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Entertainer Frank Sinatra (3L)
saying goodbye to his parents Natalie
"Dolly" Sinatra (2L)
and Martin Sinatra (4L).
Location: US
Date taken: 1965
Photograph: John Dominis
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Entertainer Frank Sinatra (rear 2L)
and musician Count Basie (rear 3L)
posing for group portrait with the Count
Basie road band.
(Quincey Jones rear L).
Location: Las Vegas, NV, US
Date taken: 1946
Photograph: John Dominis
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(L-R) Count Basie and Frank Sinatra
backstage in dressing room.
Location: Las Vegas, NV, US
Date taken: 1964
Photograph: John Dominis
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Frank Sinatra, standing, second from left,
with friends,
including Colombo family member Richard
Fusco, seated,
in 1976.
Photograph: Associated Press
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Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra 1915-1998
singer and actor
whose
extraordinary voice
elevated popular song
into
an art
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learning/general/onthisday/bday/1212.html - May 16, 1998
January 10 1945
Mr Frank Sinatra
and the 'bobby-soxers'
From The Guardian archive
The United States is now in the midst of one of those remarkable phenomena of
mass hysteria which occur from time to time on this side of the Atlantic.
Mr. Frank Sinatra is inspiring extraordinary personal devotion on the part of
many thousands of young people, and particularly young girls between the ages
of, say, twelve and eighteen. The adulation bestowed upon him is similar to that
lavished upon Colonel Lindbergh fifteen years ago [or] Rudolph Valentino a few
years earlier.
Mr. Sinatra has to be guarded by police whenever he appears in public. Indeed,
during the late political campaign, he broke up a demonstration for Governor
Dewey, the Republican candidate, merely by presenting himself on the sidelines
as a spectator. (Since Mr. Sinatra was an ardent supporter of President
Roosevelt, some unkind people suggested that he had done this from political
motives.)
His earnings are in the neighbourhood of $1,250,000 annually. He cannot put his
nose out of doors without careful precautions in advance.
Psychologists have written soberly about the hypnotic quality of his voice and
the remarkable effect upon young women. The teenage girls who constitute the
main part of his audience wear short white half-hose, and are therefore called "bobby-sox
girls" or, more simply, "bobby-soxers."
Mr. Sinatra was born and brought up in comparative poverty in the city of
Hoboken, New Jersey. He did nothing in particular until about twenty when he
began to sing with a band in night clubs and cinema theatres. It is reasonable
to suppose that his popularity with young people was at first a fiction invented
by his press agent.
There is no doubt, however, that the matter has now become a genuine phenomenon.
A writer in the "New Republic" recently described the scene in a New York cinema
when Mr. Sinatra was part of the "stage show" there. On the opening day of his
engagement the crowd waiting for admission early in the morning got out of hand;
police and ambulances had to be summoned.
Multitudes of admirers of "The Voice", as Mr. Sinatra is popularly called,
refused to leave after having seen one complete performance in a non-stop
programme which went on every day from nine in the morning until after midnight.
Of 3,500 spectators, only about 250 left at the end of the first performance.
One young woman is known to have sat through 56 consecutive performances, which
means about eight consecutive days.
Our New York correspondent
Mr Frank Sinatra and the
'bobby-soxers',
G,
January 10 1945,
republished 10.1.2008,
p. 40,
http://digital.guardian.co.uk/guardian/2008/01/10/
pages/ber40.shtml
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