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Frank Sinatra defined American music for generations, not only in performance and technique, but in style. His life influences entire generations of both admirers and detractors to a degree than even years after his passing, his name continues to be invoked in press around the globe. This page gathers mentions of Frank Sinatra from news sources from all over the world - creating a fascinating tribute to The Chairman Of The Board. Also check here for updates to SinatraGuide.com.

March 10, 2010

Michael Buble isn't your standard standards singer

Tampa Tribune
"There are songs like 'My Way,' that's Frank (Sinatra)'s song," Buble says. "And to be honest, I don't think I'd lived even close to enough to sing a song ...

Italian deli/restaurant proves to be no ordinary 'Joe'

North Brunswick Sentinel
... capers, fresh tomatoes and basil in a light marinara sauce), tilapia or shrimp francese (a lemon white wine sauce), and the “Frank Sinatra” (shrimp, ...

Atlantic City Historical Museum reopens after storm damage repairs

Shore News Today
The Steel Pier with all the shows, the diving horse, Miss America, rolling chairs, Frank Sinatra, Big Bands on the Million Dollar Pier helped to make ...

Push for new Alabama state song postponed 1 year

Gadsden Times
The new state song would be "Stars Fell on Alabama," a 1934 jazz standard that has been recorded by more than 100 people ranging from Frank Sinatra to Jimmy ...

SXSW 2010: The Chapman Family

Spinner
Frank Sinatra, he's pretty cool, and '70s Elvis. I don't like the stuff that everyone else thinks is really good. I like it when he's fat and in his nudey ...

A Travel Blog for the Hipster Set?

New York Times (blog)
In Larry Fagin's Frank Sinatra-themed memoir piece, Old Blue Eyes croons in the background. Stories by Heidi Julavits and Nick Flynn are slated for the next ...

Viewpoint: Kalamazoo downtown arena will benefit everyone in Kalamazoo County

MLive.com (blog) 
I recall attending a fabulous concert there by Frank Sinatra with full orchestra. I actually performed there with the late, great John Denver. ...

Oscar Winners On The Hot 100

Billboard
19, "Never on Sunday," Don Costa and His Orchestra and Chorus 1959, No. 30, "High Hopes," Frank Sinatra "and a Bunch of Kids"

More Than A Fight

Newsradio 620
Even someone with Frank Sinatra's juice couldn't land a ringside spot--that is, until he agreed to be a Life magazine photographer for a night. ...

March 9, 2010

UPDATE:  This week on Open Mic: This is life?

UPDATE:  This week's TV Guide has been updated.


SXSW 2010: Kat Edmonson

Spinner
When I first got into jazz, I was listening to Tony Bennett and Frank Sinatra, but I came to love this oldie station out of Houston and discovered Sam Cooke ...

Debbie Reynolds: 'I happened to marry idiots...I have very bad taste in men'

Yorkshire Post
... opposite most of Tinseltown's best leading men, including Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart, Jimmy Cagney, James Stewart and Frank Sinatra. ...

Broadway sales up slightly

Variety 
Cume was helped upward by the addition to the lineup of "Come Fly Away" ($502367 for seven perfs), the new Twyla Tharp dance-ical set to Frank Sinatra music ...

Scope Comes on Strong

ARTINFO 
But Symbolic Collection's lure seemed to be working — by Sunday afternoon they had sold a rigorously cubist grayscale cityscape by the singer Frank Sinatra ...

The Judy Garland Show - Ethel Merman and More are Featured in Infinity's ...

TVShowsOnDVD.com
... who had "the best pipes in the business" according to Frank Sinatra; Tony Award-winning actress-singer-dancer Chita Rivera, Broadway's original Anita in ...

Locals get to meet some homegrown authors

Shore News Today
“Every book I read about Atlantic City had the diving horse, Frank Sinatra and WC Fields,” Liebowitz said. “It was the greatest place in the entire world, ...

Sir Elton Enlists Leon Russell, T-Bone, Neil Young

RTT News
... gospel and even a Sinatra-like weepy similar to something torn from the grooves of In the Wee Small Hours [1955 Frank Sinatra album]. ...

Why we need more conservative madrassas

Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
Here's an old 1978 clip of Reagan, at the time, former governor of California, at a Dean Martin roast spoofing Frank Sinatra as “president”…what irony! ...

Stage, screen legend to lead Orchestra in weekend concerts

Tampa Tribune
"I got a phone call from the secretary for Frank Sinatra," Hamlisch recalled. "She tells me he wants to speak to me. I'm in shock. ...

Sondheim Daily, Shakespeare Twitterized, Hair Loss, Hand Loss. The Week in New ...

