Hoboken celebrates Frank Sinatra’s 100th birthday

Frank Sinatra was, for a lot of people, the undisputed American male vocalist of the 20th century. When I was 4 years old, my older brother Joe would sing these Frank Sinatra songs in the living room. “A small group of students, fueled by some stories in the media, did send a letter to the campus newspaper in protest, but the graduating class, the faculty and the general Stevens community fully supported the award to Sinatra”. The first track to waft out of the speakers was a lush ballad with an oenophilic theme, in which a middle-aged man fondly recalls the girls of his youth.

Seventeen years after his death, that voice can still be heard in restaurants, bars, airports and other public spaces all over the world. He was “willing to do anything even if it affects his livelihood and costs him his job”, the memo said.

Sinatra, arguably Hoboken’s favorite son, would have turned 100 on Saturday. We talk about his resurgence, his comeback, the many arcs of his life.

But for a saloon singer who usually had a drink on stage, Sinatra’s ultimate honor came from Jack Daniel’s, which introduced Sinatra Select whiskey in 2003. SIRIUSLY SINATRA’s special programming will also feature broadcasts of FRANK’s television specials including “THE MAN AND HIS MUSIC” and other shows with special guests including DIAHANN, CARROLL, DEAN MARTIN, NATALIE COLE, TONY BENNETT, and ELLA FITZGERALD. Although he’s smart enough – and reverential enough – not to attempt a Sinatra impersonation.

“I first realized I loved him in 1998. I am looking forward to sharing some of those memories during my time on Siriusly Sinatra”. “What he does and what I admire can’t be imitated”.

Moreen will primarily perform music from the 1950s, including “Love and Marriage”, “The Tender Trap”, “Young at Heart” and “You Make Me Feel So Young”.

“He understood the pre-eminence of the lyrics in his kind of music”, Schultz says. But [Sinatra] would very kindly get up, they had a piano at the Golden Steer, and he would just be very humbled and would love to entertain. But Sinatra injected something more muscular and risky, a sexual brio that made his singing revolutionary years before Elvis Presley emerged as his rival for airplay. “It was Ava who taught him how to sing a torch song”, Nelson Riddle, his most famous arranger, famously theorized.

Sinatra’s inspiration hasn’t just been artistic, however. But Pignone says the glittery life was part of a public persona. “I don’t want to ruin the surprise”, he playfully said.

Master distiller Jeff Arnett created Sinatra Century through the careful selection of specially crafted barrels. Just give me some!

My favorites included Alicia Keys doing “I’ve Got a Crush on You” and an irony-free Seth MacFarlane on “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered”.

Differentiating himself from the singers of the 1940s wasn’t the only way that Sinatra capitalized on changing times. Mark, a native of Camden, NJ, has hosted a Sinatra-only radio show for 59-years in South Jersey and Philadelphia. Sinatra later called Hoboken a sewer.