Since we are all social distancing, I have decided to update my Blog.  My wife, Martha, and I are living comfortably in Valencia CA near our son, Steven and his family.  Our other son, Michael, lives with his family in Littleton CO.  All our family members are doing great.  We visit them frequently.

Since my last update, Martha and I have done extensive traveling.  We have visited all the official Presidential Libraries: Hoover, FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Clinton, Bush 1 and Bush 2.  We will visit Obama's in Chicago when completed.  Our other goal is to visit as many National parks as possible.  We've visited 38 as of today.  Yellowstone NP, Yosemite NP and Zion NP are favorites so far.  We have also cruised extensively to Hawaii, Alaska , Panama Canal, and the Caribbean.  I also took a Civil War Historical Tour without Martha.(not as much fun) We also celebrated our 50th Anniversary in San Marcos TX in October 2018.

Martha and I will continue to travel and volunteer (Santa Clarita Food Pantry) as soon as it is safe to do.  I hope this finds you all safe.

1/30/2016 Update on Roy Prince.  After a time performing with Pat Hamilton, Roy started his own band and recording studio called TIMEFRAME.  He stopped performing in 1998 and began a career in oil related corporate security in Houston where he still works today.

Singing Fool: Hamilton, Elliott, and Walter (HEW)

Singing Fool: Hamilton, Elliott, and Walter (HEW)

Epilog

It is now July of 2011 and I will attempt to give an update on all the men who at one time in their lives performed with the Windjammers, the Goodtimers, Hamilton Elliott & Walter, Elliott Walter & Bennett, the Elliott Walter Band, and Elliott & Walter.

Jack Wilcox (1964-66) performed for many years with THE SHOPPE, then worked as a realtor in Puyallup, Washington until recently.  He is very active with his Sunday School and serves on the Board of Trustees of his Church (Oberlin Congregational Church in Steilacoom, WA).  He enjoys part-time employment with the local school system as a bus driver. 

Patrick Hamilton (1966-74) continued performing as Pat Hamilton and Company for a year or so and then auditioned for and got the part of the Governor in Best Little Whorehouse in Texas on Broadway where he toured many years as an actor.  He continued his career until his death on November 8, 1991.  Patricia Hamilton Pruitt lives in Midland, Texas.  Jennifer Hamilton Bingo (Pat's daughter) lives in San Francisco, CA and works for Oracle.

Roy Prince (1972-1974) (our only drummer) continued performing with Pat Hamilton until Pat went to Broadway.  I have tried to find him, but have not been successful yet!

Kenneth Elliott (1964) joined the US Marines and retired as a radar technician.  I believe he lives in Italy, Texas.

Mark Cozart (1983) I have been unable to find any information about him since he left our band.

Sam Barnes (1964) Performed many year at Disney World in Orlando.  I saw him once several years ago, but have lost track of him recently.

Gerald Bennett (1974-1983) Is now an officer at a financial services company.  I have talked to him on the phone several times, but he has not sent me any current biographical information.

Scott Landon (1983-1987) Continued to perform, but became very ill (Cancer) and died 10/15/1994 after heroic effort fighting his illness.

Jerrel Elliott (1963-1991) my best friend and business partner, died of a tragic gun accident 11/10/1991.
Cindy Elliott Wilford lives happily in Sugar Land, Texas.  Amy Elliott (Jerrel's daughter) lives near Los Angeles CA and works for TNT Television.  Scott Elliott (Jerrel's son) is married and is a lawyer with a law firm in Houston.  He has two beautiful daughters.

Clark Walter (1963-1991) is happily married to Martha for 43 years and counting.  Michael (son) is married and works for a computer/security company in Austin TX, but works mostly out of his home in San Marcos TX.  He and his wife, Amber, have two sons.   Steven (son) is married and until recently worked as a foley artist at Technicolor.  He is now a free-lance foley artist.  He and his wife, Melissa, live in Valencia, CA.  They have two sons.






 

A Great Honor

In January of 2003 the student lounge at McMurry University was remodeled and renamed "The Windjammers Lounge".  Phil Brewer, the current chairman of the McMurry Board of Trustees and Distinguished Alumni (2002), funded the project to honor the work the group did as ambassadors for McMurry.  The Windjammers were one of the reasons Mr. Brewer decided to attend McMurry.

