One for My Baby Frank Sinatra Tv Show 1951

The Frank Sinatra Show
(1957-1958)

Past Jim Davidson
Posted 10/xv/2006

With Chesterfield as a sponsor, Frank smoked a lot of cigarettes on the air. Some of the biggest stars in prove business invitee starred on The Frank Sinatra Show. Bob Hope Ethel Merman Dean Martin Sammy Davis Jr. Ella Fitzgerald The TV Sinatra Duet performances from Sinatra's 1957-1960 Television shows were collected in a 2002 PBS special (featuring commentary by Nancy, Frank Jr., and Tina Sinatra) that's now available on both DVD (left) and CD (right). Another PBS special, chosen Vintage Sinatra, airing in 2003 and featuring the vocalizer's solo performances, has yet to be released.

Frank Sinatra's second attempt at a Boob tube evidence came just five years later on the start. Just despite their close proximity, the two programs were as different as...well, night and solar day (to borrow a song title from Cole Porter). Sinatra's career experienced a dramatic upswing in 1953, primarily due to 2 events. The commencement was signing with Capitol Records, where he began recording with arranger Nelson Riddle. Though Riddle's roots were in the same 1940s big band swing style as those of previous musical managing director Axel Stordahl, his arrangements were more than imaginative and gimmicky. Having a new, more than exciting backdrop to sing with inspired Sinatra to new heights of musical eloquence. He began to feature more uptempo songs and adopted a new, more mature image. Gone was the boy balladeer, to be replaced by the sybaritic swinger. As his tape sales picked upward, Sinatra found himself back on height of the music business organisation. Nelson Riddle's arrangements were a major factor in Frank Sinatra's resurgence. The other of import effect for Sinatra that yr was his supporting role in the film From Hither to Eternity, garnering him an Academy Award. No longer viewed just every bit a pop singer, Sinatra was now a sought-afterwards dramatic actor. Of a sudden, everyone wanted him, including the big 3 TV networks. In that location was talk of a fifteen-minute twice-a-calendar week early evening bear witness on NBC and a dramatic serial produced past Desilu. Sinatra was fifty-fifty scheduled to host The Colgate Comedy Hour on November xv, 1953, only that plan fell through. The star wasn't really interested in the grind of a weekly TV plan anyway, particularly a variety evidence. "I'm getting besides old to bounce around a stage," he was quoted equally saying at the fourth dimension. What he really wanted was to exercise drama. The networks held out for a variety series, and somewhen a compromise was struck with ABC. Starting in the fall of 1957, the singer was to appear in a weekly one-half-60 minutes hybrid testify - with 13 variety episodes, xiii dramas starring Sinatra, and 10 dramas hosted past Sinatra. The premiere would be a full 60 minutes of variety. Sinatra wanted to practise the show on film to raise its rerun value. But since that would have been expensive, he agreed to do some of the variety episodes live-on-kinescope - in other words, performed as if they were alive, but filmed and shown at a later engagement. It was a technique pioneered by Bob Hope. The deal, worth a reported $3,000,000, called for the star's Hobart Productions to run the testify. But despite light competition from the other networks (M Squad on NBC and Mr. Adams & Eve on CBS), it didn't score very well in the ratings. I matter became clear immediately, though - the public was far more enthusiastic about the multifariousness shows than the dramas. As a result, several of the dramas were hastily replaced on the schedule by variety segments, and the ratio of variety to drama episodes was increased. The eventual breakdown ended upwards beingness 14 live variety, viii filmed variety, iv dramas starring Sinatra, and 6 dramas hosted by Sinatra. Instead of 36 episodes for the flavor, ABC decided to cut its losses and reduce the number to 32. Sinatra was defendant of not taking the enterprise seriously, and more 1 insider told of the star'south habit of showing up belatedly for rehearsals and refusing to do more than 1 have per scene. His supporters, however, pointed out that Frank was a busy man, with picture show, recording, and product responsibilities, in improver to singing and acting in his show. By mid-season, the threat of cancellation looming, Sinatra agreed to defer his other commitments and focus entirely on the show. An bureau executive said at the time, "He realizes he has to be the old warm and mannerly Sinatra again. He accustomed criticism and sought communication equally if he were a newcomer to show concern." The star fifty-fifty went on other TV shows to plug his ain program, but the effort was too late. At the end of June, ABC decided information technology was time to greenbacks in its fries. Several reasons accept been given for Sinatra's lack of success on Tv set. Historian Albert Auster suggests that the vocaliser was, in McLuhanesque terms, too "hot" for the "cool" medium of television (belied by the fact that his mid-sixties specials were then successful), that there were too many in-jokes, and that the star was bucking the tendency toward stone 'n roll (even though singers like Perry Como and Dinah Shore - hardly stone 'northward rollers - were doing quite well on Telly). But producer William Cocky may have put his finger on the nearly of import reason: "I think the problem was, the audience didn't know what they were going to get when they tuned in. With Lucy, you knew what you were going to get; with Gunsmoke, yous knew what y'all were going to get. Y'all tuned in to the Sinatra testify, and he's non singing this calendar week; he's going to do a little dramatic show. And the show had a tough rating booty considering of that." Girl Tina Sinatra was more succinct: "He had to neglect somewhere." Despite the testify's uneveness and scarce ratings, there are many wonderful moments. Here we have Sinatra in his prime number, singing many of his hits when they were still fresh and exciting. It'south a shame the program didn't last longer, just nosotros should exist grateful for what nosotros accept. Dueling Sponsors and Networks We tend to think of the 1950s as the gold historic period of telly - a more than innocent time when everyone was happy. But behind the scenes, things weren't e'er so gilt. Back then, sponsors had far more influence over the shows they sponsored than they do today. Stars were obliged to militarist the sponsor'south products at every turn - which sometimes got them into problem. In 1951, Frank Sinatra managed to rile Lucky Strike when he guest starred on the LS-sponsored Jack Benny Show the aforementioned week he substitute hosted for Perry Como and alleged, "Chesterfield's my favorite brand." Just prior to starting his second serial, on ABC, Sinatra stirred upwards more than controversy when he agreed to appear on CBS's Club Haven. This time, the conflict wasn't with the sponsor; both shows were underwritten by Liggett & Myers (makers of Chesterfield and Oasis cigarettes). But ABC had an exclusive contract with the vocalist and didn't want him on a rival network. In the cease, ABC approved the guest shot, reasoning that it was best not to upset a powerful sponsor. Bob Promise wasn't so lucky. Later guesting on the premiere of The Frank Sinatra Show (sponsored in function by Bulova watches), his sponsor Timex dropped him. Hope's network NBC threatened to sue Timex for breach of contract, but once again, the sponsor won out. Hope had to scramble to come up upwardly with a replacement.

