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Frank Sinatra

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Sinatra, c. 1957

Born

Francis Albert Sinatra

December 12, 1915

Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S.

Died May 14, 1998 (aged 82)

Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Burial place Desert Memorial Park
Occupations
  • Singer
  • actor
  • producer
Years active 1935–1995
Spouses

Nancy Barbato

(m. ; div.

)​

Ava Gardner

(m. 1951; div. 1957)​

Mia Farrow

(m.

; div. 1968)​

Barbara Marx

(m.

)​

Children
  • Nancy
  • Frank Jr.
  • Tina
Parents
  • Antonino Martino Sinatra
  • Natalina Garaventa
Musical career
Genres
  • Traditional pop
  • easy listening
  • jazz
  • swing
  • big band
Instrument(s) Vocals
Labels
  • RCA Victor
  • Columbia
  • Capitol
  • Reprise
  • Warner Bros.
Formerly of Rat Pack
Website sinatra.com

Francis Albert Sinatra (; December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor. Nicknamed the «Chairman of the Board» and later called «Ol’ Blue Eyes», Sinatra was one of the most popular entertainers of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. He is among the world’s best-selling music artists with an estimated 150 million record sales.[1][2]

Born to Italian immigrants in Hoboken, New Jersey, Sinatra was greatly influenced by the intimate, easy-listening vocal style of Bing Crosby[3] and began his musical career in the swing era with bandleaders Harry James and Tommy Dorsey. He found success as a solo artist after signing with Columbia Records in 1943, becoming the idol of the «bobby soxers». Sinatra released his debut album, The Voice of Frank Sinatra, in 1946. When his film career stalled in the early 1950s, Sinatra turned to Las Vegas, where he became one of its best-known residency performers and part of the famous Rat Pack. His acting career was revived by the 1953 film From Here to Eternity, which earned Sinatra an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. Sinatra then signed with Capitol Records and released several critically lauded albums, some of which were later considered as among the first «concept albums», including In the Wee Small Hours (1955), Songs for Swingin’ Lovers! (1956), Come Fly with Me (1958), Only the Lonely (1958), No One Cares (1959), and Nice ‘n’ Easy (1960).

Sinatra left Capitol in 1960 to start his own record label, Reprise Records, and released a string of successful albums. In 1965, he recorded the retrospective album September of My Years and starred in the Emmy-winning television special Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music. After releasing Sinatra at the Sands, recorded at the Sands Hotel and Casino in Vegas with frequent collaborator Count Basie in early 1966, the following year he recorded one of his most famous collaborations with Tom Jobim, the album Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim. It was followed by 1968’s Francis A. & Edward K. with Duke Ellington. Sinatra retired for the first time in 1971, but came out of retirement two years later. He recorded several albums and resumed performing at Caesars Palace, and released «New York, New York» in 1980. Using his Las Vegas shows as a home base, he toured within the United States and internationally until shortly before his death in 1998.

Sinatra forged a highly successful career as a film actor. After winning an Academy Award for best supporting actor in From Here to Eternity, he starred in The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) and The Manchurian Candidate (1962). Sinatra also appeared in musicals such as On the Town (1949), Guys and Dolls (1955), High Society (1956), and Pal Joey (1957), which won him another Golden Globe. Toward the end of his career, he frequently played detectives, including the title character in Tony Rome (1967). Sinatra received the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1971. On television, The Frank Sinatra Show began on CBS in 1950, and he continued to make appearances on television throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

While Sinatra never learned how to read music, he worked very hard from a young age to improve his abilities in all aspects of music. A perfectionist, renowned for his style and presence, Sinatra always insisted on recording live with his band. He led a colorful personal life and was involved in turbulent relationships, including his second marriage to Ava Gardner. He later married Mia Farrow in 1966 and Barbara Marx in 1976. Sinatra had several violent confrontations, often with journalists he felt had crossed him or work bosses with whom he had disagreements. He was deeply involved with politics starting in the mid-1940s and actively campaigned for presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. Sinatra was investigated by the FBI for his alleged relationship with the mafia.

Sinatra was honored at the Kennedy Center Honors in 1983, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Ronald Reagan in 1985, and the Congressional Gold Medal in 1997. He received eleven Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Trustees Award, Grammy Legend Award and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Sinatra was included in Time magazine’s compilation of the 20th century’s 100 most influential people. American music critic Robert Christgau called him «the greatest singer of the 20th century»[4] and he continues to be regarded as an iconic figure.[5]

Early life

«They’d fought through his childhood and continued to do so until her dying day. But I believe that to counter her steel will he’d developed his own. To prove her wrong when she belittled his choice of career … Their friction first had shaped him; that, I think, had remained to the end and a litmus test of the grit in his bones. It helped keep him at the top of his game.»

—Sinatra’s daughter Nancy on the importance of his mother Dolly in his life and character.[6]

Francis Albert Sinatra[a] was born on December 12, 1915, in an upstairs tenement at 415 Monroe Street in Hoboken, New Jersey,[8][9][b] the only child of Italian immigrants Natalina «Dolly» Garaventa and Antonino Martino «Marty» Sinatra, who boxed under the name Marty O’Brien.[12][13][c] Sinatra weighed 13.5 pounds (6.1 kg) at birth and had to be delivered with the aid of forceps, which caused severe scarring to his left cheek, neck, and ear, and perforated his eardrum—remaining damaged for the rest of his life. When he was in an unconscious state, his grandmother resuscitated him by running her grandson under cold water until he gasped his first breath.[15] Due to his injuries at birth, his baptism at St. Francis Church in Hoboken was delayed until April 2, 1916.[16] A childhood operation on his mastoid bone left major scarring on his neck, and during adolescence he suffered from cystic acne that further scarred his face and neck.[17] Sinatra was raised in the Catholic Church.[18]

Sinatra’s mother was energetic and driven,[19] and biographers believe that she was the dominant factor in the development of her son’s personality traits and self-confidence.[20] Sinatra’s fourth wife Barbara would later claim that Dolly was abusive to him when he was a child, and «knocked him around a lot».[21] Dolly became influential in Hoboken and in local Democratic Party circles.[22] She worked as a midwife, earning $50 for each delivery,[23] and according to Sinatra biographer Kitty Kelley, also ran an illegal abortion service that catered to Italian Catholic girls, for which she was nicknamed «Hatpin Dolly».[24][d] She also had a gift for languages and served as a local interpreter.[27]

Sinatra’s illiterate father was a bantamweight boxer [28] who later worked for 24 years at the Hoboken Fire Department, working his way up to captain.[29] Sinatra spent much time at his parents’ tavern in Hoboken,[e] working on his homework and occasionally singing a song on top of the player piano for spare change.[31] During the Great Depression, Dolly provided money to her son for outings with friends and to buy expensive clothes, resulting in neighbors describing him as the «best-dressed kid in the neighborhood».[32] Excessively thin and small as a child and young man, Sinatra’s skinny frame later became a staple of jokes during stage shows.[33][34]

At a young age, Sinatra developed an interest in music, particularly big band jazz [35] and listened to Gene Austin, Rudy Vallée, Russ Colombo, and Bob Eberly while idolizing Bing Crosby.[36] For his 15th birthday, his maternal uncle, Domenico, gave him a ukulele, and with the instrument, he performed at family gatherings.[37] Sinatra attended David E. Rue Jr. High School from 1928,[38] and A. J. Demarest High School (since renamed as Hoboken High School) in 1931, where he arranged bands for school dances,[37] but left without graduating after having attended only 47 days before being expelled for «general rowdiness».[39] To please his mother, he enrolled at Drake Business School, but departed after 11 months.[37] Dolly found her son work as a delivery boy at the Jersey Observer newspaper, where his godfather Frank Garrick worked,[f] and after that, worked as a riveter at the Tietjen and Lang shipyard. He began performing in local Hoboken social clubs such as The Cat’s Meow and The Comedy Club, and sang for free on radio stations such as WAAT in Jersey City.[42] In New York, Sinatra found jobs singing for his supper or for cigarettes.[37] To improve his speech, he began taking elocution lessons for a dollar each from vocal coach John Quinlan, who was one of the first people to notice his impressive vocal range.[43]

Music career

Hoboken Four, Harry James, and Tommy Dorsey (1935–1939)

Sinatra (far right) with the Hoboken Four on Major Bowes’ Amateur Hour in 1935

Sinatra began singing professionally as a teenager, but even though he never learned to read music, he learned music by ear.[44][45] He got his first break in 1935 when his mother persuaded a local singing group called the 3 Flashes to let him join. Baritone Fred Tamburro stated that «Frank hung around us like we were gods or something», admitting that they only took him on board because he owned a car[g] and could chauffeur the group around. Sinatra soon learned they were auditioning for the Major Bowes Amateur Hour show, and «begged» the group to let him in on the act.[47] With Sinatra, the group became known as the Hoboken Four, and passed an audition from Edward Bowes to appear on the Major Bowes Amateur Hour show. They each earned $12.50 for the appearance,[48] and ended up attracting 40,000 votes before winning first prize — a six-month contract to perform on stage and radio across the U.S.[49] Sinatra quickly became the group’s lead singer, and, much to the jealousy of his fellow group members, garnered most of the attention from girls.[50][h] Due to the success of the group, Bowes kept asking for them to return, disguised under different names, varying from «The Secaucus Cockamamies» to «The Bayonne Bacalas».[33]

In 1938, Sinatra found employment as a singing waiter at a roadhouse called «The Rustic Cabin» in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, for which he was paid $15 a week.[52] The roadhouse was connected to the WNEW radio station in New York City, and he began performing with a group live during the Dance Parade show.[53] Despite the low salary, Sinatra felt that this was the break he was looking for, and boasted to friends that he was going to «become so big that no one could ever touch him».[54] In March 1939, saxophone player Frank Mane, who knew Sinatra from Jersey City radio station WAAT where both performed on live broadcasts, arranged for him to audition and record «Our Love», his first solo studio recording.[55][i] In June, bandleader Harry James, who had heard Sinatra sing on «Dance Parade», signed a two-year contract of $75 a week one evening after a show at the Paramount Theatre in New York.[56][j] It was with the James band that Sinatra released his first commercial record «From the Bottom of My Heart» in July. No more than 8,000 copies of the record were sold,[60] and further records released with James through 1939, such as «All or Nothing at All», also had weak sales on their initial release.[61] Thanks to his vocal training, Sinatra could now sing two tones higher, and developed a repertoire which included songs such as «My Buddy», «Willow Weep for Me», «It’s Funny to Everyone but Me», «Here Comes the Night», «On a Little Street in Singapore», «Ciribiribin», and «Every Day of My Life».[62]

Sinatra became increasingly frustrated with the status of the Harry James band, feeling that he was not achieving the major success and acclaim he was looking for. His pianist and close friend Hank Sanicola persuaded him to stay with the group,[63] but in November 1939 he left James to replace Jack Leonard[k] as the lead singer of the Tommy Dorsey band. Sinatra earned $125 a week, appearing at the Palmer House in Chicago,[64] and James released Sinatra from his contract.[65][l] On January 26, 1940, he made his first public appearance with the band at the Coronado Theatre in Rockford, Illinois,[67] opening the show with «Stardust».[68] Dorsey recalled: «You could almost feel the excitement coming up out of the crowds when the kid stood up to sing. Remember, he was no matinée idol. He was just a skinny kid with big ears. I used to stand there so amazed I’d almost forget to take my own solos».[69] Dorsey was a major influence on Sinatra and became a father figure. Sinatra copied Dorsey’s mannerisms and traits, becoming a demanding perfectionist like him, even adopting his hobby of toy trains. He asked Dorsey to be godfather to his daughter Nancy in June 1940.[70] Sinatra later said that «The only two people I’ve ever been afraid of are my mother and Tommy Dorsey».[71] Though Kelley says that Sinatra and drummer Buddy Rich were bitter rivals,[m] other authors state that they were friends and even roommates when the band was on the road, but professional jealousy surfaced as both men wanted to be considered the star of Dorsey’s band. Later, Sinatra helped Rich form his own band with a $25,000 loan and provided financial help to Rich during times of the drummer’s serious illness.[73]

In his first year with Dorsey, Sinatra recorded over forty songs. Sinatra’s first vocal hit was the song «Polka Dots and Moonbeams» in late April 1940.[74] Two more chart appearances followed with «Say It» and «Imagination», which was Sinatra’s first top-10 hit.[74] His fourth chart appearance was «I’ll Never Smile Again», topping the charts for twelve weeks beginning in mid-July. Other records with Tommy Dorsey issued by RCA Victor include «Our Love Affair» and «Stardust» in 1940; «Oh! Look at Me Now», «Dolores», «Everything Happens to Me», and «This Love of Mine» in 1941; «Just as Though You Were There», «Take Me», and «There Are Such Things» in 1942; and «It Started All Over Again», «In the Blue of Evening», and «It’s Always You» in 1943.[76] As his success and popularity grew, Sinatra pushed Dorsey to allow him to record some solo songs. Dorsey eventually relented, and on January 19, 1942, Sinatra recorded «Night and Day», «The Night We Called It a Day», «The Song is You», and «Lamplighter’s Serenade» at a Bluebird recording session, with Axel Stordahl as arranger and conductor.[77] Sinatra first heard the recordings at the Hollywood Palladium and Hollywood Plaza and was astounded at how good he sounded. Stordahl recalled: «He just couldn’t believe his ears. He was so excited, you almost believed he had never recorded before. I think this was a turning point in his career. I think he began to see what he might do on his own».[78]

After the 1942 recordings, Sinatra believed he needed to go solo,[79] with an insatiable desire to compete with Bing Crosby,[n] but he was hampered by his contract which gave Dorsey 43% of Sinatra’s lifetime earnings in the entertainment industry.[80] A legal battle ensued, eventually settled in August 1942.[81][o] On September 3, 1942, Dorsey bade farewell to Sinatra, reportedly saying as Sinatra left, «I hope you fall on your ass»,[80] but he was more gracious on the air when replacing Sinatra with singer Dick Haymes.[65] Rumors began spreading in newspapers that Sinatra’s mobster godfather, Willie Moretti, coerced Dorsey to let Sinatra out of his contract for a few thousand dollars, holding a gun to his head.[83][p] Upon leaving Dorsey, Sinatra persuaded Stordahl to come with him and become his personal arranger, offering him $650 a month, five times his salary from Dorsey.[85] Dorsey and Sinatra, who had been very close, never reconciled their differences. Up until his death in November 1956, Dorsey occasionally made biting comments about Sinatra to the press such as «he’s the most fascinating man in the world, but don’t put your hand in the cage».[86]

Onset of Sinatramania and role in World War II (1942–1945)

Perfectly simple: It was the war years and there was a great loneliness, and I was the boy in every corner drugstore, the boy who’d gone off drafted to the war. That’s all.

— Sinatra, on his popularity with young women[87]

By May 1941, Sinatra topped the male singer polls in Billboard and DownBeat magazines. His appeal to bobby soxers, as teenage girls of that time were called, revealed a whole new audience for popular music, which had been recorded mainly for adults up to that time.[89] The phenomenon became officially known as «Sinatramania» after his «legendary opening» at the Paramount Theatre in New York on December 30, 1942.[80] According to Nancy Sinatra, Jack Benny later said, «I thought the goddamned building was going to cave in. I never heard such a commotion … All this for a fellow I never heard of.»[90] Sinatra performed for four weeks at the theatre, his act following the Benny Goodman orchestra, after which his contract was renewed for another four weeks by Bob Weitman due to his popularity. He became known as «Swoonatra» or «The Voice», and his fans «Sinatratics». They organized meetings and sent masses of letters of adoration, and within a few weeks of the show, some 1000 Sinatra fan clubs had been reported across the US.[91] Sinatra’s publicist, George Evans, encouraged interviews and photographs with fans, and was the man responsible for depicting Sinatra as a vulnerable, shy, Italian–American with a rough childhood who made good.[92] When Sinatra returned to the Paramount in October 1944 only 250 persons left the first show, and 35,000 fans left outside caused a near riot, known as the Columbus Day Riot, outside the venue because they were not allowed in.[93][94][95] Such was the bobby-soxer devotion to Sinatra that they were known to write Sinatra’s song titles on their clothing, bribe hotel maids for an opportunity to touch his bed, and accost his person in the form of stealing clothing he was wearing, most commonly his bow-tie.[96]

Sinatra signed with Columbia Records as a solo artist on June 1, 1943, during the 1942–44 musicians’ strike.[97] Columbia Records re-released Harry James and Sinatra’s August 1939 version of «All or Nothing at All»,[66] which reached number 2 on June 2, and was on the best-selling list for 18 weeks.[98] He initially had great success,[99] and performed on the radio on Your Hit Parade from February 1943 until December 1944,[100] and on stage. Columbia wanted new recordings of their growing star as quickly as possible, so Alec Wilder was hired as an arranger and conductor for several sessions with a vocal group called the Bobby Tucker Singers.[101] These first sessions were on June 7, June 22, August 5, and November 10, 1943. Of the nine songs recorded during these sessions, seven charted on the best-selling list.[102] That year he also made his first solo nightclub appearance at New York’s Riobamba,[103] and a successful concert in the Wedgewood Room of the prestigious Waldorf-Astoria New York that year secured his popularity in New York high society.[104] Sinatra released «You’ll Never Know», «Close to You», «Sunday, Monday, or Always» and «People Will Say We’re in Love» as singles. By the end of 1943 he was more popular in a DownBeat poll than Bing Crosby, Perry Como, Bob Eberly, and Dick Haymes.[105]

Sinatra did not serve in the military during World War II. On December 11, 1943, he was officially classified 4-F («Registrant not acceptable for military service») by his draft board because of a perforated eardrum. However, U.S. Army files reported that Sinatra was «not acceptable material from a psychiatric viewpoint», but his emotional instability was hidden to avoid «undue unpleasantness for both the selectee and the induction service».[106] Briefly, there were rumors reported by columnist Walter Winchell that Sinatra paid $40,000 to avoid the service, but the FBI found this to be without merit.[107][108][109]

Toward the end of the war, Sinatra entertained the troops during several successful overseas USO tours with comedian Phil Silvers.[110] During one trip to Rome he met the Pope, who asked him if he was an operatic tenor.[111] Sinatra worked frequently with the popular Andrews Sisters in radio in the 1940s,[112] and many USO shows were broadcast to troops via the Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS).[113] In 1944 Sinatra released «I Couldn’t Sleep a Wink Last Night» as a single and recorded his own version of Crosby’s «White Christmas», and the following year he released «I Dream of You (More Than You Dream I Do)», «Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week)», «Dream», and «Nancy (with the Laughing Face)» as singles.[114]

Columbia years and career slump (1946–1952)

Despite being heavily involved in political activity in 1945 and 1946, in those two years Sinatra sang on 160 radio shows, recorded 36 times, and shot four films. By 1946 he was performing on stage up to 45 times a week, singing up to 100 songs daily, and earning up to $93,000 a week.

In 1946 Sinatra released «Oh! What it Seemed to Be», «Day by Day», «They Say It’s Wonderful», «Five Minutes More», and «The Coffee Song» as singles,[116] and launched his first album, The Voice of Frank Sinatra,[117] which reached No. 1 on the Billboard chart. William Ruhlmann of AllMusic wrote that Sinatra «took the material very seriously, singing the love lyrics with utter seriousness», and that his «singing and the classically influenced settings gave the songs unusual depth of meaning».[118] He was soon selling 10 million records a year.[119] Such was Sinatra’s command at Columbia that his love of conducting was indulged with the release of the set Frank Sinatra Conducts the Music of Alec Wilder, an offering unlikely to appeal to Sinatra’s core fanbase at the time, which consisted of teenage girls.[120] The following year he released his second album, Songs by Sinatra, featuring songs of a similar mood and tempo such as Irving Berlin’s «How Deep is the Ocean?» and Harold Arlen’s and Jerome Kern’s «All The Things You Are».[121] «Mam’selle», composed by Edmund Goulding with lyrics by Mack Gordon for the film The Razor’s Edge (1946),[122] was released as a single.[116] Sinatra had competition; versions by Art Lund, Dick Haymes, Dennis Day, and The Pied Pipers also reached the top ten of the Billboard charts.[123] In December he recorded «Sweet Lorraine» with the Metronome All-Stars, featuring talented jazz musicians such as Coleman Hawkins, Harry Carney and Charlie Shavers, with Nat King Cole on piano, in what Charles L. Granata describes as «one of the highlights of Sinatra’s Columbia epoch».[124]

Sinatra’s third album, Christmas Songs by Sinatra, was originally released in 1948 as a 78 rpm album set,[125] and a 10″ LP record was released two years later.[126] When Sinatra was featured as a priest in The Miracle of the Bells, due to press negativity surrounding his alleged Mafia connections at the time,[q] it was announced to the public that Sinatra would donate his $100,000 in wages from the film to the Catholic Church.[127] By the end of 1948, Sinatra had slipped to fourth on DownBeats annual poll of most popular singers (behind Billy Eckstine, Frankie Laine, and Bing Crosby). and in the following year he was pushed out of the top spots in polls for the first time since 1943.[130] Frankly Sentimental (1949) was panned by DownBeat, who commented that «for all his talent, it seldom comes to life».[131]

Though «The Hucklebuck» reached the top ten,[132] it was his last single release under the Columbia label.[116] Sinatra’s last two albums with Columbia, Dedicated to You and Sing and Dance with Frank Sinatra, were released in 1950.[133] Sinatra would later feature a number of the Sing and Dance with Frank Sinatra album’s songs, including «Lover», «It’s Only a Paper Moon», «It All Depends on You», on his 1961 Capitol release, Sinatra’s Swingin’ Session!!!.[134]

Cementing the low of his career was the death of publicist George Evans from a heart attack in January 1950 at 48. According to Jimmy Van Heusen, Sinatra’s close friend and songwriter, Evans’s death to him was «an enormous shock which defies words», as he had been crucial to his career and popularity with the bobbysoxers.[135] Sinatra’s reputation continued to decline as reports broke out in February of his affair with Ava Gardner and the destruction of his marriage to Nancy,[136] though he insisted that his marriage had long been over even before he had met Gardner.[137] In April, Sinatra was engaged to perform at the Copa club in New York, but had to cancel five days of the booking due to suffering a submucosal hemorrhage of the throat.[138] Evans once said that whenever Sinatra suffered from a bad throat and loss of voice it was always due to emotional tension which «absolutely destroyed him».

The Desert Inn, Las Vegas, where Sinatra began performing in 1951

In financial difficulty following his divorce and career decline, Sinatra was forced to borrow $200,000 from Columbia to pay his back taxes after MCA refused to front the money.[140] Rejected by Hollywood, he turned to Las Vegas and made his debut at the Desert Inn in September 1951,[141] and also began singing at the Riverside Hotel in Reno, Nevada. Sinatra became one of Las Vegas’s pioneer residency entertainers,[142] and a prominent figure on the Vegas scene throughout the 1950s and 1960s onwards, a period described by Rojek as the «high-water mark» of Sinatra’s «hedonism and self absorption». Rojek notes that the Rat Pack «provided an outlet for gregarious banter and wisecracks», but argues that it was Sinatra’s vehicle, possessing an «unassailable command over the other performers».[143] Sinatra would fly to Las Vegas from Los Angeles in Van Heusen’s single-engine plane.[144] On October 4, 1953, Sinatra made his first performance at the Sands Hotel and Casino, after an invitation by the manager Jack Entratter,[145] who had previously worked at the Copa in New York.[146] Sinatra typically performed there three times a year, and later acquired a share in the hotel.[147][r]

Sinatra’s decline in popularity was evident at his concert appearances. At a brief run at the Paramount in New York he drew small audiences. At the Desert Inn in Las Vegas he performed to half-filled houses of wildcatters and ranchers. At a concert at Chez Paree in Chicago, only 150 people in a 1,200-seat capacity venue turned up to see him.[153] By April 1952 he was performing at the Kauai County Fair in Hawaii.[154] Sinatra’s relationship with Columbia Records was also disintegrating, with A&R executive Mitch Miller claiming he «couldn’t give away» the singer’s records.[s] Though several notable recordings were made during this time period, such as «If I Could Write a Book» in January 1952, which Granata sees as a «turning point», forecasting his later work with its sensitivity,[157] Columbia and MCA dropped him later that year.[159] His last studio recording for Columbia, «Why Try To Change Me Now», was recorded in New York on September 17, 1952, with orchestra arranged and conducted by Percy Faith.[160] Journalist Burt Boyar observed, «Sinatra had had it. It was sad. From the top to the bottom in one horrible lesson.»

Career revival and the Capitol years (1953–1962)

The release of the film From Here to Eternity in August 1953 marked the beginning of a remarkable career revival.[161] Tom Santopietro notes that Sinatra began to bury himself in his work, with an «unparalleled frenetic schedule of recordings, movies and concerts»,[162] in what authors Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan describe as «a new and brilliant phase». On March 13, 1953, Sinatra met with Capitol Records vice president Alan Livingston and signed a seven-year recording contract.[164] His first session for Capitol took place at KHJ studios at Studio C, 5515 Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, with Axel Stordahl conducting.[165] The session produced four recordings, including «I’m Walking Behind You»,[166] Sinatra’s first Capitol single.[167] After spending two weeks on location in Hawaii filming From Here to Eternity, Sinatra returned to KHJ on April 30 for his first recording session with Nelson Riddle, an established arranger and conductor at Capitol who was Nat King Cole’s musical director.[168] After recording the first song, «I’ve Got the World on a String», Sinatra offered Riddle a rare expression of praise, «Beautiful!»,[169] and after listening to the playbacks, he could not hide his enthusiasm, exclaiming, «I’m back, baby, I’m back!»

Sinatra in 1957 publicity shot

In subsequent sessions in May and November 1953,[171] Sinatra and Riddle developed and refined their musical collaboration, with Sinatra providing specific guidance on the arrangements. Sinatra’s first album for Capitol, Songs for Young Lovers, was released on January 4, 1954, and included «A Foggy Day», «I Get a Kick Out of You», «My Funny Valentine», «Violets for Your Furs» and «They Can’t Take That Away from Me»,[172] songs which became staples of his later concerts.[33][173] That same month, Sinatra released the single «Young at Heart», which reached No. 2 and was awarded Song of the Year.[174][175][176][t] In March, he recorded and released the single «Three Coins in the Fountain», a «powerful ballad»[179] that reached No. 4.[180] Sinatra’s second album with Riddle, Swing Easy!, which reflected his «love for the jazz idiom» according to Granata,[181] was released on August 2 of that year and included «Just One of Those Things», «Taking a Chance on Love», «Get Happy», and «All of Me».[180][182] Swing Easy! was named Album of the Year by Billboard, and he was also named «Favorite Male Vocalist» by Billboard, DownBeat, and Metronome that year.[183][184] Sinatra came to consider Riddle «the greatest arranger in the world», and Riddle, who considered Sinatra «a perfectionist», offered equal praise of the singer, observing, «It’s not only that his intuitions as to tempo, phrasing, and even configuration are amazingly right, but his taste is so impeccable … there is still no one who can approach him.»

In 1955 Sinatra released In the Wee Small Hours, his first 12″ LP,[186] featuring songs such as «In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning», «Mood Indigo», «Glad to Be Unhappy» and «When Your Lover Has Gone».[187] According to Granata it was the first concept album of his to make a «single persuasive statement», with an extended program and «melancholy mood».[181] Sinatra embarked on his first tour of Australia the same year.[188] Another collaboration with Riddle resulted in the development of Songs for Swingin’ Lovers!, sometimes seen as one of his best albums, which was released in March 1956.[189] It features a recording of «I’ve Got You Under My Skin» by Cole Porter,[190] something which Sinatra paid meticulous care to, taking a reported 22 takes to perfect.[191]

His February 1956 recording sessions inaugurated the studios at the Capitol Records Building,[192] complete with a 56-piece symphonic orchestra.[193] According to Granata his recordings of «Night and Day», «Oh! Look at Me Now» and «From This Moment On» revealed «powerful sexual overtones, stunningly achieved through the mounting tension and release of Sinatra’s best-teasing vocal lines», while his recording of «River, Stay ‘Way from My Door» in April demonstrated his «brilliance as a syncopational improviser».[194] Riddle said that Sinatra took «particular delight» in singing «The Lady is a Tramp», commenting that he «always sang that song with a certain amount of salaciousness», making «cue tricks» with the lyrics.[195] His penchant for conducting was displayed again in 1956’s Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color, an instrumental album that has been interpreted to be a catharsis to his failed relationship with Gardner.[196] Also that year, Sinatra sang at the Democratic National Convention, and performed with The Dorsey Brothers for a week soon afterwards at the Paramount Theatre.[197]

Sinatra introducing his character to the audience in the 1957 trailer for the film Pal Joey

In 1957, Sinatra released Close to You, A Swingin’ Affair! and Where Are You?—his first album in stereo, with Gordon Jenkins.[198] Granata considers «Close to You» to have been thematically his closest concept album to perfection during the «golden» era, and Nelson Riddle’s finest work, which was «extremely progressive» by the standards of the day. It is structured like a three-act play, each commencing with the songs «With Every Breath I Take», «Blame It on My Youth» and «It Could Happen to You».[199] For Granata, Sinatra’s A Swingin’ Affair! and swing music predecessor Songs for Swingin’ Lovers! solidified «Sinatra’s image as a ‘swinger’, from both a musical and visual standpoint». Buddy Collette considered the swing albums to have been heavily influenced by Sammy Davis Jr., and stated that when he worked with Sinatra in the mid-1960s he approached a song much differently than he had done in the early 1950s.[191] On June 9, 1957, he performed in a 62-minute concert conducted by Riddle at the Seattle Civic Auditorium,[200] his first appearance in Seattle since 1945.[173] The recording was first released as a bootleg, but in 1999 Artanis Entertainment Group officially released it as the Sinatra ’57 in Concert live album, after Sinatra’s death.[201] In 1958 Sinatra released the concept album Come Fly with Me with Billy May, designed as a musical world tour.[202] It reached the top spot on the Billboard album chart in its second week, remaining at the top for five weeks,[203] and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year at the inaugural Grammy Awards.[204] The title song, «Come Fly With Me», written especially for him, would become one of his best known standards.[205] On May 29 he recorded seven songs in a single session, more than double the usual yield of a recording session, and an eighth, «Lush Life», was abandoned as Sinatra found it too technically demanding.[206] In September, Sinatra released Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely, a stark collection of introspective[u] saloon songs and blues-tinged ballads which proved a huge commercial success, spending 120 weeks on Billboards album chart and peaking at No. 1.[208] Cuts from this LP, such as «Angel Eyes» and «One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)», would remain staples of the «saloon song» segments of Sinatra’s concerts.[209]

Sinatra in Pal Joey (1957)

In 1959, Sinatra released Come Dance with Me!, a highly successful, critically acclaimed album which stayed on Billboard’s Pop album chart for 140 weeks, peaking at No. 2. It won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, as well as Best Vocal Performance, Male and Best Arrangement for Billy May.[210] He also released No One Cares in the same year, a collection of «brooding, lonely» torch songs, which critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine thought was «nearly as good as its predecessor Where Are You?, but lacked the «lush» arrangements of it and the «grandiose melancholy» of Only the Lonely.[211]

In the words of Kelley, by 1959, Sinatra was «not simply the leader of the Rat Pack» but had «assumed the position of il padrone in Hollywood». He was asked by 20th Century Fox to be the master of ceremonies at a luncheon attended by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev on September 19, 1959.[212] Nice ‘n’ Easy, a collection of ballads, topped the Billboard chart in October 1960 and remained in the charts for 86 weeks, [213] winning critical plaudits.[214][215] Granata noted the «lifelike ambient sound» quality of Nice and Easy, the perfection in the stereo balance, and the «bold, bright and snappy» sound of the band. He highlighted the «close, warm and sharp» feel of Sinatra’s voice, particularly on the songs «September in the Rain», «I Concentrate on You», and «My Blue Heaven».[216]

