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RE: [Sinatraphiles] September 25 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: "Danny Faux thefox98@hotmail.com [Sinatraphiles]" <Sinatraphiles@yahoogroups.com> | Received: 2014-09-26

Editorial note: parsed as a “Television” entry for 1986, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Madrid, Spain

Sinatra Concert / 84 min.

RE: [Sinatraphiles] September 25 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: "Danny Faux thefox98@hotmail.com [Sinatraphiles]" <Sinatraphiles@yahoogroups.com> | Received: 2014-09-26

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1977, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, California

Benefit

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

January 1 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Scott Henderson <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2024-01-01

Editorial note: parsed as a “Film” entry for 1938, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

film ended with the death of John Garfield's character. Frank had perished in both "Eternity" and "Suddenly." He didn't see any

charm in making it three in a row. Warners balked and Frank told them he wouldn't sign the contract unless the ending was rewritten.

The film did not have a working title until Jack Warner, who adored Frank's recording of "Young At Heart," decided it was the title he

wanted. It would open and close the film. The pre-recordings were done in mid-July and production of the film got underway on 7-22-54.

The famous "One For My Baby" scene, which first established Sinatra as a saloon singer, was shot on 8-11-54. The film was completed

on 9-14-54.

After his success in "Eternity" and the renewed vocal career at Capitol, Frank Sinatra knew exactly what he wanted and would accept

nothing less. The first casualty during the filming of "Young At Heart" happened just two days into the shoot. Charles Lang, the Academy

Award winning cinematographer, was a meticulous craftsman, who set up every shot with great care. Frank could not stand the long

waits between scenes. He demanded that Lang be replaced or he was dropping out of the project. Ted D McCord replaced him. A few

weeks into the filming, Frank announced that Marty Melcher, Doris's husband, was to be barred from the set. Period. But what bothered

Day, far more, was Frank's dilatory ways. Doris was a consummate professional and her co-star was late every day. Sometimes he did

not show until after lunch. In later years, she would write about her frustration and discuss it in many interviews.

After seeing the rushes, WB offered Frank the lead in the remake of the Bogie classic "High Sierra." Frank agreed to do it for 50% of the

net. He knew they would not accept such a demand. One did not do remakes of Bogart films.

In 2001, Republic Entertainment Inc, a division of Paramount Pictures, issued the DVD of "Young At Heart." It is not digitally remastered

and there are no special features. Truly a shame that this film has not received the respect it so richly deserves.

--Ed

January 6 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Scott Henderson <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2024-01-06

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1940, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

. Released in February of 41, the tune

was #2 on the Billboard chart for six consecutive

weeks and stayed around for 14 weeks.

January 6 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Scott Henderson <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2024-01-06

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1958, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Sands, Las Vegas, Nevada (January 5-28)

Notes: In response to an inquiry from Sinatraphile Tom Adam, Ed

O'Brien points out that Sinatra was doing "Come Fly With Me."

January 1958 featured two renditions of that song in TV appearances plus “Isle of Capri . Sinatra dedicated the full half-hour of

his opening TV show in 1958 to the "Come Fly With Me" lp. Teddy Randazzo and George Jacobs told O'Brien that Sinatra would

bring the arranger of his most recent album into the Sands around the time of its release. Randazzo also told him that

Billy May was with him when their albums came out. O'Brien doubts that Sinatra did any of the songs from "Only The Lonely,"

with the one exception being "One for My Baby," which had become a concert staple after mid-1952.

Sinatra did a few of the "Come Fly . . ." songs on his TV show into the Spring of 1958, O'Brien continues. Unfortunately, there is no

documentation of just what he sang at the Sands in January, but here is the list from Monte Carlo , June 14, 1958.

Curious that he did only one song from the legendary May 29 session and it wasn't a track from "Only The Lonely."

1. Come Fly With Me

2. I Get a Kick out of You

3. I've Got You Under My Skin

4. Where or When (ballad recording done September 11, 1958)

5. Moonlight in Vermont

6. On the Road to Mandalay

7. When Your Lover has Gone

8. April in Paris

9. All the Way

10. Monique (song from "Kings Go Forth ")

11. Bewitched

12. Lady is a Tramp

13. You Make Me Feel so Young

These, O'Brien says, are essentially the gems that would be Sinatra's concert repertoire for the next four decades..

He is willing to bet that some enterprising soul could dig up some reviews from the trade papers and possibly

Vegas papers covering the entertainment on The Strip.

January 7 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Scott Henderson <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2024-01-07

Editorial note: parsed as a “Radio” entry for 1951, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Meet Frank Sinatra

Guest: Eileen Barton

note: First show with 45 minute running time. Last 15 minutes of the hour had "News with Eric Sevareld"

Television

None

Re: January 7 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: "John K. George" <dmarc-noreply@freelists.org> | Received: 2024-01-10

Editorial note: parsed as a “Radio” entry for 1951, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Meet Frank Sinatra

Guest: Eileen Barton

note: First show with 45 minute running time. Last 15 minutes of the hour had "News with Eric Sevareld"

Television

None

Re: January 7 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Ed O'Brien <dmarc-noreply@freelists.org> | Received: 2024-01-10

Editorial note: parsed as a “Radio” entry for 1951, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Meet Frank Sinatra

Guest: Eileen Barton

note: First show with 45 minute running time. Last 15 minutes of the hour had "News with Eric Sevareld"

January

7, 1951 Meet Frank Sinatra

Taped December 27, 1950

Show

#11

Network: CBS

Sunday

5 P.M - 5:45 P.M. EST

Sponsor: Tintair - Luden's Cough Drops

Musicians: Graham Forbes and His

Quartet

Announcer: Hal Sims

Writers: Paul Dudley

Guest: Eileen Barton

Notes:

First show with the new 45 minute format. Last 15 minutes of the hour have "News with Eric Sevareid"

\

Producers:

Mark Goodson, Bill Todman

Re: January 7 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Vance Adair <dr.vanceadair@gmail.com> | Received: 2024-01-10

Editorial note: parsed as a “Radio” entry for 1951, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Meet Frank Sinatra

Guest: Eileen Barton

note: First show with 45 minute running time. Last 15 minutes of the hour had "News with Eric Sevareld"

Television

None

January 11 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Scott Henderson <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2024-01-11

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1940, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Shea Theatre, Buffalo, New York (December 31/39 to January 11/40) Harry James with Frank Sinatra

Red Skelton, Erina Stillwell, Patricia Norman

Hudson Wonders, Frank Paris and His Marionettes

Note: Sinatra's last concert with Harry James. He would join Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra in Rockford, Illinois on January 24th

Re: January 7 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Ed O'Brien <dmarc-noreply@freelists.org> | Received: 2024-01-11

Editorial note: parsed as a “Radio” entry for 1951, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Meet Frank Sinatra

Guest: Eileen Barton

note: First show with 45 minute running time. Last 15 minutes of the hour had "News with Eric Sevareld"

Television

None

Re: January 7 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Vance Adair <dr.vanceadair@gmail.com> | Received: 2024-01-11

Editorial note: parsed as a “Radio” entry for 1951, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Meet Frank Sinatra

Guest: Eileen Barton

note: First show with 45 minute running time. Last 15 minutes of the hour had "News with Eric Sevareld"

Television

None

January 16 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Scott Henderson <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2024-01-16

Editorial note: parsed as a “Television” entry for 1951, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Texaco Star Theatre

Milton Berle, Martha Raye, Perry Como

A boxed marked "The Thing" is opened and Frank Sinatra steps out

January 20 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Scott Henderson <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2024-01-20

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1975, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (16-22)

Woody Herman Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

1. The Lady Is A Tramp

2. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown

3. Let Me Try Again

4. My Kind Of Town

5. medley: Last Night When We Were Young / Violets For Your Furs /

Here's That Rainy Day

6. monologue

7. Something

8.. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

9. My Way

10. Strangers In The Night

11. Send In The Clowns

12. I Have Dreamed

13. I've Got You Under My Skin

Notes: TT 52mins.

January 21 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Scott Henderson <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2024-01-21

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1962, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

. "Call Me Irresponsible" was intended for Fred Astaire and Frank

got it after Fred dropped out of the film project involving the song ("Papa's

Delicate Condition."). This was the first Reprise session where Riddle's charts would

be acknowledged when the recordings were released. He was no longer contractually

committed to Capitol Records.

Vance Adair:

Sammy Cahn, somewhat late in life, came to regard this as his favourite song.

Cahn was justly proud of the ease with which the seven syllable phrase blends with the music.

note: I have an interview with Cahn in which he talks about his great disappointment regarding

Astaire. Among singers and songwriters, Fred was considered to be the very best exponent

of a song. Berlin, Porter, Gershwin were in awe of his ability to sell their work to a mass

audience. I have a show that Tony Bennett did with Jonathan Schwartz. They discuss

how musicians viewed Astaire and Jonathan relates stories from his father, Arthur Schwartz.

--Ed

March 9 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Scott Henderson <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2024-03-09

Editorial note: parsed as a “Film” entry for 1955, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

. He negotiated a tremendous deal with the studio before agreeing

to star in "Can-Can." Frank received up front $200,000 and 25% of the

gross earnings. This was unheard of in 1959. A clever studio accountant

could easily make a net profit disappear. But the gross was the gross.

20th Century wanted Marilyn Monroe to play Simon, but Frank insisted on

Shirley MacLaine. Filming got underway in early September

of 1959. The budget was $6,000,000. It became apparent very early in the

filming that Frank and Shirley were badly miscast. Whereas the two Frenchmen ,

Maurice Chevalier and Louis Jordan, fit into the story splendidly. On 10-13-59, Sinatra

and Chevalier recorded "I Love Paris." The recording is on the Capitol s/t album, but for

some insane reason it was deleted from the final cut.

The film was a wrap in early November. An elaborate opening took place at the Rivoli

Theatre, in N.Y.C, 3-9-60. There was one showing at 8:30 P.M and all seats were reserved.

The nation-wide release took place two days later. The reviews were not good. Prior to the release,

Variety estmated the movie would have a domestic gross of $10,000,000.

The actual take was $4.2 million. Time has not been good to the film.

On Rotten Tomatoes, "Can-Can" receives an audience score of 47%.

Capitol Records released the soundtrack album on April 4,

1960. The big selling point at the time

was Full Dimensional Stereo. A CD version from Capitol was issued in

1989. A

more recent version is available on the Hallmark label. The quality of that release is definitely inferior

to the Capitol original. The VHS was issued in April 1993 and the deluxe DVD in May of 2007.

The latter is a two-disc offering that is the wide-screen version. 20th filmed it in TODD-AO and

it is really the only way to watch it. The second disc offers a look at the famous Khrushev visit

to the "Can-Can" set on 9-19-59. Sinatra, Maclaine,

Chevalier, Jordan did numbers

from the film. Nikita and Co were shocked at the very revealing outfits worn by the dancers and

would later issue a statement condemning western decadence. A laser disc copy was issued

in wide screen format in 1995. Excellent quality.

--Ed

Re: October 22 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Ed O'Brien <dmarc-noreply@freelists.org> | Received: 2024-10-23

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1980, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Syracuse Carrier Dome, New York

Reagan Benefit

Wednesday evening

Conducted by Vinnie Falcone

O.A. Wayne Newton

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. The Best Is Yet To Come

3. The Song Is You

4. When Your Lover Has Gone

5. The Lady Is A Tramp monologue

6. Street Of Dreams

7. You And Me

8. My Kind Of Town

9. New York, New York

The Post Standard

October 25 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2024-10-24

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1946, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Hollywood

HCO2116 Time After Time

(J. Styne/S. Cahn)

(from It Happened In Brooklyn)

Sinatra Music Publishing Corp. (ASCAP) 1946

Arranged & Conducted by Axel Stordahl

-1 (3:08) CD: Columbia Years 43-52 Vol. 5

CD: 09372 Greatest Hits-The Early Years, Vol. 2

LP: C6X-40343 The Voice- The Columbia Years, 43-52

LP: CL-2913 Frank Sinatra In Hollywood

LP: CL-2572 Greatest Hits, The Early Years, Vol. 2

LP: CL-606 Frankie

78: 37300

HCO2117 It's The Same Old Dream w/Four Hits & A Miss

(J. Styne/S. Cahn)

(from It Happened In Brooklyn)

Sinatra Music Publishing Corp. (ASCAP) 1946

Arranged & Conducted by Axel Stordahl

-1 (3:05) CD: Columbia Years 43-52 Vol. 5

LP: C6X-40343 The Voice- The Columbia Years, 43-52

LP: CL-2913 Frank Sinatra In Hollywood

LP: CL-2740 The Essential Frank Sinatra, Vol. 2

78: 37288

NOTE: Sinatra Scholar Ed O'Brien thinks the songs by Cahn/Styne for "It Happened in Brooklyn" were the best Sinatra had during the MGM years.

The two listed above are still fresh after all these years. There would be three recordings made by Sinatra for both tunes. He wishes that MGM had employed their gorgeous Technicolor on this underrated gem.

HCO2118 I'm Sorry I Made You Cry

(N.J. Clesi)

(from Rose Of Washington Square)

Leo Feist, Inc. (ASCAP) 1918

Arranged & Conducted by Axel Stordahl

-1 (3:04) CD: Columbia Years 43-52 Vol. 5

LP: CL-6087 Songs By Sinatra, Vol. 1 (10 inch)

78: 37256

Four Hits And A Miss: Marvin Bailey, Lee Gotch, Beverly Mahr, Mack McLean, William Seckler

Violins: E. Bergman, H. Bluestone, W. Callies, S. Cytron, W. Edelstein, P. Ellis, G. Kast, M. King, S. Middleman, F. Olson, N. Pisani, E. Powers, M. Russell, F. Slatkin, M. Sosson; Violas: A. Harshman, P. Lowenkron, M. Perlmutter, P. Robyn; Cellos: F. Goerner, A. Kafton, N. Ochi-Albi, J. Sewell; Harp: M. Hogan Cambern; Horn: F. Fox; Saxes: H. Beau, H. Haymer, J. Kinsler, F. Stulce; Trumpets: D. Anderson, R. Linn, R. Zarchy; Trombones: D. Hallett, G. Jenkins, W. Schaefer; Piano: M. Mclntyre; Guitar: A. Reuss; Bass: P. Stephens; Drums: R. Hagan

October 25 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2024-10-24

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1947, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

New York City

CO38284 My Cousin Louella

(B. Bierman/J. Manus)

Shapiro, Berstein & Co., Inc. (ASCAP) 1947

Arranged & Conducted by John Guarnieri-1 (3:05) CD: Columbia Years 43-52 Vol. 7 78: 38045

CO38285 We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye

(H. Woods)

Words And Music, Inc. (ASCAP) 1929

Arranged & Conducted by John Guarnieri

-1 (3:06) CD: Columbia Years 43-52 Vol. 7

LP: C2X-40897 Hello Young Lovers

78: 38129

CO38286 S'Posin'

(A. Razaf/P. Denniker)

Mayfair Music Corp. (ASCAP) 1929

Arranged & Conducted by John Guarnieri

-1 (2:45) CD: Columbia Years 43-52 Vol. 7

LP: C6X-40343 The Voice-The Columbia years, 43-52

LP: CL-606 Frankie

78: 38210

Piano: John Guarnieri; Bass: Herman Alpert; Guitar: Tony Mattola

NOTE:‚ Ed O''Brien points out that guitarist Tony Mattola had known Sinatra since the early 1930s. They had worked together at WAAT in Jersey City back in 1933 when Sinatra was 17 years old.

They both had sustaining 15-minute shows. Tony was on a number of Sinatra's radio shows after the Dorsey years and was a regular on the Vimms show of 1944.

But his first session with Sinatra was on October 24, 1947. Mattola told O'Brien that Mitch Miller was behind "My Cousin Louella," and Sinatra was less than thrilled. One of the few sessions done with just a trio.

October 25 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2024-10-24

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1975, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Hollywood

TCA5717 A Baby Just Like You w/Vocal Chorus

(John Denver /Joe Henry)

Cherry Lane Music Publishing Co. Inc. (ASCAP)

Arranged by Don Costa

Conducted by Bill Miller

(2:45) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 17

LP: W54093 I Sing The Songs Vol.2‚ ( Italy )

45: S1342

TCA5718 Christmas Memories w/Vocal Chorus

(Alan Bergman/Marilyn Bergman/Don Costa)

WB Music Corp. (ASCAP)

Arranged by Don Costa

Conducted by Bill Miller

(2:08) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 17

LP: W54093 I Sing The Songs Vol.2

45: S1342

Note: The Orchestral tracks were pre-recorded on October 15, 1975

Ed O'Brien:

Shortly after the recordings were done, Reprise released them on a 45 (RPS1342). There was a picture of Frank's granddaughter, Amanda, on the sleeve. An employee at the record company told me the suits were none too pleased with the extra expense the very attractive sleeve cost. Typical record executives. Recordings were a nice tribute.

October 25 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2024-10-24

Editorial note: parsed as a “Radio” entry for 1940, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Fame And Fortune - Tommy Dorsey Orchestra

Network: NBC - Blue Network

Location: Hollywood

Show #2

Sponsor: Nature's Remedy

Time: 8:30PM - 9:00PM (EST) Thursdays

Orchestra Conducted By: Tommy Dorsey

Arrangements By: Axel Stordahl (Sinatra)

Announcer: Fred B. Cole

Musicians: Chuck Peterson, Ray Linn, Clyde Hurley, Ziggy Elman (trumpet); Tommy Dorsey, George Arus, Les Jenkins, Lowell Martin (trombone); Fred Stulce, Paul Mason (alto sax); Don Lodice, Heinie Beau (tenor sax); Johnny Mince (clarinet & alto sax); Clark Yocum (guitar); Sid Weiss (bass); Joe Bushkin (piano); Buddy Rich (drums).

Vocals: Frank Sinatra, Connie Haines, Pied Pipers

1. opening theme: Getting Sentimental Over You - TD & Orchestra

2. Dark Eyes - Orchestra

3. Trade Winds - Frank Sinatra

4. That's For Me - Connie Haines

5. Who? - Frank Sinatra

6. Margie - Pied Pipers

7. I Know That You Know - Orchestra

8. Oh! Look At Me Now - Frank Sinatra, Connie Haines & Pied Pipers

9. closing theme: Getting Sentimental Over You - TD & Orchestra

Notes: Confirmed airing on WJZ.

("Who" appears in the box set Tommy Dorsey Frank Sinatra - The Song Is You)

("Oh! Look at Me Now" appears on the CD "It's All So New")

Ed O'Brien:

The melody for "Oh! Look At Me Now" was written by Joe Bushkin.

He was a ringer in the amateur contest. John DeVries submitted the lyrics the previous week. The set-up at the time involved a panel of experts who listened to the entries the previous Saturday(19) and chose the top three songs. On the 10-24 show, the intro to the winning tune was a brief orchestral version of "There I Go." note: Joe Bushkin was a guest on Frank's CBS-TV show, 12-9-50. Joe and Frank did a duet of "Oh! Look At Me Now" Before Bushkin started the piano intro, Frank teased him about the "amateur" songwriter on the long ago Fame & Fortune broadcast.

Ed

October 25 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2024-10-24

Editorial note: parsed as a “Radio” entry for 1943, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Songs By Sinatra

Network: CBS

Time: 7:15-7:30PM Sunday

Show #1

Sponsor: none (sustaining)

Producer: Herb Polesie

Orchestra conducted by: Axel Stordahl

Musicians: The Bobby Tucker Singers

Arrangements By: Axel Stordahl

1. Paper Doll

2. Lover Come Back To Me

3. Put Your Dreams Away

Note: Frank also sang "Kiss Me Again" and "If Loveliness Were Music."

Announcer was Everett Clark.

Love the ballad reading of "Paper Doll." Show opens with a short segment of " This Love Of Mine."

Notes: Confirmed aired on WABC, WTOP & KNX among others. Sinatra takes over the Jerry Lester Show time slot, which aired the week before on WABC 7:00PM - 7:30PM.

Ed O'Brien:

Stephen Holden, NYT art critic, told me his favorite Sinatra was the bobbysox singer from 1943-47. "Lover Come Back To Me," from Frank's first "Songs By Sinatra," in the fall of 1943, is a perfect example of what he was so attracted to from those years. Frankie had such a remarkable voice. There is an angelic sound to every note and virtuoso singing of a very high order.

Note: The full show opens disc 2 of "A Voice on Air".

October 25 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2024-10-24

Editorial note: parsed as a “Radio” entry for 1945, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Songs By Sinatra

Network: CBS

Location: New York City

CBS Radio Playhouse #3

Show #7

Sponsor: Old Gold Cigarettes

Time: 9:00PM - 9:30PM (EST) Wednesday

Orchestra Conducted By: Axel Stordahl

Arrangements By: Axel Stordahl

Announcer: Bill Lazar

Writer: Glenn Wheaton

Directed By: Mann Holiner

Performers: The Pied Pipers

Guest: Tommy Dorsey

1. opening theme: Night And Day

2. I'll Buy That Dream - Frank Sinatra

3. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You Tommy Dorsey

4. Never Too Late To Pray Tommy Dorsey

5. Tampico Pied Pipers

6. Without A Song - Frank Sinatra

7. Medley: Frank Sinatra w/The Pied Pipers & Tommy Dorsey:

Somebody Loves Me (P.P.)/By The Sleepy Lagoon (T.D.)

This Love Of Mine (F.S.) / Oh Look At Me Now (F.S.-P.P.)/ Marie ( T.D.)/ (What Can I Say)After I Say I'm Sorry (P.P.)/ There Are Such Things(F.S.-P.P.) / Song Of India (T.D.) / Everything Happens To Me (F.S.)

8. I'll Never Smile Again - Frank Sinatra w/Pied Pipers & Tommy Dorsey

9. closing theme: Put Your Dreams Away

note: If I Loved You and Surrey With The Fringe On Top - from the 9-12-45 broadcast - are the added songs on the AFRS version of this show

October 25 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2024-10-24

Editorial note: parsed as a “Television” entry for 1975, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Highlights Of A Quarter Century Of Bob Hope

Guests: Frank Sinatra

October 25 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2024-10-24

Editorial note: parsed as a “Film” entry for 1962, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

The Manchurian Candidate (US Film Release: October 24, 1962

Starring: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva, and James Gregory

Produced and Directed by John Frankenheimer. The screenplay was written by George Axelrod, and was based on the 1959 Richard Condon novel The Manchurian Candidate Sinatra plays Captain Bennett Marco in this political thriller film about the Cold War and sleeper agents. (1st DVD Release date: 1998-03-24 -- Blu Ray Release date: 2011-01-31)

Note: This film is considered by many to be Sinatra's greatest. He was paid $1,000,000. Laurence Harvey received $200,000 and the additional cost, for everything involved in the making of the film - $1,000,000 - made a grand total of $2,200,000. The film was not removed from circulation after the Kennedy assassination. It would be re-released and also shown on commercial TV. CBS ran it against Dean Martin's premiere NBC variety show, with Frank as guest, 9-16-65. The b.o. take for the initial run was $2,700,000. The re-releases plus numerous TV showings would bring in millions more through the years. The film was completed in 39 days. Sinatra's scenes were shot in 15 days. Frank very much wanted Lucille Ball for the role of Harvey's mother. After Frankenheimer showed Frank Lansbury's screen test, Sinatra agreed she was perfect for the part. Frank did all his own stunts in the film. And he broke his finger in the karate fight with Henry Silva. Rotten Tomatoes shows a 96% favorable rating from more than 50 critics and a 90% favorable from the audience.. Frank obtained complete rights to the film in 1972. He allowed a few showings before the big re-release in 1988. Suddenly" is a different story. Oswald watched a 16mm print prior to killing Kennedy. Sinatra asked that all copies be pulled from circulation. Sinatra gave a fantastic performance in that film. -- Ed

October 25 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2024-10-24

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1982, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey (14-24)

Orchestra Conducted By: Joe Parnello

1. I've Got You Under My Skin

2. I Get A Kick Out Of You

3. Come Rain Or Come Shine

4. When Your Lover Has Gone

5. The Lady Is A Tramp

6. monologue

7. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

8. Change Partners

9. The Best Is Yet To Come

10. New York, New York

Notes: TT 48mins.

October 25 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2024-10-24

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1987, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

"Come Swing With Me" - Reunion Area, Dallas, Texas

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

Full Set List:

1. overture

2. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

3. What Now My Love

4. My Heart Stood Still

5. Moonlight In Vermont

6. Summer Wind

7. You Will Be My Music

8. More Than You Know

9. Mack The Knife

10. What's New

11. Bewitched

12. monologue

13. Angel Eyes

14. If

15. When Joanna Loved Me

16. For Once In My Life

17. Lonely Town

18. New York, New York

19. Where Or When

20. My Way

21. Maybe This Time

22. Lady Is A Tramp

Notes: Complete concert circulates on Stereo Audio Tape. An edited radio transcription was made of this concert a played on a special broadcast. "You Are The Sunshine Of My Life", "What Now My Love", "My Heart Stood Still", "What New", "You Will Be My Music", "Angel Eyes", "For Once In My Life", "New York, New York", "Where Or When", & "Maybe This Time." All appear on the Sinatra 80th-Live In Concert

OCTOBER 27 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Scott Henderson <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2024-10-27

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1979, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Resorts International, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

Fw: December 20 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Ed O'Brien <dmarc-noreply@freelists.org> | Received: 2024-12-21

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1961, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

San Bernardino County Sun

December 21 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Ed O'Brien <dmarc-noreply@freelists.org> | Received: 2024-12-22

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1961, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Hawaii Tribune Herald

December 22 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Scott Henderson <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2024-12-22

Editorial note: parsed as a “Television” entry for 1948, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Christmas Carolers Song Fest

Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Maxwell

8:45 WENR, ABC, and WEWS

December 22 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Scott Henderson <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2024-12-22

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1939, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Chicago Theatre, Chicago, Illinois (December 15-21)

Harry James and his Orchestra with Frank Sinatra

On Screen: “Daytime Wife” with Tyrone Power & Linda

Darnell

The Andrews Sisters were also appearing during this run.

December 24 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Scott Henderson <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2024-12-24

Editorial note: parsed as a “Radio” entry for 1939, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Harry James and His Orchestra

WTAM Cleveland 10:30-11:00pm

December 24 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Scott Henderson <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2024-12-24

Editorial note: parsed as a “Radio” entry for 1958, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Treasures of Christmas

Yuletide readings by Frank Sinatra, Johnny Desmond,

Tallulah Bankhead, Loretta Young, Gregory Peck and others

December 25 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Scott Henderson <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2024-12-25

Editorial note: parsed as a “Radio” entry for 1949, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Christmas at the home of Phil Harris, Frank Sinatra, Gordon McRae, Robert Young, Bob Hope and others

December 26 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Scott Henderson <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2024-12-26

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1939, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Trianon Ballroom, Cleveland, Ohio

Harry James and His Orchestra with Frank Sinatra

December 28 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Scott Henderson <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2024-12-28

Editorial note: parsed as a “Radio” entry for 1946, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

A certain group of fans here

sure are sure down on Frank

Sinatra. He has been very

difficult since his last trip to

New York. On the Ginny

Simms show, he talked,

joked, laughed all during

the rehearsal. And I hear

that's the real reason he

did not do a guest shot

with Dinah Shore

Re: December 25 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Ed O'Brien <dmarc-noreply@freelists.org> | Received: 2024-12-30

Editorial note: parsed as a “Radio” entry for 1949, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Christmas at the home of Phil Harris, Frank Sinatra, Gordon McRae, Robert Young, Bob Hope and others

NBC show was titled "Favorite Families." Show ran 30 minutes and

the theme was the opening of gifts around the Christmas tree in the

home of the stars. Broadcast time varied with the earliest at noon and

at various times throughout the afternoon.

The Times

January 1 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Scott Henderson <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2025-01-01

Editorial note: parsed as a “Film” entry for 1938, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

film ended with the death of John Garfield's character. Frank had perished in both "Eternity" and "Suddenly." He didn't see any

charm in making it three in a row. Warners balked and Frank told them he wouldn't sign the contract unless the ending was rewritten.

The film did not have a working title until Jack Warner, who adored Frank's recording of "Young At Heart," decided it was the title he

wanted. It would open and close the film. The pre-recordings were done in mid-July and production of the film got underway on 7-22-54.

The famous "One For My Baby" scene, which first established Sinatra as a saloon singer, was shot on 8-11-54. The film was completed

on 9-14-54.

After his success in "Eternity" and the renewed vocal career at Capitol, Frank Sinatra knew exactly what he wanted and would accept

nothing less. The first casualty during the filming of "Young At Heart" happened just two days into the shoot. Charles Lang, the Academy

Award winning cinematographer, was a meticulous craftsman, who set up every shot with great care. Frank could not stand the long

waits between scenes. He demanded that Lang be replaced or he was dropping out of the project. Ted D McCord replaced him. A few

weeks into the filming, Frank announced that Marty Melcher, Doris's husband, was to be barred from the set. Period. But what bothered

Day, far more, was Frank's dilatory ways. Doris was a consummate professional and her co-star was late every day. Sometimes he did

not show until after lunch. In later years, she would write about her frustration and discuss it in many interviews.

After seeing the rushes, WB offered Frank the lead in the remake of the Bogie classic "High Sierra." Frank agreed to do it for 50% of the

net. He knew they would not accept such a demand. One did not do remakes of Bogart films.

In 2001, Republic Entertainment Inc, a division of Paramount Pictures, issued the DVD of "Young At Heart." It is not digitally remastered

and there are no special features. Truly a shame that this film has not received the respect it so richly deserves.

--Ed

MARCH 28 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2025-03-28

Editorial note: parsed as a “Radio” entry for 1948, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

"Fred Robbins" radio show over WINS-NYC

At the Copa, Sinatra was "crowned ‘the King of all Crooners’

MARCH 28 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2025-03-28

Editorial note: parsed as a “Television” entry for 1948, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

N.Y. Heart Fund Brunch at the Monte Carlo

Ed Sullivan and Maggie McNellis were emcees

CBS Television 2:15 to 5pm

MARCH 28 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2025-03-28

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1948, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Monte Carlo, New York, NY

Easter Brunch and Millinery Fashion Show

Benefit for the New York Heart Fund

MARCH 28 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2025-03-28

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1975, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (March 20 – April 2)

Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Al Viola (guitar), Irv Cottler (drums), Charlie Turner (trumpet), Bill Miller (piano)

Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Don Costa

Opening Act: Sam Butera & The Witnesses featuring Sandy Williams.

April 28 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2025-04-28

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1977, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Waldorf Astoria, New York, NY

July 13 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Scott Henderson <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2025-07-13

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1965, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Frank's recording career got underway 84 years ago today.

On that Thursday afternoon, so long ago now, the Harry James

Band entered the Brunswick Recording Studio, 550 Fifth Ave,

in N.Y.C. The boy vocalist in the band would earn an additional

$50.00 for his efforts. That is what Harry James paid him for

the two recordings..

The Make Believe Ballroom, WNEW A.M., had released a poll

showing that the James contingent was the eighth most popular

band in the greater New York area. Harry and Co. received a

lot of radio attention and that evening was no exception. At midnight

WOR broadcast the James band live from the Roseland Ballroom.

Frank could be heard singing "I Poured My Heart Into A Song"

On

the 7/15 broadcast, he sang the two songs recorded on 7-13-39.

According to Variety, the band played the Paramount before jumping

over to the Roseland for an extended stay. WOR, CBS, WNEW and

other radio stations would broadcast this exciting new band throughout

the summer of 1939. They would be heard from the Steel Pier, in Atlantic

City, the World's Fair and Roseland in N.Y.C.

In August of 39, James and Sinatra decided to try out a new song on the

radio broadcasts before making a recording. The song was "All Or Nothing

At All." According to Billboard the song was released in June of 1940 and

sold 16,000 copies. The re-release in June 1943 sold well over a million

units..

I am indebted to Variety, Peter Levinson, NYT

and Billboard.

Ed

July 18 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2025-07-21

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1964, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

The Mail Millom and South Copeland Edition

Re: July 18 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2025-07-21

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1964, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

The Mail Millom and South Copeland Edition

Re: July 18 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: "'John K. George' via Sinatraphiles" <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2025-07-21

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1964, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

The Mail Millom and South Copeland Edition

July 23 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2025-07-23

Editorial note: parsed as a “Radio” entry for 1941, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Live Remote from the Cavalier Beach Club, Cavalier Hotel, Virginia Beach, Virginia Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra with Frank Sinatra

WTAR 11:30pm

Note: Dorsey would broadcast from the Cavalier Beach Club on July 21st and July 23rd.

Television

NONE

July 24 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2025-07-25

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1964, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Liverpool Daily Post

Re: July 24 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: "'John K. George' via Sinatraphiles" <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2025-07-25

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1964, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Liverpool Daily Post

Re: [sinatraphiles] July 25 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2025-07-27

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1964, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Re: [sinatraphiles] July 28 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: "'John K. George' via Sinatraphiles" <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2025-07-28

Editorial note: parsed as a “Television” entry for 1984, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

MTV Premiere of music video for "L.A. Is My Lady"

August 1 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2025-08-01

Editorial note: parsed as a “Television” entry for 1976, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Repeat Airing of 'John Denver and Friend'

July 31 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2025-08-02

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1964, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

The Morning Union

July 31 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2025-08-02

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1965, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Concerts

England

August 1, 1953

Re: June 19 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2025-08-15

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1948, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Truth Or Consequences

Sponsored by DUZ

NBC Saturday Night

Time 8:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Host: Ralph Edwards

Announcer: Harlow Wilcox

Performers: Mr. and Mrs. Felix, Mr. Eddie Caridio, Mrs, Boyd Lydle, Mr. and Mrs. Dolan, Frank Sinatra

note: There is no mention of Sinatra being on the show until 22 minutes have elapsed.

Mrs.Lydle is blindfolded and instructed to go onto the next room. She does not realized

it is actually the Hit Parade studio. Frank is waiting to go on at 9: P.M. The poor woman

is told to make all kinds of funny noises and than imitate the voice of Frank Sinatra.

She sings "Four Leaf Clover." Ralph Edwards tells her to take off the blindfold. Frank is

standing next to her. Mrs. Lydle screams. Frank tells Ralph that he likes her act.

The Capital Times

August 17 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Scott Henderson <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2025-08-17

Editorial note: parsed as a “Television” entry for 1973, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Rehearsal for "Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back' TV special

Show would be taped on 9-20-73

August 17 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Scott Henderson <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2025-08-17

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1960, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Cal-Neva Lodge, Nevada (August 8 - 17)

Frank Sinatra, Matty Malneck and His Orchestra

O.A.: Buddy Lester

August 21 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2025-08-22

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1980, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

August 22 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2025-08-25

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1961, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Valley Times

August 23 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2025-08-28

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1961, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Journal and Courier

August 25 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2025-08-28

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1970, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

M51587 The Train

(Bob Gaudio/Jake Holmes)

Devalbo Inc./WB Music Corp. (ASCAP)

Arranged & Conducted By Joseph Scott

(3:25) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 15

LP: FS1031 Watertown

45: 0920

M51594 She Says w/Chorus

(Bob Gaudio/Jake Holmes)

Devalbo Inc./WB Music Corp. (ASCAP)

Arranged & Conducted By Joseph Scott

(1:50) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 15

LP: FS1031Watertown

M51637 Lady Day

(Bob Gaudio/Jake Holmes)

Devalbo Inc./WB Music Corp. (ASCAP)

Arranged by Charles Calello

Conducted By Joseph Scott

(2:47) CD: 46013-2 The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings Disc 15

CD: 45689-2

M51636 For A While N/R

(Bob Gaudio/Jake Holmes)

Devalbo Inc../WB Music Corp. (ASCAP)

Arranged by Charles Calello

Conducted By Joseph Scott

Memphis Press Scimitar

August 26 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2025-08-28

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1970, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Plain Dealer

August 27 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2025-08-28

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1970, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Daily News

August 31 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Scott Henderson <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2025-08-31

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1943, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

November/December,1968; February ,1976 and for his 40th Anniversary Party, June, 1979

He would still be performing the song in November of 1994. After a while he would claim it was

the first song he did with Harry James. The release in 1939 sold, according to Billboard, 16,000

copies. Reissued during the musician's strike in 1943, the song would top the charts and become

Frank's first solo million seller. A tune recorded five times and performed countless times through

the years. And what a great title to sum up what Frank was shooting for in August of 1939.

Ed O'Brien (2014):

Seventy-five years ago. Wow! Frank laid down this track on the day before the start of World War II.

Germany marched into Poland on September 1, 1939. The world would be at war for the next six years.

During those years Frank Sinatra would become the first teenage idol and the ads would read "The Voice

That Thrilled Millions." The recording done on this date in 1939 would be the one to define him throughout

his career: All Or Nothing At All.

August 31 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2025-09-01

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1940, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Richmond Times Dispatch

August 31 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2025-09-01

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1961, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

The Bolten News

Fw: September 1 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2025-09-02

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1961, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Evening Post

September 12 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2025-09-12

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1978, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Royal Festival Hall, London, England

Conductor: Bill Miller

Piano: Vincent Falcone Jr.

O.A. Guys 'N' Dolls group, Lennie Bennett & Jerry Steven

1. Night and Day

2. At Long Last Love

3. The Lady is a Tramp

4. Didn't We

5. Someone to Watch over Me

6. Something

7.. Baubles, Bangles and Beads

8. Gal that Got Away/Never Entered my Mind

9. Monologue

10. That's What God Looks Like to Me

11. I Hadn't Anyone Til You

12. You and Me

13. The Oldest Established Floating Crap Game

14. Lonely Town

15. My Kind of Town

16. Remember

17. Maybe This Time

18. My Way

September 11 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2025-09-13

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1962, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

The Gazette

September 12 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2025-09-13

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1962, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

The Progress Index

September 13 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2025-09-14

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1956, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

The Times and Democrat

Fw: SEPTEMBER 18 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2025-09-22

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1942, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

BS067915 A Sinner Kissed An Angel

(M. David/R. Joseph)

Polygram International Publishing Inc./Larry Shayne Enterprises (ASCAP) -1 (2:52) CD: 07863 66353-2 "The Song Is You" 5CD set Vol 3

CD: RCA 8554-2-R

LP: SD 1000

78: 27611

Baltimore Sun

September 21 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2025-09-24

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1961, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

note: Columbia release of "London By Night" had "April In Paris" on the flipside.

