"song was arranged by Nelson Riddle (who had scored ""Robin and the 7 Hoods""), the ""Sinatra Reprise: Very Good Years"" Album Cover credits Billy May as the arranger. The following is a list of notable compilation albums with Sinatra's versions of the song: Other less notable albums including the Song are The song was one of 26 for which Cahn was nominated for an Academy Award as a writer and one of 14 for which Van Heusen was nominated as a composer. Both won 4 Academy Awards and 3 of them as a team. The April 5, 1965 37th Academy"
"Award in the category Best Original Score Written for A Motion Picture, but it lost to the eponymously titled ""Mary Poppins"" score. ""My Kind of Town"" made a minor appearance on the U.S. pop charts, reaching #110 in 1964. It was the second of two charting songs about Chicago recorded by Sinatra. The other was ""Chicago (That Toddlin' Town)"" from 1957, which reached U.S. #84. Frank Sinatra recorded several versions which have appeared on many of his albums. Also, many artists have performed the song as a tribute to Sinatra in posthumous tribute albums. In addition, the song had been"
"Concert Sinatra"", an ambitious album featuring a 73-piece symphony orchestra arranged and conducted by Riddle. The concert was recorded on a motion picture scoring soundstage with the use of multiple synchronized recording machines that employed an optical signal onto 35 mm film designed for movie soundtracks. Granata considers the album to have been ""impeachable"" [sic], ""one of the very best of the Sinatra-Riddle ballad albums"", in which Sinatra displayed an impressive vocal range, particularly in ""Ol' Man River"", in which he darkened the hue. In 1964 the song ""My Kind of Town"" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best"
"an allegro tempo. Sinatra recorded ""My Kind of Town"" twice in a studio setting, and two live versions were officially released, on ""Sinatra at the Sands"" (1966) and ""The Main Event – Live"" (1974). One of the more famous bootleg recordings is a concert of May 22, 1968, at the Oakland Coliseum. On the 1966 album ""Sinatra at the Sands"", the song appears both as the 20th and 22nd (final) track. However, the final track is merely a one-minute reprise. On the 1994 album ""Duets II"", Sinatra sings with his son, Frank Sinatra, Jr., as the 13th of 14 tracks"
"the singing. Instrumental versions of the song make up the opening and closing credits, and a dance band also plays the song in Robbo's speakeasy. Popularized by Sinatra, ""My Kind of Town"" was originally recorded on April 8, 1964, in Los Angeles, California. The official B-side song was ""I Like To Lead When I Dance"". The song was recorded as a 45 on Reprise Records. The sheet music was copyrighted and published by Sergeant Music Co., Glorste Inc. and Van Heusen Music Corp. The music is written in the key of A-flat, in 2/2 meter (known as cut time) with"
"was the B-side to the 1957 Academy Award for Best Original Song winner, ""All the Way"". On Ruby Braff's 1981 tribute album, ""Very Sinatra"" he does a medley called ""New York, New York/My Kind Of Town (Chicago Is)"". On Barry Manilow's 1998 album ""Manilow Sings Sinatra"", he includes a 3:00 version of the song. Jack Jones, who won two Grammy Awards in the 1960s and charted dozens of songs including the theme from The Love Boat, recorded an album entitled ""My Kind of Town"" with a title track by the same name. Among the other artists who have recorded versions"
"Robin and the 7 Hoods Robin and the 7 Hoods is a 1964 American musical film directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and Bing Crosby. The picture features Peter Falk, Barbara Rush, and an un-credited Edward G. Robinson. Written by David R. Schwartz, the film transplants the Robin Hood legend to a 1930s Chicago gangster setting, though this story's utterly opportunistic Marian is very different from the faithful Maid Marian of the original legend. Produced by Frank Sinatra, the film introduced the hit song ""My Kind of Town"" by Jimmy Van Heusen and"
"claimed that Sinatra had grown ""tired of entertaining people, especially when all they really wanted were the same old tunes he had long ago become bored by"". While he was in retirement, President Richard Nixon asked him to perform at a Young Voters Rally in anticipation of the upcoming campaign. Sinatra obliged and chose to sing ""My Kind of Town"" for the rally held in Chicago on October 20, 1972. In 1973, Sinatra came out of his short-lived retirement with a television special and album. The album, entitled ""Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back"", arranged by Gordon Jenkins and Don Costa,"
