Frank Sinatra – Ella Fitzgerald – Count Basie Tour By Mahnuel Muñoz Too good to be true? Well, it was a wonderful reality that materialized in 1975, a year in which the world was shocked by the first bars of…
THE LAST YEARS OF FRANK SINATRA By Mahnuel Muñoz EPISODE 15 “We have lived so much with the soundtrack of Sinatra’s music in the background that it is difficult to say where our real experiences end and those we have…
THE LAST YEARS OF FRANK SINATRA EPISODE 14 by Mahnuel Muñoz “I first heard Sinatra’s voice on a jukebox in a dark bar one Sunday night while my mother and I were looking for my father, and I remember him…
THE LAST YEARS OF FRANK SINATRA Episode 13 by Mahnuel Munoz 1995 is one of the years of greatest media exposure of Frank Sinatra‘s career, on the occasion of his eightieth birthday. Tribute events, record releases, newspaper articles and book…
The Concert For The Americas By Mahnuel Muñoz Altos de Chavón is a Mediterranean-type town built in 1976 on the Chavón River, in La Romana, Dominican Republic. It was commissioned by the Italian Roberto Coppa and reproduces a medieval Italian…
THE LAST YEARS OF FRANK SINATRA The Last Years Of Frank Sinatra. EPISODE 12 Nobody expected Frank Sinatra to get back on stage after the dramatic shows in Japan. But on February 25, 1995, as part of the events included…
A Toast To Frank By Mahnuel Muñoz “I hope they live a hundred years, and that the last voice they hear is mine.” This is Frank Sinatra’s classic toast to his audience during his concerts. I often look into infinity…
LOST IN THE STARS By Mahnuel Muñoz On August 8, 1946, Frank Sinatra recorded the song “Lost in the Stars“, composed by Kurt Weill and belonging to the musical of the same name.The work narrates the harsh life experiences of…
THE LAST YEARS OF FRANK SINATRA by Mahnuel Muñoz CHAPTER 11 In April 1994, Frank offered a demanding series of eight concerts at Radio City Music Hall, backed by the Count Basie Orchestra and opened by comedian Don Rickles. In…
THE SUMMER KNOWS By Antonio Baile When a beautiful woman attracts you at the first glance and, with her first words, inexplicably captures you, what is generated that science still does not understand and explain: it is called falling in…
FRANK AND MARILYN Frank and Marilyn share a luxurious at the Cal-Neva hotel complex, between the border of Nevada and California. The Voice tries to cheer up the actress, who is somewhat sad. “Why bother? I’m not going to be…
THE LAST YEARS OF FRANK SINATRA By Mahnuel Muñoz Chapter 10 The writer Pete Hamill is a personal friend of Frank and the only one who could receive the singer’s authorization to write his biography. In fact, he published the…
