Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was born December 12, 1915, in

Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was born December 12, 1915, in Hoboken, New Jersey. The only child of Sicilian immigrants, a
teenaged Sinatra decided to become a singer after watching Bing Crosby perform. He dropped out of high school, where he was a
member of the glee club, and began to sing at local nightclubs. Radio exposure brought him to the attention of bandleader Harry
James, with whom Sinatra made his first recordings, including "All or Nothing at All." In 1940, Tommy Dorsey invited Sinatra to
join his band. After two years of chart-topping success with Dorsey, Sinatra decided to strike out on his own.
Between 1943 and 1946, Sinatra's solo career blossomed as the singer charted 17 different Top 10 singles. The mobs of bobbysoxer fans Sinatra attracted with his dreamy baritone earned him such nicknames as "The Voice" and "The Sultan of Swoon." "It
was the war years, and there was a great loneliness," recalled Sinatra, who was unfit for military service due to a punctured
eardrum. "I was the boy in every corner drugstore who'd gone off, drafted to the war. That was all."
Sinatra made his movie acting debut in 1943, in Higher and Higher. In 1945, he won a special Academy Award for The House I
Live In, a 10-minute short made to promote racial and religious tolerance on the home front. Sinatra's popularity began to slide in
the postwar years, however, leading to a loss of his recording and film contracts in the early 1950s. In 1953, he made a triumphant
comeback, winning an Oscar for his portrayal of the Italian-American soldier Maggio in From Here to Eternity. Although this was
his first non-singing role, Sinatra quickly found a vocal outlet when he received a new recording contract with Capitol Records in
the same year. In his music, the Sinatra of the 1950s brought a more mature sound with jazzier inflections in his voice.
Having regained stardom, Sinatra enjoyed continued success in both film and music for years to come. He received critical acclaim
for his performance in the original film of The Manchurian Candidate (1962) and an Academy Award nomination for his work in
The Man with the Golden Arm (1955). Meanwhile, he continued to chart Top 10 singles. When his record sales began to dip by the
end of the 1950s, Sinatra left Capitol to establish his own record label, Reprise.
Chicago
Recorded 1957 - Composer: Fred Fisher
Lean Baby
1953 - Roy Alfred, Billy May
I've Got the World On a String
1953 - Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler
Hey! Jealous Lover
1956 - Sammy Cahn, Kay Twomey, Bee Walker
Two Hearts, Two Kisses (Make One Love)
1955 - Otis Williams, Henry Stone
River, Stay 'Way From My Door
1960 - Matt Dixon, Harry M. Woods
So Long, My Love
1957 - Sammy Cahn, Lew Spence
Learnin' The Blues
1955 - Dolores Vicki Silvers
Ol' MacDonald
1954 - Traditional, Lew Spence, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Keith
My Blue Heaven
1950 - Walter Donaldson, George A. Whiting
Witchcraft
1957 - Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh
Tell Her You Love Her
1957 - Homer Denison, Hugh Halliday, Sol Parker
Three Coins in the Fountain
1954 - Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne
(Love Is) The Tender Trap
1955 - Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen
Sentimental Journey
1961 - Les Brown, Arthur Green, Ben Homer
The Gal that Got Away
1954 - Harold Arlen, Ira Gershwin
Why Should I Cry Over You
1953 - Chester Conn, Ned Miller
Can I Steal a Little Love
1956 - Phil Tuminello
South of the Border
1953 - Michael Carr, Jimmy Kennedy
Crazy Love
1957 - Sammy Cahn, Phil Tuminello
I'm Gonna Live Till I Die
1954 - Manny Curtis, Al Hoffman, Walter Kent
Take a Chance
1953 - David Raksin, Don Stanford
How Could You Do a Thing Like That to Me
1955 - Tyree Glenn, Allan Roberts
Same Old Saturday Night
1955 - Sammy Cahn, Frank Reardon
American Beauty Rose
1950 - Arthur Altman, Mack David, Redd Evans
Nothing in Common
(with Keely Smith)
1958 - Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen
(How Little It Matters) How Little We Know
1956 - Carolyn Leigh, Phil Springers
Someone to Watch Over Me
1954 - George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin
No One Ever Tells You
1956 - Hub Atwood, Carroll Coates
It Was a Very Good Year
1965 - Ervin Drake
That's Life
1966 - Kelly Gordon, Dean Kay
Come Fly With Me
1957 - Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen
I've Got You Under My Skin
1956 - Cole Porter
For Once In My Life
1969 - Ron Miller, Orlando Murden
From the Bottom to the Top
1955 - Gee Wilson
You'll Get Yours
1955 - Jimmy Van Heusen, Don Stanford
How Are Ya' Fixed for Love
(with Keely Smith)
1958 - Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen
I've Heard That Song Before
1961 - Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne
My Kind of Town
1964 - Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen
I Love Paris
1958 - Cole Porter
New York, New York
1979 - Fred Ebb, John Kander
Young at Heart
1953 - Johnny Richards, Carolyn Leigh
GoldenEgoRadio.org