29: Not By Ranting, Nor By Chanting SUDDENLY: A Frank Sinatra podcast

Millions know the song: "Forget your troubles and just get happy." But where does it come from, and what does it really mean? Why are we getting ready for judgement day, and how did Judy Garland end up associated with something that sounds so gospel? This week, we dive into the long and complicated multicultural (and especially Black) history of "Get Happy", the most memorably awkward track on Sinatra's first full-length collaboration album with Nelson Riddle, SWING EASY (1954). Our adventure through history takes us all the way from Art Tatum and the Tallahassee Bus Boycotts of 1956 to a 2008 episode of South Park and the "Diabeetus" internet meme.

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BONUS: "The Elvis Conspiracy" 1992 Channel 7 Adelaide Commercials (with David M. Green) 1:43:54

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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 for the TCBCast After Dark Patreon-exclusive deep dive into "Is Elvis Alive?" that Rabia, Justin and Felix did in 2024. A bout of Long COVID meant it didn't end up happening at the time, but everyone's back on deck so here it is! Ads discussed include: The Adventures of Vicky, Mr. Footypunt, Jane Debster shoes, Bob Moran cars, promo for Memories of Elvis the following night, Yellow Pages ad with Roy Billing, Tip Top Bread with Andrew Jarman, Kellogg's Corn Flakes, TAB Telephone Betting, Hungry Jacks Ocean Catch, Light West End beer (Not gay), Farmer's Union Iced Coffee, Aussie Tile Fair, Zamel's Jewellers, Pedder's Suspension, Sizzler, AM Adelaide. The full Adelaide 1992 VHS recording on Internet Archive David M. Green's website Watch VHS Revue on YouTube TCBCast Patreon to hear the rest of TCBCast After Dark our website: suddenlypod.gay contact: suddenlypod at gmail.com…

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57: Finian's Rainbow 1:37:58

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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, but the project never eventuated - though he did go on to record "Old Devil Moon" on Songs for Swingin' Lovers! Frustrated by the infamous 1968 Coppola film adaptation, Rabia went in search of any random stage version off YouTube to watch instead - and found a gem in the form of the 2017 Usdan summer camp adaptation with a brilliant young cast, which we spend this episode dissecting. Modern feminists call Finian's Rainbow a whitewashed version of 1940s gender politics, but how does it really hold up today and do its "good intentions" matter? Also, we talk about Robbie Williams, his new biopic Better Man , Sinatra's influence on his work and the US/Commonwealth cultural divide as to whether or not he is famous. website: suddenlypod.gay contact: suddenlypod at gmail dot com donate: ko-fi.com/suddenlypod…

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56: I Love My Wife 2:31:40

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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" (Bill Evans recording, 1978) I Love My Wife (South African cast recording, 1978) Viens chez moi, j'habite chez une copine (film of original French play, 1981) I Love My Wife (Australian cast recording, 1982) I Think I Love My Wife (film written by Louis CK starring Chris Rock, 2007) I Love My Wife (revival with Jason Alexander, 2008) I Love My Wife (amateur revival at Kraine Theatre, NY, 2018) I Love My Wife (Backers' Audition CD of original 1976 demo recordings, 2020) Other sources: Andy Propst - You Fascinate Me So: The Life and Times of Cy Coleman (2015) "After All, It's Not Gomorrah", Robert Cushman, The Observer , 9 October 1977 " Don't Go to Orgies in Deer Park " by Loveboner from the album Wet Sounds (2019) Charles L. Granata - Sessions with Sinatra: Frank Sinatra and the art of recordings (1999) " The Mystery of Frank Sinatra's Grave ", David Lansing, Palm Springs Life , 26 April 2021 contact suddenlypod at gmail dot com website: suddenlypod.gay donate: ko-fi.com/suddenlypod…

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Henry Has Evacuated LA 37:52

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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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55: Songs for Swingin' Lovers! 1:45:51

