Saturday 9: You'll Never Know

Saturday 9: You'll Never Know (1943)

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?

A. It depends on the situation. Reassurance is one thing; having to do it because the love of my life is deaf from working with loud machinery and won't go to the hearing doctor is another.

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?

A. No.

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?

A. I am not a fan. I don't turn the radio off when I hear him, but neither do I seek him out.

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?

A. I'd get rid of the TV.

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

A. I overeat, play video games, and write about it.

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?

A. Eating.

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?

A. I have never lived abroad. If I were younger, I would consider living elsewhere.

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?

A. I'd have to play my guitar on the corner and sing. I've never been an actor and I dance like Julia Louis-Dreyfus on Seinfield.

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?

A. My weight. I don't care who knows how old I am. I'm 57 and next week is my birthday.

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