"We had so much fun growing . Up to sixteen songs could now be held by the twelve-inch L.P., and this allowed Sinatra to use song in a novelistic way, turning each track in a kind of chapter, which built and counterpointed moods to illuminate a larger theme". Dorsey was a considerable influence on Sinatra's techniques for his vocal phrasing with his own exceptional breath control on the trombone,[359] and Sinatra regularly swam and held his breath underwater, thinking of song lyrics to increase his breathing power. 1. Later, Sinatra helped Rich form his own band with a $25,000 loan and provided financial help to Rich during times of the drummer's serious illness. On December 11, 1943, he was officially classified 4-F ("Registrant not acceptable for military service") by his draft board because of a perforated eardrum. [6], Francis Albert Sinatra[a] was born on December 12, 1915, in an upstairs tenement at 415 Monroe Street in Hoboken, New Jersey,[8][9][b] the only child of Italian immigrants Natalina "Dolly" Garaventa and Antonino Martino "Marty" Sinatra, who boxed under the name Marty O'Brien. [98] He initially had great success,[99] and performed on the radio on Your Hit Parade from February 1943 until December 1944,[100] and on stage. [485] They remained close friends for life,[486] and in a 2013 interview Farrow said that Sinatra might be the father of her son Ronan Farrow (born 1987). Sinatra's lawyer, Henry Jaffe, met with Dorsey's lawyer N. Joseph Ross in Los Angeles in August 1943. [491], Sinatra was close friends with Jilly Rizzo,[492] songwriter Jimmy Van Heusen, golfer Ken Venturi, comedian Pat Henry and baseball manager Leo Durocher. ", The incident started rumors of Sinatra's involvement with the Mafia, and was fictionalized in the book and film, Sinatra was spotted in Havana in 1946 with mobster. [140] Rejected by Hollywood, he turned to Las Vegas and made his debut at the Desert Inn in September 1951,[141] and also began singing at the Riverside Hotel in Reno, Nevada. By the end of 1943 he was more popular in a DownBeat poll than Bing Crosby, Perry Como, Bob Eberly, and Dick Haymes. Fragility had gone from his voice, to be replaced by a virile adult's sense of happiness and hurt". That's all. By May 1941, Sinatra topped the male singer polls in Billboard and DownBeat magazines. [576], His close friends Jilly Rizzo and Jimmy Van Heusen are buried nearby. [508] Throughout his life, Sinatra had mood swings and bouts of mild to severe depression,[509] stating to an interviewer in the 1950s that "I have an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as elation". Nancy Sinatra, the daughter of Frank Sinatra, defended family friend and her father's fellow Rat Pack member Dean Martin from accusations he was an alcoholic. [88] His appeal to bobby soxers, as teenage girls of that time were called, revealed a whole new audience for popular music, which had been recorded mainly for adults up to that time. (Frank Sinatra) - : , , , ( ). [242], In 1966 Sinatra released That's Life, with both the single of "That's Life" and album becoming Top Ten hits in the US on Billboard's pop charts. Christina Sinatra was born on the 20th of June, 1948 in Los Angeles, California. During his career he made over 1000 recordings. [x] He performed several charity concerts with Count Basie at the Royal Festival Hall in London. [247] Sinatra pulled out from the Sands the following year, when he was driven out by its new owner Howard Hughes, after a fight. [500], Sinatra was known for his immaculate sense of style. I am married to BARBARA SINATRA, who in this Will is referred to as "my Wife . [68] Dorsey recalled: "You could almost feel the excitement coming up out of the crowds when the kid stood up to sing. "[185], In 1955 Sinatra released In the Wee Small Hours, his first 12" LP,[186] featuring songs such as "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning", "Mood Indigo", "Glad to Be Unhappy" and "When Your Lover Has Gone". ", Sinatra's daughter Nancy on the importance of his mother Dolly in his life and character. W hen he was 19, Frank Sinatra Jr was kidnapped and held to ransom for four days. [37] Dolly found her son work as a delivery boy at the Jersey Observer newspaper, where his godfather Frank Garrick worked,[f] and after that, worked as a riveter at the Tietjen and Lang shipyard. Growing up on the gritty streets