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Sinatra – Do You Know Frank

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The MUSIC ?
FRANCIS ALBERT SINATRA

 


DO YOU KNOW SINATRA?


Do you know Sinatra? We’re not talking about the man and his personal life here. No we’re talking about the music. The music of Frank Sinatra? Sure, if you’re a fan, you know My Way, Strangers in The Night, New York New York, That’s Life, and The Summer Wind. You know the hits, and some others, but do you know Sinatra greatest most beautiful music of all? Maybe yes/ Maybe not? 

Frank Sinatra recorded more than 1,200 songs during his 54 year career, and in all likelihood you haven’t heard them all. Most of us haven’t, even myself who I feel that I know more than most, when it comes to the music, and the recordings of of one Francis Albert Sinatra, The Greatest Singer of The 20th Century, and beyond. Beyond? Yes beyond, for as of now in 2026, a quarter century into the 21st Century, the music of Frank Sinatra who passed away almost 40 years ago, his music is hugely relevant, and 100 of millions of him, and of some of his music.

Yes, some know a bit of Mr. Sinatra’s music, maybe a couple handfuls of hits, and that’s about it? Others, who consider themselves fans, they know more. And those who feel they are more of a super fan, and think they know quite a lot of the mans music, but maybe not. There are all different degrees of what one might know. I myself, who has loved the music of Frank Sinatra for just about 60 years now, I’ve seen Sinatra perform live 7 times, and have about 40 of the mans albums, and I consider myself a sort of Super Fan as they say, and feel I know a good bit about the man and his music. But even I who in all likelihood knows more than probably 9o or 95% of his fans, I’m still learning more. All of a sudden on any given day, I might hear a Sinatra recording that I’ve never heard before. Yes, once in a while but not that often.

Anyway, speaking of the people who believe they are great fans, and feel they know his music, I’m afraid many may not know Frank Sinatra’s “Best Stuff.” I’m talking about Sinatra’s greatest of all “Love Songs.” Songs like : All My Tomorrows, You & Me, You Will Be My Music, Let Me Try Again, and a few others. These songs are Mr. Sinatra’s most beautiful, loving, and passionate songs. Sung with the most real feeling that only Sinatra could convey. So poignant and beautiful, they (Sinatra Love Songs) can make you cry. “I have.” Yes I have, listening to Frank Sinatra sing a song like “All My Tomorrows,” and I think of a great love, and how I had yearned to love her, as Sinatra states in the song, I can get all choked up, and on the verge of crying. I’m not ashamed to admit. This is what a great singer Frank Sinatra was. His music conveyed such genuine feelings. Feelings of love, lost love, heart ache, and bittersweet romance, that when listening to one of these songs, you feel it too, and it brings out strong emotions. Strong enough to choke you up, and perhaps shed a tear.

If you haven’t heard these songs, and you say you’re a great fan of Sinatra. Now is the time. You absolutely must listen and become aware of these beautiful Love Songs. The Greatest Sinatra songs of all. They’re listed below.


PS .. Yes, we were talking about Frank Sinatra, and how beautifully he sang. And the complete package of these beautiful love songs, were Sinatra singing over beautifully compose music, beautifully executed by the most wonderful orchestras, which Sinatra demanded, whether recording, or playing live, Frank Sinatra was always backed by the World Best Musicians and orchestras, that’s what completed these wonderful packages – beautiful lyrics & music, sung by Sinatra, backed by the most perfect bands.

Basta !!!


Daniel Bellino Zwicke

May 17, 2026





The LOVE SONGS of FRANK SINATRA 

Frank Sinatra

LIVE





Frank Sinatra

YOU & ME  “We Wanted it All”

From the TRILOGY Album 

1980


 

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“All My Tomorrows” is a 1959 ballad with lyrics by Sammy Cahn and music by Jimmy Van Heusen .    The song was expressly written as a Frank Sinatra vehicle.  It was introduced in the film A Hole in the Head where Sinatra sings it in the opening credits.
Sinatra later featured “All My Tomorrows” on his 1961 album All the Way. Sinatra re-recorded it for his 1969 album MY WAY , in a new arrangement which Charles L. Granata considers to be superior to the original, and which AllMusic calls “lush and aching”. Rolling Stone describes the song as “the poignant monologue of a man determined to turn his life around”.