Sources: The New York Times Television listings and reviews, Tv set Guide (Northern California Edition), the online catalog of the UCLA idiot box athenaeum, and the episodes themselves.

Friday, nine:00-nine:30 pm, ABC-Telly, Sponsors: Chesterfield, Bulova
Bulova spokesman: Bud Collyer
Emmy Award nomination: Nelson Riddle

Variety Episodes Producer: William Self Associate Producer: Hank Sanicola (Frank's director) Managing director: Jack Donohue, Kirk Browning Written by Ray Vocaliser and Dick Chevillat, Hal Goodman, Larry Klein, Bill Morrow, Herbert Bakery Musical Manager: Nelson Riddle Art Manager: Serge Krizman, Carl Macauley Technical Director: Irwin Stanton Product Supervisor: Lou Sanman Associate Director: Margie Rotunda Lighting Director: Truck Krone Audio Engineer: Bob Cadet Music Clearance: Bernard Southward. Brody A Hobart Product from the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood Opening theme: "The Tender Trap" Closing theme: "Put Your Dreams Away" Frank's tag line: "Good dark and sleep warm."

Drama Episodes Producer: William Self Associate Producer: Hank Sanicola (Frank'south manager) Product Manager: Ralph West. Nelson Director of Photography: Sam Leavitt, A.S.C. Supervising Film Editor: Otto Ludwig, A.C.E. Art Director: Serge Krizman Banana Director: Edward Denault Sound: Frank Goodwin Music Editor: George E. Marsh, C.Thousand.E. Make-Up: Bernard Ponedel Hair Stylist: Betty Pedretti Gaffer: James Almond Set Decorator: Darrell Silvera Property Master: Irving Sindler Wardrobe: Morris Brown Casting: Harvey Clermont, Marvin Schnall Music by Melvyn Lenard A Hobart Product Opening theme: "Young At Heart" Closing theme: "Put Your Dreams Away" Frank's tag line: "Good night and sleep warm."

