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Frank Sinatra Information
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'Francis Albert Sinatra' (December 12, 1915 - May 14, 1998) was an American singer who is considered one of the finest vocalists of all time, renowned for his impeccable phrasing and timing. Many critics place him alongside Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley and The Beatles as one of the most important popular music figures of the 20th century.
Sinatra launched a second career as a dramatic film actor, and became admired for a screen persona distinctly tougher than his smooth singing style. Sinatra also had a larger-than-life presence in the public eye, and as "The Chairman of the Board" became an American icon, known for his brash, sometimes swaggering attitude, as embodied by his signature song "My Way".
Life
Early life
He was born in Hoboken, New Jersey. He was the only child of a quiet Sicilian fireman father, Anthony Martin Sinatra (1894-1969). Anthony had emigrated to the United States in 1895. His mother, Natalie Della Gavarante (1896-1977), was a talented, tempestuous Ligurian, who worked as a part-time abortionist. She was known as "Dolly", and emigrated in 1897. Although it is part of the Sinatra folklore that Frank had an impoverished childhood, he was actually brought up in middle-class surroundings, due to his father's secure job as a fireman, and his mother's strong political ties in Hoboken.
Career
Frank Sinatra decided to become a singer after hearing Bing Crosby on the radio. He began singing in small clubs in New Jersey and eventually attracted the attention of trumpeter and band-leader Harry James.
After a brief stint with James, he joined the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra in 1940 where he rose to fame as a singer. His vast appeal to the "bobby soxers", as teenage girls were called, revealed a whole new audience for popular music, which had appealed mainly to adults up to that time. It was as a featured singer with Dorsey that Sinatra made his earliest film appearances, such as the 1942 Eleanor Powell/Red Skelton comedy, Ship Ahoy in which the uncredited singer performed a couple of songs.
He later signed with Columbia Records as a solo artist with some success, particularly during the musicians' recording strikes. Vocalists were not part of the musician union and were allowed to record during the ban by using a capella vocal backing.
Sinatra's singing career was in decline in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Sinatra had begun appearing in movies in the early 1940s, but usually in musicals, often undistinguished ones. He also appeared on a weekly television show on CBS for two years from 1950-1952 (and would try again for one year on ABC from 1957-1958).
Sinatra then launched a second career as a full-fledged dramatic actor by playing scrappy Pvt. Angelo Maggio in eve-of-Pearl Harbor drama From Here to Eternity (1953), for which he won a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award. This role and performance became legendary at the time as the key comeback moment in Sinatra's career.
The following year, Sinatra played a crazed, coldblooded assassin determined to kill the President in the thriller Suddenly; critics found Sinatra's performance one of the most chilling portrayals of a psychopath ever committed to film. This was followed in 1955 by his portrayal of a heroin addict in 1955's The Man with the Golden Arm, for which he received an Academy Award Best Actor nomination.
Soon after From Here to Eternity, Sinatra's singing career rebounded. During the 1950s, he signed with Capitol Records, where he worked with many of the finest arrangers of the era, most notably Nelson Riddle, Gordon Jenkins, and Billy May, and with whom he made a series of highly regarded recordings. By the early 1960s, he was a big enough star to start his own record label: Reprise Records. His position with the label earned him the long-lasting nickname "The Chairman of the Board".
In the 1950s and 1960s, Sinatra was a popular attraction in Las Vegas. He was friends with many other entertainers, including Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr, actor Peter Lawford, comedian Joey Bishop, and sometimes Shirley MacLaine. They formed the core of the Rat Pack, a loose group of entertainers who were friends and socialized together.
Sinatra played a major role in the desegregation of Nevada hotels and casinos in the 1960s. Sinatra led his fellow members of the Rat Pack in refusing to patronize hotels and casinos that denied service to Sammy Davis Jr., a black man. As the Rat Pack became the subject of great media attention due to the release of the film Ocean's Eleven (1960), many hotels and casinos, desiring the attention that would come from the presence of Sinatra and the Rat Pack in their properties, relented on their policies of segregation.
Sinatra was close to the Kennedy family and was a friend and strong supporter of President John F. Kennedy. Years later, Sinatra's youngest daughter Tina would state that Sinatra and mob figure Sam Giancana had helped Kennedy win a crucial primary election in 1960 by helping to deliver the union vote.
