Over the years, Cy was a regular in my audi- ences, even years later when I appeared at the Hotel Carlyle. He was always complimentary about my work and praised my arrangements of not only his songs, but Richard Rodgers, Cole Porter, et al. This CD contains many of the songs he and Carolyn Leigh (and Peggy Lee) wrote for the night club world – this was before they were called cabarets! Cy performed them himself, as well as my good friends Bobby Short and Mabel Mercer. There’ve been great recordings of Broadway shows, but I really like the intimacy, insight, and humor of the songs on this CD.   — from Liner Notes written by Ronny Whyte