Welcome to another episode of you must remember this the podcast dedicate

today we're going back to December 1979 Los Angeles Hollywood was preoccupied by

the premieres of the movies like Kramer versus Kramer and 1941 local punk bands

X and the germs played a big show downtown with a British band this fall and a few

blocks away from that at the Shrine Auditorium Frank Sinatra was recording a

10-minute song about visiting outer space

so that is an excerpt from what time does the next miracle leave the first

track on the third disc of a three-record set which Frank Sinatra recorded in

1979 and released in 1980 called trilogy past present and future

Jupiter makes with a rain Saturn makes with a crops a nice to trade was never made

and hopefully never stops

if Saturn feels a dry Jupiter won't stay fat so Jupiter leaves his force sits on

and the first disc of the trilogy called the past is pretty self-explanatory

Sinatra sings old standards hits mostly from the 1930s and 40s with new big

band-style arrangements by Billy May the present arranged by Don Costa is somewhat

more loosely defined it was designed to showcase the chairman of the

board's renditions of songs from the rock and roll era ranging from Elvis's

Love Me Tender to Billy Joel's just the way you are it also includes Sinatra's

first recording of what would become a signature song in his later years New

York New York which up to that point was best known as Liza Manelli's closing

number in Marnie Scorsese's box office disaster of the same name so that's disc

one and disc two the past and the present and then there's disc three the

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