Reprise years (1960–1981)

Sinatra grew discontented at Capitol, and fell into a feud with Alan Livingston, which lasted over six months.[216] His first attempt at owning his own label was with his pursuit of buying declining jazz label, Verve Records, which ended once an initial agreement with Verve founder, Norman Granz, «failed to materialize».[217] He decided to form his own label, Reprise Records[218] and, in an effort to assert his new direction, temporarily parted with Riddle, May and Jenkins, working with other arrangers such as Neil Hefti, Don Costa, and Quincy Jones.[219] Sinatra built the appeal of Reprise Records as one in which artists were promised creative control over their music, as well as a guarantee that they would eventually gain «complete ownership of their work, including publishing rights.»[220] Under Sinatra the company developed into a music industry «powerhouse», and he later sold it for an estimated $80 million.[221] His first album on the label, Ring-a-Ding-Ding! (1961), was a major success, peaking at No.4 on Billboard.[222] The album was released in February 1961, the same month that Reprise Records released Ben Webster’s The Warm Moods, Sammy Davis Jr.’s The Wham of Sam, Mavis River’s Mavis and Joe E. Lewis’s It is Now Post Time.[223] During the initial years of Reprise, Sinatra was still under contract to record for Capitol, completing his contractual commitment with the release of Point of No Return, recorded over a two-day period on September 11 and 12, 1961.[224]

In 1962, Sinatra released Sinatra and Strings, a set of standard ballads arranged by Don Costa, which became one of the most critically acclaimed works of Sinatra’s entire Reprise period. Frank Jr., who was present during the recording, noted the «huge orchestra», which Nancy Sinatra stated «opened a whole new era» in pop music, with orchestras getting bigger, embracing a «lush string sound».[225] Sinatra and Count Basie collaborated for the album Sinatra-Basie the same year,[226] a popular and successful release which prompted them to rejoin two years later for the follow-up It Might as Well Be Swing, arranged by Quincy Jones.[227] The two became frequent performers together,[228] and appeared at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1965.[188] Also in 1962, as the owner of his own record label, Sinatra was able to step on the podium as conductor again, releasing his third instrumental album Frank Sinatra Conducts Music from Pictures and Plays.[192]

In 1963, Sinatra reunited with Nelson Riddle for The Concert Sinatra, an ambitious album featuring a 73-piece symphony orchestra arranged and conducted by Riddle. The concert was recorded on a motion picture scoring soundstage with the use of multiple synchronized recording machines that employed an optical signal onto 35 mm film designed for movie soundtracks. Granata considers the album to have been «impeachable» [sic], «one of the very best of the Sinatra-Riddle ballad albums», in which Sinatra displayed his vocal range, particularly in «Ol’ Man River», in which he darkened the hue.[229]

In 1964 the song «My Kind of Town» was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song.[230] Sinatra released Softly, as I Leave You,[231] and collaborated with Bing Crosby and Fred Waring on America, I Hear You Singing, a collection of patriotic songs recorded as a tribute to the assassinated President John F. Kennedy.[232][233] Sinatra increasingly became involved in charitable pursuits in this period. In 1961 and 1962 he went to Mexico, with the sole purpose of putting on performances for Mexican charities,[v] and in July 1964 he was present for the dedication of the Frank Sinatra International Youth Center for Arab and Jewish children in Nazareth.[235]

Sinatra’s phenomenal success in 1965, coinciding with his 50th birthday, prompted Billboard to proclaim that he may have reached the «peak of his eminence».[236] In June 1965, Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and Dean Martin played live in St. Louis to benefit Dismas House, a prisoner rehabilitation and training center with nationwide programs that in particular helped serve African Americans. The Rat Pack concert, called The Frank Sinatra Spectacular, was broadcast live via satellite to numerous movie theaters across America.[237][238] The album September of My Years was released September 1965, and went on to win the Grammy Award for best album of the year.[239] Granata considers the album to have been one of the finest of his Reprise years, «a reflective throwback to the concept records of the 1950s, and more than any of those collections, distills everything that Frank Sinatra had ever learned or experienced as a vocalist».[240] One of the album’s singles, «It Was a Very Good Year», won the Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Male.[241] A career anthology, A Man and His Music, followed in November, winning Album of the Year at the Grammys the following year.[242]

In 1966 Sinatra released That’s Life, with both the single of «That’s Life» and album becoming Top Ten hits in the US on Billboards pop charts.[243] Strangers in the Night went on to top the Billboard and UK pop singles charts,[244][245] winning the award for Record of the Year at the Grammys.[246] Sinatra’s first live album, Sinatra at the Sands, was recorded during January and February 1966 at the Sands Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Sinatra was backed by the Count Basie Orchestra, with Quincy Jones conducting.[247] Sinatra pulled out from the Sands the following year, when he was driven out by its new owner Howard Hughes, after a fight.[248][w]

Sinatra started 1967 with a series of recording sessions with Antônio Carlos Jobim. He recorded one of his collaborations with Jobim, the Grammy-nominated album Francis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim, which was one of the best-selling albums of the year, behind the Beatles’s Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.[253] According to Santopietro the album «consists of an extraordinarily effective blend of bossa nova and slightly swinging jazz vocals, and succeeds in creating an unbroken mood of romance and regret».[254] Writer Stan Cornyn wrote that Sinatra sang so softly on the album that it was comparable to the time that he suffered from a vocal hemorrhage in 1950.[255]

Sinatra also released the album The World We Knew, which features a chart-topping duet of «Somethin’ Stupid» with daughter Nancy.[244][256] In December, Sinatra collaborated with Duke Ellington on the album Francis A. & Edward K..[257] According to Granata, the recording of «Indian Summer» on the album was a favorite of Riddle’s, noting the «contemplative mood [which] is heightened by a Johnny Hodges alto sax solo that will bring a tear to your eye».[258] With Sinatra in mind, singer-songwriter Paul Anka wrote the song «My Way», using the melody of the French «Comme d’habitude» («As Usual»), composed by Claude François and Jacques Revaux.[259] Sinatra recorded it in one take, just after Christmas 1968.[260] «My Way», Sinatra’s best-known song on the Reprise label, was not an instant success, charting at No. 27 in the US and No. 5 in the UK,[261] but it remained in the UK charts for 122 weeks, including 75 non-consecutive weeks in the Top 40, between April 1969 and September 1971, which was still a record in 2015.[262][263] Sinatra told songwriter Ervin Drake in the 1970s that he «detested» singing the song, because he believed audiences would think it was a «self-aggrandizing tribute», professing that he «hated boastfulness in others».[264] According to NPR, My Way has become one the most requested songs at funerals.[265]

In an effort to maintain his commercial viability in the late 1960s, Sinatra would record works by Paul Simon («Mrs. Robinson»), the Beatles («Yesterday»), and Joni Mitchell («Both Sides, Now») in 1969.[266]

«Retirement» and return (1970–1981)

Caesars Palace in 1970, where Sinatra performed from 1967 to 1970 and 1973 onwards

In 1970, Sinatra released Watertown, a critically acclaimed concept album, with music by Bob Gaudio (of the Four Seasons) and lyrics by Jake Holmes.[267] However, it sold a mere 30,000 copies that year and reached a peak chart position of 101.[268] He left Caesars Palace in September that year after an incident in which executive Sanford Waterman pulled a gun on him.[x] He performed several charity concerts with Count Basie at the Royal Festival Hall in London.[272] On November 2, 1970, Sinatra recorded the last songs for Reprise Records before his self-imposed retirement,[273] announced the following June at a concert in Hollywood to raise money for the Motion Picture and TV Relief Fund.[274] He gave a «rousing» performance of «That’s Life», and finished the concert with a Matt Dennis and Earl Brent song, «Angel Eyes» which he had recorded on the Only The Lonely album in 1958.[275] He sang the last line.»‘Scuse me while I disappear.» The spotlight went dark and he left the stage. [276] He told LIFE journalist Thomas Thompson that «I’ve got things to do, like the first thing is not to do anything at all for eight months … maybe a year»,[277] while Barbara Sinatra later said that Sinatra had grown «tired of entertaining people, especially when all they really wanted were the same old tunes he had long ago become bored by».[278] While he was in retirement, President Richard Nixon asked him to perform at a Young Voters Rally in anticipation of the upcoming campaign. Sinatra obliged and chose to sing «My Kind of Town» for the rally held in Chicago on October 20, 1972.[279]

In 1973, Sinatra came out of his short-lived retirement with a television special and album. The album, entitled Ol’ Blue Eyes Is Back,[268] arranged by Gordon Jenkins and Don Costa,[280] was a success, reaching number 13 on Billboard and number 12 in the UK.[281][282] The television special, Magnavox Presents Frank Sinatra, reunited Sinatra with Gene Kelly. He initially developed problems with his vocal cords during the comeback due to a prolonged period without singing.[283] That Christmas he performed at the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas,[284] and returned to Caesars Palace the following month in January 1974, despite previously vowing to perform there again [sic].[285] He began what Barbara Sinatra describes as a «massive comeback tour of the United States, Europe, the Far East and Australia».[286] In July, while on a second tour of Australia,[287] he caused an uproar by describing journalists there – who were aggressively pursuing his every move and pushing for a press conference – as «bums, parasites, fags, and buck-and-a-half hookers».[288] After he was pressured to apologize, Sinatra instead insisted that the journalists apologize for «fifteen years of abuse I have taken from the world press». Union actions cancelled concerts and grounded Sinatra’s plane, essentially trapping him in Australia.[289] In the end, Sinatra’s lawyer, Mickey Rudin, arranged for Sinatra to issue a written conciliatory note and a final concert that was televised to the nation.[290] In October 1974 he appeared at New York City’s Madison Square Garden in a televised concert that was later released as an album under the title The Main Event – Live. Backing him was bandleader Woody Herman and the Young Thundering Herd, who accompanied Sinatra on a European tour later that month.[291][292]

In 1975, Sinatra performed in concerts in New York with Count Basie and Ella Fitzgerald, and at the London Palladium with Basie and Sarah Vaughan, and in Tehran at Aryamehr Stadium, giving 140 performances in 105 days.[293] In August he held several consecutive concerts at Lake Tahoe together with the newly-risen singer John Denver,[294][295] who became a frequent collaborator.[296] Sinatra had recorded Denver’s «Leaving on a Jet Plane» and «My Sweet Lady» for Sinatra & Company (1971),[297][298] and according to Denver, his song «A Baby Just Like You» was written at Sinatra’s request for his new grandchild, Angela.[299] During the Labor Day weekend held in 1976, Sinatra was responsible for reuniting old friends and comedy partners Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis for the first time in nearly twenty years, when they performed at the «Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon».[300][301] That year, the Friars Club selected him as the «Top Box Office Name of the Century», and he was given the Scopus Award by the American Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Nevada.[293]

Sinatra continued to perform at Caesars Palace in the late 1970s, and was performing there in January 1977 when his mother Dolly died in a plane crash on the way to see him.[302][303] He cancelled two weeks of shows and spent time recovering from the shock in Barbados.[304] In March, he performed in front of Princess Margaret at the Royal Albert Hall in London, raising money for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.[305] On March 14, he recorded with Nelson Riddle for the last time, recording the songs «Linda», «Sweet Loraine», and «Barbara».[306] The two men had a major falling out, and later patched up their differences in January 1985 at a dinner organized for Ronald Reagan, when Sinatra asked Riddle to make another album with him. Riddle was ill at the time, and died that October, before they had a chance to record.[307]

In 1978, Sinatra filed a $1 million lawsuit against a land developer for using his name in the «Frank Sinatra Drive Center» in West Los Angeles.[308] During a party at Caesars in 1979, he was awarded the Grammy Trustees Award, while celebrating 40 years in show business and his 64th birthday.[309][310] That year, former President Gerald Ford awarded Sinatra the International Man of the Year Award,[311] and he performed in front of the Egyptian pyramids for Anwar Sadat, which raised more than $500,000 for Sadat’s wife’s charities.[305]

In 1980, Sinatra’s first album in six years was released, Trilogy: Past Present Future, a highly ambitious triple album that features an array of songs from both the pre-rock era and rock era.[312] It was the first studio album of Sinatra’s to feature his touring pianist at the time, Vinnie Falcone, and was based on an idea by Sonny Burke.[313] The album garnered six Grammy nominations – winning for best liner notes – and peaked at number 17 on Billboard’s album chart,[312] and spawned yet another song that would become a signature tune, «Theme from New York, New York».[306] That year, as part of the Concert of the Americas, he performed in the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which broke records for the «largest live paid audience ever recorded for a solo performer».[314] The following year, Sinatra built on the success of Trilogy with She Shot Me Down, an album that was praised for embodying the dark tone of his Capitol years.[315] Also in 1981, Sinatra was embroiled in controversy when he worked a ten-day engagement for $2 million in Sun City, in the internationally unrecognized Bophuthatswana, breaking a cultural boycott against apartheid-era South Africa. President Lucas Mangope awarded Sinatra with the highest honor, the Order of the Leopard, and made him an honorary tribal chief.[316]

Later career and final projects (1982–1998)

Santopietro stated that by the early 1980s, Sinatra’s voice had «coarsened, losing much of its power and flexibility, but audiences didn’t care».[317] In 1982, he signed a $16 million three-year deal with the Golden Nugget of Las Vegas. Kelley notes that by this period Sinatra’s voice had grown «darker, tougher and loamier», but he «continued to captivate audiences with his immutable magic». She added that his baritone voice «sometimes cracked, but the gliding intonations still aroused the same raptures of delight as they had at the Paramount Theater».[318] That year he made a reported further $1.3 million from the Showtime television rights to his «Concert of the Americas» in the Dominican Republic, $1.6 million for a concert series at Carnegie Hall, and $250,000 in just one evening at the Chicago Fest. He donated a lot of his earnings to charity.[319] He put on a performance at the White House for the Italian prime minister, and performed at the Radio City Music Hall with Luciano Pavarotti and George Shearing.[320]

Sinatra was honored at 1983 Kennedy Center Honors, alongside Katherine Dunham, James Stewart, Elia Kazan, and Virgil Thomson. Quoting Henry James, President Reagan said in honoring his old friend that «art was the shadow of humanity» and that Sinatra had «spent his life casting a magnificent and powerful shadow».[321] On September 21, 1983, Sinatra filed a $2 million court case against Kitty Kelley, suing her for punitive damages, before her unofficial biography, His Way, was even published. The book became a best-seller for «all the wrong reasons» and «the most eye-opening celebrity biography of our time», according to William Safire of The New York Times.[322] Sinatra was always adamant that such a book would be written on his terms, and he himself would «set the record straight» in details of his life. According to Kelley, the family detested her and the book, which took its toll on Sinatra’s health. Kelley says that Tina Sinatra blamed her for her father’s colon surgery in 1986.[324] He was forced to drop the case on September 19, 1984, with several leading newspapers expressing concerns about his views on censorship.[325]

In 1984, Sinatra worked with Quincy Jones for the first time in nearly two decades on the album, L.A. Is My Lady, which was well received critically.[326] The album was a substitute for another Jones project, an album of duets with Lena Horne, which had to be abandoned.[y] In 1986, Sinatra collapsed on stage while performing in Atlantic City and was hospitalized for diverticulitis,[328] which left him looking frail.[329] Two years later, Sinatra reunited with Martin and Davis and went on the Rat Pack Reunion Tour, during which they played many large arenas. When Martin dropped out of the tour early on, a rift developed between them and the two never spoke again.[330]

On June 6, 1988, Sinatra made his last recordings with Reprise for an album which was not released. He recorded «My Foolish Heart», «Cry Me a River», and other songs. Sinatra never completed the project, but take number 18 of «My Foolish Heart» may be heard in The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings (1995).[331]

In 1990, Sinatra was awarded the second «Ella Award» by the Los Angeles-based Society of Singers, and performed for a final time with Ella Fitzgerald at the award ceremony.[332] Sinatra maintained an active touring schedule in the early 1990s, performing 65 concerts in 1990, 73 in 1991 and 84 in 1992 in seventeen different countries.[333]

In 1993, Sinatra returned to Capitol Records and the recording studio for Duets, which became his best-selling album.[334] The album and its sequel, Duets II, released the following year,[335] would see Sinatra remake his classic recordings with popular contemporary performers, who added their vocals to a pre-recorded tape.[336]
During his tours in the early 1990s, his memory failed him at times during concerts, and he fainted onstage in Richmond, Virginia, in March 1994.[337] His final public concerts were held in Fukuoka Dome in Japan on December 19–20, 1994.[338] The following year, Sinatra sang for the last time on February 25, 1995, before a live audience of 1200 select guests at the Palm Desert Marriott Ballroom, on the closing night of the Frank Sinatra Desert Classic golf tournament.[339] Esquire reported of the show that Sinatra was «clear, tough, on the money» and «in absolute control».[340] Sinatra was awarded the Legend Award at the 1994 Grammy Awards, where he was introduced by Bono, who said of him, «Frank’s the chairman of the bad attitude … Rock ‘n roll plays at being tough, but this guy is the boss – the chairman of boss … I’m not going to mess with him, are you?»[341][342]

In 1995, to mark Sinatra’s 80th birthday, the Empire State Building glowed blue.[343] A star-studded birthday tribute, Sinatra: 80 Years My Way, was held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, featuring performers such as Ray Charles, Little Richard, Natalie Cole and Salt-N-Pepa singing his songs.[344] At the end of the program Sinatra performed on stage for the last time to sing the final notes of the «Theme from New York, New York» with an ensemble.[345] In recognition of his many years of association with Las Vegas, Sinatra was elected to the Gaming Hall of Fame in 1997.[346]

Artistry

Sinatra with Axel Stordahl at the Liederkrantz Hall in New York, c. 1947

While Sinatra never learned how to read music well, he had a fine, natural understanding of it,[347] and he worked very hard from a young age to improve his abilities in all aspects of music.[348] He could follow a lead sheet (simplified sheet music showing a song’s basic structure) during a performance by «carefully following the patterns and groupings of notes arranged on the page» and made his own notations to the music, using his ear to detect semitonal differences.[349] Granata states that some of the most accomplished classically trained musicians soon noticed his musical understanding, and remarked that Sinatra had a «sixth sense», which «demonstrated unusual proficiency when it came to detecting incorrect notes and sounds within the orchestra».[350] Sinatra was an aficionado of classical music,[351] and would often request classical strains in his music, inspired by composers such as Puccini and Impressionist masters. His personal favorite was Ralph Vaughan Williams.[352] He would insist on always recording live with the band because it gave him a «certain feeling» to perform live surrounded by musicians.[353]
By the mid 1940s, such was his understanding of music that after hearing an air check of some compositions by Alec Wilder which were for strings and woodwinds, he became the conductor at Columbia Records for six of Wilder’s compositions: «Air for Oboe», «Air for English Horn», «Air for Flute», «Air for Bassoon», «Slow Dance» and «Theme and Variations».[z] The works, which combine elements of jazz and classical music, were considered by Wilder to have been among the finest renditions and recordings of his compositions, past or present.[347] At one recording session with arranger Claus Ogerman and an orchestra, Sinatra heard «a couple of little strangers» in the string section, prompting Ogerman to make corrections to what were thought to be copyist’s errors.[347] Critic Gene Lees, a lyricist and the author of the words to the Jobim melody «This Happy Madness», expressed amazement when he heard Sinatra’s recording of it on Sinatra & Company (1971), considering him to have delivered the lyrics to perfection.[354]

Voice coach John Quinlan was impressed by Sinatra’s vocal range, remarking, «He has far more voice than people think he has. He can vocalize to a B-flat on top in full voice, and he doesn’t need a mic either».[43] As a singer, early on he was primarily influenced by Bing Crosby,[36] but later believed that Tony Bennett was «the best singer in the business».[355] Bennett also praised Sinatra himself, claiming that as a performer, he had «perfected the art of intimacy.»[356] According to Nelson Riddle, Sinatra had a «fairly rangy voice»,[aa] remarking that «His voice has a very strident, insistent sound in the top register, a smooth lyrical sound in the middle register, and a very tender sound in the low. His voice is built on infinite taste, with an overall inflection of sex. He points everything he does from a sexual standpoint».[357] Despite his heavy New Jersey accent, according to Richard Schuller, when Sinatra sang his accent was barely detectable, with his diction becoming «precise» and articulation «meticulous».[357] His timing was impeccable, allowing him, according to Charles L. Granata, to «toy with the rhythm of a melody, bringing tremendous excitement to his reading of a lyric».[358] Tommy Dorsey observed that Sinatra would «take a musical phrase and play it all the way through seemingly without breathing for eight, ten, maybe sixteen bars». Dorsey was a considerable influence on Sinatra’s techniques for his vocal phrasing with his own exceptional breath control on the trombone,[359] and Sinatra regularly swam and held his breath underwater, thinking of song lyrics to increase his breathing power.[69]

«He’d always been critical of his voice, and that only intensified as he got older. He never liked to discuss a performance afterward because he knew his voice wasn’t as good as it used to be. If someone told him he’d been great, he’d reply, ‘It was a nice crowd, but my reed was off’ or ‘I wasn’t so good on the third number’. Strangely, in spite of his hearing problems, he had the most incredible ear, which often drove those he worked with nuts. There could be an orchestra of a hundred musicians, and if one played a bum note he’d know exactly who was responsible.»

—Barbara Sinatra on Sinatra’s voice and musical understanding.[360]

Arrangers such as Nelson Riddle and Anthony Fanzo found Sinatra to be a perfectionist who constantly drove himself and others around him, stating that his collaborators approached him with a sense of uneasiness because of his unpredictable and often volatile temperament.[361] Granata comments that Sinatra was almost fanatically obsessed with perfection to the point that people began wondering if he was genuinely concerned about the music or showing off his power over others.[124] On days when he felt that his voice was not right, he would know after only a few notes and would postpone the recording session until the following day, yet still pay his musicians.[362] After a period of performing, Sinatra tired of singing a certain set of songs and was always looking for talented new songwriters and composers to work with. Once he found ones that he liked, he actively sought to work with them as often as he could, and made friends with many of them. He once told Sammy Cahn, who wrote songs for Anchors Aweigh, «if you’re not there Monday, I’m not there Monday». Over the years he recorded 87 of Cahn’s songs, of which 24 were composed by Jule Styne, and 43 by Jimmy Van Heusen. The Cahn-Styne partnership lasted from 1942 until 1954, when Van Heusen succeeded him as Sinatra’s main composer.[363]

Unlike many of his contemporaries, Sinatra insisted upon direct input regarding arrangements and tempos for his recordings. He would spend weeks thinking about the songs he wanted to record, and would keep an arranger in mind for each song. If it was a mellow love song, he would ask for Gordon Jenkins. If it was a «rhythm» number, he would think of Billy May, or perhaps Neil Hefti or some other favored arranger. Jenkins considered Sinatra’s musical sense to be unerring. His changes to Riddle’s charts would frustrate Riddle, yet he would usually concede that Sinatra’s ideas were superior.[364] Barbara Sinatra notes that Sinatra would almost always credit the songwriter at the end of each number, and would often make comments to the audience, such as «Isn’t that a pretty ballad» or «Don’t you think that’s the most marvelous love song», delivered with «childlike delight».[365] She states that after each show, Sinatra would be «in a buoyant, electrically charged mood, a post-show high that would take him hours to come down from as he quietly relived every note of the performance he’d just given».[366]

«His voice is more interesting now: he has separated his voice into different colors, in different registers. Years ago, his voice was more even, and now it is divided into at least three interesting ranges: low, middle, and high. [He’s] probing more deeply into his songs than he used to. That may be due to the ten years he’s put on, and the things he’s been through.»

—Nelson Riddle noting the development of Sinatra’s voice in 1955.[367]

Sinatra’s split with Gardner in the fall of 1953 had a profound impact on the types of songs he sang and on his voice. He began to console himself in songs with a «brooding melancholy», such as «I’m a Fool to Want You», «Don’t Worry ‘Bout Me», «My One and Only Love» and «There Will Never Be Another You»,[368] which Riddle believed was the direct influence of Ava Gardner. Lahr comments that the new Sinatra was «not the gentle boy balladeer of the forties. Fragility had gone from his voice, to be replaced by a virile adult’s sense of happiness and hurt».[369] Author Granata considered Sinatra a «master of the art of recording», noting that his work in the studio «set him apart from other gifted vocalists». During his career he made over 1000 recordings.[370] Recording sessions would typically last three hours, though Sinatra would always prepare for them by spending at least an hour by the piano beforehand to vocalize, followed by a short rehearsal with the orchestra to ensure the balance of sound.[371] During his Columbia years Sinatra used an RCA 44 microphone, which Granata describes as «the ‘old-fashioned’ microphone which is closely associated with Sinatra’s crooner image of the 1940s», though when performing on talk shows later he used a bullet-shaped RCA 77.[372] At Capitol he used a Neumann U47, an «ultra-sensitive» microphone which better captured the timbre and tone of his voice.[373]

In the 1950s, Sinatra’s career was facilitated by developments in technology. Up to sixteen songs could now be held by the twelve-inch L.P., and this allowed Sinatra to use song in a novelistic way, turning each track in a kind of chapter, which built and counterpointed moods to illuminate a larger theme».[374] Santopietro writes that through the 1950s and well into the 1960s, «Every Sinatra LP was a masterpiece of one sort of another, whether uptempo, torch song, or swingin’ affairs. Track after track, the brilliant concept albums redefined the nature of pop vocal art».[375]

Film career

Debut, musical films, and career slump (1941–1952)

Sinatra attempted to pursue an acting career in Hollywood in the early 1940s. While films appealed to him,[376] being exceptionally self-confident,[377] he was rarely enthusiastic about his own acting, once remarking that «pictures stink».[378] Sinatra made his film debut performing in an uncredited sequence in Las Vegas Nights (1941), singing «I’ll Never Smile Again» with Tommy Dorsey’s Pied Pipers.[379] He had a cameo role along with Duke Ellington and Count Basie in Charles Barton’s Reveille with Beverly (1943), making a brief appearance singing «Night and Day».[380] Next, he was given leading roles in Higher and Higher and Step Lively (both 1944) for RKO.[381][382]

Black-and-white photograph of two dancing men in sailor suits

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cast Sinatra opposite Gene Kelly and Kathryn Grayson in the Technicolor musical Anchors Aweigh (1945), in which he played a sailor on leave in Hollywood for four days.[383][384] A major success,[385] it garnered several Academy Award wins and nominations, and the song «I Fall in Love Too Easily», sung by Sinatra in the film, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song.[386] He briefly appeared at the end of Richard Whorf’s commercially successful Till the Clouds Roll By (1946), a Technicolor musical biopic of Jerome Kern, in which he sang «Ol’ Man River».[387]

Sinatra co-starred again with Gene Kelly in the Technicolor musical Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949), in which Sinatra and Kelly play baseball players who are part-time vaudevillians.[388] He teamed up with Kelly for a third time in On the Town (also 1949), playing a sailor on leave in New York City. The film remains rated very highly by critics, and in 2006 it ranked No. 19 on the American Film Institute’s list of best musicals.[389] Both Double Dynamite (1951), an RKO Irving Cummings comedy produced by Howard Hughes,[390] and Joseph Pevney’s Meet Danny Wilson (1952) failed to make an impression.[391] The New York World Telegram and Sun ran the headline «Gone on Frankie in ’42; Gone in ’52».[392]

Career comeback and prime (1953–1959)

Fred Zinnemann’s From Here to Eternity (1953) deals with the tribulations of three soldiers, played by Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, and Sinatra, stationed on Hawaii in the months leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor.[393] Sinatra had long been desperate to find a film role which would bring him back into the spotlight, and Columbia Pictures boss Harry Cohn had been inundated by appeals from people across Hollywood to give Sinatra a chance to star as «Maggio» in the film.[394][ab] During production, Montgomery Clift became a close friend,[396] and Sinatra later professed that he «learned more about acting from him than anybody I ever knew before».[397] After several years of critical and commercial decline, his Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor win helped him regain his position as the top recording artist in the world.[398] His performance also won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture.[399] The Los Angeles Examiner wrote that Sinatra is «simply superb, comical, pitiful, childishly brave, pathetically defiant», commenting that his death scene is «one of the best ever photographed».[400]

Sinatra starred opposite Doris Day in the musical film Young at Heart (1954),[401] and earned critical praise for his performance as a psychopathic killer posing as an FBI agent opposite Sterling Hayden in the film noir Suddenly (also 1954).[402]

Sinatra was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor and BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his role as a heroin addict in The Man with the Golden Arm (1955).[403][ac] After roles in Guys and Dolls,[405] and The Tender Trap (both 1955),[406] Sinatra was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his role as a medical student in Stanley Kramer’s directorial début, Not as a Stranger (also 1955).[407] During production, Sinatra got drunk with Robert Mitchum and Broderick Crawford and trashed Kramer’s dressing room.[408] Kramer vowed at the time to never hire Sinatra again, and later regretted casting him as a Spanish guerrilla leader in The Pride and the Passion (1957).[409][410]

Sinatra featured alongside Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly in High Society (1956) for MGM, earning a reported $250,000 for the picture.[411] The public rushed to the cinemas to see Sinatra and Crosby together on-screen, and it ended up earning over $13 million at the box office, becoming one of the highest-grossing pictures of its year.[412] He starred opposite Rita Hayworth and Kim Novak in George Sidney’s Pal Joey (1957), Sinatra, for which he won for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.[399] Santopietro considers the scene in which Sinatra sings «The Lady Is a Tramp» to Hayworth to have been the finest moment of his film career.[413] He next portrayed comedian Joe E. Lewis in The Joker Is Wild (also 1957);[414] the song «All the Way» won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.[415] By 1958, Sinatra was one of the ten biggest box office draws in the United States,[416] appearing with Dean Martin and Shirley MacLaine in Vincente Minnelli’s Some Came Running and Kings Go Forth (both 1958) with Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood.[417] «High Hopes», sung by Sinatra in the Frank Capra comedy, A Hole in the Head (1959),[418][419] won the Academy Award for Best Original Song,[420] and became a chart hit, lasting on the Hot 100 for 17 weeks.[421]

Later career (1960–1980)

Frank Sinatra leaving his signature in concrete at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California on July 21, 1965

Due to an obligation he owed to 20th Century Fox for walking off the set of Henry King’s Carousel (1956),[ad] Sinatra starred opposite Shirley MacLaine, Maurice Chevalier and Louis Jourdan in Can-Can (1960). He earned $200,000 and 25% of the profits for the performance.[422] Around the same time, he starred in the Las Vegas-set Ocean’s 11 (also 1960), the first film to feature the Rat Pack together and the start of a «new era of screen cool» for Santopietro.[423] Sinatra personally financed the film, and paid Martin and Davis fees of $150,000 and $125,000 respectively, sums considered exorbitant for the period.[424] He had a leading role opposite Laurence Harvey in The Manchurian Candidate (1962), which he considered to be the role he was most excited about and the high point of his film career.[425] Vincent Canby, writing for the magazine Variety, found the portrayal of Sinatra’s character to be «a wide-awake pro creating a straight, quietly humorous character of some sensitivity.»[426] He appeared with the Rat Pack in the western Sergeants 3 (also 1962),[424] and again in the 1964 gangster-oriented musical Robin and the 7 Hoods. For his performance in Come Blow Your Horn (1963) adapted from the Neil Simon play, he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.[399]

Sinatra directed None but the Brave (1965),[427] and Von Ryan’s Express (1965) was a major success.[428][429] However, in the mid 1960s, Brad Dexter wanted to «breathe new life» into Sinatra’s film career by helping him display the same professional pride in his films as he did his recordings. On one occasion, he gave Sinatra Anthony Burgess’s novel A Clockwork Orange (1962) to read, with the idea of making a film, but Sinatra thought it had no potential and did not understand a word.[430][ae]

