"Until I Smile At You": How one girl's heartbreak electrified Frank Sinatra's fame

“Until I Smile At You” is a biography/memoir profiling one of the 20th century's most enduring musical talents: Ruth Lowe, who overcame her grief by writing the song that launched Frank Sinatra's career into the stratosphere in 1940, “I'll Never Smile Again”. As Nancy Sinatra writes in the Foreword, “There's a reason why `I'll Never Smile Again' has endured: it was a perfect song, interpreted by the perfect singer, at the perfect time.” The book details how Ruth managed to defeat the roadbl...