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SOURCE NOTES
10 “[A] New Year’s Eve party”: Kelley, His Way, p. 31.
11 “When she saw Crosby’s”: Ibid., p. 33.
12 “I remember the moment”: Frank Sinatra, interview with Bill Boggs, Midday Live with Bill Boggs, Sept. 22, 1975 (broadcast Nov. 30, 1975).
13 “It was when I left”: Douglas-Home, Sinatra, p. 21.
14 “On Christmas Eve”: Frank Sinatra, interview with Sidney Zion, Yale University, April 15, 1986.
15 “All life’s grandeur”: Lowell, Near the Ocean, p. 19.
16 “It was a lucky”: Lyrics from “I Found a Million-Dollar Baby,” words by Billy Rose and Mort Dixon, music by Harry Warren (New York: Remick Music, 1931).
17 “You’d better quit”: Kelley, His Way, p. 34.
18 “The NEWest Thing”: Jaker, Sulek, and Kanze, Airwaves of New York, p. 134.
19 “Oh, he never worked”: Kelley, His Way, p. 36.
CHAPTER 4
1. The draconian terms of the Bowes contract dictated that the name of the show not be used to promote any professional appearances on the part of former Amateur Hour contestants. In addition, former contestants were to pay 15 percent of subsequent professional fees straight to the Major. Frank Sinatra did not lose sleep about hewing to the letter of the agreement.
2. And also, apparently, of the Hoboken mobster Angelo “Gyp” DeCarlo’s. DeCarlo, an underling of the North Jersey boss Willie Moretti, was an avuncular executioner with a soft spot for sponsoring young Italian-American singers. In later years he would keep a large portrait of Sinatra in the barnlike structure in Mountainside he used as his headquarters. Just like The Sopranos.
SOURCE NOTES
3 “Just because”: Lyrics from “Shine,” words by Lew Brown and Cecil Mack, music by Ford T. Dabney (New York: Shapiro, Bernstein, 1924).
4 “walked right into”: Kelley, His Way, p. 36.
5 “There’s only ten”: Higham, Ava, p. 133.
6 “I hate your husband”: Kelley, His Way, p. 131.
7 “panic period”: Frank Sinatra, interview with Sidney Zion, Yale University, April 15, 1986.
8 “I don’t want you”: Lyrics from “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea,” words by Ted Koehler, music by Harold Arlen (New York: Mills Music, 1931).
CHAPTER 5
SOURCE NOTES
1 “being then and there”: Kelley, His Way, p. 6.
2 “He looked like”: Ibid., p. 7.
3 “On a Sunday evening”: Frank Sinatra, interview with Sidney Zion, Yale University, April 15, 1986.
4 “Cheech, could I go”: Kevin Coyne, “Sinatra’s First, Freed at Last,” New York Times, Oct. 22, 2006.
5 “Our love, I feel it”: Lyrics from “Our Love,” words and music by Larry Clinton, Buddy Bernier, and Bob Emmerich (New York: Chappell, 1939).
6 “So, I woke Harry”: Levinson, Trumpet Blues, p. 67.
CHAPTER 6
1. The record wouldn’t be released until the following June—when it would sell a disappointing eight thousand copies—but the song, performed live by the Music Makers with Sinatra, was broadcast several times that fall, and heard (as we’ll soon discover) by some very important people.
SOURCE NOTES
2 “Hey, Connie Haines”: Connie Haines, in discussion with the author, Jan. 2006.
3 “bedlam. Gene Krupa”: Jenkins, Goodbye, p. 3.
4 “We don’t have a singer”: Levinson, Trumpet Blues, p. 67.
5 “It’s an interesting thing”: Michael Feinstein, in discussion with the author, April 2007.
6 “Frank told Harry”: Haines, discussion.
7 “The Irish Kids”: Gay Talese, in discussion with the author, May 2007.
8 “Can you imagine?”: Hamill, Why Sinatra Matters, p. 71.
9 “After the first show”: Levinson, Trumpet Blues, p. 69.
10 “Please give the new boy”: Kelley, His Way, p. 49.
11 “sensational, intense style”: Ibid.
12 “He sounded somewhat”: George T. Simon, “The Sinatra Report,” Billboard, Nov. 20, 1965.
13 “I’ll never forget”: Levinson, Trumpet Blues, p. 76.
14 “the torchy ballads”: Kelley, His Way, p. 49.
15 “Here comes the night”: Lyrics from