Acts And Entertainments
April, 1961
During any one of his performances, Bobby Short can be counted on to augment his usual repertoire of brightly-polished ditties with a number of tunes that never quite made it for one reason or another. These have become profitable staples for Mr. Short, who, by some vocal alchemy, transforms them into shimmering bits of nostalgia. Two particularly pleasing examples, offered by Bobby the evening we caught him at San Francisco's Hungry i, were Love Is on the Air Tonight, which we suspect was origi...
