Frank Sinatra Gold Album 1977

Frank Sinatra – 1977 Original Gold Album; Presented to WEA Records by Frank Sinatra. Commemorating the sale of ‘One Hundred Thousand’ Long Playing Vinyl Records ‘Portrait of Sinatra’.

Portrait of Sinatra – Forty Songs from the Life of a Man is a 1977 compilation (Gatefold) album by American singer Frank Sinatra that consists of 40 songs that were recorded for Reprise Records. It spent a total of eighteen non-consecutive weeks in the UK Albums Chart, reaching number one for two weeks on 2 April 1977. It became Sinatra's fourth album to top the British charts, his first since 1957's A Swingin' Affair!

The Man -Francis Albert Sinatra – Needs a little introduction but here are some facts.

US singer and actor with Italian origins. Born: 12 December 1915 in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA. Died: 14 May 1998 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Nicknamed "The Voice," "Ol' Blue Eyes," "The Chairman Of The Board," and "Frankie Boy." Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey. Sinatra became a solo artist with great success after signing with Columbia Records in March 1943; he stayed with Columbia until he got dropped by the label in June '52. Sinatra signed a seven-year recording contract with Capitol Records on March 13, 1953, and released several critically lauded albums while with Capitol. Sinatra left Capitol to found his own record label in 1960, Reprise Records and toured internationally; he fraternized with the Rat Pack and President John F Kennedy in the early 1960s. Sinatra had three children, Nancy (singer, and artist), Frank Sinatra Jnr (musician), and Tina (TV producer), all with his first wife, Nancy Barbato (married 1939 to 1951). He was married three more times, to actresses Ava Gardner (1951 to 1957) and Mia Farrow (1966 to 1968), and finally to model/showgirl Barbara Marx (married 1976), to whom he was still married at his death.