Live, from New York, the city whose landmarks are famous all over the world. The world’s center for shipping, transportation, communications, finance, fashions and above all -- entertainment. A city that pulsates always because of the millions of people who live here, work here, visit here. And in the heart of the metropolis, the great arena: Madison Square Garden, which has created and housed so many champions, and which is why tonight from the Garden the most enduring champion of them all, Frank Sinatra, comes to the entire western hemisphere live with The Main Event: Frank Sinatra in Concert! Madison Square Garden, October 13 1974. Jam-packed with twenty thousand people plus -- just people, people from all walks of life, people who are young and people who are old, here to see, hear, pay homage to a man who has bridged four generations and somehow never found a gap. Hello again everyone, I'm Howard Cosell, and I've been here so many times, and in a curious way, this event, live, with the king of entertainment, carries with it the breathless excitement and anticipation of a heavyweight championship fight. Celebrities are here in profusion, one after another. Rex Harrison! "Professor Higgins," if you will. Carol Channing -- Hello, Dolly! Walter Cronkite, "Mr. Believable." And of course, the great romantic hero -- Robert Redford. But here, coming through the same tunnel as so many champions have walked before, the great man, Frank Sinatra, who has the phrasing, who has the control, who understands the composers, who knows what losing means -- as so many have -- who made the great comeback, who now stands still, enduringly, on top of the entertainment world. Ladies and gentlemen, from here on in it's Frank Sinatra!"
Unforgettable: I was just 16 years old. Suddenly, on TV - black and white still - Sinatra, live, from Madison Square Garden. To me, which I was learning my "my second language" I was such miracle , watching The Big Boss in charge of the stage, the band and the public there...: He was the onlyone star , absolutely
To be Sinatra and have 20,000 fans waiting for you. I like those few moments in the tunnel before he comes out. And then he takes the stage like, as Cosell says, a champ. Man, that never has to get old no matter how many times you performed live elsewhere. And then he slays with Lady is a Tramp.
Watch Sinatra in the tunnel; a King ready to greet his country; MSG packed and roaring; on the way to the stage shakes hands with Willie B.Williams, faithful NY disc jockey who played Sinatra's records . Jerry Weintraub wrote Siantra told him pizza for the flight home.
Absolutely wonderful classic memories 💎 I was 11 on October 13th,1974 and with my family seeing ELVIS PRESLEY ❤️At SAHARA TAHOE 💫 I love both entertainer’s the same! Absolutely ⭐️⭐️I also got to see SINATRA on October 28th,1988 at Bally’s Reno, front row! And Iwas the very first person Frank came to after his almost 73 old ass, BROUGHT THE HOUSE DOWN with NewYork,New York ! Again, just magic moments still in my 58 year old head ❤️🙏✌️This album is FANTASTIC 💎
@jacksonfan221... I just visited this video I posted a few years ago, after a few weeks with family & friends in good times and sad. Thank you so much for taking the time to accurately transcribing Howard Cosell's introduction. Howard was accurate, an egotist, infuriating and outrageous, among other adjectives. Met him once. Of all of Howard's broadcasts, and his with Ali are the most significant, but I think this was his finest moment. I'm half Italian, lived in an Italian neighborhood in Brooklyn when NYC was in trouble, and Sinatra's songs, Cosell's words, was a turning point for us all. Thanks again.
3:07 I remember this like I watched it last week. It was on CBS I think on a Monday evening. The Drum Roll, then Howard Kosel , Then people ringside then cut to the man in back waiting with his Tux on. His guys with him. He looks at his watch counting down . I read his lips. He says “When Howard’s done” then bang out he comes. In the middle with Jilly on his right and Jerry Weintraub on his left. Then up he’s lifted on to the ring with The Woody Herman Thundering Heard starting “The Lady is a Tramp”. The music goes out over the crowd and they grove.
A bit more complicated than that because this was one show that had to go like clockwork, being broadcast live to half the planet with fixed advert breaks. At one point he has Bill Miller his MD looking at him for the downbeat, but Sinatra gestures to the corner ... 'look at him, he's got the clock'. This was the assistant who'd signal when they were out of the ad break. Having said that, the tension is palpable and there's that tremendous current that Sinatra would generate.
No matter how many times I hear this, I am always thrilled.
Live, from New York, the city whose landmarks are famous all over the world.
The world’s center for shipping, transportation, communications, finance, fashions
and above all -- entertainment.
A city that pulsates always because of the millions of people who live here,
work here, visit here.
And in the heart of the metropolis, the great arena:
Madison Square Garden, which has created and housed so many champions,
and which is why tonight from the Garden the most enduring champion of them all,
Frank Sinatra, comes to the entire western hemisphere live with The Main Event: Frank Sinatra in Concert!
Madison Square Garden, October 13 1974.
Jam-packed with twenty thousand people plus --
just people, people from all walks of life, people who are young and people who are old,
here to see, hear, pay homage to a man who has bridged four generations and somehow never found a gap.
