Uhh, this is at least 15 years INTO his ( recording and performing) career sir.. it’s more like a couple of years after the beginning of his Capitol Years era- which is largely considered to be his mid- prime vocally. The ‘comedy’ is dated and lame and takes away from the music ,but to see him singing these great songs in great voice and his trademark confidence and charisma is just the best!
The Voice on his way back, after a very turbulent period in his unruly life. Soon he would release the flawless "In The Wee Small Hours", one of the many masterpieces he would record with Capitol Records. The rest is history.
An appropriate celebration of the inauguration of electronic color broadcasting on NBC. Some very witty material for Frank to work with. Frank was at the top of his game vocally and it shows in the confidence he projects and his willingness to take in stride the barbs that were occasionally thrown his way. Thanks so much Anthony for the upload. It's all new for many of us Sinatra admirers.
So great to find this. Great! I've never seen this. Many die-hard Sinatra don't have this. Great alternate arrangement of Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams! And great beginning of I'm Gonna Live Till I Die.
Looks like this was one of the very first broadcasts from NBC Burbank's "Color City" studios, which opened in 1955. The facility down on Sunset at Vine would be gone by 1964.
Yes, NBC's first color studio at Burbank, Studio 2, as shown in this clip, kicked off regular color broadcasts from the West Coast, on March 27, 1955, with the Entertainment 1955 spectacular. About a month after Frank's West Coast segment of Max Liebman Presents Kaleidescope broadcast on April 25, Studio 2 was employed for Producers' Showcase The Petrified Forest starring Humphrey Bogart, Henry Fonda, and Lauren Bacall on May 30. By the fall of 1955, Studio 2 was the site of almost daily color broadcasts, including Frank, Paul Newman, and Eva Marie Saint in Our Town on September 19, monthly episodes of The Milton Berle Show, and weekday afternoon productions of Matinee Theater, starting on October 31. The nearly identical Studio 4, the home of Dinah Shore and Dean Martin, opened in the fall of 1956.
First time I've seen this. To have this, in any condition, is wonderful. Not to take anything away from Nelson Riddle, whose work on both When Your Lover Has Gone and Learnin' The Blues rank among his very best, but the arrangement that Dick Reynolds wrote on the opener (adapted by Riddle) really clicks. I wish he had more of an opportunity to write for Sinatra...
This is absolutely my favorite Sinatra TV appearance. I wish some video company would find a pristine copy of it and put it out on DVD. Maybe the negative has been lost. I think 1955 was his best year, he was still making fun of himself, self-deprecating, and his voice was at peak, and he still spoke in New York-ese . Personally, I didn’t care for the direction he took with “Pal Joey” in '57(ring a ding ding), but I love this here. I feel that in '55 he was still smarting a little bit from the Ava Gardner breakup, and the vulnerability shows, the humanity, his closeness with the 'common man' still comes through, though after '57 it would fade when he climbed up on his high horse and just wanted to be Mr Bigshot. Too bad RocknRoll came along, right Mr Bigshot? And he sure hated RocknRoll. Of course he would
And how about that never-recorded partial arrangement on Night and Day! That could have turned into one of Riddle's great works. The raw materials certainly are there...
05:27 I've loved this song for years and know the lyric is "life can't mean anything" but that's not what Frank sings here. Can anyone tell what what the change is?
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Man oh man he was good. The Capital years! Thanks for posting!
Great Film !! Very nice to see Frank, Live, performing in the beginning of His carrier !
lol....beginning of his career??
another brain surgeon
Uhh, this is at least 15 years INTO his ( recording and performing) career sir.. it’s more like a couple of years after the beginning of his Capitol Years era- which is largely considered to be his mid- prime vocally. The ‘comedy’ is dated and lame and takes away from the music ,but to see him singing these great songs in great voice and his trademark confidence and charisma is just the best!
The Voice on his way back, after a very turbulent period in his unruly
life. Soon he would release the flawless "In The Wee Small Hours",
one of the many masterpieces he would record with Capitol Records.
