Dan ..............

I've probably told this story before ....

When I was about 5......

I went with my parents and some of my father's pals to Chicago.

They went there to see ......

Old King Cole.... the merry old soul.

I went with them, and that's who I thought we were going to see.

Instead, it turned out to be this black guy who sang while playing a piano.


I didn't know what the big deal was all about.

I was pretty excited because the next morning....

I got to march around the breakfast table with Don McNeil....

Something that I'd been doing for as long as I could remember.


The reason I'm here is because my father .... thought nothing of driving from Lexington, KY to Chicago to hear a guy sing and play the piano.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_McNeill%27s_Breakfast_Club