SAMMY & FRANK
"GOOD OLD FRIENDS"
Thursday, December 12, 2024
Thursday, December 5, 2024
Pictures Frank Sinatra
FRANK SINATRA
And "The RAT PACK"
DEAN MARTIN - SAMMY DAVIS Jr.
The RAT PACK
"FRANK SAMMY & DINO"
The RAT PACK
At The COPA ROOM
The SANDS HOTEL & CASINO
LAS VEGAS
SINATRA SAUCE
"COOK LIKE FRANK"
His FAVORITE ITALIAN RECIPES
STEAK & The EGG SANDWICH
DINO'S LODGE
This is PRETTY AWESOME
Thursday, November 14, 2024
Frank n Jackie Sinatra Gleason
Frank & Jackie
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY JACKIE" !!!
Jackie Gleason's family background was, according to most accounts, almost Dickensian. It was marked by severe illness and grinding poverty, in any event. His father was a henpecked insurance clerk who took his myriad disappointments in life out in drink. He deserted the family when Jackie was nine. His mother was overprotective of her younger son, who died when Jackie was in his teens. An older brother, Clemence, died, probably of tuberculosis, at the age of 14, when Jackie was three.
In the 1930s, before he ever really made it even in small-time venues,
Gleason was a bartender at a bar in Newark, NJ, called The Blue Mirror. He wore his apron high on the chest just like he did as his "Joe the Bartender" character 30 years later on his television show, and he entertained the patrons with his antics, just like "Joe the Bartender." Eventually, he got such a following that the owner gave him a chance at the microphone on stage. The rest, as they say, is history. This was also a time when he actually lived and slept in the back room with the empty bottles, etc. Naturally, of course, it was across the street from a pool hall that he patronized in the afternoons after he was finished cleaning up the Blue Mirror.
"Drinking removes warts and pimples. Not from me. But from those I look at."
Jackie Gleason was a mentor and frequent drinking buddy of Frank Sinatra. It was Gleason who first introduced Sinatra to Jack Daniels whiskey, which became Sinatra's signature drink.
Gleason recorded a number of albums featuring instrumental "mood music" (what is now known today as "lounge music"). Gleason served as producer, bandleader, and (on occasion) vibraphone player, despite the fact that he couldn't read sheet music. Several of the albums included original compositions by Gleason. One album, "Lonesome Echo", topped the charts in 1955, and featured an album cover with original art by Salvador Dalí. When asked what inspired him to became a "mood music" legend, Gleason replied, "Every time I ever watched Clark Gable do a love scene in the movies, I'd hear this really pretty music, real romantic, come up behind him and help set the mood. So I'm figuring that if Gable needs that kinda help, then a guy in Canarsie has gotta be dyin' for something like this."
(IMDb)
Happy Birthday, Jackie Gleason!
Thursday, November 7, 2024
Sinatra at Patsys NYC Restaurant
PATSY'S
Frank Sinatra'S Favorite Restaurant
PATSY'S RESTAURANT
56th STREET
NEW YORK CITY
CLAMS POSILIPO
A SINATRA FAVORITE
At PASTSY'S NEW YORK
SUNDAY SAUCE
RECIPES - SINATRA FAVORIRES
VEAL MILANESE - CLAMS POSILIPO
SUNDAY SAUCE - MEATBALLS & More
SINATRA'S FAVORITE LA PIZZA
Monday, October 28, 2024
Sinatra Sauce
COMING SOON !!!
