DARK EYES by Dorado Schmitt (catch especially the clarinetist):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WHQ0twHQgo&feature=related
AS TIME GOES BY by Stéphane Grappelli (and a piano as sweet as Chopin):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FogmcygI3A&feature=related
Don Randi, Mexican Pearls
Louis Prima, "When You're Smilin": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXYRkp2HZto&NR=1&feature=fvwp (Earphones essential.)
Louis A, "When You Smilin"
Tangoing with Louis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVxwN3Eaf_U&feature=related
"La Vie en Rose" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGbcMuhlNiA
Louis in Paris Blues—http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dwr5OQtr6sU
Louis and lotsa Ella (just let it play on)—http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io0uqrp9dco&feature=rellist&playnext=1&list=PLECDAECFE0779D802
Ella—http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQouJdvB80U&feature=related
Louis, "Georgia on My Mind": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjyyD0CVXNA&feature=related
Mozart, "Vorrei spiegarvi, o Dio," sung by Kathleen Battle, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqJhDISBT3s&feature=related
La Traviata, by Placido and Ileana:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtR6qUTU6Go)
Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 Andante—I don't know who this is but it's very good:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df-eLzao63I
Mahler's Adagietto, Vienna Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein
And whatever this is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C3nPlJDR2Y
Frank's second best
Frank and Rita
Rita's parents were dancers. Her grandfather, who taught Cagney and Harlow, began to teach Rita when she was three; she continued with her uncle, another dance teacher, till she was eight, and while she was still under age in California was supporting her family at it in Tijuana. As a kid she didn't like it much, but the way she relaxes into it at the height of her career shows how second-nature it was to her. I'd rather see Astaire with her than with anyone else. Look how happy she is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnfKmNRfLYU
Mack the Knife by Bobby Darin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEllHMWkXEU&feature=related
La Mer by Charles Trénet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd_nopTFuZA
And while we're in France, Autumn Leaves by Yves Montand: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOsVVeojMZs&feature=related
Dinah Washington, What a Difference a Day Makes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmBxVfQTuvI
Percy Faith, "Theme From A Summer Place": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSsiS-v6_6M&feature=related
Dueling Banjos from DELIVERANCE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tqxzWdKKu8
Lester 'n' Earl, "Orange Blossom Special"—listen to 'em go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCBdiutb-50
Bill Withers, Ain't No Sunshine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPK9kr4_imM&feature=related
Patsy Cline, "Crazy"
Timi Yuro, "Whatsa Matter Baby": http://www.youtube.
Aaron Neville, Tell It Like It Is
Ketty Lester, Love Letters Straight from Your Heart http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8n4xA1yNbE
DEEP PURPLE, Nino Tempo and April Stevens
Django and Stéphane play “Sweet Georgia Brown”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpO5xIltlyU
Jerry Lee kicking his keyboard and playing it with his ass, as per: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xraIf_cYRQE
Marilyn was such a sweet singer. And she made an even sweeter singer's career when she told the owner of the Mocambo on Sunset Strip, which had never had a black performer before, that if he hired Ella Fitzgerald she, Marilyn, would come every night, meaning of course the place would be sold out. And he did, and she did, and it was.
Kim Novak and William Holden dancing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNxtxfuZD6M
Los Indios Tabajaras http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rQheOglFos
Van Morrison, Brown-Eyed Girl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVG74YXVwRo&feature=related
Mississippi John Hurt, "The Ballad Of Stagger Lee http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4scedJs6hC8
Brenda Lee, I'M SORRY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGLR25EJtfE
Johnny Mathis, IT'S NOT FOR ME TO SAY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3QENGRc0F4&feature=related
Brook Benton and Dinah Washington, "Baby, You've Got What It Takes" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37cH9khXYdM
The Young Rascals, PEACEFUL WORLD
Sade, SMOOTH OPERATOR http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TYv2PhG89A
Fool (If You Think It's Over)
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
Charlie Parker, Romance without Finance Is a Nui-sance
Bill Pursell, Our Winter Love
The Young Rascals, Groovin'
Eartha Kitt, "I Want to Be Evil" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6BNzvhRlCk
Also by Robert MacLean:
The President's Palm Reader: A Washington Comedy at Amazon US, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon DE, AmazonIT, AmazonES;
and the Toby books:
Foreign Matter at Amazon US, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon DE, AmazonIT, AmazonES and Smashwords; Total Moisture at Amazon US, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon DE, AmazonIT, AmazonES and Smashwords;
The Cad at Amazon US, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon DE, AmazonIT, AmazonES and Smashwords; and
Will You Please Fuck Off? at Amazon US, Amazon UK, Amazon FR, Amazon DE, AmazonIT, AmazonES and Smashwords.
And they're at Sony, Nook, Kobo, Diesel, iTunes—the whole street.
