by James Kaplan
“that he wanted to do”: Friedwald, Sinatra!, pp. 257–58.
“The whole album lasts six”: Jonathan Schwartz, in discussion with the author, Sept. 2011.
“the album reached Number Three”: Ed O’Brien, e-mail to author, Jan. 27, 2014.
Norman Granz, the founder: Friedwald, Sinatra!, p. 224.
Her first album at Verve: Ibid., p. 221.
Early on, Granz came: Mo Ostin, in discussion with the author, Aug. 2012.
“Frank and Norman didn’t see”: Hershorn, Norman Granz, p. 361.
its roster had expanded: Variety, Nov. 21, 1960.
“The record business in jazz”: Ostin, discussion.
“Sinatra may have gotten”: Hershorn, Norman Granz, p. 293.
“a man born to”: Cornyn, Exploding, p. 47.
“He was as strong”: Ostin, discussion.
“The one thing Granz”: Hershorn, Norman Granz, p. 293.
“ ‘The Clan’ is a figment”: Nancy Sinatra, American Legend, p. 148; Shaw, Sinatra, p. 274.
“serious citizens”: Shaw, Sinatra, p. 274.
Two thousand loyalists: Mike Connolly, syndicated column, Sept. 15, 1960; Delaware County Daily Times, Sept. 17, 1960; “ ‘The Jack Pack,’ 1958–1960,” The Pop History Dig.
“Only a few months”: Dorothy Kilgallen, syndicated column, Sept. 22, 1960.
the day after that private little dinner: United Press, Sept. 12, 1960.
The bride wore a white: Kelley, His Way, p. 280; Associated Press, Sept. 12, 1960.
“to match the stars”: Nancy Sinatra, My Father, p. 131.
“ ‘I love you, chicken’ ”: Kelley, His Way, p. 280.
and was sometimes known as: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 207.
had been signed at age fifteen: Kibbey, Pat Boone, p. 128.
Her father didn’t lecture her: Nancy Sinatra, My Father, p. 131.
“It’s my own life happening”: Kelley, His Way, p. 280.
Tracy was the piece’s center: Santopietro, Sinatra in Hollywood, p. 402.
“chronically tired, unhappy”: Curtis, Spencer Tracy, p. 745.
“Nobody had his power”: Ibid., p. 302.
“The Hearst newspapers”: United Press International, Oct. 14, 1960.
“Dozens of policemen”: Associated Press, Oct. 27, 1960.
who had recently been hospitalized: “Did JFK Steal the 1960 Election?,” The Stone Zone, www.stonezone.com/article.php?id=391.
Many who listened in: http://www.museum.tv/eotv/kennedy-nixon.htm.
“It’s not Sinatra’s voice”: Braden, Just Enough Rope, p. 148.
“the chief disciple”: Shaw, Sinatra, p. 276.
“We are dedicating”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hb3R3S1_7k.
“inside buddy ribbings”: Shaw, Sinatra, p. 277.
“a sick joke or two”: Ibid.
“Listen, honey”: Kelley, His Way, p. 281.
“Controlling Chicago’s powerful”: Giancana and Giancana, Double Cross, p. 290.
“The agreement was that”: Roemer, Man Against the Mob, p. 158.
“Humphreys had himself”: Seymour M. Hersh, Dark Side of Camelot, p. 143.
“my members’ money”: Ibid., p. 146.
“He didn’t expect”: Ibid., p. 145.
Frank spent Election Day: vault.fbi.gov/Frank%20Sinatra/Frank%20Sinatra%20Part%2024%20of%2029.
On the other end: Kelley, His Way, p. 281; Giancana and Giancana, Double Cross, p. 289.
But as day turned to evening: Theodore H. White, Making of the President, 1960, p. 346.
“We’re going to make it”: Summers and Swan, Sinatra, p. 275.
“He yelled at the TV”: Ibid.
“We’re trying to hold back”: Kelley, His Way, p. 281.
“If only 4,500”: Theodore H. White, Making of the President, 1960, p. 350.
“ ‘Ye assholes of little faith’ ”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 167.
“someone in Sinatra’s office”: Friedwald, Sinatra!, p. 368.
That someone was Frank’s lawyer: Will Friedwald, e-mail to author, Feb. 4, 2014.
“Quite by accident”: Ostin, discussion.
“short and slight, bald”: Dannen, Hit Men, p. 121.
“So Mickey said”: Ostin, discussion.
“He told me how important”: Havers, Sinatra, p. 259.
Invitations had been sent out: Levy, Rat Pack Confidential, p. 167.
Jack’s chances could be hurt: Nancy Sinatra, American Legend, p. 150.
