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.
I Wish You Love
Frank Sinatra Lyrics
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I wish I didn't need your kiss, why must your kiss torture me as long as this.
I might be smiling by now with some new tender friend,
Smiling by now with my heart on the mend,
But when I try, something in my heart says no.
You're still there, I wish I didn't love you so.
The lyrics of Frank Sinatra's song I Love You Baby can be interpreted as a melancholic confession of a protagonist who is struggling with moving on from a love that seems to have ended. Despite being aware that they should have moved on by now, they can't seem to shake off their love for their past partner. The singer seems to be torturing themselves with memories of their previous relationship and is finding it difficult to be happy with anyone else. The lyrics of this song suggest that the singer is going through a period of emotional turmoil.
The line "I might be smiling by now with some new tender friend, smiling by now with my heart on the mend" appears to be a moment of self-realization on the singer's part where they acknowledge that they should be moving on with their life and should be able to find happiness with someone else. However, the lyrics "But when I try, something in my heart says no" highlight that the singer is not completely over their past relationship and still finds themselves drawn to their previous partner.
Overall, the lyrics of I Love You Baby have a sense of sadness and longing for something that is no longer attainable. It is a reminder of the struggles that come with heartbreak and moving on from love.
Line by Line Meaning
I wish I didn't love you so, my love for you should have faded long ago.
It is painful that despite the time that has passed, my love for you still burns bright, and I wish it didn't affect me as much.
I wish I didn't need your kiss, why must your kiss torture me as long as this.
I wish I was no longer vulnerable to the power of your kiss, but it continues to torment me even now.
I might be smiling by now with some new tender friend,
It is conceivable that I could have found happiness with another person by now.
Smiling by now with my heart on the mend,
I could be smiling and feeling at ease with my heart healing from our past relationship being over.
But when I try, something in my heart says no.
Unfortunately, when I attempt to move on or find love elsewhere, my heart resists, as if it is still devoted to you.
You're still there, I wish I didn't love you so.
No matter how hard I try to forget or move on from you, the thought of you persists, and I just wish I didn't love you this much.
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: Frank Loesser
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
@Kairenia
Goodbye
No use leading with our chins
This is where our story ends
Never lovers, ever friends
Goodbye
Let our hearts call it a day
But before you walk away
I sincerely want to say
I wish you bluebirds in the spring
To give your heart a song to sing
And then a kiss, but more than this
I wish you love
And in July, lemonade
To cool you in some leafy glade
I wish you health, and more than wealth
I wish you love
My breaking heart and I agree
That you and I could never be
So with my best, my very best
I set you free
I wish you shelter from the storm
A cozy fire to keep you warm
Most of all, when snowflakes fall
I wish you love
I wish you shelter from the storm
A cozy fire to keep you warm
Most of all, when snowflakes fall
Hot damn I wish you love
All kinds of love.
A whole gang of love ♡
@mahawaditras
"I Wish You Love"
Goodbye, no use leading with our chins, this is where our story ends,
Never lovers ever friends.
Goodbye, let our hearts call it a day, but before you walk away,
I sincerely want to say.
I wish you bluebirds in the spring, to give your heart a song to sing,
And then a kiss, but more than this, I wish you love.
And in July, lemonade to cool you in some leafy glade,
I wish you health, and more than wealth, I wish you love.
My breaking heart and I agree that you and I could never be,
So with my best, my very best, I set you free.
I wish you shelter from the storm, a cozy fire to keep you warm,
Most of all, when snowflakes fall, I wish you love.
[Musical interlude]
I wish you shelter from the storm, a cozy fire to keep you warm,
Most of all, when snowflakes fall, hot damn I wish you love.
All kinds of love, a whole gang of love.
@sriajengwahyuningsih1229
I wish you bluebirds in the spring, to give your heart a song to sing,
And then a kiss, but more than this, I wish you love.
And if you like lemonade to cool you in some lazy glade,
I wish you health, and more than wealth, I wish you love.
My breaking heart and I agree that you and I could never be,
So with my best, my very best, I set you free.
I wish you shelter from the storm, a cozy fire to keep you warm,
Most of all, when snowflakes fall, I wish you love.
I wish you shelter from the storm, a cozy fire to keep you warm,
Most of all, when snowflakes fall, hot time, I wish you love.
All kinds of love, a whole gang of love.
@universalsoldier2293
So many covers of this, but this is probably my favorite. The big-band orchestration just fits this song so well, and who can beat Frank's velvet pipes?
@itsderrikkk9122
Listen to Laufey’s cover
@odiotdmcrew7726
The covers people do on the guitar are so amazing
@rconnor9966
Frank did every song well but this version has his personal signature all over it.
@mugslie2
an American masterpiece. Voice , lyrics , arrangement .
@JACQUILLO2
by charles trenet
@jeanmarieallard5533
french master piece written by Charles Treinet
@gogogadgetspoon
I just heard someone cover it and I was like 'THAT'S QUE RESTE T'IL! SHE'S ROBBING CHARLES TRENET!' 😄
Then I realised it was a cover, and a rough translation 😄😄
@monirosa9
Love Frank Sinatra
Best singer ever
@jadezee6316
Sinatra always has the definitive version of any song he has ever recorded......................