Sinatra is said to have introduced Kennedy to Judith Campbell, who had been a girlfriend of both Sinatra's and Giancana. Campbell allegedly began a relationship with Kennedy; eventually Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy became alarmed and told his brother to distance himself from Sinatra. Sinatra would lose his Nevada casino license in 1963 when Giancana was seen in the Cal-Neva Lodge casino, of which Sinatra was a part owner.
Sinatra resumed his strong film work with the 1962 paranoid classic The Manchurian Candidate, in which he plays the troubled, frequently blinking, but nonetheless resolute protagonist. In 1965's Von Ryan's Express, Sinatra added dimensionality to a World War II action role. Other film appearances during this time were either cameos or, as in the case of 1964's Robin and the Seven Hoods, critically-panned efforts to trade in on his image.
In the 1970s Sinatra staged a retirement and several comebacks, recording less frequently but continuing to perform in Las Vegas and around the world.
In 1981 Sinatra's Nevada casino license was reinstated after hearings by the Nevada Gaming Control Board. Indeed, journalist Pete Hamill wrote in his book, Why Sinatra Matters, that Sinatra was "the most investigated American performer since John Wilkes Booth."
"Sure, I knew some of those guys," Sinatra himself said. "I spent a lot of time in saloons. And saloons are not run by the Christian Brothers. There were a lot of guys around, and they came out of Prohibition, and they ran pretty good saloons. I was a kid. I worked in the places that were open. They paid you, and the checks didn't bounce. I didn't meet any Nobel Prize winners in saloons. But if Francis of Assisi was a singer and worked in saloons, he would've met the same guys."
In 1986, investigative journalist Kitty Kelley published a biography of Sinatra entitled His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra. Sinatra went to court to try to prevent it from being published, bring a $2 million lawsuit against her because he believed that the book painted him in an unattractive light, and he accused her of misrepresenting herself as his authorized biographer. He later withdrew his lawsuit amid much publicity and the book went on to become number one on the New York Times best seller list and was a huge seller not only in the US but also in England, Canada, and Australia. Another Sinatra nemesis, the Hollywood gossip columnist Rona Barrett, came closer to a depiction of his character in her roman a clef, The Lovo-maniacs, which attempted a fictional insight into his complex personality.
Sinatra's singing career continued into the 1990s, most notably with his commercially-successful Duets albums on which he sang with other stars such as U2's Bono. He continued to perform live until February 1995, but the nearly 80-year-old singer often had to rely on teleprompters for his lyrics, to compensate for his failing memory.
Marriage and family
Sinatra was married to his childhood sweetheart, Nancy Barbato, in Jersey City, New Jersey on February 4, 1939. They had three children together: Nancy Sinatra (born June 8, 1940), Frank Sinatra, Jr. (born January 10, 1944), and Christine "Tina" Sinatra (born June 20, 1948). Although Sinatra did not remain faithful to his wife, he was by many accounts a devoted father. However, his affair with Ava Gardner became public and the couple was separated in 1950. They were divorced on October 29, 1951 despite Nancy Sr.'s (as she was sometimes known) religious qualms and objections. According to public reports Frank and Nancy Sr. remained on at least civil terms, if not better, and Nancy would recount how Frank still loved her cooking and would send someone by to pick up her home-made specialties many decades after they separated.
Sinatra married the actress Ava Gardner on November 7, 1951, only ten days after his divorce from his first wife became final. They were separated on October 27, 1953 but were not divorced until 1957. She was considered to be his truest love, but that did not guarantee marital success and stability in Hollywood.
Sinatra asked actress Lauren Bacall, whom he had been seeing since shortly after her husband Humphrey Bogart died in 1957, to marry him, but reneged when word of their relationship became public.
On December 8, 1963, Frank Sinatra, Jr. was kidnapped. Sinatra paid the kidnappers' $240,000 ransom demand (even offering $1,000,000 if only his son would be returned, though the kidnappers bizarrely turned this offer down), and his son was released unharmed on December 10. Because the kidnappers demanded that Sinatra call them only from payphones, Sinatra carried a roll of dimes with him throughout the ordeal, and this became a lifetime habit. The kidnappers were subsequently apprehended and convicted.
Sinatra married actress Mia Farrow, 30 years his junior, in 1966. They were divorced two years later.
