I don't think I went a year or so without a record between 1959 and 1979, sometimes two.

I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.

and then adds with a laugh, ''but in retrospect I think he may have been more sophisticated than we were.

One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and I was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing.

After he recorded it, I had to stop singing it.

It's almost enough to make you believe in Jung's notion of collective unconscious. If there is an American collective unconscious, Bobby had somehow tapped into it.