And We Need Them Most Of All

I've been sitting, these last few days, and thinking, hard, about what one could say...

Birthday Boy (and Others): Fame, it is Fleeting

A roundabout tribute to today's birthday boy, and one that leads to thinking about some others who share the date...

Singing May Be Swinging...

But everything is better with Barbara Cook. I feel like I haven't spent enough time lately just listening to my favorite singers - is it a casualty of the iPod age, or just an ever-decreasing attention span? I used to spend hours wallowing in records by Cook, Alberta Hunter, Karen Akers, on and on. I think I'll try to post more like this, if y'all don't mind, just so I have a chance to reconnect.

Isn't she fab? And still, some years after this Australian appearance, going strong today, with a voice amazingly unchanged from the crystal sound with which she amazed Broadway in 1951. What do you suppose Britney will be up to in 2067?