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Frank Sinatra's Profile / Life:
Francis Albert Sinatra was born in 1915. After attending a 1933 Bing Crosby concert, he was inspired to pursue a singing career. In 1935 he entered a radio talent show, Major Bowes Amateur Hour, where he was teemed with a singing trio and won first prize. Numerous concert and radio performances followed, and in 1939 he was hired by Harry James to sing in his big band. Sinatra made a number of records with James and in 1940 he joined Tommy Dorsey's group, one the countries leading swing bands. He had a number of top ten hits with Dorsey and one record, "I'll Be Seeing You," became a major hit in 1942. That year Sinatra also recorded his first session as a solo singer. From that session, Cole Porter's "Night and Day," was Sinatra's first hit under his own name. He went solo and became a teenage idol with sell out concerts, film roles, and one hit after another. His hits including many Dorsey and James numbers released under Sinatra's name.
By the 1950s Sinatra's singing career was hitting a slow period, but in 1953 he won an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor in From Here To Eternity. It began a more successful acting career in both serious films and musicals such as 1955's The Man With The Golden Arm, 1955's Guys And Dolls, 1956's High Society, 1959's A Hole In The Head, 1962's The Manchurian Candidate and many others. After the Oscar, Sinatra also made a musical comeback. He left Columbia and in 1953 signed with Capitol Records. Sinatra began a collaboration with arranger/conductor Nelson Riddle. Many classic albums followed throughout the '50s including Songs For Young Lovers, Come Fly With Me, In The Wee Small Hours and Songs For Swingin' Lovers and Nice 'N' Easy.
In 1960, Sinatra began his own label, Reprise, but Capitol also continued to release Sinatra albums. There were six releases between the two labels in 1961 and they all reached the top ten. Capitol's last Sinatra album was 1962's Point Of No Return. Reprise continued to release at least a few Sinatra albums a year throughout the 60's and most were still successful, reaching gold status. They included 1965's September of My Years, featuring the hit "It Was a Very Good Year," and 1966's Strangers In The Night, with the huge title song. He had more hits with 1967's "Something Stupid", a duet with his daughter Nancy, and 1969's "My Way", which became his signature song.
Sinatra announced his retirement in 1971 but he returned in 1973 with another gold-selling album and a TV special, Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back. He performed live throughout the '70s but didn't release another album until 1979's Trilogy: Past, Present, Future. It contained the "Theme From New York, New York," which was originally featured in the 1977 movie, and the performance became a standard.
He remained a huge concert draw in the 80's and experienced a resurgence in the early '90s with the release of box sets of both his Capitol and Reprise material. 1993's Duets album, where Sinatra performed with mostly contemporary pop singers, became his biggest selling album ever and was followed up by Duets II. He retired in 1995 and died in 1998.
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