Bobby Aragon was introduced to the music of Sinatra and The Great American Songbook by his mother Guadalupe, named for the Virgin of Guadalupe whose feast day is on December 12th which is also Frank Sinatra’s birthday.

Bobby and the Chairman of the Board are also linked by the date September 8th, the day the Virgin Mary’s birth is celebrated. Bobby’s mom was born on this date in 1928. On September 8,1935, a 20-year-old Sinatra (singing with the Hoboken Four) got his first major break on the Major Bowes Original Amateur Hour radio program broadcast nationwide on NBC.

The date August 3rd, ties Bobby to Tony Bennett, whose first record was about Our Lady of Fatima. Both men celebrate their birthdays on what is also the day Christopher Columbus set sail for the New World. In 1962, the year Bobby was born, Frank Sinatra set out on a World Tour for Children, he paid all the expenses.

December 8th, the feast of the Immaculate Conception, the day on which the Virgin Mary was conceived is a date that also figures prominently in the lives of Bobby Aragon and Frank Sinatra.

On December 8, 1946 Bobby’s mom, Guadalupe married his dad Juan at St. Augustine Church in Laredo, Texas. On December 8, 1963 Frank Sinatra, Jr. was kidnapped by two men from his hotel room in Lake Tahoe. On December 11th, the eve of Frank Sinatra’s birthday and the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Frankie was reunited unharmed with his famous pop and family.

Bobby, Sinatra, and Bennett were all raised Catholic and all three were introduced to the Rosary by their moms. Bobby Aragon’s singing career is dedicated to his mom and to Our Lady of Guadalupe.

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