Frank Sinatra
Westchester Premier Theater
Tarrytown New York
1-10 April 1976
aka The Hungry Years

Note - this is a composite show from Sinatra's multi night run at the Westchester. It's been blended to sound like a continuous concert except for the last track where a 2 second gap was introduced.

01. Night And Day - 4 Ap 76, 1st Show
02. Where Or When
03. For Once In My Life - 10 Ap 76, 2nd show
04. The Lady Is A Tramp
05. Imagination - 4 Ap 76, 1st show
06. Whats New?
07. Didn't We? - 3 Ap 76, 1st show 
08. Witchcraft - 2 Ap 76
09. All By Myself  - 2 Ap 76
10. Sinatra monologue
11. If - 4 Ap 76, 1st show
12. The Hungry Years
13. I've Got You Under My Skin -  10 Ap 76, 2nd show
14. Empty Tables
15. Send In The Clowns - 4 Ap 76, 1st Show
16. I Sing The Songs - 3 Ap 76, 1st Show
17. My Kind Of Town
18. My Way - 4 Ap 76, 1st Show
19. Closing Theme
bonus
20. The Hungry Years - 2 Ap 76

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The Westchester only held about a 3000 people or so. Sinatra played there a lot. It had a huge bar and restaruant in it as well and the bartenders never proofed anyone.The drinking age back then was 18. Most of the tickets for the Sinatra shows never went onsale to the public but were sold at inflated prices for cash with the money skimmed off the top of the face value of the ticket. The place apparently never made any money on the books. I think that the feds seized it and then sold it at auction to Bobby Mines who promoted a few shows before he went bankrupt and it closed forever. It was demolished a year or so later and sat as an empty lot until about 3 years ago when they built an office building. Such a shame because it was really a nice venue with very decent acoustics. So what was really going on at the Westchester?

If you're not familiar with the history of the Westchester Theater, then prepare to be entertained by a genuine good ol' fashioned Tony Soprano-like story . . .   The place was mob built, owned, and run.  Greg Depalma was a Gambino associate who was put in charge of concessions and security. They opened the books and made him in 1977.  Tommy Marson was a Sinatra friend and promoter from Palm Springs that had all kinds of ties with the boys back east and was an investor and front.  There's a very famous pic of Sinatra in his dressing room there with his arm around Depalma and Marson and gathered around them for the pic are Big Paul Castellano (Gambino underboss at the time, rubbed out later by Gotti), the Godfather himself Carlo Gambino, Jimmy 'The Weasel' Rrattiano, Richie 'Nerves' Rusco (in charge of tickets at the venue), Carlo's son Joe, etc.  You can decide for yourself about Sinatra's association with the underbelly of society. .  . I'm just giving some additional historical context.  

See the photo at this site -- you'll need to scroll down . .  .   http://franksinatra.quickseek.com/