Top 10 Crazy Facts You Didn't Know About Frank Sinatra
Here are some wild and crazy facts you won't believe about Frank Sinatra.This actually happened, and this fact was leaked into the public in 2011.
In 1934, Sinatra paid $100 to star in The Masked Bandit, which he wore a mask of course. When he became famous, he "called his friends in the mob" to stop the movie from ever surfacing.
I knew this one along with items 6,7 and 8. Also I agree these are pretty crazy that last one is so petty especially considering he must have been at least in his late 40s by then.
Ever since he was a teen idol in the 1940s, he was watched by the FBI for decades until his death in 1998, possibly because of his criminal activities.
He was a manic-depressive man who tried to attempt suicide four times by sticking his head into the oven because his career was falling down in the early 50s before he resurged in 1953 because of a successful movie.
In 1938, Sinatra was arrested for sleeping with a woman who was married to someone else. It was probably the same day he had that mugshot, the one that was the album cover of Logic's mixtape Young Sinatra.
The Rat Pack was a group that included Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr.. In the 1960s, they hosted sex orgies
This may be the closest thing we know about Frank Sinatra. He called it "the most brutal, ugly, degenerate, vicious form of expression it has been my displeasure to hear."
He also said "Light My Fire" by The Doors was the worst song he ever heard.
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! is the first incarnation of the long-running Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon series Scooby-Doo. CBS executive Fred Silverman heard "Strangers in the Night" during an airplane flight and included the words "dooby dooby doo..."
Despite being one of Sinatra's signature songs, he hated it and called it "a piece of s***" and "the worst f***ing song I've ever heard".
Despite his disapproval in rock and roll, he like The Beatles ballad "Something" and even sampled it in live shows.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29th, 1917 - November 22, 1963) commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination. The Cuban Missile Crisis, The Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the establishment of the Peace Corps, developments in the Space Race, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Trade Expansion Act to lower tariffs, the Civil Rights Movement, the "New Frontier" domestic program, and abolition of the federal death penalty in the District of Columbia all took place during his presidency. Sinatra was snubbed by JFK because he wanted Bing Crosby instead.
Despite his hatred of rock and roll, he and Elvis performed and sang Sinatra's songs in 1960, not too long after Elvis left the army.