Ring a Ding Ding! It’s His 100th Birthday.

Where do you start when you want to mark Frank Sinatra’s 100th birthday? The Wall Street Journal offers these eight suggestions.

You must begin, however, with a song.

You could also dip into one of the two volumes of James Kaplan’s definitive Sinatra biography. Andrew O’Hagan’s novel The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of his Friend Marilyn Monroe is an affectionate look at the top of the world through the eyes of the dog Sinatra really did give Marilyn. And she named him Maf.

What a rich vein of Sinatra with his peers in a golden age of song the internet provides.

These 2 colorized minutes may be the peak of that era. You know what we mean?

Look at how easy these four legends make it look with a light confection.

Thanks to beautiful, vexing Ava Gardner, no one could sing about a broken heart like Sinatra.

A lot was and continues to be written about Sinatra’s ill-temper and disreputable associates. Today, let’s look to the wisdom of Ronald Reagan who said let’s hope those things aren’t true.

One hundred years from today, the world will celebrate his 200th birthday and remark on his singular life.