Series #	Flavour #	Airdate	Bandage
001	1-01	10/18/1957	Bob Hope, Peggy Lee, Kim Novak; cameo by Jeff Chandler (live) Note: Frank sings "Lonesome Route," "I Get a Kick Out of You," "The Lady is a Tramp," "All the Way," and "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" and does natural language-in-cheek renditions of "I Could Write a Book" and "Autumn Leaves." Peggy sings "Listen to the Rockin' Bird" and "He'south My Guy" (the latter with Frank conducting). Jerry Colonna appears in one of the Chesterfield commercials. This episode was an hour long. Frank and Bob joke virtually Mike Todd's star-studded dinner party, televised on Playhouse 90 the nighttime before. "I'grand a picayune tired. I've been helping Mike Todd with the dishes," quips Bob. They likewise make reference to The Edsel Show the previous Sunday, hosted by Bing Crosby, featuring Frank every bit a invitee and Bob in a cameo. In a prescient forecast of his host'due south Television career, Bob remarks, "Frank, you just can't plunge into television without some preparation." Diversity best-selling the deficiencies in the comedy material but thought Sinatra's songs were "enormous pluses."
002	ane-02	10/25/1957	"That Hogan Man" (flick) Notation: Frank plays a single cab commuter in New York whose friends and adopted young children try to play matchmaker for him.
003	1-03	xi/1/1957	Nancy Sinatra, Jane Ross, Belinda Burrell (film) Note: Frank'southward eldest daughter, 17-twelvemonth-former Nancy, joins forces with two schoolmates, Jane and Belinda, to form a trio called The Tri-Tones to perform "Side past Side" with Frank. On his own, Frank sings "I've Got You Under My Skin," "Violets for Your Furs," "The Girl Next Door," "It Happened in Monterey," and "You'd Be And then Prissy to Come Domicile To."
004	one-04	11/8/1957	Peggy Lee (pic) Note: Frank and Peggy squad up for "Love Is Here To Stay" and "Dainty Piece of work If You Can Get Information technology." The dramatic episode "Brownstone Incident" was originally scheduled to air on this date.
005	1-05	11/15/1957	The McGuire Sisters (moving-picture show) Note: Frank sings "From This Moment On," "Three Coins in the Fountain," "Where Are You lot?" "I Got I Bad and That Own't Good," and "Babe Won't You Please Come Dwelling." The McGuire Sisters practice "Them There Optics" and join Frank for "Something's Gotta Give."
006	1-06	eleven/22/1957	Erin O'Brien (pic) Note: Frank sings "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams," "I Get Along Without You lot Very Well," "My Funny Valentine," "I Wish I Were in Dearest Again," "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter," and "One For My Baby." Erin does "I'grand Glad There is You" and joins Frank for "Let'southward Get Away From It All."
007	1-07	xi/29/1957	Dean Martin (film) Note: Frank sings "Night and Day," "Old Devil Moon," and "The House I Live In." Dean sings "They Didn't Believe Me." Frank and Dean take turns in a medley of their hits: "Sunday, Mon Or E'er," "On a Boring Boat to Prc," "Saturday Dark is the Loneliest Night of the Calendar week," "Memories Are Made of This," "The Girl That I Marry," "Innamorata," "I've Got a Crush On You," "Oh Marie," and "Don't Cry Joe." Vic Tanner plays the little quondam lady who helps Dean onto the stage. The dramatic episode "A Gun At His Dorsum" was originally scheduled to air on this appointment.
008	1-08	12/vi/1957	"A Gun At His Back" (film) Frank Sinatra, Pat Crowley, Harold J. Stone, Sean McClory, Ray Ferrell, Steve Conte Note: When the police neglect to locate his stolen cab, a taxi driver (played past Frank) decides to have matters into his own hands.
009	1-09	12/13/1957	"Have Me To Hollywood" (film) Frank Sinatra (Kerry), Christine White (Janice), Celia Lovsky (Madame Blausky), Maurice Manson (B. J. Kaye), Irene Seidner (Hermine) A talent sentinel is assigned the task of turning an inexperienced starlet into a polished extra but finds himself falling in love with her.
