A Man of Many Dreams | An Autobiography in Poetry
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- A Man of Many Dreams | An Autobiography in Poetry
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A Man of Many Dreams
An Autobiography in Poetry
By Anthony Cardelli, Cathy A. Cardelli CicciaiUniverse
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Contents
Foreword, xxvii,
Introduction, xxxiii,
MEMOIRS,
MY MUSIC,
A TRIBUTE TO SINATRA AND HIS MUSIC,
MY DREAMS,
MY FATHER,
MY SISTER,
MY LOVE AND ROMANCE,
LOST LOVE,
LETTERS TO ANNA,
MY DAUGHTER,
MY GRANDCHILDREN,
MY FAMILY,
SEASONS,
GOD'S LOVE,
LIFE,
SELF-REFLECTING,
HOPE AND ENCOURAGEMENT,
FAREWELLS,
EPILOGUE,
CHAPTER 1
MEMOIRS
The Way I Saw It around Old Blue Eyes
In 1939, Hitler was goose-stepping all over Europe, while America was just starting to pick up the beat from the long, dragged-out Depression President Franklin Roosevelt vowed to defeat. I was ten years old and just about four feet small, but my mind was ten feet tall. I was working in a barbershop. In those days, if you wanted to know what was going on in the world and the little circle of gossip, the barbershop was the place to find out. I was taping in my head everything that was said. By the time I was seven, I knew babies didn't come from heaven. And Santa Claus ... I still believed what my parents said about him was the truth. He was the only thing to hold onto to keep my youth. My boss was always listening to Guy Lombardo and the Metropolitan Opera on the radio, but I was trained on the sounds of Shaw, Miller, James, Basie, Ellington, and Jimmy Lunsford. And when I heard a vocalist who had just started with Harry James singing, "All or Nothing at All," I followed his pipes right down the line from the very first note.
Two years with Harry James flew by, and with all the money I earned, I piled up a stack of 78s, while the state of the nation was lend leasing to keep the peace in this side of heaven. But from all the shoptalk, I sensed at eleven this side of heaven was in for a surprise. And on December 7, 1941, all hell broke loose, when Tokyo flew from its coup to a place where all our carriers were in one group. On that day, most Americans learned a little geography: where Pearl Harbor was.
Everybody between the ages of seventeen to forty-five was taking the oath, raising their hand to make a stand. I was too young to go to war and too old to play kick the can, but I did my part in my own little way, printing signs of warning—"A slip of the lip will sink a ship"—and buying war bonds. But I was still buying records of my favorite vocalist, who, by the way, transferred to the Tommy Dorsey Band to replace Jack Lenard, who answered the call of the bugler. My man blended with Connie Haines and the Pied Pipers to tunes like "I'll Never Smile Again," "Last Call for Love," "Poor You," and a slew of others. I was making all the local hops, still working in the barbershop, when I thought my world was going to stop when he didn't want to get caught in the draft and went to join the big band over there. He took his physical in New York, and for the first time in his career, they turned him down. They found a leak in his eardrum.
It was 1943, and Tommy Dorsey set him free (the rumor was for forty thousand dollars) to make it on his own. I was fourteen and one inch under five feet. I was really moving up, chinning all the bars and downing coffee cups filled with booze to the old saying, "Bottoms up." I wore a "zoot suit" which was a one-button roll, blue shadow stripe suit with twenty-eight inches of material dropped over the knee, down to a fourteen-inch peg at the bottom of my featherweight, French-toed shoes. There was a hand-painted tie with its Windsor knot under a five-inch, roll-collared, white on white shirt, with a pocket full of silver and a solid gold chain twirling around my finger.