In the late 1960s, Sinatra became known for playing detectives,[433] including Tony Rome in Tony Rome (1967) and its sequel Lady in Cement (1968).[434][435] He also played a similar role in The Detective (1968).[436]

Sinatra starred opposite George Kennedy in the western Dirty Dingus Magee (1970), an «abysmal» affair according to Santopietro,[437] which was panned by the critics.[438][439] The following year, Sinatra received a Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award[399] and had intended to play Detective Harry Callahan in Dirty Harry (1971), but had to turn down the role due to developing Dupuytren’s contracture in his hand.[440] Sinatra’s last major film role was opposite Faye Dunaway in Brian G. Hutton’s The First Deadly Sin (1980). Santopietro said that as a troubled New York City homicide cop, Sinatra gave an «extraordinarily rich», heavily layered characterization, one which «made for one terrific farewell» to his film career.[441]

Television and radio career

Sinatra on CBS Radio in 1944

After beginning on the Major Bowes Amateur Hour radio show with the Hoboken Four in 1935, and later WNEW and WAAT in Jersey City,[53] Sinatra became the star of radio shows of his own on NBC and CBS from the early 1940s to the mid-1950s. In 1942, Sinatra hired arranger Axel Stordahl away from Tommy Dorsey before he began his first radio program that year, keeping Stordahl with him for all of his radio work.[442] By the end of 1942, he was named the «Most Popular Male Vocalist on Radio» in a DownBeat poll.[443] Early on he frequently worked with The Andrews Sisters on radio, and they would appear as guests on each other’s shows,[112] as well as on many USO shows broadcast to troops via the Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS).[113] He appeared as a special guest in the sisters’ ABC Eight-to-the-Bar Ranch series,[444] while the trio in turn guested on his Songs by Sinatra series on CBS.[445] Sinatra had two stints as a regular member of cast of Your Hit Parade;[af] his first was from 1943 to 1945,[447] and second was from 1946 to May 28, 1949,[448] during which he was paired with the then-new girl singer, Doris Day.[449] Starting in September 1949, the BBD&O advertising agency produced a radio series starring Sinatra for Lucky Strike called Light Up Time – some 176 15-minute shows which featured Frank and Dorothy Kirsten singing – which lasted through to May 1950.[450]

In October 1951, the second season of The Frank Sinatra Show began on CBS Television. Ultimately, Sinatra did not find the success on television for which he had hoped.[ag] Santopietro writes that Sinatra «simply never appeared fully at ease on his own television series, his edgy, impatient personality conveying a pent up energy on the verge of exploding».[452] In 1953, Sinatra starred in the NBC radio program Rocky Fortune, portraying Rocco Fortunato (a.k.a. Rocky Fortune), a «footloose and fancy free» temporary worker for the Gridley Employment Agency who stumbles into crime-solving. The series aired on NBC radio Tuesday nights from October 1953 to March 1954.[453]

In 1957, Sinatra formed a three-year $3 million contract with ABC to launch The Frank Sinatra Show, featuring himself and guests in 36 half-hour shows. ABC agreed to allow Sinatra’s Hobart Productions to keep 60% of the residuals, and bought stock in Sinatra’s film production unit, Kent Productions, guaranteeing him $7 million.[454] Though an initial critical success upon its debut on October 18, 1957, it soon attracted negative reviews from Variety and The New Republic, and The Chicago Sun-Times thought that Sinatra and frequent guest Dean Martin «performed like a pair of adult delinquents», «sharing the same cigarette and leering at girls».[455] In return, Sinatra later made numerous appearances on The Dean Martin Show and Martin’s TV specials.[456]

Sinatra’s fourth and final Timex TV special, Welcome Home Elvis, was broadcast in March 1960, earning massive viewing figures. During the show, he performed a duet with Presley, who sang Sinatra’s 1957 hit «Witchcraft» with the host performing the 1956 Presley classic «Love Me Tender». Sinatra had previously been highly critical of Elvis Presley and rock and roll in the 1950s, describing it as a «deplorable, a rancid smelling aphrodisiac» which «fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people.»[457][ah] A CBS News special about the singer’s 50th birthday, Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music, was broadcast on November 16, 1965, and garnered both an Emmy award and a Peabody Award.[459]

According his musical collaboration with Jobim and Ella Fitzgerald in 1967, Sinatra appeared in the TV special, A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim, which was broadcast on CBS on November 13.[460] When Sinatra came out of retirement in 1973, he released both an album and appeared in a TV special named Ol’ Blue Eyes Is Back. The TV special was highlighted by a dramatic reading of «Send in the Clowns» and a song-and-dance sequence with former co-star Gene Kelly.[461] In the late 1970s, John Denver appeared as a guest in the Sinatra and Friends ABC-TV Special, singing «September Song» as a duet.[462]

Sinatra starred as a detective in Contract on Cherry Street (1977), cited as his «one starring role in a dramatic television film».[463] Ten years later, he made a guest appearance opposite Tom Selleck in Magnum, P.I., playing a retired policeman who teams up with Selleck to find his granddaughter’s murderer. Shot in January 1987, the episode aired on CBS on February 25.[464]

Personal life

Photo family portrait of a husband, wife, two young children, and an infant.

Sinatra had three children, Nancy (born 1940), Frank Jr. (1944–2016) and Tina (born 1948), with his first wife, Nancy Sinatra (née Barbato, 1917–2018), to whom he was married from 1939 to 1951.[465][466]

Sinatra had met Barbato in Long Branch, New Jersey in the summer of 1934,[467] while working as a lifeguard.[468] He agreed to marry her after an incident at «The Rustic Cabin» which led to his arrest.[ai] Sinatra had numerous extramarital affairs,[472] and gossip magazines published details of affairs with women including Marilyn Maxwell, Lana Turner, and Joi Lansing.[473][aj]

«Frank attracted women. He couldn’t help it. Just to look at him—the way he moved, and how he behaved—was to know that he was a great lover and true gentleman. He adored the company of women and knew how to treat them. I had friends whose husbands were ‘players’, and every time the husbands had affairs my friends were showered with gifts. Well, I was constantly showered with gifts, but no matter what temptations Frank may have had while I wasn’t around, he made me feel so safe and loved that I never became paranoid about losing him.»

—Barbara Sinatra on Sinatra’s popularity with women.[475]

Sinatra was married to Hollywood actress Ava Gardner from 1951 to 1957. It was a turbulent marriage with many well-publicized fights and altercations.[476] The couple formally announced their separation on October 29, 1953, through MGM.[477] Gardner filed for divorce in June 1954, at a time when she was dating matador Luis Miguel Dominguín,[478] but the divorce was not settled until 1957.[479] Sinatra continued to feel very strongly for her,[479] and they remained friends for life.[480] He was still dealing with her finances in 1976.[481]

Sinatra reportedly broke off engagements to Lauren Bacall in 1958[482] and Juliet Prowse in 1962.[483] He was also romantically linked to Pat Sheehan, Vikki Dougan, and Kipp Hamilton.[484] He married Mia Farrow on July 19, 1966, a short marriage that ended with divorce in Mexico in August 1968.[485] They remained close friends for life,[486] and in a 2013 interview Farrow said that Sinatra might be the father of her son Ronan Farrow (born 1987).[487][488] In a 2015 CBS Sunday Morning interview, Nancy Sinatra dismissed the claim as «nonsense».[489]

Sinatra was married to Barbara Marx from 1976 until his death.[490] The couple married on July 11, 1976, at Sunnylands, in Rancho Mirage, California, the estate of media magnate Walter Annenberg.[491]

Sinatra was close friends with Jilly Rizzo,[492] songwriter Jimmy Van Heusen, golfer Ken Venturi, comedian Pat Henry and baseball manager Leo Durocher.[493] In his spare time, he enjoyed listening to classical music and attended concerts when he could.[351] He swam daily in the Pacific Ocean, finding it to be therapeutic and giving him much-needed solitude.[494] He often played golf with Venturi at the course in Palm Springs, where he lived,[495] and liked painting, reading, and building model railways.[496]

Though Sinatra was critical of the Church on numerous occasions[497] and had a pantheistic, Einstein-like view of God in his earlier life,[498] he was inducted into the Catholic Sovereign Military Order of Malta in 1976,[499] and he turned to Catholicism for healing after his mother died in a plane crash in 1977. He died as a practicing Catholic and had a Catholic burial.[500]

Style and personality

Sinatra was known for his immaculate sense of style.[501] He spent lavishly on expensive custom-tailored tuxedos and stylish pin-striped suits, which made him feel wealthy and important, and that he was giving his very best to the audience.[502][503] He was also obsessed with cleanliness—while with the Tommy Dorsey band he developed the nickname «Lady Macbeth», because of frequent showering and switching his outfits.[504] His deep blue eyes earned him the popular nickname «Ol’ Blue Eyes».[505]

For Santopietro, Sinatra was the personification of America in the 1950s: «cocky, eye on the main chance, optimistic, and full of the sense of possibility».[506] Barbara Sinatra wrote, «A big part of Frank’s thrill was the sense of danger that he exuded, an underlying, ever-present tension only those closest to him knew could be defused with humor».[493] Cary Grant, a friend of Sinatra, stated that Sinatra was the «most honest person he’d ever met», who spoke «a simple truth, without artifice which scared people», and was often moved to tears by his performances.[507] Jo-Caroll Dennison commented that he possessed «great inner strength», and that his energy and drive were «enormous». A workaholic, he reportedly only slept four hours a night on average.[508] Throughout his life, Sinatra had mood swings and bouts of mild to severe depression,[509] stating to an interviewer in the 1950s that «I have an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as elation». Barbara Sinatra stated that he would «snap at anyone for the slightest misdemeanor»,[511] while Van Heusen said that when Sinatra got drunk it was «best to disappear».[512]

Sinatra’s mood swings often developed into violence, directed at people he felt had crossed him, particularly journalists who gave him scathing reviews, publicists, and photographers.[513] According to Rojek he was «capable of deeply offensive behavior that smacked of a persecution complex».[514] He received negative press for fights with Lee Mortimer in 1947, photographer Eddie Schisser in Houston in 1950, Judy Garland’s publicist Jim Byron on the Sunset Strip in 1954,[513][515] and for a confrontation with Washington Post journalist Maxine Cheshire in 1973, in which he implied that she was a cheap prostitute.[514][ak]

His feud with then-Chicago Sun Times columnist Mike Royko began when Royko wrote a column questioning why Chicago police offered free protection to Sinatra when the singer had his own security. Sinatra fired off an angry letter in response calling Royko a «pimp», and threatening to «punch you in the mouth» for speculating that he wore a toupée.[516] Royko auctioned the letter, the proceeds going to the Salvation Army. The winner of the auction was Vie Carlson, mother of Bun E. Carlos of the rock group Cheap Trick. After appearing on Antiques Roadshow,[517] Carlson consigned the letter to Freeman’s Auctioneers & Appraisers, which auctioned it in 2010.[518]

Sinatra was also known for his generosity,[519] particularly after his comeback. Kelley notes that when Lee J. Cobb nearly died from a heart attack in June 1955, Sinatra flooded him with «books, flowers, delicacies», paid his hospital bills, and visited him daily, telling him that his «finest acting» was yet to come.[520] In another instance, after an argument with manager Bobby Burns, rather than apologize, Sinatra bought him a brand new Cadillac.[521]

Alleged organized-crime links and Cal Neva Lodge

Sinatra became the stereotype of the «tough working-class Italian American,» something which he embraced. He said that if it had not been for his interest in music, he would have likely ended up in a life of crime.[522] Willie Moretti was Sinatra’s godfather and the notorious underboss of the Genovese crime family, and he helped Sinatra in exchange for kickbacks and was reported to have intervened in releasing Sinatra from his contract with Tommy Dorsey.[523] Sinatra was present at the Mafia Havana Conference in 1946,[524] and the press learned of his being there with Lucky Luciano. One newspaper published the headline «Shame, Sinatra».[525] He was reported to be a good friend of mobster Sam Giancana,[526] and the two men were seen playing golf together.[527] Kelley quotes Jo-Carrol Silvers that Sinatra «adored» Bugsy Siegel, and boasted to friends about him and how many people Siegel had killed.[528] Kelley says that Sinatra and mobster Joseph Fischetti had been good friends from 1938 onward, and acted like «Sicilian brothers».[529] She also states that Sinatra and Hank Sanicola were financial partners with Mickey Cohen in the gossip magazine Hollywood Night Life.[530]

The FBI kept records amounting to 2,403 pages on Sinatra, who was a natural target with his alleged Mafia ties, his ardent New Deal politics, and his friendship with John F. Kennedy.[531] The FBI kept him under surveillance for almost five decades beginning in the 1940s. The documents include accounts of Sinatra as the target of death threats and extortion schemes.[532] The FBI documented that Sinatra was losing esteem with the Mafia as he grew closer to President Kennedy, whose younger brother Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy was leading a crackdown on organized crime.[533] Sinatra said he was not involved: «Any report that I fraternized with goons or racketeers is a vicious lie».[534]

In 1960, Sinatra bought a share in the Cal Neva Lodge & Casino, a casino hotel that straddles the California-Nevada state line on the north shores of Lake Tahoe. Sinatra built the Celebrity Room theater which attracted his show business friends Red Skelton, Marilyn Monroe, Victor Borge, Joe E. Lewis, Lucille Ball, Lena Horne, Juliet Prowse, the McGuire Sisters, and others. By 1962, he reportedly held a 50-percent share in the hotel.[535] Sinatra’s gambling license was temporarily stripped by the Nevada Gaming Control Board in 1963 after Giancana was spotted on the premises.[536][al] Due to ongoing pressure from the FBI and Nevada Gaming Commission on mobster control of casinos, Sinatra agreed to give up his share in Cal Neva and the Sands.[538] That year, his son Frank Jr. was kidnapped but was eventually released unharmed.[539] Sinatra’s gambling license was restored in February 1981, following support from Ronald Reagan.[540]

Politics and activism

Sinatra held varied political views throughout his life. His mother, Dolly Sinatra (1896–1977), was a Democratic Party ward leader, and after meeting President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944, he subsequently heavily campaigned for the Democrats in the 1944 presidential election. According to Jo Carroll Silvers, in his younger years Sinatra had «ardent liberal» sympathies, and was «so concerned about poor people that he was always quoting Henry Wallace».[543] He was outspoken against racism, particularly toward black people and Italians, from a young age. In the early 1950s, he was among those who campaigned to combine the racially segregated musicians unions in Los Angeles.[544] In November 1945 Sinatra was invited by the mayor of Gary, Indiana, to try to settle a strike by white students of Froebel High School against the «Pro-Negro» policies of the new principal.[545] His comments, while praised by liberal publications, led to accusations by some that he was a Communist, which he said were not true.[546] In the 1948 presidential election, Sinatra actively campaigned for President Harry S. Truman.[547] In 1952 and 1956, he also campaigned for Adlai Stevenson.[547]

Of all the U.S. presidents he associated with during his career, he was closest to John F. Kennedy.[547] Sinatra often invited Kennedy to Hollywood and Las Vegas, and the two would womanize and enjoy parties together.[548] In January 1961, Sinatra and Peter Lawford organized the Inaugural Gala in Washington, D.C., held on the evening before President Kennedy was sworn into office.[547] After taking office, Kennedy distanced himself from Sinatra, due in part to the singer’s ties with the Mafia.[549] His brother Robert, who was serving as Attorney General and was known for urging FBI director J. Edgar Hoover to conduct more crackdowns on the Mafia,[550] was distrustful of Sinatra.[549]

In 1962, Sinatra was snubbed by the President as, during his visit to his Palm Springs, Kennedy stayed with the Republican Bing Crosby instead of Sinatra, citing FBI concerns about the latter’s alleged connections to organized crime.[am] Crosby’s affiliations with the mafia were less publicly known.[552] Sinatra had spared no expense upgrading the facilities at his home in anticipation of the President’s visit, fitting it with a heliport, which he smashed with a sledgehammer after the rejection.[553][554] Despite the snub, when he learned of Kennedy’s assassination he reportedly sobbed in his bedroom for three days.[547][an]

Sinatra worked with Hubert H. Humphrey in 1968,[556] and remained a supporter of the Democratic Party until the early 1970s. Although still a registered Democrat, Sinatra endorsed Republican Ronald Reagan for a second term as Governor of California in 1970.[557][547] He officially changed allegiance in July 1972 when he supported Richard Nixon for re-election in the 1972 presidential election.[547]

In the 1980 presidential election, Sinatra supported Ronald Reagan and donated $4 million to Reagan’s campaign.[558] Sinatra arranged Reagan’s Presidential gala, as he had done for Kennedy 20 years previously.[559][560] In 1985, Reagan presented Sinatra with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, remarking, «His love of country, his generosity for those less fortunate … make him one of our most remarkable and distinguished Americans.»[322]

Sinatra watching an IDF military parade during a visit to Israel, 1962

Santopietro notes that Sinatra was a «lifelong sympathizer with Jewish causes».[561] He was awarded the Hollzer Memorial Award by the Los Angeles Jewish Community in 1949.[132] He gave a series of concerts in Israel in 1962, and donated his entire $50,000 fee for appearing in a cameo role in Cast a Giant Shadow (1966) to the Youth Center in Jerusalem.[561] On November 1, 1972, he raised $6.5 million in bond pledges for Israel,[279] and was given the Medallion of Valor for his efforts.[272] The Frank Sinatra Student Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem was dedicated in his name in 1978.[311] He owned a Jewish skullcap, known as a kippah or yarmulkah, which was sold as part of his wife’s estate many years after his death.[562]

From his youth, Sinatra displayed sympathy for African Americans and worked both publicly and privately all his life to help the struggle for equal rights. He blamed racial prejudice on the parents of children. Sinatra played a major role in the desegregation of Nevada hotels and casinos in the 1950s and 1960s.[564] At the Sands in 1955, Sinatra went against policy by inviting Nat King Cole into the dining room,[565] and in 1961, after an incident where an African-American couple entered the lobby of the hotel and were blocked by the security guard, Sinatra and Davis forced the hotel management to begin hiring black waiters and busboys.[566] On January 27, 1961, Sinatra played a benefit show at Carnegie Hall for Martin Luther King Jr. and led his fellow Rat Pack members and Reprise label mates in boycotting hotels and casinos that refused entry to black patrons and performers. According to his son, Frank Jr., King sat weeping in the audience at one of his father’s concerts in 1963 as Sinatra sang «Ol’ Man River», a song from the musical Show Boat that is sung by an African-American stevedore.[567] When he changed his political affiliations in 1970, Sinatra became less outspoken on racial issues.[321] Though he did much towards civil rights causes, it did not stop the occasional racial jibe from him and the other Rat Pack members toward Davis at concerts.[201][568]

Death and funeral

Sinatra died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on May 14, 1998, aged 82, with his wife at his side after suffering two heart attacks.[569][570] Sinatra was in ill health during the last few years of his life, and was frequently hospitalized for heart and breathing problems, high blood pressure, pneumonia and bladder cancer. He also suffered from dementia-like symptoms due to his usage of antidepressants.[571] He had made no public appearances following a heart attack in February 1997.[569] Sinatra’s wife encouraged him to «fight» while attempts were made to stabilize him, and reported that his final words were, «I’m losing.»[572] Sinatra’s daughter, Tina, later wrote that she and her siblings (Frank Jr. and Nancy) had not been notified of their father’s final hospitalization, and it was her belief that «the omission was deliberate. Barbara would be the grieving widow alone at her husband’s side.»[573] The night after Sinatra’s death, the lights on the Empire State Building in New York City were turned blue, the lights at the Las Vegas Strip were dimmed in his honor, and the casinos stopped spinning for one minute.[570][574]

Sinatra’s funeral was held at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Beverly Hills, California, on May 20, 1998, with 400 mourners in attendance and thousands of fans outside.[575] Gregory Peck, Tony Bennett, and Sinatra’s son, Frank Jr., addressed the mourners, who included many notable people from film and entertainment.[572][575] Sinatra was buried in a blue business suit and his grave was adorned with mementos from family members—cherry-flavored Life Savers, Tootsie Rolls, a bottle of Jack Daniel’s, a pack of Camel cigarettes, a Zippo lighter, stuffed toys, a dog biscuit, and a roll of dimes that he always carried—next to his parents in section B-8 of Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City, California.[576]

His close friends Jilly Rizzo and Jimmy Van Heusen are buried nearby. The words «The Best Is Yet to Come», plus «Beloved Husband & Father» were imprinted on Sinatra’s original grave marker.[577] Sinatra’s gravestone was changed under mysterious circumstances according to the magazine Palm Springs Life. The grave currently reads «Sleep Warm Poppa».[578] Significant increases in recording sales worldwide were reported by Billboard in the month of his death.[236]

Influence and popularity

Throughout his professional career, Sinatra recorded more than 1,300 songs and participated in more than fifty films.[579] He was called the Chairman of the Board.[why?] He was responsible for awakening a fan phenomenon made up of hysterical teenage girls called «Bobby Soxers», who were portrayed as very enthusiastic to the point of hysteria. Newspapers at the time highlighted the Bobby soxers’ great fanaticism and passion for Sinatra; they experienced hunger, fatigue, and dizziness while waiting in line to see him.[580]

The United States Postal Service issued a 42-cent postage stamp honoring Sinatra in May 2008, commemorating the tenth anniversary of his death. May 13 is considered «Frank Sinatra Day.»[581]

In Frank Sinatra Park, a 6-foot (1.80-meter) tall bronze statue honoring Sinatra was erected in the year 2021 on December 12.[582] There are also several streets and highways in the US named after Sinatra.

Legacy and honors

Robert Christgau referred to Sinatra as «the greatest singer of the 20th century».[4] His popularity is matched only by Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, and Michael Jackson.[569] For Santopietro, Sinatra was the «greatest male pop singer in the history of America»,[583] who amassed «unprecedented power onscreen and off», and «seemed to exemplify the common man, an ethnic twentieth-century American male who reached the ‘top of the heap’, yet never forgot his roots». Santopietro argues that Sinatra created his own world, which he was able to dominate—his career was centred around power, perfecting the ability to capture an audience.[584] Encyclopædia Britannica referred to Sinatra as «often hailed as the greatest American singer of 20th-century popular music….Through his life and his art, he transcended the status of mere icon to become one of the most recognizable symbols of American culture.»[585]

Gus Levene commented that Sinatra’s strength was that when it came to lyrics, telling a story musically, Sinatra displayed a «genius» ability and feeling, which with the «rare combination of voice and showmanship» made him the «original singer» which others who followed most tried to emulate.[586] George Roberts, a trombonist in Sinatra’s band, remarked that Sinatra had a «charisma, or whatever it is about him, that no one else had».[587] Biographer Arnold Shaw considered that «If Las Vegas had not existed, Sinatra could have invented it». He quoted reporter James Bacon in saying that Sinatra was the «swinging image on which the town is built», adding that no other entertainer quite «embodied the glamour» associated with Las Vegas as him.[141] Sinatra continues to be seen as one of the icons of the 20th century,[5]
and has three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in film and music. There are stars on east and west sides of the 1600 block of Vine Street respectively, and one on the south side of the 6500 block of Hollywood Boulevard for his work in television.[588]

In Sinatra’s native Hoboken, he was awarded the Key to the City of by Mayor Fred M. De Sapio on October 30, 1947.[589] In 2003 the city’s main post office was rededicated in his honor.[590] A bronze plaque, place two years before Sinatra’s death in 1998, marks the site of the house where he was born.[591] There is also a marker in front of Hoboken Historical Museum, which has artifacts from his life and conducts Sinatra walking tours through the city.[592] Frank Sinatra Drive runs parallel to the Hudson River Waterfront Walkway. On the waterfront is Frank Sinatra Park, where a bronze plaque was placed in 1989 upon its opening.[591] In the Frank Sinatra Park, a 6-foot (1.8 m) tall bronze statue of Sinatra was dedicated in 2021 on December 12, the date of Sinatra’s birthday in 1915.[593][594][595]
A residence hall at Montclair State University in New Jersey was named in his honor.[596] Other buildings named for Sinatra include the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Astoria, Queens, the Frank Sinatra International Student Center at Israel’s Hebrew University in Jerusalem dedicated in 1978,[597] and the Frank Sinatra Hall at the USC School of Cinematic Arts in Los Angeles, California, dedicated in 2002.[598] Wynn Resorts’ Encore Las Vegas resort features a restaurant dedicated to Sinatra which opened in 2008.[599]

There are several streets and roads named in honor of Frank Sinatra in several states of the U.S., such as the road named Frank Sinatra Drive connecting Cathedral City and Palm Desert in California, a road in Las Vegas near the Las Vegas Strip is also a road named Frank Sinatra Drive in his honor.[600]

Various items of memorabilia from Sinatra’s life and career, such as Frank Sinatra’s awards, gold records, and various personal items are displayed at USC’s Frank Sinatra Hall in Los Angeles and also at Wynn Resort’s Sinatra restaurant in Las Vegas.[598][599]

Sinatra’s three stars for recording, television, and motion pictures on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles

The United States Postal Service issued a 42-cent postage stamp in honor of Sinatra in May 2008, commemorating the tenth anniversary of his death.[601][602]
The United States Congress passed a resolution introduced by Representative Mary Bono Mack on May 20, 2008, designating May 13 as Frank Sinatra Day to honor his contributions to American culture.[603]

Sinatra received three Honorary Degrees during his lifetime. In May 1976, he was invited to speak at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) graduation commencement held at Sam Boyd Stadium. It was at this commencement that he was bestowed an Honorary Doctorate litterarum humanarum by the university.[604] During his speech, Sinatra stated that his education had come from «the school of hard knocks» and was suitably touched by the award. He went on to describe that «this is the first educational degree I have ever held in my hand. I will never forget what you have done for me today».[605] A few years later in 1984 and 1985, Sinatra also received an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Loyola Marymount University as well as an Honorary Doctorate of Engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology.[606][607]

Film and television portrayals

Sinatra has also been portrayed on numerous occasions in film and television. A television miniseries based on Sinatra’s life, titled Sinatra, was aired by CBS in 1992. The series was directed by James Steven Sadwith, who won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Directing for a Miniseries or a Special, and starred Philip Casnoff as Sinatra. Sinatra was written by Abby Mann and Philip Mastrosimone, and produced by Sinatra’s daughter, Tina.[608]

Sinatra has subsequently been portrayed on screen by Ray Liotta (The Rat Pack, 1998),[609] James Russo (Stealing Sinatra, 2003),[610] Dennis Hopper (The Night We Called It a Day, 2003),[611] and Robert Knepper (My Way, 2012),[612] and spoofed by Joe Piscopo and Phil Hartman on Saturday Night Live.[613] A biographical film directed by Martin Scorsese has long been planned.[614] A 1998 episode of the BBC documentary series Arena, The Voice of the Century, focused on Sinatra.[615] Alex Gibney directed a four-part biographical series on Sinatra, All or Nothing at All, for HBO in 2015.[616] A musical tribute was aired on CBS television in December 2015 to mark Sinatra’s centenary.[617] Sinatra was also portrayed by Rico Simonini in the 2018 feature film Frank & Ava, which is based on a play by Willard Manus.[618][619]

Sinatra was convinced that Johnny Fontane, a mob-associated singer in Mario Puzo’s novel The Godfather (1969), was based on his life. Puzo wrote in 1972 that when the author and singer met in Chasen’s, Sinatra «started to shout abuse», calling Puzo a «pimp» and threatening physical violence. This was recreated in the miniseries The Offer with Sinatra portrayed by Frank John Hughes.[620] Francis Ford Coppola, director of the film adaptation, said in the audio commentary that «Obviously Johnny Fontane was inspired by a kind of Frank Sinatra character».[621]

In December 2020, it was announced that Creed singer Scott Stapp will portray Frank Sinatra in Reagan, a biopic of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.[622]

Discography

  • The Voice of Frank Sinatra (1946)
  • Songs by Sinatra (1947)
  • Christmas Songs by Sinatra (1948)
  • Frankly Sentimental (1949)
  • Dedicated to You (1950)
  • Sing and Dance with Frank Sinatra (1950)
  • Songs for Young Lovers (1954)
  • Swing Easy! (1954)
  • In the Wee Small Hours (1955)
  • Songs for Swingin’ Lovers! (1956)
  • Close to You (1957)
  • A Swingin’ Affair! (1957)
  • Where Are You? (1957)
  • A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra (1957)
  • Come Fly with Me (1958)
  • Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely (1958)
  • Come Dance with Me! (1959)
  • No One Cares (1959)
  • Nice ‘n’ Easy (1960)
  • Sinatra’s Swingin’ Session!!! (1961)
  • Ring-a-Ding-Ding! (1961)
  • Come Swing with Me! (1961)
  • Swing Along With Me (1961)
  • I Remember Tommy (1961)
  • Sinatra and Strings (1962)
  • Point of No Return (1962)
  • Sinatra and Swingin’ Brass (1962)
  • All Alone (1962)
  • Sinatra Sings Great Songs from Great Britain (1962)
  • Sinatra–Basie: An Historic Musical First with Count Basie (1962)
  • The Concert Sinatra (1963)
  • Sinatra’s Sinatra (1963)
  • Sinatra Sings Days of Wine and Roses, Moon River, and Other Academy Award Winners (1964)
  • America, I Hear You Singing with Bing Crosby and Fred Waring (1964)
  • It Might as Well Be Swing with Count Basie (1964)
  • 12 Songs of Christmas with Bing Crosby and Fred Waring (1964)
  • Softly, as I Leave You (1964)
  • September of My Years (1965)
  • Sentimental Journey (1965)
  • My Kind of Broadway (1965)
  • A Man and His Music (1965)
  • Moonlight Sinatra (1966)
  • Strangers in the Night (1966)
  • That’s Life (1966)
  • Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim with Antonio Carlos Jobim (1967)
  • The World We Knew (1967)
  • Francis A. & Edward K. with Duke Ellington (1968)
  • The Sinatra Family Wish You a Merry Christmas with Frank Sinatra Jr., Nancy Sinatra and Tina Sinatra (1968)
  • Cycles (1968)
  • My Way (1969)
  • A Man Alone (1969)
  • Watertown (1970)
  • Sinatra & Company with Antonio Carlos Jobim (1971)
  • Ol’ Blue Eyes Is Back (1973)
  • Some Nice Things I’ve Missed (1974)
  • Trilogy: Past Present Future (1980)
  • She Shot Me Down (1981)
  • L.A. Is My Lady (1984)
  • Duets (1993)
  • Duets II (1994)

See also

  • Frank Sinatra bibliography
  • Frank Sinatra’s recorded legacy
  • The Frank Sinatra Show (radio program)