“a huge favor”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 146.
“would do anything for him”: Nancy Sinatra, American Legend, p. 150.
“I combed the papers”: Davis, Boyar, and Boyar, Sammy, p. 377.
“Dear Nigger Bastard”: Ibid.
“Right or wrong”: Kelley, His Way, p. 284.
“to state, ‘This is my friend’ ”: Davis, Why Me?, p. 121.
“I [arranged] a lot of club acts”: Granata, Sessions with Sinatra, p. 156.
“like a kid”: Johnny Mandel, in discussion with the author, Aug. 2011.
“They were all going”: Granata, Sessions with Sinatra, p. 156.
“When he was talking to you”: Mandel, discussion.
Putnam had put all: Granata, Sessions with Sinatra, pp. 155–56.
“Unedited tapes reveal”: Ibid., p. 157.
“Sinatra continues to snap”: Ibid.
“Both casual listeners”: Friedwald, Sinatra!, p. 368.
“Sinatra said, ‘You know’ ”: Mandel, discussion.
“My association with Frank”: Levinson, September in the Rain, pp. 149–50.
CHAPTER 15
“Among the articles”: Vernon Scott, dispatch, Jan. 2, 1961.
“Have heard about”: James Bacon, dispatch, Jan. 13, 1961.
“Sinatra would have been here”: Ibid.
“This is the story”: Ibid.
“This is the most exciting”: Kelley, His Way, pp. 283–84.
He persuaded the producers: Ibid., p. 284.
Nelson Riddle agreed: Inaugural Gala program.
“I never had a feeling”: Levy, Rat Pack Confidential, p. 174.
“It really can happen”: Ibid., pp. 174–75.
“not want[ing] his”: Kelley, His Way, p. 284.
“I lay on my back”: Davis, Boyar, and Boyar, Sammy, p. 388.
Yet Nancy Sinatra asserts: Nancy Sinatra, American Legend, pp. 150–51.
“but Sammy would never have allowed”: Ibid.
“Neither Dean Martin”: Associated Press, Jan. 6, 1961.
A Lincoln limousine chauffeured: Kelley, His Way, p. 283.
The keepers of decorum: Shaw, Sinatra, p. 279.
“Many Washingtonians are fleeing”: Walter T. Ridder, Robert E. Lee, and William Broom, syndicated column, Jan. 8, 1961.
who included Bob Hope’s chief: Inaugural Gala program.
He hit up his old romantic: Levinson, September in the Rain, p. 144.
a majority stockholder: Barlett and Steele, Howard Hughes, p. 254.
“It was a big plane”: Bob Bain, in discussion with the author, Feb. 2013.
“Frank had more guests”: Ibid.
“most of the Kennedy clan”: Associated Press, Jan. 18, 1961.
“was an event the Kennedy”: Leaming, Mrs. Kennedy, pp. 1–3.
Her stance was complicated: Ibid., pp. 149–50.
“The winds blew in icy”: Schlesinger, Thousand Days, p. 1.
“The stars who’d come”: Levy, Rat Pack Confidential, pp. 176–77.
Jackie had flown up: Anthony, Kennedy White House, p. 15.
“the young President-elect”: Schlesinger, Thousand Days, p. 1.
Inside the cavernous: Summers and Swan, Sinatra, p. 279.
All seats had been sold: Shaw, Sinatra, p. 280.
The gala began grandly: Inaugural Gala program.
“We see him entering”: www.dailymotion.com/video/x9gvl2_john-kennedy-inaugural-gala-20-01-1_music.
“I told you I’d get you”: Levy, Rat Pack Confidential, p. 177.
Nat Cole smiled through: Belafonte, My Song, p. 222.
“That deferential praise”: Mark White, Kennedy, p. 34.
“I’m proud to be a Democrat”: Ibid., pp. 35–36; Kelley, His Way, p. 285.
“Joe Kennedy barked at him”: Anthony, Kennedy White House, p. 17.
Red Fay, who’d met JFK: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 35; Andersen, These Few Precious Days, p. 110.
“Have you ever seen”: Reeves, President Kennedy, p. 35; Anthony, Kennedy White House, p. 17.
“Wait until you see”: Kelley, His Way, p. 285.
Hatless and coatless: Smith, Grace and Power, p. 62.
In a special section: Mark White, Kennedy, p. 35.
“There was a stand that had”: Summers and Swan, Sinatra, p. 280.
“that Kennedy would stop by”: Brownstein, The Power and the Glitter, p. 159.
Could it have been because: Smith, Grace and Power, pp. 71–72.
“At the time I didn’t know”: Summers and Swan, Sinatra, p. 280.
