Edwin and Don-

You are probably aware that some of us (if not many of us) were quite intimidated by the idea of singing before RDB. We thought he was perfect and frequently he was. When he wasn't he wasn't pleased.

However, he was also interested in what other singers were doing, whether they were perfect or not, and he was only judgmental about those who were commercially popular but were not singing as well as they might.

He credits my mother with several songs that he learned from her, and my mother while an avid singer of folk songs was quite limited in terms of how well she could sing.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble