5th Avenue in the ’70’s. August, 2014. By Paul Goldfinger from the NYC Street series. © Click to enlarge this uptown girl.
TELLY SAVALAS. Gordon Jenkins wrote this song in 1964. Sinatra was inspired to do the album September of my Years after hearing it. Others also made early recordings of it including Tony Bennett, Andy Williams, Harry Nilsson, and Nat King Cole.
In this Telly Savalas version of “This is All I Ask,” listen for the soprano floating above his baritone voice and the flute and oboe towards the finish. —–PG
“Beautiful girls—walk a little slower when you walk by me.”
TELLY SAVALAS