So You Think You've Got Me Pegged

Much I imagine to the surprise of anyone who's followed my rants on music will be the following: (item) I saw Bobby Darin (by accident, you may be sure) on television, when I was about fifteen years old, singing 'Mack the Knife,' and I like fell in love.  Thereafter I could never get enough of that genial young man as an actor, singer, writer, composer:  I didn't even know that he had written 'Splish Splash, I was taking a Bath' and I loved it.  Think what you like.

(item)  Some fifteen years ago I accompanied Phil's first wife Anna in a Cabaret Act--We called ourselves "Lola Montez."  We performed all kinds of arguably popular or contemporaneous music--my favorites were Kurt Weill and wonderfully silly French Sixties Rock and Roll:  Our version of 'Le Jour où la pluie viendra' brought down the fucking house.