Some kid fun followed by a little semi-celebrity name dropping

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So the Peter, Paul and Mary CD was still in the car this morning. Immediately Dearra complains, "do we have to listen to this?" So I changed it to the Broadway station. A song from the musical Ragtime, which I really like, was playing, but I wasn't to crazy about this son, so I changed it to the Sinatra station. Johnny Mathis was on there singing Small World from the musical Gypsy. After a few verses, Dearra points out that he keeps using the word "funny". So I told her that he didn't write the song, he's just the singer. She replies back that maybe he was the songwriter too. So I said "no, it was written by Jule Styne and the singer is Johnny Mathis". She gives me "the look" and suggests that perhaps they're the same person. So I pointed out that Mathis is black and Styne is while. At which point she gives me the "why are you such a frickin know it all" look and suggests that perhaps Mathis has the same skin condition as Michael Jackson. Which is when I point out (while laughing) that Mathis is alive and Styne is dead. So she finally gives up arguing with me. After that, a Sinatra song came on and I told her that I had a funny story about him. A friend of my parents had died back when they were living in their Westchester house and a mutual friend of theirs was giving a memorial service at her house. She was a bridge player (as were my parents and the friend who had died), but her husband had been a record producer and he had produced two of Frank Sinatra's records back in the 1950's. We were looking at the gold records on the wall when she pulled out a book that she thought we'd like to see. The title was something like "100 Things People Like About Frank Sinatra". So we opened the book and all the pages were blank. Dearra thought that was pretty funny. She has a surprise coming tomorrow morning though. I went to put the PP&M CD away and put in the Beatles, and discovered that there was a second CD. So there are new and exciting delights awaiting her trip to school tomorrow. (evil grin)