Notes

  1. ^ On his original birth certificate, Sinatra’s name was recorded incorrectly as «Frank Sinestro», a clerical error. In May 1945, he officially corrected the name on his birth certificate to «Francis A. Sinatra».
  2. ^ The house at 415 Monroe Street burned down and no longer exists.[10] The site is marked by a brick archway with a bronze plaque on the sidewalk that reads, «Francis Albert Sinatra: The Voice».[10] The building at 417 Monroe Street has a «From Here to Eternity», sign with images of an Oscar statue.[11] It was opened as a museum by Ed Shirak in 2001, but closed after five years due to maintenance issues.[10]
  3. ^ Other sources incorrectly say Catania.
  4. ^ Dolly was reportedly arrested six or seven times and convicted twice for providing illegal abortions, the first of which was in 1937.[26]
  5. ^ In 1920, Prohibition of alcohol became law in the US. Dolly and Marty ran a tavern during those years, allowed to operate openly by local officials who refused to enforce the law.[30]
  6. ^ Sinatra’s loss of employment at the newspaper led to a life-long rift with Garrick. Dolly said of it, «My son is like me. You cross him, he never forgets.»[40]
  7. ^ Nancy Sinatra notes that he owned a Chrysler and people would show amazement that such a young kid could afford it.[46]
  8. ^ The jealousy exhibited by the group members often led to brawls in which they would beat up the small, skinny young Sinatra.[51]
  9. ^ Only one copy of this recording was made, a 78 rpm disc. Mane wrote «Frank Sinatra» on the record label and kept the recording in a drawer through the years, giving Sinatra a copy on a cassette tape as a gift in 1979. Mane died in 1998, only months after Sinatra’s death; in 2006, Mane’s widow offered the recording for sale through Gurnsey’s auction house in New York.[55]
  10. ^ The only sticking point was that James wanted Sinatra to change his name to Frankie Satin, as he thought that Sinatra sounded too Italian.[57] Neither Sinatra, nor his mother, would agree to this; he told James that his cousin, Ray Sinatra, was a bandleader in Boston, kept his own name and was doing well with it. James actually knew Ray Sinatra, so he did not press the issue.[58][59]
  11. ^ the vocalist, not to be confused with the comedian Jack E. Leonard.
  12. ^ Sinatra acknowledged his debt to James throughout his life, and upon hearing of James’ death in 1983, stated: «he is the one that made it all possible.»[66]
  13. ^ Kelley says that arguments and fights regularly broke out between Sinatra and Rich, who were both arrogant with volatile tempers. In one incident witnessed by Stafford backstage at the Astor Hotel in New York, Rich called Sinatra a name and Sinatra threw a heavy glass pitcher filled with water and ice at Rich’s head. In another incident at the Golden Gate Theater in San Francisco, Rich reportedly attempted to ram Sinatra against the wall with his high F cymbal.[72]
  14. ^ Sinatra said: «The reason I wanted to leave Tommy’s band was that Crosby was Number One, way up on top of the pile. In the open field, you might say, were some awfully good singers with the orchestras. Bob Eberly (with Jimmy Dorsey) was a fabulous vocalist. Mr. Como (with Ted Weems) is such a wonderful singer. I thought, if I don’t make a move out of this and try to do it on my own soon, one of those guys will do it, and I’ll have to fight all three of them to get a position».[80]
  15. ^ Sinatra’s lawyer, Henry Jaffe, met with Dorsey’s lawyer N. Joseph Ross in Los Angeles in August 1943. In the words of Kelley: «In the end, MCA, an agency representing Dorsey and courting Sinatra, made Dorsey a $60,000 offer that he accepted. To obtain Frank as a client, the agency paid Dorsey $35,000 while Sinatra paid $25,000, which he borrowed from Manie Sacks as an advance against his royalties from Columbia Records. MCA agreed that until 1948 it would split its commissions on Sinatra with GAC, the agency that Frank had signed with when he left the Dorsey band.»[81] However, during a 1979 concert at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, Sinatra said that it took him years to escape the contract, and that Dorsey had cost him 7 million dollars.[82]
  16. ^ The incident started rumors of Sinatra’s involvement with the Mafia, and was fictionalized in the book and film The Godfather.[84]
  17. ^ Sinatra was spotted in Havana in 1946 with mobster Lucky Luciano, which started a series of negative press articles, implicating Sinatra with the Mafia.[127] In 1947 he was involved in a violent incident with journalist Lee Mortimer, who had written some of the most scathing articles on his alleged connections. Kelley says that his articles grew so offensive that Sinatra pounced on him outside Ciro’s and punched him behind the left ear in response to an insult in which he was called a «dago». Sinatra was taken to court, and according to Kelley, Mortimer received Mafia threats to drop the case or lose his life.[128]
  18. ^ Sinatra bought a two percent share in the hotel for $54,000.[148] At one point the share reached nine percent.[149] He was reportedly ordered to sell his interest in the Sands in 1963, due to his association with mobster Sam Giancana.[150]
  19. ^ Miller tried to offset Sinatra’s declining record sales by introducing «gimmicky novel tunes» into the singer’s repertoire such as «Mama Will Bark» to appeal to younger audiences.[155][156] «Mama Will Bark» is often cited as the worst of Sinatra’s career. Miller thought he would try this novelty approach for Sinatra because he felt the singer’s «great records» weren’t selling.[157] Initially, Sinatra went along with this approach, but eventually he came to resent Miller for the poor quality of material he was being offered.[158]
  20. ^ Sinatra was not very enthusiastic about the song initially. His friend, Jimmy Van Heusen, convinced him that the song would be a success.[177] Young at Heart was produced by Day’s husband at the time, Marty Melcher, whom Sinatra detested. Their feud grew worse when Melcher suggested that Day sing «Young at Heart» as the film’s title song when Sinatra’s recording of the song was already a hit. Day conceded that she did not care whose voice was heard singing the film’s title song. Because of the rift, the Young at Heart soundtrack album contains all the songs heard in the film but the title Young at Heart. Sinatra’s hit recording is heard at the beginning and end of the film.[178]
  21. ^ Granata noted that Riddle himself believed that the album came across as darker and more introspective than normal due to the due of his own mother who had recently died earlier in the month that it was recorded.[207]
  22. ^ Nancy Sinatra notes that her father had a falling out with a bureaucrat in the country, who refused to admit Sinatra into his house. She says that though he was not formally banned from the country, the bureaucrat «made it seem so» and stated that the situation caused much humiliation to the family.[234]
  23. ^ Hughes still resented Sinatra for marrying Ava Gardner, the subject of his own affections.[248] After Hughes saw to it that the hotel imposed restrictions on what he could gamble in the casino,[249] Sinatra began what The Los Angeles Times describes as a «weekend-long tirade» against the «hotel’s management, employees and security forces»,[250] culminating in a punch from executive Carl Cohen that knocked the caps off Sinatra’s front teeth.[251] He began performing at Caesars Palace.[252]
  24. ^ Sinatra was playing a high stakes baccarat at Caesars Palace in the early morning of September 6, 1970. Normal limits for the game are US$2,000 per hand; Sinatra had been playing for US$8,000 and wanted the stakes to be raised to US$16,000.[269] When Sinatra began shouting, hotel executive Sanford Waterman came to talk with him. Witnesses said Waterman and Sinatra both made threats, and Waterman pointed a gun at Sinatra. Sinatra returned to Palm Springs without completing his three-week engagement. Waterman was arrested[270] but not prosecuted.[271]
  25. ^ Horne developed vocal problems and Sinatra, committed to other engagements, could not wait to record.[327]
  26. ^ Mitch Miller played English horn and oboe on the Sinatra-led recordings.[347]
  27. ^ Riddle notes that Sinatra’s range was from the low G to the high F, almost two octaves, but that his practical range was the low A-flat to a D, in comparison to Bing Crosby whose range was G to C.[357] Though Riddle stated that Sinatra’s lowest was G, he often hit the low F in concerts, and hit the low E at 0:41 in the recording of «What Is This Thing Called Love?» for the 1955 album In the Wee Small Hours.
  28. ^ Sinatra successfully later sued a BBC interviewer who said that he’d used his Mafia connections to get the part.[395]
  29. ^ Sinatra later remarked that he had always considered his performance in The Man with the Golden Arm to have been the greatest of his film career, and that he’d won the Oscar for the wrong role.[404]
  30. ^ Sinatra had stormed off the set when he learned that the film was to be shot in both Cinemascope and a new 55-millimeter process. Refusing to make «two pictures for the price of one», he left the production and did not return. Fox initially sued Sinatra for a million dollars for breach of contract and replaced him with Gordon MacRae. Fox agreed to drop the claim on condition that he appear in another picture of theirs.[409]
  31. ^ The film was later made by Stanley Kubrick in 1971 and is now considered to be one of the greatest films of all time.[431][432]
  32. ^ Your Hit Parade was a popular weekly radio and television program from 1935 to 1958. Sponsored by American Tobacco Company’s Lucky Strike brand of cigarettes, the show featured the top ten songs of each week.[446]
  33. ^ Producer Irving Mansfield described Sinatra as being obsessed with the thought that his wife, Ava Gardner, was having an affair with her former husband, Artie Shaw. He often started shouting about this on the set of the television show when he phoned his home and could not reach Gardner. Mansfield had to communicate with Sinatra through the entourage that always accompanied him to CBS. Sinatra was always late to work and did not care to spend any time at rehearsal; he blamed all those connected with the program for the poor ratings it received. Mansfield was at his wits’ end with Sinatra and his television show and quit the program. Mansfield informed him that he was man of great talent but a failure as a person, which led to Sinatra attempting to angrily fire him. Mansfield replied that he was too late, as he had resigned that morning.[451]
  34. ^ Presley had responded to the criticism: «… [Sinatra] is a great success and a fine actor, but I think he shouldn’t have said it … [rock and roll] is a trend, just the same as he faced when he started years ago.»[458]
  35. ^ While working at «The Rustic Cabin» in 1939 he became involved in a dispute between his girlfriend, Toni Della Penta, who suffered a miscarriage, and Nancy Barbato, a stonemason’s daughter. After Della Penta attempted to tear off Barbato’s dress, Sinatra ordered Barbato away and told Della Pinta that he would marry Barbato, several years his junior, because she was pregnant. Della Penta went to the police, and Sinatra was arrested on a morals charge for seduction. After a fight between Della Penta and Dolly, Della Penta was later arrested herself.[469] Sinatra married Barbato that year,[470] and Nancy Sinatra was born the following year.[471]
  36. ^ Turner later said the statements were not true in her 1992 autobiography, saying, «The closest things to dates Frank and I enjoyed were a few box lunches at MGM».
  37. ^ Rojek states that Sinatra verbally assaulted Cheshire at a party in 1973, remarking, «Get away from me, you scum. Go home and take a bath … You’re nothing but a two-dollar cunt. You know what that means, don’t you? You’ve been laying down for two dollars all your life». According to Rojek, Sinatra then proceeded to place two-dollar bills in her wine glass and remarked, «Here’s two dollars, baby, that’s what you’re used to».[514]
  38. ^ According to Kelley, Giancana blamed Sinatra for the ordeal and was fuming at the abuse he had given to the commission’s chairman Ed Olsen. The two men never spoke again.[537]
  39. ^ Kennedy was strongly advised by Henry Petersen, a senior official of the Justice Department, to avoid staying with Sinatra.[551]
  40. ^ When Sinatra learned that Kennedy’s killer Lee Harvey Oswald had watched Suddenly just days before the assassination, he withdrew it from circulation, and it only became distributed again in the late 1980s.[555]

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Further reading

  • Freedland, Michael (1998). All the Way: A Biography of Frank Sinatra. St. Martin’s Press. ISBN 978-0-312-19108-5
  • Kaplan, James (2015). Sinatra: The chairman. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 0385535392
  • Pickard, Roy (1994). Frank Sinatra at the Movies. Hale. ISBN 978-0-7090-5105-3

External links

  • Official website Edit this at Wikidata
  • Sinatra family website Archived May 11, 2018, at the Wayback Machine
  • Frank Sinatra at Curlie
  • Frank Sinatra webradio
  • Frank Sinatra at AllMovie
  • Frank Sinatra at AllMusic
  • Sinatra at the New Jersey Hall of Fame
  • Frank Sinatra at IMDb
  • Frank Sinatra discography at Discogs
  • Frank Sinatra at FBI Records: The Vault
  • The Sinatra Report, a special section of Billboard’s November 20, 1965, issue – beginning immediately after page 34
  • «Sinatra in Retrospective, Parts 1 and 2,» WXXI Public Broadcasting, The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, American Archive of Public Broadcasting

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Childhood & Early Life

He was born as Francis Albert Sinatra to Antonino Martino Sinatra and Natalina Garaventa, Italian immigrants to New Jersey. He was the only child of his parents. His father was a fire-fighter and his mother was an amateur singer.

He did not attend high school for long. He was a rowdy teenager and was expelled from school.

He always loved music and knew that he wanted to be a singer. He became a professional singer when he was just in his teens.

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Career

He started performing in night clubs after leaving school and joined a local band called The Three Flashes in 1935 which was renamed The Hoboken Four upon his joining. They appeared in Edward Bowes’s show ‘Major Bowes Amateur Hour’.

During the late 1930s he joined Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra which gave a big boost to his career. Soon Sinatra became a very popular singer because of his association with Dorsey though the relationship between the two men soured. He left the band in 1942.

In 1946, he released his first studio album, ‘The Voice of Frank Sinatra’ which peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard chart and retained its position for the next seven weeks!

Over the next few years he released ‘Songs by Sinatra’ (1947), ‘Christmas Songs by Sinatra’ (1948), ‘Frankly Sentimental’ (1949) and ‘Dedicated to You’ (1950). However, none of these albums was as successful as the first one.

He ventured into Hollywood as an actor during 1940s and in 1953 the film ‘From Here to Eternity’ was released. The story revolved around three soldiers stationed on Hawaii in the months leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor. It was a super hit.

In 1960 his album ‘Nice ‘n’ Easy’ was released. It reached the No. 1 spot on the Billboard chart where it spent nine weeks. It was nominated for the Grammy Award as Album of the Year, Best Male Vocal Performance, and Best Arrangement.

He acted in the World War II adventure film ‘Von Ryan’s Express’ in 1965 which was about a group of Allied prisoners who attempt a daring mass escape after Italy’s armistice with the Allies in September 1943.

He brought out a concept album ‘Watertown’ in 1970 which is the tragic story of a man whose wife leaves him and their two children and moves to a big city. The album received mixed reviews upon its release.

In 1971, Sinatra announced that he was retiring. But he could not stay away from the work he loved for long and was soon back to show business. Over the next several years he continued producing albums and appeared in many films much to the delight of his devoted fans.

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Major Works

His solo debut album, ‘The Voice of Frank Sinatra’ was a major hit which established him in his solo career. This album consisted of eight songs and reached the No. 1 spot on the Billboard chart.

The album ‘Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely’ released in 1958 was the one Sinatra considered his personal favorite. A collection of torch songs, it peaked at No. 1 position in the US and was accredited gold.

Awards & Achievements

He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1953 for his role as Private Angelo Maggio in ‘From Here to Eternity’.

He won 11 Grammy awards throughout his singing career, including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1966.

In 1966, he won the Peabody Award for ‘A Man and His Music’ a one hour television special in color, broadcast by NBC.

He was presented with The Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the US by President Ronald Reagan in 1985.

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Personal Life & Legacy

Frank Sinatra was married four times. He had three children with his first wife Nancy Barbato to whom he was married from 1939 to 1951.

His second marriage was to actress Ava Gardner from 1951 to 1957. Then he was briefly married to Mia Farrow for two years from 1966 to 1968.

His final marriage was to Barbara Marx in 1976. The couple remained together until his death.

He lived a long life and suffered some health problems including high blood pressure and bladder cancer during his last years. He died of a heart attack in 1998 at the age of 82.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Frank Sinatra discography
Black and white photograph

At Capitol Studios, Hollywood, 1957

Studio albums 59
Live albums 2
Compilation albums 8
Singles 297

American vocalist Frank Sinatra recorded 59 studio albums and 297 singles in his solo career, spanning 54 years. Sinatra signed with Columbia Records in 1943; his debut album The Voice of Frank Sinatra was released in 1946. Sinatra would achieve greater success with Capitol and Reprise Records, the former of which he released his final two albums on—Duets and Duets II. Eight compilation albums under Sinatra’s name were released in his lifetime, with more albums released following his death in 1998.

Albums[edit]

Studio albums[edit]

Columbia Records introduced the LP album on June 21, 1948; prior to that albums were collections of 78s in a booklet resembling a photo album, rarely more than four records to a set. Sinatra’s Capitol studio albums were released on Concepts in 1992, and the bulk of his Capitol recordings released on the 1998 album The Capitol Years.

1940s/50s[edit]

1960s[edit]

1970s/80s[edit]

1990s[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ 12 Songs of Christmas did not enter the Billboard 200 chart, but peaked at number nine on the Billboard Christmas chart in 1964.[10]
  2. ^ The Sinatra Family Wish You a Merry Christmas did not enter the Billboard 200 chart, but peaked at number three on the Billboard Christmas chart in 1969.[6]

Compilation albums[edit]

Live albums[edit]

Albums conducted by Sinatra[edit]

Box sets and collections[edit]

RCA Records[edit]

  • 1944 Starmaker (Sinatra/Dorsey)
  • 1954 Fabulous Frankie (Sinatra/Dorsey)
  • 1957 Frankie and Tommy (Sinatra/Dorsey)
  • 1958 We 3 (Sinatra/Dorsey/Stordahl)
  • 1988 All Time Greatest Hits, Vols. 1-4 (Sinatra/Dorsey)
  • 1994 The Song Is You (Sinatra/Dorsey) [5-Disc]
  • 1996 Frank Sinatra & Tommy Dorsey — Greatest Hits
  • 1998 Frank Sinatra & the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra [3-Disc]
  • 2005 The Essential Frank Sinatra with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra [2-Disc]

Columbia Records[edit]

  • 1953 Get Happy!
  • 1955 Frankie
  • 1955 The Voice
  • 1956 That Old Feeling
  • 1957 Adventures of the Heart
  • 1957 Christmas Dreaming
  • 1958 Love Is a Kick
  • 1958 The Broadway Kick
  • 1958 Put Your Dreams Away
  • 1958 The Frank Sinatra Story in Music (No. 12 U.S. Billboard, 1 week)[10]
  • 1959 Come Back to Sorrento
  • 1966 Greatest Hits: The Early Years
  • 1966 Greatest Hits: The Early Years Volume Two
  • 1968 Someone to Watch Over Me
  • 1968 In Hollywood 1943-1949
  • 1972 In The Beginning: 1943 To 1951 [2-LP]
  • 1986 The Voice: The Columbia Years (1943-1952) [6-LP]
  • 1987 Hello Young Lovers
  • 1988 Sinatra Rarities: The Columbia Years
  • 1993 The Columbia Years 1943-1952: The Complete Recordings [12-Disc]
  • 1994 The Columbia Years 1943–1952: The V-Discs [2-Disc]
  • 1994 The Essence of Frank Sinatra
  • 1995 16 Most Requested Songs
  • 1995 The Complete Recordings Nineteen Thirty-Nine (Harry James & His Orchestra featuring Frank Sinatra)
  • 1995 I’ve Got a Crush on You
  • 1996 Sinatra Sings Rodgers and Hammerstein
  • 1997 Frank Sinatra Sings His Greatest Hits
  • 1997 Portrait of Sinatra: Columbia Classics [2-Disc]
  • 1998 The Best of the Columbia Years: 1943-1952 [4-Disc]
  • 2000 Super Hits
  • 2001 Love Songs
  • 2003 The Essential Frank Sinatra: The Columbia Years
  • 2003 The Real Complete Columbia Years V-Discs [3-Disc]
  • 2003 Sinatra Sings Cole Porter
  • 2003 Sinatra Sings George Gershwin
  • 2007 A Voice in Time: 1939-1952 [4-Disc]
  • 2009 From the Heart
  • 2015 A Voice on Air 1935-1955 [4 Disc]

Capitol Records[edit]

  • 1954 Songs for Young Lovers
  • 1954 Swing Easy!
  • 1955 In the Wee Small Hours
  • 1956 Songs for Swingin’ Lovers!
  • 1956 This Is Sinatra!
  • 1957 Close to You And More
  • 1957 A Swingin’ Affair!
  • 1957 Where Are You?
  • 1957 A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra
  • 1958 This Is Sinatra Volume 2
  • 1958 Come Fly with Me
  • 1958 Frank Sinatra Sings For Only The Lonely
  • 1959 Look to Your Heart
  • 1959 Come Dance with Me!
  • 1959 No One Cares
  • 1960 Nice ‘n’ Easy
  • 1961 Sinatra’s Swingin’ Session!!!
  • 1961 Come Swing with Me!
  • 1961 Look Over Your Shoulder
  • 1961 All the Way
  • 1962 Point of No Return
  • 1962 Sinatra Sings…of Love and Things
  • 1962 The Great Years [3-LP]
  • 1963 Sinatra Sings the Select Johnny Mercer
  • 1963 Sings Rodgers and Hart
  • 1963 Tell Her You Love Her (U.S. Billboard No. 129, 4 weeks)[10]
  • 1964 The Great Hits of Frank Sinatra
  • 1965 Sings the Select Cole Porter
  • 1966 Forever Frank
  • 1967 Nevertheless I’m in Love With You
  • 1967 Songs for the Young at Heart
  • 1967 The Nearness of You
  • 1967 Try a Little Tenderness
  • 1967 September Song
  • 1968 The Best Of Frank Sinatra
  • 1968 The Sinatra Touch [6-LP]
  • 1972 The Cole Porter Songbook
  • 1972 The Great Years [3-LP]
  • 1974 One More for the Road
  • 1974 Round # 1 (No. 170 U.S. Billboard, 3 weeks, January 1975)[6]
  • 1987 The Frank Sinatra Collection (BPI: Silver)[4]
  • 1988 Screen Sinatra
  • 1989 The Capitol Collectors Series
  • 1990 The Capitol Years [3-Disc] (No. 126, 11 weeks U.S. Billboard)[6]
  • 1992 Concepts [16-Disc]
  • 1992 The Best of the Capitol Years
  • 1995 Sinatra 80th: All the Best [2-Disc] (No. 66, 5 weeks U.S. Billboard,[6] BPI: Silver)[4]
  • 1996 The Complete Capitol Singles Collection [4-Disc]
  • 1998 The Capitol Years [21-Disc, UK]
  • 2000 Classic Sinatra: His Greatest Performances 1953-1960 (BPI: Gold)[4]
  • 2002 Classic Duets
  • 2004 The Platinum Collection [3-Disc] (BPI: Silver)[4]
  • 2007 Romance: Songs From the Heart
  • 2008 Sinatra at the Movies
  • 2008 The Heart of the Matter (Starbucks)
  • 2009 Classic Sinatra II
  • 2011 Sinatra: Best of the Best (BPI: Gold)[4]
  • 2015 Ultimate Sinatra (BPI: Gold)[4]

Reprise Records[edit]

  • 1963 The Concert Sinatra
  • 1964 It Might as Well Be Swing
  • 1965 Sinatra ’65: The Singer Today
  • 1965 A Man and His Music
  • 1965 My Kind of Broadway (U.S. Billboard No. 30, 16 weeks)[6]
  • 1965 September of My Years
  • 1966 A Man and His Music (Part II): The Frank Sinatra CBS Television Special
  • 1967 Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim
  • 1968 Frank Sinatra’s Greatest Hits
  • 1972 Frank Sinatra’s Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
  • 1973 Frank [2LP] cat.no.: K64016
  • 1975 Best of Ol’ Blue Eyes (BPI: Silver)[4]
  • 1977 Portrait of Sinatra — Forty Songs from the Life of a Man (UK No. 1, BPI: Platinum)[4]
  • 1979 Sinatra-Jobim Sessions
  • 1990 The Reprise Collection [4-Disc] (No. 98, 10 weeks U.S. Billboard)[6]
  • 1991 Sinatra Reprise: The Very Good Years (No. 138, 27 weeks U.S. Billboard)[6]
  • 1992 Sinatra: Soundtrack To The CBS Mini-Series [2-Disc]
  • 1994 The Sinatra Christmas Album
  • 1995 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings [20-Disc]
  • 1996 Everything Happens to Me
  • 1997 The Very Best of Frank Sinatra [2-Disc] (No. 124, 2 weeks U.S. Billboard)[6]
  • 1997 My Way: The Best of Frank Sinatra [2-Disc] (BPI: 5× Platinum)[4]
  • 1998 Lucky Numbers
  • 2000 Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre [4-Disc]
  • 2002 Frank Sinatra in Hollywood 1940-1964
  • 2002 Greatest Love Songs (No. 32, 16 weeks, U.S. Billboard)[6]
  • 2004 Frank Sinatra Christmas Collection
  • 2004 Romance
  • 2008 Nothing but the Best (BPI: Gold)[4]
  • 2010 The Reprise Years [36-Disc]

LaserLight[edit]

  • 1995 Christmas Through the Years

Rhino Records[edit]

  • 2009 Seduction: Sinatra Sings of Love [2-Disc]

Star Mark Compilations[edit]

  • 2008 Frank Sinatra’s Greatest Hits

Starlite[edit]

  • 1993 Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr: Rat Pack is Back

Tribute albums to Sinatra[edit]

  • A Jazz Portrait of Frank Sinatra by Oscar Peterson (1959)
  • Very Sinatra by Ruby Braff (1981)
  • Perfectly Frank by Tony Bennett (1992)
  • Voices in Standard by The Four Freshmen (1994)
  • As I Remember It by Frank Sinatra, Jr. (1996)
  • Manilow Sings Sinatra by Barry Manilow (1998)
  • Sinatraland by Patrick Williams and His Big Band (1998)
  • Blue Eyes Plays Ol’ Blue Eyes by Si Zentner & Orchestra (1998)
  • Keely Sings Sinatra by Keely Smith (2001)
  • Michael Andrew Pays Tribute to Frank Sinatra by Michael Andrew (2002)
  • Steve Lawrence Sings Sinatra by Steve Lawrence (2003)
  • Plays Sinatra His Way by Joey DeFrancesco (2004)
  • Allow Us to Be Frank by Westlife (2004)
  • Songs of Sinatra by Steve Tyrell (2005)
  • Blue Eyes Meets Bed-Stuy The Notorious B.I.G. & Frank Sinatra by Jon Moskowitz and Dj Cappel & Smitty (2005)
  • L’allieva by Mina (2005)
  • Bolton Swings Sinatra by Michael Bolton (2006)
  • Dear Mr. Sinatra by John Pizzarelli (2006)
  • Ray Stevens Sings Sinatra…Say What?? by Ray Stevens (2008)
  • His Way, Our Way by various artists (2009)
  • Cauby Sings Sinatra by Cauby Peixoto (2010)
  • Sin-Atra a heavy metal tribute by various artists (2011)
  • Let’s Be Frank by Trisha Yearwood (2018)

Singles[edit]

Singles are listed with B-side immediately succeeding. Where a song is listed as (by X), or (instrumental), Sinatra does not feature. (US) Number indicates highest chart position on combined Billboard charts.

With the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (RCA Victor) (1940–1942)[edit]

Year Single Peak chart
positions
Hot
100
[citation needed]
1940 «Too Romantic»
«The Sky Fell Down»
«Shake Down the Stars»
«Say It (Over and Over Again)» 12
«Polka Dots and Moonbeams» 18
«The Fable of the Rose»
«Imagination» 8
«Devil May Care»

«Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread)»

12
«It’s a Lovely Day Tomorrow»
«You’re Lonely and I’m Lonely»
9
«April Played the Fiddle»
«Yours Is My Heart Alone»
«I’ll Never Smile Again» (gold record) 1
«All This and Heaven Too» 12
«East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)»
«And So Do I»

«The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)»

11
«Only Forever»

«Trade Winds»

10
«Love Lies»

«The Call of the Canyon»

17
14
«Whispering»
«I Could Make You Care» 17
«Our Love Affair» 5
«Looking for Yesterday»
«We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me)» 3
«You’re Breaking My Heart All Over Again»
«Two Dreams Met»
«I’d Know You Anywhere»
«Do You Know Why?»
«Anything»
«You Say the Sweetest Things»
«Stardust» 7
1941 «Oh! Look at Me Now»

«You Might Have Belonged to Another»

2
14
«Dolores»

«I Tried»

1
21
«Do I Worry?» 4
«Without a Song»
«It’s Always You»
«You’re Dangerous»
«Everything Happens to Me» 9
«Let’s Get Away From It All» 7
«Kiss The Boys Goodbye»
«Love Me As I Am»
«Neiani»

«This Love Of Mine»

3
«I Guess I’ll Have To Dream The Rest» 12
«You And I» 11
«Blue Skies»
«Pale Moon»
«Two in Love»

«A Sinner Kissed An Angel»

9
15
«Embraceable You»
«Violets for Your Furs»
«I Think of You» 20
«It Isn’t a Dream Anymore»
1942 «Winter Weather»

«How About You?»

8
«The Last Call for Love»

«Poor You»

17
15
«I’ll Take Tallulah» 15
«Snootie Little Cutie»
«Somewhere a Voice Is Calling»
«Just As Though You Were Here»

«The Street of Dreams»

6
17
«Be Careful, It’s My Heart»

«Take Me»

13
5
«He’s My Guy»

«Light a Candle in the Chapel»

21
«A Boy in Khaki, A Girl in Lace»
«In the Blue of Evening» 1
«There Are Such Things» (gold record)

«Daybreak»

1
17

First solo singles (Bluebird Records) (1942)[edit]

Year Single Peak chart
positions
Hot

100[citation needed]

1942 «Night and Day» 16
«The Lamplighter’s Serenade»

Columbia singles (1943–1952)[edit]

Year Single Peak chart
positions
Hot
100

[citation needed]

1943 «Close to You»

«You’ll Never Know»

10
2
«Sunday, Monday, or Always» 9
«People Will Say We’re in Love»

«Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'»

3
12
1944 «I Couldn’t Sleep a Wink Last Night»

«A Lovely Way To Spend An Evening»

4
11
«White Christmas»

«If You Are But a Dream»

7
19
«Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week)»

«I Dream of You (More Than You Dream I Do)»

2
7
1945 «What Makes The Sunset?» 13
«Ol’ Man River»

«Stormy Weather»

«When Your Lover Has Gone»

«I Should Care»

8
«Dream» 5
«Put Your Dreams Away (For Another Day)»
«Homesick, That’s All» 23
«If I Loved You»

«You’ll Never Walk Alone» (with The Ken Lane Singers)

7
9
«The Charm Of You»
«My Shawl»
«Lily Belle»

«Don’t Forget Tonight Tomorrow» (with The Charioteers)

9
«White Christmas» (reissue)
«Nancy (With the Laughing Face)» 10
«America The Beautiful» (with The Ken Lane Singers)

«The House I Live In»

22
1946 «Oh! What It Seemed to Be»

«Day by Day»

1
5
«Full Moon and Empty Arms» 17
«All Through The Day» 7
«They Say It’s Wonderful»

«The Girl That I Marry»

2
11
«From This Day Forward»

«Something Old, Something New»

18
21
«Soliloquy (Part 1 & 2)»
«Five Minutes More» 1
«One Love»
«Begin The Beguine» 23
«The Coffee Song»

«The Things We Did Last Summer»

6
8
«Silent Night» (with The Ken Lane Singers)
«Jingle Bells» (with The Ken Lane Singers)
«September Song» 8
1947 «This Is The Night» 11
«That’s How Much I Love You» (with The Page Cavanaugh Trio) 10
«I Want To Thank Your Folks»
«It’s The Same Old Dream» (with Four Hits and A Miss)
«Sweet Lorraine»
«I Believe»

«Time After Time»

5
16
«Mam’selle»

«Stella by Starlight»

1
21
«Almost Like Being in Love» 20
«Tea for Two»
«Ain’tcha Ever Comin’ Back»

«I Have But One Heart»

21
13
«Christmas Dreaming (A Little Early This Year)» 26
«I’ve Got a Home In That Rock»
«So Far»

«A Fellow Needs a Girl»

8
24
«The Dum Dot Song» (with The Pied Pipers) 21
«You’re My Girl» 23
1948 «What’ll I Do?»

