FRIDAYS ARE FOR FRANK: “From Promise to Promise” (Frank Sinatra & Rod McKuen)
I sometimes wonder why people make promises they never intend to keep. Not in big things, like love or elections, but in the things that…
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FRIDAYS ARE FOR FRANK: “River Stay ‘Way From My Door” (Flash Flood Edition)
Frank Sinatra liked to yell at things. In this track here, for example, he's yelling at a river... "You keep goin' your way - I'll…
FRIDAYS ARE FOR FRANK: “I Could Write A Book” (feat. Kim Novak) — Hoboken Literary Weekend @ Little City Books
(ABOVE: image via LIFE Magazine) "If they ask me, I could write a book..." More than a few books have been written about Frank Sinatra…
FRIDAYS ARE FOR FRANK: “High Hopes” (March Madness Edition)
How's your bracket doing? We're a day into the tournament, and a lot of hopes have already been dashed. "High Hopes" was written by Jimmy…
FRIDAYS ARE FOR FRANK: “Someone To Watch Over Me” — Live @ Caesar’s Palace (Ides of March Edition)
Today is March 15—the Ides of March, when we could all use someone to watch over us. Caesar certainly could have used someone watching his…
FRIDAYS ARE FOR FRANK: “It Might As Well Be Spring”
"I'm as restless as a willow in a windstorm I'm as jumpy as a puppet on a string I'd say that I had spring fever…
FRIDAYS ARE FOR FRANK: “Come Blow Your Horn”
"Make like a Mister Milquetoast and you'll get shut out, Make like a Mister Meek and you'll get cut out, Make like a little lamb,…
FRIDAYS ARE FOR FRANK: “Wives and Lovers” (feat. Count Basie)
Frank Sinatra can be romantic... His 1954 album Songs for Young Lovers—his first album for Capitol Records, once again joining forces with maestro Nelson Riddle…
FRIDAYS ARE FOR FRANK: “Me & My Shadow” (feat. Sammy Davis, Jr.)
We say this a lot about Frank Sinatra—he was a complicated guy. His Hoboken upbringing gave him a bit of an edge, which tended to…
FRIDAYS ARE FOR FRANK: “Monday Morning Quarterback” (Super Bowl Edition)
(ABOVE: Howard Cosell, Frank Sinatra & ABC Sports President Roone Arledge) "But it's so easy looking at the game the morning after Adding up the…
