Frank,

I seem to remember you and Valucha doing "YERAKINA" together in Chicago before you & Ronnie did it with the Weavers. What a great arrangement & harmony singing. It was like the Bill & Earl Bolick brother team, the Blue Sky Boys, in that it was almost impossible to pick out who was singing the melody & who was doing harmony. Both were there of probably but sometimes I thought NOBODY was actually singing melody. But still, the melody was audible!! Some of the harmonies were chilling on "Yerakina". The last verse etc.---wow! (I doubt I'm spelling that right.)

And I've always said, when someone would ask me why I was always a solo performer, that that way nobody ever quit my group. But I never got any good at makin' music with others either.

Once or twice I mentioned in other threads that I was actually part of a group once---with Elvis, Patti Page, Rosemary Clooney & me. We called ourselves Presley, Page, Rosemary and Thieme.

The others all quit---and here I am.

Art