Today I listened to Daddy-O. Sometimes he calls his show The Sunday Jazz Clambake, but today it was Daddy-O on the Patio. He has little nicknames he’s given the musicians: Sassy, of course, for Sarah Vaughan. Today after playing “A Cottage for Sale,” he said, “Mr. B. is doing fine. “Who? Why, Billy Eckstine!” Daddy-O calls the radio station “Dad’s pad.” I imagine it looks like a den and has in it many pictures of him shaking hands with famous jazz musicians. I’d love to have a den one day. That’s why I don’t want to live in a loft—it’s one big room. I suppose you could carve a “den space” out
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