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the 1940s was known as the era of the big bands Dorsey James Miller Basie Ellington big bands live music they also produced a special kind of vocalist no tricks no electronics just singers singers who stood in front of the big bands recently a group known as the Society of singers gathered at the Beverly Hilton Hotel the event honored one of their own Frank Sinatra in the 60 years of music and entertainment he has given people all over the world the Society of singers is made up of popular artists of today as well as the legendary performers from the era of the big bands they came together on this evening to perform their greatest hits as they honored the chairman of the board thank you and welcome many years ago I started out playing piano with the Texas Beneke Glenn Miller Orchestra and I met a young girl singer whose name was Virginia O'Connor she had changed her name to Ginny O'Connor because she idolized Ginny Simms she also idolized she also idolized me so she changed her name to Ginny Mancini so here is the president of the Society of singers the former Virginia O'Connor good evening and welcome to the Society of singers second Ella award presentation that meeting by the way took place in 1946 and let me tell you it led to love and marriage and here we are to celebrate our engagement we went to the Empire room of the Waldorf Astoria to hear a young singer named Frank Sinatra he entered from the back of the room to an axial store doll intro with a cup and a saucer in his hand and came in to sing they've got an awful lot of coffee in Brazil followed by a stunning rendition of Kurt vials lost in the stars little stars big stars blowing in the night and we're lost here in the stars well of course you see mr. wonderful and I were experiencing the wonder of young love and so you see how Frank Sinatra came into play and the memory lingers on a few years appears a few years ago when a legendary singer was overheard to say what's to become of me the Society of singers was born that day a support system was put in place to meet the simplest of needs compassion and a helping financial hand the proceeds of this evening are earmarked for a singer's retirement home for those who may need such a place to live they are national treasures and they deserve no less tonight we honor the Pied Piper mr. Frank Sinatra with an award with an award inaugurated last year in the name of Ella Fitzgerald that says something about the integrity for which it stands ladies and gentlemen miss Ella Fitzgerald thank you I finish the other song never never ever be another you there were fish of a little band I make this they won't drill me that YouTube's to do wanna dream of me dream how can they go three million dreams not the song another Street another song I'm a dream a minyan I didn't think I'm gonna make that note now I would like you to meet two ladies who are very close to our honoree tonight miss AJ Lambert and her sister Amanda Lambert tonight's Ella goes to their grandfather Francis Albert Sinatra I love you more my longer than yours though yeah I'm older ladies and gentlemen what can I say what can we say about this great wonderful man who has bought so much pleasure in his music to you but to say we love him I would just like to read to read to you what the award says it's a very simple crystal in the shape of a pyramid it's light and power Society of singers why my god Lifetime Achievement Award to Frank Sinatra chairman of the board December 3rd 1990 Frank would you like to say word I've been on it in my lifetime twice first time by the police department of Hoboken New Jersey and a few days later have my old man took care of the job but it's difficult to find words to tell you how much I appreciate what you've done all of you for the organization of which I'm very proud to be part of and to be in this part of the show business the singing end of show business and I mean I just put Kelley down so many times dancing I thought I'd better stay with the singing because it was embarrassing you know what I mean I felt badly for him at the time we all love you and what are the chances of you're doing a chorus of ladies the tram for sure I thought you never asked me she gets too hungry to have dinner at eight loves the theater never jumps in here late she'd never bother with some bums she'd hate and that's why this chick is a champ Studdard freeze fine wonderful life like without care chase flag that's that H California : it's down by the baby with some guys she be that's why the lady is a [ __ ] Oh those girls it's holding its down like that fine wind blowin in my hair without care she goes that five wild hair likes without a care California Michela the best bet ladies and gentlemen mr. Jack Jonas I gotta follow that this is the stride room he is a singer he works he stands in front of us sings well out his might he Tunes up all his secrets and he hangs them on his voice a man with that much magic really has no other choice than to be a singer he does the balance and it does the blues you know no matter what he's got a song for us to use he steps inside his feelings and his spreads his story out and when the chorus calls him he proves without a doubt he is a singer we savor every melody he ever sang his way from his Radio City concert going back to his bare Mountain matinee we cherish every songbook that he lived through page by page and how he came to love him on the screen or on the steel here Sinatra he sings our songs he brings the word slight and he keeps the beat where it belongs he works for our attention and he waits for our applause and when we have the privilege we dropped everything in paws to hear a sinner yes thank you ladies gentlemen no show about singers would be complete without a performance from one of the truly great vocal artists the silver throat of Nathan Birnbaum ladies and gentlemen thank you for that standing ovation look if I can stand you can stand a Frank Frank Sinatra recorded young-at-heart years ago and sold millions and millions and millions and millions of copies that's the song I'm gonna sing tonight at my age you can follow anybody okay hanging Mikey and Frankie and Frankie okay fairy tales can come true it can happen to you if you are young at heart it's hard you'll find to be narrow mine if you're young at heart you can go to extremes with impossible schemes laugh at your dreams that fall apart of the scenes life gets more exciting with each passing day and love is in your heart or around the way don't you know without it's worth every treasure I like to be young get hot photos rich as you are it's much better by far to be young at heart and if you should survive to a hundred and five think of all you'll derive out of being alive and here is the best part you got a head start if you are among the very young you know I've been around for a lot of years and there's one thing I believed in and a watch for me and it'll work for you too you can't help getting old up but you don't have to get old should survive to 105 think of all you'll derive out of being alive and here is the best part you better have stopped if you are among the very young if you are among the very young good evening mr. Sinatra my name is Harry Connick jr. I I played the piano a little bit and I sing a little bit and and you are my idol I'd like to sing for you you'll remember this one then the greatest love there's no this is the love I give to you the simple words I tried to say oh wait can we stop we have to stop mr. Sinatra I'm sorry I'm so nervous I can't remember the words and I have to put on my glasses and read them I'm I've never been this nervous in my life you're the greatest thing that ever lived and I got to put my glasses can't we take it from the bridge I'm sorry I've never been this nervous before from the from the right when I start singing one two three four more then the grade is low the world has no now be able to swing it for you this is a loan I'll give to you more than the simple words I tried to say only live to you more than you'll ever know londo hoja so my life will be in your keeping the wake and sleeping laughing weeping longer than always is all a long time but far beyond where you be mine I know I never left in my heart is very short no one else could love more than you'll ever know my arms long to hold just so my life a will be in your keeping wake and sleep in the laugh and weep alone time that's me mr. snapper but far beyond no one else could love you love you thank you very much and here are the high-lows joining mrs. Paul Weston Joe Stafford I never smile what for tears my heart until I smile you here is the pride of a story alone I'm Anthony Benedetto Tony Benedict what a magnificent night I've seen many shows in my life but this is the greatest audience and the greatest performers I've ever seen Frank Sinatra asked me to sing this song and I love it it's a magnificent wonderful song written by Michele Legrand and Allan and Marilyn Bergman how do you keep the music playing how do you make it last how do you keep a song from fading too fast how do you lose yourself to someone and never lose your way ah do you not run out of new things to say and since we know we're always changing why should it be the same and tell me how year after year Yasu your heart will follow each time you hear No the way I feel for you it's now or never more I love the more that I'm afraid in your eyes I'm a Nazi if we can be the best of lovers yet be the best of friends if we can try with every day to make it better as it grows with an in luck then I suppose the music she's a snood energy she's a pilot sky she's the knockety such a bad little blabber she does key at attrition kissing little Missy a vain little change and although sometimes sassy just a fee for a message and now ladies and gentlemen the original snooty little cutie miss Connie Haynes you're a little right just sweet you're a chicken like Brandi Sooni little cutie yes she's a classic little Queen sometimes she's nasty she's never made we love you Frank and now direct from North Dakota just normal excellent hey you leave hello Frank you know I have so many members and Barbara you simply must forgive me I've been in love with that man all the years I've known him but it's okay it's platonic I think I think about those things you know one day we we build a home you built yours and I built mine up on a hill and there are a lot of wonderful things that happened there I even remember the firecrackers you used to shut off about three or something in the morning at first it frightened me but then I realized it was Francis Albert up in the head well Jimmy Van Heusen and all the gang and we have barbecues well we have one barbecue I remember and all those deer things so many but remember when you said remember when you said Peggy let's record I'll tell you now my friend you struck a chord you brought a million songs for me to sing to the man and listen riddle scores they were the best who cared for over time and all the rest the hours came and went we didn't care with the man he was expensive you were such a great conductor and I watched you in the days you knew the riddle scars you continue to me me but when we shot the art you struck a Doug how could you ever know his name was Martin he wasn't my true love you should have posed for the man you wanted me to romantic with a fire misty stand but you sprayed a lot of Mentholatum but when I needed you oh what a good who says your plane for me so I could fly you brought me home my friend you made me try so you're the man I wish I could thank I'm standing thank you ladies and gentlemen mr. Tony Danza what a band good evening thank you I mean before I say anything I just I can't believe I'm in the same room with so many legends you know I meet Joe Stafford and Peggy Lee and Tony Bennett Ella Fitzgerald and Sammy Kahn I mean I just wanna run home and tell my probation officer you know all listen mr. Sinatra to a very very happy birthday to you your excellency you know I wasn't around for the big band era but my mom my mom told me so much about it that and so much about you mr. Sinatra that I feel that I feel that you know I became a big fan of it especially of you I wish I was there and you know by the way my mom would have been here tonight but used to swoon over you with the Paramount Theater in New York but they don't make orthopedic bobby socks oh she's she's no I'm sorry mom everything was different back then as you most of you know today when you go dancing you get you get lasers and strobe lights and and the loud music and synthesizers you know and people they just jump up and down like their shorts are too tight okay okay thank you on cue but of course when Sinatra sang there was magic there was romance you know maybe you'd you'd comb your hair into a little duck tail a little bit of that pomade Issachar me to pull me Tommy thank you and and of course the piece of resistance the keychain and then of course the music would start yeah yeah yeah like that and and the lights you know maybe maybe a little blue over here good good and maybe a little magenta over here it's magenta and if it was a really high-class joint they would light the mirrored ball good and and the whole room would come to life and you dance not like you're doing aerobics but like dancing you know your dance well you get the idea of course this works even better with a nice lady but well you're gonna find somebody today then do this kind of stuff you know hubba-hubba now this is one nice lady miss Gretchen while Oh good evening Gretchen you look lovely tonight thank you too using this exciting dancing to a big band dancing with you well I was thinking about singing but I'm no dummy but Tony it was more than just dips and slow dancing in those days we were very upbeat whoa I'm hip ah you're a hip oh excuse me mr. Mancini you got anything hep every budget happy birthday fight while all that was going on all over America the Duke Ellington Orchestra was featuring a young vocalist by the name of herb Jeffries like a flame in the sky flying over to my lover nearby Oh with your tropical rear or it's you no way sings a song to you and you go that I hear be loved what the Sun baseless save them well to my love hun hasten to me at the same time a young man by the name of Alvin Morris was making history in San Francisco with the Tom Garin Orchestra some of you may know this singer is mr. Tony Martin there's no tomorrow Oh kiss me meter Frank I got a course for you Oh the other Oh Oh the other ladies and gentlemen mrs. valve Evinrude Frances Langford thank you dear dear Frank as one Frances to another I would just like to say last year at the first Society of singers an event took place and everybody started yelling and screaming and talking for at least a week about these things so you couldn't be there at that time and we'd like tonight to recreate this for you and you can say hello to some of those lovely ladies that you know so well the ladies that sang with the big banners from the Charlie Barnet Orchestra Kay Starr what a difference a day ready for little our brought the Sun and the flower where they used to be my lonely days are blue now my nights are full of you now I've got a different point of view now now that you are here what a difference a day there's a rainbow before my romance on your menu what a difference a day me and that difference from the Harry James Orchestra telling forest I had the craziest dream yes I never dropped it could be yet there you were it in love with me you didn't how long is it shut say you do here from the Benny Goodman article marketing the aims are the same or am I reading music into everyone then suddenly setting it strange I can see water and me would be me silver waves and break on some undiscovered and though it's just a sample at the star and the angel say music and now from the lyrics Winton Orchestra Dewayne buddy sleepy garden walls and the stars begin to flicker in the sky through me wander back to me really well the side the night once again I hold you tight though you're gonna love when moonlight be and as long as my heart will always me here in my tea from the Harry James Orchestra Kitty calendar I'm scared to death there's no much I feel that I should say but words can wait until some other day so kiss me once kiss me try it kiss me once again everybody having felt like this my dear since can't remember when for you Frankie it's been a long time you'll never know everybody from the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra Helen O'Connell tangerine tangerine where the layers yes she's not the guys but she's only fooling one girl she's only fooling tangerine from the club's thorny orchestra brands one I'd like to know it's I wanna send a condom I I wanna Sunday my son to have and to hold I want a Sunday and from Tommy Dorsey Orchestra sentimentalist grab your coats don't forget your hat but leave your worries leave them on the doorstep like sweet just direct your feet to the Sun sunny side of the street pop bottles ooh plant bitter pet you know that happy tune is my step life sorry if you take that beat on the Sun Sun side of the street used to walk in the shade man get stuck in the shade give you don't be afraid we're moving on over kill yourself Globo on the hip forest and who cares just like a fella can't be beat go that's round my feet homicide I'm Joe Williams and the fellas with the Basie band called me the boys finger well alright okay you win I'm in love with you well alright okay when you win hey baby what can I do I'll do anything you say and it's just got to be you that way well alright well okay will you win I'm in love with you we'll all right okay will you win believe in me and you anything that you say I'll do long as it's me and you first thing in the morning wake me with a kiss and make up for all the loving love that you made me miss were you in I'm in love with you well alright well okay will you win hey baby what can I do anything cute you I'll say well stuffs got that way you you love me as I love you okay will you win what are you waiting for well alright okay will you win baby this one if I'm gonna be your man okay you wear and now dear our keyboards and et gourmet thank you very much for many years Frank Sinatra has received many awards for his artistic achievements as a singer as a performer and as an actor but there's another creative side to Frank that is generally not too well-known now besides singing a lot of great songs he also wrote quite a few and this evening Edie and I have selected a couple of our favorites composed by Francis Albert so without any further ado ladies and gentlemen we'd like to celebrate Sinatra the songwriter there's love life isn't since you you're always on my mind the outer side it's love through the day it's bound to break since nothing what this love my this love I'm a fool to want you I'm a fool - what - want a love that can't be true a love that's for others I'm a fool - such a fool to hold here to seek a kiss not mine alone to share a kiss the devil has time and time again I said Eileen time and time again I went away but then would come the time would need you and once again I'd have to say take me back I love you did me I need you I know it's wrong it must be wrong but right or wrong I can't get if a small matter well you know Frank didn't write this we just didn't know how else to get off please come back and that all the performers join us on stage for the chorus of dream we do envision a dream home and I'd love for the performers to come up and close the evening with that lyric which is special singers everybody fellow singers and performers I love you I'm kind of hung up a little bit my throat so I won't say too much but but it was a marvelous evening tonight I had a great time I my really good maybe man you anything man you first thing in the morning wake me with a kiss wake up Babu lovey you've made me miss and if you do I'll say we're up stuff you have to be that way you okay you

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