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—Sinatra's daughter Nancy on the importance of his mother Dolly in his life and character. Francis Albert Sinatra [a] was born on December 12, 1915, in a tenement at 415 Monroe Street in Hoboken, New Jersey, [b] the only child of Italian immigrants Natalina "Dolly" Garaventa and Antonino Martino "Marty" Sinatra, who boxed under the name Marty O'Brien. [c] Sinatra weighed 13.5 pounds (6.1 kg ...
17× World Series champion ( 1932, 1936 – 1939, 1941, 1943, 1947, 1949 – 1953, 1956, 1958, 1961, 1962) AL stolen base leader (1938) Frank Peter Joseph Crosetti (October 4, 1910 – February 11, 2002) was an American baseball shortstop. Nicknamed " the Crow ", he spent his entire seventeen-year Major League Baseball playing career with the ...
Frankie Carle ( center-left, standing) at the Hotel Pennsylvania in Manhattan. Frankie Carle (born Francis Nunzio Carlone, March 25, 1903 – March 7, 2001) was an American pianist and bandleader. As a very popular bandleader in the 1940s and 1950s, Carle was nicknamed "The Wizard of the Keyboard ". "Sunrise Serenade" was Carle's best-known ...
Billboard. Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1959. This is a list of singles that have peaked in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 during 1959. Frankie Avalon and Ricky Nelson each had five top-ten hits in 1959, tying them for the most top-ten hits during the year.
Frankie Valli experienced a major career milestone days after settling what appears to be family drama. People confirmed on Tuesday, May 7, that Frankie, 90, was granted a three-year order of ...
Francis Warren Nicholls Jr. (January 18, 1955 [1] [2] – March 31, 2014), known professionally as Frankie Knuckles, was an American DJ, record producer, and remixer. [3] He played an important role in developing and popularizing house music, a genre of music that began in Chicago during the early 1980s and subsequently spread worldwide.
Gee. Big Apple. Roulette. Franklin Joseph Lymon (September 30, 1942 [5] [6] – February 27, 1968 [7]) was an American rock and roll / rhythm and blues singer and songwriter, best known as the boy soprano lead singer of the New York City -based early rock and roll doo-wop group The Teenagers. The group was composed of five boys, all in their ...
Ten-codes, officially known as ten signals, are brevity codes used to represent common phrases in voice communication, particularly by law enforcement and in citizens band (CB) radio transmissions. The police version of ten-codes is officially known as the APCO Project 14 Aural Brevity Code. [1]
The Four Seasons is an American vocal quartet formed in 1960 in Newark, New Jersey.Since 1970, they have also been known at times as Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.The band evolved out of a previous band called The Four Lovers, with Frankie Valli as the lead singer, Bob Gaudio on keyboards and tenor vocals, Tommy DeVito on lead guitar and baritone vocals, and Nick Massi on bass guitar and ...
Instrument (s) Vocals, guitar, piano. Years active. 1963-2024. Frankie Beverly (born Howard Beverly, December 6, 1946) is an American singer, musician, songwriter, and producer, known primarily for his recordings with the soul and funk band Maze. [1] Beverly formed Maze, originally called Raw Soul, in his hometown of Philadelphia in 1970.