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Frank Sinatra - Chairman of the Board
“The Chairman of the Board”, as Frank Sinatra was sometimes known, was born in 1915 in Hoboken, New Jersey to first generation Italian immigrant parents.
He sang in different groups but was picked up by Harry James in 1939 for $75 a week. He soon joined Tommy Dorsey’s band. The 1940’s saw him acting in several movies and continuing to sing. In 1953 Frank Sinatra won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for the movie, “From Here To Eternity” which helped turn his career around.
The 1960’s saw Frank Sinatra with the “Rat Pack” (Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop), playing the Sands Casino in Las Vegas, and recording some of his most memorable work. He retired in the early 1970s then came out of retirement a few years later. In 1980, he scored big with “New York, New York.”
He continued performing until he died in May, 1998. Frank Sinatra was many things to many people but he will always be the Chairman of the Board.
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