After Frank Sinatra died, already 8 years ago, CBS ran a special on him that included this remarkable footage from 1965, of Sinatra recording “It Was a Very Good Year.” Walter Cronkite narrates.
The audio player below has the song in stereo. Let it play all the way through and you’ll hear an earlier version of “It Was a Very Good Year” that was done as a folk song.
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There’s no need for me to post the latest Stephen Colbert’s Tek Jansen Alpha Squad 7 cartoon — now with Porpy, Tek’s ZANY pal! Click here to go to Comedy Central’s Tek Jansen page.
Here’s today’s obligatory sampler from The Colbert Report. After a very amusing exchange with Jon Stewart during the pass-off from The Daily Show, Colbert talks, and sings, with a previous guest — John Hall from the 70’s band Orleans, now a Congressman-elect. The complete show is available at Comedy Central.
Edit: If you happened to see the John Hall segment, you noticed an audio sync problem. So I’ve replaced it with The Word segment, which is funnier anyway. Some great pantomine acting by Colbert.
