Frank Sinatra Jr. "Night And Day" on The Ed Sullivan Show

[@stevefaure415]

Frank Jr. really, really had an unusual life. He could never get out from his father's shadow and never tried. He embraced the shadow.

[@vanessapierce231]

Thank you I will research him. God bless you.

[@chanselur]

neither he had the charisma or the musical phrasing to do so, he happily lived through that shadow, apparently.

[@mrskeleton2992]

Even Michael Sinatra

[@bryanismyname7583]

Same song, same arrangement. Even when he did newer material, the audiences just associated him with his father too much.

[@bluenick4577]

@@chanselur how many peope do?

[@reggiebadunkadunk]

No matter what you think, at 19 years of age, Jr. looks and sounds like an angel. Just like his father.

[@catman916]

This is Nelson Riddle's arrangement used on Frank senior's A Swingin' Affair LP.

[@charliechalk]

A great arrangement!

[@terrijofilms305]

Frank Jr. was a fine looking young man!

[@reggiebadunkadunk]

Of course he was shy, but I think there’s more to just his shyness than remembering how much pressure Jr. was under to reflect the image of his father. Don’t get me wrong, it’s definitely there, but it’s the simplicity of having a naïve soul such as Jr. perform ‘Night and Day’ that fascinates me most. The energy that Jr. emits through song is unlike his father in any way, and tells beautifully of the human being rather than the performer’s son. For the song itself, it’s simply perfect for Jr. as it’s balanced off of a crescendo - a transition from piano to forté. And Jr. pulls it off spectacularly with that impressive range. And it’s the shyness that the music captures and that even makes his movement feel more complimentary to the music itself. From standing idly with a microphone held in one hand, to taking it, moving around, and having more confidence to face the orchestra and actively enjoy the music by making his performance more unique. And so he did. To put it another way, if there ever truly was an homage to Frank Sinatra and being a Sinatra, it’s this legendary performance.

[@deedeescrystalblueclassics3973]

Wow, he was good.. a little shy at first but after the band played out he showed his stuff. I could here his Dad's voice. Nice performance.

[@timklein3962]

Well stated all around !!!!!!

[@ranxerox5310]

1:13 into it

[@rosegreenwald4390]

I think he was just as great as his father. The whole Sinatra Family are blessed with Beauty and Talent. RIP 😢

[@levieenrose7646]

Frank Jnr was very talented and his voice was lovely...very smooth. It took alot of courage to follow in his father's footsteps knowing that everything n g he does will be compared to his Dad.

[@megankinsey6190]

What an accomplished performance from such a young guy ❤

[@donnagerhard645]

Oh my goodness. So handsome..💔💞💕💙😘🤗📸⭐⭐🎤🎼🎶

[@pascalbretaire4163]

very talent frank junior!!! super! merci youtube!

[@timklein3962]

Totally under rated talent; world class !!!!!

[@melaniexoxo]

I’ve always thought Frank Jr was fantastic. Thanks for posting. ❤️

[@cindyduran4236]

His voice never changed.

[@tj921able]

He did a great cover of the song and deeply resembled his father. Thank you for sharing this, God Bless You and stay safe.

[@lonestarfriend]

Major props to the orchestra, the arranger, and to Cole Porter (I’m a big fan) as well. 🙂

[@TomElvisSmith]

You might already know, and apologies if you do, but I wanted to let you know this is the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra that Frank is singing with.

[@michaeltuz608]

@@TomElvisSmith Very cool! Even without their founder, the band had some great chops. They were perhaps my favorite Big Band of the 40s.

[@TomElvisSmith]

@@michaeltuz608 Yes, it was definitely a great band!

[@damiancazares7994]

Happy Heavenly 81st Birthday Frank Sinatra Jr January 10 1944 - March 16 2016

[@luishumbertovega3900]

Excellent, great musicality, a true artist !!!

[@that70sgirl90]

I could listen that orchestra play all "Night And Day" Thank you for sharing! 💖

[@michaeltuz608]

According to our pal Tom Smith, that was the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. It doesn't get any better than that!

