This is a good video (albeit a bit too talky) to post in the wee hours.   Mark Steyn On Line: In The Wee Small Hours Song Fa...

For the 12 Days of Sinatra, I did a post on Frank Sinatra homes . Here is one of Frank Sinatra's bars that deserves special mention b...

With Sinatra singing Rodgers and Hammerstein 's Oklahoma! why not some South Pacific ?  It's in 1963 with a Nelson Riddle ...

Thanksgiving traditionally does not inspire a lot of songs, but beginning lyrics to Anything Goes  reference Plymouth Rock. Times ...

Given tomorrow is the birthday of the Marine Corps , here is Frank Sinatra performing You Make Me Feel So Young with the President's...

Given Frank's mom's side of the family was from Genoa , it seems appropriate to recognize Columbus Day  (above is the Columbus...

While not one of the more popular Frank Sinatra standards, it is still  a great song by Imogen Carpenter and Lenny Adelson , arrange...

The 1934 opera  Porgy and Bess was the George Gershwin 's masterwork and personal obsession. Gershwin wrote it mostly on location in...

I posted September of My Years and September Song , but Al Dubin and Henry Warren's September in the Rain is worth a bit mo...

A Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn song from 1945 (from a play that never made it to Broadway) that Sinatra made popular in 1958 on the Onl...

With the Perseids meteor event  the other day (an August summer astronomy tradition) let's go with this Frank Perkins and Mitc...

Fly Me To The Moon Beyond some of the more obvious ones like Blue Moon , Moonlight in Vermont  ( Bob had that one at #76 ), a...