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First album
He released his first album, The Voice of Frank Sinatra, in 1946 this was released on Columbia Records, the album went to #1 on the Billboard chart. It stayed at the top for seven weeks in 1946, spending a total of eighteen weeks on the charts.
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Donation
He was awarded the Hollzer Memorial Award by the Los Angeles Jewish Community in 1949. He gave a series of concerts in Israel in 1962, and donated his entire $50,000 fee for appearing in role in Cast a Giant Shadow (1966) to the Youth Center in Jerusalem.http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=cast+a+giant+shadow+sinatra&view=detailv2&id=11BFBEAB2F296A93ECE407422FB9EDFAD4AC40B7&selectedindex=13&ccid=FNe7Kn1s&simid=608025859385131089&thid=OIP.M14d7bb2a7d6c68d6d2927af0f743123do2&mode=overlay&f -
The FBIs weird Sinatra file
Sinatra offered to be and FBI informant but the FBI said "they wanted no part of him". The FBI started this file I'm 1949 and countied for about 3-4 decades including over 1,200 pages on Sinatra and made the file public after his death in 1998 they accused him of ties to the Mafia and organized crime. Sinatra denied all claims. -
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Sinatra was featured alongside Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly in High Society for MGM, earning a reported $250,000 for the picture. The public rushed to the cinemas to see Sinatra and Crosby together on-screen, and it ended up earning over $13 million at the box office, becoming one of the highest-grossing pictures of 1956 -
Academy Award
A Hole in the Head won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, and became a chart hit, lasting on the Hot 100 for 17 weeks
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(not exact date) Reprise Records
Sinatra left Capitol in 1961 to start his own record label, Reprise Records,the label was later sold to Warner brothers and became inative in 1976
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Standing up. (link for picture) https://www.google.com/search?q=sinatra+and+martin+luther+king+jr&biw=1366&bih=767&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwidxYrboZXKAhWJ4D4KHRuFC0kQsAQIGw#tbm=isch&q=sinatra+and+sammy+davis+jr&imgrc=bN7iUneqVoKupM%3A
After an incident where an African-American couple entered the lobby of the hotel and were blocked by the security guard, Sinatra and Sammy Davis, Jr. forced the hotel management (by boycotting) to begin hiring black waiters and busboys. Sinatra played a benefit show at Carnegie Hall for Martin Luther King, Jr. and led his fellow Rat Pack members and Reprise label mates in boycotting hotels and casinos that refused entry to black patrons and performers. -
Scooby-Doo
After making his appearance in 1969, Scooby-Doo quickly became one of the most popular cartoon characters of all time, And it’s all thanks to Frank Sinatra. While flying to Los Angeles, CBS children’s programming head Fred Silverman was listening to a recording of Sinatra’s “Strangers in the Night.” Near the end of the song, Sinatra starts improvising, singing nonsense phrases like “dooby-dooby-doo.” And that’s when everything clicked. -
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“I’m for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, tranquilizers, or a bottle of Jack Daniels. But to me religion is a deeply personal thing in which man and God go it alone together, without the witch doctor in the middle.”
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“My mother had me in an election parade when I was a young boy. I never thought about it; I just think it is the duty of every American citizen to take part in political races and vote.”
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Donations
Sinatra raised $1 million to build a student center on the Mt. Scopus Campus of Hebrew University in Jerusalem and was given the Medal of Valor for his efforts -
(Not exaxct date) Presidential campaign
Sinatra remained a supporter of the Democratic Party until the early 1970s, when he endorsed Republican Ronald Reagan for a second term as Governor of California in 1970.Sinatra later generously donated $4 million to Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign -
Awarded
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(not exact date) Awarded
Sinatra is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Ronald Regan
Ronald Regan spoke on giving him the award saying "His love of country, his generosity for those less fortunate ... make him one of our most remarkable and distinguished Americans."
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