[@that70sgirl90]

@@michaeltuz608 Yes Indeed... what would we do without our pal. I've heard of them... they are phenomenal! Jr... well not so much. His voice just didn't Wow me! Not the worst I've ever heard, but not the Best! Thank you for sharing !💖

[@lonestarfriend]

That was VERY well done. Very smooth. Fine voice. He really looked like his dad in his younger days at the start, and he really seemed to relax as the song progressed.

[@MrRichiekaye]

Better than most who try to do this today. But still, he wouldn't have even gotten on stage back in 1963 without the last name, there were so many who far surpassed this even at the local gin joint level.

[@hudsony777]

I think any of us singing on a live televised show watched by millions might be just a TAD nervous!

[@melaniexoxo]

He really does an excellent job and added enough nuance to make it his own. I don’t understand the criticism.

[@hudsony777]

@@melaniexoxo I really like it. Too bad they didn't name him Tommy or Peter or Bobby. "You hear that new Bobby Sinatra song? Man, it flies." Instead, he got the Jr. Bad call. No one named Tina Francine...he also does quite well with "Wedding Vows in Vegas" here on YT, many years later, totally different kind of song.

[@MrJoeybabe25]

@@MrRichiekaye But if he didn't have the stuff, he wouldn't have had a career. "Sinatra" got him in the door. Talent kept him in.

[@pattibrooks1907]

I was 7 when this aired on TV and I really love his songs ! Thank you very muc !

[@hudsony777]

Tough to compete with his father's versions, but he does and makes it his own. Bravo Francis Wayne.

[@JasonG146]

At the 245 mark, I think that's the hardest I ever heard Jr swing a song in my life...if only he picked that up and used it more.

[@davephillips6456]

Real great

[@michelmotta4339]

Fantástico.

[@elevenb1933]

He wasn’t bad. Tough to follow his father. I always liked him. He did have talent. I am a huge fan of his father who I always believed was the greatest entertainer of the 20th century. There never will be anyone better than Frank Sinatra.

[@dougmilesmedia]

He was able to carve out a niche in singing despite his Dad's enormous shadow.

[@germanico4401]

QUE PARECIDO AL PADRE. .

[@Concetta20]

Although he sounded a lot like his father, he had emoted really well with his voice as well. Hm! Like butter! Warm and clear tone!

[@michaeltuz608]

Frank Jr does a nice job with this Cole Porter standard, some twenty years after his dad first recorded it. Thanks for sharing!

[@that70sgirl90]

What is the story with him? I'm really only more familiar with Nancy. To tell you the truth, this is the first time I heard him sing.. I'm assuming he's not singing anymore. I'm assuming he is still living. Mostly Brenda posted a little about his kidnapping.

[@michaeltuz608]

@@that70sgirl90 Like you, I'm not very familiar with the career of Frank Jr. I know he was a singer but that's about it. Via an online search I learned that he passed away in 2016 at the age of 72.

[@that70sgirl90]

@@michaeltuz608 Thank you for looking that up. I apologize for that. I just assumed you knew about him. I could've looked him up instead of having you do it. It just seems like Nancy had a bigger singing career then Frank Jr. For some reason his never took off. Thanks again for sharing! 💖

[@that70sgirl90]

I'm signing off... 5:15 rolls around too fast! Good night... sleep well! Maybe you are already asleep. Thank you. 💖

[@that70sgirl90]

@@michaeltuz608 Today was a stay in day, so I did some catching up. I thought I'd share with you. I hope you don't mind? There were some different theories on why Frank Jr was kidnapped. They thought that he had actually orchestrated the kidnapping himself to get his father's attention. Another was that it was mob related. The last one was that his classmates orchestrated the kidnapping The FBI determined that it was disgruntled classmates looking for money. They also said, he had a trouble love life. He never had the love he wanted from his father that he really wanted. He fathered four children from four different woman. All the baby mama's were named Mary. Guess there was, "Something about Mary." Out of the four, only one if them was ever acknowledged. He didn't want his father to know about his troubled love life and that he had fathered those children. Don't know how they could use the term father. He was just a donor. Never acknowledged those children. I found that to be the saddest story out of.the two of them. I wanted to share that with you since you were kind enough to share what you looked up with me. Have a Beautiful Evening ! Hope you had a Wonderful Day!

