Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American s… Read Full Bio ↴Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer, actor, and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 150 million records worldwide.
Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, to Italian immigrants, Sinatra began his musical career in the swing era with bandleaders Harry James and Tommy Dorsey. Sinatra found success as a solo artist after he signed with Columbia Records in 1943, becoming the idol of the "bobby soxers". He released his debut album, The Voice of Frank Sinatra, in 1946. Sinatra's professional career had stalled by the early 1950s, and he turned to Las Vegas, where he became one of its best known residency performers as part of The Rat Pack. His career was reborn in 1953 with the success of From Here to Eternity, with his performance subsequently winning an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. Sinatra released several critically lauded albums, including In the Wee Small Hours (1955), Songs for Swingin' Lovers! (1956), Come Fly with Me (1958), Only the Lonely (1958) 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 September of My Years, starred in the Emmy-winning television special Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music, and released the tracks "Strangers in the Night" and "My Way". 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 collaboration with Duke Ellington. Sinatra retired for the first time in 1971, but came out of retirement two years later and recorded several albums and resumed performing at Caesars Palace, and reached success in 1980 with "New York, New York". Using his Las Vegas shows as a home base, he toured both within the United States and internationally until a short time before his death in 1998.
Sinatra forged a highly successful career as a film actor. After winning an Academy Award for From Here to Eternity, he starred in The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), and received critical acclaim for his performance in The Manchurian Candidate (1962). He appeared in various musicals such as On the Town (1949), Guys and Dolls (1955), High Society (1956), and Pal Joey (1957), winning another Golden Globe for the latter. Toward the end of his career, he became associated with playing detectives, including the title character in Tony Rome (1967). Sinatra would later receive the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1971. On television, The Frank Sinatra Show began on ABC in 1950, and he continued to make appearances on television throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Sinatra was also heavily involved with politics from the mid-1940s, and actively campaigned for presidents such as Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, though before Kennedy's death Sinatra's alleged Mafia connections led to his being snubbed.
While Sinatra never formally learned how to read music, he had an impressive understanding of it, and he worked very hard from a young age to improve his abilities in all aspects of music. A perfectionist, renowned for his dress sense and performing presence, he always insisted on recording live with his band. His bright blue eyes earned him the popular nickname "Ol' Blue Eyes". Sinatra led a colorful personal life, and was often involved in turbulent affairs with women, such as with his second wife Ava Gardner. He went on to marry Mia Farrow in 1966 and Barbara Marx in 1976. Sinatra had several violent confrontations, usually with journalists he felt had crossed him, or work bosses with whom he had disagreements. He 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. Sinatra was also the recipient of eleven Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Trustees Award, Grammy Legend Award and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. After his death, American music critic Robert Christgau called him "the greatest singer of the 20th century", and he continues to be seen as an iconic figure.
Sinatra died with his wife at his side at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on May 14, 1998, aged 82, after a heart attack. Sinatra had 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 was further diagnosed as having dementia. He had made no public appearances following a heart attack in February 1997. Sinatra's wife encouraged him to "fight" while attempts were made to stabilize him, and his final words were, "I'm losing." Sinatra's daughter, Tina, later wrote that she and her sister, 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." 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 a minute.
Sinatra's funeral was held at the Roman Catholic Church of the Good Shepherd in Beverly Hills, California, on May 20, 1998, with 400 mourners in attendance and thousands of fans outside. Gregory Peck, Tony Bennett, and Sinatra's son, Frank Jr., addressed the mourners, who included many notable people from film and entertainment. Sinatra was buried in a blue business suit 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.
His close friends Jilly Rizzo and Jimmy Van Heusen are buried nearby. The words "The Best Is Yet to Come", plus "Beloved Husband & Father" are imprinted on Sinatra's grave marker. Significant increases in recording sales worldwide were reported by Billboard in the month of his death.
Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, to Italian immigrants, Sinatra began his musical career in the swing era with bandleaders Harry James and Tommy Dorsey. Sinatra found success as a solo artist after he signed with Columbia Records in 1943, becoming the idol of the "bobby soxers". He released his debut album, The Voice of Frank Sinatra, in 1946. Sinatra's professional career had stalled by the early 1950s, and he turned to Las Vegas, where he became one of its best known residency performers as part of The Rat Pack. His career was reborn in 1953 with the success of From Here to Eternity, with his performance subsequently winning an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. Sinatra released several critically lauded albums, including In the Wee Small Hours (1955), Songs for Swingin' Lovers! (1956), Come Fly with Me (1958), Only the Lonely (1958) 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 September of My Years, starred in the Emmy-winning television special Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music, and released the tracks "Strangers in the Night" and "My Way". 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 collaboration with Duke Ellington. Sinatra retired for the first time in 1971, but came out of retirement two years later and recorded several albums and resumed performing at Caesars Palace, and reached success in 1980 with "New York, New York". Using his Las Vegas shows as a home base, he toured both within the United States and internationally until a short time before his death in 1998.
