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...most intimate of all. The song is even lovelier if you know the story behind its creation. Leiber, in the book: "Doc was confined to a wheelchair for most of his life, so he couldn?t dance. He was married to this gorgeous blond woman [Broadway and TV actress Willi Burke], and ... he?d say, Yeah, we go out, that?s cool - I like to watch her.? That?s the song...
...apparently slipped out of France by a New York dealer who then sold it to Hollywood idol Errol Flynn for $48,000. "The paintings came to America because for more than 10 years during and after the war there was no place else to sell them," notes Willi Korte, a consultant on Holocaust losses to the Senate Banking Committee...
...summer of 1942, a Polish baker's assistant named Stefan Kossinsky penned a letter to his lover Willi, an officer in the Nazi army. "I'm just true to you and will remain so for my whole life," he wrote. "Please write to me as quickly as possible so I can be reassured...
Kossinsky doesn't know whether Willi ever read the letter. But the Gestapo...
Part of the story remains a mystery to Kossinsky. He never saw Willi again...