[@louisphilippe5666]

Interesting rendition. If my ears weren't tricking me this version uses Nelson Riddle's arrangement for Frank Sr on the 1957 Capitol album A Swingin' Affair but interpolates bits from Axel Stordahl's arrangement of the standard which Frank Sr used in the 40s, for reference the sax parts here at the end of the song's A sections.

[@vanessapierce231]

You sound very musically inclined. Very educated too.

[@louisphilippe5666]

@@vanessapierce231 thank you very much for your kind words! Don't know about educated but I'm a huge fan of Sinatra Sr's music and vocal jazz in general

[@akrenwinkle]

Naming him Frank Jr. wasn't doing him any favors. He was damn good, but what a shadow to live under.

[@hudsony777]

They should have named him Robert or Thomas or anything else. "Did you hear Bobbie Sinatra's new album?" Or something like that.

[@akrenwinkle]

@@hudsony777 Like Frank, Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball weren't shy on ego. They named their kids Desi and Lucie, as if clones without their own personalities. Neither made it. Now, take Henry Fonda, who didn't name his daughter Henrietta. Or Robert Montgomery, who didn't name his daughter Roberta. Better, yes? (Red Skelton named his son Richard Jr., but the public didn't know Red's name was Richard.)

[@hudsony777]

@@akrenwinkle Lucie has had a career, but a mid-sized one. But I get your point.

[@akrenwinkle]

@@hudsony777 I think Lucie was good. Quite good. But her TV training, learning to shout her lines on "Here's Lucy" also did her no favors. Desi Jr. could no longer stand his mother and bailed. He was a handsome fellow and with training might have done better coming up the hard way.

[@hudsony777]

@@akrenwinkle I guess. Anyway, I like Frankie Jr.

[@woodscw50]

A TOUR A MARINE MY BROTHER OUR WALK MY TEAM A BROTHER 55 MY SONG MY BROTHER

[@MostlyBrenda]

Just a little over 2 months later on December 8, 1963 at Lake Tahoe, he was kidnapped. His father paid the $240,000 ransom and he was released two days later.

[@that70sgirl90]

Never knew that. Thank you for sharing!!💖

[@MXB2001]

That's about $2.5 million today.

[@donnagerhard645]

I remember that horrible day.

[@vanessapierce231]

This teaches us not to assosiate with bad people esp. the Mafia y mob. Y there out there. Frank must have pissed someone off as they target family members.

[@vanessapierce231]

Also, I think the Latinos have intelligence for where one goes so does the whole gang y there is security in numbers. Thanks for sharing y God bless you. Love sent from a Jewish great grandmother with a Latino family.

[@TomElvisSmith]

Please also post Helen Forrest singing "I Had the Craziest Dream" and "Just One of Those Things" with the Tommy Dorsey orchestra on this episode. Thank you!

[@user-ih6vs3eg3o]

My favourite singer of all time!

[@woodscw50]

A TOUR MY WALK MY TEAM A BROTHER MY TEAM

[@terrytay1774]

He has a good style n phrasing though his voice is ok. He is his own person.

[@recordguy4321]

"Chairboy" of the board. Just months before the infamous kidnapping

[@george-nm9ol]

😍

[@jadezee6316]

Horribly shy as a youngster, frank jr. never received the attention his famous dad bestowed on his siblings... Nancy especially....his reputation would suffer when his kidnappers claimed he.....had engineered his own kidnapping for attention, a claim TOTALLY FALSE....but nevertheless believed by the usual simpletons..... Frank jr. would go on to become a well respected musician....conducting the last few years of his dads concerts. a none drinker or smoker to the best of my knowledge...he died far younger than his all night partying dad.....and his mom who lived to 101. And while he achieved a music career on his own....he was never going to become anything more than Frank Sinatras son.....and sadly he knew it...

[@jesusapolicarpio-delacruz3851]

MY FIRST YIME TO SEE FRANK JR. SING!!! HE TOO HAD HIS OWN VOICE TO RECKON WITH...THANX FOR THE VIDEO!!! VERY FEW REALLY MANAGE TO LIIVE UP TO EXPECTATIONS...THE WIDE SHADOW ALWAYS LURKS!!!

[@vanessapierce231]

Wow you are very well educated y no doubt a huge fan. I read enjoyed your input. I love stories. Thank you very much y God bless. Ps. Did you ever see any of the Sinatra members in concert.

