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.
You'll Never Know
Frank Sinatra Lyrics
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You'll never know just how much I care
And if I tried, I still couldn't hide my love for you
You ought to know, for haven't I told you so
A million or more times?
You went away and my heart went with you
I speak your name in my every prayer
I swear I don't know how
You'll never know if you don't know now
(You went away and my heart went with you
I speak your name in my every prayer)
If there is some other way to prove that I love you
I swear I don't know how
You'll never know if you don't know now
You'll never know if you don't know now
In Frank Sinatra Jr.'s song "You'll Never Know," the lyrics express the deep love and longing for someone who has left. The singer laments that the person they love will never truly know how much they miss and care for them. The lyrics convey a sense of helplessness in being unable to hide their love despite their best efforts. The singer speaks of how they have told the person they loved a million times how they feel, but it seems to have gone unnoticed.
The singer goes on to say how the person they love took their heart with them when they left, and they speak their name in every prayer. The singer is willing to do whatever it takes to prove their love, but they don't know how to. The final lines of the song "you'll never know if you don't know now" emphasize the importance of expressing one's feelings before it's too late.
Overall, the song conveys a sense of regret and longing for a lost love, and serves as a reminder to express one's feelings while they still can.
Line by Line Meaning
You'll never know just how much I miss you
I miss you more than words can express
You'll never know just how much I care
My love and care for you are immeasurable
And if I tried, I still couldn't hide my love for you
My love for you is not something that can be disguised or hidden
You ought to know, for haven't I told you so
I have expressed my love for you many times before
A million or more times?
I have expressed my love for you countless times
You went away and my heart went with you
My heart is still with you even though you're gone
I speak your name in my every prayer
I think of you constantly and pray for your happiness
If there is some other way to prove that I love you
I would do anything to prove my love for you
I swear I don't know how
I genuinely do not know how to prove my love any further
You'll never know if you don't know now
If you don't realize my love now, you may never know how much I truly love you
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Royalty Network, Peermusic Publishing, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: Mack Gordon, Harry Warren
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
ALEX MM
You'll never know just how much I miss you
You'll never know just how much I care
And if I tried, I still couldn't hide my love for you
You ought to know, for haven't I told you so
A million or more times?
You went away and my heart went with you
I speak your name in my ev'ry prayer
If there is some other way to prove that I love you
I swear I don't know how
You'll never know if you don't know now
You said good-bye, no stars in the sky refuse to shine
Take it from me, it's no fun to be alone
With moonlight and memories
I speak your name in my ev'ry prayer
If there is some other way to prove that I love you
I swear I don't know how
You'll never know if you don't know now
You'll never know if you don't know now
Nunca sabrás cuánto te extraño
Nunca sabrás cuánto me importa
Y si lo intentara, todavía no podría ocultar mi amor por ti
Deberías saber, porque no te lo he dicho A millones o más de veces?
Te fuiste y mi corazón se fue contigo
Digo tu nombre en cada oración
Si hay alguna otra manera de demostrar que te amo
Te juro que no sé cómo
Nunca lo sabrás si no lo sabes ahora
Dijiste adiós, ninguna estrella en el cielo se niega a brillar
Tómalo, no es divertido estar solo
Con la luz de la luna y los recuerdos
Pronuncio tu nombre en cada oración
Si hay alguna otra manera de probar que yo te amo
Te juro que no sé cómo
Nunca lo sabrás si no lo sabes ahora
ALEX MM
You'll never know just how much I miss you
You'll never know just how much I care
And if I tried, I still couldn't hide my love for you
You ought to know, for haven't I told you so
A million or more times?
You went away and my heart went with you
I speak your name in my ev'ry prayer
If there is some other way to prove that I love you
I swear I don't know how
You'll never know if you don't know now
You said good-bye, no stars in the sky refuse to shine
Take it from me, it's no fun to be alone
With moonlight and memories
I speak your name in my ev'ry prayer
If there is some other way to prove that I love you
I swear I don't know how
You'll never know if you don't know now
You'll never know if you don't know now
Nunca sabrás cuánto te extraño
Nunca sabrás cuánto me importa
Y si lo intentara, todavía no podría ocultar mi amor por ti
Deberías saber, porque no te lo he dicho A millones o más de veces?
Te fuiste y mi corazón se fue contigo
Digo tu nombre en cada oración
Si hay alguna otra manera de demostrar que te amo
Te juro que no sé cómo
Nunca lo sabrás si no lo sabes ahora
Dijiste adiós, ninguna estrella en el cielo se niega a brillar
Tómalo, no es divertido estar solo
Con la luz de la luna y los recuerdos
Pronuncio tu nombre en cada oración
Si hay alguna otra manera de probar que yo te amo
Te juro que no sé cómo
Nunca lo sabrás si no lo sabes ahora
Jerry Donnelly
I've always felt that Frank Sinatra was at his vocal peak in the 1940's, when he had such a pure and lilting voice.
Josh Shackelford
I love every era of his career, but a lot of his songs sound best in his first recording, "East of the Sun" and "Oh! Look At Me Now!" come to mind. Although, I will say I think he had some better compositions to work with later in his career, ergo Count Basie, Nelson Riddle, etc.
Jerry Donnelly
@LRN_News Yes, you could tell it was in the early forties, because even in the later forties his voice started to darken.
LRN_News
I'm pretty sure this recording is from 1943, or perhaps early 1944
Molly Casas
My dad's song to my mom when he was in WWII. I Miss 'You so much Daddy❤
Maja Shobot
Also my dad's one of favorite songs... Also miss him like hell.. ❤️😔
Lizeth Montoya
I’m love this song 🎧 2021❤️
Nugget World
The oldest songs are the bestest songs,These are the people I listen to check them out
Doris Day,Dean Martin,Bing Crosby,Frank Sinatra,Vera Lyn,Etta James,Micheal Buble,
THEY ARE THE BEST SINGERS IN THE WORLD
albertdiner
and Barbra Streisand