@HannahHowe while I knew the original song I didn’t appreciate it as much as I do now until my fave band at the time (1982) The Jam released one of their final singles, a two song medley of the original "Pity Poor Alfie" that segues perfectly into “Fever”. After that I really took to the Peggy Lee standard, its just wonderful.
The scion of a wealthy landowner family turns to alcohol and self-pity and slowly self-destructs after class differences force him to break off his relationship.
Tatiana Samoilova (4 May 1934 – 4 May 2014) was a Soviet and Russian film actress best known for her lead role in The Cranes Are Flying (Soviet Union, 1957).
@n1vux Probably on a post I did yesterday about a long gone Theater District nightclub! Yeah, it's basically zillions of photos of Boston Proper (nothing south of the old Sears Building in the Fenway) from the late 1950s. Also interviews with Bostonians on how to get from A to B (I swear, one said something like "you can't get theah from heah"). Confession: I was pouring through it when the earthquake hit 🙂