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16 “half a love”: Lyrics from “All or Nothing At All,” words and music by Jack Lawrence and Arthur Altman (New York, Leeds Music, 1940).
17 “an institute you can’t”: Lyrics from “Love and Marriage,” words by Sammy Cahn, music by James Van Heusen (New York: Barton Music, 1955).
CHAPTER 7
1. At virtually the same moment, Jack Kapp, the brilliant but tunnel-visioned producer who single-handedly created Bing Crosby’s recording career, was pushing Crosby, hard, to abandon his scat-singing ways for a more commercially palatable vocal style. Kapp won, Bing became an enormously wealthy musical demigod, and we lost a great jazz artist. Tommy Dorsey, it might be argued, possessed his own inner Jack Kapp.
SOURCE NOTES
2 “He could do something”: Levinson, Tommy Dorsey, p. 42.
3 “the Dorsey band”: Ibid., p. 108.
4 “the greatest melodic”: Friedwald, Sinatra! p. 80.
5 “Have you heard”: Levinson, Tommy Dorsey, p. 110.
6 “Yes, I remember”: Douglas-Home, Sinatra, p. 23.
7 “Fame and fortune”: Tommy Dorsey–Frank Sinatra: The Song Is You (RCA, 1994). Set of five compact discs.
8 “On a night like this”: Lyrics from “Marie,” words and music by Irving Berlin (New York: Irving Berlin, 1928).
9 “Hell, if we don’t”: Levinson, Tommy Dorsey, p. 111.
10 “learned a lot from Harry”: Friedwald, Sinatra! p. 75.
11 “he dozed”: Ibid., p. 74.
12 “The bus pulled”: Levinson, Trumpet Blues, p. 79.
13 “The first time”: Jo Stafford, in discussion with the author, Feb. 2006.
14 “The only problem”: Jo Stafford, interview with Michael Feinstein, Ballad of the Blues (Feinery, 2003). Compact disc.
15 “Never even heard”: Ibid.
16 “Frank really loved”: Ibid.
17 “Sinatra knew this”: Daniel Okrent, “A Season of Song: Saint Francis of Hoboken,” Esquire, Dec. 1987.
18 “Well, see”: Stafford, discussion.
19 “Young”: Ibid.
20 “I want you”: Tormé, Traps, the Drum Wonder, p. 53.
CHAPTER 8
1. He was in a Chicago studio with the band just days after he joined Dorsey, recording “The Sky Fell Down” and “Too Romantic.”
SOURCE NOTES
2 “I can still”: Jo Stafford, in discussion with the author, Feb. 2006.
3 “For maybe”: Frank Sinatra, interview with Sidney Zion, Yale University, April 15, 1986.
4 “Once, Sinatra”: Friedwald, Sinatra! p. 88.
5 “Tommy was a very”: Douglas-Home, Sinatra, p. 24.
6 The producer George: George Avakian, in discussion with the author, Oct. 2006.
7 “I used to watch”: Summers and Swan, Sinatra, p. 65.
8 “Tommy sometimes”: Friedwald, Sinatra! p. 86.
9 “You can have”: Stafford, discussion.
10 “I was never”: Sinatra, interview.
11 “calisthenics for the throat”: Summers and Swan, Sinatra, p. 66.
12 “Frank can hold”: Ibid.
13 “The audience wouldn’t”: Levinson, Tommy Dorsey, p. 114.
14 “He had something”: Ibid.
15 “When I say”: Ibid., p. 115.
16 “It was at the Meadowbrook”: Ibid., p. 119.
17 “I take a sheet”: Steve Wynn, from “Remembering Frank Sinatra,” USA Weekend, May 4, 2008.
18 “Go ahead, do your thing”: Kelley, His Way, p. 53.
19 “When you sing”: Stafford, interview.
20 “He wound it up”: Friedwald, Sinatra! p. 90.
21 “Just call out”: Levinson, Tommy Dorsey, p. 125.
22 “Next thing I know”: Friedwald, Sinatra! p. 91.
23 “I’ll never smile again”: Lyrics from “I’ll Never Smile Again,” words and music by Ruth Lowe (New York: Sun Music, 1939).
CHAPTER 9
1. He would finish it, in a way, forty years later, when, his voice crackling with age and emotion, he recorded a monumentally powerful version of “Soliloquy,” on Sinatra 80th: Live in Concert.
2. The name of the city had very different connotations in the early 1940s, when Las Vegas was still a sleepy desert burg with sand on the streets and hitching posts for horses, from what it would have fifteen or twenty years later, when Sinatra, with the help of organized crime, had turned the town into, well … Vegas.
3. Jean Bach knew Sinatra before he