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“ALL MY TOMORROWS”
Francis Albert Sinatra
“All My Tomorrow Belong to You”


Listen to The Master at Work. Francis Albert Sinatra, the greatest singer of the 20th Century.
There is no one in the 21st Century, a Century of Crappy Music and Crappy Musicians (so-called) to campare to the great Frank Sinatra, not only the greatest singer of The 20th Century, but one of
the greatest singers of all-time. Listen to Sinatra sing this beautiful song written for him by the
great songwriters Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn.

Sinatra’s voice was in impeccable instrument, which hi conveys most masterfully in this wonderful song. And the musical composition and arrangement of the song is stunning, with lovely Violins, Flute, Harp,  and an expert orchestra, made up of top-notch professional musicians. Listen, savor the music, and enjoy one the greats, Mr Francis Albert Sinatra. It doesn’t get any better than this. We’re sure you’ll agree.
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“I Was at This Concert”
One of the Greatest Times of My Life
I Talk About This Concert Quite Often


Frank Sinatra

OL BLUE EYES is BACK

FRANK SINATRA

LET ME TRY AGAIN

From The Album “Ol BLUE EYES is BACK”

1973

Written by PAUL ANKA

Musical Arangement by Don Acosta





FRANK SINATRA

MacArthur Park




IF I HAD YOU

FRANK SINATRA





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FRANK SINATRA

“IT MIGHT as WELL BE SWING”

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FRANK SINATRA

“MORE”

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FLY WITH EXPEDIA
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“FRANK” !!!


 


FRANK SINATRA

Ol BLUE EYES is BACK !!!




FRANK SINATRA

YOU & ME “We WANTED IT ALL”



Frank Sinatra

“ALL MY TOMORROWS”

One of Franks most Beautiful Recordings of All

“LOVE IT”



FRANK SINATRA

“YOU WILL BE MY MUSIC”

From Ol BLUE EYS is BACK





MacARTHUR PARK

Frank Sinatra

TRILOGY Album

1980




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Frank & Tony – Sinatra and Curtis

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FRANK & TONY



““Frank Sinatra and Tony Curtis were close, lifelong friends. They knew each other since the 1940s when Sinatra was playing the Paramount. In 1958 they were in the movie Kings Go Forth together. Curtis is often mentioned as part of The Clan/Rat Pack in the 1950s and 1960s. Tina Sinatra remembered that when her father was old and sick, she once found Tony Curtis cradling her father in his arms.
Sinatra called Curtis “Bernie” (pronounced “Boinie”), because his real name was Bernard Schwartz.
Here are some of the things that Tony Curtis said about Frank Sinatra, in interviews and in his memoir.
“When I met him, I realized he was very nice with everyone around him. He wasn’t so obnoxious. That was the rumor about Frank, that you didn’t know what he had in mind.”
“I became an honorary member of Frank’s Rat Pack; I never went on stage with Frank, Dean, Sammy, Joey Bishop, or Peter Lawford, but anytime they had a get-together, I was invited. Whenever those guys got up to any kind of mischief, I was there. They treated me like a kid brother, which brought out the best in everyone.”
“I knew a lot about Frank. We were really close. He liked me a lot, and that meant a lot to me. To be a friend of Frank’s was a great help in those early days. I didn’t abuse it or take advantage of it. I would just make myself available when he would call or want to go out to dinner.”
“When he was not angry, there was a calm humanness about him. He would always stick up for his buddies. He was always available. He would stick up for you even if the guy was a big guy.”
“Frank wasn’t a womanizer – he was womanized! What a great position to be in! You know, those were carefree, intelligent, and very stimulating days and nights!”
“Women would flock around him. Then the husbands or the boyfriends found themselves ill at ease. I couldn’t understand it, you know? Frank wasn’t gonna take ‘em anywhere. He’d just hang-out there.”
“He’s one of the biggest prudes I’ve ever met…he’s an old-fashioned man. I’ve never heard him use a vulgar word in front of a woman!”
“Frank Sinatra was like the sun, with a lot of people revolving around him.”
“Notice I don’t bring up the Mafia. He in himself was his own godfather. He ran his own family and his friends like that. Untouchable.”

