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  • Frank Sinatra: 100th Birthday Tribute Show Features Alicia Keys, Tony Bennett

    Frank Sinatra would have been 100 years old on December 12th, and hosts of musicians are going to pay tribute to Ol’ Blue Eyes on Sunday night.

    The Frank Sinatra special, aptly titled Sinatra 100: An All-Star Grammy Concert, will feature a huge range of vocal talent from the expected, like Tony Bennett and Harry Conick, Jr., to the unexpected, like Alicia Keys, Adam Levine and Garth Brooks.

    Frank Sinatra died of a heart attack in 1998 at the age of 83.

    His influence over even the most modern musical artists will be clear as the show unfolds, but the most interesting parts could be from those that actually knew him.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJimkJIPqhQ

    Tony Bennett came on the scene about a decade after Frank Sinatra struck it big in music and by his own accounts was his biggest fan.

    In an interview before taping the Frank Sinatra special, he said of The Chairman of the Board, “He really created the greatest school of popular singing and made it possible for all of us to have a great living doing this.”

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    He added, “He was the biggest influence on me — him and Ella [Fitzgerald] and Nat King Cole. He was my tremendous idol, and then became my best friend right through the years.”

    Hopefully this Frank Sinatra special will go over better than the fund raising gala that took place Thursday night at Lincoln Center called “Sinatra: Voice for a Century”.

    The Frank Sinatra impersonator of the night was none other than Seth McFarlane, creator of Family Guy and other juvenile fare.

    Stephen Holden from the New York Times admitted that his impression in and of itself was spot on, but also said of McFarlane’s performance, “Mr. MacFarlane ably went through the motions. For all the reverence he affected, it failed to camouflage an underlying attitude of disdain that attaches to everything Mr. MacFarlane does.”

    He added, “Between numbers featuring guests who included Sting, Sutton Foster, Bernadette Peters, Billy Porter, Kyle Dean Massey, Chris Botti and Christina Aguilera, Mr. MacFarlane also delivered a glib, running biography of Sinatra, filled with half-baked hyperbole, devoid of fresh insight and peppered with snarky remarks to show how cool and detached he is.”

    Wow. That’s harsh. But, Sunday night’s CBS Frank Sinatra special is primed to be so much more appealing and dazzling! Are you going to watch?

  • Nancy Sinatra And Hometown Of Hoboken Set To Celebrate Frank Sinatra’s 100th Birthday

    Nancy Sinatra, daughter of legendary singer Frank Sinatra, and Frank’s hometown of Hoboken are gearing up for a city-wide celebration on what would have been his 100th birthday, December 12th.

    Nancy Sinatra does a radio show in Hoboken and will be joining in the festivities, but the focus will be on the life and times of Old Blue Eyes himself.

    All year long, Frank and Nancy Sinatra’s hometown has been awash in special events to commemorate Sinatra’s centennial birthday.

    For example, screenings of his movies in the outdoors and a sort of “Sinatra Idol” singing competition have helped the town remember Sinatra. There have also been special concerts that will end on a grand note with a centennial birthday party on December 12th.

    That party will take place at the Stevens Institute of Technology, which gave Sinatra an honorary degree in 1985. Sinatra was a high school dropout.

    The Hoboken Historical Museum opened a Sinatra exhibit in August and has seen a 300 percent jump in visitors.

    Museum Director Robert Foster said, “Whenever we do something on Sinatra, people come out of the woodwork. We enjoy the fans because they are so loyal and he means so much to them.”

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    Frank Sinatra died in 1998 at the age of 82.

    Back in October, one of his closest friends, Tony Oppedisano, told in an interview about the day Sinatra died.

    “He wasn’t panicked,” Tony recalled, “He was just resigned to the fact that he had given it his best but he wasn’t going to come through.”

    He added, “I told him I loved him but those were the last words I ever heard him say before he passed away.”

    Oppedisano also told of Frank’s great love for his first wife, Nancy Barbato, and the love he had for their children, despite being somewhat of an estranged father after the divorce.

    Oppedisano said, “He used to beat himself up about Nancy Senior (Sinatra’s first wife).”

    He added, “He remained dedicated to her throughout the years and had a great ongoing affection for her, despite being very much in love with Barbara (his fourth wife).”

