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Sinatra Matters

by Michael Fenenbock

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  • 66 The Last Dance

    October 21, 2024 · 5 min

    All good things come to an end and this is “The Last Dance” for my Sinatra Matters podcast. But I’m beginning a new adventure on Substack – “Sinatra Matters and More.” I’ll be writing, about Frank Sinatra and offering my personal…

  • 65 Autumn in New York

    September 21, 2024 · 14 min

    Right now it’s Autumn in New York, and so from the 1958 album Come Fly With Me, here is Frank Sinatra’s rendition of the Vernon Duke classic.  Arranged and conducted by Billy May.  Credits:Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn…

  • 64 How Insensitive

    August 30, 2024 · 15 min

    Sinatra and Jobim.  Here is Sinatra’s delivery of Jobim’s beautiful and moving How Insensitive.  From the 1967 album Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim, with Norman Gimbel’s English lyrics.  Arranged and conducted by Claus…

  • 63 Night and Day

    August 13, 2024 · 14 min

    Frank Sinatra’s wonderful ballad rendition of Cole Porter’s Night and Day.  From the 1962 album Sinatra and Strings. Arranged and conducted by Don Costa. Credits: Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss Edited by Katie…

  • 60 Brazil

    June 14, 2024 · 15 min

    Sinatra and Billy May swing the Latin classic Brazil.  From the 1958 album, Come Fly With Me, here is Ary Barroso’s hugely popular Samba Brazil . . . with English lyrics by Bob Russell. Credits:Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn…

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  • 59 I'll Be Around

    May 28, 2024 · 15 min

    A classic lost love ballad.  From the 1955 album In the Wee Small Hours, Sinatra sings Alec Wilder’s I’ll Be Around.  Arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle. Credits: Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn SchlossEdited by Katie…

  • 58 All or Nothing at All

    May 10, 2024 · 13 min

    Raucous Big Band jazz. Sinatra swings All or Nothing at All.  From the 1966 album Strangers in the Night, here’s the Arthur Altman/Jack Lawrence standard.  Arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle. Credits: Theme music by Erik Blicker and…

  • 57 A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square

    April 19, 2024 · 18 min

    A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square.  Sinatra in London.  From the 1962 album Frank Sinatra Sings Great Songs of Great Britain, here is the Eric Maschwitz and Manning Sherwin classic. Arranged and conducted by Robert F…

  • 56 Summer Wind

    April 5, 2024 · 14 min

    Arranged and conducted by the incomparable Nelson Riddle, from the 1966 album titled Strangers in the Night, here is Sinatra and Summer Wind. Credits: Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn SchlossEdited by Katie CaliMixing and mastering…

  • 55 New York, New York

    March 19, 2024 · 16 min

    New York, New York.  Here is Frank Sinatra’s iconic classic.  From the 1980 album, Trilogy, John Kander and Fred Ebb’s Theme from New York, New York.  Arranged and conducted by Don Costa. Credits: Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn…

  • 51 Moonlight Becomes You

    January 22, 2024 · 16 min

    Frank Sinatra’s salute to Bing Crosby. From the 1965 album Moonlight Sinatra, here is Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke’s Moonlight Becomes You. Arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle. Credits:Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn…

  • 50 I'm Getting Sentimental Over You

    December 28, 2023 · 16 min

    Frank Sinatra’s tribute to Tommy Dorsey.  From his 1961 album I Remember Tommy, here is George Bassman and Ned Washington’s I'm Getting Sentimental Over You.  Arranged and conducted by Sy Oliver. Credits:Theme music by Erik Blicker and…

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About the show

Frank Sinatra. Vibrant, exciting and sublime. Frank Sinatra’s lasting musical legacy is his superlative recordings. In each episode Michael Fenenbock explores and illuminates an essential recording from Sinatra’s body of work. Nobody swings like Sinatra and nobody plumbs the depths of lost love in a song like Sinatra. He was a musical genius. The kind that only comes along once every hundred years. Sinatra matters.