Still too young to go to war and too old to play kick the can, I was making the scene at the Steel Pier, a mile out to sea, cutting a rug with the rest of the jitterbugs to Woody Herman's "Wood Chopper's Ball." The man made a hit with Cole Porter's "Night and Day," the one number he did in the film Reveille with Beverly. I stood in line at the Paramount early in the morning to spend the day and night. Everybody brown-bagged it in those days. With one admission, we slept through the feature and were awakened by the screams of the bobby-soxers biting their nails and wagging their tongues. We knew the movie was done, and the man wearing a cardigan jacket and silk, oversized bow tie was going to pick us up on a high without booze and drugs.
The war was moving on, and while Martin Block was spinning the records for the home front with Make Believe Ballroom Time, a couple of DJs by the names of Tokyo Rose and Axis Sally were playing the hit tunes hot off the wax from Tin Pan Alley, spinning requests for uninvited guests—one from the East and one from the West. Never the twain shall meet, for after D Day, Hitler was running out of fuel, and the world he was burning backfired in his face. But we still had a long way to go. We still had Tokyo in the race.
From 1943 to 1945, the man hit the beaches of Hollywood with Higher and Higher, singing songs by Jimmy McHugh and Harold Arlen: "I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night," "A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening," "The Music Stopped," and "I Saw You First." He sang "You Belong in a Love Song" and was starring in Step Lively, singing Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn's, "Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are," "Some Other Time," and "As Long as There's Music."
In 1944, I was too young to go to war and too old to play kick the can. There I was, in my teens, between my dreams and reality. My past was a short subject, the present was an added attraction, and the future was a distraction about what decision to make, because there was a duration on everyone's life about whether or not they were going to be called to war between the ages of seventeen and forty-five.
That year, FDR won by a landslide and was in for four more years. I was fifteen, and since the age of three, he had been the only president for me. I left the shop I was working in for the past nine years for a raise in pay from five dollars to fifteen dollars a week, plus tips. Gene Krupa with Anita O'Day inspired me to take a trip with their hit record, "Let Me Off Uptown." I was heading in the right direction after nine years in a neighborhood shop. I made the move uptown, meeting people, not just faces. The word got around there was a "singing barber" in town. I was stepping lively, building a reputation with my scissors and comb, cutting D.A. (duck's ass) style haircuts without a clipper in my hand. But in my heart, I still was following the man. Then, in 1945, I skipped a day from school and went with a bunch of guys to see him at the Earl Theater in Philly. I was sitting in the balcony, and he was singing, "Violets for Your Furs." The room was in complete silence; you could hear a pin drop. Well, some wise guys dropped some pennies on stage, and he stopped the music. He picked them up and said, "A penny earned is a penny saved." He got a standing ovation, and those wise guys had to stand and hide in the crowd to throw off the slightest evidence they caused the thundering applause. I turned sixteen that spring, twixt love and war. It was another year to go before it was my turn to exchange my "zoot suit" for a pair of khakis, web belt, and combat boots. But on August 6, 1945 a new age was about to take place. Kids my age suddenly became alive at the cost of one hundred thousand people who didn't survive that dreadful day because of the splitting of the atoms dropped from the bomb bay doors of the Enola Gay.
I was sixteen, and time ran out for our nation's only thirteen-year president, FDR. It made me realize the only thing permanent was change. Truman took over the reins, and after "Anchors Aweigh," he gave the orders to drop the bomb on two cities not far from Tokyo Bay. Every town, large or small, had a ball on VJ Day. I missed being eligible to fight in the war by just one year. I had mixed emotions, but I stood up and cheered when Japan surrendered and signed the papers to make it official on the decks of the USS Missouri, with Old Glory proudly waving our boys back home to join the "52-20 Club" and take advantage of the GI Bill which meant that they would receive twenty dollars a week for fifty-two weeks. It was postwar year 1946. I was seventeen and old enough to take the state barber's exam. I passed it with flying colors in the month of June, and on July 6, 1946, I opened my own business, instead of going back to finish my senior year. Instead of taking classes, I stood behind the chair, cutting hair. I was a pioneer, who later would be called a dropout. The dark clouds of the war were in the past and left an over cast. But when I went to see my man in a movie called Till the Clouds Roll By, where he stood on a white kettle drum, dressed in a chalk-white, one-button, roll tux; white shirt; white bow tie; and white shoes, with fifty pieces surrounding him, singing the classic, "Old Man River," I felt clear skies were ahead.
