What should be playing on the radio but The Heather on the Hill, by the Hi Lo's. One year, I took my wife on a trip to be home for Christmas, and we were coming to Tucson, Arizona, and the beautiful Arizona sunset. And from then on, the Hi Lo's were front and center. And I went, 'Whoa, what is that?' So I ran out and got that album. When I was back at Texas Tech, I heard a Monitor broadcast - remember Monitor Radio on NBC? - and the Hi Lo's were on. That's how we learned to sing vocal charts, down in the practice rooms at UCLA. There were vocal arrangers: Ian Freebairn-Smith, and Perry Botkin Jr. That's when I met people in the music business - whose dads were in the business. "After I graduated from high school, I left the Navy and came back to Texas Tech where I had gone to summer band school, and where I felt comfortable.
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