A Puzzle! "Let's Do It"

Here is a brainteaser, a puzzle, for you to solve, if you can.

"My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a producer." So said the American composer, a famous songwriter, whose name can be dialed on a telephone as 265-376-7837. What is that famous songwriter's name?

To read the answer to this puzzle, click here.

Listen now to Lady Gaga singing "Let's Do It," a song that the composer whom I quoted above wrote.

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

On this day in 1999, according to the Associated Press, "the U.S. version of the quiz show 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,' hosted by Regis Philbin, began a limited two-week run on ABC."

According to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, "'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?' is a song written by Cole Porter for the 1956 film High Society, where it was introduced by Frank Sinatra and Celeste Holm.

"While looking at expensive wedding presents, the singers decide that they in fact have little desire to be fabulously wealthy." Watch the music video below.

"Oh the gallant Fishers life, . . . " by Izaak Walton, from The Compleat Angler

"The Writer's Almanac" for June 9, 2018

And here is "The Writer's Almanac," with Garrison Keillor, for Saturday, June 9, 2018. It's the birthday of novelist Charles Webb, author of The Graduate, and the birthday of composer Cole Porter. The poem for today is "Oh the gallant Fishers life, . . . " by Izaak Walton, from The Compleat Angler.

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