Sinatra Collectables (Non-musical Ones)

I wonder what one of his hats are worth.

 

My parents went to this event and gave me this when they got home ...

 

This is either a Barbie doll or a picture from the infamous "I'm In Love With A Robot" session:

 

I wish I had one of these when they were available:

 

It was bottled in 1997 for the Korbel Brut Rosé Artist Series. From a Bernhard Vogel post at the SFF:

Sinatra's affiliation with the Korbel product for 1997 was announced at his 20st wedding anniversary with Barbara Sinatra in July 1996.

The first bottle for the Korbel project was signed by Nicole Simmons in 1995, the Korbel website says. Tony Bennett was 1996, Sinatra 1997, Jane Seymour 1998, Whoopi Goldberg 1999 and Kenny G. 2000.

 

I had one of those for ages. Threw it away in a move years ago!

 

I have two.The other is gold colored.Today,they reside in a pocket of the Reprise suitcase.Got three out of the four CDs,a phone card(looks like the pictured MC card) and a VHS tape.Got a few raised eyebrows when using the card,but a lot more from my BlueNote card,which is strange since nobody knew what a BlueNote was(except at Tower) and everybody knew about Frank.
My goofy piece of merchandise is a baseball cap,colored orange,naturally,that has "Frank Sinatra-50 Years in Show Business" embazoned on the front.Typical '80s plastic mesh with a bit of cheesy foam on the front.I suspect the original owner passed on,since it was crushed inside a box of Sinatra LPs that came to the local store.Maybe they were selling them at some Atlantic city boardwalk.Cleaned up OK,but it needs some superglue at the bill.Found an offical licensed Sinatra sweater that Philly's Sid Mark was hawking on his radio show back in the day,also second hand.It was already labeled "small"but would have only fit on a Cabbage Patch doll,so I put it back on the rack.Equally cheesy orange.
Another goofy item is a gift book that the Sinatra family put out in 2001 with a CD of Frank singing "The Way You Look Tonight" with a bunch of photos of couple nuzzling with the lyrics spread out over a couple of dozen pages.I got this at a remainder store,pulled the CD and put the book in the chuch bazaar stuff.Days later,my wife suprised me with it,having re-bought it as kind of a gag gift and apologizing for the missing CD.We had another laugh when I pulled out the CD from The Book of Frank that holds The CD Collection.Anal retentave?Me?I resemble that remark.

 

Oh yeah,I forgot about the stuff my daughter got at the Hoboken,NJ Museum.A pin and a magnet(magnet has artwork from "Come Fly With Me"that states the obvious"It's Frank's world,we just live in it."and a cool but now-weathered t-shirt with young Frank noted that he is indeed "Hoboken's Brightest Star!"When I visited her,I picked up a cancelled post office card & poster when the HOboken post office was named after Frank.Then got some canoli(I remembered to take them but leave the gun)at Carlo's Bake Shop right before Cake Boss hit cable TV.

 

Great thread MORE please

Not " oddball" but treasure my Sinatra Stamp pin and Sinatra tie.

 

You'd have had to file for bankruptcy after trying to spend enough for all four CDs. Took me years to finally grab them all off eBay.

 

I'd love to have a replica of this Jo Davidson bust, but they're not exactly cheap...



I'd settle for one of these smaller versions (at the 3:15 mark):

 

when did you file for bancruptcy?

 

I have a couple of copies of the tour souvenir program from the early '90s. I saw FS live in Boston in '94 in what had to be his last-ever appearance in Beantown.

 

Bob, I would love to see the track listings. That is, if it's not too much bother.

 

This disc is/was sought after since it was the only CD source for the Capitol version of this track at the time.