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The first-ever Sinatra television special, this 1965 performance showcases the Chairman in peak form. The Nelson Riddle arrangements sparkle, opening with a classic rendition of I ve Got You Under My Skin and continuing on with other favorites such as I Get A Kick Out Of You, Come Fly With Me and The Lady Is A Tramp. Aired November 24, 1965. 14 performances, 52 minutes.
The second annual TV special thrills from start to finish, with unforgettable performances of signature songs "Fly Me To The Moon," "Luck Be A Lady" and "That's Life." Frank is joined by daughter Nancy in a playful duet in this delightful hour of music.
A truly memorable television event, the third annual special finds Frank joined by the dazzling Ella Fitzgerald in an historic pairing of the two preeminent vocal talents of the era.
Though it was taped 16 years after the first A Man And His Music special, this final installment continues to uphold the high standards of the series, thanks in no small part to the accompaniment of the legendary Count Basie and his orchestra. Performances include Pennies From Heaven, Something, The Best Is Yet To Come and Theme From New York, New York. Aired November 22, 1981. 15 performances
Sinatra In Concert At Royal Festival Hall Princess Grace of Monaco introduces Sinatra to the adoring crowd in this London concert, which was filmed on the eve of the Chairman s temporary retirement. Aired November 22, 1970. 13 performances,
Charged with the electricity of a heavyweight prizefight, The Main Event was filmed live at Madison Square Garden, a venue usually reserved for sporting events and rock n roll concerts. Aired October 13, 1974. 13 performances
Filmed in front of a live audience on a soundstage in Hollywood, but with the feel of an intimate concert, this comeback special proves the Chairman hadn t lost a step. Aired November 18, 1973. 11 performances
This incredibly rare concert has only ever been released in Japan, making this collection a must-have for Sinatra fans. Entering his 70th year, Ol Blue Eyes never sounded better. Aired 1985. 17 performances.
Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney, Louis Armstrong and The Four Preps entertain on behalf of the new Ford Edsel! Aired on CBS. Special guest appearance from Bob Hope.
Songs included: The Lonesome Road - Sinatra / I Could Write A Book - Sinatra / Autumn Leaves - Sinatra / Bewitched - Sinatra / Listen To The Rocking Bird - Lee / He's My Guy - Lee / All The Way - Sinatra / I Get A Kick Out Of You - Sinatra.
Sinatra starred in the first dramatic episode of the series as a New York cab driver who is raising a pair adopted war orphans. His neighbors, his friends and even the children themselves think Hogan should find a wife. The youngsters arrange a date for Hogan with their pretty teacher, Miss Douglas, and then some of his cabbie friends try to pair him up with a real ""doll"".
Songs included: You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To - Sinatra / The Girl Next Door - Sinatra / I've Got You Under My Skin - Sinatra / Side By Side - Sinatra & Tri-Tones / Exactly Like You - Sinatra & Tri-Tones / All The Way - Sinatra / Violets For Your Furs - Sinatra / The Lonesome Road - Sinatra.
Songs included: Pennies From Heaven - Sinatra / Autumn Leaves - Sinatra / Nice Work if You Can Get It - Sinatra & Lee / You Brought A New Kind of Love to Me - Sinatra / Our Love is Here to Stay - Sinatra & Lee / I Thought About You - Sinatra / I'll Be Seeing You - Sinatra / Old Devil Moon - Lee / That's All - Lee.
Songs included: Something's Gotta Give - Sinatra & McGuire Sisters / Them There Eyes - McGuire Sisters / From This Moment On - Sinatra.
Songs included: Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams - Sinatra / I Get Along Without You Very Well - Sinatra / I'm Glad There Is You - O'Brien / Let's Get Away From It All - Sinatra & O'Brien / My Funny Valentine - Sinatra / I Wish I Were In Love Again - Sinatra / I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter - Sinatra / One For My Baby - Sinatra / Everything Happens To Me - Sinatra.
Musical selections included: Night and Day - Sinatra / Old Devil Moon - Sinatra / Medley: On a Slow Boat to China,Saturday Night(is the Loneliest Night of the Week),Memories are Made of This,The Girl That I Marry,Innamorata,I've Got a Crush on You,Oh Marie,Don't Cry Joe(Let Her Go, Let Her Go, Let Her Go) - Sinatra & Martin / The House I Live In - Sinatra.