In 1976, Sinatra married Barbara Blakeley Marx (formerly married to Zeppo Marx), who converted to Catholicism to marry him. She remained his wife until his death, although her relations with Sinatra's children were consistently portrayed as stormy, something Nancy Sinatra (Jr.) confirmed when she publicly claimed that Barbara had not bothered to call Frank's children even when the end was near, although they were close by, and the children missed the opportunity to be at their father's bedside when he died.
Alleged organized crime links
Sinatra has been frequently linked to members of the Mafia and it has long been rumored that his career was aided behind the scenes by organized crime.
One of his uncles, Babe Gavarante, was a member of a Bergen County armed gang connected to the organization of Willie Moretti. Gavarante was convicted of murder in 1921 in connection with an armed robbery in which he had driven the get-away car. Sinatra was also allegedly personally linked to Willie Moretti, his first wife Nancy Barbato was a cousin of one of his senior henchmen and he sang at his daughter's wedding in 1948. According to testimony from Moretti, Sinatra received help from him in arranging performances in return for kick-backs.
He had associations with and did favours for Charles Fischetti, a notorious Chicago mobster dating back to 1946 according to the FBI. Sinatra was also friends with Charles's brother Joseph who ran the Fontainebleau Hotel complex in Miami, who arranged work for him and introduced him to Charles Luciano in Havana. After Luciano's deportation to Italy, Sinatra visited him at least twice, singing at a 1946 Christmas Party and gifting the famed mobster with a gold cigarette case engraved "To my dear pal Charlie, from his friend Frank" the next year. These visits were widely reported by the media and used as further evidence of Sinatra's ties to the mob, haunting him for the rest of his life. Among the allegations were the $2 million dollars that Sinatra gave Luciano. As Joseph "Doc" Stacher later recalled of the Havana meeting, "The Italians among us were all very proud of Frank. They always told me they had spent a lot of money helping him in his career ever since he was in Tommy Dorsey's band. Lucky Luciano was very fond of Frank's singing. Frankie flew into Havana with the Fischettis, with whom he was very friendly, but of course, our meeting had nothing to do with hearing him croon…Everyone brought envelopes of money for Luciano …But more important, they came to pay allegiance to him." The "Havana" allegations - while the basis of rumors for Sinatra's mob ties - have never been proved, and Luciano himself denied there was any criminal association in his autobiography.
Sinatra had a strong friendship with Sam Giancana who always wore a sapphire friendship ring given to him by Sinatra, and who ordered the killing of 200 people. A number of alleged incidents have been noted where people who angered Sinatra have been threatend by Giancana's mob. Comedian Jackie Mason has alleged that after mocking Sinatra in his routine, he received threats and his hotel room was shot up in his presence. After he continued he received death threats and was roughed up and his nose was broken
J. Edgar Hoover apparently suspected Sinatra over the years, and Sinatra's file at the FBI ended up at 2,403 pages, detailing allegations of extortion against Ronald Alpert for $100,000.00. Sinatra publicly rejected these accusations many times, and was never charged with any crimes in connection with them.
The character Johnny Fontane in the book and movie The Godfather is widely viewed as having been inspired by Frank Sinatra and his alleged connections. Indeed, Sinatra was furious with Godfather author Mario Puzo over the Fontane character and reportedly confronted Puzo in public with profane threats.
Death
A frequent visitor, property owner and benefactor in the Palm Springs, California area, Sinatra wished to be buried in the desert he grew to love so much. Sinatra died in 1998 at the age of 82 of a heart attack in Los Angeles, California, following a long battle with coronary heart disease, kidney disease, bowel cancer, and senility. His funeral was held on May 20th at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Beverly Hills. Sinatra's last words were (according to his daughter Nancy Sinatra, as told to Variety senior columnist Army Archerd): "I'm losing."
Sinatra was buried a few miles away from Palm Springs next to his parents in Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City, a quiet, unassuming cemetery near his famous compound in Rancho Mirage which is located on the beautiful, tree-lined thoroughfare that bears his name. His longtime friend Jilly Rizzo, who died in a Rancho Mirage car crash in 1992, is buried nearby as is pop star, former Palm Springs mayor and Congressman, Sonny Bono. Legend has it that Sinatra was buried with a flask of Jack Daniel's whiskey, a roll of ten dimes (in reference to the kidnapping of his son, see above), a lighter (which some take to be a reference to his mob connections) and a packet of Camel cigarettes. The words "The Best is Yet to Come" are imprinted on his tombstone.
