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Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert Sinatra was born of Sicilian ancestry on December 12, 1915, in Hoboken, New Jersey. As a youngster, he had visions of a sports writing career and worked briefly as a copy boy for a local newspaper.

Q: What was one of the first things you learned about singing? Do you still adhere to it?

SINATRA: When I first started, it was my idea to make my voice work like a musical instrument. I'vealways been fascinated with Jascha Heifetz' way with the violin and Tommy Dorsey's way with the

horn. Heifetz' constant bowing, when you never hear a break, carries a melody line straight through, just as Dorsey's trombone did. I tried to use my voice in the same way as a violin or trombone not

sounding like them, but playing my voice like them.

Q: Outside of music, what are some of your other interests?

SINATRA: I've dabbled in oil painting and I like photography. Over the years I've gathered amarvelous collection of model trains, specializing in steam engines. Many of the trains were sent to

me by fans and they're very special to me. Barbara and I have several dogs, cats and a parrot named"Rocky." What a greeting they give us when we come home from a road trip! Of course, I like to

cook... learned from both my mother and father.

Q: What was your most memorable moment with Tommy Dorsey?

SINATRA: I was with Tommy for a little under three years and according to my trusty little calculator,that comes to something like 1,500,000 moments and every one of them was memorable.

Q: In your formula for success, what is the main ingredient?

SINATRA: What formula? I never had one, so I couldn't say what the main ingredient is. I thinkeverybody who's successful in this business has one common ingredient--the talent God gave us. The

rest depends upon how it's used.


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Q: What do you look for, musically, in new songs for concerts and recordings?

SINATRA: I'm looking for the same elements I've sought throughout my career: a melody that sings,flows smoothly, allows me to become totally involved and gives me room for my own phrasing and

timing; strong, poetic lyrics that are solidly related to the music and tell a good story; fresh,imaginative arrangements that provide a glow to the words and music. In short, I look for outstanding

musicianship, taste, dedication and professionalism.

Q: You've been critical of the press. Yet, if you were a reporter and were given an assignment to do astory on Frank Sinatra, how would you handle it?

SINATRA: It's no secret I've been critical of the press, and I feel justified. I have great respect for responsible, professional journalists who are objective, unbiased and report the truth. On the other

hand, there are reporters an editors who distort, exaggerate, misquote or color the news withoutbothering to check the facts. They're the ones who give journalism a bad name, and people who are

in the public eye are often victims of unscrupulous headline-hunting reporters.

Q: Do you think you would have had a more serene, happier life if you had not achieved all the fame

and glory? Was it worth all the problems and the pressures? SINATRA: More serene, perhaps, but certainly not happier. We all have problems and pressures,regardless of the kind of life we lead, in show business or any other field. Has it been worth it all?

Sure it has, because I love what I'm doing and I'm one of the happiest people I know.

Q: Who, in your opinion, are the best, most promising songwriters in the business today?

SINATRA: There are several contemporary composers whose talent I regard highly and they'll geteven better as they progress. I've been using, with much personal satisfaction and fine audience

reaction, some of the best material of songwriters such as George Harrison, Jim Webb, David Gates,Carol Conners, Carol Bayer Sager, John Denver and Alan and Marilyn Bergman.

Q: You once said that if reincarnation were possible you'd like to return as opera singer LucianoPavarotti. My question is, Do you prefer classical and operatic music for your own enjoyment?

SINATRA: I like all music--opera, symphony, pop, show tunes, etc--and I'm comfortable with most of today's music, except the acid rock. I do, however, admire the technique and clarity of opera

performers.

Q: What was the most memorable moment in your life?

SINATRA: There have been several, among them, the two times that I became a grandfather, first of Angela Jennifer Lambert, then of her sister, Amanda Catherine Lambert. They gave me bigger thrills

than any standing ovation.

Q: Would you rather sing in nightclubs or in concerts?

SINATRA: At heart, I guess I'm a saloon singer because there's a greater intimacy betweenperformer and audience in a nightclub. Then again, I love the excitement of appearing before a big

concert audience. Let's just say that the place isn't important, as long as everybody has a good time.

Q: Which do you like best, singing or acting?

SINATRA: I started out as a singer and I'll end up as a singer. The acting was in between. I prefer notto classify or pigeonhole my craft because there's a lot of acting in my singing and my singing has

helped my acting.


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Q: Did you have any training in singing or acting prior to your first professional experience as anentertainer?

