SOFTLY AS I LEAVE YOU – THE SONG
SOFTLY AS I LEAVE YOU – THE SONG By Mahnuel Muñoz On July 17, 1964, Frank Sinatra recorded the song “Softly, as I Leave You.” It comes from an Italian pop song, titled “Piano“, composed by Giorgio Calabrese and Tony…
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FRANK SINATRA DISCOGRAPHY (1964): “SOFTLY AS I LEAVE YOU”
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…
FRANK SINATRA FILMOGRAPHY (1961): “THE DEVIL AT 4 O’CLOK”
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
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
MITCH MILLER 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…
FRANK SINATRA DISCOGRAPHY (2020): “REPRISE RARITIES”
“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…
LEO ROBIN
LEO ROBIN By Mahnuel Muñoz Leo Robin was born on April 6, 1900 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He studied at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and at Carnegie Tech’s theater school. After graduating, he worked as an advertising agent,…
GORDON JENKINS
GORDON JENKINS By Mahnuel Muñoz On May 12, 1910, Gordon Jenkins, the Master of Orchestral Exuberance, was born. His arrangements may seem anachronistic to many modern ears, but they were an essential part of the popular musical sound of the…
FRANK SINATRA DISCOGRAPHY (1981): “SHE SHOT ME DOWN”
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
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. Episode 6
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…
“OPERACION SINATRA” E-Book
“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…
