Outstanding, Mark. And to have been sung to by Sammy Cahn in a restaurant — whoa. I remember the first time I interviewed Marilyn Horne: It was by phone. She was in California, I was in New York. I was wearing a headset. And, a couple of different times, she sang into my ear. I thought: Whoa. And, alas, I was not recording.

On the subject of Huntley and Brinkley: Two readers have sent along a Tom Lehrer lyric — from “So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III)”:

So long, Mom,
I’m off to drop the bomb,
So don’t wait up for me.
But while you swelter
Down there in your shelter,
You can see me on your TV.
While we’re attacking frontally,
Watch Brinkally and Huntally,
Describing contrapuntally
The cities we have lost.
No need for you to miss a minute
Of the agonizing holocaust. (Yeah!)

Not my bag, honestly, but as we’re talking Chet and David and song lyrics . . .