Ed

October 1 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2025-10-02

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1958, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Reno Gazette Journal

October 2 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2025-10-03

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1963, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

The Sunday Oregonian

October 3 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2025-10-03

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1958, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

note: Reviewer was a tad off on this one. Album hit #1 on Billboard just three

weeks after being issued and charted for 71 weeks.

Independent

October 3 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2025-10-03

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1963, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

The Observer

October 3 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2025-10-03

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1965, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

October 2 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Scott Henderson <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2025-10-04

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1942, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

October 8 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2025-10-09

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1958, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Piedmont Journal

October 9 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2025-10-11

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1951, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

The Progress

October 9 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2025-10-11

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1952, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Richmond Times Dispatch

October 15 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2025-10-18

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1947, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

St Louis Globe Democrat

October 15 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2025-10-18

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1959, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

The Spokesman Review

October 17 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2025-10-20

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1956, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Petaluma Argus Courier

October 18 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2025-10-20

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1967, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Kidderminister Shuttle

October 19 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2025-10-21

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1948, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Indianapolis News

October 21 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2025-10-21

Editorial note: parsed as a “Radio” entry for 1939, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Panther Room, Hotel Sherman, Chicago, Illinois

WMAQ ( NBC )

11: p.m. -11:30 p.m.

Harry James and his Orchestra w/Frank Sinatra

October 22 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2025-10-23

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1948, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Hartford Courant

November 8 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2025-11-08

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1940, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

release

reviewed 1-20

Hollywood

November 8 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2025-11-08

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1979, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (8-14)

Opening Night

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

O.A.Marlene Ricci

Pat Henry

THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY NOVEMBER 10

From: "scott@falseducks.com" <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2025-11-10

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1954, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

The Sands, Las Vegas, NV (November 10 -16)

dinner & late show

Frank Sinatra

Borrah Minevitch Harmonica Rascals

w/ Johnny Puleo (6)

Nanci Crompion

Copa Girls (12)

Antonio Morelli & His Orch. (18)

no cover or minimum

note: I put this up some years back. Looking for a story on "Young At Heart," I stumbled

on it again. Billy Eckstine followed Sinatra, opening on the 17th for a two week run. Variety reviewer

felt Eckstine had a tough act to follow.

Sinatra had completed "Swing Easy" at Capitol (Riddle's pick as the best work he did with Frank),

on 11/5&6, then the Fanfare appearance on 11/7 (he had received rave reviews) when Entratter asked him

to do a week at the Sands. Following his SRO week, Frank began recording songs from "Finian's

Rainbow" for the John and Faith Hubley animated cartoon project. He would do two singles sessions

at Capitol with Riddle, the second week in December, and then fly to New York and close out the year with a sensational

engagement at the Copa. He truly had made the greatest comeback in the history of show business. And the best

was yet to come.

THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY NOVEMBER 10

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2025-11-10

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1954, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

The Sands, Las Vegas, NV (November 10 -16) dinner & late show

Frank Sinatra

Borrah Minevitch Harmonica Rascals w/ Johnny Puleo (6)

Nanci Crompion

Copa Girls (12)

Antonio Morelli & His Orch. (18) no cover or minimum note: I put this up some years back. Looking for a story on "Young At Heart," I stumbled on it again. Billy Eckstine followed Sinatra, opening on the 17th for a two week run. Variety reviewer felt Eckstine had a tough act to follow.

Sinatra had completed "Swing Easy" at Capitol (Riddle's pick as the best work he did with Frank), on 11/5&6, then the Fanfare appearance on 11/7 (he had received rave reviews) when Entratter asked him to do a week at the Sands. Following his SRO week, Frank began recording songs from "Finian's Rainbow" for the John and Faith Hubley animated cartoon project. He would do two singles sessions at Capitol with Riddle, the second week in December, and then fly to New York and close out the year with a sensational engagement at the Copa. He truly had made the greatest comeback in the history of show business. And the best was yet to come.

THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY NOVEMBER 10

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2025-11-11

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1954, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

The Sands, Las Vegas, NV (November 10 -16)

dinner & late show

Frank Sinatra

Borrah Minevitch Harmonica Rascals

w/ Johnny Puleo (6)

Nanci Crompion

Copa Girls (12)

Antonio Morelli & His Orch. (18)

Evening Sun

November 13 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2025-11-14

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1969, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

The Rock Island Argus

November 21 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2025-11-22

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1962, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

November 28 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: "scott@falseducks.com" <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2025-11-28

Editorial note: parsed as a “Radio” entry for 1960, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Timex show on ABC-TV. He was still doing some very

credible versions of the Riddle ballad arg. in the 1990s.

Vance Adair added:

FS delivered some beautiful versions of this Riddle arrangement in the late 80s. The old man loved to surprise his audiences with that last big sustaining note.

They always cheered to the heavens. And rightly so.

December 3 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: "scott@falseducks.com" <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2025-12-03

Editorial note: parsed as a “Radio” entry for 1936, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Major Bowes Amateur Hour

Thursday Evening

Time: 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM (EST)

Location: CBS-Studios, New York City

Sponsor: Chrysler Corporation

730th Consecutive Broadcast

Among the Contestants: The Swingsters Vocal & Instrumental Quintet

1. Major chats with Frank Sinatra & Irwin Zike

2. "Curse Of An Aching Heart"

3. Swingsters close show with instrumental of "Stardust."

Note: above information credited to Ed O'Brien

note: Frank and The Swingsters did not fare too well in the voting

on that Thursday evening 82 years ago. They finished far back

with 1,028 votes. The winning amateur garnered 2,837 votes.

The ads for Chrysler offered a brand new 1937 Plymouth for

$510.00 and the Chrysler for $715.00.

Ed

December 3 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: "scott@falseducks.com" <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2025-12-03

Editorial note: parsed as a “Radio” entry for 1940, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Live Remote: Hollywood Palladium

Tuesday Evening

11:30 pm - 12:am

NBC Red Network - KFI Los Angeles

Western Feed Only

Tommy Dorsey & His Orch

Frank Sinatra, Connie Haines & The Pied Pipers Ziggy Elman, Joe Bushkin, Sy Oliver, Buddy Rich

December 3 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: "scott@falseducks.com" <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2025-12-03

Editorial note: parsed as a “Radio” entry for 1942, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Reflections

Network: CBS

Location: New York City - CBS Playhouse #3

Show #8

Sponsor: none (substaining)

Time: 8:00PM - 8:30PM (EST)

Musicans: Walter Gross's orchestra and Bobby Tucker's Voices

Arrangements By: Axel Stordahl

Notes: Confirmed airing as Reflections on WISV / Listed as Variety Musical on WABC. No Show 12-10-42. Airing in it's place December 10, 1942 WISV 8:00PM - 8:30PM Italians For Freedom / WABC Italians For Freedom Play.

Sinatra did do a show 12-10-42 at 10:45-11PM on this night. It was not "Reflections" as far as I can tell and was not carried by any other stations but WABC. So it was a local NYC show, like SBS 42'. Has the same format listed as a Songs By Sinatra of that time period.

note: I checked radio listings in Boston and the 10:45 to 11:P.M. was a Treasury Song Parade on the Mutual Network. Might have been Frank.

Ed

December 3 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: "scott@falseducks.com" <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2025-12-03

Editorial note: parsed as a “Radio” entry for 1948, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Spotlight Revue Starring Spike Jones

Network: CBS

Time: 10:30 PM - 11:00 PM

Sponsor: Coca Cola.

Spike Jones and The City Slickers

Announcer: Michael Roy

Commercial Spokesman: Dick Joy

Guests: Frank Sinatra, Dorothy Shay, Doodles Weaver, George Rock

1. Once In Love With Amy - Frank SInatra

2. Prisoner Of Love - Frank Sinatra

Note: The show appears on the officially released CD set: 60 Greatest Old Time Radio Show "Frank Sinatra & Friends"

Ed O'Brien noted:

"Once In Love With Amy" was from the Broadway musical

"Where's Charley"," starring Ray Bolger. Frank would record the song

in mid-December of 48. He did sing a throwaway version of "Prisoner

Of Love" during a skit with Spike Jones and his crew.

December 3 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: "scott@falseducks.com" <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2025-12-03

Editorial note: parsed as a “Radio” entry for 1950, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Meet Frank Sinatra

Show #6

Network: CBS

Sponsor: Tintair, Ludens

Time: 5:00PM - 6:00PM (EST), Sunday

Producers: Mark Goodson, Bill Todman

Musicians: Graham Forbes and His Quartet

Announcer: Hal Sims

Guest: Georgia Gibbs, Nancy Reed

Notes: Confirmed aired on WCBS

December 3 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: "scott@falseducks.com" <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2025-12-03

Editorial note: parsed as a “Radio” entry for 1954, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

The Frank Sinatra Show

Network: NBC

Show Number: 28

Time 8:15 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Sponsor: Bobbi Home Permanent, White Rain Shampoo, Deep Magic Face lotion

Host: Frank Sinatra

Writers: Norm Sickel

Announcer: Maurice Hart

Producer: Andrew C. Love

1. My Blue Heaven - Frank Sinatra

2. That's All I Want From You - Jaye P. Morgan

3. It Worries Me - Frank Sinatra

Television

NONE

December 3 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: "scott@falseducks.com" <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2025-12-03

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1939, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Sweet's Ballroom, Oakland, California

Harry James and his Orchestra w/Frank Sinatra

December 3 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: "scott@falseducks.com" <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2025-12-03

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1940, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood, California (October 31 - December 11)

Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra w/Frank Sinatra

December 3 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: "scott@falseducks.com" <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2025-12-03

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1943, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

RKO-BOSTON, Boston, Massachusetts (December 2-8)

(Thursday thru Wednesday)

w/Jan Savitt & His Orchestra

w/seven piece string section

Buddy Welcome, The Three

Welles and Marty May.

Film: "Falcon and the Co-Eds"

Tom Conway as The Falcon

December 3 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: "scott@falseducks.com" <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2025-12-03

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1945, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Wedgwood Room, Waldorf Astoria (November 23-December 17)

December 3 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: "scott@falseducks.com" <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2025-12-03

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1946, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Wedgwood Room, Waldorf Astoria, New York City (November 29 - December 19 )

December 3 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: "scott@falseducks.com" <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2025-12-03

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1947, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Capitol Theater , New York City (November 13 - December 3)

Last official concerts for two years

Up to eight shows a day

NOTE: Author Richard Havers says that given Frank Sinatra's personal problems with Nancy, Sr., it was ironic that the featured film during his Capitol Theater run was Lucille Ball in "Her Husband's Affair." On a professional level, this was far from a triumphant homecoming. The New York Times said that with Frank Sinatra on the bill not much attention would be paid to the film and that is why such a lightweight affair had been booked. "Frank Sinatra take it away" is how they previewed Frank's appearance. In fact, he didn't. The crowds were less than anticipated; the reviews were not so enthusiastic, even ignoring the bad reviews perpetuated by the likes of Lee Mortimer (NY Daily Mirror) and his sympathizers. By the end of the second week, Mortimer reported "The crooner, expected to pile up new highs, almost hits a new low. His second week (in which he missed no performances) was a sickly $71.000. half of the advance estimate." It's probably factually

correct, Frank was on the wane. As one writer put it, "Frank was not The Voice, just a voice."

Given all that happened in the recent months, Havers continues, it was not too surprising. There were other factors, too. It is easy to forget that back in 1947 Frank was not a legend, not the Chairman of the Board, leader of the Rat Pack, or any other of the epithets that has been bestowed upon him. He may have been "The Voice," but he was essentially a pop singer.

Regardless of how good a pop singer he was, like every other pop singer since, he has been subject to the changes in attitudes of what is an unusually fickle audience. Some people grow older with their idols, while many move on, dropping their adolescent heroes as they mature and change. The main wave of hysteria that surrounded Frank was from the bobby-soxers, 13, 14, 15, and 16 year old girls, young women who fantasized about Frankie. There was an inevitability in Frank's changing audience that no amount of good or bad publicity could alter.

He was, like many who have competed in the same field, at the point where he had to somehow change. Either he had to develop an appeal outside music, and the movies were the obvious arenas, although so far the material had been less than impressive, or he had to find a way of changing his style to build a new audience, Havers points out. Sixty years ago people did not envisage a career in "pop music." There was no such thing. It was just something you did for a while before moving on to live the rest of your life.

Whether Frank had a real sense of what the rest of his life might be like is impossible to know, Havers states, He may have seen himself becoming principally a movie star, or maybe he saw himself becoming a businessman; he talked of and had already made some investments. Frank's disappointing showing in New York by no means signaled the end of a career. In the same way as Frank was no overnight success, neither would he disappear overnight.

note: Skitch Henderson told me how disappointing the four-week run at

the Capitol turned out to be, The theater guaranteed Frank $20,000

a week. I asked Skitch why Frank failed to draw. He told me the kids

just stopped coming to see him.

Frank opened on Thursday to a packed house. The next day was a

shocker. The place was half-empty during part of the day. Saturday,

Frank barely made it through the first show. He was sick and had to

bow out for the rest of the day. He would miss all the shows Saturday

through Monday. Jane Powell and Jack Smith would sub for him.

Here is an article in the 11-19-47 Variety.

Here is the gross each week during the engagement:

1. $55,000

2. $65,000

3. $79,000

4. $74,000

Total take for the month was $273,000. Based on

Sinatra's previous drawing power, the theater was

projecting a gross of half-a-million dollars. Sinatra

was almost 32 years old. He learned that an older

audience was what he needed to capture if there

was any chance of grabbing the brass ring again.

Ed

December 3 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

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Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1949, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

State Theatre, Hartford, Conn. (December 3-4)

w/Ziggy Elman and His Trumpet, Harvey Stone

Eight shows over the two days

Brian Chearno notes:

Grossed $18,000 breaking Arthur Godfrey's record. December 4, 1949 Sunday Herald mention first theatre stand in two years. December 10, 1949 mention of record breaking shows. November 27, 1949 ad mentions Sinatra's coming appearance. Hartford Courant mentioned that Sinatra gave a boost to help fund the Hospital in Italy drive. Sinatra invited students at the Connecticut School for the Blind to the afternoon show. They also reported that he announced he would return in February.

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Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1952, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

French Casino, New York City (11-26 TO 12-8 1952)

Frank Sinatra with Bill Miller

December 3 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

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Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1964, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Sands, Las Vegas, Nevada (November 27 - December 10)

Count Basie Orchestra

Conducted by Quincy Jones

December 3 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

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Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1968, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (November 22 - December 19)

w/Harry James, The Fifth Dimension, Jose Feliciano, Pat Henry

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Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1988, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Fox Theater, Detroit, Michigan (November 30-December 4)

Orchestra Conducted By: Frank Sinatra, jr.

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. In The Still Of The Night

3. I've Got A Crush On You

4. Come Rain Or Come Shine

5. Where Or When

6. My Heart Stood Still

7. Mack The Knife

8. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

9. My Way

10. One For My Baby

11. medley w/ Liza Minnelli & Sammy Davis Jr: Guys And Dolls / Luck Be A Lady / The Oldest Established / Style / Witchcraft / All Or Nothing At All / I've Got You Under My Skin / All The Way / The Lady Is A Tramp / New York, New York

December 3 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

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Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1990, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Beverly Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles, California

Society Of Singers Salute To Frank Sinatra

Orchestra Conducted By: Henry Mancini

Performers: Jack Jones, George Burns, Harry Connick, Jo Stafford, The Hi -Lo's, Tony Bennett, Manhattan Transfer, Connie Haines, Peggy Lee, Herb Jeffries, Tony Martin, Kay Star, Helen Forrest, Martha Tilton, Bea Wayne, Kitty Kallen, Helen O'Connell, Frances

Warren, The Sentimentalists, Joe Williams, Steve Lawrence, Eydie Gorme.

1. The Lady Is A Tramp w/Ella

2. Alright, Ok, You Win w/Joe William & Cast

December 3 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

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Editorial note: parsed as a “Radio” entry for 1936, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Major Bowes Amateur Hour

Thursday Evening

Time: 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM (EST)

Location: CBS-Studios, New York City

Sponsor: Chrysler Corporation

730th Consecutive Broadcast

Among the Contestants: The Swingsters Vocal & Instrumental Quintet

1. Major chats with Frank Sinatra & Irwin Zike

2. "Curse Of An Aching Heart"

3. Swingsters close show with instrumental of "Stardust."

Note: above information credited to Ed O'Brien

note: Frank and The Swingsters did not fare too well in the voting on that Thursday evening 82 years ago. They finished far back with 1,028 votes. The winning amateur garnered 2,837 votes.

The ads for Chrysler offered a brand new 1937 Plymouth for $510.00 and the Chrysler for $715.00.

Ed

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Editorial note: parsed as a “Radio” entry for 1940, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Live Remote: Hollywood Palladium

Tuesday Evening

11:30 pm - 12:am

NBC Red Network - KFI Los Angeles

Western Feed Only

Tommy Dorsey & His Orch

Frank Sinatra, Connie Haines & The Pied Pipers Ziggy Elman, Joe Bushkin, Sy Oliver, Buddy Rich

December 3 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

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Editorial note: parsed as a “Radio” entry for 1942, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Reflections

Network: CBS

Location: New York City - CBS Playhouse #3

Show #8

Sponsor: none (substaining)

Time: 8:00PM - 8:30PM (EST)

Musicans: Walter Gross's orchestra and Bobby Tucker's Voices

Arrangements By: Axel Stordahl

Notes: Confirmed airing as Reflections on WISV / Listed as Variety Musical on WABC. No Show 12-10-42. Airing in it's place December 10, 1942 WISV 8:00PM - 8:30PM Italians For Freedom / WABC Italians For Freedom Play. Sinatra did do a show 12-10-42 at 10:45-11PM on this night. It was not "Reflections" as far as I can tell and was not carried by any other stations but WABC. So it was a local NYC show, like SBS 42'. Has the same format listed as a Songs By Sinatra of that time period.

note: I checked radio listings in Boston and the 10:45 to 11:P.M. was a Treasury Song Parade on the Mutual Network. Might have been Frank. Ed

December 3 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

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Editorial note: parsed as a “Radio” entry for 1948, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Spotlight Revue Starring Spike Jones

Network: CBS

Time: 10:30 PM - 11:00 PM

Sponsor: Coca Cola.

Spike Jones and The City Slickers

Announcer: Michael Roy

Commercial Spokesman: Dick Joy

Guests: Frank Sinatra, Dorothy Shay, Doodles Weaver, George Rock

1. Once In Love With Amy - Frank SInatra

2. Prisoner Of Love - Frank Sinatra

Note: The show appears on the officially released CD set: 60 Greatest Old Time Radio Show "Frank Sinatra & Friends"

Ed O'Brien noted:

"Once In Love With Amy" was from the Broadway musical

"Where's Charley"," starring Ray Bolger. Frank would record the song in mid-December of 48. He did sing a throwaway version of "Prisoner Of Love" during a skit with Spike Jones and his crew.

December 3 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

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Editorial note: parsed as a “Radio” entry for 1950, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Meet Frank Sinatra

Show #6

Network: CBS

Sponsor: Tintair, Ludens

Time: 5:00PM - 6:00PM (EST), Sunday

Producers: Mark Goodson, Bill Todman

Musicians: Graham Forbes and His Quartet

Announcer: Hal Sims

Guest: Georgia Gibbs, Nancy Reed

Notes: Confirmed aired on WCBS

December 3 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

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Editorial note: parsed as a “Radio” entry for 1954, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

The Frank Sinatra Show

Network: NBC

Show Number: 28

Time 8:15 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Sponsor: Bobbi Home Permanent, White Rain Shampoo, Deep Magic Face lotion

Host: Frank Sinatra

Writers: Norm Sickel

Announcer: Maurice Hart

Producer: Andrew C. Love

1. My Blue Heaven - Frank Sinatra

2. That's All I Want From You - Jaye P. Morgan

3. It Worries Me - Frank Sinatra

Television

NONE

December 3 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

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Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1939, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Sweet's Ballroom, Oakland, California

Harry James and his Orchestra w/Frank Sinatra

December 3 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2025-12-03

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1940, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood, California (October 31 - December 11) Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra w/Frank Sinatra

December 3 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

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Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1943, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

RKO-BOSTON, Boston, Massachusetts (December 2-8)

(Thursday thru Wednesday) w/Jan Savitt & His Orchestra w/seven piece string section

Buddy Welcome, The Three

Welles and Marty May.

Film: "Falcon and the Co-Eds"

Tom Conway as The Falcon

December 3 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

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Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1945, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Wedgwood Room, Waldorf Astoria (November 23-December 17)

December 3 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2025-12-03

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1946, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Wedgwood Room, Waldorf Astoria, New York City (November 29 - December 19 )

December 3 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2025-12-03

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1947, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Capitol Theater , New York City (November 13 - December 3) Last official concerts for two years

Up to eight shows a day

NOTE: Author Richard Havers says that given Frank Sinatra's personal problems with Nancy, Sr., it was ironic that the featured film during his Capitol Theater run was Lucille Ball in "Her Husband's Affair." On a professional level, this was far from a triumphant homecoming. The New York Times said that with Frank Sinatra on the bill not much attention would be paid to the film and that is why such a lightweight affair had been booked. "Frank Sinatra take it away" is how they previewed Frank's appearance. In fact, he didn't. The crowds were less than anticipated; the reviews were not so enthusiastic, even ignoring the bad reviews perpetuated by the likes of Lee Mortimer (NY Daily Mirror) and his sympathizers. By the end of the second week, Mortimer reported "The crooner, expected to pile up new highs, almost hits a new low. His second week (in which he missed no performances) was a sickly $71.000. half of the advance estimate." It's probably factually correct, Frank was on the wane. As one writer put it, "Frank was not The Voice, just a voice."

Given all that happened in the recent months, Havers continues, it was not too surprising. There were other factors, too. It is easy to forget that back in 1947 Frank was not a legend, not the Chairman of the Board, leader of the Rat Pack, or any other of the epithets that has been bestowed upon him. He may have been "The Voice," but he was essentially a pop singer.

Regardless of how good a pop singer he was, like every other pop singer since, he has been subject to the changes in attitudes of what is an unusually fickle audience. Some people grow older with their idols, while many move on, dropping their adolescent heroes as they mature and change. The main wave of hysteria that surrounded Frank was from the bobby-soxers, 13, 14, 15, and 16 year old girls, young women who fantasized about Frankie. There was an inevitability in Frank's changing audience that no amount of good or bad publicity could alter.

He was, like many who have competed in the same field, at the point where he had to somehow change. Either he had to develop an appeal outside music, and the movies were the obvious arenas, although so far the material had been less than impressive, or he had to find a way of changing his style to build a new audience, Havers points out. Sixty years ago people did not envisage a career in "pop music." There was no such thing. It was just something you did for a while before moving on to live the rest of your life.

Whether Frank had a real sense of what the rest of his life might be like is impossible to know, Havers states, He may have seen himself becoming principally a movie star, or maybe he saw himself becoming a businessman; he talked of and had already made some investments. Frank's disappointing showing in New York by no means signaled the end of a career. In the same way as Frank was no overnight success, neither would he disappear overnight.

note: Skitch Henderson told me how disappointing the four-week run at the Capitol turned out to be, The theater guaranteed Frank $20,000 a week. I asked Skitch why Frank failed to draw. He told me the kids just stopped coming to see him.

Frank opened on Thursday to a packed house. The next day was a shocker. The place was half-empty during part of the day. Saturday, Frank barely made it through the first show. He was sick and had to bow out for the rest of the day. He would miss all the shows Saturday through Monday. Jane Powell and Jack Smith would sub for him.

Here is an article in the 11-19-47 Variety.

Here is the gross each week during the engagement:

1. $55,000

2. $65,000

3. $79,000

4. $74,000

Total take for the month was $273,000. Based on

Sinatra's previous drawing power, the theater was projecting a gross of half-a-million dollars. Sinatra was almost 32 years old. He learned that an older audience was what he needed to capture if there was any chance of grabbing the brass ring again.

Ed

December 3 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

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Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1949, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

State Theatre, Hartford, Conn. (December 3-4) w/Ziggy Elman and His Trumpet, Harvey Stone

Eight shows over the two days

Brian Chearno notes:

Grossed $18,000 breaking Arthur Godfrey's record. December 4, 1949 Sunday Herald mention first theatre stand in two years. December 10, 1949 mention of record breaking shows. November 27, 1949 ad mentions Sinatra's coming appearance. Hartford Courant mentioned that Sinatra gave a boost to help fund the Hospital in Italy drive. Sinatra invited students at the Connecticut School for the Blind to the afternoon show. They also reported that he announced he would return in February.

December 3 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

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Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1952, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

French Casino, New York City (11-26 TO 12-8 1952)

Frank Sinatra with Bill Miller

December 3 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2025-12-03

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1964, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Sands, Las Vegas, Nevada (November 27 - December 10)

Count Basie Orchestra

Conducted by Quincy Jones

December 3 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

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Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1968, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (November 22 - December 19) w/Harry James, The Fifth Dimension, Jose Feliciano, Pat Henry

December 3 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

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Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1988, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Fox Theater, Detroit, Michigan (November 30-December 4)

Orchestra Conducted By: Frank Sinatra, jr.

1. I've Got The World On A String

2. In The Still Of The Night

3. I've Got A Crush On You

4. Come Rain Or Come Shine

5. Where Or When

6. My Heart Stood Still

7. Mack The Knife

8. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry

9. My Way

10. One For My Baby

11. medley w/ Liza Minnelli & Sammy Davis Jr: Guys And Dolls / Luck Be A Lady / The Oldest Established / Style / Witchcraft / All Or Nothing At All / I've Got You Under My Skin / All The Way / The Lady Is A Tramp / New York, New York

December 3 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

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Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1990, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Beverly Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles, California

Society Of Singers Salute To Frank Sinatra

Orchestra Conducted By: Henry Mancini

Performers: Jack Jones, George Burns, Harry Connick, Jo Stafford, The Hi -Lo's, Tony Bennett, Manhattan Transfer, Connie Haines, Peggy Lee, Herb Jeffries, Tony Martin, Kay Star, Helen Forrest, Martha Tilton, Bea Wayne, Kitty Kallen, Helen O'Connell, Frances Warren, The Sentimentalists, Joe Williams, Steve Lawrence, Eydie Gorme.

1. The Lady Is A Tramp w/Ella

2. Alright, Ok, You Win w/Joe William & Cast

re: [sinatraphiles] December 3 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

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Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1939, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Sweet's Ballroom, Oakland, California

Harry James and his Orchestra w/Frank Sinatra

re: [sinatraphiles] December 3 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2025-12-03

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1939, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Sweet's Ballroom, Oakland, California

Harry James and his Orchestra w/Frank Sinatra

December 1 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2025-12-05

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1954, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

The Frank Sinatra Show

Network: NBC

Show Number: 27

Time 8:15 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Sponsor: Bobbi Home Permanet, White Rain Shampoo, Deep Magic Face lotion

Host: Frank Sinatra

Writers: Norm Sickel

Announcer: Maurice Hart

Producer: Andrew C. Love

1. Someone To Watch Over Me - Frank Sinatra

2. One For My Baby - Frank Sinatra w/Bill Miller, piano

3. You, My Love - Frank Sinatra.

Notes: Frank promotes his songs from the Warner Bros. release "Young At Heart."

Hi There !

" This is young at heart Sinatra

welcoming you to our Wednesday, December

1st, Bobbi classroom."

" 'One For My Baby,' another song from

'Young At Heart.' Barney Sloan, that's me,

sings it in the picture and it is almost a

character study of the guy. Cause, Barney

is bitter about one thing: himself. He looked

in the mirror one day and found a reflection

as shoddy as the world he lives in. He sits

and plays the piano and sings at a local

saloon, dropping cigarette ashes and dreams,

all over the place. Mr. Kanobi, sir, the scene

is set, so let's grab off another take on 'One

For My Baby.' "

note: The first Bobbi show in December 54

was built around the soon to be released

Warner Brother film "Young At Heart." Show

opened with an edited recording of the

Gershwin's "Someone To Watch Over Me."

Frank devoted time to explaining what made

his character in the film tick and then sang

"One For My Baby" with Bill Miller backing

him on piano. "You My Love" closed the

show.

--Ed

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Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1957, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

8:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Premier broadcast

Special guest: Frank Sinatra

Boston Globe

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Editorial note: parsed as a “Television” entry for 1964, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Music Center, Los Angeles, California

subs for ailing Nat King Cole

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Editorial note: parsed as a “Television” entry for 1990, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Meadowlands, East Rutherford, New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Frank Sinatra, Jr.

December 11 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY -- EXTRAS 2

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2025-12-11

Editorial note: parsed as a “Television” entry for 1964, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Music Center, Los Angeles, California subs for ailing Nat King Cole

December 11 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY -- EXTRAS 2

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2025-12-11

Editorial note: parsed as a “Television” entry for 1990, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Meadowlands, East Rutherford, New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Frank Sinatra, Jr.

December 13 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2025-12-14

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1959, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Sunday

Frank Sinatra

L.A. Mirror

December 16 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2025-12-17

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1945, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Richmond News Leader

December 18 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: "scott@falseducks.com" <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2025-12-18

Editorial note: parsed as a “Television” entry for 1930, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

lyrics:

verse:

The more I travel across the gravel,

The more I sail the sea,

The more I feel

convinced of the fact

New York's the town for me.

Its crazy skyline is right in my line

And when I'm far away

I'm able to bear it for several hours,

And then break down and say:

refrain

Take me back to Manhattan,

Take Me Back to New York,

I'm just longing to see once more

My little home on the hundredth floor.

Can you wonder I'm gloomy ?

Can you smile when I frown ?

I miss the East Side, the West Side,

The North Side and the South Side,

So take me back to Manhattan,

That dear old dirty town.

Sinatra's version on 12-18-51

verse

New York, New York,

I've been to Paris and tasted its thrills,

But I wasn't amused there.

I've done the nightclubs of Beverly Hills,

But I was so utterly confused there,

I found no joy in Illinois, in Mexico, or Rome.

And now it is time for your wandering boy,

To start in heading home, so.....

Refrain

Take me back to Manhattan,

Take me back to New York,

I just want to go to that door,

And say hello to my boy Toots Shor.

When I'm out of the country,

I just mope and I frown,

Although Great Britain is terrific,

They've got South Pacific,

So take me back to Manhattan,

That one and only town

Take me back to the Battery,

Take me up to the Bronx,

I love each cop, every shiny badge,

The bleachers cling to the name DiMag.

When you mention the Copa,

I just grin like a clown.

I love the music by the Cubans,

The Lindy's and Reubens.

So take me back to Manhattan,

My very favorite town.

Take me down to the subway,

And the buses and els,

I love the models along fifth ave,

I love to swing to the things that they have,

I adore Earl Wilson or whoever is around,

I love each ferry in the harbor,

I just adore Impellitteri,

So take me back to Manhattan,

That stupendous, tremendous,

That glorious, uproarious,

That peaceful, sinful, lovely, sinful town

Ed O'Brien answered:

Porter wrote "Farewell Amanda" for the Tracy-Hepburn

MGM film "Adam's Rib," in 1949. David Wayne also

sang the tune in the film but Frank made a special recording

of the song for the film. Did he write expressly for Sinatra ?

I don't know. Maybe, maybe not.

I'm glad you found "Take Me Back To Manhattan" interesting.

I doubt very much that Cahn rewrote the lyrics, esp. in 1951.

I've tried to trace the history of the tune and if there is anything

in the Porter collection at Yale. I haven't had any luck . Perhaps

there is a mention at the end of the FS show on 12-18-51.

December 26 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Scott Henderson <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2025-12-26

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1939, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Trianon Ballroom, Cleveland, Ohio

Harry James and His Orchestra with Frank Sinatra

January 16 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2026-01-16

Editorial note: parsed as a “Television” entry for 1951, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Texaco Star Theatre

Milton Berle, Martha Raye, Perry Como

A boxed marked "The Thing" is opened and Frank Sinatra steps out

February 16 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY -- EXTRAS 2

From: Scott Henderson <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2026-02-16

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1956, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Temple Israel, Los Angeles, CA

Rally to celebrate "Histadrut Week"

February 16, 1956 Temple Israel, Los Angeles, CA

Rally to celebrate "Histadrut Week"

February 17 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY -- EXTRAS 2

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2026-02-17

Editorial note: parsed as a “Television” entry for 1960, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

American Guild of Variety Artists (AGVA) Awards

(Note: Sinatra's acceptance was filmed while he was performing with Dean, Sammy, Joey, and Peter at the Sands in February 1960)

MARCH 8 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Scott Henderson <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2026-03-08

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1938, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

. He tells the audience Dinah Shore had a 15 minute

show from 10 to 10:15 A.M. and he followed her with a

15 minute show. The station paid him 35 cents for carfare.

Ed O'Brien: After "I Can't Get Started," Frank sings a segment of Eddie Fisher's big hit "Oh! My Pa-Pa.'

During the monologue, he tells the audience Bogie introduced Jack Daniels to him. A very

long and rewarding association for Frank.

Monologue

note: Recently I have come across articles that attribute Sinatra's introduction to Jack

Daniels to a number of people. Two of the most prominent being Jackie Gleason and

Joe E. Lewis. Here is Frank Sinatra telling the audience at Caesars the real story:

"That's Blackass Jack Daniels. How many people drink Jack Daniels . . . in the house?

I was introduced to this drink by a great friend. A great man named Mr. Bogart. He introduced

me to Jack Daniels one night after dinner --- at his house. Which was outdoors, I think, at the

time. He said to me, 'Dago, what do you want to drink after dinner?' And I said, 'I don't know.' He

said, 'All right, how about a little Jack Daniels?' And I said, 'What the hell is Jack Daniels?' It's

true. He said, "Let me pour you some.' And it was a happy marriage from then on."

FEBRUARY 8 THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2026-03-09

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1956, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Capitol Studio A, Hollywood

E15185 If It's The Last Thing I Do w/ The Hollywood String Quartet

Arranged & Conducted by Nelson Riddle

CD: CDP 7-46572-2 Close To You

LP: T2602 Forever Frank

E15186 Don't Like Goodbyes w/ The Hollywood String Quartet

(H. Arlen/T. Capote)

Harwin Music Co. (ASCAP)

Arranged & Conducted by Nelson Riddle

-4 (4:50) CD: C2-94777 The Capitol Years

CD: CDP 7-46572-2 Close To You

LP: W789 Close To You

E15187 P.S. I Love You w/ The Hollywood String Quartet

Arranged & Conducted by Nelson Riddle

CD: CDP 7-46572-2 Close To You

LP: W789 Close To You

E15188 Love Locked Out w/ The Hollywood String Quartet

Arranged & Conducted by Nelson Riddle

CD: CDP 7-46572-2 Close To You

LP: W789 Close To You

Original reviews from spring of 1957:

RALPH J. GLEASON

There is one in every crowd including music critics

Love the "Moonlight Sinatra" reference in a 1957 review.

March 9 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: "scott@falseducks.com" <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2026-03-09

Editorial note: parsed as a “Film” entry for 1955, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

. He negotiated a tremendous deal with the studio before agreeing

to star in "Can-Can." Frank received up front $200,000 and 25% of the

gross earnings. This was unheard of in 1959. A clever studio accountant

could easily make a net profit disappear. But the gross was the gross.

20th Century wanted Marilyn Monroe to play Simon, but Frank insisted on

Shirley MacLaine. Filming got underway in early September

of 1959. The budget was $6,000,000. It became apparent very early in the

filming that Frank and Shirley were badly miscast. Whereas the two Frenchmen ,

Maurice Chevalier and Louis Jordan, fit into the story splendidly. On 10-13-59, Sinatra

and Chevalier recorded "I Love Paris." The recording is on the Capitol s/t album, but for

some insane reason it was deleted from the final cut.

The film was a wrap in early November. An elaborate opening took place at the Rivoli

Theatre, in N.Y.C, 3-9-60. There was one showing at 8:30 P.M and all seats were reserved.

The nation-wide release took place two days later. The reviews were not good. Prior to the release,

Variety estimated the movie would have a domestic gross of $10,000,000.

The actual take was $4.2 million. Time has not been good to the film.

On Rotten Tomatoes, "Can-Can" receives an audience score of 47%.

Capitol Records released the soundtrack album on April 4, 1960. The big selling point at the time

was Full Dimensional Stereo. A CD version from Capitol was issued in 1989. A

more recent version is available on the Hallmark label. The quality of that release is definitely inferior

to the Capitol original. The VHS was issued in April 1993 and the deluxe DVD in May of 2007.

The latter is a two-disc offering that is the wide-screen version. 20th filmed it in TODD-AO and

it is really the only way to watch it. The second disc offers a look at the famous Khrushev visit

to the "Can-Can" set on 9-19-59. Sinatra, Maclaine, Chevalier, Jordan did numbers

from the film. Nikita and Co were shocked at the very revealing outfits worn by the dancers and

would later issue a statement condemning western decadence. A laser disc copy was issued

in wide screen format in 1995. Excellent quality.

--Ed

Re: [sinatraphiles] March 9 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Kenny Lucas <kennylucas589@gmail.com> | Received: 2026-03-11

Editorial note: parsed as a “Film” entry for 1955, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

. He negotiated a tremendous deal with the studio before agreeing

to star in "Can-Can." Frank received up front $200,000 and 25% of the

gross earnings. This was unheard of in 1959. A clever studio accountant

could easily make a net profit disappear. But the gross was the gross.

