Thank you Art for the kind words. Those were fun times.

I play your CD and enjoy it very much. And I am grateful for the CD you made for me of Bill Chipman, one of my favorite folk singers.

There was a lot going on in Chicago at that time. I remember having a folk trio at the Fickle Pickle. Bob Gibson used to come in to see us. One night, a new black comedian did a set. He was playing at Robert's Show Lounge. His name was Dick Gregory.

The Gate of Horn was quite a place. Lord Buckley, Lennie Bruce (who officially closed the club),Ti Jean Carignan,(in my book just about the world's greatest fiddler),The Clancys and Tommy Makem spearheading an Irish revival (circa 1958) and up the street on Wells was the galvanizing Second City. One night, I was accompanying Barbara Dane or was it Brother John Sellers and I did a silly little double take panto thing. At the close of the set I was introduced to noneother than Marcel Marceux who complimented me on my mime. That blew me away!

Do you remember the concert where Big Bill Broonzy and Mildred Falls accompanied Mahalia Jackson with the Weavers at the "Rainbow Room" of the Old Town School on North Avenue? They had just finished an abortive TV show sponsored by Chicago Title and Trust Companyh and they came over to the School afterward to "let off steam".

I remember breaking whiskey bottles in the cavernous backstage of the Gate of Horn with Arvella Grey so's he could get a good slide for his guitar.

Then there's the mention of Bernie Kraus being abducted from the stage of the Gate of Horn by his autocratic father's henchmen.

Someone ought to do a retrospective of the Gate of Horn. So much happened there.

Memories......memories.....

Have great holidays!

Frank