Perfectly Frank
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OneEyedDiva
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A little more than a week ago, I took the train to the waterfront park in Hoboken, N.J. where Frank was from. Since my last visit, they have removed my favorite bench and erected this statue in it's place.
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"Frank Sinatra didn’t just love the ladies (and vice versa) — he was also very fond of dogs, according to several sources. Who knows, maybe Ol’ Blue Eyes was thinking about sharing his bed with his pooches when he sang “Strangers in the Night.”
According to the official Frank Sinatra Facebook Page, his mom didn’t allow him to have a dog when he was a kid, “but he made up for that later in life by having many!”
“He liked animals, period. Particularly underdogs,” his widow, Barbara, told the Palm Beach Post in 2011. The Sinatra's had dogs, cats and horses.
“I found a snake in the yard one day and I called the gardener to kill it,” Barbara recalled. “Frank said, ‘No, no, he’s a friend of mine.’ So he threw it over the fence onto the golf course. He was very softhearted.”
Sinatra had an especially soft spot for Cavalier King Charles Spaniels. “He absolutely adored them,” Barbara told the Palm Beach Post. “When he was sick in his room, he’d have the cats on one side of the bed, and the dogs on the other. And he would pet them both.”
In her memoir, "My Father's Daughter", Tina Sinatra recalls that when she was a little girl and asked her dad where heaven was, he replied, “Heaven is where all the animals go.”
When Sinatra died in 1998, several mementos were placed in his coffin. “My contribution was a small dog biscuit, for Dad’s love of little critters,” Tina wrote." - article by Laura Goldman
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According to the official Frank Sinatra Facebook Page, his mom didn’t allow him to have a dog when he was a kid, “but he made up for that later in life by having many!”
“He liked animals, period. Particularly underdogs,” his widow, Barbara, told the Palm Beach Post in 2011. The Sinatra's had dogs, cats and horses.
“I found a snake in the yard one day and I called the gardener to kill it,” Barbara recalled. “Frank said, ‘No, no, he’s a friend of mine.’ So he threw it over the fence onto the golf course. He was very softhearted.”
Sinatra had an especially soft spot for Cavalier King Charles Spaniels. “He absolutely adored them,” Barbara told the Palm Beach Post. “When he was sick in his room, he’d have the cats on one side of the bed, and the dogs on the other. And he would pet them both.”
In her memoir, "My Father's Daughter", Tina Sinatra recalls that when she was a little girl and asked her dad where heaven was, he replied, “Heaven is where all the animals go.”
When Sinatra died in 1998, several mementos were placed in his coffin. “My contribution was a small dog biscuit, for Dad’s love of little critters,” Tina wrote." - article by Laura Goldman
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JonSR77
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Thanks for the thread. My step-father loved Sinatra and got me hooked as well. From good old Jersey here...Hoboken, I think.
A friend of ours, her cousin was in the Sinatra entourage. Not sure what his job was, maybe security???
He was really an unselfish performer. I love the fact that he promoted Antonio Carlos Jobim (the Girl from Ipanema) to the American public. And he did not tolerate racism, making it something that the "cool crowd" was not interested in...such a cool guy in so many ways...
Frank Sinatra Antonio Carlos Jobim Live - Bossa Nova Medley
A friend of ours, her cousin was in the Sinatra entourage. Not sure what his job was, maybe security???
He was really an unselfish performer. I love the fact that he promoted Antonio Carlos Jobim (the Girl from Ipanema) to the American public. And he did not tolerate racism, making it something that the "cool crowd" was not interested in...such a cool guy in so many ways...
Frank Sinatra Antonio Carlos Jobim Live - Bossa Nova Medley
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