(L to R) Pat Smith Hamilton Pruitt, Martha Miers Walter, Clark Walter, Phil Brewer, Cindy McCann Elliott Wilford

List of albums

The Elliott Walter Band (Duo)

In the summer of 1987, Scott Landon left the band.  Jerrel and I decided to continue performing as a duo because we could now augment any extra instrument by pre-recording it in our studio.  We were booked regularly at The Ramada Inn on the Southwest Freeway, The Holiday Inn on the Seawall in Galveston, The Grand Hotel near the Galleria, The Forest Club in Kingwood, and The Holiday Inn @11160 Southwest Freeway.  Jerrel and I were still making plans to perform regularly and we were in the process of recording our next album when Jerrel died suddenly (November 10, 1991)

I spent a couple of months finishing the album and liquidating the recording studio. I had a few offers to join other musical groups, but decided to pursue other avenues.  I was a substitute teacher for a few months, then I got a job at Allied Van Lines selling international moves.  In October 1994, I  accepted a position with an investment firm in Sugar Land Texas called Dearborn and Creggs.  I retired on December 31, 2010. 

The Elliott Walter Band (EWB)

In 1983 our time with Gerald Bennet ended.  We replaced him with two new members.  (Mark Cozart on keyboards and Scott Landon on lead guitar and steel guitar).  We also kept the initials of the band the same.  We continued playing many of the same rooms in the Houston area, so the transition was relatively easy.

Mark Cozart left EWB after only a few months.  Jerrel, Scott and I decided to pre-record any new songs that needed a keyboard after Mark left.

Our times with Scott Landon were enjoyable as our music continued to be quite diverse from Rock to Country.  We were playing more "Dance Gigs", but I feel it was the "patter" between songs that made us different from many of the bands that played the same venues as we did.  Our mailing list had grown to nearly 4,000 names.  Jerrel had become quite a prolific song writer.  We had the following (fans) to sell LPs, cassettes, CDs and T-Shirts wherever we were performing.

During this time (1984 -1988) we performed at:

(1) Crown Plaza Park 10 Hotel at I-10 and Hwy 6

(2) The Steak and Ale on the Southwest Freeway 

(3) The Holiday Inn Galveston

(4) The Roof at the The Westin Oaks Hotel Galleria

(5) The Ramada Inn on the Southwest Freeway

(6) The Texas Tumbleweed on Westheimer

EWB years

Our years (1974-1983) with Gerald (Jerry) Bennett were pleasant.  We became a "local" group finding jobs in the Houston area.  Jerrel found more time to write and create songs in our recording studio.  We released at least one LP a year during this time.  We produced and sold them from the bandstand as well as in the local record shops.  We also were perfecting our ability to synchronize our live performances with pre-recorded drums and vocals.  Our ability to blend our original songs with "covers" of the popular music of that time helped build a formidable mailing list.  Even tough "stardom" eluded us, we were successful.

One of the skits that we performed regularly was a song (written by Ray Stevens) called "Its Me Again, Margaret.  (see pictures).  It was about an obscene phone call.  It became so popular with our audiences that we had to put a limit on the number of times we would perform it each night.

 

From May 1976 through May 1979, the Steak and Ale on the Southwest Freeway hired us for three years.  They actually expanded the lounge area of the restaurant while we were there.  There was a big celebration on the third anniversary. 

Another Club that we performed regularly was the Railhead Restaurant on Richmond Avenue in Houston.  The club was considerably larger than the Steak and Ale.  However, the business situation there was different.  One day the management called us in to say that the club was "making too much money"!!  You see tax laws were different in those days and large investors could get considerable tax advantages from "losing" money in some of their venture capital investments.  The Railhead was one of those ventures.  Shortly after we left the gig, the tax laws changed.  The restaurant went out of business!

Elliott, Walter, and Bennett (EWB)

In the summer of 1974,  our time with Pat Hamilton ended.  Looking back, I think the years with Pat were our most creative.  We were different.  However, with so much of our act being comedy, it was imperative that we stay on the road because it was difficult to attract "repeat audiences" when the "jokes" were the same.  I had to make a decision.  Stay home and raise my sons while working with Jerrel or go "on the road" with Pat. 

I decided to stay with Jerrel and I am happy that I did!   Jerrel had decided to quit the road and stay in Houston to concentrate on writing music and recording albums.  We also pooled our money to start a recording studio.

