Frank Sinatra!
Frank Sinatra The Influence
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Frank Sinatra and The Exercises
I would listen to Frank Sinatra every day for hours. I would sing along with him. And after years of this I captured his singing style in my speaking voice. Even today I listen to Frank before a show to remind myself of his technique. Frank Sinatra is the ultimate master of his craft even after his death. I want to be that good at what I do!Frank Sinatra The Meeting
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Frank Sinatra The Man
Sinatra was and is my idol and chatting with Frank Sinatra was more than I had ever hoped for. The mere fact that Frank Sinatra knew who I was gave me tremendous pride. Frank Sinatra would ask about girls and tell me stories about women. Frank Sinatra was always a perfect gentleman although I knew that I wasn't getting Frank on anything but a social level. The dressing room we would sit in was "The Frank Sinatra dressing room". Caesar's Palace had built it especially for him! The first time Frank Sinatra used it the black carpeting was getting little bits of fluff on his pant cuffs. It now had hardwood floors. I would sit there and watch his every move and listen to his every word. Yea, Mr. Sinatra could call me kip anytime. Wow, I knew Frank Sinatra!-- Kip Addotta
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Frank Sinatra Harry James Orchestra
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His concerts became magnets for screaming teenage girls, the forerunners of modern-day rock groupies, attracting over 25,000 fans for a 1944 New York appearance. As a youth icon Sinatra used his popularity to endorse Franklin D. Roosevelt's final run for president, starting a long tradition of political involvement. By 1946 Sinatra was perhaps America's top performer, selling as many 10 million singles each year and playing packed houses from coast to coast. Known for his clean-cut, bow-tie image and popularly referred to as "The Voice," in 1947 Sinatra recorded a whopping 72 new songs, a personal high mark; Frank Sinatra was making almost a million dollars a year at a time when a new car cost around one thousand dollars.
Unfortunately that same year Frank Sinatra became the subject of serious allegations about his personal allegiances: in February it was reported that Frank Sinatra spent time in Cuba with mob boss Lucky Luciano and in April Frank Sinatra was accused by a Hollywood gossip columnist of having ties to the Communist Party (he later punched the man in the face!). Sinatra denied these charges, claiming Frank Sinatra was the subject of anti-Italian prejudice, but rumors continued to dog Frank Sinatra over the next few years. In 1949 the Committee on Un-American Activities claimed that Sinatra had ties to both the Mafia and the Communists; that same year Frank Sinatra was further disgraced when his affair with actress Ava Gardner was exposed and his wife Nancy separated from him. Sinatra's record label dropped him, his radio show was canceled, his talent agency fired Frank Sinatra and his film contract with MGM was terminated. Abandoned by the entertainment industry, Sinatra was ruined and washed up, reduced to borrowing money from Ava Gardner.
Frank Sinatra and Nancy
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During the 1960s Sinatra, no longer with Ava Gardner, was romantically linked to actress Lauren Bacall and dancer Juliet Prowse, but did not marry either woman, instead tying the knot with 21-year-old actress Mia Farrow in 1966, a highly controversial move for the 51-year-old Sinatra. The aging singer began performing with "The Rat Pack," composed up of Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop. Sinatra appeared in movies (such as 1960's Ocean's Eleven), toured, and recorded with the 'Pack in various combinations; the group became known for their uniqueslang and "swinging" image. Sinatra maintained his tough reputation by threatening club owners and musicians whom Frank Sinatra didn't like, engaging in occasional drunken outbursts; Frank Sinatra was often seen with mob figures such as Sam Giancana, a close friend.
"Old Blue Eyes," as Frank Sinatra was now known, began to fade from the limelight during the late '60s as Frank Sinatra grew older and less relevant to contemporary music. Following his last No. 1 hit, 1966's "Strangers in the Night," Sinatra began experimenting with jazz and other forms of music, but became stale. On March 23, 1971 Frank Sinatra announced his retirement from music, eager to spend more time with his family, including the three children Frank Sinatra had with Nancy:
Nancy Sandra (1940), Franklin Wayne Emmanuel (Frank Jr.) (1944), and Christina (Tina) (1948).
