Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music / a Man and His Music Part II (DVD), Eagle Rock Ent, Music & Performance

The Frank Sinatra Collecting brings together some of Frank Sinatra's finst performances on television amd in concert. this release combines his first two hour-ling television specials from the mid-sixties. First broadcast by NBC on November 24, 1965, A MAN AND HIS MUSIC, timed to coincide with his 50th birthday, was Sinatra's first annual one-hour television special. Broadcast at a time when American television was in the process of switching to full time color programing, it is clear that television history was being made. Singing directly to the camara, Frank Sinatra makes the viewer feel as if he is telling his stroy directly to them. Following the success of the 1965 program, A MAM AND HIS MUSIC PART II was commissioned as the second annual television special and broadcast on December 7, 1966. Sinatra is accompanied by his daughter Nancy who treats us to performances of Bang, Bang (My baby Shot Me Down) and On Broadway. Frank also joins her on three duets where playful banter is captured between father and daughter including the magical Downtown. The Spectacular climactic segment shows Sinatra flying through four of his hardest-swinging numbers in rapid succession.