SINATRA: The only background I had in singing was with the glee club at Demerest High inHoboken, NJ. I had no training in either singing or acting and I learned everything from experience. I

performed at parties, social clubs, the corner candy store--any place people would listen to me.

Q: What is your favorite song?

SINATRA: I've sung and recorded so many wonderful songs over the years that it would beimpossible to name one in particular as my favorite. They've all been special for me for one reason or

another.

Q: Will you go on performing for the rest of your life?

SINATRA: You'd better believe it!

LITTLE-KNOWN FACTS

Sinatra, who's always been admired for his effortless handling of the microphone, used amegaphone ( la Rudy Vallee) during his early singing days. And there was always some character

who tried to throw coins into it.

His smash hit, "New York, New York," is so much an unofficial theme song of the Big Apple thatit's played at home games of the New York Yankees and the New York Mets during the baseball

season.

A lifelong sports fan, Sinatra once dreamed of a sports-writing career and even got as far as acopy boy on a small New Jersey newspaper, the Jersey Hudson Observer. He came closer to that

ambition in 1971, when he joined the Fourth Estate, press card and all, as a press photographer for Life Magazine, covering the bout between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier--and his photo landed on

the front cover.

The world probably lost a fine civil engineer when Ol' Blue Eyes went into show business. Duringhis youth, at the urging of his parents, he planned to enter the Stevens Institute of Technology in

Hoboken, New Jersey, which is regarded as an outstanding engineering school.

The "Battle of the Baritones," referring to Sinatra and Bing Crosby, wasn't a "battle" at all, for theywere close friends. Bing, in fact, was Frank's idol and it was his music that inspired Sinatra to become

a singer himself.

During World War II, Sinatra recorded dozens of songs, but not a single disc was ever sold,because they were all US Government property. They were the V-Discs he made for the Armed

Forces, and the Government still owns them.

Back in the late 1930's when he was just beginning his career, Sinatra sang wherever he couldfind an audience, and most of the time he wasn't even paid. At one point, he was appearing on no

less than 18 radio shows and they were all "sustaining" that meant no money. All he ever got wascarfare.

Sinatra's friendship with drummer Buddy Rich dates back to the days when they were roommateswhen they both were members of Tommy Dorsey's band. Years later, when Buddy organized his own

band, the man who backed him was you guessed it.


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His first appearance with the Dorsey band was in Indianapolis, Indiana, and he was so new to theband that he had arrangements for only two songs. When he finished, the crowd yelled for more, so

he and the band faked "South of the Border" for an encore.

Everybody knows that Harry James gave Sinatra his big break, and here's how it happened.James was relaxing in a hotel room in New York and he heard a young unknown singer on radio

station WNEW. The program was being broadcast from a New Jersey roadhouse, the Rustic Cabin.The trumpeter didn't catch his name, but the following night he went to the place and asked the

manager where he would find the singer. He was told, "We don't have a singer, but we have an MCwho sings a little maybe that's him."

When Sinatra went out on his own after leaving Dorsey, he landed an engagement at the oldParamount Theatre on Times Square in New York. It was in December, 1942, and the headliner of the stage show was Benny Goodman. The kid from Hoboken was listed on the bill as "Extra Added

Attraction." That was the performance that set the kids wild, dancing in the aisles. After that, he wasnever again billed as "Extra Added Attraction."

Not only was Sinatra a singer and actor, he was also a movie producer ("Sergeants Three," "Robin

and the Seven Hoods" and "None But the Brave"), director ("None But the Brave") and songwriter (hewrote the lyrics to "This Love of Mine," which he recorded during the Dorsey era).

His phrasing, acclaimed as the best of any singer in show business, is due to his expert breathcontrol, which he developed by extensive swimming underwater. ("Keeps the old bellows strong," he

said.)

A lover of opera, he was a great admirer of Luciano Pavarotti, Leontyne Price, Beverly Sillsand other artists. And his good friend Robert Merrill gave him frequent advice on singing.

Sinatra's association with opera stars goes back to the days when he was on radio's Your Hit Parade , the citadel of pop music. When he left the show, his replacement was, believe it or

not, Lawrence Tribbett, the great Metropolitan Opera baritone.

