He was asked by 20th Century Fox to be the master of ceremonies at a luncheon attended by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev on September 19, 1959. [116] Sinatra's last two albums with Columbia, Dedicated to You and Sing and Dance with Frank Sinatra, were released in 1950. [520] In another instance, after an argument with manager Bobby Burns, rather than apologize, Sinatra bought him a brand new Cadillac. He also suffered from dementia-like symptoms due to his usage of antidepressants. If it was a "rhythm" number, he would think of Billy May, or perhaps Neil Hefti or some other favored arranger. In Frank Sinatra Park, a 6-foot (1.80-meter) tall bronze statue honoring Sinatra was erected in the year 2021 on December 12. A perfectionist, renowned for his style and presence, Sinatra always insisted on recording live with his band. May 13 is considered "Frank Sinatra Day."[581]. [219] Sinatra built the appeal of Reprise Records as one in which artists were promised creative control over their music, as well as a guarantee that they would eventually gain "complete ownership of their work, including publishing rights. In the early 1950s, he was among those who campaigned to combine the racially segregated musicians unions in Los Angeles. [242], In 1966 Sinatra released That's Life, with both the single of "That's Life" and album becoming Top Ten hits in the US on Billboard's pop charts. Contents 1 Marriages 1.1 Nancy Barbato 1.2 Ava Gardner 1.3 Mia Farrow 1.4 Barbara Marx 2 Relationships [132] He gave a series of concerts in Israel in 1962, and donated his entire $50,000 fee for appearing in a cameo role in Cast a Giant Shadow (1966) to the Youth Center in Jerusalem. [268] He left Caesars Palace in September that year after an incident in which executive Sanford Waterman pulled a gun on him. Sinatra had previously been highly critical of Elvis Presley and rock and roll in the 1950s, describing it as a "deplorable, a rancid smelling aphrodisiac" which "fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people. The singer married four times over the years, and had three children, all with his first wife, Nancy Barbato: The first born is Nancy Sinatra, now 81; then came Frank Sinatra Jr., who died in 2016 at 72; and the youngest is Tina Sinatra, who's 73. He was responsible for awakening a fan phenomenon made up of hysterical teenage girls called "Bobby Soxers", who were portrayed as very enthusiastic to the point of hysteria. [493] Cary Grant, a friend of Sinatra, stated that Sinatra was the "most honest person he'd ever met", who spoke "a simple truth, without artifice which scared people", and was often moved to tears by his performances. [325], In 1984, Sinatra worked with Quincy Jones for the first time in nearly two decades on the album, L.A. Is My Lady, which was well received critically. Ultimately, Sinatra did not find the success on television for which he had hoped. 2 and was awarded Song of the Year. [151][s] Though several notable recordings were made during this time period, such as "If I Could Write a Book" in January 1952, which Granata sees as a "turning point", forecasting his later work with its sensitivity,[157] Columbia and MCA dropped him later that year. [240] One of the album's singles, "It Was a Very Good Year", won the Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Male. Rojek notes that the Rat Pack "provided an outlet for gregarious banter and wisecracks", but argues that it was Sinatra's vehicle, possessing an "unassailable command over the other performers". [383][384] A major success,[385] it garnered several Academy Award wins and nominations, and the song "I Fall in Love Too Easily", sung by Sinatra in the film, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. President Lucas Mangope awarded Sinatra with the highest honor, the Order of the Leopard, and made him an honorary tribal chief. The Cahn-Styne partnership lasted from 1942 until 1954, when Van Heusen succeeded him as Sinatra's main composer. Songs include "I'll Be Home for Christmas," "Have Yourself. [491], Sinatra was close friends with Jilly Rizzo,[492] songwriter Jimmy Van Heusen, golfer Ken Venturi, comedian Pat Henry and baseball manager Leo Durocher. He recorded several albums and resumed performing at Caesars Palace, and released "New York, New York" in 1980. In Pugliese, Stanislao G. She is Frank Sinatra's youngest child, whom he had with his first wife, Nancy Barbato Sinatra. Behind the scenes, Sinatra was busy with a bustling family life on top of his career. Sinatra retired for the first time in 1971, but came out of retirement two years later. [126] When Sinatra was featured as a priest in The Miracle of the Bells, due to press negativity surrounding