Frank Sinatra

On the return of peace, changing fashions led to the closure of black vaudeville theatres and the break-up of big bands, and Frank Sinatra suggested they go to England with the show Hellzapoppin'. While crossing the Atlantic in the...

In this article: Windsor Castle, New York, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Hellzapoppin', and Harlem

...a successful V8 street race in Sydney would have seemed easy to a man who once pulled off the supposedly impossible and enticed Frank Sinatra back to Australia. Before ruthlessly revolutionising the product now known as V8 Supercars,...

In this article: Sydney, Telstra, God, and Cold Chisel

...taken the title almost by default. But now, like a sleeping giant roused by the sound of his name being taken in vain ("I'm the new Sinatra/ Since I made it here/ I can make it anywhere"), the Chairman of the Board has risen from the grave,...

In this article: New York, Tommy Dorsey, Skitch Henderson, Jay-Z, Manhattan, Radio City, Carnegie Hall, The House I Live In, and United Nations

...1940s he applied for a job as lighting designer of the Times Square Wondersign billboard, presenting an illuminated Frank Sinatra which won him the job. Came to notice in the art world in 1952 when he exhibited alongside Pollock and Rothko in...

In this article: Preston North End, Blackpool, NATO, Borneo, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Mir, and Soyuz

It seems odd in 2009, more than ten years after Frank Sinatra's death, to be finding new Christmas compilations featuring old recordings, somehow rearranged to represent a take on a Sinatra Christmas different than the ones that have come...

In this article: Christmas songs, The Little Drummer Boy, White Christmas, The Christmas Song, Santa Claus Is Coming to Town, Rat Pack, Mel Torme, and Rosemary Clooney

...AM, November 24, 2009 The fall gala for Jazz at Lincoln Center the other night raised more than $2 million -- and the spirit of Frank Sinatra, to whom the event was a salute. Diahann Carroll, who sang in a stunning black-and-white Bob...

In this article: Diahann Carroll, Wynton Marsalis, Bob Mackie, Dina Merrill, Ted Hartley, and Count Basie

...but Jones Snr had what his son perceived to be an old fashioned style - unlike new kid on the block Frank Sinatra. "All would-be singers were listening to Sinatra because he had a different approach, was more conversational in his delivery...

In this article: Jack Jones, Rob Brydon, Bruce Forsyth, Aberdare, Flash Player, Trademark, JavaScript, and The Impossible Dream

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In this article: My Way, Mrs Robinson, Hallelujah, I Love Her So, Don Costa, and Bono

...site. To read this article in full you must be registered with the site. Published Date: 10 November 2009 Eight classic Sinatra albums from his Reprise label are being reissued tomorrow, including this special edition (with notes by...

In this article: My Way, Mrs Robinson, Hallelujah, I Love Her So, Don Costa, and Bono

For those who believed that every note Frank Sinatra ever sang already has been released, reissued and repackaged, brace yourselves: There's new material to come. The man recorded and performed so prolifically for nearly six decades that...

In this article: Carnegie Hall, New York, DVD, New York, Come Rain or Come Shine, Come Fly with Me, Bad, Bad Leroy Brown, and My Heart Stood Still