Resurrection

The Last seven years of Frank Sinatra's career were by far the most fruitful and creative of his life. Frank played Maggio in the film From Here To Eternity. He gained his confidence, creativity and style back again.







He also connected with Nelson Riddle, Billy May, and Gordon Jenkins and in a period of seven years they created 16 'concept' albums of great quality. Songs such as My One and Only One, I've Got The World on a String, and Don't Worry 'Bout Me. The incorporation of brass, reeds and strings gave the sound and style a unique flavor. Nelson Riddle also quoted "Most of our best numbers were in what I call the Tempo of the heartbeat. That's the tempo that strikes people easiest because, without their knowing it, they are moving to that pace all their working hours, Music to me is sex-it's all tied up somehow, and the rhythm of sex is the heartbeat."





One of Frank's most popular songs Come Fly With me was also written at this time.



Author Derek Jewell said in his book
"There are two points worth making about Sinatra's music in the ten years from the mid-50s to mid-60s. First, the long-playing record may have been invented just from him, and other ballad singers. The singles market developed almost exclusively for brassy upbeat tunes often intended for dancing, albums allowed Sinatra fully to explore themes happy and sad around which songs could be grouped. Secondly, Sinatra brought to the long-playing record an artistry which could exploit the medium to the full. The whole emotional rage of his singing had broadened and deepened, which had derived from the life he was living."

Sinatra was going through many extremes ups as well as downs. On October 27th 1953 MGM separated from Frank. Within a month Frank was in a hospital suffering from 'complete physical exhaustion, severe loss of weight and a tremendous amount of emotional strain.' But in true fashion Sinatra made another comeback and in 1954 he was awarded Down Beat's best male vocalist. He also won singer of the year with Metronome and best single with Young at Heart.



He then went back into acting appearing in The Man with the Golden Arm, The Joker is Wild, High Society, Guys and Dolls, and Pal Joey. 
In December of 1957 he was awarded top male vocalist for Playboy, All-Round Entertainer Of The Year with American Weekly, Mr. Personality in Metronome. 
Then Frank returned to his old womanizing ways getting in trouble with the media. He began having relationships with many women which translated bad in the media as it had before. in 1958 his relations with Capitol were turning sour. He wanted to be independent but his contract with Capitol was until 1962 and they didn't want to release him. He stopped recording with Capitol in 1959.