While we got hotter and thirstier as the heat beat down on us. The somebody would call in a voice full of elation

I explained to the lady my love for John and his work, and she made it possible for me to purchase one of the 24 proofs, the one for 'I'm So Tired,' which I have on my piano at home.

While we got hotter and thirstier as the heat beat down on us. The somebody would call in a voice full of elation

You know, if you don't do nothin, you don't do nothin.

It's not an act, it's just my way.

I liked the way they treated the first, second, and third place finishers equally. It was an amazing year. I only entered two song contests this year; I won one and placed second in the other. And I entered each of them a day or two before the deadline.

I've been playing music all my life, from being a choir soloist at Symphony Hall as a youngster to playing in bands through high school and college at Kent State. Went in the service at 17, out before I was 21.