The Greatest Basketball Player Ever ?

 

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PISTOL PETE MARAVICH

Some Feel He Was The Greatest Basket Ball Player Ever

NOT  Michael Jordon or Lebron James

or WILT CHAMBERLAIN or KAREEM ABDUL JABAR

But  PETE MARAVICH

WHAT DO YOU THINK ?

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The KNICKS SUCK The NY Knicks Suck

 

AM I MAKING MYSELF CLEAR ?

The NEW YORK KNICKS SUCK

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THIS TEAM Was GREAT

The 1969 /70 WORLD CHAMPION NEW YORK KNICKS

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This TEAM SUCKS !!!

So BIG TIME IT ISN’T EVEN FUNNY

The 2018 /19 NEW YORK KNICKS Basketball Team

“THEY’RE PITIFUL” !!!

KNICKS RECORD

2017 -2018 Season   29 WINS  53 LOST  “BAD”

2016 – 2017 Season   31 WINS  51 LOST “PRETTY Fing BAD”

2014 -2015  Season   17  WINS  65 LOST  “SUCKS”

As of January 30, 2019 the Knicks record so far for the 2018 / 19 Seaso is10 Wins & 40 Losses, “That Fucking Sucks!” The KNICKS SUCK so Bad it isn’t even funny, and not just this year. Look at their “PISS POOR” Record in the past few years? This team is Pitiful, and collectively for the last 5 Years “The Worst NY KNICKS Team” in the history of the frachise. Thhey “Fucking Suck” ! Am I making myself clear here? The KNICKS SUCK !!! The loyal fans do not deserve this. I’ve heard of teams being bad, but this is rediculous. At this point in the season with a disgustingly HORRIBLE win loss recor of 10 Wins and 40 Losses the Knicks are on pace to have the Worst Record in New York Knickerbocker History if the finish with a record of 15 Wins & 67 Losses or worse which the current Knicks are on pace to do. “They Suck.” And I really don’t care that much, I’m not really a fan of NBA Basketball, which I think SUCKS, I’d much rather watch College Basketball which as an overall experience of watching better basketball games and overall feel of basketball, the experience of watching premier college basketball is superior than watching any NBA game at all, which to me and a multitude of others just quite simply sucks, just like the Knicks, who of all NBA Teams, the Knicks Suck the most. As a proud New York, it’s one thing to have a Professional New York Sports Team have one or two bad seasons, but this team has been pretty dam bad for the past 5 year or so. In fact, guess what? They “Suck.”

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When is PORZY Coming Back ?

Kristap Porkingis has been one of the few Bright Lights for the Knicks in the past few years. Only Problem? He’s been injured and not playing for more than a year now. When is he coming back?

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Bill Bradley

Back when the Knicks were great. Bill Bradley played on a great Knick team with the likes of players like; Walt “Clyde” Frazier, Willis Reed, Dave DeBusschere, Cazzie Russell, Dick Barnett, Dave Stallworth, and Mike Riordn. The won the NBA Championship in 1969 / 1970 , with a season record of 60 Wins against 22 losses.

The 1972 / 73 Knicks had a record of W 57 – L 25  and Wond The NBA Champiships again under Coach Red Holtzman again. They still had Walt Frazier, Willis Red, Bill Bradley, Dick Barnett, and Dave DeBusschere, but this time with the additon of the Awesome Earl “The Pearl” Monroe, Dean “The Dream” Meminger, Jerry Lucas, and Phil Jackson.

Oh by The WAY “The GIANTS SUCK” Too !!!!

2018 NY GIANTS – WINS 5 – LOSSES 11 “They SUCK” But not quite as Bad as 2018

2017 NY GIANTS  3 WINS 13 LOSSES “THEY SUCK” WORST GIANT TEAM EVER !!!

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ELI & SAQUON

SAQUON Was GREAT !!!

ELI ???

Runningback Saquon Barkely was a very Bright Star for the New York Giants this year. He had a phenominal Rookie Season gaining more than 2,000 Yards Total Offense Ruuning and Pass Recieving, the most any Rookie Runningback has ever gained in the History of The NFL

 

 

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Eat Like SINATRA in New York and at Home with SUNDAY SAUCE Recipes

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A Young Frank Sinatra  ….  Hoboken, New Jersey

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Frank Sinatra

“Come Fly with Me” !!!

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PATSY’S  “Franks Favorite Restaurant”

Frank’s Favorite Restaurant in The World, was Patsy’s on West 56th Street in New York, in The Theater District near Times Square .. Frank’s Favorites were; Calms Posillipo, Spaghetti Pomodoro,  Veal Milanes (extra Thin & Crispy) and Spaghetti & Meatballs of which patsy’s makes The Best in The City ..

PATSY’S is by far the restaurant most associated with SINATRA — on its website, the restaurant notes that it “has been known for years as the restaurant Frank Sinatra made famous.” You can still order up old-school Italian there, but you might not have the exact same experience as Sinatra, who was said to have entered through a special door to sit at a reserved table on the second floor. Sinatra became especially loyal to the restaurant after making a solo Thanksgiving reservation one year, not realizing the restaurant was slated to be closed that day. Patsy Scognamillo didn’t want to turn Sinatra away, so he allowed the reservation. He also didn’t want Sinatra to know the restaurant was opened just for him — so he had the entire staff bring their families to fill the place up, something Sinatra didn’t learn until years later, according to Patsy’s lore. The restaurant still celebrates its connection to Sinatra: At right, in 2002, Joe Scognamillo served actor Bill Boggs, who had dressed up as Sinatra . (236 West 56th St.)

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FRANK & AVA GARDNER Mangia Bene !!!

FRANK & AVA GARDNER
Mangia Bene !!!

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FRANK & DINO

FRANK & DINO

 

Want to Eat Like SINATRA? It’s quite a fun thing to do, follow in the footsteps of the great Francis Albert SInatra, and eat and hang at Frank’s favorite haunts of all-time. You can go to The 21 Club and eat there famous 21 Burger, and get some Jack Daniels while you’re at it, it was Sinatra’s favorite drink.

Also, not far from The 21 Club, and a lot more affordable, is PJ Clarke’s on 3rd Avenue at 52 nd Street. Get one of their tasty Burgers, Frank loved them. And again, do like Frank and order up a Jack Daniels while you’re at it. This is the place that Johhny Merver and Harold Arlen were thinking of when they wrote one of Sinatra’s most beloved song, “One For My Baby.”

Go up to East Harlem for Frank’s Favorite Pizza at Patsy’s Pizzeria at 2287 First Avenue, New York.

And there’s another Patsy’s down on West 56th Street between 8th Avenue and Broadway. No, it has nothing to do with Patsy’s Pizzeria. Patsy’s on W. 56th is a full fleged Italian Restaurant, and as almost anyone knows, this was Sinatra’s favorite restuarant ever. It’s still run by the same family who started cooking for Frank way back in the 40s. Go in and eat like Frank. Order some Clams Posillipo, Spaghetti Pomodoro, and Veal Milanese just the way Frank did.

And if you want to do it like Sinatra in the comfort of your own home, get yourself a copy of Daniel Bellino’s great book SUNDAY SAUCE

with recipes for  DOLLY SINATRA ‘S MEATBALLS and ITALIAN-AMERICAN SUNDAY SAUCE GRAVY … You’ll be eating like the Sinatra Clan anytime you like. Cook up some Meatballs and Sunday Sauce, get a nice bottle of Chianti, throw on some Sinatra LPs and you’ll be in your own little Sinatra Heaven. “What’s Better than that?”

 

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PJ CLARKE’S

3rd AVENUE, Midtown MANHATTAN

SINATRA ‘S ALL-TIME FAVORITE BAR / SALOON

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FRANK'S FAVORITE ITALIAN BREAD ... PARISI on MOTT STREET, LITTLE ITALY, New York, NY

FRANK’S FAVORITE ITALIAN BREAD … PARISI on MOTT STREET, LITTLE ITALY, New York, NY

FRANK’S FAVORITE ITALIAN BREAD

PARISI BAKERY MOTT STREET

LITTLE ITALY, NY NY

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FRANK'S FAVORITE PIZZA

FRANK’S FAVORITE PIZZA “PATYSY’S”
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FRANKS FAVORITE PIZZA

PATSY’S in EAST HARLEM

No Relation to PATSY’S on 56th STREET

PASTY'S PIZZERIA

PASTY’S PIZZERIA

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SINATRA at JILLY’S New York with Friends and Daughters NANCY and TINA

