This book is called Frank Sinatra – An Extraordinary Story but I never appreciated how extraordinary it was until I compiled the index. His associates include royalty, Presidents, major businessmen, major criminals, astronauts, boxers, actors, musicians, songwriters, wives, girlfriends and lots of showgirls. Frank knew everyone or rather, everyone wanted to know him. Forget six degrees of separation: with Frank, you were a handshake from almost every celebrity or key politician over a 50 year period.
Frank Sinatra recorded over 2,000 songs and every one of them is mentioned in the text. It would make the index too unwieldly if all passing references were included so by and large, I have the restricted the entries to ones worth following up.
To think he did all this…
Abbott, Bud 303
Adair, Tom 35
‘Adelaide’ 150
‘After the Ball’ 41
‘After You’ve Gone’ 185, 327
Agnew, Spiro 297-9
ahbez, eden 87
‘(Ah, the Apple Trees) When the World was Young’ 218
‘Ain’t That a Kick in the Head’ 202
Aldrich, Robert 234
Aldrin, Buzz 247
‘Alexander’s Ragtime Band’ 41
Ali, Muhammed 293
All Alone (album and song) 220
‘All by Myself’ 313
Allen, Lewis 142
Allen, Steve 170
Allen, Woody 139, 275
‘All My Tomorrows’ 190, 287
‘All of Me’ 80
‘All of You’ 315
‘All or Nothing at All’ 26, 53, 311
All or Nothing at All (TV documentary series) 344
‘All the Things You Are’ 43, 63
‘All the Way’ 176, 234, 245, 338
Almond, Marc 70
‘Almost Like Being in Love’ 82
Allsop, Kenneth 225
‘Always’ 82, 205, 331
America, I Hear You Singing (album) 244
‘American Beauty Rose’ 107
‘America the Beautiful’ 66, 233
Anchors Aweigh (film) 59-60
Andress, Ursula 234/5
Andrews Sisters 62, 66, 136
‘Angel Eyes’ 183, 271, 294, 340
Anka, Paul 171, 187, 268-75, 307, 313, 318, 331, 340
Annie Get Your Gun (film) 77
‘Anniversary Song’ 84
Anthony, Ron 100, 326, 334-6, 340, 342
Anything Goes (show and song) 133, 157
‘Anytime’ 307
‘April in Paris’ 109, 178, 195, 225
‘Are You Lonesome Tonight’ 220
Arlen, Harold 85, 183, 202
Armstrong, Louis 10, 14, 18, 22, 66, 115-6, 121, 136, 159, 178, 195, 242, 327, 347
‘Around the World’ 177
Around the World in 80 Days (film) 163
Assault on a Queen (film) 255
Astaire, Fred 37, 49, 82, 85, 85, 87,133, 164, 186, 189, 231, 245, 278, 315, 322
‘At Long Last Love’ 164
‘At My Time of Life’ 272-3
‘Autumn in New York’ 178, 306
‘Autumn Leaves’ 174
Avalon, Frankie 280
Axelrod, George 220-1
Aznavour, Charles 224-5, 234, 337
‘Azure Te’ – See ‘Paris Blues’
‘Baby Just Like You, A’ 309
‘Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home’ 175
Bacall, Lauren 63, 149, 173, 182
Bacharach, Bert 184, 247, 251, 288
‘Bad, Bad Leroy Brown’ 304
Bailey, Pearl 73, 86
Baker, Glenn A. 305
‘Bali Ha’i’ 91, 106
‘Bang Bang’ (Sammy Davis) 238
‘Bang Bang (She Shot Me Down)’ 300-1, 332
‘Barbara’ 312
Barbato, Nancy (first wife) 12, 19-20, 50, 56, 61-2, 76, 79, 83, 94, 08, 113-4, 238, 310, 339
Barbour, Dave 24, 49
Bardot, Brigitte, 187
Barrymore, Ethel 143-4
Barton, Ben 53, 110
Barton, Eileen 57, 62
Baryshnikov, Mikhail 325
Basie, Count 228, 247, 253, 258-9, 262, 292
Bassey, Shirley 224
‘Baubles, Bangles and Beads’ 189
Baxter, Les 119
Beatles, The 73, 231, 240-4, 305
Beatty, Lady Adelle 188
Beau, Heinie 189, 217
‘Because You’re Mine’ 137
Beatty, Warren 307
‘Bee Bom’ 222
‘Begin the Beguine’ 23, 31, 77
‘Bein’ Green’ 292
Bennett, Tony 30, 62, 151, 163, 227-8, 247, 266, 293, 287, 35, 337, 341, 347
Benny, Jack 295
Benson, George 327
Bergman, Alan and Marilyn 188, 203-5, 304
Bergman, Ingrid 94
Berigan, Bunny 30-1
Berle, Milton 12, 93, 115, 238, 314
Berlin, Irving 10, 15, 24, 34-8, 40-2, 77, 82, 87, 168, 183, 220, 242, 331
Bernhardt, Milt 156
Bernstein, Elmer 153
Bernstein, Leonard 92
‘Best Is yet to Come, The’ 247, 339
‘Best of Everything, The’
‘Bewitched’ 176, 233
Bienstock, Freddy 44, 48
’Bim Bam Baby’ 117, 130
‘Birth of the Blues, The’ 254
Bishop, Joey 105, 177, 199, 202-3, 216, 234, 247, 254
Black, Don 273
Black, Stanley 244
Blackburn, Tony 309
Blackwell, Otis 47
Blair, Lionel 104
Blake, Eubie 158
Blakeley, Barbara – see Marx, Barbara
‘Blame It on My Youth’ 160
Blanc, Mel 88
‘Blue Hawaii’ 178
‘Blue Moon’ 34, 205
‘Blues in the Night’ 183
‘Blue Skies’ 35, 76
‘Body and Soul’ 86, 327
Bogart, Humphrey 17, 92, 142, 149, 154
Bolling, Tiffany 279
Bono 171, 300-1, 334, 337, 339, 345
‘Bop! Goes My Heart’ 89
Borge, Victor 54
Borgnine, Ernest 65, 126, 138, 154, 157-8
‘Born Free’ 281
Bowen, Jimmy 248-9, 260-263, 266, 278
Bowes, Major Edward 18, 24
Bowie, David 17, 268, 271, 295, 321
Brando, Marlon 79, 127, 141-2, 149-53, 162, 172, 180, 202, 231, 235-6, 250, 291, 309, 320, 326
Brandy, Slim 251
‘Brazil’ 178
Bregman, Buddy 14
Brel, Jacques 287, 293
Bricusse, Leslie 217, 228
Britt, May 180, 206
Bronson, Charles 193-4, 234
Brooks, Mel 308
‘Brother, Can You Spare a Dime’ 14
Brown, Joe E. 131
Brown, Les 24
Brown, Vanessa 148
Brush, Marion 19
Buchalter, Louis 52
Buffett, Jimmy 338
Bunocelli, Dorothy 31
Bunocelli, Julie (possible daughter) 31
Burke, Johnny 30, 56, 137
Burke, Sonny 314
Burns, George 55, 171
Burton, James 282, 288
Burton, Richard 117, 250, 284, 291-2, 326
Bushkin, Joe 28, 31, 34, 39, 56, 174
‘But Beautiful’ 252-3
Butera, Sam 310
‘But Not for Me’ 314
Byrd, Charlie 276
Byers, Billy
Bygraves, Max 131
‘By the Time I Get to Phoenix’ 285
Cagney, James 12, 225
Cahn, Sammy 28, 30-1, 43, 57, 59, 71, 89, 97-8, 106, 135-41, 144, 152-3, 176, 194, 208-9, 231, 251-2, 256-7
Cake 193
Cale, J.J. 20
Calello, Charles
‘California’ 233
‘Call Me Irresponsible’ 231, 245
Calloway, Cab 22
Campbell, Glen 262
Campbell, Judy 200, 221-2, 230
Can Can (film) 184-7
‘Can I Steal a Little Love’ 165
Cantor, Eddie 103
‘Can’t We Be Friends’ 147
Capone, Al 9, 11, 194
Capra, Frank 190-1
‘Carefully Taught’ 235
Carmichael, Hoagy 34, 45, 146, 218
Cannonball Run II (film) 345
Carousel (film) 154
Carson, Jack 76
Carson, Johnny 219, 254, 280, 284, 323
Caruso, Enrico 9
Cartwright, Tony 17, 71, 96-8, 229, 284, 294
Cash, Johnny 121
Casino (film) 73-4
Cast a Giant Shadow (film) 249
‘Castle Rock’ 114
Castro, President Fidel 229
‘Cathy’ 222
Cavanaugh, Dave 148, 182, 192, 205, 218 (Page Cavanaugh Trio) 80
Cerf, Bennett 265
‘C’est Magnifique’ 186
‘Change Partners’ 277
Chaplin, Saul 135-6
Charioteers 63
Charles, Ray 169, 211, 266
‘Charmaine’ 220
