2. Childhood
• Born Dec. 12th, 1915 in
Hoboken New Jersey to
Martin and Natalie Sinatra
• Failed to graduate high
school
• Newspaper deliverer
• Riveter
• Began singing for tips at
age 8
• Never learned to read
music
3. First Break
• Age 20 Frank joined “The
Three Flashes”
• 1st place with 40,000 votes
• Six month contract
• Tour and radio time
4. The Turning Point
• Tommy Dorsey
• Coronado Theater,
Rockford Illinois
• “I’ll Never Smile Again”
5. Sinatra-mania
• May 1941 Top Male Vocalist
• Dec 1942 Paramount Theater, NY
• Oct 1944 Paramount Theater, NY
• 1943 Re-released “All or Nothing At All”
6. Family
• Met Nancy Barbato Summer
of 1934
• Married Feb, 1939
• Three kids
- Nancy Jr. born in 1940
- Frank Jr. born in 1943
- Tiny born in 1948
• Divorced in Oct. of 1951
• Married Ava Gardner (Nov
1951-57)
• Married Mia Farrow (1966-68)
• Married Barbara Marx (1976)
8. The Hits
• “I’ve Got You Under My Skin”
• “Strangers in the Night”
• “That’s Life”
• “Fly Me to the Moon”
• “Come Fly With Me”
• “My Way”
• “The Way You Look Tonight”
• “New York, New York”
• “Night and Day”
• “Summer Wind”
9. The End
• Dec. 1994 Fukuoka Dome, Japan
• Feb 25th, 1995 Frank Sinatra Desert
Classic
• “The Best is Yet to Come”