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Special
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Network |
Airdate |
Cast |
| 001 |
NBC |
11/24/1965
Wed
9:00 pm
60 min |
"A Man and his Music"
Musical Directors: Nelson Riddle, Gordon Jenkins;
Music Coordinators: Sonny Burke, Bill Miller; Producer-Director: Dwight Hemion;
Writers: Frank Peppiatt, John Aylesworth and Sheldon Keller
Note: Accompanied
by Nelson Riddle, Frank sings "I've Got You Under My Skin," "Without
A Song," "Don't Worry 'Bout Me," "I Get A Kick Out Of You,"
"Nancy," "My Kind Of Town," "Come Fly With Me,"
"The Lady Is A Tramp," "I've Got The World On A String," "Witchcraft,"
"You Make Me Feel So Young," and "Angel Eyes"/"Put Your
Dreams Away." He also does a set with Gordon Jenkins consisting of "It
Was A Very Good Year," "Young At Heart," "The Girl Next Door,"
"Last Night When We Were Young," and "This Is All I Ask."
This TV special was something of a comeback for Sinatra, being his first in five
years, winning two Emmys (Dwight Hemion for production and Lon Stucky for lighting)
and a Peabody Award. Taped November 15-17, 1965.
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| 002 |
CBS |
12/7/1966
Wed
9:00 pm
60 min |
"A Man and his Music, Part II"
Guest: Nancy Sinatra
Musical
Directors: Nelson Riddle, Gordon Jenkins; Music Coordinators: Sonny Burke, Bill
Miller, Irving Weiss; Producer-Director: Dwight Hemion; Writer: Sheldon Keller,
Glenn Wheaton; Announcer: Ed McMahon
Note: Frank sings "Fly Me to the
Moon," "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World," "Moonlight
in Vermont," "You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You," "Luck
Be a Lady," "That's Life," "Granada," "My Kind of
Town," "Angel Eyes"/"Put Your Dreams Away," and a medley
of "Just One of Those Things," "My Heart Stood Still," "But
Beautiful," and "When Your Lover Has Gone." Nancy sings "Bang
Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" and "On Broadway." Together they sing
"Yes Sir That's My Baby" and a medley of "Downtown" and "These
Boots Were Made for Walkin'." This show won an Emmy for audio engineering
(Bill Cole). Taped June 5-6, 1966 at NBC studios in Burbank, California.
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| 003 |
NBC |
11/13/1967
Mon
9:00 pm
60 min |
"A Man and his Music +Ella +Jobim"
Guests: Ella Fitzgerald, Antonio
Carlos Jobim
Musical Director: Nelson Riddle; Music Supervisors: Sonny Burke,
Jimmy Bowen, Irving Weiss, Bill Miller; Producer: Robert Scheerer; Director: Michael
Pfleghar; Writer: Sheldon Keller
Note: Frank sings "Day In Day Out,"
"Get Me To The Church On Time," "What Now My Love?," "Ol'
Man River," "All I Need Is the Girl," and "Angel Eyes"/"Put
Your Dreams Away." Ella sings "Body & Soul" and "It's Alright
With Me." Frank joins Ella for "How High The Moon," "Up Up
& Away," "Look Out for Jimmy Valentine," "Theme to Tony
Rome," "Goody Goody," "Don't Cry Joe," "Ode to Billie
Joe," and "Goin' Out of My Head." With Jobim, he sings "Quiet
Nights of Quiet Stars," "Change Partners," "I Concentrate
on You," and "The Girl from Ipanema." Together, Frank and Ella
sing "The Song is You," "They Can't Take That Away from Me,"
"Stompin' at the Savoy," "At Long Last Love" (Frank only),
"Don't Be That Way" (Ella only) and then finish with a tour-de-force
on "The Lady Is A Tramp." Taped October 1-3, 1967. Perhaps due to the
inclusion of Ella Fitzgerald, this is one of Frank's jazziest performances, and
many fans rank it as the best of his late 1960s specials.
