The Reference Explanation Thread

[mudshark]

Originally Posted by Chancellor Valium

He's a crooner. That rules out the 40s, AFAIK. He could be '50s, of course....

I believe it's stated as being 1962 Las Vegas, but tail end of the 50s could work, stylistically. Absolutely not the 40s -- nobody sang that way then, never mind the fact that Las Vegas was pretty much nowhere until the Mob started building hotels and casinos there in the late 40s.