![]() ![]() Which comes first – the words or the music? Well, in this case what came first was the meteor shower. That's Frank Perkins' lone enduring contribution to the American songbook - his tune, and Mitchell Parish's words. Perkins had a non-meteoric career, except for one very meteoric hit: ![]() The apogee of his time in Hollywood was conducting the score for the screen version of Jule Styne's Broadway masterpiece Gypsy. He was a studio conductor and writer of serviceable film music for such landmark pictures as The Incredible Mister Limpet. The composer of the above is a one-hit wonder called Frank Perkins, born on April 21st 1908 in Salem, Massachusetts. This is several degrees past too cute by half, but a lot of people seem to dig it: Do you know She & Him? The actress Zooey Deschanel ( Elf) and her musician chum M Ward. It is not, in any real sense, a Sinatra song - a song one would expect him to sing in concert or on TV - but his record of it put the number back in circulation, and that's why other singers post-Frank sing it: from Sinatra to Jimmy Buffett, from Sinatra and Buffett to She & Him. So I travel mostly in my mind these days, and this song just dropped into my head the other day like stars falling from the sky. So it occurs to me that, if I haven't already been there, I probably never will, and, for many of those places I have been, I've seen them for the last time. Domestic air travel has become even more miserable, which I would not have thought possible: The mandatory masks on long-haul flights mess me up for days, and leave me with insufficient voice for stage appearances and broadcasting. Such international travel as survives will require multiple passports and endless guile, bluffing one's way across frontiers and forging the relevant forms. I have never in my life traveled less than I have this last year-and-a-half, and I realized some months ago that the pre-Covid world is never coming back. But instead you do everything you're told to do - and then they tell you to do some more: wear a mask over your mask get a booster shot of your last booster shot - and wherever it is you were planning on going has a completely different and contradictory set of rules: wear a mask over your booster shot get your antibodies surgically removed. Songs Wikipedia:WikiProject Songs Template:WikiProject Songs song articlesGod Almighty, part of me wishes they did have vaccine passports: you do as ordered, are issued the necessary paperwork, and get your life back. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks. ![]() ![]() This article is within the scope of WikiProject Songs, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of songs on Wikipedia. This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale. Jazz Wikipedia:WikiProject Jazz Template:WikiProject Jazz Jazz articles This article is within the scope of WikiProject Jazz, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of jazz on Wikipedia. This article has been rated as Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. Alabama Wikipedia:WikiProject Alabama Template:WikiProject Alabama Alabama articles If you would like to participate, you can edit this article, or visit the project page to join the project and/or contribute to the discussion. This article is part of WikiProject Alabama, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to Alabama on Wikipedia. This article is of interest to the following WikiProjects: ![]()
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