Two of a kind

"Give a pair of medals and hefty raises to the two fellows at Atlantic who thought of pairing Bobby Darin - then 24 - and Johnny Mercer - then 51 - and backing them with the charts of Billy May ... The music world hadn't heard this brand of impeccably timed, back-and-forth joshing since the heyday of Hope and Crosby (or perhaps Mercer and Crosby) - or the inspired Nashville rivalry of Red Foley and Ernest Tubb. Don't miss it".

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"Young Bobby Darin and Capitol Records cofounder Johnny Mercer sounded as comfortable as Crosby and Hope in a "Road" movie on 1960's Two Of A Kind. It was a reminder of how well Mercer swung as a singer and how dimensional Darin was".