010	ane-10	12/20/1957	"Happy Holidays with Bing and Frank" (moving picture/color) Bing Crosby, The Ralph Brewster Singers Note: In this Christmas show, Frank sings "Mistletoe and Holly" (which he co-wrote), "It Came Upon a Midnight Articulate," and "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town." Bing croons "Abroad in a Manger" and "Rudolph the Ruby-red-Nosed Reindeer." The two squad up for "Jingle Bells," "Deck the Halls," "God Balance Ye Merry Gentlemen," "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing," "O Come, All Ye True-blue," "O Little Town of Bethlehem," "The Christmas Song," and "White Christmas." The Ralph Brewster singers perform "Here Nosotros Come a-Caroling" and "The Beginning Noel." This episode was directed by Frank and written past Bill Morrow. Produced at the Samuel Goldwyn Studios using the drama episodes coiffure, it was shot in color but originally broadcast in black and white. At a 2001 Museum of Television and Radio seminar, producer William Self explained the rather unusual product method: "Crosby liked to pre-tape and lip synch, and he preferred doing information technology in the morning. Frank liked to record live and exercise it in the evening. So these duets were sung about ten hours apart, and we put it all together. There was no orchestra at that place. Nib Miller, who was a wonderful pianist, played low then the mike would not choice it upwardly - or very much. And then Frank would sing to the low piano. And and so Nelson Riddle came in later and overrode the pianoforte with the orchestra." Buy this episode
011	1-xi	12/27/1957	"The Feeling Is Mutual" (film) David Wayne, Janice Rule, Hugh Sanders, Dodie Wright, Sydney Smith, Benny Rubin Annotation: Frank hosts this tale of two lonely, disillusioned people who strike upwards a friendship in Central Park.
012	1-12	1/three/1958	Dinah Shore (live) Note: Frank sings "Come Fly With Me," "Road to Mandalay," "London past Nighttime," and "Apr in Paris." Dinah duets with Frank on "It's Overnice to go Trav'ling" and "Autumn in New York."
013	1-13	one/10/1958	Robert Mitchum (alive) Note: Frank is happy to perform at a high school prom, but the students want a rock 'north roll star instead.
014	ane-14	1/17/1958	Louis Prima, Keely Smith, Sam Butera and the Witnesses (film) Note: Frank joins Louis and Keely for "I Tin can't Believe That Yous're In Honey With Me." The dramatic episode "A Time to Weep" was originally scheduled to air on this date.
015	i-15	one/24/1958	Jo Stafford (live) Notation: Frank and Jo remember the good onetime days when both sang with Tommy Dorsey'due south Orchestra.
016	1-sixteen	ane/31/1958	Sammy Davis Jr. (film) Note: Frank sings "Isle of Capri," "You lot Make Me Feel So Young," "Tell Her Yous Dear Her," and "I've Got You Nether My Pare." Sammy does impressions and dances. Together, they exercise "Me and My Shadow."
017	1-17	2/7/1958	Jeannie Carson (film) Note: Frank sings "South of the Border," "They Can't Have That Away From Me," "Lonely Town," "Walkin' My Babe Back Home," and "Witchcraft." Jeannie does "The Boy Side by side Door" and "Them At that place Optics."
018	1-18	2/fourteen/1958	Shirley Jones, Alice Pearce, Nancy Sinatra (live) Note: Frank sings "My Funny Valentine" to Nancy. His nine-twelvemonth-old girl Tina was supposed to appear instead simply got stage fright at the last minute and was hastily replaced by her older sister. Together, Frank and Shirley sing "If I Loved You lot."
019	1-19	2/21/1958	"A Time To Cry" (film) Anne Bancroft, Lloyd Bridges, John Archer, Ray Teal Note: Frank hosts this drama in which a murderer holds a adult female hostage in her frontier motel.
