Getting a jump on December 12th, which marks the 100th birthday of the one and only.
I was lucky to see him three times. Once in concert with Count Basie and Ella Fitzgerald at the Uris Theater in 1975. Again, at the Westchester Premiere Theater with Dean Martin. And for the last time in 1978 at Radio City Music Hall. I consider myself blessed.
Author Pete Hamill once wrote a book called "Why Sinatra Matters". I remember thinking to myself that I'd never read it, because I already knew why. For one, he was the kind of person who could inspire somebody to write a book about him with that title. But maybe one day I will pick it up - not to corroborate anything I already feel, but just to break bread with a kindred soul in a world that is changing very quickly.
Happy 100th, Francis Albert Sinatra.
I was lucky to see him three times. Once in concert with Count Basie and Ella Fitzgerald at the Uris Theater in 1975. Again, at the Westchester Premiere Theater with Dean Martin. And for the last time in 1978 at Radio City Music Hall. I consider myself blessed.
Author Pete Hamill once wrote a book called "Why Sinatra Matters". I remember thinking to myself that I'd never read it, because I already knew why. For one, he was the kind of person who could inspire somebody to write a book about him with that title. But maybe one day I will pick it up - not to corroborate anything I already feel, but just to break bread with a kindred soul in a world that is changing very quickly.
Happy 100th, Francis Albert Sinatra.
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