Sinatra Trivia

 

"Don't Sit on Sinatra"

Telly Savalas as KOJAK

POP CULTURE TRIVIA

In the December 1974 Kojak episode, Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die, Frank Sinatra is mentioned several times by Greg (George Shannon), the soon-to-be-murdered victim, while in his apartment attempting to seduce his date. He then puts on a Sinatra record but the music is not heard. In an attempt to solve the crime, Kojak (Telly Savalas) mentions Sinatra several more times during the episode. Halfway through the program, he enters the police department holding a copy of Some Nice Things I've Missed and throws the record on a desk as he begins a conversation with others officers. Meanwhile, Sgt. Stavros (Telly's real-life brother George Savalas) sits on the desk without paying attention to what's underneath. Before leaving the office, Kojak turns to Stavros as says "Fatso, you're sittin' on Old Blue Eyes". Unnerved, Stavros picks up the vinyl and hands it over to Kojak before walking out. In the next scene, Kojak arrives at the apartment of Lisa Walden (Andrea Marcovicci), still holding the album, and tells her "I brought you a Frank Sinatra album". Coincidentally, Telly Savalas also recorded a cover of the song "If" (as Sinatra did on this album), which was released as a single only three months later.

SUNDAY SAUCE alla SINATRA

RECIPE by DOLLY SINATRA

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Frank Sinatra 

"COME FLY with ME"

"SINATRA"

COFFEE MUG

SINATRA

"COME FLY with ME

TEE SHIRT

FRANK SINATRA

"COME FLY with ME"

SINATRA - Button / Pin

SUNDAY SAUCE

alla SINATRA 

RECIPES

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Iconic Sinatra Picture

 

BOB HOPE, JOHN WAYNE, RONALD REAGAN

DEAN MARTIN, FRANK SINATRA

1975

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RECIPE

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Chicken alla Sinatra Sicilian Recipe

 

 

CHICKEN SCARPARIELLO

CHICKEN with SAUSAGE and PEPPERS

SHOEMAKERS STYLE

RECIPE

HOW to MAKE CHICKEN SCARPARIELLO

SHOEMAKERS CHICKEN

RECIPE

CHICKEN SCARPARIELLO

MY SHOEMAKER GRANDFATHER'S RECIPE

And GREAT SICILIAN RECIPES

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Yes, my Grandfather Nonno Filipo Bellino was a Shoemaker in the town of Lercara Friddi, Sicily,

40 minutes south of Palermo. Frank Sinatra's father Saverio Antonino Martino Sinatra was born in Lercara Friddi and his father was a shoemaker in the town. You might recognize another famous name of someone born in Lercara Friddi, and that would be Salvatore Lucania, better known to millions as Charles "Lucky" Luciano.

Anyway, my grandfather was born and raised in Lercara Friddi where he was a shoemaker, and you can bet money that Frank Sinatra's Shomaker Grandfather knew my shoemaker Grandfather 

Filipo Bellino. They were both around the same age, give or take a few years.

My grandfather immigrated to America through Ellis Island, New York in 1902. Filipo then

settled in Lodi, New Jersey where he set up a Shoemake Shop on Main Street, marrying 

Giuseppina Salemi. Filipo and Giuseppina lived upstairs from the Shoemaker Shop and had 4 children, my Aunt Lilly was born first, then Uncle Jimmy (James) veteran of WW II and recipient of the Purple Heart in The Battle of The Bulge, Uncle Frank was the 3rd child. Frank Bellino was in 

The United States Marine Corps during World War LL, in the Pacific Theater. Then came Uncle Tony who was also in the US Army in WW II where he was head of The Officers Club at 

The George V Hotel in Paris after the Allied Forces Liberated the city.

My mother Lucia (Lucy) was the youngest, born in Lodi 1923 ...

Fillipo Bellino of LERCARA FRIDDI SICILY

And LODI, NEW JERSEY USA

The BELLINO'S

FILIPO, LUCIA (Mommy) ANTONINO, GIUSEPPINA

LODI,  NEW JERSEY

Sometime around 1940 ???

FRANCIS ALBERT SINATRA

CHARLES "LUCKY LUCIANO"

From LERCARA FRIDDI , SICILIA

And The LOWER EAST SIDE of NEW YORK

East 10th Street

Grace Kelly with Frank Sinatra HighSociety

 

Grace Kelly with Frank Sinatra

HIGH SOCIETY

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Sunday Sauce and SInatra

SUNDAY SAUCE

alla SINATRA

RECIPE

FRANK SINATRA

"COME FLY With ME"

It's an old tradition in my family, that most Sunday the Bellino Family gathers together and we eat Sunday Sauce Italian Gravy. The whole family gets together and Grandma House, or Aunt Helen's, but mostly at Aunt Fran's House in Lodi, New Jersey. It's a wonderful all day affair, starting with a little antipasto, followed by the star of the show, Sunday Sauce. Aunt Fran or Aunt Helen usually make the Sauce (Gravy), which is the most supreme dish of all. It's a long simmered tomato sauce laden with special meat treats, that include: Sausages, Meatballs, and Braciole. We eat it with short maccheroni, usually rigatoni. "It's the Best Thing ever," we all just love it, and who wouldn't, it's so damn tasty, it is.

After the Sunday Sauce, it's on to dessert and coffee, which is a 3 or 4 hour affair, as the grownups sit around the table drinking Espresso (with Anisette) and eating all the tasty desserts that's made of a whole array of sweet treats, like: Aunt Fran's Ricotta Cookies, Cannoli, Sfogliatelle, and whatever sweets that other visitors might bring. And there's a whole lot of talking about this that and every other thing: sports, politics, gossip and what not, all as Frank Sinatra records play softly in the background. Always. Aunt Wanda loves Jerry Vale, and Dino has his turn too. Those were warm and wonderful days spent with loved ones, and sadly all of the older generation is gone, and we miss them dearly. But me, I think of them often, and especially when it comes to Sundays, eating all day long, cahtting and having fun, eating maccheroni, sausage, Meatballs, and Braciole, listening to Sinatra, and loving it all. My cousins Joe, Tony, and I keep it going. We try to organize as many get-together s as we can, always centered around food, whatever it may be: fresh fish, pasta, Steak, and our all-time favorite Sunday Sauce. And don't forget Sinatra, Francis Albert that is. Or just simply Frank. 

Basta !

Frank Sinatra

The SUMMER WIND

A Pot of SUNDAY SAUCE

"GRAVY"

RECIPES

FRANK and FRIENDS

At GILLY'S

NEW YORK

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Dolly and Marty Sinatra Wedding Picture recipes

Dolly and Marty Sinatra

Wedding Picture

1914

Wow, I never knew Dolly was so good looking. I'd never seen younger pictures of her until I came across her wedding picture with her husband Martino. She wasn't a bad looking gal. Who knew"

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MEATBALLS alla DOLLY 

And SUNDAY SAUCE alla SINATRA

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RECIPES in SUNDAY SAUCE

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Frank Sinatra Portrait by Peter Max

Frank Sinatra

 

by Peter Max 

 

 

 

 

SINATRA SUNDAY SAUCE

 

ITALIAN GRAVY RECIPE