My family has a thing about The Singing Nun song. More than once I have picked up my phone messages to hear Dominique playing away as the message and laughter on the other end.

OK Josie— Any possibility of procuring your copy of “I Can See Clearly Now.” Any chance , too, you might find Perry Como’s “Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom)” hiding in the pack of albums in your basement? I’d even send a messenger to collect both. Oh yes I would!

Dona: Glad to bring back a great memory for you. But I am in despair over not being able to make contact with Perry Como. I haven’t even been able to find someone to “channel” him.

Oh how I wish I could have watched Perry Como croon on the tube. Sadly, I never saw his show because my parents let me watch television for only one hour a week. So it was either “Howdy Doody” or Perry Como. Since Howdy didn’t make records and Perry did, it followed that I would watch Howdy and listen to Perry on my Victrola. To this day I still cannot understand why my parents believed it was more important to read than watch Perry Como. Would you by chance happen to know where, exactly, Perry lived in South Florida so next time I am there, I could drive by his former home, sit in my rental car, slip “Perry Como’s Greatest Hits” into the CD player and turn his music up real loud as a kind of belated tribute to him. Again, I thank you for the update on him. Though Perry Como is no longer with us, he remains in my ears forever.