"Perfidia" Glenn Miller ...

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A 1940's classic that will always remind me of my mom and dad, along with many other tunes back then ...

[3Hotdogs]

1. Interesting. I was born in '42. Northern NEW JERSEY. My memories were western music.

It wasn't country then. It was western. "T Texas" Tyler, Gene Autry, Tex Ritter, Sons of the Pioneers, Bing Crosby's western songs, Elton Britt. Western was about being a "lonesome cowboy." Country added topics to the genre.

My lover/partner of 23 years grew up one town over, in Clifton, N.J. --- Same thing. Western music.

This came to us from a station in Newark, N.J., WAAT. That station became a public radio staton in 1970's and that was the end of country, western or anything like it. The station only plays jazz now.


It wasn't until the mid '50's that I heard Benny Goodman, Dorseys and Glenn. I went wild for them... every '33 I could get my hands on. My future father-in-law, saw them all. His uncle was a projectionist in Newark, N.J. at one of the theaters where the bands played when they weren't showing movies. F-I-L was invited in the projection/lighting booth during many of those shows.

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2. "Perfidia" was also a hit for Xavier Cugat. I'll come up with the link.

I covered his birthday not that long ago.