his alleged Mafia connections at the time,[q] it was announced to the public that Sinatra would donate his $100,000 in wages from the film to the Catholic Church. [39] To please his mother, he enrolled at Drake Business School, but departed after 11 months. Bono Mack, Mary (May 20, 2008). [436], Sinatra starred opposite George Kennedy in the western Dirty Dingus Magee (1970), an "abysmal" affair according to Santopietro,[437] which was panned by the critics. [210] He also released No One Cares in the same year, a collection of "brooding, lonely" torch songs, which critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine thought was "nearly as good as its predecessor Where Are You?, but lacked the "lush" arrangements of it and the "grandiose melancholy" of Only the Lonely. [43] As a singer, early on he was primarily influenced by Bing Crosby,[36] but later believed that Tony Bennett was "the best singer in the business". [388] He teamed up with Kelly for a third time in On the Town (also 1949), playing a sailor on leave in New York City. What it Seemed to Be", "Day by Day", "They Say It's Wonderful", "Five Minutes More", and "The Coffee Song" as singles,[116] and launched his first album, The Voice of Frank Sinatra,[117] which reached No. [161] Tom Santopietro notes that Sinatra began to bury himself in his work, with an "unparalleled frenetic schedule of recordings, movies and concerts",[162] in what authors Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan describe as "a new and brilliant phase". [272] The Frank Sinatra Student Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem was dedicated in his name in 1978. [143] Sinatra would fly to Las Vegas from Los Angeles in Van Heusen's single-engine plane. Horne developed vocal problems and Sinatra, committed to other engagements, could not wait to record. Sinatra's father, Antonino - a small, blue-eyed, ruddy-complexioned man [19] - was from Lercara Friddi, near Palermo, Sicily. By 1946 he was performing on stage up to 45 times a week, singing up to 100 songs daily, and earning up to $93,000 a week. ", Nelson Riddle noting the development of Sinatra's voice in 1955. Granddaughters A.J. It is structured like a three-act play, each commencing with the songs "With Every Breath I Take", "Blame It on My Youth" and "It Could Happen to You". [357] Despite his heavy New Jersey accent, according to Richard Schuller, when Sinatra sang his accent was barely detectable, with his diction becoming "precise" and articulation "meticulous". [74] His fourth chart appearance was "I'll Never Smile Again", topping the charts for twelve weeks beginning in mid-July. [329] Two years later, Sinatra reunited with Martin and Davis and went on the Rat Pack Reunion Tour, during which they played many large arenas. On one occasion, he gave Sinatra Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange (1962) to read, with the idea of making a film, but Sinatra thought it had no potential and did not understand a word. According to Jimmy Van Heusen, Sinatra's close friend and songwriter, Evans's death to him was "an enormous shock which defies words", as he had been crucial to his career and popularity with the bobbysoxers. [230] Sinatra released Softly, as I Leave You,[231] and collaborated with Bing Crosby and Fred Waring on America, I Hear You Singing, a collection of patriotic songs recorded as a tribute to the assassinated President John F. [222] The album was released in February 1961, the same month that Reprise Records released Ben Webster's The Warm Moods, Sammy Davis Jr.'s The Wham of Sam, Mavis River's Mavis and Joe E. Lewis's It is Now Post Time. "[341][342], In 1995, to mark Sinatra's 80th birthday, the Empire State Building glowed blue. [549] His brother Robert, who was serving as Attorney General and was known for urging FBI director J. Edgar Hoover to conduct more crackdowns on the Mafia,[550] was distrustful of Sinatra. Christina Sinatra was born on the 20th of June, 1948 in Los Angeles, California. [366], "His voice is more interesting now: he has separated his voice into different colors, in different registers. [272] On November 2, 1970, Sinatra recorded the last songs for Reprise Records before his self-imposed retirement,[273] announced the following June at a concert in Hollywood to raise money for the Motion Picture and TV Relief Fund. [209], In 1959, Sinatra released Come Dance with Me!, a highly successful, critically acclaimed album which stayed on Billboard's Pop album chart for 140 weeks, peaking at No. [286] In July, while on a second tour of Australia,[287] he caused an uproar by describing journalists there who were aggressively pursuing his every move and pushing for a press conference as "bums, parasites, fags, and buck-and-a-half hookers". [61] Thanks to his vocal training, Sinatra could now sing two tones higher, and developed a repertoire which included songs such as "My Buddy", "Willow Weep for Me", "It's Funny to Everyone but Me", "Here Comes the Night", "On a Little Street in Singapore", "Ciribiribin", and "Every Day of My Life". 