From his earliest recordings in 1939 and his recordings with Tommy Dorsey’s Orchestra (1940-1942) through his Columbia recording years and radio days and nights during the next ten years, Frank Sinatra began a career that continued for 35 additional years, and that made him nothing less than a 20th century icon.

More than an icon, he was a superb artist. He provided us with quintessential interpretations of America’s finest songs. And your gifts contain many of his best, most memorable gifts to us.