This was the worst rail disaster in Japan since a November Yokohama crash killed people. Shigaraki, a town near Kyoto, is famous for Nurses discovered her missing at a. Two hours later, her body was found with The Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a treaty establishing the Warsaw Pact, a mutual defense organization that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states. The Warsaw Pact, so named because the treaty was signed in Warsaw, included On May 14, , delegates to the Constitutional Convention begin to assemble in Philadelphia to confront a daunting task: the peaceful overthrow of the new American government as defined by the Article of Confederation.
Although the convention was originally supposed to begin on Live TV. This Day In History. History Vault. Middle East. Space Exploration. I wished I had a younger sister I could protect. Sinatra didn't have an easy time achieving the fame and success that he craved. His parents weren't entirely supportive of his desire to be a professional singer, viewing it only as a cute little hobby. However, while it took some time, once Dolly Sinatra understood her son's talent and ambition, she tried to help him wherever she could, from buying him sound equipment and sheet music to using her political connections to secure singing gigs for him.
Dolly's pull even landed Frank a spot with the local singing group, the Hoboken Four, which started him on the path of professional recognition. It soon became obvious that Sinatra was the only one of the group with genuine ambition and drive, so once the Hoboken Four broke up, Frank started to wait tables in between his singing gigs with local dance bands.
After landing a solid gig with trumpeter Harry James, Frank's biggest break came in , when he was discovered by renowned bandleader Tommy Dorsey, who offered him a much more lucrative contract.
By , Sinatra's reputation even eclipsed Dorsey's, which prompted him to seek out a solo singing career. Bing Crosby was Frank Sinatra's greatest inspiration for becoming a professional singer. A huge fan of the celebrity crooner, the teenage Frank had a picture of Crosby hanging in his bedroom. Crosby's warm, passionate, but laid-back singing technique was the foundation that Frank built on until he could develop his own unique style.
Frank even met his idol briefly in at a Newark Club, but they wouldn't meet again for nearly a decade — when Frank was a huge star in his own right. Crosby took Frank's rising popularity in stride, saying that Sinatra was a singer that comes around once in a lifetime — then jokingly adding, "but why did it have to be my lifetime?
After that, a media-driven rivalry was born. The two competing crooners would frequently trade barbs and insults at each other on public radio broadcasts. The rivalry was played up for media attention, but it was never serious. Later, the two would perform duets together and co-star in movies such as High Society. Frank Sinatra didn't mind a good-natured rivalry with Bing Crosby, but he felt highly intimidated by any new singers who could potentially knock him off his pedestal.
In the early s, singer Eddie Fisher was on the rise, and according to Collider , this caused Sinatra to spiral into a deep depression, believing that his career was over. What ended up saving his career was his transition into swing music. Another time Sinatra's fame came under threat was from a singer named Jimmy Roselli, who was low-key known as "the other Sinatra. According to The Guardian , Roselli was incredibly popular with the Italian American crowd, even with Frank Sinatra's friends and his own mother, Dolly.
Apparently, Roselli's voice had an even greater range than Sinatra's. When Dolly Sinatra asked Jimmy Roselli to perform at a benefit, but after Roselli refused to sing without receiving a fee, Sinatra used this as an excuse to blackball Roselli's career.
Although he always refuted it, Frank Sinatra absolutely had ties to the mob. Sinatra was known to be good friends with the infamous Chicago mob boss Sam Giancana and his crew. He outwardly socialized with the Fischetti Brothers, Joseph and Charles, who were known to conduct illegal gambling operations. He blatantly partied with Detroit mobsters Anthony and Vito Giacalone. If Sinatra ever needed to get out of a contract or was simply ticked off about a perceived insult, someone could expect to get a visit from a couple of goons — visits that might or might not end with violence.
In return, Frank would often perform a few shows as favors for his mob buddies. For all of Sinatra's denials of Mafia ties, he didn't do much to conceal who his friends were or his participation in their shared activities — gambling, women, and money.
The FBI kept a close eye on Sinatra, but he was never charged criminally for his mob-related activities or associations. Sinatra's full FBI record was not released until after his death. Sinatra was an ardent supporter of the Democratic Party — most notably, John F. Kennedy appreciated Sinatra's glamour and rule-breaking attitude, and Sinatra greatly admired the power that Kennedy represented.
Sinatra even introduced Kennedy to his longtime girlfriend Judith Campbell. When JFK announced his bid for the presidency, Sinatra publicly endorsed his candidacy and avidly used his star power to generate votes. He organized donor dinners, appeared in political radio ads, and lent Kennedy's aides his private jet.
His hit song "High Hopes" became the theme song of the Kennedy campaign. According to Biography , it has been speculated that JFK's father, Joseph Kennedy, was hoping to use Sinatra's mob connections and union ties to bring in the votes.
It won the Grammy for Album of the Year. Sinatra returned to number one on the singles charts for the first time in 11 years with the million-selling "Strangers in the Night" in July ; the song won him Grammys for Record of the Year and best vocal performance. A follow-up album named after the single topped the LP charts and went platinum. Before the end of the year, Sinatra had released two more Top Ten, gold-selling albums, Sinatra at the Sands and That's Life , the latter anchored by the title song, a Top Five single.
In April , Sinatra was back at number one on the singles charts with the million-selling "Somethin' Stupid," a duet with his daughter Nancy. By the late '60s, even Sinatra had trouble resisting the succeeding waves of youth-oriented rock music that topped the charts. But Frank Sinatra's Greatest Hits! It quickly became a signature song for him.
The single reached the Top 40, and an album of the same name hit the Top Ten and went gold. In the spring of , at the age of 55, Sinatra announced his retirement. But he remained retired only until the fall of , when he returned to action with a new gold-selling album and a TV special both called Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back. In this late phase of his career, Sinatra cut back on records, movies, and television in favor of live performing, particularly in Las Vegas, but also in concert halls, arenas, and stadiums around the world.
He refrained from making any new studio albums for six years, then returned in March with a three-LP set, Trilogy: Past, Present, Future. The most memorable track from the gold-selling set turned out to be "Theme From New York, New York," the title song from the movie, which Sinatra 's recording belatedly turned into a standard. By the early '90s, the CD era had inaugurated a wave of box set reissues, and the Christmas season found Capitol and Reprise marking Sinatra 's 75th birthday by competing with the three-disc The Capitol Years and the four-disc The Reprise Collection.
Sinatra himself, meanwhile, while continuing to tour, had not made a new recording since his LP L. Is My Lady. In , he re-signed to Capitol Records and recorded Duets , on which he re-recorded his old favorites, joined by other popular singers ranging from Tony Bennett to Bono of U2 none of whom actually performed in the studio with him.
It became his biggest-selling album, with sales over 3,, copies, and was followed in by Duets II , which won the Grammy Award for Traditional Pop Performance. Sinatra finally retired from performing in his 80th year in , and he died of a heart attack less than three years later. Anyone will be astonished at the sheer extent of Sinatra 's success as a recording artist over 50 years, due to the changes in popular taste during that period.
His popularity as a singer and his productivity has resulted in an overwhelming discography. Its major portions break down into the Columbia years , the Capitol years , and the Reprise years , but airchecks, film and television soundtracks, and other miscellaneous recordings swell it massively. As a movie star and as a celebrity of mixed reputation, Sinatra is so much of a 20th century icon that it is easy to overlook his real musical talents, which are the actual source of his renown.
As an artist, he worked to interpret America's greatest songs and to preserve them for later generations. On his recordings, his success is apparent. AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript.
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