20th Century wanted Marilyn Monroe to play Simon, but Frank insisted on

Shirley MacLaine. Filming got underway in early September

of 1959. The budget was $6,000,000. It became apparent very early in the

filming that Frank and Shirley were badly miscast. Whereas the two Frenchmen ,

Maurice Chevalier and Louis Jordan, fit into the story splendidly. On 10-13-59, Sinatra

and Chevalier recorded "I Love Paris." The recording is on the Capitol s/t album, but for

some insane reason it was deleted from the final cut.

The film was a wrap in early November. An elaborate opening took place at the Rivoli

Theatre, in N.Y.C, 3-9-60. There was one showing at 8:30 P.M and all seats were reserved.

The nation-wide release took place two days later. The reviews were not good. Prior to the release,

Variety estimated the movie would have a domestic gross of $10,000,000.

The actual take was $4.2 million. Time has not been good to the film.

On Rotten Tomatoes, "Can-Can" receives an audience score of 47%.

Capitol Records released the soundtrack album on April 4, 1960. The big selling point at the time

was Full Dimensional Stereo. A CD version from Capitol was issued in 1989. A

more recent version is available on the Hallmark label. The quality of that release is definitely inferior

to the Capitol original. The VHS was issued in April 1993 and the deluxe DVD in May of 2007.

The latter is a two-disc offering that is the wide-screen version. 20th filmed it in TODD-AO and

it is really the only way to watch it. The second disc offers a look at the famous Khrushev visit

to the "Can-Can" set on 9-19-59. Sinatra, Maclaine, Chevalier, Jordan did numbers

from the film. Nikita and Co were shocked at the very revealing outfits worn by the dancers and

would later issue a statement condemning western decadence. A laser disc copy was issued

in wide screen format in 1995. Excellent quality.

--Ed

March 24 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2026-03-24

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1960, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Fontainebleau, Miami, Fla, (March 8 to March 27)

Also appearing: The Duquaines & Sacacas and his Latin America Orchestra

MARCH 25 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2026-03-25

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1960, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Fontainebleau, Miami, Fla, (March 8 to March 27)

Also appearing: The Duquaines & Sacacas and his Latin America Orchestra

Last three nights ( 25 to 27 ) Dean, Sammy, Joey and

Peter joined Frank. First time "The Summit" played outside Vegas

March 26 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2026-03-26

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1960, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Fontainebleau, Miami, Fla, (March 8 to March 27)

Also appearing: The Duquaines & Sacacas and his Latin America Orchestra

Last three nights ( 25 to 27 ) Dean, Sammy, Joey and

Peter joined Frank. First time "The Summit" played outside Vegas

MARCH 27 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2026-03-27

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1960, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Fontainebleau, Miami, Fla, (March 8 to March 27)

Also appearing: The Duquaines & Sacacas and his Latin America Orchestra

Last three nights ( 25 to 27 ) Dean, Sammy, Joey and

Peter joined Frank. First time "The Summit" played outside Vegas

MARCH 27 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2026-03-27

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1975, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (March 20 – April 2)

Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Al Viola (guitar), Irv Cottler (drums), Charlie Turner (trumpet), Bill Miller (piano)

Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Don Costa

Opening Act: Sam Butera & The Witnesses featuring Sandy Williams

MARCH 28 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Scott Henderson <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2026-03-28

Editorial note: parsed as a “Radio” entry for 1948, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

"Fred Robbins" radio show over WINS-NYC

At the Copa, Sinatra was "crowned ‘the King of all Crooners’

MARCH 28 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Scott Henderson <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2026-03-28

Editorial note: parsed as a “Television” entry for 1948, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

N.Y. Heart Fund Brunch at the Monte Carlo

Ed Sullivan and Maggie McNellis were emcees

CBS Television 2:15 to 5pm

MARCH 28 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Scott Henderson <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2026-03-28

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1948, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Monte Carlo, New York, NY

Easter Brunch and Millinery Fashion Show

Benefit for the New York Heart Fund

MARCH 28 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Scott Henderson <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2026-03-28

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1975, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (March 20 – April 2)

Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Al Viola (guitar), Irv Cottler

(drums), Charlie Turner (trumpet), Bill Miller (piano)

Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Don Costa

Opening Act: Sam Butera & The Witnesses featuring Sandy

Williams.

MARCH 29 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Scott Henderson <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2026-03-29

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1956, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Sands, Las Vegas (March 29-April 3)

MARCH 29 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Scott Henderson <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2026-03-29

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1975, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (March 20 – April 2)

Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Al Viola (guitar), Irv Cottler

(drums), Charlie Turner (trumpet), Bill Miller (piano)

Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Don Costa

Opening Act: Sam Butera & The Witnesses featuring Sandy

Williams.

March 30 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2026-03-30

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1975, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (March 20 – April 2)

Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Al Viola (guitar), Irv Cottler (drums), Charlie Turner (trumpet), Bill Miller (piano)

Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Don Costa

Opening Act: Sam Butera & The Witnesses featuring Sandy Williams.

March 30 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2026-03-30

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1981, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (March 26-April 1) (Camceled)

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

Ed O'Brien:

The last three days of this engagement were canceled due to the Reagan assassination attempt in Washington, D.C.

MARCH 31 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2026-03-31

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1975, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada (March 20 – April 2)

Key Musicians: Gene Cherico (bass), Al Viola (guitar), Irv Cottler (drums), Charlie Turner (trumpet), Bill Miller (piano)

Nat Brandwynne Orchestra Conducted By: Don Costa

Opening Act: Sam Butera & The Witnesses featuring Sandy Williams.

APRIL 16 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY -- EXTRAS 2

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2026-04-16

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1986, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

ASU Activity Center, Tempe, AZ

The Orchestra was conducted by Bill Miller

Benefit for the Arizona Ballet Company

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APRIL 16 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY -- EXTRAS 2

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2026-04-16

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1989, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Ice Hockey Stadium, Helsinki, Finland

The Ultimate Event Tour

Performers: Frank Sinatra, Liza Minnelli, Sammy Davis, Jr.

Orchestra Conducted By : Frank Sinatra, Jr.(Frank), Morty Stevens (Sammy)

Singer Liza Minnelli, already in the doghouse with Swedish authorities for taking her dog into the country last week without proper authority, ran into more problems over the weekend. On Sunday, she was grounded by a severe ear infection and had to pull out of a concert with Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. in Helsinki, Finland. Doctors told her she could not fly for 10 days. Sinatra and Davis went ahead with the show.

--Los Angeles Times - April 18, 1989

Ritchie Blackmore raved about the hotel, Sinatra's memory faltered, Sammy Davis Jr. fell in love with the car - promoter Antti Einiö recalls world stars' visits to Finland

( https://www.is.fi/viihde/art-2000005510331.html)

Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. gave a concert at the Helsinki Ice Hall in 1989. Liza Minnelli was also supposed to come with them , but Minnelli stayed in Stockholm. Frank Sinatra's memory traveled badly even then.

When Einiö asked for an autograph for a joint photo, Sinatra pointed out that Einiö would then get Minnelli's autograph at the ice rink in the evening. Einiö corrected that Minnelli was not coming, which confused Sinatra.

- Oh, he won't come... Was he with us yesterday? Sinatra said.

Einiö had already met Sammy Davis Jr. a couple of times before. The promoter himself went to pick up the star from the field in a specially made Volvo limousine.

- He knocked me from the back seat with his silver stick and asked what car this was. I explained that it was a Volvo stretch limousine. He asked if there are many of these in Finland. I explained that it is the only one because this is so expensive. The car costs 40,000 bucks.

Sammy wondered if it was that expensive.

- Then he showed the gas meter with his stick and said, that is expensive, this car is not, Einiö laughs.

Einiö recalls that the duo ended their concert with duets.

- According to the managers, they had to sing three duets, but they performed five to six duets in the ice rink. I saw from behind the curtain when they were leaving that Frank would have gone back on stage, but Sammy took his hand and said let's go now. The day before, they had argued in Gothenburg about something very small. Injured by this, both of them flew here to Helsinki on their own jet. Then when they were friends after the concert in Helsinki, they flew back on the same jet and one jet flew back alone.

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APRIL 16 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY -- EXTRAS 2

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2026-04-16

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1993, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Kravis Center, West Palm Beach, Florida

Orchestra Conducted By: Frank Sinatra, Jr.

Sun Sentinel

4-17-93

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APRIL 16 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY -- EXTRAS 2

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2026-04-16

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1994, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Veterans War Memorial, Syracuse, New York

Orchestra Conducted By: Frank Sinatra, Jr..

© 1997-2026 The Sinatra Archive

This calendar, or any parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any fashion whatsoever without the prior written permission of the publisher (The Sinatra Archive)

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APRIL 18 THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Scott Henderson <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2026-04-18

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1945, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA

Democratic Tribute to FDR

Sinatra sang "Home On The Range"

April 20 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY -- EXTRAS 3

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2026-04-20

Editorial note: parsed as a “Television” entry for 1987, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Chicago Theater, Chicago, Illinois (21-25)

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

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April 20 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY -- EXTRAS 3

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2026-04-20

Editorial note: parsed as a “Television” entry for 1989, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Royal Albert Hall, London, England

The Ultimate Event Tour

Performers: Frank Sinatra, Liza Minnelli, Sammy Davis, Jr.

Orchestra Conducted By : Frank Sinatra, Jr.(Frank), Morty Stevens (Sammy), Bill Lavorgna (Liza)

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April 20 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY -- EXTRAS 3

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2026-04-20

Editorial note: parsed as a “Television” entry for 1993, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

War Memorial Stadium, Rochester, New York

Orchestra Conducted By: Frank Sinatra, Jr.

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]April 29 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2026-04-30

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1942, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

"Ship Ahoy" (U.S. Release: April 29, 1942)

Starring: Eleanor Powell, Red Skelton, Bert Lahr, Virginia O'Brien, Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra with Frank Sinatra

Produced by: Jack Cummings

Directed by: Edward Buzzell

Excerpt from Variety review

Re: [sinatraphiles] MAY 1 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2026-05-08

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1947, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Re: [sinatraphiles] MAY 6 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2026-05-09

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1977, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Latin Casino, Cherry Hill, New Jersey

Orchestra Conducted By: Bill Miller

O.A, Pat Henry

note: According to this ad, Sinatra played 15 shows during this engagement. He was dark on Monday(2nd). He did two shows a night on consecutive weekends and one show on Tues, Wed and Thurs. But an offer than ran in the papers, five

days before he opened, refutes that claim:

May 2nd fell on a Monday.

Philadelphia Daily News

May 9 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY--EXTRAS PART 2

From: Scott Henderson <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2026-05-09

Editorial note: parsed as a “Television” entry for 1953, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Cinema Teatro Reposi, Turin, Italy (May9-10)

with Milt Mezzrow's Orchestra

(Buck Clayton and Big Chief Russel Moore on the Trombones, Eugene Sedwick on Sax,

Kansas Field, Drums, Red Richards on Piano)

Also: Taps Miller & Della Grayson (Dance Couple)

Billboard May 23, 1953

Ava Gardner And Frank Sinatra Surrounded By Onlookers

The American actress Ava Gardner and the Italian-American singer and actor Frank Sinatra are surrounded by journalists and onlookers. Milan, May 1953 (Photo by Mondadori via Getty Images)

Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner arrive in Milan, 1953.

Frank Sinatra all'entrata dell'Hotel Principi di Piemonte in Turin, Italy(1953)

--Thanks to Carl R for the above photos

May 9 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY--EXTRAS PART 2

From: Scott Henderson <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2026-05-09

Editorial note: parsed as a “Television” entry for 1962, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Cinama Tamar, Haifa, Israel

Bill Miller Sextet: Emil Richards (Vibes), Al Viola (Guitar), Irv

Cottler (Drums),

Ralph Pana (Bass), Harry Klee (Flute, Sax, Clarinet), Bill Miller (Piano)

Thanks to Shemmy for above photo

Tomorrow will be 64 years since I saw sinatra in Cinema tamar Haifa.

A friend published a book about the history of cinemas in Haifa. All of them closed by now.

In this book about cinema Tamar I have found this picture.

I remembered I sat in the isle and when looking closely I found myself.

I was the only boy in the audience. I was 16.

I was in shock after the concert and walked home a long time just to relax.

Did know many of the songs. I read in latter years that Jonathan Schwartz shared

a similiar emotional after he saw sinatra June 5 1962 in paris about a month latter.

This was maybe the most memorable event in my life.

--Shemmy

June 13 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Scott Henderson <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2026-06-13

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1957, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

and "Pal Joey." Sinatra as the lovable heel, Joey Evens, hustling for show

business and romantic success. Sinatra electrifies "The Lady Is A Tramp" with his

own inimitable brand of flip humor.

But Sinatra isn't through. He will end his farewell appearance his way..

"I've built my career," he say softly, "on saloon songs," and he slips into "Angel Eyes."

Lonely words and lonely notes. Darkness, a pin point spot.. Sinatra in silhouette. Sinatra

and loneliness. Sinatra with perspective, which could well be the real man.

Midway through the number he lights a cigarette. Smoke encircles, protects him. Forty-

five minutes out front to say goodbye. Memories of 58 films,100 albums and nearly 1,500 recordings.

He comes to the last line of the song, "Excuse me while I . . . disappear." And he is gone.

Billboard

June 19, 1971

Brian Chearno:

I wanted to add a few things.. Henry Kissinger was in the audience at this event. He called it the most moving performance he had ever seen. Commenting that even the secret service men were crying. In discussions for the April 17, 1973 concert, Kissinger and Nixon thought it would be wonderful to sort of recreate that "farewell" event. Nixon came up with having it at the Kennedy Center and televised. The president felt the East Room was to small for big name entertainers. He also wanted performances no longer than 25 or 30 minutes for events held there.

The president tracked Sinatra down in Monte Carlo in July and talked of the idea. Nixon mentioned the Kennedy Center or the East Room, Sinatra opted for the East Room. It's funny but I think Nixon thought he was talking to the more powerful man. Nervous, back slapping and thoroughly agreeably to whatever Sinatra said. Very strange phone call from what is supposed to be the most powerful person in the world.

Mike Agron:

I was able to attend the LA Retirement with my girlfriend, and was lucky to grab 2 seats in the upper balcony of the Music Center They cost $25 each which was a lot of money in '71. The roster of artists was incredible from Cary Grant, Jack Benny, to Barbra Streisand, etc. They started in the Music Center and then went across the property to play the same set at the Ahmanson Theater. As Streisand finished her set, Roz Russell came on and then introduced him. The Music Center set was shorter than the Ahmanson venue, maybe 8 or so songs. I'll never forget how he finished singing My Way, we all thought that was the end of the show, and then he slid into That's Life, and closed with Angel Eyes, and walked off the stage to thunderous applause. All of old Hollywood was there. I was so glad to have been there too.

JULY 17 THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2026-06-19

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1942, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

New York City

BS075282 In The Blue Of Evening

(T. Adair/A. D'Artega)

Shapiro, Berstein & Co. (ASCAP)

Arranged by Axel Stordahl

-1 (2:54) CD: 07863 66353-2 "The Song Is You" 5CD set Vol 4

CD: RCA 8554-2-R

LP: SD 1000

78: 20-1530

78: 27947

note: session was done in Studio #2. After Frank laid down :"In The

Blue of Evening" two Dorsey tunes were recorded:"Sleepy Lagoon"

and ",Melody." Session ran from 1:30 p.m. to 4:45 p.m.with full orchestra

RCA would release this recording in late May of 1943. It would reach #1

and remain there for three weeks. Song would chart for 16 weeks.

BS075285 Dig Down Deep w/The Pied Pipers

(W. Hirsch/G. Marks/S. Marco)

Embassy Music Corp. (BMI)

-1 (2:06) CD: 07863 66353-2 "The Song Is You" 5CD set Vol 4

LP: SD 1000

78: 20-1539

note session - minus strings - took half-an-hour - 4:45 p.m. to 5:15 p.m.

Sy Oliver arranged.

JULY 17 THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2026-06-19

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1943, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

June 23 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY -- EXTRAS 2

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2026-06-23

Editorial note: parsed as a “Film” entry for 1978, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Hulman Center, Terre Haute, Indiana

note: Through the years the Center was always referred to as the Hillman in any mention of Frank's appearance. As you can see it is actually Hulman

June 23 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY -- EXTRAS 2

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2026-06-23

Editorial note: parsed as a “Film” entry for 1979, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New York

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

© 1997-2026 The Sinatra Archive

This calendar, or any parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any fashion whatsoever without the prior written permission of the publisher (The Sinatra Archive)

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June 23 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY -- EXTRAS 2

From: "scott@falseducks.com" <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2026-06-23

Editorial note: parsed as a “Film” entry for 1978, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Hulman Center, Terre Haute, Indiana

note: Through the years the Center was always referred to as the Hillman in

any mention of Frank's appearance. As you can see it is actually Hulman

June 23 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY -- EXTRAS 2

From: "scott@falseducks.com" <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2026-06-23

Editorial note: parsed as a “Film” entry for 1979, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New York

Orchestra Conducted By: Vincent Falcone, jr.

© 1997-2026 The Sinatra Archive

This calendar, or any parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any fashion

whatsoever without the prior written permission of the publisher (The

Sinatra Archive)

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July 13 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Scott Henderson <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2026-07-13

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1965, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Frank's recording career got underway 84 years ago today.

On that Thursday afternoon, so long ago now, the Harry James

Band entered the Brunswick Recording Studio, 550 Fifth Ave,

in N.Y.C. The boy vocalist in the band would earn an additional

$50.00 for his efforts. That is what Harry James paid him for

the two recordings..

The Make Believe Ballroom, WNEW A.M., had released a poll

showing that the James contingent was the eighth most popular

band in the greater New York area. Harry and Co. received a

lot of radio attention and that evening was no exception. At midnight

WOR broadcast the James band live from the Roseland Ballroom.

Frank could be heard singing "I Poured My Heart Into A Song"

On

the 7/15 broadcast, he sang the two songs recorded on 7-13-39.

According to Variety, the band played the Paramount before jumping

over to the Roseland for an extended stay. WOR, CBS, WNEW and

other radio stations would broadcast this exciting new band throughout

the summer of 1939. They would be heard from the Steel Pier, in Atlantic

City, the World's Fair and Roseland in N.Y.C.

In August of 39, James and Sinatra decided to try out a new song on the

radio broadcasts before making a recording. The song was "All Or Nothing

At All." According to Billboard the song was released in June of 1940 and

sold 16,000 copies. The re-release in June 1943 sold well over a million

units..

I am indebted to Variety, Peter Levinson, NYT

and Billboard.

Ed

JULY 13, 1939

From: 'Ed O'Brien' via Sinatraphiles <sinatraphiles@googlegroups.com> | Received: 2026-07-15

Editorial note: parsed as a “Studio” entry for 1992, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

TEST PRESSING

sinatraphiles] July 23 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2026-07-24

Editorial note: parsed as a “Radio” entry for 1941, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Live Remote from the Cavalier Beach Club, Cavalier Hotel, Virginia Beach, Virginia Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra with Frank Sinatra

WTAR 11:30pm

Note: Dorsey would broadcast from the Cavalier Beach Club on July 21st and July 23rd.

Television

NONE

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July 28 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2026-07-28

Editorial note: parsed as a “Television” entry for 1984, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

MTV Premiere of music video for "L.A. Is My Lady"

August 1 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Scott Henderson <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2026-08-01

Editorial note: parsed as a “Television” entry for 1976, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Repeat Airing of 'John Denver and Friend'

August 3 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Scott Henderson <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2026-08-03

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1960, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Copa Room, Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, NV

Frank, Sammy, Joey Bishop, Peter Lawford, and Buddy Lester joined Dean Martin on stage.

August 11 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2026-08-11

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1960, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Cal-Neva Lodge, Nevada (August 8 - 17)

Frank Sinatra, Matty Malneck and His Orchestra

O.A.: Buddy Lester

August 16 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: Scott Henderson <scott@falseducks.com> | Received: 2026-08-16

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1960, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Cal-Neva Lodge, Nevada (August 8 - 17)

Frank Sinatra, Matty Malneck and His Orchestra

O.A.: Buddy Lester

August 17 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2026-08-17

Editorial note: parsed as a “Television” entry for 1973, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Rehearsal for "Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back' TV special

Show would be taped on 9-20-73

August 17 - THIS DATE IN SINATRA HISTORY

From: scott@falseducks.com | Received: 2026-08-17

Editorial note: parsed as a “Concerts” entry for 1960, but no existing entry was found to reconcile it against. This may be a genuinely new item, or a fragment split off from a longer post (e.g. a source citation date misread as a new entry). Recommend manual placement.

Cal-Neva Lodge, Nevada (August 8 - 17)

Frank Sinatra, Matty Malneck and His Orchestra

O.A.: Buddy Lester

A Corporate Lawyer Passes On The Dorsey Case

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Manie Sacks first brought Sinatra's contract dispute to attorney Harold Medina -- later a famous federal judge -- who admitted the tangled management deal wasn't really his area of expertise.

Context: A Corporate Lawyer Passes On The Dorsey Case

Date as given in source: undated

Date as given in source could not be resolved to a specific calendar day for the main chronology; routed to Appendix as undated material.

A Chipped Elbow Kept Quiet

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

After Sinatra chipped his elbow filming a scene, he and Nancy Sr. tiptoed in to kiss a young Nancy goodnight with his arm bandaged; overhearing him whisper that she hadn't noticed, Nancy cried herself to sleep without ever asking what happened.

Context: A Chipped Elbow Kept Quiet

Date as given in source: undated

Date as given in source could not be resolved to a specific calendar day for the main chronology; routed to Appendix as undated material.

A Candid Photo of Ray Charles and Sinatra

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

A photo taken during a studio break, showing Ray Charles visiting Frank between sessions, ran in a music trade magazine captioned as representing the state of the recording industry.

Context: A Candid Photo of Ray Charles and Sinatra

Date as given in source: undated

Date as given in source could not be resolved to a specific calendar day for the main chronology; routed to Appendix as undated material.

A Campus Tour Against Prejudice

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

With CBS chief William Paley's help, Sinatra toured college campuses that had experienced racial or religious incidents, urging students against intolerance, and pointedly changed a lyric in "Ol' Man River" to remove a racial slur.

Context: A Campus Tour Against Prejudice

Date as given in source: undated

Date as given in source could not be resolved to a specific calendar day for the main chronology; routed to Appendix as undated material.

A Final Dinner and a Lesson in Loyalty

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Not long before Sinatra's death, Bennett had a private dinner with him at his home, during which Sinatra said loyalty was the one thing he truly believed in.

Context: A Final Dinner and a Lesson in Loyalty

Date as given in source: undated

Date as given in source could not be resolved to a specific calendar day for the main chronology; routed to Appendix as undated material.

A Description of Sinatra's Loyalty

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

An unnamed speaker recalled Sinatra as a man without a middle ground, capable of loving someone unconditionally or, if crossed, turning fiercely against them.

Context: A Description of Sinatra's Loyalty

Date as given in source: undated

Date as given in source could not be resolved to a specific calendar day for the main chronology; routed to Appendix as undated material.

A Flawless Chicago Show

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

According to Nancy, once his medication schedule was adjusted, Frank delivered a strong show in St. Louis and then, in Chicago, performed flawlessly without needing the teleprompter, drawing an ecstatic audience response.

Context: A Flawless Chicago Show

Date as given in source: undated

Date as given in source could not be resolved to a specific calendar day for the main chronology; routed to Appendix as undated material.

A New Will Favoring Barbara

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Barbara ultimately pursued a new will designed to remove Tina as executor and consolidate her own gains, a document that required a credible attorney's involvement to withstand any future challenge.

Context: A New Will Favoring Barbara

Date as given in source: undated

Date as given in source could not be resolved to a specific calendar day for the main chronology; routed to Appendix as undated material.

A Thankful Reunion Thanksgiving

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

The family gathered for what Tina considered their most grateful Thanksgiving ever. Frank walked to the table unassisted, clean-shaven and clear-headed, visibly moved to have his children and grandchildren together again after so long.

Context: A Thankful Reunion Thanksgiving

Date as given in source: That Thanksgiving

Date as given in source could not be resolved to a specific calendar day for the main chronology; routed to Appendix as undated material.

A Winning Night at the Dice Table

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Sammy Davis Jr. remembered Sinatra inviting him to shoot dice for him at a private Hollywood game, winning roughly twelve thousand dollars, giving Sammy a cut, and having his driver take him safely home.

Context: A Winning Night at the Dice Table

Date as given in source: undated

Date as given in source could not be resolved to a specific calendar day for the main chronology; routed to Appendix as undated material.

A Wartime Bond Rally On Film

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Sinatra appeared in the U.S. Treasury short "The All Star Bond Rally," singing alongside stars like Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Betty Grable to promote war bond sales.

Context: A Wartime Bond Rally On Film

Date as given in source: undated

Date as given in source could not be resolved to a specific calendar day for the main chronology; routed to Appendix as undated material.

A Vegas Christmas Show

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

After an eight o'clock Christmas night show in Las Vegas, Nancy recalled her parents' joyful faces as they sang "Jingle Bells" together on stage as one of her most vivid memories.

Context: A Vegas Christmas Show

Date as given in source: undated

Date as given in source could not be resolved to a specific calendar day for the main chronology; routed to Appendix as undated material.

A Train-Set Fight Before Dad's Visit

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Waiting dressed up for a visit from their father, Nancy and her brother got into a fight over their toy train that left both of them bloodied just as the doorbell rang.

Context: A Train-Set Fight Before Dad's Visit

Date as given in source: undated

Date as given in source could not be resolved to a specific calendar day for the main chronology; routed to Appendix as undated material.

A Tense Weekend in Palm Springs

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Artist Paul Clemens recalled a strained Palm Springs weekend with Frank and Ava, where Ava abruptly stormed off from the Racquet Club and Frank later attempted a late-night flight home to Los Angeles, only to be turned back because the fogged-in airport was closed.

Context: A Tense Weekend in Palm Springs

Date as given in source: undated

Date as given in source could not be resolved to a specific calendar day for the main chronology; routed to Appendix as undated material.

A Tearful Drive Back From Palm Springs

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

When young Nancy cried inconsolably at being sent home early from a Palm Springs visit, Sinatra relented and sent her mother along too; on the drive back, Nancy Sr. broke down crying behind dark glasses, which shocked her daughter.

Context: A Tearful Drive Back From Palm Springs

Date as given in source: undated

Date as given in source could not be resolved to a specific calendar day for the main chronology; routed to Appendix as undated material.

A Table Flipped on an Aggressive Paparazzo

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Bakalyan recalled that while Roman paparazzi could be maddening, Frank never physically struck one himself, though Bakalyan once flipped a table onto a photographer, an incident later captured in a magazine photo.

Context: A Table Flipped on an Aggressive Paparazzo

Date as given in source: undated

Date as given in source could not be resolved to a specific calendar day for the main chronology; routed to Appendix as undated material.

A Startled Fan At The Museum Of Modern Art

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Newly famous and visiting the Museum of Modern Art for the first time, Sinatra overheard a girl whisper that she thought she'd spotted him, and her unimpressed mother ask what he was doing in a place like that; embarrassed, he left.

Context: A Startled Fan At The Museum Of Modern Art

Date as given in source: undated

Date as given in source could not be resolved to a specific calendar day for the main chronology; routed to Appendix as undated material.

A Snowbound High School Concert

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Sinatra recalled, more than twenty years after the fact, playing a snowed-in high school date where the band kept performing until four in the morning rather than disappoint the waiting kids.

Context: A Snowbound High School Concert

Date as given in source: undated

Date as given in source could not be resolved to a specific calendar day for the main chronology; routed to Appendix as undated material.

A Shattered Antique Clock During Charades

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

During a game of charades in Palm Springs, Sinatra's date Barbara Marx called "Time's up" using a small antique clock as proof; when he disputed it, he grabbed the clock and hurled it across the room, shattering it against a door, before the group nervously guessed the title he'd been acting out.

Context: A Shattered Antique Clock During Charades

Date as given in source: the 1970s

Date as given in source could not be resolved to a specific calendar day for the main chronology; routed to Appendix as undated material.

A Run Of Notable Mid-Forties Recordings

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Among Sinatra's notable 78 rpm sides from 1944 and 1945 were "Embraceable You," "Put Your Dreams Away" (his eventual theme song), "The House I Live In," and the two-part "Soliloquy" from "Carousel," which Nancy called her favorite.

Context: A Run Of Notable Mid-Forties Recordings

Date as given in source: '44 and '45

Date as given in source could not be resolved to a specific calendar day for the main chronology; routed to Appendix as undated material.

A Rare Snowfall Shared At Midnight

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

One night near Christmas, Sinatra woke his young daughter to show her a rare Los Angeles snowfall from the deck.

Context: A Rare Snowfall Shared At Midnight

Date as given in source: undated

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A Quiet Visit at the Waldorf

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Leaving after a visit to her father in New York, Nancy crept into his bedroom at the Waldorf and found him asleep like a boy, snow drifting past the window, as he neared his seventieth birthday.

Context: A Quiet Visit at the Waldorf

Date as given in source: January '85

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A Prison Chaplain's Letter Angers Sinatra

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Months after sentencing, a prison chaplain wrote asking the Sinatras to forgive two of the kidnappers, describing the ordeal as causing the family "perhaps some embarrassment." Frank's pointed written reply objected to the phrasing and rejected any suggestion the case had been a personal grudge rather than a crime against the public.

Context: A Prison Chaplain's Letter Angers Sinatra

Date as given in source: undated

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A Palm Springs Retreat With A Piano-Shaped Pool

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

The family built a Palm Springs house with a grand-piano-shaped swimming pool, where Sinatra taught his son to swim and drove the kids around in an army jeep.

Context: A Palm Springs Retreat With A Piano-Shaped Pool

Date as given in source: undated

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A Novelty Duet With Dagmar

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

At Mitch Miller's direction, Sinatra recorded the novelty song "Mama Will Bark" with statuesque comic actress Dagmar, later joking that the record's only real audience was dogs.

Context: A Novelty Duet With Dagmar

Date as given in source: undated

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A New, Tougher Sinatra Sound

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Nelson Riddle's arrangements, starting with "I've Got the World on a String" and "Don't Worry 'Bout Me," gave Sinatra's voice a more sophisticated, less purely silky quality than his 1940s crooning.

Context: A New, Tougher Sinatra Sound

Date as given in source: undated

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A Lucrative Golden Nugget Contract

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Around this period Sinatra was about to sign a lucrative contract to perform at the Golden Nugget properties in Las Vegas and Atlantic City.

Context: A Lucrative Golden Nugget Contract

Date as given in source: the early 1980s

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A Lavish Atwater Kent Children's Party

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Nancy recalled an extravagantly staged Hollywood children's party at Atwater Kent's home, complete with a merry-go-round, Ferris wheel, clowns, and elephants.

Context: A Lavish Atwater Kent Children's Party

Date as given in source: undated

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A Homemade Cinderella For The March Of Dimes

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Nancy and her friends staged a backyard production of Cinderella to raise money for the March of Dimes, but the only ticket buyers turned out to be their own famous mothers, including Jane Wyman and Anne Shirley.

Context: A Homemade Cinderella For The March Of Dimes

Date as given in source: undated

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A Press Agent Stages Fake Swooning Fans, Then Doesn't Need To

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: According to Paramount Theatre manager Bob Weitman, Frank's press agent George Evans once hired teenage girls to swoon and faint at his shows as a publicity stunt, thinking it would make good copy. The stunt turned out unnecessary, since genuine fan hysteria had already ignited entirely on its own.

Context: A Press Agent Stages Fake Swooning Fans, Then Doesn't Need To

Date as given in source: undated

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"A Nobody In Movies": Frank On Learning To Dance

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Reflecting on arriving at MGM as, in his own words, "just a crooner" who couldn't dance and felt less talented than his new colleagues, Frank credited Gene Kelly's patience and teaching for turning him into a screen performer, calling Kelly one of the reasons he became a star.

Context: "A Nobody In Movies": Frank On Learning To Dance

Date as given in source: undated

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A Lonely Childhood, Alone After School

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Cousin John Tredy recalled that young Frank was often left to fend for himself since his parents worked constantly, and Frank remembered coming home from school to an empty house with nothing to eat, not from lack of money, but because his mother was always busy elsewhere. Frank later told his daughter that being an only child had been "very lonely."

Context: A Lonely Childhood, Alone After School

Date as given in source: undated, childhood in the 1920s

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Adapting Mealtime and Wheelchair Routines

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

As Frank's peripheral vision and coordination declined, the family adapted small routines to protect his dignity, such as giving him smaller glasses, pre-cutting his food, and describing plate positions by clock face. He still enjoyed a ceremonial glass of wine and cigarette on occasion, and used a special recliner nicknamed his "funny chair," though he preferred being physically helped up by a daughter.

Context: Adapting Mealtime and Wheelchair Routines

Date as given in source: undated

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Agnew Invites Tina to Baltimore and the White House

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

After the 1972 election, Ted Agnew invited Tina to a nonpartisan event in Baltimore and a White House visit, joking that he intended to win her over politically; on the same trip she was also hosted by Averell and Pam Harriman, reflecting how she moved comfortably across the political spectrum through family friendships.

Context: Agnew Invites Tina to Baltimore and the White House

Date as given in source: "Postelection"

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Al Jolson's Cold Handshake

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

An eager young Sinatra once approached Al Jolson to shake his hand, only to have Jolson pull out a financial statement instead and ask if Sinatra thought he could match it, leaving him crushed.

Context: Al Jolson's Cold Handshake

Date as given in source: undated

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Al Capp's "Hal Fascinatra"

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Cartoonist Al Capp recalled nicknaming Sinatra "Hal Fascinatra" in print and being surprised by Frank's delighted reaction; Sinatra continued sending Capp champagne in restaurants even during his own broke years.

Context: Al Capp's "Hal Fascinatra"

Date as given in source: undated

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Albert Maltz Blacklisted

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Two years after their collaboration, Maltz refused to cooperate with the House Committee on Un-American Activities, was blacklisted and briefly imprisoned, and relocated to Mexico as his film career stalled.

Context: Albert Maltz Blacklisted

Date as given in source: Two years later

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Alimony Dispute Over Community Funds

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Barbara's attorney insisted Frank stop paying his ex-wife Nancy Sr.'s alimony out of community funds and reimburse the community for past payments. Frank complied by shifting the payments to his separate property, but the arrangement with Nancy Sr. otherwise continued unchanged.

Context: Alimony Dispute Over Community Funds

Date as given in source: undated

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All Nippon Airways Ad Campaign In Japan

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Japan's All Nippon Airways featured Sinatra in an advertising campaign for its Tokyo-New York route, with his image appearing on billboards across Japan in the early 1990s, where he was said to be even more popular than in the United States.

Context: All Nippon Airways Ad Campaign In Japan

Date as given in source: early 1990s

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Al Viola on Sinatra's Charity Generosity

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Guitarist Al Viola recalled that Sinatra worked hard on his charity tours because proceeds went to children's causes, that he personally visited hospitals, and that he covered his band's costs out of his own pocket for countless benefits over the years.

Context: Al Viola on Sinatra's Charity Generosity

Date as given in source: undated

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Amanda's "Pop-Pop Was There, and Then He Wasn't"

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

After a benefit concert where Frank brought his granddaughters onstage, young Amanda cried at bedtime, telling Tina that her grandfather had been there and then suddenly gone - a moment that made Tina recognize the same feeling of loss she'd carried since childhood.

Context: Amanda's "Pop-Pop Was There, and Then He Wasn't"

Date as given in source: undated

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An Early Lesson About Prejudice

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

When Nancy, then about eight, giggled at a magazine photo of Albert Einstein and remarked that he "looked so Jewish," her father reacted with rare, sharp anger, telling her firmly that nobody looks like anything -- a moment she never forgot.

Context: An Early Lesson About Prejudice

Date as given in source: when I was eight years old

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An Annual Two-Hundred-Guest New Year's Party

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

The Sinatras hosted an annual New Year's party for two hundred guests featuring Hollywood entertainment and risque Sammy Cahn song parodies, while the children were shipped off to their grandparents'.

Context: An Annual Two-Hundred-Guest New Year's Party

Date as given in source: undated

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An Uncomfortable Duets Recording Session

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Tina attended one Duets recording session and sensed, for the only time she could recall, that Frank was unhappy to see her; he seemed strained and frustrated with himself throughout the take.

Context: An Uncomfortable Duets Recording Session

Date as given in source: undated

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An Unforgettable Fourth Of July Fireworks Mishap

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Hosting a lakeside Fourth of July for the whole neighborhood, Frank staged a fireworks show from a raft anchored mid-lake while his children cued "The Star-Spangled Banner" on a record player. Sparks from one pinwheel ignited an entire carton of fireworks at once, and Frank vanished in the resulting explosion before emerging from the water, still wearing his hat and a ruined new wristwatch.

Context: An Unforgettable Fourth Of July Fireworks Mishap

Date as given in source: undated, a Fourth of July in the mid-1940s

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Anonymously Covering Lee Remick's Hotel Bill

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Actress Lee Remick recalled that while she waited at the Beverly Hills Hotel for news of her injured then-husband, a TV director working with Sinatra, Frank quietly paid her entire hotel bill without her knowledge.

Context: Anonymously Covering Lee Remick's Hotel Bill

Date as given in source: undated

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"Anti-swoon" mints offered to bobbysoxers outside the Paramount

From: Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra (Rough guide 2.pdf)

A photo of bobbysoxers outside the Paramount Theatre, New York, in November 1945 carries the caption that Song Hits magazine offered the queuing fans "anti-swoon" mints.

Antivert Prescribed to Counter Elavil Side Effects

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Frank's antidepressant, Elavil, tended to kick in right before showtime, leaving him light-headed and disoriented in the wings. His doctors added a drug called Antivert to his regimen to counteract the dizziness before performances.

Context: Antivert Prescribed to Counter Elavil Side Effects

Date as given in source: undated

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"Are You Okay, Smokey?"

