It apparently brought back good memories for quite a few of you.
Steve (in London) called my attention to the news that the last of the founding members of the group, Bob Shane, had just died recently.
Through the generosity of the Great Google, I learned that that occurred just down the road from me, in Phoenix, and that he had been 85 years old.
I was struck, in reading his obituary, that he said in a 2011 interview that occasionally someone will call him and ask him to go on stage and he would quickly pack a couple of oxygen tanks and go.
I assumed that meant he would have the oxygen backstage to prepare him for his performance and to renew him afterward.
But no!
I learned that he would go on stage with his portable oxygen tank and perform with the tubing strapped on.
So here, for all of you fans, is a video of him in his senior years wearing oxygen and singing the song that he made his own.
That is an illustration of a trouper.