    Frank and Nancy Sinatra divorced after 12 years of marriage due to his ongoing affair with actress Ava Gardner. He married Gardner shortly after, but that marriage only lasted two years. He then wed actress Mia Farrow and then Barbara Marx, who was still married to him at his death.

    Nancy Sinatra (Barbato) never remarried.

    What do you think of the upcoming festivities put on by his and his daughter, Nancy Sinatra’s, hometown of Hoboken, New Jersey? Will you be attending?

  • Jerry Lewis: Muscular Dystrophy Telethon Ends, Marking the End of an Era

    Jerry Lewis: Muscular Dystrophy Telethon Ends, Marking the End of an Era

    Jerry Lewis worked tirelessly for more than 45 years bringing together celebrities, his humor and viewers for an annual Labor Day telethon to benefit children suffering from Muscular Dystrophy.

    It seemed the country came together to watch celebrities like Frank Sinatra, Celine Dion and Jennifer Lopez perform and man telephones as the tote board marked the millions of dollars coming in for “Jerry’s kids.” Tears flowed as an exhausted Jerry Lewis ended each telethon with his broken, but moving rendition of You’ll Never Walk Alone.

    That era of American television has come to an end.

    “It’s not a 21-hour world anymore,” said Steve Ford, MDA executive vice president, with the announcement that the telethon will no longer be a Labor Day tradition.

    It’s not surprising the telethon is ending in this new era of social media, technology and the ability to fundraise in a more effective manner. When Jerry Lewis stopped hosting the show in 2010, the telethon’s slow demise began. The show was reduced from 21 and a half hours in Jerry Lewis’ final year to 19 in its final year.

    Fundraising will continue, but production costs associated with the telethon makes the endeavor unfeasible.

    “The real heroes have always been our families, and what we need to do is make sure that every dollar we raise is spent working for our families,” he said.

    In 2008, the telethon marked its greatest success, raising $65 million for Jerry’s kids. And over the years, Jerry Lewis helped to raise more than $2 billion for MDA.

    Jerry Lewis’ association with MDA goes back to its inception in 1950. Lewis and his comic partner Dean Martin mentioned the charity not the NBC show, and the two hosted a telethon in 1956. Jerry Lewis began hosting the telethon regularly beginning in 1966.

    Not everyone thought that Jerry Lewis was doing good. Some felt he made people with the disease objects of pity by Lewis in order to raise money.

    With once in a lifetime performances from celebrities like John Lennon, Michael Jackson, Johnny Cash and Ray Charles appearing on the telethon, the MDA has been discussing with Jerry Lewis ways to release some of the archived material.

    Do you remember watching the Jerry Lewis Telethon?

  • Nancy Sinatra Denies Rumors That Dad Frank Sinatra Is Father To Mia Farrow’s Son, Calling The Claim ‘Nonsense’

    Nancy Sinatra is denying allegations that her late father, crooner Frank Sinatra, is the biological father of Mia Farrow’s son Ronan Farrow, calling the allegations by her former stepmother “nonsense.”

    In a segment of a CBS Sunday Morning interview that was posted online on Wednesday, days before the Sunday premiere of the HBO documentary Sinatra: All Or Nothing at All, Nancy Sinatra said allegations made in 2013 by Frank Sinatra’s third wife, Mia Farrow, were unfounded.

    The comments came when Mia Farrow was asked in a Vanity Fair interview if Ronan was Frank Sinatra’s son, to which she responded, “Possibly.”

    Ronan Farrow, who was born Satchel O’Sullivan Farrow 20 years after Mia and Frank divorced, is now 27.

    Few can deny, however, that he does resemble the legendary singer; far more than his reported father, Woody Allen.

    “Mia’s son? Oh, nonsense,” Nancy Sinatra told CBS Sunday Morning. “He would just laugh it off. We didn’t laugh it off because it was affecting my kids, you know. They were being questioned about it and we all knew it was nonsense.”

    “I was kind of cranky with Mia for even saying, ‘Possibly,’ she added. “I was cranky with her for saying that because she knew better, you know, she really did. But she was making a joke! And it was taken very serious and was just silly, stupid.”

    Although she became “cranky” with Mia Farrow for her joke about her father, Nancy has enjoyed a great relationship with her former stepmother.

    “Well, we loved Mia,” said Nancy Sinatra of the Rosemary’s Baby star, who was married to Frank for just two years in the mid-1960s. “Mia was one of our… like, a sister. We had a good time, [sister] Tina [Sinatra] and Mia and I did.”