Things were happening so fast. Industries made quick changes from bombs and bullets to cars with rubber tires. Synthetics were melted down, and there were no more ration stamps. You could have all the gas and cigarettes you wanted to burn, and plenty of sugar, coffee, and food. We were the victors, and we dwelled in the spoils, but I couldn't help thinking of all the people, our allies from Europe, who also won, going back to their bombed-out homes and so much work that had to be done before they could even start to get back what we always had. So, I would listen to the voice that always lightened any heavy thoughts that entered my mind. After It Happened in Brooklyn, the one movie he made in 1947, he was cast in Miracle of the Bells as a priest named Father Paul, to challenge the critics and show he could act as well as sing without musical accompaniment, singing "Forever Homeward" a cappella. In my barbershop, customers would rub me, as if I was going to go to church because I looked like a priest in my white, starched-collard, barber shirt with a black jacket. Little did they know I gave it some thought.
In 1948, I was making out like a bandit. I had already been in business for two years, and I was well established, with the shop open five days a week. I had Mondays off to give me time in the summer down in Atlantic City, New Jersey, to make my move when the crowd left on Sunday night. I had all the room and a lot to spare on the beach with all the "peaches," what we called the pretty girls on the beach. Monday was never blue for me.
If you think the ribbing in the shop was bad in 1947, well, this year, I was the laughing stock when my man came back with one called The Kissing Bandit. I was going to call Hollywood and ask them what were they doing with all that talent, but I stood my ground and defended him through Take Me Out to the Ball Game and On the Town in 1949.
Then came the year everyone wanted to throw back, 1950. We hit the half-century mark, and just seventeen days after ringing her in and less than five years after Japan's surrender was signed on her decks, the navy became a physical wreck when the USS Missouri ran aground in Chesapeake Bay. Douglas MacArthur was the man of the hour, and Margaret Truman's singing début went sour, while baseball's perfect mix of Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra, and Hank Bauer swept the "Whiz Kids" out of Manhattan Towers. On Broadway, Mary Martin was washing that man right out of her hair under an open shower in South Pacific.
Ezzard Charles stopped Joe Louis, the "Brown Bomber," who came back to pay Uncle Sam, the same "man" he gave up all his earnings to during the war and didn't keep score, but made the mistake to tax himself a dollar or two. The swinger of the year wasn't Ted Williams but a portly king named Farouk. He stripped his mother, Queen Nazli, clean—crown and all. If there were an Oscar for "People with Family Problems" he would have won. After examining him, the whole world could take heart.
Things were dull as usual in the White House. The eightieth Congress declared a two-month recess in September so members could go home and campaign for elections. Most people agreed with Truman's appraisal of the Eighty Worst leaving Washington, with Joe McCarthy, Alger Hiss, and Whittaker Chambers still digging up the pumpkin papers down on the farm somewhere in Maryland, with spies and bombs and the secrets thereof. The Rosenbergs—Julius and Ethel—were convicted in a controversial trial. Prices were rising, along with Mount Everest, the world's tallest challenge. An earthquake raised her peak 198 feet.
The year 1950 was the year that launched the cashless society. Thanks to a man by the name of Francis Xavier McNamara and the Diners Club, for the sum of five dollars, you would have top priority at twenty-seven New York restaurants. You could stay over at two hotels and have all you wanted to eat and drink with just a stroke of a pen. "Dine N Sign" was the famous line. The joke of the cold war crowd was how we could go to war with Russia, a country that accepted our Diners Club card.