"Our Town (Producers' Showcase) Our Town is a 1955 episode of the American series ""Producers' Showcase"" directed by Delbert Mann and starring Frank Sinatra, Paul Newman and Eva Marie Saint. The episode is a musical adaption of Thornton Wilder's 1938 play ""Our Town"", with songs by Jimmy van Heusen and Sammy Cahn. It was Sinatra's only performance in a dramatic role specifically for television until ""Contract on Cherry Street"" in 1977. The show was praised by television critics, although several writers have questioned Sinatra's suitability for the role of the Stage Manager. Thornton Wilder reportedly disliked the production. This television"
"""My Way"" is a standard cover of the English version originally recorded by Frank Sinatra. All songs arranged and produced by Takeshi Kobayashi Montage (Yen Town Band album) ""Yen Town Band"" is the name of the band featured in the film. ""Glico"", the character Chara plays, is the main vocalist of the band, made up of residents from the Shanghai section of the ""Yentown"" slum. The concept album was a collaboration between Chara and the producer Takeshi Kobayashi. Kobayashi elaborated a Beatlesque sound on the whole album. The theme song for the movie, """", was released in July 1996, two"
"moments of horrifying suspicion that he had been introduced as a mute stooge for the Sinatra Clan, the Old Master opened his mouth to sing again and to prove that his sweetness of tone remains unimpaired and undiminished for all his years of seniority."" The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen wrote the score. Crosby, still a major movie star at the time who had top billing over Sinatra in their last film together, ""High Society"", sang more songs than Sinatra in this film as well. ""My Kind of Town"""
"helluva town / The Bronx is up and the Battery's down..."" Composers Kander and Ebb stated on the A&E ""Biography"" episode about Liza Minnelli, that they attribute the song's success to actor Robert De Niro, who rejected their original theme for the film because he thought it was ""too weak"". The song did not become a popular hit until it was picked up in concert by Frank Sinatra during his performances at Radio City Music Hall in October 1978. (It was not even nominated for the Academy Award for 'Best Song'). Subsequently, Sinatra recorded it in 1979 for his 1980"
"also mused on Sinatra's performances of ""My Way"", and the new year. My Way (Frank Sinatra album) My Way is an album by American singer Frank Sinatra, released in 1969. The album is a collection of contemporary pop songs, such as Simon and Garfunkel's ""Mrs. Robinson"", and The Beatles' ""Yesterday"", French songs such as ""If You Go Away"", and the anthemic title song ""My Way"", which effectively became Sinatra's theme song in this stage of his career. On December 30, 1968 in Los Angeles, a few hours before going to celebrate the New Year 1969, at The Sands Casino from"
"Sugar Town (film) Sugar Town is a 1999 independent film co-written and co-directed by Allison Anders and Kurt Voss, concerning a tangled web of characters coping with ambition, fame, and the aftermath of fame. The film was named after the 1966 hit single ""Sugar Town"" by Nancy Sinatra. Anders was eager to make another film about the music industry after her earlier films ""Border Radio"" and ""Grace of My Heart"". After her friend John Taylor had left Duran Duran and was beginning to launch an acting career, she and Voss wrote the film fairly quickly, and cast several musical friends"
"My Way (Frank Sinatra album) My Way is an album by American singer Frank Sinatra, released in 1969. The album is a collection of contemporary pop songs, such as Simon and Garfunkel's ""Mrs. Robinson"", and The Beatles' ""Yesterday"", French songs such as ""If You Go Away"", and the anthemic title song ""My Way"", which effectively became Sinatra's theme song in this stage of his career. On December 30, 1968 in Los Angeles, a few hours before going to celebrate the New Year 1969, at The Sands Casino from Las Vegas, ""My Way"" was recorded and mixed at EastWest Studios, then"
"Sinatra '65: The Singer Today Sinatra '65: The Singer Today is a 1965 compilation album by Frank Sinatra. The album is a collection of various singles and sessions, highlighted by the hits ""Luck Be a Lady"", ""Anytime At All"", ""Somewhere In Your Heart"", ""Stay With Me"", and ""Tell Her (You Love Her Each Day)."" The version of ""My Kind of Town"" featured here is not the edited single version. This soundtrack recording contains a verse before the chorus that was edited out of the single version. The title may or may not have been a parody of ""Beatles '65"", which"
"the Clouds Roll By"", a Technicolor musical biopic of Jerome Kern, in which he sang ""Ol' Man River"". In 1949, Sinatra co-starred with Gene Kelly in the Technicolor musical ""Take Me Out to the Ball Game"", a film set in 1908, in which Sinatra and Kelly play baseball players who are part-time vaudevillians. He teamed up with Kelly for a third time in ""On the Town"", playing a sailor on leave in New York City. Today the film is rated very highly by critics, and in 2006 it ranked No. 19 on the American Film Institute's list of best musicals."