  • Nancy Sinatra Denies Ronan Farrow Paternity Rumor, Calls It ‘Nonsense’

    With the upcoming premier of the HBO documentary Sinatra: All or Nothing at All, the crooner’s daughter is faced with controversies of Ronan Farrow possibly being one of Sinatra’s children. In an interview with CBS News, however, Nancy Sinatra denied the story and dismissed the rumors as ‘nonsense.’

    Nancy said that she thinks Farrow was just making a joke out of her son’s striking resemblance with the late singer Frank Sinatra, but his daughter wasn’t amused. She refused to take the issue lightly because it was already affecting her children. She also revealed that she felt ‘cranky’ with her former step mother for her bad humor.

    “We didn’t laugh it off because it was affecting my kids, you know. They were being questioned about it and we all knew it was nonsense,” Nancy told CBS. “I was kind of cranky with Mia for even saying, ‘Possibly.’ I was cranky with her for saying that because she knew better, you know, she really did. But she was making a joke! And it was taken very serious and was just silly, stupid.”

    The rumors started way back in 2013 when Mia Farrow was interviewed by Vanity Fair. When the article was published, the media went wild but Farrow’s son, Ronan, addressed the issue comically. On his Twitter account, he posted, “Listen, we’re all possibly Frank Sinatra’s son.” Perhaps humor runs in the blood.

    Despite feeling ‘cranky’ with Mia, Nancy recalled how well she and her sister Tina loved their former step mother. “Mia was one of our… like a sister and we had a good time, Tina and Mia and I did,” she said.

    Nancy also shared some of her thoughts when the crooner married Mia in the ‘60s. “Daddy said, ‘I’m not sure it’s gonna last very long. A couple of years, maybe,’ he said. ‘But I feel like I have to do this.’ We said, ‘Great. She’s a great girl.’ And I think the truth be told, I think he didn’t want her to be suffering because of him and she was being, her name was being bandied about in the press and there were paparazzi everywhere… I think it was very important to him that she be presented as a lady and not be thought of as something other than just that,” Nancy explained.

    Nancy is Frank’s daughter with his first wife Nancy Barbado. She is now 74 years old.

  • Bob Dylan Launches New Album Through — AARP?

    The times they are a-changin’. Indeed. Bob Dylan, the voice of a generation, knows where his generation is nowadays.

    According to the New York Post, Dylan sought out AARP magazine as the place to launch hi latest album.

    “They sought us out,” said AARP Magazine editor Bob Love. At first, it may have seemed like a mistake. Love had spent 20 years at Rolling Stone before heading to AARP.

    “I said, you realize I am not with Rolling Stone anymore?” said Love.

    Apparently there was no mistake. Bob Dylan wanted to give away 50,000 copies of his new CD, called “Shadows in the Night” to random AARP magazine subscribers. The magazine has a circulation of 22 million.

    The new Dylan CD is full of covers of Frank Sinatra songs. Love asked Dylan if he thought that doing that was “risky.”

    “Risky? Like walking across a field laced with land mines? Or working in a poison gas factory? There’s nothing risky about making records. Comparing me with Frank Sinatra? You must be joking. To be mentioned in the same breath as him must be some sort of high compliment. As far as touching him goes, nobody touches him. Not me or anyone else.”

    Dylan had his opinions about the history of popular music in the United States, particularly how the industry responded to the influence of black musicians in the early days.

    “When they finally recognized what it was, they had to dismantle it, which they did, starting with payola scandals,” Dylan said. “The black element was turned into soul music, and the white element was turned into English pop.”

    “When I first heard Chuck Berry, I didn’t consider that he was black. I thought he was a white hillbilly. Little did I know, he was a great poet, too. And there must have been some elitist power that had to get rid of all these guys, to strike down rock ’n’ roll for what it was and what it represented — not least of all it being a black-and-white thing.”

  • Bob Dylan to Release New Album in February

    Bob Dylan this week announced his 36th studio album. The album, titled Shadows In The Night, will be released on February 3, 2015.

    Shadows In The Night is Dylan’s first new album since 2012’s Tempest. The new album does not contain original Dylan music and is instead made up of standards famously sung by Frank Sinatra.

