I don't even feel like this on Valentine's Day

I am feeling sad and lonely and melancholy today and cannot shake it. Today I feel like I will never find anyone, like no one will ever love me or choose me. You know it's bad if I'm posting about it.

Since misery loves company, here are a few songs that make me weepy or sad for whatever reason. Um, enjoy?

Herman's Hermits - There's a Kind of Hush (Thanks for this one, Any Major Dude. And again, thanks for the lovely writeup)

Johnny Rivers - Summer Rain

Harry Connick, Jr. - But Not for Me (happy 41st birthday, Harry)

Printing

Newark, Ohio

Harry Connick, Jr. - I Could Write a Book

Berlin

Berlin, Ohio, that is. And if you know Ohio like I know Ohio, you know that we emphasize the first syllable, not the second.

Outside an Amish cheese shop.

Harry Connick, Jr. - Brown World

Frank, Pt. 1

Frank Sinatra died ten years ago this month, as unimaginable as that seems. I remember when I heard the news. I was still living with my ex-fiance at the time, and he was big on tv news in the morning, so that day, May 14th, he'd wandered downstairs and flipped on The Today Show as usual. I came down to get a cup of coffee and saw him standing there in shock with his toothbrush in his hand. Then, when I saw tributes of flowers on the Walk of Fame on the screen and asked him who died, he could barely get it out. (Anth was from a large Italian family. I trust I don't have to explain his reaction.) I liked Frank Sinatra, and I kind of was beginning to think he'd live forever, so I was very sad.

In the intervening decade, I've gotten more and more familiar with his work; with every song and every movie of his that I've come to know, my respect, appreciation, and - I'll admit it - hero worship, have grown.

This Memorial Day weekend, my Saturday, Sunday and Monday posts will be in memory of Frank. Since I don't know anything about music, and can't write with any intelligence about his technique, his ability, etc., I'll keep these entries simple and just try to show why I love the guy.

In this post, I'll share a few of my favorite songs from one of his best albums (true, it's a large pool to pick from), 1957's Come Fly With Me, and a few other versions of the same songs.

Frank Sinatra - Come Fly With Me
I could absolutely use some exotic booze, as a matter of fact.

Michael Buble' - Come Fly With Me
I've mentioned before that I like the crispness & brightness of this one.

Frank Sinatra - I Love Paris
Crazy romantic and catchy. Listen to it twice and you'll sing it all day long. Interestingly, it's only 1:51 long; its only potential flaw is that about the time it really gets going, it's over.

Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Love Paris
I can't wait to hear the reactions to this one. It's indescribable. He um, really throws himself into this. There's this spoken word bit toward the end that's totally what we'd call insensitive today, and totally hilarious. I laugh every time he says "I saw Mau Mau kissing Santa Claus."

Frank Sinatra - Autumn in New York
His version is so rich vocally that even if you only focus on his phrasing and enunciation, you can still be swept away.

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Autumn in New York
I do love this one, and I admit that part of it is the distinct sound, in the first verse, of a Zippo clicking open. If that's not what it is, don't tell me. There is something very intimate and quiet about their version, and that sound really lends something to that. It's as if they're staying up late together, singing and lighting each other cigarettes.

Harry Connick, Jr. - Autumn in New York
As much as I love Harry and that voice of his, I have to say that if I were following those two acts above, I believe I'd make mine an instrumental too.

Happy New Year!

time for a new start
Columbus, Ohio

and time for an old tradition (When Harry Met Sally is one of my favorite movies ever):

Harry: What does this song mean? My whole life I don't know what this
song means. I mean, 'Should old acquaintance be forgot". Does that mean we
should forget old acquaintances or does it mean if we happen to forget them we
should remember them, which is not possible because we already forgot them!?

Sally: Well, maybe it just means that we should remember that we forgot them
or something. Anyway, it's about old friends.


Nancy Wilson - What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?

Harry Connick, Jr. - What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?

Guy Lombardo - Auld Lang Syne

Best of 2007. Pt. 1

My favorite new music of the year, in four parts.

By new music, I mean music that was new to me in 2007, not just music that was released this year. If you're wondering how some of this could have escaped me when it was first released, the answer is that I don't listen to the radio. (I'm sorry, Ang!)