However, that ambition was short-lived once Frank Sinatra heard the unique music styles of Billie Holiday and Bing Crosby. He decided to pursue a singing career and teamed with a

local group called the Hoboken Four. When the quartet broke up after only a brief timetogether, the young singer took the solo route and toured the vaudeville circuit. In 1937

Sinatra landed a job as a singing MC at the Rustic Cabin, a fabled roundhouse in Englewood,New Jersey.

His talent attracted Harry James, who hired Sinatra to sing with his orchestra, and on July 13,1939, two weeks after his debut as a big band vocalist at the Hippodrome Theatre in

Baltimore, Sinatra cut his first disc, "From The Bottom of My Heart" b/w "Melancholy Mood,"with the orchestra.

With his recording of "All or Nothing at All" on August 31, 1939, as well as his later debut as aband singer, Frank Sinatra changed the face of popular music in America and paved the way

for others. Of the ten sides he recorded with James "All or Nothing at All" was the biggest,selling just over 8,000 copies upon release. In 1943, when Sinatra and James had both

become national figures, it was re-released and became the first of Sinatra's many million-sellers, hitting #2 on the charts.

In 1940, Tommy Dorsey's lead singer, Jack Leonard, quit and Sinatra began a two-year staywith the Dorsey band, developing his phrasing by studying Dorsey's technique on the

trombone. After leaving Dorsey, he appeared as a regular on the "Hit Parade" radio program. Also around this time he began his film career with 1943's "Higher and Higher." Other roles

included "Anchors Aweigh," "'Till the Clouds Roll By" and "The Kissing Bandit." In all, hemade more than 50 films. During the years Sinatra was with them, the Dorsey band


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consistently hit the Top Ten (15 entries in 1940-41 including their first #1 hit "I'll Never Smile(Again)." His radio work with Dorsey was the springboard for Sinatra's solo career.

"The Voice" later struck out on his own and made memorable appearances on radio's "Your Hit Parade" and his own show, "Songs By Sinatra." In late 1942 Sinatra made an historic

appearance at the old Paramount Theatre on Times Square in New York. The headliner onthe bill was Benny Goodman and when the bandleader introduced Frank Sinatra, the

audience erupted and cheered itself hoarse. There was dancing in the aisles, whistling,whooping and shrieking. It was the beginning of a long love affair between the singer and hisfans. It was one of the most spectacular events in show business history and Frank Sinatra's

career soared. During the war years, Sinatra sang love songs to his

mostly female audiences, notably on Lucky Strike's "HitParade," and between 1943 and 1946 had 17 Top Tenchart singles. But with the GIs back in the US after the

war, public taste shifted away from these songs andSinatra's popularity waned. At Columbia, his record label,producer Mitch Miller burdened Sinatra with inappropriate

novelty songs (washboard accompaniment on one,barking dogs on another), and his sales slipped to an

average of 30,000 per record.In the early Fifties he was dropped by his record company

and his talent agent, and he lost his motion picturecontract with MGM. To rescue his popularity he begged to

be cast as Maggio in the film of "From Here to Eternity."His first non-singing role, it won him the 1953 Best

Supporting Male Actor Oscar and brought him back intothe limelight. (His film debut had been with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra in 1941's "Las

Vegas Nights.") Sinatra's career was rocked in the early '50s when his voice deteriorated. Also, fans were

upset over his divorce in 1951 from his first wife, Nancy Barbato, and subsequent marriage to Ava Gardner, which lasted until 1957. (He also was married to Mia Farrow in 1966 and, in

1977, he married his last wife, Barbara, who was the widow of Zeppo Marx.) After winning the Oscar for his role in "From Here to Eternity" in 1953, the fledgling Capitol

Records signed him, and thus began an association that lasted seven years. With ex-Dorseytrombonist and arranger Nelson Riddle, Sinatra moved into the next phase of his recordingcareer with a new emphasis: booze ballads and swing tunes. With Capitol, he concentratedon making albums, although he once again began charting in the singles Top Ten, notably

with "Young at Heart" (#2, 1954), "Learnin' The Blues" (#1, 1955), "Hey! Jealous Lover" (#3,1956), "All The Way" (#2, 1957) and "Witchcraft" (#6, 1958).

Though the Fifties, Sinatra was equally well known as a movie star, winning especially highpraise for his role of a drug addict in "The Man with the Golden Arm" (1955). Beginning in

1959, his singles failed to hit the Top Thirty, and in 1961 he left Capitol to establish his ownrecording company, Reprise, signing Bing Crosby, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis, Jr. among

his first acts. (In 1963 he sold Reprise to Warner Bros and became a vice president andconsultant of Warner Brothers Picture Corp.)

