. "In Sing Me he goes even further back, citing Kitty Kallen's Little Things Mean A Lot, musing about his mother posin' like Marilyn Monroe (thus Dreams becomes the first of two consecutive anguished number one albums to mention Monroe), his father holding him up at the beach, Life was a joy, I never got old, followed by the crushing self-revelation that he is fated to get old, particularly w" . . . .