‘Charm of You, The’ 60
Checker, Chubby 222
‘Cheek to Cheek’ 189
Chevalier, Maurice 186
‘Chicago’ 175-6
‘Christmas Waltz’ 140/1
Churchill, Pam – see Heyward, Pam
Churchill, Sir Winston 131, 225
Clarke, John Cooper 154
Clift, Montgomery 125-7, 138, 142, 151, 180
Clinton, President Bill 341
Clooney, George 344
Clooney, Rosemary 15, 107, 178, 189
‘Close to You’ (Jerry Livingston song) 53 (album) 160-1 (Carpenters Song) 293
Cobb, Lee J. 232
‘Coffee Song, The’ 79, 208, 320
Cohn, Harry 93, 122, 124-7, 132, 153, 172, 179-80
Cole, Malcolm 297-8
Cole, Nat ‘King’ 17, 74, 76, 80, 87, 120, 139, 168, 174, 179, 182, 246, 251, 261, 276
Coleman, Cy 117
Collins, Joan 149, 215
Columbo, Russ 13-4
‘Come Back to Sorrento’ 110
Come Blow Your Horn (film and song) 231-2
Come Dance with Me (album) 177, 189-92 (song) 190, 202
Come Fly with Me (album) 177-8 (song) 177
‘Come Rain or Come Shine’ 218
‘Comme çi, comme ça’ 90
Connick Jr, Harry 315
Cooley, Spade 82
Como, Perry 62, 84, 84, 184
Concert Sinatra, The (album) 232
Connick Jr, Harry 152, 346
Conte, Richard 199-202, 263, 286
‘Continental, The’ 245
Contract on Cherry Street (TV movie) 313
Cooke, Sam 251-2
Cooper, Alice 317
Cooper, Gary 154
Coppola, Francis Ford 291
Costa, Don 218-9, 270, 279, 304, 323
Costa, Nikka 323
Costello, Elvis 147, 157
Costello, Frank 48, 94, 99, 122
‘Cottage for Sale’ 192
‘Could’ja’ 77
Coward, Noël 108, 148-9, 154, 226
‘Cradle Song, The’ 60-1
Crawford, Broderick 147
Crawford, Joan 127
‘Crazy Love’ 173
Crosby, Bing 11-2, 13-7, 28, 32, 35-8, 51, 55, 57, 62/6, 98, 100, 112, 130, 139, 145, 156, 159, 168, 178-9, 189, 195, 216, 218, 222, 236-8, 244, 246, 272, 313, 343
Crosby, Bob 14, 27, 84
‘Cry Me a River’ 45
Cugat, Xavier 63
Cukor, George 291
Curtis, Tony 181-2, 188, 216, 234
Cycles (album and song) 285
Dagmar 112-3
Dali, Salvador 221
Dalitz, Moe 70-1
D’Amato, Skinny 99, 199
Damone, Vic 291
‘Dancing in the Dark’ 189
‘Dancing on the Ceiling’ 147
Dankworth, John 121, 334
Darin, Bobby 29, 71-2, 171-2, 204, 218, 226, 261, 298
Daves, Delmer 181-2
David, Hal 107, 184
David, Mack 89
Davis, Beryl 84
Davis, Sammy, Jr 72, 74, 103-4, 134, 179-81, 193, 199-202, 206, 211, 213, 215-7, 222, 228-30, 234-8, 253-4, 259, 272, 284, 308, 313, 330-3
Davis, Wild Bill
Davison, Harold 224, 309
Day, Doris 78, 84-5, 91, 116, 142-4, 303
‘Day in – Day out’ 124, 140, 189
‘Day in the Life of a Fool, A’ 287
‘Deep in a Dream’ 146
DeHaven, Gloria 57
Dell, Alan
Dellar, Fred 100
Dennis, Matt 35-6
Denver, John 308-9, 312
Deodata, Eumir 286
‘Desafinado’ 276, 287
Desert Island Discs (radio series) 160, 174, 275, 317
Detective, The (film) 283-4
Devil at Four O’Clock, The (film) 206-7
DeWitt, Alan 25, 28
Dexter, Brad 247, 251, 254, 263-4
Dexter, Dave 123, 241/2 (and the letter on page 349!)
Diamond, Neil 338
‘Dick Haymes, Dick Todd and Como’ (song) 62
Dickinson, Angie 199, 249, 344
Dietrich, Marlene 65, 122, 163, 184, 245
Dietz, Howard 146-7
‘Dig Down Deep’ 38
DiMaggio, Joe 52, 144, 189, 227, 287
Dino, Desi and Billy 248, (death of Dino) 330
Dirty Dingus Magee (film) 290
Disney, Walt 149
Distel, Sacha 247
Doble, Andrew 341
‘Dolores’ 33
Donahue, Jack 255
Donaldson, Walter 46
‘Don’cha Go Away Mad’ 223
Donegan, Lonnie 257, 329
Donen, Stanley 298
‘Don’t Bring Crosby’ 76
‘Don’t Like Goodbyes’ 160
‘Don’t Sleep in the Subway’ 281-2
‘Don’t Worry About Me’ 128
Doors, The 261, 304
Dorsey, Jimmy 20, 27-9, 32, 163
Dorsey, Tommy 20, 25, 27-39, 59, 106-7, 163, 165, 218, 237, 282-3
Double Dynamite (film) 89-91
Douglas, Gordon 142-4, 234, 237-9, 278, 283
Douglas, Kirk 280, 341
‘Downtown’ 265-6
‘Do You Miss Me Tonight’
Drake, Ervin 256-7
‘Dream’ 63
‘Dream Away’
Dreyfus, Max 44
‘Drinking Again’ 278, 281
Dubin, Al 32, 42
Duets (two albums) 336-9
Dukakis, Olympia 335
Duke, Vernon 110
Duke of Edinburgh 128, 225
‘Dum Dot Song, The’ 80
Dunaway, Faye 321
Durante, Jimmy 36, 76, 78, 81-2, 134, 158, 191, 195
Dylan, Bob 190, 339-40, 347/8
‘East of the Sun’ 31
Easter Parade (film) 87
Eastwood, Clint 290
Eberle, Ray 23
Eberly, Bob 20, 23, 29, 320
Eckstine, Billy 35
‘Eee-O-Eleven’ 202
Eisenhower, President 202
Ekberg, Anita 102, 139, 234
Ellen, Mark 32-3
‘Elizabeth’ 289
Elizabeth II, Queen 129, 188, 192, 289
Ellington, Duke 13, 22-3, 49, 86, 184, 231, 256, 282-3
Elman, Ziggy 35
‘Embraceable You’ 50-1, 61
‘Empty Is’ 288
‘Empty Tables’ 304
‘End of a Love Affair, The’ 161
Entratter, Jack 149, 194, 215, 263, 280
Ertegun, Ahmet 171
Evans, Dixie 188-9
Evans, George 50-1, 55-6, 63, 79, 88-9, 106, 283
Evans, Paul 46-7
‘Everything Happens to Me’ 35, 109
‘Everybody Loves Somebody’ 86, 179, 248
‘Everybody’s Twistin’’ 169, 222
Execution of Private Slovik, The (book) 202
‘Fairytale’ 152
Falk, Peter 124, 238
Farnon, Robert 225-6
Farrell, Eileen 316-7
Farrell, Wes 303
Farrow, John 131, 264
Farrow, Mia (third wife) 171, 251, 253-4, 256, 263-6, 269, 275, 283-4, 286, 288, 303, 334, 341
Feinstein, Michael 45, 316-7
Feld, Malcolm 72, 309
‘Fella with an Umbrella, A’ 87
Fields, Dorothy 43
Fields, Gracie 160, 295
Fields, W.C. 175
Fifth Dimension, The 285, 312
‘Fine Romance, A’ 208
Finian’s Rainbow (album) 236
First Deadly Sin, The (film) 320
Fisher, Eddie 118, 181, 217
Fischetti, Joe 83
Fitzgerald, Ella 40, 162, 165, 195, 276, 281, 288, 329, 333
‘500 Guys’ 161
‘Five Minutes More’ 77
‘Flowers Mean Forgiveness’ 158
‘Fly Me to the Moon’ 247, 253, 258, 290
‘Foggy Day in London Town, A’ 133, 207-8, 225
‘Folks Who Live on the Hill, The’ 174
Fonteyn, Margot 108
‘Fools Rush In’ 86, 203
Forbes, Graham 113-4
Ford, John 117-8
‘Forget Domani’ 255
Formby, George 47
‘For Once in My Life’ 287
‘For the Good Times’ 316
For Those Who Think Young (film) 245
42nd Street (show) 42
Foster, Frank 327
4 for Texas (film) 234-5
Four Seasons, The 265
Francis A. & Edward K. (album) 282-3
Francis Albert Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim (album) 277-8
Franco, General 162-3
François, Claude 267-8, 272
Frankenheimer, John 220-1
Franklin, Aretha 337-8
‘Frank Sinatra’ (song) 193
Frank Sinatra Show, The (TV series) 178-9, 181, 195, 203
Frazier, Joe 293-4
Freberg, Stan 121, 181
Freed, Alan 252
Freeman, Alan A. 226
Freeman, Ernie 249, 251, 262, 281-2
Freeman, Mona 148
Friedwald, Will 278, 316
From Here to Eternity (film) 124-8, 131-2, 138-9, 291 (song) 128 (stage musical) 344
‘From Here to Eternity’
