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18 “I just couldn’t”: 60 Greatest Old-Time Radio Shows Starring Frank Sinatra and Friends (Radio Spirits, 2000). Set of thirty compact discs.
19 “It’s been a long time”: Gardner, Ava, p. 220.
20 “A lot of silly stories”: Ibid., p. 221.
21 “We drank, we laughed”: Ibid.
22 “We met for dinner”: Ibid.
23 “How you feeling”: Spotlight Review 48 (Radio Spirits, 2000). Set of thirty compact discs.
24 “Mr. Sinatra’s performance”: Bosley Crowther, “Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson Head Cast of Lavish ‘Kissing Bandit’ at the Capitol,” New York Times, Nov. 19, 1948.
25 “Frank and my father”: Arthur Marx, interview with Steve Glauber, CBS Sunday Morning, October 2007.
26 “It was nothing”: Jane Russell, in discussion with the author, Sept. 2009.
27 “IS SINATRA FINISHED?”: Modern Television & Radio, Dec. 1948.
28 “so many things”: Nancy Sinatra, American Legend, p. 87.
29 “not only can’t”: Shaw, Twentieth-Century Romantic, p. 124.
30 “to be nearer”: Nancy Sinatra, American Legend, p. 91.
31 “up in the world”: Tina Sinatra, My Father’s Daughter, p. 20.
32 “It seems my friends”: Lyrics from “Comme Ci Comme Ça,” words by Alex Charles Kramer and Joan Whitney, music by Bruno Coquatrix (New York: Paris Music, 1949).
33 “It wasn’t a very”: Nancy Sinatra, American Legend, p. 87.
CHAPTER 23
1. Yet another easy target. Frank may have convinced Buddy Rich that he could handle himself pretty well, but that was long before Rich—who was as diminutive as Sinatra—had earned his black belt in karate.
SOURCE NOTES
2 “One day while”: Nancy Sinatra, My Father, p. 75.
3 “The moment Candy”: Tormé, It Wasn’t All Velvet, p. 64.
4 “I found [him]”: Wilson, Sinatra, p. 83.
5 “Okay, kids, the part’s”: Gardner, Ava, p. 217.
6 “a car sped”: Ibid.
7 “I’m going to marry”: Kelley, His Way, p. 138.
8 “I’d say”: Jerry Lewis, in discussion with the author, March 2008.
9 “How can I be”: Ibid. 387 “Don’t be surprised”: Bosley Crowther, “Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly in ‘Take Me Out to the Ball Game,’ at Loew’s State,” New York Times, March 10, 1949.
10 “He just didn’t”: Kelley, His Way, p. 131.
11 “He just can’t bear”: Shaw, Twentieth-Century Romantic, p. 127.
12 “They don’t quite get”: Ibid., p. 126.
13 “M, N, O, P”: Lyrics from “A—You’re Adorable,” words and music by Buddy Kaye, Fred Wise, and Sidney Lippman (New York: Laurel Music, 1948).
14 “The voice is better at night”: Frank Sinatra Jr., interview with Michael Bourne, WBGO, Nov. 5, 2009.
15 “The recording date”: Granata, Sessions with Sinatra, p. 52.
16 “The sometimes unruly crooner”: Newsweek, vol. 34, 1949.
17 “On the island of Stromboli”: Lyrics from “(On the Island of) Stromboli,” words and music by Ken Lane and Irving Taylor (1949).
18 “Check this”: Columbia Records Archive, Sony Music Corporation.
19 “Dear Frank”: Ibid.
20 “Deep down”: Flamini, Ava, chapter 8.
21 “We met in the ladies’ room”: Gardner, Ava, p. 222.
22 “October 30, 1949”: Nancy Sinatra, American Legend, p. 91.
23 “The Swoon is real gone”: Shaw, Twentieth-Century Romantic, p. 125.
24 “Both Frank and I”: Gardner, Ava, p. 226.
25 “All my life”: Ibid.
26 “Bobby and I”: Kelley, His Way, p. 154.
27 “She was like a Svengali”: Server, Ava Gardner, p. 187.
28 “Quentin Reynolds and Heywood Broun’s”: Walter Winchell on Broadway, syndicated column, Dec. 14, 1949.
29 “You’re the salt in my stew”: Lyrics from “You’re the Cream in My Coffee,” words and music by Lew Brown, Buddy Gard DeSylva, and Ray Henderson (New York: DeSylva, Brown, and Henderson, 1928).
30 “I said that”: 1949: Lite Up Time Shows by Frank Sinatra (Jazz Band, 1993). Compact disc.
CHAPTER 24
1. The motto of Metro’s production manager, J. J. Cohn: “A rock is a rock, a tree is a tree, shoot it in Griffith Park” (Silverman, Dancing on the Ceiling, p. 104).
2. A man destined to be one of history’s footnotes, Clark (né Samuel Goldberg) had been one of Columbia’s biggest recording stars until his untimely death in an airplane