The box's liners are by Dan Morgenstern, and they are as glorious and elegantly spare as Hacket's own notes. Here are the two opening paragraphs...
There are many, this writer included, who can say the same about the sound of Bobby Hackett. It is a sound that for a decade or so, when the recordings gathered here were made, was almost ubiquitous, heard in public places throughout an America that now seems almost impossibly innocent, a country in which a genre called 'mood music' sold millions of records and was a constant on the airwaves."
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