‘From the Bottom of My Heart’ 26
‘From the Bottom to the Top’ 148
Frankie Goes to Hollywood (newspaper headline) 53
‘French Foreign Legion’ 192-3
‘Full Moon and Empty Arms’ 67
Furie, Stanley 263-4
G, Kenny 338
Gable, Clark 117-8, 206
Gabor, Eva 297
Gabor, Zsa Zsa 70
‘Gal That Got Away, The’ 140
Gambaccini, Paul 42
Garavente, Lawrence (uncle, boxer and jailbird) 9
Garbo, Greta 147, 295
‘Garden in the Rain’ 226
Gardner, Ava (second wife) 33, 63-4, 105-8, 113-118, 123, 125-6, 128-9, 131-2, 134, 138, 141,145, 162-3, 176-7, 191, 194, 250-1, 258, 279, 287, 297-8, 312, 332, 347
Garfield, John 142-3, 153
Garland, Judy 32, 62/3, 87, 90, 102, 144-5, 148-9, 221, 239, 244
Garner, Erroll 111
Garrett, Betty 90, 92
Garrick, Frank (Frank’s godfather, a real one!) 8, 12, 324
Gaudio, Bob 265, 289
Gaynor, Mitzi 176
Gell, Sandra 184
Gershwin, George 42, 60, 140, 249
Gershwin, Ira 228, 249
‘Get Me to the Church on Time’ 253
Getz, Stan 276
Giancana, Sam 194, 198-200, 203, 209, 219, 221-2, 229-31, 237, 253, 296, 308
Gigi (film) 184
Gilberto, Astrid 276-7
Gilberto, João 276
Gilkyson, Eliza 101
Gilmore, Voyle 123, 132, 155-8, 163, 174
‘Girl from Ipanema, The’ 277
‘Girls I’ve Never Kissed, The’ 332
‘Girl That I Marry, The’ 77
‘Girl Who Stole the Eiffel Tower, The’ 245
‘Glad to Be Unhappy’ 146
Gleason, Jackie 63, 102, 112, 115
Gleason, Ralph J. 169, 192
Glenn, John H. 211
‘God Bless the Child’ 34, 52
Goetz, Bill and Edie 255-6
Godfather, The (film series) 73, 223, 290-1, 313, 333
‘Goin’ Out of My Head’ 288
Golden Boy (stage musical) 254
Goldsmith, Jerry 283
Goldwyn, Sam 149-52
‘Goodbye’ 183
‘Good Life, The’ 247
‘Good Man Is Hard To Find, A’ 114-5
Goodman, Benny 23-4, 35-6, 49
‘Goodnight Irene’ 109, 121
Goodwin, Ron 44
‘Goody, Goody’ 223-4
Gormé, Eydie 181, 218, 272, 276, 338
‘Go Tell It on the Mountain’ 246
Grable, Betty 26, 298
Graham, Billy Rev. 170
‘Granada’ 215
Grant, Cary 11, 162-3, 186, 291
Granz, Norman 195
Grayson, Kathryn 59/60, 81, 88, 137
Great Songs from Great Britain (album) 225-6
Greco, Buddy 71, 165, 204, 212, 227
Greene, Shecky 278
Greenstreet, Sydney 134
Grosz, Wilhelm 32
Guthrie, Woody 21
‘Guess I’ll Hang My Tears out to Dry’ 80, 183
Guys and Dolls (film) 70, 149-52, (album) 236
‘Gypsy, The’ 226
Haines, Connie 24-6, 34-6
Haley, Jack 54
Halsall, Bert 130
Hamill, Pete 308
Hammerstein, Oscar 43
Hammond, John 49
Hamp, Johnnie 129
Harburg, Yip 14, 110, 140
Harris, Chas 41
Harris, Richard 291
Harrison, George 316
Harrison, Rex 177
Hart, Lorenz 54, 132, 172
Harvey, Laurence 220-1
Hatch, Tony 226, 264
Havers, Richard 98, 206
‘Have You Met Miss Jones’ 208
‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’ 85, 234
Haymes, Dick 39, 52-3, 55, 62, 121, 132, 155, 237, 292, 295, 298, 306/7, 313, 320
Hayworth, Rita 132, 172-3
Hazlewood, Lee 260, 278, 281-2, 284
Hazzard, Tony 269, 300
Hearst, William Randolph 83
Heath, Ted 169
Hefner, Hugh 70
Hefti, Neal 109, 222, 228
Heifetz, Jascha 11, 35
Heller, Joseph 290
‘Hello Dolly!’ 245, 248
‘Hello Young Lovers’ 112
Hemingway, Ernest 176, 283
Henderson, Skitch 49, 52, 76, 106
Hendrix, Jimi 261
Henry, Pat 286, 303
Hentoff, Nat 117
‘Here Goes’ 182
‘Here’s That Rainy Day’ 192
Herman, Woody 89, 306, 325
‘Hey! Jealous Lover’ 161-2, 165
‘Hey Jude’ 14
‘Hey There’ 144, 230
Heyward, Pam 297
Hibbler, Al 282
Higher and Higher (film) 54
‘High Hopes’ 190-1, 195, 200, 202
High Society (film) 159-60
Hi-Los, The 185
Hoboken Four, The 18
Hodges, Eddie 190
Hoffa, Jimmy 70
Hole in the Head, A (film) 190, 272
Holiday, Billie 20, 23, 34, 121, 289
Holm, Celeste 159
Holmes, Jake 289
‘Home on the Range’ 76
‘Homesick, That’s All’ 63, 122
Hoover, J. Edgar 109, 221, 292
Hope, Bob 12, 16-7, 57, 62, 79, 84, 108, 111, 134, 138, 144, 178, 198, 303, 305-7
Hopper, Dennis 303
Horne, Lena 202, 237, 326
‘House I Live In, The’ (song and film) 61-3, 78, 181, 244, 338-9
‘How About You’ 36, 157-8
‘How Am I to Know’
Howard, Bart 20, 247, 256
Howard, Trevor 250-1
‘How Are Ya Fixed for Love’ 182
How Could You Do a Thing Like That’ 148
‘How Deep Is the Ocean’ 77, 203-4
‘How Do You Keep the Music Playing’ 326, 338
Hower, Barbara 327-8
‘How Insensitive’ 277
‘How Little We Know’ 161
‘How Old Am I’ 256
How the West Was Won (film) 216
‘Hucklebuck, The’ 91, 93, 132
Hudson, Mark 335-6
Hughes, Howard 63/4, 75, 91, 113, 197, 279-81
Humperdinck, Engelbert 17, 284-5
Huston, John 234
Hyer, Martha 185
‘I Can’t Get Started’ 192
‘I Concentrate on You’ 82, 277
‘I Could Have Danced All Night’ 189-90
‘I Could Make You Care’ 31
‘I Couldn’t Care Less’ 185
‘I Couldn’t Sleep a Wink Last Night’ 54, 161
‘I Could Write a Book’ 173, 176
‘I Cover the Waterfront’ 175
‘I Cried for You’ 176
‘I Didn’t Know What Time It Was’ 173
‘I Don’t Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You’ 65
‘If’ 304
‘I Fall in Love too Easily’ 60, 136
‘If I Didn’t Care’ 26
‘If I Had You’ 85, 228
‘If I Had Three Wishes’ 148
‘If I Loved You’ 78, 91, 181
‘If I Never Sing Another Song’ 273
‘If It’s the Last Thing I Do’ 160
‘If You Are But a Dream’ 60-1
‘If You Could Read My Mind’ 305
‘If You Go Away’ 287
‘I Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good’ 164
‘I Get a Kick out of You’ 133, 222, 224, 306
‘I Get Along without You Very Well’ 146
Iglesias, Julio 337
‘I Got Plenty o’Nuttin’ 164
‘I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues’ 222
‘I Have but One Heart’ 67, 106
‘I Have Dreamed’ 233
‘I Haven’t Time to Be a Millionaire’ 30
‘I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day’ 246
‘I Left My Heart in San Francisco’ 227-8, 230
‘I Like the Sunrise’ 282
‘I Like To Lead when I Dance’ 238
‘I’ll Be Around’ 147
‘I’ll Be Seeing You’ 30, 59, 218
‘I’ll Follow My Secret Heart’ 226
‘I’ll Never Be the Same’ 147
‘I’ll Never Smile Again’ 31-3, 185, 214, 294
‘I’ll See You Again’ 218
‘I’ll Take Tallulah’ 36
‘I Loved Her’ 321
‘I Love My Wife’ 310
‘I Love Paris’ 43, 186, 225
‘I Love You’ 220
‘I Love You, Samantha’ 159
‘I’m a Fool to Want You’ 112-3, 174
‘Imagination’ 30, 225
‘I’m Beginning to See the Light’ 222
‘I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter’ 228
‘I’m Not Afraid’ 293
‘Impossible Dream, The’ 266, 274
‘I’m Walking Behind You’ 123
‘Indian Summer’ 282-3
‘Indiscreet’ 220, 228
Ingildsen, Josephine 77
Ink Spots, The 33
