Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor who was considered the greatest American singer of 20th-century popular music.
When his voice returned it had an extra dimension which many fans believed made his singing better than before. In 1963 his son Frank Sinatra Jr. was kidnapped. The kidnappers told Frank Sr. to call them from pay phones. During one call he ran out of coins, and briefly feared that it ...
Sinatra was singing with Tommy Dosey’s band in 1941 when he first met Sammy Davis, Jr., then an aspiring dancer with the Will Mastin Trio. They reconnected some time later after Sammy was discharged from the U.S. Army, and Sinatra would later help Davis in his career. Peter Lawford ...
Sinatra with a cold is Picasso without paint, Ferrari without fuel--only worse. For the common cold robs Sinatra of that uninsurable jewel, his voice, cutting into the core of his confidence, and it affects not only his own psyche but also seems to cause a kind of psychosomatic nasal dr...
Frank was doing a concert in Richmond, Virginia on March 6, 1994 – when he collapsed on stage. He was singing “My Way,” when he fell off his stool, hit his head on the speaker, and landed on the floor. His son Frank Jr. was conducting the orchestra. “It took 10 years off ...
a 45 that came and went in 1977 and is every bit as depressing as it sounds Rewinding the Charts: In 1967, Frank & Nancy Sinatra Shared a No. 1 Not that Sinatra had given up. “When we were in the recording studio, he was experimenting more than anything else,” says F...
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Turns out Frank has had some career, rubbing shoulders with Nat Cole, Benny Carter, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Liza Minnelli, Billy May, Bud Shank, Jimmy Rowles and many others. And he's still singing and playing guitar in Chicago clubs. In Part 1 of my three-part interview with Frank...
Frank Sinatrawas a larger-than-life figure in the world of entertainment, but two of his favorite gigs were that of “dad” and “grandpa.” “I love being a father, and a grandfather,” he told his older daughter, Nancy Sinatra, in a 1985 interview forHourmagazine. ...