“because I had so much work”: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Jan. 27, 1961.
squiring Juliet Prowse: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Jan. 26, 1961.
taking the Toots Shors: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Jan. 30, 1961.
“with a guy nobody knew”: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Jan. 20, 1961.
“she laughed for two”: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Jan. 25, 1961.
“the leader has arrived”: Associated Press, Jan. 28, 1961.
The writer Peter Levinson: Peter Levinson, in discussion with the author, Feb. 2006; Levinson, September in the Rain, p. 146.
“rushing down the aisle”: Associated Press, Jan. 28, 1961.
“He did only 12 songs”: Variety, Feb. 3, 1961.
“We were seated”: Ostin, discussion.
“the commendations sometimes”: Server, Ava Gardner, p. 382.
A recent newspaper piece: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Jan. 26, 1961.
“I looked at his face”: Levinson, discussion.
“She lived now without plan”: Server, Ava Gardner, pp. 383–84.
“Apparently, she was much”: Shaw, Sinatra, p. 282.
“were together a short while”: Associated Press, Feb. 8, 1961.
As soon as Ava and Nancy: Variety, Feb. 14, 1961.
“We all had to sit around”: Kelley, His Way, p. 286.
“Frank had me liaise”: Mo Ostin, in discussion with the author, Aug. 2012.
“prevented many of the artists”: O’Brien and Sayers, Sinatra, p. 94.
“There would be long lines”: Glatt, Prince of Paradise, p. 46.
Sinatra and Giancana both enjoyed: Levy, Rat Pack Confidential, p. 141.
“bulged with books, fan mail”: Show Business Illustrated, Sept. 5, 1961.
Some disparaging jokes: Rappleye and Becker, All American Mafioso, p. 191.
Maheu’s main link: Summers and Swan, Sinatra, p. 134.
It has also been alleged: Ibid., p. 181.
And Giancana interested Maheu: Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy and His Times, p. 483.
Sinatra had also spent: Summers and Swan, Sinatra, p. 134.
“in part by having the Desert Inn”: Levy, Rat Pack Confidential, p. 218.
“Balletti and a cohort wired”: Ibid., p. 219.
“He almost swallowed”: Rappleye and Becker, All American Mafioso, p. 212.
“The Bureau’s interest increased”: Ibid.
“Oliver later told Frank fan”: Friedwald, Sinatra!, p. 116.
At one point, he reportedly: Cornyn, Exploding, p. 49.
“Sinatra was careful not”: Friedwald, Sinatra!, p. 294.
“I’ve just got to be busy”: Havers, Sinatra, p. 223.
“Frank was awful”: Kelley, His Way, p. 287.
“she loved Frank Sinatra”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 152.
“Mr. S had a ton”: Ibid., p. 153.
In January 1961: Variety, April 5, 1961.
The Federation of Italian-American: Associated Press, March 15, 1961.
And though the chief: New York Times, Sept. 25, 1960.
the federation’s boycott: Kelley, His Way, p. 287.
Fidel Castro wasn’t the only: Ibid.
And though Frank Sinatra had: Ibid., p. 288.
“precise details of tiff”: Variety, April 5, 1961.
“a bitter argument”: United Press, April 8, 1961.
“Frank turned to Desi”: Kelley, His Way, pp. 287–88.
“Associates of the men”: United Press, April 8, 1961.
“I remember when you”: Kelley, His Way, p. 288.
“I just couldn’t hit”: Ibid.
“How could you stand there”: Ibid.
And three weeks later: Associated Press, April 14, 1961.
He would do several other benefits: Havers, Sinatra, p. 263.
Sales and reviews were strong: Friedwald, Sinatra!, p. 377.
“A new, happier”: Billboard, Nov. 20, 1965.
“I put out so many”: Havers, Sinatra, p. 265.
CHAPTER 16
He phoned Douglas: Daniel O’Brien, Frank Sinatra Film Guide, p. 140.
“There was a Dairy Queen”: Levy, Rat Pack Confidential, p. 180.
“Cherry bombs were quite normal”: Ruta Lee, in discussion with the author, March 2014.
“a planeload of girls”: Ibid.
“an older gentleman”: Levy, Rat Pack Confidential, p. 180.
“Once I get ’em”: Erskine Johnson, syndicated column, Aug. 3, 1961.
“When we were shooting”: Lee, discussion.
“Please be advised”: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, p. 252.
“All Concerned”: Ibid.
“She had a glow”: Lee, discussion.
“She was beautiful, a vision”: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, pp. 252–53.
“There’s no doubt that Frank”: Spoto, Marilyn Monroe, p. 466.
“charged onstage”: Shaw, Sinatra, p. 293.
