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Sinatra and me : in the wee small hours / Tony Oppedisano, with Mary Jane Ross.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Thorndike Press large print nonfiction seriesPublisher: Waterville, ME : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 507 pages (large print), 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781432890759
  • 1432890751
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Contents:
Prologue: 'scuse me while I disappear -- Francis Albert and the kid. Of all the gin joints ; And one more for the road -- In the wee small hours. La famiglia ; Vendetta ; Once upon a time ; You will be my music ; The house I live in ; Send in the clowns -- In the winter of his years. Forget to remember ; Softly, as I leave you -- Coda.
Summary: "More than a hundred books have been written about legendary crooner and actor Frank Sinatra. Every detail of his life seems to captivate: his career, his romantic relationships, his personality, his businesses, his style. But a hard-to-pin-down quality has always clung to him--a certain elusiveness that emerges again and again in retrospective depictions. Until now. From Sinatra's closest confidant and an eventual member of his management team, Tony Oppedisano, comes an extraordinarily intimate look at the singing idol. Deep into the night, for more than two thousand nights, Frank and Tony would converse--about music, family, friends, great loves, achievements and successes, failures and disappointments, the lives they'd led, the lives they wished they'd led. In these full-disclosure conversations, Sinatra spoke of his close yet complex relationship with his father, his conflicts with record companies, his carousing in Vegas, his love affairs with some of the most beautiful women of his era, his triumphs on some of the world's biggest stages, his complicated relationships with his talented children, and, most important, his dedication to his craft. Toward the end, no one was closer to the singer than Oppedisano, who kept his own rooms at the Sinatra residences for many years, often brokered difficult conversations between family members, and held the superstar entertainer's hand when he drew his last breath. Featuring never-before-seen photos and offering startlingly fresh anecdotes and new revelations that center on some of the most famous people of the past fifty years--including Jackie Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Sam Giancana, Madonna, and Bono--Sinatra and Me pulls back the curtain to reveal a man whom history has, in many ways, gotten wrong"-- Provided by publisher.
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From Frank Sinatra's closest confidant and an eventual member of his management team, Tony Oppedisano, comes an intimate look at the singing idol. Deep into the night, for more than two thousand nights, Frank and Tony would converse - about music, great loves, achievements, failures. In these conversations, Sinatra spoke of his close yet complex relationship with his father, his conflicts with record companies, his carousing in Vegas, his love affairs with beautiful women, his triumphs on some of the world's biggest stages, his complicated relationships with his children, and, most important, his dedication to his craft. Book jacket.

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Prologue: 'scuse me while I disappear -- Francis Albert and the kid. Of all the gin joints ; And one more for the road -- In the wee small hours. La famiglia ; Vendetta ; Once upon a time ; You will be my music ; The house I live in ; Send in the clowns -- In the winter of his years. Forget to remember ; Softly, as I leave you -- Coda.

"More than a hundred books have been written about legendary crooner and actor Frank Sinatra. Every detail of his life seems to captivate: his career, his romantic relationships, his personality, his businesses, his style. But a hard-to-pin-down quality has always clung to him--a certain elusiveness that emerges again and again in retrospective depictions. Until now. From Sinatra's closest confidant and an eventual member of his management team, Tony Oppedisano, comes an extraordinarily intimate look at the singing idol. Deep into the night, for more than two thousand nights, Frank and Tony would converse--about music, family, friends, great loves, achievements and successes, failures and disappointments, the lives they'd led, the lives they wished they'd led. In these full-disclosure conversations, Sinatra spoke of his close yet complex relationship with his father, his conflicts with record companies, his carousing in Vegas, his love affairs with some of the most beautiful women of his era, his triumphs on some of the world's biggest stages, his complicated relationships with his talented children, and, most important, his dedication to his craft. Toward the end, no one was closer to the singer than Oppedisano, who kept his own rooms at the Sinatra residences for many years, often brokered difficult conversations between family members, and held the superstar entertainer's hand when he drew his last breath. Featuring never-before-seen photos and offering startlingly fresh anecdotes and new revelations that center on some of the most famous people of the past fifty years--including Jackie Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Sam Giancana, Madonna, and Bono--Sinatra and Me pulls back the curtain to reveal a man whom history has, in many ways, gotten wrong"-- Provided by publisher.

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