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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 of appreciating it. In particular, we spotlight the trumpet work of Harry "Sweets" Edison, a major part of the timeless sound of this era. Selected sources: " Music Hath Charms, Even Unto Motherhood ", The Indianapolis Star , 25 March, 1962 Frank Sinatra: Portrait of an Album (1985) Interview with Harry "Sweets" Edison , conducted by Les Tomkin in 1970 for National Jazz Archive UK Hugh Rawson - A Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk (1983) All the Loving Couples (1969) Terry Gould - The Lifestyle: A look at the erotic rites of swingers (1989) Gilbert D. Bartell - Group sex: a scientist's eyewitness report on the American way of swinging (1971) Ray Connelly - A Girl Who Came to Stay (1975) Charles A. Varni - " An Exploratory Study of Wife-Swapping " (1972) contact suddenlypod at gmail dot com website: suddenlypod.gay donate: ko-fi.com/suddenlypod…

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Season 4 Starts Soon 24:35

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

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SUDDENLY will return in 2025 24:31

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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 you the most xx contact: suddenlypod at gmail dot com…

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54: The Man with the Golden Arm (with Spike Vincent) 2:12:33

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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 contribution to the destigmatisation of drug use on film in Otto Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm . In a depiction that is in many ways still radical today, Sinatra's character of Frankie Machine is a regular person who is trying his best to shake off a heroin addiction but is simply failed by a society that does not have the means to support him. A compelling and empathetic performance by Sinatra, and subject matter which openly defied the Production Code of its era, made this a memorable classic for many and contributed to a better world. This week on SUDDENLY, friend of the show Spike Vincent joins us to watch The Man With the Golden Arm, sharing his thoughts and personal experiences. Meanwhile, Rabia has been reading up on the MSIR and reports back on the experience of touring the facility to see what goes on first-hand. As a thematic wild card, we also watched an Australian DVD of the film called A Night at the Cinema with extra footage intended to replicate the experience of seeing this film in 1955 in a cinema in specifically Castlemaine, Victoria - including "God Save the Queen", a newsreel, cartoon, local ads etc - which leads us to compelling footage of the 1955 Maitland floods. Plus, an update on Bobby Long. Sources for this episode: * The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) (watch in full - public domain) * Jack Pearl - Robin and the 7 Hoods (novelisation) (1964) * Lou Reed interview, " Reed Goes Public on Velvet Underground ", The Canberra Times , 4 October 1987 * Nobody Dies Here: Inside Melbourne's Medically Supervised Injecting Room (2023) podcast * Judy Ryan - You Talk, We Die: The Battle for Victoria’s First Safe Injecting Facility (2022) * Link to book tours of the MSIR (Melbourne Supervised Injecting Room) * Photo of the "You Talk, We Die" mural in North Richmond * Stimulant Treatment Program at St Vincents Hospital in Sydney * A Year to Remember - 1955 (1965) Newsreel including Maitland flood footage * Katie Carr, " The problem with the 'disabled villain' trope ", The Nora Project , 7 October 2022. * Detective Pikachu (2019) * Where to obtain Naloxone - official advice from Australian Government * Brian Jeffery, " Gays come out of the closet ", The Canberra Times , 13 March 1982 contact: suddenlypod at gmail dot com website: suddenlypod.gay donate: ko-fi.com/suddenlypod…

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53: Wake Up and Live, Part 5 - Giardina on Winchell 1:40:17

