A MAN AND HIS MUSIC DVD/VHS Video

A MAN AND HIS MUSIC DVD/VHS Video

Original Airdates: NBC (US) November 24 1965, BBC (UK) April 4 1966 Color 51m
w/ Nelson Riddle

I've Got You Under My Skin
Without A Song
Don't Worry 'bout Me
I Get A Kick Out Of You
Love Is A Many Splendoured Thing
Mona Lisa
Nancy With The Laughing Face
My Kind Of Town
Medley: It Was A Very Good Year/Young At Heart/The Girl Next Door/Last Night When We Were Young
This Is All I Ask
Come Fly With Me
The Lady Is A Tramp
I've Got The World On A String
Witchcraft
You Make Me Feel So Young
Angel Eyes
Put Your Dreams Away

Format: Color, Closed-captioned
Studio: Wea/Warner Bros.
DVD Release Date: March 9, 1999
DVD Features: none

***Frank also did a terrific version of Granada. I don't remember ever hearing that song done outside of the album.***

Yes, terrific indeed!

Sinatra had sung it live during his Australian concerts in December 1961, after that this one was the first rendition. He picked it up again in May 1975 and sang it on many concerts for two months (including his visits to Europe).

And in September 1986, he performed it surprisingly at its home country, Spain, during his show at the Bernabeu soccer stadium in Madrid, which was broadcast on TV and radio. Olé!

Bernhard.

I'm watching Man & His Music, 1965 and Frank gets to the awesome group of songs around When I Was 17 and he's just sitting there in a stool and starts the first verse. The idea to have Frank sings these songs around '17 is ingeneous. You can call it The Greatest Moments From the Greatest Singer That Ever Lived. These DVDs are all must-owns. The listening pleasure that I have dervived from them cannot be put into words You just become complete mesmerized with Frank. And no gimmickry at all, just the charisma of Frank.

[Marty]

“Without A Song, Birds Would Be Outta Work, People Would Have To Talk In The Shower”

Recorded November 1965.

Music arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle & Gordon Jenkins

Directed by Dwight Hemion

Duration 50 minutes : 1965 Bristol Productions

Programme :
Introduction Sequence
1. I’ve Got You Under My Skin
2. Without A Song
3. Don’t Worry About Me
4. I Get A Kick Out Of You
5. Nancy With The Laughing Face
6. My Kind Of Town
7. Frank Sinatra Medley
It Was A Very Good Year
Young At Heart
The Girl Next Door
Last Night When We Were Young
This Is All I Ask
8. Come Fly With Me
9. The Lady Is A Tramp
10.I’ve Got The World On A String
11.Witchcraft
12.You Make Me Feel So Young
13.Put You’re Dreams Away

I was wondering did Frank ever record the swinging version of The Most Beautiful Girl in the World that he sings in this show? I love it and I can't get it out of my head!
I think it's wonderful! I'd love any info on this.

Hannah

[MMM]

That's the 1966 show you're talking about, not the first one from '65. Frank did "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" on the Strangers In the Night album. The TV version is a bit faster though.

http://www.sinatrafamily.com/forum/s...&threadid=8162

I havent seen the one on tv but i think that the one on Stangers in the Night cd is pretty fast, maybe one of the fastest songs i heard him sing. is the one that was on tv on a cd?

[MMM]

No, not on CD, but the TV show is available.

[Marty]

The arrangement on the TV show (like that on the LP too, although slightly more up tempo on TV) is inspired Riddle, the punctuation of the brass section beween Sinatra's phrases kicks this ballad into a totally new dimension.

I guess Strangers in the Night will be my next CD!

Hannah

[Yvonne]

Originally posted by gassergirl
I guess Strangers in the Night will be my next CD!

Hannah

You don't have it, Hannah? Surprising. Well, it's about time you get it - you'll really enjoy it.

[Marty]

There seems to be a little disparity within this thread which I only noticed due to the lack of discussion on the subject resulting in this bump.