    In contrast to the bombastic arrangements backing Sinatra’s vocals, Dylan’s versions of the songs were recorded in just a few takes and were produced using minimal remixing. Columbia Records Chairman Rob Stringer commented that the album has “no strings, obvious horns, background vocals, or other such devices” and that he believes Dylan has provided the songs with “contemporary relevance.”

    “It was a real privilege to make this album,” said Dylan. “I’ve wanted to do something like this for a long time but was never brave enough to approach 30-piece complicated arrangements and refine them down for a five-piece band. That’s the key to all these performances. We knew these songs extremely well. It was all done live. Maybe one or two takes. No overdubbing. No vocal booths. No headphones. No separate tracking, and, for the most part, mixed as it was recorded.”

    Dylan also revealed that he doesn’t consider Shadows In The Night to simply be an album full of covers. Instead, he believes he is “uncovering” songs that have been covered to death.

    “I don’t see myself as covering these songs in any way,” said Dylan. “They’ve been covered enough. Buried, as a matter a fact. What me and my band are basically doing is uncovering them. Lifting them out of the grave and bringing them into the light of day.”

    Shadows In The Night is already available for pre-order via iTunes. Those who pre-order the album will be able to download “Full Moon & Empty Arms” (the seventh track on the album) immediately.

    Post by Bob Dylan.

  • Don Rickles to Get Tribute from Jimmy Kimmel, Jerry Seinfeld, Bob Newhart

    Don Rickles will get an all-star tribute from an impressive lineup of comedic celebrities such as Jimmy Kimmel, Bob Newhart, and Jerry Seinfeld next month. Robert De Niro, David Letterman, Tracy Morgan, Regis Philbin, Ray Romano, Martin Scorsese, John Stamos, and Jon Stewart are also slated to appear at the event.

    The 90-minute tribute titled One Night Only: An All-Star Comedy Tribute to Don Rickles will be taped on May 6 at the Apollo Theater, a New York City landmark located in Harlem. The show will air May 28 on Spike Network.

    “The genius of Rickles is in the danger, nobody is safe, and what you can expect is a night of comedy from these superstars worthy of a legend. It truly will be One Night Only,” said Casey Patterson, Executive Producer and Executive Vice President, Event Production & Talent Development, Viacom Entertainment Group, which owns Spike.

    Rickles, a native of Queens, will turn 88 on May 8.

    Often referred to as the “Merchant of Venom” or “Mr. Warmth,” Rickles is considered comedy’s master of the insult.

    Early on, Rickles abandoned his dreams of becoming a serious actor to hone his nightclub act. In 1957, Frank Sinatra saw the act at Slate Brothers in Los Angeles and quickly became Rickles’ champion.

    It wasn’t long before Rickles had caught the attention of Dean Martin and Johnny Carson and was headlining performances in Las Vegas.

    ”My humor is so over the top you’d have to be an awful fool to think I’m embarrassing you,” Rickles said in a 1996 interview with The New York Times. ”When I pick someone from the audience, their eyes say, ‘I can take it.’ But if I’m wrong, I’ll never let them know it. When you sell yourself you just can’t back down. I absolutely believe that. You’ve got to stay with what got you to the dance. It’s an old expression but true.”

    Rickles and his wife Barbara celebrated their 49th anniversary in March. They’re the parents of two children, Larry and Mindy. Mindy followed in her father’s comedic footsteps.

    One Night Only is a relatively new annual event on Spike. The first installment, which aired in 2012 and paid tribute to Eddie Murphy, remains the highest rated show in the network’s history.

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  • Patrice Wymore, Widow of Errol Flynn, Dies at 87

    Patrice Wymore Flynn, widow of late silver screen idol Errol Flynn, has died of pulmonary disease at her estate in Portland, Jamaica, according to family spokesman Robb Callahan.

    Wymore Flynn was a film and television actress who once starred opposite Frank Sinatra in the original “Ocean’s Eleven,” but was best known as being the last wife of romantic swashbuckling matinee idol Errol Flynn, who died of alcohol-related complications in 1959 at the age of 50.

    Wymore Flynn launched her acting career on Broadway in the 1940’s, performing in musicals such as “Hold It!” and “All for Love.” She made her transition to Hollywood in 1950, and co-starred in “Rocky Mountain,” a western starring Errol, which brought the two together. At the time, Flynn was engaged to a Romanian princess, but had his housekeeper break it off, according to his 1959 autobiography, “My Wicked, Wicked Ways.”