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Sammy Davis Jr. described Sinatra's shorthand way of checking in on troubled friends, a brief exchange like "Are you okay, Smokey?" that quietly signaled his support.

Context: "Are You Okay, Smokey?"

Date as given in source: undated

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Ava Walks Out on Frank in Spain

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

During one of their periodic post-divorce reunions, Ava abruptly left Frank at a restaurant in Spain; he remarked to friends that it wasn't the first time she'd walked out, but it would be the last.

Context: Ava Walks Out on Frank in Spain

Date as given in source: One encounter in the early sixties

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Backing Out Of Nancy's Tonsillectomy

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Sinatra later admitted that when he took young Nancy to the hospital for her tonsils and saw her frightened face, he couldn't go through with it and turned the errand over to her mother instead.

Context: Backing Out Of Nancy's Tonsillectomy

Date as given in source: undated

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Axel Stordahl Sees A Turning Point

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Arranger Axel Stordahl believed the intimate Bluebird sessions marked the moment Sinatra began seriously considering a solo career.

Context: Axel Stordahl Sees A Turning Point

Date as given in source: undated

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Ava Gardner's Effortless Glamour

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Nancy remembered Ava Gardner as strikingly beautiful and unpretentious -- diving into the Palm Springs pool, drying her hair with a quick towel-rub, and giving Nancy her first tube of lipstick, Tangee Natural.

Context: Ava Gardner's Effortless Glamour

Date as given in source: undated

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Ava Fails to Meet Frank in Naples

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Nancy suggests the true end of her parents' marriage may have come when her father flew to Naples for a concert expecting Ava to join him there, and she simply never showed.

Context: Ava Fails to Meet Frank in Naples

Date as given in source: undated

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Barbara and Frank's Secret Engagement Revealed

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

At Amanda's christening at Nancy's home, Frank arrived with Barbara sporting a new nose job and a large diamond ring, revealing to the stunned family that they were engaged. He then left early for a recording session, leaving Barbara to face the family's shock alone.

Context: Barbara and Frank's Secret Engagement Revealed

Date as given in source: "Two months later, in June"

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Barbara Calls Frank a "Scared Little Girl"

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

After an argument at Foothill in which Barbara accused Frank of overprotecting his children financially, Frank remarked quietly to Tony Oppedisano that, deep down, Barbara was really just a scared little girl.

Context: Barbara Calls Frank a "Scared Little Girl"

Date as given in source: undated

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Barbara Defends the Elavil Regimen

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

When Nancy and Tina raised concerns about the sedating antidepressant, Barbara insisted the medication was working perfectly and that the prescribing doctor agreed it was needed to level Frank's moods and protect his heart.

Context: Barbara Defends the Elavil Regimen

Date as given in source: undated

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Barbara Dismisses Concerns About Frank's Late Mornings

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

When Tina remarked on Frank sleeping later and later, Barbara claimed he wasn't like that when the children weren't around, a statement Tina knew to be false based on Jilly's earlier complaints about Frank's lethargy.

Context: Barbara Dismisses Concerns About Frank's Late Mornings

Date as given in source: undated

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Barbara Hires Her Own Business Manager

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Barbara brought on her own business manager, Marshall Gelfand, prompting Tina to fear that Sonny Golden might eventually be pushed out just as Mickey Rudin had been.

Context: Barbara Hires Her Own Business Manager

Date as given in source: undated

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Barbara Pushes Out Bob Finkelstein

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Displeased that Bob Finkelstein controlled Bristol, Sheffield, and the Somerset Trust and remained close to Tina, Barbara ensured he would no longer represent her husband, even though he and Barbara had once been friendly gin rummy and backgammon partners.

Context: Barbara Pushes Out Bob Finkelstein

Date as given in source: undated

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Barbara Retains Her Divorce Lawyer After Reconciling

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Sometime after Frank and Barbara reconciled from a earlier separation, Tina learned from Sonny Golden that Barbara was still paying her divorce attorney, Arthur Crowley, out of Frank's account, which struck Tina as an ominous sign for the marriage.

Context: Barbara Retains Her Divorce Lawyer After Reconciling

Date as given in source: undated

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Barbara Returns and Nancy Reagan Urges Frank to Leave Her

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Ten days into the separation, Barbara came back to Palm Springs. When Frank told Nancy Reagan by phone that he was waiting for Barbara to finish a massage before talking to her, Nancy Reagan told him bluntly that Barbara wasn't right for him and he should keep walking out the door. He reconciled with Barbara anyway, later appearing with her and Father Rooney at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

Context: Barbara Returns and Nancy Reagan Urges Frank to Leave Her

Date as given in source: "Ten days into the separation"

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Barbara Screens Frank's Phone Calls

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Barbara would frequently pick up an extension line under the guise of a mistake, both disrupting Frank's calls and learning who was on the other end. Tina's mother resorted to using a private cell phone to reach Frank away from Barbara's interference.

Context: Barbara Screens Frank's Phone Calls

Date as given in source: undated

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Barbara Sinatra Children's Center

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

As Barbara grew increasingly occupied running the Barbara Sinatra Children's Center, a facility for abused children, she and Frank saw less of each other, their opposite daily schedules leaving them sharing an address more than a life.

Context: Barbara Sinatra Children's Center

Date as given in source: undated

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Barbara Takes Over Frank's Home Office

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Frank's Palm Springs home office, which displayed his many awards and housed a twelve-car model train that circled overhead, was eventually taken over by Barbara and her personal secretaries.

Context: Barbara Takes Over Frank's Home Office

Date as given in source: undated

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Barbara's Allowance Quintuples

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Over time, Barbara's annual allowance grew into the high six figures after Frank, weary of her complaints, told Sonny Golden to make sure she had enough so he wouldn't have to hear about it anymore.

Context: Barbara's Allowance Quintuples

Date as given in source: undated

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Barbara's Candid Admission About Money

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

A few months after the wedding, Barbara reportedly confided to a mutual friend that this time she had married for money, a comment Tina found strikingly candid given Barbara's history.

Context: Barbara's Candid Admission About Money

Date as given in source: undated

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Barbara's Early Words of Compassion

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

During Frank's convalescence, Barbara showed Tina glimpses of genuine empathy, warning her that losing a father was unlike anything else. Tina appreciated the sentiment even though it confirmed her worst fear.

Context: Barbara's Early Words of Compassion

Date as given in source: undated

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Barbara's Modeling Career Under Mr. Blackwell

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

After leaving Zeppo the first time, Barbara worked as a lead model for designer Mr. Blackwell, who later wrote in his memoir that beneath her soft exterior was a shrewdly calculating mind, and that she was determined to marry a wealthy man rather than build a career.

Context: Barbara's Modeling Career Under Mr. Blackwell

Date as given in source: undated

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Barbara's Ongoing Push for More

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Barbara repeatedly pressed for greater control, unsuccessfully trying to get Frank to restructure Somerset, Bristol, and Sheffield, and later pushing for a cut when Sonny negotiated improved royalty deals with Columbia and RCA.

Context: Barbara's Ongoing Push for More

Date as given in source: undated

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Barbara's Pretext: "He's a Private Man"

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

When Tina confronted Barbara about being frozen out at the hospital, Barbara defended herself by claiming Frank preferred to keep such matters quiet, a rationale Tina came to see as Barbara's standing justification for controlling access to him.

Context: Barbara's Pretext: "He's a Private Man"

Date as given in source: undated

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Barbara's Vegas Showgirl Years

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

After her first marriage ended, Barbara worked as a Riviera showgirl in Las Vegas earning $175 a week, later stationed in a piano lounge to mingle with high rollers, where she learned to skim extra gambling chips into her bodice - and where she met Zeppo Marx.

Context: Barbara's Vegas Showgirl Years

Date as given in source: undated

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Bert Fields Confirms Rothman Never Saw the Agreement

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Attorney Bert Fields, retained by the children, confirmed that Frank Rothman had never actually reviewed the joint tenancy agreement before it was signed, undercutting Crowley's claim that Frank had been properly represented.

Context: Bert Fields Confirms Rothman Never Saw the Agreement

Date as given in source: undated

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Bill Miller on Filming The Frank Sinatra Show

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Pianist Bill Miller recalled uncertainty about how much Sinatra enjoyed doing the TV show, noting minimal rehearsal time but that Sinatra remained professional on stage and relaxed once each episode wrapped.

Context: Bill Miller on Filming The Frank Sinatra Show

Date as given in source: undated

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Bennett Sings at Sinatra's Milestone Birthdays

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Tony Bennett recalled the pleasure of spending several of Sinatra's birthdays with him, including singing at his fiftieth, seventy-fifth, and eightieth birthday celebrations.

Context: Bennett Sings at Sinatra's Milestone Birthdays

Date as given in source: undated

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Billy May's Studio Persona

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Frank Jr. compared arranger Billy May's comic personality to Oliver Hardy's, recalling him showing up to sessions in blue jeans, tennis shoes, and a Hawaiian shirt.

Context: Billy May's Studio Persona

Date as given in source: undated

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Billy May and Nelson Riddle Trade Favors

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

When Frank first wanted Billy May's sound for the singles "South of the Border" and "My Lean Baby," May was on tour with his band, so he gave Nelson Riddle permission to write the charts in May's style; May later returned the favor by writing for a Smothers Brothers show in Riddle's stead.

Context: Billy May and Nelson Riddle Trade Favors

Date as given in source: undated (mid-1950s, before Come Fly with Me)

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Benny Goodman's Secret to Staying Sharp

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Sinatra recalled finding Benny Goodman quietly practicing his clarinet alone in a corner at a Madison Square Garden Christmas benefit while everyone else socialized. When Sinatra asked why he practiced so constantly, Goodman answered that it was simply so that on a night he wasn't great, he'd at least still be good, a philosophy Sinatra said he tried to live by himself.

Context: Benny Goodman's Secret to Staying Sharp

Date as given in source: undated ("many years ago," per Sinatra's recollection)

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Ava Gardner Recalls Frank's Staged Gunshot 'Suicide' In New York

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Ava Gardner wrote that after a quarrel sent her to a friend's apartment for the night, Frank phoned to say he was going to kill himself and fired a gunshot into a pillow to muffle the sound; Hank Sanicola rushed over and removed the bloodied mattress before police arrived to find Frank calmly denying anything had happened.

Context: Ava Gardner Recalls Frank's Staged Gunshot 'Suicide' In New York

Date as given in source: undated (New York, Hampshire House suite, c. 1950)

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Birth of Christina Sinatra

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Sinatra's third child, Christina, is born in Los Angeles; he appears in the films "The Miracle of the Bells" and "The Kissing Bandit."

Context: Birth of Christina Sinatra

Date as given in source: 1948

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Bing Crosby Names the 'Greatest Singer'

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Song plugger Sam Weiss recalled Bing Crosby's staff bristling over a magazine quote in which Sinatra reportedly praised Tony Bennett; when asked directly, Crosby himself declared that Sinatra alone was the greatest singer in the world.

Context: Bing Crosby Names the 'Greatest Singer'

Date as given in source: undated

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Bing Crosby on the "Swoon" Era

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Bing Crosby recalled Sinatra's early years as Dorsey's featured vocalist, describing him as a thin, tousle-headed young singer whose performances triggered shrieking, aisle-falling hysteria among fans, in the same period Crosby himself was known as the "croon" singer.

Context: Bing Crosby on the "Swoon" Era

Date as given in source: undated

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Birthday Party Split Announced

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

At a Sheffield board meeting, Tina learned via Dorothy that Barbara had scheduled the children's family birthday celebration for the 13th, a day after a separate party the Schlatters were hosting on the 12th without them. Furious, Tina called Foothill to confront Frank, who was upset and said he did not want to spend his birthday without his children.

Context: Birthday Party Split Announced

Date as given in source: A week or so after the auction, a few days before Dad's eightieth

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Bob Finkelstein on the Nature of Grief

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Tina's friend Bob Finkelstein, who had lost his own father as a young man, told her that grief does not disappear over time but simply changes shape — advice she came to find true.

Context: Bob Finkelstein on the Nature of Grief

Date as given in source: not specified

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Bob Finkelstein's Legal Work for Frank

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

After Mickey Rudin's resignation, Bob Finkelstein took on a closer role advising Frank, handling the split with Rudin and negotiating the rerelease of The Manchurian Candidate, which had sat shelved since the Kennedy assassination.

Context: Bob Finkelstein's Legal Work for Frank

Date as given in source: undated

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Bobby Kennedy's Anti-Mob Crusade Blindsides Sinatra

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Within months of the inauguration, Attorney General Robert Kennedy launched an aggressive investigation into organized crime figures close to Giancana, leaving Sinatra stunned that the administration was now targeting the very people it had recently relied on for help.

Context: Bobby Kennedy's Anti-Mob Crusade Blindsides Sinatra

Date as given in source: Within months of taking office

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Bobby Marx's Name Change and Road Life

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

After Barbara married Zeppo, her son Robert Oliver Jr. took the name Bobby Marx, and once Barbara married Frank, Bobby became a fixture on tour, eventually joining the road staff.

Context: Bobby Marx's Name Change and Road Life

Date as given in source: undated

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Bobby Marx's Reaction to the Scrapped Adoption

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

When Tina later told Bobby Marx she didn't think the adoption plan had been appropriate, he shrugged it off as no big deal, showing neither hurt nor embarrassment - and his biological father, Robert Oliver, separately confirmed he had never consented to a formal adoption by Zeppo either.

Context: Bobby Marx's Reaction to the Scrapped Adoption

Date as given in source: undated

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Bogart's Death and Frank's Reassurance

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

When Humphrey Bogart's death shook young Tina's sense that parents could die, Frank called her right away, promising he would never grow old and would be around a long time. Tina, then roughly in third grade, believed him completely.

Context: Bogart's Death and Frank's Reassurance

Date as given in source: when I was a third grader (Humphrey Bogart's death)

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Breakfast Room Fire

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

At age nine, Tina accidentally set the breakfast room's curtains ablaze while lighting a Christmas candle too close to the fabric.

Context: Breakfast Room Fire

Date as given in source: at the age of nine, I set it on fire

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Brando's Private Admiration

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Henry Silva recalled Marlon Brando, after working with Sinatra, quietly marveling to friends about Frank's singing ability.

Context: Brando's Private Admiration

Date as given in source: undated

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Bolted-Down Seats At A Boston Armory

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Crowd control got so serious that when Sinatra played a Boston armory, management had the seats bolted to the floor beforehand.

Context: Bolted-Down Seats At A Boston Armory

Date as given in source: undated

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Bogart's Assessment of Sinatra the Actor

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Humphrey Bogart remarked that Frank could become one of the best actors in the business if he spent less time chasing women and more time developing his craft.

Context: Bogart's Assessment of Sinatra the Actor

Date as given in source: undated

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British Customs with Ava and Van Heusen

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

A photo from the early 1950s shows Ava Gardner, Sinatra, and songwriter Jimmy Van Heusen passing through British customs together.

Context: British Customs with Ava and Van Heusen

Date as given in source: early 1950s

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Burt Lancaster Advises Against the Project

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Tina's mentor Burt Lancaster urged her not to take on producing the miniseries, warning she was just beginning to establish her own identity in the business, but Frank disagreed with the advice.

Context: Burt Lancaster Advises Against the Project

Date as given in source: undated

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Burt Lancaster on Sinatra 'Adopting' Friends' Problems

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Burt Lancaster observed that confiding a personal problem to Sinatra risked having him take it over entirely, sometimes more thoroughly than a friend actually wanted.

Context: Burt Lancaster on Sinatra 'Adopting' Friends' Problems

Date as given in source: undated

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Building the Cathedral City Desert House

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Sinatra built a cozy two-bedroom house on the seventeenth fairway of a Cathedral City golf course near Palm Springs, where errant golfers occasionally wandered, or even drove a cart, into the pool area.

Context: Building the Cathedral City Desert House

Date as given in source: undated

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British TV Satire Draws a Sinatra Lawsuit

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

The British program "That Was the Week That Was" ran a mocking satire suggesting the kidnapping had been a hoax; Frank later sued and won a judgment against the show.

Context: British TV Satire Draws a Sinatra Lawsuit

Date as given in source: undated

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Career Decline of the Late 1940s

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

By the late 1940s Sinatra's career and personal life had entered a marked decline as changing musical tastes and rising singers such as Johnny Ray, Eddie Fisher, and Frankie Laine eclipsed him; he later admitted he blamed only himself for growing complacent with early success.

Context: Career Decline of the Late 1940s

Date as given in source: late 1940s

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Caption on Sinatra's Resilience After Setbacks

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

A caption reflects on how few entertainers could have rallied from the career reversals Sinatra faced, noting that he managed his comeback largely on his own.

Context: Caption on Sinatra's Resilience After Setbacks

Date as given in source: undated

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Capitol-Era Concept Albums Praised as Landmark Recordings

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

The Capitol years produced Sinatra's celebrated concept albums with arrangers Nelson Riddle, Billy May, and Gordon Jenkins, regarded by the author as the finest body of work in popular music history.

Context: Capitol-Era Concept Albums Praised as Landmark Recordings

Date as given in source: undated

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Caring for Elderly Friends: Joe E. Lewis and Swifty Morgan

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Frank quietly supported elderly, down-on-their-luck friends like street vendor Swifty Morgan and comic Joe E. Lewis. On one New York trip, Tina watched her father tend to Joe E. Lewis at dinner like a caretaker, then tuck him into bed at his small apartment afterward.

Context: Caring for Elderly Friends: Joe E. Lewis and Swifty Morgan

Date as given in source: undated

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Casting Phillip Casnoff

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

After struggling to find an actor who combined street edge with polish, Tina cast Phillip Casnoff, a Broadway performer known for his versatility. Sidney Poitier, whose opinion she sought, was won over by his audition tape.

Context: Casting Phillip Casnoff

Date as given in source: undated

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Cherry Bombs in a Paris Hotel Lobby

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Tina recounted, without giving full details, a night when Frank set off cherry bombs in the lobby of a Paris hotel, alarming the concierge nearly to the point of a heart attack.

Context: Cherry Bombs in a Paris Hotel Lobby

Date as given in source: the 1970s

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Chaos on the Dorsey Band Bus

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Life aboard the Dorsey band's tour bus was famously chaotic, with the rowdiest musicians seated toward the back; one especially wild night the bus broke down in Ohio, leading to an impromptu 7 a.m. jam session for bewildered local residents.

Context: Chaos on the Dorsey Band Bus

Date as given in source: undated

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Changing Arrangers "To Get a Different Sound"

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Asked why he kept switching arrangers, Sinatra told Frank Jr. it was simply to get a different sound on different records.

Context: Changing Arrangers "To Get a Different Sound"

Date as given in source: undated

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Cash-Stuffed Envelopes at Nancy's Sands Wedding

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

When Nancy married Tommy Sands at the Sands hotel, staff and high-rolling guests slipped envelopes of cash gift money under the couple's door throughout the night.

Context: Cash-Stuffed Envelopes at Nancy's Sands Wedding

Date as given in source: undated

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Christmas Decorating Waits for Dad's Birthday

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

As a family tradition, Christmas decorating at the Sinatra home never began until after Frank's December birthday had passed.

Context: Christmas Decorating Waits for Dad's Birthday

Date as given in source: we wouldn't begin the trimming process until after his birthday, on December 12

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Christmas with the Burnses

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

One year when Frank was away in Africa while Ava filmed "Mogambo," family friends George and Gracie Burns hosted the Sinatra children for Christmas Eve, complete with presents under their tree.

Context: Christmas with the Burnses

Date as given in source: one Christmas when my father couldn't be with us—he was in Africa with Ava, who was filming Mogambo

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Chronic Neck and Shoulder Pain Treated With Epidurals

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Frank suffered weeks of neck and shoulder pain during the summer, much of it spent at the Malibu beach house. Surgery was ruled out because he could not tolerate the confinement of a neck brace, so his doctors managed the pain with medication and two epidural injections instead.

Context: Chronic Neck and Shoulder Pain Treated With Epidurals

Date as given in source: that summer

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Cleaning Condensers on the United Fruit Lines

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Because he was small enough to crawl inside a ship's condenser, Frank found work cleaning corroded tubes on a United Fruit Lines vessel; during one freezing night shift, co-workers knocked a supervisor into the river after he made a racist remark.

Context: Cleaning Condensers on the United Fruit Lines

Date as given in source: undated

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Civil Rights Lectures, USO Tour, and American Unity Award

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Sinatra delivers civil rights lectures, tours with the USO, and receives the American Unity Award along with commendations from the National Conference of Christians and Jews and the Bureau of Inter-Cultural Education; he also conducts his first recording session as a conductor and appears in "Anchors Aweigh" and "The House I Live In."

Context: Civil Rights Lectures, USO Tour, and American Unity Award

Date as given in source: 1945

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Christmas With Daughters Nancy and Tina

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

A Christmas photo of Sinatra with daughters Nancy and Tina was signed by Ted Allan, a photographer Sinatra kept under personal contract for years and nicknamed "Farley Focus."

Context: Christmas With Daughters Nancy and Tina

Date as given in source: early 1960s

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Confrontation at Sonny Golden's Office

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

That same summer, Tina called a meeting at Sonny Golden's office with Barbara, her attorney Arthur Crowley, and Crowley's associate Nick Cuneo. When Tina asked Frank directly, he admitted he was unsure what he'd signed and confirmed he had not been represented by his own lawyer, ending the meeting on the spot.

Context: Confrontation at Sonny Golden's Office

Date as given in source: That summer

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Crowd Outside Patsy's Restaurant

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

During that same visit, father and daughter had dinner at Patsy's in East Harlem and emerged to find roughly five hundred fans crowded outside waiting for them.

Context: Crowd Outside Patsy's Restaurant

Date as given in source: On my last night in the city

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Death of Dean Paul Martin

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

In spring 1987, Dean Martin's son Dean Paul Martin, an Air National Guard pilot, died when his jet crashed into the same mountain that had earlier claimed Frank's mother, Dolly. The Sinatra family was devastated, and Frank grew deeply worried about his grieving friend Dean Martin.

Context: Death of Dean Paul Martin

Date as given in source: In the spring of 1987

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Death of Sammy Davis Jr.

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

About four months after Ava Gardner's death, Sammy Davis Jr. died after declining throat cancer surgery that would have cost him his voice, ultimately communicating with chalk on a blackboard in his final days. Tina and Nancy sat vigil with his wife Altovise, and Frank attended what would be the last funeral Tina ever saw him go to.

Context: Death of Sammy Davis Jr.

Date as given in source: Four months later

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Dino Martin's Vow To Marry Olivia Hussey

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

After seeing actress Olivia Hussey in Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet, teenage Dino Martin declared on the spot that he would marry her; years later, he did.

Context: Dino Martin's Vow To Marry Olivia Hussey

Date as given in source: A few years later

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Disneyland Preview

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

The family got an advance look at Disneyland before its public opening, though Tina was too short to meet the height requirement for the Autopia ride.

Context: Disneyland Preview

Date as given in source: the previous July, when we'd previewed Disneyland before it opened to the public

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Disneyland Preview With Sammy

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Not long after his accident, Sammy joined the family for a Disneyland preview, cheerfully taking photos despite his new eye patch.

Context: Disneyland Preview With Sammy

Date as given in source: a few months later

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Divesting From The Cal-Neva

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Sinatra was pushed to sell his stake in the Cal-Neva Lodge after Giancana, who was banned from Nevada casinos, was spotted visiting his girlfriend Phyllis McGuire there.

Context: Divesting From The Cal-Neva

Date as given in source: undated

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Divorce Papers Delivered To Mia

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Without warning his family, Sinatra sent his lawyer Mickey Rudin to Mia's film set with divorce papers; she signed immediately and without objection, and the couple were legally separated.

Context: Divorce Papers Delivered To Mia

Date as given in source: Not long after my November visit to New York

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Doctors Brief the Family: Dementia and Prognosis

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Rex Kennamer and his partner Jeffrey Helfenstein met with the family to review Frank's condition. Rex said Frank's iron will alone had gotten him through the heart attack, warned of risk from further cardiac events or stroke, advised against open-heart surgery given his dementia diagnosis, and estimated two to three more years of life if he stayed comfortable and stable. It was the first time Tina heard the word "dementia" used about her father.

Context: Doctors Brief the Family: Dementia and Prognosis

Date as given in source: The evening before Thanksgiving

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Dolly Sinatra Chains Herself to City Hall

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Frank's mother Dolly, an early feminist and neighborhood political operator, chained herself to Hoboken's City Hall during a women's suffrage demonstration.

Context: Dolly Sinatra Chains Herself to City Hall

Date as given in source: a protest for women's suffrage in 1919

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Dolly Sinatra's Role Helping Desperate Women

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

In Hoboken, Dolly Sinatra quietly helped unmarried or struggling women end unwanted pregnancies, work that later shaped Frank's visceral reaction when his own wife considered the same choice.

Context: Dolly Sinatra's Role Helping Desperate Women

Date as given in source: Dolly had served as the neighborhood midwife

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Dolly's Blunt Disapproval of Barbara

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Grandmother Dolly made no secret of disliking Barbara, bluntly declaring she wanted no such woman marrying into the family, leading to major rifts between her and Frank.

Context: Dolly's Blunt Disapproval of Barbara

Date as given in source: undated

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Dolly's Move Next Door and Her Feuds With Frank

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

After Marty's death, Frank moved his mother Dolly into a house next door in the desert, along with Uncle Vincent, a disabled World War I veteran who had lived with the family for decades. Dolly and Frank had a volatile relationship, adoring but exhausting each other, and would sometimes go days without speaking despite living a hundred yards apart.

Context: Dolly's Move Next Door and Her Feuds With Frank

Date as given in source: undated

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Dorothy Uhlemann's Private Line

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Assistant Dorothy Uhlemann could reliably connect callers to Frank through a private business tie-line, since Barbara generally respected calls that appeared to be business-related.

Context: Dorothy Uhlemann's Private Line

Date as given in source: undated

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Dorothy's Unheeded Warning

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

The day before Frank's planned set visit, Dorothy Uhlemann told Tina she sensed something was wrong with him, but Tina filed the warning away and never raised it directly with her father.

Context: Dorothy's Unheeded Warning

Date as given in source: The day before Dad was due

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Dr. Pat Picchione Joins the Road Company

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

After Frank's second onstage collapse, a family friend, Dr. Pat Picchione, joined the touring company. When Frank's memory problems flared up in Baltimore, Picchione reassured Tony and Eliot that shifting his Elavil dose to bedtime would be medically safe, allowing him to sleep through the worst side effects.

Context: Dr. Pat Picchione Joins the Road Company

Date as given in source: undated

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Dr. Randall Espinoza Takes Over Care

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

After months of Tina and Nancy pushing for a change, Rex found a replacement geriatric psychiatrist, Dr. Randall Espinoza, who proved warmer and more inventive than his predecessor, including mashing pills into liquids to ease Frank's worries about his medication.

Context: Dr. Randall Espinoza Takes Over Care

Date as given in source: By February

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Duets Becomes a Commercial Triumph

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Despite its rocky production, Duets went on to top Billboard's album chart and sell three million copies, making it the most commercially successful album of Frank's career; Tina was the first to congratulate him when it crossed the million mark.

Context: Duets Becomes a Commercial Triumph

Date as given in source: released that October

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Eliot Promises Bobby Marx Won't Become Frank's Lawyer

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

In their meeting, Eliot Weisman assured Tina that Bobby Marx, then newly out of law school, would never be installed as Frank's full-time attorney, and promised to find an experienced replacement instead.

Context: Eliot Promises Bobby Marx Won't Become Frank's Lawyer

Date as given in source: undated

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Eliot Swaps Frank's Hundreds for Twenties

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

As Frank's eyesight and judgment declined, Eliot Weisman quietly began replacing the hundred-dollar bills Frank habitually carried and tipped with with twenties, to rein in his spending.

Context: Eliot Swaps Frank's Hundreds for Twenties

Date as given in source: undated

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Eliot's Rationale for Keeping Frank on Tour

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Eliot Weisman explained his strategy of keeping Frank's income flowing so that Barbara would feel she was getting her share and would be less likely to make claims against the children's trust.

Context: Eliot's Rationale for Keeping Frank on Tour

Date as given in source: undated

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"Family and Blood, First and Forever"

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Frank's guiding principle, which Tina adopted as her own, was that family and blood came before all else, a motto that shaped her fierce loyalty to him despite the turmoil of his fourth marriage.

Context: "Family and Blood, First and Forever"

Date as given in source: undated

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Family Photos Vanish from the Piano

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Tina noticed that photographs of herself, Nancy, and Frankie gradually disappeared from the grand piano at the Compound, while pictures of Bobby Marx and his children remained prominently displayed.

Context: Family Photos Vanish from the Piano

Date as given in source: undated

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Family Sells Carolwood, Moves To Nimes Road

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

When Tina was thirteen, her mother sold the large Carolwood estate to ease the financial burden on Sinatra and moved them into a smaller contemporary house on Nimes Road in Bel-Air.

Context: Family Sells Carolwood, Moves To Nimes Road

Date as given in source: When I was thirteen

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Family Wary of Press Leaks About Barbara Conflicts

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Tina, Nancy, and Frankie were repeatedly covered in the press over tensions with Barbara, both before and after Frank's heart attack, and grew wary about what they said to reporters, wanting to shield their father from seeing family conflicts aired publicly.

Context: Family Wary of Press Leaks About Barbara Conflicts

Date as given in source: undated

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Farewell After Twenty-Two Years

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

After the burial, Tina reflected that twenty-two years after her father married Barbara, she was saying a final good-bye to her stepmother, with nothing left to hold them together.

Context: Farewell After Twenty-Two Years

Date as given in source: After twenty-two years

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Father Rooney's Growing Influence

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

After brokering the annulment, Father Tom Rooney became a fixture at the Compound and was referred to in the press as Frank's personal priest; he and Barbara also raised funds for his World Mercy Fund charity through a celebrity tennis event at Turnberry Isle in Miami.

Context: Father Rooney's Growing Influence

Date as given in source: undated

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FBI Wiretap Of A Proposed Hit

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

An FBI wiretap caught a mob associate proposing violence against Sinatra, an idea that Giancana himself immediately shut down.

Context: FBI Wiretap Of A Proposed Hit

Date as given in source: undated

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First Trip to New York Without Mom

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

On Tina's first trip to New York with just her father and siblings, Frank struggled with unfamiliar fatherly tasks like buttoning coats and gloves; at a matinee of "My Fair Lady," Tina lost a new charm bracelet, and Frank spent part of the act searching the floor by lighter-light to find it.

Context: First Trip to New York Without Mom

Date as given in source: my first trip to New York

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Foothill's Disorienting Layout

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

The Foothill house, purchased already furnished, held none of Frank's personal history and its open floor plan sometimes confused him, reminding him of a hotel lobby. Sitting at the bar one day, he remarked that they must be doing poor business there since he never saw any people.

Context: Foothill's Disorienting Layout

Date as given in source: undated

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Forgetting the Lyrics at the Riviera

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

During a performance at the Riviera, Frank forgot the words to "The Second Time Around," a song he had sung countless times, and the audience finished it for him.

Context: Forgetting the Lyrics at the Riviera

Date as given in source: undated

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Frank and Bacall's Failed Romance

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Following Bogart's death, Frank's friendship with Lauren Bacall became a romance and led to engagement plans, but he got cold feet after columnist Louella Parsons leaked the news, ending the relationship on a bitter note for years.

Context: Frank and Bacall's Failed Romance

Date as given in source: After Bogart died, my father's relationship with Betty Bacall turned romantic

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Frank and Nancy Barbato Meet at the Jersey Shore

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Frank and Nancy Barbato met as teenagers at the Jersey shore and fell for each other immediately; unlike Frank's parents and everyone else, she alone believed in his ambition to become a great singer.

Context: Frank and Nancy Barbato Meet at the Jersey Shore

Date as given in source: My father was seventeen and my mother only fifteen when they met

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Frank Backs Out of a Family Vacation

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Tina recalled that back in the 1970s, Frank had once backed out of a planned French vacation with her mother and sister at the last minute, an early instance of the pattern that resurfaced when he canceled his miniseries set visit decades later.

Context: Frank Backs Out of a Family Vacation

Date as given in source: Back in the 1970s

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Frank Befriends Young Lawyer Bob Finkelstein

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Frank became friendly with Bob Finkelstein, a young attorney then working under Mickey Rudin, in the mid-1970s. Frank hoped Tina would eventually marry Bob and repeatedly asked him to look after his children.

Context: Frank Befriends Young Lawyer Bob Finkelstein

Date as given in source: in the mid-seventies

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Frank Can't Bring Himself to Visit Nancy Sr.

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Frank often told Tony Oppedisano he wanted to reconcile with his first wife, Nancy Sr. One afternoon he asked to be driven to her house, but by the time they arrived he grew too confused and anxious to get out of the car.

Context: Frank Can't Bring Himself to Visit Nancy Sr.

Date as given in source: undated

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Frank Cancels His Set Visit

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

In April 1992, Frank was scheduled to visit the Sinatra miniseries set, where the crew had prepared an orange director's chair stenciled "The Voice." He called sick at the last minute, canceling in front of roughly 250 gathered cast, crew, and well-wishers, devastating Tina.

Context: Frank Cancels His Set Visit

Date as given in source: a date in April

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Frank Finally Discusses Bacall

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Decades later, while Tina was researching a television miniseries about his life, Frank finally spoke to her about his failed romance with Bacall, admitting his intentions had gotten out of hand.

Context: Frank Finally Discusses Bacall

Date as given in source: My father wouldn't talk to me about her until thirty years later

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Frank Leaves the Compound for the Last Time

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

After the new owners let Frank and Barbara stay on as guests for two extra months, Frank finally left his desert home of fifty years. He was subdued and had little appetite that day, and Tina hoped someone remembered to preserve mementos like her childhood snowman mosaic and the plaque marking JFK's old room.

Context: Frank Leaves the Compound for the Last Time

Date as given in source: an afternoon in late May

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Frank Leaves the Family for Ava

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Within about a year of the move to Holmby Hills, Frank left the family home to pursue his relationship with Ava Gardner.

Context: Frank Leaves the Family for Ava

Date as given in source: within a year after that

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Frank Loved the Barbato Family Dinner Table

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

As an only child raised in a quiet household, young Frank was drawn to the loud, crowded family dinners at the Barbato home and cherished the noisy commotion of a big family.

Context: Frank Loved the Barbato Family Dinner Table

Date as given in source: he ate at the Barbatos' table every chance he could

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Frank Reassures Tina He Never Wanted Her Excluded

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

After returning from Hawaii and hearing about the hospital incident, Frank told Tina he never intended for her to be shut out and promised to address Barbara's behavior himself.

Context: Frank Reassures Tina He Never Wanted Her Excluded

Date as given in source: undated

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Frank Says He'll Handle the Crowley Issue

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

When Tina raised her concerns about Crowley's ongoing retainer, Frank told her he appreciated her support of the marriage but would handle the matter himself, saying it shouldn't be her problem.

Context: Frank Says He'll Handle the Crowley Issue

Date as given in source: undated

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Frank Scolds Tina for Not Voting

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

In the 1976 presidential election, Tina abstained from voting altogether, and it was one of the few times her father expressed real disapproval, telling her that wasn't how the country was supposed to work.

Context: Frank Scolds Tina for Not Voting

Date as given in source: the '76 presidential election

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Frank Stages Reagan's Inaugural Gala

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Twenty years after producing JFK's inaugural gala, Frank staged the same kind of event for Ronald Reagan's inauguration, underscoring how far his politics had shifted rightward while he still held onto certain liberal positions like being pro-choice and against the death penalty.

Context: Frank Stages Reagan's Inaugural Gala

Date as given in source: "twenty years after he'd done the same for JFK"

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Frank Surrenders His Car Keys

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

As his medication-related confusion worsened, Frank once became disoriented while driving just blocks from the Compound. He voluntarily gave up his car keys afterward and never drove again.

Context: Frank Surrenders His Car Keys

Date as given in source: undated

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Frank's 60th Birthday Party and the USC Marching Band

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

For Frank's sixtieth birthday, Tina and Wes Farrell hosted a party at their home, where Gene Kelly arranged for the USC marching band to march up the driveway in full formation as a surprise gift.

Context: Frank's 60th Birthday Party and the USC Marching Band

Date as given in source: "Dad's sixtieth birthday"

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Frank's Anonymous Charity: The Christmas Tree Fire

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

After seeing a news report about a family who'd lost their Christmas presents in a house fire, Frank had his business manager Sonny Golden anonymously send them a "nickel" - family code for $5,000.

Context: Frank's Anonymous Charity: The Christmas Tree Fire

Date as given in source: undated

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Frank's Cameo in Young at Heart

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Tina, producing the TV movie Young at Heart in Toronto, arranged a cameo for her father despite her nervousness about adding to his workload. He arrived by hired minibus, joked that he had started his career on a bus and would end it the same way, rehearsed his scene with Olympia Dukakis, and completed his brief appearance efficiently before an emotional goodbye that turned out to be one of their most memorable.

Context: Frank's Cameo in Young at Heart

Date as given in source: undated

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Frank's Catchphrase: "This Is Easy"

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

When Tina proposed appointing a custodian for his memorabilia and recording catalogues, Frank readily agreed and joked with his stock line about expecting something harder to be asked of him.

Context: Frank's Catchphrase: "This Is Easy"

Date as given in source: undated

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Frank's Extravagant and Thoughtful Gestures

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Tina recalls a Chasen's dinner where Frank gave every woman a Van Cleef & Arpels diamond bracelet as a party favor, as well as smaller gestures - sending an oversized colander after struggling to find a pasta strainer at her house, and painting an abstract artwork for the Gregory Pecks after noticing a bare wall in their foyer.

