"Frank Sinatra: ""The Chairman of the Board"" Look this one up on the web and at least 99 out of 100 citations will say Sinatra got the honorary title after founding Reprise Records in the early '60s. But true Sinatra fans will tell you that explanation is all wet. It was really bestowed upon him by Williams, a DJ on WNEW radio from the '40s through the '80s, who thought that his hometown pal should have a nickname as cool as Benny Goodman's ""King of Swing"" or Duke Ellington's simple ""Duke."" Not surprisingly, Ol' Blue Eyes (as he was also known, of course) dug it."
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