By Jerry Pearce September 11th 1961. Things were coming to an end between Frank Sinatra and his record label of the preceding eight years, Capitol, and Sinatra couldn’t be happier. Fully immersed for more than a year in the amalgam of his own record label, Reprise, the singer couldn’t wait to fulfill the final recording […]

By Jerry Pearce Thirty six years ago this week, Frank Sinatra was a busy man; having arrived in New York City early in the month of September 1981, Sinatra had two obligations to fulfill in the Big Apple: final recording sessions for his forthcoming saloon album “She Shot Me Down”, as well as an elite […]

By Jerry Pearce A new feature of this column will feature relatively brief stabs at Sinatra history as we connect present time dates with corresponding timely historical moments in his career. For “This Week with Frank,” we travel to Upstate New York… August 1978. Sinatra was debuting with his orchestra at the Grandstand Stage of […]