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Bulova's Sinatra Showcase with Joe Piscopo - Bulova’s Sinatra Showcase With Joe Piscopo - The 60th Anniversary of Sinatra at the Sands · Stampede of Truth

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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: This is Bolivar's Sinatra Showcase.
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  Speaker 3: I have discovered a young man whom I think is
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  Speaker 3: going to be a superstar. He's got a good stage presence,
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  Speaker 3: great set of pipes.
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  Speaker 4: He's Italian.
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  Speaker 3: And he has a unique way with a phrase. But
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  Speaker 3: more than that, there's just something I like about the guy.
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  Speaker 3: You see what I think. You'll know what I think.
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  Speaker 3: Here's my new discovery, Joe Piscopo.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, Joe on the radio.
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  Speaker 5: Good evening. You got me, boys?
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  Speaker 6: You all right?
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  Speaker 4: All right? Come on, boys. We got a show to do.
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  Speaker 4: Here we go.
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  Speaker 5: I'll tell you, it's a crazy night. Live as live
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  Speaker 5: can be. Piscopo live on the radio. And it's such
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  Speaker 5: a wild night, and I'll tell you all about it
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  Speaker 5: as we go along. But I got to tell you,
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  Speaker 5: first and foremost, we are featuring... Sinatra at the Sands.
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  Speaker 5: This is a classic re-release that was just released yesterday, okay?
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  Speaker 5: And so it's like this comes from the Sinatra family,
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  Speaker 5: and Charlie Pignon is going to join us in about
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  Speaker 5: a half an hour, all right? Charles Pignon is the
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  Speaker 5: president of Frank Sinatra Enterprises, and he, along with Tina,
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  Speaker 5: of course, and Mr. Finkelstein, and the whole Sinatra team,
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  Speaker 5: they put together this beautiful compilation. You can get it
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  Speaker 5: at sinatra.com. Not a commercial. I got to tell you something.
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  Speaker 5: This is unbelievable. They took the Sands album, our favorite album, right?
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  Speaker 5: Sinatra at the Sands. And they put different shows, like
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  Speaker 5: almost five different shows lined up, lined up, and one
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  Speaker 5: right after another. And each show, if you're a Frank
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  Speaker 5: Sinatra aficionado like I am, you'll know every song that
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  Speaker 5: he sings, if it's at a live event, venue then
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  Speaker 5: it's different every single time like a brand new song
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  Speaker 5: that's what this this uh whole sinatra at the stands
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  Speaker 5: a re-release 60th anniversary by the way they have a
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  Speaker 5: five cd package you can get cds i don't know
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  Speaker 5: what you're playing on but they got the cds i
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  Speaker 5: actually have my cd player at home so let me
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  Speaker 5: tell you we're gonna go into it we're gonna have
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  Speaker 5: a great time i'm gonna play uh things that you
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  Speaker 5: haven't heard before all right uh on this uh on
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  Speaker 5: this re-release And, you know, when he takes the break,
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  Speaker 5: he takes that tea break. It's a whole different stand-up.
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  Speaker 5: You and I have memorized. Admit it. You got memorized
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  Speaker 5: every time he goes into something at Sinatra. You and
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  Speaker 5: I know what he's going to say, right? And you
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  Speaker 5: look forward to it, right? And this man here is
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  Speaker 5: going to lead me down the path to righteousness and
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  Speaker 5: all that other mother jazz, you know? That's like Frank Sinatra.
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  Speaker 5: So it's different each time as we play it. In
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  Speaker 5: the meantime. I'm here with you live. And if you
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  Speaker 5: want to give us a call, it's 800-848-9222, 800-848-9222. And
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  Speaker 5: we're putting it together, following Cousin Brucie. Had a great
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  Speaker 5: time with the legendary Cousin Brucie and Vinny Maduno. We
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  Speaker 5: were Tuesday. We were at the Wingfoot Country Club. What
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  Speaker 5: were we doing at such a fancy place? I have
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  Speaker 5: no idea, but we ripped it up and we had
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  Speaker 5: a ball. Always an honor to follow the great Bruce Morrow.
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  Speaker 5: Elias Raff running the board. And we got Ricky at
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  Speaker 5: the board now. And he's new, so he's going to
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  Speaker 5: get acclimated to what we're doing. So it's live and
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  Speaker 5: anything can happen. But in the meantime, let's go back
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  Speaker 5: to January 27th, 1966, the first show of Frank Sinatra
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  Speaker 5: with Count Basie, Quincy Jones, arranging and conducting. And this
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  Speaker 5: is Come Fly With Me.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you.
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  Speaker 8: Thank you. Come fly with me, we'll fly, we'll fly away.
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  Speaker 8: If you can use some exotic booze, there's a bar
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  Speaker 8: in far Bombay. Come on, fly with me, we'll fly,
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  Speaker 8: we'll fly away.
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  Speaker 4: Come fly with me, we'll float down to Peru. In
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  Speaker 4: Llama Land, there's a.
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  Speaker 8: One-man band And he'll toot his flute for you Come on,
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  Speaker 8: fly with me We'll float down in the blue.
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  Speaker 4: Once I get.
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  Speaker 8: You up there Where the air is rare and fine.
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  Speaker 4: We'll just fly, sorry I Once I get you.
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  Speaker 9: Up there.
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  Speaker 8: I'll be holding you so near.
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  Speaker 4: You might hear all the.
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  Speaker 8: Angels cheer Because we're together weather-wise It's such a lovely
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  Speaker 8: day Just say those words, we'll beat those birds down
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  Speaker 8: to Acapulco Bay. It is perfect for a flying honeymoon,
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  Speaker 8: they say. Come on, fly with me, we'll fly, we'll fly.
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  Speaker 10: We'll fly and fly. Once I get you up there Where.
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  Speaker 11: The air is so rarefied We will start to glide
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  Speaker 11: Absolutely petrified Once I get you up there I'll be
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  Speaker 11: holding you so very near ¶ You might even.
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  Speaker 8: Hear a gang of angels cheer ¶ ¶ Because we're
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  Speaker 8: together weather-wise ¶ ¶ It's such a groovy day ¶ ¶.
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  Speaker 4: You just say that word and.
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  Speaker 8: I'll whip your bird ¶ ¶ Down to Acapulco Bay
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  Speaker 8: ¶ ¶ It is perfect for a flying honeymoon, they
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  Speaker 8: say ¶ ¶ Come on, fly with me, we'll fly,
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  Speaker 8: we'll fly ¶.
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  Speaker 4: Pack up, let's fly away. And don't tell your papa.
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  Speaker 5: Don't tell your papa. We're listening to Sinatra at the Sands,
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  Speaker 5: the re-release. And this is from Capital UME and Frank
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  Speaker 5: Sinatra Enterprises. And they have announced the 60th anniversary 5-CD
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  Speaker 5: box set. A two LP vinyl file of Frank Sinatra's
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  Speaker 5: Sinatra at the Sands with Count Basie and the orchestra.
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  Speaker 5: And that came out yesterday. And I'm still waiting for
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  Speaker 5: my album. I got the double album. I ordered the CDs.
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  Speaker 5: I ordered everything. But what we did, what Elias and
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  Speaker 5: I did this week. We downloaded everything, and we have
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  Speaker 5: it ready to go for you on the air. So
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  Speaker 5: you're going to hear, especially if you love Frank Sinatra
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  Speaker 5: like most of us do, you can hear and get
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  Speaker 5: the little ins and outs going into what we call
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  Speaker 5: the weeds about Francis Albert Sinatra. and you'll hear it.
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  Speaker 5: For example, on this next song, I Got a Crush
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  Speaker 5: on You, you know, so he would go back and
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  Speaker 5: forth with, I believe it was Eddie Lockjaw Davis, the
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  Speaker 5: premier sax player for, one of the premier sax players
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  Speaker 5: for the Basie Orchestra. Remember, he would go back and forth.
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  Speaker 5: He doesn't go back and forth here, but he has
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  Speaker 5: fun with this. Also, oh, I gotta tell you this.
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  Speaker 5: I forgot to tell you this. These are like, I mean,
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  Speaker 5: I have a poster, and it goes like the show,
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  Speaker 5: when Sinatra at the Sands, It says the shows are like,
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  Speaker 5: I think it started at 9. I think Basie did
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  Speaker 5: a warm-up, like almost a 45-minute hour warm-up. I'm going
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  Speaker 5: to ask Charlie Pignon about it. And then Mr. S
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  Speaker 5: went on like an hour and a half later. So
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  Speaker 5: he's on stage like 10. And then his second show
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  Speaker 5: was like 1, 2 in the morning. And what I
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  Speaker 5: love about this and what Charlie found, Mr. Pignon found,
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  Speaker 5: is that you could hear it in Mr. Sinatra's voice.
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  Speaker 5: I love it. So here it is. January 27, 1966.
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  Speaker 5: I was young like you at that age. You know,
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  Speaker 5: back in those days. Yes, sir. This is Mr. Sinatra.
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  Speaker 5: Check it out. I've got a crush on you.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you. Thank you.
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  Speaker 8: How glad the many millions of Annabelles and Lillians would
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  Speaker 8: be To capture me But you had such persistence You
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  Speaker 8: wore down my resistance I fell And it was swell.
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  Speaker 8: I'm your big and brave and handsome Romy.
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  Speaker 4: What a ridiculous line.
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  Speaker 8: How I won you, I shall never, never know. It's
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  Speaker 8: not that I'm attractive. It's not that I'm attractive. It's
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  Speaker 8: not that I'm attractive. I know this goddamn song. It's
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  Speaker 8: not that I'm attractive, but oh.
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  Speaker 4: My heart grew active when you.
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  Speaker 4: I became a Jew, I came into view.
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  Speaker 8: I've got a crush on you Sweetie pie All the
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  Speaker 8: day and night time.
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  Speaker 4: Hear me sigh.
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  Speaker 8: I never had the least notion That I could fall
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  Speaker 8: with so much emotion.
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  Speaker 4: Could you cool, could you care For a lovely cottage
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  Speaker 4: that we could.
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  Speaker 8: Share The world will pardon my mush.
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  Speaker 4: But I have got to.
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  Speaker 9: Crush my baby on you.
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  Speaker 8: Could you cool? Could you care? For a lovely cottage
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  Speaker 8: That we might share The whole world will pardon my
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  Speaker 8: mush But I have got a.
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  Speaker 12: Crush My baby on you.
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  Speaker 7: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 13: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Well, let me apologize. I thought we censored something. So Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Sinatra may be a little loose. It's two o'clock in
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  Speaker 5: the morning. And I apologize for that, especially since I
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  Speaker 5: just came from I was supposed to run into New York,
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  Speaker 5: if I may, for an aside. I apologize for that.
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  Speaker 5: using the Lord's name in vain. I do apologize. I
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  Speaker 5: didn't know that. I was not supposed to be on.
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  Speaker 5: And that's my fault. I'll take the hit. I should
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  Speaker 5: have edited it. I should have put a big red
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  Speaker 5: flag on that. Because you know what? What do you
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  Speaker 5: think I was? I was going to run into New York.
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  Speaker 5: I wanted to be in the studio. I'm broadcasting from
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  Speaker 5: La Casa di Fiscopo. And we welcome you to the house.
