I worked with practically everybody in the business in all of the years in NBC, but I worked personally many years with people like Crosby and Sinatra, so of course that was a great ground school for me.

I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios.

I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood.

Symphonic orchestras have almost become a glut in the market.

In a way, yes, because I was starting something fresh, and it was something totally independent.

I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along.

Then I went to radio with Sinatra and I watched that disappear.