The rest is history.
What a little gem of a time capsule. Right before the groundbreaking LP In the Wee Small Hours.
Never will we see another Sinatra original as Frank many copies but none come close not in his prime.
Thanks for posting this Anthony.Never to bee seen again even if you live to be a million years old.
How rightfully so this song fits him
An appropriate celebration of the inauguration of electronic color broadcasting on NBC. Some very witty material for Frank to work with. Frank was at the top of his game vocally and it shows in the confidence he projects and his willingness to take in stride the barbs that were occasionally thrown his way. Thanks so much Anthony for the upload. It's all new for many of us Sinatra admirers.
So great to find this. Great! I've never seen this. Many die-hard Sinatra don't have this.
Great alternate arrangement of Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams! And great beginning of I'm Gonna Live Till I Die.
Learnin' the blues,the first 78 rpm I bought of Mr.Sinatra,brilliant.
Great those songs that set a mood. Sinatra great doing slow ballads
awesome rare footage from his prime years, musically speaking imo. killer phrasing!
FRANK THE BEST VOICE, CIAO DA FRED ITALY, MILANO, BYE.
Looks like this was one of the very first broadcasts from NBC Burbank's "Color City" studios, which opened in 1955. The facility down on Sunset at Vine would be gone by 1964.
Yes, NBC's first color studio at Burbank, Studio 2, as shown in this clip, kicked off regular color broadcasts from the West Coast, on March 27, 1955, with the Entertainment 1955 spectacular. About a month after Frank's West Coast segment of Max Liebman Presents Kaleidescope broadcast on April 25, Studio 2 was employed for Producers' Showcase The Petrified Forest starring Humphrey Bogart, Henry Fonda, and Lauren Bacall on May 30. By the fall of 1955, Studio 2 was the site of almost daily color broadcasts, including Frank, Paul Newman, and Eva Marie Saint in Our Town on September 19, monthly episodes of The Milton Berle Show, and weekday afternoon productions of Matinee Theater, starting on October 31. The nearly identical Studio 4, the home of Dinah Shore and Dean Martin, opened in the fall of 1956.
That psychologist should have interviewed Dean - his wonderful warm voice and infectiously charming smile would have really made her 'dig' it!! 😍
Frank was here approaching his peak and NOBODY came near him to this day.He has the audacity to be sure of himself.
First time I've seen this. To have this, in any condition, is wonderful. Not to take anything away from Nelson Riddle, whose work on both When Your Lover Has Gone and Learnin' The Blues rank among his very best, but the arrangement that Dick Reynolds wrote on the opener (adapted by Riddle) really clicks. I wish he had more of an opportunity to write for Sinatra...
MR. Sinatra. Nobody did it better.
This is absolutely my favorite Sinatra TV appearance. I wish some video company would find a pristine copy of it and put it out on DVD. Maybe the negative has been lost. I think 1955 was his best year, he was still making fun of himself, self-deprecating, and his voice was at peak, and he still spoke in New York-ese . Personally, I didn’t care for the direction he took with “Pal Joey” in '57(ring a ding ding), but I love this here. I feel that in '55 he was still smarting a little bit from the Ava Gardner breakup, and the vulnerability shows, the humanity, his closeness with the 'common man' still comes through, though after '57 it would fade when he climbed up on his high horse and just wanted to be Mr Bigshot. Too bad RocknRoll came along, right Mr Bigshot? And he sure hated RocknRoll. Of course he would
And how about that never-recorded partial arrangement on Night and Day! That could have turned into one of Riddle's great works. The raw materials certainly are there...
Frank the god
Forty year old Frankie.
What's the name of this video collection?
Amazng. Where did you find this???
05:27 I've loved this song for years and know the lyric is "life can't mean anything" but that's not what Frank sings here. Can anyone tell what what the change is?
Where's the color version?
This is great, what is it?
40 years old...
66 years ago!