Recorded legacy
Sinatra left a vast legacy of recordings, from his very first sides with the Harry James orchestra in 1939, the vast catalogs at Columbia in the 1940s, Capitol in the 1950s, and Reprise from the 1960s onwards, up to his 1994 album Duets II.
Some of his best known recorded songs include:
*Great American Songbook entries such as "Night and Day", "I've Got You Under My Skin", and "Fly Me To The Moon"
*Comic numbers such as "Love and Marriage" (used as theme for American television comedy Married... with Children)
*Torch songs such as "One for My Baby", "Angel Eyes", and "Drinking Again"
*"It Was a Very Good Year" and "Summer Wind", which capture his mid-1960s persona of sentimental nostalgia
*"That's Life", "My Way", and "New York, New York", which convey his late-stage attitude of bombastic defiance.
Three of his songs made #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 even after the advent of the rock and roll era: "Learnin' the Blues" (1955), "Strangers in the Night" (1966), and "Somethin' Stupid" (1967), the last a duet with daughter Nancy.
Of all his many albums, At the Sands with Count Basie, which was recorded live in Las Vegas in 1966, with Sinatra in his prime, backed by Count Basie's big band, remains his most popular and is still a big seller.
Sinatra is also credited with putting out perhaps the first concept albums. 1955's In the Wee Small Hours is the prime example: a set of songs specifically recorded for the album, using only ballads, organized around a central mood of late-night isolation and aching lost love (supposedly due to his separation from Ava Gardner), with a now-classic album cover reflecting the theme. Rolling Stone magazine later named In the Wee Small Hours as #100 on their list of the 500 best albums of all time.
The following year's Songs For Swingin' Lovers took an alternate tack, recording existing pop standards in a hipper, jazzier fashion, revealing an overall exuberance; Rolling Stone placed it #306 on the above list.
Other Sinatra milestone albums include 1965's September of My Years, which according to critic Stephen Holden, "summed up the punchy sentimentality of a whole generation of American men," 1973's comeback album Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back, and 1980's Trilogy: Past Present Future, an ambitious triple album using three arrangers that attempted to portray the past, present, and future of his career.
Sinatra won ten Grammy Awards during his career, including Album of the Year for Come Dance With Me in 1959, September of My Years in 1965, and A Man and His Music in 1966, and Record of the Year for "Strangers in the Night" in 1966. (The Grammy Awards only began in 1958, after two peaks of Sinatra's recording career had already happened.)
In addition, Sinatra was named the Down Beat readers' poll Male Singer of the Year sixteen times between 1941 and 1966 and the Personality of the Year six times between 1954 and 1959, and was named the Down Beat critics' poll Male Singer of the Year twice, in 1955 and 1957. Sinatra was also named the Playboy Jazz All-Star Poll Male Vocalist of the Year seven times between 1957 and 1963.
In 2001 BBC Radio 2 named Sinatra as the "Greatest Voice of the Twentieth Century".
Sinatra was inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame in 1980.
Stephen Holden wrote for the 1983 Rolling Stone Record Guide:
:"Frank Sinatra's voice is pop music history. [...] Like Presley and Dylan”the only other white male American singers since 1940 whose popularity, influence, and mythic force have been comparable”Sinatra will last indefinitely. He virtually invented modern pop song phrasing."
Two decades later, radio personality and musician Jonathan Schwartz's assessment in a 2005 book review for the New York Observer showed that Sinatra's musical reputation had not diminished:
:"I believe, based on a lifetime of consideration, that Frank Sinatra was the greatest interpretive musician this country has ever produced."