Sinatra decided to try once again to become a Top Forty singles artist. "The Second Time Around" hit #50 in 1961; subsequent releases charted lower. But in the mid-Sixties he

recouped. He was the triumphant headliner of the final evening of the 1965 Newport JazzFestival in a 20-song set accompanied by Count Basie's orchestra, conducted by Quincy

Jones. His 1965 Thanksgiving TV special, "Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music," a review of his 25-year career, won an Emmy and set the precedent for numerous other TV specials,

including one each in the four next years. In 1966-67, he charted three of his biggest hits inthe Top Ten: "Strangers in the Night" (#1, 1966), "That's Life" (#4, 1966) and "Somethin'

Stupid" (a duet with daughter Nancy, #1, 1967). In the Sixties, he made his Las Vegas debut at the Sands and continued to be a main

attraction at Caesars Palace for many years. In 1968, he recorded Las Vegas regular Paul Anka's song "My Way." While it was a modest hit in the U.S. (#27), it was an overwhelming

smash in the UK, staying in the Top Fifty an unprecedented 122 weeks. (Sex Pistol SidVicious later recorded a sarcastic version.)


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In 1970, Sinatra announced his retirement and was honored with a gala farewell on June 13,1971, at the Los Angeles Music Center. He reversed that decision in 1973 with the release of

"Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back," a TV special of the same name, and a performance at the NixonWhite House at a state dinner for visiting Italian Premier Giulio Andreotti. In 1974, he mountedan eight-city, 13-date sold-out US tour and performed in Japan and Australia. (In Australia, heonce again aggravated the paparazzi with his anti-journalist harangues: through the years he

has referred to the males as parasites, and the females as everything from "a buck-and-a-half hooker" to "two-dollar broads.")

In the mid-Seventies, Sinatra's career slowed somewhat but in mid-1980, after a five-year recording hiatus, he released Trilogy , which included his version of "Theme from 'New York,

New York'" (#32), a version that city has fervently adopted. Into the Eighties, Sinatracontinued to perform sell-out concerts in major halls, to star in movies and TV specials, and to

spark controversy for his business and political associations. (His 1972 appearances beforethe House Select Committee on Crime investigating criminal infiltration into horse racing were

front-page news.)The most acclaimed and influential pop stylist of his generation, he continued to record

standards. While his staples have been the songs of Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kernand George and Ira Gershwin, he also recorded pop and rock songs by Stevie Wonder,

George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Jimmy Webb,Jim Croce, Neil Diamond and Billy Joel.

In 1978, Sinatra went to Israel for thededication of the Frank Sinatra International StudentCentre at the Mount Scopus campus of the HebrewUniversity (another building in Israel named for himis the Frank Sinatra Youth Centre in Nazareth). Thefollowing year Sinatra returned to the Middle East,

performing a benefit concert in Egypt at the requestof Madam Sadat for her favorite charity. The Sinatra

Family Children's Unit for the Chronically Ill wasestablished at the Seattle Children's Orthopedic

Hospital and Medical Center. Sinatra was one of thefive distinguished honorees (the others were JimmyStewart, Elia Kazan, Virgil Thompson and KatherineDunham) at the 1983 Kennedy Center Honors. He

served as producer and director of entertainment for President Reagan's Inaugural Galas in 1981 and

1985, and also played a role in the Inauguration of President John F. Kennedy. Sinatraappeared at several highly successful annual engagements at Carnegie Hall, each

surpassing the previous year in critical acclaim and box office records at the fabled New Yorklandmark. Like the best performing artists, however, Sinatra has proven timeless

Sinatra also forged a highly successful career as a film actor, winning the Academy Awardfor Best Supporting Actor for his performance in From Here to Eternity , a nomination forBest Actor for The Man with the Golden Arm , and critical acclaim for his performance in The

Manchurian Candidate . He also starred in such musicals as High Society , Pal Joey , Guys and Dolls and On the Town . Sinatra was honored at the Kennedy Center Honors in 1983 and wasawarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Ronald Reagan in 1985 and the CongressionalGold Medal in 1997. Sinatra was also the recipient of eleven Grammy Awards, including theGrammy Trustees Award, Grammy Legend Award and the Grammy Lifetime AchievementAward.

