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 …
Originally posted December 2015. I never knew much about Perry Como other than he was an old-timer on TV. He was a lot more interesting than I knew. It seems his biggest ambition growing up was to own his own barber shop, and in fact he was good enough that he actually did by the …
‘Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.’ So wrote Robert Frost, in an extraordinary poem. Home is a ready-made theme for the holiday season. Here Leon Redbone sings “There’s No Place Like Home for the Holidays,” music by Robert Allen, lyrics by Al Stillman. the …
Perry Como sings “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas” as the TV set is put together behind him on the Kraft Music Hall TV program. It’s corny but effective.