‘In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening’ 245
In the Wee Small Hours (album) 145-6, 347-8
‘In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning’ 145, 233
‘I Only Have Eyes for You’ 56, 66, 228
I Remember Tommy (album) 214
‘I See It Now’ 256
‘I See Your Face before Me’ 146-7
‘I Should Care’ 137
‘Isle of Capri, The’ 178
‘Is That All There Is’ 274
Italian-Americans (history) 1-6
‘It All Depends on You’ 93
‘It Could Happen to You’ 160
‘It Had to Be You’ 315
It Happened in Brooklyn (film) 79, 81-2
‘It Happened in Monterey’ 156
‘It Happens Every Spring’ 91
‘I Thought about You’ 157
‘It Might as Well Be Spring’ 218
‘It Never Entered My Mind’ 54, 147
‘It Only Happens When I Dance with You’ 87
‘It’s All Right with Me’ 186-7, 195
‘It’s Nice to Go Trav’ling’ 177
‘It’s All Right with Me’ 186, 195, 327
‘It’s Funny to Everyone but Me’ 26
‘It’s Magic’ 136
‘It’s Only Money’ 91
‘It Started All Over Again’ 49
‘It Was a Very Good Year’ 218, 256-7, 341
‘I’ve Got a Crush on You’ 86, 114, 258, 338
‘I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm’ 24, 208
‘I’ve Gotta Be Me’ 272
‘I’ve Got the World on a String’127, 129, 131, 305
‘I’ve Got You under My Skin’ 156-7, 233, 265
‘I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face’ 144
‘I’ve Heard That Song Before’ 136, 214
‘I Wanna Be Around’ 247
‘I Will Drink the Wine’ 271, 292
‘I Wish I Were in Love Again’ 164
‘I Wished on the Moon’ 258
‘I Wish You Love’ 247
‘I Wonder Who’s Kissin’ Her Now’ 62
‘I Won’t Dance’ 164, 228
‘I Write the Songs’ 310 (sung by FS as ‘I Sing the Songs’) 310
Jacobs, David 129, 188
Jacobs, George 117-8, 170
‘Jailhouse Rock’ 181
James, Clive 308, 330
James, Harry 24-6, 39, 56, 114, 325
Jazz Singer, The (film) 42, 99
Jenkins, Gordon 63, 109, 119, 121-2, 174, 179, 183, 192, 195, 220, 256-7, 281, 300-1, 314, 317-8, 321, 325
Jobim, Antonio Carlos 276-7, 281, 286-7
Joel, Billy 317
John, Elton 274, 312, 317, 323, 326
Johnny Concho (film) 154-5
Johnny Cool (film) 234
Johnson, Bruce 310
Johnson, Derek 224
Johnson, President Lyndon 251
Joker Is Wild, The (film) 175-6
Jolson, Al 10-1, 42, 47, 98
Jones, Carolyn 190
Jones, Isham 31, 121, 157
Jones, Jack 261
Jones, James 124-6
Jones, Quincy 184, 247, 253, 258, 297, 325-6
Jones, Shirley 181
Jones, Spike 181
Jourdan, Louis 186-7
Jones, Tom 37, 271
Jumbo (film) 78
‘Just an Old Stone House’ 66
‘Just Friends’ 192
‘Just in Time’ 189
‘Just One of Those Things’ 140, 144, 186
‘Just the Way You Are’ 317
Kael, Pauline 60, 221
Kaempfert, Bert 251, 261, 265
Kander, John 302, 327
Kaye, Danny 187-8, 212, 306
Kaye, Sammy 150
Kazan, Elia 141
Kelley, Kitty 329
Kelly, Gene 59/60, 90, 92, 145, 149, 238, 302, 314
Kelly Grace (Princess Grace of Monaco) 117-8, 125, 138, 154, 158-60, 184, 215, 225, 291, 293, 324
Kendall, Kay 177
Kennedy, Burt 290
Kennedy, Jackie 207, 308
Kennedy, Joe 9, 179, 196-9, 203, 206, 209, 215, 219, 318
Kennedy, President John F. 196-200, 205, 207, 213, 217, 220-2, 225, 227, 229, 238-9, 241-2, 272, 308
Kennedy, Pat – see Lawford, Pat
Kennedy, Robert 70, 198, 207, 209, 219, 229
Kenton, Stan 156
Kern, Jerome 10, 42-3, 77
Kerr, Deborah 127, 255
Kessel, Barney 243, 316
Khrushchev, President Nikita 187, 229-30
Kilgallen, Dorothy 148, 259, 269
King, Carole 47
King, Martin Luther 213
Kings Go Forth (film) 181, 184
Kipling, Rudyard 178, 216, 304
Kirshner, Don 47
Kirsten, Dorothy 93, 107, 317
‘Kisses and Tears’ 88, 91
Kissing Bandit, The (film) 88, 305
Kiss Me Kate (album) 236
Kissinger, Henry 328
Kitt, Eartha 74, 271, 273
Knight, Gladys 338
Koch, Ruth 247
Koehler, Ted 222
Kollek, Teddy 88
Kovacs, Ernie 220
Kostelanetz, Andre
Krall, Diana 345
Kramer, Stanley 147-8, 162-3
Kristofferson, Kris 220, 301
Kruger, Jeff 262
Krupa, Gene 23, 28, 52, 56
Labelle, Patti 338
‘Lady Day’ 289, 294
Lady in Cement, The (film) 286
‘Lady Is a Tramp, The’ 162, 164-5, 173, 195, 225, 252-3, 297
Lahr, Bert 157
Laine, Frankie 107, 111, 151
‘L.A. Is My Lady’ (album and song) 326-7
Lambert, Hugh 284, 302, 328
Lamour, Dorothy 16, 100
Lancaster, Burt 25, 125-7, 234
‘Lamplighter’s Serenade, The’ 37
Lane, Ken 86, 91, 179
Lansbury, Angela 220-1
Lanza, Mario 8, 92
‘Last Dance’ 190, 208
‘Last Night When We Were Young’ 140, 146
‘Last Time I Saw Paris’ 57
Las Vegas Nights (film) 33,69
Lauper, Cyndi 335
‘Laura’ 85, 175
Lawford, Pat 105, 198, 215-6, 227
Lawford, Peter 79, 81-2, 87, 104-5, 123, 191, 193, 198-203, 213, 215, 222, 227, 230, 234, 239, 298, 309, 312, 325
Lawrence, Gertrude 45, 112, 137
Lawrence, Jack 123
Lawrence, Steve 218, 220, 267, 272, 338
Lawrence, Syd 333
Lawson, Yank 28
Lazar, Swifty 145, 254, 264, 339
Leadbelly (Huddie Ledbetter) 109
‘Lean Baby’123
‘Learnin’ the Blues’ 148, 228
‘Learn to Croon’ 57
Lee, Peggy 24, 49, 76, 83, 99, 174, 178-9, 195, 208, 246, 274, 341
Lees, Gene 256, 262-3, 277, 285
Legrand, Michel 287, 304
Leiber, Jerry 274, 332
Leigh, Carolyn 161
Lemmon, Jack 122, 141, 188, 342
Leonard, Jack 20, 25, 28, 30, 34, 283
Lerner, Alan Jay 82, 144, 282, 298
LeRoy, Mervyn 206
‘Let Me Try Again’ 271, 302, 305-6
‘Let’s Do It’ 186-7, 322
‘Let’s Face the Music and Dance’ 208, 314
‘Let’s Fall in Love’ 208
‘Let’s Get Away from It All’ 35, 177
‘Let’s Take an Old Fashioned Walk’ 91
‘Let There Be Love’ 120
Levy, Lou 246, 329, 339
Lewis, Bunny 47
Lewis, Jerry 98-103, 154, 217, 234-5, 311, 323, 331, 340
Lewis, Joe E. 175-6, 211, 286
Leyton, John 250-1
Liberace 71, 73, 116, 214, 243, 277, 338
‘Light a Candle in the Chapel’ 38-9
Lightfoot, Gordon 236, 304/5
‘Light My Fire’ 261, 304
‘Like Someone in Love’ 133
Liotta, Ray 335
Lipton, Peggy 297
Lisi, Verna 255
List of Adrian Messenger, The (film) 234
Lite-Up Time (radio series) 93, 106,
Little Anthony 288
‘Little Learnin’ Is a Dangerous Thing, A’ 86
Livingston, Alan 121, 123, 193, 195, 212, 219, 221, 241
Livingston, Jay 152, 159
Locorriere, Dennis 240
Loesser, Frank 70, 89, 151
‘London by Night’ 108, 178, 226
‘Lonely Town’174-5
‘Lonesome Cities’ 287
‘Lonesome Man Blues’ 115
‘Lonesome Road, The’ 164
‘Long Ago and Far Away’ 57
‘Looking at the World through Rose Coloured Glasses’ 228
‘Look of Love, The’ 227
Lopez, Trini 233, 255
Loren, Sophia 162-3, 342
‘Lost in the Stars’80, 232-3
‘Love and Marriage’ 153
‘Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing’ 245
‘Love Is Just Around the Corner’ 223
