I think it was either Tico Tico or Lady of Spain on accordian when I was about 9. Actually those couldn't have been the very first, it had to something simpler that I can't remember now but those two stand out. That morphed into a 36 piece accordian orchestra until around age 14. Then later when I was in the Air Force and hadn't played a note since the middle of high school when accordians definitely were not cool, I started noodling the Pink Panther and Baby Elephant Walk from a Mancini book sitting on a piano in the Airman's Club in Japan. Up to that point I had never touched a horizontal keyboard in my life. Some guys heard me and invited me to join their band and a week or so later I was doing my very first gig at the O club after going into town and buying a very early Yamaha Electone organ.

And look at me now, gold records, a star in Hollywood, a...dammit, I'm daydreaming again...

Bob

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