Everything Happens to Me

Larry DeAngelo - Everything Happens to Me

Larry DeAngelo – Everything Happens to Me

Larry DeAngelo sings “Everything Happens to Me” (1940), a pop standard written by Tom Adair and Matt Dennis. It was first recorded by the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra featuring Frank Sinatra. Unusually, the song focused on Sinatra’s vocal, with no trombone solo by Dorsey. Years later, Sinatra rerecorded the song with the Hollywood String Quartet; this version was featured on his 1957 album Close to You.

GM is producing popular car in China, exporting to US

By Ed Zwirn, New York Post, July 2,2017

China’s hottest auto export to the US is a Buick, and that may not sit well with the Trump administration.

General Motors produces the Buick Envision exclusively at a factory in Shanghai, mainly for the Chinese market. About 32,000 of the vehicles, which sell at a base price of $34,065, have been sold in the US since the company introduced the compact SUV to the US market last summer. Continue reading

Brick-and-mortar grocery stores are here to stay

By Ed Zwirn

New York Post, June 25, 2017

The brick-and-mortar grocery store isn’t going away anytime soon.

Amazon’s recently announced $13.7 billion purchase of high-end grocer Whole Foods notwithstanding, e-commerce has been much slower (so far) to break into the supermarket business than into other sectors of the economy. Continue reading