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Between Acker Bilk's No. 1 Billboard pop-chart hit Stranger on the Shore in early 1962 and the Beatles arrival in America in February 1964, there was James Bond. The technicolor, sexualized action/spy film was a brand new genre, and Sean Connery's Bond was impossibly dashing and daring. Most of all, his British accent defined cool and ...
Sean Connery's Lined Face
The sad death of Sean Connery over the weekend took me back. Those of us who were around in the early 1960s remember the secret-agent craze that began with the wild popularity of his James Bond movies. At the start in '62, Bond predated the Beatles in America by two years and was responsible for launching ...
Roger Moore and Sinatra
Roger Moore, who played a dashing secret agent in TV's The Saint and in seven James Bond films, died on May 23, 2017. He was 89. Though Roger wasn't a jazz musician and had nothing to do with music (the point of this blog), I had an opportunity to interview him for one of my Wall ...