Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago.
“I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut - or get angry from the gut.”
“It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.”