Back in the 1970s, I produced some concerts for Leon in Montreal. Once when I went to pick him up at the airport, he played hide and seek. He'd see me coming and duck behind a post or corner.

When he finally gave up the game, he said it was because he was expecting to be met by fan dancers. On the drive to his hotel, he kept asking me where the fan dancers were?

Re: the pool hall stories, I dunno. When I started booking him, he was being represented by Manny Greenhill's Folklore Productions.

The story about Leon refusing to record for Dylan because they wouldn't be 78s is probably not true. But, in 1974, I had Leon booked to play a concert in a 400 seat hall when Dylan said in an interview in Rolling Stone that if he had a record company, the first act he'd sign would be Leon Redbone. Before the interview came out, about 100 tickets had been sold. Within a day or two, it sold out. I added a second show and it sold out and several hundred people were turned away at the door. This was a year or so before Leon's first album came out and it was the biggest night he'd had at that point, anywhere, as a headliner.

Mike Regenstreif