Speaking of children of entertainers, here's last night's gig strange audience member report: there was a very attractive woman sitting in front of me who was obviously doing some sort of sales presentation with the theater/restaurant owner. As we were nearing the end of a set, I announced we'd be doing "Girl from Ipanema," and she turned to me and said, "Oh, that's from Junior's favorite album of his dad's." I, of course, said, "Huh?" And she said, "Frank Sinatra, Jr.--his favorite album of his father's is Jobim & Sinatra." So of course I then asked her if she knew about Sinatra & Company, the second album of Sinatra doing Brasilian material (this time with Deodato arrangements) that never received a real U.S. release, or his never released single of Jobim's "Sabia." Well, in the weird but true department, it turns out she's the Sinatra family's licensing guru and she presented me with a huge folder of images she licenses, and then during our break regaled me with some pretty funny stories of the Sinatra kids. I asked her if she had heard the commentary track of "You Only Live Twice" where Nancy's singing is not exactly discussed in glowing terms by John Barry and the director (27 or 28 takes to get a finished product, IIRC). It was all kind of surreal--Frank, Jr. has a DVD of his Carnegie Hall remembrance concert that he's having trouble finding a distributor for, and I told her she should pitch it to PBS as it seems like a perfect thing for one of their pledge weeks, so if it pops up there, you can blame me, not Jose.
