(of many) I was sitting in a chair in the lounge at Soundworks, NY waiting for Roger to finish when Stevie walked in and stood over me in a huge fur with braids flowing, looking every inch like the lion of sound that he is. (The same thing happened with Frank Sinatra, only I ...
The night before he died grandmother was walking out of his room and he said to her “I love you Madgie baby”. The next morning he received a phone call at work that grandfather had passed during the night. Throughout his short battle 11 cancer, he realized how much two people can ...
he recounts the 1990 opening of Trump’s Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, where Sinatra had planned to perform. According to Weisman, he had a deal in place with the new venue’s operator Mark Grossinger Etess, who died in a helicopter crash before they could cross th...
Sometimes, you I need to be alone with Frank, a little wine and a few cigarettes…. I’m thinking about the women in my life and in my family in a totally different context. My Mother, my feisty, complicated difficult Mother died last week. I’ve been forced to deal with my very ...
“Luck is only important insofar as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment.”– Frank Sinatra. In a way, my response was similar to that of Ol’ Blue Eyes’. Creativity is difficult to force. It’s often serendipitous. But you need to place yourself in an environment ...
which also died shortly after birth,'When We Get There'has taken on a life of its own across the ocean. Kiki Dee for one included her own gooey version of it that same year on her debut LP. And then by the seventies, northern soul deejays - who definitely know a good tune when the...
During a musical career that spanned six decades,Fitzgerald (56)___more than 200albums.She won 13Grammy Awards,the last of which she received in 1990.She worked with some of the greatest American singers of the twentieth century,including Frank Sinatra,Louis Armstrong,Count Basie,and Dizzy ...
andRevolverlosing back-to-back years to Frank Sinatra'sSeptember of My YearsandA Man and His Music, respectively. The Chairman of the Board had won Album of the Year three times in the Grammys' first nine years, leading a pack of recipients that also included Henry Mancini, Judy Garland, ...
I adore Frank Sinatra. Life is usually on the up-and-up with Frank and I lose myself in his crooning, ever hopeful, ballads. Sometimes, I listen to CLASSIC REWIND, to capture my youth, and sometimes I listen to what I imagine the younger generations are enjoying, although they would pr...