"I don't care if the sun don't shine..."

 You Tube has videos of TV Christmas specials from the past - Cher, in the mid-1970s; Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra from the late Sixties....

        Cher had one with Redd Foxx in it - he was hilarious.

        Cher's special was her alone, not the Sonny-and-Cher team to which we were accustomed - they had separated and were getting a divorce.  I remember, I was shocked by that.

        Sonny - got too bossy, or something....

Dean Martin shows up in several episodes of The Sopranos - not the actual person, he had passed on by the time they were making the saga of Tony Soprano - but references to Dean Martin and some of his music, and to Steubenville.

In an episode titled "White Caps" Tony is having conflict with a lawyer over a real estate deal, and he takes his boat out near the lawyer's beach side cottage and plays a Dean Martin nightclub act (some talking - "How long I been on?" - and some singing), from a CD-player with a big sound system.

        The lawyer gets mad - his wife points out, 'if you call the authorities on him, Tony Soprano can just keep paying those two-hundred-dollar fines.'

        It always amazes me how mad people get if they hear music being played by someone else.  Like - music is only OK if they themselves put on the record, or CD or whatever.

Weird.

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