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Frank Sinatra: Las Vegas
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Frank Sinatra's voice [I]s pop music history. [...] Like Presley and Dylan — the only other white male American singers since 1940 whose popularity, influence, and mythic force have been comparable — Sinatra will last indefinitely. He virtually invented, modern pop song phrasing.
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Frank Sinatra was arguably the most important popular music figure of the 20th century, his only real rivals for the title being Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley, and the Beatles. In a professional career that lasted 60 years, he demonstrated a remarkable ability to maintain his appeal and pursue his musical goals despite often countervailing trends.
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Yesterday’s New York Times carried a brief article with the news that last year Frank Sinatra’s estate was paid $50 million by Warner Music Group. That’s a lot of cabbage for a long-deceased singer and a true testament to the artistic legacy he left behind.
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When many Italian names were used in describing gangsters on a television show, The Untouchables, Sinatra was loud in his disapproval. Sinatra and many thousands of other Italo-Americans were resentful as well when a small-time hoodlum, Joseph Valachi, was brought by Bobby Kennedy into prominence as a Mafia expert, when indeed, from Valachi's testimony on television, he seemed to know less than most waiters on Mulberry Street. Many Italians in Sinatra's circle ... regard Bobby Kennedy as something of an Irish cop, more dignified than those in Dolly's day, but no less intimidating. Together with Peter Lawford, Bobby Kennedy is said to have suddenly gotten "cocky" with Sinatra after John Kennedy's election, forgetting the contribution Sinatra had made in both fundraising and in influencing many anti-Irish Italian votes. Lawford and Bobby Kennedy are both suspected of having influenced the late President's decision to stay as a house guest with Bing Crosby instead of Sinatra, as originally planned, a social setback Sinatra may never forget. Peter Lawford has since been drummed out of Sinatra's "summit" in Las Vegas.
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The origin and ownership of Caesar’s Palace in the 1960s is shadowy, but, like the other Las Vegas casinos that Sinatra was associated with, Caesar’s employed several people with ties to organized crime. Two in particular were Eugene Cimorelli, the casino’s official greeter. He was an associate of Chicago gangster Anthony ''Tony the Ant'' Spilotro and golf partner of Anthony ''Tony Batters'' Accardo, the behind-the-scenes boss of Chicago. The other was Sanford Waterman, who had previously been one of Sinatra and Giancana’s partners in the Cal-Neva Lodge. Waterman was later convicted of racketeering.
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Sinatra's first live album, Sinatra at the Sands, was recorded during January and February 1966 at the Sands Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Backed by the Count Basie Band, with Quincy Jones serving as arranger, Sinatra at the Sands was released in August 1966, reaching #7 in the UK and #9 on Billboard.
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