We were immediately hired to perform at a Village Inn in Webster, Texas (South of Houston).  While performing as a duo, a fan of HEW (Gerald Bennett) showed up at our gig with his electric piano.  It was a match made in heaven.  We called ourselves, Elliott, Walter, and Bennett.  (EWB)

Gerald (Jerry) Bennett was a fine keyboard musician and he had a eye for business.  During our years together, we started a company called American Record Corporation (ARC).  Since Jerrel had really learned the intricacies of being a recording engineer, we could perform in the evenings and work in the studio during the day.  We produced several albums ourselves and also produced albums for other groups.

During this time, the Houston Oilers were enjoying success on the NFL playing field.  Our company was able to produce several recordings which capitalized on the Oilers popularity.  One of the local entertainers was Mack Hayes of "Love Ya Blue" fame.  He had success with a song parody called the "12 Days of the Houston Oiler Christmas".  In the song he mentioned many of the current Oiler players.  Well, EWB took that idea and recorded similar "12 days" songs for several other NFL teams.  We gained national press coverage (AP, CBS, ABC) with our version of the "12 days of the Cleveland Brown Christmas".   We sold many 45rpm records in Cleveland.  However, we did recordings for San Diego Chargers, Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers, and the Dallas Cowboys which were not as successful.   

3 shows I remember

Show #1

On October 13, 1972 we were booked for a show with Bob Hope at the convention hall in Wichita, Kansas.  The hall was packed.  (5,000 seats)  As I remember we began our opening song and immediately the power to our stage went out!  Pat just took over.   With no PA system he started into his "Don Rickles-like" put downs of the local celebrities until Jerrel and I could get the power situation fixed.  It was hilarious and our part of the evening turned out fine.  However, Bob Hope did not hear or see our part of the show.  After Bob's performed, his agent (Bob Bixler) wanted Mr. Hope to see us perform.   He asked us if we could set up in the hotel for the "After Theater Party".  This was not part of our plans and without knowing the set up situation at the hotel, we said yes.  It was a big mistake.  You see, the only place in the hotel that was big enough to accommodate the "after party" crowd was the area around the indoor swimming pool.  We set up at one end of the building (Lots of hard surfaces) and Bob Hope literally sat at the end of the diving board at the other end of the building.  The sound was terrible and we had used all of our good material in the show earlier that night.  The people were standing around the pool eating "hordouvers" and could not respond.  Needless to say, we never heard again from that agent.

Show #2
May 23, 1973 we were booked to open for Roberta Flack at Hofhienz pavilion (10,000 seats) in Houston.  This was at the height of her popularity (Killing me softly).  That day we were at Hofhienz pavilion at 2:00pm ready to set up for the concert which was supposed to begin at 8:00pm.  The plan was to get a "sound check" from Ms. Flack and her orchestra and then we could set up and get our "sound check".  The problem was Ms. Flack did not show up for the sound check!  In fact she did not enter the building until 9:00pm that night!!!  (no sound checks) The crowd was very upset because the concert was starting so late .  When we finally started our part of the show, the audience was very hostile towards us, but we got through our part OK.  Ms. Flack's performance was also flawed because of  the sound.  She did not start singing until after 10:00pm 

This performance was bad for us in two other ways.  (1) We had scheduled a concert at Jones Hall in Houston for the next week and we were using this Roberta Flack Concert to promote our HEW concert at Jones Hall.  After the reviews came out, none of the press decided to attend our concert because "they had seen us at the Roberta Flack Concert".   (2) We had also invested in the Roberta Flack Concert.  Cormo Productions had spent money to bring Roberta to Houston with the stipulation that we would be the opening act for the concert.  Consequently, we lost our investment because so many people wanted their money back.

Show #3

We were booked for a one month stay in Las Vegas at the Showboat Hotel and Casino.  The gig paid very well, but the job was difficult.  The night club at the hotel was the"only" place where customers had to pay for their drinks.  We did three shows a night.  (9:00pm, 11:00pm and 1:00am)  The performances were to be exactly 30 minutes long (no deviation)  This was difficult for us since much of our show depended on our interaction with the audience. There were a few nights where our audience was one drunk passed out at the bar.  We also had major problems with the Musicians Union in Las Vegas.  We were already members of the American Federation of Musicians (AFL-CIO), but the local chapter wanted  extra "performance fees" because we were not members of their chapter (scary guys).  We told them to "bill us" and after the gig we never paid the bill! 

