Noting the 100th anniversary on Dec 12 of the birth of Frank Sinatra. Click on link below to recall his WNEW days.
The Gigs That Begat The Chairman
And, below, is Bill Diehl’s Sinatra special running on ABC this weekend.
Noting the 100th anniversary on Dec 12 of the birth of Frank Sinatra. Click on link below to recall his WNEW days.
And, below, is Bill Diehl’s Sinatra special running on ABC this weekend.
Bill Diehl (a WNEW alum) writes:
A couple of months ago I interviewed Mimi Hines for a feature I was doing for ABC News Radio. She had recently turned 80 and on July 19 did a special 80th birthday show at “54 Below,” the Broadway nightclub. Mimi, who used to perform with Phil Ford, who’s gone now,(they made their debut in 1958 on the Tonight Show with Jack Paar) had fond memories of WNEW and those wonderful station breaks. So with a little help from her pianist Russ Kassoff, she performed one of the jingles for me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuwZE_jxkcY&feature=youtu.be
from PLAYBILL — Hines made her Broadway debut when she replaced Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl, performing the lead role for 18 months. Since that time she has starred in several national tours, recorded numerous albums, and returned to Broadway as Miss Lynch in the Tommy Tune production of Grease!. Hines was also seen in the York Theatre Company’s production of 70, Girls, 70, part of its “Musicals in Mufti” series, as well as the City Center Encores! production of Follies.
mimihines.com
playbill.com