Swingin' With Sinatra Over a Half Century
Tributes to Frank Sinatra have crossed the globe since his death May 14. In Monday's and Wednesday's editions of the Monitor, we took our own look at the consummate entertainer. Today, the Monitor features highlights of Sinatra's venerable music and movie career.
Records (singles)
All or Nothing at All, 1939 (Top 10 hit at re-release in 1943)
I'll Never Smile Again, 1940
Imagination, 1940
Trade Winds, 1940
Our Love Affair, 1940
We Three, 1940
Stardust, 1940
Oh, Look at Me Now, 1941
Do I Worry?, 1941
Delores, 1941
Everything Happens to Me, 1941
Let's Get Away From It All, 1941
This Love of Mine, 1941
Two in Love, 1941
Just as Though You Were Here, 1942
Daybreak, 1942
There Are Such Things, 1942
It Started All Over Again, 1943
In the Blue of Evening, 1943
It's Always You, 1943
You'll Never Know, 1943
Close to You, 1943
Sunday, Monday or Always, 1943
People Will Say We're in Love, 1943
I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night, 1944
White Christmas, 1944
I Dream of You, 1945
Saturday Night, 1945
Dream, 1945
Nancy, 1945
Oh! What It Seemed to Be, 1946
Day by Day, 1946
They Say It's Wonderful, 1946
Five Minutes More, 1946
The Coffee Song, 1946
Mam'selle, 1947
The Huckle Buck, 1949
Young at Heart, 1954
Three Coins in the Fountain, 1954
Learnin' the Blues, 1955
Love and Marriage, 1955
Hey, Jealous Lover, 1956
Strangers in the Night, 1966
That's Life, 1966
Somethin' Stupid, 1967 (with daughter Nancy)
Records (albums)
Songs for Young Lovers, 1955
Swing Easy, 1955
In the Wee Small Hours, 1955
Songs for Swingin' Lovers, 1956
Close to You, 1957
A Swingin' Affair, 1957
Where Are You?, 1957
A Jolly Christmas, 1957
Come Fly with Me, 1958
Only the Lonely, 1958
Come Dance With Me, 1958
Look to Your Heart, 1959
No One Cares, 1959
Nice 'n' Easy, 1960
Sinatra's Swingin' Session, 1961
All the Way, 1961
Ring-a-Ding-Ding, 1961
Come Swing With Me, 1961
Sinatra Swings, 1961
I Remember Tommy, 1961
Point of No Return, 1961
Sinatra and Strings, 1962
Sinatra Sings of Love and Things, 1962
Sinatra and Swingin' Brass, 1962
All Alone, 1962
Sinatra-Basie, 1962
The Concert Sinatra, 1963
Sinatra's Sinatra, 1963
Days of Wine and Roses, 1964
It Might as Well Be Swing, 1964
Softly, as I Leave You, 1964
Sinatra '65, 1965
September of My Years, 1965
A Man and His Music, 1965
My Kind of Broadway, 1965
Moonlight Sinatra, 1965
Strangers in the Night, 1966
Sinatra at the Sands, 1966
That's Life, 1966
Frances Albert Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim, 1967
Frank & Nancy, 1967
Francis A. Sinatra and Edward K. Ellington, 1968
Cycles, 1968
My Way, 1969
A Man Alone, 1969
Watertown, 1970
Sinatra & Company, 1971
Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back, 1973
Some Nice Things I've Missed, 1974
The Main Event - Live from Madison Square Garden, 1974
Trilogy - Past, Present and Future, 1980
She Shot Me Down, 1981
L.A. Is My Lady, 1984
Duets, 1993
Duets II, 1994
Movies
Las Vegas Nights, 1941
Ship Ahoy, 1942
Reveille With Beverly, 1943
Higher and Higher, 1943
Step Lively, 1944
Anchors Aweigh, 1945
The House I Live In, 1945
Till the Clouds Roll By, 1946
It Happened in Brooklyn, 1947
The Miracle of the Bells, 1948
The Kissing Bandit, 1948
Take Me Out to the Ball Game, 1949
On the Town, 1949
Double Dynamite, 1951
Meet Danny Wilson, 1952
From Here to Eternity, 1953
Suddenly, 1954
Young at Heart, 1954
Not as a Stranger, 1955
The Tender Trap, 1955
Guys and Dolls, 1955
The Man With the Golden Arm, 1955
Johnny Concho, 1956
High Society, 1956
The Pride and the Passion, 1957
The Joker Is Wild, 1957
Pal Joey, 1957
Kings Go Forth, 1958
Some Came Running, 1958
A Hole in the Head, 1959
Never So Few, 1959
Can-Can, 1960
Ocean's Eleven, 1960
The Devil at Four O'Clock, 1961
Sergeants Three, 1962
The Manchurian Candidate, 1962
Come Blow Your Horn, 1963
Four for Texas, 1963
Robin and the Seven Hoods, 1964
None but the Brave, 1965
Von Ryan's Express, 1965
Marriage on the Rocks, 1965
Assault on a Queen, 1966
The Naked Runner, 1967
Tony Rome, 1967
The Detective, 1968
Lady in Cement, 1968
Dirty Dingus Magee, 1970
The First Deadly Sin, 1980
Cannonball Run II, 1984
Who Framed Roger Rabbit, 1988 (voice only)
Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones, 1991 (documentary)