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.
Some Enchanted Evening
Frank Sinatra Lyrics
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You may see a stranger across a crowded room
And somehow you know, you know even then
That somewhere you'll see her again and again
Some enchanted evening, someone may be laughing
You may hear her laughing across a crowded room
And night after night, as strange as it seems
Who can explain it, who can tell you why?
Fools give you reasons, wise men never try
Some enchanted evening, when you find your true love
When you feel her call you across a crowded room
Then fly to her side and make her your own
Or all through your life you may dream all alone
Once you have found her, never let her go
Once you have found her, never let her go
Frank Sinatra's "Some Enchanted Evening" is a classic romantic song that describes the feeling of meeting someone special and knowing that you are bound to meet again. The lyrics speak of the enchantment of the moment, of how you might be in a crowded room and suddenly see a stranger, someone you've never met before. Yet something in your heart stirs within you, and you feel that the connection you share with this person goes deeper than what you can perceive. The lyrics suggest that irrespective of how short and fleeting the meeting might be, you know that you will see her again and again.
The song's chorus then goes on to describe how, in some enchanted evening, you may hear her laughter, and that sound will sing in your dreams night after night. The feeling of knowing that you've found someone special is powerful and inexplicable, as the lyrics suggest. There's a powerful sense of romanticism and longing in this song that still resonates with people even today, more than half a century after it was first released.
The song's haunting melody is paired perfectly with these lyrics, making it an enduring classic that has stood the test of time. Even after all these years, "Some Enchanted Evening" is still one of the most beloved romantic ballads of all time.
Line by Line Meaning
Some enchanted evening, you may see a stranger
On one blessed evening, you might come across an unknown person
You may see a stranger across a crowded room
Even though the room is swarmed with people, the stranger catches your eye
And somehow you know, you know even then
For some inexplicable reason, you're sure that this person will cross your path again
That somewhere you'll see her again and again
You have the impression that you'll keep running into this stranger
Some enchanted evening, someone may be laughing
On a magical evening, somebody might be chuckling
You may hear her laughing across a crowded room
Hearing her snickering, even though the space is congested with people
And night after night, as strange as it seems
As bizarre as it may be, every night her laughter echoes in your mind
The sound of her laughter will sing in your dreams
Her laughter will resound in your dreams throughout the night.
Who can explain it, who can tell you why?
Who can clarify it? Who can give you a logical reason?
Fools give you reasons, wise men never try
Fools can provide weak justifications, but wise ones never bother.
Some enchanted evening, when you find your true love
At some magical evening, when you encounter your one true love
When you feel her call you across a crowded room
When you feel as if she's calling out to you from the congested room
Then fly to her side and make her your own
Hasten to her and make her yours.
Or all through your life you may dream all alone
Otherwise, you could spend your entire life fantasizing all by yourself.
Once you have found her, never let her go
Once you've found her, don't lose her.
Once you have found her, never let her go
Once you've found her, keep her forever.
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
Written by: Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
@milk_cow_blues
Some enchanted evening, you may see a stranger
You may see a stranger across a crowded room
And somehow you know, you know even then
That somehow you'll see here again and again
Some enchanted evening, someone may be laughing
You may hear her laughing across a crowded room
And night after night, as strange as it seems
The sound of her laughter will sing in your dreams
Who can explain it, who can tell you why?
Fools give you reasons, wise men never try
Some enchanted evening, when you find your true love
When you hear her call you across a crowded room
Then fly to her side and make her your own
Or all through your life you may dream all alone
Once you have found her, never let her go
Once you have found her, never let her go.
@michellemeow2925
Some enchanted evening, you may see a stranger,
You may see a stranger across a crowded room,
And somehow you know, you know even then,
That somewhere you'll see here again and again.
Some enchanted evening, someone may be laughing,
You may hear her laughing across a crowded room,
And night after night, as strange as it seems,
The sound of her laughter will sing in your dreams.
Who can explain it, who can tell you why?
Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.
Some enchanted evening, when you find your true love,
When you feel her call you across a crowded room,
Then fly to her side and make her your own,
Or all through your life you may dream all alone.
Once you have found her, never let her go,
Once you have found her, never let her go.
@TechMetalRules
Nostalgic for a time I've never experienced.
@daffyduckfan4478
The temptations will show you a greater experience listen to there version
@TechMetalRules
@@daffyduckfan4478 Will do!
@daffyduckfan4478
TechMetalRules here’s some seasoning for you https://youtu.be/Ldm9agMQ148
@poetickiller
perfect words to describe it
@dennisg.liebman1155
Dad would always sing this song on my summer vacations with him. Memories
@volleyballphan9
Ah what an amazing version of this lovely song. My grandfather passed away yesterday leaving his wife of 65 years and this was always their song. Every time it would play they would hold hands. I'll never forget it. Love Frank too.
@Marktewk
+Hannah S My father died on Wednesday 20 April 2016. He was married to my mother for 62 years. This was their song too. I will never forgot him. He loved Frank. Great song.
@rknrlgrl6146
That's so sweet :)
@mrsdee1656
Hannah S ❤️