    Here’s the trailer for “Rocky Mountain”:

    Flynn had written in his memoir, “Patrice typified everything that I was not, and I presumed that she knew what my life was, since my life had been an open newspaper. She could cook Indian curry, she could dance, she could sing, she was reserved, she had beauty, dignity … homebody qualities that go toward making a sensible and lasting marriage.”

    Wymore Flynn was born in Miltonvale, Kansas, on Dec. 17, 1926, and grew up in Salina, Kansas. She’d moved to New York in her teens, to work as a model. After Flynn’s death, she’d went on to act in various films and television shows, but eventually returned to the Jamaican cattle ranch she’d shared with her late husband. She was once voted as being the Jamaican cattle rancher of the year in the 1980’s.

    Wymore Flynn never remarried, and also defended her late husband’s wicked ways, saying that “He just lost his way.” Flynn was staying with his teenage girlfriend at the time of his death.

    Wymore Fynn is survived by her grandson, Luke Flynn.

    Image via YouTube

  • Barbara Sinatra Denies Allegations

    Barbara Sinatra Denies Allegations

    Barbara Sinatra, Frank Sinatra’s widow, is describing the allegations that Mia Farrow’s son, Ronan, was actually fathered by her late husband as, “a phony deal”.

    Farrow shocked millions earlier this week, when she admitted to Vanity Fair that Sinatra could “possibly” be Ronan’s father.

    Farrow, who was married to Sinatra for only 18 months, said that he was the “great love of her life” and that “we never really split up”. Despite being involved with Woody Allen at the time of Ronan’s birth, Farrow still says that there is a chance that Allen may not be his father. A DNA test has not been done at this time.

    Barbara was reached by the Desert Sun, via telephone, for a comment on the situation, which she quickly denied. “I can’t hardly believe that. It’s just a bunch of junk. There’s always junk written — lies that aren’t true,” she said. She also informed the newspaper that Sinatra did not acknowledge Ronan as his son and nothing was left for him in his will.

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    Woody Allen’s rep also debunked the rumors saying, “The article is so fictitious and extravagantly absurd that he is not going to comment.”

    Ronan took a more humorous approach to the situation, via Twitter, when he jokingly said, “Listen, we are all possibly Frank Sinatra’s son.”

    Image via Wikimedia Commons

  • Frank Sinatra May be Father of Ronan Farrow

    Mia Farrow admitted to Vanity Fair, in an article published today, that the father of her son, Ronan Farrow, could possibly be Frank Sinatra, according to AFP. With all the pictures posted all over the web with Ronan and Sinatra side-by-side, it’s going to be hard to convince anyone that the handsome 25-year-old is not Sinatra’s, but….Woody Allen’s.

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    “We never really split up” she told Vanity Fair of Sinatra, who she referred to as the great love of her life. They were married for only two years and divorced in 1968. She went on to have a relationship with Woody Allen and she had Ronan, technically Satchel Ronan O’Sullivan Farrow, in 1988, when Sinatra would have been 72.

    Mia Farrow left Woody Allen in 1992 after she discovered the sexual relationship between her adopted daughter, Soon-Yi, and Allen. The two later went on to marry, and are together still, over 20 years later. Ronan no longer speaks to his father.

    No DNA test has been administered, but Ronan is almost a blue-eyed carbon copy of Frank Sinatra. When Vanity Fair asked Sinatra’s daughter Nancy about her treating Ronan as part of her family, she replied: “He is a big part of us, and we are blessed to have him in our lives”.

    But Ronan took to Twitter Wednesday to distance himself from his mother’s reported remarks.

    From just the small side of Ronan Farrow that can be gleaned from public knowledge, his life certainly doesn’t resemble Sinatra’s swinging, wild existence. According to his Twitter presence, Ronan is a lawyer, journalist, and former U.S. Global Youth Issues Envoy.

    Let’s say there were a DNA test, and let’s say I am a betting woman. My money, without hesitation, would go straight on Sinatra as his biological father. Those eyes and that face really don’t seem to have come from Woody Allen or Mia Farrow. We shall see.

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  • Cal-Neva Casino, of Frank Sinatra Fame, Returning to Glory Days

    Cal-Neva hotel-casino, so named because it straddles the California-Nevada state line, is closing starting Monday to undergo a multimillion-dollar renovation. Anticipated reopening is scheduled for 12 December 2014. The casino attached to the hotel shut its doors in 2010 due to declining business during a time of recession and hot competition from Las Vegas and Indian-gaming casinos.