"released his debut album, ""The Voice of Frank Sinatra"", in 1946. Sinatra's professional career had stalled by the early 1950s, and he turned to Las Vegas, where he became one of its best known residency performers as part of the Rat Pack. His career was reborn in 1953 with the success of ""From Here to Eternity"", with his performance subsequently winning an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. Sinatra released several critically lauded albums, including ""In the Wee Small Hours"" (1955), ""Songs for Swingin' Lovers!"" (1956), ""Come Fly with Me"" (1958), ""Only the Lonely"" (1958) and"
"film and on television. A television miniseries based on Sinatra's life, titled ""Sinatra"", was aired by CBS in 1992. The series was directed by James Steven Sadwith, who won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Directing for a Miniseries or a Special, and starred Philip Casnoff as Sinatra. ""Sinatra"" was written by Abby Mann and Philip Mastrosimone, and produced by Sinatra's daughter, Tina. Sinatra has subsequently been portrayed on screen by Ray Liotta (""The Rat Pack"", 1998), James Russo (""Stealing Sinatra"", 2003), Dennis Hopper (""The Night We Called It a Day"", 2003), and Robert Knepper (""My Way"", 2012),"
"the song ""All the Way"" won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. By 1958 Sinatra was one of the ten biggest box office draws in the United States, appearing with Dean Martin and Shirley MacLaine in Vincente Minnelli's ""Some Came Running"" and ""Kings Go Forth"" with Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood. ""High Hopes"", sung by Sinatra in the Frank Capra comedy, ""A Hole in the Head"" (1959), won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, and became a chart hit, lasting on the Hot 100 for 17 weeks. Due to an obligation he owed to 20th Century Fox for"
"Sinatra at the Movies Sinatra at the Movies is a 2008 compilation album by Frank Sinatra. After Bing Crosby, no jazz vocalist had more success in the movies, or was better at intertwining his performances with his films, than Frank Sinatra. From 1940 to 1970, he was never far from Hollywood, and his film successes often went hand in hand with his popular fortune. (Even his movie personals aligned with his musical themes and ambitions, from his breakthrough starring role, in Higher and Higher, to the ambitious On the Town, the scrappy From Here to Eternity, the quintessentially swinging Pal"
"Motion Picture. Other serious roles followed, including a portrayal of an ex-convict and drug addict in ""The Man with the Golden Arm"", for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and the British Academy Film Award for the Best Actor in a Leading Role. Sinatra received numerous awards for his film work. He won the Golden Globe for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for ""Pal Joey"" (1957), and was nominated in the same category for ""Come Blow Your Horn"" (1963). Three of the films in which Sinatra appears, ""The House I Live In"""
"(1945), ""The Manchurian Candidate"" (1962) and ""From Here to Eternity"" (1953)—have been added to the Library of Congress's National Film Registry. ""The House I Live In""—a film that opposes anti-Semitism and racism—was awarded a special Golden Globe and Academy Award. In 1970, at the 43rd Academy Awards, Sinatra was presented with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award; the following year he was awarded the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award. Frank Sinatra filmography Frank Sinatra (1915–1998) was an American singer, actor, and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century. Over the course"
"a past encounter, then out of feelings of her own. Academy Award Golden Globe Award Laurel Awards A New Kind of Love A New Kind of Love is a 1963 American romantic comedy film directed by Melville Shavelson and starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. Frank Sinatra sings ""You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me"" over the opening credits. A womanizing American reporter assigned in Paris (Paul Newman) mistakes a cynical fashion copycat designer (Joanne Woodward) for a prostitute after she receives a makeover. He decides to interview her for a series of articles, then falls in love"
"Boat"" that is sung by an African-American stevedore. When he changed his political affiliations in 1970, Sinatra became less outspoken on racial issues. Though he did much towards civil rights causes, it did not stop the occasional racial jibe from him and the other Rat Pack members toward Davis at concerts. Sinatra died with his wife at his side at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on May 14, 1998, aged 82, after a heart attack. Sinatra was in ill health during the last few years of his life, and was frequently hospitalized for heart and breathing problems, high blood"
