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Classic DVD Review: Frank Sinatra | The Frank Sinatra Show: Welcome Home Elvis

The Chairman Of The Board throws a swingin' homecoming party for The King.

This came out in 2004 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):

 


Frank Sinatra was never shy about voicing his disdain for rock ’n’ rollers like Elvis Presley.

But that didn’t stop the Chairman of the Board from throwing a party for The King when Presley was got out of the Army in 1960. The Frank Sinatra Show: Welcome Home Elvis contains the entire hour-long TV special, including Timex ads, boffo Frank tunes, much kibbitzing from fellow Rat Packers Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford, and — eventually — Elvis doing solo two numbers (Fame And Fortune and Stuck On You) and a generation-gap duet with Frank (a medley of Love me Tender and Witchcraft). Bottom line: It’s a swinging time.