2. [424] He had a leading role opposite Laurence Harvey in The Manchurian Candidate (1962), which he considered to be the role he was most excited about and the high point of his film career. [115], In 1946 Sinatra released "Oh! [584] Encyclopdia Britannica referred to Sinatra as "often hailed as the greatest American singer of 20th-century popular music.Through his life and his art, he transcended the status of mere icon to become one of the most recognizable symbols of American culture. In 1965, he recorded the retrospective album September of My Years and starred in the Emmy-winning television special Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music. Rojek states that Sinatra verbally assaulted Cheshire at a party in 1973, remarking, "Get away from me, you scum. Sinatra later remarked that he had always considered his performance in, Sinatra had stormed off the set when he learned that the film was to be shot in both Cinemascope and a new 55-millimeter process. [392], Fred Zinnemann's From Here to Eternity (1953) deals with the tribulations of three soldiers, played by Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, and Sinatra, stationed on Hawaii in the months leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor. [485] They remained close friends for life,[486] and in a 2013 interview Farrow said that Sinatra might be the father of her son Ronan Farrow (born 1987). [6], Francis Albert Sinatra[a] was born on December 12, 1915, in an upstairs tenement at 415 Monroe Street in Hoboken, New Jersey,[8][9][b] the only child of Italian immigrants Natalina "Dolly" Garaventa and Antonino Martino "Marty" Sinatra, who boxed under the name Marty O'Brien. I think he began to see what he might do on his own". His father was a fire-fighter for the city of Hoboken and his mother was an amateur singer who often sang at social events. Once he found ones that he liked, he actively sought to work with them as often as he could, and made friends with many of them. [476] The couple formally announced their separation on October 29, 1953, through MGM. [409][410], Sinatra featured alongside Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly in High Society (1956) for MGM, earning a reported $250,000 for the picture. On May 14, 1998, Frank Sinatra died of a heart attack at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai . Riddle notes that Sinatra's range was from the low G to the high F, almost two octaves, but that his practical range was the low A-flat to a D, in comparison to Bing Crosby whose range was G to C. Sinatra successfully later sued a BBC interviewer who said that he'd used his Mafia connections to get the part. [538] That year, his son Frank Jr. was kidnapped but was eventually released unharmed. [353] [547][an], Sinatra worked with Hubert H. Humphrey in 1968,[556] and remained a supporter of the Democratic Party until the early 1970s. Frank Sinatra had many close relationships throughout his life. [147][r], Sinatra's decline in popularity was evident at his concert appearances. [599], There are several streets and roads named in honor of Frank Sinatra in several states of the U.S., such as the road named Frank Sinatra Drive connecting Cathedral City and Palm Desert in California, a road in Las Vegas near the Las Vegas Strip is also a road named Frank Sinatra Drive in his honor. [191] On June 9, 1957, he performed in a 62-minute concert conducted by Riddle at the Seattle Civic Auditorium,[200] his first appearance in Seattle since 1945. [221] His first album on the label, Ring-a-Ding-Ding! 3. [140] Rejected by Hollywood, he turned to Las Vegas and made his debut at the Desert Inn in September 1951,[141] and also began singing at the Riverside Hotel in Reno, Nevada. Frank. [579] He was called the Chairman of the Board.