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Sinatra At The Sands Trivia Quiz

Frank Sinatra's legendary 1966 concert with Count Basie and his orchestra at the Sands in Las Vegas. Some questions for those who love this album.

A multiple-choice quiz by sectant. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
sectant

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
379,022

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
5 / 10

Plays
210

Question 1 of 10

1. Before launching into the first song, Frank utters a snappy little one liner. Which of these is it? Hint

Hey Ava, I thought you said you couldn't make it here tonight!

You're the same crowd I had last night!

How did all these people get in my room?

What's the first line of this damn song?

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Question 2 of 10

2. Which song does Frank tell the audience is one of the greatest American standards? Hint

Street Of Dreams

I've Got You Under My Skin

Where Or When

Don't Worry 'Bout Me

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Question 3 of 10

3. On which song does Frank ask a smitten lady in the audience if they can meet on Monday and pick out the furniture? Hint

Angel Eyes

Get Me To The Church On Time

I've Got A Crush On You

Shadow Of Your Smile

4. "Making Whoopee" is one of two instrumentals on this album which showcase the peerless playing of the Basie orchestra. The brilliant trumpet solo is by Harry Edison. What was his nickname? Hint

Soupy

Sassy

Sweets

Sprinkles

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Question 5 of 10

5. This concert performance was arranged and conducted by Quincy Jones who less than twenty years later would collaborate with what mega selling singer on the most mega selling album of all time? Hint

Michael Jackson

Carole King

Madonna

James Brown

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Question 6 of 10

6. Track nine is a monologue where Frank engages in a stand-up comedy routine for more than eleven minutes. It contains references to Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Junior and several others including which restaurant owner who was a great friend of Frank's? Hint

Jackie Gleason

Toots Shor

Joe E Lewis

Irving Lincoln

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Question 7 of 10

7. A jazzed up, hyper version of "Get Me To The Church On Time" can be heard on this recording, Frank in great form and Basie and the boys really cooking. In what musical and then film did this song first appear? Hint

Seven Brides For Seven Brothers

Carousel

My Fair Lady

The Bells Are Ringing

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Question 8 of 10

8. Frank's definitive torch song and possibly the greatest break up song ever written is track six on this album. "One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)" is its title. Basie does not play the piano on this. Who does? Hint

Jimmy Van Heusen

Bill Miller

Frank himself

Joe Bushkin

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Question 9 of 10

9. Another masterpiece and definitive Frank interpretation is track number 18, "Angel Eyes." On stage, the song would have a single spotlight focused only on Frank which would then black out at the end of the final line in the lyric. What is this final line? Hint

Excuse me while I disappear

There ain't no more light in my life

I've gone and so has my Angel Eyes

Goodbye darling Angel Eyes

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Question 10 of 10

10. Which is the only song on this recording that Frank had previously recorded with Basie on a studio album? Hint

Fly Me To The Moon(In Other Words)

It Was A Very Good Year

Come Fly With Me

My Kind Of Town

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Before launching into the first song, Frank utters a snappy little one liner. Which of these is it?

Answer: How did all these people get in my room?

The song is "Come Fly With Me" which first appeared on the album of the same name and was written by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen. That entire album was a concept album, every song relating to travel. Frank was a great ideas man as well as a great singer and recorded several concept albums including "In The Wee Small Hours", an entire album of songs about lost love, unrequited love, loneliness and break ups.

It regularly features on lists of greatest albums of all time.

2. Which song does Frank tell the audience is one of the greatest American standards?

Answer: Don't Worry 'Bout Me

Frank always sang this great Ted Koehler/Rube Bloom song with the air of someone who had lost a great love, like he did with countless other torch songs. The great love was Ava Gardner, his second wife, eternal muse and a woman he could never shake out of his system even years after their divorce and his subsequent marriages to Mia Farrow and Barbara Marx.

3. On which song does Frank ask a smitten lady in the audience if they can meet on Monday and pick out the furniture?

Answer: I've Got A Crush On You

A great song enlivened by several comic intrusions in this live performance as it appears two women are fighting over Frank's affections and he makes great comedy mileage out of it. "I've Got A Crush On You" is just one of many classics composed by George and Ira Gershwin.

4. "Making Whoopee" is one of two instrumentals on this album which showcase the peerless playing of the Basie orchestra. The brilliant trumpet solo is by Harry Edison. What was his nickname?

Answer: Sweets

Sweets also featured on many of the great Capitol recordings of Frank's, arranged by the brilliant Nelson Riddle.

5. This concert performance was arranged and conducted by Quincy Jones who less than twenty years later would collaborate with what mega selling singer on the most mega selling album of all time?

Answer: Michael Jackson

The album of course was "Thriller" and Quincy Jones was its producer. Personally I think "Off The Wall", also with Quincy as producer, is a better album, Jackson's best, in fact, with a strangely appropriate title considering future events.

Answer: Toots Shor

Toots is also referenced in the song "Me And My Shadow" which Frank sang in a duet with Sammy Davis Junior, though not on this album. Irving Lincoln is mentioned at the end of this recording but I think Frank made the name up. Jackie Gleason and Joe E Lewis were comedian/actors.

Answer: My Fair Lady

Julie Andrews on stage, Audrey Hepburn in the film. Andrews was overlooked for the film version because Hepburn was the bigger name so Andrews made "Mary Poppins" instead and won the Best Actress Oscar for it. I love these Hollywood ironies.

Answer: Bill Miller

Bill Miller was Frank's accompanist on many recordings and live performances and will forever be linked with Frank and this masterpiece, written by Harold Arlen and genius lyricist Johnny Mercer. It can also be heard on yet another heartbreaking concept album, "Frank Sinatra Sings For Only The Lonely".

Answer: Excuse me while I disappear

A perfect ending to a perfect song. It too can be heard on "Frank Sinatra Sings For Only The Lonely". Certain Frank songs are so definitive that covers by other singers seem pointless. This is one of them.

10. Which is the only song on this recording that Frank had previously recorded with Basie on a studio album?

Answer: Fly Me To The Moon(In Other Words)

Frank and Basie recorded this on their second studio collaboration "It Might As Well Be Swing", with Quincy Jones arranging. Their first collaboration had been on the album "Sinatra-Basie: An Historic Musical First", arranged by Neal Hefti, the man who composed the theme to the 1960s "Batman" TV series and the film and TV versions of "The Odd Couple."

Source: Author sectant

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