«My Cousin Louella» (with The Tony Mottola Trio)

23
24
«But Beautiful» 14
«For Every Man There’s a Woman»
«But None Like You»
«I’ve Got A Crush on You» (featuring Bobby Hackett)
«All of Me» 21
«It Only Happens When I Dance With You» 19
«Nature Boy» (with The Jeff Alexander Choir) 7
«Just For Now»

«Everybody Loves Somebody»

21
25
1949 «Kiss Me Again»
«Autumn In New York» 27
«Senorita»
«A Little Learnin’ Is a Dangerous Thing» (with Pearl Bailey)
«Sunflower» 14
«Why Can’t You Behave?» (with the Phil Moore Four)
«Comme Ci Comme Ca»
«If You Stub Your Toe on the Moon» (with the Phil Moore Four)
«Bop! Goes My Heart» (with the Phil Moore Four)
«Some Enchanted Evening»

«Bali Ha’i»

6
18
«The Right Girl for Me»
«The Hucklebuck» (with The Ken Lane Quintet) 10
«Let’s Take an Old Fashioned Walk» (with Doris Day) 17
«It All Depends On You»
«Don’t Cry Joe» (with The Pastels) 9
«Bye Bye Baby» (with The Pastels)
«If I Ever Love Again» (with The Double Daters)
«That Lucky Old Sun» 16
«Mad About You»
«The Old Master Painter» (with The Modernaires) 13
1950 «Sorry» 28
«(We’ve Got a) Sure Thing» (with The Modernaires)
«Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy»

«God’s Country» (with The Jeff Alexander Choir)

10
25
«Kisses and Tears» (with Jane Russell)
«American Beauty Rose» (with Mitch Miller’s Dixieland Band) 26
«Poinciana (Song Of the Tree)»
«Peachtree Street» (with Rosemary Clooney)
«Goodnight, Irene» (with The Mitch Miller Singers) 5
«Life Is So Peculiar» (with Helen Carroll)
«One Finger Melody» 9
«Nevertheless (I’m In Love with You)» 14
«Let It Snow» (with The Swanson Quartet)
1951 «I Am Loved»
«Take My Love»
«Love Means Love»
«You’re The One (for Me)» 17
«We Kiss In a Shadow» 22
«Love Me»
«Mama Will Bark» (with Dagmar)

«I’m a Fool to Want You»

21
14
«It’s A Long Way From Your House to My House»
«Castle Rock» 8
«April in Paris»
1952 «I Hear a Rhapsody» 24
«Feet of Clay»
«My Girl»
«Luna Rossa» (with The Norman Luboff Choir)
«Bim Bam Baby»

«Azure-Te (Paris Blues)»

20
30
«The Birth of the Blues» 19
«I’m Glad There Is You»
1953 «Sheila» (with The Jeff Alexander Choir)
1954 «I’m A Fool To Want You» (reissue)

All Orchestras conducted by Axel Stordahl, unless otherwise noted

Capitol singles (1953–1962)[edit]

Sinatra’s Capitol singles were released on The Complete Capitol Singles Collection (1996). UK Singles Chart positions from 1952 onwards.[26]

Year Single Peak chart
positions
Certifications
Hot 100
[27]
[citation needed]
US
CB
UK
[26]
1953 «I’m Walking Behind You» /
«Lean Baby»
7
25

«I’ve Got the World on a String» /
«My One and Only Love»
14
28

«From Here to Eternity» 15 24
«South of the Border (Down Mexico Way)» 18 43
1954 «Young At Heart» 2 2 12
«Don’t Worry ’bout Me» /
«I Could Have Told You»
17 25
21 28
«Three Coins in the Fountain» 4 1 1
«The Gal That Got Away» /
«Half as Lovely (Twice as True)»
21 30
23 20
«It Worries Me» 30 29
«The Christmas Waltz»
«You, My Love» 13
1955 «Melody of Love» 19
«Why Should I Cry Over You?»
«Two Hearts, Two Kisses (Make One Love)»
«Learnin’ the Blues» 1 2 2
«Not as a Stranger» 27 13
«Same Old Saturday Night» /
«Fairy Tale»
13 23
33
«Love and Marriage» 5 6 3
«(Love Is) The Tender Trap» 7 22 2
1956 «Flowers Mean Forgiveness» /
«You’ll Get Yours»
24 27
67
«(How Little It Matters) How Little We Know» /
«Five Hundred Guys»
13 23
73 43
«You’re Sensational» /
«Wait for Me»
52 41
75
«True Love» (with Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly)
«Mind If I Make Love to You?»
«Hey! Jealous Lover» 3 8
«Can I Steal a Little Love?» /
«Your Love for Me»
15 20
60 43
1957 «Crazy Love» /
«So Long, My Love»
60 54
74 51
«You’re Cheatin’ Yourself (If You’re Cheatin’ On Me)» 25 50
«All the Way» /
«Chicago (That Toddlin’ Town)»
2 7 3
84 45 21
«Witchcraft» /
«Tell Her You Love Her»
6 13 12
48
«Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas» 67
  • BPI: Silver[4]
«Jingle Bells» 20
  • BPI: Silver[4]
«Mistletoe and Holly»
1958 «Nothing in Common» /
«How Are Ya Fixed for Love?» (with Keely Smith)
22
«Monique» /
«Same Old Song and Dance»
74
«Mr. Success» 41 29 25
«To Love and Be Loved» 100
1959 «French Foreign Legion» 61 49 18
«High Hopes» 30 22 6
«Talk To Me» 38 27
1960 «It’s Nice to Go Trav’ling» 48
«River, Stay ‘Way from My Door» /
«It’s Over, It’s Over, It’s Over»
82 61 18
111
«Nice ‘n’ Easy» 60 55 15
«Ol’ Mac Donald» 25 32 11
1961 «My Blue Heaven» /
«Sentimental Baby»
33 108
101
«American Beauty Rose» /
«Sentimental Journey»
118
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1962 «I’ve Heard That Song Before» /
«The Moon Was Yellow»
139
99 131
«I’ll Remember April»
«Hidden Persuasion» /
«I Love Paris»
148

Reprise singles (1961–1983)[edit]

Sinatra’s Reprise singles were released as part of The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings (1995)

Year Single Peak chart
positions
Certifications
Hot
100
[27]
US
CB
US
AC
[28]
UK
[26]
1961 «The Second Time Around» 50 55
«Granada» 64 58 15 15
«I’ll Be Seeing You» 58 62 12
«Imagination»
«I’m Getting Sentimental Over You»
«There Are Such Things»
«Without a Song»
«Take Me»
«Pocketful of Miracles» 34 26 9
«The Coffee Song» 39
«Ring a Ding Ding!»
1962 «Stardust» 98 108 20
«Ev’rybody’s Twistin'» 75 81 22
«Goody Goody» 136
«The Look of Love» 101 118
«Me and My Shadow» (with Sammy Davis, Jr.) 64 79 18 20
1963 «Call Me Irresponsible» 78 62 20
«I Have Dreamed»

«Come Blow Your Horn»

108 92
«A New Kind of Love»

«Love Isn’t Just for the Young»

111 118
«Fugue for Tinhorns»
«Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas»
1964 «Stay with Me» 81 107
«My Kind of Town» 110 120
«Softly, as I Leave You» 27 38 4
«Hello Dolly» (with Count Basie) 47
«More (Theme from Mondo Cane
«I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day»
«We Wish You the Merriest»
«Somewhere in Your Heart» 32 32 4
1965 «Anytime at All» 46 54 11
«Tell Her (You Love Her Each Day)»

«Here’s to the Losers»

57 87 16
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«Forget Domani» 78 58 13
«When Somebody Loves You» 102 104 10
«Everybody Has the Right to Be Wrong!»

«I’ll Only Miss Her When I Think of Her»

131 101 25
18
«It Was a Very Good Year»

«Moment to Moment»

28 33 1
115 18
1966 «Strangers in the Night» 1 1 1 1
«Summer Wind» 25 26 1 36
«That’s Life» 4 5 1 44
  • BPI: Gold[4]
1967 «Somethin’ Stupid» (with Nancy Sinatra) (gold record) 1 1 1 1
  • BPI: Silver[4]
«The World We Knew (Over and Over)» 30 22 1 33
«This Town» 53 41 17
1968 «I Can’t Believe I’m Losing You» 60 63 4
«Cycles»

«My Way of Life»

23 41 2
64 60 3
«Whatever Happened to Christmas»
1969 «Rain in My Heart» 62 51 3
«My Way» 27 29 2 5
  • BPI: Platinum[4]
«Love’s Been Good to Me» 75 61 8 8
«Goin’ Out of My Head»

«Forget to Remember»

79 96 14
16
«I Would Be in Love (Anyway)» 88 118 4
«What’s Now Is Now» 123 31
1970 «Lady Day» 104
«Feelin’ Kinda Sunday» (with Nancy Sinatra) 30
«Something»

«Bein’ Green»

115 22
1971 «Life’s a Trippy Thing» (with Nancy Sinatra)
«I Will Drink the Wine» 16
1973 «Let Me Try Again» 63 61 23
«You Will Be My Music» 107 39
1974 «Bad, Bad Leroy Brown» 83 106 31
«You Turned My World Around» 83 104 11
1975 «Anytime (I’ll Be There)» 75 93 10
«I Believe I’m Gonna Love You» 47 52 2 34
«A Baby Just Like You»
1976 «The Saddest Thing of All»

«Empty Tables»

43
«I Sing the Songs»
«Stargazer» 21
«Dry Your Eyes»

«Like a Sad Song»

31
«I Love My Wife» 92 43
1977 «Night and Day» (disco version)

«Everybody Ought to Be in Love»

29
1980 «Theme from New York, New York» 32 35 10 4
«You and Me (We Wanted It All)» 42
1981 «Say Hello»
1983 «Here’s to the Band»
«To Love a Child»

Qwest singles (1984)[edit]

Sinatra’s Qwest singles were released as part of The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings (1995), and originally appeared on L.A. Is My Lady (1984).

Year Single Peak chart
positions
US
AC
[28]
1984 «Teach Me Tonight»
«Mack the Knife»
«L.A. Is My Lady» 34

Island singles (1993)[edit]

Year Single Peak chart
positions
UK
[26]
1993 «I’ve Got You Under My Skin» (with Bono) 4

Holiday 100 chart entries[edit]

Since many radio stations in the US adopt a format change to Christmas music each December, many holiday hits have an annual spike in popularity during the last few weeks of the year and are retired once the season is over.[29] In December 2011, Billboard began a Holiday Songs chart with 50 positions that monitors the last five weeks of each year to «rank the top holiday hits of all eras using the same methodology as the Hot 100, blending streaming, airplay, and sales data»,[30] and in 2013 the number of positions on the chart was doubled, resulting in the Holiday 100.[31] A handful of Sinatra recordings have made appearances on the Holiday 100 and are noted below according to the holiday season in which they charted there.

Title Holiday season peak chart positions Album
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
«Jingle Bells» 48[32] 33[33] 30[34] 34[35] 37[36] 40[37] 21[38] 19[39] 30[40] 20[41] 14[42] A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra
«Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas» 48[43] 44[33] 41[44] 20[45] 23[46] 26[47] 49[48] 42[49] 56[50] 49[51] 39[42]
«Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!» 50[33] 50[52] 54[45] 45[53] 45[54] 53[55] 61[39] 48[40] 50[56] 60[42] Christmas Songs by Sinatra
«Santa Claus Is Coming to Town» (Duet with Cyndi Lauper) 73[57] 53[52] 46[58] 68[59] 64[37] 87[55] 80[56] 79[42] A Very Special Christmas 2
«Silent Night» 74[33] Christmas Songs by Sinatra
«The Christmas Song» 92[33] A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra
«I’ll Be Home for Christmas» 89[59] 97[51]
«Mistletoe and Holly» 70[46] 95[47] 92[38] 92[60] 94[61] 88[41]
«The Christmas Waltz» 41[38] 60[60] 58[62] 78[63] 68[42]
«Santa Claus Is Coming to Town» (1947 recording) 98[64] Christmas Songs by Sinatra

Videography[edit]

This is a list of programs featuring Frank Sinatra that are officially sanctioned by the Sinatra estate. Most releases consist of videotaped television specials or live concerts. Like many recording artists of the era, even major stars like Elvis Presley and The Beatles, there is very little performance footage shot on actual film to create modern day high definition releases. All titles listed have been released on DVD separately and collectively in various countries, most are also on VHS and some on LaserDisc.

  • The Frank Sinatra Show (ABC, 1957–58) – at least 11 of 32 episodes released
  • The Frank Sinatra Timex Show: «Bing Crosby and Dean Martin Present High Hopes» (1959, 59 minutes)
  • The Frank Sinatra Timex Show: «An Afternoon with Frank Sinatra» aka The Frank Sinatra Show with Ella Fitzgerald (1959, 59 minutes)
  • The Frank Sinatra Timex Show: Here’s to the Ladies (1960, 59 minutes)
  • The Frank Sinatra Timex Show: It’s Nice to Go Traveling aka Welcome Home Elvis (1960, 59 minutes)
  • The Royal Festival Hall aka This is Sinatra! and Sinatra Command Performance (1962, 93 minutes)
  • Frank Sinatra Spectacular – only known filmed 1960s concert by the Rat Pack, Kiel Opera House, St. Louis, MO, June 20, 1965; 90 minutes)
  • Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music (1965, 51 minutes)
  • A Man and His Music Part II (1966, 51 minutes)
  • A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim (1967, 52 minutes)
  • Francis Albert Sinatra Does His Thing (1968, 52 minutes)
  • Sinatra (1969, 52 minutes)
  • Sinatra in Concert (1970, 51 minutes)
  • Sinatra and Friends (1977, 50 minutes)
  • Magnavox Presents Frank Sinatra aka Ol’ Blue Eyes Is Back (1973, 51 minutes)
  • Sinatra: The Main Event (1974, 53 minutes)
  • Live from Caesars Palace (1978, 74 minutes)
  • Live at Carnegie Hall (1980, 74 minutes)
  • The Man and His Music (1981, 49 minutes)
  • Concert for the Americas (1982, 86 minutes)
  • Portrait of an Album (1985, 59 minutes)
  • Sinatra in Japan (1985, 71 minutes)
  • Sinatra Sings (2011, 58 minutes) – documentary narrated by Tina Sinatra
  • Sinatra: All or Nothing at All (2015, 259 minutes) – documentary including Sinatra’s three children and their mother

See also[edit]

  • List of songs recorded by Frank Sinatra
  • Frank Sinatra’s recorded legacy
  • List of awards and nominations received by Frank Sinatra

References[edit]

  1. ^ All except noted: «Frank Sinatra Chart History: Billboard 200». Billboard. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
    • The Voice of Frank Sinatra: «The Billboard – The world’s foremost amusement weekly: Best-Selling Popular Record Albums» (PDF). Billboard. April 6, 1946. p. 32. Retrieved August 31, 2019.
    • Songs for Young Lovers: «The Billboard – Best Selling Popular Albums» (PDF). Billboard. February 27, 1954. p. 40. Retrieved September 2, 2019.
    • Swing Easy!: «The Billboard – Best Selling Popular ‘Albums» (PDF). Billboard. October 2, 1954. p. 26. Retrieved September 2, 2019.

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    • Cycles: «Top Albums/CDs – Volume 10, No. 24». RPM. February 10, 1969. Retrieved September 1, 2019 – via Library and Archives Canada.
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External links[edit]

  • Sinatra.com
  • Frank Sinatra discography discography at Discogs

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Frank Sinatra discography
Black and white photograph

At Capitol Studios, Hollywood, 1957

Studio albums 59
Live albums 2
Compilation albums 8
Singles 297

American vocalist Frank Sinatra recorded 59 studio albums and 297 singles in his solo career, spanning 54 years. Sinatra signed with Columbia Records in 1943; his debut album The Voice of Frank Sinatra was released in 1946. Sinatra would achieve greater success with Capitol and Reprise Records, the former of which he released his final two albums on—Duets and Duets II. Eight compilation albums under Sinatra’s name were released in his lifetime, with more albums released following his death in 1998.

Albums[edit]

Studio albums[edit]

Columbia Records introduced the LP album on June 21, 1948; prior to that albums were collections of 78s in a booklet resembling a photo album, rarely more than four records to a set. Sinatra’s Capitol studio albums were released on Concepts in 1992, and the bulk of his Capitol recordings released on the 1998 album The Capitol Years.

1940s/50s[edit]

1960s[edit]

1970s/80s[edit]

1990s[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ 12 Songs of Christmas did not enter the Billboard 200 chart, but peaked at number nine on the Billboard Christmas chart in 1964.[10]
  2. ^ The Sinatra Family Wish You a Merry Christmas did not enter the Billboard 200 chart, but peaked at number three on the Billboard Christmas chart in 1969.[6]

Compilation albums[edit]

Live albums[edit]

Albums conducted by Sinatra[edit]

Box sets and collections[edit]

RCA Records[edit]

  • 1944 Starmaker (Sinatra/Dorsey)
  • 1954 Fabulous Frankie (Sinatra/Dorsey)
  • 1957 Frankie and Tommy (Sinatra/Dorsey)
  • 1958 We 3 (Sinatra/Dorsey/Stordahl)
  • 1988 All Time Greatest Hits, Vols. 1-4 (Sinatra/Dorsey)
  • 1994 The Song Is You (Sinatra/Dorsey) [5-Disc]
  • 1996 Frank Sinatra & Tommy Dorsey — Greatest Hits
  • 1998 Frank Sinatra & the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra [3-Disc]
  • 2005 The Essential Frank Sinatra with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra [2-Disc]

Columbia Records[edit]

  • 1953 Get Happy!
  • 1955 Frankie
  • 1955 The Voice
  • 1956 That Old Feeling
  • 1957 Adventures of the Heart
  • 1957 Christmas Dreaming
  • 1958 Love Is a Kick
  • 1958 The Broadway Kick
  • 1958 Put Your Dreams Away
  • 1958 The Frank Sinatra Story in Music (No. 12 U.S. Billboard, 1 week)[10]
  • 1959 Come Back to Sorrento
  • 1966 Greatest Hits: The Early Years
  • 1966 Greatest Hits: The Early Years Volume Two
  • 1968 Someone to Watch Over Me
  • 1968 In Hollywood 1943-1949
  • 1972 In The Beginning: 1943 To 1951 [2-LP]
  • 1986 The Voice: The Columbia Years (1943-1952) [6-LP]
  • 1987 Hello Young Lovers
  • 1988 Sinatra Rarities: The Columbia Years
  • 1993 The Columbia Years 1943-1952: The Complete Recordings [12-Disc]
  • 1994 The Columbia Years 1943–1952: The V-Discs [2-Disc]
  • 1994 The Essence of Frank Sinatra
  • 1995 16 Most Requested Songs
  • 1995 The Complete Recordings Nineteen Thirty-Nine (Harry James & His Orchestra featuring Frank Sinatra)
  • 1995 I’ve Got a Crush on You
  • 1996 Sinatra Sings Rodgers and Hammerstein
  • 1997 Frank Sinatra Sings His Greatest Hits
  • 1997 Portrait of Sinatra: Columbia Classics [2-Disc]
  • 1998 The Best of the Columbia Years: 1943-1952 [4-Disc]
  • 2000 Super Hits
  • 2001 Love Songs
  • 2003 The Essential Frank Sinatra: The Columbia Years
  • 2003 The Real Complete Columbia Years V-Discs [3-Disc]
  • 2003 Sinatra Sings Cole Porter
  • 2003 Sinatra Sings George Gershwin
  • 2007 A Voice in Time: 1939-1952 [4-Disc]
  • 2009 From the Heart
  • 2015 A Voice on Air 1935-1955 [4 Disc]

Capitol Records[edit]

  • 1954 Songs for Young Lovers
  • 1954 Swing Easy!
  • 1955 In the Wee Small Hours
  • 1956 Songs for Swingin’ Lovers!
  • 1956 This Is Sinatra!
  • 1957 Close to You And More
  • 1957 A Swingin’ Affair!
  • 1957 Where Are You?
  • 1957 A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra
  • 1958 This Is Sinatra Volume 2
  • 1958 Come Fly with Me
  • 1958 Frank Sinatra Sings For Only The Lonely
  • 1959 Look to Your Heart
  • 1959 Come Dance with Me!
  • 1959 No One Cares
  • 1960 Nice ‘n’ Easy
  • 1961 Sinatra’s Swingin’ Session!!!
  • 1961 Come Swing with Me!
  • 1961 Look Over Your Shoulder
  • 1961 All the Way
  • 1962 Point of No Return
  • 1962 Sinatra Sings…of Love and Things
  • 1962 The Great Years [3-LP]
  • 1963 Sinatra Sings the Select Johnny Mercer
  • 1963 Sings Rodgers and Hart
  • 1963 Tell Her You Love Her (U.S. Billboard No. 129, 4 weeks)[10]
  • 1964 The Great Hits of Frank Sinatra
  • 1965 Sings the Select Cole Porter
  • 1966 Forever Frank
  • 1967 Nevertheless I’m in Love With You
  • 1967 Songs for the Young at Heart
  • 1967 The Nearness of You
  • 1967 Try a Little Tenderness
  • 1967 September Song
  • 1968 The Best Of Frank Sinatra
  • 1968 The Sinatra Touch [6-LP]
  • 1972 The Cole Porter Songbook
  • 1972 The Great Years [3-LP]
  • 1974 One More for the Road
  • 1974 Round # 1 (No. 170 U.S. Billboard, 3 weeks, January 1975)[6]
  • 1987 The Frank Sinatra Collection (BPI: Silver)[4]
  • 1988 Screen Sinatra
  • 1989 The Capitol Collectors Series
  • 1990 The Capitol Years [3-Disc] (No. 126, 11 weeks U.S. Billboard)[6]
  • 1992 Concepts [16-Disc]
  • 1992 The Best of the Capitol Years
  • 1995 Sinatra 80th: All the Best [2-Disc] (No. 66, 5 weeks U.S. Billboard,[6] BPI: Silver)[4]
  • 1996 The Complete Capitol Singles Collection [4-Disc]
  • 1998 The Capitol Years [21-Disc, UK]
  • 2000 Classic Sinatra: His Greatest Performances 1953-1960 (BPI: Gold)[4]
  • 2002 Classic Duets
  • 2004 The Platinum Collection [3-Disc] (BPI: Silver)[4]
  • 2007 Romance: Songs From the Heart
  • 2008 Sinatra at the Movies
  • 2008 The Heart of the Matter (Starbucks)
  • 2009 Classic Sinatra II
  • 2011 Sinatra: Best of the Best (BPI: Gold)[4]
  • 2015 Ultimate Sinatra (BPI: Gold)[4]

Reprise Records[edit]

  • 1963 The Concert Sinatra
  • 1964 It Might as Well Be Swing
  • 1965 Sinatra ’65: The Singer Today
  • 1965 A Man and His Music
  • 1965 My Kind of Broadway (U.S. Billboard No. 30, 16 weeks)[6]
  • 1965 September of My Years
  • 1966 A Man and His Music (Part II): The Frank Sinatra CBS Television Special
  • 1967 Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim
  • 1968 Frank Sinatra’s Greatest Hits
  • 1972 Frank Sinatra’s Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
  • 1973 Frank [2LP] cat.no.: K64016
  • 1975 Best of Ol’ Blue Eyes (BPI: Silver)[4]
  • 1977 Portrait of Sinatra — Forty Songs from the Life of a Man (UK No. 1, BPI: Platinum)[4]
  • 1979 Sinatra-Jobim Sessions
  • 1990 The Reprise Collection [4-Disc] (No. 98, 10 weeks U.S. Billboard)[6]
  • 1991 Sinatra Reprise: The Very Good Years (No. 138, 27 weeks U.S. Billboard)[6]
  • 1992 Sinatra: Soundtrack To The CBS Mini-Series [2-Disc]
  • 1994 The Sinatra Christmas Album
  • 1995 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings [20-Disc]
  • 1996 Everything Happens to Me
  • 1997 The Very Best of Frank Sinatra [2-Disc] (No. 124, 2 weeks U.S. Billboard)[6]
  • 1997 My Way: The Best of Frank Sinatra [2-Disc] (BPI: 5× Platinum)[4]
  • 1998 Lucky Numbers
  • 2000 Reprise Musical Repertory Theatre [4-Disc]
  • 2002 Frank Sinatra in Hollywood 1940-1964
  • 2002 Greatest Love Songs (No. 32, 16 weeks, U.S. Billboard)[6]
  • 2004 Frank Sinatra Christmas Collection
  • 2004 Romance
  • 2008 Nothing but the Best (BPI: Gold)[4]
  • 2010 The Reprise Years [36-Disc]

LaserLight[edit]

  • 1995 Christmas Through the Years

Rhino Records[edit]

  • 2009 Seduction: Sinatra Sings of Love [2-Disc]

Star Mark Compilations[edit]

  • 2008 Frank Sinatra’s Greatest Hits

Starlite[edit]

  • 1993 Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr: Rat Pack is Back

Tribute albums to Sinatra[edit]

  • A Jazz Portrait of Frank Sinatra by Oscar Peterson (1959)
  • Very Sinatra by Ruby Braff (1981)
  • Perfectly Frank by Tony Bennett (1992)
  • Voices in Standard by The Four Freshmen (1994)
  • As I Remember It by Frank Sinatra, Jr. (1996)
  • Manilow Sings Sinatra by Barry Manilow (1998)
  • Sinatraland by Patrick Williams and His Big Band (1998)
  • Blue Eyes Plays Ol’ Blue Eyes by Si Zentner & Orchestra (1998)
  • Keely Sings Sinatra by Keely Smith (2001)
  • Michael Andrew Pays Tribute to Frank Sinatra by Michael Andrew (2002)
  • Steve Lawrence Sings Sinatra by Steve Lawrence (2003)
  • Plays Sinatra His Way by Joey DeFrancesco (2004)
  • Allow Us to Be Frank by Westlife (2004)
  • Songs of Sinatra by Steve Tyrell (2005)
  • Blue Eyes Meets Bed-Stuy The Notorious B.I.G. & Frank Sinatra by Jon Moskowitz and Dj Cappel & Smitty (2005)
  • L’allieva by Mina (2005)
  • Bolton Swings Sinatra by Michael Bolton (2006)
  • Dear Mr. Sinatra by John Pizzarelli (2006)
  • Ray Stevens Sings Sinatra…Say What?? by Ray Stevens (2008)
  • His Way, Our Way by various artists (2009)
  • Cauby Sings Sinatra by Cauby Peixoto (2010)
  • Sin-Atra a heavy metal tribute by various artists (2011)
  • Let’s Be Frank by Trisha Yearwood (2018)

Singles[edit]

Singles are listed with B-side immediately succeeding. Where a song is listed as (by X), or (instrumental), Sinatra does not feature. (US) Number indicates highest chart position on combined Billboard charts.

With the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (RCA Victor) (1940–1942)[edit]

Year Single Peak chart
positions
Hot
100
[citation needed]
1940 «Too Romantic»
«The Sky Fell Down»
«Shake Down the Stars»
«Say It (Over and Over Again)» 12
«Polka Dots and Moonbeams» 18
«The Fable of the Rose»
«Imagination» 8
«Devil May Care»

«Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread)»

12
«It’s a Lovely Day Tomorrow»
«You’re Lonely and I’m Lonely»
9
«April Played the Fiddle»
«Yours Is My Heart Alone»
«I’ll Never Smile Again» (gold record) 1
«All This and Heaven Too» 12
«East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)»
«And So Do I»

«The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)»

11
«Only Forever»

«Trade Winds»

10
«Love Lies»

«The Call of the Canyon»

17
14
«Whispering»
«I Could Make You Care» 17
«Our Love Affair» 5
«Looking for Yesterday»
«We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me)» 3
«You’re Breaking My Heart All Over Again»
«Two Dreams Met»
«I’d Know You Anywhere»
«Do You Know Why?»
«Anything»
«You Say the Sweetest Things»
«Stardust» 7
1941 «Oh! Look at Me Now»

«You Might Have Belonged to Another»

2
14
«Dolores»

«I Tried»

1
21
«Do I Worry?» 4
«Without a Song»
«It’s Always You»
«You’re Dangerous»
«Everything Happens to Me» 9
«Let’s Get Away From It All» 7
«Kiss The Boys Goodbye»
«Love Me As I Am»
«Neiani»

«This Love Of Mine»

3
«I Guess I’ll Have To Dream The Rest» 12
«You And I» 11
«Blue Skies»
«Pale Moon»
«Two in Love»

«A Sinner Kissed An Angel»

9
15
«Embraceable You»
«Violets for Your Furs»
«I Think of You» 20
«It Isn’t a Dream Anymore»
1942 «Winter Weather»

«How About You?»

8
«The Last Call for Love»

«Poor You»

17
15
«I’ll Take Tallulah» 15
«Snootie Little Cutie»
«Somewhere a Voice Is Calling»
«Just As Though You Were Here»

«The Street of Dreams»

6
17
«Be Careful, It’s My Heart»

«Take Me»

13
5
«He’s My Guy»

«Light a Candle in the Chapel»

21
«A Boy in Khaki, A Girl in Lace»
«In the Blue of Evening» 1
«There Are Such Things» (gold record)

«Daybreak»

1
17

First solo singles (Bluebird Records) (1942)[edit]

Year Single Peak chart
positions
Hot

100[citation needed]

1942 «Night and Day» 16
«The Lamplighter’s Serenade»

Columbia singles (1943–1952)[edit]

Year Single Peak chart
positions
Hot
100

[citation needed]

1943 «Close to You»

«You’ll Never Know»

10
2
«Sunday, Monday, or Always» 9
«People Will Say We’re in Love»

«Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'»

3
12
1944 «I Couldn’t Sleep a Wink Last Night»

«A Lovely Way To Spend An Evening»

4
11
«White Christmas»

«If You Are But a Dream»

7
19
«Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week)»

«I Dream of You (More Than You Dream I Do)»

2
7
1945 «What Makes The Sunset?» 13
«Ol’ Man River»

«Stormy Weather»

«When Your Lover Has Gone»

«I Should Care»

8
«Dream» 5
«Put Your Dreams Away (For Another Day)»
«Homesick, That’s All» 23
«If I Loved You»

«You’ll Never Walk Alone» (with The Ken Lane Singers)

7
9
«The Charm Of You»
«My Shawl»
«Lily Belle»

«Don’t Forget Tonight Tomorrow» (with The Charioteers)

9
«White Christmas» (reissue)
«Nancy (With the Laughing Face)» 10
«America The Beautiful» (with The Ken Lane Singers)

«The House I Live In»

22
1946 «Oh! What It Seemed to Be»

«Day by Day»

1
5
«Full Moon and Empty Arms» 17
«All Through The Day» 7
«They Say It’s Wonderful»

«The Girl That I Marry»

2
11
«From This Day Forward»

«Something Old, Something New»

18
21
«Soliloquy (Part 1 & 2)»
«Five Minutes More» 1
«One Love»
«Begin The Beguine» 23
«The Coffee Song»

«The Things We Did Last Summer»

6
8
«Silent Night» (with The Ken Lane Singers)
«Jingle Bells» (with The Ken Lane Singers)
«September Song» 8
1947 «This Is The Night» 11
«That’s How Much I Love You» (with The Page Cavanaugh Trio) 10
«I Want To Thank Your Folks»
«It’s The Same Old Dream» (with Four Hits and A Miss)
«Sweet Lorraine»
«I Believe»

«Time After Time»

5
16
«Mam’selle»

«Stella by Starlight»

1
21
«Almost Like Being in Love» 20
«Tea for Two»
«Ain’tcha Ever Comin’ Back»

«I Have But One Heart»

21
13
«Christmas Dreaming (A Little Early This Year)» 26
«I’ve Got a Home In That Rock»
«So Far»

«A Fellow Needs a Girl»

8
24
«The Dum Dot Song» (with The Pied Pipers) 21
«You’re My Girl» 23
1948 «What’ll I Do?»