Discography
Singles
Big Band Singer I: Harry James Orch. (Columbia)
* From The Bottom Of My Heart (released 1939) (Brunswick label)
* It's Funny To Everyone But Me (1939)
* Here Comes The Night (1939)
* My Buddy (1939)
* On A Little Street In Singapore (1939)
* Ciribiribin (1939)
* Every Day Of My Life (1940)
* All Or Nothing At All (1940) (re-issued 1943)
Big Band Singer II: Tommy Dorsey Orch. (RCA Victor)
* Too Romantic (released 1940)
* The Sky Fell Down (1940)
* Shake Down The Stars (1940)
* Say It (1940)
* Polka Dots And Moonbeams (1940)
* The Fable Of The Rose (1940)
* Imagination (1940)
* Devil May Care (1940)
* It's A Lovely Day Tomorrow (1940)
* April Played The Fiddle (1940)
* Yours Is My Heart Alone (1940)
* I'll Never Smile Again (1940)
* All This And Heaven Too (1940)
* East Of The Sun (1940)
* The One I Love Belongs To Somebody Else (1940)
* Trade Winds (1940)
* Love Lies (1940)
* Whispering (1940)
* I Could Make You Care (1940)
* Our Love Affair (1940)
* Looking For Yesterday (1940)
* We Three (1940)
* You're Breaking My Heart All Over Again (1940)
* When You Awake (1940)
* I'd Know You Anytime (1940)
* Do You Know Why (1940)
* Anything (1940)
* Stardust (1940)
* You Might Have Belonged To Another (1941)
* Oh, Look at Me Now (1941)
* Do I Worry (1941)
* Dolores (1941)
* Without A Song (1941)
* It's Always You (1941)
* Everything Happens to Me (1941)
* Let's Get away from It All (1941)
* Love Me As I Am (1941)
* Neiani (1941)
* This Love of Mine (1941)
* I Guess I'll Have To Dream The Rest (1941)
* You And I (1941)
* Blue Skies (1941)
* Pale Moon (1941)
* Two in Love (1941)
* Violets For Your Furs (1941)
* I Think Of You (1941)
* The Last Call For Love (1942)
* I'll Take Tallulah (1942)
* Snootie Little Cutie (1942)
* Somewhere A Voice Is Calling (1942)
* Just as though You Were Here (1942)
* Street Of Dreams (1942)
* Be Careful, It's My Heart (1942)
* Take Me (1942)
* Light A Candle In The Chapel (1942)
* In The Blue Of Evening (1942)
* There Are Such Things (1942)
* Daybreak (1942)
First Solo Singles (RCA Bluebird)
* The Night We Called It A Day (released 1942)
* Night And Day (1942)
* The Lamplighter's Serenade (1942)
* The Song Is You (1942)
The Columbia Years
* You'll Never Know (released 1943)
* Close to You (1943)
* Sunday, Monday & Always (1943)
* If You Please (1943)
* People Will Say We're in Love (1943)
* Oh What A Beautiful Morning (1943)
* I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night (1944)
* A Lovely Way To Spend An Evening (1944)
* White Christmas (1944)
* Saturday Night Is The Loneliest Night Of The Week (1944)
* I Dream of You (1944)
* What Makes The Sunset (1945)
* Ol'Man River (1945)
* I Should Care (1945)
* Dream (1945)
* Put Your Dreams Away (1945)
* Homesick That's All (1945)
* If I Loved You (1945)
* The Charm Of You (1945)
* My Shawl (1945)
* Lilly Belle (1945)
* Nancy (1945)
* America The Beautiful (1945)
* The House I Live In (1945)
* Oh! What It Seemed to Be (1946)
* Day by Day (1946)
* Full Moon And Empty Arms (1946)
* All Through The Day (!946)
* They Say It's Wonderful (1946)
* From This Day Forward (1946)
* Soliloquy (1946) (Label Columbia Masterworks)
* Five Minutes More (1946)
* One Love (1946)
* Begin The Beguine (1946)
* The Coffee Song (1946)
* Silent Night (1946)
* Jingle Bells (1946)
* September Song (1946)
* This Is The Night (194)
* That's How Much I Love You (1947)
* I Want To Thank Your Folks (1947)
* It's The Same Old Dream (1947)
* Sweet Lorraine (1947)
* I Believe (1947)
* Mam'selle (1947)
* Almost Like Being In Love (1947)
* Tea For Two (1947)
* Ain'tcha Ever Comin' Back (1947)
* Christmas Dreaming (1947)
* I've Got A Home In That Rock (1947)
* So Far (1947)
* It All Came True (1947)
* You're My Girl (1947)
* What'll I Do (1948)