While all this was going on, my man didn't make a movie, and club dates were declining. His concentration was divided, and I felt he was undecided on what decisions to make. I was twenty-one, and the way this was going, I knew before I was twenty-two my draft card would be due. Sure enough, by the end of the year, army doctors were looking up my nose and sticking things in my ears. I took the smear, cleared my throat, raised my right hand, took the oath, and for the next two years, reluctantly joined the rest of the guys like me who missed World War II. It wasn't so bad at first: meeting new faces through "basic," weeding out the stiffs, and mixing with the willows, who bended backward to be a friend.
Three square meals a day, with Uncle Sam footing the bill on a cruise across the Pacific. But a lot of guys failed him with their guts blown to bits on Pork Chop Hill. While over there, I kept in touch with what I loved best: my music. Jo Stafford was back in style with her hit, "You Belong to Me" and Joni James, a newcomer in the game, came up with a question, "Why Don't You Believe Me?" The man who was on a break came back for old time's sake, with Harry James backing his stock with, "Castle Rock."
I was with the 366th EAB., on an airstrip about thirty miles from Pusan. We were nicknamed SCARWAF (Special Category of Army Regulars with Air Force). Our job was patching potholes for the fly boys, landing on the soles of outdated bombers. We were housed in tents along the airstrip. I was a switchboard operator, along with six other guys to break up the twenty-four hours in the day. I was on duty on the board for six hours followed by thirty-six hours off. That gave me plenty of time to cut hair in the dayroom, where they set up a shop for me. The barber trade let me meet fellows from all over the base. While cutting their hair, I used to sing all the songs my man recorded, and once in a while, I'd do a few others, just to prove I knew there were other singers in the business. The service for me wasn't a hardship. I made the best of it, and with the gift of my hands and the fact I'd been working since I was six, I knew this too shall pass. And pass it did; I was on my way home in February of '53, stopping in Japan to pick up the ship that was going to take me through the Golden Gate, but this time to Frisco, not away from it. I was invited to the NCO Club in Itasuki and got up and sang with an eighteen-piece orchestra that played stock arrangements of big bands from the States.
In 1959, Eisenhower was running out of power. We were ready to follow the path, with Kennedy leading us to a "New Frontier," which could end in an atomic explosion. It would split people like the Adams, the Smiths, the Cohens, and the Kellys. It would split the rainbow of its colors. People were digging bomb shelters and bringing out everything they kept hidden in their cellars.
Tonsorial Artistry
I went into a barbershop across from my home after schools from Monday through Friday. It was 1935 and I was six years old. I was in the first grade. The barber, Mr. Don Conti, and my mother arranged it so I wouldn't be a keyless little boy, waiting for my sister, who was in first-year middle school. The barber gave me chores, like shining shoes, sweeping the floor, keeping the mirrors clean, cleaning the sink, folding towels on the mirror case to shapes of skyscrapers, and running out for cigarettes. There were no machines available; you could buy them loose, two for a penny. What an era to live in. You could buy cigarettes over the counter with just pennies.
For this, he paid me twenty-five cents a week. Well, think about it: a six-year-old boy working in a men's barbershop. By the time I was seven, I knew babes didn't come from heaven. Naturally, my priorities changed. I couldn't wait for the bell to ring at 2:30 p.m. I ran the three blocks from school to the shop. I listened to conversations from all classes of people: tradesmen, doctors, lawyers; everybody got a haircut—even the president of the United States. In fact, a barber was the closest person with a scissors and razor to the president. Haircuts were thirty-five cents, and a shave was fifteen cents. That's why the slogan, "Shave and a hair cut, two bits," became popular in the early twentieth century. The slogan went something like this: "Shave e a haircut two bits, who you gonna marry, Tom Nix?" Tom Nix was a famous cowboy back then.
My first cousin Louie was Don's helper. He did most of the shaves. The start of World War II lifted the Depression, and jobs were on the rise. The economy skyrocketed, and with the change and a sudden disagreement between my cousin and Don, my cousin left for a higher-paying job in the munitions factory. General Motors changed to making airplane parts and producing military autos for the war. No civilian cars were made until after the war.
