FRANK SINATRA, “OL’ BLUE EYES” STAMP DEDICATION CEREMONY
TO BE HELD AT MEMPHIS PLAYHOUSE ON THE SQUARE

WHAT:
The Memphis Post Office will host a special stamp dedication ceremony for the Frank Sinatra commemorative stamp. During this event, there will be a special musical tribute to Frank Sinatra performed by Jazz Artist, Jeremy Shrader of the "New Memphis Hepcats" and an unveiling of the Frank Sinatra 42-cent commemorative stamp. The event is FREE and open to the public.

WHO:
Steve Cohen, U.S. Representative
Thomas Pawlowski, Memphis Postmaster
Dr. Patricia Hoy, Director of Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music/U of M
Jack Shaffer, Mid-South Jazz Foundation
Shaka Khalphani, WUMR 91.7 Radio (Master of Ceremony)
Jeremy Shrader, Jazz Artist

WHEN:
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
10:30 a.m.

WHERE:
Playhouse on the Square
51 S. Cooper Street
Memphis, TN

BACKGROUND:
Frank Sinatra, also known as "Ol’ Blue Eyes," was an Oscar-winning actor who appeared in more than 60 motion pictures. He was even more celebrated as a singer, and admired the world over as a supreme interpreter of American popular song.

The son of Italian immigrants, Francis Albert Sinatra was born Dec. 12, 1915, in Hoboken, NJ. As a boy he would sit on the docks, staring across the Hudson River at New York City's skyline, pondering his future. Decades later, when he first sang the theme from "New York, New York," Sinatra might have remembered those times as he belted the line, "If I can make it there, I’ll make it anywhere." By then, he had long since become an iconic figure, known as much for his visual image — particularly the jauntily cocked fedora and loosened collar of his classic album covers — as for his music.