If I could be with you one hour tonight

These little town blues
Are melting away.

Start spreading the news.

And now, as tears subside
I find it all so amusing
To think I did all that.

These little town blues
Are melting away.

I'll be blunt; this rather smarmy song rubs it right in the faces of gays

The song's whole message is about not rushing it. So from that point of view, holding one's horses is clearly part of a solution, not the problem.

Since when is California noted for being cold and damp? Sure it's mountain heights can be cold, but isn't most of the state known for a mild to warm climate? And doesn't it have a lot of desert, including the driest in the United States?

There, are, of course, fifty U. S. states now (It's been that way since 1959).

Frank died during the spring of 1998, so he he didn't even make the autumn of that year.

Yeah, the dice are more than the ones you use to roll.

Lincoln and Ford

I nearly forgot this classic from Ol' Blue Eyes until I heard it on the Walter Conkrite special on Friday. "It Was A Very Good Year" was from the mid-1960's during the time that there was a sudden resurgance for Sinatra's music during the time when British Invasion started by the Beatles and Motown sound was dominating the charts.

In 1977, a movie was being considered for production and would star a rather older, but still dashing, Frank Sinatra (the part would be re-written and the film would be released in 1978 with Liza Minelli playing a female version of the character Sinatra was going to play). But Sinatra still sang and cut a version of what was proposed as the theme for the film, "New York, New York". The film would be set in the 1940's in the town of New York City, and the rest is history as this song has become a theme for the world reknowned city of New York (especially post 9/11). What was interesting though about the song at the time was that New York City was going through several severe financial crises in the early and mid 1970's and many residents there rejected and idea of another theme song (that of course has changed as the financial well being of the city has at least stabilized, if not improved).

Refers to Rome, Italy.

'Madame' means Lady in French and 'Merci Beaucoup' means 'Thanks very much' in French as well.

The song has a great orchestral climax, but it sounds like a singing will just before this man dies.