July 27, 2013

"Walter Cronkite hosted a special about Sinatra in 1965..."

"... and as part of that production, a CBS film crew was there for the recording of 'It Was A Very Good Year,'" writes an emailer who read yesterday's post about the Gordon Jenkin's record "Manhattan Tower."

Here's the video, in which you see a lot of Jenkins, conducting the orchestra, which is there in real time as Sinatra does the vocal:




Here's the album, "September of My Years," with Sinatra backed up by Jenkins. I should search through the records from my father to see if I have that. I haven't chosen the record for Part 4 of the Records From My Father series, but after my ordeal with "Manhattan Tower," I was thinking of picking something by Sinatra.