Let Me Be Frank
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Let Me Be Frank

The Extraordinary Life and Music of Frank Sinatra, Jr.

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Let Me Be Frank

The Extraordinary Life and Music of Frank Sinatra, Jr.

About this book

As an American singer, conductor, composer, and actor, Frank Sinatra, Jr. (1944–2016), had a long and successful music career and was recognized for his many contributions to American popular song. Yet, his own star has often been overshadowed by his world-famous father. The first book ever published about Frank Sinatra, Jr., Let Me Be Frank: The Extraordinary Life and Music of Frank Sinatra, Jr., details how this complex and often misunderstood artist dealt with professional struggles, personal demons, and endless comparisons with his father to emerge as a thriving performer who finally made peace with the name "Sinatra."

Let Me Be Frank chronicles Frank Sinatra, Jr.'s life and music career, including the lifetime loyalty of his friends and bandsmen, and his notorious womanizing. It also, of course, details the challenging relationship with his father, including an incident with his father that may have changed Frank Jr. forever. He ran from comparisons to his father and lost work due to his refusal to sing his father's songs. The book also details Frank Jr.'s kidnapping in 1963 when he was nineteen.

Included are over forty interviews with Frank Jr.'s friends, family, and colleagues. It also features a compelling narrative from Andrea Kauffman, Frank Jr.'s personal manager and close friend of thirty-one years, and an in-depth musical analysis of four decades of Frank Jr.'s recordings and stage shows. Let Me Be Frank finally sets the record straight about a brilliant man and a brilliant performer who never truly got the credit he deserved.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Introduction
  8. Introduction
  9. My Father
  10. The Early Years
  11. His Place in the Sun
  12. The Start at Disneyland
  13. Teen Idol in the Making
  14. Getting Sentimental: The Dorsey Years
  15. The Kidnapping
  16. The Aftermath
  17. The Swinging 1960s
  18. Meet Me in Las Vegas
  19. Wild about Harry
  20. Film and Television Miscellany
  21. On the Road Again
  22. I’ll Never Smile Again
  23. The Start of Something Big
  24. The Call to Conduct
  25. Opening Night
  26. Father and Son Meet Mary Hart
  27. The Children’s Hour
  28. They’re Lookin’ for Me, but They’re Gonna Get You
  29. Still Spreading the News
  30. As I Remember It
  31. Gershwin’s America
  32. The Final Curtain
  33. At the Nineteenth Hole with Barbara Sinatra
  34. The Vampire
  35. The Sopranos
  36. This Is a Musician Singing
  37. Radiance
  38. That Face!
  39. High Hopes: The Kennedys Revisited
  40. On Broadway
  41. The Worst Nightmare
  42. The Last Dance
  43. The Victim
  44. All Things Must Change: A Question of Repertoire
  45. Sinatra Sings Sinatra
  46. Cen Cel: The One Hundredth Birthday
  47. Because I’m Not Done Yet
  48. Put Your Dreams Away
  49. Missed
  50. The Funeral That Wasn’t
  51. Acknowledgments
  52. Selected Bibliography
  53. Index