Film and television portrayals


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In The Godfather , fictional singer Johnny Fontane , whose career was helped byorganized crime boss Vito Corleone , was recognized by many, even Sinatra, as beingbased on his life .[73]

In 1992, CBS aired a TV mini-series about the entertainer's life titled, Sinatra ,directed by James Steven Sadwith and starred Philip Casnoff as Sinatra. Opening with

his childhood in Hoboken, New Jersey, the film follows Sinatra's rise to the top in the1940s, through the dark days of the early 1950s and his triumphant re-emergence inthe mid-1950s, to his status as pop culture icon in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Inbetween, the film hits all of the main events, including his three marriages, hisconnections with the Mafia and his notorious friendship with the Rat Pack. TinaSinatra was executive producer. Casnoff received a Golden Globe nomination for hisperformance.

In 1998, Ray Liotta portrayed Sinatra in the HBO movie The Rat Pack , alongside JoeMantegna as Dean Martin and Don Cheadle as Sammy Davis, Jr . It depicted theircontribution to John F. Kennedy 's election as U.S. president in 1960.

The late Phil Hartman spoofed Sinatra on Saturday Night Live . In 2003, Sinatra was portrayed by James Russo in "Stealing Sinatra", which revolved

around the kidnapping of Frank Sinatra Jr. in 1963 Also in 2003, he was portrayed by Dennis Hopper in The Night We Called It a Day ,

based upon events that occurred during a tour of Australia where Frank had called amember of the news media a "two-bit hooker" and all the unions in the country camecrashing down on him.

Sinatra was also portrayed by Sebastian Anzaldo in the film Tears of a King , who alsoimpersonated Sinatra in a TV episode of The Next Best Thing .

In the Emmy Award Winning 2011 miniseries, The Kennedys , Sinatra was depictedby Canadian actor Chris Diamantopoulos .

Martin Scorsese is developing a biopic of Sinatra's life to be scripted by Phil AldenRobinson and produced by Scott Rudin .[74] When the film was first announced, threeactors were said to be in contention for the part: Leonardo DiCaprio was Scorsese'spreference, Johnny Depp was the studio's, and the Sinatra estate preferred GeorgeClooney .[75] Scorsese later mentioned that he wanted Al Pacino for Sinatra and RobertDe Niro as Dean Martin .[76] The film covers his whole life, so three or more actorswill be playing him at different ages .[77] Billy Ray has been linked to write thescreenplay for the film .[78]

Film careerMain article: Frank Sinatra filmography

Sinatra enjoyed a huge film career and began making movies almost as soon as his singingcareer took off. His most important pictures include The Manchurian Candidate with AngelaLansbury , From Here to Eternity with Burt Lancaster , The Man With the Golden Arm withArnold Stang , Kings Go Forth with Natalie Wood , Guys and Dolls with Marlon Brando ,

High Society with Bing Crosby , Pal Joey with Rita Hayworth , Some Came Running withDean Martin , Never So Few with Steve McQueen , A Hole in the Head with Edward G.Robinson , Meet Danny Wilson , On the Town with Gene Kelly , Robin and the 7 Hoods withBing Crosby , Ocean's 11 and Sergeants 3 with the Rat Pack (Dean Martin , Sammy Davis, Jr. , Peter Lawford , and Joey Bishop ), Step Lively , None But the Brave (directed by Sinatra), The

Detective with Lee Remick , Come Blow Your Horn with Lee J. Cobb and Barbara Rush , andThe Pride and the Passion starring Cary Grant , among many others spanning most of hislengthy career.
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Personal lifeSee also: Relationships of Frank Sinatra

Sinatra had three children, Nancy, Frank Jr. , and Tina , all with his first wife, Nancy Sinatra(ne Barbato) (m. 1939 1951). He was married three more times, to actresses Ava Gardner (m. 1951 1957), Mia Farrow (m. 1966 1968), and finally to Barbara Marx (m. 1976-1998;his death).

