November, 1996
When we last left our story, I was in Rome for a couple of days as guest speaker at the NAB’s annual European Radio seminars. (I had been asked to present Morning Show Success Strategies and The Psychology Of Management). I completed my second seminar and returned to my hotel room, completely exhausted — where I witnessed an amazing performance by a huge flock of birds swooping over the city. (Details of that episode were in our last installment.)
After watching this breathtaking aerial display until the darkness swallowed up the birds, I collapsed onto my bed, turned on the TV, and found myself watching a music video: Nat King Cole and daughter Natalie Cole singing a (digitally engineered) duet on “When I Fall in Love,” with Natalie doing some of the lyrics in Italian. Although I knew such a video had been made, I had never seen it before.
Maybe it was due to the combination of my exhaustion, the just-concluded, near-mystical bird show, and the dramatic quiet of night over Rome. But for whatever reason, I found the video to be breathtakingly, achingly beautiful.
This version doesn’t have the Italian lyrics. But perhaps you’ll enjoy it.