Sinatra forged a highly successful career as a film actor. After winning an Academy Award for From Here to Eternity, he starred in The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), and received critical acclaim for his performance in The Manchurian Candidate (1962). He appeared in various musicals such as On the Town (1949), Guys and Dolls (1955), High Society (1956), and Pal Joey (1957), winning another Golden Globe for the latter. Toward the end of his career, he became associated with playing detectives, including the title character in Tony Rome (1967). Sinatra would later receive the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1971. On television, The Frank Sinatra Show began on ABC in 1950, and he continued to make appearances on television throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Sinatra was also heavily involved with politics from the mid-1940s, and actively campaigned for presidents such as Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, though before Kennedy's death Sinatra's alleged Mafia connections led to his being snubbed.
While Sinatra never formally learned how to read music, he had an impressive understanding of it, and he worked very hard from a young age to improve his abilities in all aspects of music. A perfectionist, renowned for his dress sense and performing presence, he always insisted on recording live with his band. His bright blue eyes earned him the popular nickname "Ol' Blue Eyes". Sinatra led a colorful personal life, and was often involved in turbulent affairs with women, such as with his second wife Ava Gardner. He went on to marry Mia Farrow in 1966 and Barbara Marx in 1976. Sinatra had several violent confrontations, usually with journalists he felt had crossed him, or work bosses with whom he had disagreements. He 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. Sinatra was also the recipient of eleven Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Trustees Award, Grammy Legend Award and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. After his death, American music critic Robert Christgau called him "the greatest singer of the 20th century", and he continues to be seen as an iconic figure.
Sinatra died with his wife at his side at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on May 14, 1998, aged 82, after a heart attack. Sinatra had 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 was further diagnosed as having dementia. He had made no public appearances following a heart attack in February 1997. Sinatra's wife encouraged him to "fight" while attempts were made to stabilize him, and his final words were, "I'm losing." Sinatra's daughter, Tina, later wrote that she and her sister, 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." 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 a minute.
Sinatra's funeral was held at the Roman Catholic Church of the Good Shepherd in Beverly Hills, California, on May 20, 1998, with 400 mourners in attendance and thousands of fans outside. Gregory Peck, Tony Bennett, and Sinatra's son, Frank Jr., addressed the mourners, who included many notable people from film and entertainment. Sinatra was buried in a blue business suit 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.
His close friends Jilly Rizzo and Jimmy Van Heusen are buried nearby. The words "The Best Is Yet to Come", plus "Beloved Husband & Father" are imprinted on Sinatra's grave marker. Significant increases in recording sales worldwide were reported by Billboard in the month of his death.
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The Reprise Collection
Frank Sinatra Lyrics
A Garden in the Rain 'twas just a garden in the rain Close to a little…
A Long Night Long night, it's a long night, my friend The barrooms and…
A Man Alone In me you see a man alone.Held by the habit…
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square That certain night, the night we met There was magic abroad…
All Alone All alone, I'm so all alone, There is no one else…
All I Need Is The Girl Got my tweed pressed, got my best vest, all I…
All or Nothing At All All or nothing at all Half a love never appealed to…
America the Beautiful America, America, America, America O beautiful for spacious…
California I've known her valleys, I've known her mountains Her mission…
Come Rain or Come Shine I'm gonna love you, like nobody's loved you Come rain or…
Dindi Sky, so vast is the sky With far away clouds just…
Don'cha Go 'way Mad I must confess what you say is true I had a…
Don't Take Your Love from Me Tear a star from out the sky And the sky feels…
Drinking Again Drinkin' again and thinkin' of when, when you loved me I'm…
Emily Emily, Emily, Emily Has the murmuring sound of may All silve…
Empty Tables It's like singin' to empty tables Or a gallery full of…
Fly Me To The Moon Fly me to the moon Let me play among the stars Let…
Forget to Remember Pretend there is no silence, alone in your apartment Don't n…
Here's to the Band Hear that music playing, listen to what it's saying Through…
Here's To The Losers Here's to those who love not too wisely, know not…
How Insensitive How insensitive I must have seemed When she told me that he…
I Concentrate On You Whenever skies look gray to me and trouble begins to…
I Get a Kick Out of You I get no kick from champagne Mere alcohol, it doesn't move…
I Have Dreamed I have dreamed that your arms are lovely And I have…
I Love My Wife My thoughts may stray My eyes may roam The neighbor's grass …
I Wished On The Moon Every night was long and gloomy, shadows gathered in the…
I'll Only Miss Her When I Think of Her I'll only miss her when I think of her And I'll…
I've Got You Under My Skin I've got you under my skin I've got you, deep in…
Indian Summer Summer, you old Indian Summer You're the tear that comes aft…
It Started All Over Again It started all over again The moment I looked in your…
It Was A Very Good Year When I was seventeen, it was a very good year It…
It's Sunday Drowsy morning sunlight, gentle kisses for my love It's Sund…
