something I am grateful for today

Early-morning moments of quiet and peace [I'm usually the first one awake around here every day].

old music trivia

Been doing a lotta research lately regarding a project on the Swing Era, and ran across this:

“I Can't Get Started” is an American Songbook standard immortalized by Bunny Berigan in 1937, and covered by oodles of jazz artists [and lounge singers, I'm sure] in the decades since. But, apparently, the first person to perform this song publicly was...

Bob Hope.

Huh.