Programming note: Tomorrow, Sunday, I'll be here with Part Twenty-Five of the twentieth-anniversary audio serialisation of my highly prescient demographic bestseller, America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It.
~On this week's edition of Mark Steyn on the Town, we start groovy and end at the beginning, ably assisted by vocal artistes from Charles Trenet to Neil Sedaka.
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~Thank you for all your kind comments on last week's Valentine show. Alison, a Steyn Clubber from the English Home Counties, says:
"The Way you Look Tonight" in French is very nice.
No arguments there, Alison. Teresa, a California member of The Mark Steyn Club, writes:
Loved the unexpected Streisand-Dylan duet! They had a positive impact on each other!
Not to everyone, Teresa. Them's fighting words to Jake:
Why does everyone indulge Bob Dylan butchering the standards? As Mark says, we live in a blizzard of lies and "Hey, Bob - that was great!" is just another one.
Mercifully the wonderful Tatiana Eva Marie soothed my fevered brow with a gorgeous reading of La Vie en Rose.
I must try and play more Tatiana, Jake.
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