One of my greatest musical honors in life came from a bunch of pygmy kids. A young couple I knew went to Africa, where the husband was doing research on Mountain gorillas. The wife was a fan of mine, and had brought a couple of tapes of my albums, and a battery powered tape player. She would play the tapes (and a lot of other folk music) for the little kids in the Village, and the one song they loved most of all was a song I wrote, Ten Pound Radio about singing doo wop on a street corner. I had multi-tracked all of the harmonies, and had the great pleasure of singing bass. The harmonies and the melody were simple, and the kids picked them up quickly, learning the words phonetically. My only regret was that my young friend didn't have a recorder. The whole thought of it really tickled me...music going full circle.

I forgot to ask how the gorillas liked it..

Jerry