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In the final (?) part of our Wake Up and Live saga, Henry returns to the show to share his thoughts on Walter Winchell's legacy through the lens of the gossip landscape of 2024. Sources for this episode: * John Mosedale - The Men Who Invented Broadway (1981) * Neal Gabler - Winchell: Gossip, Power, and the Culture of Celebrity (1994) * Snopes article on the Elon/Zuck kissing photo * Better Offline podcast hosted by Ed Zitron, "The AI Bubble is Bursting" episode * Rehash podcast, "Is Anyone Up?" episode * Sullivan's Travels (1941) * Fresh Air (1999) * The Sweet Smell of Success (1957) * Scandal (1950) * Winchell (1998) * " Should Non-Jewish Actors Play Jewish Roles? " Henry Giardina, Hey Alma , 18 August 2022 Henry's official site - henrygiardina.com . contact: suddenlypod at gmail dot com website: suddenlypod.gay donate: ko-fi.com/suddenlypod…

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BONUS: The "Is Elvis Alive?" Conspiracy Theory + "The Elvis Files" (1991) (with Justin Gausman) 3:24:10

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For the last few months, Justin and Rabia have been co-hosting TCBCast After Dark , a deep dive into the seamy underbelly of the Elvis conspiracy world available only on the TCBCast Patreon feed. As they approached Part 6 of an exhaustive investigation into the truth behind the grifters who perpetuated the false "Is Elvis Alive?" conspiracy throughout the 1980s, and reached the infamous 1991 Bill Bixby TV special The Elvis Files , they decided to bring in Felix for a fresh perspective on the whole thing. Here, exclusive to SUDDENLY, is a 45-minute introduction in which Felix is caught up with everything that has come before it - a speedrun through the entire story of "Is Elvis Alive?" from 1977 to 1991. Also captured here is the moment Rabia learns of Trump's attempted assassination, which bears an unbelievable coincidental parallel to an infamous moment on an oft-circulated tape in which a man attempting to sound like Elvis appears to learn of Reagan's assassination in 1981. THEN, this is followed by the full Elvis File s episode, in which we attempt to make sense of the infamous TV special in its full context - and Justin uncovers that one of its most extraordinary claims, about declassified FBI documents, "Operation Fountain Pen" and a criminal organisation called The Fraternity, is actually true. You just have to hear this one to believe it, folks. This episode will work fine to listen to as a standalone, and will serve as a 101 primer on the absurd world of "Is Elvis Alive?" For the rest of the story, before and after, subscribe to the TCBCast Patreon . SUDDENLY will return to regular programming shortly. contact: suddenlypod at gmail dot com website: suddenlypod.gay donate: ko-fi.com/suddenlypod…

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52: Wake Up and Live, Part 4 - The Secret 1:54:32

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This week, we continue to act as if it were impossible to fail in part four of our exhaustive deep dive into Wake Up and Live . Picking up the story from the end of World War II, we look at the legacy of Dorothea Brande's book and the essentially identical self-help scam that generations of grifters have perpetuated on the world ever since. Wasn't this podcast meant to be about Frank Sinatra? Selected sources and references: Picture Search Video @ 139 Swan St, Richmond (IG: @ picturesearchvideo ) Teen Wolf (animated TV series) (1986) Stone Bros. (2009) The MousePack - Mickey and Friends Singing Classic Standards (2022) Jenny Nicholson - " The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel " (2024) Philip J. Deloria - Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract (2019) Catherine Russell - "Wake Up and Live" (2012) Universal Opportunity League - Wake Up and Live (1950) Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged (1957) Earl Nightingale - The Strangest Secret (1956) The Secret (2006) Joanna Scutts - " Fascist Sympathies: On Dorothea Brande ", The Nation, 13 August 2013 contact: suddenlypod at gmail dot com website: suddenlypod.gay donate: ko-fi.com/suddenlypod…

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51: Wake Up and Live, Part 3 - Dancing in the Dark 2:24:34