‘Love Me Tender (film)170, (song) 203, 316
‘Love’s Been Good to Me’ 271, 287-8
‘Love Walked In’ 214
Lowe, Ruth 31
Luciano, Lucky 7, 83, 203, 221-2
‘Luck Be a Lady’ 151, 236, 254, 326, 338
‘Luna Rossa’117
Lunceford, Jimmie 22, 28, 135-6
‘Lush Life’ 184
Lynn, Dame Vera 32
‘MacArthur Park’ 317
McCain, Ginger 130
McCartney, Paul 217
McGuire, Barry 292
McGuire, Don 114/5, 154
McGuire Sisters 179, 236-7 (Phyllis) 232, 236, 311
McHugh, Jimmy 116, 212
‘Mack the Knife’ 171-2, 298, 327, 338, 346
McKuen, Rod 271, 287-9, 293, 318
MacLaine, Shirley 101, 185-6, 199, 200, 209, 245, 307, 334
MacMurray, Fred 87
McQueen, Steve 193-4, 200, 202
MacRae, Gordon 107, 136, 154
Mafia (history) 4-6, 8
Magnum PI (TV series) 330
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi 284
Mailer, Norman 227
Main Event, The (TV special and album) 306-8
‘Makin’ Whoopee’ 157
Maltz, Alfred 202-3
‘Mama Will Bark’ 113
‘Mam’selle’ 82
Man Alone, A (album and song) 288-90, 300, 314
Man and His Music, A (album and TV specials) 256-7, 266, 281
Manchurian Candidate, The (film) 220-1, 331
Mancini, Henry 192, 245, 249
‘Mandalay’ 178
Mandel, Johnny 155, 207-8, 258
‘Man I Love, The’ 174
‘Man in the Looking Glass, The’ 256
Manilow, Barry 310, 312, 346
Mankiewicz, Joe 149-52
Mann, Barry 47, 325
Mann, Dave 86
Manne, Shelly 153
Manson, Charles 288
Man with the Golden Arm, The (film) 50, 153-4
Margaret, Princess 224
’Marie’ 28, 30, 34
Marriage on the Rocks (film) 254-5
Martin, Bill 129, 293, 312
Martin, Dean 86, 96-103, 138, 151, 175, 179-81, 185, 188, 191, 195, 199-203, 206-7, 211-3, 215-7, 219, 221, 229-32, 234-8, 242, 245, 247-9, 253-5, 259, 262-3, 283-5, 300, 311, 314, 321, 325-6, 330-1, 333-4, 339-40
Martin, Tony 72, 77, 88, 136
Martino, Al 120, 122-3, 243, 261, 291
Marx, Barbara (fourth wife) 177, 232, 288-9, 299, 301-5, 310-2, 317-348 (Once Sinatra returns to public life, Barbara hardly leaves his side)
Marx Brothers, The 57, 69, 177, (Chico) 5, (Groucho) 5, 91, (Harpo) 56, 115, (Zeppo) 57, 69, 177, 299
Maschwitz, Eric 226
Mason, Jackie 266
Mathis, Johnny 111, 176, 184, 191, 219, 238, 242, 283, 317
Mauriello, Tami 50
Max Factor Presents Frank Sinatra (radio series) 62
Maxwell, Marilyn 57, 62, 79
May, Billy 119-121, 127, 154, 177-8, 189-90, 214, 216, 219, 229, 278, 282, 314
Mayer, Edie – see Goetz, Bill and Edie
Mayer, Louis B. 59, 81, 83, 92-3, 109
Mazzola, Tony 10
Medley, Bill 259
Mendes, Sergio 322
‘Me and My Shadow’ 181
Meet Danny Wilson (film) 77, 91, 114-5
Meet Me in Las Vegas (film) 155
Melcher, Marty 142-3
Melly, George 45, 243
‘Memories Are Made of This’ 101
‘Memories of You’ 158
Mèpris, Le (film) 234
Mercer, Johnny 63, 85-6, 123-4, 156, 160, 168, 171, 174, 183, 210, 231, 241, 265
Mercer, Mabel 20
Merman, Ethel 157-8, 161, 181, 213
Merrill, Robert 318
Michael, George 335
‘Mighty Lak’ a Rose’ 63
Milestone, Lewis 200-202
Miller, Ann 49
Miller, Bill 113-4, 122, 130, 157, 172, 223, 226, 246, 280, 300, 306-7, 329, 336, 339, 344
Miller, Glenn 23-4, 30-1, 120
Miller, Mitch 66, 86, 95, 107, 109-13, 116-7, 132, 148, 184
Miller, Ron 287
Minnelli, Liza 317, 331-2, 337
Minnelli, Vincente 3, 185
Miracle of the Bells, The (film) 87
‘Mistletoe and Holly’ 175
‘Misty’ 218
Mitchell, Guy 110-1, 124, 129, 131, 170
Mitchell, Joni 110, 236, 285
Mitchum, Robert 63, 113, 147-8, 234, 245
Mogambo (film) 117-8, 132
‘Mona Lisa’ 120
‘Monday Morning Quarterback’ 322
‘Monique’ 182
Monro, Matt 192, 226, 228, 241, 249, 273
Monroe, Marilyn 137-8, 141, 144-5, 158, 186, 188-9, 191, 194, 213, 215-7, 219, 227
‘Mood Indigo’ 22, 146
‘Moody River’ 285
‘Moon River’ 140, 244-5
‘Moonlight Becomes You’ 137, 258
‘Moonlight in Vermont’ 178, 181
‘Moonlight on the Ganges’ 215
‘Moonlight Serenade’ 258
Moonlight Sinatra (album) 258
‘Moon Love’ 26, 258
‘Moon River’ 245
‘Moon Was Yellow, The’ 66, 214
Moore, Dudley 329-330
Moore, Phil 89
Moore, Roger 271, 310, 341
Morelli, Antonio 219
‘More than You Know’ 316
Moretti, Willie 48, 83, 89
Morse, Ella Mae 38, 120
Mortimer, Lee 82-3, 98, 115
‘Most Beautiful Girl in the World, The’ 264, 266
Mottola, Tony 323-4
‘Mr. Bojangles’ 103
‘Mrs. Robinson’ 287
‘Mr. Success’ 188
Murray, Mitch 48
Murray, Ruby 131
‘Music Stopped, The’ 54
‘My Blue Heaven’ 46
‘My Buddy’ 26
‘My Cousin Louella’ 86
‘My Foolish Heart’ 331
My Fair Lady (musical) 163
‘My Funny Valentine’ 132-3, 173, 181, 202, 225, 303
‘My Heart Cries for You’ 110, 245
‘My Heart Stood Still’ 233
‘My Kind of Girl’ 228, 257
‘My Kind of Town’ 238, 254
‘My One and Only Love’ 123, 128
‘My Romance’ 78
‘My Shining Hour’ 315
My Way (album) 287, (song) 267-275, 292, 308, 332, 345-6 and list in Appendix 3
‘My Way of Life’ 285
Naked Runner, The (film) 263-4
‘Nancy’ 56, 65, 233-4, 312
‘Nature Boy’ 87
‘Nearness of You, The’ 85, 204
Nelson, Willie 325, 338-9
Never So Few (film) 193-4
Newley, Anthony 72, 217, 222
Newman, Paul 323-4
‘New York, New York’ (Bernstein) 92
‘New York, New York,’ (Kander, Ebb) 317, 322
Nice ’n’ Easy (album) 203-4 (song) 203
‘Nice Work If You Can Get It’ 164
‘Night and Day’ 45, 49, 78, 164, 225, 311
‘Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square, A’ 226
‘Night We Called It a Day, The’ 37, 305
Nilsson 300
Niven, David 79, 149, 159-60, 163, 310
Nixon, President Richard M. 205, 207, 280, 298-300, 330
‘Noah’ 301
Noble, Ray 313
‘Nobody Wins’301
None But the Brave (film) 192, 246
No One Cares (album) 192, 195
‘No One Ever Tells You’ 162
Norman, Loulie Jean 155
Norvo, Red 193,195, 202
Not as a Stranger (film) 147-8
‘Nothing in Common’ 182
Novak, Kim 148, 153, 172-3, 179, 234, 249
‘Now is the Hour’ 226
Nutty Professor, The (film) 235
Ocean’s 11 (film) 74, 90, 199-204, 216, 281 (franchise) 344
O’Connell, Helen 29
Ogerman, Claus 277
O’Hara, Maureen 172-3
‘Oh, Look at Me Now’ 34, 164
‘Oh, What a Beautiful Morning’ 53, 62
Ol’ Blue Eyes is Back (album) 301-2
Oliver, Sy 28-9, 34, 62
‘Old Devil Moon’ 156, 236
‘Oldest Established, The’ 236, 312
‘Old Master Painter, The’ 94
‘Ol’ MacDonald’ 205
‘Ol’ Man River’ 43, 61, 108, 213, 225, 232
Onassis, Aristotle 158
Onassis, Jackie – see Kennedy, Jackie
‘Once in Love with Amy’ 89
‘Once Upon a Time’ 227
‘One Finger Melody’ 109
‘One for My Baby’ 46, 85, 144, 146, 183-4, 254, 335, 337
‘One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else, The’ 31, 192
Only the Lonely (album) 182-4 (song) 183
