You Must Remember This Episode 2: Frank Sinatra in Outer Space

Summary: Welcome to the second episode of You Must Remember This, the podcast devoted to exploring the secret and or/forgotten histories of Hollywood's first century. Today, we look back to 1979, when -- while the music world was full of punk and post-disco coke rock, and the movie world was making the transition from the "New Hollywood" of the '70s into the blockbuster age -- Frank Sinatra recorded Trilogy: Past, Present and Future, a triple album including big band standards ("The Past"), covers from "the rock era" including Billy Joel and Beatles songs, but also "Theme from New York, New York" ("The Present") and, most amazingly, a 40 minute song cycle about life, love, death and visiting outer space ("The Future"). We'll take a look at how and why "The Future" was made, and theorize as to why it's fallen into the dustbin of pop cultural history.