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SUDDENLY: a Frank Sinatra podcast

Rabia, Felix & Henry

SUDDENLY... exploring the 20th century from a trans, queer & radical Australian perspective through the legacy of Frank Sinatra. Catgirl noir, ring a ding ding, etc. Join us as we deep dive into Sinatra"s work and the nuances of history in abstract & creative ways, with episodes structured around Sinatra"s albums, songs, films and radio appearances. Hosted by Rabia & Felix in Melbourne, and Henry Giardina in Los Angeles. Check out our website: suddenlypod.gay. Contact: suddenlypod at gmail dot com

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17: Don't Worry Darling

SUDDENLY: a Frank Sinatra podcast ·

2022/10/18

This week we're forced to soberly confront our own mortality to the stark strains of a Polish funeral dirge sung in a small-town graveyard. In MIRACLE OF THE BELLS (1948), Sinatra's film career makes a shockingly drastic departure from campy musicals to a dead-serious Catholic melodrama about a man making funeral preparations for a young woman who dies of lung cancer. This episode goes to some real dark places, including some long tangents about police abolition and climate justice. But the real

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04:07:51

16: The Kissing Bandit Diaries (with Alison Evans and...

SUDDENLY: a Frank Sinatra podcast ·

2022/10/10

*WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD FOR EPISODE 15* As a tribute to the spirit of Peeter Pedaja and last week's guest, Tim Batt of The Worst Idea of All Time, I, Rabia, watched THE KISSING BANDIT (1948) a total of 11 times in two weeks and kept an audio diary of the experience - presented here unedited, making up the first hour of this wildly experimental four-hour episode. During the 11 watches, I also visited places in the life of Peeter Pedaja and documented the time in Australian history following the

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15: This is Not a Book (with Tim Batt)

SUDDENLY: a Frank Sinatra podcast ·

2022/10/03

This week on SUDDENLY, an unbelievable true story. At age 19, Estonian-Australian immigrant Peeter Pedaja had his life changed by a Frank Sinatra film, THE KISSING BANDIT (1948). You will NEVER guess where this is going. Born in 1931, Pedaja spent his entire Estonian childhood on the run from occupying Germans and Russians, including an exhaustive three-and-a-half year search for his lost family. He migrated to Australia by 18 and began hitch-hiking around the country - once riding a bicycle from

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14: Q-Day

SUDDENLY: a Frank Sinatra podcast ·

2022/09/25

Following on from Episode 13, we examine the housing crisis that gripped postwar New York City in the 1940s. This pressing social issue was depicted in both Frank Sinatra's IT HAPPENED IN BROOKLYN (1947) and the pro-squatter, anti-landlord classic, IT HAPPENED ON 5TH AVENUE (1947). We learn that New York City in the late 1940s was a formative setting for tenant activism that leaves a rich legacy for us in the early 2020s, both in the US and here in Australia. Where Sinatra's film at MGM deals with

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13: What Happened to Bobby Long?

SUDDENLY: a Frank Sinatra podcast ·

2022/09/21

***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 Durante in IT HAPPENED IN BROOKLYN (1947). Then he disappeared from film, from performing and seemingly from all public life. What happened to such a talented young man? This week, SUDDENLY investigates. Plus, we begin a discussion of the Brooklyn postwar housing crisis that will carry over to the next

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02:33:45

12: No Bad Rivers

SUDDENLY: a Frank Sinatra podcast ·

2022/09/06

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 highway. This week we're looking at one of the greatest songs of the 20th century, "Ol' Man River", as sung by Frank Sinatra in TILL THE CLOUDS ROLL BY (1946). Racially, socially and environmentally, this masterpiece of songwriting has meant many different things to different people at different times

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11: Girls from the Future (with Molly Lambert)

SUDDENLY: a Frank Sinatra podcast ·

2022/08/29

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 three-hour adventure through her inner universe of celebrity culture, film, music, sex, gender, capitalism and the secret history of the city she loves. Her podcast HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story is now streaming everywhere. Recommended by Molly: In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes, Velvet

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03:24:11

10: The Sinatra Kids

SUDDENLY: a Frank Sinatra podcast ·

2022/08/10

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 jeered and assaulted members of the Sinatra Club, bitterly deriding them as “swooners." Police broke things up, but the haters stayed to boo throughout the screening then stalk fans through the streets as they headed home. This terrifying incident was the result of months of anti-Sinatra resentment

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09: Sharkey's Day (with David Nichols)

SUDDENLY: a Frank Sinatra podcast ·

2022/07/31

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 (1943), the film which featured Frank Sinatra in his first credited acting role. Along the way we learn about the debutante ball throughout history, the life of Australian dried-fruit-entrepreneur-turned-renaissance-man C.J. DeGaris, Guy Peellaert's "Rock Dreams" and the long careers of Mel Tormé and

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08: SUDDENLY presents Rocky Fortune in 'The Museum...

