TLW (The Little Woman) and I celebrate our birthdays three days apart. Mine is July 6th and hers is July 9th. This year we decided to treat ourselves to dinner and a Johnny Mathis concert.
As we sat waiting for the show to begin as the people were filling up the seats, TLW asked if I noticed the age of the crowd. Yes, they were mostly older, and sadly so were we! I mentioned that Johnny Mathis must be about 72 years old himself, and we kind of agreed on that.
I think that J.M. calls this tour his “Geezers Gasp Tour” and adjusted his songs and lyrics accordingly. Singing all the old time favorites, he made slight adjustments such as: “Musty, instead of Misty, Wild Is The Gas, rather than Wild Is the Wind, and When Sunny Gets Gas instead of When Sunny Gets Blue.
The orchestra was a very professional group that kept great time, allowing us all to sway left on one side of the seat, then right on the other, and as we swayed, the notes were loud enough to hide the farting that went on when old-timers get together.
Out in the lobby people were buying T-shirts and CDs and DVD’s and seltzer water and Alka Seltzer or Pepto-Bismol and $4.00 bottles of water. Mr. Mathis is coming out with a new album; “How Johnny Gets Rich.”
Actually, all kidding aside, he still is great, and the audience absolutely loves him, I know we did.
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