It's the birthday of Frank Sinatra, born in Hoboken, New Jersey (1915). He was the son of Italian immigrants. He knew early that he wanted to be a singer, and his mother supported his decision to drop out of high school to sing in nightclubs. In 1935, he formed a group called the Three Flashes. But he decided that his best chance was to sing alone, so he quit the group and went back to solo nightclub gigs. In 1939, a trumpet player named Harry James heard Sinatra sing on a local radio station, and signed him for $75 a week.
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I understand that he was also deaf in one ear.
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