[why?] It was sad. The younger Sinatra was technically not a "junior" (his father's middle name was Albert) but was nonetheless known as Frank . "Sinatra" redirects here. [120] The following year he released his second album, Songs by Sinatra, featuring songs of a similar mood and tempo such as Irving Berlin's "How Deep is the Ocean?" [164] His first session for Capitol took place at KHJ studios at Studio C, 5515 Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, with Axel Stordahl conducting. [531] The FBI kept him under surveillance for almost five decades beginning in the 1940s. He blamed racial prejudice on the parents of children. [am] Crosby's affiliations with the mafia were less publicly known. Frank Sinatra's parents: Frank Sinatra's father was Marty Sinatra Frank Sinatra's mother was Dolly Sinatra Frank Sinatra's children: Frank Sinatra's daughter is Nancy Sinatra Frank Sinatra's son was Frank Sinatra Jr Frank Sinatra's daughter is Tina Sinatra Frank Sinatra's daughter is Deana Jones Frank Sinatra's step-son is Bobby Marx The house at 415 Monroe Street burned down and no longer exists. He had three verified children, as well as more than one of questionable paternity. [508] Throughout his life, Sinatra had mood swings and bouts of mild to severe depression,[509] stating to an interviewer in the 1950s that "I have an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as elation". [123] In December he recorded "Sweet Lorraine" with the Metronome All-Stars, featuring talented jazz musicians such as Coleman Hawkins, Harry Carney and Charlie Shavers, with Nat King Cole on piano, in what Charles L. Granata describes as "one of the highlights of Sinatra's Columbia epoch". [293], Sinatra continued to perform at Caesars Palace in the late 1970s, and was performing there in January 1977 when his mother Dolly died in a plane crash on the way to see him. Frank Sinatra Jr., son of Frank Sinatra, has died at the age of 72. [188] Another collaboration with Riddle resulted in the development of Songs for Swingin' Lovers!, sometimes seen as one of his best albums, which was released in March 1956. Sinatra Sings Cole Porter is a 2008 compilation album by American singer, Frank Sinatra.. Track listing. [421], Due to an obligation he owed to 20th Century Fox for walking off the set of Henry King's Carousel (1956),[ad] Sinatra starred opposite Shirley MacLaine, Maurice Chevalier and Louis Jourdan in Can-Can (1960). [173] The recording was first released as a bootleg, but in 1999 Artanis Entertainment Group officially released it as the Sinatra '57 in Concert live album, after Sinatra's death. [160] Journalist Burt Boyar observed, "Sinatra had had it. [615] Alex Gibney directed a four-part biographical series on Sinatra, All or Nothing at All, for HBO in 2015. [481], Sinatra reportedly broke off engagements to Lauren Bacall in 1958[482] and Juliet Prowse in 1962. [304] In March, he performed in front of Princess Margaret at the Royal Albert Hall in London, raising money for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. [587] Biographer Arnold Shaw considered that "If Las Vegas had not existed, Sinatra could have invented it". He points everything he does from a sexual standpoint". [533] Sinatra said he was not involved: "Any report that I fraternized with goons or racketeers is a vicious lie". [124] On days when he felt that his voice was not right, he would know after only a few notes and would postpone the recording session until the following day, yet still pay his musicians. [479] Sinatra continued to feel very strongly for her,[479] and they remained friends for life. [338] The following year, Sinatra sang for the last time on February 25, 1995, before a live audience of 1200 select guests at the Palm Desert Marriott Ballroom, on the closing night of the Frank Sinatra Desert Classic golf tournament. [139] A workaholic, he reportedly only slept four hours a night on average. [403][ac] After roles in Guys and Dolls,[405] and The Tender Trap (both 1955),[406] Sinatra was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his role as a medical student in Stanley Kramer's directorial dbut, Not as a Stranger (also 1955). [114], Despite being heavily involved in political activity in 1945 and 1946, in those two years Sinatra sang on 160 radio shows, recorded 36 times, and shot four films. [618][619], Sinatra was convinced that Johnny Fontane, a mob-associated singer in Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather (1969), was based on his life. Look at Me Now", "Dolores", "Everything Happens to Me", and "This Love of Mine" in 1941; "Just as Though You Were There", "Take Me", and "There Are Such Things" in 1942; and "It Started All Over Again", "In the Blue of Evening", and "It's Always You" in 1943. [346], While Sinatra never learned how to read music well, he had a fine, natural understanding of it,[347] and he worked very hard from a young age to improve his abilities in all aspects of music. [347] At one recording session with arranger Claus Ogerman and an orchestra, Sinatra heard "a couple of little strangers" in the string section, prompting Ogerman to make corrections to what were thought to be copyist's errors. I'm not going to mess with him, are you? Kelley notes that by this period Sinatra's voice had grown "darker, tougher and loamier", but he "continued to captivate audiences with his immutable magic". [259] Sinatra recorded it in one take, just after Christmas 1968. [343] A star-studded birthday tribute, Sinatra: 80 Years My Way, was held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, featuring performers such as Ray Charles, Little Richard, Natalie Cole and Salt-N-Pepa singing his songs. Sinatra earned $125 a week, appearing at the Palmer House in Chicago,[64] and James released Sinatra from his contract. [336] [116] Sinatra had competition; versions by Art Lund, Dick Haymes, Dennis Day, and The Pied Pipers also reached the top ten of the Billboard charts. [411] The public rushed to the cinemas to see Sinatra and Crosby together on-screen, and it ended up earning over $13million at the box office, becoming one of the highest-grossing pictures of its year. [224], In 1962, Sinatra released Sinatra and Strings, a set of standard ballads arranged by Don Costa, which became one of the most critically acclaimed works of Sinatra's entire Reprise period. [580], The United States Postal Service issued a 42-cent postage stamp honoring Sinatra in May 2008, commemorating the tenth anniversary of his death. [417] "High Hopes", sung by Sinatra in the Frank Capra comedy, A Hole in the Head (1959),[418][419] won the Academy Award for Best Original Song,[420] and became a chart hit, lasting on the Hot 100 for 17 weeks. "'Scuse me while I disappear." [415] By 1958, Sinatra was one of the ten biggest box office draws in the United States,[416] appearing with Dean Martin and Shirley MacLaine in Vincente Minnelli's Some Came Running and Kings Go Forth (both 1958) with Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood. [37] Dolly found her son work as a delivery boy at the Jersey Observer newspaper, where his godfather Frank Garrick worked,[f] and after that, worked as a riveter at the Tietjen and Lang shipyard. [547], Of all the U.S. presidents he associated with during his career, he was closest to John F. Sinatra performed in concert for the last time in 1995 at the Palm Desert Marriott Ballroom in California. Angela Jennifer Lambert Paparozzi, or AJ as most people know her, developed a love for music at a young age. [399] The Los Angeles Examiner wrote that Sinatra is "simply superb, comical, pitiful, childishly brave, pathetically defiant", commenting that his death scene is "one of the best ever photographed". [445] Sinatra had two stints as a regular member of cast of Your Hit Parade;[af] his first was from 1943 to 1945,[447] and second was from 1946 to May 28, 1949,[448] during which he was paired with the then-new girl singer, Doris Day. [89] The phenomenon became officially known as "Sinatramania" after his "legendary opening" at the Paramount Theatre in New York on December 30, 1942. [312] It was the first studio album of Sinatra's to feature his touring pianist at the time, Vinnie Falcone, and was based on an idea by Sonny Burke. 1 on the Billboard chart. [394][ab] During production, Montgomery Clift became a close friend,[396] and Sinatra later professed that he "learned more about acting from him than anybody I ever knew before". [z] The works, which combine elements of jazz and classical music, were considered by Wilder to have been among the finest renditions and recordings of his compositions, past or present. (Frank Sinatra) - : , , , ( ). He recorded "My Foolish Heart", "Cry Me a River", and other songs. When Martin dropped out of the tour early on, a rift developed between them and the two never spoke again. By 1962, he reportedly held a 50-percent share in the hotel. [141] Sinatra continues to be seen as one of the icons of the 20th century,[5] Stordahl recalled: "He just couldn't believe his ears. Rocky Fortune), a "footloose and fancy free" temporary worker for the Gridley Employment Agency who stumbles into crime-solving. It was a turbulent marriage with many well-publicized fights and altercations. [83][p] Upon leaving Dorsey, Sinatra persuaded Stordahl to come with him and become his personal arranger, offering him $650 a month, five times his salary from Dorsey. We are saddened by this unexpected death and we express our deepest condolences to Sinatra family. [578] Significant increases in recording sales worldwide were reported by Billboard in the month of his death. Sinatra had several violent confrontations, often with journalists he felt had crossed him or work bosses with whom he had disagreements. [92] When Sinatra returned to the Paramount in October 1944 only 250 persons left the first show, and 35,000 fans left outside caused a near riot, known as the Columbus Day Riot, outside the venue because they were not allowed in. Booker, Janice T. (2004). [239] Granata considers the album