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10-28-2007, 09:31 AM
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Nancy For Frank - Show #22
Starring Nancy Sinatra Show #22 – October 28, 2007
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10-28-2007, 09:39 AM
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The Siriusly Sinatra web page has not been updated yet this week, but I believe this week's show will feature Swing Along With Me (aka Sinatra Swings) in the album spotlight. The featured lyricist is Johnny Burke.
(What happened to the PR person they were supposed to get? Three weeks, and the website sits neglected once again.  )
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10-28-2007, 01:33 PM
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Thanks, Nancy. I love hearing some real jazz on the show!
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10-28-2007, 01:36 PM
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Nancy (With The Laughing Face)
The John Coltrane version of Nancy (With The Laughing Face) was just great!!
Nancy, some day you'll have to tell us how Phil Silvers happened to write the lyrics to this song. There just has to be a story there! Regards, Jerry
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10-28-2007, 03:18 PM
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Nancy: Sorry, but Tony B's "So Beats My Heart For You" is not a Johnny Burke song. I think you meant to play "The Beat Of My Heart."
(I really hate making corrections. I really do.  )
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10-28-2007, 03:38 PM
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I was in the truck for a chunk of tonight and Johnny Mathis actually bookended what I heard just nicely... I also caught Coltrane's 'Nancy'... phenomenal. I need to acquire that. Can't wait for the replay on this one.
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10-28-2007, 03:52 PM
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10-28-2007, 04:09 PM
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I missed this week's show... will have to catch one of the replays. From the song listing it looks like a great show!
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Allen "Could start for the corner... turn up in Spain... why try to change me now..." 
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10-28-2007, 04:19 PM
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Hi Guys,
Sorry for the snafu on "Beat of My Heart." My mistake: both "Beat of My Heart" and "So Beats My Heart for You" are right next to each other on the disc, and I obviously dragged the wrong one into my master que when mixing the show. The thing is, I thought it was different than I remembered "Beat of My Heart" sounded...but the title and idea is so similar that I was fooled. My humblest apologies...it will be corrected for the replays on Tuesday and Thursday. Good ears, Bob... Chuck
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10-28-2007, 11:29 PM
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Just loved the show tonight and every week..
would it be a good idea to have a photo posted of the "Album of the Week?"
They are all available in BOB's Master INDEX, but many listeners may not access them and miss a great part of the ALBUM experience.
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10-29-2007, 02:03 AM
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See below for a general explanation of the guidelines...
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10-29-2007, 02:05 AM
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There are certain restrictions that are imposed because of strict agreements with the record labels, insofar as what can be posted on the Sirius website. The restrictions even govern how a song (or group of songs) - or an album - can be "billboarded" or announced by a host. Most of the rules apply to any given show before it is aired, and while it's still a "fresh" show (first airing, and the two re-airings during the week). After the show has been aired all three times, we can publish a playlist on the Sirius site. I assume that would include details about the "Album Spotlight" for that show as well.
For example,Sirius is not allowed to publicize on their website that a specific album will be played during Nancy's next show. They can, however, say it WAS played after all three shows have aired... The same guidelines also restrict the number of songs from any one label we can play in a given hour, or three hour show... The rules were created by the record labels and the RIAA to prevent priacy, and protect the artist, so they are understandable. Chuck
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10-29-2007, 02:07 AM
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P.S. It is okay for Bob and others to post the song list as the first show plays on the Sinatra Family Forum, as has been done, since it's not Sirius doing the listing.
Chuck
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10-29-2007, 02:40 AM
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At the bottom of the Siriusly Sinatra web page this morning is the blurb they posted BEFORE last week's show. (Note the date on this post.) I have been repeating those blurbs in the second post of my weekly thread, which is the reason for my comment this week above. It is very confusing to read "This week, Nancy features..." and then tune in to hear something different. I think this reflects poorly on Nancy's show and the Sinatra name. |
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10-29-2007, 06:57 AM
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I really mean it -- best show yet!
I’d like to begin by saying that was one of the most satisfying shows EVER. For me personally, every single selection was perfect – including the order of presentation. A week ago, I believe Nancy was saying she thought the (previous) show was a little “choppy” (and was glad to see Chuck Granata disagree – that he really enjoyed that program).