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| 004 |
CBS |
11/25/1968
Mon
9:00 pm
60 min |
"Francis Albert Sinatra Does His Thing"
Guests: Diahann Carroll,
The 5th Dimension
Musical Director: Don Costa; Music Supervisor: Sonny Burke;
Music Coordinators: Irving Weiss, Bill Miller; Choral Director: Nancy Adams; Producers-Writers:
Saul Ilson, Ernest Chambers; Director: Clark Jones
Note: This special finds
Sinatra trying really hard to prove how hip and contemporary he is. He sings "Hello
Young Lovers," "Baubles Bangles and Beads," "Cycles,"
"Nice and Easy," "[How Little It Matters] How Little We Know,"
"Lost in the Stars," "Angel Eyes"/"Put Your Dreams Away,"
and a medley of "Glad to Be Unhappy," "Here's That Rainy Day,"
"It Never Entered My Mind," and "Gone with the Wind." Diahann
does "[It's the] Music That Makes Me Dance," "Where Am I Going,"
and with Frank, a medley of "Diane," "Deep River," "Sometimes
I Feel Like a Motherless Child," "Lonesome Road," "Nobody
Knows the Trouble I've Seen," and "Amen." The 5th Dimension sing
"It's a Great Life," "Stoned Soul Picnic," and with Frank
making it the 6th Dimension, "Sweet Blindness." Celebrated jazz bassist
Ray Brown can be seen in the orchestra. Shortly before he was to go on, Frank
was informed that his divorce from Mia Farrow had become final. Too upset to continue,
he decided to cancel the show. What finally aired on CBS was a videotape of the
dress rehearsal, recorded August 16, 1968.
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| 005 |
CBS |
11/5/1969
Wed
9:00 pm
60 min |
"Sinatra"
Musical Director: Don Costa; Music Supervisor: Sonny Burke; Music Coordinators:
Irving Weiss, Bill Miller; Executive Producer: Frank Sinatra; Producer: Carolyn
Raskin; Director: Tim Kiley; Writer: Sheldon Keller
Note: Bouncing back from
the previous ill-advised outing, Frank dispenses with the guest stars and proves
himself in fine form, singing "For Once in My Life," "Please Be
Kind," "My Way," "I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night,"
"You're Sensational," "All the Way," "The Tender Trap,"
"Little Green Apples," "Out Beyond the Window," "A Man
Alone," "Didn't We," "Forget to Remember," "Fly
Me to the Moon," "Street of Dreams," "Love's Been Good To
Me," "Goin' Out of My Head," and "My Kind of Town." In
between songs, Frank does a fair impression of a stand-up comic and takes a whimsical
look at his movie career. Once again bassist Ray Brown is seen in the orchestra.
Taped August 30-31, 1969.
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| 006 |
NBC |
11/18/1973
Sun
8:30 pm
60 min |
"Ol'
Blue Eyes Is Back"
Guest: Gene Kelly
Musical Directors: Gordon Jenkins,
Don Costa; Musical Coordinators: Irving Weiss, Bill Miller; Producer: Howard W.
Koch; Director: Marty Pasetta; Writer: Fred Ebb; Special Musical Material: Fred
Ebb, John Kander; Choreographer: Hugh Lambert
Note:
Frank returns to the scene after a brief retirement, singing "You Will Be
My Music," "I Get a Kick Out of You," "Street of Dreams,"
"I've Got You Under My Skin," "I've Got the World on a String,"
"Let Me Try Again," "Send in the Clowns," and a medley of
"Last Night When We Were Young," "Violets for Your Furs,"
and "Here's That Rainy Day." Following clips from their old movies,
Frank and Gene sing and dance to "We Can't Do That Anymore," interspersed
with songs from those movies. Then Frank sings "Nice and Easy" while
Gene dances. Such luminaries as Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, and Milton Berle can
be spotted in the audience. Taped September 30, 1973 at Paramount Studios.
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| 007 |
ABC |
10/13/1974
Sun
9:00 pm
60 min |
"The
Main Event"
Musical Director: Don Costa conducting Woody Herman's Thundering
Herd; Executive Producer: Jerry Weintraub; Producer: Roone Arledge; Director:
Bill Carruthers; Emcee: Howard Cosell
Note: In this one man show airing live
from Madison Square Garden, Frank sings "The Lady Is a Tramp," "I
Get a Kick Out of You," "Let Me Try Again (Laisse Moi le Temps),"
"Autumn in New York," "I've Got You Under My Skin," "Bad
Bad Leroy Brown," "Angel Eyes," "You Are the Sunshine of My
Life," "The House I Live In," "My Kind of Town," and
"My Way." Among the celebrities in the audience are Rex Harrison, Carol
Channing, Walter Cronkhite, Robert Redford, drummer Buddy Rich, New York City
Mayor John Lindsay, and TV talk show host Mike Douglas.
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| 008 |
ABC |
4/21/1977
Thu
10:00 pm
60 min |
"Sinatra
and Friends"
Guests: Tony Bennett, Natalie Cole, John Denver, Loretta
Lynn, Dean Martin, Robert Merrill, Leslie Uggams
Producer-Writers: Paul W.
Keyes, Marc London; Director: Bill Davis
Note: The entire cast opens the program
with "Where or When" and closes it with "Everybody Ought To Be
In Love." By himself, Frank sings "I’ve Got You Under My Skin,"
"Night and Day," and "Put Your Dreams Away." He duets with
Natalie Cole ("I Get a Kick Out of You"), Dean Martin and Robert Merrill
("The Oldest Established Floating Crap Game"), Loretta Lynn ("All
or Nothing At All"), Tony Bennett ("My Kind of Town"), Leslie Uggams
("The Lady Is a Tramp"), and John Denver ("September Song").
