At Columbia Records, Sinatra came into increasing conflict with musical director Mitch Miller , who was finding success for his singers by using novelty material and gimmicky arrangements.
Sinatra resisted this approach, and though he managed to score four more Top Ten hits during -- among them an unlikely reading of the folk standard "Goodnight Irene" -- he and Columbia parted ways. Thus, ten years after launching his solo career, he ended without a record, film, radio, or television contract. Then he turned it all around. The first step was recording. Sinatra agreed to a long-term, boilerplate contract with Capitol Records, which had been co-founded by Johnny Mercer a decade earlier and had a roster full of faded '40s performers.
In the fall of , Sinatra began two new radio series: Rocky Fortune, a drama on which he played a detective, ran from October to March ; and The Frank Sinatra Show was a minute, twice-a-week music series that ran for two seasons, concluding in July The title was used for a movie in which Sinatra starred. Then there was the 10" LP Songs for Young Lovers , the first of Sinatra 's "concept" albums, on which he and Riddle revisited classic songs by Cole Porter , the Gershwins, and Rodgers and Hart in contemporary arrangements with vocal interpretations that conveyed the wit and grace of the lyrics.
The album lodged in the Top Five. By the middle of the '50s, Sinatra had reclaimed his place as a star singer and actor; in fact, he had taken a more prominent place than he had had in the heady days of the mid-'40s. As part of his thematic concepts for his albums of the '50s, Sinatra alternated between records devoted to slow arrangements In the Wee Small Hours and those given over to dance charts Swing Easy.
By the late winter of , the schedule called for another dance album, and Songs for Swingin' Lovers! Meanwhile, he ruled the LP charts.
The Capitol singles compilation This Is Sinatra! Sinatra began by releasing Close to You , a ballad album with accompaniment by a string quartet, in February. In October, he returned to prime time television with another series called The Frank Sinatra Show, but it lasted only one season, and subsequently he restricted his TV appearances largely to specials of which he made many.
In February , Sinatra reached the Top Ten with "Witchcraft," his last single to perform that well for the next eight years.
That month, Capitol released Come Fly with Me , a travel-themed rhythm album, which hit number one. The year's ballad album, Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely , released in September, also topped the charts, and it went gold. Come Dance with Me! Look to Your Heart , a compilation, was released in the spring and reached the Top Ten. And No One Cares , the year's ballad collection, appeared in the summer and just missed topping the charts.
Sinatra gradually did less singing in his movies of the '50s, but in March , he appeared in a movie version of Cole Porter 's musical Can-Can, and the resulting soundtrack album hit the Top Ten. Meanwhile, Sinatra was beginning to think about the approaching end of his Capitol Records contract and to enter the studio less frequently for the company.
His next regular album was a year in coming, and when it did, Nice 'n' Easy was a mid-tempo collection, breaking his pattern of alternating fast and slow albums. The wait may have caused pent-up demand; the album spent many weeks at number one and went gold.
Although Sinatra had not yet completed his recording commitment to Capitol, he began in December to make recordings for his own label, which he called Reprise Records. As a result, record stores were deluged with five new Sinatra albums in in January, Capitol had Sinatra's Swingin' Session!!! There was also the March compilation All the Way on Capitol, making for six releases in one year.
Remarkably, they all reached the Top Ten. By , the market was glutted. The onset of the Beatles in began to do to the LP charts what Elvis Presley had done to the singles charts in , but Sinatra continued to reach the Top Ten with his albums of the mid-'60s, albeit not as consistently. That same month, Sinatra mounted a commercial comeback by emphasizing his own advancing age.
Nearing 50, he released September of My Years , a ballad collection keyed to the passage of time. It won the Grammy for Album of the Year. Sinatra returned to number one on the singles charts for the first time in 11 years with the million-selling "Strangers in the Night" in July ; the song won him Grammys for Record of the Year and best vocal performance. A follow-up album named after the single topped the LP charts and went platinum. Before the end of the year, Sinatra had released two more Top Ten, gold-selling albums, Sinatra at the Sands and That's Life , the latter anchored by the title song, a Top Five single.
In April , Sinatra was back at number one on the singles charts with the million-selling "Somethin' Stupid," a duet with his daughter Nancy. Sinatra's bobby-soxer fans were now adults and Sinatra had shifted smoothly to the role of the aging romantic bachelor. This was signified by the image of him leaning alone against a lamppost with a raincoat slung over one shoulder. He reached the top of the singles charts in a duet, "Somethin' Stupid," with his daughter Nancy in Sinatra continued to act in several movies in the s, including Ocean's 11 , The Manchurian Candidate , Robin and the Seven Hoods , and Tony Rome Many critics felt several of these films had declined in artistic merit.
Sinatra became known as part of a group of friends called the "Rat Pack. After Sinatra's famous recording of "My Way" , he made an ill-fated attempt to sing some of the lighter tunes of modern rock composers.
This led to a brief retirement from entertainment through At this time he also shifted his politics from liberal to conservative. He had become a close friend of Ronald Reagan — , helping him in his later successful presidential campaigns.
Sinatra's financial empire produced millions of dollars in earnings from investments in films, records, gambling casinos, real estate, missile parts, and general aviation. He came out of his retirement in with a renewed interest in older tunes. His return to the limelight was highlighted by his famous recording of "New York, New York" as he entered his sixth decade of entertaining.
In Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr. The tour lasted only one week. Sinatra later organized another reunion tour with Shirley MacLaine — in and it was an undeniable success. By Sinatra was experiencing memory lapses, but that did not keep him from performing publicly. He merely added the use of a prompter device that shows the words of a song to remind him of the lyrics.
After celebrating his eightieth birthday at a public tribute, new packages of recordings were released and became instant best-sellers. But Sinatra's health continued to deteriorate in the s. The audiences who grew up with him and his music were complemented by adoration from younger generations. They have all made "Old Blue Eyes" one of the most outstanding popular singers of the twentieth century. Friedwald, Will. New York: Scribner, Kelley, Kitty. New York: Bantam Books, Morley, Sheridan.
Frank Sinatra: A Celebration. New York: Applause, Rockwell, John. Sinatra worked steadily in film throughout the s, though many of his performances seemed almost perfunctory.
A famous heartthrob, Sinatra married four times, divorcing his longtime sweetheart Nancy Barbato after a decade and three children Nancy, Frank Jr. Their marriage lasted less than two years, and in Sinatra married the year-old actress Mia Farrow, 30 years his junior; they were divorced in In , he married Barbara Blakely Marx the former wife of Zeppo Marx , and they remained together until his death.
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