Tag: Slim Whitman

Just Because — It’s Johnny Mercer’s 100th birthday

I couldn’t find the absolutely exquisite Dorothy Lamour/Jimmy Dorsey version from the film The Fleet’s In (starring a ridiculously young Bill Holden), but I enjoyed this Slim Whitman kind-of-funky version of one of the most beautiful love songs ever written: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyCp32NBXmU[/youtube] Incidentally, Mark Steyn is paying tribute to Johnny Mercer

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