A Special Laine Memory with ‘Jack’
Happy Birthday, Frankie! This month, March 30th, marks the 108th birthday of the great Frankie Laine! It was fun to help him and other fans from all over the world [...]
Excellence in Excellent
Best of the Best It was quite a shock to me after learning that the great singer Tony Bennett had decided to allow the public to know about his diagnosis [...]
A Couple of Past Laine Projects for the Ages
Book On the back cover of my 2005 book, Reaching for a Star, about my friendship with Frankie Laine (and my life and music career), I have two special quotations [...]
Busting Open the Book
Laine in My Life With the closing of the year, I began to focus on what I might write about this month. I thought perhaps I would write about what [...]
Building a Library with Meaning
November Vibes When November rolls around, I find myself recalling my first visit with Frankie Laine. It was mid-November 1985, when I took a Greyhound bus from my home in [...]
Recalling the Christmas Song that Frankie Laine Almost Recorded
My Best Buddy I have many friends within the Frankie Laine circle. It is no surprise that these friends are located around the United States and even in other countries. [...]
Laine’s High Standard: Girl Singer Project
Excellence One of the remarkable aspects of being an admirer of Frankie Laine’s music is the yearning to locate other popular singers who have the same high-quality singing talents as [...]
Magic Moments
Emotional Sparks Did you ever watch a magic trick being performed flawlessly and wonder “How was that possible?” What you witnessed was a skill that was created because all of [...]
Forever in Bronze, Forever in Memory
In Bronze On Tuesday June 30, the bronze statue of Frankie Laine was officially dedicated in the Little Italy section of San Diego in front of Nonna—an Italian Restaurant owned [...]
‘Westward Ho!’
Enjoyment with a Message The old tales of the Wild West are fun to relive in books, movies, and on television. My wife, Marlene, and I love watching these old [...]
Moments in Time Represented
Hair I stumbled upon an auction on eBay the other day. For several thousand dollars, one could bid, or buy at a set price, a strand of hair from John, [...]
Recalling the Magic in Red
Reminiscing I was a professional musician (drummer) during the 1970s and 1980s. I carved out a living playing music with several different bands during that time. Sometimes along the way, [...]