       

Hamilton, Elliott, and Walter (HEW)

As our time in the USAF came to an end, Jerrel, Pat and I decided to see if we could "make it" as full time professional musicians.  Our good friend, Gene Northway (see blog "Windjammer early years") had accepted our offer to be our manager.  Gene had recently left the Boys Scouts of America for a job with Southwestern Bell in Houston, Texas. We decided to base our families in Houston since all of us liked Texas.  We formed a company called Cormo Productions, had one "open audition", and immediately began accepting bookings.  We hired a great drummer, Roy Prince.  When we were not on the road, we had regular "gigs" at the Village Inn Pizza Parlor in Westbury Square and the Marriott Hotel Astrodome.  Gene was our manager, but we had an agent in Hollywood (Bob Vincent of MUSART) who booked us all over the USA.  We played clubs in Washington DC, St. Louis Missouri, Denver Colorado, Bloomington Minnesota, and Sioux City Iowa.  Sometimes we would travel with our families, but most of the time we left our wives and children in Houston.  We would sell our LP's and T-Shirts while travelling and send our paychecks home to the wives.  We traveled in a Ford LTD station wagon and pulled a rented trailer full of our equipment and merchandise.

Our "Court Martial"/ Commendation

I neglected to say that we had "problems" with the office of information at the Pentagon during our stint in the Air Force.  It seemed they always were telling us how to do our job, even though they had never seen our act.  They ordered us to always sing with a US Air Force banner (10 ft high x 20 ft across) behind us.  It was huge and very cumbersome and was in a wooden crate which weighed about eighty pounds.  Since we were our own stage crew for most of our shows, it seemed we never had time to set up "the banner".  Our large PA speakers did have USAF stencilled on them.  The USAF did supply us with "singing outfits".  (see earlier blogs for pictures) Of course, we never wore our dress blue uniforms when we did our show.

On our Southeast Asia trip, the office of information ordered us to perform every show in our dress blue uniforms.  We ignored the order, because we wanted to entertain the audience not "piss them off".  You see we looked like we were career military because we were E-6's. The young draftees wouldn't like us because we were non-commissioned officers (Lifers) and the older career soldiers wouldn't like us because we were too young to be that high ranked.

As we toured southeast Asia, we met with the base commanders at each stop and asked them if it would be OK for us to wear our "singing outfits" rather than our dress blues.  All of the base commanders agreed with us that wearing our dress blues would be a mistake.  On November 17, 1971, when we arrived at OSAN AFB in Korea,  the base commander (General Robert W. Maloy) met us at the tarmac with several MPs and said the he "must confiscate our singing outfits".  We again explained the situation and he let us perform in our singing outfits.  He sent a message to the office of information that the order was received AFTER our performance.

When we returned to Bolling AFB, our commander and director of the USAF Band (Colonel Arnald D. Gabriel) was very upset with us because his superior officer at the office of information (Pentagon) wanted to court martial us for disobeying his order to wear our dress blues.  Colonel Gabriel asked us to each sign the Administrative Reprimand.  We did.  The next day they had a big ceremony at Bolling AFB presenting us with the Commendation Medal for meritorious service.  The chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, Admiral T.H Moorer, sent us a note with his picture. Our time in the Air Force ended February 4, 1972.

International trips

In May of 1971 we did a nine day tour of Europe performing in Germany, Spain, Holland and England.  We were booked mostly in officers clubs and American schools.  We did thirteen shows while in Europe, but what I remember most is the one day we had no performances.  It turned out to be one of the best days of my life.  (May 16,1971)

Lt. David Walter (my brother) and his wife Melanie were stationed near Frankfort Germany.  So they met us in Mainz and we all got on a boat to spend the day traveling up the Rhine River.  It was a beautiful day.  We actually got bored looking at the many castles and churches along the river.  The whole time we were drinking Rhine wine and singing German songs along with other tourists on the boat.  (Jerrel and Melanie did not drink.)  It was glorious!  As the day went on, I stopped drinking; however, Pat and David did not stop drinking.  When we got to Koblenz, we literally had to carry Pat and David to the bus stop.  They were getting sick.  They left some "relics" on the bus.  When we got to the train station to return to Mainz,  Pat and David were too sick to put on the train.  We missed several trains waiting for them to "sober up".  After several hours, they finally were able to board the train.  We made it back to our hotel in Mainz where David slept in our bathroom for at least five or six more hours.  Years later, David told me he never took another sip of wine after that day.

