DEAR READERS:    

Wow, there were so many other things going on around town last Saturday that I didn't think we would have a lot of people but it turned out there was a surprise birthday in the Splash Bar from 4 to 7 PM and many of the people stayed to hear us sing. They stayed in the bar but were very good at giving us all lots of applause after each singer including FRED MILLER doing "Night And Day", "Blue Moon", & "The Very Thought Of You", SHIRLEY COLES came for dinner with a group and gave us "At Last" & "Over The Rainbow", followed by BETH FORMELOZA doing "I May Never Love This Way Again", "You And Me Against The World", & "Memory", then it was FERDIE FORMELOZA to sing "I Wish You Love", "You Were Always On My Mind", & "Who Can I Turn To". Next it was a really good new singer from I want to say San Luis Obispo, named YOSSI CARRON, who came with a friend for dinner and sang the JANE OLIVER rendition of "Some Enchanted Evening", "Birth Of The Blues" & "I Believe", which he said he sings to the inmates at a correction facility he works or volunteers at. BURC LANDER was up next and sang "Love Makes The World Go Round", "Her Face" & "She's My Love", and then one of our special guest singers, MARIA ELENA INFANTINO wowed us all with "Padam, Padam" in French and "Mambo Italiano" in Italian. Her complete so on Sunday at Arthur Newman Theater was a huge hit as well. Up next was PHIL CROSBY JR. to sing "On The Street Where You Live", "I Remember You" & "Lush Life". Back for a second week, ROY PROVENCE, this time he let Joel play for him and he sang "It Might As Well Be Spring" & "I Remember April", he and his wife are new to the desert and I think we'll see more of him now that he's found us. We had another Mr. & Mrs. team with MARGE HARRIS doing "The Night They Invented Champagne" & "Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend" and LARRY HARRIS did "Strangers In The Night" & together they sang "Yes, I Remember It Well". COURT GRAVES came in and sang "You Only Live Twice", "Unchained Melody" & "Theme From Valley Of The Dolls" - he'll be singing some of these next Friday at The Copa by the way, then we had RAFE CORRELL singing "Sway", with some of the birthday people getting up to dance, & "Someone Like You", TONY came in late for one song doing "I Left My Heart In San Francisco" and there was a party of 4 that came in and it turns out that one couple, a husband and wife named YADIRA & RICARDO were singers so they did "Sabor a Mi" and were really good too. Anyway that was it and we finished right on time. It think there are some other competing shows again next week but come by if you can or come by later if possible and see us. We'll keep the piano light on. Get it? Oh, I almost forgot, JOHN & ART had the piano tuned and boy what a difference, it sounds really terrific. Oh course we should thank DIANE SCHUUR who was there for dinner the previous week with her great ear for music, telling John how out of tune it was. So here is a special video to say thanks, and if you haven't bought her brand new, just released CD: I REMEMBER YOU: With Love To Stan (Getz) And Frank (Sinatra), that contains: "S' Wonderful", "Nice And Easy", "Watch What Happens", I've Got You Under My Skin", "How Insensitive", "Here's That Rainy Day", "I Remember You", "I Get Along Without You Very Well", "Second Time Around", and "For Once In My Life".   Go buy it, it is amazing