Frank loved going to his close Pal JILLY RIZZO’S New York Restaurant JILLY’S where Frank would eat Chinese Food, tell stories, and drink JACK DANIEL’S to the Wee Hours of the morning …

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SUNDAY SAUCE

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Dean Martin looks on as Sammy Davis Jr. pours Frank a Jack Daniels

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Jack Daniel’s and Frank Sinatra

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FRANK SINATRA with Cigarette & JACK DANIELS

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Dom of DOM’S BAKERY Hoboken , New Jersey

FRANK SINATRA had DOM Send him BREAD to Palm Springs , California

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FOCCACIA From DOM’S BAKERY

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GRANDMA BELLINO’S COOKBOOK

“RECIPES FROM MY SICILIAN NONNA”

by Daniel Bellino “Z”

Author Daniel Bellino “Z” has the same ancestral Sicilian Roots as Frank Sinatra and one Charles “Lucky” Luciano who was born in LERCARA FRIDDI SICILY , as was Frank SInatra ‘s father Martino Severino Sinatra and Bellino ‘s maternal grandparents Giussepina Salemi and Fillipo Bellino who both immigrated from Lercara Friddi to New York through Ellis Island in 1904 . In 1906 Luciano ‘s parents immigrated and settled on the Lower East Side of New York when young Charlie (Salvatore ) was 9 years old.

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Charles “Lucky” Luciano

Born in Lercara Friddi

Lucina

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SINATRA’S Favorite PIZZA !!!

PATSY’S in Eats Harlem , New York NY

2287 1st Avenue neat 117th Street

Opened in 1933 by Patsy Lancieri

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The 21 CLUB

A Favorite SINATRA Haunt For Years

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SINATRA arrives at The 21 CLUB with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Good Friend and Bodyguard JILLY RIZZO and a U.S. SECRET SERVICE AGENT

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7. GINO’S on Lexington Avenue (closed in 2010)

8.  PATSY’S PIZZERIA … East Harlem, NY (still Open)

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The 21 BURGER

LEARN HOW to MAKE IT !!!

Click for RECIPE

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Buffalo Chicken Wings Recipe / History

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 BUFFALO WINGS ORIGINAL RECIPE


 After Burgers and Pizza, these Buffalo Chicken Wings may very well be America’s 3rd most popular dish. And guess what? They’re not just American, they’re Italian American Teressa Bellissimo one night at her families Anchor Bar in Buffalo New York. Legend has it that Teressa’s son Dom was hanging out at the bar one night with his buddy’s. The guys were hungry so Mamma Bellissimo whipped up a little snack for the boys. Teressa fried up some wings, made a little hot sauce and coated the wings with them. And served them to the boys. They went nuts they loved them. They started serving them as a free at the bar for the bar customers. It was just a matter of weeks before all of Buffalo found out about these tasty wings. They became famous almost over night, whereby the Bellissimo’s stopped serving them for free at the bar and put them on the menu. The Bellissimo’s served Italian Food at their Anchor Bar, and the Italian Food was quite special. However the Bellisimo’s tasty Chicken Wings quickly out sold all the regular Italian Specialty Dishes and the Bellissimo’s Wings became the number 1 best seller on the menu. Not only that, but Teressa’s Italian-American created Chicken

Wings became uber famous all over America and subsequently all over the World. That’s Italian, “Italian-American.”

 

RECIPE :

Ingredients:

36 chicken wing pieces

(one wing makes 2 pieces – the “flat” & the drum)

1 tablespoon vegetable oil, 1/2 teaspoon salt

1 cup all-purpose flour

1 1/2 tablespoons white vinegar

1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper

1/8 teaspoon garlic powder

1/4 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce

1 teaspoon Tabasco sauce

6 tablespoons Frank’s Hot Sauce (or other)

6 tablespoons unsalted Butter or Margarine

Celery Sticks

1 bottle of Blue Cheese Dressing

Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Cut whole wings into two pieces at the joint. In a bowl toss the wings with the oil, and salt. Place into a large plastic shopping bag, and add the flour. Shake to coat evenly. Remove wings from the bag, shaking off excess flour, and spread out evenly on oiled foil-lined baking pan(s). Do not crowd. Bake for about 20 minutes, turn the wings over, and cook another 20 minutes, or until the wings are cooked through and browned.