Solo numbers by the guest stars are "I’ve Got Love On My Mind" (Natalie
Cole), "If I Were a Rich Man" (Robert Merrill), "She’s Got You"
(Loretta Lynn), "One" (Tony Bennett), "I Honestly Love You"
(Leslie Uggams), and "My Sweet Lady" (John Denver). Taped April 6-7,
1977.
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| 009 |
NBC |
1/3/1980
Thu
9:00 pm
120 min |
"Sinatra:
The First 40 Years"
Guests: Paul Anka, Lucille Ball, Tony Bennett, Milton
Berle, Charlie Callas, Lillian Carter, Sammy Davis Jr., Glenn Ford, Cary Grant,
Harry James, Gene Kelly, Rich Little, Dean Martin, Robert Merrill, Don Rickles,
Frank Sinatra Jr., Nancy Sinatra, Tina Sinatra, Red Skelton, Dionne Warwick, Orson
Welles, disc jockey William B. Williams, Flip Wilson
Musical Director: Don
Costa conducting the Caesar's Palace Orchestra; Producer-Writer: Paul W. Keyes;
Director: Clark Jones
Note: A gaggle of celebrities pay tribute to the Chairman
of the Board on his 64th birthday and 40th year in show business. Songs: "My
Way" (Paul Anka), "I Wanna Be Around" (Tony Bennett), "The
Lady Is A Tramp" (Sammy Davis Jr.), "Two O'Clock Jump" (Harry James),
a medley of Sinatra classics (Robert Merrill, Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra Jr.).
To top things off, the honoree himself sings "Theme From New York, New
York," "It Was a Very Good Year," "The Best Is Yet To
Come," and "I've Got the World on a String." Taped December 12,
1979 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, this show won an Emmy for sound mixing (Bruce
Burns and Jerry Clemans).
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| 010 |
NBC |
11/22/1981
Sun
10:00 pm
60 min |
"The
Man and his Music"
Guests: Count Basie and his Orchestra
Musical
Director: Don Costa;
Musical Coordinator: Sarge Weiss,
Producer-Writer: Paul W. Keyes;
Director: Clark Jones
Note: With Don Costa and orchestra, Frank sings "Nice And Easy," "The One I Love
Belongs To Somebody Else," "I Loved Her," "At Long Last Love," "Something," "Monday
Morning Quarterback," "(We Had a) Good Thing Going," "Say Hello" and "Thanks For
The Memory." Vincent Falcone Jr. conducts the orchestra on "Theme From New
York, New York." With Basie and his band, Frank performs "Pennies From Heaven"
and "The Best Is Yet To Come." Guitarist Tony Mottola and combo accompany Frank
on "The Girl From Ipanema" and "I Get A Kick Out Of You." Taped October 28-29,
1981 at NBC Studios in Burbank, California.
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| 011 |
Showtime |
11/11/1982
Thu
8:00 pm
90 min |
"Concert
for the Americas"
Musical Director: Vincent Falcone Jr. conducting the
Buddy Rich Orchestra; Producers: George Huncher, Jerry Harrison; Director: Walter
C. Miller; Writer: Gary Belkin
Note: In what is considered one of the finest
of Sinatra's later performances, Frank sings "I've Got The World On A String,"
"I Get A Kick Out Of You," "Come Rain Or Come Shine," "When
Your Lover Has Gone," "The Lady Is A Tramp," "The House I
Live In," "Searching," "My Kind Of Town," "Something,"
"The Best Is Yet To Come," "Strangers in The Night," "All
Or Nothing At All," "The Gal That Got Away"/"It Never Entered
My Mind," "I've Got You Under My Skin," "Send In The Clowns"
(with Tony Mottola on guitar), and "I Won't Dance"/"Theme From
New York, New York." Drummer Buddy Rich (who like Frank was an alumnus
of Tommy Dorsey's early 1940s band) is featured on the "Jet Song" from
West Side Story. Taped August 20, 1982 at the Altos de Chavon Amphitheatre
in the Dominican Republic.
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| 012 |
Showtime |
5/20/1989
Sat
10:00 pm
90 min |
"Frank,
Liza and Sammy: The Ultimate Event"
Stars: Frank Sinatra, Liza Minelli,
Sammy Davis Jr.
Musical Directors: Morty Stevens, Bill LaVorgna, Frank Sinatra
Jr.
Note: Sammy
opens with "With a Song In My Heart," "Candy Man," "What
Kind of Fool Am I?," "Music of the Night," and "Bad."
