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Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminski; January 18, 1913 – March 3, 1987) was a celebrated American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian. His best known performances featured physical comedy, idiosyncratic pantomimes, and rapid-fire nonsense songs.
Kaye starred in 17 movies, notably The Kid from Brooklyn (1946), The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947), The Inspector General (1949), Hans Christian Andersen (1952), and — perhaps his most accomplished performance — The Court Jester (1956). His films were extremely popular, especially his bravura performances of patter songs and children's favorites such as The Inch Worm and The Ugly Duckling. He was the first ambassador-at-large of UNICEF in 1954 and received the French Legion of Honor in 1986 for his many years of work with the organization.
David Daniel Kaminski was born to Ukrainian Jewish immigrants in Brooklyn. Jacob and Clara Nemerovsky Kaminski and their two sons, Larry and Mac, left Ekaterinoslav two years before his birth; he was the only one of their sons born in the United States. He spent his early youth attending Public School 149 in East New York, Brooklyn, where he began entertaining his young classmates with songs and jokes, before moving to Thomas Jefferson High School, but he never graduated. His mother died when he was in his early teens. Clara enjoyed the impressions and humor of her youngest son and always had words of encouragement for them; her death was a great loss for young Danny.
Composer: Sammy Cahn & Sylvia Fine
You want to know what manner of man is Giacamo
What manner of man you want to know
A man of the moment is Giacomo
And where the moment leads
There do I go
I live to love
I love to live
I leap from my sleep
When danger cries
And yet I swoon at the moonlight in your eyes
No mighty foe could ever lay me low
And yet your smallest sigh
Could make me die
So sigh a sigh and make me die
I live to love
And love to laugh
I laugh ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Ha! Oh ha ha ha ha ha ha ha...
At prison bars
Who keep at wrist
To be kissed beneath the stars
I prayed you a thousand kisses
For the one kiss you make haste
I kiss your face your eyes your lips your arms your hands your fingertips
I kiss your face your eyes your lips your arms your hands your fingertips
I kiss your face your eyes your lips your arms your hands your fingertips
Mind if I go around again, please?
I kiss your face your eyes your lips your arms your hands your fingertips
I love to live
I live to love
All else above