«My Cousin Louella» (with The Tony Mottola Trio)

23
24
«But Beautiful» 14
«For Every Man There’s a Woman»
«But None Like You»
«I’ve Got A Crush on You» (featuring Bobby Hackett)
«All of Me» 21
«It Only Happens When I Dance With You» 19
«Nature Boy» (with The Jeff Alexander Choir) 7
«Just For Now»

«Everybody Loves Somebody»

21
25
1949 «Kiss Me Again»
«Autumn In New York» 27
«Senorita»
«A Little Learnin’ Is a Dangerous Thing» (with Pearl Bailey)
«Sunflower» 14
«Why Can’t You Behave?» (with the Phil Moore Four)
«Comme Ci Comme Ca»
«If You Stub Your Toe on the Moon» (with the Phil Moore Four)
«Bop! Goes My Heart» (with the Phil Moore Four)
«Some Enchanted Evening»

«Bali Ha’i»

6
18
«The Right Girl for Me»
«The Hucklebuck» (with The Ken Lane Quintet) 10
«Let’s Take an Old Fashioned Walk» (with Doris Day) 17
«It All Depends On You»
«Don’t Cry Joe» (with The Pastels) 9
«Bye Bye Baby» (with The Pastels)
«If I Ever Love Again» (with The Double Daters)
«That Lucky Old Sun» 16
«Mad About You»
«The Old Master Painter» (with The Modernaires) 13
1950 «Sorry» 28
«(We’ve Got a) Sure Thing» (with The Modernaires)
«Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy»

«God’s Country» (with The Jeff Alexander Choir)

10
25
«Kisses and Tears» (with Jane Russell)
«American Beauty Rose» (with Mitch Miller’s Dixieland Band) 26
«Poinciana (Song Of the Tree)»
«Peachtree Street» (with Rosemary Clooney)
«Goodnight, Irene» (with The Mitch Miller Singers) 5
«Life Is So Peculiar» (with Helen Carroll)
«One Finger Melody» 9
«Nevertheless (I’m In Love with You)» 14
«Let It Snow» (with The Swanson Quartet)
1951 «I Am Loved»
«Take My Love»
«Love Means Love»
«You’re The One (for Me)» 17
«We Kiss In a Shadow» 22
«Love Me»
«Mama Will Bark» (with Dagmar)

«I’m a Fool to Want You»

21
14
«It’s A Long Way From Your House to My House»
«Castle Rock» 8
«April in Paris»
1952 «I Hear a Rhapsody» 24
«Feet of Clay»
«My Girl»
«Luna Rossa» (with The Norman Luboff Choir)
«Bim Bam Baby»

«Azure-Te (Paris Blues)»

20
30
«The Birth of the Blues» 19
«I’m Glad There Is You»
1953 «Sheila» (with The Jeff Alexander Choir)
1954 «I’m A Fool To Want You» (reissue)

All Orchestras conducted by Axel Stordahl, unless otherwise noted

Capitol singles (1953–1962)[edit]

Sinatra’s Capitol singles were released on The Complete Capitol Singles Collection (1996). UK Singles Chart positions from 1952 onwards.[26]

Year Single Peak chart
positions
Certifications
Hot 100
[27]
[citation needed]
US
CB
UK
[26]
1953 «I’m Walking Behind You» /
«Lean Baby»
7
25

«I’ve Got the World on a String» /
«My One and Only Love»
14
28

«From Here to Eternity» 15 24
«South of the Border (Down Mexico Way)» 18 43
1954 «Young At Heart» 2 2 12
«Don’t Worry ’bout Me» /
«I Could Have Told You»
17 25
21 28
«Three Coins in the Fountain» 4 1 1
«The Gal That Got Away» /
«Half as Lovely (Twice as True)»
21 30
23 20
«It Worries Me» 30 29
«The Christmas Waltz»
«You, My Love» 13
1955 «Melody of Love» 19
«Why Should I Cry Over You?»
«Two Hearts, Two Kisses (Make One Love)»
«Learnin’ the Blues» 1 2 2
«Not as a Stranger» 27 13
«Same Old Saturday Night» /
«Fairy Tale»
13 23
33
«Love and Marriage» 5 6 3
«(Love Is) The Tender Trap» 7 22 2
1956 «Flowers Mean Forgiveness» /
«You’ll Get Yours»
24 27
67
«(How Little It Matters) How Little We Know» /
«Five Hundred Guys»
13 23
73 43
«You’re Sensational» /
«Wait for Me»
52 41
75
«True Love» (with Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly)
«Mind If I Make Love to You?»
«Hey! Jealous Lover» 3 8
«Can I Steal a Little Love?» /
«Your Love for Me»
15 20
60 43
1957 «Crazy Love» /
«So Long, My Love»
60 54
74 51
«You’re Cheatin’ Yourself (If You’re Cheatin’ On Me)» 25 50
«All the Way» /
«Chicago (That Toddlin’ Town)»
2 7 3
84 45 21
«Witchcraft» /
«Tell Her You Love Her»
6 13 12
48
«Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas» 67
  • BPI: Silver[4]
«Jingle Bells» 20
  • BPI: Silver[4]
«Mistletoe and Holly»
1958 «Nothing in Common» /
«How Are Ya Fixed for Love?» (with Keely Smith)
22
«Monique» /
«Same Old Song and Dance»
74
«Mr. Success» 41 29 25
«To Love and Be Loved» 100
1959 «French Foreign Legion» 61 49 18
«High Hopes» 30 22 6
«Talk To Me» 38 27
1960 «It’s Nice to Go Trav’ling» 48
«River, Stay ‘Way from My Door» /
«It’s Over, It’s Over, It’s Over»
82 61 18
111
«Nice ‘n’ Easy» 60 55 15
«Ol’ Mac Donald» 25 32 11
1961 «My Blue Heaven» /
«Sentimental Baby»
33 108
101
«American Beauty Rose» /
«Sentimental Journey»
118
tag
1962 «I’ve Heard That Song Before» /
«The Moon Was Yellow»
139
99 131
«I’ll Remember April»
«Hidden Persuasion» /
«I Love Paris»
148

Reprise singles (1961–1983)[edit]

Sinatra’s Reprise singles were released as part of The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings (1995)

Year Single Peak chart
positions
Certifications
Hot
100
[27]
US
CB
US
AC
[28]
UK
[26]
1961 «The Second Time Around» 50 55
«Granada» 64 58 15 15
«I’ll Be Seeing You» 58 62 12
«Imagination»
«I’m Getting Sentimental Over You»
«There Are Such Things»
«Without a Song»
«Take Me»
«Pocketful of Miracles» 34 26 9
«The Coffee Song» 39
«Ring a Ding Ding!»
1962 «Stardust» 98 108 20
«Ev’rybody’s Twistin'» 75 81 22
«Goody Goody» 136
«The Look of Love» 101 118
«Me and My Shadow» (with Sammy Davis, Jr.) 64 79 18 20
1963 «Call Me Irresponsible» 78 62 20
«I Have Dreamed»

«Come Blow Your Horn»

108 92
«A New Kind of Love»

«Love Isn’t Just for the Young»

111 118
«Fugue for Tinhorns»
«Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas»
1964 «Stay with Me» 81 107
«My Kind of Town» 110 120
«Softly, as I Leave You» 27 38 4
«Hello Dolly» (with Count Basie) 47
«More (Theme from Mondo Cane
«I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day»
«We Wish You the Merriest»
«Somewhere in Your Heart» 32 32 4
1965 «Anytime at All» 46 54 11
«Tell Her (You Love Her Each Day)»

«Here’s to the Losers»

57 87 16
tag
«Forget Domani» 78 58 13
«When Somebody Loves You» 102 104 10
«Everybody Has the Right to Be Wrong!»

«I’ll Only Miss Her When I Think of Her»

131 101 25
18
«It Was a Very Good Year»

«Moment to Moment»

28 33 1
115 18
1966 «Strangers in the Night» 1 1 1 1
«Summer Wind» 25 26 1 36
«That’s Life» 4 5 1 44
  • BPI: Gold[4]
1967 «Somethin’ Stupid» (with Nancy Sinatra) (gold record) 1 1 1 1
  • BPI: Silver[4]
«The World We Knew (Over and Over)» 30 22 1 33
«This Town» 53 41 17
1968 «I Can’t Believe I’m Losing You» 60 63 4
«Cycles»

«My Way of Life»

23 41 2
64 60 3
«Whatever Happened to Christmas»
1969 «Rain in My Heart» 62 51 3
«My Way» 27 29 2 5
  • BPI: Platinum[4]
«Love’s Been Good to Me» 75 61 8 8
«Goin’ Out of My Head»

«Forget to Remember»

79 96 14
16
«I Would Be in Love (Anyway)» 88 118 4
«What’s Now Is Now» 123 31
1970 «Lady Day» 104
«Feelin’ Kinda Sunday» (with Nancy Sinatra) 30
«Something»

«Bein’ Green»

115 22
1971 «Life’s a Trippy Thing» (with Nancy Sinatra)
«I Will Drink the Wine» 16
1973 «Let Me Try Again» 63 61 23
«You Will Be My Music» 107 39
1974 «Bad, Bad Leroy Brown» 83 106 31
«You Turned My World Around» 83 104 11
1975 «Anytime (I’ll Be There)» 75 93 10
«I Believe I’m Gonna Love You» 47 52 2 34
«A Baby Just Like You»
1976 «The Saddest Thing of All»

«Empty Tables»

43
«I Sing the Songs»
«Stargazer» 21
«Dry Your Eyes»

«Like a Sad Song»

31
«I Love My Wife» 92 43
1977 «Night and Day» (disco version)

«Everybody Ought to Be in Love»

29
1980 «Theme from New York, New York» 32 35 10 4
«You and Me (We Wanted It All)» 42
1981 «Say Hello»
1983 «Here’s to the Band»
«To Love a Child»

Qwest singles (1984)[edit]

Sinatra’s Qwest singles were released as part of The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings (1995), and originally appeared on L.A. Is My Lady (1984).

Year Single Peak chart
positions
US
AC
[28]
1984 «Teach Me Tonight»
«Mack the Knife»
«L.A. Is My Lady» 34

Island singles (1993)[edit]

Year Single Peak chart
positions
UK
[26]
1993 «I’ve Got You Under My Skin» (with Bono) 4

Holiday 100 chart entries[edit]

Since many radio stations in the US adopt a format change to Christmas music each December, many holiday hits have an annual spike in popularity during the last few weeks of the year and are retired once the season is over.[29] In December 2011, Billboard began a Holiday Songs chart with 50 positions that monitors the last five weeks of each year to «rank the top holiday hits of all eras using the same methodology as the Hot 100, blending streaming, airplay, and sales data»,[30] and in 2013 the number of positions on the chart was doubled, resulting in the Holiday 100.[31] A handful of Sinatra recordings have made appearances on the Holiday 100 and are noted below according to the holiday season in which they charted there.

Title Holiday season peak chart positions Album
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
«Jingle Bells» 48[32] 33[33] 30[34] 34[35] 37[36] 40[37] 21[38] 19[39] 30[40] 20[41] 14[42] A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra
«Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas» 48[43] 44[33] 41[44] 20[45] 23[46] 26[47] 49[48] 42[49] 56[50] 49[51] 39[42]
«Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!» 50[33] 50[52] 54[45] 45[53] 45[54] 53[55] 61[39] 48[40] 50[56] 60[42] Christmas Songs by Sinatra
«Santa Claus Is Coming to Town» (Duet with Cyndi Lauper) 73[57] 53[52] 46[58] 68[59] 64[37] 87[55] 80[56] 79[42] A Very Special Christmas 2
«Silent Night» 74[33] Christmas Songs by Sinatra
«The Christmas Song» 92[33] A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra
«I’ll Be Home for Christmas» 89[59] 97[51]
«Mistletoe and Holly» 70[46] 95[47] 92[38] 92[60] 94[61] 88[41]
«The Christmas Waltz» 41[38] 60[60] 58[62] 78[63] 68[42]
«Santa Claus Is Coming to Town» (1947 recording) 98[64] Christmas Songs by Sinatra

Videography[edit]

This is a list of programs featuring Frank Sinatra that are officially sanctioned by the Sinatra estate. Most releases consist of videotaped television specials or live concerts. Like many recording artists of the era, even major stars like Elvis Presley and The Beatles, there is very little performance footage shot on actual film to create modern day high definition releases. All titles listed have been released on DVD separately and collectively in various countries, most are also on VHS and some on LaserDisc.

  • The Frank Sinatra Show (ABC, 1957–58) – at least 11 of 32 episodes released
  • The Frank Sinatra Timex Show: «Bing Crosby and Dean Martin Present High Hopes» (1959, 59 minutes)
  • The Frank Sinatra Timex Show: «An Afternoon with Frank Sinatra» aka The Frank Sinatra Show with Ella Fitzgerald (1959, 59 minutes)
  • The Frank Sinatra Timex Show: Here’s to the Ladies (1960, 59 minutes)
  • The Frank Sinatra Timex Show: It’s Nice to Go Traveling aka Welcome Home Elvis (1960, 59 minutes)
  • The Royal Festival Hall aka This is Sinatra! and Sinatra Command Performance (1962, 93 minutes)
  • Frank Sinatra Spectacular – only known filmed 1960s concert by the Rat Pack, Kiel Opera House, St. Louis, MO, June 20, 1965; 90 minutes)
  • Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music (1965, 51 minutes)
  • A Man and His Music Part II (1966, 51 minutes)
  • A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim (1967, 52 minutes)
  • Francis Albert Sinatra Does His Thing (1968, 52 minutes)
  • Sinatra (1969, 52 minutes)
  • Sinatra in Concert (1970, 51 minutes)
  • Sinatra and Friends (1977, 50 minutes)
  • Magnavox Presents Frank Sinatra aka Ol’ Blue Eyes Is Back (1973, 51 minutes)
  • Sinatra: The Main Event (1974, 53 minutes)
  • Live from Caesars Palace (1978, 74 minutes)
  • Live at Carnegie Hall (1980, 74 minutes)
  • The Man and His Music (1981, 49 minutes)
  • Concert for the Americas (1982, 86 minutes)
  • Portrait of an Album (1985, 59 minutes)
  • Sinatra in Japan (1985, 71 minutes)
  • Sinatra Sings (2011, 58 minutes) – documentary narrated by Tina Sinatra
  • Sinatra: All or Nothing at All (2015, 259 minutes) – documentary including Sinatra’s three children and their mother

See also[edit]

  • List of songs recorded by Frank Sinatra
  • Frank Sinatra’s recorded legacy
  • List of awards and nominations received by Frank Sinatra

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External links[edit]

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  • Frank Sinatra discography discography at Discogs

В Википедии есть статьи о других людях с фамилией Синатра.

Фрэнк Синатра
англ. Frank Sinatra
Студийная фотография 1952 года
Студийная фотография 1952 года
Основная информация
Имя при рождении Фрэнсис Альберт Синатра
Дата рождения 12 декабря 1915[1][2][…]
Место рождения
  • Хобокен, Хадсон, Нью-Джерси, США
Дата смерти 14 мая 1998[1][2][…] (82 года)
Место смерти Лос-Анджелес, Калифорния
Похоронен
  • Desert Memorial Park[d]
Страна
  •  США
Профессии певец, актёр, шоумен
Годы активности

1935—1971

  • 1973—1995
Певческий голос баритон
Инструменты укулеле, фортепиано
Жанры свинг, джаз, традиционная поп-музыка, биг-бэнд, крунинг, баллада, вокальная музыка[3]
Лейблы Columbia Records, Capitol Records, MGM, MCA, Reprise Records
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Фрэ́нсис А́льберт Сина́тра (англ. Francis Albert Sinatra: 12 декабря 1915, Хобокен, Нью-Джерси — 14 мая 1998, Лос-Анджелес, Калифорния) — американский певец (крунер), киноактёр, кинорежиссёр, продюсер, шоумен, дирижёр, политический активист. Лауреат кинопремии «Оскар», одиннадцатикратный лауреат музыкальной премии «Грэмми», четырёхкратный обладатель премии «Золотой глобус», обладатель премии «Пибоди» и награды Американской Гильдии киноактёров, двухкратный номинант на BAFTA, четырёхкратный номинант на «Эмми»[4]. За свою карьеру Синатра также был награждён Национальной ассоциацией содействия прогрессу цветного населения, а за год до кончины был удостоен высшей гражданской награды США — Золотой медали Конгресса. Славился высоким мастерством исполнения песен, виртуозной техникой интонационного фразирования, ясной артикуляцией каждого слова и слога и «бархатным» тембром голоса. За 60 лет творческой карьеры Синатра исполнил в студии и на концертах более двух тысяч песен разных авторов, гастролировал в более 40 странах мира и пластинки с его песнями проданы в количестве более 150 миллионов экземпляров[5].

В XX веке Синатра стал легендой не только музыкального мира, но и каждого аспекта американской культуры[6]. Когда он ушел из жизни, некоторые журналисты писали: «К чёрту календарь. День смерти Фрэнка Синатры — конец XX века»[6]. Певческая карьера Синатры начиналась ещё в 1930-х годах, а к концу жизни он считался эталоном музыкального стиля и вкуса[7]. Песни в его исполнении вошли в классику эстрады и стилей джаз, свинг и поп-музыки, стали наиболее яркими образцами эстрадно-джазовой манеры пения «крунинг», на них воспитаны несколько поколений американцев. В молодые годы имел прозвище Фрэнки (англ. Frankie) и Голос (англ. The Voice), в более поздние годы — Мистер Голубые Глаза (англ. Ol’ Blue Eyes), а затем — Председатель (англ. Chairman). За шестьдесят лет активной творческой деятельности записал около сотни неизменно популярных дисков-синглов, исполнил самые известные песни крупнейших композиторов США — Джорджа Гершвина, Харольда Арлена, Кола Портера, Ричарда Роджерса, Генри Манчини и Ирвинга Берлина, а также европейских композиторов — Берта Кемпферта (Strangers in the Night, The World We Knew), Клода Франсуа, Мишеля Леграна и других авторов.

Помимо музыкального триумфа, Синатра был и успешным киноактёром; высшей точкой его карьеры стала премия «Оскар» 1954 года в категории «Лучший актёр второго плана» за фильм «Отныне и во веки веков»[8]. За свою жизнь Синатра снялся более чем в шестидесяти кинофильмах, наиболее известными из которых стали «Увольнение в город», «Отныне и во веки веков», «Человек с золотой рукой», «Высшее общество», «Гордость и страсть», «Одиннадцать друзей Оушена» и «Маньчжурский кандидат».

Биография

Детство и юность

Sinatra, Фрэнк Синатра в детстве. Фотография 1918—1919 годов

Sinatra, Фрэнк Синатра в детстве. Фотография 1918—1919 годов

Фрэнсис Альберт Синатра появился на свет на втором этаже многоквартирного дома на улице Монро-стрит, что в Хобокене, 12 декабря 1915 года[9]. Его мать — медсестра и акушерка Наталина Гараванте (которую прозвали «Долли» за красивое лицо, как у куклы Dolly) — провела жуткие несколько часов, рожая мальчика[9]. Родовая травма произошла в результате осложнения в родах, что было связано со слабостью матери и аномальным расположением очень большого плода в утробе матери, которая сама была миниатюрной женщиной, поэтому у новорожденного появились глубокие шрамы на голове, асимметрия лица, и повреждение уха, оставшиеся на всю жизнь от щипцов, использованных доктором[9]. Причиной таких тяжёлых родов мог стать неординарный вес переношенного новорожденного — около шести килограммов, а также неправильное предлежание плода, что заставило акушеров экстренно спасать и руками переворачивать плод во время родов, чтобы вытащить новорожденного с помощью наложения специальных родильных щипцов на шею и голову[9]. Акушерские щипцы и действия доктора спасли жизнь новорожденного. Вытаскивание такого крупного новорожденного акушерскими щипцами причинило повреждение лица, шеи, а также травму левого уха и барабанной перепонки у ребёнка, а также причинило травму матери. Мать Синатры после таких тяжелейших родов больше не могла иметь детей и Синатра остался единственным ребёнком. Последствия родовой травмы — шрамы на лице и повреждение уха — остались на всю жизнь и во время Второй мировой войны Фрэнк Синатра был освобождён от воинской службы.

Город Хобокен штата Нью Джерси, начало 20 века

Город Хобокен штата Нью Джерси, начало 20 века

Отцом Фрэнка был Антонио Мартино Синатра, работник верфи и котельщик, а мать Долли занимала должность местного председателя Демократической партии в Хобокене[9]. Оба иммигрировали в США из Италии: Мартино — с Сицилии, а Долли — из Генуи[9]. После рождения сына Мартино испытывал нужду в деньгах, пытаясь найти постоянную работу, поэтому начал участвовать в боксёрских боях, где быстро стал местным любимчиком[9]. Долли была главой семьи: строгая, динамичная женщина, любившая семью, однако, заострившаяся больше на социальной и политической работе, чем на семейной[9]. Мать, знавшая несколько языков, зарабатывала переводами для иммигрантов, а также акушерством и защитой прав изнасилованных женщин. Став активной суфражисткой, Долли брала на себя много различных обязательств помогая другим, поэтому она часто надолго оставляла Фрэнка с бабушкой[9].

Доки порта Хобокен, где работал отец Фрэнка Синатры, Антонио Мартино Синатра, в начале 20 века

Доки порта Хобокен, где работал отец Фрэнка Синатры, Антонио Мартино Синатра, в начале 20 века

Весной 1917 года США вступили в Первую мировую войну[10]. Отец Фрэнка, Мартино, уже был слишком стар для армейской службы, поэтому продолжил свою обычную работу в доках, а также подрабатывал в баре и на боксерском ринге в легчайшем весе 52 кг, где получил переломы обеих кистей рук и оставил ринг. Позже — работал в пожарном департаменте Хобокена, где дослужился до ранга капитана пожарной команды[10].

Иммигранты прибывают в США, проходя карантин и регистрацию на острове Эллис Айлэнд, фото 1902 года

Иммигранты прибывают в США, проходя карантин и регистрацию на острове Эллис Айлэнд, фото 1902 года

После окончания Первой мировой войны энергичная Долли Синатра, как политическая активистка Демократической партии США, активно занялась помощью бедным и устройством жизни многочисленных прибывающих из послевоенной Европы и России иммигрантов Хобокена, которые остро нуждались в переводчиках и консультантах по иммиграции и устройству на работу. Долли хорошо разбиралась в иммиграционных законах и была постоянно занята помощью нуждающимся. Юного Фрэнка Синатру пришлось оставить на воспитание бабушке и тёте[10]. Мать Синатры также подрабатывала акушеркой и часто выезжала на вызовы для принятия родов в основном у малоимущих и иммигрантов, часто оставляла сына под присмотром соседки-еврейки, иммигрантки из России миссис Голден. Она учила мальчика словам и песням на идиш и, благодаря хорошим впечатлениям от общения, с которой в более зрелом возрасте Фрэнк поддерживал евреев и Израиль[11].

Родители Синатры были оба невысокого роста, поэтому в отличие от своих одноклассников в детстве курчавый мальчик Фрэнк рос медленно и отставал в росте от своих сверстников, что, однако, не создавало у него никаких комплексов. Сын боксера, Синатра всегда мог постоять за себя и отличался независимостью, уверенностью, хорошими манерами и приветливым поведением[10][12][13].

Музыка и кино

Синатра (первый справа) в ансамбле Hoboken Four, 1935 год

Синатра (первый справа) в ансамбле Hoboken Four, 1935 год

С ранних лет у Синатры проявился вокальный талант. Мать и отец Синатры владели небольшим ресторанчиком с баром, где было механическое пианино. Именно здесь юный Синатра начал свои первые выступления на публике, исполняя в основном популярные американские и итальянские песни для иммигрантов, тоскующих по покинутой Европе. Синатру интересовала не только музыка, а также возможность хорошо одеться и выглядеть модным благополучным человеком. Родители были не очень состоятельными и прагматично учили сына быть самостоятельным, и поэтому он с 13 лет подрабатывал с помощью укулеле, маленькой музыкальной установки и мегафона в барах и на улицах своего города.

Единственный сын в семье итальянских иммигрантов, Синатра с раннего детства имел свою отдельную комнату и научился от родителей поддерживать чистоту и порядок. Юного Синатру всегда видели хорошо одетым и ухоженным, он носил чистые накрахмаленные белые рубашки с бабочкой или галстуком, отглаженные брюки и начищенные ботинки. Соседи и знакомые называли юного Синатру самым хорошо одетым молодым человеком. Но увлечение музыкой и хороший внешний вид не спасали юношу от проблем с ровесниками. В 1931 году Синатру выгнали из школы за «безобразное поведение». В итоге он так и не получил законченного образования, в том числе музыкального. В церковном хоре Синатра пел со слуха, но со временем он выучил нотную грамоту и мог петь «с листа» и разучивать песни по нотам, аккомпанируя себе на фортепиано. Хорошая память и упорный труд помогали способному от природы юноше совершенствовать свой талант, развивать абсолютный слух и овладевать музыкальной профессией на самом высоком уровне.

Синатра с оркестром Томми Дорси в фильме Ship Ahoy, 1942 год

Синатра с оркестром Томми Дорси в фильме Ship Ahoy, 1942 год

Самоучкой юный Синатра осваивал основы шоу бизнеса: от хорошего внешнего вида и уверенной манеры поведения на людях, до хорошего владения голосом, ясной дикции, и тональной точности каждой спетой ноты и мелодии. Все эти достоинства достигались постоянной упорной работой по развитию природных данных, ведь конкуренция за место на сцене перед микрофоном во время Великой депрессии была особенно жестокой. Фрэнк Синатра выдержал конкуренцию во времена, когда за каждую ошибку продюсеры наказывали артистов беспощадно и можно было потерять карьеру. Упорная работа над совершенствованием своих способностей принесла первые результаты, когда Фрэнку Синатре было семнадцать лет.

24-летний Синатра (второй слева) в составе группы The Pied Pipers, 1939 год

24-летний Синатра (второй слева) в составе группы The Pied Pipers, 1939 год

С 1932 года Фрэнк Синатра начал давать небольшие выступления на радио. Юношеский лирический тенор молодого певца привлекал внимание слушателей среди которых были и профессиональные музыканты. В период великой депрессии постоянную карьеру можно было продолжить только выступая со знаменитостями. В 1933 году на концерте в Джерси-Сити 17-летний Синатра увидел своего кумира Бинга Кросби и окончательно выбрал профессию певца. Кроме того, он работал также спортивным журналистом местной газеты в 1930-е годы, после того как без диплома покинул школу.

Юному Синатре оставалось только продолжать упорную работу над артистическими и вокальными данными, чтобы осуществить мечту и стать профессиональным певцом. Он продолжал бесплатно петь в церковном хоре католической общины города Хобокен. Помимо музыкальной карьеры, Синатра проявлял большой интерес к кино. Его любимыми актёрами были Эдвард Г. Робинсон и Хамфри Богарт, которые в то время много снимались в фильмах жанра нуар. Впоследствии Синатра и Богарт познакомились, стали друзьями и сооснователями гламурной компании друзей «Rat Pack».

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Black-and-white photograph of a young man wearing a suit and bow tie standing with several smiling ladies, with a crowd of more fans, journalists, and police officers in the background

Синатра в окружении поклонниц после концерта в Пасадине, Калифорния, 1943 год

Фрэнк Синатра в 1943 году, фото из рекламного издания Биллборд

Фрэнк Синатра в 1943 году, фото из рекламного издания Биллборд

С группой The Hoboken Four Синатра выиграл в 1935 году конкурс молодых талантов популярного тогда радиошоу Major Bowes Amateur Hour («Любительский час Майора Боуза») и через некоторое время поехал в своё первое национальное турне. После этого в течение 18 месяцев с 1937 года он работал по обязательству в качестве шоумена в музыкальном ресторане в Нью-Джерси, который также посещали такие звёзды, как Коул Портер, и вместе с выступлениями на радио заложил основы для своей профессиональной карьеры. Здесь Фрэнка Синатру заметили профессиональные музыканты и продюсеры. Немалую роль в этом сыграли все лучшие качества артиста, которые Синатра освоил с юности: хороший внешний вид, доброжелательная манера общения с людьми, уверенное владение собой, ясная дикция и верное исполнение каждой ноты и мелодии.

Толчок карьерному взлёту Синатры дала работа в знаменитых свинговых джаз-оркестрах трубача Гарри Джеймса и тромбониста Томми Дорси в 1939—1942 годах. Он подписывает с Дорси пожизненный контракт, по которому 43 % его доходов уходили Дорси. Впоследствии контракт был расторгнут. Есть версия, что сделать это молодому певцу помогла мафия. Этот эпизод впоследствии будет описан в романе «Крёстный отец» — считается, что прообразом одного из персонажей — певца Джонни Фонтейна — был именно Синатра. Однако существуют многочисленные опровержения, в том числе и от самого Дорси. Наиболее убедительная версия — творческое агентство Синатры MCA обратилось к двум влиятельным адвокатам и выкупило контракт у Дорси.

Синатра поет по нотам в студии радиокорпорации Си-Би-Эс, 1944 год

Синатра поет по нотам в студии радиокорпорации Си-Би-Эс, 1944 год

Именно тогда, в оркестре Дорси, набирающий популярность Фрэнк Синатра познакомился со своим одногодкой Биллом Миллером, который был пианистом и аранжировщиком оркестра. Ровесники Синатра и Миллер были оба очень талантливыми артистами, но стали работать вместе не сразу из-за разных контрактных обязательств в годы Второй мировой войны. Через несколько лет Синатра и Миллер снова встретились, на этот раз в Лас Вегасе по рекомендации композитора Джимми Ван Хаузена и теперь уже они стали работать вместе до конца карьеры Синатры. Пианист Билл Миллер играл важнейшую роль в карьере Фрэнка Синатры; их творческое сотрудничество продолжалось более 40 лет[14][15].

Фрэнк Синатра в музыкальном фильме Till the Clouds Roll By, 1946 год

Фрэнк Синатра в музыкальном фильме Till the Clouds Roll By, 1946 год

В 1942 году Синатру пригласили выступить на Рождественском концерте в Нью-Йорке в кинотеатре «Парамаунт». Здесь его увидел агент Джордж Эванс, который организовал активную рекламную кампанию и за две недели выступлений сделал из Фрэнка Синатры звезду, любимца американских девочек-подростков. Начиная с этого времени радиостанции постоянно транслируют песни в исполнении Синатры, а журналы с фотографиями певца издаются огромными тиражами и раскупаются поклонниками и поклонницами.

В 1943 году Синатру признают негодным к воинской службе из-за повреждённой при родовой травме барабанной перепонки. Однако артист проводит благотворительные акции и бесплатно выступает с концертами для военных и ветеранов войны как в США, так и в Европе. В Риме, после выступлений с концертами для американских и итальянских военных, Синатра был участником встречи с папой Пием XII. Несколько лет спустя Синатра избивает журналиста, написавшего, что Синатра откупился от службы в армии, пользуясь своими связями.

Фрэнк Синатра, Катрин Грейсон и Джин Келли в музыкальном фильме-комедии Поднять якоря (Anchors Aweigh), 1945 год

Фрэнк Синатра, Катрин Грейсон и Джин Келли в музыкальном фильме-комедии Поднять якоря (Anchors Aweigh), 1945 год

Большой успех и солидный гонорар принес Синатре музыкальный фильм-комедия 1945 года Поднять якоря (Anchors Aweigh) в котором Синатра исполнил роль военного моряка, гуляющего с дамами во время увольнения на берег. Фильм был настолько успешным, что растущая слава Синатры как артиста кино стала равна его славе певца. голливудские продюсеры начали работать с Синатрой в жанре мюзикла, а Катрин Грейсон и Джин Келли стали партнерами Синатры ещё в нескольких музыкальных фильмах,

Close-up studio photograph of a young, smiling Sinatra with styled hair wearing a suit and tie

Портрет Синатры на обложке журнала Modern Screen, октябрь 1945 года

В начале 1946 года Синатра записал на студии Columbia Records свой первый сольный альбом The Voice Of Frank Sinatra. Концептуальный альбом из 8 песен был издан на четырёх 10-дюймовых шеллачных пластинках. За один лишь 1946 год было продано десять миллионов копий этого альбома и других записей певца. В 1948 году Columbia Records представляет новый стандарт грампластинок — долгоиграющую пластинку, или LP (Long Play) рассчитанную на скорость вращения 33⅓ об/мин. Именно The Voice Of Frank Sinatra стал первым музыкальным альбомом популярной музыки, изданным в этом новом формате. Успех песен Синатры у широкой публики связан с послевоенной атмосферой перехода на мирную жизнь, с неизменной популярностью песенного жанра, с новыми песнями и темами мирного времени и высоким мастерством самого Синатры.

