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.
Take My Love
Frank Sinatra Lyrics
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Share my lips, share my heart, say that we'll never part,
Take my love, hold me tight, in its thrill find delight,
Let each kiss build a dream, let our love be its theme.
True love, fate for your hand, mine is the true love,
My anxious heart await your command.
Take my love, hold me tight, take my love, say it's right,
Say that you feel as I, say we'll love till we die.
True love, fate for your hand, mine is the true love,
My anxious heart await your command.
Take my love, hold me tight, take my love, say it's right,
Say that you feel as I, say we'll love till we die,
Take my love.
Frank Sinatra's song "Take My Love" is a romantic ballad that expresses the deep feelings of love and devotion that one person has for another. The lyrics depict someone who is overwhelmed with emotion and is asking their lover to hold them tight, share the night, and never leave. The singer expresses their desire to have their love reciprocated and to build a lasting relationship that is built on trust and mutual affection. With each kiss, they dream of a life together and hope that their love will become the central theme of their lives.
The song is an emotional appeal to a partner to reciprocate the love that is being given to them. The lyrics speak to the universal desire that we all have to be loved and to feel a deep connection with someone. The words are simple and straightforward, but they express complex emotions that are common to anyone who has ever been in love. The refrain of "take my love, hold me tight" is particularly powerful because it encapsulates the vulnerability and desire that come with falling in love.
Overall, "Take My Love" is a beautiful and heartfelt love song that captures the essence of what it means to be in love. It is a reminder that even in the midst of all life's ups and downs, the power of love can sustain us and give us hope for a better future.
Line by Line Meaning
Take my love, hold me tight, take my love, share this night,
I am offering you all my love and asking you to embrace me tightly, to spend this night with me and share in the passion that exists between us.
Share my lips, share my heart, say that we'll never part,
I want you to kiss me passionately and share your heart with me, promising that we will always stay together and never be apart.
Take my love, hold me tight, in its thrill find delight,
I implore you to hold me tightly and find pleasure in the excitement and thrill that our love brings.
Let each kiss build a dream, let our love be its theme.
With every kiss, I want us to build a dream together and make our love the central theme of our lives.
True love, fate for your hand, mine is the true love,
I believe that our love is true and meant to be, and I am willing to be with you for eternity.
My anxious heart awaits your command.
My heart is filled with anxiety, desperately awaiting your decision on whether we will be together or not.
Take my love, hold me tight, take my love, say it's right,
I am urging you to take my love and hold me tightly, and to acknowledge that what we have is right.
Say that you feel as I, say we'll love till we die.
I want you to express your true feelings for me and make a commitment to love me until the end of our lives.
Take my love.
I am offering you all of my love, and I hope you will accept it and cherish it as much as I do.
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Peermusic Publishing, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: FRANK SINATRA, JACK WOLF, JOEL S. HERRON
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Dave Ryder
To sing what only you can hear will keep my heart in perfect tune
As sings the nightingale, when clear above her shines the summer moon
And every tone of truthful love that flows is heard alone by the enraptured rose
Oksana Shymlianskaya
Great song
Ahmed Aly
My favorite song. Where can I find that album
Антон Кувалдин
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