Frank devotes the show to spotlighting eight of his most popular song numbers. Also appearing are Australian actress Pamela Light and dancers Jean Goodall, Mary Thomas, Pat Tribble and Dolores Durett. Songs included: Young At Heart / I've Got The World On A String / With Every Breath I Take / A Foggy Day / You Make Me Feel So Young / I Won't Dance / I'm Gonna Live Till I Die / I Couldn't Sleep A Wink Last Night.
Frank stars in a drama, ""Take Me to Hollywood."" A talent scout is handed an urgent assignment by the head of the studio. A young actress who was given a million-dollar buildup for a costly picture now in production has disappeared, and the scout must find her.
As Frank Sinatra casually trims his Christmas tree on a very hip, fashionable bachelor apartment stage set, his good friend Bing Crosby drops by, bearing an armful of gifts. They go on to perform their favourite Christmas songs, among them Jingle Bells, Sinatra's version of Mistletoe and Holly and Crosby's famed White Christmas.
A frozen-food salesman who wants to be a writer, and a secretary who yearns to be an artist, meet while both are feeding pidgeons in Central Park. Soon they are consoling each other.
A musical trip around the world with Frank & Dinah. Songs included: Come Fly With Me - Sinatra / Road To Mandalay - Sinatra / London By Night - Sinatra / April In Paris - Sinatra / It's Nice To Go Trav'ling - Sinatra & Shore / Autumn In New York - Sinatra & Shore.
Guest Robert Mitchum talks Frank into making an appearance at his son's school, even though the youngster was hoping to have a rock 'n' roll singer. Songs included: I Won't Dance - Sinatra / All The Way - Sinatra / Witchcraft - Sinatra / Hey! Jealous Lover - Sinatra / If You Are But A Dream - Sinatra / Put Your Dreams Away - Sinatra.
Songs included: I'm An Old Cowhand - Sinatra / The Birth Of The Blues - Sinatra & Smith / Bewitched - Sinatra / I Can't Believe You're in Love with Me - Sinatra, Prima & Smith.
Sinatra and Stafford reminisce about their days as singers with The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra.Songs included: Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams - Sinatra / This Love Of Mine - Sinatra / I'll Never Smile Again - Sinatra / These Foolish Things - Sinatra / Medley: Street Of Dreams,Violets For Your Furs,The One I Love,Yes Indeed! - Sinatra & Stafford / Our Love Is Here To Stay - Sinatra / Put Your Dreams Away - Sinatra.
Songs included: Isle of Capri - Sinatra / You Make Me Feel So Young - Sinatra / Tell Her You Love Her - Sinatra / Me and My Shadow - Sinatra & Davis / I've Got You Under My Skin - Sinatra.
In this episode Sinatra opens singing ""South of the Border"" to a group of admiring showgirls. Later, he's joined by English singer Jeannie Carson in a record shop sketch, where she and regular heckler Clifford (Jesse White) compete to get Sinatra's autograph, and he agrees to teach her how to sing like him and sound American. Meanwhile, Clifford keeps bothering Sinatra, mistaking him for ""Sol Mineo."" Sinatra sings Cole Porter's ""From This Moment On"" in an outstanding rendition, as well as ""Witchcraft"" and ""Wishing On a Star."" Jeannie Carson learns how to pronounce words American-style (""mudda, fodda etc."") and sings ""Them There Eyes."" Other songs included: They Can't Take That Away From Me - Sinatra / Put Your Dreams Away - Sinatra.
Songs included: I Love You - Sinatra / P.S. I Love You - Sinatra / If I Loved You - Sinatra & Jones / My Funny Valentine - Frank Sinatra to daughter Nancy.
A gunman holds a woman captive in a deserted frontier cabin while her husband lies dying from a bullet wound in the next room.
Van Johnson guest stars in this episode and he joins Sinatra in a sketch aimed at fulfilling one of his lifelong ambitions-to forsake playing the All American Boy in favor of playing a genuine heel. Songs included: Come Fly With Me - Sinatra / There's No You - Sinatra / I Could Write A Book - Sinatra / Something In Common - Sinatra & Johnson / At Long Last Love - Sinatra / Put Your Dreams Away - Sinatra.