The following year Frank Sinatra switched from a bona fide liberal to a right-wing conservative after Frank Sinatra was brought before the House Crime Committee as part of their investigation of the mafia -- Sinatra felt Frank Sinatra was being victimized by false accusations. By 1973 Frank Sinatra had come out of retirement, releasing the No. 15 album, "Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back," later that year. Though Frank Sinatra released several more albums of mixed-quality material, Sinatra's output trickled off during the '70s. In 1976 Frank Sinatra married yet again, this time to Barbara Marx, the widow of Zeppo Marx of the Marx Brothers.
Though 1980's Trilogy was critically praised, Frank Sinatra did not record much during the decade, concentrating on live appearances (including several telethon appearances).In 1993 Sinatra brought new attention to his career by recording a chart-topping duet album with singers such as Tony Bennett, Aretha Franklin and Bono from U2;though critically panned (the duets were recorded in separate studios at separate times!),the album was his best-selling release to date. The following year Frank Sinatra released his final album, Duets II, more of the same stuff found on his first Duets album. After an 80th birthday performance in 1995, "The Chairman of the Board" retired from music.
Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 May 14, 1998) was an American singer who is one of the most highly acclaimed male popular song vocalists of all time. Renowned for his impeccable phrasing and timing, many critics place Frank Sinatra alongside artists such as Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley, and The Beatles as one of the most important popular and influential music figures of the 20th century.
Sinatra launched a second career as a dramatic film actor, and became admired for a screen persona distinctly tougher than his smooth singing style.
Sinatra also had a larger-than-life presence in the public eye, and as "The Chairman of the Board" became an American icon, known for his brash, sometimes swaggering attitude, as embodied by his signature song "My Way". Similarly, Frank Sinatra found considerable attention given to his alleged connections with the Mafia.
his Life
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his Early life
Frank Sinatra was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1915. Frank Sinatra was the only child of a quiet Sicilian fireman, Anthony Martin Sinatra (1894-1969). Anthony had immigrated to the United States in 1895. his mother, Natalie Della Gavarante (1896-1977), was a talented, tempestuous Ligurian, who worked as a part-time abortionist. Known as "Hatpin Dolly," she emigrated in 1897. Although it is part of the Sinatra folklore that Frank had an impoverished childhood, Frank Sinatra was actually brought up in middle-class surroundings, due to his father's secure job as a fireman and his mother's strong political ties to the Democratic Party in Hoboken.Following his teen years in New Jersey, Sinatra was interested in serving his country during World War II. But on December 9, 1941, close to his 26th birthday, Sinatra was classified as 4-F at Newark Induction Center, due to a punctured eardrum Frank Sinatra suffered from a difficult forceps delivery. This allowed Sinatra to pursue entertainment, rather than being enlisted in the Air Force.
his Career
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Sinatra as caricatured by Sam Berman for NBC's 1947 promotional bookAfter a brief stint with James, Frank Sinatra joined the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra in 1940 where Frank Sinatra rose to fame as a singer. his vast appeal to the "bobby soxers," as teenage girls were called, revealed a whole new audience for popular music, which had appealed mainly to adults up to that time. (The complete span of his career with Dorsey was released in the 1994 box set The Song Is You.) It was as a featured singer with Dorsey that Sinatra made his earliest film appearances, such as the 1942 Eleanor Powell/Red Skelton comedy, Ship Ahoy in which the uncredited singer performed a couple of songs.
He later signed with Columbia Records as a solo artist with some success, particularly during the musicians' recording strikes. Vocalists were not part of the musician union and were allowed to record during the ban by using a cappella vocal backing.
Of this first phase of Sinatra's career, it can be said that it anticipated virtually every phase of what, in the 1960s, would be called "the youth movement." his sudden--and for many his alarming--appeal to teenagers became a topic of journalistic and even sociological comment. Later musical idols would pass through the same stages of massive initial appeal, decline, and retrenchment, but few, however, would manage to attract as many new audiences as Sinatra did. This became essential to any popular music career that aspired to longevity, and Sinatra did it in the 1950s and repeatedly afterward, even into the final decade of his career.