Синатра учит нотную партитуру Алекса Стродала, 1947 год

Синатра учит нотную партитуру Алекса Стродала, 1947 год

Финансовый успех от продаж новых и прежних записей делает певца миллионером, когда ему исполнился 31 год. Синатра покупает землю в престижном курорте Палм-Спрингс и строит новый дом с бассейном имеющим форму концертного рояля и музыкальной гостиной с настоящим концертным роялем Стейнвей. Здесь, в трёх часах езды от шумного Лос-Анджелеса, артист проводит значительное время с семьёй и друзьями, среди которых актриса Ава Гарднер. Дом Синатры в Палм-Спрингс становится центром развлечений, которые не всегда заканчиваются хорошо. Синатра и Гарднер однажды даже были арестованы полицией за разбитые уличные фонари на улицах Палм-Спрингс, которые Синатра разбил на спор с Гарднер, гуляя ночью по улицам и кидая камешки в горящие огни фонарей. Следившие за Синатрой днями и ночами искатели скандалов, сообщили об этом в полицию и прессу. Синатра вышел из-под ареста под залог, который заплатила Гарднер после того, как была отпущена полицией.

Однако дом Синатры в Палм-Спрингс продолжает быть местом притяжения, как для друзей, так и для недругов. Постоянное назойливое внимание к своей частной жизни вынуждает Синатру окружить свой новый дом и участок высокими стенами со стороны обеих улиц. В таком виде дом Синатры сохранился до настоящего времени и стал частным клубом.

Творческий кризис

В конце 1940-х годов у Синатры начался творческий кризис, совпавший по времени с бурным романом с актрисой Авой Гарднер.

1949—1952 годы стали тяжёлым испытанием в карьере Синатры: его уволили с радио, а через полгода планы по проведению концертов в Нью-Йорке были грубо нарушены. Жена Нэнси подала на развод, а роман с Гарднер перерос в громкий скандал. Columbia Records начала отказывать ему в студийном времени. В 1950 году его контракт с MGM был расторгнут, а новый агент из MCA Records также отвернулся от Синатры.

Синатра на съёмках собственного телешоу, 1950 год

Синатра на съёмках собственного телешоу, 1950 год

Фрэнк Синатра многократно подвергался нападкам и травле со стороны прессы. В этот период жизни и творчества нападки связаны главным образом с изменением политической атмосферы в стране, а также с начавшимся алкоголизмом из-за творческого простоя и сложного романа с Авой Гарднер. Синатра не мог оставаться равнодушным, когда некоторые друзья оказались в опале в условиях нарастающей политической истерии маккартизма. В Голливуде начались судебные процессы над про-коммунистически настроенными людьми, в связи с чем и сам Синатра попал под подозрение в симпатиях к коммунистам в основном из-за его активной деятельности по защите прав евреев и афроамериканцев. Влиятельные консервативные политические силы ввели жестокую цензуру и запрещали многим артистам и режиссёрам работать в США. В возрасте 34 лет Фрэнк Синатра стал «человеком прошлого». Его карьера рушилась до основания. Но разрушенная карьера его мало волновала, всё своё внимание он уделял только Гарднер. Синатра и Гарднер сыграли свадьбу в 1951 году, и были в сложных отношениях до развода в 1957 году, который Синатра переживал очень тяжело.

В 1951 году Синатра потерял голос после сильнейшей простуды. В 1952 году контракт с Columbia Records закончился. Новый глава студии Митч Миллер, с которым у Синатры не сложились отношения, не стал продлевать контракт с ним. Несчастье было настолько неожиданным и тяжёлым, что певец собирался покончить жизнь самоубийством. Стремительное развитие телевидения и спрос на развлекательные программы на какое-то время обеспечили Синатре занятость и хорошие гонорары. Он стал ведущим своего телевизионного шоу, в котором исполнял новые и старые песни, а также приглашал других артистов и певцов и разыгрывал миниатюры с характерным для Синатры юмором.

Возвращение к активной деятельности и «Оскар»

Синатра аккомпанирует себе на фортепиано, 1955 год

Синатра аккомпанирует себе на фортепиано, 1955 год

Проблемы с голосом были временными, и, когда он восстановился, Синатра начал всё сначала. Концерты Синатры в 1952 году в казино Лас-Вегаса собирают аншлаги. В 1953 году Синатра подписывает контракт с лейблом Capitol Records, где ему дают нового аранжировщика и дирижёра — Нельсона Риддла. Благодаря их сотрудничеству, Синатре удаётся значительно изменить репертуар и имидж. В 1954 году выходят альбомы Songs for Young Lovers и Swing Easy!.

Следующий альбом In the Wee Small Hours становится первым концептуальным музыкальным альбомом, где обложка, перечень песен и их последовательность подчинены единой теме и записаны специально для этого альбома. Кроме того, это первый эстрадный альбом, который выходит на грампластинке размером 12 дюймов (ранее такой формат использовался исключительно для классической музыки). Этот альбом вместе с Songs for Swingin’ Lovers! входят в список «500 величайших альбомов всех времён» по версии Rolling Stone. Не менее успешными и классическими становятся следующие альбомы A Swingin’ Affair!, Where Are You?, A Jolly Christmas From Frank Sinatra (1957), Come Fly With Me, Only The Lonely (1958), Come Dance With Me! (1959), Nice’n’Easy (1960) и другие. Ряд альбомов Фрэнка достигают вершины в списке популярности журнала Биллборд и остаются в чартах на протяжении нескольких лет. Последний контрактный альбом на студии Capitol Records Point Of No Return вышел в 1962 году.

Фрэнк Синатра и Ава Гарднер, 1951 год

Фрэнк Синатра и Ава Гарднер, 1951 год

В 1953 году, с помощью настойчивой Авы Гарднер, которая упорно уговаривала руководителей киностудий помочь артисту, Синатра получил роль второго плана в фильме «Отныне и вовеки веков» (From Here to Eternity) в котором показаны судьбы военных во время трагедии Перл Харбор во Второй мировой войне. Из не главной роли Синатра сумел создать яркий персонаж — это рядовой Анжело Маджио, верный друг и защитник несправедливо наказанного товарища. Сцена последнего боя не на жизнь а на смерть, в которой Синатра выразительно сыграл отчаянного борца за справедливость, считается многими критиками одной из лучших в истории кино. Синатра получил за эту роль награду киноакадемии — золотую статуэтку «Оскар», как лучший актёр второго плана. После этой небольшой, но ярко исполненной роли Синатра успешно восстановил свою кинокарьеру и снова стал сниматься в главных ролях.

Фрэнк Синатра и Джилл Сен Джон в фильме Tony Rome, 1966 год

Фрэнк Синатра и Джилл Сен Джон в фильме Tony Rome, 1966 год

Фрэнк Синатра в фильме Pal Joy, 1957 год

Фрэнк Синатра в фильме Pal Joy, 1957 год

Награда киноакадемии обозначила признание на самом высшем уровне. Синатру снова стали приглашать в различные кинопроекты голливудских киностудий, самыми удачными из которых стали «Человек с золотой рукой» (1955), «Высшее общество» (1956), «Приятель Джой» (1957), «11 друзей Оушена» (1960), «Маньчжурский кандидат» (1962), «Тони Роум» (1966) и «Детектив» (1968).

Он возобновляет успешную карьеру радиоведущего — ведёт шоу на NBS Radio, которое собирает большую аудиторию слушателей.

Хит Синатры High Hopes в 1959 году остаётся в национальном чарте 17 недель — дольше, чем любая другая песня в его исполнении.

С конца 1950-х годов Синатра выступал в Лас-Вегасе с такими эстрадными звёздами, как Сэмми Дэвис, Дин Мартин, Джо Бишоп и Питер Лоуфорд. Их компания была известная как Rat Pack. Очень успешными были записи и выступления с биг-бендами Каунта Бэйси, Куинси Джонса, студийными свинговыми оркестрами Нельсона Риддла, Билли Мэя и другими, снискавшие Синатре славу одного из мастеров свинга.

В 1950-е Синатра стал лидером неформальной группы «Крысиная стая». Один из участников был темнокожим, что вызывало сложности из-за царивших в то время нравов в обществе. Большой публичный резонанс получил случай в одном из престижных отелей, где администрация отказалась поселить друга Синатры афроамериканца Сэмми Дэвиса. Хозяева отеля заявили, что Дэвис не может проживать в их отеле. Тогда Синатра отменил все выступления в концертном зале этого отеля, что грозило хозяевам серьёзными убытками и другими проблемами. В итоге Сэмми Дэвис получил извинения и один из самых лучших номеров отеля, а Франк Синатра продолжил серию концертов. На одном из таких концертов Синатра объявил, что оплачивает угощение всех присутствующих, и зрители стали заказывать дорогие блюда и напитки. Синатра оплатил все счета и значительно повысил прибыль и репутацию отелю и концертному залу.

Впоследствии отель и концертный зал «Sands» были значительно перестроены и расширены, названы «Encore Las Vegas», добавлен престижный ресторан «Frank Sinatra», где сохраняется память о Синатре в демонстрации его наград Грэмми и Оскар, в названиях его любимых блюд и напитков, в портретах Синатры и его друзей, и в его песнях, которые продолжают звучать, дополняя уникальную атмосферу элитного клуба, привлекающего популярных артистов и гостей со всего мира.

В 1960 году Синатра приобрел сначала долю, а потом и завладел контрольным пакетом казино Cal Neva. Ходили слухи, что Фрэнк был лишь формальным владельцем, а основным бенефициаром являлся мафиозо Сэм Джанкана. Впоследствии курорт перестраивался и расширялся, набирая популярность. Однако из-за скандалов, связанных с посещением казино мафиозными деятелями вопреки запретам властей, лицензия Синатры на игорную деятельность была отозвана, в связи с чем певец вышел из бизнеса, продав свою долю Говарду Хьюзу[16].

Фрэнк Синатра в рекламном ролике к фильму «Приятель Джой», 1957 год

Синатра в большой политике

Фрэнк Синатра в главной роли в музыкальной комедии «Канкан», 1960 год

Фрэнк Синатра в главной роли в музыкальной комедии «Канкан», 1960 год

Фрэнк Синатра в главной роли в комедии «Четверо в Техасе», 1964 год

Фрэнк Синатра в главной роли в комедии «Четверо в Техасе», 1964 год

Важный психологический опыт и суровое, но полезное испытание в международной политике Синатра получил во время визита советского лидера Н. С. Хрущёва в США, с которым прибыла делегация из шестидесяти советских партийных деятелей, дипломатов, писателей и советских спецслужб. Хрущёв был в ярости из-за невозможности посетить Диснейлэнд, хотя ему вежливо объяснили, что визит его делегации и сопровождения в Диснейлэнд потребует для безопасности закрытия всего комплекса на целый день и это испортит бизнес и отпуска тысячам американских семей с детьми, которые заранее купили билеты и их права защищены законом. Вдобавок в автоэскорт Хрущёва перед студией был брошен красный помидор. Политики и службы безопасности старались избежать новых проблем. Взамен Диснейлэнда Хрущёва пригласили на расширенную экскурсию по Голливуду с визитом на киностудию, где был подготовлен обед и шла работа над фильмом Канкан с Фрэнком Синатрой и Ширли Маклейн в главных ролях. Франк Синатра выручил политиков в трудный момент психической нестабильности как самого Хрущёва, так и всей обстановки вокруг его визита в США, когда такие лидеры Голливуда и американской политики, как Рональд Рейган, Бинг Кросби и другие наотрез отказались от встреч и приглашений на обед с Хрущёвым. Н. С. Хрущёв был уже известен всему миру своими скандальными заявлениями «Мы вас похороним!» и «Покажем кузькину мать» и теперь советский лидер использовал свой визит США в пропагандистских целях.

Хрущёв выступил перед собравшимися в студии кинозвездами, среди которых были Мэрилин Монро, Гэри Купер, Элизабет Тэйлор, Чарлтон Хестон, Тони Кёртис, Джанет Ли, Кирк Дуглас и ещё 400 артистов, бизнесменов и политиков. Лидер СССР произнёс гневную речь о том, что он до революции был пастухом, а теперь глава самой большой страны мира и нечего американцам учить его капитализму. Затем он высказал сильное недовольство отменой его визита в Диснейленд. Присутствующие стали свидетелями нервной перепалки Хрущёва с главой киностудии Скурасом, который сказал, что он тоже в Греции был пастухом, а в Америке стал владельцем сети 500 кинотеатров и главой крупнейшей голливудской киностудии, взявшей на себя заботу гостеприимно развлекать Хрущёва и с ним 60-ти гостей из СССР. Синатра сидел за столиком рядом с семьёй Хрущёва, Ниной, Радой и Сергеем и гостеприимно обещал им взять на себя все заботы по их будущему визиту в Диснейленд. А на этот раз, вместо Диснейлэнда, Франк Синатра на протяжении нескольких часов проводил время с семьёй Хрущёва на киностудии и рассказывал о фильме «Канкан» с аллюзией на парижское кабаре Мулен Руж. Обратившись лично к Хрущёву Синатра сказал, что кабаре это место куда люди приходят выпивать и развлекаться. По просьбе Синатры актриса Ширли Маклейн продемонстрировала Хрущёву танец канкан с поднятой юбкой и оголенными ногами и предложила советскому лидеру попробовать повторить танец, на что Хрущёв резко возражал возгласами — «Порнография!». Хрущёв охарактеризовал показанный ему танец из фильма «Канкан» и, соответственно, американскую культуру словами «разврат» и «порнография»[17][18][19].

Элеонора Рузвельт и Фрэнк Синатра на ужине в Белом доме в 1960 году

Синатра выдержал испытание гневом Хрущёва, от которого из осторожности отходили подальше как американские, так и советские сопровождающие официальные лица; даже советский министр иностранных дел Андрей Громыко и Анастас Микоян держались за спиной разгневанного Хрущёва. В ситуации, когда республиканские лидеры президент Эйзенхауэр и вице-президент Никсон теряли популярность среди избирателей после восьми лет пребывания в Белом Доме, а молодой Джон Кеннеди начинал свою избирательную кампанию, никто не хотел быть участником международного скандала. Синатра терпеливо и мастерски отвлекал на себя гнев советского лидера, окруженного десятками репортерских микрофонов и камер. Так, вместо многочасовой проблемной поездки в Диснейлэнд, Хрущёв с многочисленным сопровождением советских и американских важных персон провели день в Голливуде за обедом и разговорами с артистами, и значительную помощь в решении проблемы Хрущёва оказали американские артисты Ширли Маклейн и Фрэнк Синатра.

После успешного завершения такого серьёзного испытания в международной политической ситуации Синатра уверенно работал с Джоном Кеннеди во время его президентской кампании в 1960 году. Сенатор Джон Кеннеди с группой сторонников прилетел в Лас Вегас на концерт Синатры и вышел на сцену рядом с Синатрой. Зрители встретили их овацией и Синатра уверенно объявил в микрофон, что сенатор Джон Кеннеди — это будущий президент Соединенных Штатов Америки. Активно агитируя за Кеннеди в течение нескольких месяцев избирательной кампании, Синатра, по признанию многих, несомненно помог сенатору и партии демократов. Кеннеди на выборах победил Никсона и став президентом пригласил Синатру на празднование победы в Белый дом[20].

Синатра и президент Никсон на приёме в Белом доме в честь премьер-министра Италии Джулио Андреотти, 1973 год

Синатра и президент Никсон на приёме в Белом доме в честь премьер-министра Италии Джулио Андреотти, 1973 год

Рональд Рейган и Нэнси Рейган с Фрэнком Синатрой в Белом доме, 3 июня 1981 года

Рональд Рейган и Нэнси Рейган с Фрэнком Синатрой в Белом доме, 3 июня 1981 года

Синатра начал отдаляться от политиков, когда в конце президентского срока Джона Кеннеди политическая атмосфера резко накалилась из-за конфликтов во Вьетнаме и на Кубе. Убийство Кеннеди и последовавшее через несколько лет убийство его брата вызвали повышенную активность спецслужб, и Синатра из осторожности уменьшил участие в политике. Но полное прекращение участия Синатры в политике было невозможно из-за его всемирной известности и заинтересованности политиков самого высокого уровня в использовании славы артиста в своих целях. Слежка за Синатрой, который был под наблюдением ФБР с 1930-х годов, с самого начала своей творческой карьеры, была санкционирована по личному указанию Толсона (первого заместителя главы ФБР Эдгара Гувера). Гувер и Синатра были диаметрально противоположными личностями; Гувер никогда не был женат, у него не было женщин любовниц, он никогда не жил нигде, кроме Вашингтона и крайне редко выступал перед большими аудиториями в отличие от Синатры. За Синатрой, его родственниками и его знакомыми постоянно следили многочисленные агенты ФБР, которые выполняли задания по дискредитации и опорочиванию Синатры на протяжении десятилетий. Синатра был целью провокаций ФБР для вынуждения к сотрудничеству против «итальянской мафии». В досье ФБР открытом для доступа после смерти Синатры есть доносы и фотографии сделанные агентурой на Кубе, в Лас Вегасе и других местах, где Синатра жил, работал, отдыхал и давал концерты[21].

Популярность и всемирная слава Синатры уже в 50-х и 60-х стала эксплуатироваться самыми известными политиками мира. Синатру приглашают монархи, президенты и премьер-министры разных стран, в основном для пиар-компаний для прессы и телевидения. Фотогеничный и улыбающийся Синатра был украшением международных встреч на высшем уровне в Белом доме, в Ватикане и других центрах политической жизни. Синатра, формально оставаясь в Демократической партии США, неоднократно показывал примеры нейтрального и примирительного политического поведения в 1970-х и 1980-х годах, принимая приглашения в Белый дом от республиканцев Ричарда Никсона и Рональда Рейгана.

Создание своей фирмы звукозаписи

Фрэнк Синатра улыбается, 1960 год

Фрэнк Синатра улыбается, 1960 год

Фрэнк Синатра в студии звукозаписи исполняет песни своего нового альбома «A Man and His Music», 1966 год

Фрэнк Синатра в студии звукозаписи исполняет песни своего нового альбома «A Man and His Music», 1966 год

В 1962 году Синатра, недовольный работой лейбла, покидает Capitol Records. Ещё в 1960 году он создаёт свой собственный лейбл Reprise Records, на котором записывался до 1988 года. В 1961 году выходит первый альбом на Reprise — Ring-A-Ding-Ding!. На этом лейбле он выпускает альбомы: Swing Along With Me, I Remember Tommy (посвящённый Томми Дорси) (1962), Sinatra And Strings (1962), The Concert Sinatra (1963), совместные с Каунтом Бейси Sinatra-Basie: An Historic Musical First (1962) и It Might As Well Be Swing (1964) (вместе с песней Fly Me to the Moon), совместно с Бингом Кросби и Фрэдом Уоррингом America, I Hear You Singing и 12 Songs of Christmas, September Of My Years (1965), Strangers In The Night (с одноимённым хитом), That’s Life (с одноимённой песней) (1966), Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim (совместно с Антониу Карлосом Джобином в стиле босанова), The World We Knew (в который вошла песня Somethin’ Stupid, записанная совместно с дочерью Нэнси ставшая популярным хитом года) (1967), My Way (с одноимённым хитом) (1969), Trilogy: Past Present Future (вместе с песней New York, New York) (1980) и другие.

В марте 1969-го Фрэнк Синатра записал альбом A Man Alone с песнями, специально написанными для него известным американским поэтом Родом Маккаином, который был поклонником Синатры.

Позднее творчество и завершение карьеры

Тысячу концертных и студийных выступлений дал Фрэнк Синатра в поздний период своей творческой карьеры с 1971 по 1995 год. Все эти годы в команде его менеджеров и продюсеров происходили перемены. Удачным было сотрудничество с композитором и аранжировщиком оркестра Куинси Джонсом. Синатра предпочитал иногда выступать с малым аккомпанирующим ансамблем, а также несколько изменил состав музыкантов большого оркестра после смерти лучшего аранжировщика и руководителя оркестра Нельсона Риддла в 1985 году. Ещё в 1970-е и 1980-е годы по просьбе самого Фрэнка Синатры всё управление его карьерой и продюсирование его концертов и студийных записей взяли в свои руки его сын, Фрэнк Синатра младший и дочь Тина Синатра. Вдвоём они опекали отца вплоть до завершения его карьеры и жизни. После смерти отца его сын, Фрэнк Синатра младший и дочь Тина Синатра взяли под контроль большую часть его творческого наследия и позаботились о высококачественных переизданиях лучших песен, фотографий и кинофильмов своего отца[22].

Позднее творчество Фрэнка Синатры отмечено взлетами и падениями связанными с изменениями его голоса и болезнью, а также с изменениями в составе аккомпанирующих певцу музыкантов, аранжировщиков и менеджмента. Привычка Фрэнка Синатры курить даже на сцене во время исполнения песен перед аудиторией вызывала разные реакции зрителей, от восторга до неодобрения. На протяжении десятков лет обычное для Фрэнка Синатры количество выкуреных сигарет составляло 2-3 пачки в день. В последние годы его голос становился всё более приглушенным, а дыхание всё менее глубоким. В итоге состояние здоровья не позволило Синатре продолжать карьеру после 80-летнего юбилея, в отличие от его друга и коллеги Тони Беннетта, который продолжал концертные выступления до своего 95-летия в августе 2021 года.

В июне 1971 года, 55-летний Синатра выступил на благотворительном концерте для фонда поддержки кино и телевидения на сцене амфитеатра Hollywood Bowl в Лос Анджелесе. Завершая свой концерт перед 20-тысячной аудиторией, Синатра объявил об окончании своей карьеры в шоу бизнесе, на что многотысячная аудитория отреагировала апплодисментами и смехом, как на хорошую шутку. Однако летом 1973 года Фрэнк записывает новый альбом Ol’ Blue Eyes Is Back в аранжировке Дона Коста и Гордона Дженкинса. Альбом попал на 13-е место в чартах Биллборд, 7-е в чартах Cashbox, и получил золотой статус RIAA (более 500 тысяч проданных копий). С 1974 года Синатра продолжил концертную деятельность.

В 1979 году Синатра записал один из своих шедевров — New York, New York, став единственным певцом в истории, сумевшим через пятьдесят лет вернуть себе популярность и любовь публики. Еще в 1978 году Фрэнк Синатра создал свою версию песни «Нью-Йорк, Нью-Йорк». Первое концертное исполнение этой песни Синатра сделал в сентябре 1978 года в Радио Сити Мюзик Холле Нью Йорка. Через несколько месяцев свою версию песни Фрэнк Синатра записал в студии, использовав свой оркестр и новую музыкальную аранжировку, а также переделав текст и интонационные акценты по-своему. Синатра обновил песню, придав ей новое смысловое значение о смелости человека из маленького городка, решительно начинающего новую жизнь, чтобы реализовать свою мечту и стать лучшим в самом большом городе мира. Артист не только заменил несколько строк текста — My old town blues на These little town blues и To find I’m king of the hill, Head of the list на And find I’m a number one, top of the list, но и усилил эмоциональное содержание песни, которое помимо слов выражено особой интонацией голоса Синатры. Автор слов песни, Фред Эбб признал, что не он автор этих изменений, но благодарен Синатре за то, что певец сделал песню столь популярной.

Фрэнк Синатра записал несколько версий песни «Нью-Йорк, Нью-Йорк». Самая последняя записана в 1993 году в дуэте с Тони Беннеттом для последнего прижизненного концептуального альбома Синатры «Duets» для создания которого были применены новые технологии звукозаписи и цифрового редактирования информации.

В 1982 году Фрэнк Синатра подписал контракт на шестнадцать миллионов долларов на три года концертных выступления в знаменитом отеле и казино Golden Nugget в Лас Вегасе. Все концерты проходили при полных аншлагах и с огромным успехом у публики, несмотря на придирки критиков к изменениям в голосе певца. В 1982 году он также принял участие в программе «Чтобы Польша была Польшей», чтобы выразить поддержку «Солидарности»[23]. В 1983 году Фрэнк Синатра был награждён премией Центра Кеннеди в Вашингтоне за выдающийся вклад в культуру и искусство.

Весной 1984 года Фрэнк Синатра записал сольный альбом L.A. Is My Lady на студии Qwest, созданной продюсером Куинси Джонсом, который сделал аранжировку большей части песен. Работа над этим альбомом была снята на видео и вышла на кассете и лазерном диске под названием Frank Sinatra: Portrait Of An Album. На одной из сессий в работе над этим проектом Синатра встретился с Майклом Джексоном.

Фрэнк Синатра в Белом доме получает награду от президента Рональда Рейгана

Фрэнк Синатра в Белом доме получает награду от президента Рональда Рейгана

Фрэнк Синатра (справа) и ирландский певец Брендан Грэйс в Дублине, начало 1990-х годов

Фрэнк Синатра (справа) и ирландский певец Брендан Грэйс в Дублине, начало 1990-х годов

В 1988—1989 годах Синатра провёл серию концертов Together Again Tour с Сэмми Дэвисом младшим и Дином Мартином (после ухода Дина Мартина переименован в The Ultimate Event).

В 1990-м году свой 75-летний юбилей Синатра отметил, дав четыре успешных аншлаговых концерта в Лондоне в новом концертном комплексе London Arena[24].

В 1993 году Синатра записывает два своих последних альбома: Duets и Duets II. Альбомы состоят из хитов Синатры, записанных совместно с такими партнёрами, как Барбра Стрейзанд, Тони Беннетт, Арета Франклин, Хулио Иглесиас, Шарль Азнавур, Лайза Миннелли и другими звёздами.

Последний выход на сцену Фрэнка Синатры состоялся 25 февраля 1995 года, когда он выступил на турнире по гольфу в Палм-Спрингс.

Смерть и прощание с артистом

Место захоронения Фрэнка Синатры на кладбище Desert Memorial Park[en] в городе Cathedral City штат Калифорния

14 мая 1998 года Фрэнк Синатра скончался от инфаркта миокарда в госпитале Седарс-Синайский медицинский центр в Лос Анджелесе в возрасте 82 лет. Отпевание проводил кардинал Роджер Махони.

На следующий день после объявления о смерти Синатры, во всех казино Лас Вегаса была остановлена всякая активность из уважения к великому артисту, чтобы почтить его память минутой молчания. В тот же вечер мэрия Нью Йорка объявила траур и уменьшила яркость освещения на высотном здании Эмпайр-стейт-билдинг заменив лампы обычного освещения на голубой цвет — символ душевной чистоты и возвышенности, символ совершенства, устремленности к идеалу, потому что самое заветное драгоценное желание, именуемое «голубой мечтой», Фрэнк Синатра полностью достиг.

Гражданская панихида состоялась в католической церкви Good Shepherd в Беверли-Хиллз. Прощание со всемирно знаменитым артистом проходило с участием более 400 человек, среди которых было много голливудских знаменитостей. Грегори Пек, Тони Беннетт, и сын Синатры — Фрэнк Синатра-младший, выступили с прощальными речами, а музыкальное сопровождение из лучших песен Синатры, My Way, One for my Baby и других баллад играл на фортепиано специально приглашенный 85-летний Билл Миллер, который был пианистом и творческим партнером певца несколько десятилетий.

В последний путь на мемориальное кладбище в городе Cathedral City артиста проводили родственники и несколько самых близких друзей. Гроб с телом Фрэнка Синатры был декорирован государственным флагом США за заслуги перед страной; шесть военнослужащих несли гроб до места погребения родителей артиста, а затем военных сменили и понесли гроб самые близкие друзья Синатры: Кирк Дуглас, Грегори Пек, Тони Беннетт, Квинси Джонс, Роберт Маркс и Стив Лоуренс. По традиции родные и близкие артиста положили рядом с его телом несколько памятных и знаковых предметов — пачку сигарет Camel, зажигалку Zippo; дочь Нэнси опустила в могилу бутылку виски Jack Daniels, а дочь Тина положила горсть 10-центовых монет: «чтобы он мог звонить своим друзьям», — объяснила плачущая Тина Синатра.

Фрэнк Синатра похоронен рядом с отцом и матерью на кладбище Desert Memorial Park[en] в городе Cathedral City, штат Калифорния[25].

Надпись на надгробии певца гласила: «Лучшее — впереди» (англ. The Best Is Yet to Come)[26].

Надгробие на могиле Фрэнка Синатры было изготовлено по заказу его четвёртой жены, которая не ладила с первой семьёй артиста до конца жизни. В 2021 году неизвестные разбили это надгробие при странных обстоятельствах, которые были засекречены полицией и следствием в связи с защитой права на частную жизнь.

Позже на могиле было установлено новое надгробие, изготовленное по заказу дочери артиста Тины. Надпись на нем гласит: «Спи в тепле, Папочка» (англ. Sleep Warm, Poppa)[27][28].

Фрэнк Синатра в мировой культуре XX и XXI веков

Звезда Фрэнка Синатры за работы на телевидении на Голливудской «Аллее славы». Находится по адресу 6538 Hollywood Blvd, Лос Анжделес

Звезда Фрэнка Синатры за работы на телевидении на Голливудской «Аллее славы». Находится по адресу 6538 Hollywood Blvd, Лос Анжделес

Три звезды на Голливудской «Аллее славы» — за достижения в музыке, в кино и на телевидении — лишь одно из внешних проявлений уважения и любви к творчеству артиста. Глубокое влияние на коллег по искусству кино и музыки, на слушателей и зрителей разных поколений продолжается через его песни и кинофильмы уже много лет после его ухода из жизни. Феномен Фрэнка Синатры имеет мультикультурные основы. Именно поэтому влияние Фрэнка Синатры сначала на американскую, а затем и на мировую культуру и искусство уже при его жизни сравнивали с не менее популярными Элвисом Пресли, Битлз, Майклом Джексоном, которые пришли в шоу бизнес на много лет позже Синатры и уже по проверенным и усовершенствованным технологиям записей, рекламной раскрутки и гастрольных маршрутов по всему миру и заработали даже больший финансовый успех. Но Синатра был первым из мировых звезд такого масштаба, который оказывает влияние на многие аспекты культуры и искусства, кино и телевидения, моды и прессы, политики и жизни. На эксплуатации имени и популярности Синатры иные журналисты сделали себе имя и деньги, даже никогда не встречаясь с артистом. Настоящие ценители и поклонники таланта Фрэнка Синатры приносят цветы на посвящённые ему три звезды на Голливудской Аллее Славы ежегодно в день рождения артиста.

Парк имени Фрэнка Синатры в городе Хобокен штата Нью Джерси в День Независимости, 4 июля 2010 года

Парк имени Фрэнка Синатры в городе Хобокен штата Нью Джерси в День Независимости, 4 июля 2010 года

Фрэнк Синатра начал карьеру артиста с выступлений на улицах, достиг признания и пел для многомиллионной аудитории телезрителей, и во дворцах королей и президентов, и для близкого круга друзей в домах и студиях. Благодаря сотням книг и тысячам статей в журналах и газетах всего мира, кинофильмам и передачам по радио и телевидению, Синатра стал присутствовать почти в каждом доме и его воздействие на общественное сознание и культуру начавшееся в 1940-х годах не прекращается и в XXI веке. Фирмы звукозаписи реставрируют и переиздают в новых цифровых форматах собрания песен певца, а киностудии обладающие правами на фильмы с участием артиста продолжают издавать тиражи его кинофильмов уже в современных форматах DVD, Blu-ray, и 4К. Синатра при жизни успел совершить такое множество больших и малых достижений в мировой культуре и большой политике, что их влияние не может прекратиться после его ухода, ведь общественное сознание формируется под воздействием многих факторов, среди которых и сам Синатра, как личность, и его творчество как часть мировой цивилизации[29].