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  Speaker 5: I appreciate it. It is an honor to be in
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  Speaker 5: your car, in your home, wherever you are. And we're
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  Speaker 5: broadcasting live. And by the way, you may be listening
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  Speaker 5: on Sunday morning. But right now, for us, as I read...
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  Speaker 5: As I hit the microphone here, it's live, Saturday night live,
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  Speaker 5: you know, live as live can be. So I was
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  Speaker 5: supposed to go to New York, so I go. But
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  Speaker 5: then I had a friend who said, oh, you can
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  Speaker 5: stop by and say hi to my church. And so
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  Speaker 5: I went to a little beautiful church with a beautiful community.
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  Speaker 5: And I guess I could say St. Bridget. And I
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  Speaker 5: went over there and I stayed and I got so
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  Speaker 5: taken aback by how beautiful the people were. Nicest people
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  Speaker 5: in the world. I get a microphone, and then I
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  Speaker 5: see a piano, and then I start singing. And then
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  Speaker 5: Stacey's there. She's looking at the clock like, Joe, you
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  Speaker 5: got to make New York. You got to make New York, kid.
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  Speaker 5: And the crowd was so great. Father John, we love you.
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  Speaker 5: My brother Peter and Mia, we love you. And it
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  Speaker 5: was great. And so I was closer to my house
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  Speaker 5: than I was to New York. I put the Waze in,
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  Speaker 5: and New York, no way I was making New York.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm broadcasting from the house. But again, hopefully that
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  Speaker 5: made up for the little slip we had here. showing
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  Speaker 5: up at the church and doing my good deed. All right. Hey,
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  Speaker 5: I'll tell you what. It's Piscopo live as live could be, baby.
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  Speaker 5: This ain't no podcast, you know, unless you're listening on
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  Speaker 5: Sunday morning, and we appreciate you listening on Sunday morning,
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  Speaker 5: and we appreciate you listening right now. Let's go back
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  Speaker 5: to the sands. 1966, Mr. Sinatra's staple song, I've Got
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  Speaker 5: You Under My Skin.
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  Speaker 4: Alan Morris. I've got you under my skin I've got you.
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  Speaker 8: Deep in the heart of me So deep in my
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  Speaker 8: heart that you're really a part of me I've got
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  Speaker 8: you under my skin I've tried so not to give
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  Speaker 8: in I have said to myself this affair.
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  Speaker 4: It never will move so well.
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  Speaker 8: But why should I try to resist when baby I
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  Speaker 8: know damn well That.
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  Speaker 4: I've got you under my skin.
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  Speaker 8: I'd sacrifice anything come what might for the sake Having
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  Speaker 8: you near in spite of a warning voice.
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  Speaker 4: That comes in the night, it repeats, it repeats in my.
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  Speaker 8: Ear Don't you know you fool ain't never gonna win
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  Speaker 8: Use your mentality, wake up to reality And each time
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  Speaker 8: I do, just the thought of you makes me stop
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  Speaker 8: before I begin. Because I've got you under my skin.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody's got to go somewhere.
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  Speaker 8: I would sacrifice anything, come what might For the sake
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  Speaker 8: of having you near In spite of a warning voice
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  Speaker 8: Comes in the night, it repeats how it yells in
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  Speaker 8: my ear Don't you know, you fool, you ain't never
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  Speaker 8: gonna win Why not choose your mentality Wake up, step
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  Speaker 8: up to reality And each time I do Just the
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  Speaker 8: thought of you Makes me stop just before I.
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  Speaker 4: Begin Because I've got you Under my skin Yeah, you
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  Speaker 4: grab me Under the skin.
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  Speaker 2: This is both of us. Sinatra Showcase.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, oh, oh.
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  Speaker 2: This is Bolivar's Sinatra Showcase with your host, Joe Piscopo
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  Speaker 2: on Music Radio. Music This is Bolivar's Sinatra Showcase, with
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  Speaker 2: your host, Joe Piscopo, on Music Radio.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 8: One day you turn around And it's summer Next day
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  Speaker 8: you turn around and it's fall And all the winters
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  Speaker 8: and the springs of a lifetime Whatever happened to them all?
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  Speaker 8: As a man who has always had the wandering ways
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  Speaker 8: Now I'm looking back to yesterdays Till a long forgotten
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  Speaker 8: love appears.
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  Speaker 4: And I find.
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  Speaker 8: That I'm sighing softly.
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  Speaker 4: As I near.
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  Speaker 8: September The warm September.
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  Speaker 4: Of my year.
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  Speaker 8: As a man Who has never paused.
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  Speaker 4: At carousels.
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  Speaker 8: Now I'm stopping by at Wishing Wells And the laughter's
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  Speaker 8: music to my ears And I find That I'm sighing
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  Speaker 8: softly as I near September The warm September of my years.
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  Speaker 4: The golden warm.
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  Speaker 8: September of my years.
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  Speaker 9: Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Sinatra, live from Vegas on this re-release of Sinatra at
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  Speaker 5: the Sands. Before we continue, let me go to Janet
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  Speaker 5: real quick, calling in.
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  Speaker 9: Hi, Janet.
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  Speaker 5: Good evening to you. How are you doing tonight?
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  Speaker 2: Hi, Joe.
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  Speaker 1: How are you doing?
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  Speaker 9: Good.
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  Speaker 5: I'm excited about this. Wild to hear different, even though
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  Speaker 5: some things may slip through, we don't really want to
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  Speaker 5: slip through. It makes it exciting. You know, you never
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  Speaker 5: know where Mr. Sinatra is going, but it's a blast
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  Speaker 5: to celebrate the re-release of the Sands, you know?
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  Speaker 1: It is, and you know what, Joe? It's amazing how you,
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  Speaker 1: on the road, in the studio, in the house, wherever
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  Speaker 1: you are, you never leave us alone.
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  Speaker 5: I'm trying to stay with you, and I think you
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  Speaker 5: know the saying, anything we can play for you as
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  Speaker 5: we go down the road?
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  Speaker 1: Joe, you know, I was going through some research this week,
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  Speaker 1: and I came across something we haven't heard in a
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  Speaker 1: while called Almost Like Being in Love, and I noticed
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  Speaker 1: the tuba in that song was amazing.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, almost. But you know what? That's Billy. Billy May
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  Speaker 5: would use a tuba in the background and he used
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  Speaker 5: the actual tuba. It's unbelievable. Not a marathon sax, not
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  Speaker 5: a bass trombone or anything like that. It was a tuba.
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  Speaker 5: Only you would notice that. Janet, thank you for listening.
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  Speaker 1: Can I say one more thing? I'm so happy you're
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  Speaker 1: going to have Charlie Pignone on tonight. I always learn
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  Speaker 1: something when he's on and I'm so happy when you do.
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  Speaker 13: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Listen, we're going to have some fun. Charlie's coming up
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  Speaker 5: in about a couple of minutes. He's going to come up.
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  Speaker 5: You listen up. And Janet, thank you. And we send
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  Speaker 5: our love to you, okay?
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  Speaker 14: Thanks.
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  Speaker 1: I do have to thank you for September in the
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  Speaker 1: rain a few weeks ago.
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  Speaker 5: You're most welcome. Thanks, Janet. Let's go back to the sands.
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  Speaker 5: It's January 27th, 1966. The first show, Street of Dreams.
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  Speaker 4: Love laughs at a king Kings don't mean a thing
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  Speaker 4: On the street of.
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  Speaker 8: Dreams Dreams broken in two.
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  Speaker 4: Can be made like new.
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  Speaker 8: On the street of dreams Gold.
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  Speaker 4: Silver and gold All you can hold is In a movie.
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  Speaker 8: Poor ain't nobody poor Long as love is sure On
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  Speaker 8: the street of dreams Be-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba.
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  Speaker 6: All that gold, silver and gold All you can hold
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  Speaker 6: up there on a moonbeam.
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  Speaker 10: Nobody's poor, nobody's poor Long as love.
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  Speaker 4: Is sure On the.
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  Speaker 6: Street of dreams.
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  Speaker 5: Celebrating Sinatra at the Sands, the new 60th anniversary, five
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  Speaker 5: CD box set, two LP vinyl file of Frank Sinatra,
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  Speaker 5: Sinatra at the Sands. Coming up next, the president of
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  Speaker 5: Frank Sinatra Enterprises, Mr. Charles Pignon. Don't go away. It's
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  Speaker 5: full of us. Sinatra Showcase with Joe Piscopo. Live as
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  Speaker 5: live can be. Charles Pignon, live on the radio. Coming up.
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  Speaker 5: Don't go away.
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  Speaker 2: This is Bolivar's Sinatra Showcase on Music Radio.
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  Speaker 14: Music the chairman of the board, Old Blue Eyes, the
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  Speaker 14: Sultan of Swoon.
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  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, Frank Sinatra! This is both of us
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  Speaker 2: Sinatra Showcase with your host Joe Piscopo on music radio.
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  Speaker 5: Both of us Sinatra Showcase with Joe Piscopo live on
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  Speaker 5: the radio and it is always an honor beyond words
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  Speaker 5: that I bring this gentleman to the airwaves. He's a friend,
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  Speaker 5: a dear friend, longtime friend, and the most knowledgeable individual
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  Speaker 5: on the planet about anything and everything, Frank Sinatra. He's
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  Speaker 5: the president of Sinatra Enterprises, and he brings us gold.
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  Speaker 5: Those of us who love and live Frank Sinatra, this
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  Speaker 5: is the man that puts it all out there for us,
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: and we appreciate him taking the time with us on
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: the radio. Charles Pignon. Charlie, welcome to the show. An
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: honor to have you with us, my friend.
• 26:46
  Speaker 15: Joe, always a pleasure.
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: This is, congratulations, this 60th anniversary 5CD box set. Two LPs,
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: the vinyl file of Frank Sinatra, Sinatra at the Sands. Charlie,
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: what was the impetus? Because you know it's everybody's favorite album.
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: I listened to the whole thing. I love it. Every album,
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: every cut, every CD, it's like a whole different show.
• 27:11
  Speaker 15: Yeah, well, you realize.
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah, congratulations on that.
• 27:16
  Speaker 15: Frank, I appreciate it, Joe, and I appreciate what you
• 27:19
  Speaker 15: guys do at the station, you, John, and Margo promoting Frank. But,
• 27:23
  Speaker 15: you know, it is probably the greatest live album ever.
• 27:25
  Speaker 15: And when you listen to them in total, you'll see
• 27:28
  Speaker 15: that Frank never sang this song the same way once.
• 27:32
  Speaker 15: I mean, the tempos are a little different. And the
• 27:35
  Speaker 15: most revealing things when I was going through the tapes
• 27:37
  Speaker 15: were the monologues. And I love the last– when you
• 27:41
  Speaker 15: listen to the last monologue– He introduces Johnny Mandel. He
• 27:45
  Speaker 15: introduces Don Costa, even talks to Don in Italian. And
• 27:48
  Speaker 15: it was just it's just the way Larry Walsh makes this.
• 27:53
  Speaker 15: I know when it was originally mixed, it sounded great.
• 27:55
  Speaker 15: Sonny Burke, you know, all plaudits to the great producer
• 27:59
  Speaker 15: Sonny Burke, the greatest live album ever. But Larry makes
• 28:02
  Speaker 15: this and you have Atmos. man, it sounds like you're
• 28:06
  Speaker 15: in the Copa room. Even Steve Wynn, I had sent
• 28:08
  Speaker 15: it ahead to Steve Wynn, who probably has the greatest
• 28:11
  Speaker 15: sound system in the world. And he said, it just
• 28:13
  Speaker 15: took me back to the sands. And it just takes
• 28:17
  Speaker 15: you back. And you realize how great this man was.