Frank Sinatra, 1947Sinatra's singing career was in decline in the late 1940s and early 1950s, a period when novelty tunes became popular with audiences and during which Sinatra's ageing would cause some loss of appeal to new teen-age audiences. Nor was his career helped by the adverse publicity that follows would-be comebacks in the history of American show business: Sinatra would succeed not merely in re-establishing his popularity but in taking it far beyond what Frank Sinatra had achieved in the 1940s. This renewal would come about not in the recording studio but in Hollywood.
Sinatra had begun appearing in movies in the early 1940s, but usually in musicals, often undistinguished ones. Frank Sinatra also appeared on a weekly television show on CBS for two years from 1950-1952 (and would try again for one year on ABC from 1957-1958).
What might be called Sinatra's second career began as a full-fledged dramatic actor when Frank Sinatra played the scrappy Pvt. Angelo Maggio in the eve-of-Pearl Harbor drama From Here to Eternity (1953), for which Frank Sinatra won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. This role and performance became legendary at the time as the key comeback moment in Sinatra's career. Virtually overnight, his career recovered.
The following year, Sinatra played a crazed, coldblooded assassin determined to kill the President in the thriller Suddenly (available freely online here); critics found Sinatra's performance one of the most chilling portrayals of a psychopath ever committed to film. This was followed in 1955 by his portrayal of a heroin addict in 1955's The Man with the Golden Arm, for which Frank Sinatra received an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination.
Soon after From Here to Eternity, Sinatra's singing career rebounded. During the 1950s, Frank Sinatra signed with Capitol Records, where Frank Sinatra worked with many of the finest arrangers of the era, most notably Nelson Riddle, Gordon Jenkins, and Billy May, and with whom Frank Sinatra made a series of highly-regarded recordings. By the early 1960s, Frank Sinatra was a big enough star to start his own record label: Reprise Records. his position with the label earned Frank Sinatra the long-lasting nickname "The Chairman of the Board".
The famous Sinatra comeback is the stuff of American legend, and, indeed, there seemed little in either his 1940s film career or his radio and television performances of the early 1950s to predict the dramatic success Frank Sinatra would enjoy on screen in the 1950s and 1960s. However, the musical turnaround should not have been unexpected. At the very end of his Columbia recording career, in two performances in 1952 Sinatra had given advance warning of what would become the new sound Frank Sinatra achieved in the 1950s at Capitol. In "The Birth of the Blues" it would be the sound of the new and "swinging" Sinatra: a hipper, tougher, more masculine persona than the sometimes boyish Sinatra of the 1940s. In "I'm A Fool To Want You" Frank Sinatra anticipated the darker, melancholic sound of the great "torch" albums of the 1950s. Neither performance was sufficient to prevent Columbia from declining to renew his contract, in what must surely rank as one of the great errors in the business history of American popular music.
In the 1950s and 1960s, this new Sinatra would become the most popular attraction in Las Vegas, the venue of choice for performers of his era as the rise of rock and roll began to reduce the market for their recordings. Frank Sinatra was friends with many other entertainers, including Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr, actor Peter Lawford, comedian Joey Bishop, and sometimes Shirley MacLaine. They formed the core of the Rat Pack, a loose group of entertainers who were friends and socialized together--and whose wild and unpredictable antics would dominate show business news for much of the period 1958-63.
Sinatra played a major role in the desegregation of Nevada hotels and casinos in the 1960s. Sinatra led his fellow members of the Rat Pack in refusing to patronize hotels and casinos that denied service to Sammy Davis Jr. With the release of the film Ocean's Eleven (1960), the Rat Pack became the subject of great media attention, and this gave the Rat Pack, Sinatra in particular the leverage the needed to force hotels and casinos to end segregation.
In 2001, after Sinatra's death, Las Vegas named Frank Sinatra Drive, a new street parallel to Interstate 15 and Las Vegas Boulevard, in his honor.
Sinatra was close to the Kennedy family and was a friend and strong supporter of President John F. Kennedy. Years later, Sinatra's youngest daughter Tina would state that Sinatra and mob figure Sam Giancana had helped Kennedy win a crucial primary election in 1960 by helping to deliver the union vote. Sinatra is said to have introduced Kennedy to Judith Campbell, who had been a girlfriend of both Sinatra's and Giancana. Campbell allegedly began a relationship with Kennedy; eventually Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy became alarmed and told his brother to distance himself from Sinatra. Sinatra would lose his Nevada casino license in 1963 when Giancana was seen in the Cal-Neva Lodge casino, of which Sinatra was a part owner.
