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Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert Sinatra
December 12 1915 -- May 14 1998
Hoboken, New Jersey
"A friend is never an imposition."
Frank Sinatra
Nicknames
The Voice
Chairman of the Board (of Show Business)
Ol' Blue Eyes
Swoonatra
The Sultan of Swoon
An accomplished amateur painter, Frank not only recorded the Grammy-winning album "Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely" (Capitol: 1958), but designed the cover art, as well.
Frank had numerous number-one albums, and seven number-one singles (or more depending on whether you include the songs he sang fronting a big-band): "Five Minutes More", "Leanin' the Blues", "Mam'selle", "Oh! What It Seemed To Be" "Strangers in the Night", "All Or Nothing At All" with Harry James Band, and "Somethin' Stupid", shared with his daughter 'Nancy Sinatra'. He also has four number-one hits singing as the front singer of Tommy Dorsey Band although he was not directly credited as the artist. These include "I'll Never Smile Again", "Dolores", "There Are Such Things", "In The Blue Of Evening".
He received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 1971 Academy Awards for his many contributions to charity over the years. Bob Hope, who hosted the Oscars that year, remarked, "It's interesting how Sinatra announced his retirement, and they gave him a humanitarian award." Sinatra himself hosted or co-hosted the Academy Awards four different times, in 1963, 1969, 1975 and 1985.
Frank was best friends with Dean Martin. Of all the members of the Rat Pack, he considered Dean his closest confidant and best friend.
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"I'm trying to figure out, Chairman of what Board? People come up to me and seriously say 'Well, what are you Chairman of?' And I can't answer them."
Frank Sinatra
"I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, tranquilizers, or a bottle of Jack Daniels. But to me religion is a deeply personal thing in which man and God go it alone together, without the witch doctor in the middle."
Frank Sinatra
"A fella came up to me the other day with a nice story. He was in a bar somewhere and it was the quiet time of the night. Everybody's staring down at the sauce and one of my saloon songs comes on the jukebox. 'One for My Baby,' or something like that. After a while, a drunk at the end of the bar looks up and says, jerking his thumb toward the jukebox, 'I wonder who he listens to?'"
Frank Sinatra
"There are moments when it's too quiet. Particularly late at night or early in the mornings. That's when you know there's something lacking in your life. You just know."
Frank Sinatra
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Frank Sinatra was once quoted as saying rock 'n' roll was only played by 'cretinous goons'.
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