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The song is a well-known standard, recorded by many artists, though Chevalier's versions (in English and French) and Frank Sinatra's version are best known. The song was referenced in the 1963 comedy A New Kind of Love, starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, and featuring Chevalier playing himself.
The song title refers to the main melody line, which at first consists of a long series of notes of a single tone (typically D, as played in the key of G) played over a descending chord progression in a bossa nova rhythm. The first eight measures consist of D, followed by four measures of G, and then four measures of D.
The Frank Sinatra Student Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem was dedicated in his name in 1978. [317] From his youth, Sinatra displayed sympathy for black Americans and worked both publicly and privately all his life to help the struggle for equal rights. He blamed racial prejudice on the parents of children. [565]
"My Funny Valentine" is a show tune from the 1937 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart coming of age musical Babes in Arms in which it was introduced by teenaged star Mitzi Green. The song became a popular jazz standard , appearing on over 1300 albums performed by over 600 artists.
Songs for Young Lovers is the seventh studio album by Frank Sinatra and his first on Capitol Records.It was issued as an 8-song, 10" album (Capitol H-488) and as a 45rpm EP set, [5] but it was the first Sinatra "album" not to have a 78rpm multi-disc-album release.
The following is a sortable table of songs recorded by Frank Sinatra: The column Song lists the song title. The column Year lists the year in which the song was recorded. 136 songs are listed in the table. This may not include every song for which a recording by Sinatra exists.
L.A. Is My Lady is the fifty-seventh and final solo studio album by American singer Frank Sinatra, released in 1984 and produced by Quincy Jones.While the album was Sinatra's last (excluding the Duets albums), he recorded five further songs, only four of which have been officially released.
Ava Gardner, Sinatra's second wife, provided inspiration for the album. By the time he recorded In the Wee Small Hours, Sinatra witnessed the end of several relationships.. He and his first wife, Nancy Barbato, separated on Valentine's Day 19