• 28:22
  Speaker 15: My only concern was when we started going through these
• 28:25
  Speaker 15: tapes years ago, because I released a couple of shows
• 28:28
  Speaker 15: on the Vegas box set and on a Jack Daniels thing.
• 28:31
  Speaker 15: The one thing that I would criticize Sonny Burke for
• 28:34
  Speaker 15: was they were there for four weeks. Why wait till
• 28:37
  Speaker 15: the last week to tape Frank knowing? And you hear
• 28:41
  Speaker 15: in the monologues that he went out to see Sarah Vaughn.
• 28:43
  Speaker 15: He was out till seven in the morning every night.
• 28:46
  Speaker 15: I know their mindset was probably he'll know it, you know,
• 28:50
  Speaker 15: like the back of his hand. But I would have
• 28:52
  Speaker 15: done it the third week if it were me.
• 28:55
  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: I love his voice. I love his voice, his second
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: show voice. I love the register of his voice, Charlie,
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: you know? And you're right. He talks about Sarah Vaughan.
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: He goes, oh, my gosh, I bring tears to my eyes.
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: You have to listen to this. I was talking with
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: Charles Pignon with Joe Piscopo in Boulevard Sinatra Showcase about
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: the re-release, the 60th anniversary re-release. You got to get this.
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: You go to FrankSinatra.com and listen to it. You could
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: go in the car, Charlie. I tell you, thank you. Treasures,
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: what you did was genius. Everything you bring. Listen, we
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: know each other too long.
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: Patronize 40 plus years.
• 29:30
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 29:31
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: And God bless you for what you're doing, man, because
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: this is like you're right there and your point is
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: so well taken. And let me stay on this for
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: a second. When Mr. Sinatra would do a song, if
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: I could play Comply With Me, if it's at different venues,
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: if it's in Japan, if it's in Australia, wherever, it's
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: a different song. It's like a complete different song. And
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: this is what the album is. It's like it's like
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: it's like a five CD box set of different songs
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: from Mr. S. Was that a concerted effort? Was it
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: just he wanted to just change it.
• 30:00
  Speaker 15: Up a little bit? Yeah, I think it was just
• 30:03
  Speaker 15: the mood he was in. The one great thing about
• 30:05
  Speaker 15: it for me being there. So being around these people
• 30:08
  Speaker 15: so long is I know I knew Quincy and loved
• 30:11
  Speaker 15: him and Bill Miller.
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: So yeah.
• 30:13
  Speaker 15: I had probably 60 hours with Bill Miller and Al
• 30:16
  Speaker 15: Viola and the musicians on tape. And Quincy, I had
• 30:18
  Speaker 15: 10 hours. I went up to his house over the years.
• 30:21
  Speaker 15: And I remember Quincy saying to me that one, and
• 30:25
  Speaker 15: I think I put it in the booklet, and when
• 30:27
  Speaker 15: I heard Frank mention Sarah Vaughan, Quincy said one night
• 30:30
  Speaker 15: him and Basie came back in at three in the
• 30:32
  Speaker 15: morning and Frank was standing in the lounge saying, where
• 30:36
  Speaker 15: the hell were you two guys? And they're like, we
• 30:37
  Speaker 15: went to see Sarah Vaughan. He's like, why didn't you
• 30:39
  Speaker 15: ask me? And they took him the next night and
• 30:42
  Speaker 15: you can hear him in the monologue say, and then
• 30:44
  Speaker 15: I even had, then when I was going through the
• 30:46
  Speaker 15: Bill Miller tapes, Bill said, oh yeah, Frank was so,
• 30:49
  Speaker 15: could not believe Sarah Vaughn. In fact, he was so
• 30:52
  Speaker 15: blown away that when about a decade later, he started
• 30:56
  Speaker 15: in the 74 and 75, he would do a tour
• 30:59
  Speaker 15: with Ella. He'd do some dates and Ella could not
• 31:01
  Speaker 15: do the London Palladium. And Frank said to Bill, get
• 31:05
  Speaker 15: Sarah Vaughn. And Sarah Vaughn, Basie and Frank did everything.
• 31:08
  Speaker 15: a week at the Palladium in 75 because Ella couldn't
• 31:10
  Speaker 15: do it. So, and you hear him talk about, you know,
• 31:14
  Speaker 15: the righteous brothers, he's the one that hired there. He
• 31:17
  Speaker 15: would actually hire the righteous brothers. And I was just
• 31:19
  Speaker 15: lucky to find that I put in the booklet where they,
• 31:23
  Speaker 15: they did. I scanned newspapers from Vegas back then. And
• 31:27
  Speaker 15: they said, this is an honor. Frank Sinatra picked us
• 31:29
  Speaker 15: and we're playing in the lounge. And Frank mentions it.
• 31:32
  Speaker 15: And it, it's almost like you were there listening to them,
• 31:35
  Speaker 15: you know, to these shows. It's just great.
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: Beautifully produced, by the way, Sarah Vaughan. She is, you know,
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: one of the great Jersey girls from Newark, New Jersey.
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: We're very, very proud of Sarah Vaughan. I mean, honestly, Charlie,
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: where did you find the tapes, man? How did you
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: find them?
• 31:50
  Speaker 15: Oh, the tapes have been there. I knew there were
• 31:53
  Speaker 15: 10 nights. And like I said, when we did the
• 31:55
  Speaker 15: Vegas box set, I specifically found a show that was not,
• 31:59
  Speaker 15: you know, Sonny did not make a roadmap of where
• 32:04
  Speaker 15: he took each song from. So if you listen to
• 32:06
  Speaker 15: the first show on this, that that's where a lot
• 32:10
  Speaker 15: of the I would say 40 percent of the original
• 32:13
  Speaker 15: album came from. In fact, the monologue, he trimmed it.
• 32:16
  Speaker 15: But the monologue is is mostly from that show. And
• 32:20
  Speaker 15: then because Frank was really loose on those second show monologues. And,
• 32:24
  Speaker 15: you know, he even says, I'll leave a wake up
• 32:27
  Speaker 15: call for three in the morning. It's just it's just infectious.
• 32:31
  Speaker 15: The thing that I'm hearing from people is they listen
• 32:33
  Speaker 15: to one and then they can't stop listening to the others.
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: It's exactly right, man. Give me the timeline. Basie warbs
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: up the crowd. They started at like 9 p.m. But
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: they all Mr. S was Mr. S was on like
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: his second show was like two in the morning, was
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: it not?
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 32:49
  Speaker 15: And and I was very lucky because our mutual friend,
• 32:52
  Speaker 15: Johnny Pizza, I had known Pat Cooper. but I didn't
• 32:55
  Speaker 15: know Pat's widow and Johnny connected me with Pat's widow.
• 32:58
  Speaker 15: And I called her about a year ago because Pat
• 33:00
  Speaker 15: was the comedian. It was Basie would come out and
• 33:03
  Speaker 15: do four or five tracks. In fact, about 20 years ago,
• 33:07
  Speaker 15: we gave reprise the tapes because they did tape Basie.
• 33:13
  Speaker 15: And there's a CD that came out before Frank, the Basie,
• 33:17
  Speaker 15: you know, one of the Basie show, but I, I
• 33:19
  Speaker 15: had to break the news to Emily, Pat's widow. I said,
• 33:22
  Speaker 15: They stopped the tape when they announced Pat Cooper. They
• 33:25
  Speaker 15: didn't take the comedian, and then it comes back on.
• 33:28
  Speaker 15: And then what they did was Wally Heider and United
• 33:32
  Speaker 15: Recorders were there recording Frank and the shows. They were
• 33:35
  Speaker 15: not patched into the PA system of the Sands. So
• 33:38
  Speaker 15: when you hear our shows, you're hearing Doug Cody, who
• 33:41
  Speaker 15: was the announcer at the Sands, but he's not present
• 33:45
  Speaker 15: because he wasn't patched into Wally. What Sonny Burke did was,
• 33:49
  Speaker 15: was when they put this album out and he realized
• 33:51
  Speaker 15: that he hired William Conrad, who was a great radio voice,
• 33:55
  Speaker 15: later became Canon. He hired William Conrad to do the voiceover,
• 34:00
  Speaker 15: and that's what you hear on the original Sands album.
• 34:03
  Speaker 15: That's not from the show. William Conrad went in a
• 34:06
  Speaker 15: month before this album was released, Sinatra at the Sands,
• 34:09
  Speaker 15: and did a voiceover because they had not patched in
• 34:13
  Speaker 15: to the Sands PA while he had his four-track machine going.
• 34:17
  Speaker 15: But Pat, yeah, Pat did a show. And then basically
• 34:20
  Speaker 15: and I was so lucky because Emily went through her files.
• 34:24
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 34:24
  Speaker 15: And I knew that Dean and you can hear Frank
• 34:26
  Speaker 15: say on the show that, you know, the day go
• 34:29
  Speaker 15: came in and did Monday nights for me. Dean actually
• 34:32
  Speaker 15: did a show with Basie every Monday night for those
• 34:35
  Speaker 15: four weeks. And Pat took a wonderful picture of Dean
• 34:38
  Speaker 15: Martin that we put in the booklet. And if you
• 34:40
  Speaker 15: look behind Dean, you can see the times of the
• 34:42
  Speaker 15: two shows. It's a count Basie, Pat Cooper, Dean Martin.
• 34:46
  Speaker 15: I think it says 8 and 12 a.m. And Dean
• 34:51
  Speaker 15: took a great picture that we have in there of
• 34:53
  Speaker 15: Basie with Pat Cooper. And I've got Pat's recollections in there.
• 34:58
  Speaker 15: So I've got everybody in there that I could still find,
• 35:02
  Speaker 15: even people that were passed away like Pat. I was
• 35:04
  Speaker 15: lucky that Emily shared what he had. And it's just
• 35:08
  Speaker 15: a wonderful package.
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: Pat was the best. They were a blast. I can't
• 35:12
  Speaker 5: even imagine the Cooper room, not only with Basie, with Cooper.
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: And then, of course, can you imagine, Pat?
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 35:18
  Speaker 15: Well, there was a great there's a great story. If
• 35:20
  Speaker 15: you have time that Pat, please. And Pat did his
• 35:24
  Speaker 15: first show and it ran a little long. And Frank
• 35:27
  Speaker 15: or somebody sent Jilly to go talk to Pat and say,
• 35:31
  Speaker 15: you got to cut one joke. And why don't you
• 35:34
  Speaker 15: cut this specific joke, which was the longest joke, which
• 35:38
  Speaker 15: Pat said to Jilly, that's my best joke. He said, well,
• 35:40
  Speaker 15: that's what the old man said. So he went back
• 35:42
  Speaker 15: and he said to Frank, you want me to cut
• 35:45
  Speaker 15: that joke?
• 35:46
  Speaker 13: Cut.
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: Cut.
• 35:46
  Speaker 15: I've got you under my skin out of your set.
• 35:50
  Speaker 15: He never worked with Frank again.
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: We wondered.
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: I'm not surprised because I listen. I know I knew Pat.
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: Well, I love it.
