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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Frank Sinatra Lyrics
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My dear, to be true
And I am a fool for beauty
Fooled by a feeling
That because I had found you
I could have bound you to me.
You are too beautiful
One lucky fool to be with
When there are other men
With eyes of their own
To see with.
Love does not stand sharing
Not if one cares
Have you been comparing
My every kiss with theirs?
If on the other hand
I'm faithful to you
It's not from a sense of duty
You are too beautiful
And I am a fool
For beauty.
The lyrics of Frank Sinatra's song "You Are Too Beautiful" showcase the singer's vulnerability and his amazement at the beauty of his lover. The song is about his fear of losing her due to other admirers and his own doubts and insecurities. He feels like a fool for being so taken by her beauty, and he worries that he will never be able to keep her all to himself. He seems conflicted about whether he should be faithful to her or if he should indulge in his own desires like other men.
Throughout the song, Frank Sinatra expresses his innermost feelings about his lover and his own struggles with desire and possessiveness. He describes his lover as being so beautiful that she couldn't possibly be real, and he feels foolish for falling in love with such an outstanding woman. He is also jealous of other men who may also be attracted to her beauty, and he questions whether or not he can be the only one to have her. Ultimately, he decides that he is faithful to her because he is unable to resist her gorgeousness.
In conclusion, "You Are Too Beautiful" is an introspective and emotional song about the singer's innermost fears and insecurities. He is in awe of his lover, but at the same time, he is fearful that her beauty will be her downfall. Despite his doubts, he realizes that he is a fool for love, and he cannot help but adore her beauty.
Line by Line Meaning
You are too beautiful
The subject is describing how beautiful their significant other is.
My dear, to be true
The subject questions whether someone so beautiful could actually be real.
And I am a fool for beauty
The subject acknowledges their weakness for beautiful things.
Fooled by a feeling
The subject admits that their emotions have misled them before.
That because I had found you
The subject believed that once they found their significant other, they could keep them.
I could have bound you to me.
The subject believed that once they found their significant other, they could keep them.
You are too beautiful
The subject reiterates how beautiful their significant other is.
For one man alone
The subject believes that their significant other is too beautiful to be with just one person.
One lucky fool to be with
The subject considers themselves lucky to be with someone so beautiful.
When there are other men
The subject recognizes that there are other men who also find their significant other attractive.
With eyes of their own
The subject acknowledges that other men have their own unique perceptions of beauty.
To see with.
The subject notes that other men are capable of seeing their significant other's beauty.
Love does not stand sharing
The subject expresses that true love cannot be shared.
Not if one cares
The subject believes that if someone truly cares, they will not want to share their significant other.
Have you been comparing
The subject asks if their significant other has been comparing them to other men.
My every kiss with theirs?
The subject wonders if their significant other has been comparing their kisses to someone else's.
If on the other hand
The subject introduces a new perspective.
I'm faithful to you
The subject assures their significant other that they are faithful.
It's not from a sense of duty
The subject notes that their faithfulness is not obligatory.
You are too beautiful
The subject reiterates how beautiful their significant other is.
And I am a fool
The subject admits that they are foolish.
For beauty.
The subject acknowledges that their weakness for beauty makes them act foolishly.
Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
Written by: LORENZ HART, RICHARD RODGERS
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00:00 : My Way
04:31 : Fly Me To The Moon
07:00 : The Way You Look Tonight
10:21 : L.O.V.E.
12:47 : Come Fly With Me
16:03 : New York, New York
19:28 : Something Stupid
22:06 : Strangers in the Night
24:39 : You Make Me Feel So Young
27:33 : Witchcraft
30:27 : I've Got You Under My Skin
34:06 : That's Life
37:12 : Witchcraft
40:03 : Moon River
43:22 : I Won't Dance
46:42 : CHICAGO
48:55 : My Way ( Duet with Paul Anka ? )
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00:00 My way
04:33 Fly me to the moon
07:02 The way you look tonight
10:22 L.O.V.E.
12:48 Come fly with me
16:04 New York
19:29 Something stupid
22:07 Strangers on the night
24:40 You make me feel so young
27:36 Those fingers in my hair
30:27 I've got you under my skin
34:07 That's life
37:13 Those fingers in my hair
40:05 Moon river
43:23 I won't dance
46:45 Chicago
48:57 My way
54:23
57:08
1:01:24 My kind of girl
1:04:12 S’posin’
1:05:39 Sunday
1:09:03
1:13:18 Come fly with me
1:16:19 Strangers on the night
1:18:21 New York
1:22:51 Nice and easy
1:26:04 I've got you under my skin
1:29:20 The best is yet to come
1:32:15 It was a very good year
1:34:37 That old black magic
1:36:56 At long last love
1:38:43 Night and day
1:41:10 That old black magic
1:43:28 My kind of town
1:45:53 The lady is a tramp
1:51:08 Nice and easy
1:54:15 Strangers on the night
1:56:24 Have yourself a merry little Christmas
1:59:12
@mariadelcarmenfloresfernan698
Mejor asi, el orden de sus canciones
00:00 : My Way
04:31 : Fly Me To The Moon
07:00 : The Way You Look Tonight
10:21 : L.O.V.E.
12:47 : Come Fly With Me
16:03 : New York, New York
19:28 : Something Stupid
22:06 : Strangers in the Night
24:39 : You Make Me Feel So Young
27:33 : Witchcraft
30:27 : I've Got You Under My Skin
34:06 : That's Life
37:12 : Witchcraft
40:03 : Moon River
43:22 : I Won't Dance
46:42 : CHICAGO
48:55 : My Way ( Duet with Paul Anka )
@peggyfong8223
My mother told me she used to wait in line around the block to see Frank Sinatra perform. They screamed louder than the girls who screamed at the Beatles. She is 94 now!!
@waldeniselacerda201
É a verdade de sua mãe, na época em que viveu essa fase! As pessoas que gostaram e vibraram a cada audição dessa música, se identificaram com ela, porque, nas suas realidades de vida, tinham, igualmente, seu próprio jeito de tocar suas vidas em tudo que realizavam. É preciso que se anote, em verdade que cada um de nós tem seu próprio jeito de realizar suas ações! Descobri, por mim mesma, essa especialidade, na conduta de um médico-amigo! Hoje, ele está com Deus, mas, de seu próprio jeito...
@chrisr6053
Pinocchio
@lizbethpuigsoto4165
peggy fong so adorableeeeeeeeee ❤️ your mom was so lucky to see Frank Sinatra hugs kisses blessings and respect to you and your mom from Mexico 🙏🏻🌹🌷
@user-vo5ig7px6s
Ну даже минир рф сергей лавров любит френка синнатрсьру
@chrisr6053
@@phillipsprouse7980 yeah I hope your joking
@ilaharley
i'm 15 and i listen to frank every day i wish more people my age would listen to it. This music doesn't have to die
@aquatik8687
and the 80s and 90s of course
@ilaharley
@@aquatik8687 this is so true
@ravipeiris4388
This music is timeless and you and your age are irrelevant 🎉