‘On the Sunny Side of the Street’ 116
On the Town (film) 92
On the Waterfront (film) 141-2
Oscar, The (film) 266
‘O Sole Mio’ 106
Ostin, Mo 195, 212, 236, 278
O’Sullivan, Maureen 263-4
Oswald, Lee Harvey 142, 221
O’Toole, Peter 250-1
‘Our Love’ 20
‘Our Love Affair’ 32
‘Our Love Is Here To Stay’ 152
Our Town (TV play) 152-3
‘Over the Rainbow’ 84, 239
Packard, Vance 167
Packer, Kerry 73
Pal Joey (film) 122, 141, 172-3
‘Paper Doll’ 214
Paramor, Norrie 47
‘Paris Blues’ (‘Azure Te’) 117
Parker, Charlie 91, 107
Parker, Dorothy 258
Parsons, Louella 114, 116, 139
‘Pass Me By’ 249
Pavarotti, Luciano 275, 321, 323, 340
Payne, Jack 170-1
‘Peachtree Street’ 107
Peck, Gregory 116, 341
Peers, Donald 130-1
‘Pennies from Heaven’ 156
Penta, Toni 19
‘People Will Say We’re in Love’ 53
Pepe (film) 200
Perfectly Frank (radio series) 133/4, 139
Peters, Gretchen 269
Peterson, Oscar 165
Petrillo, James Caesar 19
Pfegher, Michael 281
Phillips, Wolfie 131
‘Pick Yourself Up’ 223
Picon, Molly 232
Pied Pipers, The 28-39, 66, 82, 314
‘Please Be Kind’ 174, 254, 262
‘Please Don’t Talk about Me When I’m Gone’ 214
‘Pocketful of Miracles’ 219
Point of No Return (album) 217-8
‘Polka Dots and Moonbeams’ 30
Pomus, Doc 46-7, 274
‘Poor Butterfly’ 282
Pope Pius XII 16, 64
Porter, Cole 36-7, 43, 45, 66, 133, 140, 156-7, 159, 164, 186-8, 223
Powell, Dick 66, 146
Powell, Eleanor 36
Powell, Jane 84
Power, Tyrone 79
Preminger, Otto 153, 254, 291
Presley, Elvis 29, 46, 72, 76, 168-70, 203, 274-5, 288, 313
Pride and the Passion, The (film) 162-3
Previn, André 81, 88
Price, Vincent 181
Prima, Louis 181-2, 200, 205, 223
‘Prisoner of Love’ 218
Prowse, Juliet 186-7, 195, 200, 202, 213, 217, 219-20, 274, 284-5, 340-1
‘P.S. I Love You’ 160
‘Put Your Dreams Away’ 53, 76
Puzo, Mario 290-1, 299
‘Quiet Night of Quiet Stars’ 277
Quinlan, John 36
Radio Times (listings magazine) 128-9
Raft, George 191, 199, 245, 252, 259
Ragland, Rags 79
Rainier, Prince 158-60, 324
Ramone, Phil 336-8, 340
Raposo, Joe 293, 300-1, 321
Rat Pack, The (bipic) 343
Ray, Johnnie 88, 110-1, 121, 169, 272
Reagan, Nancy 297, 323, 329
Reagan, President Ronald 72, 125, 296-7, 324, 326-7, 341
Reeves, George 127
Remick, Lee 283
Reprise Records – Hundreds of references: (Formation) 210-3
Reprise Repertory Theatre 235-6
Reveille with Beverly (film) 49
Ray, Aldo 125
Redway, Mike 264
Reed, Donna 126, 138
‘Return to Me’ 180, 348
Reynolds, Debbie 152, 176, 236, 324
Rhodes, Gloria 177
Rich, Buddy 28-9, 33, 36, 65, 324
Rickles, Don 217, 243, 333, 340
Riddle, Christopher 219, 316
Riddle, Nelson 15, 57, 119-121, 127, 139-40, 152-3, 155-9, 160-1, 178, 181-4, 190, 192, 203-4, 219, 224, 226, 231-3, 235, 258, 264-5, 300, 306, 312, 316, 322, 328-9
Ridley, Wally 43-4
Righteous Brothers, The 259
Ring-a-Ding Ding, (album) 207-8, 211 (song) 207 (expression) 164, 176, 187, 215, 228 (evidence that FS could be irritating company)
Rivers, Joan 73
‘River, Stay ’way from My Door’ 204
Rizzo, Jilly 134, 221, 229, 259, 263, 278, 280-1, 283, 286-7, 297, 314, 324, 334
Road to Hong Kong, The (film) 215
Roberts, Malcolm 96, 292
Robeson, Paul 61, 78
Robin and the 7 Hoods (film) 237-8, 249
Robinson, Earl 61
Robinson, Edward G. 11, 190, 238
Robinson, Sugar Ray 176, 283
Robson, Mark 250
Roche, Harry 226
Rocky Fortune Show, The (radio series) 133, 139
Rodgers, Jimmie 14, 21
Rodgers, Richard 187, 232, 282
Roe, Tommy 318
Rogers, Ginger 30, 57, 61, 133, 164, 189, 245, 277, 279, 314-5
Rolling Stones 242, 264
Romero, Cesar 199, 202, 255
Ronstadt, Linda 184, 328, 338
‘Room Full of Roses’ 44
Rooney, Mickey 32, 36, 63-4, 75, 132
Roosevelt, Eleanor 78, 202
Roosevelt, President Franklin D. 21, 36, 57-8, 78, 192, 197
Rose, Billy 46, 168
Roselli, Jimmy 69
Rosemary’s Baby (film) 283-4
‘Roses of Picardy’ 226
Rugolo, Pete 119, 122
Runyon, Damon 50, 149
Russell, Jane 91, 279
Russell, Leon 248
Russo, Gianni 5, 94, 126, 291, 311
Sacks, Manie 37, 48, 56, 65-6, 78, 86, 93, 95, 107, 118, 123, 152, 182
Saint, Eve Marie 148
St. John, Jill 232, 239, 266, 278-9
‘St. Louis Blues’ 14
Sales, Soupy 177, 211
‘Same Old Saturday Night’ 152
‘Same Old Song and Dance’ 182
‘Sam’s Song’ 229
Sandpiper, The (film) 258
Sands, Tommy 97, 104, 172, 204-5, 232, 246-7, 249, 255, 260
Sanicola, Hank 18-9, 106, 154, 188, 203, 229, 237
‘Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town’ 335
‘Satisfy Me One More Time’ 304
‘Saturday Night Is the Loneliest Night of the Week’ 189
Scott, George C. 251
‘Second Time Around, The’ 208-9, 211, 214, 225, 233
Sellers, Peter 192, 224
‘Send in the Clowns’ 301
September of My Years (album and song) 256-7
‘September Song’ 80, 178, 218, 256, 312
Sergeants 3 (film) 216-7
Seven Year Itch, The (film) 145
‘Shadow of Your Smile, The’ 258
Shaper, Hal 249, 273
Shaw, Artie 23, 38, 63-4, 332
Shearing, George 120, 276
Shearston, Gary 306
‘She’s Funny That Way’ 50, 61, 204
‘She Shot Me Down’ 320-1
Ship Ahoy! (film) 38
Shore, Dinah 65, 80, 82, 107, 148, 236
Shuman, Mort 46-7
Sickel, Norman 160
Sidney, George 173
Siegel, Bugsy 69, 74, 81, 83
Siegel, Sol 139-40
Sigman, Carl 110
Silencers, The (film) 263
‘Silent Night’ 15, 66, 333
Silva, Henry 221
Silvers, Phil 56, 64-5, 67, 71, 79, 109, 137
Simmons, Jean 151, 304
Simon, Carly 337-8
Simon, Neil 231
Simon, Paul 316
Sinatra (bio-pic) 335
Sinatra, Ava (second wife) – see Gardner, Ava
Sinatra, Barbara (fourth wife) – see Marx, Barbara
Sinatra, Dolly (mother) 7-12, 19-20, 114, 193, 229, 245, 248, 289, 299, 311, 335
Sinatra, Frank
Adolescence 7-12
Armed forces 34, 37, 55, 63-4, 81-2 and V-Discs
Arrested 19; should have been 127
Author: (Tips on Popular Singing) 36
Birth 7-8
Boxing Promotion 85
Charity work 223-7: generosity 83
Childhood and education
Conducting 39, 66-7, 127, 160, 174, 188, 228, 324 and Appendix 3
Death and funeral 341-2
Employment 12
Fan riots 58
Fatherhood See Sinatra, Frank Jr, Nancy, Tina
Feudin’ and fightin’ 194; bust-ups with media 78, 80-1, 83, 105, 109, 115, 305-6, 307-8. See Kilgallen, Dorothy: Mortimer, Lee
Film director 246 (just one official: many more where he told the director what to do)
Film producer 190, 216, 245
Girlfriends. see end of index
Hearing loss 16
Mafia links 83. See Giancana, Sam; Luciano, Lucky; Raft, George; Russo, Gianni: Siegel Bugsy – and draw your own conclusions!
