Saturday 9: You'll Never Know

Sam’s Saturday 9: You'll Never Know (1943)

On Saturdays I take a break from the heavy stuff and have some fun…

Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

1) In this song, Haymes sings he must have reassured his girl "a million times or more." Does it frustrate you when you have to repeat yourself?

Well the other day I was getting very frustrated with my brother, we are having problems with our email (I have a private domain that is my name) and I was telling him that he had his spam blocker set too high but he thought it was a server problem. He finally agreed to lower the settings for spam.

2) The lyrics were inspired by a poem written by a war bride to her soldier husband. Have you ever been in a long-distance romance?

Nope. All were hometown girls.

3) This was the biggest hit of Dick Haymes, a popular singer in the 1940s. He got his big break when he replaced Frank Sinatra, who left the Tommy Dorsey Band to go onto bigger and better things. Are you a Frank Sinatra fan?

I like a few of his songs but I never liked the “Rat Pack.”

4) During the 1940s Dick Haymes toured with the Dorsey Band, made hit records, had his own radio show and appeared in nine movie musicals.  Yet by the early 1950s, he was broke. Part of it was that musical tastes changed, but more of it was that he enjoyed night life and high living too much. If you wanted to shave unnecessary expenses from your budget, where would you economize?

Probably with food… cutout my desserts.

5) He blamed his money problems for his ongoing hypertension. How do you combat stress?

Photography, I can lose myself  taking photos

6) Though he needed his voice to sing and suffered from high blood pressure, Haymes was a chain smoker. What bad habit would you like to quit?

Avoiding exercise. I need to get out there and walk.

7) Though raised since early childhood in the US, Haymes was born in Buenas Aires to an Argentinian rancher and his Irish wife. This enabled Dick to claim Irish citizenship later in life. Have you ever lived abroad? If not, do you wish to?

Nope, and I have no desire to do so. I am a hometown girl, I live only a couple of miles from where I grew up and I used ride our bikes in the woods where my house.

8) Dick Haymes never regained his popularity as a singer. After touring Europe for years, he returned to the United States in the late 1960s and tried his hand as a dramatic actor, playing small parts on popular cop shows like Adam 12, McMillan and Wife and McCloud. If you had to support yourself as a performer, would you be more successful as a singer, a dancer, or an actor?

Well if I was a singer I could probably clear out the house, as a dancer I probably break a leg, and as an actress I would probably be given the hook.

9) Random Question: We're at the booth of a gypsy fortune teller. Would you be more embarrassed if she loudly and correctly guessed your age, or your weight?

I wouldn’t be embarrassed by either. You can easily see that I am over weight and older than dirt.

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