January
Betty Hutton - Blow a Fuse
The original song behind Bjork's "It's Oh So Quiet," released in 1948. I will always associate this one with a photohunt in the driving snow in Bellefontaine, Ohio.
Bow Wow Wow - Fools Rush In
A Sinatra cover, and a superior one. This comes from the Marie Antoinette soundtrack.
Joss Stone - Put Your Hands On Me

On January 31, Harry Connick, Jr. released Oh My Nola, and it became one of my favorite of his albums. I could list the whole cd here, but I'll stick to my most-played tracks.
Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey
Working In The Coal Mine
Oh, My Nola
Take Her to the Mardi Gras
and my favorite of all,
Jambalaya

February
Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position
I downloaded this because I liked "The Libertine," and assumed that it would be as moody; instead, I found the most upbeat, cheerful pop song I've heard in a long time.
Michelle Shocked - Hardcore Hornography
Her Mardi Gras single, a raw brass band tribute to New Orleans. Why can't I find more music like this?
Susanna Hoffs - To Sir With Love
William Shatner - Common People
Once I heard this, I couldn't be bothered with the original. Bill rocks. I love this man more every day.
Blossom Dearie - Always True to You In My Fashion
The first Dearie (yeah, that's her real name) song I'd ever heard. Between Cole Porter's lyrics and her presentation of them, this is 2:51 of pure wit and sophistication. I discovered this song and the vodka gimlet at the same time; together, they took the edge off a nasty winter.

March
Captain Smartypants - Xanadu
Their website blurb refers to them as "those nine homosexuals who won't stop singing." I love their version almost as much as Olivia Newton-John's, and that really means something.
Blossom Dearie - Down With Love
The song used as the title music for the recent movie was actually written back in 1937; Dearie recorded this in 1958, and it's a much shorter, faster, sparer version. I like it a lot.

Happy 40th, Harry

I really have nothing original, deep or worthwhile to add to the discussion about the other significant anniversary today marks, so instead I'll turn to something lighter.

My favorite musician turns 40 years old today. Happy birthday, Harry. Here's to at least 40 more. And selfishly, a whole lot more cds.



A Wink & A Smile

You Didn't Know Me When

This Guy's In Love With You

Way Down Yonder in New Orleans

Nowhere With Love

Ornate Gate

Downtown Columbus

Harry Connick, Jr. - Next Door Blues

oh my nola

oh my nola is out on the market. If you like Harry, you'll love it; his big band takes on music associated with New Orleans. I've listened to it without skipping a track maybe 20 times since I got it.

Track listing:

1. Working In A Coal Mine

2. Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey ?

3. Something You Got

4. Let Them Talk

5. Jambalaya (On the Bayou)

6. Careless Love

7. All These People (Original Recording)

8. Yes We Can Can

9. Someday

10. Oh, My Nola - (Original Recording)

11. Elijah Rock

12. Sheik of Araby

13. Lazy Bones

14. We Make A Lot Of Love - (Original Recording)

15. Hello Dolly

16. Do Dat Thing - (Original Recording)

Word to the wise: if you don't mind spending your money at WalMart, get it there. Their version contains a bonus track, "Take Her to the Mardi Gras."

The video for "All These People":



A live video for "Yes We Can Can" at Amazon

He has another one out as well, Connick on Piano Volume 3: Chanson du Vieux Carre; watch this space.

Orange

Franklin Park Conservatory
Columbus, Ohio

Harry Connick, Jr - Lazy River

A New Year, A Clean Slate

Happy New Year!

Nancy Wilson - What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?

Harry Connick, Jr. - What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?

Guy Lombardo - Auld Lang Syne

Billy Idol - Auld Lang Syne



Harry: What does this song mean? My whole life I don't know what this
song means. I mean, 'Should old acquaintance be forgot". Does that mean we
should forget old acquaintances or does it mean if we happen to forget them we
should remember them, which is not possible because we already forgot them!?

Sally: Well, maybe it just means that we should remember that we forgot them
or something. Anyway, it's about old friends.

Best of 2006, Pt. 2

A few more of my favorite songs of the year.

And yes, yet more Harry.

Sometimes, he goes on a streak of doing lots of movies, tv shows, what have you, and when he does, it can be a long time between cds. I'm torn -- I'm a big fan of his, so I want lots of success for him, but despite that and the fact that I have a hard time complaining about his working in a more visual medium, I am a fan of his for the music, not just his looks.