The Faster Times
Frank Sinatra told Twyla Tharp “You give me class” & he always wanted to be a dancer. Come Fly Away opens March 25. The producer of “The Miracle Worker,” ...

March 8, 2010

UPDATE:  This week on SinatraVision: Sunday, Monday, and Always...

Manny Pacquiao assault turns Joshua Clottey into ground chuck

Examiner.com
The smooth Frank Sinatra's vocal inflections were usually superlatively consistent but, once in a while, even Mr. S, hit a clunker, a false musical note. ...

Oscar Quote of the Day

Awards Daily (blog)
Reminiscent of the scene in The Oscar, where Stephen Boyd mistakenly heads toward the stage when Frank Sinatra's name is called, a friend of mine said he ...

Interview: Green Zone star Jason Isaacs — "There I was jumping out of a ...

Artistdirect.com
I listen to Frank Sinatra all the time! I listen to Bob Marley and Motown too. The day they started shooting Paul called me. He said, "Hey man, ...

Breaking Free at the Seams

New York Times
... for this collection was Ava Gardner, who back in the 1950s shopped at Loewe while staying in Madrid to recover from her relationship with Frank Sinatra. ...

Ludacris Slated To Interview Quincy Jones At ASCAP "I Create Music" Expo In April

Music Indistry News Network 
... producer, arranger and conductor and his work with such entertainment giants as Count Basie, Miles Davis, Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Ray Charles, ...

Martin Scorsese interview for Shutter Island

Telegraph.co.uk
... a film about the life of Frank Sinatra; and an adaptation of Shusaku Endo's novel Silence, which tells the story of a 17th century Portuguese priest who ...

GWYNETH PALTROW TO PLAY DIETRICH

Bosh
She was also rumoured have enjoyed a string of love affairs with stars including Frank Sinatra, Yul Brynner and John Wayne. Scriptwriter Andrew Davies has ...

Twyla Tharp: 'My Way' is an Encapsulation of Time'

Broadway World 
Tharp had previously delved into the musical world of Frank Sinatra with her piece 'Nine Sinatra Songs', an acclaimed work for fourteen dancers which had ...

Producer promises to devote '100 per cent' to Idol

Ottawa Citizen 
Frank Sinatra with electric guitars. I would like to feel I can present the public with 24 contestants that they can really help go on this journey. ...

Hollywood's Jeanne Carmen: Queen of the B-Movies

Melodika.net (press release)
... including Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, Clark Gable, President John F. Kennedy, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Elvis Presley, Howard Hughes, ...

Many treats in store for upcoming WCO season

Wisconsin State Journal
The WCO's Concerts on the Square will include works by Mozart, Strauss waltzes, tunes Frank Sinatra made famous, the 1812 Overture, and a program of Russian ...

The Founding Fathers

Crain's New York Business
Mr. Shor started out as a speakeasy doorman, and his tough reputation at his eponymous restaurant appealed to customers like Frank Sinatra and Jackie ...

Daughter of legendary crooner Dean Martin on life with Rat Pack star

Scottish Daily Record
THE Beverly Hills party was in full swing - John Wayne propped up the bar, while Steve McQueen charmed the ladies and Frank Sinatra entertained with a song ...

Hearing the call: Sinatra celebrity invitational first class at new home

The Desert Sun
The 22nd Frank Sinatra Starkey Hearing Foundation Celebrity Invitational benefiting the Barbara Sinatra Children's Center drew nearly 40 celebrities, ...

'Letterman' show a start for 'Bula man's dream job

California Chronicle 
Liza Minnelli and Frank Sinatra made the lyrics "If you can make it here (New York), you can make it anywhere," famous in the song "New York, New York," and ...

Viva Tuna

Tulsa World 
... fame rests on getting in the way of a bullet fired by Frank Sinatra, and Ana Conda, the manager of the hotel at which most of the denizens of Tuna stay. ...

Husted: Off the beaten mountain paths but dear to fans of dearly departed

Denver Post
Snowmass' Frank Sinatra shrine is one of the memorials that David Wood photographed. (David Wood ) Skiers who go off the beaten slopes in ...

Put a Spring in your step

News of the World
Palm Springs was once the playground of Frank Sinatra and his Rat Pack. It's where Greta Garbo wanted to be alone and where Spencer Tracey wooed Katharine ...

'Basterds' carries on proud Oscar history for WWII

Times Record News
Other acting winners for World War II-themed films include William Holden for 1953's "Stalag 17," Frank Sinatra and Donna Reed for "From Here to Eternity," ...

'Basterds' carries on proud Oscar history

Arab Times
Other acting winners for World War II-themed films include William Holden for 1953's “Stalag 17,” Frank Sinatra and Donna Reed for “From Here to Eternity,” ...

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