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Strangers in the Night. That's Life. Francis A. The World We Knew. Frank Sinatra was arguably the most important musical figure of the 20th century, his only real rivals for the title being Elvis Presley and the Beatles. In a professional career lasting 60 years, he demonstrated a remarkable ability to maintain his appeal and pursue his musical goals despite countervailing trends. He came to the fore during the swing era of the s and '40s, helped to define the "sing era" of the '40s and '50s, and continued to attract listeners during the rock era that began in the mid-'50s.
He scored his first number one hit in and was still making million-selling recordings in This popularity was a mark of his success at singing and promoting the American popular song as it was written, particularly in the s, '30s, and '40s. He was able to take the work of great theater composers of that period, such as Jerome Kern , Irving Berlin , George Gershwin , Cole Porter , and Richard Rodgers , and reinterpret their songs for later audiences in a way that led to their rediscovery and their permanent enshrinement as classics.
On records and in live performances, on film, radio, and television, he consistently sang standards in a way that demonstrated their perennial appeal. The son of a fireman, Sinatra dropped out of high school in his senior year to pursue a career in music. The group won the radio show contest and toured with Bowes.
He was still singing there in the spring of , when he was heard over the radio by trumpeter Harry James , who had recently organized his own big band after leaving Benny Goodman. James hired Sinatra, and the new singer made his first recordings on July 13, At the end of the year, Sinatra accepted an offer from the far more successful bandleader Tommy Dorsey , jumping to his new berth in January Over the next two and a half years, he was featured on 16 Top Ten hits recorded by Dorsey , among them the chart-topper "I'll Never Smile Again," later inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
During this period, he also performed on various radio shows with Dorsey and appeared with the band in the films Las Vegas Nights and Ship Ahoy In January , he tested the waters for a solo career by recording a four-song session arranged and conducted by Axel Stordahl that included Cole Porter 's "Night and Day," which became his first chart entry under his own name in March Soon after, he gave Dorsey notice.
Sinatra left the Dorsey band in September The recording ban called by the American Federation of Musicians, which had begun the previous month, initially prevented him from making records, but he appeared on a minute radio series, Songs By Sinatra, from October through the end of the year and also did a few live dates.
It made him a popular phenomenon, the first real teen idol, with school girls swooning in the aisles. Meanwhile, the label had signed Sinatra as a solo artist, and in a temporary loophole to the recording ban, put him in the studio to record a cappella, backed only by a vocal chorus.
In February , Sinatra was hired by the popular radio series Your Hit Parade, on which he performed through the end of Adding to his radio duties, he appeared from June through October on Broadway Bandbox and in the fall again took up the Songs by Sinatra show, which ran through December. In January, it was expanded to a half-hour as The Frank Sinatra Show, which ran for a year and a half.
In April , he made his first credited appearance in a motion picture, singing "Night and Day" in Reveille with Beverly. This was followed by Higher and Higher, released in December, in which he had a small acting role, playing himself, and by Step Lively, released in July , which gave him a larger part. MGM was sufficiently impressed by these performances to put him under contract.
The recording ban was lifted in November , and Sinatra returned to making records, beginning with a cover of Irving Berlin 's "White Christmas" that was in the Top Ten before the end of the year. Sinatra insisted that Styne and Cahn be hired to write the songs for his first MGM musical, Anchors Aweigh, and over the course of his career, the singer recorded more songs by Cahn a lyricist who worked with several composers than by any other songwriter.
Anchors Aweigh, in which Sinatra was paired with Gene Kelly , was released in July and went on to become the most successful film of the year. Sinatra returned to radio in September with a new show bearing an old name, Songs by Sinatra. It ran weekly for the next two seasons, concluding in June Among his eight Top Ten hits in were two that hit number one "Oh!
On radio, he returned to the cast of Your Hit Parade in September , appearing on the series for the next two seasons, then had his own minute show, Light-Up Time, during On film, he appeared in five more movies through the end of the decade, including both big-budget MGM musicals like On the Town and minor efforts such as The Kissing Bandit. Sinatra signed a deal as a solo artist with Columbia Records in and soon became the idol of bobby soxers.
Once he found success, the My Way singer released numerous critically lauded records and performed in front of large audiences, which included presidents John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. Among the recordings that make us involuntarily think of him, there were some that the blue-eyed swing artist hated, such as Strangers in the Night.
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