* But Beautiful (1948)
* For Every Man There's A Woman (1948)
* But None Like You (1948)
* I've Got A Crush On You (1948)
* All Of Me (1948)
* It Only Happens When I Dance With You (1948)
* Nature Boy (1948)
* Just For Now (1948)
* Kiss Me Again (1949)
* My Melancholy Baby (1949)
* Autumn In New York (1949)
* Senorita (1949)
* A Little Learnin'Is A Dangerous Thing (1949)
* Sunflower (1949)
* Why Can't You Behave (1949)
* Comme Ci Comme Ca (1949)
* If You Stub Your Toe On The Moon (1949)
* Bop! Goes My Heart (1949)
* Some Enchanted Evening (1949)
* The Right Girl For Me (1949
* The Hucklebuck (1949)
* Let's Take An Old-Fashioned Walk (1949)
* It All Depends On You (1949)
* Don't Cry Joe (1949)
* Bye Bye Baby (1949)
* If I Ever Love Again (1949)
* That Lucky Old Sun (1949)
* Mad About You (1949)
* The Old Master Painter (1949)
* Sorry (1950)
* Sure Thing (1950)
* Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy (1950)
* Kisses And Tears (1950)
* American Beauty Rose (1950)
* Poinciana (1950)
* Peachtree Street (1950)
* Goodnight Irene (1950)
* Life Is So Peculiar (1950)
* One Finger Melody (1950)
* Nevertheless (1950)
* Let it Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow (1950)
* I am Loved (1951)
* Take My Love (1951)
* Love Means Love (1951)
* You're The One (1951)
* We Kiss In A Shadow (1951)
* Love Me (1951)
* I'm A Fool To Want You (1951)
* It's A Long Way From Your House To My House (1951)
* Castle Rock (1951)
* April In Paris (1951)
* I Hear A Rhapsody (1952)
* Feet Of Clay (1952)
* My Girl (1952)
* Luna Rossa (1952)
* Bim Bam Baby (1952)
* The Birth Of The Blues (1952)
The Capitol Years
* I'm Walking Behind You (released 1953)
* I've Got The World On A String (1953)
* From Here to Eternity (1953)
* South of the Border (1953)
* Young at Heart (1954)
* Don't Worry 'bout Me /I Could Have Told You (1954)
* Three Coins in the Fountain (1954)
* The Gal that Got Away/Half as Lovely (1954)
* When I Stop Loving You/It Worries Me (1954)
* The Christmas Waltz (1954)
* You My Love (1954)
* Melody of Love (1955)
* Why Should I Cry Over You (1955)
* Two Hearts Two Kisses (1955)
* Learnin' the Blues (1955)
* Not As A Stranger (1955)
* Same Old Saturday Night (1955)
* Love and Marriage (1955)
* The Tender Trap (1955)
* Flowers Mean Forgiveness/You'll Get Yours (1956)
* How Little We Know/Five Hundred Guys (1956)
* You're Sensational/Johnny Concho Theme (1956)
* Well, Did You Evah? (1956)
* Mind If I Make Love To You (1956)
* Hey, Jealous Lover (1956)
* Can't Steal a Little Love/Your Love for Me (1956)
* Crazy Love/So Long, My Love (1957)
* Your Cheatin' Yourself (1957)
* All the Way/Chicago (1957)
* Witchcraft (1957)
* Mistetoe And Holly (1957)
* Nothing In Common/How Are Ya Fixed for Love (1958)
* Monique (1958)
* Mr Success (1958)
* To Love And Be Loved (1958)
* French Foreign Legion (1959)
* High Hopes (1959)
* Talk to Me (1959)
* River, Stay away from My Door (1960)
* Nice 'n' Easy (1960)
* Ol' MacDonald (1960)
* My Blue Heaven (1961)
* American Beauty Rose (1961)
* I've Heard That Song Before (1962)
* I'll Remember April (1962)
* Hidden Persuasion (1962)
The Reprise Years
* The Second Time Around (released 1961)
* Granada (1961)
* I'll Be Seeing You (1961)
* Imagination (1961)
* I'm Getting Sentimental Over You (1961)
* There Are Such Things (1961)
* Without A Song (1961)
* Take Me (1961)
* Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
* Stardust (1962)
* Ev'rybody's Twistin' (1962)
* Goody Goody (1962)
* The Look Of Love (1962)
* Me and My Shadow (1962)
* Call Me Irresponsible (1963)
* I Have Dreamed (1963)
* A New Kind Of Love (1963)
* Fugue For Tinhorns (1963)
* Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (1963)
* Stay with Me (1964)
* My Kind Of Town (1964)
* Softly, As I Leave You (1964)
