Wow! That sure dredged the old memory bucket!! If we're thinking of the same person, his name was Jean Galland. I just ran a google on the name and all I came up with was a French movie actor (1897-1967), obviously not the same guy. The guy we knew was French, he knew Rolf Cahn real well, and he also knew Lord Buckley. Must be the same person you're thinking of, because he was a real raconteur, and I'm pretty sure he did some race driving—sports cars. He could sit and regale you with stories all night long, and the beauty of it was that he was such a good story teller that you didn't even care whether the stories he was telling were true or not. I think most of them were, though.

He wound up singing for several weeks at a fairly nice club downtown, a place that normally did jazz. He sang Irish, Scottish, English, and American songs with a slight French accent—not unlike Rolf Cahn singing the same stuff with a slight German accent. Often hung out at Guenter's Pastry Parlor.

I remember several stories he told about Lord Buckley, but I don't want to hijack Marion's thread. (Sorry. We'll take this conversation out to the kitchen and let the singing continue here in the living room. . . .)

Don Firth