Below The Beltway

Without question, one of the best duets ever. You can tell they had fun with this one. It’s too bad they never did an album together.

From the movie High Society, which also happens to be the last film Grace Kelly made before becoming Princess Grace of Monaco:

Best line: “You must be one of the newer fellas” Classic.

That’s right, Friday Night Videos are back. This week, it’s all about Sinatra duets, starting out with an improbable one from the 1970’s (check out the bow ties !) with John Denver:

In all honesty, Sinatra’s baritone so overwhelms Denver’s relatively thin voice that it’s polite to call this a duet……

Yesterday, the Post Office unveiled a stamp honoring Frank Sinatra, who would have turned 92 years old on December 12th:
Coming to a mailbox near you: Ol’ Blue Eyes himself.
As Frank Sinatra’s three children looked on Wednesday in Beverly Hills, Postal Service officials unveiled an oversized replica of a stamp commemorating the iconic crooner.
The Rat Pack [...]

The United States Postal Service has honored Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, and Louis Armstrong among other musicians, so it was only inevitable that Frank Sinatra would get a stamp someday:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ol’ Blue Eyes will get his own postage stamp next spring.
The stamp commemorating Frank Sinatra was announced Wednesday by Postmaster General John [...]

At some point after their duet, Bono pitched this song to an aging Frank Sinatra, apparently more than once.
Ten years earlier, maybe Frank would’ve taken it, and it would have been great, no doubt.
Bono ended up singing it at Frank’s 80th Birthday Concert back in 1995, and didn’t do bad at all for an [...]

Cause, it’s always just a short walk to the oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York:

Someone took the recording of Frank Sinatra’s There Used To Be A Ballpark and set it to scenes of baseball stadiums that are no more:

Frank Sinatra. The Concert for the Americas circa 1980 something:

Frank Sinatra and the ultimate torch song