• 36:04
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 36:04
  Speaker 15: If you knew that we love them, but he could be. And,
• 36:06
  Speaker 15: you know, he just rubbed Frank because you would think
• 36:09
  Speaker 15: what a great combination that Pat with the Italian humor
• 36:12
  Speaker 15: should have been opening for Frank in those years. You know,
• 36:16
  Speaker 15: we all love and miss Tom Dreesen. But in the
• 36:19
  Speaker 15: 60s and 70s, you wondered why Pat wasn't in the
• 36:23
  Speaker 15: Pat Henry spot, you know, with the Italian humor.
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: Now we know, thanks to Charles Fignon. Charlie, we love, listen,
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: please stay with me a couple more seconds. Charlie, on
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: disc four. Mr. S, and as you listen, we invite
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: everybody to check out this new re-release of Sinatra at
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: the Sands. It's got pictures. It's got notes. It's got
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: Charlie Pignone really brought forth. Like, as he says, you'll
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: feel like you're right back there. First show, second show,
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: back in the 60s. And a lot of us were
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: like kids in junior high school and in high school.
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: Disc 4, a little spicy at the end of those...
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: Those tea breaks there with Elizabeth Taylor jokes.
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: Hysterical.
• 37:02
  Speaker 13: Oh, yeah.
• 37:03
  Speaker 15: And yeah, because she was on Sammy's special. The other
• 37:06
  Speaker 15: interesting thing about this, and I'm sure Sinatra fans and
• 37:09
  Speaker 15: you pick up on it. So he he never recorded
• 37:11
  Speaker 15: the shadow of your smile. But when I saw Quincy's
• 37:15
  Speaker 15: arrangement and I looked in our in their book, we
• 37:17
  Speaker 15: have six or eight months before this engagement. Nelson Riddle
• 37:22
  Speaker 15: did an arrangement of the shadow of your smile. Frank
• 37:24
  Speaker 15: did it several times live, but when they went to
• 37:27
  Speaker 15: the sands, he had Quincy revise the arrangements for the
• 37:32
  Speaker 15: Basie orchestra. So there was never a recording of it.
• 37:36
  Speaker 15: I'm hoping I co-produced an album about two years ago,
• 37:39
  Speaker 15: Seth MacFarlane of the lost Sinatra arrangements. And on number two,
• 37:44
  Speaker 15: when I told him there's a Nelson Riddle arrangement of
• 37:47
  Speaker 15: the shadow of your smile, he said, Oh, We got
• 37:49
  Speaker 15: to save that for this, too, because it's that, you know,
• 37:52
  Speaker 15: I got to have some great stuff on this, too.
• 37:53
  Speaker 15: But there is a Nelson Riddle arrangement of The Shadow
• 37:56
  Speaker 15: of Your Smile. Frank was going to do that originally
• 37:59
  Speaker 15: on one of the albums and then took it off.
• 38:01
  Speaker 15: And then, you know, Quincy tells a great story. He's
• 38:04
  Speaker 15: told it many times when they were flying up to Vegas.
• 38:08
  Speaker 15: Frank said, let's put The Shadow of Your Smile. I
• 38:12
  Speaker 15: think Johnny Mandel is coming up.
• 38:14
  Speaker 13: Let's put that.
• 38:14
  Speaker 15: Can you write an arrangement? So we have it when
• 38:17
  Speaker 15: we open there. And Quincy said, I can, but do
• 38:19
  Speaker 15: you know the song? And Frank said, don't worry about it.
• 38:22
  Speaker 15: Quincy said, Frank took out a lined pad, yellow pad
• 38:28
  Speaker 15: and started writing the lyrics down. And Quincy said he
• 38:31
  Speaker 15: fell asleep for a half hour. And when he woke up,
• 38:33
  Speaker 15: Frank was still writing those lyrics. So subconsciously he kept
• 38:38
  Speaker 15: writing and writing them. They would be in his mind.
• 38:41
  Speaker 15: And he, and Quincy would tell that story to me
• 38:43
  Speaker 15: all the time, how the old man just was so
• 38:45
  Speaker 15: dedicated and, you know, Quincy used to love to say
• 38:48
  Speaker 15: it's like people would say they'd see Fred Astaire dance
• 38:51
  Speaker 15: and you think you could dance like that because you
• 38:53
  Speaker 15: made it look so effortlessly. And if the people don't know,
• 38:56
  Speaker 15: you know, the time Astaire put into dance, but also
• 38:59
  Speaker 15: what Frank into his craft, you know, he really worked
• 39:03
  Speaker 15: at it.
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's incredible. Charles Pignon. Charlie, before we let you go,
• 39:07
  Speaker 5: walk us through, if you'd be so kind, Charlie, the
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: Copa room, 600 seats, band to the left, band to
• 39:14
  Speaker 5: the left was.
• 39:15
  Speaker 15: A, And for this one, yes, the band was to
• 39:19
  Speaker 15: the left. There's some great pictures in there of Frank
• 39:22
  Speaker 15: and he would walk around and and he would actually
• 39:26
  Speaker 15: with Marshall Royal on some of those things, he would
• 39:29
  Speaker 15: actually go up. right to the horn section and Larry
• 39:31
  Speaker 15: Walsh did a great job because Frank would put his mic,
• 39:34
  Speaker 15: even though Wally Heider had miked the band, Frank would
• 39:37
  Speaker 15: put his mic right near whoever was doing a solo.
• 39:41
  Speaker 15: And Bill Miller is back behind Basie in the back
• 39:46
  Speaker 15: of it because he, Frank wanted Bill to play some
• 39:49
  Speaker 15: fills because as Frank said, Basie would only use a
• 39:52
  Speaker 15: couple notes and do this and that. So like on,
• 39:55
  Speaker 15: on some of those songs, like a crush on you.
• 39:57
  Speaker 15: And we did bring up the piano a little so
• 39:59
  Speaker 15: you can hear, you can now hear a bill and
• 40:02
  Speaker 15: Basie and you can different styles of playing. And I
• 40:05
  Speaker 15: think it just sounds fantastic.
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: It is extraordinary, and I want to applaud you on
• 40:10
  Speaker 5: this because you get hooked on it as well, especially
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: if you go for a ride, Charlie. Like I was
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: in the car. I had to go see my daughter.
• 40:17
  Speaker 5: I was an hour in the car. Put this on.
• 40:20
  Speaker 5: It goes from one to the other. It's kind of
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: like watching when you binge watch something. You can't stop
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: listening to this. So walk us through. It's at FrankSinatra.com.
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: It's got the five CDs. He said, what was it
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: if I made Charles Pignon? What made you put it
• 40:33
  Speaker 5: in CD? That's making a big comeback, apparently, huh?
• 40:37
  Speaker 13: Oh, yeah.
• 40:37
  Speaker 15: Well, I always like to do physical, and we also...
• 40:40
  Speaker 15: Larry remixed the original album because we wanted to put
• 40:44
  Speaker 15: the original album. That's out on Vinylphile, and you can
• 40:46
  Speaker 15: go to the Sinatra site or probably get it quicker
• 40:49
  Speaker 15: from Amazon.com. But yeah, we put out the original album
• 40:53
  Speaker 15: as Sonny Burke cut it on LP Vinylphile, and I'm hoping...
• 40:57
  Speaker 15: that next year we've been asked by record store day
• 41:01
  Speaker 15: to pick one of the shows and maybe put out
• 41:04
  Speaker 15: a LP to LP set of one of these shows
• 41:07
  Speaker 15: that are on this album. I mean, universal is depending
• 41:10
  Speaker 15: on the cells because LPs are selling well, we might
• 41:13
  Speaker 15: put out a five LP set or it would be
• 41:16
  Speaker 15: 10 discs of mirror this, uh, what's on the CDs,
• 41:21
  Speaker 15: but CDs are just, I just love CDs and, you know, I.
• 41:26
  Speaker 5: You always say, yeah. I'm sorry.
• 41:29
  Speaker 15: I just love CDs. Go ahead.
• 41:31
  Speaker 5: You say, even the digital, the digital is great, but
• 41:33
  Speaker 5: you say on a CD, sometimes you can hear it
• 41:35
  Speaker 5: with more clarity than vinyl. I prefer the vinyl, but
• 41:38
  Speaker 5: you could hear it clear as day on the CD
• 41:41
  Speaker 5: or digital download, Charles, right?
• 41:43
  Speaker 15: Yeah, and I'll tell you why on this set I
• 41:45
  Speaker 15: prefer the CD. You don't break the mood because you
• 41:49
  Speaker 15: have to go internal. Now, if you're listening to Moonlight
• 41:51
  Speaker 15: Sinatra or one of the concepts albums, it's okay to
• 41:54
  Speaker 15: turn around, but here you can hear the whole– hour
• 41:58
  Speaker 15: show without getting up and taking a break so it's
• 42:00
  Speaker 15: like you're hearing the whole.
• 42:01
  Speaker 5: Thing charlie pinon i love you man and i'm sure
• 42:05
  Speaker 5: i love you.
• 42:06
  Speaker 15: Thank you and i can't say anymore you i appreciate
• 42:10
  Speaker 15: everything you do for tina us the sanat family we
• 42:13
  Speaker 15: love you my friend and john john and margo tell
• 42:15
  Speaker 15: him i said hello i hope to see you in
• 42:16
  Speaker 15: person soon.
• 42:18
  Speaker 5: Charles, Godspeed, my friend, and thank you so much, Charles. Mr.
• 42:22
  Speaker 5: Charles Pignon, the president of Sinatra Enterprises, bringing forth this
• 42:26
  Speaker 5: classic re-release of Sinatra at the Sands. Joe Piscopo, live
• 42:31
  Speaker 5: on the radio. This is full of a Sinatra showcase.
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  Speaker 5: And you know what? We're going to come back with Mr.
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  Speaker 5: S live at the Sands. This is a beautiful, beautiful album,
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  Speaker 5: a beautiful, beautiful re-release. And we're playing it live with
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  Speaker 5: Piscopo on the radio. Coming right back.
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  Speaker 2: This is Bolivar's Sinatra Showcase. This is Bolivar's Sinatra Showcase
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  Speaker 2: with your host Joe Piscopo on Music Radio. This is
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  Speaker 2: Bolivar's Sinatra Showcase with your host, Joe Piscopo, on Music Radio.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you.
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  Speaker 8: This is a lovely song that was inspired by a
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  Speaker 8: wonderful recording by Tony Bennett.
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  Speaker 4: The shadow of your smile.
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  Speaker 9: When you are gone We'll color all my dreams And.
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  Speaker 8: Light the dawn Look into my eyes.
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  Speaker 4: My love and the sea.
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  Speaker 16: All the lovely things you are to me.
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  Speaker 4: Our wistful little star.
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  Speaker 8: It was far too high.
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  Speaker 4: A teardrop kissed your.
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  Speaker 8: Lips and so, so did I. Now when I remember spring.
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  Speaker 17: And every little lovely thing I.
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  Speaker 4: Will be remembering.
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  Speaker 8: The shadow of your smile Your lovely smile.
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  Speaker 5: That's what Charlie Pignon talking about, the shadow of your smile.
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  Speaker 5: I love that version. Live at the Sands. That was
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  Speaker 5: the first show in January 27th, 1966. I love the
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  Speaker 5: baritone bass, the baritone saxophone, you know. That bass sound
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  Speaker 5: that came up at the end of the song. Joe Piscopo,
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  Speaker 5: Boulevard Sinatra Showcase. I always get inspired talking to Charles Pignol,
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  Speaker 5: and we appreciate him putting up so much effort, getting
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  Speaker 5: the tapes from the 1960s and making sure it sounds
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  Speaker 5: good on CD, making sure it sounds good on vinyl.
