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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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SUDDENLY is coming to an end

SUDDENLY: a Frank Sinatra podcast ·

2025/07/26

Send us your thoughts & memories - suddenlypod@gmail.com

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03:02:50

65: Pal Joey, Part 3 - Fight for What You Love

SUDDENLY: a Frank Sinatra podcast ·

2025/07/08

Alfred Hitchcock! bell hooks! The Ballad of Reading Gaol! The dramatic conclusion of our Pal Joey series finds Rabia, Felix and Henry bewitched, bothered and bewildered as they learn the end of Lorenz Hart's story and grapple with the very nature of love. In putting forth our dueling philosophies of love, can we get to the bottom of the thing that all of Sinatra's songs are about, the thing that has baffled philosophers since time began? What is this thing called love, anyway?!

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02:51:48

64: Pal Joey, Part 2 - Art is Not Moral

SUDDENLY: a Frank Sinatra podcast ·

2025/06/25

For the second part of our Pal Joey deep dive, Henry leads Rabia and Felix through what made the original musical so groundbreaking and what makes the 1957 Sinatra film adaptation so bad. We also finally learn what "The Lady is a Tramp" is all about. Who's the mouse with the built? website: suddenlypod.gay contact: suddenlypod@gmail.com donate: ko-fi.com/suddenlypod

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01:56:27

BONUS: Brian Wilson's Dreams (with April Reid)

SUDDENLY: a Frank Sinatra podcast ·

2025/06/12

ENDLESS HARMONY ENDLESS SUMMER STILL I DREAM OF IT BRIAN WILSON FOREVER 🎶🌊✨

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03:00:00

63: Pal Joey, Part 1 - The Beauty of Lorenz Hart

SUDDENLY: a Frank Sinatra podcast ·

2025/06/02

For part one of our Pal Joey deep dive, we look at the life of gay lyricist Lorenz Hart. We explore Hart's writings, philosophy, and history as a closeted artist living a painfully contradictory double life. We also discuss the benefits of irredeemable characters in art, setting the stage for a closer look at how the 1940 musical Pal Joey—and the 1957 Sinatra-starring film adaptation—came to be. Sources: The Art of Burning Bridges: A Life of John O’Hara by Geoffrey O’Brien Lorenz Hart: A Poet

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01:24:06

BONUS: Beautiful or Tragic - The Untold Saga of...

SUDDENLY: a Frank Sinatra podcast ·

2025/05/29

An emotional deep dive into the untold history of The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, a terrible, racist and transphobic film. Rabia looks at the lives of the three drag queens and one trans woman that it was based on (Cindy Pastel, Strykermeyer, Lady Bump and Carlotta) and the erratic behavour/Shakespearean motivations of troubled writer/director Stephan Elliott. Deep research uncovers a complex story with no clear heroes or villains - a tale as beautiful as it is tragic. This is a

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02:29:30

62: I've Got You Under My Skin, Part 3 - Reality

SUDDENLY: a Frank Sinatra podcast ·

2025/05/20

The third and final part of our series about "I've Got You Under My Skin" and the AIDS crisis, in which we watch the Red Hot + Blue TV special from 1990 featuring the Neneh Cherry version of the song. We look at AIDS messaging of the time, learning from its bravery and mistakes, and also confront its inadequacy to deal with the current Long COVID crisis and the need to move on in the present. Source list will be added later. Watch AIDS 90 NOV RED HOT BLUE Videos, the original Michael Aldrich tape

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61: I've Got You Under My Skin, Part 2 - Angel

SUDDENLY: a Frank Sinatra podcast ·

2025/05/15

The second part of our series about "I've Got You Under My Skin" and the AIDS crisis, in which we watch the first two hours of a VHS tape recorded by Michael Aldrich from his Dope Tapes archive. email: suddenlypod at gmail dot com website: suddenlypod.gay donate: ko-fi.com/suddenlypod

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23:14

60: I've Got You Under My Skin, Part 1 - Mentality

SUDDENLY: a Frank Sinatra podcast ·

2025/05/08

The first in a trilogy of episodes about "I've Got You Under My Skin" and the AIDS crisis. contact: suddenlypod at gmail dot com website: suddenlypod.gay donate: ko-fi.com/suddenlypod

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02:17:30

59: Meet Me in Las Vegas (with Garrett Cash)

SUDDENLY: a Frank Sinatra podcast ·

2025/05/05

This week, special guest Garrett Cash attempts to set a world record for the most preparation ever undertaken to appear as a guest on a single episode of a podcast. Meet Me in Las Vegas is a boring MGM film from 1956 set at the Sands casino in which Sinatra appears in a cameo as "Man at Slot Machine" for only a few seconds. You won't believe how far Garrett went to put this in its full context, spending over a year on the deepest dive yet undertaken for this show. Be prepared to learn a LOT about

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02:07:50

58: Too Many Husbands!

