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Sinatra Matters

Michael Fenenbock

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.

68 - 66 The Last Dance

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68 - 66 The Last Dance
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
Mon, 21 Oct 2024 - 05min
67 - 65 Autumn in New York
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
Sat, 21 Sep 2024 - 14min
66 - 64 How Insensitive
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
Fri, 30 Aug 2024 - 14min
65 - 63 Night and Day
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
Tue, 13 Aug 2024 - 13min
63 - 62 Just One of Those Things
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
Sat, 20 Jul 2024 - 15min
62 - 61 We Kiss In A Shadow
From Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “The King and I,” here is Frank Sinatra’s sublime 1951 recording ofWe 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
Tue, 02 Jul 2024 - 18min
61 - 60 Brazil
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
Fri, 14 Jun 2024 - 15min
60 - 59 I'll Be Around
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
Tue, 28 May 2024 - 15min
59 - 58 All or Nothing at All
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 Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
Send comments to sinatramatters@gmail.com
Fri, 10 May 2024 - 13min
58 - 57 A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
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 Farnon.
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
Fri, 19 Apr 2024 - 17min
57 - 56 Summer Wind
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 Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
Send comments to sinatramatters@gmail.com
Fri, 05 Apr 2024 - 14min
56 - 55 New York, New York
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 Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
Send comments to sinatramatters@gmail.com
Tue, 19 Mar 2024 - 16min
52 - 51 Moonlight Becomes You
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 Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
Send comments to sinatramatters@gmail.com
Mon, 22 Jan 2024 - 15min
51 - 50 I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
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 Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi
Send comments to sinatramatters@gmail.com
Thu, 28 Dec 2023 - 16min
50 - 49 Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Here is the definitive recording of the Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane Christmas classic Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas from the 1957 album A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra. Arranged and conducted by GordonJenkins.
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
Sun, 03 Dec 2023 - 12min
49 - 48 Dream Dancing
A song Sinatra did not record . . . but one that he might have embraced, Cole Porter’s Dream Dancing. Here is the wonderfully talentedRebecca Luker from her 1996 album “Anything Goes - Rebecca Luker Sings Cole Porter.” Arranged by Larry Moore and conducted by Patrick Brady.
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
Sun, 12 Nov 2023 - 12min
48 - 47 Nice 'n' Easy
A Sinatra classic, from the 1960 album of the same name, here is Lew Spence and Marilyn and Alan Bergman’s Nice 'n' Easy. 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
Sat, 28 Oct 2023 - 15min
47 - 46 P.S. I Love You
Sinatra’s poignant 1956 recording of P.S. I Love You. From the album Close to You, here is GordonJenkins and Johnny Mercer’s classic romantic ballad. 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
Sat, 23 Sep 2023 - 16min
46 - 45 I Concentrate on You
Frank Sinatra’s mastery of tempo. From the 1961 album Sinatra's Swingin' Session!!! here is Cole Porter’s I Concentrate on You. 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
Sat, 09 Sep 2023 - 14min
45 - 44 Send In the Clowns
Frank Sinatra’s extraordinary performance of Send In the Clowns. Recorded in 1976, here is the Stephen Sondheim classic.
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
Sat, 26 Aug 2023 - 15min
44 - 43 The Song is You
Sinatra swings! Arranged by Billy May, here is The Song is You from Frank Sinatra’s 1959 album Come Dance With Me.
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
Sat, 12 Aug 2023 - 10min
43 - 42 Dancing In the Dark
An update about the podcast. And a raucous Sinatra swinger. From the 1959 album Come Dance With Me, here is Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz’s Dancing in the Dark. 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
Sat, 29 Jul 2023 - 13min
40 - 39 Memories of You
Sinatra’s mastery of legato phrasing. From the 1962 album Point of No Return, this is Eubie Blake and Andy Razaf’s Memories of You. Arranged by Heinie Beau 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
Sun, 18 Jun 2023 - 15min
39 - 38 Call Me Irresponsible
From the 1963 album Sinatra's Sinatra, here⁠ is Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn's Call Me Irresponsible. 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
Sat, 03 Jun 2023 - 14min
38 - 37 I've Got The World On A String
Sinatra’s epic comeback. From 1953, this is Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler’s I’ve Got the World on a String. 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
Sat, 20 May 2023 - 11min
33 - 32 Don't Worry 'Bout Me
Don't Worry 'bout Me. Here is Frank Sinatra’s marvelous 1953 recording of the Rube Bloom and Ted Koehler classic. 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
Sat, 04 Mar 2023 - 14min
32 - 31 I'll Be Seeing You
From his 1961 album Point Of No Return, here is Frank Sinatra’s poignant wartime ballad -- Sammy Fain and Irving Kahal’sI’ll Be Seeing You. 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

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Fri, 17 Feb 2023 - 15min
31 - 30 A Cottage for Sale
From the 1959 album No One Cares, here is Willard Robison and Larry Conley’s A Cottage for Sale. Arranged by Gordon Jenkins.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi

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Mon, 06 Feb 2023 - 12min
28 - 28 Lonely Town
Arguably Frank Sinatra’s finest recording . . . from his 1957 album Where Are You?,here is the Leonard Bernstein, Adolph Green and Betty Comden classic, Lonely Town. Arranged and conducted by Gordon Jenkins.
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
Fri, 06 Jan 2023 - 14min
27 - 27 Sinatra Conducts the Orchestra for Miss Peggy Lee
Here is Miss Peggy Lee’s definitive recording of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II’s often underappreciated classic, The Folks Who Live On the Hill. Arranged by Nelson Riddle. Conducted by Frank Sinatra.
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
Fri, 16 Dec 2022 - 11min
26 - 26 Stardust
Sinatra’s poignant reading of this wonderful classic remains one of his most profound recordings. From his 1961 album Sinatra and Strings, here is Hoagy Carmichael and Mitchell Parish’s Stardust. 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

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Fri, 02 Dec 2022 - 13min
24 - 24 I Won't Dance
A Great American Songbook classic. From Frank Sinatra’s 1956 album A Swingin' Affair!, here is Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields' I Won’t Dance. 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

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Fri, 28 Oct 2022 - 13min
23 - 23 Moonlight Serenade
For the Greatest Generation, no other song could match Glenn Miller's Moonlight Serenade. From Frank Sinatra's 1956 album Moonlight Sinatra, here is his definitive recording of this iconic song. Lyrics by Mitchell Parish. 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
Fri, 14 Oct 2022 - 14min
22 - 22 Let's Fall in Love
Unleashed musical imagination from Frank Sinatra. Here is Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler’s Let’s Fall in Love from Sinatra’s 1961 album Ring-a-Ding-Ding!. Arranged and conducted by Johnny Mandel.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali
Mixing and mastering by Amit Zangi

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Fri, 30 Sep 2022 - 11min
20 - 20 The Lady is a Tramp
From his 1957 album A Swingin’ Affair, here is Frank Sinatra’s classic recording of The Lady is a Tramp. Music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart. 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
Fri, 02 Sep 2022 - 11min
19 - 19 The Girl from Ipanema
Frank Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim – Bossa Nova. A magical collaboration. From the 1967 album, Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim, here is The Girl from Ipanema. Music by Antonio Carlos Jobim, Portuguese lyrics by Vinicius de Moraes , English lyrics by Norman Gimbel. 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
Sun, 14 Aug 2022 - 14min
18 - 18 When No One Cares
This is what all the fuss is about . . . here is Frank Sinatra at his ballad singing best. From the 1959 album No One Cares, Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Kahn’s classic torch song, When No One Cares. Arranged and conducted by Gordon Jenkins.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali

Send comments to sinatramatters@gmail.com

Fri, 29 Jul 2022 - 09min
17 - 17 My Heart Stood Still
Frank Sinatra's definitive recording of Rodgers & Hart'sMy Heart Stood Still . . . the ultimate love at first sight hymn. From the 1963 album The Concert Sinatra. Arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali

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Fri, 08 Jul 2022 - 12min
16 - 16 Sinatra and Ella
Honoring Ella Fitzgerald, the First Lady of Song, with a spotlight on her interpretation of Frank Sinatra's hallmark song, All of Me. Recorded in 1962. Arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.

Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali

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Fri, 24 Jun 2022 - 09min
15 - 15 I Can't Get Started
This is what all the fuss is about. From Frank Sinatra’s 1959 album No One Cares, here is Vernon Duke and Ira Gershwin’s I Can’t Get Started. Arranged by Gordon Jenkins.
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
Sat, 11 Jun 2022 - 13min
14 - 14 From This Moment On
From Frank Sinatra's 1957 album A Swingin' Affair!,here is Cole Porter’s From This Moment On. Arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali

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Fri, 27 May 2022 - 11min
13 - 13 What's New?
A classic Sinatra torch song, from the 1958 album Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely, here is Bob Haggart and Johnny Burke’s What’s New?. Arranged by Nelson Riddle.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali

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Sat, 14 May 2022 - 13min
11 - 11 Celebrating Johnny Mercer
A song I wish Frank Sinatra had recorded . . . but we do have Tony Bennett. Here is Johnny Mercer’s I Remember Youfrom Tony Bennett’s 2004 Grammy Award winning album, The Art of Romance. With a wonderful Johnny Mandel arrangement.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali

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Sat, 09 Apr 2022 - 08min
7 - 07 I'll See You Again
From Frank Sinatra’s 1962 album Point of No Return, Noel Coward’s I’ll See You Again. Arranged and conducted by Axel Stordahl.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali

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Fri, 04 Feb 2022 - 08min
5 - 05 I'm a Fool to Want You
From Frank Sinatra’s 1957 album Where Are You?, here is I’m a Fool to Want You. Arranged and conducted by Gordon Jenkins.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali

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Fri, 07 Jan 2022 - 11min
3 - 03 That Old Feeling
From Frank Sinatra’s 1960 album Nice ‘N’ Easy, here is Sammy Fain and Lew Brown’s That Old Feeling. Arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali

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Sat, 04 Dec 2021 - 08min
2 - 02 It Could Happen to You
From Frank Sinatra’s1956 album Close to You, here is the definitive recording of Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke’s It Could Happen to You. With the Hollywood String Quartet. Arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle.
Credits:
Theme music by Erik Blicker and Glenn Schloss
Edited by Katie Cali

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Sat, 20 Nov 2021 - 09min
1 - 01 The Way You Look Tonight
From 1964, Frank Sinatra's definitive recording of Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields' The Way You Look Tonight. 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
Fri, 19 Nov 2021 - 10min

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