Reuters - May 14, 2009
Frank Sinatra extends his album-charting span to exactly 54 years this week, as Live at the Meadowlands, recorded in 1986, debuts at No. 88 on the Billboard 200. 'Ol Blue Eyes...
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Martin Scorsese will be telling Frank Sinatra s life story on film. The Academy Award-winning filmmaker will direct Sinatra, the first feature film about Ol Blue Eyes life, Universal Pictures and Mandalay...
More »AP - Nov 24, 2008
Fans of Frank Sinatra will get a kick out of a new Italian restaurant planned for the Las Vegas Strip. Casino mogul Steve Wynn tells the Las Vegas Review-Journal that a restaurant at Encore, his newest...
More »Reuters - Jun 8, 2008
Continuing her father's legacy of fighting for musicians, Nancy Sinatra will urge lawmakers Wednesday to approve legislation giving performers a royalty for songs aired on traditional radio. In 1988...
More »AP - May 20, 2008
House members have declared Frank Sinatra Day, but did it their way. Lawmakers didn t get around to voting until Tuesday on a resolution supporting May 13, 2008 last Tuesday as the day...
More »AP - May 14, 2008
Doobie-postage-due. What were the chances ... we d be seeing Frank Sinatra on a U.S. postage stamp? Well, he competed against 50,000 others and won. That s how many annual proposals are made...
More »AP - Feb 10, 2008
Frank Sinatra was all debonair style. Alicia Keys was soulful agony. The two met in a manufactured duet on Learnin the Blues to open Sunday night s Grammy ceremony. The gimmick was reminiscent of Natalie...
More »AP - Nov 14, 2006
Frank Sinatra was never happier, his daughter Tina says, than when he was working in Las Vegas. Those years are now captured in song by Sinatra in Vegas, a box set of four concert CDs, and one DVD, ranging...
More »Reuters - Aug 28, 2006
You may have seen the recent photos of Bob Dylan looking uncannily like Charlie Chaplin, and his 44th album, Modern Times, shares a title with Chaplin s 1936 classic about automation, big business and...
More »Reuters - Dec 18, 2004
The third chart entry proves to be the charm for Mario, who rises to a new career peak on the Billboard Hot 100 with Let Me Love You (3rd Street/J). The single moves 3-2, eclipsing the No. 4 peak of his...
More »Reuters - Dec 16, 2004
Apple Computer Inc. on Thursday said sales of songs bought from its market-leading iTunes online music store had topped 200 million, a figure that was about in line with what some analysts had been expecting...
More »AP - Dec 15, 2004
Like that smiling skydiver on the deodorant ads? Can t get enough of his sunny joshing on MTV s Pimp My Ride ? Prepare to meet the cunning, sometimes caustic musician Xzibit was before becoming an actor...
More »Reuters - Sep 30, 2004
Sonic Youth, David Johansen, Andrew W.K., Sean Lennon and Suicide s Alan Vega have joined the lineup for an Oct. 8 New York show to benefit Cedars Sinai Cancer Research Center and the Lymphoma Cancer...
More »Reuters - Jun 22, 2004
Producer Mark Burnett, the man behind such reality television hits as Survivor and The Apprentice, is extending his creative reach further into the music business. Burnett is featuring Canadian jazz...
More »Reuters - Jun 20, 2004
When you re releasing a greatest-hits album for an artist whose work has been compiled dozens of times by any number of labels in the last 15 years, how do you distinguish your package from the rest?...
More »AP - Jun 11, 2004
Ray Charles is being remembered as a musical innovator who blended genres of music to create a new style. Charles died on Thursday of acute liver disease at age 73. Ray Charles had a string of hits...
More »AP - Jun 10, 2004
Quotes about singer Ray Charles , upon his death at 73 Thursday: Ray Charles was a man we particularly admired both as a friend and as an artist. We had a great time recently reminiscing together and...
More »Reuters - Jun 10, 2004
Ray Charles was one of American music s great innovators, blending the gospel of the black church with the sensuality of the blues to create an emotionally raw genre called soul. He died on Thursday...
More »AP - Jun 1, 2004
An exhibit of Frank Sinatra memorabilia, from letters to photographs to album covers, has opened to the public as part of an annual jazz series. The exhibition is running through June and July at the...
More »Reuters - May 31, 2004
Glen Campbell has signed a one-off deal with Universal South Records for a two-CD set due June 8. Love Is the Answer: 24 Songs of Faith, Hope and Love contains one disc of pop standards and one of gospel...
More »Reuters - May 22, 2004
For Kevin Kline , composer Cole Porter offered an irresistible combination -- immortal music by a flawed genius with a dark side to all the effervescent frivolity. So Kline spent nine months honing...
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