“They took over, doing”: Associated Press, July 26, 1961.
“Frank and his henchmen”: Shaw, Sinatra, p. 293.
“You sensed a feeling”: Ibid.
“felt honored, pleased”: Ibid.
The picture can be dated: Jacobs and Stadiem, photo insert; and see image of Aug. 29, 1961, Look cover.
“a former associate”: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, p. 253.
minus Joey: Louella Parsons, syndicated column, July 6, 1961.
At the Vienna Summit: Ritter, Dangerous Ground, p. 89.
During a summer when: Editorial, Monroe (La.) News Star, Aug. 18, 1961.
“In their scene”: United Press, Aug. 4, 1961.
“ ‘CLANSMEN’ DELAY PLANE”: Associated Press, Aug. 11, 1961.
“Peter Lawford is going to ease”: Shaw, Sinatra, p. 308.
A subsequent news photo: United Press, Aug. 9, 1961.
From there they would head: Associated Press, Aug. 1, 1961.
They would then spend: United Press, Aug. 9, 1961.
“I know they are coming”: Shaw, Sinatra, pp. 294–95.
“the 170-foot steam yacht”: United Press, Aug. 9, 1961.
“SINATRA CRUISE”: United Press, Aug. 17, 1961.
For forty-eight hours, it seemed: Leaming, Mrs. Kennedy, p. 143.
But there was another: United Press, Aug. 4, 1961.
At its mid-August meeting: Nevada State Journal, July 13, 1961.
“because it was unpretentious”: Nancy Sinatra, American Legend, p. 158.
“She knew that Frank was leaving”: Friedwald, Sinatra!, p. 378.
“I’m sure his lawyers”: Ibid.
“the atmosphere was relaxed”: Douglas-Home, Sinatra, p. 15.
“When he did come in”: Granata, Sessions with Sinatra, p. 149.
“That Sinatra still harbored”: Ibid., pp. 149–50.
“At 11:45, the last playback”: Douglas-Home, Sinatra, p. 19.<
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He wouldn’t return: Granata, Sessions with Sinatra, p. 149.
“I don’t think anyone”: Vernon Scott, syndicated column, Aug. 28, 1961.
Otto Preminger, had recently: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Jan. 25, 1961.
“Happy birthday, Prez”: Show Business Illustrated, Sept. 5, 1961.
“Almost immediately Jack”: Exner, My Story, p. 220.
“Jack was always so”: Kelley, His Way, pp. 290–91.
“In her view, that was”: Leaming, Mrs. Kennedy, p. 150.
“as a mature, self-possessed”: Ibid., p. 146.
“which Jackie had once”: Ibid., p. 145.
“Ordinarily, the Advise”: Ibid., p. 150.
Peter Lawford awaited them: Kelley, His Way, p. 292.
“ ‘I have your riding boots’ ”: Saunders, Torn Lace Curtain, pp. 83–84.
“The Marlin cruised about”: Associated Press, Sept. 24, 1961.
“loud and obnoxious”: Leaming, Mrs. Kennedy, p. 151.
“Sinatra’s presence at the Cape”: Ibid., pp. 149–50.
Frank, who’d played: See special-features interview of Axelrod, Frankenheimer, and Sinatra on The Manchurian Candidate DVD.
“felt that the political”: Daniel O’Brien, Frank Sinatra Film Guide, p. 143.
He’d loved The Manchurian Candidate: Capua, Janet Leigh, p. 110.
“That’s great”: Daniel O’Brien, Frank Sinatra Film Guide, p. 143.
“Ever since Prohibition”: Navasky, Kennedy Justice, p. 46.
“JOHNNY: I said”: Kuntz and Kuntz, Sinatra Files, pp. 152–54.
“He says he’s got”: Ibid., p. 153.
“Only Frank could get”: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, p. 246.
“I’m fucking Phyllis”: Russo, Outfit, p. 423.
Guy Pastor: www.imdb.com/name/nm1261248/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm.
She returned only after: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Sept. 25, 1961.
Ava tried phoning: Ibid.
“About 1 a.m.”: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Sept. 29, 1961.
“Dear Miss Kilgallen”: Dorothy Kilgallen, syndicated column, Oct. 14, 1961.
“Here’s the mother”: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Nov. 8, 1961.
“a lot of the songs”: Ed O’Brien, e-mail to author, March 24, 2014.
“The Chairman had made”: Friedwald, Sinatra!, p. 381.
“a musician’s musician”: Granata, Sessions with Sinatra, p. 162.
He was also a legendary: Carmel Malin, in discussion with the author, Jan. 2006; Lee Herschberg, in discussion with the author, May 2006.