Context: Frank's Extravagant and Thoughtful Gestures

Date as given in source: undated

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Frank's Farewell Retirement Concert

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Sinatra's retirement performance was staged as a benefit for the Motion Picture and Television Relief Fund, drawing top stars like Barbra Streisand and George Burns, and spilling across two adjoining theaters. He closed a twenty-five-minute set spanning his career with "Angel Eyes," stepping out of the spotlight during the final line and vanishing before the lights came up, never returning for an encore.

Context: Frank's Farewell Retirement Concert

Date as given in source: "his farewell performance" (1971, ~two weeks before June 1971 Monaco trip)

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Frank's Fear of Stopping

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

As contemporaries died around him, Frank adopted a standard line that if he stopped working, he'd be next, reflecting his belief that performing was tied to his survival.

Context: Frank's Fear of Stopping

Date as given in source: undated

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Frank's Final Concert, at the Fukuoka Dome

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Frank's very last booking was a high-paying engagement at the Fukuoka Dome in Japan. The trip left him little time to rest before performing, and his shows there were reportedly poor, though Tina cared only that he was finally coming home for good.

Context: Frank's Final Concert, at the Fukuoka Dome

Date as given in source: undated

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Frank's Hand Surgery After Marty's Death

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Soon after his father's death, Frank developed Dupuytren's contracture, a painful hand condition that left him barely able to shake hands. Nancy and Jilly Rizzo helped coax the hospital-averse Frank into treatment, and his recovery was slow and painful - the first time Tina saw her father suffer physically.

Context: Frank's Hand Surgery After Marty's Death

Date as given in source: undated

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Frank's Late-Night Regret: "I Wasn't There Enough"

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

In quiet evening conversations once Barbara had gone to bed, Frank would reminisce about his grandchildren and good times on the road before turning self-critical about his failures as a father, telling Tina he hadn't been there enough for her, which was painful for her to hear.

Context: Frank's Late-Night Regret: "I Wasn't There Enough"

Date as given in source: undated

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Frank's Nightly Prayer

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Tony Oppedisano overheard Frank's nightly prayer asking for health so he could continue providing for Barbara and his children and grandchildren, while also wishing simply to earn no more than he needed.

Context: Frank's Nightly Prayer

Date as given in source: undated

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Frank's Quiet Kindness to a Dying Bruce Cabot

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Poolside in Biarritz, Tina watched her father notice that actor Bruce Cabot - unknowingly terminally ill - was shivering in the afternoon chill, and without a word Frank draped his own windbreaker over Cabot's shoulders so he could hold it closed himself.

Context: Frank's Quiet Kindness to a Dying Bruce Cabot

Date as given in source: "one summer in Biarritz"

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Frank's Refrain: "I Miss You"

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

As depression deepened, Frank initiated fewer of his daily calls to Tina, so she began calling him instead, often hearing him say wistfully that he missed her.

Context: Frank's Refrain: "I Miss You"

Date as given in source: undated

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Frank's Retirement Pastimes: Art and Baseball

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

During his retirement, Frank devoted himself to painting and art collecting, favoring artists like Andrew Wyeth, Edward Hopper, and Childe Hassam, and the family regularly attended Dodgers games, where Tina became known for teasing visiting players like Lou Piniella from Frank's front-row box.

Context: Frank's Retirement Pastimes: Art and Baseball

Date as given in source: undated

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Frank's Soupy Sales Cameo

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

At Tina's urging, Frank made a guest appearance on the relocated "Soupy Sales" show in Los Angeles and got hit with a whipped-cream pie, delighting Tina and her friends.

Context: Frank's Soupy Sales Cameo

Date as given in source: When I was twelve

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Frank's Vague Explanation for the Cancellation

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

When Tina later asked Frank about canceling his set visit, he could only offer that he hadn't felt well and that it "wasn't a very good time," without further explanation.

Context: Frank's Vague Explanation for the Cancellation

Date as given in source: undated

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Frank's Warning: "Get a Court Lawyer"

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

A few weeks after the joint tenancy meeting, Frank called Tina, agitated, and told his children to hire themselves a serious courtroom attorney. Tina wasn't sure if it was a warning to protect themselves or a plea for help.

Context: Frank's Warning: "Get a Court Lawyer"

Date as given in source: a few weeks after the joint tenancy meeting

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Frankie Becomes Frank's Musical Director

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Frankie naturally progressed into the role of his father's musical director on the road. Though Frank could be harshly critical of him, singling him out more than others, the two were also deeply devoted and shared a love of the music, and Frankie's support was essential to Frank being able to keep performing as long as he did.

Context: Frankie Becomes Frank's Musical Director

Date as given in source: undated

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Frankie's Early Loss

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

When their parents separated, four-year-old Frankie was old enough to sense the loss but too young to process it, and Tina believes the experience left him quietly traumatized for years.

Context: Frankie's Early Loss

Date as given in source: Frankie was four years old when Dad left

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Frankie's Fateful Change Of Entrance

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

The day after Thanksgiving, Frankie drove Tina back to Los Angeles and walked her through the Ambassador Hotel's front entrance rather than the usual back one — a small departure from routine that, in hindsight, had major consequences for the kidnapping plot against him.

Context: Frankie's Fateful Change Of Entrance

Date as given in source: the day after Thanksgiving

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Frankie's Radio Birthday Tribute

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Around that Thanksgiving, Frankie recorded an NBC radio birthday greeting for his father, describing him as demanding but open-minded and willing to discuss nearly anything with him.

Context: Frankie's Radio Birthday Tribute

Date as given in source: around this time

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Frankie's Teenage Trouble

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

As a young teen seeking attention, Frankie fell in with a rebellious older boy from outside the neighborhood, began shooting out streetlamps, and was eventually arrested with a BB gun for breaking curfew, prompting his mother to bail him out at two in the morning.

Context: Frankie's Teenage Trouble

Date as given in source: By his early teens

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Friction on the Young at Heart Set

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Sinatra and costar Doris Day disagreed during filming of Young at Heart over the ending and over the presence on set of her husband, who was also her agent.

Context: Friction on the Young at Heart Set

Date as given in source: undated

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French Honor and Grammys for "September of My Years"

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

French President Charles de Gaulle presents Sinatra with the Commandeur de la Sante Publique; he is named Man of the Year by the Conference of Personal Managers, performs at the Newport Jazz Festival with Count Basie, and wins Grammys for Album of the Year ("September of My Years") and Best Solo Vocal Performance ("It Was a Very Good Year").

Context: French Honor and Grammys for "September of My Years"

Date as given in source: 1965

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Frankie's Uncanny Resemblance to His Father

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Frank once marveled that his young son unconsciously copied his mannerisms, like standing with hands clasped behind his back at the fireplace, and could recite back everything his father had said on a recent television appearance.

Context: Frankie's Uncanny Resemblance to His Father

Date as given in source: undated

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Frankie's Curfew Arrest

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Frank Jr., then twelve or thirteen, was arrested with a group of boys for violating an L.A. curfew ordinance after getting caught up with a gang; Nancy Sinatra Sr. woke Nancy at 2 a.m. to help bail him out of jail.

Context: Frankie's Curfew Arrest

Date as given in source: undated

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Frankie's Brushes With the Police

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

As a teenager, Frank Jr. repeatedly ran afoul of local police over neighborhood mischief, including being the prime suspect when streetlights were shot out with a BB gun.

Context: Frankie's Brushes With the Police

Date as given in source: undated

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Frankie and the French Fry Souvenir

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

A young woman once approached Frank Jr. in a restaurant and asked for one of his french fries as a keepsake because he was "Frank Sinatra's son," leaving him stunned at the strangeness of his position.

Context: Frankie and the French Fry Souvenir

Date as given in source: undated

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Frank's Trick for Looking Like He's Drinking

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Frank told Nancy that at parties he would take a couple of sips of a drink, set it aside, and let hosts keep refilling it so people assumed he was drinking heavily when he really wasn't.

Context: Frank's Trick for Looking Like He's Drinking

Date as given in source: undated

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Frank's Fall Down the Stairs

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

As a boy, Frank once fell down a flight of stairs; his mother Dolly's harsh reaction afterward reportedly frightened and hurt him more than the fall itself, and he never fell down stairs again.

Context: Frank's Fall Down the Stairs

Date as given in source: undated

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Frank's Advice to His Son About the Press

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Asked what career advice he had given Frankie, Frank said the key was to be honest, courteous, and fair with reporters, even if the press did not always reciprocate in kind.

Context: Frank's Advice to His Son About the Press

Date as given in source: undated

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Frank Sinatra's Views On Religion

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Sinatra described his religious views in the 1960s as a personal belief in nature and a non-personal God, while criticizing organized religion for hypocrisy and bloodshed committed in the name of the Prince of Peace.

Context: Frank Sinatra's Views On Religion

Date as given in source: undated

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Frank Sinatra's Bedside Vigil For His Dying Father

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

For five days, Frank Sinatra kept vigil at his father Marty's bedside, greeting and kissing him each time he entered the room, holding his hand, and wiping his face, until Marty died.

Context: Frank Sinatra's Bedside Vigil For His Dying Father

Date as given in source: For five agonizing days

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Frank Sinatra Reflects On Singing And Emotion

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

In interviews during the 1960s, Sinatra described feeling personally involved in every song he performed, calling himself an "eighteen-karat manic-depressive" with a heightened capacity for both sadness and elation.

Context: Frank Sinatra Reflects On Singing And Emotion

Date as given in source: undated

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Frank Sinatra Jr., the "Avis" of the Family

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Frank Sinatra Jr. joked onstage that he was the "Avis" — eternal runner-up — of the Sinatra household, wryly acknowledging crowds who cheered loudest whenever he performed his father's signature songs.

Context: Frank Sinatra Jr., the "Avis" of the Family

Date as given in source: undated

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Frank Sinatra Jr. Opens At The Royal Box

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Around the time of Nancy's Vietnam tour, Frank Sinatra Jr. opened with his band at the Royal Box in New York's Americana Hotel; Frank Sr.'s friends Jack E. Leonard, Toots Shor, Jackie Gleason, Earl Wilson, and Joe E. Lewis attended and led the applause, and Newsweek compared father and son's styles and audiences.

Context: Frank Sinatra Jr. Opens At The Royal Box

Date as given in source: By the time of the Vietnam tour

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Frank Sinatra Jr. on Crossing Paths With Mob Figures Backstage

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Frankie recalled an FBI agent and a reputed mob boss cordially exchanging pleasantries with their children on a theater staircase, joking that their rivalry was strictly a business-hours affair, illustrating how entertainers routinely rubbed shoulders with both sides of the law.

Context: Frank Sinatra Jr. on Crossing Paths With Mob Figures Backstage

Date as given in source: undated

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Frank Recalls Being Denied a Key Change by Tommy Dorsey

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Reminiscing with Duke Ellington's band about "Indian Summer," Frank recalled having to sing the song in singer Jack Leonard's original key during his Tommy Dorsey days because Dorsey refused to transpose it, joking that his eyeballs nearly fell out reaching the top note each time.

Context: Frank Recalls Being Denied a Key Change by Tommy Dorsey

Date as given in source: Tommy Dorsey days (1940s)

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Frank and Nancy Discuss Turning Seventy

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

On a separate, later occasion, Nancy told her father not to be discouraged by lifetime-achievement tributes, noting he was still only sixty-nine; he quietly wondered aloud what he would be doing at ninety-five, and Nancy assured him he would still be doing something creative, so long as he took care of himself.

Context: Frank and Nancy Discuss Turning Seventy

Date as given in source: undated

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Forty Turkey Sandwiches For The Fans

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Assistant road manager Richie Lisella recalled being sent out repeatedly for dozens of sandwiches so Sinatra could feed the same fans who returned show after show at the Paramount.

Context: Forty Turkey Sandwiches For The Fans

Date as given in source: undated

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Fortieth Anniversary in Show Business

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Sinatra marks his fortieth anniversary in show business with the TV special "Sinatra: The First Forty Years" at Caesar's Palace, receives the International Man of the Year Award from President Gerald Ford, gives charity concerts at the Pyramids in Cairo, and serves as Grand Marshal of New York's Columbus Day Parade. His album "Trilogy" reaches #1 and earns six Grammy nominations.

Context: Fortieth Anniversary in Show Business

Date as given in source: 1979

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First White Recipient of the Order of the Leopard

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

President Lucas Mangope of Bophuthatswana awards Sinatra the Order of the Leopard, making him the first white person to receive the honor, during a concert tour of Sun City, South Africa; Sinatra also produces and directs Ronald Reagan's Inaugural Gala, establishes the Frank Sinatra Student Scholarship Fund in Hoboken, and performs concerts in Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo. Daughter Christina marries Richard Cohen.

Context: First White Recipient of the Order of the Leopard

Date as given in source: 1981

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First Solo Recording Session

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Sinatra records his first solo sides away from Dorsey for Bluebird Records, including "The Night We Called It a Day," "The Lamplighter's Serenade," "The Song Is You," and "Night and Day."

Context: First Solo Recording Session

Date as given in source: 1942

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First Commercial Recordings

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

That same month, Sinatra made his first commercially released recordings with the Harry James band, singing "From the Bottom of My Heart" and "Melancholy Mood."

Context: First Commercial Recordings

Date as given in source: that same month (July 1939)

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First Columbia Recording Session

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Sinatra holds his first Columbia recording session, with Alec Wilder and the Bobby Tucker Singers, cutting "Close to You," "People Will Say We're in Love," and "You'll Never Know."

Context: First Columbia Recording Session

Date as given in source: 1943

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First Australian Tour and Five Films

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Sinatra tours Australia for the first time, stars in an NBC television production of "Our Town" with Paul Newman and Eva Marie Saint, and appears in five films: "Young at Heart," "Not as a Stranger," "The Tender Trap," "Guys and Dolls," and "The Man with the Golden Arm."

Context: First Australian Tour and Five Films

Date as given in source: 1955

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First Appearance with Harry James's Band

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Sinatra makes his first appearance singing with Harry James's orchestra, at the Hippodrome in Baltimore, and cuts his first records with James, including "Melancholy Mood," "From the Bottom of My Heart," and "All or Nothing at All."

Context: First Appearance with Harry James's Band

Date as given in source: 1939

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Filling In for an Ailing Perry Como

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Guitarist Tony Mottola recalled Sinatra stepping in at the last minute for a laryngitis-stricken Perry Como on his TV show, choosing to perform using Como's own existing arrangements rather than have new charts written for him.

Context: Filling In for an Ailing Perry Como

Date as given in source: undated

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Ethnic Slurs Shape Views on Prejudice

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

As a boy, Frank was troubled by neighborhood kids' use of ethnic slurs, and he even pushed back when his own mother asked whether a boy he'd brought home was "Swedish or Jewish."

Context: Ethnic Slurs Shape Views on Prejudice

Date as given in source: undated

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Escape Through A Pizza Parlor's Basement Window

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

A quick stop for pizza in Little Italy turned into a mobbed scene, forcing Sinatra to leave through a basement window -- though not before pocketing a few pastries for later.

Context: Escape Through A Pizza Parlor's Basement Window

Date as given in source: undated

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Engineering His Own Discovery by Tommy Dorsey

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

While still with the James band, Sinatra arranged to sit in with the Bob Chester band on a night Tommy Dorsey was expected in the audience, effectively staging his own audition without Dorsey's knowledge.

Context: Engineering His Own Discovery by Tommy Dorsey

Date as given in source: undated

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Elvis's Late-Night Call About His Newborn Daughter

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Nancy recalled Elvis Presley calling her around 3 a.m. the night his daughter was born, sounding sad and worrying aloud about the futures of all the babies born that night, especially Black children, and wondering if he should have become a preacher instead.

Context: Elvis's Late-Night Call About His Newborn Daughter

Date as given in source: undated

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Eleanor Slatkin Takes Over the Control Booth

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

When no A&R producer was available for a session, cellist Eleanor Slatkin stepped out of the string section at her husband Felix's suggestion to direct from the booth, bantering commandingly with Frank as she produced a well-balanced album.

Context: Eleanor Slatkin Takes Over the Control Booth

Date as given in source: undated

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Early Dream of Becoming an Engineer

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

As a young man, Frank briefly considered studying engineering at Stevens Institute in Hoboken, drawn to the idea of designing bridges, tunnels, and highways, before music took over his ambitions.

Context: Early Dream of Becoming an Engineer

Date as given in source: undated

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Dorsey Brothers Reunite

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Nearly twenty years after their acrimonious split, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey reunited for a recording session; Frank Jr. told the story of the pair bickering over where Tommy should stand in the studio.

Context: Dorsey Brothers Reunite

Date as given in source: 1950s

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Dorothy Uhlemann, Sinatra's Longtime Executive Secretary

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Frank praised his longtime secretary Dorothy "Dot" Uhlemann for her warmth, discretion, and reliability, along with newer office staffer Lori Anderson, saying secretaries are too often taken for granted.

Context: Dorothy Uhlemann, Sinatra's Longtime Executive Secretary

Date as given in source: undated

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Don Rickles Ribs Sinatra Before Retirement Show

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Before his farewell concert, Sinatra was teased backstage by Don Rickles, who joked that the audience would love him out of pity.

Context: Don Rickles Ribs Sinatra Before Retirement Show

Date as given in source: undated

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Dolly Moves Marty's Body Twice After Burial

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Less than a year after the funeral, Dolly Sinatra had Marty's body moved back to Fort Lee, and eventually relocated again to Palm Springs.

Context: Dolly Moves Marty's Body Twice After Burial

Date as given in source: Less than a year later

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Dolly and Marty Elope

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Dolly and Marty eloped despite her family's objections to the match, later holding a second, family-sanctioned wedding ceremony.

Context: Dolly and Marty Elope

Date as given in source: undated

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Dispute Over the Ending of "Von Ryan's Express"

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Sinatra insisted, against the wishes of studio executives hoping for a sequel, that his character Colonel Ryan be killed in the final scene of "Von Ryan's Express" rather than escape as in the novel, arguing audiences would reject a happy ending; studio president Richard Zanuck ultimately backed Sinatra's version over his father Darryl Zanuck's preference to follow the book.

Context: Dispute Over the Ending of "Von Ryan's Express"

Date as given in source: undated

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Discovering Ava Gardner In The Movie Magazines

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Rummaging in her mother's closet, young Nancy stumbled on a stash of hidden movie magazines full of photos of her father with Ava Gardner and other women, a devastating discovery made in the middle of the scandal.

Context: Discovering Ava Gardner In The Movie Magazines

Date as given in source: undated

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Dinner At Trader Vic's Sparks Idea For Nancy's Book

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

At a quiet dinner at Trader Vic's in Beverly Hills with Mia, Frank, and publisher Bennett Cerf shortly after the Sinatra-Farrow wedding, Mia lamented press nastiness about the marriage; Cerf suggested Nancy write a book telling her father's true story, planting the seed for this biography.

Context: Dinner At Trader Vic's Sparks Idea For Nancy's Book

Date as given in source: shortly after the wedding [to Mia]

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Dick Haymes Recommended As Sinatra's Dorsey Replacement

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

When Sinatra left Dorsey's band, he recommended Dick Haymes as his successor, having earlier made the same recommendation to Harry James.

Context: Dick Haymes Recommended As Sinatra's Dorsey Replacement

Date as given in source: undated

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Defending Doris Day Over a Thrown Kleenex Box

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

When a crew member accidentally hit Doris Day with a tossed Kleenex box during an emotional scene, Sinatra angrily confronted the man, telling him never to throw things at a lady.

Context: Defending Doris Day Over a Thrown Kleenex Box

Date as given in source: undated

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Dedication of the Frank Sinatra Student Center

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

At Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Sinatra dedicated the Frank Sinatra International Student Center, built with funds he had personally raised.

Context: Dedication of the Frank Sinatra Student Center

Date as given in source: April 1978

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Dedication Of The Anthony Martin Sinatra Medical Education Center

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Shortly before his retirement, Sinatra dedicated the Anthony Martin Sinatra Medical Education Center in Palm Springs, which he had raised funds to build in memory of his father Marty; Governor Ronald Reagan spoke at the ceremony, and Dr. Dan Kaplan made Sinatra an honorary hospital staff member.

Context: Dedication Of The Anthony Martin Sinatra Medical Education Center

Date as given in source: shortly before retiring

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Dean's Helicopter Rifle Prank and "Blood Brothers" Pact

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

To relieve Frank's boredom on a repetitive helicopter commute to a desert film location, Dean surprised him with loaded .22 rifles so they could shoot at debris mid-flight; the two also became informal "blood brothers" by nicking their thumbs together.

Context: Dean's Helicopter Rifle Prank and "Blood Brothers" Pact

Date as given in source: undated

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Dean Steals Frank's Opening Songs

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

One night Dean deliberately performed the three songs Frank had planned to open his own set with, so that when Frank later sang them beautifully the crowd's applause was noticeably muted.

Context: Dean Steals Frank's Opening Songs

Date as given in source: undated

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Dean on Having Sinatra as a Partner

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Dean joked that having Frank as a partner meant he now worried about wherever Frank happened to be working, quipping that Frank had never had a partner before because nobody liked him.

Context: Dean on Having Sinatra as a Partner

Date as given in source: undated

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Dean Heckles "It Was a Very Good Year"

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

While Frank sang the sentimental ballad, Dean interjected joking insults through an offstage microphone at each mention of Frank's age, once breaking Frank up so badly he couldn't sing for nearly two minutes.

Context: Dean Heckles "It Was a Very Good Year"

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Dean and Frank Toss Don Rickles Out Naked

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

When Don Rickles mouthed off in the steam room, Dean and Frank pulled his towel away and shoved him, undressed, out into the hallway.

Context: Dean and Frank Toss Don Rickles Out Naked

Date as given in source: undated

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Count Basie's 'Late Tuesday Afternoon' Quip

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

When Sinatra's trunks of sheet music were delayed on tour, he asked bandleader Count Basie how long he could fill the show; Basie calmly replied he could play from Sunday evening until late Tuesday afternoon.

Context: Count Basie's 'Late Tuesday Afternoon' Quip

Date as given in source: undated

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Consoling Nancy Through Her Own Divorce

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Years later, when Nancy's first marriage ended, Sinatra comforted her by admitting he understood her pain from his own past and telling her that, unlike him, she wasn't alone.

Context: Consoling Nancy Through Her Own Divorce

Date as given in source: undated

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Confronting the Doctor Who Scarred Him

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Nicknamed "Scarface" by neighborhood kids over his birth injuries, young Frank once tracked down and pounded on the door of the doctor responsible, though the doctor wasn't home at the time.

Context: Confronting the Doctor Who Scarred Him

Date as given in source: undated

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Friendship With Joanie Glick

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

At fourteen, Tina spent much of her time with friend Joanie Glick, often preferring sleepovers at Joanie's conventional, close-knit household to her own quieter home life.

Context: Friendship With Joanie Glick

Date as given in source: At fourteen

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Frank with His Parents

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

A mid-1940s photograph of Frank with his parents accompanies his recollection that his father, who could barely read or write, was spared the embarrassment of reading his own mail -- Frank would read it to him instead.

Context: Frank with His Parents

Date as given in source: mid-1940s

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Frank Sinatra Jr. on the Excitement of Capitol Sessions

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Frank Sinatra Jr. described a palpable excitement at his father's Capitol sessions, crediting the combination of top singer, arrangers, musicians, engineers, and studios.

Context: Frank Sinatra Jr. on the Excitement of Capitol Sessions

Date as given in source: undated

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Frank Sinatra Jr. on Sammy Davis Jr. as the Group's Target

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Frank Sinatra Jr. recalled that his father had known Sammy Davis Jr. since the 1940s and that Davis was frequently the target of relentless teasing from Sinatra and Dean Martin, which he would return in kind.

Context: Frank Sinatra Jr. on Sammy Davis Jr. as the Group's Target

Date as given in source: undated

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Frank Sinatra Jr. on His Father's World Tour Motivation

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Frank Sinatra Jr. recalled that his father not only wanted to help others but had the means and position to actually carry out that ambition.

Context: Frank Sinatra Jr. on His Father's World Tour Motivation

Date as given in source: undated

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Frank and Nancy's Teenage Courtship

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

According to fan-club lore, Nancy and Frank met as teenagers, ages fifteen and sixteen, in Long Branch, New Jersey; friends doubted the seriousness of their young romance before the couple eventually married.

Context: Frank and Nancy's Teenage Courtship

Date as given in source: undated

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Father's Silence Over a Singing Career

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

When young Frank told his father he intended to become a singer rather than take a steady trade job, his father was heartbroken and refused to speak to him for a year.

Context: Father's Silence Over a Singing Career

Date as given in source: undated

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Father and Son Listen to a Playback

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Frank Sinatra Jr. and Sr., together with producer Sonny Burke, are shown listening to a studio playback.

Context: Father and Son Listen to a Playback

Date as given in source: mid-1960s

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Family Session for the Sinatra Family Christmas Album

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Tina and Nancy joined their father at a Reprise session for The Sinatra Family Wish You A Merry Christmas; Sinatra sang solo on 'Whatever Happened To Christmas?' and 'The Christmas Waltz,' with Frank Jr. also featured on the record.

Context: Family Session for the Sinatra Family Christmas Album

Date as given in source: August 1968

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Don Costa on Sinatra's Musical Phrasing

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Arranger Don Costa praised Sinatra's lyrical phrasing as nearly flawless, noting his rare gift for balancing a song's words against its melody and his mastery of understated delivery that could move an audience to tears.

Context: Don Costa on Sinatra's Musical Phrasing

Date as given in source: undated

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Discovering Singing in His Father's Bar

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Sinatra recalled discovering his love of singing as a boy of about nine to eleven, when patrons at his father's Hoboken tavern, Marty O'Brien's Bar and Grill, would lift him onto the player piano to sing along with the paper rolls.

Context: Discovering Singing in His Father's Bar

Date as given in source: undated

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Debating The Meaning Of 'Legend'

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Sinatra downplayed being called a legend, saying he didn't really understand the term and suggesting that perhaps simply lasting long enough in a career is what makes one.

Context: Debating The Meaning Of 'Legend'

Date as given in source: undated

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Dean Martin on the "Rat Pack" Nickname

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Dean Martin dismissed the "Clan" or "Rat Pack" labels, joking that the group was really more like a "Perfect Togetherness Association."

Context: Dean Martin on the "Rat Pack" Nickname

Date as given in source: undated

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Dean Martin And Sinatra Rehearsing In The 1970s

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

A photo caption shows Sinatra and Dean Martin rehearsing together at some point during the 1970s.

Context: Dean Martin And Sinatra Rehearsing In The 1970s

Date as given in source: 1970s

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Crosby and Sinatra's Early Friendship

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

A photo from the early 1940s illustrates that despite a press-manufactured "crooner versus swooner" rivalry, Bing Crosby and Sinatra were friends from early in Sinatra's career.

Context: Crosby and Sinatra's Early Friendship

Date as given in source: early 1940s

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Gloves With Dollar Bills

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

During an early tour, short on money, Nancy Sr. mailed Frank a pair of gloves with a dollar bill tucked into each finger, her way of making sure he had enough to eat.

Context: Gloves With Dollar Bills

Date as given in source: When Dad was out on a winter tour

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Governess Georgie Hardwick Takes Charge

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Former governess to the Crosby children, Georgie Hardwick became the Sinatra kids' toughest and most respected governess, quietly reshaping Nancy's behavior after a spoiled episode.

Context: Governess Georgie Hardwick Takes Charge

Date as given in source: undated

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Gordon Jenkins's Mock 'Markers' Joke

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Jenkins once jokingly told Sinatra, from behind him at a table, that he was thirty thousand dollars in debt from gambling markers around town; without turning around, Sinatra reached straight into his pocket.

Context: Gordon Jenkins's Mock 'Markers' Joke

Date as given in source: undated

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Gordon Jenkins and the Hundred-Dollar Tip

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Arranger Gordon Jenkins recalled Sinatra tipping a Las Vegas bellboy a hundred dollars for a simple errand, brushing off Jenkins's remark that fifty would have been plenty.

Context: Gordon Jenkins and the Hundred-Dollar Tip

Date as given in source: undated

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German Fans Mob Nancy Over Stern Cover

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

After appearing on the cover of the German magazine Stern, Nancy was mobbed by a large crowd of fans at the airport, forcing her and her escort to run for safety.

Context: German Fans Mob Nancy Over Stern Cover

Date as given in source: undated

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George Sidney On Sinatra's One-Take Discipline

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Director George Sidney compared Sinatra's preference for getting a scene right on the first or second take to the similarly no-nonsense professionalism of Spencer Tracy and Clark Gable.

Context: George Sidney On Sinatra's One-Take Discipline

Date as given in source: undated

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George Schlatter on Sinatra's Reputation for Leaving "Bodies" Behind

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Producer George Schlatter argued that people who blamed Frank for wreckage in his wake often really tripped over each other while trying to keep up, rather than being directly harmed by him.

Context: George Schlatter on Sinatra's Reputation for Leaving "Bodies" Behind

Date as given in source: undated

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George Schlatter on a Flubbed Medley With John Denver

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Producer George Schlatter described a TV special featuring an elaborate career-spanning medley with John Denver, backed by musicians from the Harry James, Tommy Dorsey, Nelson Riddle, and Basie bands. Sinatra arrived early despite his reputation, hit a rare wrong note during the live take, and agreed to redo just four bars to fix it.

Context: George Schlatter on a Flubbed Medley With John Denver

Date as given in source: undated

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George Burns Passes On Sinatra For 'The Smoothies'

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Comedian George Burns admitted he once turned down hiring young Sinatra for his radio show at $250 a week, opting instead for a three-person act called The Smoothies for the same money.

Context: George Burns Passes On Sinatra For 'The Smoothies'

Date as given in source: undated

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Gene Kelly Recalls Teaching Sinatra To Dance

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Gene Kelly credited his own patience for their partnership's success, saying Sinatra could barely walk let alone dance when they began, but grew into stardom through their collaboration.

Context: Gene Kelly Recalls Teaching Sinatra To Dance

Date as given in source: undated

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Frank Jr.'s Las Vegas Debut Impresses His Father

From: The Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra, chapter "I Want to Be a Part of It, 1971-98."

Though clearly uncomfortable with his son's chosen path, Frank Sinatra Sr. praised his musicianship and technique, remarking that Frank Jr. was better than he himself had been at the same age when his son made his Las Vegas debut.

Context: Frank Jr.'s Las Vegas Debut Impresses His Father

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Frank Jr.'s Complicated Musical Partnership With His Father

From: The Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra, chapter "I Want to Be a Part of It, 1971-98."

Frank Jr. released several albums, led his own band, and worked alternately with arrangers Nelson Riddle and Billy May before eventually becoming his father's conductor. Their working relationship included moments where Frank Jr. was reportedly humiliated by his father in concert, yet he remained loyal, even performing on his father's signature song 'My Kind of Town.'

Context: Frank Jr.'s Complicated Musical Partnership With His Father

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Frank Jr. Tours With Remnants Of The Dorsey Orchestra

From: The Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra, chapter "I Want to Be a Part of It, 1971-98."

Frank Sinatra Jr. followed his father into a singing career, performing quality standards in a swing style and even touring with what remained of the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, the band that had launched his father's career.

Context: Frank Jr. Tours With Remnants Of The Dorsey Orchestra

Date as given in source: undated

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Family Friction Over Reprise Recording Rights

From: The Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra, chapter "I Want to Be a Part of It, 1971-98."

After Sinatra's death, friction arose between his children, who held rights to his Reprise recordings, and Barbara and her son Bobby Marx, as the two sides contested control of that part of Sinatra's musical legacy.

Context: Family Friction Over Reprise Recording Rights

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Edie Goetz Rejects Sinatra's Marriage Proposal

From: The Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra, chapter "I Want to Be a Part of It, 1971-98."

Sinatra courted Edie Goetz, widow of studio executive Bill Goetz and daughter of Louis B. Mayer, but when he proposed marriage she reportedly laughed and rebuffed him, calling him nothing more than a hoodlum; he never spoke to her again.

Context: Edie Goetz Rejects Sinatra's Marriage Proposal

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Early 1970s Romances Before Barbara

From: The Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra, chapter "I Want to Be a Part of It, 1971-98."

In the early 1970s, before Barbara Marx became his steady companion, Sinatra dated actresses Eva Gabor, Hope Lange, and future Dallas star Victoria Principal.

Context: Early 1970s Romances Before Barbara

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Duets II Released

From: The Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra, chapter "I Want to Be a Part of It, 1971-98."

A sequel, Duets II, followed roughly a year after the original and proved nearly as popular, even though longtime Sinatra fans remained largely unimpressed with the records themselves.

Context: Duets II Released

Date as given in source: a year later

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Contemporaries Pass Away In The Mid-1980s

From: The Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra, chapter "I Want to Be a Part of It, 1971-98."

As Sinatra kept working through his later years, a number of friends and collaborators died in the mid-1980s, including Grace Kelly, arranger Don Costa, bandleader Count Basie, arranger Nelson Riddle, and drummer Buddy Rich.

Context: Contemporaries Pass Away In The Mid-1980s

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Grandma Dolly's Favorite

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Grandma Dolly made no secret that Frankie was her favorite grandchild, telling the family more than once that he would inherit everything when she died.

Context: Grandma Dolly's Favorite

Date as given in source: undated (recurring)

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Grandpa Marty's Horse Retaliation

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

When a business rival who owed him money opened a competing tavern nearby, Sinatra's father Marty bought an old horse from a glue factory, led it into the rival's storefront, and shot it dead, forcing the competitor to tear down part of the building to remove the carcass.

Context: Grandpa Marty's Horse Retaliation

Date as given in source: back in Hoboken in the 1920s

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Growing Resentment Over Cancelled Visits

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

As a young child, Tina became increasingly upset, more so than her mother or sister, whenever Frank's work obligations forced him to cancel a planned visit.

Context: Growing Resentment Over Cancelled Visits

Date as given in source: by the time I was six or seven years old, I'd get positively cranky when Dad stood us up

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Grueling ABC Tribute Taping

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Despite Tina's objections, George Schlatter proceeded with his ABC octogenarian tribute special for Frank. The taping dragged on for roughly two and a half hours with a star-studded lineup, and Tina could tell from her seat that Frank was miserable through most of it.

Context: Grueling ABC Tribute Taping

Date as given in source: The taping that November

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Harry Cohn Screens the Casting Tests Three Times

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Joan Cohn recalled her husband Harry screening Sinatra's and Eli Wallach's Maggio screen tests for her three times each in a private projection room before finalizing the ethnically fitting choice.

Context: Harry Cohn Screens the Casting Tests Three Times

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Guest-Hosting for a Hospitalized Ed Sullivan

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Despite an ongoing feud, Sinatra immediately agreed to guest-host Ed Sullivan's rival network show after Sullivan was hospitalized following a car accident, responding to the request with "Where is Ed? What time do you want me?"

Context: Guest-Hosting for a Hospitalized Ed Sullivan

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Gregory Peck's Menton Train Station Rescue

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Gregory Peck recalled arriving exhausted by overnight train in Menton, near Monte Carlo, to meet the Sinatras, only to find no porters available at that early hour. To his astonishment, Sinatra himself appeared pushing a baggage cart in a porter's uniform to help with the luggage.

Context: Gregory Peck's Menton Train Station Rescue

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Great-Aunt Josie on Frankie's Generosity

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

A family member recalled that even as a young man, if Frankie had a dollar, he would give away most of it to his friends.

Context: Great-Aunt Josie on Frankie's Generosity

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Grandpa Mike Gives Frank Plastering Work

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Nancy Sr.'s father, a plastering contractor, employed young Frank and her brother Bart on jobs, initially having to redo their sloppy work himself before they gradually improved.

Context: Grandpa Mike Gives Frank Plastering Work

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Grandmother's Audience with the Pope

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

During a visit to Italy, Sinatra's mother had an audience with the Pope, who told her in Italian that her son was close to God because he did charitable work quietly, without publicizing it.

Context: Grandmother's Audience with the Pope

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Grandma Dolly's Rigged Slot Machine

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Casino staff would quietly fix a specific slot machine so that Dolly Sinatra, who hated losing, would hit jackpot after jackpot whenever she played.

Context: Grandma Dolly's Rigged Slot Machine

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Grandfather's Years at the American Pencil Company

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

After arriving from Sicily, Frank's paternal grandfather worked seventeen years at the American Pencil Company for eleven dollars a week, work that ultimately ruined his lungs from inhaled dust.

Context: Grandfather's Years at the American Pencil Company

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Harry James Recalls Discovering Sinatra

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Bandleader Harry James recalled first hearing Sinatra sing at the Rustic Cabin and signing him to a two-year contract at seventy-five dollars a week.

Context: Harry James Recalls Discovering Sinatra

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Gregory Peck On Frank's Six-Hour Home-Cooked Feast And Whiskey Foot Soak

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Gregory Peck recalled that Sinatra once spent six hours in the kitchen preparing an Italian dinner in the style of his mother's cooking for two dozen guests, then afterward showed off his personal cure for sore feet: soaking them in a pan of Scotch whiskey. Peck, a friend since 1942, said he was the person he would call first in any emergency.

Context: Gregory Peck On Frank's Six-Hour Home-Cooked Feast And Whiskey Foot Soak

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Gene Kelly Sings Sinatra's Praises, Literally

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Gene Kelly recalled that after years of ribbing Frank about his effect on women, his own infant daughter once wouldn't stop crying no matter what he or his wife tried. When Frank picked her up and sang to her, she quieted, stared at him wide-eyed, and fell blissfully asleep by the end of a chorus and a half; Kelly said he never teased him again.

Context: Gene Kelly Sings Sinatra's Praises, Literally

Date as given in source: undated

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Gene Kelly On Frank's Idea Of Lunch

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Gene Kelly recalled being astonished during the filming of Take Me Out to the Ball Game by how little his skinny co-star ate; Frank's idea of a good lunch, Kelly said, was just a Coca-Cola and a Mars bar.

Context: Gene Kelly On Frank's Idea Of Lunch

Date as given in source: 1949, during filming

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Garson Kanin On Frank's Real Ambition In Life

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Writer Garson Kanin recalled once asking Sinatra what he most wanted to feel he had accomplished in life. Sinatra reflected and answered that his real ambition was to pass on to younger people what had taken him a long time to learn, so that knowledge would not die with him.

