BOLDFACE NAMES / Joyce Wadler

We So Love a Ballad

On Tuesday, we promised YOUR NAME HERE to the person who could name the song that LILLETTE JENKINS performed at Chez Josephine on New Year's Eve about the love of a one-eyed man for a one-legged woman.
As always, the response to this beloved Boldface Names contest has been tremendous. And now that both entries have been counted, we are declaring STEVEN REA, movie critic of The Philadelphia Inquirer, the winner.
He identified the song as "One-Eyed Man" and included as some of his sample lyrics: When I had that one-eyed man / I didn't know what I had / I used to be so mean and evil / I treated that man so bad.
Ms. Jenkins, when we called her at home in Florida, said that Mr. Rea was correct. Then the singer, who is 80 and long ago performed at the Apollo, razzle-dazzled us by sitting down at the piano and singing the whole song. And if you go to nytimes.com/nyregion, you'll get to hear her, too.