The Cutest Baby Face…Maybe

“You’ve got the cutest little baby face…”, music created by Harry Akst and lyrics by Benny Davis in the mid 1920’s, may not have described me but I hoped it had. Ethel, my babysitter, told me that it was my late father’s favorite song.

The tin pan piano scratchy sounds played through an old floor mounted wooden Victrola that I had seen only at her house. We had an ancient pump organ at our house, a nonworking floor model radio stored away in a closet, and a new transistor radio but nothing on which to hear music from a vinyl disk. This was the 1960’s. People watched television but…