of Hoboken made Sinatra determined to work hard to get ahead. [274] He gave a "rousing" performance of "That's Life", and finished the concert with a Matt Dennis and Earl Brent song, "Angel Eyes" which he had recorded on the Only The Lonely album in 1958. [552] Sinatra had spared no expense upgrading the facilities at his home in anticipation of the President's visit, fitting it with a heliport, which he smashed with a sledgehammer after the rejection. His voice is built on infinite taste, with an overall inflection of sex. [101] These first sessions were on June 7, June 22, August 5, and November 10, 1943. [323] According to Kelley, the family detested her and the book, which took its toll on Sinatra's health. 4. [399] The Los Angeles Examiner wrote that Sinatra is "simply superb, comical, pitiful, childishly brave, pathetically defiant", commenting that his death scene is "one of the best ever photographed". [600], Various items of memorabilia from Sinatra's life and career, such as Frank Sinatra's awards, gold records, and various personal items are displayed at USC's Frank Sinatra Hall in Los Angeles and also at Wynn Resort's Sinatra restaurant in Las Vegas. [608], Sinatra has subsequently been portrayed on screen by Ray Liotta (The Rat Pack, 1998),[609] James Russo (Stealing Sinatra, 2003),[610] Dennis Hopper (The Night We Called It a Day, 2003),[611] and Robert Knepper (My Way, 2012),[612] and spoofed by Joe Piscopo and Phil Hartman on Saturday Night Live. [593][594][595] [321] On September 21, 1983, Sinatra filed a $2million court case against Kitty Kelley, suing her for punitive damages, before her unofficial biography, His Way, was even published. [132] He gave a series of concerts in Israel in 1962, and donated his entire $50,000 fee for appearing in a cameo role in Cast a Giant Shadow (1966) to the Youth Center in Jerusalem. [370] Recording sessions would typically last three hours, though Sinatra would always prepare for them by spending at least an hour by the piano beforehand to vocalize, followed by a short rehearsal with the orchestra to ensure the balance of sound. There could be an orchestra of a hundred musicians, and if one played a bum note he'd know exactly who was responsible. Sinatra's children were given a fair share of cash too. [566] On January 27, 1961, Sinatra played a benefit show at Carnegie Hall for Martin Luther King Jr. and led his fellow Rat Pack members and Reprise label mates in boycotting hotels and casinos that refused entry to black patrons and performers. By the mid 1940s, such was his understanding of music that after hearing an air check of some compositions by Alec Wilder which were for strings and woodwinds, he became the conductor at Columbia Records for six of Wilder's compositions: "Air for Oboe", "Air for English Horn", "Air for Flute", "Air for Bassoon", "Slow Dance" and "Theme and Variations". "[220] Under Sinatra the company developed into a music industry "powerhouse", and he later sold it for an estimated $80million. He left high school without graduating,:38 having attended only 47 days before being expelled because of his rowdy conduct. [195] His penchant for conducting was displayed again in 1956's Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color, an instrumental album that has been interpreted to be a catharsis to his failed relationship with Gardner. [547] After taking office, Kennedy distanced himself from Sinatra, due in part to the singer's ties with the Mafia. Kelley says that Tina Sinatra blamed her for her father's colon surgery in 1986. It was sad. Frank Sinatra was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, to Italian immigrants Natalina Della (Garaventa), from Northern Italy, and Saverio Antonino Martino Sinatra, a Sicilian boxer, fireman, and bar owner. [12][13][c] Sinatra weighed 13.5 pounds (6.1kg) at birth and had to be delivered with the aid of forceps, which caused severe scarring to his left cheek, neck, and ear, and perforated his eardrumremaining damaged for the rest of his life. [205] On May 29 he recorded seven songs in a single session, more than double the usual yield of a recording session, and an eighth, "Lush Life", was abandoned as Sinatra found it too technically demanding. With a name like Frank Sinatra Jr, it might seem that entering the family business was a no brainer. On one occasion, he gave Sinatra Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange (1962) to read, with the idea of making a film, but Sinatra thought it had no potential and did not understand a word. & Edward K..