Old Devil Moon

Sadly, foxnews.com is caving to wokeness in terms of grammar. Check out this headline, one of many tortured ones I’ve noticed for months: “California suspect crashes helicopter they tried to steal: Police.” The article by Louis Casiano does not mention gender, only the “person.” Fine, but why the ridiculous use of plural? Does the person who writes the headline not have the wherewithal to say: “California suspect crashes helicopter in attempted theft.”? Or perhaps it’s simply defiance, in-your-face PC.

RIP singer/songwriter Bobby Caldwell, 71. Born in Manhattan, raised in Miami, he was playing piano and guitar at twelve. His first break came when he was hired by Little Richard. His eponymous debut album went double platinum. It included What You Won’t Do for Love, which hit #9 on Billboard’s Hot 100 and has been recorded by Go West, Phyllis Hyman, Roy Ayers, Michael Bolton, Intro, Boyz II Men and Snoh Aalegra, and sampled by Tupac Shakur. He co-wrote The Next Time I Fall for Amy Grant and Peter Cetera, which hit #1. Eventually he turned to the Great American Songbook, and portrayed Frank Sinatra in Vegas in The Rat Pack Is Back. He contributed songs to movies such as Back to School (1986 Educated Girl), Mac and Me (1988 Take Me, I’ll Follow You), Salsa (1988 Puerto Rico) and its sequel (Every Teardrop). He also recorded Never Give Up for Night of the Comet (1984). For years I was frustrated at not finding a version of Old Devil Moon (Burton Lane/Yip Harburg) that grabbed me. Then I heard Caldwell’s, fantastic arrangement by Ray Ellis. Here’s a youtube video sans ads. Thank you, Sir:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEdJ35X3n5E

Beautiful but breezy after the floating book shop’s two-day rain hiatus. My thanks to the young man who bought Understanding the Roots of Self
by Joshua Walker, and to the three ladies who each took home a hardcover in Russian; and to Carol, who purchased 19 Minutes by Jodi Picoult and Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly; and to the young woman who relieved me of two large medical books; and to the mailman, who sprung for a novel in Chinese.

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