Michael Bublé wants the world to know that just because he is a swinging crooner from the old school, he is not a good little mama’s boy looking to please the grown-ups by singing their music. That’s why he called his third studio album “Call Me Irresponsible,” he joked from the stage of Radio City Music Hall on Tuesday evening.

“Call Me Irresponsible” is also the title of the standard by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen that was a hit for Frank Sinatra and Jack Jones in 1963. And on Tuesday Mr. Bublé, accompanied by a 14-piece band, punched it out with a buoyant good cheer that turned it into a personal declaration of independence by a guy’s guy with few axes to grind.

A 31-year-old Canadian who is a protégé of the producer David Foster and of Paul Anka, Mr. Bublé, now a major pop star, is no hothouse flower who as a boy locked himself in a music room with a Victrola and a stack of sheet music. His suit and tie on Tuesday evening didn’t prevent him from playing the cutup. He may be catnip to women, but he also connects to men in a buddy-buddy sort of way.

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