020	i-20	2/28/1958	Van Johnson, Joi Lansing, Nancy Kulp (picture) Note: Frank sings "Come up Wing With Me," "I Could Write a Book," "There's No You," "At Long Last Love," and "Put Your Dreams Abroad." Van joins him for "Nil in Common."
021	1-21	three/7/1958	Edie Adams, Stan Freberg (motion picture) Note: Frank sings "I'k Gonna Alive Till I Die," "This Can't Be Dearest," "All of Me," and "One For My Baby," and Edie sings "It's Honey." Stan interviews a animate being from the moon.
022	ane-22	3/14/1958	Eydie Gorme, Joey Bishop (pic) Note: Frank sings "It Happened in Monterey," "Moonlight in Vermont," and "The Almost Cute Girl in the World." Eydie sings "When Your Lover Has Gone" and "Gypsy in My Soul" and joins Frank for "Sabbatum Nighttime is the Loneliest Night of the Calendar week."
023	1-23	3/21/1958	"The Man On The Stairs" (film) Michael Rennie, Marisa Pavan, Irene Tedrow, Oliver McGowan Annotation: Frank is host for this story about a immature dancer who is attracted to a moody painter in her New York apartment building.
024	one-24	3/28/1958	Eddie Fisher, Jesse White (film) Note: Frank and Eddie team upwardly for "It'southward Prissy to Go Trav'ling" and a medley of "All the Manner," "Oh, My Papa," and "Immature at Heart."
025	1-25	4/4/1958	Spike Jones, Helen Grayco, Jesse White (film) Note: Frank sings "Yous Brought a New Kind of Dear To Me," "Too Marvelous for Words," and "Chloe." He and Helen sing "Makin' Whoopee." Spike and his band destroy "Fascination," "All the Way," "Tammy," and "By the Light of the Silver Moon."
		4/11/1958	Repeat of i/17/1958 episode
026	1-26	4/eighteen/1958	"Brownstone Incident" (pic) Frank Sinatra, Cloris Leachman, Anne Seymour, Phillip Pino, Jack Albertson Note: Frank stars with Cloris Leachman in this story about a married couple in a rut moving ridge, disagreeing about moving from the city to the suburbs.
027	1-27	iv/25/1958	Ethel Merman, Jesse White, Lew Gallo (live) Note: Frank sings "Just One of Those Things," "You're Getting To Be a Habit With Me," and "I Get a Kick Out of Y'all." Ethel does "Zing Went the Strings of My Heart" and "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows." Together, playing a famous show biz couple surprised at home past a TV interviewer, they perform "Yous're the Tiptop."
		5/2/1958	Repeat of 2/vii/1958 episode
028	i-28	5/9/1958	Ella Fitzgerald (alive) Note: Frank sings "Jeepers Creepers," "On the Road to Mandalay," and "We'll Be Together Again." Ella does "April in Paris," "Angel Eyes," and "When Yous're Smiling" and joins Frank for "Moonlight in Vermont" and "I May Be Wrong."
029	1-29	5/16/1958	"The Light-green Grass of St. Theresa" (film) Wally Cox Note: Wally plays Father Dvorak, a priest who returns to his boyhood parish to find the church badly in need of renovation. Frank hosts.
030	1-30	five/23/1958	Natalie Wood, Pat Suzuki (live) Note: Frank sings "Nighttime and Mean solar day," "Lone Town," "I Believe," and "How Are Ya' Stock-still For Beloved?" Pat sings "From This Moment On" and "Something's Gotta Give." Frank and Natalie duet on "Them There Eyes."
031	1-31	5/30/1958	"Face of Fear" (film) Glynis Johns, Michael Pate, Eugene Martin, Katharine Warren Notation: Frank hosts this tale about a new governess who is suspicious when she finds that her young accuse is fright-stricken, and the male child'southward father won't talk most his wife's disappearance.
032	1-32	6/6/1958	"The Seedling Doubt" (film) Phyllis Thaxter, MacDonald Carey, Edgar Stehli, Irving Bacon Note: In this Sinatra-hosted drama, a adult female returns home after a stint in a mental infirmary only to wonder if her husband is really who he appears to be.
		6/13/1958	Echo of 12/half-dozen/1957 episode - "A Gun At His Back"
		half-dozen/twenty/1958	Repeat of 12/thirteen/1957 episode - "Take Me to Hollywood"
		6/27/1958	Repeat of 12/27/1957 episode - "The Feeling Is Mutual"
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