On October 17, 1971 we began our Southeast Asia Tour which lasted until November 25, 1971. (40 days)We performed a show at CLARK AFB in the Philippines and then one show at the the US embassy in Manila.  We then travelled to UDORN AFB in Thailand for shows at NKP (NonKomPhenom) and UBON AFB.  On October 29th we travelled to Bangkok, Thailand (via U-TAPOU AFB) for more shows.  Next, (the longest week of the trip) we were in South Viet Nam.  We performed at TAN SON NHUT AFB, PHU CAT AFB, PHAN RANG AFB, PLEIKU AFB, and KRB.  While we were at Kam Ranh Bay, it was noisy because a "sapper" had infiltrated an amunition dump the night before we arrived.  The US Army was exploding the bombs and artillery shells that did not detonate.  Explosions were happening all during our performance.  It was unnerving!   In DA NANG we were excited to see our college choir director (Dr. Paul Engelstad) who was now the USO director for the northern section of South Viet Nam.  (see picture).  While in Viet Nam, we got to stay in officers quarters, but they always put us on the second or third floors.  That was dangerous because occasionally "in-coming" artillery shells would be launched into the airbase and if the shell detonated near a barracks, the upper floors were vulnerable while the first floors had brick walls built around them.  We asked if we could stay in a below ground bunker. We were told, "No, the snakes would get you!"

After our week in Viet Nam, we did shows in Okinawa, Japan and Korea. My oldest son, Michael, was only two months old when I left.  I know that was tough on my wife, Martha.


The Goodtimers with Paul Engelstad

USA trips

Another story that I remember was the time we arrived late in Chillicothe, Ohio to perform at a VA hospital.  Our flight was delayed for some reason and when we arrived the the truck for our equipment and our van did not meet us.  After several phone calls, we were met by our set up crew and transported to the VA hospital.  Our truck and van just pulled up to the back of the stage area and we unloaded the equipment right on to the stage.   We could hear that the auditorium was already full of people.  We decided to forgo our normal sound check and just set the controls to what we thought might be appropriate for the auditorium.  The curtain on the front of the stage did not divide in the middle (like most curtains), instead it was one the just lifted straight up.  So we just started singing our opening number which was "Going Out of My Head/Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You".  As the curtain slowly lifted, we noticed that there were people just milling around, not sitting in their seats, and some were talking to the walls.  No one had told us it was a mental hospital!  We quickly stopped singing and changed our opening number to a more appropriate song.  We had many performances at  many different hospitals.  The hospital staffs loved us and wanted us to return often; however, I'm not sure how much good we did for the patients.

In May of 1970, two days after the Kent State event (see Kent State Massacre),  we were in Columbus Ohio to perform at a banquet in which the commander of the National Guard Unit which fired on the students was to speak.  Needless to say, the students at Ohio State University prevented us from getting to the gig.  We were also prevented from doing a concert at the University of Hawaii later that year. 

In February 1971, we did a show at the Ohio State Penitentiary for the general population inmates.   When we arrived the inmates helped us set up in the main cafeteria area.  I saw several men pick up our main PA speakers by themselves and carry them to the stage area.  That was impressive!  We did the show and then were given a "grand tour " of the penitentiary.  We went to the maximum security area.  Those inmates had already heard that we did a good show even though they were not able to see or hear it.  (the  prison "pipeline" really worked!)  We got to enter the "Death House" and we got to sit in "Old Sparky" (the electric chair).  On the walls around the electric chair were pictures of the inmates that had been executed.  It was creepy.  Each of us sat in the chair, but when Pat sat in it, they actually clamped his arms and legs so he couldn't get out.  Since the Ohio legislature had abolished the death penalty in 1968, the clamps were a little rusty and one of the leg clamps would not come undone.  Pat had to do some distorted moves to get free.  It was funny.  (see picture)

We Travelled!

