Tuesday, June 14, 2011

To Be Perfectly Frank ....

From 1965, it's Frank, Dean, Sammy (and Johnny!):



Frank and Dean on TV, particularly funny kibitzing around on "I Get A Kick Out of You," starting around 4:10:



Sinatra, in 1968 TV special, singing (beautifully) "All The Way."



Celine (yuck) Dionne sings "duet" with a cinematic Sinatra on "All The Way." I have to admit it is really well done.



Sinatra sings "Witchcraft," in 1965 TV special, "A Man and His Music."



Sinatra does "I've Got the World on a String" on '65 TV special, "A Man and His Music."



Sinatra sings "Nevertheless I'm in Love With You," on his TV show, around 1950.



"This Love Of Mine," live on TV, sometime in the '50s:



"Fly Me To the Moon," from the TV special "A Man and His Music, Part II":


"Moonlight in Vermont," the terrific rendition from the 1966 TV special (the arranger is Billy May, not Nelson Riddle, as the text superimposed over the film says at the outset).



An exciting version of "Luck Be A Lady," from the '66 TV special:


"I've Got You Under My Skin," at Royal Festival Hall, around 1970


Sinatra in mesmerizing TV performance of "Old Man River," highlighted by the long note holds on "jaaaaailllll," around 1966.



"I Get Along Without You Very Well," the moving rendition from '71 Royal Festival Concert. The strings start the squeamish feeling for me from the get-go.



"Pennies from Heaven," a muscular treatment from the '71 Festival Hall outing, notable particularly for its thrice-repeated for-you-and line at the ending and Sinatra's pronunciation of "thun-dah!"



"You Make Me Feel So Young," kicking off the '71 Festival Hall concert. Again, notable for its ending.



Sinatra's "I've Got You Under My Skin" kicks off the 1965 "A Man and His Music" special.



"Without a Song," from "A Man and His Music" TV special, 1965.



"Don't Worry About Me," from "A Man and His Music," the '65 TV feature:



"I Get A Kick out of You," from "A Man and His Music," with a new, Nelson Riddle-created arrangement.



"Last Night When We Were Young," from "A Man and His Music."



"In the Still of the Night," from 1961, in Sydney, Australia, including false start.



"Night and Day," the uptempo version, performed in 1961 in Sydney:



A swingin' "I'll Be Seeing You," from '61 Sydney concert:



"I Concentrate on You," from live Sydney show, 1961:



"The Second Time Around," from Sydney performance, '61:



A very lively "Come Fly with Me," from his late '50s TV show:



A suave "I Get A Kick out of You," by a hat-wearing Sinatra, in original chart, from a TV appearance:



A feverishly fast "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World," from the TV special:


Sinatra's swinging "Granada," performed in a TV special:


Sinatra kicks off a TV special, "A Man and His Music + Ella +Jobim," with "Day In, Day Out":


Sinatra, in a moody "Angel Eyes," live from the late '50s:


Sinatra's emotional reading of Jacques Brel's "I'm Not Afraid," at this link:
http://youtu.be/fhPus6kGMfo

Sinatra sings "Star!"



Now here's Sinatra performing "Star" on TV at Academy Awards ceremony in the early or mid-60s (note the shots of the nervous stars to whom he is singing):


Sinatra performs "My Way," on TV in the late '60s:



Sinatra swings very well, despite a bit of hoarseness, on this appealingly slow, late '60s rendition of "Please Be Kind":


Sinatra's Reprise recording of "We'll Meet Again":


Sinatra sings "Everybody Has the Right to Be Wrong":


Sinatra is in excellent voice on this mostly serviceable '63 waxing of "Some Enchanted Evening":

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