FRANK SINATRA Autographed Picture - Frame
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Yunita Dery
I'm happy person....
By Yunita Dery
Published on 04/28/2008
Frank Sinatra has faced triumph, failure and triumph again
throughout his long career as an entertainer. New musical fads
and trends-bebop, soft rock, hard rock, punk, rap, hip-hop
come and go, but somehow the Sinatra show that exploded half
a century ago beats on into the 1990's.
(Rolling Stone, 1980) "What Sinatra did was important: he took
the songs of Porter, Gershwin, Arlen, Cahn,Fein, and others and
made them seem personal and imperative. It was an eloquent
display of his paradoxical brand of artistry; touch, yet sensitive,
vain yet compassionate, grasping yet generous. And when Sinatra
left the stage, we realized we might never witness artistry that big
and that provocative, again."
Frank Sinatra developed a unique white-blues style, supple
enough to express the wide range of his own turbulent emotions.
He transformed the tunes of the great writers into something
personal by the sincerity of his performance; Sinatra actually
seemed to "believe" the words he was singing.
Singer and film actor, born in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA. As
a teenager, he organized a singing group, the Hoboken Four,
which won first prize on the Major Bowes Original Amateur Hour.
Following graduation from the Drake Institute, he spent several
years singing in New Jersey roadhouses before finding work in the
late 1930s as a radio studio singer in New York City. In 1939,
while performing at a club in New Jersey, he was heard by Harry
James, who signed him to appear with his new swing band. After
touring with James (1939), he rose to prominence with Tommy
Dorsey's orchestra (1940–2).
Starting bid: US $9.95
End time: May-04-08 16:41:05 PDT
Shipping costs: US $9.00
Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American popular singer and
Academy Award-winning actor. Frank Sinatra has been called the greatest popular singer of the century.
What can be said is that under the intense and fickle scrutiny of the pop marketplace for nearly two
thirds of a century, Sinatra's music was in the air the world breathed and fell out of fashion only long
enough for the deserters either to grow up or recognize that what was offered in its place was almost
always trash by comparison.
Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo
artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers". His
professional career had stalled by the 1950s, but it was reborn in 1954 after he won the Academy Award for
Best Supporting Actor. He signed with Capitol Records and released several critically lauded albums (such
as In the Wee Small Hours, Songs for Swingin' Lovers, Come Fly with Me, Only the Lonely and Nice 'n'
Easy). Sinatra left Capitol to found his own record label, Reprise Records (finding success with albums
such as Ring-A-Ding-Ding, Sinatra at the Sands and Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim), toured
internationally, and fraternized with the Rat Pack and President John F. Kennedy in the early 1960s.
Sinatra turned 50 in 1965, recorded the retrospective September of My Years, and scored hits with
"Strangers in the Night" and "My Way". Sinatra attempted to weather the changing tastes in popular music,
but with dwindling album sales and after appearing in several poorly received films, he retired in 1971.
Coming out of retirement in 1973, he recorded several albums, scoring a hit with "(Theme From) New York,
New York" in 1980, and toured both within the United States and internationally until a few years before
his death in 1998.
Sinatra also forged a career as a dramatic actor, winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for
his performance in From Here to Eternity, and he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for
The Man with the Golden Arm. His also starred in such musicals as High Society, Pal Joey, Guys and Dolls
and On the Town.
Sinatra was honored with the Kennedy Center Honors in 1983 and awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
by Ronald Reagan in 1985 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 1997. Sinatra was also the recipient of
eleven Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Trustees Award, Grammy Legend Award and the Grammy Lifetime
Achievement Award.
After suffering another heart attack, Frank Sinatra died at 10:50 pm on May 14, 1998, at the Cedars-Sinai
Medical Center, with wife Barbara and daughter Nancy by his side. Sinatra's final words, spoken as
attempts were made to stabilize him, were "I'm losing". HThe next night the lights on the Las Vegas Strip
were dimmed in his honor.
President Bill Clinton led tributes to Sinatra, stating that he had managed "to appreciate on a personal
level what millions of people had appreciated from afar."
