Bill Nighy
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3,810 appearances
13 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2025
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Bill Nighy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And he wrote Nancy with a Laughing Face, which is about Nancy Sinatra.
And her father used to sing it.
And I always remember, take Betty Grable, Lamour and Turner.
She makes my heart, wait for it, a charcoal burner.
Picture a tomboy in lace and then you has Nancy with the laughing face.
She takes the winter and makes it summer, but, wait for it, summer could take some lessons from her.
It's great writing.
And then another Frank Sinatra song, which I learned all the way through just so that I wouldn't have to always sing, it happened in Monterey a long time ago.
It happened in Monterey in old Mexico, and then stop there.
Now, I know that I can continue to sing.
Stars and steel guitars and luscious lips as red as wine stole somebody's heart and I'm afraid that it was mine.
See, I know the other verse as well.
So those are the songs that haunt me and hound me currently.
They come and they go, but those are definitely, those are, they're lifers.
They've been with me for most of my life and I'm not ashamed to say it.
And you can find a link to the list in the show notes, which will lead you to Spotify and Apple Music.
This week's book is by James Baldwin, and it's called The Fire Next Time.
A friend of mine told me that he had heard of a man named
who, when he read this book, bought hundreds of copies and drove all over America, depositing them in mobile libraries, schools, and all over America because he thought that every American, with the emphasis on white Americans, should read this book.
This innocent country set you down in a ghetto in which, in fact, it intended that you should perish.
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