I’m lonely but no one can tell. — The Platters, “The Great Pretender,” November, 1955 It was a monumental bluff, as huge as Mount Rushmore, seemingly impervious to destruction, where he imagined ...

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“Oh yes, I’m the great pretender/ Just laughin’ and gay like a clown/ I seem to be what I’m not, you see/ I’m wearing my heart like a crown.” – from ”The Great Pretender,” by the Platters (1955) ...