[@samludu5916]

This is essentially Nelson Riddle's arrangement for Junior's father.

[@cindyduran4236]

His posture didn't changed either.

[@rmstitanic8163]

Definitely had his father's mannerisms, and sounds similar, but his father had that extra magic, and power in his voice. Nice though. 👌

[@chrisnalina1755]

How about showing Frank Sinatra Sr. singing?? June 28, 1964 and other dates from the 1950's.

[@RCALivingStereo]

💯 agree

[@MCO18]

He was kidnapped two months after this appearance, but was released unharmed

[@vanessapierce231]

Thank God.

[@sherirobinson6867]

The boy sure was pretty

[@sharksport01]

🤢

[@joannoeldechen3795]

Frank and Warren...cousins...2 of a kind. My father is guarding Micheal Sinatra's father. Right behind ya, Frankie...in NYC. See Anka...other Ray Sinatra people...guarding Barbato. Nelson Riddle. The Anka. Matola. Etc.

[@hudsony777]

what

[@joannoeldechen3795]

Dick Noel on the right...trombone...Dad's cuz...FAS musician...Ray Anthony vocalist...Navy...

[@carlhopkinson]

Should have gotten his own niche.

[@mga2899]

With a name change, he would have made it as a singer.

[@robertfantauzzo491]

Better upper range than his dad

He should have gone in the direction of pop or in a rock band. Maybe he would have had success. He never achieved it being a crooner like his dad. It was his pops generation. Junior was rock!

[@recordguy4321]

HA HA the kid was never a rocker Frank would have kicked his ass.Unlike Nancy Sinatra who hooked up with producer Lee Hazelwood and made some pop-rock classics ,JR. became a decent actor and then conducted for his dad.

@@recordguy4321 after this taping it would be 2 moths later that he was kidnapped. His short lived career would never would be the same!

[@arlenecerf8833]

Well it’s not that at all - he just wasn’t a stand out like his other contemporaries . I mean, he’s only about a year younger than Streisand , whose early repertoire wasn’t pop/ 60s rock but ballads and a bit of jazz.

[@vanessapierce231]

I was thinking the same thing but, he did not have a rock n roll voice.

[@hudsony777]

@@arlenecerf8833 He was subtle, a great composer, a niche. By the way, any relation to Bennett?

[@OmayraPacheco-m7n]

Dick Noel. Warren's cousin. He played for Sinatra and Sinatra, Jr. Bobby Darin effect. Barbato Swag. WGNJMN🎉.

[@johnnytoobad7785]

Not bad, but not as good as Dad. He DID play a mean game of poker in the Sopranos.

[@calikokat100]

Nooe

[@opticscolossalandepicvideo4879]

He is like 18 here just 3 months before kidnapping

[@stevensteccato3530]

Should’ve been a lawyer.. construction or something… never again will there be a Frankie not even his son!

[@PoundTown595]

He looks like he’s 15 years old here.

[@arlenecerf8833]

He was 19

[@elviskess]

He had a great voice like his Dad but none of charisma or showmanship.

[@daviddurfee6127]

I have to wonder why he chose to perform the best song performed by the best American singer of the 20th century, who happened to be his Dad. If you're Leonardo DaVinci Jr., you shouldn't try to redo the Mona Lisa.

[@barbaranugnes5800]

Some people HAVE to climb mountains. There's nothing they can do about it, even when they know they'll slip. Here's to the brave🥀

[@alangolias8628]

Shame he had to live in his dad's shadow

[@hudsony777]

He went in musical directions that were less public. But I love his singing and his very studied phrasing. He doesn't sound like his father to me until much later in life on some parts of some songs because the pitch of his range deepened as happens to all of us, speaking or singing.

[@phildaniels8868]

Truthfully, his voice is forgettable. I guess that's why I never knew Frank Sr. had a son.

[@popev3887]

Frank Jr. A nothing that nobody wanted to listen to...

[@raycarter4030]

lol this chappie can’t sing for toffee.

[@rexx893]

LITTLE FRANKIE COULDN'T SING A CRAP .HORRENDOUS .

[@kentlarsen5834]

Frank Jr. was just an also ran. People wanted to see him because it reminded them of his father. He had no musical gift, just a lot of coaching helped his performance. But I really can't stand him, he's such a bore.