Frank Sinatra Relationships
 Francis Albert Sinatra was born on December 12, 1915, in Hoboken, New Jersey. He was the only child of Anthony Martin Sinatra (1894–1969), and Natalie Dolly Garaventa (1896–1977).
Sinatra weighed 13?lb at birth, and appeared stillborn , but spluttered into life when placed under a cold tap.
Sinatra left the Hoboken Four and returned home in late 1935. His mother secured him a job as a singing waiter and MC at the Rustic Cabin in Englewood, New Jersey, for which he was paid $15 a week. . Sinatra was arrested on a 'morals charge' in 1938, after an ex-lover had accused him of a 'breach of promise'. The case was dismissed in court in January 1939, and within weeks Sinatra married Nancy Barbato.
On March 18, 1939, Sinatra made his first recording, of a song called Our Love, with the Frank Mane band. In June, Harry James hired Sinatra on a one year contract of $75 a week .
Growing dissatisfied with the James band, Sinatra was approached by Tommy Dorsey in November 1939, and formally joined Dorsey's band the following January.
In his first year with Dorsey, Sinatra released more than forty songs, with I'll Never Smile Again topping the charts for twelve weeks in mid-July.
In the autumn of 1940, Sinatra appeared in his first film, Las Vegas Nights. In May 1941 Sinatra came top of the male singer polls in the Billboard and Downbeat magazines.
Sinatra's relationship with Tommy Dorsey was tenuous, and Sinatra recorded his first solo sessions without the Dorsey band in January 1942.
His appeal to the bobby soxers, as teenage girls of that time were called, revealed a whole new audience for popular music, which had been recorded mainly for adults up to that time.
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