to have been one of the finest of his Reprise years, "a reflective throwback to the concept records of the 1950s, and more than any of those collections, distills everything that Frank Sinatra had ever learned or experienced as a vocalist". Buddy Collette considered the swing albums to have been heavily influenced by Sammy Davis Jr., and stated that when he worked with Sinatra in the mid-1960s he approached a song much differently than he had done in the early 1950s. [235], Sinatra's phenomenal success in 1965, coinciding with his 50th birthday, prompted Billboard to proclaim that he may have reached the "peak of his eminence". Using his Las Vegas shows as a home base, he toured within the United States and internationally until shortly before his death in 1998. Sun shining and stadium's speakers serenading him with Sinatra, George, and all his favorite tunes. While Sinatra never learned how to read music, he worked very hard from a young age to improve his abilities in all aspects of music. 1", "Sheeran hit first to remain a year in UK chart", "A Toast To 'My Way,' America's Anthem Of Self-Determination", "Caesars Palace Boss Arrested for Pulling Gun on Sinatra", "No Charges Will be Filed in Sinatra Gun Incident", "Retirement Isn't The Life For Francis Albert", "Denver-Sinatra Superb Contrast at Lake Tahoe", "Jerry Lewis telethon ends decades-long run, fundraising awareness for Muscular Dystrophy Association", "Trilogy: Past, Present & Future Awards", "Foolish Heart: The Lost Albums of Frank Sinatra | Newz Breaker", "AFI's 25 Greatest Movie Musicals of All Time", "Back on the High Road With a Busy Minstrel", "Frank Sinatra at the Golden Globe Awards", "The Screen in Review; Doris Day and Sinatra Star at Paramount", "New York Magazine Television Highlights", "The Billboard Eleventh Annual Disk Jockey Poll", Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, "American Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest Movies", "Nancy Barbato Sinatra, an Idol's First Wife and Lasting Confidante, Dies at 101", "Mia Farrow: Woody Allen's son Ronan may be Frank Sinatra's", "Mia Farrow and Eight of Her Children Speak Out on Their Lives, Frank Sinatra, and the Scandals They've Endured", "Nancy Sinatra Opens Up About Frank Sinatra, Mia Farrow & Son Ronan", "Frank Sinatra's February 1963 Playboy Magazine Interview", "3 Aug 1985, Page 41 The Sydney Morning Herald at Newspapers.com", "Sinatra, Press Agent Trade Blows, Few of Which Connect", Appraisal: 1976 Frank Sinatra Signed Letter to Mike Royko, "Frank Sinatra's Lake Tahoe casino shuts down", "Sixties Considered Decade of Stress in Movie World", "What's the connection between John F. Kennedy and Frank Sinatra", How Bobby Kennedy Started the War on Gangs, "Sinatra, snow storms, and a smashed-up helipad: the story behind John F Kennedy's star-studded inauguration", "New York Magazine Is Reagan Gala a Kennedy Snub? [464], Sinatra had three children, Nancy (born 1940), Frank Jr. (19442016) and Tina (born 1948), with his first wife, Nancy Sinatra (ne Barbato, 19172018), to whom he was married from 1939 to 1951. [569] Sinatra's wife encouraged him to "fight" while attempts were made to stabilize him, and reported that his final words were, "I'm losing. [608], Sinatra has subsequently been portrayed on screen by Ray Liotta (The Rat Pack, 1998),[609] James Russo (Stealing Sinatra, 2003),[610] Dennis Hopper (The Night We Called It a Day, 2003),[611] and Robert Knepper (My Way, 2012),[612] and spoofed by Joe Piscopo and Phil Hartman on Saturday Night Live. Buried - B-8, #151, Desert Memorial Park, Palm Springs, CA. SinatraFamily.com website will be shutting down and going offline on August 1, 2021. [549], In 1962, Sinatra was snubbed by the President as, during his visit to his Palm Springs, Kennedy stayed with the Republican Bing Crosby instead of Sinatra, citing FBI concerns about the latter's alleged connections to organized crime. The father was born on 4 May 1894 from Francesco and Saglimini Rosa, in Lercara Friddi, a hamlet in the municipality of Palermo; Francesco Sinatra emigrated in 1900, followed in 1902 by the eldest sons, Isidoro and Salvatore, then in 1903 by wife Rosa (46 years old) with children Angela (7), Dorothy (4) and Antonio (9 years old), Frank's father. [505], For Santopietro, Sinatra was the personification of America in the 1950s: "cocky, eye on the main chance, optimistic, and full of the sense of possibility". Sinatra never completed the project, but take number 18 of "My Foolish Heart" may be heard in The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings (1995). [569][570] Sinatra was in 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.

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