Hi Lee,

Thanks for your prayers for Patsy. Except for being able to sleep on her "favorite" side, she is doing very well and we will find out next Monday what further treatment she will require over the next several months.

I never came across Taud in my travels. I wish I had the opportunity to talk with him as you had. I had the good fortune of working with some pretty big names in those days, but not any of the three he mentioned. The closest I came to Sinatra was when he found my piano player sitting in at Jilly's in New York, and "stole" him from my band and sent him to Jilly's West. No big loss, though, he was an excellent "lounge singer" type but not the best piano player in the world. I couldn't get his foot off the sustain pedal.

Cheers,
Fred