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.
This Love of Mine
Frank Sinatra Lyrics
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Though life is empty since you have gone
You're always on my mind, though out of sight
It's lonesome through the day
But oh, the night
I cry my heart out, it's bound to break
Since nothing matters, let it break
The stars that shine
What's to become of it
This love of mine
I ask the sun and the moon
The stars that shine
What's to become of it
This love of mine
This love of mine goes on and on
The song "This Love of Mine" is a ballad that expresses the pain and deep longing of someone who has lost the love of their life. The lyrics convey how the singer's life has become empty and loveless in the absence of their partner who is always on their mind but out of sight. He describes the difficulty of going through the day without the love that he so desperately needs and how nights are particularly lonesome. He cries his heart out, knowing it's bound to break and acknowledging that nothing matters if it does.
The chorus is an appeal to the universe to answer the all-important question that is on the singer's mind: "What's to become of it?" Despite the pain and the heartbreak, love remains in the singer's heart and it keeps going on and on.
Line by Line Meaning
This love of mine goes on and on
This intense, never-ending love I feel persists despite how much time goes by
Though life is empty since you have gone
Ever since you left, my life has felt hollow and unfulfilled
You're always on my mind, though out of sight
Even though I can't physically see you, you linger in my thoughts persistently
It's lonesome through the day
The absence of your presence during the day makes me feel alone and isolated
But oh, the night
At night, my sadness and longing deepens, causing me to feel restless and unable to sleep
I cry my heart out, it's bound to break
My heart aches so deeply that I often cry uncontrollably, feeling as though it may shatter from the intensity of my emotions
Since nothing matters, let it break
With nothing left to lose, I'm willing to risk the heartache and let it shatter
I ask the sun and the moon
The stars that shine
What's to become of it
This love of mine
I'm so unsure about the fate of this love that I turn to the heavens for answers, seeking guidance beyond my own understanding
I ask the sun and the moon
The stars that shine
What's to become of it
This love of mine
Still searching for answers, I repeat my plea to the cosmos, hoping for any glimpse of clarity about the future of this love I hold so dear
Lyrics © MUSIC SALES CORPORATION, THE MUSIC GOES ROUND, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: Sol Parker, Henry W. Sanicola, Frank Sinatra
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@bryanrawlinson2092
Frank lives a Lyric. Songwriters must love his interpretation
@maria1460
Absolutely beautiful! WHEN MUSIC WAS REALLY MUSIC
@rommeldionisio935
😊7
@cn3719
The only song that frank sinatra wrote
@agent8145
Nancy Sinatra also covered this song in a joyful way search it
@jimcolocci9119
Frank didn’t write this song.......Hank Sanicola was one of the writers.......Frank wouldn’t sing it unless Hank put Frank’s name down as one of the writers.......( Sinatra & me..The very good years) ..author- Tony Consiglio
@bigredsings1867
al jolson did that to a lot of aspiring composers- demanding author credits so he could get royalties. but i would be surprised if Sinatra really did that.
@tonys4396
Sanicola "This Love of Mine" is a popular American song that was first recorded in 1941 by Tommy Dorsey and His orchestra, with a vocal by Frank Sinatra. Sinatra wrote the words and Sol Parker and Hank Sanicola wrote the music. Get the facts or shut your hole,
@tonys4396
@@bigredsings1867 Sinatra did the opposite. He was responsible for MANY black songwriters getting credit for the music they created. He hated Duke Ellington who took ALL the credit for all the hit songs he had. People STILL think that Ellington wrote "Take the A Train". It was written by Billy Strayhorn. A meek, little black gay man who was always timid and afraid that Ellington would OUT him as being gay. Sinatra was friends with Strayhorn but was never able to help him get the credit he deserved, because Strayhorn told Frank that he didn't want it to get out that he was gay. .Frank NEVER took credit for ANY of the music he sang, HE ONLY WROTE ONE . Show me ONE other song where the writer was credited to be Sinatra, NONE. Frank ALWAYS spoke about how young singers and musicians were being ripped off by people taking credit for writing their songs, In Frank's WHOLE discography, why is there only ONE song that Frank takes credit for? Because he NEVER took credit for other peoples work. This Jimcolokocki knows nothing about Sinatra. Just another moron ready to BLAME with no facts. One of the main reasons that Sinatra started Reprise records, was to make sure that anyone on the label would NEVER get ripped off. It was mostly his friends on that label and THEN when he heard how Jimi Hendrix was getting ripped off (Frank didn't listen to Hendrix) he told Hendrix to come to Reprise. And he did,. To this DAY, Reprise is fighting court battles with Hendrix's estate where all his distant relatives are coming out of the woodwork to steal all that money Hendrix made. While this battle is STILL raging, Reprise Records put the money in excrow until the courts decide who gets it.
@christopherpurcell8131
Lonnie Johnson’s cover blows this out of the water