Liza follows with "All That Jazz," "Sailor Boys," "Ring
Them Bells," "Mon Amour," and "Cabaret." Then Frank sings
"Where Or When," "For Once In My Life," "Mack The Knife," "One For My Baby," and
"My Way." The trio teams up for "Style," "Witchcraft," "Liza
(with a Z)," "Talk to the Animals," "All Or Nothing At All,"
"Money," "I've Got You Under My Skin," "Maybe This Time,"
"All the Way," "Birth of the Blues," "The Lady is a Tramp,"
"The World Goes Round," and "Theme From New York, New York."
Taped November 30 to December 4, 1988 at the Fox Theater in Detroit. |
| 013 |
CBS |
12/16/1990
Sun
9:00 pm
120 min |
"Sinatra
75: The Best Is Yet To Come"
Guests: Tony Bennett, Rosemay Clooney, Harry
Connick Jr., Tony Danza, Ella Fitzgerald, Eydie Gorme, Quincy Jones, Gene Kelly,
Steve Lawrence, Sophia Loren, Shirley MacLaine, Roger Moore, Paul Newman, Tom
Selleck, Jo Stafford, Barbra Streisand, Robert Wagner, and many others
Musical
Directors: Frank Sinatra Jr., Jack Feierman, Henry Mancini; Executive Producers:
George Schlatter, Tina Sinatra; Producers: Donn Hoyer, Gary Necessary, George
Schlatter; Director: Jeff Margolis; Writers: Buz Kohan, George Schlatter
Note:
This special combines biography/profile, archival footage, reminiscences by Sinatra
(at his home in Rancho Mirage, California), remarks by others, an awards ceremony
sponsored by the Society of Singers at the International Ballroom of the Beverly
Hilton taped December 3, 1990, and concert footage from the Frank Sinatra Diamond
Jubilee Tour performed December 12 at Meadowlands, New Jersey. At the Meadowlands
concert, Frank sings "The Best Is Yet To Come," "The Summer Wind,"
"My Way," "For Once In My Life," "Theme From New York,
New York" (with Liza Minnelli), "Where or When," and "When
You're Smiling"/"Young at Heart"/"Zing! When the Strings of
My Heart" (with Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme). At the Society of Singers
Event, he and Ella Fitzgerald rip it up on "The Lady Is a Tramp." |
| 014 |
CBS |
11/25/1994
Fri
10:00 pm
60 min |
"Sinatra
Duets"
Guests: Charles Aznavour, Anita Baker, Tony Bennett, Lena Horne,
Jon Secada
Note: A companion to the albums "Duets" and "Duets
II," this special features Sinatra teaming up with other famous singers,
as well as archival footage of him with Perry Como, Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald,
and Peggy Lee. |
| 015 |
ABC |
12/14/1995
Thu
9:00 pm
120 min |
"Sinatra:
80 Years My Way"
Guests: Bruce Springsteen, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Natalie
Cole, Roseanne, Ray Charles, Dennis Franz, Tommy Lasorda, Salt-N-Pepa, Hootie
and the Blowfish, Robert Wagner, Patti LaBelle, Bono, Tony Danza, Angela Lansbury,
the Moulin Rouge Dancers, Tom Dreesen, Little Richard, Tom Selleck, Luis Miguel,
Paul Reiser, Danny Aiello, Chazz Palminteri, Tony Bennett, Gregory Peck, Paula
Abdul, Don Rickles, Steve Lawrence, Eydie Gorme, Vic Damone, Norm Crosby, Bob
Dylan, Seal
Producer:
George Schlatter
Note: Paula Abdul dances to "Luck Be a Lady." Other
numbers include "Angel Eyes" (Bruce Springsteen), "Restless Farewell"
(Bob Dylan), "Ol' Man River" (Ray Charles), "Whatta Man" (Salt-N-Pepa),
"They Can't Take That Away From Me" (Natalie Cole), "The Lady Is
a Tramp" (Hootie and the Blowfish), "A Foggy Day" (Tony Bennett),
"I've Got You Under My Skin" (Seal), "The House I Live In"
(Patti LaBelle), and a medley of Frank's songs (Steve Lawrence, Eydie Gorme, and
Vic Damone). In the finale, Frank joins the cast for the "Theme From New
York, New York." This charity special, a tribute to Frank airing two
days after his birthday, was the brainchild of Sinatra's wife Barbara. The entertainer's
children Nancy, Tina, and Frank Jr. were not involved. The show won two Emmys
- one for musical direction (Glen Roven) and one for technical direction (Ted
Ashton, David Eastwood, John B. Field, Tom Geren, Larry Heider, David Levisohn,
Bill Philbin, David Plakos, Hector Ramirez, Ron Sheldon, Thomas G. Tcimpidis,
Kris Wilson, Keith Winikoff). Taped November 19, 1995 at the Shrine Auditorium
in Los Angeles. |
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