The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #75122   Message #2024661
Posted By: GUEST,GUEST, Len B, Downey, CA
13-Apr-07 - 06:12 PM
Thread Name: Little known '60s Folk Singers
Subject: RE: Little known 1960's Folk Singers
To GUEST.TJ: Your comment regarding Sam Hinton brought back some memories. He used to come up to LA occasionally to give some noon concerts at a major aerospace company where I was employed. These were arranged by his sister, who worked for the same company. Sam told me that he had at one time worked for a carnival, and had developed a number of unusual skills. Of the musical ones, he demonstrated that he could whistle a tune and hum the accompaniment simultaneously. He said that he could also whistle an ascending scale and hum a descending one simultaneously also, but he rarely attempted it any longer, since hardly anyone appreciated how difficult that was.