I Would Guess She's in Detroit Saturday, January 24, 2004

J&R Music World, a big retailer near my office, has decided to ruin my life by opening a used-record bin. A quick survey at the end of last week netted a big stack of disks, most of them as crappy as I figured they'd be, but some real finds. Chief among them: Bobby Short plays Noel Coward and Cole Porter. Bobby Short is a joyous cabaret singer whom I just missed seeing several weeks ago; you know the other two. The songs are like champagne. Witty and worldly, airy and dazzling. How anybody could get a laugh out of Rudy Vallee's name is beyond me, but Cole and Bobby pull it off.

Much, much good work today. Tasty stuff. More later.

@ 8:17:00 PM,

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