SOFTLY AS I LEAVE YOU By Mahnuel Muñoz “Softly As I Leave You” is, more than an album, a compilation of outtakes from other sessions, published in November 1964, in the midst of Beatlemania.Said like that, it may sound unappealing…
THE DEVIL AT 4 O’CLOK By Mahnuel Muñoz On July 16, 1961, “The Devil At 4 O’Clock” was released, a film directed by Mervyn LeRoy (“The Wizard of Oz,” “Little Women,” “Quo Vadis?”, and together to Frank, “The House I…
CY COLEMAN By Mahnuel Muñoz He was a child prodigy who played piano at such prestigious venues as Steinway Hall, Town Hall and Carnegie Hall before he was ten years old. Cy Coleman was born in New York on June…
Mitch Miller was born in Rochester, New York, on July 4, 1911. He took piano lessons but soon switched to the oboe. After graduating in music, he began his career working for the CBS Symphony Orchestra. After recording with conductors…
“REPRISE RARITIES” By Mahnuel Muñoz On December 11, 2020, in the midst of the COVID 19 pandemic and on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Reprise label, Frank Sinatra Enterprises and Universal Music began a…
SHE SHOT ME DOWN By Mahnuel Muñoz The New York dawn covers with thick makeup the bruises that delinquency and crime leave on their skin every day. She wears her darkest dress and wears a perfumed collar with the smell…
RICHARD RODGERS By Mahnuel Muñoz Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) was the most successful composer of the Great American Songbook. Over the course of a 60-year career, he wrote the scores for 42 musicals performed on Broadway or in the West End,…
THE LAST YEARS OF FRANK SINATRA By Mahnuel Muñoz EPISODE 6 “One wonders what Sinatra is thinking in his last concerts when he declaims the famous lyrics of “My Way”: ‘And now the end is approaching and I face the…
“Operación Sinatra” E-Book (Diego Mancusi and Sebastián Grandi, Editorial Aguilar, 2018) By Mahnuel Muñoz Journalists Diego Mancusi and Sebastián Grandi invite us to participate in the epic of Frank Sinatra’s arrival in Argentina in 1981, to give a series of…
STEP LIVELY By Mahnuel Muñoz On June 24, 1944, “Step Lively“, Frank Sinatra’s fifth film, hits theaters. Frank plays a young aspiring playwright who will find himself involved in many entanglements to stage the musical that he has proposed to…
COME BLOW YOUR HORN By Mahnuel Muñoz “Come Blow Your Horn” is a film released in the United States in June 1963, directed by Bud Yorkin. It is based on the play of the same name by Neil Simon, author,…
Sinatra Sings Great Songs From Great Britain By Mahnuel Muñoz On June 12, 1962, Frank Sinatra began recording the album “Sinatra Sings Great Songs From Great Britain.“ The starting premise is simple: songs written by British composers; but, to be…
