Archives for July 13, 2016

Perry Como and Tony Mottola perform “The Shadow of Your Smile,” written for the soundtrack of The Sandpiper by Johnny Mandel and Paul Francis Webster. This performance was originally telecast on Perry Como’s Kraft Music Hall on January 24, 1966:

(This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)

“We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.”

Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook