Sinatra lived in a mainly Italian American working-class neighborhood. [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. [456], Sinatra's fourth and final Timex TV special, Welcome Home Elvis, was broadcast in March 1960, earning massive viewing figures. He was just a skinny kid with big ears. [475], Sinatra was married to Hollywood actress Ava Gardner from 1951 to 1957. [80] A legal battle ensued, eventually settled in August 1942. [452] In 1953, Sinatra starred in the NBC radio program Rocky Fortune, portraying Rocco Fortunato (a.k.a. [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. Clemens, Samuel. [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. [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. [75] Other records with Tommy Dorsey issued by RCA Victor include "Our Love Affair" and "Stardust" in 1940; "Oh! [547] Sinatra often invited Kennedy to Hollywood and Las Vegas, and the two would womanize and enjoy parties together. It was followed by 1968's Francis A. [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. The Rat Pack member apparently demanded that the house be ready for Christmas, so he could host a lavish party for all of his friends. [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. [592] Frank Sinatra Drive runs parallel to the Hudson River Waterfront Walkway. [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. [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. [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". [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". By 1962, he reportedly held a 50-percent share in the hotel. [579] He was called the Chairman of the Board.[why?] [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. He is among the world's best-selling music artists with an estimated 150 million record sales.[1][2]. Nancy Sinatra notes that he owned a Chrysler and people would show amazement that such a young kid could afford it. [398] His performance also won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor Motion Picture. He earned $200,000 and 25% of the profits for the performance. [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. [209], 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. 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. [105], Sinatra did not serve in the military during World War II. [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. For other uses, see, Sinatra's three stars for recording, television, and motion pictures on the, Hoboken Four, Harry James, and Tommy Dorsey (19351939), Onset of Sinatramania and role in World War II (19421945), Columbia years and career slump (19461952), Career revival and the Capitol years (19531962), Later career and final projects (19821998), Debut, musical films, and career slump (19411952), Alleged organized-crime links and Cal Neva Lodge. May 13 is considered "Frank Sinatra Day."[581]. [116] Sinatra's last two albums with Columbia, Dedicated to You and Sing and Dance with Frank Sinatra, were released in 1950. "Night and Day" "Begin the Beguine" "I Get a Kick Out of You" "I Love You" Medley: "You'd Be So Easy to Love"/"I've Got You Under My Skin""Don't Fence Me In" "I Concentrate on You" "Why Shouldn't I?" "Just One of Those Things" [168] After recording the first song, "I've Got the World on a String", Sinatra offered Riddle a rare expression of praise, "Beautiful! By May 1941, Sinatra topped the male singer polls in Billboard and DownBeat magazines. Track after track, the brilliant concept albums redefined the nature of pop vocal art". Sinatra received the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1971. [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. [598] Wynn Resorts' Encore Las Vegas resort features a restaurant dedicated to Sinatra which opened in 2008. [241] A career anthology, A Man and His Music, followed in November, winning Album of the Year at the Grammys the following year. [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. Sinatra forged a highly successful career as a film actor. [587] Biographer Arnold Shaw considered that "If Las Vegas had not existed, Sinatra could have invented it". [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. Sinatra released his debut album, The Voice of Frank Sinatra, in 1946. [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. [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. [260] "My Way", Sinatra's best-known song on the Reprise label, was not an instant success, charting at No. [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". [558] Sinatra arranged Reagan's Presidential gala, as he had done for Kennedy 20 years previously. 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. LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT. [372] At Capitol he used a Neumann U47, an "ultra-sensitive" microphone which better captured the timbre and tone of his voice. [152] At a concert at Chez Paree in Chicago, only 150 people in a 1,200-seat capacity venue turned up to see him. [375], Sinatra attempted to pursue an acting career in Hollywood in the early 1940s. Sinatra was not very enthusiastic about the song initially. On television, The Frank Sinatra Show began on CBS in 1950, and he continued to make appearances on television throughout the 1950s and 1960s. [180][182] Swing Easy! His son, Frank Jr., and his daughter, Nancy, were both singers of note, and the musical gene persists in their children. I will never forget what you have done for me today". [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. Christina Sinatra was born on the 20th of June, 1948 in Los Angeles, California. I had friends whose husbands were 'players', and every time the husbands had affairs my friends were showered with gifts. [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. Sinatra copied Dorsey's mannerisms and traits, becoming a demanding perfectionist like him, even adopting his hobby of toy trains. [96], Sinatra signed with Columbia Records as a solo artist on June 1, 1943, during the 194244 musicians' strike. Entertainer, Singer, Actor, Businessman. and has three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in film and music. It helped keep him at the top of his game. [267] However, it sold a mere 30,000 copies that year and reached a peak chart position of 101. [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. [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. "[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. [373], In the 1950s, Sinatra's career was facilitated by developments in technology. 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. Frank. [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". 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[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.