Frank Sinatra as Maj. Bennett Marco in The Manchurian Candidate, 1962.Sinatra resumed his strong film work with the 1962 paranoid classic The Manchurian Candidate, in which Frank Sinatra plays the troubled, frequently blinking, but nonetheless resolute protagonist. In 1965's Von Ryan's Express, Sinatra added dimensionality to a World War II action role. Other film appearances during this time were either cameos or, as in the case of 1964's Robin and the Seven Hoods, critically-panned efforts to trade in on his image.
In the 1970s Sinatra staged a retirement and several comebacks, recording less frequently but continuing to perform in Las Vegas and around the world. It was a period during which, by taking to the road again, Sinatra sought to bring the great American songbook of the 1920s and 1930s to a much wider audience than the one that frequented the casinos of Las Vegas.
In 1981 Sinatra's Nevada casino license was reinstated after hearings by the Nevada Gaming Control Board. Indeed, journalist Pete Hamill wrote in his book, Why Sinatra Matters, that Sinatra was "the most investigated American performer since John Wilkes Booth."
"Sure, I knew some of those guys," Sinatra himself said. "I spent a lot of time in saloons. And saloons are not run by the Christian Brothers. There were a lot of guys around, and they came out of Prohibition, and they ran pretty good saloons. I was a kid. I worked in the places that were open. They paid you, and the checks didn't bounce. I didn't meet any Nobel Prize winners in saloons. But if Francis of Assisi was a singer and worked in saloons, Frank Sinatra would've met the same guys."
April 18, 1985: Frank Sinatra during a show at Tokyo's Budokan HallIn 1986, investigative journalist Kitty Kelley published a biography of Sinatra entitled his Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra. Sinatra went to court to try to prevent it from being published, bringing a $2 million lawsuit against her because Frank Sinatra believed that the book painted Frank Sinatra in an unattractive light, and Frank Sinatra accused her of misrepresenting herself as his authorized biographer. Frank Sinatra later withdrew his lawsuit amid much publicity and the book went on to become number one on the New York Times best seller list and was a huge seller not only in the US but also in England, Canada, and Australia. Another Sinatra nemesis, the Hollywood gossip columnist Rona Barrett, came closer to a depiction of his character in her roman a clef, The Lovo-maniacs, which attempted a fictional insight into his complex personality. Another book Sinatra might have prevented from being published had Frank Sinatra still been alive is "Mr S: The Last Word on Frank Sinatra" (2003), co-written by his valet George Jacobs.
Sinatra's singing career continued into the 1990s, most notably with his commercially-successful Duets albums on which Frank Sinatra sang with other stars such as U2's Bono. Frank Sinatra continued to perform live until February 1995, but the nearly 80-year-old singer often had to rely on teleprompters for his lyrics, to compensate for his failing memory.
his Marriage and family
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Sinatra married the actress Ava Gardner on November 7, 1951, only ten days after his divorce from his first wife became final. They were separated on October 27, 1953 but were not divorced until 1957. She was considered to be his truest love, but that did not guarantee marital success and stability in Hollywood.
Sinatra proposed to actress Lauren Bacall, whom Frank Sinatra had been seeing since shortly after her husband Humphrey Bogart died in 1957, but reneged when word of their relationship became public.
On December 8, 1963, Frank Sinatra, Jr. was kidnapped. Sinatra paid the kidnappers' $240,000 ransom demand (even offering $1,000,000 if only his son would be returned, though the kidnappers bizarrely turned down this offer), and his son was released unharmed on December 10. Because the kidnappers demanded that Sinatra call them only from payphones, Sinatra carried a roll of dimes with Frank Sinatra throughout the ordeal, and this became a lifetime habit. The kidnappers were subsequently apprehended and convicted. A movie called Stealing Sinatra has been shot about this incident.
Sinatra married actress Mia Farrow, 30 years his junior, in 1966. They were divorced two years later.
