Listening to Sirius and "I Cover The Waterfront" came on. I had heard it before. A long time ago. When stress wasn't running out of my gills on a regular basis. And it stopped me in my tracks. As always. The smoothest of the smooth. So I left what I was doing and started rummaging through my music collection [yes, some on vintage vinyl] because I knew I had a copy. But, to my surprise, I did not. Maybe I never owned the album and the music was in my head all the time. His sound is like that with men of a certain age. So I ordered the album immediately which due to the miraculous time we live in was on my Kindle in about four seconds. I decided to put away work things for the day and play the album while I had a martini and cooked dinner.
Somewhere in the middle of "Stardust", my son the Future Rock Star emerged from his room, 17 now, disdainful of most music, headed for the refrigerator. He too stopped in his tracks, milk carton in hand.
"Say, Dad, what is that tune"?
"THAT my boy.....is MISTER Artie Shaw"
"Wow. Cool."
Indeed.
3 comments:
I was wondering when we would hear from you...and then this excellent post!
Nope. Haven't gotten there with my son yet.
Thanks MLS and Ben!!
ML
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