Sublime

Jimmy Van Heusen was a decadent womanizer, an Olympian boozer, a war hero, a daredevil pilot, and one of America’s best songwriters. Bogart may have been Sinatra’s role model for style, but for lifestyle, it was Van Heusen “All the Way,” the Oscar-winning song Van Heusen wrote with his lyricist Sammy Cahn. Sinatra called Van Heusen “Chester,” after

His father, John Jenney, was a horn salesman who, according to family legend, was the basis for Harold Hill in The Music Man, the Broadway musical written by fellow Mason City native and family friend Meredith Willson. That’s why, in later years, Kay often referred to Jack as “the son of the Music Man.”

But others, such as Carl Perkins’s “Dixie Fried”, used the aggressive sound of rock ’n’ roll to convey a violent mood of drinking and potential razor fights.