SINATRA SAUCE
"MUSIC MEATBALLS & MERRIMENT"
A Book about FRANK SINATRA, His Favorite Foods, Cocktails, and
"Living The Good Life"
FRANK'S FAVORITE ITALIAN FOODS
Stories of Sinatra with His Favorite Italian Food Recipes
"COMING SOON"
SINATRA SAUCE
Daniel Bellino Zwicke
CLICK HERE - Books by Daniel Bellino Zwicke
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Thursday, August 1, 2024
Eating at Patsys
PATSY'S
Frank Sinatra'S Favorite Restaurant
PATSY'S RESTAURANT
56th STREET
NEW YORK CITY
CLAMS POSILIPO
A SINATRA FAVORITE
At PASTSY'S NEW YORK
SUNDAY SAUCE
RECIPES - SINATRA FAVORIRES
VEAL MILANESE - CLAMS POSILIPO
SUNDAY SAUCE - MEATBALLS & More
SINATRA'S FAVORITE LA PIZZA
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
Sinatra Favorite Italian Cookies Veneiros NYC
VENEIRO'S PASTICCERIA
SINCE 1894
VENIERO'S
A circa mid-1940s photograph of Veniero’s. Pictured from left to right are Peter Veniero, the son of Veniero’s founder, Antonio Veniero; Frank Catinella, a cousin of Robert Zerilli’s father, Frank Zerilli, and a manager at the bakery; an unidentified employee; Frank Zerilli, then also a manager.Courtesy of Veniero’s
More than two million Italians arrived in New York between the late 1880s and the early 1910s, many coming through Ellis Island and most desperately poor. Large numbers settled in Harlem, the Bronx and Brooklyn; others headed to Lower Manhattan, in particular to Greenwich Village — along Sullivan and Bleecker Streets — and, most famously, to the area surrounding Mulberry Street that would become the Little Italy of the Lower East Side.
Antonio Veniero, born near Sorrento in 1870, arrived in New York when he was 15 and went to work in a candy factory. He bought the building on East 11th Street in 1894 and began producing his own handmade confectionery there; when customers asked for something to go with it, he began offering espresso and biscotti. It was backbreaking work: There was no electricity; ice came in hundred-pound blocks; deliveries were made on horse-pulled carts. Pastry was baked in a coal oven in the store’s backyard, which is now part of the cafe.
Zerilli’s father, Frank, began working at Veniero’s in the 1930s and bought the business in 1970. Zerilli did weekend shifts at the bakery in the late ’70s and came on full time in 1981. He opened the back-room cafe in 1994, the year of the store’s 100th anniversary. His father died one month later. Both Zerilli and Frankie went to college before returning to work at the store but Zerilli often says to his son, “Remember, Grandpa said, ‘The best college is right here.’” He shows me a favorite photo of his father with the other Frank, Sinatra that is, taken around 1980. Sinatra, looking amiable, his arm around Zerilli’s shoulders, wears a crucifix and is holding a cigarette and a large sesame seed biscuit in the same hand. “It’s called a regina,” says Angelo Santamaria, Veniero’s head pastry chef. “Sinatra liked it crunchy.”
"Frank & Frank"
SINATRA & ZERILLI
A photograph of Frank Sinatra and Frank Zerilli, circa 1979. Sinatra is holding a Regina Pastry that Veniero’s made specially for the singer, who liked them large with a crunchy exterior.
FRANK SINATRA'S FAVORITE COOKIES
BISCOTTI REGINELLE
aka REGINA COOKIES
The QUEEN'S COOKIES
Frank Sinatra had a standing order for these tasty Sicilian Cookies, that were
whipped from Veneer's to Frank's home in Palm Springs for years.
SUNDAY SAUCE
SINATRA RECIPES
SUNDAY SAUCE - MEATBALLS
And MORE ...