When I was only twelve years old, Don told me to wash my hands and lather up the next customer for a shave and massage. Now, all of a sudden, I was going to do something different than what I had been doing for the past six years. During those years, I had watched how he operated. He was like a father to me at the time. Don was teaching me how to have a sharp edge on the razors he needed to give a smooth shave. Stretch 'n' Stroke—I was learning the fine points of tonsorial artistry. He offered me five dollars a week. I thought it was a generous offer. To practice, I was shaving labels off of empty bottles not to leave an impression on the bottle and shaving soap off the balloons; if it broke, your hand was too heavy. I was twelve years old when I passed the shaving test. I was allowed to cut my friends' hair on a Sunday. Don gave me a key to his shop at just twelve years old.
(Continues...)
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on which you or a third party nominated by you, which is not the carrier, had taken possession of the last part delivery or the last unit, provided you had ordered a product, which is delivered in several part deliveries or units;
To exercise your right of withdrawal, you must inform us (preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, Telephone number: +49 (0) 541 / 580 72 84, E-Mail address: mail@preigu.de) by means of a clear declaration (e.g. a letter sent by post, or an e-mail) of your decision to withdraw from this contract. You can use the attached model withdrawal form for this purpose, which is, however, not mandatory.
You can also exercise your right of withdrawal online by clicking on a button labelled accordingly (such as ‘Withdraw from contract' or similar) on the AbeBooks/ZVAB website. If you use this online function, you will immediately receive a confirmation of receipt on a durable medium (e.g. via email) containing information on the content of the withdrawal notice, as well as the date and time of its receipt.
In order to safeguard the revocation period, it is sufficient that you send the notification about the exercise of the revocation right before the expiry of the revocation period.
Consequences of the revocation
If you revoke this contract, we shall repay all the payments, which we received from you, including the delivery costs (with the exception of additional costs, which arise from that fact that you selected a form of delivery other than the most reasonable standard delivery offered by us), immediately and at the latest within 14 days from the day on which we received the notification about the revocation of this contract from you. We use the same means of payment, which you had originally used during the original transaction, for this repayment unless expressly agreed otherwise with you; you will not be charged any fees owing to this repayment.
We can refuse the repayment until the products are returned to us or until you have furnished evidence that you have sent the products back to us, depending on whichever is earlier.
You must return or transfer the products to us immediately and, in any case, at the latest within 14 days with effect from the day on which you inform us of the revocation of this contract. The deadline is maintained if you send the products before the expiry of the 14 day deadline.
You bear the direct costs for returning the products.
You must pay for any depreciation of the products only if this depreciation can be attributed to any handling with you that was not necessary for checking the condition, features and functionality of the products.
Criteria for exclusion or expiry
The revocation right is not available for contracts
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for delivery of products, which are not prefabricated and for whose manufacturing an individual selection or stipulation by the consumer is important or which are clearly tailored to the personal requirements of the consumer;
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for delivery of products, which can spoil quickly or whose use-by date would be exceeded quickly;
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for delivery of alcoholic drinks, whose price was agreed at the time of concluding the contract, which however can be delivered 30 days after the conclusion of the contract at the earliest and whose current value depends on the fluctuations in the market, on which the entrepreneur has no influence;
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for delivery of newspapers, periodicals or magazines with the exception of subscription contracts. The revocation right expires prematurely in case of contracts
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for delivery of sealed products, which are not suitable for return for reasons of health protection or hygiene if their seal has been removed after the delivery;
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for delivery of products if they have been mixed inseparably with other goods after the delivery, owing to their condition;
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for delivery of sound or video recording or computer software in a sealed package if the seal has been removed after the delivery.
Specimen - revocation form
(If you wish to revoke the contract, please fill up this form and send it back to us.)
