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The death was confirmed by John E. Thoresen, director of the Barbara Sinatra Children’s Center in Rancho Mirage. The cause was not disclosed. Article content Article content Sinatra, who was married to Sinatra for almost 22 years – longer than any of three previous wiv...
Actress Ava Gardner was a sultry beauty famous for playing femme fatale roles, and for her marriages to Frank Sinatra, Artie Shaw and Mickey Rooney.
Image:Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie. Pic: AP Singers react to Quincy Jones death His family added Jones was "truly one of a kind" who they would "miss dearly". "We take comfort and immense pride in knowing that the love and ...
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He was at ease with virtually every form of American music, whether setting Sinatra's "Fly Me to the Moon" to a punchy, swinging rhythm and wistful flute or opening his production of Charles' soulful "In the Heat of the Night" with a lusty tenor sax solo. He worked with jazz giants ...
“I think he was thrilled to death the huge orchestra and chorus,” says Lee Herschberg, who engineeredThe Future, as he had many previous Sinatra recordings. “He was never happier than when he was standing in the middle of an orchestra. He was not one to be ...
In September 1942, Sinatra left the Tommy Dorsey Band on poor terms – something the two never reconciled before Dorsey’s death in 1956.GOING SOLOSinatra was met with fame during his “legendary opening” at the Paramount Theatre in New York in December of 1942. He was so popular that he...
What Frank Sinatra thought of Christmas Since his death, in 1998, there have been countless compilations dedicated to Sinatra’s seasonal material. The most significant of them isFrank Sinatra Christmas Collection, which came out in 2004 and cherry-picked key cuts from his Reprise era. What disti...
Jones’ work on the soundtrack for “The Wiz” led to his partnership with Jackson, who starred in the 1978 movie. In an essay published in Time magazine after Jackson’s death, in 2009, Jones remembered that the singer kept slips of paper on him that contained thoughts b...