“Frank exhibited the traits I admired most in a person, namely his unfailing self-confidence.”
“I would make model airplanes, the kind you make with balsa wood. I’d make it with glue and the things that would make it work. He was so pleased because he told me, ‘I was never able to get that body in the plane right’. So, he’d throw his stuff away. But, there I was making the bodies and he’d say will I add to it? Then, we’d paper it. We did the wings. We put a rubber band in it, and a propeller. We’d go out in his garage, in back, and I’d wind it up and let it go. The f***er would ram into a wall, and there it was all broken again. We did this two or three times. Sometimes we had more success than others. But, I loved him for that.”
Tony Curtis wrote about one time at the Sands when he was very drunk and Frank and Dean threw him into the swimming pool fully dressed.
Tony Curtis: “I climbed out of the pool… freshened up, and went back down to the casino. I was still a little dizzy, but at least I was keeping my eyes open. When Frank saw me he said, ‘Where have you been?’
‘Somebody threw me in the pool,’ I said. ‘I had to go upstairs and change.’ Frank said, ‘Who in the world would do that?’ I told him I thought he might have had something to do with it, but he denied it,and I couldn’t be sure I had remembered it right.”
Tony Curtis wrote that during the filming of Sweet Smell of Success, he was “the recipient of one of Frank’s legendary acts of thoughtfulness.” He was learning to play the flute for the movie and would often go over to Sinatra’s house to practice.
Tony Curtis: “I’d come over to Frank’s house and practice playing my flute for him. Frank was impressed that I was learning this new skill for my part in the movie, and he noticed that I was playing a cheap flute I’d picked up. So without telling me, he went out one day and bought me a magnificent flute, a priceless gift that I cherish to this day.”
In an interview, he talked about the flute too and called it “one of my sacred possessions from The Man.”
Frank Sinatra once said Tony Curtis was his favorite actor “because he beat the odds.”
Their mutual friend Sidney Poitier said of Tony Curtis, “When you’re with Tony Curtis, you’re with somebody very alive. He was – and is – one of the most ‘up’ people I have ever known.”










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Frank Sinatra – Everything Happens to Me

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EVERYTHING HAPPENS to ME
 
 
 
This is one of my all-time favorite of the many great albums by The Chairman of The Board, Mr. Francis Albert Sinatra. My good friend Jimmy Starace gave this to me for a Birthday present one year and I’ve loved this wonderful Sinatra Album ever since. The album comprises songs that were Frank Sinatra’s best loved songs. His daughter Tina had the idea of producing album of songs that her father Frank Sinatra recorded that were his own personal favorites. Tina asked her father to pick these songs, and the album Everything Happens to Me was born. If you’ve never listed to the album and I’m sure you’ll agree that this collection of Mr. Sinatra singing his favorite songs is a beautiful and poignant one.
This is one of the most interesting and successful Frank Sinatra collections out there. Everything Happens to Me avoids the obvious hits and collects a number of the finest ballads and torch songs that Sinatra cut while at Reprise Records during the ’60s, ’70s, and early ’80s. It’s a regal collection that concentrates on the darker side of Sinatra‘s art. Instead of celebrating a cross section of the Voice’s career the way that so many compilations do, the album sounds like an elegy and has a strange cohesiveness considering that it’s drawn up from material that stretches over a 20-year period. Sinatra had recorded the title track numerous times throughout his career, but the previously unreleased version included here (complete with new lyrics) is his darkest and most battle-scarred interpretation. Even considering its lighter moments (“The Second Time Around” and the lyrically downbeat but wondrously swinging “Summer Wind”), this is a stark collection that almost plays like an original concept album about confronting disappointment, loneliness, and ultimately, mortality. That’s a lot to ask casual fans to embrace, but Everything Happens to Me ends up giving listeners who only know of the swinging Rat Packer more than a glimpse of the complexity and depth behind Frank Sinatra‘s art.
 
 
 
 
 
 
FRANK
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

EVERYTHING HAPPENS to ME
 
 
The TITLE SONG of The Album of The Same Name
 
 
This Collections of SONGS were FRANK SINATRA’S 
 
FAVORITE SONGS THAT HE RECORDED
 
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Frank and Jackie – Happy Birthday Jackie

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Frank & Jackie

“HAPPY BIRTHDAY JACKIE” !!!


Jackie Gleason’s family background was, according to most accounts, almost Dickensian. It was marked by severe illness and grinding poverty, in any event. His father was a henpecked insurance clerk who took his myriad disappointments in life out in drink. He deserted the family when Jackie was nine. His mother was overprotective of her younger son, who died when Jackie was in his teens. An older brother, Clemence, died, probably of tuberculosis, at the age of 14, when Jackie was three.

In the 1930s, before he ever really made it even in small-time venues,
Gleason was a bartender at a bar in Newark, NJ, called The Blue Mirror. He wore his apron high on the chest just like he did as his “Joe the Bartender” character 30 years later on his television show, and he entertained the patrons with his antics, just like “Joe the Bartender.” Eventually, he got such a following that the owner gave him a chance at the microphone on stage. The rest, as they say, is history. This was also a time when he actually lived and slept in the back room with the empty bottles, etc. Naturally, of course, it was across the street from a pool hall that he patronized in the afternoons after he was finished cleaning up the Blue Mirror.
“Drinking removes warts and pimples. Not from me. But from those I look at.”
Jackie Gleason was a mentor and frequent drinking buddy of Frank Sinatra. It was Gleason who first introduced Sinatra to Jack Daniels whiskey, which became Sinatra’s signature drink.

Gleason recorded a number of albums featuring instrumental “mood music” (what is now known today as “lounge music”). Gleason served as producer, bandleader, and (on occasion) vibraphone player, despite the fact that he couldn’t read sheet music. Several of the albums included original compositions by Gleason. One album, “Lonesome Echo”, topped the charts in 1955, and featured an album cover with original art by Salvador Dalí. When asked what inspired him to became a “mood music” legend, Gleason replied, “Every time I ever watched Clark Gable do a love scene in the movies, I’d hear this really pretty music, real romantic, come up behind him and help set the mood. So I’m figuring that if Gable needs that kinda help, then a guy in Canarsie has gotta be dyin’ for something like this.” 

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Happy Birthday, Jackie Gleason!

Sinatra Sauce has Arrived – “Get It” Available on Amazon

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SINATRA SAUCE has ARRIVED !!!!

Be The 1st on YOUR BOLCK to GET IT !!!
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Sinatra Sauce has Arrived !!! Yes, the long awaited Sinatra Sauce Cookbook by author Daniel Bellino Zwicke has arrived. And just in time for Christmas 2024. Want to get someone a really special gift this Christmas ? “Get SINATRA SAUCE” !

It’s sure to please. This is a book on Sinatra like no other. 

Yes, SINATRA SAUCE is sure to please. Author, Daniel paints some wonderful pictures of Frank Sinatra at his best. And we’re not talking about singing. No, there is no denying, Frank Sinatra was one of the greatest singers of the 20th Century, if not the single best. Yes, but we’re not talking about that here. This book is all about Sinatra and Food. Italian Food to be more specific, and the dishes that Frank Sinatra liked best. Tasty Italian Dishes from his childhood in Hoboken, New Jersey. We are talking Eggplant Parmigiana, Lasagna, Spaghetti & Meatballs here. Dishes made by Frank’s mom Dolly, and his father as well. Yes his father, Martino Sinatra, born in Lercarra Friday, Sicily was quite the good cook as well, and would cook for the family as well. Martino (aka Marty) made Sicilian dishes like Italian Wedding Pasta (Ziti al Forno), Eggplant Parmigiana, and Marty’s Meatloaf. Dolly on the other hand, made Minestrone Genovese, and her famous Spaghetti & Meatballs, along with a host of other Italian favourites. 

Later in life, as Frank’s Star rose and he went out into the World, he acquired a taste for others of his lifelong favourites, like: BBQ Ribs at Twin Anchors, in Chicago, Chicken Vesuvius, Steak, and Braised Beef Short Ribs at Lord Fletchers in Palm Springs.

You will; find Sinatra Sauce quite inspirational as read stories of Mr. Sinatra at Jilly’s in New York, The 21 Club, Gino’s, Patsy’s Pizzeria (East Harlem) and Patsy’s Restaurant on West 56th Street in Manhattan where Frank loved to eat Clams Posillipo and Veal Milanese (thin & crispy).

Want to get inspired to eat like Sinatra, have Sinatra Parties, and live the good life. It’s all in the book, recipes and stories of Frank, eating drinking, and being merry. For Sinatra did not just sing. He Loved, and he enjoyed life to its fullest. 

Frank Sinatra loved dining and entertaining friends. His dinner parties are legendary, whether at home or out in a restaurant. It was always a good time with Frank, who gathered friends and family, at the table, they ate drank, and were all merry. So, if you want to do the same, invite some friends over, pick out a recipe, put on some Sinatra (records), cook, eat, and have the time of your life. Just like Frank.



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