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To preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, Email address: mail@preigu.de :
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I/we () herewith revoke the contract concluded by me/ us () regarding the purchase of the following products ()/
the provision of the following service () -
Ordered on ()/ received on ()
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Name of the consumer(s)
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Address of the consumer(s)
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Signature of the consumer(s) (only in case of a notification on paper)
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Date
(*) Cross out the incorrect option.
Privacidad y seguridad
Data protection declaration
Unless stated otherwise below, the provision of your personal data is neither legally nor contractually obligatory, nor required for conclusion of a contract. You are not obliged to provide your data. Not providing it will have no consequences. This only applies as long as the processing procedures below do not state otherwise.
"Personal data" is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
Responsible person
Contact us at any time. The person responsible for data processing is: Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück Deutschland, +49 (0) 541 / 580 72 84, mail@preigu.de
Collection and processing when using the cancellation button
If you have entered into a contract via this platform for which a statutory right of cancellation applies, the platform provides you with a cancellation function (cancellation button) through which you can submit your notice of cancellation immediately.
When using the cancellation function, your personal data (name, email address, details identifying the contract or part of the contract you wish to withdraw from, and the time (date and time) of sending the notice of withdrawal) will only be collected to the extent that you have provided it.
The purpose of data processing is to provide you with the statutory option to withdraw from your contract and to ensure the proper processing of your withdrawal.
The platform operator collects your data on the basis of Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR, namely the legitimate interest in ensuring the general accessibility of the statutory withdrawal function on the platform. You will receive a confirmation email from the platform operator acknowledging receipt of your notice of withdrawal.
The data is then transmitted to us by the platform operator.
If the contact relates to a contract already concluded between you and us, this data processing is carried out on the basis of Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR. Otherwise, data processing is carried out on the basis of Article 6(1)(c) of the GDPR, to fulfil a legal obligation to provide an electronic withdrawal function.
We use your email address solely to process your notice of withdrawal. Your data will subsequently be deleted in accordance with statutory retention periods, provided you have not consented to further processing and use.
Collection, processing, and transfer of personal data in orders
When you submit an order we only collect and use your personal data insofar as this is necessary for the fulfilment and handling of your order as well as processing of your queries. The provision of data is necessary for conclusion of a contract. Failure to provide it will prevent the conclusion of any contract. The processing will occur on the basis of Article 6(1) b) GDPR and is required for the fulfilment of a contract with you.
Your data will be shared, for example, with shipping companies, dropshipping or fulfillment providers, payment service providers, service providers for order processing, and IT service providers. We will comply strictly with legal requirements in every case. The scope of data transmission is restricted to a minimum.
Duration of storage
After contractual processing has been completed, the data is initially stored for the duration of the warranty period, then in accordance with the retention periods prescribed by law, especially tax and commercial law, and then deleted after the period has elapsed, unless you have agreed to further processing and use.
Rights of the affected person
If the legal requirements are fulfilled, you have the following rights according to art. 15 to 20 GDPR: Right to information, correction, deletion, restriction of processing, data portability. You also have a right of objection against processing based on art. 6 (1) GDPR, and to processing for the purposes of direct marketing, according to art. 21 (1) GDPR.
Right to complain to the regulatory authority
You have the right to complain to the regulatory authority according to art. 77 GDPR if you believe that your data is not being processed legally.
You can lodge a complaint with, among others, the supervisory authority responsible for us, which you may reach at the following contact details:
Landesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz Niedersachsen Prinzenstraße 5 30159 Hannover Tel.: +49 511 1204500 Fax: +49 511 1204599 E-Mail: poststelle@lfd.niedersachsen.de
Right to object
If the data processing outlined here is based on our legitimate interests in accordance with Article 6(1)f) GDPR, you have the right for reasons arising from your particular situation to object at any time to the processing of your data with future effect.
If the objection is successful, we will no longer process the personal data, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that outweigh your interests or rights and freedoms, or the processing is intended for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims.