Frank Sinatra
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Tim Buckley...Anaheim when he was 17. His grandmother introduced him to Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday, his mother introduced Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland and his father to the country music of Hank Williams and Johnny Cash. At the age of 11, Buckley... In this article: Tim Buckley, Larry Beckett, Herb Cohen, Heroin, Goodbye and Hello, Loara High School, and Tim Buckley |
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San Jose Mercury News | September 12, 2009
Parrrrty time for pirates in Colorado
...sense, this locally run nonprofit radio station espouses a noncorporate oldies (pre-1964) playlist that sticks to Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Gene Autry, Bing Crosby, Hank Williams Sr., Elvis Presley and classic country.
In this article: Colorado, Dave Barry, Scurvy, Dog, The Denver Post, and Drunken Sailor
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Rolling Stone | January 22, 2008
New Music Tuesdays: Cat Power's Jukebox : Rolling Stone : Rock and Roll Daily
...of covers titled Jukebox, which hits stores this week. Click above to watch Melissa Maerz discuss these stripped-down deconstructions of songs by Hank Williams, Bob Dylan and Frank Sinatra. Plus: Read the review of Jukebox here. >>Watch every...
In this article: Cat Power, Jukebox, Itunes, Rock Star, Bob Dylan, Hank Williams, and The Greatest
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PR Newswire: All Releases | August 11, 2009
821 Entertainment Group and Strike Entertainment to Develop and Produce a Film About Hank Williams in Partnership With Music Legend's Estate
...audience that increases every year. Among the artists who have reinterpreted his songs and introduced his music to new generations are Bob Dylan, Norah Jones, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Cash, and Ray Charles. "Even with a life ended too soon,...
In this article: Hank Williams, Strike Entertainment, Marc Abraham, Jett Williams, Universal Studios, and Children of Men
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Starpulse | January 31, 2008
Music Spotlight: Cat Power - Starpulse Entertainment News Blog
...Cat Power's most recent release, is a collection of various cover songs made famous by artists like Frank Sinatra, James Brown, Janis Joplin, Joni Mitchell, Hank Williams Sr., and Bob Dylan, to name a few, with the addition of two...
In this article: Cat Power, Cat Stevens, Janis Joplin, Jukebox, Sea of Love, Debeers, Bob Dylan, James Brown, and Hank Williams Sr.
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New York Times | July 18, 2008
Wistful Singer, Jo Stafford, Is Dead at 90
...duet of another Williams song, "Hey, Good Lookin. ' After a falling out with Columbia in the late 1950's, Ms. Stafford returned to Capitol, the joined Frank Sinatra's Reprise label. In 1966, Ms. Stafford went into semi-retirement. After...
In this article: Jo Stafford, Pied Pipers, Tommy Dorsey, California, Wistful, and World War II
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Daily Express | December 10, 2008
Are these the greatest singers ever in pop music?
...Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald are nowhere in sight. Have they not heard Frank s 1966 album Strangers In The Night or Ella s heavenly takes from the Johnny Mercer songbook from the same period? But where are such singers today? On Saturday...
In this article: Aretha Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, God, Strangers in the Night, Rolling Stone magazine, Shayne Ward, and Leon Jackson
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A.V. Club RSS Feeds | January 21, 2008
Cat Power The A.V. Club
...White of the Dirty Three on drums and Jon Spencer Blues Explosion's Judah Bauer on guitar, Marshall re-interprets tracks from Frank Sinatra, George Jackson, Billie Holiday, James Brown, and more: Her gender-twisted take on Hank Williams'...
In this article: Bob Dylan, Hank Williams, Jukebox, Schmaltz, Dylan, Ramblin' Man, George Jackson, The A.V. Club, and Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
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Rolling Stone | January 14, 2008
Jukebox : Cat Power : Review : Rolling Stone
...life on the road. With a haunting slide guitar, she sings about riding off into nowhere on the Highwaymen's "Silver Stallion," and she lulls Sinatra's "New York, New York" into a sweetly languorous ballad, lingering over the words "vagabond...
In this article: Jukebox, The Greatest, Cat Power, Ramblin' Man, I'm Not There, Blues Explosion, Hank Williams, and Dylanesque
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Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor.
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, starred in the Emmy-winning television special Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music, 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.
- Name At Birth:
- Francis Albert Sinatra
- Also Known As:
- The Voice
- Ol' Blue Eyes
- Frankie
- The Chairman of the Board
- Birth Date:
- December 12, 1915
- Birthplace:
- Hoboken, New Jersey
- Death Date:
- May 14, 1998
- Place of Death:
- Los Angeles, California
- Spouse:
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- Ava Gardner (1951-1957)
- Nancy Barbato (1939-1951)
- Mia Farrow (1966-1968)
- Barbara Marx (1976-1998)
- Occupation:
- actor
- Instrument Played:
- Vocals
- Record Label:
- Columbia, Capitol, Reprise
- Years Active:
- 1935–1995
- Associated With:
- Bing Crosby
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