Throughout his life, Sinatra had mood swings and bouts of depression . Solitude andunglamorous surroundings were to be avoided at all cost. He struggled with the conflictingneed "to get away from it all, but not too far away." [32] :485 He acknowledged this, telling aninterviewer in the 1950s: "Being an 18-karat manic depressive , and having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions, I have an over-acute capacity for sadness as well aselation. "[10] :218 In her memoirs My Father's Daughter , his daughter Tina wrote about the"eighteen-karat" remark: "As flippant as Dad could be about his mental state, I believe that a

Zoloft a day might have kept his demons away. But that kind of medicine was decadesoff."[49]

Although beloved as a hero by his hometown of Hoboken, Frank Sinatra rarely visited it.According to one account, Sinatra returned once in 1948 to celebrate the election of Hoboken's first Italian mayor and was not well received by the crowd. He stated he wouldnever come back, and in fact did not return until 1984, to appear with Ronald Reagan .[50]

Political views

Sinatra held differing political views throughout his life.

Sinatra's parents had immigrated to the United States in 1895 and 1897 respectively. Hismother, Dolly Sinatra (1896 1977), was a Democratic Party ward leader .[55]

Sinatra, pictured here with Eleanor Roosevelt in 1960, was an

ardent supporter of the Democratic Party until 1970.

Sinatra remained a supporter of the Democratic Partyuntil the early 1970s when he switched his allegiance tothe Republican Party .

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In 1944, after sending a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt , Sinatra was invited to meetRoosevelt at the White House , where he agreed to become part of the Democratic party's

voter registration drives .[56] :40
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He donated $5,000 to the Democrats for the 1944 presidential election and by the end of thecampaign was appearing at two or three political events every day .[56] :40

After World War II, Sinatra's politics grew steadily more left wing ,[56] :41 and he became morepublicly associated with the Popular Front . He started reading liberal literature and supported

many organizations that were later identified as front organizations of the Communist Partyby the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s, though Sinatra was neverbrought before the committee.

Sinatra spoke at a number of New Jersey high schools in 1945, where students had gone onstrike in opposition to racial integration . Later that year Sinatra would appear in The House I

Live In , a short film that stood against racism . The film was scripted by Albert Maltz , withthe title song written by Earl Robinson and Abel Meeropol (under the pseudonym of LewisAllen).

In 1948, Sinatra actively campaigned for President Harry S. Truman .[57] In 1952 and 1956, healso campaigned for Adlai Stevenson .[57] In 1956 and 1960, Sinatra sang the NationalAnthem at the Democratic National Convention .[57]

Of all the U.S. Presidents he associated with during his career, he was closest to John F.Kennedy .[57] In 1960, Sinatra and his friends Peter Lawford, Dean Martin, and Sammy DavisJr. actively campaigned for Kennedy throughout the United States ;[57] On the campaign trail,Sinatra's voice was heard even if he wasn't physically present .[57] The campaigns themesong, played before every appearance, was a newly recorded version of High Hopes,specially recorded by Sinatra with new lyrics saluting JFK .[57]

In January 1961, Sinatra and Peter Lawford organized the Inaugural Gala in Washington, DC,held on the evening before President John F. Kennedy was sworn into office .[57] The event,featuring many big show business stars, was an enormous success, raising a large amount of money for the Democratic Party. Sinatra also organized an Inaugural Gala in California in1962 to welcome second term Democratic Governor Pat Brown .[11] [ page needed ]

Sinatra's move toward the Republicans seems to have begun when he was snubbed byPresident Kennedy in favor of Bing Crosby ,[58] a rival singer and a Republican, for Kennedy'svisit to Palm Springs , in 1962. Kennedy had planned to stay at Sinatra's home over the Easterholiday weekend, but decided against doing so because of Sinatra's alleged connections toorganized crime .[58] Kennedy stayed at Bing Crosby's house instead .[58] Sinatra had invested a

lot of his own money in upgrading the facilities at his home in anticipation of the President'svisit.[59] At the time, President Kennedy's brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy , wasintensifying his own investigations into organized crime figures such as Chicago mob bossSam Giancana , who had earlier stayed at Sinatra's home.

Despite his break with Kennedy, however, he still mourned over Kennedy after he learned hewas assassinated .[57] According to his daughter Nancy, he learned of Kennedy's assassinationwhile filming a scene of Robin and the Seven Hoods in Burbank .[57] After he learned of theassassination, Sinatra quickly finished filming the scene, returned to his Palm Springs home,and sobbed in his bedroom for three days .[57]

The 1968 election illustrated changes in the once solidly pro-JFK Rat Pack: Peter Lawford , Sammy Davis, Jr. , and Shirley MacLaine all endorsed Robert Kennedy in the spring
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primaries; Sinatra, Dean Martin , and Joey Bishop backed Vice-President Hubert Humphrey . In the fall election, Sinatra appeared for Humphrey in Texas at the Houston Astrodome withPresident Lyndon Johnson and in a television commercial soliciting campaigncontributions .[60] He also re-stated his support for Humphrey on a live election-eve nationaltelethon.

