Frank gets Spectacular in 1955

A Kaleidoscope of tunes and a sketch from Frank live, in compatible color on NBC for Max Leibman, April 24, 1955. Peggy Castle is Miss Jenkins.

[@ICATSVB]

Man oh man he was good. The Capital years! Thanks for posting!

[@robjones2408]

The Voice on his way back, after a very turbulent period in his unruly life. Soon he would release the flawless "In The Wee Small Hours", one of the many masterpieces he would record with Capitol Records. The rest is history.

[@johnfury6481]

What a little gem of a time capsule. Right before the groundbreaking LP In the Wee Small Hours.

[@nicholascolangelo933]

Never will we see another Sinatra original as Frank many copies but none come close not in his prime.

[@markdaniele4539]

Thanks for posting this Anthony.Never to bee seen again even if you live to be a million years old.

[@story_by_nila]

How rightfully so this song fits him

[@solveigmwilder2512]

Great Film !! Very nice to see Frank, Live, performing in the beginning of His carrier !

[@jadezee6316]

lol....beginning of his career?? another brain surgeon

[@cruiseguitar]

Uhh, this is at least 15 years INTO his ( recording and performing) career sir.. it’s more like a couple of years after the beginning of his Capitol Years era- which is largely considered to be his mid- prime vocally. The ‘comedy’ is dated and lame and takes away from the music ,but to see him singing these great songs in great voice and his trademark confidence and charisma is just the best!

[@mikeahn9092]

awesome rare footage from his prime years, musically speaking imo. killer phrasing!

[@petermiller7609]

So great to find this. Great! I've never seen this. Many die-hard Sinatra don't have this. Great alternate arrangement of Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams! And great beginning of I'm Gonna Live Till I Die.

[@RoyTither-fu6go]

Learnin' the blues,the first 78 rpm I bought of Mr.Sinatra,brilliant.

[@rayhoffmanonair6332]

First time I've seen this. To have this, in any condition, is wonderful. Not to take anything away from Nelson Riddle, whose work on both When Your Lover Has Gone and Learnin' The Blues rank among his very best, but the arrangement that Dick Reynolds wrote on the opener (adapted by Riddle) really clicks. I wish he had more of an opportunity to write for Sinatra...

[@ddkoda]

An appropriate celebration of the inauguration of electronic color broadcasting on NBC. Some very witty material for Frank to work with. Frank was at the top of his game vocally and it shows in the confidence he projects and his willingness to take in stride the barbs that were occasionally thrown his way. Thanks so much Anthony for the upload. It's all new for many of us Sinatra admirers.

[@ApartmentKing66]

Looks like this was one of the very first broadcasts from NBC Burbank's "Color City" studios, which opened in 1955. The facility down on Sunset at Vine would be gone by 1964.

[@lawrenceharris8919]

Yes, NBC's first color studio at Burbank, Studio 2, as shown in this clip, kicked off regular color broadcasts from the West Coast, on March 27, 1955, with the Entertainment 1955 spectacular. About a month after Frank's West Coast segment of Max Liebman Presents Kaleidescope broadcast on April 25, Studio 2 was employed for Producers' Showcase The Petrified Forest starring Humphrey Bogart, Henry Fonda, and Lauren Bacall on May 30. By the fall of 1955, Studio 2 was the site of almost daily color broadcasts, including Frank, Paul Newman, and Eva Marie Saint in Our Town on September 19, monthly episodes of The Milton Berle Show, and weekday afternoon productions of Matinee Theater, starting on October 31. The nearly identical Studio 4, the home of Dinah Shore and Dean Martin, opened in the fall of 1956.

[@albertdiner]

Great those songs that set a mood. Sinatra great doing slow ballads

[@fredrighetti]

FRANK THE BEST VOICE, CIAO DA FRED ITALY, MILANO, BYE.

[@lindashelley3635]

That psychologist should have interviewed Dean - his wonderful warm voice and infectiously charming smile would have really made her 'dig' it!! 😍

[@SpaceGhost67]

Transpicuous. The bit with the dame psychologist. He was himself a Doctor who happened to croon. Believe it.

[@krivs_studio]

MR. Sinatra. Nobody did it better.

[@bh5606]

Forty year old Frankie.

[@rayhoffmanonair6332]

And how about that never-recorded partial arrangement on Night and Day! That could have turned into one of Riddle's great works. The raw materials certainly are there...

[@story_by_nila]

Frank the god

[@TheSinatraCollection]

What's the name of this video collection?

[@johnalcorn8079]

Frank was here approaching his peak and NOBODY came near him to this day.He has the audacity to be sure of himself.

[@drsvs]

Amazng. Where did you find this???

[@kennethfreund123]

Where's the color version?

[@akrenwinkle]

05:27 I've loved this song for years and know the lyric is "life can't mean anything" but that's not what Frank sings here. Can anyone tell what what the change is?

[@judee.caulfield6386]

This is great, what is it?

[@joanienoeldechen4133]

40 years old...

[@helaina400]

66 years ago!