“I SING THE SONGS” By Mahnuel Muñoz It is 1976 and Frank Sinatra continues to prioritize his concert activity over studio work. This year the singer will make slightly more serious attempts to generate material for a new album, recording…
WHEN SINATRA SURRENDERED WHEN SINATRA SURRENDERED. 1951 Autumn, far from diluting New York into languor, makes the bustle and excitement that are part of its DNA manifest with arrogant intensity. Its geographical features of neon, steel and concrete vibrate with…
MORE CAROLS AND OTHER SACRED SONGS By Mahnuel Muñoz After having analyzed in detail Frank’s Christmas albums and the extra material contained in “The Christmas Collection” in other articles that you can find here, it is time to review other…
HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS WHEN SINATRA SHOCKED THE HEART OF VENEZUELA By Mahnuel Muñoz On October 29, 2021, the video for the song “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” by Frank Sinatra is released. It is a cartoon…
THE SINATRA CHRISTMAS COLLECTION (2004) By Mahnuel Muñoz This album is, in some way, the reissue of another 1987 title, called “The Frank Sinatra Christmas Album“, which collected all the Christmas recordings published by the singer on the Reprise label…
ANTHONY MARTIN SINATRA The Voice’s father By Mahnuel Muñoz Frank said of his father, Antonino Martino “Anthony” Sinatra: “He was a very quiet man. He was a lonely and shy man. You would always hear him wheezing, because of his…
SINATRA AND SAMMY DAVIS IN THE AD THAT EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT On Tuesday, December 10, a new advertisement for Still GIN By Dre and Snoop gin was released, in which rappers Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg meet Frank Sinatra…
THE SONG OF THE EVENING(FRAGMENT FROM THE BOOK “THE WAY YOU WEAR YOUR HAT” BY BILL ZEHME) “Time meant everything and nothing to him. ‘I can’t work if I’m not under pressure. If there’s too much time available, I don’t…
ELEPHANTS CAN’T BE WRONG By Mahnuel Muñoz Today we talked about the good that listening to Frank Sinatra does to us when we have joy stuck in the soles of our shoes. It seems that animals are no different. An…
The touching story of David McJimpsey By Mahnuel Muñoz After spending a warm summer afternoon in 1970 in his favorite pub, David McJimpsey returned to the house he shared with his parents and siblings in Glasgow and saw to his…
SINATRA PLATINUM (2023) Commentary and analysis of the CD edition. By Mahnuel Muñoz Produced by Charles Pignone.Mixing and sound restoration Larry Walsh. 2023 marked the seventieth anniversary of Frank Sinatra signing with Capitol Records. In 1953 the singer was an…
“IF YOU ARE BUT A DREAM” By Mahnuel Muñoz On May 8, 1945, Frank Sinatra attended a session in which he recorded the two songs that would appear in the short film “The House I Live In“, in which he…