[257] According to Granata, the recording of "Indian Summer" on the album was a favorite of Riddle's, noting the "contemplative mood [which] is heightened by a Johnny Hodges alto sax solo that will bring a tear to your eye". [348] He could follow a lead sheet (simplified sheet music showing a song's basic structure) during a performance by "carefully following the patterns and groupings of notes arranged on the page" and made his own notations to the music, using his ear to detect semitonal differences. She says that though he was not formally banned from the country, the bureaucrat "made it seem so" and stated that the situation caused much humiliation to the family. [288] After he was pressured to apologize, Sinatra instead insisted that the journalists apologize for "fifteen years of abuse I have taken from the world press". [530], The FBI kept records amounting to 2,403 pages on Sinatra, who was a natural target with his alleged Mafia ties, his ardent New Deal politics, and his friendship with John F. "[322], Santopietro notes that Sinatra was a "lifelong sympathizer with Jewish causes". ABC agreed to allow Sinatra's Hobart Productions to keep 60% of the residuals, and bought stock in Sinatra's film production unit, Kent Productions, guaranteeing him $7million. This left Williams with just a few months to design and . It helped keep him at the top of his game. ", "Frank Sinatra Yarmulke fetches over $9,000 at auction", "Frank Sinatra Dies at 82; Matchless Stylist of Pop", "Frank Sinatra's manager says antidepressant was to blame for his failing health during his final years", "Empire State Building turns blue as silent tribute", "Special Report: Final curtain for Sinatra", "Frank Sinatra Grave Marker Undergoes Mysterious Change", "B+W copy photo of Mayor Fred DeSapio presenting Frank Sinatra with Key to the City at Hoboken City Hall, Hoboken, October 30, 1947. [314] The following year, Sinatra built on the success of Trilogy with She Shot Me Down, an album that was praised for embodying the dark tone of his Capitol years. A perfectionist, renowned for his style and presence, Sinatra always insisted on recording live with his band. [300][301] That year, the Friars Club selected him as the "Top Box Office Name of the Century", and he was given the Scopus Award by the American Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Nevada. Regarded by many as the greatest popular singer of the 20th Century, he was nicknamed The Voice, Ol' Blue Eyes and Chairman of the Board. [am] Crosby's affiliations with the mafia were less publicly known. [322] Sinatra was always adamant that such a book would be written on his terms, and he himself would "set the record straight" in details of his life. Sinatra also appeared in musicals such as On the Town (1949), Guys and Dolls (1955), High Society (1956), and Pal Joey (1957), which won him another Golden Globe. [360], Arrangers such as Nelson Riddle and Anthony Fanzo found Sinatra to be a perfectionist who constantly drove himself and others around him, stating that his collaborators approached him with a sense of uneasiness because of his unpredictable and often volatile temperament. Perfectly simple: It was the war years and there was a great loneliness, and I was the boy in every corner drugstore, the boy who'd gone off drafted to the war. [80] According to Nancy Sinatra, Jack Benny later said, "I thought the goddamned building was going to cave in. [239] Granata considers the album to have been one of the finest of his Reprise years, "a reflective throwback to the concept records of the 1950s, and more than any of those collections, distills everything that Frank Sinatra had ever learned or experienced as a vocalist". [547][an], Sinatra worked with Hubert H. Humphrey in 1968,[556] and remained a supporter of the Democratic Party until the early 1970s. [598][599], The United States Postal Service issued a 42-cent postage stamp in honor of Sinatra in May 2008, commemorating the tenth anniversary of his death. [181] Sinatra embarked on his first tour of Australia the same year. Nicknamed the "Chairman of the Board" and later called "Ol' Blue Eyes", Sinatra was one of the most popular entertainers of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. [605] A few years later in 1984 and 1985, Sinatra also received an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Loyola Marymount University as well as an Honorary Doctorate of Engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology. [114], Despite being heavily involved in political activity in 1945 and 1946, in those two years Sinatra sang on 160 radio shows, recorded 36 times, and shot four films. [31] During the Great Depression, Dolly provided money to her son for outings with friends and to buy expensive clothes, resulting in neighbors describing him as the "best-dressed kid in the neighborhood". [230] Sinatra released Softly, as I Leave You,[231] and collaborated with Bing Crosby and Fred Waring on America, I Hear You Singing, a collection of patriotic songs recorded as a tribute to the assassinated President John F. Dolly said of it, "My son is like me. Of the nine songs recorded during these sessions, seven charted on the best-selling list. [460] When Sinatra came out of retirement in 1973, he released both an album and appeared in a TV special named Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back. [309][310] That year, former President Gerald Ford awarded Sinatra the International Man of the Year Award,[311] and he performed in front of the Egyptian pyramids for Anwar Sadat, which raised more than $500,000 for Sadat's wife's charities. He blamed racial prejudice on the parents of children. Buried - B-8, #151, Desert Memorial Park, Palm Springs, CA. [381][382], Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cast Sinatra opposite Gene Kelly and Kathryn Grayson in the Technicolor musical Anchors Aweigh (1945), in which he played a sailor on leave in Hollywood for four days. LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT. Kelley notes that when Lee J. Cobb nearly died from a heart attack in June 1955, Sinatra flooded him with "books, flowers, delicacies", paid his hospital bills, and visited him daily, telling him that his "finest acting" was yet to come. [76] As his success and popularity grew, Sinatra pushed Dorsey to allow him to record some solo songs. [223] During the initial years of Reprise, Sinatra was still under contract to record for Capitol, completing his contractual commitment with the release of Point of No Return, recorded over a two-day period on September 11 and 12, 1961. He was just a skinny kid with big ears. [506] Barbara Sinatra wrote, "A big part of Frank's thrill was the sense of danger that he exuded, an underlying, ever-present tension only those closest to him knew could be defused with humor". [167] After spending two weeks on location in Hawaii filming From Here to Eternity, Sinatra returned to KHJ on April 30 for his first recording session with Nelson Riddle, an established arranger and conductor at Capitol who was Nat King Cole's musical director. Sinatra was written by Abby Mann and Philip Mastrosimone, and produced by Sinatra's daughter, Tina. [558] Sinatra arranged Reagan's Presidential gala, as he had done for Kennedy 20 years previously. [463] Ten years later, he made a guest appearance opposite Tom Selleck in Magnum, P.I., playing a retired policeman who teams up with Selleck to find his granddaughter's murderer. Lahr comments that the new Sinatra was "not the gentle boy balladeer of the forties. [123] In December he recorded "Sweet Lorraine" with the Metronome All-Stars, featuring talented jazz musicians such as Coleman Hawkins, Harry Carney and Charlie Shavers, with Nat King Cole on piano, in what Charles L. Granata describes as "one of the highlights of Sinatra's Columbia epoch". [290] In October 1974 he appeared at New York City's Madison Square Garden in a televised concert that was later released as an album under the title The Main Event Live. [354], Voice coach John Quinlan was impressed by Sinatra's vocal range, remarking, "He has far more voice than people think he has. [312] It was the first studio album of Sinatra's to feature his touring pianist at the time, Vinnie Falcone, and was based on an idea by Sonny Burke. The book became a best-seller for "all the wrong reasons" and "the most eye-opening celebrity biography of our time", according to William Safire of The New York Times. His changes to Riddle's charts would frustrate Riddle, yet he would usually concede that Sinatra's ideas were superior. [603], Sinatra received three Honorary Degrees during his lifetime. [330], On June 6, 1988, Sinatra made his last recordings with Reprise for an album which was not released. [389] Both Double Dynamite (1951), an RKO Irving Cummings comedy produced by Howard Hughes,[390] and Joseph Pevney's Meet Danny Wilson (1952) failed to make an impression. Saverio Antonino Martino Sinatra, the father of Frank Sinatra, was born on May 4, 1894, in Lercara Friddi in Sicily. [194] Riddle said that Sinatra took "particular delight" in singing "The Lady is a Tramp", commenting that he "always sang that song with a certain amount of salaciousness", making "cue tricks" with the lyrics. [206] In September, Sinatra released Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely, a stark collection of introspective[u] saloon songs and blues-tinged ballads which proved a huge commercial success, spending 120 weeks on Billboards album chart and peaking at No. [409][410], Sinatra featured alongside Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly in High Society (1956) for MGM, earning a reported $250,000 for the picture. The younger Sinatra was technically not a "junior" (his father's middle name was Albert) but was nonetheless known as Frank . and Harold Arlen's and Jerome Kern's "All The Things You Are". According to Jimmy Van Heusen, Sinatra's close friend and songwriter, Evans's death to him was "an enormous shock which defies words", as he had been crucial to his career and popularity with the bobbysoxers. [493] In his spare time, he enjoyed listening to classical music and attended concerts when he could. [379] He had a cameo role along with Duke Ellington and Count Basie in Charles Barton's Reveille with Beverly (1943), making a brief appearance singing "Night and Day". [124], Sinatra's third album, Christmas Songs by Sinatra, was originally released in 1948 as a 78rpm album set,[125] and a 10" LP record was released two years later. Buddy Collette considered the swing albums to have been heavily influenced by Sammy Davis Jr., and stated that when he worked with Sinatra in the mid-1960s he approached a song much differently than he had done in the early 1950s. Granata noted that Riddle himself believed that the album came across as darker and more introspective than normal due to the due of his own mother who had recently died earlier in the month that it was recorded. [191] On June 9, 1957, he performed in a 62-minute concert conducted by Riddle at the Seattle Civic Auditorium,[200] his first appearance in Seattle since 1945. [476] The couple formally announced their separation on October 29, 1953, through MGM. [42] In New York, Sinatra found jobs singing for his supper or for cigarettes. [33][173] That same month, Sinatra released the single "Young at Heart", which reached No. [421], Due to an obligation he owed to 20th Century Fox for walking off the set of Henry King's Carousel (1956),[ad] Sinatra starred opposite Shirley MacLaine, Maurice Chevalier and Louis Jourdan in Can-Can (1960). [219] Sinatra built the appeal of Reprise Records as one in which artists were promised creative control over their music, as well as a guarantee that they would eventually gain "complete ownership of their work, including publishing rights. Booker, Janice T. (2004). While films appealed to him,[376] being exceptionally self-confident,[377] he was rarely enthusiastic about his own acting, once remarking that "pictures stink". [521], Sinatra became the stereotype of the "tough working-class Italian American," something which he embraced. [139], In financial difficulty following his divorce and career decline, Sinatra was forced to borrow $200,000 from Columbia to pay his back taxes after MCA refused to front the money. [572][575] Sinatra was buried in a blue business suit and his grave was adorned with mementos from family memberscherry-flavored Life Savers, Tootsie Rolls, a bottle of Jack Daniel's, a pack of Camel cigarettes, a Zippo lighter, stuffed toys, a dog biscuit, and a roll of dimes that he always carriednext to his parents in section B-8 of Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City, California. [191], His February 1956 recording sessions inaugurated the studios at the Capitol Records Building,[192] complete with a 56-piece symphonic orchestra. Sinatra earned $125 a week, appearing at the Palmer House in Chicago,[64] and James released Sinatra from his contract. Frank and Nancy got divorced when Tina was three. That career would take him into the world of radio and appearances on many shows eventually having his own show from 1952 until 1958. For other uses, see, Sinatra's three stars for recording, television, and motion pictures on the, Hoboken Four, Harry James, and Tommy Dorsey (19351939), Onset of Sinatramania and role in World War II (19421945), Columbia years and career slump (19461952), Career revival and the Capitol years (19531962), Later career and final projects (19821998), Debut, musical films, and career slump (19411952), Alleged organized-crime links and Cal Neva Lodge. He also suffered from dementia-like symptoms due to his usage of antidepressants. [454] Though an initial critical success upon its debut on October 18, 1957, it soon attracted negative reviews from Variety and The New Republic, and The Chicago Sun-Times thought that Sinatra and frequent guest Dean Martin "performed like a pair of adult delinquents", "sharing the same cigarette and leering at girls". Sinatra released his debut album, The Voice of Frank Sinatra, in 1946. In the words of Kelley: "In the end, MCA, an agency representing Dorsey and courting Sinatra, made Dorsey a $60,000 offer that he accepted. Sinatra had several violent confrontations, often with journalists he felt had crossed him or work bosses with whom he had disagreements. [240] One of the album's singles, "It Was a Very Good Year", won the Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Male. In 1965, he recorded the retrospective album September of My Years and starred in the Emmy-winning television special Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music. The series aired on NBC radio Tuesday nights from October 1953 to March 1954. His son, Frank Jr., and his daughter, Nancy, were both singers of note, and the musical gene persists in their children. Sinatra Sings Cole Porter is a 2008 compilation album by American singer, Frank Sinatra.. Track listing. [305], In 1980, Sinatra's first album in six years was released, Trilogy: Past Present Future, a highly ambitious triple album that features an array of songs from both the pre-rock era and rock era. [436], Sinatra starred opposite George Kennedy in the western Dirty Dingus Magee (1970), an "abysmal" affair according to Santopietro,[437] which was panned by the critics. She even carried out illegal abortions for free which made her famous as "Hatpin Dolly." Source: express.co.uk, Image: Wikimedia. [442] By the end of 1942, he was named the "Most Popular Male Vocalist on Radio" in a DownBeat poll. Union actions cancelled concerts and grounded Sinatra's plane, essentially trapping him in Australia. [255], Sinatra also released the album The World We Knew, which features a chart-topping duet of "Somethin' Stupid" with daughter Nancy. I am a resident of Riverside County, California. [259] Sinatra recorded it in one take, just after Christmas 1968. [He's] probing more deeply into his songs than he used to. Just to look at himthe way he moved, and how he behavedwas to know that he was a great lover and true gentleman. [77] Sinatra first heard the recordings at the Hollywood Palladium and Hollywood Plaza and was astounded at how good he sounded. [493] Cary Grant, a friend of Sinatra, stated that Sinatra was the "most honest person he'd ever met", who spoke "a simple truth, without artifice which scared people", and was often moved to tears by his performances. Using his Las Vegas shows as a home base, he toured within the United States and internationally until shortly before his death in 1998. [601][602] Kennedy. 2 files available. [170] Sinatra's first album for Capitol, Songs for Young Lovers, was released on January 4, 1954, and included "A Foggy Day", "I Get a Kick Out of You", "My Funny Valentine", "Violets for Your Furs" and "They Can't Take That Away from Me",[172] songs which became staples of his later concerts. [70] Sinatra later said that "The only two people I've ever been afraid of are my mother and Tommy Dorsey". This was recreated in the miniseries The Offer with Sinatra portrayed by Frank John Hughes. "Why the Bobby Soxers?". A television miniseries based on Sinatra's life, titled Sinatra, was aired by CBS in 1992. [z] The works, which combine elements of jazz and classical music, were considered by Wilder to have been among the finest renditions and recordings of his compositions, past or present. [260] "My Way", Sinatra's best-known song on the Reprise label, was not an instant success, charting at No. Sinatra obliged and chose to sing "My Kind of Town" for the rally held in Chicago on October 20, 1972. The jealousy exhibited by the group members often led to brawls in which they would beat up the small, skinny young Sinatra. A residence hall at Montclair State University in New Jersey was named in his honor. [143] Sinatra would fly to Las Vegas from Los Angeles in Van Heusen's single-engine plane. [569] Sinatra's wife encouraged him to "fight" while attempts were made to stabilize him, and reported that his final words were, "I'm losing. The series was directed by James Steven Sadwith, who won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Directing for a Miniseries or a Special, and starred Philip Casnoff as Sinatra. He received eleven Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Trustees Award, Grammy Legend Award and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. He can vocalize to a B-flat on top in full voice, and he doesn't need a mic either". [357] Despite his heavy New Jersey accent, according to Richard Schuller, when Sinatra sang his accent was barely detectable, with his diction becoming "precise" and articulation "meticulous". In 1942, Sinatra hired arranger Axel Stordahl away from Tommy Dorsey before he began his first radio program that year, keeping Stordahl with him for all of his radio work. [468] He agreed to marry her after an incident at "The Rustic Cabin" which led to his arrest. [168] After recording the first song, "I've Got the World on a String", Sinatra offered Riddle a rare expression of praise, "Beautiful! [386] He briefly appeared at the end of Richard Whorf's commercially successful Till the Clouds Roll By (1946), a Technicolor musical biopic of Jerome Kern, in which he sang "Ol' Man River". [428][429] However, in the mid 1960s, Brad Dexter wanted to "breathe new life" into Sinatra's film career by helping him display the same professional pride in his films as he did his recordings. [561] He was awarded the Hollzer Memorial Award by the Los Angeles Jewish Community in 1949. [465][466], Sinatra had met Barbato in Long Branch, New Jersey in the summer of 1934,[467] while working as a lifeguard. On television, The Frank Sinatra Show began on CBS in 1950, and he continued to make appearances on television throughout the 1950s and 1960s. His mother, Dolly Sinatra (18961977), was a Democratic Party ward leader,[541] and after meeting President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944, he subsequently heavily campaigned for the Democrats in the 1944 presidential election. [532] The FBI documented that Sinatra was losing esteem with the Mafia as he grew closer to President Kennedy, whose younger brother Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy was leading a crackdown on organized crime. [180] Sinatra's second album with Riddle, Swing Easy!, which reflected his "love for the jazz idiom" according to Granata,[181] was released on August 2 of that year and included "Just One of Those Things", "Taking a Chance on Love", "Get Happy", and "All of Me". [183][184] Sinatra came to consider Riddle "the greatest arranger in the world",[185] and Riddle, who considered Sinatra "a perfectionist",[170] offered equal praise of the singer, observing, "It's not only that his intuitions as to tempo, phrasing, and even configuration are amazingly right, but his taste is so impeccable there is still no one who can approach him. [47] With Sinatra, the group became known as the Hoboken Four, and passed an audition from Edward Bowes to appear on the Major Bowes Amateur Hour show. [347] Critic Gene Lees, a lyricist and the author of the words to the Jobim melody "This Happy Madness", expressed amazement when he heard Sinatra's recording of it on Sinatra & Company (1971), considering him to have delivered the lyrics to perfection. Sinatra family portrait, 1949, with Frank Jr. at far right. "Frank Sinatra Day". [438][439] The following year, Sinatra received a Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award[399] and had intended to play Detective Harry Callahan in Dirty Harry (1971), but had to turn down the role due to developing Dupuytren's contracture in his hand.