No matter what anyone tells you.

So I was apprehensive about this year when I heard he'd be doing Pajama Game on Broadway for nearly half the year; great, I thought, he's crazy-busy, not recording, and I don't even get to watch him in the thing that's taking up all his time.

I was so happy to be proved wrong. He not only released the cast recording, but another cd with it of songs from his musical, Thou Shalt Not from a few years ago.

Result? I bought the double cd the morning it came out and spent countless days listening to my favorite songs from Pajama Game, mainly on mix cds while driving around taking pictures. If I had any kind of actual, useable singing voice, I could do "There Once Was A Man" in my sleep. Both parts. And Hernando's Hideaway ... all the parts. Throughout all eight minutes.

And then there's the fact that the LJ music community Audiography used "Hand Claps" as a theme during a particularly lovely week in spring. I spent the week downloading hand clappy songs, burning them onto a double cd and going on photohunts while listening to the happiest, most upbeat springtime music possible, like Charlotte Church's Crazy Chick and Clap! Shake! Jump! by Behavior with Andrea Revel. I especially remember listening to these songs on a temperate day in April while shooting out at Fort Hayes, then coming home and making deviled eggs. Hey, it was spring. I had a Paula Deen recipe. It involved bacon.

Yes, they were awesome.

Music - Weekly Mix #5

This week's mix has an actual theme. Weekly Mix #5 is entitled "Everything Old Is New Again" and features songs from the last 30-odd years that sound much, much older.

The Puppini Sisters – Wuthering Heights

Not the same version as last week's. A little longer, a little richer vocal performance. Oh my God, I love this song and this group.
If you really, really want it, you can get the CD through Amazon, but it's an import, and will set you back $40.49.

Christina Aguilera – Candyman

Yes, again, and this is the same version as last time. Still in love with it.
Buy Back To Basics.

Michael Buble' – Sway

A third one I've posted before. Beginning to notice a theme to my taste? I don't love Buble' like I love Connick, but then my love for Harry goes back a long way. He & I have been through so much together. Anyway, Mike. My friend griff feels that the musicianship on this track whips the musicianship on Dean Martin's version's ass. I agree, wholeheartedly. He feels, however, that Dean's vocals win over Mike's, and while I would give Deano the vocal win on any other song, I cannot award him a win here. There's something about Buble's voice – on his best songs, anyway – that's crisp and bright, and I always prefer those qualities, even over the richness and depth Dean brings. This is all simply a matter of personal preference, however.
Buy his debut album.

Harry Connick, Jr. – Sweet Georgia Brown

Speaking of Harry. His Eleven cd, recorded when he was yes, eleven years old, is totally underrated. The songs are all short, and there aren't many of them, and they are without any of his vocals (in this one instance, not a huge loss – it's not like it would have been the voice we know and love), but still. It's happy, upbeat, kick-ass Dixieland swing. You must give it a listen.
Buy Eleven

Jae Millz – I Like That (You Can't Take That Away From Me)

Jae Millz combines rap with Ella Fitzgerald's "You Can't Take That Away From Me" and creates something reminiscent of C + C Music Factory's old sound.
Buy the Take The Lead soundtrack

Gabin – Doo Uap Doo Uap

Or, French for "doo wop." Another modern song that samples Ella ("It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing"). Makes an interesting companion piece to the above.
Buy Gabin

Emiliana Torrini – Miss Celie's Blues

From what I gather (this is the only song I know of Torrini's) she's a Tori Amos-alike. That's ok though, because she betrays that not here. This is Shug's song from The Color Purple; Torrini sings it with style, sass and sweetness.
… I've looked everywhere and can't find it on CD. Enjoy.

Cherry Poppin' Daddies – Zoot Suit Riot

Swing's revival ten years ago made me very, very happy. Imagine my annoyance and puzzlement at the bizarre attitude I hear periodically that it's "hokey," "over," or "it's been done." Yeah, so has rock and roll, but no one rolls their eyes over that. Vive La Swing. This particular song from swing's decade-old revival features a shout-out to Brian Setzer & his orchestra, and that's just cool.
Buy Zoot Suit Riot

Big Bad Voodoo Daddys – You & Me & The Bottle Makes 3

From the Swingers soundtrack. …I suppose I should probably force myself to watch this someday. I'm just not a Vince Vaughn fan.
Buy their eponymous cd