SUDDENLY: a Frank Sinatra podcast ·

2022/07/24

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" titular character. 'The Museum Murder' sees Rocky taking a job as a tour guide at a history museum - only to end up with, as usual, more trouble than he bargained for. Rocky Fortune, as with all US radio broadcasts dated before February 1972, is in the public domain. The complete series is freely available

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07: Night and Day

SUDDENLY: a Frank Sinatra podcast ·

2022/07/17

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 Australian journalist works up the courage to approach Frank Sinatra. This week we learn all these stories and more while exploring Cole Porter's classic song "Night and Day", as performed by Sinatra in REVEILLE WITH BEVERLY (1943) - a film based on the fascinating true story of Jean Ruth Hay, one of

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06: We Two in the Spray

SUDDENLY: a Frank Sinatra podcast ·

2022/07/10

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 archetypal Japanese villain roles during the war - all this and more, just beneath the surface of SHIP AHOY (1942). Plus, we review Shaggy's new Sinatra tribute album COM FLY WID MI and a run-in on a dating app leads Rabia to write the Suddenly Manifesto. The Virginia O'Brien Archive: INSTAGRAM:

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05: Heaven or Las Vegas

SUDDENLY: a Frank Sinatra podcast ·

2022/07/04

The early months of 1941 in Las Vegas were unique in history, a setting that most have forgotten. While still a small town of 8,500 people, this specific period saw the city on the verge of a tinderbox of circumstances - legalised gambling, an army base nearby, sex work, visiting movie stars, permissive divorce laws, organised crime, the end of prohibition and the end of the Depression - that were about to quickly escalate it to the place more familiar to us today. In amongst all this came LAS

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04: The Reversoscope (Part 3)

SUDDENLY: a Frank Sinatra podcast ·

2022/06/30

The sound quality will finally improve from next week onwards as the Reversoscope Trilogy, recorded in one marathon session, comes to an end. We tackle the highly problematic Oscar-winning short THE HOUSE I LIVE IN (1945) and wonder what could possibly be so "communist" about it as one Shocking Twist follows another. Then we're learning a LOT about cigarettes in LUCKY STRIKE SALESMAN'S MOVIE 48-A (1948) and are blown away by a transcendentally beautiful Sinatra performance of "Stardust", jarringly

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03: The Reversoscope (Part 2)

SUDDENLY: a Frank Sinatra podcast ·

2022/06/27

Time marches on as Felix draws a connection between SHOW BUSINESS AT WAR (1943) and the Zendaya & Andrew Garfield interview that just popped up on his TikTok feed. Then we're back to high-pressure war bond sales tactics again in THE ALL-STAR BOND RALLY (1945). We learn the phrase "in the chips", Bing Crosby becomes a non-binary icon, Sinatra sings a spectacular version of "Saturday Night is the Loneliest Night of the Week" and Carol Landis sighs. Meanwhile, another serious discussion of blackface

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02: The Reversoscope (Part 1)

SUDDENLY: a Frank Sinatra podcast ·

2022/06/20

It's still raining as we begin our odyssey through the Sinatra filmography with the first of a three-part series exploring shorts he appeared in between 1935 and 1948. First up is MAJOR BOWES AMATEUR THEATRE OF THE AIR (1935), in which he wore blackface - a topic we attempt to cover sensitively, diving into the complicated history of the song "Shine" and the legacy of this form of racism today. Then we're off on THE ROAD TO VICTORY (1944), also known as THE SHINING FUTURE (1944) in its extended

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01: Not Here to Cancel Frank

SUDDENLY: a Frank Sinatra podcast ·

2022/06/15

In this first episode, we set out what this is, what we're about to do and why we, as two transgender millennials in the 2020s, are so excited to rediscover Frank Sinatra. We detour into the Frank Sinatra/CATS connection and the abandoned Scorcese biopic - plus a heartfelt reading from a 1998 transgender community newsletter, and more. Also, it starts raining. CONTACT: SUDDENLYPOD AT GMAIL DOT COM @SUDDENLYPOD on TWITTER / INSTAGRAM / MYSPACE / ODNOKLASSNIKI / YOUTUBE Donate to the show

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