Well, again --- this latest show by Nancy was, for me, merely perfect! For a number of subjective reasons. The grandkids ‘overnighted’ Saturday and as usual I sang seven-year-old Emily to sleep with some Johnny Mercer tunes (we’ve been singing “I Thought About You,” and “I Remember You,” since Emily was two: we alternate lines. And just for a change-up I sang her “Pennies from Heaven” -- for only about the third time, just to see whether she could recall all or any of the lyric. I could tell Emily had forgotten the words of the ‘bridge,’ “You’ll find your fortune falling, all over town,” But the moment I sang the next line, “Be sure that your umbrella . . .” Her husky little voice sang softly, “Is upside down.” And she was soon asleep. Imagine my delight when Nancy opened this week’s ‘composer’s corner’ – featuring the greatest lyrics by Johnny Burke – with . . . “Pennies from Heaven.” (The best-ever version from “Songs For Swingin’ Lovers!”). That segment, incidentally was one perfect selection after another, beginning with one Johnny Burke lyric I’d never heard before! “My Heart is a Hobo” beautifully sung by Rosemary Clooney. And as much as I love Frank Sinatra’s “Misty” from his best album with Don Costa, I applauded Nancy’s choice of Johnny Mathis’ hit version – from 1959 (one of Johnny Mathis’ very best – with a gorgeous string arrangement). I thought as I listened to this Johnny Burke segment – one great song after another – I thought to myself, “Nancy HAS to end this segment with the best-ever version of Johnny Burke’s greatest (also simplest) lyric: “Here’s that Rainy Day” (just about my favorite Gordon Jenkins arrangement for FS). Sure enough! My favorite segment of the show? As a jazz fan I absolutely adored every one of Nancy’s selections in the “jazz interpretations of Sinatra songs.” A perfect opening to the segment, with Oscar Peterson’s “The Tender Trap” – followed by one I’d never heard before, pianist Claude Williamson’s trio recording of “Young at Heart.” And then arguably the jazz world’s most influential tenor sax player John Coltrane’s unsurpassed rendition of “Nancy With the Laughing Face.” I recognized Andre Previn -- one of my all-time favorite pianists (a genius, composer arranger and one of the greatest-ever accompanists, right up there with Bill Miller (his album alone with Doris Day is magnificent – in case you’ve never heard that one). Again, the “flow” of this segment was PERFECTION (for me) especially the next track – my father’s friend Bob Farnon’s unsurpassed arrangement of my favorite ‘English song’ – “A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square.” I wondered as I listened to this, what Nancy might choose to follow this one. What other version of the same song by a jazz artist would ‘measure up’ to that perfect rendition from London, 1962. Well . . . the next track was my favorite in the entire show. Again, for a very personal reason. It was Ellis Marsalis -- the patriarch of the greatest (living) musical family in America – the father of Wynton Marsalis (classical and jazz trumpeter – and COMPOSER too (most recently, providing the evocative ‘incidental’ music for the just-released Ken Burns (PBS) World War Two epic “The War.” His other son is Bradford Marsalis, (the original band leader for Jay Leno’s Tonight Show band). But for years, I’ve collected CDs by Ellis Marsalis – ever since he’d done an album with his son Wynton, on which Ellis played a solo rendition of “Too Late Now,” – one of the most beautiful songs lyricist Alan Jay Lerner ever wrote (co-written with Burton Lane for an early 50s Fred Astaire movie musical, “Royal Wedding.”) Shortly after I heard that solo by Ellis Marsalis, he appeared at our Winnipeg Jazz Festival (with a trio). He told us: “You know this is just my second night in Winnipeg. My first night here was 37 years ago! I was playing piano for Al Hirt.” (There was a smattering of applause, as older members of the audience acknowleded a great old performer – also from New Orleans who had popularized the trumpet in the 1960s). “I was in Al Hirt’s band, and we played here just the one night -- 37 years ago!” Nice to be back in Winnipeg!” (That broke up the audience, which roared its approval). Before the show, I’d sent a request back stage for “Too Late Now.” Ellis didn’t get around to playing it (I wasn’t offended – it was a pretty obscure song). But I remember just how great he was, performing “Wheatland” which he said was “written by your great, great Oscar Peterson.” (I also remember him performing that night from Rodgers & Hammerstein’s OKLAHOMA -- “Surrey With the Fringe on Top.” But no solos. So again, you can imagine my delight when Nancy selected Ellis Marsalis’ version of A NIGHTINGALE SANG IN BERKELEY SQUARE. I was still basking in the glow of that, when Nancy played one beautiful song after another – including the delightful “four women of song,” performing songs whose titles had comprised “Capitol concept albums.” I’d heard my fellow-Canadian Diana Krall’s take on “COME DANCE WITH ME,” but none of the other three versions Nancy selected – Shirley Horn’s wonderful COME FLY WITH ME, Laurie Allyn’s “Where are You?” (I’d not even heard of Laurie Allyn – she was great!) and – Aretha Franklin’s ONLY THE LONELY. I’d never heard any one other than Frank sing that song, written for him by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen. (Who would dare to try?) Aretha’s rendition was simply WONDERFUL! Note to Nancy: You may have had other shows that were just as great as this one (or even better) . . . . but right now I can’t recall which ones those might have been. In the afterglow, I found myself saying aloud, “Best show yet!” (And really meaning it!) |
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10-29-2007, 09:09 PM
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 Thank goodness FS was not this sloppy about his recordings.[Added:] (Fixed by show time Tuesday.) |
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