SUDDENLY: a Frank Sinatra podcast ·

2025/04/19

It’s a simple idea with a long history: Woman is told her husband has perished at sea, so she remarries, then the original husband turns up alive and hijinks ensue! An old-timey excuse to show a throuple and a natural premise for comedy, this concept stayed resonant for many years and was remade a number of times – including as a classic screwball 1940 film, that was later itself in 1947 adapted into a hilarious and chaotic radio production starring Lucille Ball as the wife with Bob Hope and Frank

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25:20

Ramadan Radio: Rocky Fortune's Rocket Racket

SUDDENLY: a Frank Sinatra podcast ·

2025/03/10

We're off for Ramadan and will be back soon. In the meantime, here's a classic episode of Rocky Fortune with a quick intro about some upcoming episodes. website: suddenlypod.gay contact: suddenlypod at gmail dot com donate: ko-fi.com/suddenlypod

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01:43:54

BONUS: "The Elvis Conspiracy" 1992 Channel 7 Adelaide...

SUDDENLY: a Frank Sinatra podcast ·

2025/02/14

Not just the 1992 "Is Elvis Alive?" conspiracy theory special The Elvis Conspiracy (a sequel to 1991's The Elvis Files). Not just the specific airing of that special from Channel 7 in Adelaide, South Australia on 26 May 1992. The commercials from that airing. It's as granular as we've ever been, and we're joined by Adelaide's own David M. Green, host of VHS Revue, a show which specialises in commercials from Australian TV found on old VHS tapes. This was originally intended to be a bonus episode

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01:37:58

57: Finian's Rainbow

SUDDENLY: a Frank Sinatra podcast ·

2025/01/22

In 1947, a musical premiered in which a conservative US senator is transformed into a woman by a farming commune of "rainbow people" in order to teach him a lesson. Brimming with queer and trans subtext, Finian's Rainbow is a difficult and exhausting watch today but it remains fascinating as an artefact of proto-feminism and postwar LGBTIQA+ history. Sinatra was originally slated to appear in an animated version in the 1950s and even worked on a soundtrack with Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald,

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02:31:40

56: I Love My Wife

SUDDENLY: a Frank Sinatra podcast ·

2025/01/15

I love my wife. The "I Love My Wife" timeline: "I Love My Wife" (unrelated song from I Do, I Do, 1966) Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice (1969) I Love My Wife (film, unrelated to the musical, 1970) Viens chez moi, j'habite chez une copine (French play, 1975) "I Love My Wife" (Sinatra single release of title song from musical, January 1977) I Love My Wife (book of original musical, 1977) I Love My Wife (musical, premieres March 1977) I Love My Wife (original cast recording, 1977) "I Love My Wife"

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37:52

Henry Has Evacuated LA

SUDDENLY: a Frank Sinatra podcast ·

2025/01/13

As Los Angeles burns, Henry checks in with the show from a Motel 6 in Palm Springs. websites: henrygiardina.com suddenlypod.gay contact: suddenlypod at gmail dot com

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01:45:51

55: Songs for Swingin' Lovers!

SUDDENLY: a Frank Sinatra podcast ·

2025/01/09

We're back, ahead of schedule, with an emotional first episode of 2025 after a long and personally very traumatic few months. This week we turn to Sinatra's classic 1956 album Songs for Swingin' Lovers! and explore how the album title inadvertently became a double entendre in the 1960s. Placing this album in the inadvertent context of the "swinging" sexual revolution throws new light on it and snaps the album's "concept" into focus. Mostly, this is just spectacular music and we're back to our roots

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24:35

Season 4 Starts Soon

SUDDENLY: a Frank Sinatra podcast ·

2024/12/24

Merry Christmas. I'm back. See you soon. - Rabia suddenlypod.gay suddenlypod at gmail dot com

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24:31

SUDDENLY will return in 2025

SUDDENLY: a Frank Sinatra podcast ·

2024/09/12

Hi, Rabia here. I have Long COVID and am struggling. I need time to process things and figure out how to best use my energy. Podcasting is good for me but very energy consuming, and I need to work out how I'm going to manage this condition. So Season 3 will end here for now and we will pick back up at some stage in 2025. In the meantime, enjoy this episode of Rocky Fortune. Wear an N95, run an air purifier, avoid crowds, do whatever you can to avoid both contracting and spreading this virus. I dig

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02:12:33

54: The Man with the Golden Arm (with Spike Vincent)

SUDDENLY: a Frank Sinatra podcast ·

2024/08/22

Melbourne's Medically Supervised Injecting Room (MSIR) in North Richmond opened in 2018. This was the result of a years-long grassroots campaign led by the local community, fed up with constant overdoses in the streets. The MSIR operates on principles of harm reduction which simply work and urgently need to be applied throughout the world. The stigma around drug use, and the criminalising of drug users, must end - and that begins with us. In 1955, Frank Sinatra made a historically significant

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