Sinatra

by James Kaplan

  “You’re the heavyweight champion”: Weintraub, When I Stop Talking, p. 110.

  “We will now do”: Ibid., p. 326.

  “Ah, Frankie”: New York Times, Oct. 13, 1974.

  “That style he set”: Rolling Stone, June 6, 1974.

  “There’s nothing worse”: Tina Sinatra, My Father’s Daughter, p. 145.

  “Marry me or lose me”: Barbara Sinatra, Lady Blue Eyes, p. 166.

  “My dad’s inner life”: Tina Sinatra, My Father’s Daughter, p. 156.

  “a brand-new profile”: Ibid., p. 155.

  “an enormous pear-shaped”: Barbara Sinatra, Lady Blue Eyes, p. 170.

  “Is this for me”: Ibid.

  it stipulated that none: Tina Sinatra, My Father’s Daughter, p. 197.

  “When the judge asked”: Ibid., p. 157.

  “He lied”: Hewitt, Tell Me a Story, p. 103.

  At the last minute: Tina Sinatra, My Father’s Daughter, p. 163.

  Though Barbara Sinatra wrote: Barbara Sinatra, Lady Blue Eyes, p. 198.

  it has been suggested: Kelley, His Way, p. 441.

  “Life went on”: Barbara Sinatra, Lady Blue Eyes, p. 201.

  “It turned out”: Tina Sinatra, My Father’s Daughter, p. 165.

  “Sinatra and I were in”: Granata, Sessions with Sinatra, p. 194.

  “Fuck him”: Vincent Falcone, in discussion with the author, Nov. 2012.

  Barbara Sinatra writes that: Barbara Sinatra, Lady Blue Eyes, pp. 212–13.

  “They were playing”: Rob Fentress, in discussion with the author, June 2011.

  “They were averaging”: Tina Sinatra, My Father’s Daughter, pp. 174–75.

  He had been complaining: Anka, My Way, p. 214.

  According to talk: Disclosed to the author by a physician who wished to remain anonymous.

  Not long after Sinatra produced: Kelley, Nancy Reagan, pp. 311–12.

  Tina Sinatra writes of: Tina Sinatra, My Father’s Daughter, p. 178.

  “During long-distance”: Barbara Sinatra, Lady Blue Eyes, p. 269.

  “Francis, this woman”: Tina Sinatra, My Father’s Daughter, pp. 178–79.

  “If I would have left it”: Ibid., pp. 176–79.

  Mr. and Mrs. Sinatra: Ibid., pp. 180–81.

  He did more than a thousand: Summers and Swan, Sinatra, p. 360.

  Except in Atlantic City: Bob Eckel, in discussion with the author, May 2006.

  “I travel with him”: Associated Press, April 6, 1983.

  “I vocalize an hour”: Marcucci, Where or When.

  “I was with him”: Peter Bogdanovich, e-mail to author, Dec. 27, 2014.

  Frank sent her: Cannon, Grabtown Girl, p. 103.

  “I’m one hell”: Server, Ava Gardner, p. 486.

  “With her green eyes”: New York Times, Feb. 25, 1985.

  “Frank would call”: Server, Ava Gardner, p. 488.

  “He was utterly humiliated”: Anka, My Way, p. 214.

  “Frank refused to let”: Barbara Sinatra, Lady Blue Eyes, pp. 276–77.

  “as well as my hand”: Nancy Sinatra, My Father, p. 280.

  “I saw his memory”: Falcone, discussion.

  “Dean was half alive”: Anka, My Way, p. 214.

  “the spontaneity of phrasing”: New York Times, May 17, 1990.

  “Dear Daniel”: Courtesy of Daniel Okrent.

  “he was distraught”: Tina Sinatra, My Father’s Daughter, p. 214.

  His manager, Eliot Weisman: Ibid., p. 230.

  “I truly didn’t know”: Nollen, Jilly!, pp. 164–67.

  Three days later: Marcucci, Where or When.

  “Rock ’n’ roll people”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdRk2oo3jRg.

  “There was one giant”: Jim Snidero, in discussion with the author, Nov. 2014.

  “What happened?”: Tina Sinatra, My Father’s Daughter, p. 240.

  A waiter in the restaurant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGSb99HwcwU.

  “May you all live”: Marcucci, Where or When.

  After his medication: Tina Sinatra, My Father’s Daughter, p. 241.

  He wound up the year: Marcucci, Where or When.

  “We had been in the air”: Cole, Angel on My Shoulder, p. 289.

  Sinatra sang as well: Summers and Swan, Sinatra, p. 381.

  “High notes, fine”: Jonathan Schwartz, in discussion with the author, Dec. 2011.

  “When are we going”: Tina Sinatra, My Father’s Daughter, p. 244.

  “Sitting at the bar”: Ibid., p. 245.

  He stared at the TV: Ibid., p. 228.

  “got on like a house”: Barbara Sinatra, Lady Blue Eyes, p. 342.

  As for the show: Tina Sinatra, My Father’s Daughter, p. 247.

  He was admitted to Cedars-Sinai: Associated Press, Nov. 5, 1996.

  “His geography was limited”: Tina Sinatra, My Father’s Daughter, p. 260.

  “It’s sad to see”: Lawrence (Kans.) Journal World, Nov. 27, 1996.

  “I don’t know how”: Tina Sinatra, My Father’s Daughter, pp. 276–77.

  “I don’t want to live”: Ibid., p. 279.

  It was a line: Barbara Sinatra, Lady Blue Eyes, p. 354.

  “He was in his wheelchair”: Ibid., pp. 354–55.

  “I have bad news”: Tina Sinatra, My Father’s Daughter, p. 280.

  “You’d better come”: Barbara Sinatra, Lady Blue Eyes, pp. 356–57.

  It was orange: Tina Sinatra, My Father’s Daughter, pp. 280–81.

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