The Brian Setzer Orchestra – Jump, Jive & Wail

This is what everyone calls "the Gap khaki commercial song." You know the one. Brian, a former Stray Cat, does swing music these days. A lot of it. It's damn good. I applaud him for bringing it back, doing what he loves, and never giving up.
Buy The Dirty Boogie

Bette Midler – Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy

Bette covered this Andrews Sisters song back in 1973, which never fails to mildly surprise me when I remember. To me, it never sounds old. It just doesn't date. Doesn't sound like '40s swing, doesn't sound like the '70s, doesn't sound like '90s swing. It's timeless.
Buy Experience the Divine: Bette Midler's Greatest Hits

Andre Williams – Jailbait

Ok, so I'm cheating. This goes all the way back to '56. You ask me, it sounds a hell of a lot older than that. For lack of any better musical term, it sounds very … noir. It's also hilarious. Be aware, a lot of his more recent stuff is like, filthy. And not in the cute Christina Aguilera way. As a reviewer on Amazon said of another Williams album, "This is music to get drunk and pick up strippers and steal a firetruck and rob a bank to."

Buy Mr.Rhythm

The Mamas & The Papas – Dream A Little Dream Of Me

This has always sounded vaguely '30s to me.
Buy Greatest Hits: The Mamas & The Papas

The Honeydrippers – Rockin' At Midnight

This project of Robert Plant's dates from 1985 but sounds more like the early '50s. It's not exactly what you'd expect from him.
Buy The Honeydrippers, Vol. 1 (before you ask, no, there's no Vol. 2. Dammit.)

Squirrel Nut Zippers – Hell

Oh my God, the horns. The horns.
The HORNS!!!1!
Ahem. Anyway, the Squirrel Nut Zippers have a public service announcement to make:

In the afterlife
You will be headed for the serious strife
Now you make the scene all day
But tomorrow there'll be Hell to pay

So, um, be good for goodness' sake.

Buy The Best Of The Squirrel Nut Zippers As Chronicled By Shorty Brown

Reel Big Fish – Hungry Like The Wolf

Okay, so technically ska. Still. Come on, it's close enough. It's also a hilarious "tribute," I suppose, to Duran Duran's New Wave masterpiece. Not to mention very good driving music.
Buy Duran Duran Tribute Album

Queen Latifah – When You're Good To Mama

From the Chicago soundtrack, conclusive proof that Latifah is a totally scorching jazz baby.

Buy the Chicago soundtrack

Michael Buble' – Come Fly With Me

Yes, more Buble'! This is a nice, crisp-like-a-green-apple cover of Frank's classic; remember what I said earlier, about Buble's sound on his best work? I would argue that the two songs I've put on this mix are his best work.
His debut again.

Harry Connick, Jr. – It Had To Be You

From 1989's When Harry Met Sally soundtrack, a sweeping, romantic big band arrangement of the 1920s standard.
Buy When Harry Met Sally. I mean it. Best investment you'll make.

And that's it for this week's mix, a mostly modern look at the good old days.

Music - Weekly Mix 4

Short one today.

Harry Connick, Jr. - Charade

From the moment it starts, with a quick drum kick and mellow horns following, it is all quiet momentum; Harry's voice is right where it should be. In some of his songs, he tries a little too hard to hit high notes; in some he dips maybe a little lower than he should, but on this track, his voice is right at home. His version of Mancini's Charade is comforting but intense, and one of my favorite songs of his.

Buy Come By Me

Archie Bell & The Drells – Tighten Up

"Hi everybody, I'm Archie Bell & The Drells of Houston Texas. We don't hardly sing, but we dance just as good as we walk." As this is a song and not a video, alas, we shall have to take their word for it. But I've always had a real amusing visual of their walk. This is necessary sixties funk and should be on your hard drive.
Buy Tightening It Up: The Best Of Archie Bell & The Drells

Bob Welch – Ebony Eyes

I remember this one from childhood. It was all over the radio – it hit the Top 40 in 1977. It always strikes me as a summer song, so of course I've listened to it on repeat this week. It's the time of year for hot summer music, and I'm getting a lot of mileage out of it. What can I say, I'm big on synching music to the change of the seasons. Side note: I did not know that Welch was once a member of Fleetwood Mac.
Buy French Kiss

The Staple Singers – Respect Yourself

Necessary seventies funk, about getting your shit together, maturing, and empowering yourself. The Staple Singers were formed back in 1953, if you can believe that, and began singing secular music, funk and soul, in the late sixties. Between 1953, when they recorded their first album, and 1999, when they were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, they covered a whole lot of ground.
Buy The Best Of The Staple Singers.

