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: Sinatra at his awesome best.

This song and dozens of others accompanied every dinner I ate between the ages of five and thirteen.

My stepfather, an amateur saxophone player and a hell of a mambo dancer, had put together one of the all time great collections of popular music recordings anywhere.

So, to my good fortune, we dined each night with the likes of Ol ' Blue Eyes, Judy Garland, Nat " King " Cole, Rosemary Clooney, Louis Prima and Keely Smith and every other singer that ever performed on Capitol, Decca or R. C. A.

records.