In 1976, Sinatra married Barbara Blakeley Marx (formerly married to Zeppo Marx), who converted to Catholicism to marry him. She remained his wife until his death, although her relations with Sinatra's children were consistently portrayed as stormy, something Nancy Sinatra (Jr.) confirmed when she publicly claimed that Barbara had not bothered to call Frank's children even when the end was near, although they were close by, and the children missed the opportunity to be at their father's bedside when Frank Sinatra died.
Frank Sinatra Alleged organized crime links
Sinatra has been frequently linked to members of the Mafia and it has long been rumored that his career was aided behind the scenes by organized crime.Comedian Jackie Mason has alleged that after mocking Sinatra in his routine, Frank Sinatra received threats and his hotel room was shot up in his presence. After Frank Sinatra continued, Frank Sinatra received death threats and was roughed up and his nose was broken.
J. Edgar Hoover apparently suspected Sinatra over the years, and Sinatra's file at the FBI ended up at 2,403 pages, detailing allegations of extortion against Ronald Alpert for $100,000. Sinatra publicly rejected these accusations many times, and was never charged with any crimes in connection with them.
The character of Johnny Fontaine in Mario Puzo's The Godfather was believed to have been based on Sinatra, though interviews by Kitty Kelley for her biography of Sinatra established that this wasn't the case.
Frank Sinatra Death
A frequent visitor, property owner and benefactor in the Palm Springs, California area, Sinatra wished to be buried in the desert Frank Sinatra grew to love so much. Frank Sinatra died at the age of 82 of a heart attack in Los Angeles, California, following a long battle with coronary heart disease, kidney disease, bladder cancer, and dementia. Frank Sinatra had undergone surgery to remove part of his intestines in 1986, and had suffered a bad fall from the stage in 1994.His Funeral was held on May 20, 1998 at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Beverly Hills. Sinatra's last words were (according to his daughter Nancy Sinatra, as told to Variety senior columnist, Army Archerd): "I'm losing." Sinatra was buried a few miles away from Palm Springs next to his parents in Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City, a quiet, unassuming cemetery near his famous compound in Rancho Mirage, California, which is located on the beautiful, tree-lined thoroughfare that bears his name. his longtime friend, Jilly Rizzo, who died in a Rancho Mirage car crash in 1992, is buried nearby as is pop star, former Palm Springs mayor and Congressman, Sonny Bono.
Legend has it that Sinatra was buried with a flask of Jack Daniel's whiskey, a roll of ten dimes (in reference to the kidnapping of his son, see above), a Zippo lighter (which some take to be a reference to his mob connections) and a packet of Camel cigarettes. The words The Best is Yet to Come are imprinted on his tombstone.
Frank Sinatra Recorded legacy
Frank Sinatra Influences
Sinatra's vocal style represented a significant departure from the 'crooning' style of his early idol, Bing Crosby. Sinatra's generation represented the first generation of children that had grown up in the era of the microphone, and the amplification of sound enabled singers to sing in a much softer, much more nuanced style. Crosby had begun this change, and established a new American singing style based around conversational ease.However Sinatra, as Frank Sinatra himself once noted, sang more, by which Frank Sinatra meant that Frank Sinatra introduced a bel canto sound to the tradition begun by Crosby. And, more importantly, Frank Sinatra might be said to have brought the Crosby tradition to artistic completion, taking it to levels of intensity and depth of feeling that, because of the displacement of the Crosby-Sinatra tradition by rock and roll and subsequent genres, are unlikely to be achieved again.
Two other great performers of the 1930s and 1940s were significant influences on Sinatra: Billie Holiday and Mabel Mercer. Sinatra regularly heard "Lady Day" in New York clubs in the 1940s and learned from her the importance of authenticity of emotion. From Mercer Frank Sinatra learned the importance of the element of "story" in a song. For Sinatra a song is a three-four minute narrative sometimes even the story of himself, his own life, his own heartaches, his own feelings of buoyancy and this is why Ella Fitzgerald could say of him, "With Frank, it's always this little guy, telling this ... story." The archetypal examples of the Sinatra song as story could later be found in two selections from his 1958 Capitol LP Frank Sinatra Sings For Only The Lonely: "Angel Eyes" and "One for My Baby (And One More For The Road)".
