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On a recent Good Will LP foraging trip, I came across a Perry Como album new still in wrap .
Now, I never cared about Perry as a kid growing up but I had had a very beloved aunt
who adored him, and in her honor bought the album .

Spun it today and ,through the tears for my aunt, I saw why she adored him.
What I took for a sap when I was a kid had changed into a master of what
he did , perfect phrasing and timing , he just made his art, and art it was, seem easy and I was the sap.



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tostadosunidos
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It also took me a lot of years to appreciate Perry (and Dino).  On a recent (mostly country/cowboy) gig, out of nowhere the singer produced a medley of Hot Diggity Dog Diggity and That's Amore.  It was a lot of fun.  I also recall being at a rehearsal about 30 years ago and, during a down moment, running through an impromptu Catch A Falling Star with (God of hellfire) Arthur Brown on vocals.  What a great tune!

Minkwelder, that SCTV skit is an all-time favorite of mine.  Gene Levy is brilliant.
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They weren't suggesting that he was a lazy bum--they were taking his laid-back personality to the extreme.  It's farcical, not to be taken literally.
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