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SEEING THE OTHER SIDE OF AMERICAN LEGEND FRANK SINATRA
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Posted on 03/13/2015 5:03:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 03/13/2015 5:03:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Sinatra also seems to have had dreams of attending Stevens Institute of Technology and becoming an engineer.


2 posted on 03/13/2015 5:04:57 PM PDT by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
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It’s too bad. He might have ended up somewhere in life...


3 posted on 03/13/2015 5:07:31 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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He was a pretty good actor too.

During WWII, Stars and Stripes ran a poll of the soldiers as to their favorite singer.

It came down to Sinatra and Roy Acuff. Acuff won.


4 posted on 03/13/2015 5:09:21 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: nickcarraway

His album “September of my years” released in 1965 is one of my favorites, a great work,


5 posted on 03/13/2015 5:17:44 PM PDT by captmar-vell
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I always liked Sinatra’s movies.

My Mom could not stand him. She said that when she was a phone operator in Indianapolis in the 40’s Sinatra would come to town and call up the operators from his hotel room and try to get them to come over and have sex with him. He was married at the time.


6 posted on 03/13/2015 5:19:51 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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In 1938 he was arrested adultery and seduction. (When he was 21 it was a very good year)


7 posted on 03/13/2015 5:21:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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The Capitol-Nelson Riddle era was my favorite Sinatra period.

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8 posted on 03/13/2015 5:24:27 PM PDT by Mears (To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize."Voltaire))
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To: nickcarraway

Jeanne Carmen said he was a lousy lover. She probably was an expert too.


9 posted on 03/13/2015 5:32:52 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: nickcarraway

Old Blue Eyes was mafia. And Sammy Davis made Bill Cosby look like a saint.


10 posted on 03/13/2015 5:41:00 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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He wasn’t a bad dancer either. I can’t remember the name of the song and dance movie he made with Gene Kelly.


11 posted on 03/13/2015 5:41:50 PM PDT by be-baw (still seeking)
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Wasn’t he also a spouse abuser, aka, beater?


12 posted on 03/13/2015 5:44:41 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Uncle Sy: "Beavers are like Ninjas, they only come out at night and they're hard to find")
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Frank was a true American

Mafia ties aren't that bad.

Mafia are better than communist

13 posted on 03/13/2015 5:53:03 PM PDT by scooby321
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I can’t remember the name of the song and dance movie he made with Gene Kelly.

On the Town 1949. He had a good teacher.

14 posted on 03/13/2015 5:55:53 PM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: scooby321
I an't no band leader…

15 posted on 03/13/2015 5:56:44 PM PDT by moehoward
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To: DaxtonBrown

The golden boy of the mob!!


16 posted on 03/13/2015 5:57:51 PM PDT by JimSEA
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[Mafia ties aren’t that bad.

Mafia are better than communist]

I hear that crap all the time. But I wrote Harry Reid’s only biography and it is filled with mafia links. Reid and Oscar Goodman have helped destroy America, a bunch of low lifes.


17 posted on 03/13/2015 5:58:32 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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You can look up Ole Blue Eyes FBI files, there isn’t any doubt.


18 posted on 03/13/2015 5:59:38 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: scooby321

He had Mafia friends and acquaintances but was not a member. Story goes that he was once punched by a goodfella. Frank is said to have called his Mafia buddies to ask that the offending gangster be whacked but was refused because he, Sinatra, was not a member of the Mob.


19 posted on 03/13/2015 5:59:43 PM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: nickcarraway; Jack Hydrazine; Norm Lenhart; Salamander; TheOldLady; spyone; To Hell With Poverty; ..

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20 posted on 03/13/2015 5:59:57 PM PDT by Squawk 8888 (Will steal your comments & post them on Twitter)
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