The best Frank Sinatra story you will ever hear.

Edited by Kirk Noland. https://about.me/theminutewithkirknoland




Transcript: The first time I heard that voice
0:05I was eight-years-old I was shining shoes in a bar on the south side of Chicago
in the end I was appalled there at his funeral he was like a father to at age 78 we're all wondering when is he gonna lay down when is he going to quit
he would hit and miss some nights but
crowds love him they couldn't get enough of him and they
were really coming to say goodbye to him
in every city we went to they were coming to say goodbye
in one night in in the mark auditorium there's like twenty thousand people in
the arena and I did my show and the good audience was good he did three songs he was rollin when he got to the fourth song and went
totally blanked on the lyrics and
the orchestra was down in the pit and make it plain
not knowing that he was lost and he started whispering into the microphone
I'm sorry I'm so sorry I'm sorry
I'm sorry now when I saw that happening we we're always wondering when is he going to lay it down is this the
night
what's worse we know the orchestra didn't realized that he was in lost and they put their instruments down
one at a time to an eerie silence in this huge arena
and now he's whispering I'm sorry
I'm so sorry I'm sorry by that time I was stage left
and I thought okay this is it you know he's gonna come off stage and I'm gonna say
let's go home mister s it's been a great career but it's time to go home
and he turned around in that dead silence and he
had tears in his eyes and he looked like he was going to set the
microphone down
and this guy way up at the top in the audience stood up by himself in yelled
-out
that's alright Frank it's alright we love you
Frank it's alright because we love you and he started to applaud
I'm getting chills
go on
soon hundreds of people stood up then thousands and pretty soon the whole arena
was cheering and cheering he got to the edge at the stage and I thought
thought he was gonna go home but they wouldn't stop cheering. So he picked up the mic and he went to the next number which was Mack the
Knife any absolutely drill that song he hit every new nuance in every lyric
he was like he was 19 years old again now when he finished that song
the people wouldn't stop cheering and he was ready to go into the next number. When he quieted them down him down and he started to sing and he stopped and pointed up to the guy in the audience and said
I love you too pal and he sand for two years after that
2:31two years that guy doesn't know that fan brought him from the ashes that night.