Previous posts for August 14th are here: Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (2019), Steve Martin; Sarah Brightman (2020), and Samuel Sebastian Wesley (2021)
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Buddy Greco (14 August 1926 – 10 January 2017) was an American jazz and pop singer and pianist who had a long career in the US and UK.
Lounge Act
Marilyn Monroe, Angie Dickinson, Juliet Prowse, Buddy Greco, and Shirley MacLain were often referred to as the "Rat Pack Mascots". – Wikipedia, s.v. “Rat Pack”
Watch on YouTube if you seek
His kind of Sixties Vegas chic.
As for me, his YouTube clips stir
No fever for this swinging hipster,
And “ratpack mascots” such as he seem
Doomed forever to the B-Team.
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