The Puppini Sisters – Wuthering Heights

I've never been a big fan of Kate Bush, but listening to this quickie (not even 2 minutes long) cover of her "Wuthering Heights" by a girl group who sound (quite purposely) like a modern-day Andrews Sisters makes my whole day.
You can't buy anything online, apparently, but you can contact Marcella Puppini about getting a CD.

The Modern - Sometimes

I got my hands on this track at blowupdoll. blowupdoll is an mp3 blog focusing on music from what the proprietor, Mordi, calls "dolls." Glamour girl rock and pop, with a mostly European slant, and it's fun as hell. The Modern is pure early 80s New Wave, and the lead singer sounds like a dead ringer for Madonna, circa her first album back in '83. Which makes me very happy.
Buy Jane Falls Down, which is reputed to be even better.

America – Tin Man

After last week, I was in the mood for more America. This also ties in, interestingly and however vaguely, with the Wicked rip I was on a while back.
Buy Holiday

Bowling For Soup – Ohio (Come Back To Texas)

His girlfriend left him for some guy named Leland that she met at the bank. They ran off to Cleveland. He'd like – hell, as he points out, the whole state would like – for her to come home to Texas.
Buy A Hangover You Don't Deserve

Coolio – Gangsta's Paradise

I know my friend griff considers Weird Al's "Amish Paradise" to be the "real" version of this, but as clever as Weird Al's is, I still prefer this. There's something about the ominous music & the intensity in the tone of Coolio's voice that makes this something I keep coming back to.
Buy Gangsta's Paradise

Bachman-Turner Overdrive – Let It Ride

No real reason.
Buy Bachman-Turner Overdrive II

Divinyls – Pleasure & Pain

It blows my mind that Christina Amphlett, the lead singer of Divinyls, is now playing Judy Garland in the Australia production of "The Boy from Oz." She first played Judy in the 1998 run of the musical. I found this out last week when looking for pictures of Hugh Jackman. How can she be old enough? Boy, I feel old. I remember Divinyls being a group with a hot tamale of a lead singer who made sexy music like this song.

Buy What A Life

Jane Wiedlin – Rush Hour

From her solo album, Fur. Jane is, of course, a Go-Go, and the sunny, poppy, California spirit of their music is here, too. "Rush Hour" is happy music.
Buy Fur

Merril Bainbridge - Mouth

"Mouth" is an Australian one hit wonder from 1995. The lyrics are odd, no lie, but the music is bubblegummy sweet.
Buy The Garden

The Weekly Mix, Vol. 1

Every week, I end up with a fully new playlist of stuff I listen to on repeat over and over, all week long. I burn a quick and dirty CD of it to take in the car with me and then I start over. I wear songs out from overuse and then like the fickle creature I am, I move on.

These discs, not by design, are full of musical whiplash. I give not a damn for genre, artist, mood or any other theme with them. I merely pile up a plateful of whatever I feel like listening to, and if they go together or if they clash horribly makes no difference to me. Some will have more music than others; it's all part of the variety thing.

I thought it might be a fun idea to share them. So, weekly mixes for everyone!

Here's the first, and you can either click on the song titles to download the individual songs, or click here to download the whole thing as a zip file.

Weekly Mix 1: Dirty Hippies & Musical Theater, Among Other Things

1) Time Of The Season - The Zombies
I don't know why I'm in such a sixties mood again all of a sudden. I spent my last two years of high school listening to nothing but the assorted works of the 1960s, and haven't really been back often. Until now. Is it just me, or are the Zombies everywhere these days?
Buying Odessey & Oracle really would not be a bad investment.

2) Incense & Peppermints - Strawberry Alarm Clock
I love the schizophrenic word salad psychedelic lyrics.
If you want the whole album, it's $7, it's got great vintage cover art, and it has a song named "Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow" on it too. What's not to love?

