Well, where to start! I met Johnny and Joyce at Cheddar Folk Club, where I was considered a 'resident singer' for a short while even though I lived and worked in Reading. Having been introduced as a 'London' singer (to Snab Reading was London!) Johnny got talking to me and invited me to go to Herga Folk Club with him and Joyce. The next thing I knew I was recruited to join 'The Singing Chef' team.
        It certainly changed my life and my friendship with Johnny and Joyce saw me through some very difficult times in my life. Their support and guidance held me together.
        They were with me during the bad times and, I'm delighted to say, the good times. It was through the Singing Chef that I met Helen and Johnny was my best man when she and I were married.

        Memories of Johnny are of a very genuine, generous, unpretentious man with no awareness of his own greatness. He would do anything to help if he knew you were in trouble or there was something he could do for you.

        As EmmB has said, we all had some wonderful times working for the Singing Chef; late nights and sharing midnight specials after a long day as we mulled over the days events. I think we all worried about Johnny's health as he pushed himself, as we all did, in the heat and pressure of a catering operation, but he never hid behind his condition.

        Many have commented on Johnny's amazing voice, but the thing that stays me is that whenever he was joining in the choruses at any event, yes, you could hear his wonderful bass harmonies, but he never pushed his voice above the level of the lead singer - and he certainly had the power to do so, had he so wished.
        He was a very skilled guitar player although he rarely used it.   Like many of the really great performers, his choice of material was one of his great strengths; I don't think I ever heard him sing a 'so-so' song, they were all gems!

        Many, many good memories that will cheer me for years to come. It has been a pleasure and a privilege to have known Johnny and to have called him friend.

BobH