15 March 44 BC: Ides of March
Sammy Davis, Jr. performing an Ides of March song
AoSHQ: Morning Report 03.15.24
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Sunday, September 20, 2020
Thursday, December 10, 2015
Kim Novak, Rita Hayworth, and Frank Sinatra: Man With The Golden Arm and Pal Joey
Kim Novak was Frank Sinatra's costar in the films Man With The Golden Arm (1955) and Pal Joey (1957).
Mark Steyn has Judy Garland and Sinatra with Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas. And as Mark notes: Bob Belvedere has grabbed a mip-map-mop and a brim-bram-broom and is clim-clam-cleaning the rim-ram-room. Meanwhile, the Pundette is counting down her own Sinatra Hot 100: Go savor them all as she trembles on the brink of her Top Three.
Don’t forget to also keep checking out
Pundette’s Sinatra 100 countdown,
Ms Evi’s Sinatra Celebration,
Dispatches from the Camp of the Saints Sinatra,
& Mark Steyn’s Sinatra Songs Of The Century.
It’s a swingin’ world.
EBL: Judy Garland and Johnny Mercer did love trains and here is Judy singing Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Rule 5 and FMJRA
Frank, Rita Hayworth, and Kim Novak in Pal Joey
Sinatra's Witchcraft was released to coincide with the movie Pal Joey
Frank and Kim in Man With The Golden Arm
Rita, Frank, and Kim in Pal Joey
Happy Birthday: Lauren Bacall, Frank Sinatra, and Kim Novak
Mark has The Lady Is A Tramp as his Song of the Century #91.
Mark Steyn has Judy Garland and Sinatra with Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas. And as Mark notes: Bob Belvedere has grabbed a mip-map-mop and a brim-bram-broom and is clim-clam-cleaning the rim-ram-room. Meanwhile, the Pundette is counting down her own Sinatra Hot 100: Go savor them all as she trembles on the brink of her Top Three.
Don’t forget to also keep checking out
Pundette’s Sinatra 100 countdown,
Ms Evi’s Sinatra Celebration,
Dispatches from the Camp of the Saints Sinatra,
& Mark Steyn’s Sinatra Songs Of The Century.
It’s a swingin’ world.
EBL: Judy Garland and Johnny Mercer did love trains and here is Judy singing Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Kim Novak with Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr.
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Sammy Davis Junior and Frank Sinatra: 12 Days of Sinatra
As part of the Sinatra 100th Year, it is only fitting to remember his friend and brother Sammy Davis Junior (today is also Sammy's birthday). You can see why Sinatra described him as a force.
Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra at the Sands 1960
Pundette has Jerome Kern's The Way You Look Tonight at #5 on her list
Bob Belvedere has Cole Porter's I've Got You Under My Skin at his #3 Sinatra song
Mark Steyn has Cole Porter's You'd Be So Easy To Love at #94
Mark is at #95 with Mack The Knife. Pundette #5 is The Summer Wind. Bob's top Sinatra Album is Songs for Swingin' Lovers and the curious case of Bim Bam Baby
Don’t forget to also keep checking out
Ms Evi’s Sinatra Celebration,
Dispatches from the Camp of the Saints Sinatra,
& Mark Steyn’s Sinatra Songs Of The Century.
It’s a swingin’ world.
EBL: Second Night of Hanukkah: Sammy Davis Jr.
Monday, December 7, 2015
Monday, September 28, 2015
Frank Sinatra: I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' with Sammy Davis Jr. and Chita Rivera
The 1934 opera Porgy and Bess was the George Gershwin's masterwork and personal obsession. Gershwin wrote it mostly on location in South Carolina. It was based off the book and play Porgy by DuBose Heyward. Heyward and Ira Gershwin both contributed to the lyrics and book of Porgy and Bess.
It may not be summer time right now, but Mark covered Porgy and Bess' Summertime. Mark's review She Likes A Gershwin Tune of Martha Bayles' Hole in Our Soul remains as just as relevant today. These pieces gives some excellent background on George Gershwin's work on Porgy and Bess.
Porgy and Bess: George, DuBose and Ira
It may not be summer time right now, but Mark covered Porgy and Bess' Summertime. Mark's review She Likes A Gershwin Tune of Martha Bayles' Hole in Our Soul remains as just as relevant today. These pieces gives some excellent background on George Gershwin's work on Porgy and Bess.
