To spare Sinatra embarrassment, Wallach says he turned down the role to appear in a Tennessee Williams play: " Whenever Sinatra saw me, he ’ d say, ' Hello, you crazy actor!

" 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.

On one occasion, he infuriated Sinatra when he turned to him and muttered, " Frank, what the hell are we doing up here?

In the 1950s Samuel Goldwyn turned to making a number of musicals including the 1952 hit Hans Christian Andersen ( his last with Danny Kaye, with whom he had made many others ), and the 1955 hit Guys and Dolls starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, and Vivian Blaine, which was based on the equally successful Broadway musical.

" She turned it into a torch song, a change from the swing arrangements that Sinatra and others employed.

The company's songwriters have written chart-topping hits for Mariah Carey, The Black Eyed Peas, Kenny Chesney, The Game, Mario, Rascal Flatts, No Doubt, Thomas Anders, Jessica Simpson and 50 Cent as well as legends like Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra and Roselyn Sánchez.

Today, V-Discs are very collectible, with some titles by Glenn Miller, Frank Sinatra or Billie Holiday garnering $ 50 –$ 75 apiece ( and it's no longer illegal to buy and sell remaining V-Discs ).

In its early years, the music predominantly catered for those aged 50 and over ; Frank Sinatra, who recorded a launch message for the station, and Annunzio Mantovani prime examples of the artists featured.

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Robinson's acting career was subsequently bolstered by notable roles in 1959's A Hole in the Head opposite Frank Sinatra and The Cincinnati Kid ( 1965 ), which showcased Robinson alongside Steve McQueen.

On June 20, 1965, Sinatra, Martin, and Davis, with Johnny Carson as the emcee ( substituting for Bishop, who was out with a bad back ), performed their only televised concert together during the heyday of the Pack at the Kiel Opera House in St. Louis, a closed-circuit broadcast done as a fundraiser for Dismas House ( the first halfway house for ex-convicts ) and fed live to movie theatres across the country.

* Marriage on the Rocks ( 1965 ) ( Sinatra and Martin )

Lansing played " Lola " in Marriage on the Rocks ( 1965 ) with a cast that included Frank Sinatra, Deborah Kerr, and Dean Martin.

He also appeared in Guns at Batasi in 1964 ; Every Day's a Holiday ( aka Seaside Swingers in the U. S .) and Von Ryan's Express starring Frank Sinatra in 1965.

* Friday's Child ( 1965 song ), written by Lee Hazlewood and performed by Nancy Sinatra on the 1967 TV special Movin With Nancy

Ryan's feats caused him to be named the Ryan Express, after the 1965 film Von Ryan's Express, which starred Frank Sinatra.

He was divorced from Sinatra in 1965 and has a daughter from another relationship.

Walker then played roles in several big-screen films, including a trio of westerns for Gordon Douglas-Fort Dobbs in 1958, Yellowstone Kelly in 1959, and Gold of the Seven Saints in 1961, the comedy Send Me No Flowers in 1964, the actual leading role despite being billed under Frank Sinatra in the wartime drama None But the Brave in 1965, The Night of the Grizzly in 1966, and as the meek convict Samson Posey, in the war drama The Dirty Dozen in 1967.

* The best-known versions are by Frank Chacksfield & His Orchestra ( 1953 ), Vic Damone ( 1953 ), Roy Hamilton ( 1954 ), Frank Sinatra ( 1958 ), The Platters ( 1960 ), Lenny Welch ( 1964 ) and the Righteous Brothers ( 1965 ).

In 1965, Gary Lewis was Cash Box magazine's " Male Vocalist of the Year ," winning against nominees Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra.

* Frank Sinatra on his September of My Years album ( 1965 ) and a stripped-down performance on his Sinatra at the Sands live album ( 1966 )

* Frank Sinatra — like Connie Francis an American singer of Italian descent — recorded " Forget Domani " in a May 6 1965 session at United Western Recorders in Hollywood produced by Jimmy Bowen and arranged by Ernie Freeman ; the orchestra was conducted by Donnie Lanier.

Sinatra cut the song a week before the US premiere of The Yellow Rolls-Royce which occurred May 13 1965.

Both Connie Francis ' and Frank Sinatra's " Forget Domani " singles debuted on the Hot 100 in Billboard dated June 26 1965 at respectively # 95 ( Francis ) and # 100 ( Sinatra ), and over the next six weeks both singles made slight roughly equal chart ascents to peak on the Hot 100 dated July 31 1965 at respectively # 78 ( Sinatra ) and # 79 ( Francis ): both singles charted for one subsequent week for a total Hot 100 run of seven weeks.

* The 1965 film None But the Brave with Frank Sinatra, Clint Walker, Tatsuya Mihashi, Takeshi Katô, Homare Suguro.

Another well-known role of his was as camp commandant Battaglia opposite Frank Sinatra and Trevor Howard's Allied POWs in the 1965 World War II escape drama Von Ryan's Express.

He starred alongside Burt Lancaster in John Frankenheimer's The Train ( 1964 ), Frank Sinatra in Von Ryan's Express ( 1965 ), Robert Mitchum in Anzio ( 1968 ), with Richard Burton, in the title role of Erwin Rommel in Raid on Rommel ( 1971 ), and The Boys From Brazil ( 1978 ) with Gregory Peck.

Versions of the song have been recorded by several members of the Rat Pack: Frank Sinatra recorded it three times: in July 1946 on a single ( Columbia Record 37161 ) on the album Point of No Return in ( 1962 ), and again for September of My Years ( 1965 ); Dean Martin and Sammy Davis, Jr. have also recorded versions.

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 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 also recorded " Another Gay Sunshine Day " for Another Gay Movie in 2006.

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.

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.

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.