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're My Girl
Frank Sinatra Lyrics
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You should have seen how their faces fell when they were wishing me well.
They called me a lucky guy, and I couldn't hide a feeling of pride.
You're my girl, I've chosen you to be mine, my whole life through.
And if this heart of mine had a voice, you'd hear it second my choice,
You're what I've waited for, and you're my girl.
The kids that see me come to call have written your name and my name on the wall.
It's common gossip everywhere, that you and I have got it bad for fair.
You're my girl, I've chosen you to be mine my whole life through,
And if this heart of mine had a voice, you'd hear it second my choice,
You're what I`ve waited for, and you're my girl.
The lyrics of Frank Sinatra's "You're My Girl" express a deep commitment to a specific woman, declaring her as the singer's chosen partner for life. The song emphasizes the exclusivity of their relationship, with the singer taking pride in the fact that his friends all know that she is "his girl." The chorus repeats the song's title, reinforcing the singer's deep affection for this woman and his certainty that she is the right choice for him.
The second verse of the song further illustrates the intensity of the relationship, as other people in the singer's life (presumably younger children) have scrawled the names of the couple on a wall, indicating the extent to which their love has permeated the community. The lyrics suggest that this love is the subject of gossip that is "everywhere," indicating that the strength of their bond is a topic of interest to many people.
Overall, the song celebrates the singer's love for this woman, as he declares that if his heart had a voice, it would also express his devotion to her. The song is a celebration of love that is deep, true, and exclusive.
Line by Line Meaning
You're my girl the boys all know, you're my girl, I've told them so.
Everyone knows that you belong to me, as I have publicly announced it.
You should have seen how their faces fell when they were wishing me well.
The boys were disappointed when they found out that you were taken and belonged to me.
They called me a lucky guy, and I couldn't hide a feeling of pride.
People call me fortunate to have you as my girlfriend and it makes me feel proud.
The kids that see me come to call have written your name and my name on the wall.
Our relationship is so well-known that even children draw our names on walls.
It's common gossip everywhere, that you and I have got it bad for fair.
Everyone talks about how we are deeply infatuated with each other.
You're my girl, I've chosen you to be mine my whole life through,
You are the one I have picked to spend my entire life with.
And if this heart of mine had a voice, you'd hear it second my choice,
If my heart could speak, it would confirm that you were the right choice for me.
You're what I`ve waited for, and you're my girl.
You are the person I have been waiting for and you belong to me as my girlfriend.
Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., IMAGEM MUSIC INC
Written by: JULE STYNE, SAMMY CAHN
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
Kingsley Pedlar
Beautiful, Sinatra at his peak in the 1940's in his youth with Axel Stordahl orchestra & great composers such as Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn.
beckylink
This song has bittersweet memories for me but I will always love it, forever. His voice is so creamy and dreamy at this age.
This song.... ah... I thought it was about one thing but it’s really about how I’m God’s girl. And maybe more, but that, for sure. It was playing serendipitously when I last saw my ex-husband, almost 15 years ago, as I was in the restroom of the restaurant we were meeting to say hello in, after a couple of years.. as I said, now that has been 15 years. it played as I descended the stairs and was very powerful. I can’t get it out of my heart, and just have to hear it from time to time.
Mauricio Durón
By Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne, from Broadway's 'High Button Shoes', 1947; Axel Stordahl, cond.; Columbia Records, 1948
'You're my girl
The boys all know.
You're my girl
I've told them so.
You should have seen how their faces fell
When they were wishing me well.
They called me a lucky guy
And I couldn't hide
A feeling of pride.
<<CHORUS>>
You're my girl
I've chosen you
To be mine
my whole life through.
And if this heart of mine had a voice
You'd hear it second my choice.
You're what I've waited for
And you're my girl.'
The kids that see me come to call
Have written your name and my name on the wall.
It's common gossip everywhere
That you and I have got it bad
for fair.
<<CHORUS>>
You're my girl
I've chosen you.
To be mine
my whole life through.
And if this heart of mine had a voice
You'd hear it second my choice.
You're what I've waited for
And you're my girl!'
beckylink
LOVE IT. Thanks for posting the lyrics.