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I'll agree on most, though maybe I'm missing the immortality of Red Skelton because I grew up with the unbearably maudlin TV version. Incidentally, Larry, Tom Lehrer is Jewish.

I'm waiting for the Granz bio to become affordable too. I did read the free sample chapters on my Kindle. The Beehive is maybe my favorite Hartman album: ONCE IN EVERY LIFE New York, August 11, 1980 Johnny Hartman (vocal); Frank Wess (tenor sax, flute); Joe Wilder (trumpet, flugelhorn); Al Gafa (guitar); Billy Taylor (piano); Victor Gaskin (bass); Keith Copeland (drum). EASY LIVING LP: Bee Hive BH-7012 WAVE LP: Bee Hive BH-7012 CD: Malpaso / Warner Bros. 46259 BY MYSELF LP: Bee Hive BH-7012 CD: Malpaso / Warner Bros. 46259 FOR ALL WE KNOW LP: Bee Hive BH-7012 WILL YOU STILL BE MINE? 45: Bee Hive unnumbered promo LP: Bee Hive BH-7012 CD: Malpaso / Warner Bros. 46259 I COULD WRITE A BOOK LP: Bee Hive BH-7012 CD: Malpaso / Warner Bros. 46259 I SEE YOUR FACE BEFORE ME LP: Bee Hive BH-7012 CD: Malpaso / Warner Bros. 46259 MOONLIGHT IN VERMONT LP: Bee Hive BH 01 CD: Malpaso / Warner Bros. 46259 Hartman (vocal) accompanied by Gafa (guitar) only. IT WAS ALMOST LIKE A SONG 45: Bee Hive unnumbered promo LP: Bee Hive BH-7012 NOBODY HOME LP: Bee Hive BH-7012 CD: Malpaso / Warner Bros. 46259 45: "Bee Hive unnumbered promo" was distributed to radio stations only. LP: Bee Hive BH-7012 entitled ONCE IN EVERY LIFE LP: Bee Hive BH 01 entitled THE Bee Hive SESSIONS - UNISSUED TUNES, VOL. 1 CD: Malpaso / Warner Bros. 46259 entitled REMEMBERING MADISON COUNTY. It consists of seven tunes by Hartman (including six tunes from the LP and one previously unissued) as above, and three piano instrumentals by Ahmad Jamal. http://www.jazzdiscography.com/fitzgera/hartman.htm This inspired me to listen to some of his early stuff on Spotify. I must say, in the '40s he was almost as unbearable as Kenny "Pancho" Hagood. I'm glad he got better.

Alvin Queen Quentin Crisp Cap'n Crunch

This documentary is a must for Anita fans: http://www.anitaodaydoc.com/

George Smiley Mr. Sardonicus William Castle

Get up and boojie! I hope I'm not confusing any Dutch people...

I assume you're not responding to the query about comics who were neither Jewish nor black. I had no idea Phyllis Diller and Homer and Jethro were immortal.

I'm assuming it's an Italian name and therefore the gh is a hard g, as in go.

I love both the Greene and Steinbeck travels, but it's far from my favorite of either (closer with Steinbeck, as Cannery Row is the only of his novels I really love).

At least one person around here wasn't fooled. From the DeJohnette thread:

Greg Djanikian is a very good friend of a very good friend of mine. Greg's son Zach is a musician who has studied with Odean Pope.

Yes, their tendency to grunt like abused animals is another one.

http://www.hollywood...-adelson-349590 What goes around comes around.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/sarah-silverman-offers-sheldon-adelson-349590

That's the funny thing about Franco-Hungarian-Americans.

Burton Greene lived in Amsterdam for many years.

Dear Abby John Deere Bambi

Sam Houston Stella Dallas San Antonio Rose

Teller Penn Gene Quill

I figured, but one can always dream.

I love all the Manne albums with Freeman and Candoli, but I'm not as big a Kamuca fan as many. I prefer the recordings with Mariano and Boss Sounds, with Strozier. I'm curious about the Checkmate TV series too, being a big Ambler fan. I see on IMDB there were also TV series based on his novels Epitaph for a Spy and the Schirmer Inheritance.

I wish he wouldn't. If Eartha Kitt and William S. Burroughs did an album together, I'd buy it. But I'd probably rather hear Eartha singing Lonely Woman.

People Who Need People Barbra Streisand Ethel Merman

Hermes Pan Fred Astaire Ginger Rogers

Chico Buarque de Hollanda Heloisa Maria Buarque de Hollanda, aka Miucha (Chico's sister) Bebel Gilberto (Miucha's daughter)