Wedding Songs

Classic timeless wedding songs from Frank Sinatra

If you need some good classics for your wedding, Sinatra is one of the best. Francis Albert, professionally known as Frank Sinatra was a famous American singer and actor, a great phenomenon for the music industry.




Sinatra began his successful musical career in the swing era with artists like Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, in the early 1940s. He soon became the idol of what was called the bobby soxers. The booby soxers were the overzealous, usually teenage girls who were fanatic fans of the singer. Their nickname came from the fact that by the 1950s, girls wore poodle skirts and rolled down their socks to the ankle.

In his solo career, Frank Sinatra released over 70 albums and only Elvis Presley, the King of Rock and Roll, can rival his biggest-selling solo artist of all time. He focused on jazz-influenced singing. Concerning his actor career, he appeared in almost 50 movies and in 1954; Frank Sinatra won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in From Here to Eternity movie.

Sinatra gave to the world timeless hits. Let’s see below some love songs that will fit your wedding reception:

The Best Is Yet to Come

This is a song composed by Coleman and written by Carolyn Leigh. Sinatra recorded it on his 1964 album It Might As Well Be Swing. It was the last song sung by Frank Sinatra in public, on February 1995. The song was initially written by Tony Bennett. The lyrics of The Best Is Yet to Come are printed on Sinatra’s tombstone. This song is good for your first wedding dance, but it’s even better for the wedding anniversary.

The Way You Look Tonight

This Sinatra song won the Academy Award in 1936 being nominated for the Best Original Song.

Someone to watch over me

This song was composed by George Gershwin for the 1926 musical Oh, Kay!, and it has been performed by numerous artists. It’s a jazz standard as well as a key work written in the Great American Songbook. This is good for your wedding dance.

Strangers in the Night and Summer Wind

Strangers in the Night was also the title track of an album that marked Sinatra’s return to no. 1 on the pop album charts in the mid-1960s. The single also consolidated the comeback of the artist in 1966. The single also reached no. 1 on the pop single charts, while Summer Wind became a classic, being used for TV commercials by the 2000s.

An affair to remember

This song is nowadays a standard for the last dance before the end of the reception.

My Funny Valentine

This song is a show tune from the 1937 musical Babes in Arms. It was recorded by many artists such as Chet Baker, Frank Sinatra and Miles Davis and became a popular jazz standard, played in over 1300 albums by over 600 artists.

Love and Marriage

This is another famous Sinatra song introduced in the 1955 production Our Town that aired on Producers’ Showcase. Love and Marriage won the Emmy Award for Best Musical Contribution of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

My Way

This was the most covered song in music history. The lyrics tell the story of a man who is nearing death and he is comfortable with that and takes responsibility for how he lived his life while maintaining his integrity. The melody of the song is based on a French song called Comme d’habitude written by Claude François and Jacques Revaux.

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