” magazine, and I had to share it with you: British presenter Gail Porter has suggested her hair started…
Sinatra at the Maracanã(January 26 1980) By Mahnuel Muñoz Even for those of us who do not decipher the magic of football, entering a large stadium is an overwhelming experience, not only because of the architectural display, but because of…
A TOAST FOR THE BROKEN HEARTED A TOAST FOR THE BROKEN HEARTED. The American sculptor Edward Kienholz (1927-1994) began his artistic career in Las Vegas in 1950. His first works were wooden figures in relief, to which he sometimes incorporated…
THE 1980 HEAT WAVE By Mahnuel Muñoz During the summer of 1980, the United States suffered a heat wave that wreaked havoc on agriculture and livestock and claimed at least 1,700 lives. A line of strong pressure in the central…