VENEIRO'S PASTICCERIA
East 11th Street - EAST VILLAGE
NEW YORK CITY
Since 1894
Monday, July 8, 2024
Fettuccine Alfredo Sinatra Recipe alla Frank Pasta
SPAGHETTI SAUCE
alla SINATRA
FRANK SINATRA Teaches DINAH SHORE
HOW to MAKE SPAGHETTI POMODORO
"SPAGHETTI w/ TOMATO SAUCE"
SINATRA PASTA
FETTUCCINE ALFREDO
FETTUCCINE ALFREDO alla SINATRA
RECIOE is in SUNDAY SAUCE
SUNDAY SAUCE
alla SINATRA
SUNDAY SAUCE - MEATBALLS
And FAVORITE RECIPES of FRANK SINATRA
VEAL MILANESE - SPAGHETTI MEATBALLS
CLAMS POSILLIPO alla SINATRA
FETTUCCINE ALFrEDO & MUCH MORE
EAST ALFREDO
EASY to MAKE "FETTUCCINE ALFREDO"
RECIPE
Thursday, June 20, 2024
Monday, May 27, 2024
Sinatra House Palm Springs Frank
FRANK POURS a DRINK
At HOME in PALM SPRINGS
FRANK SINATRA
PALM SPRINGS
The PLACE He CALLED HOME
Sunday, April 7, 2024
Sinatra Sings Music
FRANK SINATRA
MacARTHUR PARK
Francis Albert Sinatra
Frank Sinatra
MacARTHUR PARK
Drom The TIRLOGY Album 1980
Written by JIMMY WEBB
"YOU WILL BE MY MUSIC"
FRANK SINATRA
From "Ol BLUE EYES is BACK" Album
1973
Song Written by JOE RAPOSO
Musical Arrangement - Don Acosta
alla SINATRA
alla BELLINO alla PACINO
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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Party for Frank Sinatra Tribute
FRANK SINATRA
FRANK SINATRA
80th BIRTHDAY PARTY
With an AMAZING INTRO by BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Bruce calls SINATRA "The PATRON SAINT of NEW JERSEY"
JERSEY BOYS !!!
Bruce Springsteen Blows a KISS to FRANK
FRANK Blows a KISS Back !!!
To BRUCE
FRANK SINATRA 8oth BIRTHDAY PARTY
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
SINGING "ANGEL EYES"
To FRANK SINATRA
At FRANK'S 80th BIRTHDAY PARTY TRIBUTE
"JERSEY BOYS"
LEARN HOW to MAKE
SINATRA SPAGHETTI SAUCE
And MEATBALLS !!!
Monday, March 11, 2024
Sinatra Favorite Food Italian
Frank Sinatra, both the greatest singer and greatest entertainer of the 20th Century. No question. Sinatra was a legendary icon whose star still shines bright. He was a musical icon, celebrity, international personality, and to millions of Italian-Americans he was our own, a paisan. Frank was an Italian-American whose ancestry is from Genoa on his mother's side of the family and Sicilian on his father's side. And being Italian, Frank loved the food he grew up with, Dolly made a mean Marianara Sauce as well as Meatballs and the all-time Italian-American favorite Sunday Sauce (aka Gravy). Frank loved the food of his childhood; the Spaghetti & Meatballs, Stuffed Artichokes, Pasta Fazool, Frittata, Eggplant Parmigiana and all the usual suspects of the Italian-American table.
It's a well known fact that Frank's favorite restaurant was Patsy's on 56th Street in New York ... When Frank went to Patsy's his favorite dishes were Calms Posillipo and Veal Milanese with a nice plate of Spaghetti Pomodoro in-between, and maybe a slice of Cheesecake to finish if Frank was in the mood.
Frank & Ava
"MANGIA BENE"
FRANK'S FAVORITE RESTAURANT
Patsy's 56th Street, NEW YORK, NY
VEAL MILANESE and CALMS POSILLIPO ..
Two of FRANK'S Favorites
Frank tosses the Spaghetti
Dean Martin with Frank as Sammy Davis Jr pours Frank a Jack Daniels
Frank Sinatra dines with Marylyn Monroe
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Frank Sinatra with Lauren Bacall at 21 Club , NEW YORK
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Gnocchi Pomodoro
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Frank Sinatra 's Egg Sandwiches
JILLY'S
Frank at Jilly's with friends and daughters Nancy and Tina ..
One of Frank's favorite spots when in New York was owned by one of his closest friends (and Bodyguard) Jilly Rizzo .. Jilly's served Chinese Food and Franks's favorite was their Chicken Chowmein .. Frank threw many parties there, eating, drinking, telling stories and what-not.
Frank Eats a Donut
GINO'S on Lexington Avenue was a Sinatra favorite ..
A waiter and the famed Zebra Wallpaper of Gino's ..
PJ CLARKE'S
One of Frank's favorite Bars
Learn How to Make SUNDAY SAUCE alla SINATRA
and SPAGHETTI MEATBALLS all SINATRA
Recipes in SUNDAY SAUCE by Daniel Bellino
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NONNA BELLINO'S COOKBOOK
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