# Frank Sinatra Jr. dead at 72 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 17, 2016, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-sinatra-jr-dead-at-72/749242 "2016-03-17T04:47:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2016, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-sinatra-jr-dead-at-72/749242/21 "2016-03-18T11:31:25Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Sinatra, Sr. was very hard on him for most of his life. He doted on and spoiled the girls but his sense of manliness dictated he be hard on his son, who never measured up to the old man. Even in middle-age, when working as his father’s musical arranger and orchestra conductor, Frank, Sr. was hard on him, bossing him around and treating him like a flunky. > > I don’t think lots of money was particularly important to him either. I remember a friend of the family saying of the kids’ inheritance after Frank, Sr. died, that as long as Frank, Jr. could write a check and not have it bounce he was happy. > > I think Frank, Jr. eventually came to terms with his lot in life and managed to be fairly happy. I wouldn’t have wanted to be him though. My understanding is that Frank’s own father, Marty, was hard on him growing up, feeling this was the best way to prepare him for life in this world. Frank became so successful that he earned the respect of his father, a fireman\> But he became such as big star that Jr was never able to live up to it. ``` Not to go too maudlin about Jr's troubles, billions of people wish they were him, but he genuinely loved the type of music that his father made. But just as he was becoming an adult, the Beatles and other groups thoroughly changed popular music and Jr was left with loving a form of music that was now a museum piece ``` [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frank-sinatra-jr-dead-at-72/749242.md?page=1)