Marriages – See Barbato, Nancy: Farrow, Mia; Gardner, Ava: Marx, Barbara
Media 115-6, 265, 298-9, 305-6, 327-8
Music publishing 36, 53, 107, 109-10, 128, 176, 229, 246
Nicknames; 28, 33, 50-1, 84, 151, 159, 211, 224, 302
Photography 293
Politics 298-9, 327-8
Radio shows; as many as 600 appearances, mostly between 1943 and 1954. The shows he hosted are listed separately Lite-Up Time, Max Factor Presents Frank Sinatra, Perfectly Frank, The Rocky Fortune Show and the long-running Songs by Sinatra, He was a regular performer on Your Hit Parade and recorded for forces radio on V-Discs.
Record mogul 193, 210-3
Rock music 168-71, 177, 181, 195 and see also Appendix 3.
Singing; acappella 48, 52, 87, changing lyrics 10, 34, 78, technique 14, 20, 35, 46, 78
Songwriting 45,175, 188
Stage name 25
Suicidal thoughts 134, 140
Touring: notable appearances: Australia 305-6; France 224-5, Germany 307-8, Israel 249, UK 109, 128, 292-3, 307-8, 313, 322, World tour 223-6.
TV appearances: See separate entries for The Frank Sinatra Show, A Man and His Music and TV plays, Contract on Cherry Street and Our Town. Numerous one-off appearances.
Sinatra, Frank, Jr (first child) 56-7, 78, 122, 149, 161, 237, 239, 285, 310-2, 333, 341, 345, 347
Sinatra, Marty (father) 7-12, 34, 289
Sinatra, Mia (third wife) – See Farrow, Mia
Sinatra, Nancy (second child) 31, 76, 78, 88, 122, 145, 149, 161, 172, 175, 179, 181, 188, 203-5, 212, 236, 245, 249, 258-60, 266, 281, 283, 285-6, 300-1, 305, 309, 337, 339, 345
Sinatra, Nancy (first wife) – See Barbato, Nancy
Sinatra, Ray (cousin) 8, 19, 51, 92, 118, 127, 325
Sinatra, Tina (third child) 94, 149, 175, 177, 181, 221, 238, 249, 263, 281, 285, 298-9, 303, 332, 335
Sinatra and Company (album) 286-7, 294
Sinatra and Strings (album) 218-9
Sinatra and Swingin’ Brass (album) 222-3
Sinatra at the Sands (album) 258
Sinatra – Basie (album) 228
Sinatra in Israel (documentary) 224
Sinatra in Paris (album) 225
Sinden, Donald 118
Siravo, George 91, 107, 119, 122, 132-3
Skelton, Red 25, 30, 180, 199
‘Sky Fell Down, The’ 30
Skyscraper (stage musical) 257
Sleep Warm (album and song) 188
Statkin, Felix 133, 160-1, 182, 184, 204
Smith, Bessie 23
Smith, Keely 181-2, 200, 236, 244, 341
‘Smoke Gets in Your Eyes’ 31, 161, 329
‘Snooty Little Cutie’ 36
‘Softly As I Leave You’ 249
‘So in Love’
‘Soliloquy’ 78, 108, 117, 233
‘So Long My Love’ 173
Some Came Running (film) 185
‘Some Enchanted Evening’ 91, 282
Some Like It Hot (film) 188
Some Nice Things I’ve Missed (album) 304/5
‘Someone to Light Up My Life’ 286
‘Someone to Watch over Me’ 45, 65, 144
‘Something’ 243-4, 293, 316
‘Something’s Gotta Give’ 189
‘Somethin’ Stupid’ 278
‘Something Wonderful’ 174
‘Somewhere in Your Heart’ 251
Sondheim, Stephen 43, 65, 137, 271, 283, 301, 322, 332
Song for Swingin’ Lovers! (LP) 155-158
‘Song Is You, The’ 37, 39, 78
Songs by Sinatra (radio series) 49-50, 53, 55-6; 60, 62, 66, 76, 81, 83, 89, 103
‘Song Sung Blue’ 317
Sopranos, The (TV series) 6, 73, 193, 348
‘South of the Border’ 30, 128
South Pacific (album) 236
Spacey, Kevin 60, 328
‘Spanish Eyes’ 261
‘Speak Low’ 53
Spence, Lew 203, 205
Spiegel, Sam 141
Spizer, Bruce 240
Springsteen, Bruce 339-40, 342
Squires, Dorothy 271, 274
Stafford, Jo 2, 10, 34-5, 38, 44, 107, 160, 181-2, 342
Stapleton, Cyril 129, 169
‘Stardust’ 26, 34, 45, 218
Starr, Ringo 252-3
‘Stars Fell on Alabama’ 164
‘Stay with Me’ 239
Stein, Seymour 17
‘Stella by Starlight’ 312
Step Lively (film) 57
Stevenson, Adlai 149, 198
Stewart, James 217, 324, 328
Stewart, Rod 40, 346
Stigers, Curtis 155/6, 244, 316, 322
Stoll, George 60
Stoller, Mike 274
Stone, Milburn 28
Stop the World – I Want to Get off! (musical) 217, 313
Stordahl, Axel 28, 31, 37, 52, 56, 84, 89, 112, 114, 123, 131, 217
‘Stormy Weather’ 61, 192
Strange, Billy 278, 282, 300
‘Strangers in the Night’ 261, 263-5, 340
Strangers in the Night (album) 264-5
Strayhorn, Billy 184
‘Street of Dreams’ 38, 314-5
Streisand, Barbra 284, 338
Stritch, Elaine 221
Sturges, John 193-4, 216
‘Style’ 238, 332
Styne, Jule 57, 136-7, 140-1, 179
Suddenly (film) 142
‘Sugar Town’ 260
‘Suicide’ 217
Sullivan, Ed 84, 169, 240, 242
‘Summer Knows, The’ 304
‘Summer Me, Winter Me’ 320, 337
‘Summer Wind’ 265
‘Sunday, Monday or Always’ 53
‘Sunflower’ 89
Swanson, Gloria 196
‘Sweet Caroline’ 304
‘Sweet Lorraine’ 80
Swingin’ Affair, A (album) 174
‘Swingin’ Down the Lane’ 157
‘Swinging on a Star’ 137
‘Sweet Blindness’ 285
’S Wonderful’ 139
Swooner Crooner (cartoon film) 57
Syms, Sylvia 324
‘Take Me’ 49
Take Me Out to the Ballgame (film) 90
‘Take My Love’ 110
‘Takin’ a Chance on Love’ 140
Taylor, Elizabeth 105, 148, 217, 284-6, 288-91
‘Teach Me Tonight’ 137, 325
‘Tea for Two’ 82
‘Tell Her’ 255
‘Tender Trap, The’ 152
‘Tennessee Newsboy’ 117
Tennille, Toni 146
Ternent, Billy 131
‘Thanks for the Memory’ 322
Tharp, Twyla 325
‘This Love of Mine’ 291
‘That Lucky Old Sun’ 93-4
‘That Old Black Magic’ 52, 77, 115, 131, 214
‘That Old Feeling’ 85, 203
‘That’s All’ 218
‘That’s Amore’ 100
That’s Entertainment (film series) 306
‘That’s Life’ 266
‘That’s What God Looks Like’ 317
‘Them There Eyes’ 181
‘Then Suddenly Love’
‘There Are Such Things’ 38
‘There’s a Flaw in My Flue’ 161
‘There’s a Small Hotel’ 176
‘There’s No Business like Show Business’ 78, 85
‘These Boots Are Made for Walkin’’ 260
‘These Foolish Things’ 57, 65, 218
‘They All Laughed’ 315
‘They Came to Cordura’ (title song) 190
‘They Can’t Take That Away from Me’ 133, 222
‘They Say It’s Wonderful’ 77-8
‘This Is All I Ask’ 256
‘This Is My Song’ 281
‘This Love of Mine’ 36, 147
‘This Nearly Was Mine’ 233
‘This Song is You’ 189
‘This Town’ 272
‘Three Coins in the Fountain’ 137, 139-40
Three Stooges 116, 235
Tibbett, Lawrence 62
‘Tie a Yellow Ribbon round the Old Oak Tree’ 304
Till the Clouds Roll By (film) 61
‘Time After Time’ 82, 179
‘Tina’ 211
Tips on Popular Singing (book) 36
‘To Love and Be Loved’ 185
Tone Poems of Colour (LP) 160
Tony Rome (film) 142, 170, 278-9, 283-4, (reprising title role) 286, 295
‘Too Close for Comfort’ 189
