THE TOGETHER AGAIN TOUR (1988) By Mahnuel Muñoz On March 13, 1988, the first concert of the Together Again Tour took place at the Californian Oakland Coliseum, which brought together Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis on tour for…
Interview: Rosa Ter Braake: founder of “Frank Sinatra Respectfulposting”, the bigger and better Facebook group about Frank Sinatra. By Mahnuel Muñoz Q: Who is Rosa? A: My maiden name is Rosa Gunsing. I’m a forty-six year old woman from The…
What is the Great American Songbook? By Mahnuel Muñoz The Great American Songbook is the most important set of popular songs and jazz standards in North America, developed primarily between the 1920s and 1950s, and whose main destinations were cinema…
The day Sinatra lost his voice…to find a new one We are at the dawn of the 1950s. Frank is going through a delicate professional and even more precarious personal moment. His relationship with Ava Gardner corrodes him, the continuous…
THE VOICE BEGINS TO SOUND IN LAS VEGAS By Mahnuel Muñoz In September 1951, Frank Sinatra took the stage at the Desert Inn Hotel-Casino, in his first performance in the city of Las Vegas, a relationship marked by music and…
“THE ITALIAN SONGBOOK” By Mahnuel Muñoz On February 9, 1967, an internal memo was issued on Reprise Records in relation to a Frank Sinatra project titled “The Italian Songbook.” After recording “Sinatra & Strings“, Frank had asked arranger Don Costa…
“FRANK SINATRA AND TONY MOTTOLA: LONG SUNDAY OF FRIENDSHIP AND MUSIC” By Mahnuel Muñoz Fifty years before performing memorable duets on stages around the world in the 1980s, Frank Sinatra and Tony Mottola were just a pair of ambitious teenage…
The Neguri Jazz Band will offer a tribute concert to Frank Sinatra on March 16, 2024 at 9:00 p.m. in the legendary Sala Galileo Galilei in Madrid. It will be a magnificent recital, with a wonderful team of artists led…
The Judy Garland Show (1962) By Mahnuel Muñoz This historic show aired on CBS on February 25, 1962, and was a kind of reconciliation between the network and Judy Garland after a long and bitter legal dispute over breaches of…
“Here’s To The Ladies” By Mahnuel Muñoz In March 1977 Frank Sinatra and Nelson Riddle reunited to record an album that would have been called “Here’s To The Ladies“, a thematic album composed of songs named after women.At a time…
“SINATRA” TV SPECIAL (1969) By Mahnuel Muñoz On November 5, 1969, the television special “Sinatra” was broadcast, with which the singer closed the cycle of musical programs that he had starred in annually since 1965.The show is directed by Tim…
The Capitol Tower By Mahnuel Muñoz On April 6, 1956, the legendary Capitol Records Studios tower was inaugurated, one of the most relevant symbols of Hollywood and North American popular music. The record label that was home to Frank Sinatra…
