Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music
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Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music was a one hour television special in color, first broadcast by CBS on November 24, 1965. It was directed by the multi-Emmy-winning Dwight Hemion. Telecast at a time when television had just switched to full-time color programming (except for feature films shot in black-and-white), the show was an enormous success, so much so that it spawned two follow-ups with virtually the same title, featuring, respectively, Nancy Sinatra, and Ella Fitzgerald along with Antonio Carlos Jobim.
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[edit] Format
By modern standards, especially, the format of the original show was profoundly simple. It consisted only of Sinatra in a television studio singing many of his hit tunes (such as It Was a Very Good Year) in front of a live audience. There were no guests on this first program. The orchestra was conducted by long-time Sinatra arrangers Nelson Riddle and Gordon Jenkins.
[edit] Awards
The special won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Program, and was nominated for two other Emmys, as well as a Golden Globe.
[edit] "Revival"
Turner Classic Movies rebroadcast the special for the first time in many years, on the evening of May 4, 2008, as part of their month-long commemoration of the tenth anniversary of Sinatra's death.
[edit] DVD
The show has been available on DVD since 1999. However, there is also a 1981 documentary on DVD, the similarly titled Sinatra: The Man and His Music, which is sometimes confused with the earlier program, not only because of the title, but because the keep-case is almost identical.
