My speech today is on not just a man, but a man who owns tens of millions of recordings, nine Grammy’s and two Academy Awards, some 60 films, worldwide tours, television specials, and hundreds of millions of dollars raised for charities. In sheer productivity, few popular artists could touch the hem of his tuxedo jacket. In pure, smoldering style, he was unexcelled. His rueful, macho star power ensured that the music and lyrics of the …showed first 75 words of 963 total…

…showed last 75 words of 963 total…he had swing and attitude. He was the big bang of pop...the man invented pop music." “May you live to be a hundred, and the last voice you hear be mine,” was the way Sinatra ended most of his concerts. Frank Sinatra died April 1998, at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. Even though the master is gone, his spirit will be with us always. Truly, he was a man who did it “his way.”