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  Speaker 5: And that's why we're grateful, you know, to Elias Rapp,
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  Speaker 5: putting this together and making sure it sounds good to
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  Speaker 5: you over the airwaves. Let's continue. Ricky, if we may,
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  Speaker 5: you're doing a great job, kid. Let's go back to
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  Speaker 5: the sands. with the classic Fly Me to the Moon.
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  Speaker 4: Now here's a.
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  Speaker 8: Man who's taking me by the hand and leading me
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  Speaker 8: to the correct tempo. And he knows how.
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  Speaker 4: Fly me to the moon. Let me play up there
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  Speaker 4: with those stars.
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  Speaker 8: Let me see what life is like on Jupiter and
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  Speaker 8: Mars In other words, hold my hand.
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  Speaker 4: In other words, baby kiss me.
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  Speaker 8: Fill my heart with song Let me sing forevermore.
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  Speaker 11: You are all I long for All I worship and
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  Speaker 11: adore In other.
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  Speaker 4: Words Please be true.
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  Speaker 8: In other words I do love.
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  Speaker 4: You Escalate.
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  Speaker 14: Thank you.
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  Speaker 8: Why don't you fill my heart with song Let me
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  Speaker 8: sing forevermore Because.
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  Speaker 4: You are all I long for All I worship and
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  Speaker 4: adore In other words.
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  Speaker 6: Please be true In other.
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  Speaker 4: Words In other words.
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  Speaker 8: I, I love Scooby Dooby Doo Doo doo doo doo.
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  Speaker 5: You There's the man right there. I'm telling you. Thank
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  Speaker 5: you so much. I hear from my buddy Bill in Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 5: I love you, Bill, man. Thank you so much. He's
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  Speaker 5: ordering the Sinatra at the Sands re-release now. And then
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  Speaker 5: John in Oklahoma. John, we love you listening in Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you so much. And everybody, I know you're listening
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  Speaker 5: down in Australia as well. We're streaming live, by the way.
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  Speaker 5: You know, we broadcast out of the mothership. Thanks to Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Katimatidis and Margo on WABC Radio out of New York,
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  Speaker 5: 770 Music Radio, WABC. But we stream worldwide on WABCRadio.com
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  Speaker 5: if you get a chance. And everybody's listening everywhere to
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  Speaker 5: Bull of a Sinatra Showcase. And we don't ever, ever
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  Speaker 5: take that for granted. We love you for listening, you know.
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  Speaker 5: And if you're listening on a Sunday morning on the,
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  Speaker 5: you know, the repeat, you know what? We love you
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  Speaker 5: for listening then as well. Joe Piscopo, Bull of a
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  Speaker 5: Sinatra Showcase, coming right.
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  Speaker 4: Back.
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  Speaker 2: The chairman of the board, Old Blue Eyes, the Sultan
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  Speaker 2: of Swoon. Ladies and gentlemen, Frank Sinatra! This is Bulova's
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  Speaker 2: Sinatra Showcase, with your host, Joe Piscopo, on Music Radio.
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  Speaker 2: Music This is Bolivar's Sinatra Showcase.
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  Speaker 3: I have discovered a young man whom I think is
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  Speaker 3: going to be a superstar. He's got good stage presence,
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  Speaker 3: great set of pipes.
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  Speaker 4: He's Italian.
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  Speaker 3: And he has a unique way with a phrase. But
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  Speaker 3: more than that, there's just something I like about the guy.
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  Speaker 3: You see what I think. You'll know what I think.
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  Speaker 3: Here's my new discovery, Joe Piscopo.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Joe on the radio. It's full of a Sinatra showcase.
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  Speaker 5: Live as live can be, baby. Love to have you
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  Speaker 5: with us. And thanks to Mr. Charles Pignon for joining
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  Speaker 5: us last hour. My goodness gracious, so much fun. And
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  Speaker 5: Charlie was there when Frank Sinatra did that introduction. It
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  Speaker 5: was 1986. It was solid gold. It was with Dionne Warwick.
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  Speaker 5: And Mr. S asked me to be there. I've told
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  Speaker 5: you this story many times. And there I was in makeup.
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  Speaker 5: I was in makeup and Frank Sinatra makeup.
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  Speaker 4: And he was right there.
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  Speaker 5: And he gave me the most glorious introduction. And it
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  Speaker 5: was really like a love affair. Ironically enough, a very
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  Speaker 5: young Joe Piscopo was there. And a very young Charles
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  Speaker 5: Pignon was right there with Mr. Sinatra. And we love that. Tina,
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  Speaker 5: of course, Tina is the gatekeeper of everything. Mr. Sinatra
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  Speaker 5: and Bob Finkelstein. But Charlie just puts these beautiful, beautiful
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  Speaker 5: presentations together. So we're celebrating Sinatra at the Sands. Really
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  Speaker 5: our favorite album. Everybody's favorite album, you know. But now
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  Speaker 5: we grab different cuts from different shows. And this is
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  Speaker 5: disc two that we're featuring tonight. And then I'm going
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  Speaker 5: to take, I think in the second half hour, Ricky
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  Speaker 5: doing a great job at the board. Thank you. Elias
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  Speaker 5: Raff is with us. Ricky is with us. We appreciate
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  Speaker 5: Chris Libertini helping to produce the show. We appreciate that.
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  Speaker 5: I'm thinking second half hour. We play the tea break.
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  Speaker 5: The tea break is almost 15 minutes. Should we do it?
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  Speaker 5: Should we do it? Give us a call. Let us know.
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  Speaker 5: Cause I may play that. It's really Frank Sinatra. It's
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  Speaker 5: so early in the morning. Like Charlie said, it was
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  Speaker 5: like the last four weeks, man. of the show, and
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  Speaker 5: we may very well do that, you know, on Boulevard
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  Speaker 5: Sinatra Showcase. 800-848-9222, 800-848-9222. Joe Piscopo, Boulevard Sinatra Showcase. Let's
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  Speaker 5: kick it back in gear. Live at the Sands, Las Vegas, Nevada.
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  Speaker 5: The first show at the Copa Room, January 27th, 1966.
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  Speaker 5: You make me feel so young. I mean, 29, seriously.
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  Speaker 8: You make me feel so young You make me feel
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  Speaker 8: like spring has spun Every time I see you grin
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  Speaker 8: I'm such a happy individual The moment that you speak
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  Speaker 8: I want to run, play, hide and seek I want
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  Speaker 8: to go and bounce to moon Just like a toy balloon.
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  Speaker 4: You and I Just like a couple of tots.
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  Speaker 8: Running around at home Picking up all those forget-me-nots You
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  Speaker 8: make me feel there are songs to be sung Bells
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  Speaker 8: to be rung and a wonderful fling to be flung.
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  Speaker 4: And even when I'm old and.
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  Speaker 8: Grey I'm gonna feel the way I do today Because
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  Speaker 8: you make me feel so young You make me young
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  Speaker 8: You make me think that spring has sprung Every time
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  Speaker 8: I see you grin I'm such a cuckoo individual The
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  Speaker 8: moment that you speak I like to run and play
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  Speaker 8: hide and seek I'd like to go and bounce at
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  Speaker 8: the moon just like a big balloon because you and
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  Speaker 8: I we are just like a couple of tots who
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  Speaker 8: are running around the meadow snatching up all those forget-me-nots
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  Speaker 8: you You make me young You make me feel.
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  Speaker 4: There are songs to be sung Lots of bells to
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  Speaker 4: be rung And a wonderful fling to be.
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  Speaker 6: Flung And even when I'm old and gray I'm gonna
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  Speaker 6: feel the way I do today Because you make me.
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  Speaker 18: Feel so Man, I just feel.
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  Speaker 8: So You make me feel so young, so young.
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  Speaker 5: Frank Sinatra at the Sands, Joe Piscopo featuring the 60th
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  Speaker 5: anniversary of Sinatra at the Sands. Hey, we got Hoboken
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  Speaker 5: Mary on the phone. We got, I'll tell you, she
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  Speaker 5: is so always welcome to call anytime. Mary, were you
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  Speaker 5: at the Knights of Columbus tonight, my dear?
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  Speaker 13: Yes, it was really nice, Joe. It started at 6.30.
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  Speaker 13: By 8.30, it was over and out. But anyway, all
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  Speaker 13: we did, Joe, all we did was eat, and it
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  Speaker 13: was very nice. And there was a lot of different
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  Speaker 13: people there, so I didn't know too many. But I
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  Speaker 13: had a table of 10. I did. I had a
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  Speaker 13: table of 10, and everybody there was very, very nice.
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  Speaker 13: We had about four priests hanging around. eating and uh
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  Speaker 13: but it was very nice joe but as i said
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  Speaker 13: and maybe another time you know what i mean.
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  Speaker 5: Well you know what we didn't know what was was
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  Speaker 5: it at the saint hands or was it another.
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  Speaker 13: Parish no no saint francis my church uh they this
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  Speaker 13: the knights of columbus did their october fest and my
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  Speaker 13: priest said yes they could do that in my in
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  Speaker 13: my center here It was the Knights of Columbus.
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  Speaker 5: Well done. Because this is what we did. So I
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  Speaker 5: said to Stacey, I said, you know, Mary's going to
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  Speaker 5: be at the Knights of Columbus in Hoboken. I said,
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  Speaker 5: what better way to celebrate the re-release of Sinatra at
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  Speaker 5: the Sands than in Hoboken, New Jersey? So now, but
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  Speaker 5: then I needed, I needed engineers and we needed to
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  Speaker 5: play back. By time we would have got on the air.
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  Speaker 5: Like now I think people would have been sleeping, Mary,
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  Speaker 5: you know? Oh yeah, they.
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  Speaker 13: Would have left three hours ago, Joe. Yeah, no, that wasn't.
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  Speaker 13: But Joe, guess who? That's from Blue Eyes. He said, Mary,
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  Speaker 13: Joe could come here anytime he wants.
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  Speaker 4: You're on.
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  Speaker 13: And you know who else said something? I want to
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  Speaker 13: tell Stacey, but I haven't heard from her. The thing is,
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  Speaker 13: even Reds in Karlstad, if you ever want to do
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  Speaker 13: anything there, you're welcome, Joe. As I said, you know, Joe,
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  Speaker 13: your name around Hoboken or around the neighborhood, you would
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  Speaker 13: get unbelievable, you know? But anyway.
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  Speaker 5: I got to mention Hoboken Mary. I'll get a freebie.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe I'll get a free dinner. I'm just saying. Come
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  Speaker 5: on now.
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  Speaker 4: Mary, wait, wait, wait.
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  Speaker 5: While we have you, hold on. Mary, so did you
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  Speaker 5: play Reds already? You played Red, right?
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  Speaker 13: Oh, I played there four times already, Joe.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, well, excuse me. Look at you.
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  Speaker 4: Look at you.
