Perry Como: To Catch A Falling Star
Gary Pig Gold, inmusicwetrust.com, June 2001
WIT DULY SHARPENED and tongue even firmer within cheek than usual, I treated the Sunday New York Times news of Perry Como's death as little more than an excuse for yet another funny-if-informative column.
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