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In 1970, the first sign of Sinatra's break from the Democratic Party came when he endorsedRonald Reagan for a second term as Governor of California ;[44][57] Sinatra, however,remained a registered Democrat and encouraged Reagan to become more moderate .[57] InJuly 1972, after a lifetime of supporting Democratic presidential candidates, Sinatraannounced he would support Republican U.S. President Richard Nixon for re-election in the1972 presidential election . His switch to the Republican Party was now official ;[57] he eventold his daughter Tina, who had actively campaigned for Nixon's Democratic opponentGeorge McGovern ,[57] "the older you get, the more conservative you get. "[57] Sinatra said heagreed with the Republican Party on most positions, except that of abortion .[56]

Sinatra is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Ronald Reagan .

During Nixon's Presidency, Sinatra visited the White House on several occasions .[57] Sinatraalso became good friends with Vice President Spiro Agnew . In 1973, Agnew was chargedwith corruption and resigned as Vice President; Sinatra helped Agnew pay some of his legalbills.[11] :458

In the 1980 presidential election , Sinatra supported Ronald Reagan, and donated $4 million toReagan's campaign. Sinatra said he supported Reagan as he was "the proper man to be thePresident of the United States... it's so screwed up now, we need someone to straighten itout."[44]:395 Reagan's victory gave Sinatra his closest relationship with the White House sincethe early 1960s .[57] Sinatra arranged Reagan's Presidential gala ,[11] :503 as he had done forKennedy 20 years previously.

In 1984, Sinatra returned to his birthplace in Hoboken, bringing with him President Reagan,who was in the midst of campaigning for the 1984 presidential election . Reagan had madeSinatra a fund-raising ambassador as part of the Republican National Committee's "Victory'84 Get-Out-The-Vote" (GOTV) drive .[11] :560[61] On January 19, 1985, Sinatra hosted the 50th

Presidential Inaugural Gala, the day before the second inauguration of Ronald Reagan .
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Alleged organized crime linksMain article: Alleged organized crime links

Sinatra garnered considerable attention due to his alleged personal and professional links withorganized crime ,[51] including figures such as Carlo Gambino ,[52] Sam Giancana ,[52] LuckyLuciano ,[52] and Joseph Fischetti .[52] The Federal Bureau of Investigation kept recordsamounting to 2,403 pages on Sinatra. With his alleged Mafia ties, his ardent New Deal politics and his friendship with John F. Kennedy , he was a natural target for J. EdgarHoover 's FBI .[53] The FBI kept Sinatra under surveillance for almost five decades beginningin the 1940s. The documents include accounts of Sinatra as the target of death threats andextortion schemes. They also portray rampant paranoia and strange obsessions at the FBI andreveal nearly every celebrated Sinatra foible and peccadillo .[54]

For a year Hoover investigated Sinatra's alleged Communist affiliations, but found noevidence. The files include his rendezvous with prostitutes, and his extramarital affair withAva Gardner, which preceded their marriage. Celebrities mentioned in the files are DeanMartin , Marilyn Monroe , Peter Lawford , and Giancana's girlfriend, singer Phyllis McGuire .

The FBI's secret dossier on Sinatra was released in 1998 in response to Freedom of Information Act requests.

The released FBI files reveal some tantalizing insights into Sinatras lifetime consistency inpursuing and embracing seemingly conflicting affiliations. But Sinatras alliances had apractical aspect. They were adaptive mechanisms for behavior motivated by self-interest and

inner anxieties. In September 1950 Sinatra felt particularly vulnerable. He was in a panic overhis moribund career and haunted by the continual speculations and innuendos in circulationregarding his draft status in World War II. Sinatra was scared, his career had sprung a leak.In a letter dated September 17, 1950, to Clyde Tolson , Deputy FBI Director. Sinatra offeredto be of service to the FBI as an informer. An excerpted passage from a memo in FBI filesstates that Sinatra feels he can be of help as a result o f going anywhere the Bureau desiresand contacting any people from whom he might be able to obtain information. Sinatra feels asa result of his publicity he can operate without suspicionhe is willing to go the whole way.The FBI declined his assistance.
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