Demo · Frank Sinatra
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About
Frank Sinatra (1915–1998) was an American singer and actor, born Francis Albert Sinatra in Hoboken, New Jersey, the only child of Italian immigrants.
He sang with Harry James’s band in 1939 and with Tommy Dorsey’s orchestra from 1940 to 1942, then went out on his own. His engagements at the Paramount Theatre in New York drew crowds of young fans, and for Columbia he recorded the ballads Axel Stordahl arranged for him.
After a slump at the start of the 1950s, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for From Here to Eternity and signed with Capitol. There, mostly with the arranger Nelson Riddle, he made albums built around a single mood: In the Wee Small Hours, Songs for Swingin’ Lovers!, Only the Lonely.
In 1960 he founded his own label, Reprise. He recorded Sinatra at the Sands in 1966 with Count Basie’s orchestra, conducted by Quincy Jones, and an album with Antonio Carlos Jobim the year after. He retired in 1971 and came back two years later. He died in Los Angeles on 14 May 1998, at eighty-two.
This is a demo site, a tribute built to show what a musician’s page on TJP can hold. Its dates are the demo’s own.
Works
With Tommy Dorsey, 1940–1942
Two years as the singer of Tommy Dorsey’s orchestra, whose breath control on the trombone shaped the way he carried a long phrase.
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Columbia, with Axel Stordahl
His first years on his own, 1943 to 1952: ballads Stordahl arranged for strings and woodwinds, many recorded in Columbia’s studio at Liederkranz Hall in New York.
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Capitol, with Nelson Riddle
From 1953: albums made to be heard whole, each one mood from start to finish, from the swing of Songs for Swingin’ Lovers! to the late night of In the Wee Small Hours.
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Appearing nightly: the Riobamba
The supper club on East 57th Street in New York where, in 1943, he made his first nightclub appearance as a solo singer.
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Photographs
At the piano, Liederkranz Hall, New York, about 1947. William P. Gottlieb, Library of Congress
At a session, Liederkranz Hall, about 1947. William P. Gottlieb, Library of Congress
On CBS Radio, 1944. CBS publicity photograph
A portrait by László Willinger, 1945
At the piano, about 1954. NBC publicity photograph
With Ella Fitzgerald on television, 1958. ABC publicity photograph