While the Wings are baking, mix all the ingredients for the sauce in a pan, and cook over low heat for 6 minutes, stirring occasionally.

After the Wings are cooked, remove from oven. Place wings in a large bowl and pour sauce over wings to coat. Mix thoroughly. Serve with Blue Cheese Dressing and fresh Celery Spears.

 

 

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ANCHOR BAR
 
Where it all Started.
 
Italian-American Teressa Bellisimo Invented Hot Chicken Wings
 
at The ANCHOR BAR in 1964 ..
 
NOTE : At the ANCHOR BAR and all over BUFFALO, what is called
 
BUFFALO CHICKEN WINGS all over AMERICA, are not called Buffalo Chicken Wings
 
in Buffalo, but simply “CHICKEN WINGS”
 
 
 
 
 
Teressa Bellisimo
 
 
Inventor of BUFFALO CHICKEN WINGS
 
Buffalo , New York
 
1964
 
 
 
On March 4th, 1964, Dominic Bellissimo was tending bar at the now-famous Anchor Bar Restaurant in Buffalo, NY. Late that evening, a group of Dominic’s friends arrived at the bar with ravenous appetites. Dominic asked his mother, Teressa, to prepare something for his friends to eat.
They looked like chicken wings, a part of the chicken that usually went into the stock pot for soup. Teressa had deep fried the wings and flavored them with a secret sauce. The wings were an instant hit and it didn’t take long for people to flock to the bar to experience their new taste sensation. From that evening on, Buffalo Wings became a regular part of the menu at the Anchor Bar.
The phenomenon created in 1964 by Teressa Bellissimo has spread across the globe. Although many have tried to duplicate the Buffalo wing, the closely guarded secret recipe is what makes Frank & Teressa’s the proclaimed “Best Wings in the World”.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Ginos Old School Italian RedSauce Joint

 

A Waiter at GINO’S
 
And the Famous ZEBRA WALLPAPER
 
 
GINO’S on Lexington Avenue near Bloomingdale’s was what is known as an Old School Italian Red-Sauce Joint. It was quite famous, a favorite of many A List Celebrities like: Frank Sinatra, Ed Sullivan. Gay Talese, Nick Pileggi, Martin Scorsese, and so many more.
 
 
The food was great. It was simple uncomplicated old school Napoletan fare, the kind of food that just about every New Yorker loved dearly. They had all the usual supects, like; Baked Clams Oreganta or Casino as well as Posillipo, Lasagna, Manicotti, Chicken and Veal Parmigiano, Spaghetti with Clam Sauce (Vongole) and much more, but there was one dish that was most famous of all, and if you went to Gino’s, you know what I’m talking about. Yes, taht dish is the famed  RIGATLON al SEGRETO (pasta w/ Secret Sauce).
 
Gino’s was truly wonderful, as it was the perfect old school Italian Restaurant for the City of New York. As we know, they had great food, but the prices were very reasonable and most affordable as was the Wine List at Gino’s. There was the also uber famous Scalamandre Zebra Wallpaper and the dining room itself, filled with well-heeled regulars who gave the place a wonderful life of its own. You felt the energy in the air of Gino’s, and it felt so good. And of course, there were the waiters and Matre’d ‘s of the year, who provide excelleent , friendly professional service to complete the picture that made the whole of Gino’s one of a kind, and again “Oh So Wonderful” it was.
 
 
 
 
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MAKE The SCRET SAUCE
 
 
SALSA SEGRETO
 
 
 
by BEST SELLING ITALIAN COOKBOOK AUTHOR
 
 
DANIEL BELLINO ZWICKE
 
BASTA !!!
 
