Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
Mel Tormé and the Marty Paich Dek-tette perform “Lulu’s Back in Town” (by Al Dubin and Harry Warren) on a 1967 episode of Something Special, a syndicated TV variety show. The arrangement is by Paich:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)
“Russell was too observant not to have noticed that he got on exceptionally well with younger men, but he had never analysed the flair because he never played it consciously. In fact the gift had a simple spring: he seldom thought of men as younger except to reflect that at a similar age he’d had different but much less tolerable defects.”
William Haggard, The Hard Sell