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Men With Mojo Video Profile on Frank Sinatra: #1


Frank Sinatra Frank Sinatra was born
Francis Albert Sinatra in 19 and Frank
Sinatra is a pioneer in what today we
would refer to as the youth movement
although at the time the coin the term
hadn’t really been coined yet but he was
man who started listening to Bing Crosby
as it as a kid and was really inspired
and he really turned his attention to
trumpet ear and then later Henry James
because at the time in the 50s that was
kind of what was it big band and after a
brief stint working with James Sinatra
really decided that he wanted to become
a singer in his own right and during the
50s and 60s he started doing a nightclub
act and affiliated himself with people
like Dean Martin and Sammy Davis jr. and
they became what is why they know today
as the Rat Pack they were just basically
a group of friends who would get up on
stage and who would joke around with
each other and then Frank would sing
Dean would sing and someone we taught
and Sammy would tell a joke and it was
so entertaining for the people around
them that they really became an act but
the act really was forged out of their
friendship for each other Frank Sinatra
it’s you know now it seems kind of
normal but just the fact that he would
have a partnership with somebody like
Sammy Davis jr. is really something that
that says a lot about his character
because of the time Sammy Davis jr. was
not only black he was a black jew I mean
you know this is something that was it
was full of controversy and so the fact
that Sinatra said like no he’s part of
my crew he’s one of us and protected him
is something that is certainly very
noteworthy um something else about
Sinatra is that he had a long-standing
marriage to a woman named Nancy his
daughter is also named Nancy so let’s
not confuse the two but Frank being a
devout Catholic never divorced her even
though
had a long-standing love affair with Ava
Gardner now he and Ava were on and off
for so many years that salt was hard to
pinpoint exactly when we were and when
they work together but it’s widely noted
that he really loved Ava and when Ava
died of complications from pneumonia in
1990 there was there was a single flower
on her gravestone with a note on it that
said love always Francis and it was
obviously from Sinatra and it’s just a
testament I mean this was in 1990 so a
testament to just how he really did love
Ava Gardner his whole life but
unfortunately because Frank was a man of
morals and who had been raised in a
strict home he he really feel that he
could divorce even to be with somebody
that he loved another interesting thing
about Frank Sinatra is that he was
reputedly tied to mob activities no one
was ever really able to make these
things stick but it’s definitely
possible I mean he was in Las Vegas he
was in Las Vegas at the time of the
lives of mob I think the things that are
most important to remember about Frank
Sinatra are that first of all he had an
unbelievable singing voice he really did
I mean even today you can listen to all
it’s not to recording soon you can
really enjoy them number two he was
really a pioneer in what today would be
called the youth movement he was part of
a group of young guys who kind of
snubbed the counterculture and said hey
we’re young were hip this is what we’re
about and they got on stage and they
made jokes it at the time were
considered rather Lou it although in
this day and age they would certainly be
consider not even pushing the envelope
at the time they were they were really
ahead of their time and along with the
Rat Pack and they really revolutionized
entertainment as we know it today so
Frank Sinatra is somebody who
who we really need to remember on that
level we also need to remember that
after the Rat Pack he was able to
continue a wonderful singing career and
that Frank Sinatra is somebody who will
always be respected
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