Frank Sinatra - 1983-01-07 - Las Vegas, NV (EX Aud)

Frank Sinatra 
1983-01-07
Caesars Palace
Las Vegas NV
Excellent Audience Recording
320 kbps
Artwork Included

01. I’ve Got The World On A String
02. Change Partners
03. This Is All I Ask
04. The Lady Is A Tramp
05. Here's To The Band
06. Frank Telling Stories
07. My Kind Of Town
08. When Your Lover Has Gone
09. Come Rain Or Come Shine
10. Band Inro
11. Instrumental
12. As Time Goes By
13. New York, New York

Frank Sinatra - 1983-01-07 - Las Vegas, NV (EX Aud)

1980S - #2: For Frank Sinatra, the year 1983 was the best of times and the worst of times. Early in the year, In he was selected as one of the five recipients of the 1983 Kennedy Center Honors, alongside Katherine Dunham, James Stewart, Elia Kazan, and Virgil Thomson. Quoting Henry James, President Reagan said in honoring his old friend that "art was the shadow of humanity" and that Sinatra had "spent his life casting a magnificent and powerful shadow."  Later that year, however, author Kitty Kelley said some less faltering things about Sinatra in her unofficial biography of the singer, entitled His Way. In fact, on September 21, 1983, Sinatra filed a $2 million court case against Kitty Kelley, suing her in punitive damages, before the book was even published. The book became a best-seller for "all the wrong reasons" and "the most eye-opening celebrity biography of our time", according to William Safire of The New York Times. Sinatra eventually dropped the case, but his rage at and the campaign against the book took a toll on his health.  This Excellent audience recording captures FranK early in that tumultuous year, in Las Vegas on January 7, 1983, 35  years ago today.