Exquisitely Bored in Nacogdoches

Much thanks to Ed for doing a very cool thing by directing me to his local paper's write-up on the Ava Gardner Museum , located in Smit...

In memory of cheesemaster Mitch Miller , this repost: Must have been a slow news month. Wikipedia entry : "Mama Will Bark" is a n...

Bobby soxers gone wild - "Fans wait for a glimpse of Frank Sinatra, Los Angeles, 1944." ( The New York Times ) The skinny boy sin...

I find this Frank Sinatra performance of "Hello, Young Lovers" to be very poignant. The date was May 5, 1951, and it was on The F...

Sinatra with Ava Gardner in 1952 "Why Try to Change Me Now" was composed by Cy Coleman (the music) and Joseph Allan McCarthy ...

Frank and Ava Gardner in 1951 "Summer Wind" was written in 1965 by Henry Mayer and Johnny Mercer . The version Frank Sinatra re...

Frank Sinatra's Palm Springs, weekend home he called Twin Palms: photograph by Rand Larson Some background from a Los Angeles Times ar...

Written in 1937 by Harry Warren and Al Dubin , when leaves would actually turn brown as early as September on the North American continent,...

Just in time, and in random order (now with video!): "Magic" The Cars (1984) The opening moments of this are the aural equivalent...