Mort Block News Today

Morton "Mort" Block was smitten with someone he met on the beach in Atlantic City in 1958, but he was worried she might not feel the same way.

Gather some of the best studio musicians in the country, and together they took that dusty old love song and made it sing ♪ you never seem to know they love you so ♪ >> reporter: morts love song, originally intended for an audience of one, has now been played more than a million times on social media ♪ my love ♪ >> i was floored. >> right up and down the hall. it was unbelievable. >> reporter: and that is just the beginning. this fall, mort block, now 82, will grace the cover of an album...

Meant to be almost never was. not because of mort. he knew he wanted to marry her from day one. >> it was just like that. it was instant for me. >> reporter: but susan, not so much. >> i didnt have any grandiose feeling that it was going to go anywhere. >> reporter: to complicate matters, mort was a sailor, and after that first date, he headed out to sea, where, on the bridge of the destroyer "hazelwood" he wrote a song for susan. >> and my feelings were i miss you more each day ♪ since youve ...