Word: croonin
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...album's meditative, mildly-scolding video for "Don't Blink," a white-collar working man caught up in the hustle and bustle of modernity is confronted with an evening news interview with a 102-year-old. This sight gets him to thinkin' and it also gets Mr. Chesney to croonin'. You see life moves so fast! Before you know, home videos, smiles from a simpler age, and the full weight of memory itself come crashing through the TV set, plastering the guy's glass walls with images from a life gone rushing by. So don't blink...
This album is very quiet. You're croonin'. What's got into...
...tune dusted off for the occasion, is a clever thrust-and-parry duet, and Crosby effortlessly gets in the best jabs. In one bridge he ends the phrase "baba au rhum" with his trademark "bu-bu-bu-bu-bum." When Sinatra sing-snarls, "Don't dig that kind a croonin', chum," Crosby speaks his response with a withering vagueness, "You must be one of the newer fellas." The Crosby-Sinatra animosity is, of course, all banter - the Hope-Crosby rivalry set to bubbly music - and exquisitely realized...