If you missed today's Serenade Radio edition of Steyn's Song of the Week, we are airing it here at SteynOnline for the very first time:
This week's selection has been sung by everyone from Ella Fitzgerald to Carly Simon via, of course, Frank Sinatra, who played a most consequential role in its creator's fortunes. But it started out in a crackerjack Jimmy Cagney/Joan Blondell picture, and the story of its author - a classically-minded Scandinavian Lutheran who became a jazzy New York Jew - is one of the strangest in popular music.
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~This airing of our Serenade Radio Song of the Week is a special presentation of The Mark Steyn Club. Thank you for your kind responses to this series. Of last week's Serenade presentation, William Thomson, a Steyn Clubber from the English Cotswolds, says:
Exhaustively researched, brilliantly constructed, and an absolute delight to listen too.
Thank again.
Thank you, William. We do enjoy your comments on the show. Steyn Club members are welcome to respond to this week's show below. Alternatively, anybody can leave them over at Serenade Radio, where they love hearing from listeners.
Steyn's Song of the Week airs thrice weekly on Serenade Radio in the UK, one or other of which broadcasts is certain to be convenient for whichever part of the world you're in:
5.30pm Sunday London (12.30pm New York)
5.30am Monday London (4.30pm Sydney)
9pm Thursday London (1pm Vancouver)
Whichever you prefer, you can listen from anywhere on the planet right here.