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  Speaker 13: But, Joe, what happened when I started there, I was
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  Speaker 13: in competition. So, you know, I had to keep winning
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  Speaker 13: and winning and winning. Finally, I won. Like, you know
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  Speaker 13: what I mean?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, girl, you're doing so good.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 58:45
  Speaker 5: And then you're going to open for Sal Valentinetti at
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  Speaker 5: the Basie Theater. You got to let us know when
• 58:50
  Speaker 5: you do that. I was just at the Basie last
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  Speaker 5: week with Brian Kilmeade. What a beautiful theater. Great. And
• 58:56
  Speaker 5: you love the guys backstage. It was great. And you're
• 58:59
  Speaker 5: doing that in November, you said?
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  Speaker 13: November 29th, but Joe, it's next door to the Basie Theater.
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  Speaker 13: It's called the Vogel, V-O-G-E-L.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I love that place. It's a little small. no
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  Speaker 5: it's perfect it's perfect it's beautiful yeah it's the hip
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  Speaker 5: it's the Vogel everybody's playing the Vogel now that is
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  Speaker 5: that's going to be so great Mary we love you
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  Speaker 5: and I love that you support the community like I
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  Speaker 5: went I stopped at uh my my friend's church St.
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  Speaker 5: Bridget and PPAC Gladstone with Father John there before the
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  Speaker 5: show And then I stopped, and I saw those nice
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  Speaker 5: people there, man. And it's like you with the Knights
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  Speaker 5: of Columbus tonight. And I tell you, just good people
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  Speaker 5: like yourself that really make this country a great place
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  Speaker 5: to be. So we appreciate all that you do, Mary,
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  Speaker 5: you know? And we send our love to you.
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  Speaker 13: Thank you, John. And boy, oh boy, John, Joe, I
• 59:45
  Speaker 13: called Winnie's. I said, is Joe Piscopo going to be
• 59:48
  Speaker 13: there tomorrow night? Because, Joe, I would have came to Winnie's,
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  Speaker 13: believe me. But you know what they said? We're so
• 59:54
  Speaker 13: booked up. He won't be here this weekend. So, you know,
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 13: my son said he made a joke. He goes, he
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 13: could come up to your apartment.
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  Speaker 2: You're all alone.
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  Speaker 5: We'll bring the bed. We'll bring the bed. Mary, we
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  Speaker 5: love you. Go ahead.
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  Speaker 13: All right, Jay. Stay well.
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  Speaker 5: You take care of yourself. Hoboken Mary, the one and only,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 5: the best. And we will be back at Winnie's. And
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 5: then we're going to bring George Robinson in, in January.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 5: The tentative date is January. I think the end of January,
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 5: George Robinson is from England. He's going to make his
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 5: American debut at Winnie's. This kid is 16 years old.
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  Speaker 5: He sounds exactly whoever he wants to sound like. Frank Sinatra.
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  Speaker 5: He does beautiful Frank Sinatra music.
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  Speaker 9: 16!
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  Speaker 5: English kid. Just a nice kid. A very, very nice
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 5: young man. And then he's got Dean Martin. And you
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 5: know what? Tony Bennett. And he knows all the standards.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 5: And he's going to keep them alive. And we'll let
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 5: you know all about that as we get closer. Hey,
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 5: we got time. We got time.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 5: Ricky's at the board, baby. Let's go back to the sands. 1966. Oh,
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  Speaker 5: I was a little baby. Hey, this is Frank Sinatra
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  Speaker 5: ripping it up with luck. Be a lady.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 8: They call you Lady Luck, but there is room for doubt.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 8: At times you have a very unladylike way of running out.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 8: You're on this date with me. The pickings have been lush.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 8: And yet before this evening is over, you might give
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 8: me the brush.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 4: You might forget your manners. You might refuse to stay.
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  Speaker 8: And so the best that I can do is pray.
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  Speaker 8: Luck be a lady tonight Luck be a lady tonight
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  Speaker 8: Luck if you've ever been a lady.
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  Speaker 4: To begin with Luck be a lady tonight.
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  Speaker 8: Luck, let a gentleman see Just how nice A dame.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 4: You can be.
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  Speaker 8: I know the way you've treated Other guys you've been
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 8: with How about you being.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 4: A lady with me?
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 8: A lady doesn't leave her escort.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 4: It isn't fair And it's not nice.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 8: A lady doesn't wander All over the room And then
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 8: blow on another guy's dice How about we keep this
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 8: party polite Never move out of my sight Stick with me,
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 8: baby I'm the guy that you came in with.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 4: Hey, let's be a.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 8: Lady tonight Yeah! Luck let a gentleman see Just how
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 8: nice a pretty dame you can be I know the
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 8: way you treat it Other guys you've been with How
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 8: about you be a lady with me? A lady doesn't
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 8: leave her escort It isn't.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 4: Fair And it's not nice A lady doesn't.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 8: Wander All over the room And then blow on another
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 8: guy's dice.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we keep this party polite Never get out of my.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 8: Sight Stick with me, baby I'm the guy that you
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 8: came in with.
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  Speaker 4: Let's be a lady. Let's be a lady. Let's be
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 4: a lady tonight.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 7: Tonight.
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  Speaker 4: 11.
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  Speaker 5: Frank Sinatra, we're just celebrating the 60th anniversary of the
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 5: Sands album. It's something that I guess you can get
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 5: on Amazon, like Charlie Pignon said, and you can go
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 5: to FrankSinatra.com, but you want to see it. There's a
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 5: litany and a plethora of information. Cousin Paulie, thank you
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 5: for listening. My cousin Paulie listened, and God bless him.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 5: One of the great guys on the planet, you know,
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 5: making us proud. You know what I got to do
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 5: before we're going to break in a second, but I
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 5: want you to listen to When you think about the
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 5: Basie band, don't forget at the Sands, 1966, when Mr.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 5: S went there and he had this beautiful synergy with
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 5: Count Basie and the orchestra. I don't know that there
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 5: was a band better than that since or before. I'm
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 5: telling you. Listen to the synergy of this song. After Mr. S,
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 5: he would step away for a second and they would
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 5: go into One O'Clock Jump. Ricky, give me One O'Clock
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 5: Jump if you will. One O'Clock Jump. That is probably
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 5: the greatest big band ever. And you know me. I
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 5: love Krupa. I love Benny Goodman. I know Glenn Miller,
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 5: Tommy Dorsey, the greatest big band. And to this day,
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 5: I've never heard anything like it. I'm telling you what,
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 5: it was a synergy and the genius of the Count
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 5: Basie Orchestra under the direction of Quincy Jones. Just incredible.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 5: I'll tell you what, we're going to take a little
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 5: bit of break and then we're going to come back.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 5: We're going to go back to Vegas. 1966, I was
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 5: a baby! But oh man, Frank Sinatra was swinging on stage.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 5: And we're going to celebrate it right here on both
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 5: of us, Sinatra's Showcase with Piscopo, live on the radio.
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  Speaker 2: This is Bolivar's Sinatra Showcase. This is Bolivar's Sinatra Showcase
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  Speaker 2: with your host, Joe Piscopo on Music Radio. Music This
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  Speaker 2: is Bolivar's Sinatra Showcase with your host, Joe Piscopo, on
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  Speaker 2: music radio. Here's an awfully pretty folk song.
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  Speaker 9: When I.
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  Speaker 4: Was 17 It was a very good year It was
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  Speaker 4: a very good year.
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  Speaker 8: It was a very good year It was a very
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  Speaker 8: good year For small town girls And soft summer nights
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  Speaker 8: We'd hide from the lights.
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  Speaker 4: Under the village green.
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  Speaker 8: When I was 17.
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  Speaker 7: When I was 21 It was a very good year
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  Speaker 7: It was a very good year For city girls Who
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  Speaker 7: lived up.
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  Speaker 6: The stairs With.
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  Speaker 17: All that.
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  Speaker 4: Her fumed hair.
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  Speaker 8: And it came undone when I was 21. Then I
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  Speaker 8: was 35 It.
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  Speaker 12: Was a very.
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  Speaker 4: Good year It.
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  Speaker 8: Was a very good year For blue-blooded girls Of independent
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  Speaker 8: means We'd ride in limousines Their chauffeurs would drive When
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  Speaker 8: I was thirty-five.
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  Speaker 4: But now the days grow short I'm in the autumn
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  Speaker 4: of the year.
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  Speaker 8: And now I think of my life As vintage wine
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  Speaker 8: from fine old kegs From the brim to the drakes.
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  Speaker 4: And it pours sweet and clear.
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  Speaker 12: It was a very good year.
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  Speaker 4: It was a mess of good years.
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  Speaker 5: Frank Sinatra, Urban Drake wrote that song and Mr. Sinatra,
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  Speaker 5: of course, that was a folk song. You know the story.
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  Speaker 5: And he said, I love this. And he did it
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  Speaker 5: and he owned it. And he's recording this. You know,
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  Speaker 5: he's doing his first show back in January 66, man,
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  Speaker 5: doing two shows a night. You could hear it in
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  Speaker 5: his voice. I love it. I love it when you
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 5: could hear the Vegas and Frank Sinatra's voice. You know what?
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  Speaker 5: Let's go. Let's go back swinging. And then, yeah, listen,
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  Speaker 5: we got time before we break. This is a swinging,
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  Speaker 5: swinging song that Mr. Sinatra totally nails. And don't forget,
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  Speaker 5: two shows a night. He just ran the whole month
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  Speaker 5: with two shows a night. God bless him. Frank Sinatra, Vegas, 1966, baby.
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  Speaker 5: My kind of town.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: Very kind.
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  Speaker 8: Now this could only happen to a guy like me.
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  Speaker 4: And only happen in a town like.
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  Speaker 8: This And so I say to each of you most
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  Speaker 8: gratefully As I throw each one of you a kiss
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  Speaker 8: This is my kind of town Chicago is My kind
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  Speaker 8: of town Chicago is My kind of.
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  Speaker 4: People too.
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  Speaker 8: People who smile at you And each time I roam
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  Speaker 8: Chicago is It's calling me home Chicago is It makes
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  Speaker 8: me grin like a clown It's my, my kind of
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  Speaker 8: town This.
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  Speaker 19: Here is my kind of town.
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  Speaker 8: My kind of town Chicago is.
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  Speaker 4: My kind of razzmatazz And it has.
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  Speaker 18: All that jazz And each time I leave Chicago is
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  Speaker 18: It's grabbing my sleeve Chicago.
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  Speaker 20: Is The Wrigley Building Chicago is The Jumpin' Pump Room,
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  Speaker 20: Chicago is.
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  Speaker 8: One town that won't let you down.
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  Speaker 4: It's my kind.
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  Speaker 7: Of town.
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  Speaker 18: Chicago, Chicago, Chicago, my kind of town.
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  Speaker 9: Chicago.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, celebrating the Sands. Thank you, Ricky.
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  Speaker 9: Beautiful, baby. You know what?
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  Speaker 5: I got to tell you something. This was, as my
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 5: buddy Bill in Philly just said, our favorite album's got
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  Speaker 5: to be this.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: The main event. The main event, you know, with Howard
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 5: Cosell doing that intro. Was that a great album? Come on. Also,
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  Speaker 5: a lot of people like some of the, you know,
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 5: We Small Hours, you know, some of the concept albums.
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  Speaker 5: But this album at the Sands, we always are drawn
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  Speaker 5: back to. So we applaud Charles Pignon and Sinatra Enterprises
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  Speaker 5: with Tina... putting this out because it is just a joy,
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  Speaker 5: absolute joy to listen to. And we're going to get
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  Speaker 5: back to it now. I think what we're going to
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 5: do when we come back, we're going to play Tea Break.