Songs included: I'm Gonna Live Till I Die - Sinatra / This Can't Be Love - Sinatra / All Of Me - Sinatra / I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter - Sinatra & Freberg / One For My Baby - Sinatra.
Songstress Eydie Gorme and comedian Joey Bishop are Frank's guests on this episode. Bishop plays a entertainment executive who has some unique ideas for improving the show. Songs included: Where Are You? - Sinatra / How About You - Sinatra / When Your Lover Has Gone - Gorme / Gypsy in My Soul - Gorme / Saturday Night is the Loneliest Night of the Week - Sinatra & Gorme / It Happened in Monterey - Sinatra / Moonlight in Vermont - Sinatra / The Most Beautiful Girl in the World - Sinatra / Nature Boy - Sinatra & Bishop / Put Your Dreams Away - Sinatra.
A young woman who lives in a New York apartment is attracted to a temperamental painter who lives in the same building. She tries to draw him out of the depression which seems to prevent him from painting.
Songs included: A Foggy Day - Sinatra / Taking A Chance On Love - Sinatra / Time After Time - Sinatra / Medley: All The Way, Learnin' The Blues, Young At Heart - Sinatra / It's Nice To Go Trav'ling - Sinatra & Fisher / Put Your Dreams Away - Sinatra.
Spike Jones, his band and his vocalist wife Helen Grayco guest along with Jesse White. Songs included: You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me - Sinatra / Baby, Won't You Please Come Home? - Sinatra / Too Marvelous For Words - Sinatra / Put Your Dreams Away - Sinatra / Makin' Whoppee - Sinatra & Grayco / Chloe - Sinatra / Fascination,All The Way,Tammy,By The Light Of The Silvery Moon - Jones & Band.
A sweltering heat wave triggers an emotional crisis in the Manhattan apartment of Al and Helen Wesson. The married couple feel tension mounting between them because the wife is anxious to move from their city apartment to the suburbs. But her husband has lived all his life in their present neighborhood, and refuses to leave.
This episode's special guest is Ethel Merman. She and Sinatra trade jokes and act together in a sketch about a married star couple surprised at home by the cameras, who have to cover up their disaster of an apartment. And Jesse White gets a rise out of Sinatra in his regular role of Clifford the heckler. Songs included: Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart - Merman / You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me - Sinatra / You're The Top -Sinatra & Merman / I'm Always Chasing Rainbows - Merman / I Get A Kick Out of You - Sinatra / Just One of Those Things - Sinatra.
Ella joins Frank for thirty minutes of great music on this installment of Sinatra's short-lived Friday night series. She sings ""April In Paris,"" ""Angel Eyes,"" and ""When You're Smiling."" Sinatra offers ""Jeepers Creepers,"" ""On the Road to Mandalay,"" and ""We'll Be Together Again."" Together they sing ""Moonlight in Vermont"" and a swingin' version of ""I May Be Wrong.""
Young Father Dvorak returns as a parish priest to the church of his childhood. St. Theresa's is now old and neglected and he tries to convince the bishop that even though the church is in a neighborhood that is now almost completely industrialized, it is worth renovating. Father Dvorak tries to stir up some interest in his campaign by attempting to grow grass in the sooty barren plot of ground in front of the church.
Music on this episode includes: Night and Day - Sinatra / Lonely Town - Sinatra / I Believe - Sinatra / Them There Eyes - Sinatra & Wood / How Are Ya Fixed For Love? - Sinatra / Put Your Dreams Away - Sinatra.
Christine Nolan is hired by Paul Dupree as governess for his young son Claude. She finds the boy in a state of shock from fear.
After three months of treatment in a mental hospital, Jean Armstrong returns to her home and husband. She has been home only a short time when she begins questioning not only her sanity but the identity of her own husband.
A New York cabbie is not satisfied with the progress made by the police department in locating his stolen cab. He decides to take matters into his own hands.
