Skip to main content
Esquire Classic
Issues
Topics
Contributors
Sign In
Subscribe
PROFILES
Sing It Again, Jim! Sing Melancholy Bailey!
A star is reborn, night after night, and painfully
November
1
1973
Dotson Rader
Bud Lee
Sing It Again, Jim! Sing Melancholy Bailey!
Dotson Rader
November
1
1973
View Article Pages
PROFILES
Sing It Again, Jim! Sing Melancholy Bailey!
A star is reborn, night after night, and painfully
November
1
1973
Dotson Rader
Bud Lee
Sign In to read this article
Get instant access to 85+ years of Esquire.
Subscribe Now!
Exclusive & Unlimited access to
Esquire Classic - The Official Esquire Archive
Every issue Esquire has ever published, since 1933
Every timeless feature, profile, interview, novella - even the ads!
85+ Years of outstanding fiction from world-renowned authors
More than 150,000 Images — beautiful High-Resolution photography, zoom into every page
Unlimited Search and Browse
Bookmark all your favorites into custom Collections
Enjoy on Desktop, Tablet, and Mobile
View Full Issue
More From This Issue
Articles
The Morning After The Saturday Review
November
1973
By
William H. Honan
PROFILES
Bernard Baruch Was as Constant as the Northern Star . . .
November
1973
By
Helen Lawrenson
FEATURES
What Did Duke Ellington Know, and When Did He Know It?
November
1973
By
Duke Ellington
Articles
The Grand Inquest
November
1973
By
Charles Rembar
Articles
Did There Come a Point in Time When There Were 43 Different Theories of How Watergate Happened?
November
1973
By
Edward J. Epstein, John Berendt
Articles
The High and the Hungry
November
1973
By
James Villas
Unlock every article Esquire has ever published.
Subscribe Now!
Exclusive & Unlimited access to
every timeless profile, interview, short story, feature, advertisement
, and much more!
More From This Issue
Articles
The Morning After The Saturday Review
November
1973
By
William H. Honan
PROFILES
Bernard Baruch Was as Constant as the Northern Star . . .
November
1973
By
Helen Lawrenson
FEATURES
What Did Duke Ellington Know, and When Did He Know It?
November
1973
By
Duke Ellington
Features
PICTURED ESSAYS
The Glass Canyon
DECEMBER, 1958
NEURO FORCE
April 2019
By
DAVID KUSHNER
Profiles
Esquire PROFILE
The Founding Father
MAY 2011
By
JOHN H. RICHARDSON
Esquire Special
Ella
NOVEMBER 1985
By
JONATHAN SCHWARTZ
THE STATE of the AMERICAN MAN
Lord of Hosts
JULY 2006
By
SCOTT RAAB
Dotson Rader
PROFILES
Guido Orlando: Cosa Sua
JANUARY 1971
By
Dotson Rader
POLITICS
The Day the Movement Died
NOVEMBER 1972
By
Dotson Rader
The Meditations of Jane Russell
DECEMBER 1973
By
Dotson Rader
Bud Lee
PICTURED ESSAYS
Kicking the Habit
NOVEMBER 1970
BACKYARDS
DECEMBER 1975
By
Barbara Damrosch
GOLF
The Midas Swing
APRIL 1972
By
David Pearson
profiles
PROFILES
The King They Couldn’t Kill
August 1, 1978
By
Aaron Latham
PROFILES
In Cold Comfort
JUNE 1966
By
Barbara Long
PROFILES
Shazam!
APRIL 1994
By
BILL ZEHME
Get instant access to 85+ years of Esquire.
Subscribe Now!
Exclusive & Unlimited access to
Esquire Classic
Everything Esquire has ever published