13: What Happened to Bobby Long?
***UPDATE: We figured it out. Mostly. Listen to Episode 30 for more.*** At age 14, prodigious triple-threat Bobby Long made his onscreen debut tapdancing and singing along Frank Sinatra and Jimmy Dur...
21 Sep 20221h 21min
12: No Bad Rivers
In Sydney of 1960, a man sings acappella to workers on a building site. In Sydney of 2020, a woman sings acappella to TV cameras. In Sydney of 2022, a man wheels his kayak through a drain under a high...
6 Sep 20222h 28min
11: Girls from the Future (with Molly Lambert)
The iconic Molly Lambert joins us from Los Angeles, ostensibly to discuss Sinatra's classic MGM musical ANCHORS AWEIGH (1945). In her unique & irrepressible style, Molly leads us on a freewheeling thr...
29 Aug 20223h 6min
10: The Sinatra Kids
On January 19th, 1945, hundreds of Sinatra-haters violently descended on a small group of young fans who had come to see STEP LIVELY (1944) at the Empire Theatre in Sydney, Australia. The angry mob je...
10 Aug 20223h 24min
09: Sharkey's Day (with David Nichols)
Who is Sharkey? We're joined by David Nichols - author, music historian and senior lecturer in Urban Planning at the University of Melbourne - to find out. This week we're discussing HIGHER AND HIGHER...
31 Juli 20221h 58min
08: SUDDENLY presents Rocky Fortune in 'The Museum Murder'
We're off this week so instead we're presenting a full episode of the classic 1953 NBC radio drama Rocky Fortune, starring Frank Sinatra as the "footloose, fancy-free and frequently unemployed" titula...
24 Juli 202224min
07: Night and Day
In Morocco, a gay man hears the Islamic call to prayer and writes a song for his lover. In China, an American soldier watches the same film five times in one day. On a flight from Suva to Sydney, an A...
17 Juli 20222h 27min
06: We Two in the Spray
Add up the marginalised voices and they become the mainstream. A 19th century Hawaiian prince writing a song about a couple frolicking in gentle rain, a pioneering Korean actor in Hollywood taking arc...
10 Juli 20221h 30min
