“In prison, dinner was always a big thing. We had a pasta course and then we had a meat or fish. Paulie did the prep work. He was doing a year for contempt, and he had this wonderful system for doing the garlic. He used a razor, and he used to slice it so thin that he used to liquefy in the pan with just a little oil. It was a very good system. Vinny was in charge of the tomato sauce.. I uh, felt he used too many onions but it was still a very good sauce. Johnny D. did the meat, but we didn't have a broiler so Johnny did everything in pans, and it used to smell the joint of something awful and the 'hacks used to die but he still cooked a great steak. See, you know when you think of prison, you get pictures in your mind of all those old movies with rows and rows of guys behind bars, but it wasn't like that for wise guys, it really wasn't that bad, except that I missed Jimmy, he was doing time in Atlanta. I mean everybody else in the joint was doing real time, all mixed together, living like pigs, but we lived alone, and we owned the joint! Even the hacks we couldn't bribe would never run the guys that we did!”
-Henry Hill, 1955
Be honest we all read this in Ray Liotta’s voice
LYRICS
Somewhere beyond the sea
Somewhere waitin' for me
My lover stands on golden sand
And watches the ships that go sailin'
Somewhere beyond the sea
She's there watchin' for me
If I could fly like birds on high
Then straight to her arms I'd go sailin'
It's far beyond the star
It's near beyond the moon
I know beyond a doubt
My heart will lead me there soon
We'll meet beyond the shore
We'll kiss just as before
Happy we'll be, beyond the sea
And never again I'll go sailin'
I know beyond a doubt,
My heart will lead me there soon
We'll meet, I know we'll meet
Beyond the shore
We'll kiss just as before
Happy we'll be, beyond the sea
And never again I'll go sailin'
(No more sailin')
(So long sailin')
(Byebye sailin')
Met Bobby Darin at the Empire bar in Glasgow in the 60s. He was a lovely guy to talk to and his performance at the Empire Theatre nearly brought the roof down. The best I ever saw. He died too young. Gone but not forgotten.