 
 
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“I’m MOE GREENE ! I Made My BONES when You were 
Going Out with CHEERLEADERS!”
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“He’s Banging Cocktail Waitresses 2 at a Time”
“The Players Can’t Get a Drink at The Tables”
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FREDDO CORLEONE 
was BANGING COCKTAIL WAITRESSES
TWO at a TIME
In MOE GREENE’S Las VEGAS CASINO
THE PLAYERS COULDN’T GET a DRINK at THE TABLES
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“You Straighten My BROTHER Out?”
AL PACINO as MICHAEL CORLEONE
The GODFATHER
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 MOE GREENE Got Shot in the EYE
The GODFATHER
MARIO PUZO
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
 
 
 
 
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alla CLEMENZA
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You Won’t FIND IT in SUNDAY SAUCE
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Frank Sinatra The Best things Ever

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Frank Sinatra was indisputably the 20th century’s greatest singer of popular song. Though influenced by Bing Crosby’s crooning, and by learning from trombonist Tommy Dorsey’s breath control and blues singer Billie Holiday’s rhythmic swing, Frank Sinatra mainstreamed the concept of singing colloquially, treating lyrics as personal statements and handling melodies with the ease of a jazz improviser. His best work is standards —Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, and the Gershwins —but Sinatra, despite his 1957 denunciation of rock & roll as degenerate, has recorded songs by the likes of Stevie Wonder, George Harrison, Jimmy Webb, and Billy Joel. Not only did his freely interpretive approach pave the way for the idiosyncrasies of rock singing, but with his character a mix of tough-guy cool and romantic vulnerability, he became the first true pop idol, a superstar who through his music established a persona audiences found compelling and true.
Sinatra, an only child of a family with Sicilian roots, grew up in Hoboken, and sang in the glee club of Demarest High School. His break came in 1937, when he and three instrumentalists, billed as the Hoboken Four, won on the Major Bowes Original Amateur Hour. After some touring, the group disbanded.
Harry James signed Sinatra to sing with his orchestra, and on July 13, 1939, two weeks after his debut as a big-band vocalist at the Hippodrome Theatre in Baltimore, Sinatra cut his first disc, “From the Bottom of My Heart,” with the orchestra. Of the 10 sides he recorded with them, the biggest seller, “All or Nothing at All,” sold just over 8,000 copies upon release. In 1943 it was rereleased and became the first of Sinatra’s many million-sellers, hitting #2 on the chart.
In 1940 Tommy Dorsey’s lead singer, Jack Leonard, quit and Sinatra began a two-year stay with the trombonist. During those years, the band consistently hit the Top 10 (15 entries in 1940–41, including their first, the #1 hit “I’ll Never Smile Again”). His radio work with Dorsey was the springboard for Sinatra’s solo career. During the war years, Sinatra, married at the time to his childhood sweetheart, Nancy, sang love songs to his mostly female audiences, notably on Lucky Strike’s Hit Parade and at New York’s original Paramount Theatre. Between 1943 and 1946 he had 17 Top 10 chart singles, and earned the sobriquets “The Voice” and “The Sultan of Swoon.” With the GIs back in the U.S., public taste shifted away from these songs, and Sinatra’s popularity waned. At Columbia, producer Mitch Miller burdened Sinatra with novelty songs (washboard accompaniment on one, barking dogs on another), and his sales slipped to an average of 30,000 per record. In the early ’50s, he was dropped by Columbia and by his talent agent and lost his MGM motion picture contract. To regain his popularity, he begged to be cast as Maggio in the film From Here to Eternity. His first nonsinging role, it won him a 1953 Oscar and a return to the limelight. (His film debut had been with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra in 1941’s Las Vegas Nights.)
The fledgling Capitol Records signed him in 1953 and, with ex-Dorsey trombonist and arranger Nelson Riddle, Sinatra moved into the next phase of his recording career with a new emphasis: saloon ballads and sophisticated swing tunes. With Capitol, he concentrated on albums, although he again charted in the singles Top 10, notably with “Young at Heart” (#2, 1954), “Learnin’ the Blues” (#1, 1955), “Hey! Jealous Lover” (#3, 1956), “All the Way” (#2, 1957), and “Witchcraft” (#6, 1958). His best albums of the period were arranged by Riddle, Billy May, or Gordon Jenkins.
Through the early ’50s, during which he was married to film actress Ava Gardner, having left Nancy in 1950, Sinatra became a movie star. He won especially high praise for his portrayal of a drug addict in The Man With the Golden Arm (1955). Beginning in 1959, two years after he divorced Gardner, his singles failed to hit the Top 30, and in 1961 Sinatra left Capitol to establish his own company, Reprise. (In 1963 he sold Reprise to Warner Bros. and became a vice president and consultant of Warner Bros. Picture Corp.)
   Sinatra decided to try again to become a Top 40 singles artist. “The Second Time Around” hit #50 in 1961; subsequent releases charted lower. But in the mid-’60s he recouped. He was the triumphant headliner of the final evening of the 1965 Newport Jazz Festival in a 20-song set accompanied by Count Basie’s orchestra, conducted by Quincy Jones. His 1965 Thanksgiving TV special, Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music, a review of his 25-year career, won an Emmy and set the precedent for numerous other TV specials, including one each in the next four years. That year he also picked up a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1966–67 he charted three of his biggest Top 10 hits: “Strangers in the Night” (#1, 1966), “That’s Life” (#4, 1966), and a duet with daughter Nancy, “Somethin’ Stupid” (#1, 1967).









