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Capp also lampooned popular recording idols of the day, such as Elvis Presley (" Hawg McCall ," 1957 ), Liberace (" Loverboynik ," 1956 ), the Beatles (" the Beasties ," 1964 )— and in 1944, Frank Sinatra.
Sinatra also forged a highly successful career as a film actor, winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in From Here to Eternity, a nomination for Best Actor for The Man with the Golden Arm, and critical acclaim for his performance in The Manchurian Candidate.
Sinatra was also the recipient of eleven Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Trustees Award, Grammy Legend Award and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Frank Sinatra was also a frequent visitor.
The pair were also to have appeared in the film but their roles were cut following their friendship with Barry Keenan who had engineered the Frank Sinatra Jr kidnapping.
Sinatra also had a brief acting career in the mid-60s including a co-starring role with Elvis Presley in the movie Speedway, and with Peter Fonda in The Wild Angels.
She also updated her biography on her dad and published Frank Sinatra: An American Legend.
Sinatra received her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on May 11, 2006, which was also declared " Nancy Sinatra Day " by Hollywood ’ s mayor, Johnny Grant.
The first verse of the 1927 version is sung by Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra at the start of the MGM musical film, Take Me Out to the Ball Game ( 1949 ), a movie that also features a song about the famous and fictitious double play combination, O ' Brien to Ryan to Goldberg.
The deal gave Sinatra US $ 1. 5 million and part ownership of Warner Bros. Records, with Reprise becoming a sub-label ; most significantly for Warner Bros .' s future music operations, the deal also brought Reprise manager Morris " Mo " Ostin into the company.
" Newsweek also stated that " Frank Sinatra, a crooner long since turned actor, knew what he was doing when he plugged for the role of Maggio.
The cast agreed, Burt Lancaster commenting in the book Sinatra: An American Legend that " His fervour ( Sinatra ), his bitterness had something to do with the character of Maggio, but also with what he had gone through the last number of years.
He also struck up a friendship with Frank Sinatra that would endure Sinatra's early 1970s conversion to the Republican party and was perhaps most on notice in the fall of 1977 when Sinatra was the star attraction and host of a tribute to a then-ailing Humphrey.
The novel also includes many allusions to real-life mobsters and their associates, and Johnny Fontane is based on Frank Sinatra, Moe Greene on Bugsy Siegel, for example.
During a long career, he also wrote articles with topics ranging from Miller and Frank Sinatra to Thelonious Monk.
Jones also arranged and conducted 1966's live Sinatra at the Sands.
She also maintained a close friendship with stars like Anthony Quinn, Burt Lancaster, Sam Peckinpah, Frank Sinatra, Dolores del Río, John Wayne and many others.
* The song is also referenced in the song " Frank Sinatra " by Cake.
There is also a memorable scene at the Hollywood Bowl, where Sinatra sings " I Fall in Love Too Easily ", after Iturbi and a group of young pianists have performed an arrangement of Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2.
She said that he also claimed to have started the Everly Brothers, Frank Sinatra and Lawrence Welk.
Written by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster, the song was recorded by The Four Aces and also by Jerry Vale, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra, among others.

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It was remade as Pocketful of Miracles in 1961, with Bette Davis in the Apple Annie role ( fused with the old woman from Runyon's short story " The Brain Goes Home "); Frank Sinatra recorded the upbeat title song ( his rendition is not used in the film ).
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 recorded several anti-war songs, including " My Buddy ", featured on her album Sugar, " Home ", co-written by Mac Davis, and " It's Such A Lonely Time of Year ", which appeared on the 1968 LP The Sinatra Family Wish You a Merry Christmas.
Sinatra recorded the song for her second Reprise album, How Does That Grab You?
Sinatra recorded a public service announcement for Deejay Ra's ' Hip-Hop Literacy ' campaign, encouraging reading of Tarantino screenplays and related books.
Merrily We Roll Along ( 1981 ), with a book by George Furth, is one of Sondheim's more " traditional " scores and was thought to hold potential to generate some hit songs ( Frank Sinatra and Carly Simon each recorded a different song from the show ).
It became Sondheim's most popular song after Frank Sinatra recorded it in 1973 and Judy Collins's version charted in 1975 and 1977.
After Collins recorded the song, it was recorded by Frank Sinatra, Kenny Rogers, Lou Rawls and many others.
* 1973: Frank Sinatra recorded it on his album Ol ' Blue Eyes Is Back
It was during this time that Ellington recorded his only album with Frank Sinatra, entitled Francis A.
A number of recordings made by Frank Sinatra for Columbia in the 1940s feature the instrument ( namely " I'll Never Smile Again "), as do many of his albums recorded for Capitol in the 1950s ( In the Wee Small Hours, Close to You and Songs for Swingin ' Lovers ).
* 1951 Castle Rock, a song recorded by Frank Sinatra and Harry James which reached number 8 on the Billboard charts.
Notable singers who have performed and recorded their songs have included Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Blossom Dearie, and Carly Simon.
Frank Sinatra recorded for the first time with Basie on 1962's Sinatra-Basie and for a second studio album on 1964's It Might as Well Be Swing, which was arranged by Quincy Jones.
It eventually became a jazz standard recorded by more than four hundred artists, including Stan Kenton, Dick Haymes, Woody Herman, Nat King Cole, The Four Freshmen, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and Frank Sinatra.
* Frank Sinatra recorded three studio versions of the song ; the first as a single for Columbia in the 1940s, the second, in 1959 for the album No One Cares, and lastly, in 1984 for the album L. A. Is My Lady.
Lauper recorded " Santa Claus is Coming to Town ", a duet with Frank Sinatra, which was released on the album A Very Special Christmas 2.
English translations of his songs were recorded by many top performers in the United States, including Ray Charles, Judy Collins, John Denver, the Kingston Trio, Nina Simone, Frank Sinatra, Scott Walker, and Andy Williams.
In 1991 Spiner recorded an album of 1940s pop standards entitled Ol ' Yellow Eyes Is Back, the title of which was a play on the yellow contact lenses Spiner wore as Data, and the title of a Frank Sinatra record, Ol ' Blue Eyes Is Back.
He recorded more than one hundred albums with international musical stars ( spanning the genres of jazz, variety, and classical ) and worked with such diverse musicians as Phil Woods, Ray Charles, Claude Nougaro, Perry Como, Neil Diamond, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Lena Horne, James Ingram, Jack Jones, Kiri te Kanawa, Tamara Gverdciteli, Frankie Laine, Tereza Kesovija, Johnny Mathis, Jessye Norman, Diana Ross, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Sarah Vaughan, Shirley Bassey, Regine Velasquez, and Natalie Dessay.

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