Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music

Frank Sinatra A Man and His Music was a onehour television special in color, first broadcast by NBC on November 24, 1965, to mark the occasion of Frank Sinatras 50th birthday. It was directed by the multiEmmywinning Dwight Hemion. Frank Peppiatt and John Aylesworth were the head writers. Telecast at a time when television had just switched to fulltime color programming except for feature films shot in blackandwhite, the show was an enormous success, so much so that it spawned two followups A Man and His Music Part II 1966, featuring Nancy Sinatra, and A Man and His Music Ella Jobim 1967, starring Ella Fitzgerald and Antonio Carlos Jobim. An album by Sinatra, also titled A Man and His Music, was released at around the same time as the special.

Frank Sinatra A Man and His Music was shot inside NBCs Studio 1, at its color television facility in Burbank, California. The special was taped in segments on at least two nights in November 1965. Sinatra was suffering from a cold at the time, which limited his time in front of the microphone. He coughs and clears his throat a few times during the show. Writer Gay Talese documented both nights of taping in his 1966 Esquire magazine article Frank Sinatra Has A Cold.The special won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Program, and a Peabody Award. It was also nominated for two other Emmys, as well as a Golden Globe. ........

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