Record Executives vs. Frank Sinatra

RECORD EXECUTIVE: Now, Mr. Sinatra, we've worked up some LP cover treatments where you look cool and smooth, sitting in a bar, drinking a Scotch, and...

SINATRA: Jilly.

JILLY RIZZO: Look, Mr. Sinatra has his own ideas about what to put on the album cover, see? And Mr. Sinatra wants to be a sad lonely clown, see?


front cover of Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely by Frank Sinatra (Capitol, 1958), artwork by Nicholas Volpe.
He won a Grammy for this painting!