First I need to explain our situation in the USAF Headquarters Band. THE GOODTIMMERS were part of "The USAF Band". Our company was made up of about 300 members (100 of them were staff people who handled the day to day operations of the outfit). The rest of us were the performers which included the USAF Marching and Concert Band, the USAF Strolling Strings Orchestra, The Airmen of Note (Jazz Band), Singing Sergeants (choir), and THE GOODTIMERS. Most of the musicians in this company were highly talented. Many were graduates of Julliard and Eastman Schools of Music. All of them were fulfilling their "military obligation". All the performers were college graduates, but could not be officers so they gave us high non-commissioned ranks. We were immediately E-5s (Staff Sergeants/4 stripes) and after one year we were promoted to E-6 (Tech Sergeants/5 stripes). What this actually meant was that we had salaries equal to airman that have spent their life in the Airforce. ("Lifers") The fact that we were young and had advanced rank would prove to be a problem when we were forced to perform "in Uniform". Remember this was 1969 through 1972; Not a happy time to be promoting the military. (The Viet Nam War)

From a logistics point of view, we were really easy to book.  Consequently, we were well travelled.  Our job was public relations for the USAF.   In addition to doing many shows in the Washington DC area,  we would often drive to Andrews AFB and fly all over the USA.  We were constantly waiting for pilots who wanted to get their "air miles" logged by flying us to Ohio via Florida or to Oklahoma City via Chicago.  Sometimes we were in the DC3's which were very slow airplanes and other times in executive jets.  In most of the airplanes we were the only passengers and the planes were cargo planes with only crew seats not airline seats.  We often took a football and frisbee to throw around while we flew.

One trip that I remember was the time (January 1970) when we were scheduled to do a weeks tour of Alaska.  We drove our air force van to Andrews AFB and loaded the C130 aircraft with are equipment.  We waited for a pilot to take us to Alaska.   He finally showed up, but he told us he had to make a stop in Colorado Springs, CO.  (not quite a straight route to Alaska)  He was a Lt. Colonel and we could not change his mind.  It was a very long flight, but we finally landed in Colorado Springs.  After spending the night in officers quarters, we were at the airport early in the morning waiting for our pilots.  They finally arrived and we took off for Alaska.  All of a sudden the plane jerked.  We looked out the window and one of the engines was on fire.  The pilots immediately turned us around to go back to the airport and as we turned back another engine caught fire.  Now the crew chief on the plane ran back to us and said.  "When this plane lands, you follow me out that door!"  In the meantime all the hydraulics went out of the aircraft, so the crew chief had to hand crank the landing gear down. He did.  The airplane landed going very fast and fire trucks were following behind us.  I can remember leaving the airplane running backwards taking pictures as I ran thinking the plane was going to explode.  It did not.  One of the pilots told us that it was the closest he had ever come to crashing.  We got another plane to fly us to Alaska a day later.

We had a good time in Alaska; however, it was dark the whole time we were there.  We did several high school assemblies and shows at the airman's club (Elmandorf AFB).  We were supposed to visit five dew line radar stations, but the weather was so bad at the top of the mountains, that we only performed at one radar station.  The flight to the radar station was uneventful, but the trip up the mountain was scary.  They put us and our equipment (PA system and guitars, organ etc.) into a tank-like vehicle and transported us up the mountain.  There was no road to the station.  As we drove up, there was a man waiting for us.  It was the head cheerleader at McMurry from last year, Lonnie Barbary.  We freaked out!  What a small world.

There was another incident in Alaska that I remember vividly.  Our last night we were booked (a paying gig) in the officers club at Elmandorf AFB.  First let me give you a layout of the stage area of the club.  The room was long and narrow.  The stage was high (4' higher than the dance floor).  The dance floor was about 30' in front of the stage.  So when the spot lights came on, you could not see the audience.  For this show our outfits were white buck shoes, white pants and very bright colored shirts.  Jerrel's was red. Pat's was yellow. Mine was bright green.  We started the show and the audience was very subdued.  We could only hear them, but they were "quiet".  As we started our second song, a waiter came toward us across the dance floor which was empty.  He pointed to me and said, "your fly is down".  I immediately looked down and part of my bright green shirt was sticking out of the zipper.  I could not stop and fix it because Jerrel was singing and I was accompanying him, so Pat walked over in front of me and he zipped up my pants.  Oh my, the ad libs were great after that and the show was really funny.

More stories to come.