Tony:
Boy, am I glad to find you. I was starting to feel pretty lonely in this group. I am basically a "romantic" guy at heart and the best way to express it thru music. I appreciate some of today's music, but I do miss the "melodic" and "romantic" content of our era; this, being the reason that I keep going back to it and hopefully contributing to it's preservation.
Yeah, I forgot to mention Vic Damone as one of my biggest influence. Also I forgot the great Sammy Davis, possibly the greatest all around "live" performers of our time.
I guess is the "latin" in me (along with my lovely wife) that keeps me being a "hopeless"
romantic at heart.
regards,
Mario