Dino sees Christmas ahead

Day 3 of Christmas music. Posted by linkmeister on 18 December 2015, 8:38 pm Remember how Perry Como’s ambition was to own a barber shop? Dean Martin was the son of a barber from Steubenville, Ohio. The drunken womanizer act he showed on TV and on the stage in Las Vegas was just that, an …

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Fugue for a Tinhorn President

We all know “Guys and Dolls,” right? Well, here’s a little switch. When Frank Sinatra formed Reprise Records in 1960 Sinatra recruited several artists for the fledgling label, such as fellow Rat Pack members Dean Martin and Sammy Davis, Jr. The original roster from 1961 to 1963 included Bing Crosby, Jo Stafford, Rosemary Clooney, Nancy …

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