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The history books forgot about the 1944 radio adaptation of Wake Up and Live , a bizarre and disastrous production in which a fascist self-help book adapted into a comedy movie about duelling radio shows is adapted back into a radio show in which several other radio shows exist within the world of this radio show, and characters with real people playing themselves are altered back into fictional characters again. And THIS was Sinatra's second ever acting role of any kind, fresh off the back of the similary convoluted film Higher and Higher. On top of that, this was also the first time he recorded both "Embraceable You" and "Dancing in the Dark" and he delivers show-stopping performances of both, truly making this a historic moment in time. Yet all of this has essentially gone undocumented. This week on SUDDENLY, you'll hear the original radio broadcast in full as we try to make sense of what this all is - and we're not even done with Wake Up and Live yet. contact: suddenlypod at gmail dot com website: suddenlypod.gay donate: ko-fi.com/suddenlypod…

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50: Wake Up and Live, Part 2 - Machine Men 2:48:48

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Please note that the accompanying graphic for this episode has not been chosen lightly and is intended in the spirit of historical education, criticism and artistic commentary. In part 2 of our investigation into the saga of Wake Up and Live, we look at the original 1936 self-help book by Dorothea Brande, the toxic ideas that the book perpetuates and the author's ties to fascism and Nazism. To understand why fascism became popular in the United States during the 1930s is also to understand why Wake Up and Live became a bestseller. This week we take a close look at both, from the infamous 1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden to the publication and editing career of Brande's husband, Seward Collins, before going over the horrible, horrible book in full detail. Selected sources for this episode: " Kendrick v. Drake, Beef of the century? " White People Won't Save You podcast episode, 10 May 2024. A Night at the Garden (2017) Nazi Town USA (2024) (PBS' American Experience , Season 36, Episode 1) Arnie Bernstein - Swastika Nation (2013) Joanna Scutts - " Fascist Sympathies: On Dorothea Brande ", The Nation , 13 August 2013 Albert E. Stone Jr. - “Seward Collins and the American Review Experiment in Pro-Fascism, 1933-37”, American Quarterly , Vol. 12, No.1, Spring 1960 John Roy Carlson - Under Cover (1943) Henry Hoke - It's a Secret (1946) Michael Sayers - Sabotage! The Secret War Against America (1942) FBI investigation on Maria Griebl, via FOIA-requested documentation Review of Wake Up and Live in The Saturday Review of Literature , 2 May 1936 Hortense Finch - Classroom report on use of Wake Up and Live , from The English Journal , Vol. 27, No.2, Feb 1938 contact: suddenlypod at gmail dot com website: suddenlypod.gay donate: ko-fi.com/suddenlypod…

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49: Wake Up and Live, Part 1 - Mic Fright 44:15

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This week we begin a three-part investigation into Wake Up and Live . What is it? Good question. It's a 1930s self-help book, a musical in which a real-life journalist/radio host plays himself, and later, a radio drama adapted from the film. All these things interrelate in a way that's confusing to make sense of in 2024. Just beneath the surface of Wake Up and Live lies an elaborate and shocking story we'll fully detail over the next three weeks. Sinatra won't enter the story until Part 3. What the hell is all of this? You're about to find out. contact: suddenlypod at gmail dot com website: suddenlypod.gay donate: ko-fi.com/suddenlypod…

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48: Post Time 2:15:22

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***SPOILERS AHEAD - LISTEN TO EPISODE 47 FIRST*** It is now post time. Selected resources and links mentioned this week: * Follow @covidconsciousqueersnaarm on Instagram * Godmother of Elvis Sightings video essay by Johnny Law & Order * TCBCast After Dark , Rabia's new side project with Justin Gausman, which you can hear by subscribing to the TCBCast patreon . * Art Cohn - The Joker is Wild (1955) * Chris Heath - Feel: Robbie Williams (2004) * Joe E. Lewis - " The Groom Couldn't Get In " (1948) * Joe E. Lewis - It Is Now Post Time (1961) * Son of the Mask (2005) * Heckler (Jamie Kennedy, 2006) * Footage of The Joker is Wild premiere * Episode of What's My Line with Joe E. Lewis, 8 October 1961 website: suddenlypod.gay contact: suddenlypod at gmail dot com donate: ko-fi.com/suddenlypod…

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