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, sometimes idiosyncratic, interpretations of musicians, favorite singers, songs, albums and classic jazz. I’ll be including a YouTube link to the songs.

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Well, that’s it for now. I do hope that you’ll come along for the ride.

Until then.

Michael

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 Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
Send comments to sinatramatters@gmail.com

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 Ogerman.

Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
Send comments to sinatramatters@gmail.com

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 Cali

Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi

Send comments to ⁠sinatramatters@gmail.com

Frank Sinatra and Nelson Riddle. From the 1954 album Swing Easy, here is Cole Porter’s Just One of Those Things. It just doesn’t get any better.

Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
Send comments to sinatramatters@gmail.com

From Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “The King and I,” here is Frank Sinatra’s sublime 1951 recording of We Kiss in a Shadow. Arranged and conducted by Axel Stordahl.

Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
Send comments to sinatramatters@gmail.com

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 Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
Send comments to sinatramatters@gmail.com

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 Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
Send comments to sinatramatters@gmail.com