Always great to hear something about Sinatra. I remember taking my Mom to see him around '86, he was a star to my parents starting from the Tommy Dorsey days, I grew up hearing those tunes along with the 50s-60s "Strangers in the Night" era.

That said, we listened to the Sinatra books on tape, and he appears to have had a mob-connected stage Mom, enormous and vindictive ego. As Dorsey said "don't put your hand in the cage". Kind of a miracle he not only survived and staged a comeback, but that he was so popular, almost in a Trumpian vein. The boozy, unapologetic, vengeful Sinatra is not the model for my boys, but did he ever have a voice and know how to use it!

I submitted him for "TIMEs Man of the 20th Century" as like him or not, no one else had such an effect on our culture (movies, music, politics, etc).

He lost to Albert Einstein...fair enough!