‘Too Marvellous for Words’ 156
Tormé, Mel 54, 60, 79, 116, 226
Torok, Mitchell 262-3
Tracy, Spencer 60, 79, 163, 191, 206-7, 263, 279
‘Trade Winds’ 32
Travis, Merle 126
Trenet , Charles 247
Trilogy (album) 314-7, 320-1
‘True Love’ 159-60, 310
‘Try a Little Tenderness’ 65, 203
Tucker, Bobby 52, 54, 57
Tucker, Sophie 99, 175
Turnbull, Mark 333
Turner, Lana 33, 38, 63, 76, 79, 117, 194
‘Two Hearts, Two Kisses’ 148
‘Two in Love’ 36
‘Unforgettable’ 120
‘Until the Real Thing Comes Along’ 136, 327
Vadim, Roger 187
Valentino, Rudolph 51
Vallée, Rudy 11, 51, 62, 66, 80, 114, 164
Valli, Frankie 265
Vanderbilt, Gloria 154/5
Vandross, Luther 337
Van Heusen, Jimmy 19, 30, 55-6, 113, 137, 141, 149, 190, 209, 222, 231, 256-7, 310
Vaughan, Norman 227
Vaughan, Sarah 109, 309
V-Discs 55-6
‘Very Thought of You, The’ 57, 226
Vicious, Sid 275
Victors, The (film) 234
Viola, Al 80, 223, 225, 277, 289
‘Violets for Your Furs’ 133
‘Volare’ 180
Von Ryan’s Express (film) 249-50, 253-4
Wagner, Robert 182
‘Wait for Me’ 155
Waits, Tom 145-6, 330
Walker, Scott 257, 265
Walker, T-Bone 81
‘Walking Down to Washington’ 213
Waller, Fats 46
Wallach, Eli 126, 333
Wallichs, Glenn 193, 210-1, 241
Wallis, Hal 99-100, 125
Wangford, Hank 76, 146
Waring, Fred 244, 246
‘Warm and Tender’ 184
Warner, Jack 236-7
Warren, Frank 333
Warren, Harry 42, 100
Washington, Dinah
Was (Not Was) 332
‘Watch What Happens’ 287
Waters, Ethel 20, 61
Watertown (album) 153, 289, 294, 300, 318
‘Wave’ 286
Wayne, Jerry 44, 57, 150
Wayne, John 124,154, 191, 249, 314
‘Way You Look Tonight, The’ 46, 245
Weavers, The 121
Webb, Chick 23
Webb, Jimmy 48, 135, 285, 287, 325, 330
Webster, Ben 211
Weil, Cynthia 47
Weill, Kurt 80, 256
Weintraub, Jerry 306
Weisman, Eliot 309
‘We Kiss in a Shadow’ 112
Welch, Raquel 286
‘We’ll Be Together Again’ 155, 157
‘Well Did You Evah!’ 159
Welles, Orson 78, 88, 107, 132
West, Alvy 86
West, Mae 172
Weston, Paul 63
‘We Three’ 33
‘What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life’ 304
‘What Colour Is the Wind’ 224
‘Whatever Happened to Christmas’ 285
‘What Is This Thing Called Love’ 147
‘What Kind of Fool Am I’ 228, 230
‘What’ll I Do’ 220
‘What’s New’ 183, 340
‘When I Lost You’ 220
‘When the Angelus Was Ringing’ 90
‘When You’re Smiling’ 205
‘When your Lover Has Gone’ 147
Where Are You (album and song) 174-5
‘Where Do You Go’ 192
‘Where Is the One’ 175
‘Where or When’ 63, 188
‘Whispering’ 31, 44
‘White Christmas’ 15, 42, 45, 61, 81, 168
Whiteman, Paul 13, 22
Whiting Richard 61
Who, The 305
‘Who Wants To Be a Millionaire’ 159
‘Why Don’t You Do Right’ 49
’Why Shouldn’t We’ 80
‘Why Try to Change Me Now’ 117
Wilder, Alec 43, 52, 66-7, 256, 281, 321
Wilder, Billy 188
Wilson, Dooley 54
Wilson, Harold 309
Wiley, Lee 40
Williams, Robbie 257, 278, 346
‘Willow Weep for Me’ 183
Wilson, Dennis Main 104
Wilson, John 348
‘Winchester Cathedral’ 266, 293
Winehouse, Amy 347
Winters, Shelley 114-5, 254
‘Witchcraft’ 174, 347, 332
‘Without a Song’ 34, 214
‘Wives and Lovers’ 247
‘Woman in Love, A’ 150-1
Wood, Natalie 181-2
‘Woody Woodpecker Song, The’ 88
Wooler, Bob 130, 217, 293
‘World We Knew, The’ (song and album) 281-2
‘Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams’ 127
Wyman, Bill 242
Wymore, Patrice 202
Wynn, Steve 325
‘Ya Better Stop’ 133
‘Yes Indeed’ 62, 134
‘Yes Sir That’s My Baby’ 266
‘Yesterday’ 243, 287
‘Yesterdays’ 218
Yoakam, Dwight 237
Yorkin, Bud 232
‘You and Me’ 317
‘You Are My Sunshine’ 76
‘You Are the Sunshine of my Life’ 304-5
‘You Are Too Beautiful’ 65
‘You’d Be So Easy to Love’ 208
‘You’d Be So Nice to Come Home to’ 164
‘You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me’ 156, 233
‘You Do Something to Me’ 77, 186
‘You Go to My Head’ 65, 203-4
‘You’ll Get Yours’ 152
‘You’ll Never Know’ 53
‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ 63, 233
‘You Make Me Feel so Young’ 155-6, 334, 337
‘You Never Had It So Good’ 244
‘You My Love’ 143
Young, Gig 143
Young, Neil 236-7
Young at Heart (film) 142-4 (song) 133, 139, 234
‘You’re Driving Me Crazy’ 264-5
‘You’re Getting To Be a Habit with Me’ 57, 156
‘You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You’ 214-5
‘You’re Part of My Heart’ 34
‘You’re Sensational’ 159
‘You’re the Top’ 57, 144, 181
Your Hit Parade (radio series) 51, 57
‘Your Love for Me’ 165
‘You Will Be My Music’ 301
Zec, Donald 264
Zinnemann, Fred 125-7
‘Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart’ 208, 326
‘Zip’ 173
Goodbye, Dear and Amen
It would be demeaning to reduce stars like Judy Garland and Marilyn Monroe to Frank Sinatra’s girlfriends in the index but there is an astonishing amount of activity on Frankie’s part and had he been living in the 21st century his sex tapes would be all over the net. The wives and lovers include Lauren Bacall, Nancy Barbato, Lady Adelle Beatty, Tiffany Bolling, Slim Brandy, Dorothy Bunocelli, Vanessa Brown, Marian Brush, Judy Campbell, Marlene Dietrich, Dixie Evans, Mia Farrow, Mona Freeman, Eva Gabor, Ava Gardner, Judy Garland, Sandra Gell, Edie Goetz, Alora Gooding, Pam Heyward, Josephine Ingildsen, Grace Kelly, Peggy Lee, Peggy Lipton, Virna Lisi, Rita Maritt, Barbara Marx, Marilyn Maxwell, Marilyn Monroe, Lois Nettleton, Kim Novak, Toni Penta, Juliet Prowse, Lee Remick, Gloria Rhodes, Jill St. John, Dinah Shore, Elizabeth Taylor, Lana Turner, Gloria Vanderbilt and Mary Lou Watts.
Gina Lollobrigida and Sophia Loren turned him down: Joan Collins was hoping for a night of passion but found Frank with her stand-in. Hard to tell with Shirley MacLaine but according to her last book, Frank communicates from beyond the grave, so that must make her extra special. Sinatra did announce to the world that he had never had an affair with the First Lady, Nancy Reagan, but was he being kind to her when he said it or insulting?
Nevertheless, there is plenty of evidence that Frank could be a considerate lover unlike the equally promiscuous Dean Martin who would tell girls, “If you want to talk, find a priest.”
Wham, bam, thank you ma’am.