3) The Fish Cheer & I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag - Country Joe & The Fish
Oh, maybe that's why I'm all into the hippie music this week. An ever-sharper sense of nihilism and despair with the government and the war? Yup. I'll bet. I know this song started the hippie trip, and I chose it because it felt exactly right.
Buy I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die here.

4) Casey Jones - The Grateful Dead
Hippie'd out yet? Hang on, there's still more.
Buy Workingman's Dead here.

5) Mercedes Benz - Janis Joplin
A little more.
Buy Pearl here.

6) Whatever Gets You Thru The Night - John Lennon
Always loved this. It takes me back to the '70s. Dad & I would go out on the backyard patio, sit down on those rickety metal lawn chairs with the webbing, turn on the radio and listen to the Reds games together on hot summer nights. After the game, he'd switch over to music. I always associate this song with those nights.
Buy Walls & Bridges here.

7) I've Been Everywhere - Johnny Cash
I'm new to this. I didn't think I liked Johnny Cash. But I'm falling for this song, and I can see it maybe being a forever thing.
Buy Unchained here.

8) Suicide Is Painless - Manic Street Preachers
Yes, still.
Buy Forever Delayed here.

9) That Lady - The Isley Brothers
It's a summery song. Hot, steamy weather rolls off this song in waves.
Buy 3 + 3 here.

10) Bruces' Philosopher Song - Monty Python
I'm pretty sure it's the only Monty Python song I can stand. I love it though, because it's fun to sing, and because at one time in college, I actually knew all about everyone mentioned in this song; indeed, I had it memorized even then and used to sing it while walking home from the neighborhood bar.
Buy Monty Python Sings here.

11) She's A Rainbow - The Rolling Stones
In my youth, I naively thought it was just about a girl who liked to wear colorful ensembles. Now I'm pretty sure it's about her movements leaving psychedelic trails of color because somebody took something.
Buy Their Satanic Majesties Request here.

12) Cold Cold Ground -- Tom Waits
I have a fairly limited vocabulary anyway; combine that with my neophyte-level knowledge of Waits, and I have no way to accurately describe why I love this song. It's melancholy and ominous. I wouldn't call it catchy, but it settled comfortably into my brain after the first hearing.
Buy Franks Wild Years here.

13) What Is This Feeling? - Idina Menzel & Kristin Chenowith
I have it totally memorized now. If I could sing, I could handle Glinda's part, I think.
Buy Wicked here.

14) Sultans Of Swing - Dire Straits
They seem to be reviled lately. I've no idea why. They produced this, this quiet little rock and roll song about a jazz band, and it would probably find its way onto my perfect 100 songs list, if I ever sat down and thought it out.
Buy Dire Straits here.

15) My Baby Just Cares For Me - Nina Simone
Piano & vocal jazz from someone who, like Tom Waits, I'm only just getting to know. So far, this, "Sinner Man", & "Feelin' Good" are my favorites. This is upbeat and mellow at the same time, it's just as much Saturday afternoon music as it is Sunday morning music.

Buy Little Girl Blue" here. As it also has her lone top 40 hit, "I Loves You Porgy" and "Don't Smoke In Bed," which might well be featured here later, it's a good buy.

Plus, original, gorgeous '50s era cover art!

16) There Once Was A Man - Harry Connick, Jr. & Kelli O'Hara
Yep. Listening to it on repeat again. What?

For God's sake, would you go buy Harry On Broadway?

17) Hernando's Hideaway - Harry Connick, Jr. & The Pajama Game cast
8 minutes of fun, including Harry singing and playing piano. Buy it at the link above.

And that about wraps it up.

Music - Harry Connick, Jr. & Kelli O'Hara, There Once Was A Man

You may have heard that Harry Connick, Jr. just finished his run in The Pajama Game on Broadway. You may know more than you ever wished to know about him, if you know me in real life.

The cast album's been out for a couple of months, but since it hasn't been pimped enough in the popular media, as far as I'm concerned, I will do my teeny tiny bit to help the cause.

Listen, I very much love Doris Day, but I have the soundtrack from the movie version in which she starred, and as cute as it can be, it's not as polished or vocally impressive as the revival. If you really really like the movie, go get Harry On Broadway, Act. 1, which includes Pajama Game's soundtrack.

To whet your interest, I will provide both versions of "There Once Was A Man."

John Raitt & Doris Day - There Once Was A Man

Harry Connick, Jr. & Kelli O'Hara - There Once Was A Man