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Kennedy and Frank Sinatra", How Bobby Kennedy Started the War on Gangs, "Sinatra, snow storms, and a smashed-up helipad: the story behind John F Kennedy's star-studded inauguration", "New York Magazine Is Reagan Gala a Kennedy Snub? [462], Sinatra starred as a detective in Contract on Cherry Street (1977), cited as his "one starring role in a dramatic television film". [165] The session produced four recordings, including "I'm Walking Behind You",[166] Sinatra's first Capitol single. [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". [500], Sinatra was known for his immaculate sense of style. [281][282] The television special, Magnavox Presents Frank Sinatra, reunited Sinatra with Gene Kelly. Sinatra forged a highly successful career as a film actor. [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. [204] The title song, "Come Fly With Me", written especially for him, would become one of his best known standards. [409][410], Sinatra featured alongside Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly in High Society (1956) for MGM, earning a reported $250,000 for the picture. [317] In 1982, he signed a $16million three-year deal with the Golden Nugget of Las Vegas. [561] He was awarded the Hollzer Memorial Award by the Los Angeles Jewish Community in 1949. He is among the world's best-selling music artists with an estimated 150 million record sales.[1][2]. [520] In another instance, after an argument with manager Bobby Burns, rather than apologize, Sinatra bought him a brand new Cadillac. [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". 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. [539] Sinatra's gambling license was restored in February 1981, following support from Ronald Reagan. [244][256] In December, Sinatra collaborated with Duke Ellington on the album Francis A. [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. May 13 is considered "Frank Sinatra Day."[581]. [392], 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. Using his Las Vegas shows as a home base, he toured within the United States and internationally until shortly before his death in 1998. 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. 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. His mother, Dolly Sinatra (18961977), was a Democratic Party ward leader,[541] and after meeting President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944, he subsequently heavily campaigned for the Democrats in the 1944 presidential election. 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. [407] During production, Sinatra got drunk with Robert Mitchum and Broderick Crawford and trashed Kramer's dressing room. [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. [493] In his spare time, he enjoyed listening to classical music and attended concerts when he could. [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. He recorded "My Foolish Heart", "Cry Me a River", and other songs. [481], Sinatra reportedly broke off engagements to Lauren Bacall in 1958[482] and Juliet Prowse in 1962. [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. 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. [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. [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". The grave currently reads "Sleep Warm Poppa". [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. "[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. Sun shining and stadium's speakers serenading him with Sinatra, George, and all his favorite tunes. [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. 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". [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". [553][554] Despite the snub, when he learned of Kennedy's assassination he reportedly sobbed in his bedroom for three days. [542] 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". [333], In 1993, Sinatra returned to Capitol Records and the recording studio for Duets, which became his best-selling album. [592] Frank Sinatra Drive runs parallel to the Hudson River Waterfront Walkway. [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. 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. On the waterfront is Frank Sinatra Park, where a bronze plaque was placed in 1989 upon its opening. [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. I will never forget what you have done for me today". The concert was recorded on a motion picture scoring soundstage with the use of multiple synchronized recording machines that employed an optical signal onto 35mm film designed for movie soundtracks. She is Frank Sinatra's youngest child, whom he had with his first wife, Nancy Barbato Sinatra. [547] After taking office, Kennedy distanced himself from Sinatra, due in part to the singer's ties with the Mafia. and swing music predecessor Songs for Swingin' Lovers! Sinatra left Capitol in 1960 to start his own record label, Reprise Records, and released a string of successful albums. [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. [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. [ai] Sinatra had numerous extramarital affairs,[472] and gossip magazines published details of affairs with women including Marilyn Maxwell, Lana Turner, and Joi Lansing. [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). A television miniseries based on Sinatra's life, titled Sinatra, was aired by CBS in 1992. was named Album of the Year by Billboard, and he was also named "Favorite Male Vocalist" by Billboard, DownBeat, and Metronome that year. [529] She also states that Sinatra and Hank Sanicola were financial partners with Mickey Cohen in the gossip magazine Hollywood Night Life. In one incident witnessed by Stafford backstage at the. [579] He was called the Chairman of the Board.[why?] The Rat Pack concert, called The Frank Sinatra Spectacular, was broadcast live via satellite to numerous movie theaters across America. [440] Sinatra's last major film role was opposite Faye Dunaway in Brian G. Hutton's The First Deadly Sin (1980). In Frank Sinatra Park, a 6-foot (1.80-meter) tall bronze statue honoring Sinatra was erected in the year 2021 on December 12. Lahr comments that the new Sinatra was "not the gentle boy balladeer of the forties. [139] A workaholic, he reportedly only slept four hours a night on average. [578] Significant increases in recording sales worldwide were reported by Billboard in the month of his death. [525] He was reported to be a good friend of mobster Sam Giancana,[526] and the two men were seen playing golf together. 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. He found success as a solo artist after signing with Columbia Records in 1943, becoming the idol of the "bobby soxers". His personal favorite was Ralph Vaughan Williams. 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". Going forward I'll be looking to keep in touch with each of you on Instagram ( @nancysinatra) and Twitter . The spotlight went dark and he left the stage. "[322], Santopietro notes that Sinatra was a "lifelong sympathizer with Jewish causes". I think this was a turning point in his career. [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. [129] and in the following year he was pushed out of the top spots in polls for the first time since 1943. "[185], 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". It is with a heavy heart that the Sinatra Family Forum and. [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".
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