Frank Sinatra Genres
Sinatra would certainly have been considered a 'pop' singer before the Rock and roll era, and the epithets Traditional Pop or more specifically Classic Pop have perhaps been coined to describe Sinatra's style.There still exists a much wider debate, as with Ella Fitzgerald, as to whether Sinatra is a jazz singer. Certainly Frank Sinatra performed with the finest jazz musicians, and largely performed material from the Great American Songbook. There are very few occasions when Sinatra was recorded scat singing, but minor nuances and slight deviations from the vocal line are a hallmark of the material Frank Sinatra recorded, and Frank Sinatra is also known for his impeccable jazz timing and phrasing. Indeed, it is impossible to imagine the Sinatra of the great years after 1953 without the influence of jazz. It is no accident that Frank Sinatra would be Lester Young's ideal singer in the band Young had hoped to lead, nor that Miles Davis identified Sinatra's phrasing as an influence on his own. The list of Sinatra's jazz admirers is long and stellar, including such figures as Count Basie, Stan Getz, and Oscar Peterson. The question of his status as a "jazz singer" has never seemed to matter as much to such artists as it has to critics and academicians
Frank Sinatra Movies
Listen Up: the Lives of Quincy Jones 1990... Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988 ... Singing Sword
Cannonball Run II 1984 ... Himself
First Deadly Sin, The 1980 ... Edward Delaney; Executive Producer
That's Entertainment! 1974 .
.. Dirty Dingus Mcgee 1970 ... Dingus Magee
Lady in Cement 1968 ... Tony Rome
Detective, The 1968 ... Joe Leland
Naked Runner, The 1967 ... Sam Laker
Tony Rome 1967 ... Tony Rome
Oscar, The 1966 ... Their Self
Cast a Giant Shadow 1966 ... Vince
Assault On a Queen 1966 ... Mark Brittain; Executive Producer
Marriage On the Rocks 1965 ... Dan Edwards
None but the Brave 1965 ... Chief Pharmacist's Mate Maloney; Director; Producer
Von Ryan's Express 1965 ... Col. Joseph L. Ryan
Paris When It Sizzles 1964 ... Singing Voice
Robin And the Seven Hoods 1964 ... Robbo; Producer
List of Adrian Messenger, The 1963 ... Gypsy Stableman
Come Blow Your Horn 1963 ... Alan
4 for Texas 1963 ... Zack Thomas
Manchurian Candidate, The 1962 ... Bennett Marco
Road to Hong Kong, The 1962 ... Guest Star
Sergeants 3 1962 ... 1st Sgt. Mike Merry; Producer
Devil at 4 O'clock, The 1961 ... Harry
Ocean's Eleven 1960 ... Danny Ocean
Pepe 1960 ... Their Self
Can-Can 1960 ... Francois Durnais
Hole in the Head, A 1959 ... Tony Manetta; Co-Producer
Never So Few 1959 ... Tom C. Reynolds
Kings Go Forth 1958 ... Lt. Sam Loggins
Some Came Running 1958 ... Dave Hirsh
Joker Is Wild, The 1957 ... Joe E. Lewis
Pal Joey 1957 ... Joey Evans
Pride And the Passion, The 1957 ... Miguel
High Society 1956 ... Mike Connor
Johnny Concho 1956 ... Johnny Concho; Producer
Meet Me in Las Vegas 1956 ...
Around the World in 80 Days 1956 ... Saloon Pianist
Man With the Golden Arm, The 1955 ... Frankie Machine
Not as a Stranger 1955 ... Alfred Boone
Young at Heart 1955 ... Barney Sloan
Tender Trap, The 1955 ... Charlie Y. Reader
Guys And Dolls 1955 ... Nathan Detroit
Suddenly 1954 ... John Baron
From Here to Eternity 1953 ... Angelo Maggio
Meet Danny Wilson 1952 ... Danny Wilson
Double Dynamite 1951 ... Johnny Dalton
On the Town 1949 ... Chip
Take Me Out to the Ball Game 1949 ... Dennis Ryan
Kissing Bandit, The 1948 ... Ricardo
Miracle of the Bells, The 1948 ... Father Paul
It Happened in Brooklyn 1947 ... Danny Webson Miller
Till the Clouds Roll By 1946 ... Finale
Anchors Aweigh 1945 ... Clarence Doolittle
Step Lively 1944 ... Glen
Higher And Higher 1943 ... Frank
Reveille With Beverly 1943 ...
Ship Ahoy 1942 ...
Las Vegas Nights 1941 ... Chairman of the Board
Frank Sinatra music
Song Is You 1994Essence of Frank Sinatra 1994
Duets II 1994
I Got You (Under My Skin) 1994
Duets 1993
Sings the Select Cole Porter 1991
And Company 1991
Tommy Dorsey/Frank Sinatra, All-Time Greatest Hits Vol. 4. 1990
The Reprise Collection 1990
The Capitol years 1990
Tommy Dorsey/Frank Sinatra, All-Time Greatest Hits Vol. 3 1989
Tommy Dorsey/Frank Sinatra, All-Time Greatest Hits Vols. 1 & 2 1988
The Voice: The Columbia Years (1943-1952) 1986
All-Time Classics 1986
L.A. Is My Lady 1984
The Dorsey/Sinatra Radio Years 1983
The Dorsey/Sinatra Sessions Vols. 1, 2 and 3 1982
She Shot Me Down 1981
Trilogy: Past, Present and Future 1980
New York 1980
Theme From New York, New York 1980
Portrait of Sinatra 1977
The Reprise Years 1975
Round #1 1975
The Main Event --Live 1974
Some Nice Things I've Missed 1974
Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back 1973
Frank 1973
his Greatest Hits: Volume 2 1972
Sinatra and Company 1971
Watertown 1970
My Way 1969
Close-Up 1969
A Man Alone 1969
Cycles 1968
Frank Sinatra, the World We Knew 1967
Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim 1967
Francis A. and Edward K. 1967
Something Stupid 1967
Strangers in the Night 1966
Sinatra at the Sands 1966
That's Life 1966
Moonlight 1966
Cycles 1966
Sinatra--A Man and his Music 1965
Sinatra for the Sophisticated 1965
September of My Years 1965
Moonlight Sinatra 1965
It Was a Very Good Year 1965
Softly 1964
Moon River and Other Academy Award Winners - It Might As Well Be Swing 1964
Days of Wine and Roses 1964
As I Leave You 1964
America, I Hear You Singing 1964
The Concert Sinatra 1963
Sinatra's Sinatra 1963
Sinatra Sings of Love & Things 1962
Sinatra Sings Great Songs From Great Britain 1962
Sinatra and Swingin' Brass 1962
Sinatra and Strings 1962
Sinatra and Basie 1962
Point of No Return 1962
Jolly Christmas with Frank Sinatra 1962 All Alone 1962
Stardust 1962
Night and Day 1962
Misty 1962
All the Way 1961
Sinatra's Swingin' Session 1961
Sinatra Swings 1961
Ring-a-Ding-Ding 1961
I Remember Tommy 1961
Frank Sinatra--20 Golden Greats 1961
Come Swing With Me 1961
That Old Black Magic 1961
I Get a Kick out of You 1961
High Hopes 1961
Nice 'n' Easy 1960
All the Way 1960
The Rare Sinatra 1959
No One Cares 1959
Look to Your Heart 1959
Come Dance With Me 1959
This Is Frank Sinatra, Vol. 2 1958
The Frank Sinatra Story 1958
Only the Lonely 1958
Come Fly With Me 1958
Witchcraft 1958
Hey! Jealous Lover 1958
Where Are You? 1957
A Swingin' Affair 1957
The Lady Is a Tramp 1957
This Is Sinatra 1956
Songs for Swingin' Lovers 1956
Close to You 1956
Swing Easy 1955
In the Wee Small Hours 1955
Love and Marriage 1955
Learnin' the Blues 1955
(Love Is) The Tender Trap 1955
Songs for Young Lovers 1954
Young at Heart 1954
Three Coins in the Fountain 1954
From Here to Eternity 1953
White Christmas 1940
Violets For Your Furs 1940
Oh Look at Me Now 1940
Night and Day 1940
Nancy 1940
I'll Never Smile Again 1940
Sinatra died of a heart attack at age 82 on May 14, 1998.