Hello again everyone, I'm Howard Cosell, and I've been here so many times, and in a curious way,
this event, live, with the king of entertainment, carries with it the breathless excitement and anticipation of a heavyweight championship fight.
Celebrities are here in profusion, one after another.
Rex Harrison! "Professor Higgins," if you will.
Carol Channing -- Hello, Dolly!
Walter Cronkite, "Mr. Believable."
And of course, the great romantic hero -- Robert Redford.
But here, coming through the same tunnel as so many champions have walked before, the great man, Frank Sinatra, who has the phrasing, who has the control, who understands the composers,
who knows what losing means -- as so many have -- who made the great comeback,
who now stands still, enduringly, on top of the entertainment world.
Ladies and gentlemen, from here on in it's Frank Sinatra!"
Thank you❤
Unforgettable: I was just 16 years old. Suddenly, on TV - black and white still - Sinatra, live, from Madison Square Garden. To me, which I was learning my "my second language" I was such miracle , watching The Big Boss in charge of the stage, the band and the public there...: He was the onlyone star , absolutely
I was 11. And in AWE!!!!!
To be Sinatra and have 20,000 fans waiting for you. I like those few moments in the tunnel before he comes out. And then he takes the stage like, as Cosell says, a champ. Man, that never has to get old no matter how many times you performed live elsewhere. And then he slays with Lady is a Tramp.
Watch Sinatra in the tunnel; a King ready to greet his country; MSG packed and roaring; on the way to the stage shakes hands with Willie B.Williams, faithful NY disc jockey who played Sinatra's records . Jerry Weintraub wrote Siantra told him pizza for the flight home.
What an introduction '
A great singer ' one of America's very very best
Absolutely wonderful classic memories 💎 I was 11 on October 13th,1974 and with my family seeing ELVIS PRESLEY ❤️At SAHARA TAHOE 💫 I love both entertainer’s the same! Absolutely ⭐️⭐️I also got to see SINATRA on October 28th,1988 at Bally’s Reno, front row! And Iwas the very first person Frank came to after his almost 73 old ass, BROUGHT THE HOUSE DOWN with NewYork,New York ! Again, just magic moments still in my 58 year old head ❤️🙏✌️This album is FANTASTIC 💎
The Greatest Concert Intro of All time !!!!!!!!!!
Absolutely correct!!!
@jacksonfan221... I just visited this video I posted a few years ago, after a few weeks with family & friends in good times and sad. Thank you so much for taking the time to accurately transcribing Howard Cosell's introduction. Howard was accurate, an egotist, infuriating and outrageous, among other adjectives. Met him once. Of all of Howard's broadcasts, and his with Ali are the most significant, but I think this was his finest moment. I'm half Italian, lived in an Italian neighborhood in Brooklyn when NYC was in trouble, and Sinatra's songs, Cosell's words, was a turning point for us all. Thanks again.
MAAAAN PLEASE! PLEASE UPLPAD THE FULL CONCERT! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Cossell really set the stage for Frank that night in October of 1974
October 13th, 1974. 20,000 people were there.
It was a cloudy damp Sunday in NYC. Dodgers v A's in the world series
Game 2 of Oakland-Los Angeles that Sunday.
Absolutely wonderful ⭐️💗🔔
This was a HUGE deal. EPIC! Thanks for sharing.
3:07
I remember this like I watched it last week. It was on CBS I think on a Monday evening. The Drum Roll, then Howard Kosel , Then people ringside then cut to the man in back waiting with his Tux on. His guys with him. He looks at his watch counting down . I read his lips. He says “When Howard’s done” then bang out he comes. In the middle with Jilly on his right and Jerry Weintraub on his left. Then up he’s lifted on to the ring with The Woody Herman Thundering Heard starting “The Lady is a Tramp”. The music goes out over the crowd and they grove.
I also remember it well. It was on ABC and on a Sunday night.
@@chrisnalina1755 As I recall, Frank didn't win the time slot. Kojak did.
AMAZING
NOW THAT'S AN ENTERTAINER!
Here after reading Jerry Weintraub's autobiography, RIP to them both!
An introduction from Howard. That's worth a million dollars!
2:39 Sinatra goes when he wants to go
A bit more complicated than that because this was one show that had to go like clockwork, being broadcast live to half the planet with fixed advert breaks. At one point he has Bill Miller his MD looking at him for the downbeat, but Sinatra gestures to the corner ... 'look at him, he's got the clock'. This was the assistant who'd signal when they were out of the ad break. Having said that, the tension is palpable and there's that tremendous current that Sinatra would generate.
Amazing !!!!
Impecable 👍👏
50 years ago today.
2:45 is the guy on the left Jilly Rizzo?
Yep 😂
The Great Jilly!!!
I saw this live.
Could you perhaps upload the video file itself instead of a recording over it? I'd really like to see the original.
This is the actual VHS copy of the recording. Poor quality, yes. Check this audio out, the same thing. ua-cam.com/video/6zCL8LgFQKY/v-deo.html
¿COMO SE LLAMABAA ESE SEÑOR? COSSELL???
The show wasn’t that great