"in October 1953. Sinatra later bought a share in the hotel himself. Sinatra and Sammy Davis, Jr. were instrumental throughout the late 1950s and early 1960s in bringing a change in racial policy in Sands, and after an incident in 1961, it began employing blacks. In 1960 the classic caper film ""Ocean's 11"" was shot at the hotel, and it subsequently attained iconic status, with regular performances by Sinatra, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Sammy Davis Jr., Red Skelton and others, who performed regularly in the hotel's world-renowned Copa Room. Much of the musical success of the Copa Room is credited"
"Nancy Sinatra Nancy Sandra Sinatra (born June 8, 1940) is an American singer and actress. She is the elder daughter of Frank Sinatra and Nancy (Barbato) Sinatra, and is widely known for her 1966 signature hit ""These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"". Other defining recordings include ""Sugar Town"", the 1967 number one ""Somethin' Stupid"" (a duet with her father), the title song from the James Bond film ""You Only Live Twice"", several collaborations with Lee Hazlewood such as ""Jackson"", and her cover of Cher's ""Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)"". Nancy Sinatra began her career as a singer and"
"that is bound to arise between an audience and the film case-history of an unanonymous alcoholic."" ""Variety"" commented on the ""major job Sinatra does... alternately sympathetic and pathetic, funny and sad."" This movie won the 1957 Academy Award for Best Original Song, for ""All the Way"" by Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn. When the film was re-released some years later, the title was changed for a period to ""All the Way"" due to the immense popularity of the film's theme song, which peaked at No. 2 on ""Billboard"". Sinatra actually became friends with the real Lewis, who commented that"
"Sinatra did not sing it in the film, he recorded ""Lonely Town"" for his 1957 album ""Where Are You?"" in an arrangement by Gordon Jenkins.<br> Cut Numbers During the nightclub sequence in act two, a conga vamp is prominently played. Bernstein later lifted this vamp directly and used it as the basis of ""Conga!"" in his score to ""Wonderful Town"". On the Town (musical) On the Town is a musical with music by Leonard Bernstein and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, based on Jerome Robbins' idea for his 1944 ballet ""Fancy Free"", which he had set"
"Track after track, the brilliant concept albums redefined the nature of pop vocal art"". Sinatra attempted to pursue an acting career in Hollywood in the early 1940s. While films appealed to him, being exceptionally self-confident, he was rarely enthusiastic about his own acting, once remarking that ""pictures stink"". Sinatra made his film debut in 1941, performing in an uncredited sequence in ""Las Vegas Nights"", singing ""I'll Never Smile Again"" with Tommy Dorsey's Pied Pipers. In 1943 he had a cameo role along with Duke Ellington and Count Basie in Charles Barton's ""Reveille with Beverly"", making a brief appearance singing ""Night"
"build a Disneyland in Florida (the film predates Disney World)—until he notices that Sinatra seems too desperate as he cheers for a dog upon which he'd bet heavily. The movie ends with Tony, Eloise and Alley singing ""High Hopes"" on the beach. Sinatra sings ""All My Tomorrows,"" another Cahn/Van Heusen song, under the opening titles. The screenplay was adapted by playwright Arnold Schulman, whose father was the operator of a Miami, Florida hotel. The protagonist of ""A Hole in the Head"" is a Miami hotel operator of ""The Garden of Eden."" The actual hotel used for the exterior shots was"
"Sinatra was released on her album ""Boots"". Although it did not chart nationally, this version experienced regional success at such stations as WPTR in Albany, New York. The song was also recorded by Gary Lewis & the Playboys on their album, ""She's Just My Style"", which was released in March 1966. Johnny Rivers also released the song in 1966 on his live album ""...And I Know You Wanna Dance"". Thee Headcoatees also covered it on their album ""Girlsville"" in 1991. In the early 1990s, the song was banned by Ottawa radio station CFRA for its misogynistic message. When the radio"
"My Way ""My Way"" is a song popularized in 1969 by Frank Sinatra. Its lyrics were written by Paul Anka and set to the music of the French song ""Comme d'habitude"" co-composed and co-written (with Jacques Revaux), and performed in 1967 by Claude François. Anka's English lyrics are unrelated to the original French song. The song was a success for a variety of performers including Sinatra, Elvis Presley, and Sid Vicious. Sinatra's version of ""My Way"" spent 75 weeks in the UK Top 40, a record which still stands. Paul Anka heard the original 1967 French pop song, ""Comme d'habitude"""