Context: Garson Kanin On Frank's Real Ambition In Life

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Frank's Rule: Never Record Before Eight At Night

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Sinatra said he could only work well under pressure and disliked having too much free time before a session, and made it a personal rule never to record before eight o'clock in the evening because his voice was more relaxed by then.

Context: Frank's Rule: Never Record Before Eight At Night

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Frank's Recurring Closing Line To His Audiences

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Nancy Sinatra recalled that at one concert not long before he stopped touring, her father closed the show with a line he had used as a kind of blessing to his fans over the years, wishing them long life and hoping his would be the last voice they ever heard.

Context: Frank's Recurring Closing Line To His Audiences

Date as given in source: undated

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Frank's Prank On His Look-Alike Manie Sacks

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Because Columbia executive Manie Sacks physically resembled Frank and was often mistaken for him, Frank once slapped him on the back in front of a crowd of autograph seekers at a Philadelphia benefit and greeted him loudly with "Hiya, Frank. How's your throat?", leaving the flustered Sacks to sign autographs in his stead.

Context: Frank's Prank On His Look-Alike Manie Sacks

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Frank's Crew Throws Dick Bakalyan's Clothes Out A Window In Cortina

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Actor Dick Bakalyan recalled that when he went to bed early instead of staying up with Sinatra's group during a film shoot in Cortina, Italy, Frank and the others broke into his room the next day and threw all his clothes out the window; Sinatra later bought him an entirely new wardrobe.

Context: Frank's Crew Throws Dick Bakalyan's Clothes Out A Window In Cortina

Date as given in source: undated (early 1960s)

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Frank's Account Of Testing For Maggio With Olives And Dice

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Sinatra recalled that his screen test for From Here to Eternity was an unscripted barroom improvisation; director Fred Zinnemann simply told him to act like a drunk at a bar, so Frank worked out a bit of business with olives and dice, and left for Africa convinced rival Eli Wallach's stronger test had cost him the part.

Context: Frank's Account Of Testing For Maggio With Olives And Dice

Date as given in source: undated (Sinatra's own recollection)

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Frank Tried To Track Down The Doctor Who Delivered Him

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: According to his daughter, Sinatra at one point tried to locate the doctor present at his difficult birth, blaming him for the forceps scars left on his face and neck.

Context: Frank Tried To Track Down The Doctor Who Delivered Him

Date as given in source: undated (childhood)

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Frank Tells Nancy To Double Her Playboy Modeling Fee

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: When Nancy Sinatra decided to pose for Playboy to relaunch her career after her daughters left for college, she sought her father's blessing rather than his permission. He approved of everything except the fee the magazine offered, telling her flatly to double it — and Hugh Hefner came close to meeting that number.

Context: Frank Tells Nancy To Double Her Playboy Modeling Fee

Date as given in source: undated

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Frank Telegrams Jack Benny After Frank Jr.'s TV Debut

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: During a Sinatra-Basie recording session, the studio stopped so everyone could watch Frank Jr. make a guest appearance on The Jack Benny Show; a proud Sinatra sent Benny a telegram signed simply "Frankie's Father."

Context: Frank Telegrams Jack Benny After Frank Jr.'s TV Debut

Date as given in source: undated (1963)

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Frank Stands By Spiro Agnew During His Disgrace

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Herbert Kalmbach wrote to thank Sinatra for the loyalty and simple decency he showed in standing by Vice President Spiro Agnew during the period of Agnew's public disgrace.

Context: Frank Stands By Spiro Agnew During His Disgrace

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Frank Reflects On Being Traded To MGM

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Recalling his move from RKO to MGM, Frank said he learned of the deal when a studio executive told him to pack his bags because he'd "been traded," comparing it to a ball club. His pay jumped dramatically, and when he insisted on a telephone in his cedar-paneled dressing room despite studio rules against it, MGM solved the problem by silencing the bell and installing a light instead.

Context: Frank Reflects On Being Traded To MGM

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Frank Recognizes Nancy's Footsteps While Sedated Before Surgery

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: On the morning of major hand surgery, already under sedation, Sinatra heard his daughter's footsteps in the hospital corridor and called out her childhood nickname, "Chicken?," even though she had been on the road and he had no reason to expect she was in town.

Context: Frank Recognizes Nancy's Footsteps While Sedated Before Surgery

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Frank On His Father's Restraint

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Frank recalled that despite having been a professional boxer, his father Marty never once struck him, even when he got into trouble, instead simply staring at him in a way that conveyed everything that needed to be said.

Context: Frank On His Father's Restraint

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Frank Borrows From A Loan Shark To Bail Out A Friend

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Columnist Jimmy Cannon recounted a friend whose life would have been ruined by a financial crisis if not for Sinatra, who, unable to get a bank loan himself because he was short on cash at the time, instead borrowed $10,000 from a loan shark at steep interest just to bail the man out.

Context: Frank Borrows From A Loan Shark To Bail Out A Friend

Date as given in source: undated

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FDR Whispers A Request To Frank

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: After being introduced to President Franklin Roosevelt, who beckoned him over quietly, Frank leaned down and the president whispered a request to know which song would top that Saturday's Hit Parade before anyone else found out. On another visit to the White House for tea, Roosevelt teased him about personally reviving the "lost art" of ladies fainting.

Context: FDR Whispers A Request To Frank

Date as given in source: undated

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Fans Camp Out On The Sinatra Lawn

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: After the family moved to an unwalled house in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey, Nancy Sr. recalled fans lingering on the lawn for hours and peering into her bedroom window. Unable to make them leave, she eventually gave up and sent out doughnuts and drinks instead.

Context: Fans Camp Out On The Sinatra Lawn

Date as given in source: undated

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Dolly's Aborted Run For Mayor Of Hoboken

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Dolly Sinatra's political clout as a Democratic Party ward worker grew to the point that she once planned to run for mayor of Hoboken, prompting Marty to pull young Frank aside and complain that she had become impossible to live with.

Context: Dolly's Aborted Run For Mayor Of Hoboken

Date as given in source: undated

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Dolly Confronts Her Sisters-In-Law Over A Rumor

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: After hearing that her husband's sisters had spread a story that she had another boyfriend, Dolly Sinatra stormed into their grocery store and confronted them, knocking over olive barrels and sweeping cans off the counter.

Context: Dolly Confronts Her Sisters-In-Law Over A Rumor

Date as given in source: undated

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Dean Martin: 'Blood Brothers'

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Dean Martin recalled that he and Sinatra once cut the tops of their thumbs to become blood brothers, joking that Sinatra had actually wanted to cut their wrists before Martin talked him out of it. To Martin, the two had always felt like brothers because they were, in his words, alike.

Context: Dean Martin: 'Blood Brothers'

Date as given in source: undated

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Dean Martin's NAACP Joke About A Drunk Sammy Davis Jr.

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Dean Martin recalled a night when Sammy Davis Jr. finished his act, climbed onto the piano and refused to get off; Dean simply picked him up and carried him to the microphone, announcing to the crowd that he wanted to thank the NAACP for the wonderful trophy.

Context: Dean Martin's NAACP Joke About A Drunk Sammy Davis Jr.

Date as given in source: undated

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Dean Martin And Frank Become Blood Brothers

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Dean Martin recalled that he and Sinatra once cut the tops of their thumbs to become blood brothers, though Frank had wanted to cut their wrists instead, an idea Dean talked him out of.

Context: Dean Martin And Frank Become Blood Brothers

Date as given in source: undated

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"He Loves Them All" -- Debuting "All the Way"

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Songwriter Sammy Cahn recalled performing "All the Way," written for The Joker Is Wild, for Sinatra before his "breakfast" at 4 p.m.; Frank's deadpan reaction to the song was misread by a collaborator as dislike, when in fact, Cahn explained, he loved every song they wrote him.

Context: "He Loves Them All" -- Debuting "All the Way"

Date as given in source: undated

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'He Knew Exactly What He Wanted'

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

A & R chief Harry Meyerson recalled that in the Bluebird sessions, Sinatra arrived self-assured and confident, nothing like a typical band vocalist.

Context: 'He Knew Exactly What He Wanted'

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Hazlewood Directs Nancy's 'Nasty' Vocal Style For Boots

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Producer Lee Hazlewood told Nancy to sing "like a fourteen-year-old girl in love with a forty-year-old man" and pushed her toward a tougher, more mature vocal delivery for "These Boots Are Made for Walking," nicknaming her "Nasty."

Context: Hazlewood Directs Nancy's 'Nasty' Vocal Style For Boots

Date as given in source: undated

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Harry Kurnitz Bows Face-Down to "The Emperor"

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Outside the New York restaurant "21," writer Harry Kurnitz greeted Michael Romanoff's arrival by theatrically throwing himself face down in the snow, which Romanoff calmly stepped over, pronouncing him "a good subject."

Context: Harry Kurnitz Bows Face-Down to "The Emperor"

Date as given in source: undated

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"He Never Had the Nerve"

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Tony Oppedisano later wrote to Nancy Sr. that Frank had never stopped caring deeply for her but never found the courage to act on it. Nancy Sr. reflected that one never truly forgets a first love.

Context: "He Never Had the Nerve"

Date as given in source: undated

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Helping Sammy Buy A Beverly Hills Home

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Sinatra helped Sammy Davis Jr. purchase a house in an exclusive, previously all-white part of Beverly Hills, breaking another color line.

Context: Helping Sammy Buy A Beverly Hills Home

Date as given in source: undated

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Hidden Surveillance Cameras Discovered

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Tony quietly warned the sisters to be careful what they said in the house. Tina later learned that beyond the Plexiglas, hidden cameras had been installed, including a lens disguised inside a clock facing the den couch and a wide-angle camera in the bookcase facing Frank's bed.

Context: Hidden Surveillance Cameras Discovered

Date as given in source: A few weeks later [after the February Plexiglas discovery]

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Holzer Memorial Award and "On the Town"

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Sinatra receives the Holzer Memorial Award from the Los Angeles Jewish Community and appears in the films "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" and "On the Town."

Context: Holzer Memorial Award and "On the Town"

Date as given in source: 1949

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Higher And Higher Launches A Film Career

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

In "Higher and Higher," Sinatra's first major film role, he played himself and introduced songs including the Oscar-nominated "I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night."

Context: Higher And Higher Launches A Film Career

Date as given in source: undated

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Honored With Kennedy Center, Freedom, And Congressional Gold Medals

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Among hundreds of honors, Sinatra received the Kennedy Center Honor for lifetime achievement, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian award Congress can bestow.

Context: Honored With Kennedy Center, Freedom, And Congressional Gold Medals

Date as given in source: undated

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Honors Roll In For Sinatra

From: The Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra, chapter "I Want to Be a Part of It, 1971-98."

Among the honors that came Sinatra's way in this period were Israel's Medal of Valor, the Medallion of Citizenship from the city of Chicago, Italy's Cavaliere Ufficiale award, and the Songwriters of America's Entertainer of the Century title.

Context: Honors Roll In For Sinatra

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Hugh Lambert's Mother Outlasts Sinatra At The Bar

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

At Nancy and Hugh Lambert's wedding reception in Palm Springs, Hugh's mother Mae matched Frank Sinatra drink for drink at the bar until six in the morning.

Context: Hugh Lambert's Mother Outlasts Sinatra At The Bar

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Hubert Humphrey Recalls Sinatra's Early Civil Rights Work

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Hubert Humphrey, writing to Nancy, credited Frank Sinatra with visiting schools in the Roosevelt era to speak to children against prejudice and intolerance, crediting this early activism with helping create the political climate for 1960s civil rights legislation.

Context: Hubert Humphrey Recalls Sinatra's Early Civil Rights Work

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How Frank Got Out Of His Punishing Dorsey Contract

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: When Tommy Dorsey refused to release Frank from a contract entitling him to a large share of his lifetime entertainment earnings, attorney Henry Jaffe pressured Dorsey over his network broadcasting deals and enlisted MCA chief Jules Stein to negotiate directly. Dorsey ultimately accepted a large cash settlement plus additional bookings to let Frank go.

Context: How Frank Got Out Of His Punishing Dorsey Contract

Date as given in source: undated, 1942

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Henry Silva On Frank's Habit Of Barely Sleeping

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Actor Henry Silva, working with Sinatra on a film, once asked him how much sleep he'd gotten the night before. Sinatra answered that he had gone to bed at six and gotten up at seven-thirty, consistent with his reputation for rarely sleeping much at all.

Context: Henry Silva On Frank's Habit Of Barely Sleeping

Date as given in source: undated

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"I Have to Make Sure Everyone's Taken Care Of"

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

When Tina urged Frank to retire from touring, he grew visibly frightened and insisted he could not stop, saying he needed to keep earning to make sure everyone was provided for.

Context: "I Have to Make Sure Everyone's Taken Care Of"

Date as given in source: undated

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"I Like Him, Too" -- The Eddie Fisher Taunt

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

During his career slump, Sinatra was taunted by kids outside a recording studio chanting their love for rival singer Eddie Fisher; he replied simply and sincerely that he liked Fisher too.

Context: "I Like Him, Too" -- The Eddie Fisher Taunt

Date as given in source: undated

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"I'm a Fool to Want You" recorded

From: Tony Consiglio (as told to Franz Douskey), "Sinatra and Me: The Very Good Years" (2012)

Consiglio: Sinatra recorded "I'm a Fool to Want You" in 1951 while he was fighting to hold onto his relationship with Ava Gardner. Like several other songs he didn't actually write, Sinatra received a songwriting credit and royalty share on the record.

Context: "I'm a Fool to Want You" recorded

Date as given in source: 1951

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'I've Never Felt So Much Love In One Room'

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Sinatra later said he had never felt so much love in one room as during The Main Event concert, while promoter Jerry Weintraub worked to keep enthusiastic fans from rushing the stage.

Context: 'I've Never Felt So Much Love In One Room'

Date as given in source: undated

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Integrating The Sands

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

In segregated 1950s Las Vegas, after a hotel drained its pool because Lena Horne's child had swum in it, Sinatra refused to perform at the Sands unless Sammy Davis Jr. was allowed to stay and gamble there, forcing management to change its policy.

Context: Integrating The Sands

Date as given in source: through the 1950s

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Jilly Rizzo Stops Visiting the Compound

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Jilly Rizzo felt increasingly unwelcome at the Compound and, unable to bear watching Barbara belittle Frank after she'd been drinking, eventually stopped visiting altogether by the mid-1980s.

Context: Jilly Rizzo Stops Visiting the Compound

Date as given in source: undated

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Jilly Rizzo: Frank's Constant Companion

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Jilly Rizzo, a fireplug-built nightclub owner with a glass eye and mangled English, became Frank's closest companion and unofficial bodyguard, known for pranks like carrying cherry bombs and for once having an overly drunk date at Chasen's removed by a private ambulance at Frank and Jilly's arrangement.

Context: Jilly Rizzo: Frank's Constant Companion

Date as given in source: undated

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Jilly's Glass Eye Fooled Everyone

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

The family eventually realized that Jilly, whose glass eye often stayed open while he slept, actually slept far more than anyone had assumed.

Context: Jilly's Glass Eye Fooled Everyone

Date as given in source: undated

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Jilly's Later Regret Over Urging Reconciliation

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Jilly Rizzo, who initially disliked Barbara, later admitted to a mutual friend that he had once encouraged Frank to patch things up with her - a decision he came to regret after Barbara eventually pushed Jilly out of Frank's life.

Context: Jilly's Later Regret Over Urging Reconciliation

Date as given in source: undated

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Jilly's Warning: "Be Careful on the Phones"

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Before his death, Jilly Rizzo warned Tina to be cautious about what she said on the phone, anticipating that Barbara might be listening in or intercepting calls.

Context: Jilly's Warning: "Be Careful on the Phones"

Date as given in source: undated

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Joey Bishop's Quiet Falling-Out With Sinatra

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

After some misunderstandings, Joey Bishop drifted out of Frank's circle without directly confronting him about it, which Nancy notes was a mistake others have made in disputes with her father, who valued people who argued things out face to face.

Context: Joey Bishop's Quiet Falling-Out With Sinatra

Date as given in source: undated

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Joey Bishop's Five-Minute Suite Upgrade

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

When Frank learned Joey Bishop had been given a lower-floor room at Miami's Fontainebleau Hotel instead of a penthouse suite, he threatened to cancel the entire engagement unless Bishop was moved upstairs within five minutes, and hotel staff scrambled to comply.

Context: Joey Bishop's Five-Minute Suite Upgrade

Date as given in source: undated

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Joe E. Lewis's Cat in Paris

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Struggling with the language in Paris, comedian Joe E. Lewis joked to Sinatra that he'd finally found someone who spoke English -- a cat that said "meow."

Context: Joe E. Lewis's Cat in Paris

Date as given in source: undated

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Joe E. Lewis and Sinatra's Dry Cross-Country Flight

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Sinatra recalled a chartered flight with comedian Joe E. Lewis from Miami to Los Angeles during which the two forgot to stock the plane's bar; every refueling stop turned out to be closed or in a dry state, leaving them without a drink for the entire ten-hour trip -- something Lewis never let him forget.

Context: Joe E. Lewis and Sinatra's Dry Cross-Country Flight

Date as given in source: undated

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Jo Stafford's Surprise Duet Partner

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

While performing with the Pied Pipers in New Jersey, Jo Stafford was startled when Sinatra unexpectedly strolled onstage during their closing number and joined her for "I'll Never Smile Again."

Context: Jo Stafford's Surprise Duet Partner

Date as given in source: undated

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Jo Stafford On Paramount Pit Chaos

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Jo Stafford recalled having to duck out of sight during Dorsey band shows at the Paramount because fans grabbing for Sinatra would tear the flowers and jewelry off any woman sharing the stage with him.

Context: Jo Stafford On Paramount Pit Chaos

Date as given in source: undated

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Jo Stafford On Dorsey's Brand Of Discipline

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Singer Jo Stafford remembered Tommy Dorsey as a perfectionist who tolerated honest mistakes but not carelessness -- professional standards she said became the model Sinatra later demanded of his own musicians.

Context: Jo Stafford On Dorsey's Brand Of Discipline

Date as given in source: undated

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Jimmy Bowen And Lee Hazlewood Take Over Nancy's Career

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

When Reprise moved to Warner Brothers, producer Jimmy Bowen worked with Nancy without much chart success; he then brought in Lee Hazlewood, who convinced label chief Mo Ostin to give Nancy one more chance rather than dropping her.

Context: Jimmy Bowen And Lee Hazlewood Take Over Nancy's Career

Date as given in source: undated

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Jack Benny's Timex

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

After Jack Benny mentioned that none of his dozen gold watches ever kept time, Sinatra sent him a Timex, prompting Benny to joke about wanting a full, not partial, gift.

Context: Jack Benny's Timex

Date as given in source: undated

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Jack Benny's "Three Sure Shots" Rule

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Jack Benny told Frank he always opened his act with three proven crowd-pleasing bits rather than untested material; Frank adopted the same principle for his own opening songs.

Context: Jack Benny's "Three Sure Shots" Rule

Date as given in source: undated

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It Happened In Brooklyn Pairs Sinatra With Durante

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Sinatra's 1947 film "It Happened in Brooklyn" featured the songs "Time After Time" and "It's the Same Old Dream," and gave him a good on-screen rapport with Jimmy Durante.

Context: It Happened In Brooklyn Pairs Sinatra With Durante

Date as given in source: 1947

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Jimmy Van Heusen on Working with Sinatra

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Songwriter Jimmy Van Heusen called Sinatra the greatest singer of all time and considered himself fortunate to have worked with him for so long.

Context: Jimmy Van Heusen on Working with Sinatra

Date as given in source: undated

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Joint Birthday Parties With Dean Martin

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Because Dean Martin shared their June birth month, Nancy and Tina began celebrating their birthdays jointly with him and actor James Darren at Chasen's, with a roster of top Hollywood entertainers attending.

Context: Joint Birthday Parties With Dean Martin

Date as given in source: undated (recurring)

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"Keep Barbara Off Our Back"

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

When Tina questioned the wisdom of the Capitol Duets deal, Eliot justified it by saying it would keep Barbara satisfied and away from the children's trust.

Context: "Keep Barbara Off Our Back"

Date as given in source: undated

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Kitty Hawk Carrier Stay During Vietnam Tour

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

During her USO tour, Nancy spent a night aboard the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk; the ship's captain lent her his quarters for two nights so she could do laundry, later regretting a photo of the gesture being considered for the ship's newspaper.

Context: Kitty Hawk Carrier Stay During Vietnam Tour

Date as given in source: undated

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Kennedy Center Honors for Lifetime Achievement

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Sinatra received the Kennedy Center Honors for Lifetime Achievement, with the family invited to Washington for a dinner hosted by the Secretary of State, a White House reception with the Reagans, and the award ceremony itself.

Context: Kennedy Center Honors for Lifetime Achievement

Date as given in source: 1983

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Ken Venturi Earns the Nickname "Hopalong"

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Golfer Ken Venturi recalled going horseback riding at Sinatra's Palm Springs home in full cowboy gear, only to fall off the horse near the barn. Despite swearing everyone to secrecy, Sinatra found out and has teased him as "Hopalong" ever since.

Context: Ken Venturi Earns the Nickname "Hopalong"

Date as given in source: the middle seventies

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Launching Sammy Davis Jr.'s Career

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Sinatra boosted Sammy Davis Jr.'s career by insisting the Will Mastin Trio, with Sammy as lead dancer, open for him at New York's Capitol Theater.

Context: Launching Sammy Davis Jr.'s Career

Date as given in source: in the late forties

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Learning Not to Fight Over a Padded Bar Tab

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Dick Bakalyan recalled Frank telling him to drop a dispute over an inflated bar bill in Portofino, explaining that strangers sometimes picked fights with Sinatra's entourage purely to generate publicity for themselves.

Context: Learning Not to Fight Over a Padded Bar Tab

Date as given in source: undated

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Lean Times During the James Band's LA Run

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

When the Harry James band struggled to get paid at a Los Angeles club, the musicians pooled money for spaghetti that Nancy Sr. cooked for everyone; she also redeemed empty Coke bottles for cash, and Frank once used bottle-deposit money to surprise her with a ham sandwich and apple pie.

Context: Lean Times During the James Band's LA Run

Date as given in source: undated

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Learning of Red Skelton's Son's Death

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Around the same period as Bogart's death, Tina also learned of the death of comedian Red Skelton's young son from leukemia.

Context: Learning of Red Skelton's Son's Death

Date as given in source: Not long after that I heard about something even worse: the death of a child, Red Skelton's son

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Learning to Swim with a Popcorn Can

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Frank taught Tina to swim at the Palm Springs pool using an empty jumbo popcorn can as a float.

Context: Learning to Swim with a Popcorn Can

Date as given in source: My father later taught me how to swim at his place in Palm Springs

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Leaving Demarest High School

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Sinatra left Demarest High School during his senior year to pursue a career in music.

Context: Leaving Demarest High School

Date as given in source: undated

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Leaving USC for a Singing Career

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Nancy enrolled at USC after high school but left during her first semester, frustrated by required coursework, to pursue a singing career instead, disappointing her father, who had wanted her to have the formal education he never had.

Context: Leaving USC for a Singing Career

Date as given in source: undated

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Joseph Kennedy's Running Joke About Sinatra's Wardrobe

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Frank recalled that Joseph Kennedy used to needle him about his extravagant spending on suits, asking how many he could possibly need, and always addressed him by his given name, Francis, because, Kennedy said, it was a good Catholic name.

Context: Joseph Kennedy's Running Joke About Sinatra's Wardrobe

Date as given in source: undated

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Joey Bishop On Sinatra's Kindness To A Stranger

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Joey Bishop recalled a dinner where a stranger reached over and took food off Sinatra's plate; instead of reacting angrily, Frank simply invited the hungry man to sit down and eat, brushing off his entourage's objections.

Context: Joey Bishop On Sinatra's Kindness To A Stranger

Date as given in source: undated

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Jo Stafford's First Impression Of Sinatra's Voice

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Dorsey band vocalist Jo Stafford recalled the band's initial skepticism about their new singer evaporating within four bars of his first performance, realizing they were hearing an entirely new, unique sound unlike the many Bing Crosby imitators of the day.

Context: Jo Stafford's First Impression Of Sinatra's Voice

Date as given in source: undated

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Jerry Lewis On Impersonating Sinatra As A Teenager

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: A 15-year-old Jerry Lewis, doing a lip-sync act at a New York club and physically resembling a young Sinatra, was watched by Frank's mother Dolly three nights a week for twenty weeks; she became his biggest early fan and once took him to see Frank perform with Harry James.

Context: Jerry Lewis On Impersonating Sinatra As A Teenager

Date as given in source: undated (Jerry Lewis's early career, 1940s)

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Jackie Gleason's 'Tuning Fork' Joke About Sinatra

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Friends since the 1940s, Jackie Gleason and Frank Sinatra ran gags on each other's TV shows rehearsed only briefly by phone; Gleason once spotted Sinatra in the shower and told him he looked like a tuning fork.

Context: Jackie Gleason's 'Tuning Fork' Joke About Sinatra

Date as given in source: undated (friendship dating from the 1940s)

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Jack Benny's Joke With Sinatra At The Sands

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Jack Benny recalled Sinatra introducing him from the stage to a packed house at the Sands; when Benny took a bow and joked that the crowd was so big he thought he was the one performing, Sinatra collapsed laughing.

Context: Jack Benny's Joke With Sinatra At The Sands

Date as given in source: undated

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Legend Of Sinatra's Run-In With Hoboken Police

From: The Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra, chapter "I Want to Be a Part of It, 1971-98."

According to a story from his youth, Sinatra was roughed up by policemen in Hoboken who mistakenly believed he had stolen his own fancy clothing. Humphrey Bogart later observed that Sinatra was a 'cop hater' who assumed anyone questioning him must be a police officer.

Context: Legend Of Sinatra's Run-In With Hoboken Police

Date as given in source: undated

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Lee Remick Affair Ends Abruptly

From: The Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra, chapter "I Want to Be a Part of It, 1971-98."

Sinatra had an affair with actress Lee Remick, his co-star in The Detective, which ended when she panicked and broke things off by leaving a note on his front door.

Context: Lee Remick Affair Ends Abruptly

Date as given in source: undated

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Life at the Compound

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

The ten-bedroom Compound functioned like a luxury inn for Frank's circle of friends, stocked with every toiletry imaginable; he once flew in a sackful of Maui onions for Ruth Gordon and, another time, flew an entire group of guests to Acapulco for a promised Mexican dinner.

Context: Life at the Compound

Date as given in source: undated

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Leslie Bricusse's Son Adam Visits 'Franksinatra'

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Composer Leslie Bricusse and his four-year-old son Adam visited Palm Springs for a weekend during a World Series; Adam pronounced Sinatra's name as one word and, when he later said he had "lost Franksinatra," clarified he meant not Frank himself but the household's black houseman.

Context: Leslie Bricusse's Son Adam Visits 'Franksinatra'

Date as given in source: one year, World Series on TV, per Bricusse anecdote

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List of Sinatra's Notable Film Roles

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

The book surveys Sinatra's film career highlights across the 1950s and 1960s, spanning dramas and musicals/comedies that established him as a major box-office draw for nearly two decades.

Context: List of Sinatra's Notable Film Roles

Date as given in source: undated

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Life on the Band Bus

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

A mid-1940s nightclub performance photo accompanies Sinatra's recollection that nothing shaped him more than his years touring by bus with the big bands, playing hundreds of one-night stands a year.

Context: Life on the Band Bus

Date as given in source: mid-1940s

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Marlo Thomas's Words of Comfort

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Grieving, Tina found comfort recalling something actress Marlo Thomas had once said after her own father's death — that parents ultimately do not belong solely to their children.

Context: Marlo Thomas's Words of Comfort

Date as given in source: not specified

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Marty Hides His Pride

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

After achieving fame, Sinatra visited his father at the firehouse and noticed his locker was lined with newspaper clippings about him; when Marty realized he'd been seen, he quickly shut the locker door.

Context: Marty Hides His Pride

Date as given in source: After Dad had won some renown

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Marty's Disapproval Of Frank's Singing

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Sinatra's father wanted him to become an engineer, mocked his singing ambitions by calling him "Mr. Big Shot," and eventually kicked him out of the house when he refused to give up performing.

Context: Marty's Disapproval Of Frank's Singing

Date as given in source: undated

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Marymount Enrollment And Repeating Fourth Grade

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Tina's mother enrolled her at the all-girls Marymount Junior School in Brentwood hoping smaller classes would help, but Tina disliked the rigid uniform and rules and was ultimately held back to repeat fourth grade.

Context: Marymount Enrollment And Repeating Fourth Grade

Date as given in source: undated

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Mia Declines Alimony

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

After the divorce, Mia refused any alimony from Sinatra, saying she wanted only his respect and friendship, and the two remained close friends for the rest of his life.

Context: Mia Declines Alimony

Date as given in source: undated

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Mia Farrow's Written Reflection On Her Marriage

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Roughly two decades after their divorce, Mia Farrow wrote to Nancy reflecting fondly on quiet domestic moments with Sinatra, but acknowledging that their age difference and her own immaturity at the time had kept them from truly understanding each other.

Context: Mia Farrow's Written Reflection On Her Marriage

Date as given in source: almost twenty years after she had been Mrs. Frank Sinatra

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Mia Farrow Seeks Solace With The Maharishi, Then Films Rosemary's Baby

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

After separating from Sinatra, Mia Farrow traveled to India to see the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, guru to the Beatles, and then channeled her feelings into her performance in Rosemary's Baby.

Context: Mia Farrow Seeks Solace With The Maharishi, Then Films Rosemary's Baby

Date as given in source: after they split up

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Merv Griffin's Joke About Sinatra's Friends

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

At Reagan's fiftieth Inaugural Gala, television host Merv Griffin joked that the powerful people who counted Sinatra as a friend needed somebody to look up to too, just like everyone else.

Context: Merv Griffin's Joke About Sinatra's Friends

Date as given in source: the fiftieth Inaugural Gala

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Meeting Henry Silva at a Red Light

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Sinatra first met actor Henry Silva by calling out a compliment from his car at a Sunset Boulevard stoplight, later casting him in several films.

Context: Meeting Henry Silva at a Red Light

Date as given in source: undated

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Meeting Ava Gardner For The First Time

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Sinatra brought Nancy along to see his and Ava Gardner's Coldwater Canyon house, introducing them casually; Nancy, expecting to feel resentment, instead found herself struck by Ava's beauty.

Context: Meeting Ava Gardner For The First Time

Date as given in source: undated

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Meet Danny Wilson Gives Sinatra A Dramatic Lead

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

In 1952's "Meet Danny Wilson," Sinatra took his first real dramatic film role, delivering strong performances of songs like "I've Got a Crush on You," though the picture again did modest business.

Context: Meet Danny Wilson Gives Sinatra A Dramatic Lead

Date as given in source: 1952

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Medal of Honor for Science and Art, Austria

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Sinatra tours Europe, receives an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from Loyola Marymount and the Distinguished American Award from the Boy Scouts of America, and is given Austria's highest civilian honor, the Medal of Honor for Science and Art, First Class, in Vienna. He appears in "Cannonball Run II."

Context: Medal of Honor for Science and Art, Austria

Date as given in source: 1984

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Mayer's "Chats"

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Mayer would periodically summon Sinatra for one-sided office "chats" on odd topics, cutting off any attempted reply with a barked demand to be quiet.

Context: Mayer's "Chats"

Date as given in source: undated

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Maureen O'Sullivan Recalls Sinatra's Orderliness

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Mia Farrow's mother, actress Maureen O'Sullivan, recalled Sinatra as a highly organized man who personally handled his correspondence and daily plans, and described his flustered reaction when a reporter got his private Palm Springs phone number.

Context: Maureen O'Sullivan Recalls Sinatra's Orderliness

Date as given in source: undated

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Marty's Laxative Prank

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Marty once slipped a laxative into a friend's drink and secretly coated the outhouse seat with glue, leaving the man stuck there, pants down, shouting for help.

Context: Marty's Laxative Prank

Date as given in source: undated

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Marty Sinatra's Chaotic Funeral In Fort Lee

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Marty Sinatra's funeral drew huge crowds in Fort Lee, New Jersey, turning into what Nancy called a bizarre, unmanageable receiving line at the mortuary chapel; at the graveside, Dolly Sinatra tried to throw herself onto the casket and had to be pulled back by Frank, Jilly Rizzo, and Danny Schwartz while Father Robert Perella rushed through the final prayers.

Context: Marty Sinatra's Chaotic Funeral In Fort Lee

Date as given in source: Grandpa's funeral

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Marty Sinatra's Boxing Career and Ring Name

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Frank's father, Anthony Sinatra, started as an apprentice cobbler nicknamed "Tony the Shoemaker," then took up prizefighting under the more advantageous Irish ring name "Marty O'Brien" before eventually becoming a Hoboken fire captain.

Context: Marty Sinatra's Boxing Career and Ring Name

Date as given in source: undated

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Marty Sinatra's Asthma Attack After A Broadway Show

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

After taking her grandparents to Patsy's restaurant and a Broadway show, Nancy and Tommy struggled to find a cab in heavy traffic; the exhaust fumes triggered a severe asthma attack in Marty Sinatra, who lacked his adrenaline injection kit, echoing a similar episode when he had carried furniture into their apartment.

Context: Marty Sinatra's Asthma Attack After A Broadway Show

Date as given in source: undated

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Marilyn Monroe Visits Strasberg's Home

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

While living in New York, Nancy and Tommy Sands spent evenings at Lee Strasberg's home, where Nancy met Marilyn Monroe and found her, contrary to her public image, to be sweet, soft-spoken, and more attractive in person than expected.

Context: Marilyn Monroe Visits Strasberg's Home

Date as given in source: undated

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Marathon Sunday Dinners at Marty and Dolly's

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Nancy describes the family's marathon nine-course Italian Sunday dinners at her grandparents' house, complete with antipasto, pasta, meat, greens, and dessert courses, a ritual Sammy Davis Jr. regularly shared as an adopted family member.

Context: Marathon Sunday Dinners at Marty and Dolly's

Date as given in source: undated

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Louis B. Mayer Trades for Sinatra

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

MGM chief Louis B. Mayer arranged to acquire Sinatra's contract from RKO after hearing him sing, quintupling his per-picture pay from $25,000 to $130,000.

Context: Louis B. Mayer Trades for Sinatra

Date as given in source: undated

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Losing His Voice At The Copacabana

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

During a Copacabana engagement, Sinatra opened his mouth to sing and found nothing came out; a vocal-cord hemorrhage forced him to whisper "good night" to a stunned, silent audience and walk off.

Context: Losing His Voice At The Copacabana

Date as given in source: undated

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Mia Leaves Peyton Place

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

At Sinatra's urging, Mia left her role on the television series Peyton Place, with the couple hoping to work together on films instead.

Context: Mia Leaves Peyton Place

Date as given in source: undated

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Mickey Rudin Explains The Racetrack Investment

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Attorney Mickey Rudin explained that Sinatra's minor investment in a racetrack was returned once concerns about alleged organized-crime ties and a Massachusetts bribery scandal surfaced, and that Sinatra's team proactively turned over related files to the FBI before being asked.

Context: Mickey Rudin Explains The Racetrack Investment

Date as given in source: undated

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Mid-1970s Charitable Causes

From: The Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra, chapter "I Want to Be a Part of It, 1971-98."

Sinatra's fundraising concerts of the period benefited causes including the Muscular Dystrophy Association, the Frank Sinatra Youth Center for Arab and Jewish children in Israel, the Eisenhower Medical Center in Palm Springs, and St Jude Children's Research Center in Memphis, where a Frank Sinatra Child Care Unit was established.

Context: Mid-1970s Charitable Causes

Date as given in source: undated

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Michael Romanoff, The Self-Made 'Emperor' Of Sinatra's Circle

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Restaurateur Michael Romanoff, born Gergenson in Brooklyn rather than Russian nobility as he claimed, adopted a mock-royal persona and would reward Frank, Sammy, Dean and Jimmy Van Heusen for a job well done by theatrically "gifting" them things like the Ural Mountains or the Volga River; he became something of a father figure to Sinatra.

Context: Michael Romanoff, The Self-Made 'Emperor' Of Sinatra's Circle

Date as given in source: undated

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Meeting Billie Holiday and Mabel Mercer on 52nd Street

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Singer Sylvia Syms recalled that she and Sinatra, then newly signed with Tommy Dorsey's band, first met each other on 52nd Street while going to hear Billie Holiday perform. Holiday herself introduced the two young singers and then brought them across the street to hear Mabel Mercer, whose phrasing influenced both of their styles for the rest of their careers.

Context: Meeting Billie Holiday and Mabel Mercer on 52nd Street

Date as given in source: early 1940s

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Maureen O'Sullivan On Sinatra's Fastidious Daily Order

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Mia Farrow's mother, actress Maureen O'Sullivan, said what impressed her most about Sinatra was his precise sense of order; he answered his own phone, personally read and dictated replies to his mail, and always knew exactly what was on the dinner menu.

Context: Maureen O'Sullivan On Sinatra's Fastidious Daily Order

Date as given in source: undated (mid-1960s)

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Mario Puzo On Inventing The Horse's-Head Legend

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Novelist Mario Puzo said the famous horse's-head scene in The Godfather, long assumed to reference Sinatra's real-life career break, was pure invention drawn from Sicilian folklore about killing a man's prized animal as a warning, not a factual account.

Context: Mario Puzo On Inventing The Horse's-Head Legend

Date as given in source: undated

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Mario Puzo On Inventing "An Offer You Can't Refuse"

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Novelist Mario Puzo said he based The Godfather's fictional singer subplot on a half-remembered gossip-column story about Dorsey holding Sinatra to a punishing contract, and that he invented the line "I'll make you an offer you can't refuse" purely by imagining how such a character might think, not from any real mob threat against Dorsey.

