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 Is the One?
Frank Sinatra Lyrics
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Who'll end the search I'm making
Where is the one
Who'll change my dream to waking
Behind some far off secret door
There's my love
There's my life
In store
Much longer than I reckoned
In any throng
I'll know her in a second
Some lucky day
I'm bound to find her
And when I do
I'll find love
The journey's long
Much longer than I reckoned
In any throng
I'll know her in a second
Some lucky day
I'm bound to find her
And when I do
I'll find love
The lyrics of Frank Sinatra's "Where Is the One?" are about a search for a special someone. The song is a melancholic and reflective tune about the journey to find one's love. The singer, in this case, Sinatra, is seeking someone who will make him feel complete. He yearns for someone who will change his dream of love into a reality, someone who will be the end of the search he is making. He knows that the journey to find his perfect match will be long and hard, but he is willing to undertake this journey.
The lyrics suggest that his ideal partner is behind some far-off secret door, indicating that the person he seeks might be in a location inaccessible to him. But this doesn't dissuade him from continuing his search. He has faith that one day, he'll find her. He believes that in any crowd, he'll know her in a second. He is hoping for that lucky day, when he's bound to find her, and when he does find her, he knows that he'll find love.
The song paints a picture of hope and persistence despite the difficulties of chasing after one's true love. It expresses the universal desire for companionship and the need to find someone with whom we can share our innermost thoughts and feelings. Frank Sinatra's heartfelt rendition of the song encapsulates the search for love that many of us go through.
Line by Line Meaning
Where is the one
Who is the person I have been searching for
Who'll end the search I'm making
Who will finally put an end to my tireless search
Who'll change my dream to waking
Who will turn my dream into a reality
Behind some far off secret door
In a distant, hidden place somewhere
There's my love
The one I have been searching for is there
There's my life
My happiness and fulfillment are tied to finding this person
In store
Waiting for me to find
The journey's long
The path to finding this person is not easy
Much longer than I reckoned
It is taking more time and effort than I expected
In any throng
Even in a crowd of people
I'll know her in a second
I will recognize her immediately
Some lucky day
One day, by chance
I'm bound to find her
I am certain that I will find her
And when I do
At the moment I find her
I'll find love
I will also find the love and connection I have been seeking
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ALEX MM
Dónde está el que terminará la búsqueda que estoy haciendo?
Where is the one who'll end the search I'm making?
¿Dónde está el que cambiará mi sueño por despertar?
Where is the one who'll change my dream to waking?
Detrás de alguna puerta secreta lejana
Behind some far-off secret door
Ahí está mi amor, ahí está mi vida en la tienda
There's my love, there's my life in store
El viaje es largo, mucho más largo de lo que pensaba
The journey's long, much longer than I reckoned
En cualquier multitud, la conoceré en un segundo
In any throng, I'll know her in a second
Algún día de suerte, estoy obligado a encontrarla
Some lucky day I'm bound to find her
Y cuando lo haga, encontraré el amor
And when I do, I'll find love
El viaje es largo, mucho más largo de lo que pensaba
The journey's long, much longer than I reckoned
En cualquier multitud, la conoceré en un segundo
In any throng, I'll know her in a second
Algun dia de suerte , estoy obligado a encontrarla
Some lucky I'm bound to find her
Cuando lo haga, encontraré el amor
When I do, I'll find love
Dennis James
I was 23 when this album came out I’m now 84 and this album is just as relevant as ever
Ab Khan
Would love to hear the stories you've got to tell. Always wanted to know what it'd be like to be from that generation
biggrex
If anything it's more relevant. People wait longer to get married, some not of their own choice really. In some ways it seems the rift between male and female grows wider by the generation.
Peter Holwill
Join the club I am the same age, agree just as relevant today and Sinatra still remains the greatest popular singer of the 20th century.
M.J. Leger
Frank recorded this album in 1957, the year his divorce was final from Ava, and he sings the pain, you hear it, and it's heart-wrenching! This album was one of the 3 he called his suicide albums, all recorded in 1957, 8 and 9. (Where are you, Only the Lonely, and No One Cares.) Three of the most touching albums he recorded.) Later, he was much more mature, and recorded "A Man Alone" (1969) which was a poignant album but it doesn't show the pain of the other 3 I mentioned.
Safa Alkan
After no one cares, he recorded few torch songs in 1967 in "The world we knew album" like "Drinking again". Also we shouldn't forget the "All Alone" album. No one cares is his most pessimistic and deep album. Where are you is melancholic and only the lonely is the middle one. İt contains both melancholy and pessimism.And "A man alone" is soft melancholy album. Sinatra was 53 so after this age, we couldn't expect him to make an album as dark as before. Life is changed and he was too.
catman916
This was the second time that Frank Sinatra recorded this song composed by his friend, Alec Wilder. I have uploaded the original version recorded on December 30, 1947 with Axel Srordahl arranging and conducting.
Joe Mystery
Yes, as noted below this awesome song was written by Alex Wilder but the co-writer was Ed Finckel. Ed was a well-known composer/arranger in jazz/classical circles and, miraculously, he was my neighbor when I lived in West Orange, NJ in the 80's. He was a great guy and we always spoke across our yards. I would also hear him playing piano as it came though the open window in summertime. Since I was a musician, I built a recording studio in my basement during the 80s home studio revolution. Ed would come over on occasion to listen in on some of the jazz players who recorded at my place, most notably Jack DeSalvo. Because of this, I guess, Ed told me I was the best neighbor he ever had. Right back at you, maestro. R.I.P. and God bless.Your music lives on.
T.P. McKenna As Seen on TV
Great memories there, Joe. Thanks for sharing.
Martin Palmer
the greatest singer ever no one else comes close