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.
Where Are You?
Frank Sinatra Lyrics
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Where have you gone without me?
I thought you cared about me
Where are you?
Where's my heart?
Where is the dream we started?
I can't believe we're parted
When we said goodbye love
What had we to gain
When I gave you my love
Was it all in vain
All life through
Must I go on pretending
Where is my happy ending
Where are you?
When we said goodbye love
What had we to gain
When I gave you my love
Was it all in vain
All life through
Must I go on pretending
Where is that happy ending
Where are you? Where are you?
In Frank Sinatra's heart-wrenching ballad "Where Are You?", the singer is left reeling from heartbreak and searching for answers. The rhetorical questions posed throughout the song - "Where are you?", "Where have you gone without me?", "Where's my heart?" - speak to a profound sense of loss and abandonment. The singer is struggling to come to terms with the end of a relationship that he thought was built to last. He is desperate for closure and unable to understand where things went wrong.
The lyrics are brutally honest about the pain of heartbreak and the desperation that follows. The singer wonders whether his love was ever reciprocated, whether the relationship was doomed from the start. He laments the end of a dream that he believed in, and questions whether he will ever find happiness again. The song captures the essence of a broken heart with its raw emotion and haunting melody.
Overall, "Where Are You?" is a moving tribute to the aftermath of a relationship gone wrong. It speaks to the universal experience of heartbreak and the search for answers that follows.
Line by Line Meaning
Where are you?
I can't see you anywhere. Where are you?
Where have you gone without me?
Did you leave me alone and go somewhere? Without me?
I thought you cared about me
I believed you cared for me deeply.
Where's my heart?
I don't feel my heart within me. It's lost.
Where is the dream we started?
What happened to our dreams and aspirations? Where did they go?
I can't believe we're parted
I'm in disbelief that we are no longer together.
When we said goodbye love
During the time of our farewell
What had we to gain
What benefit did we get from parting ways?
When I gave you my love
When I offered you my affection
Was it all in vain
Did all of our efforts go to waste?
All life through
Throughout my entire life
Must I go on pretending
Do I have to continue acting as if nothing has happened?
Where is my happy ending
I am searching for my content conclusion of the story
Where are you?
Where are you really? I need you to tell me.
Where are you?
Where are you really? I need you to tell me.
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Songtrust Ave, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: Lew Pollack, Lou Davis
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Zosia Zubrzycka
Lyrics
Where are you
Where have you gone without me
I thought you cared about me
Where are you
Where's my heart
Where is the dream we started
I can't believe we're parted
Where are you
When we said good-bye love
What had we to gain
When I gave you my love
Was it all in vain
All life through
Must I go on pretending
Where is my happy ending
Where are you
When we said good-bye love
What had we to gain
When I gave you my love
Was it all in vain
All life through
Must I go on pretending
Where is that happy ending
Where are you
Where are you
Maincal 17
¿Dónde estás?
¿Dónde has ido sin mí?
Pensé que te preocupabas por mí
¿Dónde estás?
¿Dónde está mi corazón?
¿Dónde está el sueño que empezamos?
No puedo creer que estemos separados
¿Dónde estás?
Cuando dijimos adiós amor
¿Qué tuvimos que ganar?
Cuando te di mi amor
¿Fue todo en vano?
Toda la vida a través de
¿Debo seguir fingiendo?
¿Dónde está mi final feliz?
¿Dónde estás?
Cuando dijimos adiós amor
¿Qué tuvimos que ganar?
Cuando te di mi amor
¿Fue todo en vano?
Toda la vida a través de
¿Debo seguir fingiendo?
¿Dónde está ese final feliz?
¿Dónde estás?
¿Dónde estás?
Charles Vella
Reminds me of my sweet loving wife that passed away after 52 years of our marriage. RIP Mr. Sinatra, I hope you are still singing to all those who passed on.
Welfare Dad
❤
Albert Rhodes
Same with. Me. Very sad.
Timothy Maskell
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M.J. Leger
This song is from one of my favorite Sinatra albums, one of three that he called his suicide albums, because the songs are sad! They are; ("No One Cares (1959 arranged by Gordon Jenkins), Where Are You (1957 arranged by Gordon Jenkins), Only The Lonely," 1958, arranged by Nelson Riddle and I would add "In The Wee Small Hours of the Morning (1955, arranged by Nelson Riddle)" to those three, probably my favorite of his albums because they are so full of emotion and longing.
Such beautiful depth of feelings in these albums, as only Sinatra could evoke and present in song! Longing, love, pain, hope, all those things that can come with love and love lost.
robert paris
Thank Ava Gardner for the agony
Bruce Scott
@Quinn W. Johnson ...Sinatra had never really gotten over Ava Gardner.
Quinn W. Johnson
@Bruce Scott too right!
Bruce Scott
M.J. Leger ...I called those four Capitol LPs AVA songs.
Betty Gordon
Only Frank could reach you with this song, the way that he touches your heart with beauty and pain!