The post I made above was one of the first I'd created when the Frank On TV room was put together so I was unaware that Rick's original thread which lay in the Frank's Recordings section would be subject to a merge/split/move with it, and thus highlight the differences. As I compiled the listing in my post above directly from watching the Warner Bros. European DVD which I believed was a direct representation of the show as it aired between November 1965 and May 1966 (depending where one lived) I am at a loss as to why the tracks listed on the starting post in this thread conflict with those that actually appear on the DVD presentation? There was, (I believe..maybe 'm right maybe i'm wrong) an LP release of "A Man And His Music" back at the time...could the disparity relate to tracks appearing on that medium and if so could someone shed light on it for me? And if that should explain the differences maybe someone could go into the starting thread and edit accordingly to reflect?

Marty, My (US) version of the DVD agrees with your song listing, except that (on the back cover) "This Is All I Ask" is counted as track #8 rather than as part of the medley "track" #7 (as Rick has it listed also). This interpretation makes sense if you consider that the "medley" begins and ends with "It Was A Very Good Year," which is split into pieces and interspersed between the other three songs. FS does segue directly into "This Is All I Ask" from the end of "Very Good Year," so that's a matter of interpretation, I guess.

As for Rick's song lineup, I have found another source which agrees (mostly) with his extra titles: The Where Or When database includes "Love Is A Many Splendored Thing," "Nature Boy," and "Mona Lisa" after "I Get A Kick Out Of You." (Rick does not list "Nature Boy.") All three of these non-DVD songs are labelled as "short tunes." Also, "Angel Eyes" is shown as part of a medley with "Put Your Dreams Away."

To further complicate matters, I have another source (The Revised Compleat Sinatra by Lonstein and Marino) which does not list the three "short tunes," but does list "Angel Eyes." However, this one shows "Skin" in a different place--between "Lady Is A Tramp" and "World On A String."

I think the answer lies in the fact that this show was taped on November 17, a week before it was aired. Obviously, some editing was performed and perhaps the extra songs were deleted from the broadcast version. It may also be that they were aired but deleted from the DVD. (The DVD has obviously been edited to remove the Budweiser commercials, at least.)

There was a promotional Reprise LP for A Man And His Music Part II the following year, but nothing official for this show. I would not be surprised if bootleg albums exist, and that may account for the song list discrepancies, particular if these came from the original unedited tapes.

It's worth mentioning that this TV program won a George Foster Peabody Award for television entertainment and an Emmy Award for the outstanding musical program of the year (1965).

I recommend the DVD highly. No guest stars; just Frank and some very good music.

All of the US versions of the Warner Reprise Video DVD covers look alike, but this thread needs something in the way of artwork to spice it up...

(What marketing genius designed these covers anyway? It must have been the same guy who decided the US does not deserve the same DVD releases as the rest of the world.)

[Marty]

all the Sinatra DVDs in this collection follow the same attractive design style.


added. looking again at Rick's initial post also gets me wondering at the source material (could the Australian releases differ so much?) as his post fails to mention Gordo as a contributor, also he gives the running time as 51 minutes as opposed to 50 on the DVD release we have that appear at first glance to contain less material.

It turns out there is no real "disparity" in Rick's song listing after all (except for the omission of "Nature Boy").

I just watched the DVD carefully, and FS does in fact hum or sing short bits of "Love Is a Many Splendored Thing," "Nature Boy," and "Mona Lisa," as part of his spoken introduction to "Nancy (With The Laughing Face)." They're not really songs, just spur-of-the-moment snippets in his monologue (or "short tunes," as the W.O.W. database descibes these).

And he does sing a verse of "Angel Eyes," just before introducing Gordon Jenkins and Nelson Riddle at the close of the program, before launching into "Put Your Dreams Away."

Mystery solved.

The European covers are certainly more attractive than their plain black US counterparts. At least, they use a different photograph on each one.

But I notice that the photos don't originate from the shows contained in the packages. Considering also the almost total absence of liner notes or DVD extras, I think this is indicative of the lack of production and marketing effort by Warner for these wonderful DVDs.

[Marty]

but some Bob, do have some indicators of the shows as back cover art, off the top of my head Man & His Music Part 2 has a nice shot of Father & Daughter in a studio setting, Main Event has the famous boxing victory pose and Sinatra and Friends a double shot of Frank & John Denver.

To my mind the back cover photo's would serve as better front cover pictures.

I have to admit an almost anal delight for the DVD series format as I love the order and sense of continuity they give on the shelf.