Sammy Davis Jr. does a great job with his take of the song from 1957 album Boy Meets Girl. This album was arranged by Buddy Bergman (who was Jule Styne's nephew).
Pope Francis and Chita Rivera
Not the best vocals on this one below, but Chita Rivera does a sizzling dance rendition on the Judy Garland Show, and for the time period the camera work is especially good (this was probably 1964):
Pundette is at #27 with the flawed masterpiece Only The Lonely, #28 with It Had To Be You. and at #29 You Make Me Feel So Young.
Bob completed his top 100 Sinatra songs and his top selections are top notch. Bob is not stopping, listing the top 10 Sinatra albums up through Frank's birthday, starting with this one at #10.
Fitting for all the lunar talk this weekend, Mark has Moonlight In Vermont (a wonderfully lovely song which Pundette, Bob, and myself all had too). Mark also has It's All Right With Me and Autumn Leaves (Mark does a wonderful job explaining and contrasting Mercer's lyrics to the original French version). Mark also talks about Mohammed and the Movies (wow). That is a must read (you will never look at Halloween the same way again) and After the Balls.
I had the jazz standard Indian Summer with bonus Michele Carey. Given Mark's post a Cole Porter Indian Summer classic It's All Right With Me I posted the Can Can film clip of that performance along with the lovely Juliet Prowse. I added Sinatra and Day singing a terrific version of Take Me Out To The Ball Game in remembrance of Yogi Berra's passing. And I think I collected links to most of the autumn themed Sinatra songs I previously posted in recognition of the autumn equinox. I also had Frank and the Kessler Twins for Oktoberfest. And the bittersweet The Shadow of Your Smile.
Don’t forget to also keep checking out
Pundette’s Sinatra 100 countdown,
Ms Evi’s Sinatra Celebration,
Dispatches from the Camp of the Saints Sinatra, &
Mark Steyn’s Sinatra Songs Of The Century.
It’s a swingin’ world.
Rule 5 and FMJRA
Pundette’s Sinatra 100 countdown,
Ms Evi’s Sinatra Celebration,
Dispatches from the Camp of the Saints Sinatra, &
Mark Steyn’s Sinatra Songs Of The Century.
It’s a swingin’ world.
Rule 5 and FMJRA
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Frank Sinatra 100 Celebration: Robin and the Seven Hoods and Mr. Booze
Definitely not the best Sinatra movie out there, but with Mark going with the Coffee Song this week* and Pundette Drinking Again (well at least with this Mercer song selection last week), this ensemble number with Crosby, Martin, Davis, and Sinatra seems appropriate:
There are some great Cahn-Van Heusen songs in this score, including My Kind of Town (which I suspect different versions of which we may be hearing on Mark, Bob, and Pundette's lists in the near future).
Here is a place to sample a bit of it.
Sinatra kicked Peter Lawford off this movie for the slight of Kennedy staying with Bing Crosby in Palm Springs (Sinatra did not think Lawford did enough to intervene for him)...but then Bing Crosby was cast in Lawford's place. Kennedy also got the news of Kennedy's murder while on this set of this film.
Mark Steyn for Father's Day Mark has this especially appropriate pick (and also has the Coffee Song noted above)
Bob has It Had To Be You and A Foggy Day in London Town (and others including Witchcraft)
I had Frank's version of Tony Hatch's Call Me (I agree with Pundette on her take on that song--great song but not one of Frank's best; Nancy's cover seems to fit that song better than her dad's), Songs Sinatra Did Not Record, I belatedly remembered Dean Martin's birthday earlier this month, and also had this Sinatra/Hoagy Carmichael heartbreaker (which is also Mark's song last week)
Don’t forget to also keep checking out
It’s a swingin’ world.
Frank seems to be enjoying himself here
Thursday, December 25, 2014
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Sammy Davis Jr. I Dreamed A Dream
This may have been his last public performance. He was found to have throat cancer shortly after this.
Monday, May 16, 2011
Frank Sinatra: Begin the Beguine, with bonus Sammy and Ella too
Begin the Beguine is one of Cole Porter's best. Frank Sinatra was a Cole Porter fan going back to his earliest days as a singer. Here are a couple of different versions of Begin the Beguine by Sinatra.
Begin The Beguine - Frank Sinatra, Johnny Mathis, Mantovani & Vic Damone! from Jack Hampton
on Vimeo.
Michael Feinstein on Cole Porter
I like this version by Ella:
And here is Ella Fitzgerald's Cole Porter Songbook version:
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