Личная жизнь

Photo family portrait of a husband, wife, two young children, and an infant.

Фрэнк Синатра, его первая жена Нэнси Барбато и их дети Нэнси, Тина и Фрэнк-младший в 1949 году

Синатра неоднократно признавался, что несмотря на все взлеты и падения в карьере и в личной жизни он чувствует себя счастливым человеком и заботится о благополучии всех своих родных и близких. Его дочь, Нэнси Синатра описывает в своей книге особое чувство уверенности и радости, которое передавалось многим, кому приходилось жить и работать с Фрэнком Синатрой. Он заботился о своих родных и о своих партнерах в искусстве с искренним отношением. Однако слава артиста слишком часто привлекала сторонних лиц к попыткам вторгнуться в его частную жизнь и профессиональные связи[30].

В 1938 году Синатра был арестован якобы за связь с одинокой порядочной женщиной, которая обвинила артиста в обмане с обещанием жениться на ней. Но на следствии выяснилось, что женщина была замужем и обманывала и своего мужа, и Синатру. Синатра был оправдан по всем обвинениям женщины, хотя на время следствия карьера артиста казалась под угрозой. Полное снятие обвинений подтверждается в досье ФБР на Фрэнка Синатру, которое открыто для доступа[31][32].

В феврале 1939 года Синатра женился на своей первой любви Нэнси Барбато, которая взяла фамилию мужа. В 1940 году у них родилась дочь Нэнси Синатра, позже ставшая известной певицей. За ней последовали в 1944 Фрэнк Синатра-младший (1944—2016)[33], в 1988—1995 годах руководивший оркестром отца, и Тина Синатра, которая работает кинопродюсером в Калифорнии. Нэнси Синатра, первая жена артиста, скончалась 13 июля 2018 года на 102 году жизни[34][30].

Фрэнк Синатра и Джуди Гарланд ведут радиопрограмму в студии CBS Radio, 1944 год

Фрэнк Синатра и Джуди Гарланд были партнерами на радиопрограмме «Фрэнк Синатра радио шоу» в годы Второй мировой войны. Романтические отношения между ними начались в конце 1949 года. В то время Гарланд переживала тяжелый нервный период ухудшения здоровья и расстройство отношений со своим первым мужем Винсентом Минелли; тогда же и Синатра переживал начинающийся бракоразводный процесс со своей первой женой. Синатра и Гарланд поддерживали романтические отношения и в 1950-х годах, после того, как вторая жена Синатры Ава Гарднер подала на развод летом 1954 года. В дальнейшем Синатра и Гарланд оставались близкими друзьями вплоть до смерти Гарланд в 1969 году.

Фрэнк Синатра дома с дочерью Нэнси, 1957 год

Личная жизнь Фрэнка Синатры постоянно подвергалась давлению из-за слежки ФБР, которая была санкционирована по личному указанию Толсона (первого заместителя главы ФБР Эдгара Гувера). Синатра был под наблюдением ФБР с 1930-х годов. За ним, его родственниками и его знакомыми постоянно следили многочисленные агенты ФБР, такие как работавший под прикрытием агент-журналист Ли Мортимер, обзывавший артиста «итальянским мафиози» и Синатра за это оскорбление побил агента по лицу. Открытое для доступа досье ФБР на Фрэнка Синатру насчитывает более двух тысяч страниц текста и сотни фотографий[35].

В 1951 году Синатра женился на Аве Гарднер, с помощью которой Синатра успешно возобновил кинокарьеру в Голливуде. Ава Гарднер сделала аборт в 1952 году, категорически не желая отвлекаться от карьеры в кино. Отношения также омрачались сложным характером Гарднер, а также продолжавшейся слежкой за ней агентами Говарда Хьюза. Ава Гарднер подала на развод с Синатрой летом 1954 года и впоследствии уехала в Испанию. Бракоразводный процесс завершился только в 1957 году. Спустя годы, когда он узнал о тяжелейшей смертельной болезни и бедственном положении Авы Гарднер, которая умирала в больнице Лондона, Синатра пришел на помощь и полностью оплатил все долги и больничные счета бывшей жены.

После завершения бракоразводного процесса в 1957 году Фрэнк Синатра сделал предложение и был помолвлен с Лорен Бэколл. Но позже они расстались по взаимному согласию, сохранив дружбу и уважение друг друга.

По заявлению Эвы Барток, в 1956 году у неё был короткий роман с Синатрой, и он является биологическим отцом её дочери Дианы.

В 1957 году, после развода с Гарднер, Синатра утешил горе актрисы Лорен Бэколл, жены близкого друга Синатры, Хамфри Богарта умершего от рака легких. В тот год, после смерти Хамфри Богарта овдовевшая Лорен Бэколл впала в депрессию и чуткий Синатра пригласил вдову друга сменить обстановку и переехать в один из его домов в Калифорнии. Лорен Бэколл приняла приглашение и Синатра окружил страдающую вдову друга вниманием и заботой.

В 1966 году Синатра женился на актрисе Мии Фэрроу. Ему было 50 лет, а ей — 21. Они расстались в 1968 году.

В 1976 году Синатра женился в четвёртый раз — на бывшей манекенщице и танцовщице Барбаре Маркс, с которой прожил до конца своей жизни. До вступления в брак с Синатрой Барбара приняла религию мужа — католицизм, хотя Синатра об этом не просил, но был этому рад. Друзья и особенно семья восприняли новую жену в штыки. Барбара потребовала от Фрэнка расторгнуть церковный брак с первой женой Нэнси, и, согласно католическим правилам, его дети стали незаконнорождёнными. Она рассорила Фрэнка с друзьями и семьёй. Когда Синатра умирал, Барбара не сообщила об этом его детям, чтобы они не могли прийти к нему и проститься. Четвёртая жена получила по завещанию три дома Синатры — в Беверли Хиллс, в Малибу и в Палм-Спрингс, а также несколько миллионов долларов, права на его творческий имидж для дальнейших публикаций и права на один из поздних альбомов певца Trilogy.

По завещанию Синатры его 200-миллионное состояние оставшееся после его смерти, а также права на часть его творческого наследия в музыке и кино в основном перешли к первой жене и детям артиста.

Четвёртая жена Синатры умерла в возрасте 90 лет в 2017 году, когда первой жене было 100 лет и она ещё была жива.

Память

  • 13 мая 2008 года в Нью-Йорке, Лас-Вегасе и Нью-Джерси поступила в продажу новая почтовая марка США с портретом Синатры. Выпуск марки приурочен к 10-летию со дня смерти великого певца. На торжественной церемонии по случаю выпуска на Манхэттене присутствовали дети Фрэнка Синатры, его друзья, родственники и почитатели его творчества[36].
  • 12 декабря 2021 года в день рождения Фрэнка Синатры на родине артиста, в городе Хобокен штата Нью Джерси, в городском парке имени Фрэнка Синатры на набережной реки Гудзон установлен памятник Фрэнку Синатре работы скульптора Каролин Палмер, созданный и отлитый из бронзы на средства почитателей таланта артиста[37][38][39].

Наиболее известные песни

Дискография

Альбомы, концертные записи и сборники
  • 1946 — The Voice Of Frank Sinatra
  • 1948 — Christmas Songs By Sinatra
  • 1949 — Frankly Sentimental
  • 1950 — Songs By Sinatra
  • 1951 — Swing And Dance With Frank Sinatra
  • 1954 — Songs For Young Lovers
  • 1954 — Swing Easy!
  • 1955 — In The Wee Small Hours
  • 1956 — Songs for Swingin’ Lovers!
  • 1956 — This Is Sinatra!
  • 1957 — Close To You
  • 1957 — A Swingin’ Affair!
  • 1957 — Where Are You
  • 1957 — A Jolly Christmas From Frank Sinatra
  • 1958 — Come Fly With Me
  • 1958 — This Is Sinatra Volume 2
  • 1958 — Sings For Only The Lonely (Only The Lonely)
  • 1959 — Come Dance With Me!
  • 1959 — Look To Your Heart
  • 1959 — No One Cares
  • 1960 — Nice ‘N’ Easy
  • 1961 — All The Way
  • 1961 — Sinatra’s Swingin’ Session!!!
  • 1961 — Ring-A-Ding-Ding!
  • 1961 — Come Swing With Me!
  • 1961 — Sinatra Swings (Swing Along With Me)
  • 1961 — I Remember Tommy
  • 1962 — Sinatra And Strings
  • 1962 — Point Of No Return
  • 1962 — Sinatra And Swingin’ Brass
  • 1962 — Sinatra Sings Of Love And Things
  • 1962 — All Alone
  • 1962 — Sinatra Sings Great Songs From Great Britain
  • 1962 — Sinatra-Basie An Historic Musical First (feat. Count Basie)
  • 1963 — The Concert Sinatra
  • 1963 — Sinatra’s Sinatra
  • 1964 — Sinatra Sings Days Of Wine And Roses Moon River And Other Academy Award Winners
  • 1964 — America I Hear You Singing (feat. Bing Crosby & Fred Waring)
  • 1964 — It Might As Well Be Swing (feat. Count Basie)
  • 1964 — 12 Songs of Christmas (feat. Bing Crosby & Fred Waring)
  • 1964 — Softly, As I Leave You

Фрэнк Синатра в студии звукозаписи CBS Radio, 1942 год

Фрэнк Синатра в студии звукозаписи CBS Radio, 1942 год

  • 1965 — Sinatra ’65: The Singer Today
  • 1965 — September Of My Years
  • 1965 — My Kind Of Broadway
  • 1965 — A Man And His Music
  • 1966 — Moonlight Sinatra
  • 1966 — Strangers In The Night
  • 1966 — Sinatra At The Sands (feat. Count Basie)
  • 1966 — That’s Life
  • 1967 — Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim (feat. Antonio Carlos Jobim)
  • 1967 — The World We Knew
  • 1968 — Francis A & Edward K (feat. Duke Ellington)
  • 1968 — Frank Sinatra’s Greatest Hits
  • 1968 — The Sinatra Family Wish You A Merry Christmas (feat. Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra Jr. and Tina Sinatra)
  • 1968 — Cycles
  • 1969 — My Way
  • 1969 — A Man Alone
  • 1970 — Watertown
  • 1971 — Sinatra & Company (feat. Antonio Carlos Jobim)
  • 1972 — Frank Sinatra’s Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
  • 1973 — Ol’ Blue Eyes Is Back
  • 1974 — Some Nice Things I’ve Missed
  • 1974 — The Main Event Live
  • 1980 — Trilogy Past Present Future
  • 1981 — She Shot Me Down
  • 1984 — L.A. Is My Lady
  • 1993 — Duets
  • 1994 — Duets II
  • 1994 — Sinatra & Sextet Live In Paris
  • 1994 — The Song Is You
  • 1995 — Sinatra 80th Live In Concert
  • 1997 — With The Red Norvo Quintet Live In Australia 1959
  • 1999 — ’57 In Concert
  • 2002 — Classic Duets
  • 2003 — Duets With The Dames
  • 2003 — The Real Complete Columbia Years V-Discs
  • 2005 — Live From Las Vegas
  • 2006 — Sinatra Vegas
  • 2008 — Nothing But the Best
  • 2011 — Sinatra: Best of the Best

Фильмография

Фрэнк Синатра на киностудии MGM, 1940-е годы

Фрэнк Синатра на киностудии MGM, 1940-е годы

Фрэнк Синатра и Джин Келли в фильме Anchors Aweigh, 1945 год

Фрэнк Синатра и Джин Келли в фильме Anchors Aweigh, 1945 год

Фрэнк Синатра в фильме From Here to Eternity, 1953 год

Фрэнк Синатра в фильме From Here to Eternity, 1953 год

Фрэнк Синатра с наградой «Оскар» за фильм From Here to Eternity, март 1954 года

Фрэнк Синатра с наградой «Оскар» за фильм From Here to Eternity, март 1954 года

Фрэнк Синатра и Грейс Келли в фильме High Society, 1956 год

Фрэнк Синатра и Грейс Келли в фильме High Society, 1956 год

Чарлз Уолтерс, Фрэнк Синатра и Грейс Келли за работой в фильме High Society, 1956 год

Чарлз Уолтерс, Фрэнк Синатра и Грейс Келли за работой в фильме High Society, 1956 год

Фрэнк Синатра и персонажи кинокомедии Robin and the 7 Hoods, 1964 год

Фрэнк Синатра и персонажи кинокомедии Robin and the 7 Hoods, 1964 год

Год Русское название Оригинальное название Роль
1941 ф Ночи Лас-Вегаса Las Vegas Nights в роли самого себя
1942 ф На судне Ship Ahoy в роли самого себя
1943 ф Побудка с Беверли Reveille with Beverly в роли самого себя
1943 ф Выше и выше Higher and Higher Фрэнк
1944 кор The Shining Future в роли самого себя
1944 кор The Road to Victory в роли самого себя
1944 ф Шагай веселее Step Lively Гленн Расселл
1945 ф Поднять якоря Anchors Aweigh Кларенс Дулиттл
1946 ф Пока плывут облака Till Clouds Roll By в роли самого себя
1947 ф Это произошло в Бруклине It Happened in Brooklyn Дэнни Уэбсон Миллер
1948 ф Чудо колокола The Miracle of the Bells отец Пол
1948 ф Целующийся бандит The Kissing Bandit Рикардо
1949 ф Возьми меня с собой на бейсбол Take Me Out to the Ball Game Деннис Райан
1949 ф Увольнение в город On the Town Чип
1951 ф Двойной динамит Double Dynamite Джонни Далтон
1952 ф Знакомьтесь — Дэнни Уилсон Meet Danny Wilson Дэнни Уилсон
1953 ф Отныне и во веки веков From Here to Eternity рядовой Анджело Маджио
1954 с Час комедии от Колгейт The Colgate Comedy Hour Гарри Дейн
1954 ф Три монеты в фонтане Three Coins in the Fountain певец
1954 ф Неожиданный Suddenly Джон Бейрон
1954 ф Это молодое сердце Young at Heart Барни Слоан
1955 ф Не как чужой Not as a Stranger Альфред Бун
1955 с Продюсерская витрина Producers’ Showcase помощник режиссёра
1955 ф Парни и куколки Guys and Dolls Нейтан Детройт
1955 ф Нежный капкан The Tender Trap Чарли Ридер
1955 ф Человек с золотой рукой The Man With the Golden Arm Фрэнки Макине
1956 ф Встречай меня в Лас-Вегасе Meet Me in Las Vegas человек за игровым автоматом
1956 ф Высшее общество High Society Майк Коннор
1956 ф Джонни Кончо Johnny Concho Джонни Кончо / Джонни Коллинз
1956 ф Вокруг света за 80 дней Around The World In 80 Days тапёр в салуне
1957 ф Гордость и страсть The Pride and the Passion Мигель
1957 ф Джокер The Joker Is Wild Джо Льюис
1957 ф Приятель Джои Pal Joey Джои Эванс
1958 ф Короли отправляются в путь Kings Go Forth старший лейтенант Сэм Логгинс
1958 с Тонкий человек The Thin Man сосед
1958 ф И подбежали они Some Came Running Дейв Херш
1959 ф Дыра в голове A Hole in the Head Тони Манетта
1959 ф Никогда не было так мало Never So Few капитан Том Рейнольдс
1960 ф Канкан Can-can Франсуа Дьюрне
1960 ф Одиннадцать друзей Оушена Ocean’s Eleven Дэнни Оушен
1960 ф Мексиканец в Голливуде Pepe в роли самого себя
1961 ф Дьявол в 4 часа The Devil at 4 O’Clock Гарри
1962 ф Три сержанта Sergeants 3 первый сержант Марк Мерри
1962 ф Дорога в Гонконг The Road to Hong Kong обитатель Плутона
1962 ф Маньчжурский кандидат The Manchurian Candidate майор Беннетт Марко
1963 ф Список Эдриана Мессенджера The List of Adrian Messenger цыган
1963 ф Приди и протруби в свой рог Come Blow Your Horn Алан Бейкер
1963 ф Четверо из Техаса 4 for Texas Зак Томас
1964 ф Париж, когда там жара Paris When It Sizzles певец
1964 ф Робин и 7 гангстеров Robin and the 7 Hoods Роббо
1965 ф Только отважные None But the Brave старший помощник фармацевта
1965 ф Поезд фон Райана Von Ryan’s Express полковник Джозеф Райан
1965 ф Свадьба на скалах Marriage on the Rocks Дэн Эдвардс
1966 ф Оскар The Oscar в роли самого себя
1966 ф Откинь гигантскую тень Cast a Giant Shadow Винс Толмадж
1966 ф Нападение на «Королеву» Assault on a Queen Марк Бриттен
1967 ф Обнажённый беглец The Naked Runner Сэм Лейкер
1967 ф Тони Роум Tony Rome Тони Роум
1968 ф Детектив The Detective Джо Лиланд
1968 ф Девушка в цементе Lady in Cement Тони Роум
1969 с Romeo und Julia ’70 в роли самого себя
1970 ф Грязный Дингус Маги Dirty Dingus Magee Дингус Билли Маги
1977 тф Контракт на Черри-стрит Contract on Cherry Street заместитель инспектора Фрэнк Хованнес
1977—1978 с Хохмы Laugh-In гость
1980 ф Первый смертный грех The First Deadly Sin Эдвард Делани
1984 ф Гонки «Пушечное ядро» 2 Cannonball Run 2 в роли самого себя
1987 с Частный детектив Магнум Magnum, P.I. отставной полицейский Майкл Доэни
1989 с Кто здесь босс? Who’s the Boss? в роли самого себя

См. также

  • Фрэнк Синатра простудился

Примечания

  1. 1 2 Francis Albert Sinatra // Internet Broadway Database (англ.) — 2000.
  2. 1 2 Frank Sinatra // Internet Broadway Database (англ.) — 2000.
  3. Синатра, Фрэнк (англ.) на сайте AllMusic Music Genre: Vocal music. AllMusic. Retrieved October 23, 2008.
  4. Past Winners Search | GRAMMY.com. Дата обращения: 9 января 2012. Архивировано 1 января 2014 года.
  5. англ. This Week in Billboard History: Frank Sinatra’s ‘Mysterious’ Record Label; Live Aid’s Bootlegging Scourge|url=http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/1159006/this-week-in-billboard-history-frank-sinatras-mysterious-record-label-live%7Csite=Billboard
  6. 1 2 Fuchs, Prigozy, 2007, p. 1.
  7. Fuchs, Prigozy, 2007, p. 2.
  8. The 26th Academy Awards (1954) Nominees and Winners (англ.). The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Дата обращения: 2012-7-12. Архивировано 6 октября 2014 года.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Turner, 2004, p. 4.
  10. 1 2 3 4 Turner, 2004, p. 5.
  11. Мезуза Фрэнка Синатры. Еврейский Мир (19 ноября 2015). Дата обращения: 27 марта 2016. Архивировано 15 марта 2016 года.
  12. «Frank Sinatra with His Parents» by Barry Kramer Photography [1] Архивная копия от 9 декабря 2021 на Wayback Machine
  13. Frank Sinatra with His Parents in 1940s [2] Архивная копия от 9 декабря 2021 на Wayback Machine
  14. Лос Анджелес Таймс: Bill Miller, 91; Pianist Worked for Decades With Frank Sinatra [3] Архивная копия от 5 декабря 2021 на Wayback Machine
  15. Фрэнк Синатра и Дин Мартин разучивают ноты новой песни под аккомпанемент пианиста Билла Миллера [4] Архивная копия от 5 декабря 2021 на Wayback Machine
  16. Frank Sinatra and How Did He Influenced Las Vegas Gambling Industry. casinoandslots.org. Дата обращения: 29 августа 2022.
  17. Linnell, Greg. »‘Applauding the Good and Condemning the Bad’: The Christian Herald and Varieties of Protestant Response to Hollywood in the 1950s» Journal of Religion and Popular Culture Vol. 12: Spring 2006. Дата обращения: 18 августа 2017. Архивировано 18 октября 2012 года.
  18. Sergei Khrushchev. Khrushchev on Khrushchev — An Inside Account of the Man and His Era, by His Son, Sergei Khrushchev, Verlag Little, Brown and Company, ISBN 0-316-49194-2
  19. Nikita Khrushchev Goes to Hollywood. [5] Архивная копия от 10 декабря 2021 на Wayback Machine
  20. Ott, Tim Inside John F. Kennedy and Frank Sinatra’s Powerful Friendship. Biography. Дата обращения: 30 ноября 2021. Архивировано 26 ноября 2021 года.
  21. Синатра арестован за избиение журналиста — Sinatra arrested for assaulting columnist at ciros. [6] Архивная копия от 6 декабря 2021 на Wayback Machine
  22. Tina Sinatra. My Father’s Daughter: A Memoir. — Simon and Schuster, 2000. — P. 157–. — ISBN 978-0-7432-0433-0. Архивная копия от 21 декабря 2021 на Wayback Machine
  23. Ever Homeward: Sinatra Sings in Polish (His Way) Архивная копия от 23 декабря 2021 на Wayback Machine (англ.)
  24. англ. Frank Sinatra at the London Arena 1990|url=[7] Архивная копия от 21 декабря 2021 на Wayback Machine
  25. cnn.com Hollywood bids Sinatra last farewell Архивная копия от 20 января 2012 на Wayback Machine (англ.)
  26. Find A Grave Memorial. Frank Sinatra Архивная копия от 5 января 2012 на Wayback Machine (англ.)
  27. Frank Sinatra Died 23 Years Ago & Was Buried with His Favorite Whiskey — Look Back at His Funeral [8] Архивная копия от 18 июня 2021 на Wayback Machine
  28. The Mystery of Frank Sinatra’s Grave. [9] Архивная копия от 17 декабря 2021 на Wayback Machine
  29. USA Today: 10 ways that Frank Sinatra changed the world. [10] Архивная копия от 11 августа 2021 на Wayback Machine
  30. 1 2 Нэнси Синатра. Frank Sinatra, My Father. Book by Nancy Sinatra. — Simon and Schuster, 1985. — ISBN 10: 067162508X isbn=13: 9780671625085.
  31. Нью Йорк Таймс: ФБР открывает доступ к досье Синатры, там старые и новые подробности.
  32. F.B.I. Releases Its Sinatra File, With Tidbits Old and New [11]Архивная копия от 7 декабря 2021 на Wayback Machine
  33. Умер сын Фрэнка Синатры: Музыка: Культура: Lenta.ru. Дата обращения: 17 марта 2016. Архивировано 18 марта 2016 года.
  34. Умерла первая жена Фрэнка Синатры: Нэнси Синатра скончалась на 102-ом году жизни (рус.), Joinfo Новости (14 июля 2018). Архивировано 18 июля 2018 года. Дата обращения: 18 июля 2018.
  35. Синатра арестован за избиение журналиста — Sinatra arrested for assaulting columnist at Ciros. [12] Архивная копия от 6 декабря 2021 на Wayback Machine
  36. Марку с портретом Фрэнка Синатры выпустили в США Архивная копия от 15 мая 2008 на Wayback Machine // Взгляд
  37. Памятник Фрэнку Синатре в городе Хобокен штата Нью Джерси. City of Hoboken to unveil new Sinatra statue on Frank Sinatra’s birthday
    [13] Архивная копия от 10 декабря 2021 на Wayback Machine
  38. Sinatra Statue Debuting in Hoboken on His Birthday 12/12/2021 [14] Архивная копия от 12 декабря 2021 на Wayback Machine
  39. New Frank Sinatra Statue On Hoboken Waterfront [15] Архивная копия от 11 декабря 2021 на Wayback Machine

Литература

  • Джинн Фукс, Рут Пригози. Frank Sinatra: The Man, the Music, the Legend. — University Rochester Press, 2007.
  • Джон Фрэйн Тёрнер. Frank Sinatra. — Taylor Trade Publications, 2004.
  • Fuchs, Jeanne; Prigozy, Ruth. Frank Sinatra: The Man, the Music, the Legend (англ.). — University Rochester Press, 2007. — ISBN 978-1-58046-251-8.
  • Нэнси Синатра. Frank Sinatra, My Father. Book by Nancy Sinatra. — Simon and Schuster, 1985. — ISBN 10: 067162508X isbn=13: 9780671625085.

Ссылки

  • franksinatra.com — официальный сайт Фрэнка Синатры (англ.)
  • sinatrafamily.com — официальный сайт семейства Синатра (англ.)


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Born: December 12, 1915

Hoboken, New Jersey

Died: May 14, 1998

Los Angeles, California



American singer, actor, and performer

Frank Sinatra is one of the most popular singers in American history. As
an actor, he appeared in fifty-eight films and won an Academy Award for
his role in

From Here to Eternity.

His career started in the 1930s and continued into the 1990s.


Early years

Francis Albert Sinatra was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, on December 12,
1915, the only child of Italian immigrants Martin and Natalie
«Dolly» Sinatra. His father was a fire-fighter for the
city of Hoboken and his mother was an amateur singer who often sang at
social events. Sinatra lived in a mainly Italian American working-class
neighborhood. His first experience with music came when his uncle gave
him a ukulele, and on hot summer nights he loved to go outside and sing
while playing the instrument. His other interest was boxing. To protect
himself in the tough neighborhood he grew up in, he became a competent
boxer. In high school he was a generous but pugnacious (likely to fight)
individual—the traits he would carry with him throughout his
life.

Early in his life Sinatra knew he wanted to become a singer. His
influences were Rudy Vallee (1901–1986) and Bing Crosby
(1903–1977). He dropped out of high school and began to sing at
small clubs. He got his first

Frank Sinatra. Reproduced by permission of AP/Wide World Photos.


Frank Sinatra.




Reproduced by permission of

AP/Wide World Photos

.

big break on the radio talent show

Major Bowes and his Amateur Hour

in 1935, singing in a group called the Hoboken Four. At this time
Sinatra sang in various New Jersey nightclubs, hoping to attract the
attention of «Swing Era» bandleaders. In 1939, he began
working on radio station WNEW in New York City with bandleader Harry
James for $75 per week. That same year he married his longtime
sweetheart, Nancy Barbato. They would eventually have three children.


The beginning of success

After seven months with Harry James, Sinatra joined Tommy Dorsey and his
orchestra, causing his career to skyrocket. Dorsey’s orchestra
was one of the most popular in the land, and it remained so with Sinatra
singing with it from 1940 through 1942.

During that time, Sinatra performed with the band in his first two
movies—

Las Vegas Nights

(1941) and

Ship Ahoy

(1942). He began his solo career at the end of 1942 and continued his
meteoric (speedy and brilliant) rise.


Fans

The Swing Era lasted from 1935 through the end of World War II
(1939–45; a war fought between the Axis Powers—Italy,
Japan, and Germany—and the Allies—France, Great Britain,
the Soviet Union, and the United States). Sinatra was by far the Swing
Era’s best-known vocalist. His musical roots combined Tin Pan
Alley (the song writing center of New York City) and Italian opera. Most
important to him throughout his career would be his insistence on his
own style and arrangements for whatever music he sang, thus producing
his own unique phrasing of lyrics and melody lines.

Though Sinatra was exempted from military service in World War II
because of a damaged eardrum, he helped the war effort with his
appearances in movies and benefits for soldiers. He was also an
outspoken supporter of Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) and
liberal viewpoints, including racial and religious tolerance. He made
many appearances to support charities.

Sinatra’s wide-shouldered suits and his bow ties were imitated by
many men, but his most ardent followers were teenaged girls, nicknamed
«bobby-soxers» for the ankle-high socks they wore. His
widespread appeal
was further fueled by America’s explosive mass media growth in
newspapers, magazines, films, record players, and radio stations.
Sinatra was the first singer to attract the kind of near hysteria that
would later accompany live appearances by Elvis Presley (1935–
1977) and the Beatles.

This type of excitement reached its peak in the Columbus Day riot of
October 12, 1944. Thousands of his fans (mostly female) were denied
entry into the already-packed Paramount Theater in New York City. They
stormed the streets and vented their frustration by smashing nearby shop
windows.


The 1950s

There were rumors that Sinatra was connected to the Mafia (organized
crime). These stories arose mostly from his socializing with alleged
Mafia kingpins (chiefs). He also received bad publicity about his noted
bar-room brawls (fights) with customers and reporters. The allegations
of underworld activity were never proven, and no criminal charges were
ever made.

In 1954 Sinatra appeared in the critically acclaimed film

From Here to Eternity

(1954). The role won him an Academy Award for best supporting actor. He
appeared in nine films in just two years, including

Guys and Dolls

(1955),

Young At Heart

(1955),

The Tender Trap

(1955),

The Man With the Golden Arm

(1955), and

High Society

(1956). Sinatra was back on the record charts as well with
«Young at Heart.» Nelson Riddle became his musical
arranger in the 1950s, and he helped Sinatra stay on the record charts
throughout the rest of the decade. (In fact, Sinatra stayed on the
charts steadily through 1967, in spite of rock and roll.) Sinatra did
not just record singles. He recorded albums around a central theme with
a large collection of songs or ballads. From 1957 through 1966 he had
twenty-seven Top Ten albums without producing one Top Ten single.

Sinatra’s bobby-soxer fans were now adults and Sinatra had
shifted smoothly to the role of the aging romantic bachelor. This was
signified by the image of him leaning alone against a lamppost with a
raincoat slung over one shoulder.


The 1960s

Sinatra’s hits in the 1960s included «It Was a Very Good
Year» and «Strangers in the Night» (1966). He
reached the top of the singles charts in a duet,
«Somethin’ Stupid,» with his daughter Nancy in
1967.

Sinatra continued to act in several movies in the 1960s, including

Ocean’s 11

(1960),

The Manchurian Candidate

(1962),

Robin and the Seven Hoods

(1964), and

Tony Rome

(1967). Many critics felt several of these films had declined in
artistic merit. Sinatra became known as part of a group of friends
called the «Rat Pack.» It included entertainers Dean
Martin (1917–1995), Sammy Davis Jr. (1925–1990), Joey
Bishop, and Peter Lawford.


«My Way»

After Sinatra’s famous recording of «My Way»
(1969), he made an ill-fated attempt to sing some of the lighter tunes
of modern rock composers. This led to a brief retirement from
entertainment (1971 through 1973). At this time he also shifted his
politics from liberal to conservative. He had become a close friend of
Ronald Reagan (1911–), helping him in his later successful
presidential campaigns.

Sinatra’s financial empire produced millions of dollars in
earnings from investments in films, records, gambling casinos, real
estate, missile parts, and general aviation. He came out of his
retirement in 1974 with a renewed interest in older tunes. His return to
the limelight was highlighted by his famous recording of «New
York, New York» (1980) as he entered his sixth decade of
entertaining.

In 1988 Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and Dean Martin embarked on a
cross-country tour. The tour lasted only one week. Sinatra later
organized another reunion tour with Shirley MacLaine (1934–) in
1992 and it was an undeniable success.

By 1994 Sinatra was experiencing memory lapses, but that did not keep
him from performing publicly. He merely added the use of a prompter
(device that shows the words of a song) to remind him of the lyrics.
After celebrating his eightieth birthday at a public tribute, new
packages of recordings were released and became instant best-sellers.
But Sinatra’s health continued to deteriorate in the 1990s. On
the evening of May 14, 1998, Sinatra died of a heart attack in Los
Angeles, California.

The audiences who grew up with him and his music were complemented by
adoration from younger generations. They have all made «Old Blue
Eyes» one of the most outstanding popular singers of the
twentieth century.


For More Information

Friedwald, Will.

Sinatra! The Song is You: A Singer’s Art.

New York: Scribner, 1995.

Kelley, Kitty.

His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra.

New York: Bantam Books, 1986.

Morley, Sheridan.

Frank Sinatra: A Celebration.

New York: Applause, 1998.

Rockwell, John.

Sinatra: An American Classic.

New York: Random House, 1984.

Wilson, Earl.

Sinatra: An Unauthorized Biography.

New York: Macmillan, 1976.

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