The absurd story about Donald Trump giving his bootlicking cabinet Florsheim dress shoes that they’re all afraid to not wear has a perfect follow-up: The company that makes them is suing his administration for a refund of his arbitrarily imposed tariffs.
After the Supreme Court ruled the tariffs illegal, Thomas Florsheim Jr., CEO of Weyco, told reporters that his company paid a rate as high as 145% on shoes it imported from China last year. When it moved production to India, imports from that country were hit with tariffs too. Well, ain’t that a kick in the head.
Dean Martin recorded the Jimmy Van Heusen-Sammy Cahn tune in 1960 for the original “Ocean’s Eleven,” the 1960 Rat Pack heist film. Martin recorded it in an arrangement by Nelson Riddle and released it as a single that failed to chart.
The version used in the movie featured the Red Norvo Trio and used a different arrangement than the one Martin recorded.
Once the movie left theaters, the song sank into oblivion until it turned up on an album of Martin’s greatest hits in the late ’80s. Then Robert DeNiro used it in his directorial debut, “A Bronx Tale,” in 1993. Dozens of singers have recorded it since, and it turns up fairly often in period films.