Frank Sinatra's old desert hideaway, Twin Palms in Palm Springs, California is up for sale. In the late 1940s Frank had just made his first million and he wanted to celebrate in style, so he commissioned architect E. Stewart Williams to design a lush weekend getaway house for throwing parties and lounging by the pool to be ready before New Years eve 1948. Now you too have the chance to get your hands on this oasis in the desert, the price tag is a modest $3,250,000 but can also be leased at $14,000/month (cocktails not included). The house is perfect for glamorous photoshoots and filming location, so anyone wanting to make some money off their purchase will most likely find Twin Palms a solid investment. Here's an idea, let's all put in $1000 each and buy it collectively. I will even volunteer to host the first cocktail party!

More information about the residence and placing bids can be found at architectureforsale.com. Thank you Royalton for the heads up.

Time for another album share here at Ultra Swank, this time featuring the groovy beats and melodies of Hugo Montenegro. This is the original soundtrack to the movie Lady in Cement starring Frank Sinatra as a private eye working in the swank (and not so swank) settings of Miami, Florida in the late 1960s. The movie is pretty nice, not a very original story - but you get to see some interesting locations. Such as the same great looking hotel that was featured in the James Bond movie Goldfinger made four years earlier.

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I visited the local bi-yearly Record Fair yesterday and bought some albums in the easy listening category which I thought I'd share with you good people. If you know anything interesting about the albums please use the comment function below. Also, feel free to tell me which album you are interested in seeing posted here on the site in a near future. I haven't been able to find a date of publication on all of the albums, but all of them are in very good condition.

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