Context: Mario Puzo On Inventing "An Offer You Can't Refuse"

Date as given in source: undated

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Manie Sacks Tells Sinatra RCA Won't Sign Him

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Manie Sacks, Sinatra's friend and the new head of RCA Victor, polled his entire staff about signing Sinatra and reported back that nobody at the label thought they could move him; Sacks told Frank he'd rather see him go elsewhere than sign with people who doubted him.

Context: Manie Sacks Tells Sinatra RCA Won't Sign Him

Date as given in source: undated (early 1950s, around Sinatra's Columbia decline)

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Mob Clubs Kept Sinatra Working

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

During a career slump in the early 1950s, mob-connected club figures like Skinny D'Amato kept Sinatra booked when few others in the business would.

Context: Mob Clubs Kept Sinatra Working

Date as given in source: in the early fifties

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Montgomery Clift Predicts an Oscar

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Watching dailies of one of Sinatra's close-ups during the Eternity shoot, Montgomery Clift told Lancaster he believed Frank would win the Academy Award for the role.

Context: Montgomery Clift Predicts an Oscar

Date as given in source: undated

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Morphine-Induced Confessions During Recovery

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

During his hospital recovery, when the morphine drip loosened his guard, Frank confided remorse to Tina over the people he felt he had hurt and his belief that he didn't deserve happiness.

Context: Morphine-Induced Confessions During Recovery

Date as given in source: undated

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Motorcycle Accident With Roger

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

At fifteen, Tina secretly rode on the back of boyfriend Roger's motorcycle without a helmet; a car cut them off and both were thrown, leaving Tina with severe road-rash injuries. Dean Martin, passing by, stopped to help, and her father later delivered a stern rebuke once he knew she was unharmed.

Context: Motorcycle Accident With Roger

Date as given in source: when I was fifteen years old

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Move to Holmby Hills

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

About half a year after Tina's birth, the family moved from the Valley to Holmby Hills, closer to Frank's work at MGM.

Context: Move to Holmby Hills

Date as given in source: six months after my birth

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Moving to Capitol Records

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

After leaving Columbia, Sinatra signed with Capitol Records, where producer Voyle Gilmore paired him first with trumpeter Billy May's style of arranging and then with young trombonist-arranger Nelson Riddle.

Context: Moving to Capitol Records

Date as given in source: undated

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Nancy Charts Frank's Moods on Tour

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Touring frequently with her father in the early eighties, Nancy noticed he was relaxed and jovial when on his own, but grew subdued and short-tempered whenever Barbara was present, once overhearing a bitter argument through adjoining hotel walls at the Waldorf Towers.

Context: Nancy Charts Frank's Moods on Tour

Date as given in source: "in the early eighties"

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Nancy Gives Birth to A.J.

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Less than four months after Tina's wedding, Nancy gave birth to her first child with Hugh Lambert, a daughter named Angela Jennifer, known in the family as A.J.

Context: Nancy Gives Birth to A.J.

Date as given in source: "Less than four months later"

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Nancy Investigates Frank's Medications

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

After Vine reported that Frank had been told to take unfamiliar pills daily, Nancy inspected his breakfast-table pill bottles and found a diuretic, a sleeping pill, a migraine barbiturate, and the antidepressant Elavil, prompting her research into its risks.

Context: Nancy Investigates Frank's Medications

Date as given in source: undated

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Nancy Sr. And Giancana

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Before learning of his criminal reputation, Sinatra's ex-wife Nancy actually liked Sam Giancana when she met him in Nevada, and Giancana himself later encouraged Sinatra to reconcile with her.

Context: Nancy Sr. And Giancana

Date as given in source: undated

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Nancy Sr. Answers The Fan Mail

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Before a press office took over, Nancy Sr. personally handled hundreds of fan letters, forging Sinatra's signature on photographs with help from her sisters.

Context: Nancy Sr. Answers The Fan Mail

Date as given in source: undated

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Nancy on Her Father's Darkest Hour

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Nancy wrote that during this period her father came close to contemplating suicide, and that he later credited friend Jackie Gleason with helping see him through the crisis.

Context: Nancy on Her Father's Darkest Hour

Date as given in source: undated

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Nancy Marries Hugh Lambert In Cathedral City

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Nancy married choreographer Hugh Lambert around the time of her father's fifty-fifth birthday, at a small church in Cathedral City, California; local Mexican families who found the church closed for the private ceremony were invited in by Frank Sinatra to join the celebration. During the ceremony Sinatra was fixated on the pristine new soles of Hugh's shoes.

Context: Nancy Marries Hugh Lambert In Cathedral City

Date as given in source: for Dad's fifty-fifth birthday

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Nancy Learns Of Grandfather Marty's Grave Illness

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

In January 1969, two months after Humphrey's election defeat, Nancy was hosting a Kraft Music Hall Special at NBC Studio 8H in New York when her father and Jilly Rizzo arrived unexpectedly; her father, red-eyed, asked her to call her grandfather, who was gravely ill.

Context: Nancy Learns Of Grandfather Marty's Grave Illness

Date as given in source: in January 1969

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Nancy Films Movin' With Nancy TV Special

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Sponsored by Royal Crown Cola with roughly a half-million-dollar budget, Nancy produced the TV special "Movin' With Nancy," featuring her father, Frank Sinatra Jr., Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr., directed by Jack Haley Jr. Dean Martin missed his own daughter's singing debut because of the shoot, and the special won an Emmy for Haley.

Context: Nancy Films Movin' With Nancy TV Special

Date as given in source: not specified (mid-1960s, before Boots/Vietnam era per context)

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Nancy Comforts A Comatose Soldier Named Jim

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

At a field hospital outside Da Nang, Nancy held the hand of a comatose soldier named Jim who had not responded to doctors in about a week; she told him she would call his wife Tilly and say he was fine. He gripped her hand so tightly the doctors had to pry his fingers open, marking his first response in days.

Context: Nancy Comforts A Comatose Soldier Named Jim

Date as given in source: during the Vietnam tour

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Nancy Breaks Down On Marriage On The Rocks Set

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Shortly after Sands left, Nancy returned to filming Marriage on the Rocks with her father, Deborah Kerr, and Dean Martin. Hearing her father's voice outside the makeup room caused her to break down; hairdresser Naomi and makeup man Shotgun Britton helped hide her tears so Sinatra would not find out and halt filming.

Context: Nancy Breaks Down On Marriage On The Rocks Set

Date as given in source: just after the separation

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Nancy and Tommy Confront a Segregated Nashville Hotel

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Not long after Sammy's snub at the Inaugural Gala, Nancy and her husband Tommy Sands traveled to Nashville for a recording session, accompanied by Frank's houseman George Jacobs. A hotel clerk turned Jacobs away for being Black, so Nancy and Tommy left with him and checked into a run-down hotel across town rather than stay separately.

Context: Nancy and Tommy Confront a Segregated Nashville Hotel

Date as given in source: shortly after the Inaugural Gala snub

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Nancy And Tina Mistaken For Wearing Miniskirts At The Vatican

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Years after Frank Sinatra had an audience with the Pope, Nancy and her sister Tina were turned away from the Vatican by guards who mistook their pleated skirts and knee socks for miniskirts.

Context: Nancy And Tina Mistaken For Wearing Miniskirts At The Vatican

Date as given in source: undated

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Musical Influences and Vocal Training

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Sinatra described the influences that shaped his singing style, including phrasing borrowed from Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong and breath-control technique inspired by violinist Jascha Heifetz, developed with the help of vocal coach and former opera singer John Quinlan.

Context: Musical Influences and Vocal Training

Date as given in source: undated

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Nancy Sr. Rebuilds Her Social Life

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

About four years after the divorce, Nancy Sr. had established a full social calendar of her own, with an active circle of friends and no shortage of admirers.

Context: Nancy Sr. Rebuilds Her Social Life

Date as given in source: Four years after the divorce

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Nancy Sr.'s Abortion

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Determined not to bring a third child into a faltering marriage, Nancy Sr. arranged for an abortion in Los Angeles while Frank was away in Cuba; he realized what had happened when they reunited afterward in Acapulco, and it devastated him.

Context: Nancy Sr.'s Abortion

Date as given in source: had the procedure while my father was in Cuba

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Nancy's Australia Trip and the Stockings

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Nancy joined Frank on a two-week Australian tour, but the trip soured when she discovered women's stockings in his hotel room; combined with trouble from the Australian press, the trip was cut short and Nancy returned home visibly upset.

Context: Nancy's Australia Trip and the Stockings

Date as given in source: When Nancy was fourteen

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Nancy's Frightened Return From Vietnam Via San Francisco

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Arriving back in San Francisco at about 2 a.m. after her Vietnam tour with no connecting flight to Los Angeles until 8 a.m., an overwhelmed and drained Nancy called her father and asked him to send a plane to bring her home immediately.

Context: Nancy's Frightened Return From Vietnam Via San Francisco

Date as given in source: undated

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Nancy's First Single, 'Cufflinks and a Tie Clip'

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

After Sinatra started Reprise Records, Nancy asked to record a single. Producer Tutti Camarata paired her with a novelty song called "Cufflinks and a Tie Clip," backed with an R&B tune, "Not Just Your Friend"; a Palm Springs radio deejay's on-air mention of it as "Frank Sinatra's daughter's first effort" thrilled her enough that she drove to the station to get his autograph.

Context: Nancy's First Single, 'Cufflinks and a Tie Clip'

Date as given in source: not specified, after the missile crisis scare

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Nancy Warned To Stay In Hotel During Chicago Convention

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

While in Chicago for the 1968 Democratic National Convention on Humphrey campaign business, Nancy's father called and told her to stay in her hotel because trouble was expected; exhausted, she instead left town.

Context: Nancy Warned To Stay In Hotel During Chicago Convention

Date as given in source: the Democratic Convention in '68

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Nancy Turns Five And Sees Anchors Aweigh

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

On her fifth birthday, Nancy and friends were taken to Lew Wasserman's MCA office, where they watched the newly finished "Anchors Aweigh" in his private screening room.

Context: Nancy Turns Five And Sees Anchors Aweigh

Date as given in source: on my fifth birthday

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Nancy Tries To Sneak Off With A Green Berets Captain

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

During the Vietnam tour, Nancy nearly slipped away with a Green Berets captain to visit his unit in a nearby danger zone to boost morale, but the commanding officer stopped the plan before she reached them.

Context: Nancy Tries To Sneak Off With A Green Berets Captain

Date as given in source: undated

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Nancy's Hits With Lee Hazlewood

From: The Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra, chapter "I Want to Be a Part of It, 1971-98."

Teaming with country-pop producer and songwriter Lee Hazlewood, and capitalizing on her image as a tough, glamorous 'chick,' Nancy Sinatra scored a run of hits including the worldwide smash 'These Boots Are Made For Walkin'.'

Context: Nancy's Hits With Lee Hazlewood

Date as given in source: undated

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Nancy Seeks Career Advice From Her Father

From: The Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra, chapter "I Want to Be a Part of It, 1971-98."

When Nancy Sinatra approached her father for career advice as she was entering show business, his only counsel was simply not to do what he did.

Context: Nancy Seeks Career Advice From Her Father

Date as given in source: undated

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Nancy's Pink Thunderbird

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

For her seventeenth birthday, Frank gave Nancy a pink Thunderbird convertible with a detachable hardtop, portholes, and an oversized bow tied around the hood.

Context: Nancy's Pink Thunderbird

Date as given in source: Nancy's seventeenth birthday

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Nancy's Song for Their Father

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

In the epilogue, Tina notes that her sister Nancy always associates their father with the Rodgers and Hammerstein song 'Something Wonderful,' about a flawed but big-hearted man worth loving despite his stumbles.

Context: Nancy's Song for Their Father

Date as given in source: not specified

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Nancy's Token Alimony Request

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

After her divorce from Tommy Sands, Nancy asked for only token alimony of one dollar a year for five years, and borrowed money from her mother to cover her new house's mortgage, repaying her quickly.

Context: Nancy's Token Alimony Request

Date as given in source: undated

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Nancy's Take On Sinatra's Earliest Solo Recording

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Listening back years later, Nancy found Sinatra's first recording of "All or Nothing at All" still remarkably young, sweet, and strong.

Context: Nancy's Take On Sinatra's Earliest Solo Recording

Date as given in source: undated

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Nancy's Secretary Lilian Peloso On Fan Mail Pleas

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Sinatra's secretary Lilian Peloso reported that many of the more than thirty thousand letters Sinatra received during retirement begged him to at least make another album.

Context: Nancy's Secretary Lilian Peloso On Fan Mail Pleas

Date as given in source: undated

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Nancy's Record-Breaking Caesars Palace Engagement

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Nancy's second Las Vegas engagement, at Caesars Palace with the Blossoms, the Osmonds, and a twelve-man chorus line produced by Hugh Lambert, smashed the venue's house attendance record and drew strong reviews.

Context: Nancy's Record-Breaking Caesars Palace Engagement

Date as given in source: My second Las Vegas appearance was at Caesars

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Nancy's Quiet Support For Robert Kennedy In 1968 Primaries

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

During the 1968 Democratic primaries, Nancy privately favored Robert Kennedy for his pledge to end the Vietnam War but did not campaign publicly for him, out of consideration for her father's ties to the Johnson administration.

Context: Nancy's Quiet Support For Robert Kennedy In 1968 Primaries

Date as given in source: Nineteen sixty-eight was a presidential election year

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Nancy's Nightclub Debut At The International Hotel

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Bill Miller, entertainment director of the new International Hotel in Las Vegas, gave Nancy a three-week engagement following Barbra Streisand and Elvis Presley -- her first-ever nightclub performance. Her team included choreographer Hugh Lambert, the Osmond Brothers, the Blossoms, and songwriter Mac Davis; Sinatra invited Hollywood friends including the Milton Berles, Gregory Pecks, Kirk Douglases, and Elvis Presley to attend.

Context: Nancy's Nightclub Debut At The International Hotel

Date as given in source: not specified, follows the International engagement

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Needing Oxygen at the Desert Inn

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

After a difficult show at the Desert Inn, Frank felt so ill by the end of the performance that he needed oxygen from a tank he kept on hand.

Context: Needing Oxygen at the Desert Inn

Date as given in source: undated

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Nelson Riddle Calms Sinatra's Temper

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Arranger Nelson Riddle recalled being one of the few people who could calm Sinatra down mid-session when he snapped at someone, describing Frank as someone who always felt the world was against him and combative because of it.

Context: Nelson Riddle Calms Sinatra's Temper

Date as given in source: undated

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Nelson Riddle On Sinatra's Demanding Perfectionism

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Arranger Nelson Riddle said Sinatra drew the best work out of everyone around him because he expected nothing less, rarely offering compliments and keeping the whole orchestra on its toes.

Context: Nelson Riddle On Sinatra's Demanding Perfectionism

Date as given in source: undated

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Nelson Riddle On Calming Sinatra's Temper

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Nelson Riddle said his own placid manner sometimes helped defuse Sinatra's flashes of temper in the studio, recalling that a calm word could stop Frank mid-outburst, though Riddle believed Sinatra always felt the world was out to get him.

Context: Nelson Riddle On Calming Sinatra's Temper

Date as given in source: undated

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Musicians "Swoon Back" At Swooning Fans

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Tommy Dorsey recalled that when bobby-soxers swooned at the sight of Sinatra performing, the band's own musicians would sometimes stop playing and mockingly swoon right back at the crowd. Dorsey noted Frank was no matinee idol, "just a skinny kid with big ears," yet the excitement he generated was unmistakable.

Context: Musicians "Swoon Back" At Swooning Fans

Date as given in source: undated

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Nelson Riddle on Working with Sinatra at Capitol

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Arranger Nelson Riddle recalled that Sinatra saw him as well prepared for sessions, though Riddle's outward calm often concealed last-minute scrambling to finish multiple arrangements in a single day.

Context: Nelson Riddle on Working with Sinatra at Capitol

Date as given in source: undated

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Nelson Riddle on Sinatra's Demanding Studio Presence

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Riddle described Sinatra as a stimulating but demanding collaborator who pushed both himself and the studio musicians to their best performances.

Context: Nelson Riddle on Sinatra's Demanding Studio Presence

Date as given in source: undated

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"Nelson, you're a gas" exchange

From: James Kaplan, "Sinatra: The Chairman" (2015)

Frank Sinatra: During the Wee Small Hours sessions, after finally nailing a satisfactory vocal take of "What Is This Thing Called Love?" on the twenty-first attempt, Sinatra told Riddle, "Nelson, you're a gas," to which the socially awkward Riddle replied simply, "Likewise."

Context: "Nelson, you're a gas" exchange

Date as given in source: 1955

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"Nevertheless" charts at number 14

From: James Kaplan, "Frank: The Voice" (2010)

Kaplan: Sinatra's single "Nevertheless (I'm in Love with You)" reached only number 14 on the charts in December 1950, after which no Sinatra side would chart again for months.

Context: "Nevertheless" charts at number 14

Date as given in source: December 1950

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Nineteen-Year-Old Tina Meets Otto Preminger

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

At nineteen and with almost no acting experience, Tina landed a meeting with director Otto Preminger about a small film role. He was courteous but blunt, telling her she needed to lose her baby fat and get more training before she was ready for the part.

Context: Nineteen-Year-Old Tina Meets Otto Preminger

Date as given in source: "At nineteen"

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Noel Coward's Tribute to Sinatra

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Introducing Frank on one occasion, Noel Coward praised him for never once showing poor taste or making a wrong move.

Context: Noel Coward's Tribute to Sinatra

Date as given in source: undated

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Nikita Khrushchev Watches the "Can-Can" Set

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

During his visit to the United States, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev was entertained by the cast of "Can-Can" and reportedly called the film's title dance number "immoral," a controversy Newsweek suggested boosted advance ticket sales beyond even those for "Ben-Hur."

Context: Nikita Khrushchev Watches the "Can-Can" Set

Date as given in source: undated

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Nightly Martinis and the Lost Dunhill Lighter

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

During the Eternity shoot, Lancaster remembered nightly gatherings in Sinatra's hotel room, complete with martinis Frank served himself, futile nightly phone attempts to reach Ava in Spain, and a gold Dunhill lighter Frank insisted on giving him that he promptly lost.

Context: Nightly Martinis and the Lost Dunhill Lighter

Date as given in source: undated

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Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back Album And NBC Special

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Sinatra paired his 1973 comeback album Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back with an NBC television special that reunited him with Gene Kelly.

Context: Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back Album And NBC Special

Date as given in source: 1973

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New Jersey Shore with Friends

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

A late-1920s photograph shows a teenage Frank posing with a group of friends at the New Jersey Shore.

Context: New Jersey Shore with Friends

Date as given in source: late 1920s

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New Closing Song: 'Theme From New York, New York'

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Sinatra scored a major hit and adopted "Theme from New York, New York" as a new closing number for his live performances.

Context: New Closing Song: 'Theme From New York, New York'

Date as given in source: undated

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'One Thing At A Time': Sinatra's Secret To His Schedule

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Director George Sidney once asked Sinatra how he managed to record, film and perform simultaneously; Frank's simple answer was that he handled everything one thing at a time, which Sidney called astonishing concentration.

Context: 'One Thing At A Time': Sinatra's Secret To His Schedule

Date as given in source: undated

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Nixon's Anonymous $500 Checks

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Richard Nixon recalled that Sinatra had a habit of reading the morning papers and circling the names of ordinary people he did not know who had suffered some misfortune or bad luck, then instructing his secretary to send each of them a check for five hundred dollars, always anonymously and never claimed as a tax deduction.

Context: Nixon's Anonymous $500 Checks

Date as given in source: undated

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One Year Survived; Nancy Sr. Joins for What Would Be Her Last Visit

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

A year after his heart attack, Frank had made it through largely without medical crisis. Barbara invited Tina's mother for Thanksgiving dinner; Frank offered an emotional toast to his family but had to excuse himself before dessert to rest, in what turned out to be the last meal Tina's mother would share with him.

Context: One Year Survived; Nancy Sr. Joins for What Would Be Her Last Visit

Date as given in source: As Thanksgiving approached

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Oscar Nomination for "The Man with the Golden Arm"

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Sinatra receives an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and a special British Cinematography Council award for "The Man with the Golden Arm," and is named "The Musician's Musician" by Metronome; he also appears in "Meet Me in Las Vegas," "Johnny Concho," "High Society," and "Around the World in 80 Days."

Context: Oscar Nomination for "The Man with the Golden Arm"

Date as given in source: 1956

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Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, "From Here to Eternity"

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Sinatra wins the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "From Here to Eternity," is named Top Male Singer by Billboard and Most Popular Vocalist by Downbeat, and scores a #1 hit with "Young at Heart."

Context: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, "From Here to Eternity"

Date as given in source: 1954

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Oscar for "The House I Live In"

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Sinatra wins an Academy Award for the short film "The House I Live In" and receives the Jefferson Award from the Council Against Intolerance in America; Downbeat names him America's Favorite Male Singer.

Context: Oscar for "The House I Live In"

Date as given in source: 1946

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Open-Air Concert at the Pyramids

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Sinatra gave an outdoor concert at the foot of the pyramids in Egypt that raised more than half a million dollars for charities backed by Mrs. Anwar Sadat, prompting warm letters of thanks from both President Sadat and Israel's Menachem Begin.

Context: Open-Air Concert at the Pyramids

Date as given in source: 1979

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Oscars and Grammys Locked Behind Plexiglas

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

While Barbara was away at her annual charity golf tournament, Tina noticed that the bookcase displaying Frank's Oscars and Grammys at Foothill had been sealed behind thick Plexiglas. Barbara later explained it as a security measure given the number of strangers in the house.

Context: Oscars and Grammys Locked Behind Plexiglas

Date as given in source: In February

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Otto Preminger as an Actor's Director

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Sinatra described himself as more focused on performance than technical filmmaking, and singled out director Otto Preminger on The Man with the Golden Arm as someone who worked closely and helpfully with his actors, unlike some directors on earlier films such as From Here to Eternity.

Context: Otto Preminger as an Actor's Director

Date as given in source: undated

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Overdose Scare in Reno

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

While performing in Reno on a trip Barbara skipped, Frank accidentally took a second dose of Elavil, leaving him pale and hyperventilating until Bill Stapely had him breathe into a paper bag; Tina stayed with him until he fell asleep.

Context: Overdose Scare in Reno

Date as given in source: undated

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Perry Como Fills In For Sinatra

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

When Sinatra occasionally asked him to cover a Paramount show, Perry Como remembered walking onto the stage to a hostile, confused crowd who had no idea who he was.

Context: Perry Como Fills In For Sinatra

Date as given in source: undated

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Peggy Lee's Devoted Nurse

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Singer Peggy Lee recalled that while she suffered days of ptomaine poisoning during a joint Paramount engagement, Sinatra -- despite his own frenzied schedule -- visited between every one of his shows to bring her blankets, tea, and comfort.

Context: Peggy Lee's Devoted Nurse

Date as given in source: undated

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Paramount Theatre Engagement Ignites a 'Generation Gap'

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

When Sinatra played New York's Paramount Theatre in the early 1940s as a lean young singer newly out of Hoboken, teenage girls swooned in a way their bewildered parents couldn't understand, creating what Nancy calls the first generational divide.

Context: Paramount Theatre Engagement Ignites a 'Generation Gap'

Date as given in source: the early 1940s

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Perry Como on Sinatra's Lyric Interpretation

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Perry Como praised Sinatra's ability to make a listener believe every word of a lyric, citing Sinatra's rendition of the personal song 'Nancy' as especially moving.

Context: Perry Como on Sinatra's Lyric Interpretation

Date as given in source: undated

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Performing With Basie at the Sands

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Sinatra again performed with Count Basie and his orchestra at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas.

Context: Performing With Basie at the Sands

Date as given in source: 1966

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Performing At Brendan Byrne Arena In New Jersey

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Sinatra performed at the Brendan Byrne Arena in the Meadowlands Sports Complex, in his home state of New Jersey, at some point during the 1980s.

Context: Performing At Brendan Byrne Arena In New Jersey

Date as given in source: 1980s

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Peggy Lee on Her Longtime Friendship with Sinatra

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Peggy Lee recalled meeting Sinatra early in both their careers when they were starting out in New York, describing a lasting friendship and admiring his elegance and charm.

Context: Peggy Lee on Her Longtime Friendship with Sinatra

Date as given in source: undated

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Peter Lawford on the Grind of the Summit Shows

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Lawford described nights of doing two shows, sleeping only a few hours, then reporting to a film set by day during the group's overlapping Vegas engagements and movie shoots.

Context: Peter Lawford on the Grind of the Summit Shows

Date as given in source: undated

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Peter Lawford On The Summit's Punishing Schedule

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Peter Lawford recalled the Rat Pack's routine during their Vegas heyday, two shows a night, bed around five, up again by seven or eight to shoot a film during the day, and said people were taking bets they'd all collapse from it.

Context: Peter Lawford On The Summit's Punishing Schedule

Date as given in source: undated

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Pat Henry's Surprise Trip to England

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Opening act Pat Henry recalled Sinatra calling to ask if he owned a passport, then inviting him to dinner and, without warning, on to look at Kirk Kerkorian's new jet at LaGuardia. What Sinatra billed as a quick "test run" of the plane turned into an impromptu two-hour flight, at the end of which Sinatra casually revealed they were flying to England, leaving Henry stranded with only thirty-seven dollars and the single suit he was wearing.

Context: Pat Henry's Surprise Trip to England

Date as given in source: undated

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Phil Silvers' Original "Bessie With The Laughing Face" Lyric

From: Benny Green, liner notes to "Frank Sinatra: The First Definitive Performances" (Avid Records, AMSC 566, 1996).

According to Benny Green's account, "Nancy (With the Laughing Face)" began at a Hollywood party when Phil Silvers dashed off a quick lyric titled "Bessie With The Laughing Face" in tribute to a producer's wife who was present; James Van Heusen later tidied up the melody and Silvers' words were reworked into the title with special appeal for Sinatra.

Context: Phil Silvers' Original "Bessie With The Laughing Face" Lyric

Date as given in source: undated

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Phil Silvers and the Wartime USO Tours

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Comedian Phil Silvers recalled touring North Africa and Italy with Sinatra to entertain troops during the war, having been recruited by Frank's manager to teach him comedy routines developed with his burlesque partner Rags Ragland.

Context: Phil Silvers and the Wartime USO Tours

Date as given in source: undated

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Peter Pitchess on Investigating Sinatra's Alleged Mob Ties

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Los Angeles County Sheriff Peter Pitchess said he had investigated Frank more thoroughly than anyone, both as an FBI agent and as sheriff, and told visiting Nevada investigators they would find nothing linking Sinatra to organized crime.

Context: Peter Pitchess on Investigating Sinatra's Alleged Mob Ties

Date as given in source: undated

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Planning a Low-Key 80th Birthday

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Visiting the beach house with her niece Amanda, Tina discussed plans for Frank's upcoming eightieth birthday. Barbara said Frank preferred a family-only gathering to avoid slighting other friends, and they agreed to finalize details later at Foothill, Nancy's house, or a restaurant.

Context: Planning a Low-Key 80th Birthday

Date as given in source: a July visit

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Playback Session for It Might As Well Be Swing

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Sinatra and producer Sonny Burke worked a session for It Might As Well Be Swing; Sinatra is shown listening to a playback with a lead sheet for 'I Wish You Love' on the music stand.

Context: Playback Session for It Might As Well Be Swing

Date as given in source: June 1964

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Photographed On Stage By Charles Turner

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Trumpeter and photographer Charles Turner captured Sinatra performing on stage during the late 1970s.

Context: Photographed On Stage By Charles Turner

Date as given in source: late 1970s

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Post-Graduation Trip To Hoboken

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

After Tina's high school graduation, she and her father traveled to Europe by way of New York, stopping in Hoboken so she could see his childhood home, the site of his birth, and the wharf where he used to swim as a boy.

Context: Post-Graduation Trip To Hoboken

Date as given in source: After I graduated from high school

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Post-Surgery Trip to Hawaii for Magnum, P.I.

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

As soon as doctors cleared him after his diverticulitis surgery, Frank rebounded quickly, flying to Hawaii for a guest appearance on Magnum, P.I., even performing some of his own stunts.

Context: Post-Surgery Trip to Hawaii for Magnum, P.I.

Date as given in source: undated

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Pranking Michael Romanoff

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Beverly Hills restaurateur Michael Romanoff, a beloved friend who posed as Russian nobility, was the frequent target of elaborate practical jokes by Sinatra and Dean Martin, including secretly swapping his laundry and shaving down his walking stick a little each night.

Context: Pranking Michael Romanoff

Date as given in source: undated (recurring)

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Realizing Dad Was Famous

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

At twelve, returning from a father-daughter school square dance, Tina saw strangers in a nearby car gawking and realized with a jolt that they were staring at her father, not her, and understood for the first time the scale of his fame.

Context: Realizing Dad Was Famous

Date as given in source: I was twelve years old before I realized Dad was somebody

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Recording the Sinatra Family Christmas Album

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

The Sinatra children joined their father to record a family Christmas album, with Tina straining for a high note on one song, and the siblings also performed a paired father-child holiday segment on Dean Martin's TV show, nervous because neither dad tolerated retakes.

Context: Recording the Sinatra Family Christmas Album

Date as given in source: undated

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Registering Voters Poolside With Vice President Agnew

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

During the 1972 campaign, Tina spent a weekend at the Compound where fellow guests included Vice President Spiro Agnew and his wife, who had become regulars there. Wearing her McGovern button at the pool, she signed up several guests to vote, including Sammy Davis Jr., while Agnew laughed along good-naturedly.

Context: Registering Voters Poolside With Vice President Agnew

Date as given in source: during the McGovern campaign, the desert weekend with Ted Agnew

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Reprise Sale Gifts to the Children

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

As each Sinatra child reached adulthood, Frank gave them a million dollars from the proceeds of selling his Reprise label to Warner Records, though he otherwise avoided setting up trust funds, preferring his children to be self-reliant.

Context: Reprise Sale Gifts to the Children

Date as given in source: undated

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Second Collapse, in Atlantic City

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Frank collapsed again during a hot summer performance in Atlantic City, this time managing to get offstage before fans could see. He again refused hospitalization, prompting his manager to insist a doctor accompany him home, and Tina angrily confronted Eliot Weisman about letting the pattern continue.

Context: Second Collapse, in Atlantic City

Date as given in source: Five months later, on a hot August night

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Securing A Hotel Key For Sy Oliver

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

When integration was still a radical idea, Sinatra insisted that Dorsey band arranger Sy Oliver, who was Black, be given his own hotel room key while on tour.

Context: Securing A Hotel Key For Sy Oliver

Date as given in source: Back in the early forties

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"She's Funny That Way": Margaret Whiting Reveals Her Father's Hidden Credit

From: Benny Green, liner notes to "Frank Sinatra: The First Definitive Performances" (Avid Records, AMSC 566, 1996).

Liner-note writer Benny Green relates that singer Margaret Whiting told him her father, songwriter Richard Whiting, wrote the lyric to the standard "She's Funny That Way" to express his love for his wife, and disguised his authorship under the pseudonym "N. Moret" for reasons she never learned.

Context: "She's Funny That Way": Margaret Whiting Reveals Her Father's Hidden Credit

Date as given in source: undated

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Sheffield's Board Expands

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

About two years after Sheffield's founding, Frank asked to expand its board from three members to six, adding Eliot Weisman, Harvey Silbert, and Bobby Marx. Tina initially refused, suspecting Barbara's influence, but relented after her mother urged her not to add to Frank's burdens.

Context: Sheffield's Board Expands

Date as given in source: After two years of operation

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Sinatra Hires Albert Maltz For The House I Live In

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Sinatra hired writer Albert Maltz for the short film The House I Live In, an anti-intolerance piece that went on to win a special Oscar.

Context: Sinatra Hires Albert Maltz For The House I Live In

Date as given in source: Back in 1945

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Sinatra Miniseries Premiere Week and the Waldorf Illness

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

As the miniseries neared its November 1992 airdate, Tina hosted a New York press event at the Rainbow Room while Frank was set to perform at Radio City with Shirley MacLaine. He fell ill with a fever at the Waldorf Towers and canceled the show; Barbara later gave Tina an inscribed gold Cartier lighter as a thank-you gift for the miniseries.

Context: Sinatra Miniseries Premiere Week and the Waldorf Illness

Date as given in source: our November airdate

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Sinatra Miniseries Wins Awards

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

The Sinatra miniseries was well-reviewed and went on to win the Golden Globe for best miniseries, along with two of its nine Emmy nominations, for direction and costume design.

Context: Sinatra Miniseries Wins Awards

Date as given in source: undated

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Sinatra Regains Some Strength

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

By March 1998, Sinatra was recovering from the February crisis, regaining weight and bringing his anemia under control, though he remained thinner than at any point since his heart attack.

Context: Sinatra Regains Some Strength

Date as given in source: By March

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Sinatra Returns Actively to the Church After His Mother's Death

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Since his mother Dolly's death, Sinatra has actively returned to the Catholic Church, attending Mass every Sunday and sometimes during the week.

Context: Sinatra Returns Actively to the Church After His Mother's Death

Date as given in source: undated

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Sinatra Receives Thomas A. Dooley Foundation Award

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

In March 1973, Sinatra received an award from the Thomas A. Dooley Foundation.

Context: Sinatra Receives Thomas A. Dooley Foundation Award

Date as given in source: In March '73

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Sinatra Orders Thirty Thousand Clams After Granddaughter's Birth

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Tina recalled that after learning by phone that Nancy had given birth to daughter A.J., Frank Sinatra and promoter Jerry Weintraub abandoned a resolution to stop drinking and ordered thirty thousand clams at a seafood restaurant, served a hundred at a time.

Context: Sinatra Orders Thirty Thousand Clams After Granddaughter's Birth

Date as given in source: undated

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Sinatra On Why He Loved Strings

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Sinatra said that if Dorsey's band had had a string section back in 1940, he might never have left, since he'd always craved that lush vocal backing.

Context: Sinatra On Why He Loved Strings

Date as given in source: undated

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Sinatra Moves From The Sands To Caesars Palace

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

By the time the Sinatra-Farrow divorce was finalized, Frank Sinatra had left the Sands' small Copa Room for the larger Circus Maximus at Caesars Palace, where his marquee eventually simply read "HE'S HERE."

Context: Sinatra Moves From The Sands To Caesars Palace

Date as given in source: By the time their divorce came through

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Sinatra Learns Of Final Divorce During TV Taping

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

The summer after the separation, while Sinatra was taping a TV special, his friend Jilly Rizzo told him during a break that lawyer Mickey Rudin had confirmed the divorce from Mia Farrow was finalized in Nicaragua. Sinatra chose to use the earlier dress-rehearsal footage rather than perform the number again.

Context: Sinatra Learns Of Final Divorce During TV Taping

Date as given in source: the following summer, taping a TV special

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Sinatra Hosts Twenty-Two Guests At Palm Springs For Holidays

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Freddie Brisson recalled that Sinatra once invited twenty-two friends to stay at his Palm Springs compound from December 18 through the New Year, personally overseeing every detail of the guesthouse's stocking and decor, down to buying out an entire art store's inventory of paintings.

Context: Sinatra Hosts Twenty-Two Guests At Palm Springs For Holidays

Date as given in source: from December 18 until after New Year's

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Sinatra Hated the Dorsey Band's Shoes

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

A photo caption of the Dorsey band notes that Sinatra disliked the stage shoes Tommy Dorsey required the group to wear, though Dorsey insisted on them anyway.

Context: Sinatra Hated the Dorsey Band's Shoes

Date as given in source: undated

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Sinatra Gives Mia A Thunderbird To Match Her Hair

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

During their courtship, Sinatra gave Mia Farrow a light yellow Thunderbird, telling her it was "to match your hair"; she called him "Charlie Brown" and wrote him poems.

Context: Sinatra Gives Mia A Thunderbird To Match Her Hair

Date as given in source: undated

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Sinatra Family Reacts To Robert Kennedy's Assassination

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

The assassination of Robert Kennedy devastated the family; afterward Frank Sinatra grew quiet even while continuing to campaign for Hubert Humphrey, and Nancy threw herself into full support for Humphrey's campaign.

Context: Sinatra Family Reacts To Robert Kennedy's Assassination

Date as given in source: When Bobby was killed

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Sinatra Consolidates His Real Estate Holdings

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

After Nancy's wedding, Sinatra bought mountain property near Palm Springs for a family retreat, bought back his Los Angeles hillside home, and sold his London flat and New York East 72nd Street apartment, reestablishing his New York base at the Waldorf Towers.

Context: Sinatra Consolidates His Real Estate Holdings

Date as given in source: undated

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Sinatra Confronts Gun-Wielding Caesars Palace Boss

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

During a later engagement of his own at Caesars Palace, Sinatra confronted casino boss Sandy Waterman over what he saw as unfair treatment of a patron; Waterman pulled a gun, which Jilly Rizzo and a security guard wrestled away. Furious, Sinatra vowed never to play Caesars again, and Nancy canceled her own lucrative multiyear Caesars contract in solidarity, only revealing this to her father fourteen years later from the stage of their final Caesars show together.

Context: Sinatra Confronts Gun-Wielding Caesars Palace Boss

Date as given in source: a few nights after it opened, following Nancy's Caesars run

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Sinatra Conducts For A Late Tommy Dorsey

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Songwriter Sammy Cahn recalled a Dorsey band engagement at the Hollywood Palladium where Dorsey arrived late; Sinatra took over as conductor, then sharply scolded Dorsey when he finally showed up.

Context: Sinatra Conducts For A Late Tommy Dorsey

Date as given in source: undated

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Sinatra Cancels A Riviera Trip At The Last Minute

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

After weeks in Biarritz, Sinatra called Nancy just as she, her mother, and Hugh were about to fly out to join him on the Riviera, admitting he wished he were coming the other way -- prompting the family to cancel the trip.

