Perry Como, "the man who invented casual."

There is a wonderful scene in the movie Blast From the Past: A man raised in a 1950s era bomb shelter emerges into the outside world for the first time to find a nice nonmutant girl with whom to repopulate the earth--and meets a savvy, cynical modern woman.

Fiddling with the car radio, they come across and old Perry Como song, Round and Round. Brendan Frazer gets all excited and Alicia Silverstone is thinking Brendan is really weird. Then Como's voice goes up part of an octave, Brendan says, "Listen to this where the song really takes off." It's only a part of an octave higher or maybe a different key, but it's still Perry Como doing his usual thing, and now Silverstone is thinking, "Maybe Brendan is officially nuts."

 
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