Just As though You Were Here I'll wake each morning, and I'll promise to laugh I'll say…
Let's Fall In Love Birds do it, bees do it Even educated fleas do it Let's…
Love and Marriage Love and marriage, love and marriage Go together like a hors…
Love Walked In Love walked right in and drove the shadows away Love walked…
Luck Be A Lady Luck be a lady tonight Luck be a lady tonight Luck if…
Mack The Knife Oh, the shark has pretty teeth dear And he shows 'em,…
Me And My Shadow We three, we're all alone, living in a memory My echo,…
Moonlight Serenade I stand at your gate, and the song that I sing…
More Than You Know Whether you are here or yonder, Whether you are false…
My Kind Of Town Now this could only happen to a guy like me And…
My Shining Hour This moment, this minute and each second in it Will leave…
My Way And now the end is near And so I face that…
Nancy If I don't see her each day I miss her Gee,…
Night and Day Like the beat, beat, beat of the tom tom When the…
Oh, You Crazy Moon Writer(s): burke/van heusen When they met, the way they smi…
Once I Loved Once, once I loved and I gave so much love To…
Pennies from Heaven Every time it rains It rains pennies from heaven Don't you k…
Please Be Kind Well, this is my first affair, please be kind Handle my…
Send In The Clowns Isn't it rich, are we a pair Me here at last…
September Song When I was a young man courting the girls I played…
Soliloquy I wonder what he'll think of me I guess he'll call…
Somethin' Stupid I know I stand in line Until you think you have…
Something Something in the way she moves Attracts me like no other…
Strangers In The Night Strangers in the night Exchanging glances Wandering in the n…
Street Of Dreams Love laughs at a king Kings don't mean a thing On the…
Summer Wind The summer wind came blowin' in from across the sea It…
Sweet Lorraine Just found joy I'm as happy as a baby boy When he's…
That's Life That's life (that's life), that's what all the people say Yo…
The Best Is yet to Come Out of the tree of life I just picked me…
The Coffee Song (They've Got An Awful Lot Of Coffe Down In Brazil) Way…
The Gal That Got Away / It Never Entered My Mind The night is bitter The stars have lost their glitter The wi…
The Lady Is A Tramp She gets too hungry for dinner at eight She likes…
The Last Dance It's the last dance We've come to the last dance They're dim…
The Second Time Around Love is lovelier the second time around Just as wonderful wi…
The Shadow Of Your Smile The shadow of your smile When you have gone Will color all…
The Song Is You I hear music when I look at you A beautiful theme…
The Way You Look Tonight Someday, when I'm awfully low When the world is cold I will…
Theme From New York, New York Start spreadin' the news I'm leavin' today I want to be a…
There Used To Be A Ballpark And there used to be a ballpark Where the field was…
This Is All I Ask As I approach the prime of my life I find I…
Tina You simply can't forget her The moment you have met her Your…
Wave So close your eyes For that's a lovely way to be Aware…
What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life? I want to see your face in every kind of…
What'll I Do? What'll I do? When you are far away And I am blue What'll…
Without A Song Without a song the day would never end Without a song…
You Make Me Feel So Young You make me feel so young You make me feel so…
You'd Be so Easy to Love You'd be so easy to love So easy to idolize all…
You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You You're nobody 'til somebody loves you You're nobody 'til som…
Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart Never could carry a tune Never knew where to start You came…
Mike
on The Lady Is A Champ
She gets too hungry for dinner at eight
She can't eat late and stay up all night, because unlike society types, she has to get up in the morning.
She likes the theatre and never comes late
She cares more about seeing the play than being seen making an entrance.
She never bothers with people she'd hate
Her friends are friends, not social trophies.
Doesn't like crap games with barons or earls
While barrns and earls probably don't play craps, she associates with friends, not people to be seen with.
Won't go to Harlem in ermine and pearls
She doesn't "slum", the practice of the rich in the 30's, when the song was written, of touring poor neighborhoods dressed in rich clothes to "tut, tut" about the deplorable conditions, and congratulate each other for "caring about the poor"
Won't dish the dirt with the rest of the girls
Doesn't trade gossip for acceptance among an in-crowd
She likes the free, fresh wind in her hair
She cares more about how her hair feels than conforming with current hair fashions
Hates California, it's cold and it's damp
Since most of California is noticeably warmer and / or drier than New York, where the play the song was written for is set, this is probably a facetious excuse to like what she likes.
And she won't go to Harlem in Lincoln's or Ford's
Another reference to slumming, but facetious, since Lincolns and Fords were middle-class, not luxury brands when the lyric was written
Anonymous
on Try a Little Tenderness
Here are the correct lyrics
Try A Little Tenderness - Frank Sinatra - Lyrics
Oh she may be weary
Women do get wearied
Wearing that same old shabby dress
And when she’s weary
You try a little tenderness
You know she’s waiting
Just anticipating things she’ll may never possess
While she is without them
Try just a little bit of tenderness
It’s not just sentimental
She has her grieve and her care
And the words that soft and gentle
Makes it easier to bear
You wont regret it
Women don't forget it
Love is their whole happiness
And it’s all so easy
Try a little tenderness
Musical Interlude
And, it’s all so easy
Try a little tenderness
Daniel
on The Way You Look Tonight
I met Frank Jr. in Las Vegas, a real gentleman. RIP you both.
Giorgi Khutashvili
on Theme from New York, New York
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