Frank sinatra duet with nancy sinatra biography

April 25, 1967
“Somethin’ Stupid” by Nancy Sinatra and Frank Sinatra
#1 on the Billboard Hot 100, April 15 – May 12, 1967

When Frank Sinatra founded Reprise Records in 1960, one of the benefits of being Chairman of the Board was artistic freedom.

Between his more standard offerings, he recorded a tribute to his onetime mentor, bandleader Tommy Dorsey (1962’s I Remember Tommy); paid homage to the late President John F. Kennedy with a collection of patriotic songs (1964’s America, I Hear You Singing); and revisited his pioneering ’50s concept albums with a rumination on aging (1965’s September of My Years).

He also seized the opportunity to work with other high-profile talents he admired, cutting albums with Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and bossa nova luminary Antônio Carlos Jobim.

Nevertheless, Sinatra’s most famous collaboration of the ’60s wasn’t with an orchestra leader or a songwriter, but his daughter Nancy.

After sessions wrapped for the 196