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Don\’t Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes by Perry Como

I sense that Perry wasn’t an astronomer, as he seems unsure of how big the stars are.  But that’s barely important! What matters here is his ability to play fast and loose with phrasing and tempo, and to really mess with the listener’s ability to predict what’s going to happen in the song next.  It’s like there is a chorus you keep expecting, but the ability to actually say when it is going to happen is next to impossible.  The song is a train, Perry standing on the back of one of the carriages, plucking stars from the sky – defying everything, music and science be damned! – and serenading all the women in the buffet car.