In the 1960s he made his Las Vegas debut at the Sands and continued for years as a main attraction at Caesars Palace. Leader of the notorious “Rat Pack,” including Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop, he came to epitomize the hard-drinking, blonde-chasing swinger; a stout Democrat who’d named his son after Franklin D. Roosevelt, he also strongly supported John F. Kennedy’s presidential bid. Married from 1966 to 1968 to actress Mia Farrow, he began reconciling with youth culture, covering songs, with indifferent success, by younger writers. In 1968 he recorded “My Way,” a French song to which Paul Anka wrote new English lyrics. A modest U.S. hit (#27), it was an overwhelming smash in the U.K., staying in the Top 50 an unprecedented 122 weeks. (Sex Pistol Sid Vicious later recorded a sarcastic version.)
In 1970 Sinatra announced his retirement and was honored with a gala farewell on June 13, 1971, at the L.A. Music Center. He reversed that decision in 1973 with the release of Ol’ Blue Eyes Is Back(#13), a TV special of the same name, and a performance at the Nixon White House (over the years, Sinatra’s politics had become markedly conservative; in 1985, he would produce Ronald Reagan’s inaugural gala). In 1974 he mounted an eight-city, 13-date sold-out U.S. tour and performed in Japan and Australia. In Australia he aggravated the paparazzi with his antijournalist harangues: Through the years he referred to the males as parasites, and the females as everything from “a buck-and-a-half hooker” to “two-dollar broads.” Married to Zeppo Marx’s widow, Barbara, in 1976, however, he appeared to mellow somewhat. In the mid-’70s Sinatra’s career slowed down, but in mid-1980, after a five-year recording hiatus, he released Trilogy (#17),which included a version of “Theme From New York, New York” (#32) that the city fervently adopted.
In the 1980s Sinatra continued to perform sold-out concerts in major halls, to star in movies and TV specials, and to spark controversy for his business and political associations. (His 1972 appearances before the House Select Committee on Crime investigating criminal infiltration into horse racing were front-page news.) With 1981’s She Shot Me Down (#52) and 1984’s L.A. Is My Lady(#58) he appeared to have ended his recording career. In 1985, he was accorded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award.
In 1993, however, he enjoyed a renaissance with Duets debuting at #2. Featuring top singers —among them Aretha Franklin, Bono, Tony Bennett, Liza Minnelli, and Luther Vandross (some recording their parts via telephone) —it gained Sinatra new young fans. Still touring, with the aid of TelePrompTers, at 78, he collapsed onstage in Virginia in 1994 but soon recovered; days earlier, when presented with a special “Legend” award at the Grammy Awards ceremony —with an over-the-top intro by Bono —he had waxed so emotional that his own handlers requested that television cameras cut away from his acceptance speech. Rumors abounded about Sinatra’s health, but he insisted on resuming his tour. By year’s end, the sequel Duets II was issued, featuring Chrissie Hynde, Linda Ronstadt, and Willie Nelson, among others.
A 1983 honoree at the Kennedy Center Honors, Sinatra was involved for many years in charitable work, particularly in fundraising for multiple sclerosis, chronically ill children, and awareness of child abuse.
Frank Sinatra died of a heart attack on May 14, 1998, in L.A. That year, his FBI dossier, 1,275 pages covering 50 years of surveillance, was released. The document revealed no shocking secrets.









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Frank Sinatra is TONY ROME







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