In the summer
of 1958, I often spent summer evenings on the back porch of
our home in Berwyn (just outside Chicago) listening to my Porgy
and Bess albums: one by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
(1957), and the other by Miles Davis and Gil Evans (1958). I
had a maroon-colored, three-speed, portable Webcor phonograph
that my parents gave me when I graduated from grammar school
four years earlier.
Fifty years
later, I still enjoy these wonderful albums -- but I miss being
able to hear them on our old back porch, and I wish I still
had the old Webcor!
George Spink
Los Angeles
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June 5, 2008