    Developers Criswell-Radovan acquired the resort in April and they have plans to breathe new life into the property, known mostly for the celebrities it drew in the 1960’s. “Our goal is to bring it back to its former glory and to make it what it was like in Sinatra’s day,” Robert Radovan, co-owner of Criswell-Radovan, stated.

    The reference to Frank Sinatra is because the crooner owned the property during the early 1960’s. Then, at the height of its popularity, Sinatra and “Rat Pack” pals Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., and Peter Lawford visited the hotel as well as Marilyn Monroe and several of the Kennedy family. Monroe actually spent her last weekend at the hotel on Lake Tahoe’s North Shore before she died in her Los Angeles home in 1962 at the age of 36.

    “There will be an elegant, clean, post-modern feel to it after we’re done,” said Radovan, who explained that the owners intend to maintain the historic vibe of the location while bringing amenities and equipment up to modern-day standards. If all works as planned, the December 2014 opening would fall on the birthday of the Chairman of the Board; he passed away in 1998, but this would have marked his 99th birthday.

    Sinatra’s renovations during ownership were to add a celebrity showroom and a helicopter pad. The 10-story hotel currently has 219 rooms and five small cabins, and the casino stretches for 6,000 square feet. Prohibition-era tunnels were used in later decades to keep actors and other infamous personalities out of the public spotlight.

    Rat Pack at the Cal-Neva

    Plans are to raise the hotel to the 4+-star level by improving amenities, expanding bathrooms and capitalizing on views of Crystal Bay at Lake Tahoe. The casino also will be redesigned. Radovan promised improvements to the showroom and cabins and public tours of the tunnels—which will be preserved. Radovan further discussed plans for the showroom which he says has amazing acoustics and with new equipment could feature, “high-end concerts.” The developers plan to name the room after Ol’ Blue Eyes himself, who used to perform there with Martin and Davis.

    About 60 employees will be out of work during the closing but Radovan says that current employees understand the makeover is necessary and after renovation, almost three times as many employees will likely be needed.

    There are many rumors, mysteries and falsehoods of Cal-Neva’s storied past and reliable sources can be hard to come by. The location actually had an original lodge that opened in 1926. That structure was destroyed in a fire and rebuilt in 1937, which brings us to the present resort.

    [Images via Tahoe Daily Tribune.]

  • America’s Got Talent Winner Sings Sinatra, Impresses Twitter

    In a primetime rags-to-riches story, 36-year-old Landau Eugene Murphy Jr. walked off the stage last night as the winner of this season of America’s Got Talent.

    He beat out teen pop band PopLyfe, and two dance groups Team iLuminate and Silhouettes for the title. He’s now the proud owner of $1 million and a future in Vegas.

    Murphy is a resident of West Virginia, and it was a running storyline on the show all season that he has worked as a car washer for the last 10 years. America’s Got Talent has always pushed the sentimentality factor, and it really couldn’t have worked out better than Murphy winning it all.

    Murphy had two things going for him all season. First, the man’s a pretty good singer. Second, he had the element of surprise, as the judges put it. It’s just a fact of life – nobody expected a guy who looks like Murphy to sound like Frank Sinatra.

    But here he is, singing “My Way” at the final performance show –

    And here is his winning moment from last night –

    To take it all back to the beginning, here’s his initial audition where he performs Sinatra’s “I’ve got you under my skin” Both the crowd and the judges seem completely wowed –

    Twitter was buzzing about Murphy following his victory –

    @ryanathorn
    Ryan Thorn    Congrats to Landau Eugene Murphy Jr. on being the America’s Got Talent Champion. Making West Virginia proud! #AGT #WV 12 hours ago via web · powered by @socialditto

    @enrogers
    Erica N. Rogers    I can’t even put into words how proud I am that #WV native Landau Eugene Murphy Jr. won #AGT tonight! I wanna hear him sing Country Roads! 10 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone · powered by @socialditto

    @broGeorge
    George McCanne    Congrats Landau Eugene Murphy Jr. I hate reality contest tv shows but your rags to riches story & Sinatra voice belong in Vegas. Cheers. 8 hours ago via txt · powered by @socialditto

    Did Landau deserve to win? Let us know what you think.