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Interesting story about Evelyn in my life -

First, my obsession with Zappa music started my sophomore year in high school when a friends older brother brought “Joe’s Garage” home. In collage, I got hold of a dozen albums. After collage I bought everything.

My wedding song was “For You” off Cruising with Ruben and the Jets. My wife is cool. Big traditional wedding too.

Anyway...

I did a 3 year expat assignment in Shanghai. We had a team building (they do this a lot) in rural China. Everyone was sitting at a sidewalk cafe and each was asked to sing a song.

My boss at the time knew some tunes from when he sang in high school choir (real “gave my love a cherry” stuff), I sang Evelyn.

Similarly, my wife sings a song to our son at bedtime. Once when she wasn’t available, he asked me to sing to him. I sang Evelyn.

I have sung Evelyn to him now for 3or4 years. When I finish “Arf - she said.” he goes quiet and I close the door.

A few months ago he started singing it with me and most recently he started singing it on his own - perfectly. As you can imagine, that brings a smile to my face, and as I’m pretty sure the number of 10 yr olds who can do that is pretty small. He’s learning Saxophone now.