Aw, Jerry don't leave us (until June anyway, when you had said you would). Obviously it can't be a one-man show. But I'm sure there are folks around who'd drop in once in a while. Now that Jan's out of the hospital, I should have more time, certainly.

Now here's a little story about the Net and music. I was thinking of checking Mudcat since it's probably too late for Saturday Night at the Movies--(Jan and I like to watch a DVD around now--especially for the extras.). Anyway, I was looking for music to check Mudcat by--I check classical stations since it's not easy to write sensibly when I listen to vocal music--I get easily distracted. Making sense is a goal of mine on Mudcat--not that I always make it.

So I was checking classical stations on the Net and the first one was doing an opera. Definitely not what I was looking for. So I tried the next one--(Charlie Baum had told me about)--VPR.

But what came out?---doo wop!!!--and what's more, nonsense doo-wop. An hour of nonsense on a show called "My Place". Great stuff!!! I heard about the Rivingtons, who evidently backed Thurston Harris on Little Bitty Pretty One. But more than that, they were called something else on other recordings. And both the Rivingtons and the other name (can't remember) were streets--one in LA and one in NYC.

But not only that, they also did Papa Um Mau Mau (which I think is a version of another R & B song. And, since that was a hit, they did (I've just learned)....................Mama Um Mau Mau. And, this DJ said, they also did The Bird (which as I recall, starts out as Papa Um Mau Mau.) (And I thought the Trashmen did The Bird--now's there's an earthshaking issue--who really did it?

Anyway, another song was Oo-Shoo (sounded like it anyway) by Shirley Gunter and the Queens (1954). Shirley Gunter was the sister of Cornell Gunter--who was one of the Coasters.

I only wish I'd heard the whole hour.

There's always more to learn about music. I can't get enough.