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9 “I’ll forget my sins”: Lyrics from “San Fernando Valley,” words and music by Gordon Jenkins (New York: Mayfair Music, 1943).
10 framed quotation: Shaw, Twentieth-Century Romantic, p. 71.
11 “When I arrived”: Nancy Sinatra, American Legend, p. 61.
12 “It came to such”: Cahn, I Should Care, p. 134.
13 “Frank thought Fred”: Bud Yorkin, in discussion with the author, Feb. 2006.
14 “I was born with”: Nancy Sinatra, American Legend, p. 61.
15 “quickly apologized”: Ibid.
16 “Because I didn’t think”: Ibid.
17 “We used to play”: Silverman, Dancing on the Ceiling, p. 78.
18 “Listen, I’m not supposed”: Wilson, Sinatra, p. 62.
19 “Pictures stink”: Kelley, His Way, p. 98.
20 “Naturally he was tired”: Ibid.
21 “It’s easy for a guy”: Ibid.
22 “In Sinatra’s singing spot”: Nancy Sinatra, American Legend, p. 63.
CHAPTER 15
SOURCE NOTES
1 “Could I bring”: Wilson, Sinatra, p. 63.
2 “Mac, imagine this guy”: Ibid.
3 “Then let’s see”: Kelley, His Way, p. 95.
4 “SINATRA HIT BY EGGS”: Ibid.
5 “He may be famous”: Ibid., p. 96.
6 “[It] was always jammed”: Ibid., p. 95.
7 “Let’s go down”: Shaw, Twentieth-Century Romantic, p. 80.
8 “Peg was inside”: Ibid.
9 “I was in my room”: Ibid.
10 “In the company of Orson”: Kelley, His Way, p. 99.
11 “No indictment was found”: Ibid., p. 100.
12 “Though she’d love to work”: Lyrics from “(I Got a Woman Crazy for Me) She’s Funny That Way,” words by Richard A. Whiting, music by Neil Moret (San Francisco: Villa Moret, 1928).
13 “I fall in love”: Lyrics from “I Fall in Love Too Easily,” words by Sammy Cahn, music by Jule Styne. From Anchors Aweigh (MGM, 1945).
CHAPTER 16
1. Nancy was clearly trying to butter Manie up by writing out Frankie junior’s middle name, but—fascinatingly—got her own son’s given first name (Franklin) wrong. It could have been that (just for a change) her husband was on her mind, but I think it more likely that she didn’t think of Frank as Francis, either. Ava Gardner, as we’ll see, would be the one who started all that.
2. Still, it must be noted that the Sinatra of 1945 was a very different man from the one who had been a punching bag for his Hoboken Four partners back in the Major Bowes days. Fame, money, and power had pumped up his physical confidence and sense of entitlement (and would continue to do so until the onset of old age); it never hurt his confidence, either, that the beefy retainers with whom he surrounded himself jumped at his every command and flinched at each unkind word.
SOURCE NOTES
3 “They tell me you”: Nancy Sinatra, American Legend, p. 66.
4 “What blazing new”: Parsons, Tell It to Louella, p. 151.
5 “necessary to the national”: Kelley, His Way, p. 101.
6 “IS CROONING ESSENTIAL?”: Ibid.
7 “I miss the times”: Lyrics from “Homesick, That’s All,” words and music by Gordon Jenkins (Columbia Records, 1945). V-Disc recording. 243 “MR. FRANK SINATRA”: Columbia Records Archive, Sony Music Corporation.
8 Frank’s daughter Nancy has written: Nancy Sinatra, American Legend, p. 58.
9 “There might be”: George Benjamin, “Who Says Sinatra’s a ‘Sad Sack’? They Loved Him Overseas—and 150,000 GIs Can’t Be Wrong!” Modern Screen, Jan. 1946, www.songsbysinatra.com/reprints/ms_0146.html
10 “Go away, boy”: Ibid.
11 “The singer kidded”: Kelley, His Way, p. 104.
12 “Are you a tenor”: Wilson, Sinatra, p. 337.
13 “Shoemakers in uniform”: Kelley, His Way, p. 104.
14 “Mice make women”: Kahn, Voice, p. 114.
15 “joy ride”: Kelley, His Way, p. 105.
16 “the Apollonian marvel”: Bosley Crowther, “Anchors Aweigh,” New York Times, July 20, 1945.
17 “Sinatra came down”: Summers and Swan, Sinatra, p. 111.
18 “George and I were”: Kelley, His Way, p. 107.
19 “GARY HIGH SCHOOL”: Edwardsville (Ill.) Intelligencer, Nov. 2, 1945.
20 “outstanding efforts”: Kelley, His Way, p. 109.
21 “You could reach”: Summers and Swan, Sinatra, p. 110.
22 “What’s he got?”: The House I