* I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day (1964)
* We Wish You The Merriest (1964)
* Somewhere in Your Heart (1964)
* Anytime at All (1965)
* Tell Her (1965)
* Forget Domani (1965)
* When Somebody Loves You (1965)
* Everybody Has The Right To Be Wrong (1965)
* It Was a Very Good Year (1965)
* Strangers in the Night (1966)
* Summer Wind (1966)
* That's Life (1966)
* Somethin' Stupid (with Nancy Sinatra) (1967)
* The World We Knew (1967)
* This Town (1967)
* I Can't Believe I'm Losing You (1968)
* Cycles/My Way of Life (1968)
* Whatever Happened To Christmas (1968)
* Rain in My Heart (1969)
* My Way (1969) (Reprise)
* Love's Been Good to Me (1969)
* Goin'Out Of My Head/Forget To Remember (1969)
* I Would Be in Love (1969)
* What's Now Is Now (1969)
* Lady Day (1970)
* Feelin'Kinda Sunday (1970)
* Something (1970)
* Life Is A Trippy Thing (1971)
* Let Me Try Again (1973)
* You Will Be My Music (1973)
* Bad, Bad Leroy Brown (1974)
* You Turned My World Around (1974)
* Anytime (1975)
* I Believe I'm Gonna Love You (1975)
* A Baby Just Like You (1975)
* The Saddest Thing Of All (1975)
* I Sing The Songs (1976)
* Stargazer (1976)
* Dry Your Eyes (1976)
* I Love My Wife (1976)
* Night And Day (disco version) (1977)
* Theme from New York, New York (1980)
* You And Me (1980)
* Say Hello (1981)
* Here's To The Band (1983)
* To Love A Child (1983)
* Teach Me Tonight (1984) (Qwest label)
* Mack The Knife (1984) (Qwest)
* L.A. Is My Lady (1984) (QWest)
Original LPs
The Columbia Years
* 1948 The Voice Of Frank Sinatra (first issued as 78rpm-album in 1946)
* 1948 Christmas Songs By Sinatra
* 1949 Frankly Sentimental
* 1950 Songs By Sinatra (first issued as 78rpm-album in 1947)
* 1950 Sing And Dance With Frank Sinatra
The Capitol Years
* 1954 Songs For Young Lovers
* 1954 Swing Easy!
* 1955 In the Wee Small Hours
* 1956 Songs For Swingin' Lovers
* 1956 This Is Sinatra!
* 1957 Close To You
* 1957 A Swingin™ Affair!
* 1957 Where Are You?
* 1957 A Jolly Christmas From Frank Sinatra
* 1958 Come Fly With Me
* 1958 This Is Sinatra Volume 2
* 1958 Sinatra Sings For Only The Lonely
* 1959 Come Dance With Me!
* 1959 Look To Your Heart
* 1959 No One Cares
* 1960 Nice ™n™ Easy
* 1961 All The Way
* 1961 Sinatra™s Swingin™ Session!!!
* 1961 Come Swing With Me
* 1962 Point Of No Return
* 1962 Sinatra Sings Of Love And Things
The Reprise Years
* 1961 Ring-A-Ding-Ding
* 1961 Swing Along With Me (retitled Sinatra Swings)
* 1961 I Remember Tommy
* 1962 Sinatra And Strings
* 1962 Sinatra And Swingin™ Brass
* 1962 All Alone
* 1962 Sinatra-Basie: An Historic Musical First
* 1963 The Concert Sinatra
* 1963 Sinatra™s Sinatra
* 1964 Sinatra Sings...Academy Award Winners
* 1964 America, I Hear You Singing
* 1964 It Might As Well Be Swing (with Count Basie)
* 1964 Softly, As I Leave You
* 1965 Sinatra '65: The Singer Today
* 1965 September of My Years
* 1965 My Kind Of Broadway
* 1965 A Man And His Music
* 1966 Moonlight Sinatra
* 1966 Strangers In The Night
* 1966 Sinatra At The Sands
* 1966 That™s Life
* 1967 Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim
* 1967 The World We Knew
* 1968 Francis A. & Edward K. (with Duke Ellington)
* 1968 Cycles
* 1968 The Sinatra Family Wish You A Merry Christmas
* 1969 My Way
* 1969 A Man Alone
* 1970 Watertown
* 1971 Sinatra & Company
* 1973 Ol™ Blue Eyes Is Back
* 1974 Some Nice Things I™ve Missed
* 1974 The Main Event “ Live
* 1980 Trilogy: Past Present Future
* 1981 She Shot Me Down
* 1984 L.A. Is My Lady (QWest/Warner)
The Last Capitol Albums
* 1993 Duets
* 1994 Duets II
Post-Career Albums with New Material
* 1994 Sinatra & Sextet: Live In Paris
* 1995 Sinatra 80th: Live In Concert
* 1997 With Red Norvo Quintet: Live In Australia, 1959
* 2005 Live From Las Vegas
Box Sets and Collections