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  Speaker 5: And it's a different Tea Break that you have not
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  Speaker 5: heard before. that Mr. Pignon had found on tapes from
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  Speaker 5: the Sands back in the 60s. Oh, baby, it's Boulevard
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  Speaker 5: Sinatra Showcase with Joe Piscopo, in my glory. By the way,
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 5: we're live as live can be, and we love having
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 5: you with us. And you know what? Stay tuned, because
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 5: we're coming right back with more from the Sands on
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  Speaker 5: Boulevard Sinatra Showcase.
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  Speaker 2: This is Bolivar's Sinatra Showcase on Music Radio. Music The
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 2: chairman of the board, Old Blue Eyes, the Sultan of Swoon.
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  Speaker 16: Ladies and gentlemen, Greg Sinatra!
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  Speaker 2: This is Bulova's Sinatra Showcase, with your host, Joe Piscopo,
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 2: on Music Radio. Hey, Joe on the radio, Bulova Sinatra Showcase,
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  Speaker 2: celebrating the re-release, the 60th anniversary, 60 years, of Sinatra
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 2: at the Sands with Count Basie and the orchestra. It
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 2: came out, actually yesterday it came out, and now it's out,
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 2: and you're going to be able to get it at Amazon,
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 2: and you can download it. And I listened to all,
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 2: there's like four plus hours of Frank Sinatra. To me,
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: you can't get enough. It's like, I always say, it's
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 2: like binge watching something. You know, if you watch something
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 2: on Netflix or something, this is what you're going to
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  Speaker 2: feel when you listen to Sinatra at the Sands. It's
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  Speaker 2: quite extraordinary. But now, you heard Charles Pignon on the show.
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  Speaker 2: Each tea break that he called the tea break, and
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  Speaker 2: he would come out with tea, Mr. S would, and
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  Speaker 2: he would have the tea with the, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: he would sip the tea. It wasn't booze.
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  Speaker 5: And he would do a little riff, a little. And
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  Speaker 5: you know that from the original Sands album. You know
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  Speaker 5: the tea break. Each one on these is outstanding. absolutely different.
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  Speaker 5: So if you would, with your kind permission, Boulevard Sinatra
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 5: Showcase with Joe Piscopo, sit back, relax, all right? And
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  Speaker 5: we want you to enjoy the monologue live from the Sands.
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  Speaker 5: This is from the show January 1966, The Tea Break
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  Speaker 5: with Francis Albert.
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  Speaker 4: Nothing to it, folks. Good evening. Salud. Chin down.
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  Speaker 8: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to Jilly's West. Where
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 8: do you eat meat to eat? And if I rhyme that,
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 8: this will be a barn in the morning. I hope
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 8: that you're having an enjoyable stay here in Las Vegas,
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 8: and I understand and also hope that you have been fortunate.
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 4: I do hope you that constantly. Wish that for you.
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  Speaker 4: I can't say the same for Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Basie and myself, because we run into a streak of
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 8: bad luck.
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 4: Sunday, we went up to the Grand Canyon and it
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 4: was closed.
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  Speaker 8: And last year, we invested a bundle of money in
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 8: a pumpkin farm and then they called off Halloween.
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 4: And when I told that to Sapphire, she said, you're.
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 8: Going around with that bum again.
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  Speaker 4: That's what's the matter with.
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  Speaker 9: You.
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  Speaker 5: Ooh.
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  Speaker 8: Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to explain or at
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  Speaker 8: least beg your forgiveness for any inconveniences about the hotel
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  Speaker 8: if you're staying here because of the rebuilding that's going on.
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  Speaker 8: Some of the corridors are not complete and they've been
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 8: a little... pipes leaking here and there, but that's the
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  Speaker 8: way it goes when you rebuild, and every hotel has
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 8: had to do that. Consequently, we joined the group, and
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 8: we built... How about that round thing out there? Not
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 8: Jack and Trotter, the building I'm talking about. And that's
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 8: just the scaffold you see out there. Wait till you
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  Speaker 8: see when it's finished.
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  Speaker 4: It'll be the worst piece of architecture you've ever seen.
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  Speaker 8: It's very expensive, obviously, you know, to build today. Per
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 8: square foot, it's like 25 bucks or 30 bucks per
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  Speaker 8: square foot.
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  Speaker 4: Consequently, this whole.
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  Speaker 8: A changeover we had was about $ 11, $ 12 million. We
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  Speaker 8: got $ 3 million from the local bank and $ 8 million
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  Speaker 8: from the cocktail waitresses who work around outside.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, don't joke.
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  Speaker 8: One of these kids is named Shearson Hamill. That's a
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 8: brokerage house, Smitty. You know, stocks and bonds, a lot
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 8: of money. From North Nevada, right?
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  Speaker 4: Make you feel at home. Moo!
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  Speaker 13: Bah!
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  Speaker 4: All right, everybody stand up. I want to see many
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 4: pairs of brown shoes in the house.
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 8: Now, they get back to the building, and at the moment,
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  Speaker 8: there ain't no place else to go. They've developed, I understand,
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  Speaker 8: some marvelous decor in the suites up there, and now
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 8: Jack tells me they're going to have plaques put on
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 8: some of the doors. For instance, the Danny Thomas suite,
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 8: just to kind of glamorize a little bit, red skelter suite.
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 4: And the one for Dean, he decorated himself. It's just
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 4: gutter to gutter. There's no furniture. Just straight across the room.
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 4: He likes it that way, folks. You see, Mr. Martin
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 4: falls in the street a lot.
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 8: You'll notice that because, I mean, you'll know that he
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 8: does that because he doesn't wear cufflinks like we do.
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  Speaker 8: He has curb feelers on his shirt so that he
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 8: won't hit his head when he goes to the street.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: You know, the people ask me, you're not too sure,
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 8: so don't get mixed up in it. People, the question
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 8: most asked of me is, does Dean Martin really drink?
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 4: Well, I can attest to that fact. He's a drunk.
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 4: He is an absolutely unqualified drunk.
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 8: And if we ever develop an Olympic drinking team, he's
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 8: going to be the coach. With Tootshaw and Jackie Gleason
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 8: involved and me bringing up the rear end. I would say, roughly,
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 8: that Dean Martin has been stoned more often than the
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 8: United States embassies. I'm not too sure whether you applauded
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 8: for Dean or if we should stone some more embassies.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know about this group here, you know. I say,
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 4: once you've seen one, you've seen them all, you know.
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  Speaker 4: You never know about that.
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  Speaker 8: And.
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 4: Oh, I've got to find my key and use my room.
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 4: This is terrible.
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  Speaker 8: I think I swallowed a shot glass. So dark in
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 8: the Regency room, I never know what the hell I
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 8: was eating or.
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 4: Drinking in there.
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 8: And let me see about Dean. Oh, yes, I would
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 8: like to continue about him. I'll tell you one thing
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 8: about Dean Martin. When you go to his home in
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 8: Beverly Hills for an evening's fun, he holds real steadfast
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 8: to one rule.
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  Speaker 4: There's no drinking after dinner.
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 8: Of course, you don't eat until 3.30 a.m., but there's
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 8: no drinking after dinner. How the hell can you drink
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 8: when you're laying flat on your back in the gym,
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 8: you know? Then his mother-in-law Peggy picks you up and
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 8: rolls you into the dining room. They also have a
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 8: big dog who does that. And Dean is very, very
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 8: wonderful about his family, particularly, let's say, you know, everybody
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 8: makes jokes about their mother-in-law. Not Dean, he loves Peggy.
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 8: He gave her for Christmas a two-story, six-bedroom house. But
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 8: the sheriff keeps closing it down every Saturday. He walks
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 8: up and closes it down. This guy just ain't broad-minded,
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 8: that's all. And I picked the cast myself. Belle Barthes,
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 8: Sophie Tucker, all those good-looking broads. Some of the world's
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 8: great baritones we got in there. You know, the dean
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 8: also for Christmas bought his wife Jeannie a Jaguar and
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 8: it ate her.
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  Speaker 4: You see, folks, I'd like to explain something to you
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 4: right now. See all these microphones? We're taping this.
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  Speaker 8: It's going to be an album. See, you're going to
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 8: buy this in a few months and hear yourself laughing.
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 4: But I'm betting $ 6, 000.
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 8: To $ 1 that they don't use all this stuff. When
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 8: we finish the first phase of the year, which is
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 8: damn near complete now, the second phase is redoing this
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 8: Copa room here.
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 4: Larger stage, more capacity. And Mr.
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 8: And Trotter, to show you the class of the thinking
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 8: of this hotel, they're closing Golden Boy in May to
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 8: bring Sammy Davis in here for four solid weeks just
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 8: to clean. I saw Sammy's first television show. I'd like
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 8: to make one comment on that show. There's a lot
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 8: I can make, but I want to make one comment
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 8: on this show. If Elizabeth Taylor keeps making TV appearances
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 8: in that manner, I'm gonna have to get a bigger
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 8: screen in my house. You know, she's liable to bring
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 8: back mothers one of these days, I'll tell you that.
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 8: Seems I gotta get my kids some balloons, that reminds me.
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 4: She ain't never gonna drown, baby. Ain't no way.
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 8: Sammy Davis wrote a book called Yes I Can and
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 8: when I saw that show I sent him a wire
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 8: and said no you can't.
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 4: Now I guess that you folks have heard or read
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 4: or been told somewhere in your daily life that.
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 8: Recently I became 50 years old and I'm here to
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 8: tell you right now it's a dirty communist lie.
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 4: Direct from Hanoi it came right out of there My
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 4: body may be 50, but I'm 28. And I.
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 8: Would further like to say that I'd be 22 if
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 8: I hadn't spent all those years drinking with Joey Lewis,
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 8: who nearly wrecked me. Remember the words of Joey Lewis
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 8: who said, a friend in need is a pest. And
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 8: you think about that when you go to bed and
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 8: they break you up later on. And if you do
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 8: think about that when you go to bed, you shouldn't
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 8: be allowed to go to bed.
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 4: However, folk, I'm a Sagittarian.
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 8: I was born on December 12, 1915, and I was
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 8: born a very skinny kid. Little kid, skinny. So skinny,
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 8: my eyes were single file. Between those two and my
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 8: belly button, my old man thought I was a clarinet.
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 8: You see Charlie McLaren that you put your finger on
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 8: the holes like this, you see.
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 13: Oh, geez.
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 4: Where'd you come from? The Yellow Pages or Cesar Roebuck?
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 8: And I was born in a tenement house in Hoboken,
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 8: New Jersey, and it was a walk-up, eight floors. And
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 8: it was one of those places, no, they're going to
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 8: have elevators in 1915. Otis wasn't even born yet, I think,
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 8: when I had this house. And we never knew whether
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 8: we were going to have any lights, any food. Any
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 8: heat of any type? Mice running around?
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 4: Funny part of it is my folks were very wealthy.
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 4: They just hated me, that's all. They gave me the
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 4: loyalty test immediately.
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 8: And eventually I managed to fight my way through the
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 8: qualms and traumas of life, and I got to grow
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 8: up to be 16 or so. And I was about
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 8: ready to get out of high school about a few
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 8: months before. My father was called into the school by
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 8: the principal for about the 700th time. And he said
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 8: to my dad, here's the diploma, get him out. That's
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 8: what he do say.