Context: Sinatra Cancels A Riviera Trip At The Last Minute

Date as given in source: undated

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Sinatra Builds The Christmas Tree House In Palm Springs

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Sinatra added a separate four-bedroom guest dwelling at his Palm Springs compound, nicknamed the Christmas Tree House for its pine trees and Connecticut-style architecture, which became a favorite gathering place for Nancy, Tina, and Frankie; the expanded compound could sleep twenty-two.

Context: Sinatra Builds The Christmas Tree House In Palm Springs

Date as given in source: undated

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Sinatra And Mia Farrow Separate

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

After a year and a half of marriage, Frank Sinatra and Mia Farrow separated; Nancy flew to Miami, where her father was filming a movie, to be with him, and he told her it would be harder for Mia to recover because of her youth.

Context: Sinatra And Mia Farrow Separate

Date as given in source: after a year and a half of marriage

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Sinatra And Farrow's Bel Air House

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Frank Sinatra and Mia Farrow bought a house in Bel Air, which Mia decorated with designer Laura Mako in an Old English style with dark wood and bright fabrics, including a small reading loft for Mia.

Context: Sinatra And Farrow's Bel Air House

Date as given in source: undated

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Shutting Down a Film to Visit Dying Manie Sacks

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

When mentor Manie Sacks was dying of leukemia in 1958, Sinatra halted production on Kings Go Forth for two days at his own expense and flew to Philadelphia to see him, defying hospital orders against visitors.

Context: Shutting Down a Film to Visit Dying Manie Sacks

Date as given in source: In 1958

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Shirley MacLaine, "One of the Guys"

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Shirley MacLaine recalled hanging around the Summit crowd feeling like one of the boys, remarking that surrounded by attractive men, none of them ever made a romantic move on her.

Context: Shirley MacLaine, "One of the Guys"

Date as given in source: undated

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Sheriff Pitchess Counsels Sinatra on Feuding With the Press

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Former Los Angeles Sheriff Peter Pitchess urged Sinatra to stop sparring with columnists from the stage; Sinatra agreed to apologize to one writer he had insulted, but turned the on-stage apology into an even sharper jab instead. Years later, on a trip to Africa, Barbara Sinatra quietly asked Pitchess not to encourage another such apology.

Context: Sheriff Pitchess Counsels Sinatra on Feuding With the Press

Date as given in source: undated

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Sending Frankie to Desert Sun School

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Concerned that Frankie was growing up surrounded only by women, his parents sent him to the Desert Sun boarding school near Idyllwild; he initially felt rejected but later thrived there, forming his own band.

Context: Sending Frankie to Desert Sun School

Date as given in source: undated

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Sculptor Robert Berks on Giving Away Sinatra Busts

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Sculptor Robert Berks recalled Sinatra telling him that giving away replicas of the bronze portrait bust was the closest thing he could offer people to how he truly felt inside.

Context: Sculptor Robert Berks on Giving Away Sinatra Busts

Date as given in source: undated

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Scopus Award and an Honorary Doctorate

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Sinatra accepted the Scopus Award from the American Friends of Hebrew University in Israel and received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Nevada. He phoned his mother Dolly afterward with the simple news, "Ma, I graduated today."

Context: Scopus Award and an Honorary Doctorate

Date as given in source: 1976

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Scolded for Driving Too Carefully

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

As a newly licensed teenage driver following her father to a recording session, Nancy drove cautiously and arrived exactly on time, only to be scolded by Frank for being "late," since he was used to arriving ten minutes early.

Context: Scolded for Driving Too Carefully

Date as given in source: undated

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Scolded at Harry Rapf's Funeral

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

When studio associate Harry Rapf died, Mayer called Sinatra in to complain that almost no one from the studio had come to the funeral.

Context: Scolded at Harry Rapf's Funeral

Date as given in source: undated

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Sawed-Off Stool and Toy Putter Pranks on Sammy

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

The Summit crew sawed down the legs of Sammy's onstage stool and, on the golf course, made him play with a miniature putter instead of regular clubs.

Context: Sawed-Off Stool and Toy Putter Pranks on Sammy

Date as given in source: undated

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Sammy's Rigged Steam-Room Robe

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

As a running gag, Frank had the steam room staff swap Sammy Davis Jr.'s white robe, towels, and soap for brown ones, claiming it was Sinatra's order; the whole group broke up laughing once Sammy confronted Frank about it.

Context: Sammy's Rigged Steam-Room Robe

Date as given in source: undated

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Sammy Rounds Up Two Dozen Dancers for Frank

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

After Frank complained no women were around one night, Sammy called in roughly twenty-five chorus dancers from two different hotel revues to join them in the lounge.

Context: Sammy Rounds Up Two Dozen Dancers for Frank

Date as given in source: undated

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Sammy Davis on Sinatra's Quiet Grief

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Sammy Davis Jr. described Sinatra's post-Ava period as a quiet, withdrawn time when he processed his pain privately and channeled it into recordings like "In the Wee Small Hours" and "Only the Lonely."

Context: Sammy Davis on Sinatra's Quiet Grief

Date as given in source: undated

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Sammy Davis Jr.'s Drunken Blowup and Reconciliation

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Sammy Davis Jr. recalled a night of heavy drinking when he cursed out Sinatra at the Sands, then dreaded facing him the next morning. Sinatra simply told him that everyone had done the same thing at some point, and that if Sammy couldn't handle his drinking, he should stop.

Context: Sammy Davis Jr.'s Drunken Blowup and Reconciliation

Date as given in source: undated

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Sammy Davis Jr. Recovers from Losing an Eye

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

After losing an eye in a car accident, Sammy Davis Jr. went straight to Sinatra in Palm Springs, who helped him cope through humor, practical retraining exercises like pouring water, and anticipating his needs before he had to ask.

Context: Sammy Davis Jr. Recovers from Losing an Eye

Date as given in source: undated

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Sammy Davis Jr. on the John Wayne 'Brawl'

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Sammy Davis Jr. recounted a night when a drunken Sinatra tried to punch John Wayne over a perceived earlier slight; Wayne simply lifted him aside and laughed it off, yet tabloids later reported a full parking-lot brawl.

Context: Sammy Davis Jr. on the John Wayne 'Brawl'

Date as given in source: undated

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Sammy Davis Jr. on Sinatra's Sense of Right and Wrong

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Sammy said that whenever Frank was rude to someone, it was because the person deserved it, and that Frank enforced clear personal boundaries that other members of the group let slide.

Context: Sammy Davis Jr. on Sinatra's Sense of Right and Wrong

Date as given in source: undated

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Saloon Trips With Grandpa Marty

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Nancy recalled toddling requests to go to her paternal grandfather Marty's saloon, much to her grandmother Dolly's exasperation.

Context: Saloon Trips With Grandpa Marty

Date as given in source: undated

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Ruth Berle's WAC Commission

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Actress Ruth Berle recalled Sinatra's frustration at being repeatedly turned down for service, and how touched she was when he sent her flowers in Des Moines the day she received her WAC officer's commission.

Context: Ruth Berle's WAC Commission

Date as given in source: undated

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Ruth Berle on Sinatra's Loneliness on the Road

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Ruth Berle, then dating drummer Buddy Rich, recalled Sinatra confiding how lonely it was touring during the holidays, having to spend Christmas away from his family in places like Minneapolis.

Context: Ruth Berle on Sinatra's Loneliness on the Road

Date as given in source: undated

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Russ Columbo and Bing Crosby as Idols

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Frank and Nancy Sr. watched live acts featuring Russ Columbo and one of Bing Crosby's final vaudeville performances at a Jersey City theater; Frank deliberately avoided imitating Crosby's style, wanting to sound different.

Context: Russ Columbo and Bing Crosby as Idols

Date as given in source: undated

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Ruling Holmby Hills As Kids

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

With only Bomber Shapiro and her brother Frankie as neighborhood playmates, Nancy recalled the trio treating their exclusive Holmby Hills street -- home to neighbors like Walt Disney, Robert Ryan, and Loretta Young -- as their own private territory for games and mock raids.

Context: Ruling Holmby Hills As Kids

Date as given in source: undated

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Roz Russell Introduces Sinatra's Farewell Show

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Actress Rosalind Russell introduced Sinatra's retirement farewell performance with an emotional speech honoring his decades-long career and the audience's connection to him.

Context: Roz Russell Introduces Sinatra's Farewell Show

Date as given in source: undated

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Ron Joy's Publicity Campaign Modeled On Raquel Welch

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Photographer Ron Joy, noting how ubiquitous Raquel Welch was on magazine covers worldwide despite limited film work, launched a similar international pinup photo campaign for Nancy tied to holidays, helping boost her career and generating covers on Stars and Stripes, Look, Paris-Match, and Stern.

Context: Ron Joy's Publicity Campaign Modeled On Raquel Welch

Date as given in source: undated

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Roller Skating Days At Toluca Lake

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Nancy remembered learning to roller skate and ride a bike at the family's Toluca Lake home, playing with neighborhood friends including Bill Goodwin's and Jan Savitt's daughters.

Context: Roller Skating Days At Toluca Lake

Date as given in source: undated

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Robert Merrill on the Rigors of Bowes Touring

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Singer Robert Merrill, who toured with a different Major Bowes amateur-hour company in the same period, recalled cramped, cattle-car travel conditions and cheap shared hotel rooms under the notoriously stingy Major Bowes.

Context: Robert Merrill on the Rigors of Bowes Touring

Date as given in source: undated

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Robert Merrill on Sinatra's Need for Bodyguards

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Opera singer Robert Merrill described the crowds that besieged Sinatra after public appearances, recalling one night leaving Carnegie Hall when Sinatra physically shielded Merrill's wife and pushed them both into a waiting car.

Context: Robert Merrill on Sinatra's Need for Bodyguards

Date as given in source: undated

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Robert Merrill Coaches Sinatra's Rusty Voice

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Ahead of a run of ten one-night New York shows after his two-year retirement, Sinatra, worried his voice had gone rusty, asked opera singer Robert Merrill to listen to him sing at the Waldorf Towers; Merrill gave him vocal exercises, and Sinatra later credited Merrill on TV as "my great teacher."

Context: Robert Merrill Coaches Sinatra's Rusty Voice

Date as given in source: not specified, around the time of 'Ol' Blue Eyes' TV special

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Rigging the Casino Tables for Friends

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Late at night, Frank, Dean, and Sammy sometimes took over dealing blackjack themselves, secretly helping friends win using the house's own money by exposing both hands at the table.

Context: Rigging the Casino Tables for Friends

Date as given in source: undated

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Richard Zanuck's Letter on Sinatra's Unflinching Honesty

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Studio executive Richard Zanuck wrote that Frank's willingness to see and judge himself and others truthfully, without pretense, made him uniquely, sometimes uncomfortably, "real" to the people around him.

Context: Richard Zanuck's Letter on Sinatra's Unflinching Honesty

Date as given in source: undated

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Richard Brooks on Sinatra's Vulnerability

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Director Richard Brooks described watching Sinatra and Humphrey Bogart weep every time they watched A Star Is Born together, arguing it revealed a deep vulnerability beneath Sinatra's tough public image.

Context: Richard Brooks on Sinatra's Vulnerability

Date as given in source: undated

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Retirement Announcement and Concert

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Sinatra stages the Inaugural Gala for California Governor Ronald Reagan, dedicates the Anthony Martin Sinatra Medical Education Center in Palm Springs in his father's memory, announces his retirement, and gives a retirement benefit concert for the Motion Picture and Television Relief Fund; Senator John Tunney reads a tribute to him into the Congressional Record, and he receives the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (Oscar).

Context: Retirement Announcement and Concert

Date as given in source: 1971

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"Respect the Date -- It's His Date"

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Sinatra insisted studio authority always belonged to whichever arranger was conducting a session, even once giving up his own booth seat so Billy May could sit there during a playback.

Context: "Respect the Date -- It's His Date"

Date as given in source: undated

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Recording Francis A., Edward K. on Frank's Birthday

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

The Sinatra-Ellington album Francis A., Edward K. was recorded on Frank's birthday. Liner notes describe Duke Ellington precisely setting up his backstage "cafeteria" of Cokes and cigarettes while Frank, dressed formally, joked about needing "the ex-trumpet player" when Billy May arrived in tennis shoes; alto player Johnny Hodges's solo on "Indian Summer" was so absorbing that Frank nearly missed his own reentry.

Context: Recording Francis A., Edward K. on Frank's Birthday

Date as given in source: Frank's birthday, year unspecified

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Recording "The Future" at the Shrine Auditorium

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Gordon Jenkins composed, arranged, and conducted Trilogy's third record, a 154-musician suite about the future, recorded at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.

Context: Recording "The Future" at the Shrine Auditorium

Date as given in source: December 1979

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Record Crowd at Rio's Maracanã Stadium

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Sinatra gave a concert at Rio de Janeiro's massive Maracanã soccer stadium before roughly 275,000 people who had waited all day in pouring rain; the rain stopped the instant he touched the first microphone. Mid-song he lost the lyrics to "Strangers in the Night," and the entire stadium sang the words back to him in English before the rain resumed as he finished the encore.

Context: Record Crowd at Rio's Maracanã Stadium

Date as given in source: the early 1980s

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Record Crowd at Maracana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Sinatra serves as Grand Marshal of the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena and sets the record for the largest live paid audience ever for a solo performer at Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; he also appears in "The First Deadly Sin."

Context: Record Crowd at Maracana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro

Date as given in source: 1980

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Reading Sinatra's Moods in Person

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Producer Howard Koch said he learned never to discuss important business with Sinatra by phone, preferring face-to-face meetings where he could read Frank's body language and mood.

Context: Reading Sinatra's Moods in Person

Date as given in source: undated

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Rags Ragland's Fatal Illness

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Before a planned joint engagement at the Copacabana, Silvers's comedy partner Rags Ragland became gravely ill; Sinatra helped arrange his admission to Cedars hospital, but Ragland died before ever performing there.

Context: Rags Ragland's Fatal Illness

Date as given in source: undated

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Quietly Picking Up the Check

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Family friend Dorothy Manners recalled Sinatra quietly paying restaurant tabs in Chinatown and at the Cocoanut Grove even during his leanest years, and selling a Beverly Hills property to Mayer for far less than its eventual multimillion-dollar value.

Context: Quietly Picking Up the Check

Date as given in source: undated

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"Put Your Dreams Away" Becomes Frank's Theme Song

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Frank asked Ruth Lowe, who had written "I'll Never Smile Again," to compose "Put Your Dreams Away" for him (with Stephen Weiss and Paul Mann); it became his theme song in the 1940s.

Context: "Put Your Dreams Away" Becomes Frank's Theme Song

Date as given in source: 1940s

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Polo Lounge Brawl Over an Ethnic Insult

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

When two strangers called Frank and Dean "loud dagos" outside the Polo Lounge, both men struck their taunters and threw them against a wall before police arrived; the pair told officers they didn't know who was responsible.

Context: Polo Lounge Brawl Over an Ethnic Insult

Date as given in source: undated

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Sinatra Reflects on Restlessness in His Marriage

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

In a photo with Nancy Sr., Nancy Jr., and Tina, Sinatra is quoted admitting he grew restless in married life despite adoring his children, though he and Nancy never had a falling-out and stayed close over the years.

Context: Sinatra Reflects on Restlessness in His Marriage

Date as given in source: undated

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Sinatra Reflects on His Career Low Point

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Sinatra recalled feeling like a has-been at thirty-eight with only a dream to rely on, observing that both success and failure carry their own kind of pain, but that he preferred to risk being hurt as a success.

Context: Sinatra Reflects on His Career Low Point

Date as given in source: undated

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Sinatra Performing at The Sands

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Another caption shows Sinatra performing at The Sands Hotel in Las Vegas in 1964.

Context: Sinatra Performing at The Sands

Date as given in source: 1964

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Sinatra on Working with Monty Clift

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Sinatra said he became close friends with co-star Montgomery Clift while making From Here to Eternity, praising Clift's talent and helpfulness.

Context: Sinatra on Working with Monty Clift

Date as given in source: undated

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Sinatra on Wanting to Play the Maggio Role

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

A caption quote has Sinatra expressing enthusiasm about wanting to play a particular role, apparently referencing his pursuit of the Maggio part.

Context: Sinatra on Wanting to Play the Maggio Role

Date as given in source: undated

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Sinatra on the Sands Hotel Steam Room Antics

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Sinatra recalled that he and his friends would relax in the steam room at The Sands before shows and, once dressed in tuxedos, would sometimes throw pies at each other for fun, with Sammy Davis Jr. often the good-natured target of jokes.

Context: Sinatra on the Sands Hotel Steam Room Antics

Date as given in source: undated

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Sinatra on the Financial Success of His Own Productions

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Sinatra noted that while his self-produced films were not artistically great, they were consistently profitable, citing the box-office success of Ocean's 11 and Sergeants 3.

Context: Sinatra on the Financial Success of His Own Productions

Date as given in source: undated

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Sinatra on His Troubled Relationship with Ava Gardner

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Sinatra reflected that ongoing personal problems with Ava Gardner motivated him to focus intensely on advancing his career.

Context: Sinatra on His Troubled Relationship with Ava Gardner

Date as given in source: undated

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Sinatra on His Reserved Father

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Sinatra described his father Marty as loving him deeply but rarely showing it, calling him a terrible introvert who never spoke about being proud of his son's success. Pictured with parents Marty and Dolly.

Context: Sinatra on His Reserved Father

Date as given in source: undated

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Sinatra on Divorce and His Children's Personalities

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Sinatra reflected on his divorce from Nancy, praising her as a devoted mother, and compared his children's temperaments: Tina's impatience mirrored his own, Nancy Jr. resembled her mother, and Frankie was a dreamer he admired.

Context: Sinatra on Divorce and His Children's Personalities

Date as given in source: undated

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Sinatra on Disliking Weekly Television

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Sinatra remarked that he was never fond of doing weekly television, finding the pace and pressure exhausting and describing how the grind wore down talented performers.

Context: Sinatra on Disliking Weekly Television

Date as given in source: undated

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Sinatra Describes Winning His Oscar

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Sinatra recalled that receiving his Academy Award marked the greatest change in his life, describing the surreal feeling of accepting the statuette in front of a huge television audience while fighting back tears.

Context: Sinatra Describes Winning His Oscar

Date as given in source: undated

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Sinatra Describes His Vision for a Family TV Show

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Sinatra said he wanted his television show to feel like a casual, understated family program done in good taste.

Context: Sinatra Describes His Vision for a Family TV Show

Date as given in source: undated

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Sinatra Campaigns for the Role of Maggio

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Sinatra described pursuing the part of Maggio relentlessly, pleading with producer Buddy Adler, auditioning a drunk-scene test for Harry Cohn, and worrying that actor Eli Wallach might get the role instead while Sinatra was away visiting Ava Gardner in Africa.

Context: Sinatra Campaigns for the Role of Maggio

Date as given in source: undated

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Sessions for Music From Pictures and Plays

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Recording sessions for the album Frank Sinatra Conducts Music From Pictures And Plays took place in Hollywood, just under a week after Sinatra returned from his charity world tour.

Context: Sessions for Music From Pictures and Plays

Date as given in source: June 20 and 21, 1962

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Session for Guys and Dolls Numbers With Crosby and Martin

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Sinatra clowned around with Bing Crosby and Dean Martin at a recording session for 'The Oldest Established (Permanent Floating Crap Game In New York)' and 'Fugue For Tinhorns' from Guys And Dolls.

Context: Session for Guys and Dolls Numbers With Crosby and Martin

Date as given in source: July 1963

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Sands Copa Room Engagement Placards from the 1950s

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Vintage placards advertise Sinatra's Copa Room engagements at The Sands during the 1950s, featuring supporting acts and full production credits; Steve Wynn later compared Sinatra's importance to Las Vegas to George Washington's to America.

Context: Sands Copa Room Engagement Placards from the 1950s

Date as given in source: undated

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Sammy Cahn on an Unused Favorite Song

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Songwriter Sammy Cahn described himself as the lyricist most trusted by Sinatra, dating back to Anchors Aweigh, and recounted his disappointment that Sinatra recorded but never used his song 'I Like To Lead When I Dance' in Robin And The 7 Hoods; Cahn had written Sinatra a pleading note about it just days before Frank Sinatra Jr.'s kidnapping.

Context: Sammy Cahn on an Unused Favorite Song

Date as given in source: undated

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Road Trip with Mother Dolly

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

A photo shows a young Frank on a road trip with his mother, Dolly, in the mid-1920s.

Context: Road Trip with Mother Dolly

Date as given in source: mid-1920s

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Richard Burton's Tribute Speech

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

At the Variety Clubs tribute, longtime friend Richard Burton gave an emotional speech describing Sinatra's deliberately secretive generosity, recalling an occasion when Sinatra quietly arranged work for a struggling actor without wanting credit.

Context: Richard Burton's Tribute Speech

Date as given in source: undated

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Rehearsing With Gene Kelly For 'Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back'

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Sinatra and Gene Kelly rehearsed at MGM in 1973 for the television special tied to his comeback album Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back.

Context: Rehearsing With Gene Kelly For 'Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back'

Date as given in source: 1973

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Recording With Bill Miller

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Sinatra recorded with longtime pianist Bill Miller, reflecting that a nagging awareness that recordings might outlast him for decades made him strive for his best possible performance.

Context: Recording With Bill Miller

Date as given in source: early 1960s

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Recording Session With Quincy Jones and Basie

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Sinatra recorded with Quincy Jones and Count Basie, with score sheets for 'Hello Dolly' and 'I Can't Stop Loving You' visible on the podium, part of the sessions for the 1964 album It Might As Well Be Swing.

Context: Recording Session With Quincy Jones and Basie

Date as given in source: June 1964

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Quincy Jones Recalls Sinatra's Cigarette-Smoke Photo at the Sporting Club

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Quincy Jones recounted watching Sinatra perform 'Come Fly with Me' at the Sporting Club in 1958, describing how photographer Herman Leonard captured an iconic shot of Sinatra exhaling cigarette smoke timed to the lyric about rarefied air.

Context: Quincy Jones Recalls Sinatra's Cigarette-Smoke Photo at the Sporting Club

Date as given in source: '58

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Preminger Directs Sinatra in The Man with the Golden Arm

From: Charles Pignone, "Frank Sinatra 100" (2015).

Director Otto Preminger is shown directing Sinatra on the set of The Man with the Golden Arm (1955); Sinatra also appears at a charity baseball game with restaurateur Toots Shor and Leo Durocher, with his children in attendance.

Context: Preminger Directs Sinatra in The Man with the Golden Arm

Date as given in source: 1955

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Sinatra Sings At Sammy Davis Jr.'s Tribute

From: The Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra, chapter "I Want to Be a Part of It, 1971-98."

Sinatra performed at a televised all-star tribute celebrating Sammy Davis Jr.'s 60 years in show business. Davis had just been diagnosed with throat cancer and would die about six months later.

Context: Sinatra Sings At Sammy Davis Jr.'s Tribute

Date as given in source: November 1989

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Sinatra Regains His Nevada Gaming License

From: The Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra, chapter "I Want to Be a Part of It, 1971-98."

Wanting back the gaming license he had lost in 1963, Sinatra endured more than five hours of questioning from the Nevada Gaming Commission in a hearing televised by CNN. With several key figures from his past having died or not been called to testify, he survived the scrutiny and got his license restored.

Context: Sinatra Regains His Nevada Gaming License

Date as given in source: undated

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Sinatra Explains His Distrust Of Authority

From: The Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra, chapter "I Want to Be a Part of It, 1971-98."

Sinatra told journalist Pete Hamill that growing up, he and his peers assumed corruption was everywhere, from police to priests to schoolteachers, which he offered as an explanation for his evasive and combative responses when questioned by officials later in life.

Context: Sinatra Explains His Distrust Of Authority

Date as given in source: undated

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Sinatra Collapses On Stage In Richmond

From: The Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra, chapter "I Want to Be a Part of It, 1971-98."

Shortly after the Grammy ceremony, while performing 'My Way' in Richmond, Virginia, Sinatra collapsed on stage due to overheating and dehydration.

Context: Sinatra Collapses On Stage In Richmond

Date as given in source: a few days after the Grammys

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Sheffield Enterprises Licenses Sinatra-Branded Products

From: The Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra, chapter "I Want to Be a Part of It, 1971-98."

Sheffield Enterprises, the corporation run by Sinatra's children holding rights to his name and image, authorized officially endorsed merchandise including pasta, champagne, hats, and singing plates, a commercialization that reportedly displeased Barbara.

Context: Sheffield Enterprises Licenses Sinatra-Branded Products

Date as given in source: undated

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Sinatra Sings At White House Dinner For Italian President

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

In April 1973, Sinatra performed at the White House following a state dinner for the President of Italy; some critics objected because of his reputed underworld ties, but President Nixon later called inviting him one of his best decisions.

Context: Sinatra Sings At White House Dinner For Italian President

Date as given in source: in April he appeared at the White House

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Sinatra Quietly Pays A Chinatown Dinner Check

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Dorothy Manners recalled hosting a small dinner in Chinatown with Frank, Jimmy Van Heusen and other friends, only to be told when she tried to pay the bill that Mr. Sinatra had already taken care of it.

Context: Sinatra Quietly Pays A Chinatown Dinner Check

Date as given in source: undated (during Sinatra's lean years)

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Sinatra Dropped By Columbia Records And His Agency

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: At the bottom of his career slump, Sinatra lost his contracts with both Columbia Records and his talent agency, MCA, leaving him without a studio deal, an agent, or a record label.

Context: Sinatra Dropped By Columbia Records And His Agency

Date as given in source: June 1952

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Sinatra Confronts A Diner Over A Black Driver

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: When a diner counterman refused to serve the Black driver who had taken Frank and a companion to his uncle's house, Frank reached across the counter, grabbed the much larger man by the shirtfront, and told him he was serving coffee for three, and the man complied.

Context: Sinatra Confronts A Diner Over A Black Driver

Date as given in source: undated

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Sinatra Buys Sammy Davis Jr. A House In Beverly Hills

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: In the 1950s Sinatra bought a house in Beverly Hills for Sammy Davis Jr., helping make him one of the first African-Americans to live there. Tina Sinatra ultimately left the story out of her 1992 miniseries about her father because she worried it would make the film read like a list of his good deeds rather than a psychologically honest portrait.

Context: Sinatra Buys Sammy Davis Jr. A House In Beverly Hills

Date as given in source: 1950s

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Sinatra and Carl Cohen's Fistfight at the Sands

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: After Howard Hughes's new management cut off Sinatra's casino credit without warning him, Sinatra was humiliated at the baccarat table in front of a group of visiting Apollo astronauts. Enraged, he tore phone wires from a switchboard and drove a golf cart through a plate-glass window, prompting Sands executive Carl Cohen to punch him in the mouth. Kirk Douglas later asked Sinatra directly whether the fight had really happened, and Sinatra, after a pause, admitted it had, adding wryly that he'd learned never to fight a Jew in the desert.

Context: Sinatra and Carl Cohen's Fistfight at the Sands

Date as given in source: September 1967

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Sheldon Keller's 'Schmuck, Schmuck, Schmuck' Story

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Writer Sheldon Keller recalled a television special taping where Sinatra arrived hoarse after drinking until four in the morning the night before. During a break, Keller saw him sitting alone in a chair, quietly berating himself under his breath: drink, drink, drink, smoke, smoke, smoke, schmuck, schmuck, schmuck.

Context: Sheldon Keller's 'Schmuck, Schmuck, Schmuck' Story

Date as given in source: undated

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Seating Hierarchy On The Dorsey Band Bus

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Jo Stafford recalled that the band's tour bus mirrored the bandstand's seating order, with calmer string and sax players up front and increasingly rowdy trombone and trumpet players toward the back. The wildest section, the rhythm players in the very back, was where Frank and Stafford herself usually sat.

Context: Seating Hierarchy On The Dorsey Band Bus

Date as given in source: undated

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Sculptor Jo Davidson Describes Sinatra's Face

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Sculptor Jo Davidson described Sinatra's face as having a curious structure — pronounced cheekbones, bulges around the cheeks and a heavy lower lip — comparing the look to a young Abraham Lincoln.

Context: Sculptor Jo Davidson Describes Sinatra's Face

Date as given in source: early 1940s

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Sammy Davis Jr. On The Summit's Failed Attempt At A Ladies' Night

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Sammy Davis Jr. recalled once rounding up roughly 25 showgirls for a night out with the Rat Pack after Frank complained about the lack of women around, only for Frank to keep everyone at the table telling stories until dawn while nearly all the women, including Sammy's own date, quietly left.

Context: Sammy Davis Jr. On The Summit's Failed Attempt At A Ladies' Night

Date as given in source: undated

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Sammy Davis Jr. On Sinatra Editing A Script By Hand

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Sammy Davis Jr. recalled that when a studio complained one of Sinatra's films ran too long, Frank simply grabbed the script, tore out a fistful of pages, and declared it shorter now.

Context: Sammy Davis Jr. On Sinatra Editing A Script By Hand

Date as given in source: undated (mid-1960s)

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Sammy Davis Jr. On Learning To Handle Prejudice From Frank

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Sammy Davis Jr. said Sinatra taught him to shrug off racism, telling him bigoted people weren't worth his attention, and introduced him around Hollywood to stars like Gary Cooper and Judy Garland while he was still an unknown performer at Ciro's.

Context: Sammy Davis Jr. On Learning To Handle Prejudice From Frank

Date as given in source: undated

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Sammy Davis Jr. On How Sinatra Helped Him Find His Own Voice

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Sammy Davis Jr. recalled that he had studied Frank's singing style so closely he had lost any sound of his own. Rather than let the flattering imitation continue, Frank talked to him about it and helped him develop his own style, a generosity Davis said a more selfish star would never have offered.

Context: Sammy Davis Jr. On How Sinatra Helped Him Find His Own Voice

Date as given in source: undated

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Sammy Cahn Recalls Sinatra's Prediction Of Stardom

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Songwriter Sammy Cahn recalled Frank leaning in one night with startling intensity to declare that he would become the biggest singer there had ever been, then grabbing Cahn's arm to ask if he truly believed it, and Cahn said he did.

Context: Sammy Cahn Recalls Sinatra's Prediction Of Stardom

Date as given in source: undated

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Sammy Cahn On Sinatra's Extraordinary Breath Control

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Songwriter Sammy Cahn recalled first meeting an impossibly thin Frank Sinatra while supplying special material for the Dorsey band and being stunned by his fluid phrasing and unprecedented breath control, saying Sinatra could hold a phrase so long he seemed to gasp and his whole body appeared to release itself at the end.

Context: Sammy Cahn On Sinatra's Extraordinary Breath Control

Date as given in source: undated

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Robert Merrill Shoves Aside a Hostile Reporter

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Opera star Robert Merrill recalled a backstage press encounter at the Met where a local television reporter needled Sinatra, repeatedly and insultingly questioning what business he had performing there. Sinatra stayed polite and self-deprecating throughout, but Merrill, unable to hold back his own anger at her baiting, grabbed the microphone and physically pushed the reporter away.

Context: Robert Merrill Shoves Aside a Hostile Reporter

Date as given in source: undated

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Robert Kennedy's Response to Frank Jr.'s Kidnapping

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: In a photo caption, Sinatra recalled Attorney General Robert Kennedy as an early and forceful ally when his son was kidnapped, noting that Kennedy made one of the first calls to him and, together with FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, assured him more than two hundred agents were already on the case with more coming.

Context: Robert Kennedy's Response to Frank Jr.'s Kidnapping

Date as given in source: undated

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Richard Condon On Frank's Approach To An Argument

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Manchurian Candidate author Richard Condon said Sinatra once described his own theory of negotiating a dispute as figuratively kicking an opponent in the ankle, then, while the man hopped on one foot, hitting him soundly across the jaw.

Context: Richard Condon On Frank's Approach To An Argument

Date as given in source: undated

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Reporters Recall Being Mistaken For Sinatra's Bodyguards

From: Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra: An American Legend, 1995.

Nancy Sinatra: Journalists Tommy Thompson and Jimmy Cannon separately told Nancy Sinatra they had been misidentified in print as her father's "bodyguards" — one incident involved a photo of two of his musicians, a pianist and a guitarist, being captioned as security men, which Sinatra found absurd since, as he put it, they could barely look after their own bodies.

Context: Reporters Recall Being Mistaken For Sinatra's Bodyguards

Date as given in source: undated

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"Sinatra to Wed Bacall" headline

From: Tony Consiglio (as told to Franz Douskey), "Sinatra and Me: The Very Good Years" (2012)

Consiglio: After Humphrey Bogart's death, Sinatra grew close to Lauren Bacall and they discussed marriage. Gossip columnist Louella Parsons got Bacall to confirm it during an interview, and the syndicated headline "Sinatra to Wed Bacall" ran in over two hundred papers. Furious that Bacall went to the press without telling him, Frank called and ended the relationship on the spot, canceling a planned trip to see the Carmen Basilio-Sugar Ray Robinson fight in Chicago.

Context: "Sinatra to Wed Bacall" headline

Date as given in source: (not specified)

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Sinatra's Answer About Heaven

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

As a child, when Tina asked her father where heaven was, Sinatra — named for St. Francis of Assisi — would tell her that heaven is where all the animals go.

Context: Sinatra's Answer About Heaven

Date as given in source: when I was a child

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Sinatra's Lone Post-Inauguration Visit

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Sinatra managed to see President Kennedy privately only once after taking office, as Joe Sr. and Bobby Kennedy plainly wanted to keep him at arm's length.

Context: Sinatra's Lone Post-Inauguration Visit

Date as given in source: a number of months after the inauguration

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Sinatra's Low Expectations For The Marriage

From: Tina Sinatra, "My Father's Daughter: A Memoir" (2000).

Shortly before marrying Mia, Sinatra confided in Dean Martin that he would be satisfied with just a couple of good years together, aware the odds were against the marriage lasting.

Context: Sinatra's Low Expectations For The Marriage

Date as given in source: Shortly before they eloped

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Sinatra's Own Words On Tolerance

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

In "The House I Live In," Sinatra's character argued that America was made of a hundred different peoples and ways of worship, all equally American, and that prejudice was simple foolishness.

Context: Sinatra's Own Words On Tolerance

Date as given in source: undated

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Sinatra's Love of Recording Live

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Frank said he loved making records more than almost anything else, valuing the total personal accountability of a solo vocal performance, and always preferred to record only after eight in the evening when his voice felt most relaxed.

Context: Sinatra's Love of Recording Live

Date as given in source: undated

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Sinatra's Later Regret

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Years afterward, when Nancy asked her father whether, given the choice again, he would have left the family for Ava, he answered with a single word: no.

Context: Sinatra's Later Regret

Date as given in source: undated

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Sinatra's Joke to a Room of Newspapermen

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Speaking at an Associated Press dinner, Sinatra wryly thanked the crowd for the chance to address a group he sarcastically praised for its marvelous relationship with him, joking that rumors of his brutality toward reporters were started by journalists he'd merely run over with his car.

Context: Sinatra's Joke to a Room of Newspapermen

Date as given in source: undated

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Sinatra's Evacuation Plan Using Wartime Airstrips

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Back in Los Angeles, Sinatra showed his family a map of deserted World War II-era airstrips and had them stockpile water, canned food, flashlights, blankets, and a radio in case they needed to flee to Palm Springs and then to a safe airstrip.

Context: Sinatra's Evacuation Plan Using Wartime Airstrips

Date as given in source: same period as the missile crisis

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Sinatra's Engagement Ring Proposal On His Lear Jet

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Maureen O'Sullivan described Sinatra proposing to Mia Farrow aboard his Learjet en route to New York by hiding an engagement ring behind a slice of cake he coaxed her to eat.

Context: Sinatra's Engagement Ring Proposal On His Lear Jet

Date as given in source: undated

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Sinatra's Doodle Before His Retirement Farewell Show

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Backstage before his farewell performance, a nervous Sinatra reviewed his set list repeatedly with writer Thomas Thompson present, then doodled a house on paper and filled in its windows and doors with black ink as though no one lived there.

Context: Sinatra's Doodle Before His Retirement Farewell Show

Date as given in source: undated

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Sinatra's Dog Ringo And His Rescued Pets

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

At his Palm Springs home, Sinatra kept around seven dogs and four cats, many rescued from the pound, including one named Ringo.

Context: Sinatra's Dog Ringo And His Rescued Pets

Date as given in source: undated

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Sinatra's Disguised Cameo in "The List of Adrian Messenger"

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Sinatra played one of several stars disguised in unrecognizable makeup for cameo roles in "The List of Adrian Messenger"; the whole cast and crew were sworn to secrecy about the hidden stars' identities, and Nancy says she had trouble even finding a production still showing her father unmasked, recognizing him only by his Sinatra family crest ring.

Context: Sinatra's Disguised Cameo in "The List of Adrian Messenger"

Date as given in source: undated

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Sinatra's Candid Remarks on Money, Sex, and Women

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

In frank interview remarks, Sinatra said money never thrilled him and needed to keep moving, that he had no special wisdom to offer other men about women despite his reputation, and joked that if tabloid claims about his affairs were true he'd be a medical case study.

Context: Sinatra's Candid Remarks on Money, Sex, and Women

Date as given in source: undated

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Sinatra Wins the Academy Award for Maggio

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

At the 1954 Academy Awards, held on Nancy Sinatra Sr.'s birthday, Frank won the Oscar for From Here to Eternity; his family had already given him a small gold replica, and in his speech he recalled the leis given to him by two young girls at the Kauai fair.

Context: Sinatra Wins the Academy Award for Maggio

Date as given in source: The night of the 1954 Academy Awards

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Sinatra Wins Honors For Tolerance Work

From: Nancy Sinatra, "Frank Sinatra, My Father" (1985).

Sinatra's civil-rights advocacy earned him commendations and the American Unity Award, which in turn fueled conservative press insinuations that he had communist sympathies.

Context: Sinatra Wins Honors For Tolerance Work