* The Reprise Collection (1990)
* The Capitol Years (1990)
* The Columbia Years 1943-1952: The Complete Recordings (1993)
* The Song Is You (complete Sinatra-Dorsey) (1994)
* The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings (1995)
* The Complete Capitol Singles Collection (1996)
* Best Of Columbia Years 1943-52 (1998)
* The V-Discs: The Columbia Years (1943-52) (1998)
* Frank Sinatra & the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (1998)
* Capitol Concepts (2000)
* Frank Sinatra In Hollywood 1940-1964 (2002)
* The Essential Frank Sinatra With The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (2005)
Filmography
*Major Bowes Amateur Theatre of the Air (1935) (short subject)
*Las Vegas Nights (1941)
*Ship Ahoy (1942)
*Reveille with Beverly (1943)
*Show Business at War (1943) (short subject)
*Upbeat in Music (1943) (short subject) (scenes deleted)
*Higher and Higher (1944)
*Road to Victory (1944) (short subject)
*Step Lively (1944)
*The All-Star Bond Rally (1945) (short subject)
*Anchors Aweigh (1945)
*The House I Live In (1945) (short subject)
*MGM Christmas Trailer (1945) (short subject)
*Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
*It Happened in Brooklyn (1947)
*Screen Snapshots: Out-of-This-World Series (1947) (short subject)
*Lucky Strike Salesman's Movie 48-A (1948) (short subject)
*The Miracle of the Bells (1948)
*The Kissing Bandit (1948)
*Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)
*On the Town (1949)
*Double Dynamite (1951)
*Meet Danny Wilson (1952)
*Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Night Life (1952) (short subject)
*From Here to Eternity (1953)
*Suddenly (1954)
*Young at Heart (1954)
*Not as a Stranger (1955)
*Finian's Rainbow (1955) (animated musical, recorded songs with Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald, film never completed)
*Guys and Dolls (1955)
*The Tender Trap (1955)
*The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
*Carousel (1956) (recorded several songs, shot several scenes, walked off set and was replaced by Gordon MacRae)
*Screen Snapshots: Playtime in Hollywood (1956) (short subject)
*Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956) (Cameo)
*High Society (1956)
*Johnny Concho (1956)
*Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
*The Pride and the Passion (1957)
*The Joker Is Wild (1957)
*Pal Joey (1957)
*Kings Go Forth (1958)
*Some Came Running (1958)
*Invitation to Monte Carlo (1959) (documentary)
*A Hole in the Head (1959)
*Premier Khrushchev in the USA (1959) (documentary)
*Never So Few (1959)
*Can-Can (1960)
*Ocean's Eleven (1960)
*Pepe (1960) (Cameo)
*The Devil at Four O'Clock (1961)
*Sergeants 3 (1962)
*The Road to Hong Kong (1962) (Cameo)
*Advise and Consent (1962) (voice)
*The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
*The List of Adrian Messenger (1963) (Cameo)
*Come Blow Your Horn (1963)
*4 for Texas (1963)
*Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964)
*A Tribute to the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital (1965) (short subject)
*None But the Brave (1965) (also producer and director)
*Von Ryan's Express (1965)
*Marriage on the Rocks (1965)
*The Oscar (1966) (Cameo)
*Cast a Giant Shadow (1966)
*Assault on a Queen (1966)
*Think Twentieth (1967) (short subject)
*The Naked Runner (1967)
*Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim (1967)
*Tony Rome (1967)
*The Detective (1968)
*Lady in Cement (1968)
*Dirty Dingus Magee (1970)
*That's Entertainment! (1974)
*Rene Simard in Japan (1974) (documentary)
*The First Deadly Sin (1980)
*Cannonball Run II (1984)
*Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones (1990) (documentary)
*In Person (1993) (voice) (short subject)
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