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 4: Get him out.
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 8: I must explain to you that when we walked out
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 8: and stood on the steps of the high school, my
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 8: father said to me, and I must first mention the
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 8: fact that my father is a Rutger graduate and he
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 8: majored in English.
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 4: And he said to me, what the hell is the
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 4: matter with you? What's the matter? You don't want to
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 4: learn nothing?
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 8: He was great with English. He spoke beautifully. He also
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 8: had an ear like this, a chungam ear. That was
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 8: my mother who gave him that from yelling at him
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 8: all the time. So he said to me, he knew
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 8: I wanted to get in show business, and he gave
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 8: me the alternative, as all parents did in those days.
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 8: You want to be a bum in show business, you
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 8: want to get a real job. So I figured, well,
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 8: what the heck, he's my dad, I love him, and
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 8: I'll go along with his ideas. So he got me
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  Speaker 8: a job. You know what a thrill it is to
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  Speaker 8: get a hernia for $ 62. 50 a week, lifting crates of
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  Speaker 8: 600 pounds with another little guy smaller than me with
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  Speaker 8: a hand truck?
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  Speaker 4: Well, he got me another job in a shipyard. Todd's Shipyards.
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  Speaker 4: You ever hear that, Joy? I worked there.
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  Speaker 8: And I was a rivet catcher in the hold of
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  Speaker 8: a ship. But the guy throwing them was a real jigad.
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  Speaker 8: He was a cockeyed like this. He couldn't hit a
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  Speaker 8: bull in a fanny with a bag of rice, this Benny.
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  Speaker 4: And I cleaned that up. Yeah, corn cob!
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  Speaker 8: But no sense in trying to explain it. It hurried
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  Speaker 8: my career into show business. I quit right away. Gave
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  Speaker 8: in my union button with the pea cap and the
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  Speaker 8: leather jacket, and I walked out right away.
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  Speaker 4: That's exactly what I had.
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  Speaker 8: And I packed my little straw case and went to
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  Speaker 8: New York, and that was it. I even bummed a
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  Speaker 8: ride on a ferry.
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  Speaker 5: And, uh.
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  Speaker 4: You're not listening too well, folks.
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  Speaker 8: Would you like me to make some remarks about my
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 8: Mary Janes with the bows on them?
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  Speaker 4: Aren't they sweet? Patent leather with the bows.
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  Speaker 8: Before I wore these, I went out and took eight
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  Speaker 8: weeks of karate lessons. I didn't take no chances, you know.
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  Speaker 8: I even took a postgraduate course in judo. Anyway, I
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 8: got together a quartet, see, and we were called the
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  Speaker 8: Hoboken Four, and in those days there was a very
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 8: big radio program on called Major Bows, Major Edward Bows.
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  Speaker 8: Now Ted Mack today on television is a spinoff of
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 8: the original radio show because he used to work for
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  Speaker 8: Bose and Bose used to come on the air and
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 8: he'd say the wheel of fortune spins round and round
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  Speaker 8: she goes where she stops nobody knows that was the
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  Speaker 8: dullest god.
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  Speaker 4: Damn opening I ever heard on any radio show wait
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  Speaker 4: a minute now.
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  Speaker 8: He was a pompous bum with a bulbous nose he
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 8: used to drink Green River he was a big drunk
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  Speaker 8: this time.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if you ever heard of Green River
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  Speaker 4: but it takes the paint over your deck if you
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 4: got a boat 59 cents a gallon, baby.
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  Speaker 8: Three shots of that and they gave you the dog
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 8: and the cane. You played games with Shearing and Hibbler
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 8: and the rest of those guys. Anyway, we were a
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  Speaker 8: big hit on the show, the Hoboken Four, and he
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 8: kept bringing us back, but he had to change the name, obviously,
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 8: because it was a legitimate amateur show, except it wasn't.
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 8: So he brought us back as the Newark Nightingales, the
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 8: Teaneck Teen Tones, the Secaucus Cockamamies. Touching name, isn't it?
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 8: The Bayonne Bacalaz was the one that killed me. I'm
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 8: drinking tea and honey, pal. That's what I'm supposed to.
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 8: I'm on a diet of this stuff. I quit drinking,
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  Speaker 8: but I think it's over. Because it ain't helped me
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  Speaker 8: at all. I've been climbing walls since three weeks ago.
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  Speaker 8: And on top of that, I stopped smoking with the
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 8: same thing. I must be nuts or something. Listen, I'll
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  Speaker 8: hold it up till you get back if you want, buddy.
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  Speaker 8: I'll just, I'll kind of linger a little bit. The
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 8: way you're walking, eight to five, you don't get there
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  Speaker 8: in time. He's walking sideways like this.
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  Speaker 5: That's Frank Sinatra. You know what? And that is really
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 5: from one of the early shows. And you heard a
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  Speaker 5: lot of that from the album. It's full of a
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  Speaker 5: Sinatra showcase and I wanted to do the tea break,
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 5: you know, but I got to tell you, that was
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 5: from when Charlie Pignon added some things on. And there's
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 5: some other things that are really kind of fun and
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 5: that we'll get to in ensuing weeks from Sinatra and Sands.
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  Speaker 5: But we've got to take a break right now. When
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 5: we come back, we're going to close out this great,
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 5: great album. You know, the 60th anniversary of Sinatra at
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 5: the Sands. Joe Biscopo, live on the radio. Love having
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 5: you with.
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  Speaker 9: Us, man.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you, Mr. Sinatra, man. Just the best of the best.
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  Speaker 5: We're coming right back. Don't go away.
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  Speaker 2: This is Bolivar's Sinatra Showcase. This is Boulevard's Sinatra Showcase
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  Speaker 2: with your host, Joe Piscopo, on Music Radio. Music This
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 2: is both of us. Sinatra showcase with your host Joe
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 2: Piscopo on music radio.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Joe on the radio, Boulevard Sinatra Showcase. Thanks so
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 5: much for tuning in. Man, I tell you, love this album.
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 5: Love revisiting this album, hearing different cuts in different ways.
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 5: We'll play it, you know, as we listen. We've been
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 5: on the air almost six years. You believe that already?
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 5: Someone said to me when we were at the event
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 5: with at the beautiful Wingfoot Country Club with Vinnie Madunia,
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 5: my buddy and my son, Michael, ripped it up. God
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 5: bless him. And And the Mark Barron band was great.
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 5: Ivan and the guys were there. And Bruce, cousin Bruce,
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 5: he was there. How cool was that? But one lady
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 5: stopped and she said, we love you with the Frank
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 5: Sinatra show, Joe. We listen. We love it. We appreciate it.
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 5: And that meant so much to me, you know. And
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 5: then when I go back and I look back at
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 5: some of these albums, and then they re-release these albums,
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 5: and the quality is better. There's something new that you heard.
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 5: Like in the tea break, there was always something new
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 5: that was there. It's just a lot of fun. We
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 5: will be playing it in ensuing weeks. I'll get to
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 5: your requests. I have them right here in front of
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 5: me that we didn't get to tonight. We'll do that
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 5: next week, all right? And also, going into Halloween, I guess, Ricky,
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 5: great job. Thank you so much. And Elias Raft, thank
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 5: you so much for putting it together. And Ricky Hubert,
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 5: thank you. The kid's 12 years old. He works with
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 5: Cousin Brucey, and we love you, man. Thank you so
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 5: much for doing that. Shout out to John and Margo
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 5: Gazzamatidis for allowing us. And Chad Lopez, my dear buddy,
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 5: was there as well at Wingfoot. So it's a love fest,
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 5: but we can't do it without you. So you know what?
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 5: Let's close out with some last words from Mr. Francis
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  Speaker 5: Albert Sinatra.
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  Speaker 4: You're a delightful audience, ladies and gentlemen. I thank you.
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 8: And I hope this doesn't come as a severe shock,
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 8: but I'm through. oh yeah oh it's boozing time hey
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 8: wait a minute when I'm on the stage I'm the
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 8: boss you know what I mean you know Rocky and
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 8: them guys please don't holler there's a gangster sleeping upstairs
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 8: don't holler you know he's one of them guys he
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 8: gets mad ladies and gentlemen I'd like to have you
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 8: meet a young man who is a dynamic entertainer. He's
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 8: a great piano player, fine singer, and a marvelous friend
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 8: of mine who opens here very soon, Mr.
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 4: Buddy Greco. Stand up, bud, take a bow. There he is.
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 4: There he is. Yeah, Dave. And please, if you will, for.
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  Speaker 8: A rising star in the composing field and the orchestrating field, Mr.
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 4: Quincy Jones. I do mean to say.
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 8: There are no adjectives, ladies and gentlemen, so I say
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 8: simply the magnificent Count Basie and his great organization. If
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 8: you will, my pianist, Mr. Bill Miller, who's behind the
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 8: second piano up there.
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 4: See, he can't. along with me.
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 8: He doesn't do anything. I just brought him along to
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 8: break up the color scheme. Of course, I don't want
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 8: anybody to say that we ain't segregated here. And ladies
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 8: and gentlemen, I would like to leave you with a very,
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 8: very important kind of thought that I'd like you to remember.
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 8: I feel very badly for anybody who doesn't drink because
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 8: when you get up in the morning, that's as good
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 8: as you're gonna feel all day.
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 17: The Wrigley Building, Chicago is The Chicago Cubbies, Chicago.
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  Speaker 4: Is One town that won't let you down.
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 6: It's my kind of town. Averillo, Toledo, Greenberg, Goodman.
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  Speaker 5: You got to love it, man. And you do, like
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 5: Charles Pignon said, you feel like you're right back there
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 5: in 1966. I can't believe I was a kid. You
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  Speaker 5: know what I always regret is that I wish that
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 5: I had said to my dad, because he would understand, Pop,
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 5: can we go to Vegas and see Frank Sinatra at
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 5: the Saints? I think I know what he would have said.
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 5: Are you kidding me? Study, do your homework. But the
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 5: fact that I was alive during this time. But a very,
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 5: you know, the young junior high schooler. And I would
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 5: love to have gone back and saw Mr. Sinatra at
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 5: the Sands. But you can get it. I'll tell you what.
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 5: If you go to Amazon or if you go to
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 5: Frank Sinatra dot com, you'll see Sinatra at the Sands.
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 5: And this is a release from Capital, UME and Frank
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 5: Sinatra Enterprises. Now, don't forget, like Charles Pignon said. He goes,
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 5: you got a five CD box set. I ain't selling this.
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 5: I'm just telling you, you really might want to listen
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 5: to this if you're like I am, a complete Frank
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 5: Sinatra aficionado. There's a five CD box set, right? And
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 5: then you got a two LP vinyl file. So it's
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 5: on vinyl. I got mine coming in. Have not gotten
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 5: them yet. And when we get them, you know, we'll
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 5: be playing these albums, you know, throughout the weeks that
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 5: we unfold because I like to kind of get vinyl.
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 5: If we can get a turntable sound on that, that
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 5: would be awesome. So it's Biscopo on the radio. We
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 5: love having you with us. Thank you so much. What
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 5: a great time to have you with us on Bill
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 5: of a Sinatra Showcase. Mr. Charles Pignon, thank you.
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  Speaker 7: And you know what?
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 5: Good night, Mr. Sinatra, wherever you are. God bless. And
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 5: I'll see you next week.
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  Speaker 2: This is both of us. Sinatra showcase.