In 1957 Timex sponsored a series of TV Variety Show Specials starring Frank Sinatra broadcast on the ABC Television Network. This show was taped on October 19, 1958, The special guest stars are Dean Martin and Bing Crosby and includes Dean Martin's less than subtle commercial for his Hollywood restaurant whilst performing 'Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams'. Also appearing are Mitzi Gaynor and a cameo by Jimmy Durante. This program is remastered from the archive tape of the broadcast, and is the original broadcast including the sponsors promotional segments. Whilst the quality of the reproduction may not meet modern technological standards, it is a rare record of three of the most popular performers of the Twentieth Century performing together.
Musical selctions performed included: High Hopes - Crosby, Martin, & Gaynor / Day In, Day Out - Sinatra / Together, Wherever We Go - Sinatra, Crosby, & Martin / Talk To Me - Sinatra / Cheek To Cheek - Crosby, Martin, & Gaynor / Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams - Martin / Good Old Song Medley: Sinatra, Crosby, & Martin / High Hopes - Sinatra & a 'Whole Bunch of Kids' Chorus / Just One Of Those Things - Sinatra / Angel Eyes - Sinatra / The Lady Is A Tramp - Sinatra / Jimmy Durante Medley: Sinatra, Martin, & Crosby.
For his second show of the season, Frank Sinatra's guests are his pal Peter Lawford, comedienne Hermione Gingold, singer Ella Fitzgerald, the Hi-Lo's vocal group, Red Norvo's jazz combo and dancer Juliet Prowse. Nelson Riddle conducts the orchestra on the hour-long taped telecast. Highlights: You're Invited to Spend the Afternoon - Sinatra / I've Got the World on a String - Sinatra / Lazy Afternoon - Hi-Lo's / It's Alright with Me - Sinatra / Don't Fence Me In - Sinatra & Prowse / Too Darn Hot - Prowse / Here's That Rainy Day - Sinatra & Norvo / Love is Here to Stay - Sinatra / Too Marvelous for Words - Sinatra / I'll Never Smile Again - Sinatra & Hi-Lo's / There's a Lull in My Life - Fitzgerald / Just You, Just Me - Fitzgerald / How High the Moon - Sinatra & Fitzgerald / Can't We Be Friends - Sinatra & Fitzgerald / Comes to Love, Nothing Can Be Done - Gingold & Lawford / Puttin' on the Ritz - Lawford, Gingold & Prowse / Love is Sweeping the Country/Gershwin Medley - Sinatra, Fitzgeral
'Here's to the ladies,' chirps Sinatra, as he toasts the female sex in general and introduces some women he particularly admires: Eleanor Roosevelt, Lena Horne, soprano Mary Costa, comedienne Barbara Heller and dancer Juliet Prowse. Mrs. Roosevelt talks with Frank about the hopes of the world and recites the lyrics of the song High Hopes. Nelson Riddle conducts the orchestra for the 60-minute taped show. Highlights: Here's to the Ladies - Sinatra / I've Got You Under My Skin - Sinatra / Ouvre Ton Coeur - Costa / By Strauss/Afraid of Love - Heller / Come Dance with Me -Sinatra & Prowse / Lonely Town - Sinatra / It's Love/Mood Indigo/I'm Beginning to See the Light - Horne / Harold Arlen Medley: One for My Baby/Accentuate the Positive/Stormy Weather/Get Happy/Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea - Sinatra & Horne / My Heart Stood Still - Sinatra / My Funny Valentine - Sinatra & Prowse / Here's to the Ladies - Sinatra.
Frank Sinatra is joined by Joey Bishop, Sammy Davis Jr., and Nancy Sinatra in a welcome home salute to Elvis Presley, just out of the army. Songs include It's Nice to Go Traveling - Sinatra / Witchcraft - Sinatra / Gone With the Wind - Sinatra / Fame and Fortune - Elvis / Stuck On You - Elvis. The highlight is when Sinatra and Elvis, side-by-side, start doing each other's songs, Sinatra performing Love Me Tender while Elvis does Witchcraft. Sammy Davis Jr. does a series of celebrity impressions (including Nat King Cole doing When Somebody Loves You, and Cary Grant at the Oscar presentations) and he and surprise guest Peter Lawford square off in a dance competition. Frank and Nancy duet together, and Nancy dances to Young At Heart.
