Yes! The first song that Samson sang to us (he kept leaning over and looking to me and to @aporetic in the back seat) was ‘Straighten Up and Fly Right.’ In my mind, I changed the monkey to a frog. Weird.
However, here’s a fun little bit from the Wikipedia article on this Nat King Cole song:
In the tale, a buzzard takes different animals for a joy ride. When he gets hungry, he throws them off on a dive and eats them for dinner. A monkey who had observed this trick goes for a ride; he wraps his tail around the buzzard’s neck and gives the buzzard a big surprise by nearly choking him to death.
Hmmm… can’t say that my tail did much of anything, but @aporetic‘s was certainly preoccupied with Samson’s satchel…
Thank you for jogging my memory! I can now say with some certainty that the second song that Samson treated us to was ‘(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons’, also by Nat King Cole.
(OOG: For me, making eye contact with strangers IRL is nigh impossible. Can you imagine how uncomfortable it is for me to try to play super cool while Samson of all people is crooning at me in the next seat over? Yikes.)