Sinatra at the beginning of his musical career. Photo: Howard Frank Archives
Frank Sinatra has faced triumph, failure and triumph again
throughout his long career as an entertainer. New musical fads
and trends-bebop, soft rock, hard rock, punk, rap, hip-hop
come and go, but somehow the Sinatra show that exploded half
a century ago beats on into the 1990's.
(Rolling Stone, 1980) "What Sinatra did was important: he took
the songs of Porter, Gershwin, Arlen, Cahn,Fein, and others and
made them seem personal and imperative. It was an eloquent
display of his paradoxical brand of artistry; touch, yet sensitive,
vain yet compassionate, grasping yet generous. And when Sinatra
left the stage, we realized we might never witness artistry that big
and that provocative, again."
Frank Sinatra developed a unique white-blues style, supple
enough to express the wide range of his own turbulent emotions.
He transformed the tunes of the great writers into something
personal by the sincerity of his performance; Sinatra actually
seemed to "believe" the words he was singing.
Singer and film actor, born in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA. As
a teenager, he organized a singing group, the Hoboken Four,
which won first prize on the Major Bowes Original Amateur Hour.
Following graduation from the Drake Institute, he spent several
years singing in New Jersey roadhouses before finding work in the
late 1930s as a radio studio singer in New York City. In 1939,
while performing at a club in New Jersey, he was heard by Harry
James, who signed him to appear with his new swing band. After
touring with James (1939), he rose to prominence with Tommy
Dorsey's orchestra (1940–2).
Starting bid: US $9.95
End time: May-04-08 16:41:05 PDT
Shipping costs: US $9.00
FRANK SINATRA Autographed Picture - Frame
Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American popular singer and
Academy Award-winning actor. Frank Sinatra has been called the greatest popular singer of the century.
What can be said is that under the intense and fickle scrutiny of the pop marketplace for nearly two
thirds of a century, Sinatra's music was in the air the world breathed and fell out of fashion only long
enough for the deserters either to grow up or recognize that what was offered in its place was almost
always trash by comparison.
Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo
artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers". His
professional career had stalled by the 1950s, but it was reborn in 1954 after he won the Academy Award for
Best Supporting Actor. He signed with Capitol Records and released several critically lauded albums (such
as In the Wee Small Hours, Songs for Swingin' Lovers, Come Fly with Me, Only the Lonely and Nice 'n'
Easy). Sinatra left Capitol to found his own record label, Reprise Records (finding success with albums
such as Ring-A-Ding-Ding, Sinatra at the Sands and Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim), toured
internationally, and fraternized with the Rat Pack and President John F. Kennedy in the early 1960s.
Sinatra turned 50 in 1965, recorded the retrospective September of My Years, and scored hits with
"Strangers in the Night" and "My Way". Sinatra attempted to weather the changing tastes in popular music,
but with dwindling album sales and after appearing in several poorly received films, he retired in 1971.
Coming out of retirement in 1973, he recorded several albums, scoring a hit with "(Theme From) New York,
New York" in 1980, and toured both within the United States and internationally until a few years before
his death in 1998.
Sinatra also forged a career as a dramatic actor, winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for
his performance in From Here to Eternity, and he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for
The Man with the Golden Arm. His also starred in such musicals as High Society, Pal Joey, Guys and Dolls
and On the Town.
Sinatra was honored with the Kennedy Center Honors in 1983 and awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
by Ronald Reagan in 1985 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 1997. Sinatra was also the recipient of
eleven Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Trustees Award, Grammy Legend Award and the Grammy Lifetime
Achievement Award.
After suffering another heart attack, Frank Sinatra died at 10:50 pm on May 14, 1998, at the Cedars-Sinai
Medical Center, with wife Barbara and daughter Nancy by his side. Sinatra's final words, spoken as
attempts were made to stabilize him, were "I'm losing". HThe next night the lights on the Las Vegas Strip
were dimmed in his honor.
President Bill Clinton led tributes to Sinatra, stating that he had managed "to appreciate on a personal
level what millions of people had appreciated from afar."
Sinatra at the beginning of his musical career. Photo: Howard Frank Archives