Something old, something new, something borrowed, and something totally off the wall. If you liked what you saw make sure you check out my new eBook "Waiting for the Real World to Catch Up!"
Zeke Zarchy was really very, very nice to me. I told him at an old "Big Band Academy" (Milt Bernhart and some others gathered music industry people for these each year; you would see Steve Allen, Billy May, or execs from Capitol or Columbia) event that I had heard his wonderful work over the years. and He told me about a recording they made from a movie by Fellini and it had charted as a hit on the radio (Zeke sounded gorgeous on this). So, he said he would make a recording and send it to me, and sure enough he did just that. He really did not have to go out of his way like that but Zeke was a heckuva decent guy for sure, and a splendid trumpet performer with beautiful sound and execution.
This is one I'd never heard before. I do like the line 'I've slept with thousands of girls and I don't make fun of them. Some of them (are still up? Loved?), and I need one of them - please be one of them!' I was in a touring band at 30, and probably slept with 200 women. Not 'groupies'. We weren't THAT popular! But most were normal women, in college or post, up to 28? It was wonderful! But that wasn't really me. 4 years later, I was depressed, and quit the band a year later. For the most part, I loved them all. And then I got in the van and went to our next job. I was a nice guy, and they never seemed to mind. But decades later, do I remember their names? Very few. So careful what you wish for. You may get it!
I was in San Diego a couple of weeks ago and visited The Coronado. I thought, "bloody hell! That reminds me of the Miami hotel in Some Like It Hot". Beautiful hotel; must have used a redwood forest just building the lobby
